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Beyond the brink By Joel Dyer
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his was a bad week for our country. Like so many other times in the last couple of years, racism boiled to the top of the national discussion. But this time is different. We’ve now moved beyond racism as threat, to racism as motive and its only going to get worse from here. Words matter, and when they come out of the president’s mouth they matter even more. Trump thinks it’s just fine to tell four women of color — all members of Congress who don’t particularly like him or his policies — to “go back to where they came from.” He told reporters he isn’t worried about the fact that white nationalists and neo-Nazis are cheering what he said. Trump views those who don’t swear their loyalty to him as somehow undeserving of their U.S. citizenship. And yes, that makes the current president of the United States a dimwitted racist with no grasp of what this nation stands for or what our soldiers have died to preserve. The right to dissent is the right of all U.S. citizens. It is what makes us different and better than all those countries with actual “shithole” governments like Russia, China, Turkey and North I
Korea that Trump so adores. We used to have an appreciation for such freedoms in this country, but that was before large numbers of white voters become so fearful of living in a more diverse world that they opted to trade away the U.S. Constitution and everything it stands for in exchange for holding onto their power and privilege for just a little while longer. I still can’t believe they sold their nation’s soul for so little in return. At this point, the president and those who comprise his base of political support — which we are told still includes over 90 percent of Republicans — apparently believe that citizens who are not white, regardless of whether or not they were born here, do not have the Constitutional rights to free speech and dissent. If Trump supporters — including the Republican cowards in Congress — didn’t agree with the president on this point, they would be speaking out against him at this very moment condemning his racist statements. Their silence is the witness that convicts them. Like it or not, a voter’s priorities can make them a racist. Not speaking out against overt racism because you believe to do so might hurt your chances of getting a tax cut or seeing interest rates go down, the market go up, or getting Roe v. Wade oversee DYERTIMES Page 6
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turned, most certainly is a racist decision. It’s not an either/or world when it comes to justice and morality. “America, love it or leave it” was always an asinine statement that insulted the U.S. Constitution and all those who’ve actually read and understand it. But the current president’s version of that twisted anti-democracy sentiment — “Trump’s America, love him or leave it” — is so much worse. Here is what Trump’s statement aimed at Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts is not: It is not “poorly thought out;” “somewhat inappropriate;” “something I wouldn’t have said;” “taken out of context;” “not constructive,” “language that could be misconstrued as racist,” or any of the other things Congressional Republicans have claimed while trying to excuse Trump’s racism because they fear his political base and consider their own re-election to be more important than God, country and their fellow human beings everywhere. What the president said is simply racist, and he said it because he is a racist. And I will say this for the thousandth time, we knew he was a racist when he announced he was running for president. I won’t rehash his long record here that includes dozens of well-documented examples that make clear exactly who this man is and what he believes. On Tuesday, July 16, Democrats in the House along with four Republicans worthy of their elected office, condemned the president’s tweets as racist over the objections of every other Republican in the House. It should be noted Dems were very careful not to call the president himself a racist. My question is, why not? He is a racI
ist. Seriously, at this point why are we mincing words, it’s gutless and dishonest. Fox News and Republicans in Congress (minus the four) don’t need the help of Democrats to spray Teflon on the president after every racist statement and act he commits. It’s time to just call a Trump a Trump. Many news outlets, for the first time in two years, finally called out Trump as a racist on their editorial pages. To that I say, thank you, it’s about time and welcome back to doing your jobs. The president thinks that because I disagree with him that I should just leave the country. Well, I sure hate to disappoint him, but I’m staying. And we all need to stay because it’s going to take a long time to repair the damage that Trump and his supporters have done. Even if he’s tossed out of the White House in 2020, it’s not over. Sadly, Trump has taken us past the point of no return for the foreseeable future, possibly decades. You can’t just put the racism/white fear genie back in the bottle. And you don’t have to look far to see what the future holds. This week’s news from around the country had a theme; racism breeds violence. James Fields, Jr., the avowed neoNazi who plowed his car into a crowd during the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was given a second life sentence for his attack that killed counter-protestor Heather Heyer. In Louisiana, longtime civil rights activist and founder of the African American Museum in Baton Rouge, 75-year-old Sadie Roberts-Joseph, was found dead, stuffed in the trunk of her car. She had been murdered by suffocation. In Tacoma, Washington, Willem see DYERTIMES Page 8
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Van Spronsen was shot and killed by police. Van Spronsen, a self-described anti-fascist, had told his friends he just couldn’t take seeing the Trump administration’s continued abuse of immigrants. So, he launched what was in effect a suicide mission against the private detention center holding migrants in Tacoma, a location where Van Spronsen had frequently protested. He was throwing incendiary devices at the cars belonging to guards when police arrived and killed him. In New York, the feds have announced they will not bring charges against white police officer Daniel Pantaleo. You may remember Pantaleo from the video that showed him choking a black man named Eric Garner as he kept saying, “I can’t breathe.” Garner died from that incident. His alleged crime was selling single cigarettes without charging a tax. Watch for Trump to fan the flames of the racially charged Garner case next week. I won’t take the space here to again describe the ongoing atrocities and torture being committed against defenseless migrants including children at our southern border and elsewhere, or to detail the facts behind how 9,000 or so of our nation’s border patrol agents have been using racist, misogynistic Facebook forums to make fun of migrants who died in their care and to mock, in unbelievably vulgar ways, the
same four members of congress the president is targeting with his overt racism. Yes, it has been a bad week, but it’s just the beginning of many bad weeks to come. Like I said, words matter. The president’s words really matter, and he is using them to push this country to violence... not the brink of violence. There are no bodies in the morgue at the brink of violence. And we most certainly have bodies in the morgue; from car trunks in Louisiana and detention centers in Tacoma, from synagogue shootings to white nationalist rallies, from violence at churches and mosques and workplaces to an increase in deaths along the border, the bodies are piling up. And Trump’s irresponsible racist rhetoric is playing no small role. I wish I believed the president is just too ignorant to understand that his racist comments about those four women has put them in very real physical danger, but I don’t believe that. He knows his words cause violence and he doesn’t care... or worse, he likes it. It is no longer a matter of wondering if the president’s incendiary racism and the Republicans condoning that racism will spark more violence. It’s now only a matter of when, who, how much and which side of the political divide will be responsible for spilling the blood. Sadly, that’s where we are. So, get ready.
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facing Republican backlash, lawsuits, recall campaigns and the argument that elected officials overreached because a similar move was defeated by referendum. The quote by the governor could be interpreted that he hopes that those fueling the backlash will ease up, not that there’s nothing else to do and “mission accomplished,” which are completely your words and graphic. Please encourage and support moving in the right direction and continuing to push to reach the goal, rather that beating up on and weakening the Dems as they are working against the forces that are pushing the petal to the metal in the direction of destroying our future. Why not give some ink to how we can support the Democrats to do even better, build momentum while celebrating every step forward? Barbara Bradley/Boulder
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When the Democrats won the Colorado house and senate and governor’s office in 2018, Joel Dyer wrote an article comparing the Democrats to The Producers in the Broadway play, making the point that the Democrats were corporate shills who now that they had power had to be afraid of being exposed as green-washing hypocrites. What actually happened was that the Democrats moved the ball forward against the oil and gas industry providing legislation and legal tools to help the environment with SB 181. Why not publish the narrative that Democrats are trying to help average people and the environment through a flawed system, against the money/odds fighting a very powerful corporate industry? There is no doubt that there’s a lot more fighting to be done and Democrats are now I
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between one and five on each entry. It was a blind process, as the name of the writer was stripped from each entry before reading, and we only learned of the winning identities after tallying the scores. Thus, you’ll see some writers appear more than once in the list of winners. We ended up with five winners, five honorable mentions and 10 additional finalists, however, there were plenty more we wished we could have included. The top 20 finishers have been published here. Thanks to all who participated in this contest. We hope you enjoy this year’s selections as much as we did. We’re already looking forward to the next batch in 2020.
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he phone call came the morning after he blew out his birthday candles. Had he known it was cancer, he would have wished for something other than a new skateboard. Days were spent hunting for four-leaf clovers, and blowing white tufts off of the dandelions that littered the lawn; eyes tightly shut, wishing his mother home. His little brother crawled into bed with him again. He heard his grandmother downstairs puttering about; she never slept anymore. He crawled out of his window, and onto the roof. Every night it was the same, desperately searching the sky for a shooting star. —Kym Terribile
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r. Been There-Done That had arrived. He managed to get his B.A. on the seven-year plan, despite the demonstrations, Friday afternoon clubs and other distractions of college life in the turbulent early ’70s. He majored in poli-sci, secured a government job and even joined a country club. Today, at his coffee break with his coworkers, he would not leave any doubt that he was still a bad-ass revolutionary. He sported his Friday dress-downs, wrap-around Ray Bans and Che on his chest as he belted out his order, “A grande soy latte to go, please.” —Daniel A. Martinez
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voice burst into the room. A woman’s voice. Singing in a foreign language. Melodic yet cautious, as if proper pitch exacted too hefty a price. An alarm. Did I do something wrong? My mind, as if suddenly commandeered by an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine, began to connect the musical dots. One epiphany led to another, which triggered yet another. I could hear only silence. The small, shiny steel ball came to rest. Its terminus reached; its journey complete. The nurse, noting the absence of any family members and the waste basket not emptied by the previous shift, left the room. The morgue would have to be called. She wondered if handsome Pedro were on duty. —Gerry Mifsud
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stral cytoma. Or that’s what she heard, but by then the steroids mangled new words. Why did they give her all those Perc-10s? Oh yeah, she’s asked for them. But now it was impulsive night with no sleep. She lugged the heavy canoe off the top carrier and steadied it at the shore. Her feet were cold in the shallows. She remembered everything this time — even a pillow. All there was left to do was row until the lights were distant enough. As the bottle rolled off her fingers she settled back to watch the stars. —Megan Silva
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er name, Cisza, is Polish for silence,” Anna said as an ambulance raced by LaBella Nursing Home, where we worked. Cisza jumped when she heard the sirens and then swept all of the food from her table into a bag. I winced. “And our names will be mud if she keeps hiding food in her room.” “Relax. Her son said that she is acting from memory. She risked her life, during WWII, to feed friends hiding from the Nazis.” “OK, we’ll just clean her room and no one has to know.” “Si, in cisza.” —Kristen Marshall
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ummingbirds go into torpor, an energy conservation state, when it’s very cold. One lay inert on the icy concrete yard. I stripped off my shirt, and wrapped him in it. Shivering, I hugged the bundle and felt him move. When the sun warmed the yard, I unwrapped him. He jumped onto my index finger before tentatively fluttering his wings. I raised my hand. “Fly, amigo. Fly.” With an iridescent flash, he took flight, and circled twice, before going through the mesh and barbed wire encircling the detention center. “Fly, amigo. Fly.” —Kristen Marshall
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he sat and listened to the conversations around her. Pointless conversations about the weather, school, and daily plans. Like well-trained ballerinas dancing around the one squeaky board on stage so no harsh sounds would interrupt the dance, the conversations skillfully avoided the truly important topics. Screams echoed in her mind, nothing would change unless people chose to truly talk. She silently screamed, but said nothing. She had been taught not to talk about such things. But now was no longer the time to stay silent. Now was the time to change. She stood up, opened her mouth, and changed the conversations. —C. June
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“My dear Claude,” she says, “Business already?” “About the wire on your chest and the poison in your glass,” he says. Their eyes meet. She nods. Clicks her red nails on the tumbler. “No thanks,” she says. And finishes her drink. —James Mongold
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Rock Out in Retro Style! So come spring 1969, Bob and two companions set out for Ultima Thule South. Weeks of adventures ensued. Bob tried his hand at bullfighting in Mexico. The bull won. Fortunately it spared him. Bob and his companions dined on the heads of capybaras (a large, semidomesticated rodent) with the Los Indios de los Colorado tribe, which the locals had described as “headhunters.” The chief showed his guests how to suck out the eyeballs and brains. They arrived at the Honduran-El Salvador border as a cross-border fire fight was breaking out and were pinned down for hours. At a Panama City bar, Bob got drunk with Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer who in 1947 had sailed a balsa log raft named Kon-Tiki 4,300 miles from Peru to Puka Puka in the South Sea Islands. Then Heyerdahl showed Bob his latest vessel — a reed ship like those of the ancient Egyptians that he intended to sail across the Atlantic. By July 20, 1969, the intrepid trio had worked their way into the Bolivian Andes, and were seriously lost in them. “We were driving across the high Alto Plano when suddenly one of the guys turned on the radio, which we had not bothered to try for ages, and the overseas U.S. military broadcast of the [moon] landing came on,” Bob wrote. “At the same moment we came over a rise and there was a remote stone Indian village...” After a while the inhabitants gathered around the truck with the three bearded gringos glued to the radio. “It was one of those rare days when the moon is still visible in the sky during the day,” Bob said. “I proceeded to translate in Spanish what was happening on the moon. Yes, I told them, we were, that very moment, walking on the moon, which I pointed to for full effect... I see MOON LANDING Page 18
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still struggling. Unchecked depression had begun to mingle with excessive exercise and disordered eating. A back injury took him out of cycling, prompting obsessive tendencies to become full-blown eating disorders, exacerbated by his depression. “I was on the verge of starvation, and completely out of control,” says Van Horn. Athletes, particularly those that participate in sports that emphasize speed and svelte physique, like the spandexintensive skimo and ultra running where Van Horn competes, are especially susceptible to eating disorders. In a study by the National Eating Disorders Association, male athletes were 38 percent more likely to develop bulimia, and 10 percent more likely to be anorexic than the general population. It’s estimated that eating disorders in men are underreported. These numbers likely don’t represent the full reality that men in endurance sports confront: the pressure to have an idealized physical body and tough-guy mentality. Unable to bike because of his back injury, Van Horn picked up running as a way to cope with his internal struggles. He would go on back to back 20-mile runs in the Boulder foothills without eating. Then, starving, he’d lock himself in his room to eat. Van Horn knew that he was in trouble. The cycles of deprivation, over-training and then bingeing were wearing on him. The loss of control scared him. He felt isolated and ashamed, out of place compared to the elite athletes around him. Everyone on social media was so fit, and so happy — why wasn’t he? “You’re supposed to be tough, you’re supposed to be hard,” says Van Horn. “You’re supposed to put yourself through hell and suck it up, no complaints.” He decided to get help. He started seeing a therapist. He started training more seriously for running, channeling some compulsive tendencies into a more regimented schedule that mandated days off, and a well-rounded diet. He eventually moved to Carbondale, where he now lives. “It’s amazing,” Van Horn says. “You can take something that’s really ugly and it can be shifted to something that’s really positive.” He began to speak out about his depression and eating disorders and found that many friends and teammates see VAN HORN Page 18
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had identical struggles. Van Horn began to understand his own mental illness as a sickness, not a character flaw. “Everyone has their struggles and their battles,” he says. “Hearing other athlete’s stories encouraged me to seek help, and connect with others going through similar things.” On the floor of the ski hut, Van Horn lay huddled, his head in Kylee’s lap. He thought about the lows he’d reached before. He thought about Kylee and all the people he’d shared his story with. He took deep, calming breaths. He nibbled on a cheeseless pizza. Reflecting on his mission to bring awareness to mental health, he stood up, ready to ski again. Even though his back was aching and his feet were covered with blisters, Van Horn skied on. And so Van Horn skied for 24 hours straight. After a few, slower laps to start, he began to gain momentum. Friends that he’d
shared his story with flocked to the ski hill to accompany him on his final laps, moving in a line across the ski hill. In the end, he was just a couple hundred feet short of the record. But for Van Horn, it was anything but a failure. “I learned that sharing your story is always a worthwhile endeavor,” he says. “I think many of us are longing for connection in this world, and all too often we guard our imperfections when in reality those shared defects are often what unite us. I learned that I can dig a hell of a lot deeper than I ever thought.” He raised over $10,000 for Aspen Strong and shared his story with hundreds of people, many of whom took the time to share how profoundly his story had impacted them. “I learned that I’m not alone,” he says, “and that a lot of other people in my community that I respect have dealt with similar mental health struggles.”
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guess not wanting to hurt our feelings they all just nodded their heads, but the look of disbelief was in their eyes. I realized I was a time traveler for them...” And then the strangers’ real magic show began. “While our native friends were recovering from the moon story, one of our guys happened to pull out a frisbee we had in the truck and flung it to the other guy... our new friends were amazed. ... We passed it to one of [the kids]. In an instant he passed it to one of his little friends and in minutes a big round robin of new frisbee players was born...” Then Bob pulled out a tape recorder and asked the kids to say or sing something. The kids sang one of their local songs, which he recorded and then, to their amazement played back to them. “If you think the children were astonished; you should have seen the adults,” Bob said. “I’m sure I could have started a religion around the recorder...” And then came the pièce de résistance, the Polaroid instant camera. “I lined up the head men of the village with the chief in the center, for full effect and proper position,” Bob said. 18
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The potency of possibility Erie author Carter Wilson releases new book ‘The Dead Girl in 2A’
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ple and putting them in situations that are beyond their ability to cope with and see what happens,” Wilson says. “I love to take someone who would be perceived as weak and see what would have to be done to make them come out and become strong. Sometimes they never become strong. Sometimes they fail.” Over the years, Wilson still utilizes the same style he did when he first began. When inspiration strikes, he follows the trail, letting it guide him to find the story. “I kind of think of an opening scene, and I have no idea what the context of the scene is or who these people are or why they’re doing what they’re doing. I just think it’s a cool scene,” Wilson says. “And then I spend the rest of the book trying to answer those questions.” With The Dead Girl in 2A, Wilson was drawn to the idea of strangers meeting on a plane. But what if they knew each other viscerally? What would happen? What could happen? “What would I say if that were me? How weird would it get before it got too weird?” Wilson asks. “I just loved writing that scene and [figuring out] how these people know each other.” As Wilson wrote the scene, the woman confesses that she’s on her way to the Colorado mountains to commit suicide. Suddenly, Wilson’s story had drama and conflict. “Now what does that do to this relationship that started three hours earlier? Is there responsibility involved? And if so, what is that? Now their relationship has stakes,” he says. This is the first time Wilson has used Colorado as a prominent location in his books. He usually gravitates toward places he isn’t familiar with, but when the story called for a mysterious location, Wilson chose the Maroon Bells. “I knew I wanted to have one of the locations in the book be kind of mystical, like the island in the TV show Lost, whether it was true mysticism or just the appearance of that, I wanted there to be that special element,” he says. “The mountains of Colorado have that. They’re kind of beautiful and scary at the same time. ... You can get lost very easily in a good way and a bad way, and it can happen in moments. You can create fear very easily, about as easily as you can create joy. I like that contrast.” Wilson uses this tension throughout the book, as the characters frequently struggle against their minds, trying to decipher what they actually remember. Repressed memory is a common theme in Wilson’s books, but in The Dead Girl in 2A he wanted to take a I
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deeper dive into the phenomenon, exploring lost childhood memories. “There’s something fascinating about memory; [sometimes] it’s a cage that won’t open,” he says. “Your own mind, you can’t escape out of it. That can either be sublime or horrifying.” The topic hits home with Wilson, who lost his dad to early onset Alzheimer’s. While The Dead Girl in 2A doesn’t deal directly with Wilson’s past, he says it’s one of his most personal and emotional books. “I have themes of life and death and what it means to be happy and have memory,” he says. “I wanted it to be an emotional book with tension and [to be] scary but, to some degree, uplifting.” Throughout all of his books, one of Wilson’s biggest goals is to keep the reader surprised. He fights against any story that feels predictable, straying away from classic tropes in favor of nuanced characters. “I’d rather have someone say this book was too unbelievable, but at least it was different. I’d [prefer] that than someone who thinks it’s a good book but thinks it’s formulaic,” he says. “That’s what I’m attracted too, when I’m watching a TV series or something. Like, ‘Woah, that’s out there. I hadn’t thought of that before.’” His writing style helps him achieve this goal. Wilson doesn’t like to plan his stories, instead preferring to see where the story takes him, even if it’s completely unexpected. “I’ve had a book where all of a sudden this person [needs to] die, and I don’t know why, I just want to kill them, and they were a major character,” Wilson says. “But what if this person died right now? What does that do for the rest of the story? So I just wrote it in, and it opened my eyes. Like wow, [there are] so many interesting implications of doing that. “And sometimes it doesn’t work,” he continues. “But that’s the fun part, throwing that stuff in there and trying to be as wild as possible with your ideas and seeing what feels right.” He’s honed his skills over the years, and just like every writer, some days are harder than others. Wilson acknowledges there are times writing feels like “data entry,” with the singular task of just getting words on a page. But he always has faith the story will reveal itself. Through Wilson’s choose-your-ownadventure-esque writing process he manBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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arah Jarosz always stood out in a crowd even when she was a tiny 12-year-old kid standing on the big stage at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. She delivered a blistering rendition of Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon of Kentucky” as a side-ofstage tweener between the major acts. Amazed at her intensity, I tracked her down backstage and met her parents. She did not talk like a precocious child, another cute talented picker who would fade from the business with time. She sounded more like fiddler Marc O’Connor, mandolinist Chris Thile and other teenage phenoms I’ve interviewed. They know their path early on. “I always felt that to learn directly from my heroes was crucial,” Jarosz, now 28, says in a recent interview. She attended the Rockygrass Academy in Lyons — the adult part, not the kids’ camp. “Here was this little girl and (mandolin legend) Mike Marshall was my teacher. He never treated me like a kid. He treated me like a musician and I really appreciated it. Playing with people on that level prodded me to improve,” she says. Jarosz put out her first solo album before she graduated from high school and began touring as a solo artist. She won two Grammys in 2017 for Best Folk Album for Undercurrent, as well as Best American Roots Performance. She returns to Colorado to perform with Sara Watkins and Aiofe O’Donovan in the band I’m With Her, July 27 at Rockygrass. I’m With Her also joins songwriting legend John Prine and the Colorado Symphony July 28 at Red Rocks. I saw Nickel Creek when Watkins, her brother Sean and friend Chris Thile were barely teenagers. They played Telluride’s Family Tent but it was obvious that these were future Grammy-winning performers trapped in children’s bodies. I didn’t see Aoife O’Donovan until she appeared in Colorado as a college student with Crooked Still. Deeply rooted in traditional folk, she is a great singer and a player pushing the envelope of acoustic music. The harmonic convergence of Jarosz, Watkins and O’Donovan organically occurred when they decided to do an impromptu workshop at the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Beforehand the trio decided to practice a little in a bathroom because it had good acoustics. “The harmonies were there from the BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
Harmonic convergence
Growing up with Sarah Jarosz, from Rockygrass to supergroup I’m With Her
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first time we sang together. The vocal blend was the thing that alerted us that it was special. The harmonies were very natural, intuitive and magical,”Jarosz says. The name I’m With Her was just a casual moniker that stuck because it suggests the collaborative chemistry they enjoy. Also, frankly, Jarosz, O’Donovan and Watkins sounded like a TV law firm. I’m With Her is Jarosz’ first band experience. “With my solo projects I’ve always had bandmates, but this is the first time I had that camaraderie and someone to share the load with,” she says. Gathered around one mic, the three take turns being the “lead” singer, backup singers and backup band. Each is also spotlighted alone singing their own songs. As Jarosz explains it, this super group is all in service to the song, not the ego. “We decided to be our own band. It was good for us to develop as a trio with no backing. It really solidified us and I’ve learned a lot. I’m a better supporter onstage,” she says. Each member put aside their solo focus for this project. The result is the glorious debut album, 2018’s See You Around (Rounder) and ear-grabbing live appearances I
across the country and on public radio’s Live From Here. The tight, emotionally charged harmonies get applied to their original tunes and some stellar covers. Check out their versions of the Gillian Welch-penned “Hundred Miles,” Vampire Weekend’s “Hannah Hunt” and the funky folk reimagining of Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover).” “To be in this band is very full circle for me,” Jarosz says. “A huge part of me becoming a musician was listening to Nickel Creek and Chris Thile’s mandolin. Crooked Still was a massive influence on me.” The band, unfortunately, is an anomaly in bluegrass and folk, a successful group composed of women musicians who are accomplished singers and songwriters. As gifted multi-instrumentalists — violin, guitar, ukelele, banjo, mandolin and keyboards among them — each has heard the “you play pretty good for a girl” line. The upcoming Colorado shows give Jarosz pause to ponder. “We have devoted ourselves to this project for two years and taken it everywhere. These will be some of our last shows for a while,” she says. Afterwards, she, Watkins and O’Donovan return to their solo recording and performing careers. “It’s all about constant work. To keep creating, keep making music,” Jarosz says. Jarosz says the trio has intentionally taken a slow, patient long view of the band. “Our hope for the band is that it will always exist and we’ll always come back to it.” JULY 18, 2019
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CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony
MARCO BORGGREVE
ON THE BILL: Colorado Music Festival. July 25–Aug. 3. All performances at 7:30 p.m. in the Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, tickets.chautauqua.com.
Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven are also on programs conducted by Peter Oundjian
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usic Director Peter Oundjian will conduct the final two weeks of the Colorado Music Festival 2019 season, with four orchestral concerts July 25–Aug. 3. Oundjian’s programs feature music by Berlioz, Mozart and Beethoven, among others, ending with Mahler’s massive Third Symphony for the season finale concert (Aug. 3). A number of internationally known soloists will be heard during the four concerts: cellist Kian Soltani will play Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 (July 25 and 26); clarinetist Jörg Widmann will play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (July 28); and violinist Robert McDuffie will play Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1 (Aug. 1). The performance of the Mahler symphony will include contributions from mezzo-soprano Janice ChandlerEteme, the St. Martin’s Festival Singers from Denver and the Boulder Children’s Chorale (Aug. 3). The concerts July 25 and 26 — the last repeated pair of the summer — while not including music by Beethoven, are a continuation of the summer theme of “Beethoven’s Path to the Future.” The program ends with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a vivid and sometimes hallucinatory piece of program music written in 1830, only three years after Beethoven’s death. “Nobody can believe how early (the Symphonie fantastique) was written,” Oundjian says. That is because Berlioz used the orchestra in new ways, to tell a story of obsession, a drug-fueled nightmare and madness, with vivid orchestral colors that had not been heard before. Nevertheless, Oundjian believes that Beethoven’s harmonic and formal freedom in his last works opened the door for Berlioz to follow his wild imagination. “Berlioz, who was quite an eccentric, had a way of absorbing compositional techniques and sounds that made him able to
put his own stamp on a piece that is in many ways like a Beethoven late (string) quartet,” he says. Sharing the program with Berlioz is a contemporary piece, Dust Devils by Vivian Fung, and Soltani’s performance of Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto. Dust Devils “is an exciting piece,” Oundjian says. “It’s full of wonderful colors and textures, and a thrill to listen to.” Oundjian does not yet know Soltani, but is looking forward to working with him. “He’s an extraordinary talent and a very intense player, which is what you need for (the Shostakovich concerto).” The performance July 28 concludes the two-concert “Magnificent Mozart Mini-Festival,” with performances of Mozart’s early Divertimento in D major for strings, K. 136, the “Jupiter” Symphony, No. 41 in C major, and the Clarinet Concerto, one of the composer’s last pieces. Widmann, the concerto soloist, is known in Europe as a clarinetist, conductor and composer. Although he will be teaching in the eastern U.S. earlier, he will return from Germany specifically for the one concert in Boulder. “He’s absolutely incredible,” Oundjian says. “We’re very close — we love to make music. I was surprised when he said he would come, because he’s so busy. We haven’t played together since 2014, and he said five years is long enough. He’s coming all the way out to do it, and I can’t wait.” On Aug. 1 Oundjian concludes the summer’s concert series celebrating Beethoven as an exemplar for later
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generations of composers. Titled “Beethoven’s Path to Minimalism,” the program suggests parallels between Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony and the music of Philip Glass, who is represented by his First Violin Concerto. “There are a lot of minimalist qualities to the ‘Pastoral’ Symphony,” Oundjian says. “The first movement’s a great example, [with] repetitions of little rhythmic gestures. You could describe minimalism as taking a series of notes that become a unit, and play them with repetition. Then you have a shift in harmony that takes you to a different level, and then maybe a new cell.” Oundjian sees this process operating in Beethoven’s symphony, as well as the music of Philip Glass. “I thought it would be great to do the Beethoven, followed by a really good minimalist piece, the Glass concerto, which is incredibly well written,” he says. The festival finale Aug. 3 features one piece, Mahler’s Third Symphony. Like most of Mahler’s large works, the symphony creates its own musical universe. “It’s about the different aspects of the world of creation,” Oundjian says. “There are places in the world where you almost see the movement that brought the mountains up and the rocks tumbling down. The (first movement) gives us that feeling, the beginning of creation, just absolute magnificence. Then he goes into little interludes — ‘What the flowers tell me,’ ‘What the animals in the forest tell me,’ ‘What man tells me,’ ‘What the angels tell me.’ Finally (the last movement) is ‘What love tells me.’ It is intensely human and warm and full of love, and full of care and tenderness. Perhaps it’s all ‘what spirituality tells me.’ It’s an extraordinary experience to listen to that.”
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THE DEER.
8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. MICHAEL SCHAFFER
Described as transcendental Texas folk, cosmic Americana, stargaze surf-western, The Deer weave psychedelic soundscapes and tranquil, vivid dream-pop.
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events EVANGELINE — A POWERFUL COLLABORATION OF FEMALE MUSICIANS AND STORYTELLERS. 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20, Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. PUBLIC DOMAIN
In Greek, the name Evangeline means “bringer of good news.” On Saturday, July 20, Still Cellars Distillery will bring you good news in the form of an inspirational evening of music featuring six female musicians and songwriters: Liz Berube, Kate Farmer, Theresa Peterson, Lyla Yaner, Leah Mosier and Lauren Lashmet. This event was created by the musicians in partnership with and in support of LUCA Media Collective, which supports female led stories and media projects. Tickets are $15 at stillcellars.com/event/ evangeline.
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31ST ANNUAL CHARLES SAWTELLE MEMORIAL MOUNTAIN JAM — WITH CHE APALACHE, THE LONESOME DAYS, AVENHART AND ARTIST-AT-LARGE BRIDGET LAW.
BIG TOP: A CIRCUS EXTRAVAGANZA.
5:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. GEORGES SEURAT VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
This Saturday, the Boulder County AIDS Project’s Atlas Program presents an evening of performances in support of HIV awareness and prevention, once again hosted by K-Anne Peppa. The evening will feature drag, singing, spoken word, comedy and other theatrical talents. Bring non-perishable canned goods (no canned beans, please) for the food drive, with the greatest needs including Ensure, protein powder, canned fruit, soups, canned meats and boxes of cereal. Household items also are beneficial, such as shampoo, conditioner, toilet paper, dishwashing soap and laundry detergent. This is an 18 and up event. Tickets at etown.org.
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The Charles Sawtelle Memorial Mountain Jam, aka The Charles, is named for beloved Hot Rize guitarist Charles Sawtelle, who helped start the event in 1989 and was a great supporter of KGNU. After his passing in 1999, the station renamed the event in his memory. This familyfriendly mini-festival of bluegrass and Americana music offers fresh mountain air, dazzling acoustic music and great food in a spectacular outdoor setting. Enjoy smoky Texas barbecue with all the trimmings, side dishes, home-baked pies, cookies and refreshing beverages. This event benefits volunteer-powered, listener-supported KGNU. The first band starts at noon and the event wraps up at 4:30 p.m. Advance tickets are $30 for KGNU members, $35 to the general public, $40 day of show (at the door only), thecharles2019.brownpapertickets. com
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THURSDAY, JULY 18 Music France: The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas. 6:45 p.m. Brasserie Ten Ten, 1011 Walnut St., Boulder.
Jenn Cleary The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, July 19 7–10 PM Happy Hour till 7pm every Friday!
Live! at the Library: Dan Crow — ‘As the Crow Flies’ STEAM-themed songs from Dan’s travels. 10 a.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
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Sonic Tonic. 6:30 p.m. Muse, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.
12:30 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & CRATEROLOGY 2:30 PM CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 7:00 PM LIVE TALK: THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT OF OUR MOON 8:30 PM LIQUID SKY: THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
FRI. JULY 19 7:00 PM LIVE TALK: APOLLO 11 - FROM LAUNCH TO LANDING 8:30 PM CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 10:00 PM LIQUID SKY: THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
SAT. JULY 20 10:00 AM MAX GOES TO THE MOON AND YOU 11:30 AM CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 1:00 PM LIVE CONCERT: THE BLUEGRASTRONAUTS 2:30 PM LIVE TALK: THE SUMMER OF 69 4:00 PM LIVE TALK: SPACE FORCE! 5:30 PM LIVE TALK: FIVE DECADES OF LUNAR SAMPLE SCIENCE 7:30 PM LIVE TALK: APOLLO 11 9:30 PM LIVE CONCERT: THE BLUEGRASTRONAUTS 11:00 PM LIQUID SKY: THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
SUN. JULY 21 1:00 PM CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 2:30 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & CRATEROLOGY 4:00 PM LIVE TALK: SPACY CRAZY!
WED. JULY 24 12:30 PM INCOMING! 2:30 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & OUR MOON AND YOU
THURSDAY, JULY 18 Lori Chapman Longfritz — Alone at Dawn. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Marlow. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
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MONDAY, JULY 22
Upward Bound Reading. 2 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
The Denver Moth — StorySLAM. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.
So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Wild Road Band. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
TUESDAY, JULY 23
Wood & Wire — with Jay Roemer Band, The Often Herd (UK). 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
SATURDAY, JULY 20
Events
Writer’s Workshop. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
Trace Jory & Claire Kelly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
The Amazing Acro-cats. 3 and 7 p.m. Gordon Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 512-378-3952. Through July 19, thediary.org. Boulder County Fair: Meet the Steer at the Boulder Chamber. 9 a.m. Boulder Chamber, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder.
Journey to the Underground, Connect with Your Soul — with Christa Norris. 1 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
SUNDAY, JULY 21 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Women Write Inside Out — Dakini Lynn
Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. R.L. Maizes — We Love Anderson Cooper. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 Stories, Stories — Hosted by Ed Ward. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Carter Wilson — The Dead Girl in 2A. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Garden Work Hour. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The History of the Waterwise Garden. 5 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Opening Reception: Richard Stephenson: Light and Shadow. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Summer of Discovery: Bicycle Rodeo with Boulder Police Officers. 1:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Light Up Wood Diorama. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
FRIDAY, JULY 19 Music Bluprint (EP Release). 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Bones Owens. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Boogie Machine. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Claire Kelly. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
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Merrymaking — with The Hollands. 7 p.m. 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8472.
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathetique.’ 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Through July 19, chautauqua.com.
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Longmont Music Meeting. 6 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.
929 PRL Summer Concert Series. 5 p.m. Conscience Bay Company, 929 Pearl St., Boulder, 703-399-1542.
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Denver County Fair: Whiskey, Wine & Wieners. 6 p.m. National Western Events Center, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver.
The Soundpost Sessions — The High Road Home & ELMR. 8 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.
The Famous Men. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Wild Road Band. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
The Fontaine Classic, The Rose Valley Thorn. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Wylie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Grateful Dead Tribute — with Peak2Peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
8-Bit Standup Comedy. 8 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548.
The Growlers. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Second show on July 19. Homevibe & eTown present Seth Walker and Ezra Bell. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Jackson Cloud Odyssey. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Sagebrush Blues Trio. 8 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-606-1734. Rupert Wates. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.
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Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Catfish Night. 7:30 p.m. Stearns Lake at Carolyn Holmberg Preserve, access trailhead from Dillon Road on S. 104th St., Boulder. ISSS Buff’s Beach Luau Pool Party. 7 p.m. REC Buff Pool, Outside, Boulder. Louisville Downtown Street Faire, featuring MarchFourth. 5:30 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, Louisville.
see EVENTS Page 30
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arts Abstracted Facts — Digital systems in design, painting and sculpture. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens July 19. Through Sept. 1.
THE FOUR ARTISTS featured in ‘Abstracted Facts,’ showing July 19 through Sept. 1 at the Dairy Arts Center, use data, systems and information to portrait a seemingly simple concept, only to expose its complexity. In some of the work, the process is more important than the final product.
A·MAZE·D. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 1. Amuse Yeux: A Small Delight For The Eyes. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Sept. 15.
Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location
Breaking Ground — Alice Stone Collins, Saxon Martinez, and Pam Rogers. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through July 28.
THURSDAY JULY 18
Clark Richert: Pattern and Dimensions. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 15.
TRACE JORY & CLAIRE KELLY 8PM FRIDAY JULY 19
THE FONTAINE CLASSIC 8PM THE ROSE VALLEY THORNS 9:30PM SATURDAY JULY 20
WOMEN IN SONG HOSTED BY SHANNA IN A DRESS 8PM SUNDAY JULY 21
JAMES HOULAHAN 8PM MATT & REBEKAH ROLLAND 9PM MONDAY JULY 22
JANET GILLETTE 8PM NEREA THE FIDDLER 9PM
Climate Ribbon. Boulder Public Library, Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 28. Elements — The Boulder Potters’ Guild: 50 years and counting. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through. Aug. 4. Evan Cantor, New Work (oil paintings). Seeds Cafe (Boulder Public Library), 1001 Arapaho Ave., Boulder. Through July 31. Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17. Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17. Fiber Art by Dianna VanderDoes. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Sept. 6. Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit. Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.
PHOTO (A WORK BY JODI STUART FROM THE MARIANI GALLERY INSTALLATION) COURTESY OF JACQUI MIRELLE/DAIRY ARTS CENTER Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.
Boulder. Through Sept. 23.
The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9.
Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1.
Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 18.
Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8.
The Light Show. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 2020.
ReLove: Colorado Mosaic Artists Group Exhibit. Bricolage Gallery, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Through Aug. 17.
Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. The museum has numerous permanent and temporary exhibits, including Railroads in Lyons; Lyons Newspapers; Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse; Native American Artifacts; The Flood of 2013 and more. Monumental — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/ event/monumental/. Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom. Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 23. Alex McLeod: NPC Hell. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 28. Pack-It-Up. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway,
Richard Stephenson: Light and Shadow. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 4. Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture. Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont. Through Jan. 5, 2020. Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America. Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 25. Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020. Watercolor by Anne Gifford. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Sept. 6.
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SATURDAY, JULY 20 Music The 2nd Annual Reggae On The Grass: Free The People With Music. Noon. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. The Bluegrastronauts. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303492-5002. Family friendly performance at 1 p.m. Bob Schneider. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Born To Run. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Deco Swing Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Defunkt Railroad. 10 p.m. Dark Horse Bar and Grill, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Jenn Cleary Duo. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.
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Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Live Music: Cadillac Grip. 5 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696. Los Colognes — with Flash Mountain Flood, Shawn Nelson Band. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Lunar Landing 50th Anniversary Celebration. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Mate Masie: Family Outdoor Sound Celebration. 3:30 p.m. Outdoor Classroom, 105 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette. Old’s Cool Rock. 10 a.m. Boulder Farmers Market, 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon, Boulder. Peak2Peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Rusty 44. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.
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theater
Circus Foundry presents SONDER. 4 and 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-486-3477. Through July 21, thedairy.org.
CENTERSTAGE THEATRE COMPANY
CO Acro Christmas. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Dairy Comedy in the Boe, hosted by Zoe Rogers. 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
‘THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE’ takes you back to the height of the Jazz Age in New York City, when “moderns,” including a flapper named Millie Dillmount, were bobbing their hair, raising their hemlines, entering the workforce and rewriting the rules of love. CenterStage Theatre presents this high-spirited musical romp, showing July 20 through July 28 at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder.
Dance Party on the Moon. 1 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Hooplagers, the Lager Hoopla. 12:15 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Patton Oswalt Live: 2019 Tour. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Summer of Discovery: Meet & Bleat: Baby Goats at the Library. 11 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Reality Garage Virtual Reality Demo. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
SUNDAY, JULY 21 Music Aterciopelados — with Pink Hawks. 5 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. The Green. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-233-0583. The Homegrown Capitol Tours Launch Party featuring Kalyst, People Corrupting People, Trip, Fvnciisavage. 7 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. James Houlahan, Matt & Rebekah Rolland. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Jon Bellion: The Glory Sound Prep Tour. 5:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.
Building the Wall. Curious Theater Company. 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through July 27. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Buell Theater, Denver Center for Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through July 28. Cinderella and Her Barely Godmother. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Saturdays and Sundays only through Aug. 5 Crowns. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 4. Emma. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 18. King Charles III. University Theatre Building1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Opens July 19. Through Aug. 11. The Merry Wives of Windsor — presented by Longmont Theatre Company. Appearing at indoor and outdoor venues across the northern Front Range. Opens July 20. Through Aug. 11, longmonttheatre.org
Nirvamlet — presented by Band of Toughs. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Aug. 3. Nunsense. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees, through Sept. 29. Romeo and Juliet. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado. Through Aug. 10. Thoroughly Modern Millie — presented by CenterStage Theatre Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens July 20. Through July 28. Tarzan The Musical. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 25. Twelfth Night. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Boulder. Through Aug. 11. The Wedding Singer — presented by Evergreen Players. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through Aug. 4. You Can’t Take It With You (student production). Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 4.
Free Rowing Open House at Boulder Reservoir. 10 a.m. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 51st St., Boulder, 720-308-3332.
Colorado Chautauqua Association Meeting. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
The Music of Phish for Kids. 11 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
MONDAY, JULY 22 Music
FAF Youth Arts Workshop. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Sagebrush Blues Trio. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 720-606-1734. Swing St. Vrain. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Events 5th Colombian Independence Cultural Festival. 10 a.m. Parkfield Lake Park, 15555 E. 53rd Ave., Denver, 720-288-0360. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.
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Mixed Taste. Seawell Ballroom, Denver Center for Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Aug. 21.
Magnificent Mozart Mini-Festival I. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Patio Blues & BBQ — Jenn Cleary. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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As You Like It. University Theater, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 10.
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Between Me and My Mind. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Downtown Library Lawn, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-478-3044.
High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Janet Gillette, Nerea The Fiddler. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Summer of Discovery: Improvisational Music & Movement Workshop — with Members of the Mmmwhah! Ensemble. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Events
TUESDAY, JULY 23
Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Music
Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. see EVENTS Page 34
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Creekside Concerts & Movie Fridays, 5-9:30 p.m.
Aug. 16 |Euforquestra (Funk/Soul) + Lipbone Redding
Dance with a Doc
Sat., 10-11:15 a.m. July 27 | September 28 | October 26
Sept. 6 | The Champions (80s Rock Cover Band)
An innovative dance-wellness program, for everyone interested in moving towards a healthier lifestyle- bringing together people who like to dance, and who would like to learn more about the health benefits of dance, with doctors and health professionals.
Central Park West at the Civic Area 1056 Canyon Blvd.
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Aug. 23 | Ron Artis II and The Truth (Soul/Rock) + Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons
Concert followed by outdoor movie (80s theme)
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FILMS FROM THE DOCUMENTARY ‘GHOST FLEET’
Friday July 19
yella Beezy Wednesday July 24 re: search
thursday July 18
WOOd & Wire
W/ Jay rOemer Band (PatiO set) & hazel hue (PatiO set)
Friday July 19
Orchard lOunge
W/ Pruitt, sam Warren (late set) & JOrdan POlOvina
evOl intent, heavygrinder & mc dinO
Friday July 26
saturday July 20
amOn tOBin Presents
tWO Fingers dJ set saturday July 27
Butcher BrOWn W/ dirty revival
sunday July 28
dOBre BrOthers live (early shOW)
Friday, saturday & sunday august 2-4 @ sunrise ranch in lOveland
arise music Festival Friday august 9
unlimited gravity
W/ Funkstatik, mzg & mOm n dad
Friday august 16
40Oz tO FreedOm
(suBlime triBute) W/ lil’ Ween (Ween triBute) PerFOrming “the mOllusk” & XOa
lOs cOlOgnes
W/ Flash mOuntain FlOOd & shaWn nelsOn Band
sunday July 21
the hOmegrOWn caPitOl tOurs launch Party
Feat kalyst
PeOPle cOrruPting PeOPle, triP, Fvnciisavage, dillOnJ, yOda POPz, anOmalOus, schnell JOrdan, FathOm all the animals, tOOsWiFt & JOe laW
tuesday July 23
e.n yOung
W/ luna shade, Betaray & dave halchak (PatiO)
Wednesday July 24
sOPhistaFunk
W/ envy alO, sarah mOunt & the rushmOres
thursday July 25
hymn FOr her
W/ the deer, che aPalache (argentina – PatiO set) & high cOuntry hustle (PatiO set)
Friday July 26
saturday august 17
lOst dOg street Band
W/ sumthin sumthin & untitld
smrtdeath, lil lOtus & guccihighWaters
zeBBler encanti eXPerience thursday august 22
stunna 4 vegas
Feat Blacc zacc, derrick rOyce, mi$Fits & tahathakidd
Friday august 23
isaiah sharkey
(d’angelO/JOhn mayer/cOry henry) W/ Juice Feat memBers OF cycles, analOg sOn, dandu & mOre
W/ matt heckler & casPer allen
saturday July 27
W/ david Frederick & yung kell
Saturday auguSt 31 • poSt phiSh Show
herBie hancOck triBute
Feat memBers OF mOtet & Big gigantic
thursday & Friday sePtemBer 12-13
suicidegirls
Blackheart Burlesque
saturday sePtemBer 14
the mOvement W/ arise rOOts
Friday September 20 • dual venue! BallOOn POP
WaX tailOr (dJ set), BlOckhead
little PeOPle, yPPah, natasha kmetO, arms and sleePers, & cnJr
saturday sePtemBer 21
mark Farina & christian martin Wednesday sePtemBer 25 re: search
the geek X vrv
W/ POldOOre, JOrdan POlOvina & Juschill
sunday sePtemBer 29
aPPalachia On the rOcks W/ the WOOks, laid Back cOuntry Picker & chelsea nOlan
Friday & saturday OctOBer 11-12
the neW mastersOunds W/ ghOst-nOte
Wednesday OctOBer 16
Big k.r.i.t.
saturday OctOBer 19 cycles Presents
the game shOW
- an interactive cOncert & game shOW eXPerience
saturday nOvemBer 9
re: search
deFunk
thursday august 1
Feat JOhn craigie & Brad ParsOns W/ nirvana’s unPlugged PerFOrmed By memBers OF Part & Parcel, mama magnOlia & analOg sOn (late set) On the PatiO: strings and the BOX, derek Ohl & Friends (OF Flash mOuntain FlOOd)
Friday august 2
nOlatet
Feat mike dillOn, Brian haas & James singletOn W/ dandu
Wednesday august 7 re: search
ultraslOth
(duFFrey X BiOlumigen X kll smth) W/ 5am, thOught PrOcess (late set) & JOrdan POlOvina
thursday august 8
the Billy Failing Band
W/ 300 days, dirty grass Players (PatiO set) & Pierce edens (PatiO set)
Friday august 9
the cOmmOnheart
Feat James casey (trey anastasiO Band) W/ tWO Faces West & genuine reverie
saturday august 10
delvOn lamarr Organ triO & neal Francis W/ the sOltOnes On the PatiO: hachey’s haus
Wednesday august 14 re: search
artiFakts
W/ JOrdan POlOvina
thursday august 15
Pick & hOWl
W/ Julian davis & the situatiOn (OF JeFF austin Band – PatiO set), BuFFalO cOmmOns (late set), tara rOse & the real deal (PatiO set)
Friday august 16
cOllidOscOPe & melOdy lines
W/ telemetry, FlOatgOat & mr. Bugatti
saturday august 17
a deitch Family aFFair
Feat adam deitch & Friends (adam deitch – lettuce, BOrahm lee – Break science, adam “shmeeams) smirnOFF – lettuce & hunter rOBerts – dOm lalli’s BlueBird quintet) & BOBBy deitch Band
Friday sePtemBer 27
anders OsBOrne
eminence ensemBle
sunday nOvemBer 17
sunday OctOBer 6
hilltOP hOOds W/ adrian eagle
W/ amOramOra & dOg city discO
PnB rOck
W/ nOcaP, rylO rOdriguez
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Monday, July 22 ‘Christo: Walking on Water.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker. Tuesday, July 23 Kids Films: ‘Robin Hood.’ 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. ‘Christo: Walking on Water.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker. Wednesday, July 24 ‘Christo: Walking on Water.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Ghost Fleet.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Mirai.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Sci-Fi Film Series: ‘Get Out.’ 7 p.m. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-370-6000.
W/ last humans
Jay cOBB andersOn Band
BOne diggers
on Water.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker. ‘The Cure Anniversary 1978-2018 Live in Hyde Park.’ 3:30 p.m. Boedecker.
Wednesday July 31
W/ cOFresi, megan hamiltOn & catParty
Paul simOn’s greatest hits eXPlOred Feat leBO (alO), JenniFer hartsWick & James casey (trey Band), reed mathis, JeFF Franca, danny eisenBerg & scOtt rager W/ heartByrne (talking heads triBute)
Saturday, July 20 ‘The Chaperone.’ 3:30 p.m. Boedecker. Color of Conversation Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts.
Sunday, July 21 ‘Christo: Walking
tuesday July 30
saturday august 24
thursday august 29
Friday, July 19 ‘The Chaperone.’ 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Boedecker. Color of Conversation Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts. ‘Framing John DeLorean.’ 4 p.m. Boedecker. Friday Family Film: ‘Paddington.’ 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. ‘Shadow.’ 8:45 p.m. Boedecker.
‘Framing John DeLorean.’ 1 and 6 p.m. Boedecker.
Ben sParacO & the neW eFFect
W/ memBa, lyFtd (late set) & JOrdan POlOvina
Bass Physics
Thursday, July 18 ‘The Chaperone.’ 2 and 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Color of Conversation Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. ‘Framing John DeLorean.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker. Summer of ’90s Movies: ‘The Lion King.’ 8 p.m. Ironton Distillery & Crafthouse, 3636 Chestnut Place, Denver, 720-532-0937.
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The Gipsy Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes & Tonino Baliardo. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Ross Newell from The Mulligan Brothers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Russian Masters. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Tasty Colfax. 5:30 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-233-0583. Ultra Violet. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; 12:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. First Session: Everything Before You Hit Record. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.
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Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bourbon & Blues — with Erik Boa & The Constrictors. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060. Rosh & The Blind Cafe Orchestra. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Anime-niacs: Anime Club for Adults. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. An Evening of Comedy Classics (Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy) with Hank Troy, piano. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. How Dark is Your Sky?. 6:30 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Local Tastes sponsored by Friends of Clyfford Still. 6 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880. Summer of Discovery: Henna Design Workshop. 5:30 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Summer of Discovery: Rocky Mountain Paranormal: UFOs: Fact or fiction?. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
AYSK (Artists You Should Know) Vol 2. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.
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ON THE BILL: ‘The Lion King.’ Opens July 19, everywhere.
To Disney, from the desk of Mufasa: “Remember who you are.”
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he Lion King, Disney’s latest computer-generated remake, isn’t like the rest. Yes, the story — Hamlet meets Bambi with a touch of Jungle Book — is intact, as are the memorable Elton John and Tim Rice songs. But The Lion King is different. From the first delicate images of the African savannah at dawn to Noah’s herd making its way to Pride Rock, 2019’s Lion King is a massive leap forward in computer-generated images. It all looks real, but not too real: a photorealistic landscape that manages to dodge the uncanny valley. And in those brief opening moments, today’s rendition of The Lion King is Walt Disney’s dream come true. Let’s jump back: In the late 1930s, Disney was hell-bent on bringing Felix Salten’s novel, Bambi, A Life in the Woods, to the screen. But, how to create the illusion of a living, breathing, talking deer through a series of hand-drawn pictures? Tests were made en masse, and live deer were brought into the studio so the animators could study their habits — a butcher even dissected one so the artists could study the deer’s muscular structure. Why? Disney wanted realism. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves had set box office records, Pinocchio pushed cell animation to new heights and Fantasia brought abstract art, music and animation together in a massive swirl of ars gratia artis. Realistic animation was the next frontier, and realism is what Disney demanded. It was Marc Davis — an essential figure in the development of animation — who cracked the code: Disney asked for realism, but he meant believability. Bambi didn’t have to look like a deer, he just had to behave like a deer. The results were stunning. Combining technical animation never before seen with cartoonish innocence and the occasional moment of emotional abstraction, Bambi became one for the ages, and its triumphs were far-reaching. Even 1994’s The Lion King owes Bambi a lot. And not just in story, but in technique and execution. You believe Mufasa’s strength, Scar’s cunning and that a flower petal with Simba’s scent could float across the Serengeti to Rafiki’s tree. And you believe every computer-generated frame of Jon Favreau’s 2019 The Lion King. That is until the lions start talking three minutes in. Jeff Nathanson’s script sticks close to the ’94 film — the changes are minimal, and the additions inconsequential. The only difference is an emphasis on realistic images free of abstraction and creativity. Worse, the animals’ mouths still flap in an attempt to make language look natural. Some look like they are constantly mumbling, others, Timon in particular, spend so much time talking in close-up you fear a human face might push through digital eyes, teeth and hair in some sort of Cronenbergian horror show. What would’ve Uncle Walt made of that? The Lion King is a soulless attempt to capitalize on mislaid nostalgia. The animation is a half-hearted stab at trying to bring something new to the party, but it just reinforces Davis’ epiphany all those years ago: It’s believability, not reality, that makes the magic work.
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Between realism and believability in ‘The Lion King’
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Sushi Aji 489 US 287, Unit 100, Lafayette, sushiajilafayette.com ptions abound at Lafayette’s Sushi Aji, from sushi and sashimi to bento boxes, noodle dishes, poke and more. We chose the Crazy Tuna, one of Sushi Aji’s poke bowls (also available as a sushi burrito), filled with chunks of fresh tuna in a spicy sauce, tempura-fried asparagus, sweet potato, onion, avocado, cucumber and seaweed salad. The texture from the tempura vegetables is addictive, and each bite bursts with flavor. We were particularly prone to getting the tempura onion, seaweed salad and tuna on one fork. And how remarkable it is for Sushi Aji to whip it up so beautifully in almost no time. $14.
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Global foodies converge on the Front Range for Slow Food Nations by John Lehndorff
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oodies, chefs, culinary artists and food justice advocates from around the globe are making a beeline to Denver this weekend. Slow Food Nations (SFN) is the coolest, most prestigious food gathering in the United States. Even though it has been anchored here for three years, locals still seem unaware. We haven’t really discovered the festival’s discrete and tasty charms yet, or we think SFN is a pricey affair like the annual Aspen Food & Wine.
I hear a lot of reasons why people haven’t attended the first two years of SFN. Here is why you should get a taste of the events in Larimer Square July 19-21. SFN is a food festival featuring cooking demos, tastings, free family activities, one-of-a-kind food block parties and speakers like culinary legend Alice Waters, fermentation star Sandor Katz and local notables like chefs Caroline Glover and Alex Seidel. The focus is squarely on providing sustainable fare for everyone everywhere. If you love sampling new foods, hang out at the free Taste Marketplace July 20-21 spanning four blocks. More than 80 makers are sampling their goods, including local producers such as Picaflor and Teakoe. There are also beverage stations and spots selling international bites. Do you want to delve deeper? There are discussions about how to combat the exploitation of farm workers, lack of access to land and healthy food, and issues involving race, class and gender disparities in the food industry. You can attend discussions on saving indigenous traditional foods, guerrilla gardens, schoolsupported agriculture, and how cooking seasonally can create environmental change. There are ticketed sampling events that explore local cider, bean-to-bar chocolate and coastal Mexican cuisine. For instance, Flavors of the African Diaspora on July 20 with historian Adrian Miller see NIBBLES Page 40
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Front Range Food for Front Range Families
and chef Kevin Mitchell looks at ingredients and dishes that traveled to the new world. Want to party? Our state gets to show off Friday night at the ticketed Colorado Fare Block Party with unlimited bites from 15 chefs, ranchers and artisan food purveyors across the state with local craft beer, wine and cider. By all means, bring the kids to SFN. The Garden to Tacos event teaches children how to chop and toss fresh vegetables into salsas and slaws and roll out their own fresh tortillas. The whole festival concludes with the Zero-Waste Family Meal cooked by chefs using “leftovers.” It is SFN’s hottest ticket. Information: slowfoodnations.org.
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BY THE ORGANIC NUMBERS More than 52 percent of the customers who buy organic food are millennials. Gen X’ers account for 35 percent, according to the Organic Trade Association’s most recent survey. Their parents, the baby boomers, are not unexpectedly conventional. Only 14 percent of organic food buyers are boomers. Younger shoppers look for label claims like free-range, gluten-free and certified humane. Boomers look for low claims: low-sugar, low-fat, low-salt and low-carb. LOCAL FOOD NEWS The original folks behind the Rocky Flats Lounge are not involved, but the Friday night fish fry is back at the renamed Rocky Flats Bar & Grill, recently reopened on Highway 93 south of Boulder. For newcomers, the establishment is situated across the street from the former Rocky Flats plutonium bomb trigger factory. It was the site of massive protests and is now called the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge. ... This is the year to attend the Eagle Mushroom & Wild Food Festival, Aug 2-4, since wet weather is spawning a bumper crop of fungi across Colorado. Featured are forays, a nine-course wild foods dinner, Mushrooming 101 and classes with experts including Eugenia Bone. eaglemushroomfest.com. ... Hands-on barbecue classes are taught at Denver’s Proud Souls BBQ & Provisions. proudsoulsbbq.com. ... Plan ahead: The next scheduled local pie contest is Aug. 24 in Hygiene at the United Methodist Church. hygienecommunityassociation.org. ... I
Pueblo’s Chile & Frijoles Festival is Sept. 20-22. pueblochamber.org CULINARY CORRESPONDENCE In a recent Taste of the Week item I praised the chicken chicharrones served at The Post. A reader noted that fried chicken skin is an ancient Jewish tradition. “Good Jewish cooks render chicken fat (schmaltz) from raw chicken skin by placing it in a cast-iron pan and heating till the fat runs out and the skin turns brown and crispy. The rendered fat is poured into a jar and used in matzoh balls and chopped liver. Fried chicken skin or gribens (pronounced gree-bens), is best eaten hot from the pan, sprinkled with salt.” ON THE MENU: WATERMELON JUICE Now is the time when the watermelons get big, cheap and sweet. Get one and turn the whole thing into one of summer’s transcendent joys: Fresh watermelon juice. Just run melon chunks through your blender, strain out the pulp, and chill. Fresh watermelon juice is great with spicy Indian or Thai fare. Needless to say, it makes a lovely cocktail with local gin. I freeze watermelon juice cubes and then pour lemon seltzer over them. TASTE OF THE WEEK The best pan-fried paht kee-mao or “drunken noodles” I have tasted in ages are served at Dancing Noodle Thai Restaurant, a tiny strip mall eatery in Parker. The charming staff craft something rare from scratch: thick, wide rice noodles that soak up the Thai basilaccented sauce like a dumpling. Fair warning: You’ll just hurt yourself ordering this dish or any of the curries at their Thai Fire or Burning Inferno heat levels. WORDS TO CHEW ON “The integration of the various animals and crops into a relatively small acreage becomes a formal problem that is just as interesting and just as demanding as the arrangement of the parts of a novel. ... And if they’re ordered properly on a farm, something even more miraculous than most art happens: you have sustainability.” — Wendell Berry John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles, 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU, 88.5 FM, news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
COURTESY OF WEST END TAVERN
Know your brew: IPA
A beer by any other name just doesn’t sell as much
by Michael J. Casey
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hat’s in a name? Historically speaking, it’s India pale ale partly because English colonialists craved a bitter beverage to pair with India’s spicy curries — try it, it’s phenomenal — and partly for marketing purposes back in England. The moniker “India pale ale” first appeared in print in 1835 but it would be years before the style was standardized or developed into anything resembling what you’d find in taprooms today. Jump ahead to 1975, and Anchor Brewing in San Francisco rejuvenated the hoppy ale with Liberty Ale and used copious amounts of Centennial hops to give the beer a bitter kick. Two hundred years after Paul Revere’s midnight ride, the American-style IPA was born. Both Liberty Ale and England’s best known IPA, Worthington’s White Shield, were a celebration of hops — the one ingredient that binds and ties IPAs of various shades across time and space. By 2005, IPA had become the most entered category at the Great American Beer Festival, a throne it has yet to relinquish and probably won’t anytime soon. Nowadays, you’d be hard-pressed not to find an IPA on tap at your local brewery. Even those dedicated to lagers brew one or feature a guest one because it just makes good business sense; Wibby Brewing and Prost Brewing feature hop-fortified IPLs (India pale lagers) in lieu of their aromatic ale counterparts. But those are the outliers; most don’t just pour IPA, they are flush with them: black IPA, red IPA, white IPA, wheat IPA, rye IPA, Belgian IPA, West Coast IPA, New England-style IPA, mountain IPA, imperial IPA, triple IPA and session IPA. Avery Brewing even makes an activated IPA, brewed with sodium and potassium, and VisionQuest Brewing has a coconut IPA — chewy and fantastic. With mind-boggling permutations and combinations, there is seemingly no end to what an IPA can be or do. Furthermore, all these hoppy variations on a theme seem to lead to some confusion in the marketplace. Average drinkers don’t know the difference between ale and lager, let alone one IPA from the next. In this regard, many have come to identify IPA as synonymous with craft beer. The “I” may stand for India historically, but in today’s taprooms, IPA might as well be independent pale ale. Need proof? Head over to Boulder’s West End Tavern for Jul-IPA, a summer celebration of America’s favorite craft beer style. All month long, West End has been rotating through varied versions of Colorado IPAs, from Odell Brewing’s bracingly bright IPA (a true classic) to purveyors of the hazy/juicy variety: 4 Noses Brewing and Crooked Stave Artisanal Beer Project. Wibby’s aforementioned IPL will be on tap, arguably the most modern version of the style. IPAs are pouring every day at West End, but its rooftop grand finale party is Sunday, July 28, 1-4 p.m. Tickets are $35 and include beer, BBQ, live music, an auction and tastings of Breckenridge Bourbon. Details at thewestendtavern.com. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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ummer is a parade of fruits. First come the berries — the strawberries, blueberries and finally the raspberries — followed by the stone fruits like cherries, peaches, apricots and whatnot. My friend Sarah has a certain combination of grains that she calls by the unfortunate name of “gruel.” Her gruel is not the kind you might expect to be served at the local prison camp. It’s thick and interesting, with a complex, nutty flavor, and it’s great beneath fruit from breakfast to dessert.
Something with which to eat berries and cream
A surprising treat makes use of abundant summer fruit
by Ari LeVaux “I like it because it sounds like Dickens,” Sarah told me, knowing full well her grains aren’t gruel. Porridge and gruel are two points along a spectrum of boiled grains that can be cooked and served with, among other things, berries and fruit. Porridge is thicker, and has a better name, derived from an old-world style of one-pot cookery called potage. Porridge has a homey, comforting sound that takes you to a world where breakfast is just right. Gruel, on the other hand, is not a pretty word for food. The sound itself is unappetizing and rolls off the tongue like wet cement. As the inspiration for the word “grueling,” it implies 42
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that eating a bowl of the stuff is some kind of ordeal. Whatever we call it, the good news is gruel is great with strawberries and yogurt, and it works in savory dishes too. Sarah’s gruel is on the thick side of porridge, and more like a pot of cooked grains than a liquid. It has no business being called gruel, but I suppose when you have as many glass jars filled with seeds as she does, you can call your potage Ahab the Sailor. But in hopes of never making you read the word gruel again, I’ll just call today’s recipe potage, short for Sarah’s Potage Process. Based on a mixture of quinoa and steel-cut oats, Sarah tweaks her potage with smaller amounts of other grains like sunflower, hemp and chia seeds. It forms a thick matrix of grains that are not overcooked, with the right amount of resistance to the tooth. There is a long tradition of mixing grains, fruit and some dairy product, from cobbler with ice cream, to granola and fruit with milk, to bread with butter and jam. Even a berry cheesecake, with a crust based on finely ground wheat, would qualify. Potage deserves a place on this pantheon as well. When putting together a plate of fruit, cream and grains, the sweet and sour levels are crucial. If you have a sauce like chokecherry syrup, that’s ideal. Otherwise, make something with rhubarb, or pie cherries. I usually cook my potage unsweetened, so the sweetness I add at serving time is the sweetness we get. Everyone likes a little sweetness — no big surprise there. But the tartness is an unexpected game-changer, making the whole dish more interesting and balanced. The core of the potage process is to simmer a mix of equal parts quinoa and steel-cut oats, as both grains cook to perfec-
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tion in the same amount of time, each arriving at a place that complements the other. Quinoa cooked to this point would not hold together alone, but the steel cut oats add their binding, moisturizing, some might say slimy soluble fibers, forming an invisible mortar, while the quinoa sucks up the excess, drying out the oats. A pot of this gruel holds together with the ease of a pot of rice, and the leftovers don’t harden into a solid mass the next day — at least in my version, where I leave out Sarah’s chia and sunflower seeds, keep her hemp seeds, and add sesame seeds. This mix of nutty earth tones sets up a delicious, interesting contrast with the fruit, cream and especially that tartness. The ways to doctor any such mixture toward sweet and creamy are many, but it can be served savory as well. My favorite is dressed with soy sauce, toasted sesame oil and minced green onion or scape, served room temperature. Potage, pottage, porridge and other versions of the historical dish upon which this meal is based, is the original one-pot meal. Some renditions include beans, meat and bones, while others are sweet from the start. But the rules of this ancient game have remained steady since long before they were ever written down. Cook the pottage in a pot, slowly. Don’t burn it. Add water when necessary. But not too much, unless you want gruel.
BERRY PEACHY POTAGE
This rendition contains sesame and hemp seeds, but you should definitely explore ways to augment the quinoa/oat base, and find your own grueling groove, whatever that may be. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
A 4-quart pot’s worth, about 10 small servings Potage Base 1 cup steel cut oats 1 cup quinoa (I prefer red quinoa, for color) 4 cups water (with more at the ready) 1 tablespoon untoasted sesame seeds 1 tablespoon raw, shelled hemp seeds pinch of salt Berries and Cream option 1 scoop per serving of creamy material, like whipped cream or heavy yogurt 1 cup berries, cherries, apricots, peaches, apples or whatever is ripe and sweet A sweet and tart syrup like rhubarb, cherry or chokecherry Add the potage base ingredients to a heavy-bottomed pot, and bring to a boil. Bring back to a simmer and keep it there for about 20 minutes, until the grains have all swollen and softened to the point where they feel good to chew. The water may disappear before you get there, so be prepared to add more. Don’t over-stir, but keep track of what is happening on the bottom of the pot. When the grains are good to chew, turn the heat to low and slowly let the water cook off. Turn off the heat and let it cool to room temperature, and store in the fridge. Serve room temperature or chilled with berries and creamy material. Don’t let the components of this culinary structure mix until they reach your mouth. Just as you wouldn’t stir a plate of cheesecake into a sloppy mess before eating it, a dish of berry potage is best served deconstructed, drenched in a sweet, tart syrup, of course. I
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: An Aries reader sent me a boisterous email. “I was afraid I was getting too bogged down by my duties,” he said, “too hypnotized by routine, too serious about my problems. So I took drastic action.” He then described the ways he broke out of his slump. Here’s an excerpt: “I gave laughing lessons to a cat. I ate a spider. I conducted a sneezing contest. I smashed an alarm clock with a hammer. Whenever an elderly woman walked by, I called out, ‘Hail to the Queen!’ and did a backflip. I gave names to my spoon (Hortense), the table (Beatrice), a fly that was buzzing around (Fallon) and a toothpick (Arturo).” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Aries, you’d be wise to stage a comparable uprising.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Welcome home, homegirls and homeboys. After observing all your homesteading in homes away from home, I’m pleased to see you getting curious about the real home brew again. I wonder how many times I’ll say the word “home” before you register the message that it’s high time for you to home in on some homemade, homegrown homework? Now here’s a special note to any of you who may be feeling psychologically homeless or exiled from your spiritual home: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to address that ache and remedy that problem.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: The world is full of eternally restless people who seethe with confused desires they don’t understand. Fueled by such unfathomable urges, they are driven in unknown directions to accomplish fuzzy goals. They may be obsessed in ways that make them appear to be highly focused, but the objects of their obsession are impossible to attain or unite with. Those objects don’t truly exist! I have described this phenomenon in detail, Gemini, because the coming months will offer you all the help and support you could ever need to make sure you’re forever free of any inclination to be like that.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Although you’ll never find an advertisement for Toyota or Coca Cola or Apple within my horoscope column, you will find hype for spiritual commodities like creativity, love and freedom. Like everyone else, I’m a huckster. My flackery may be more ethical and uplifting than others’, but the fact is that I still try to persuade you to “buy” my ideas. The moral of the story: Everyone, even the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, is selling something. I hope that what I’m saying here purges any reluctance you might have about presenting yourself and your ideas in the most favorable light. It’s high time for you to hone your sales pitch; to explain why your approach to life is so wise; to be a forceful spokesperson and role model for the values you hold dear.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: You are growing almost too fast, but that won’t necessarily be a problem — as long as you don’t expect everyone around you to grow as fast as you. I suspect that you also know almost too much — but I don’t anticipate that will spawn envy and resistance as long as you cultivate a bit of humility. I have an additional duty to report that you’re on the verge of being too attractive for your own good — although you have not yet actually reached the tipping point, so maybe your hyper-attractiveness will serve you rather than undermine you. In conclusion, Scorpio, I invite you to celebrate your abundance, but don’t flaunt it. NOV. 22-DEC. 21: The snow leopards of Central Asia crave a lot of room to wander. Zoologists say that each male prefers its territory to be about 84 square miles, and each female likes to have 44 square miles. I don’t think you’ll require quite that vast a turf in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But on the other hand, it will be important not to underestimate the spaciousness you’ll need in order to thrive. Give yourself permission to be expansive.
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JULY 23-AUG. 22: Isaac Asimov wrote a science fiction story about a physicist who masters time travel and summons William Shakespeare into the present time. The Bard enrolls in a night school class about his own plays — and proceeds to flunk the course. Modern ideas and modes of discourse are simply too disorienting to him. He is unable to grasp the theories that centuries’ worth of critics have developed about his work. With this as a cautionary tale, I invite you to timetravel not four centuries into the future, but just ten years. From that vantage point, look back at the life you’re living now. How would you evaluate and understand it? Do you have any constructive criticism to offer? Any insights that could help you plan better for your long-term future?
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to buy yourself toys, change your image for no rational reason and indulge in an interesting pleasure that you have been denying yourself for no good reason. In addition, I hope you will engage in at least two heart-to-heart talks with yourself, preferably using funny voices and comical body language. You could also align yourself gracefully with cosmic rhythms by dancing more than usual, by goofing off more than usual, by wandering in the wilderness and seeking to recapture your lost innocence more than usual.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: What would you say if I asked you to tell me who you truly are? I wouldn’t want to hear so much about your titles and awards. I’d be curious about your sacred mysteries, not your literal history. I’d want to know the treasured secrets you talk about with yourself before you fall asleep. I’d ask you to sing the songs you love and describe the allies who make you feel real. I’d urge you to riff on the future possibilities that both scare you and thrill you. What else? What are some other ways you might show me core truths about your irrepressible soul? Now is a good time to meditate on these riddles.
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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Did you hear the story about the California mom who started a series of forest fires so as to boost her son’s career as a firefighter? She is an apt role model for behavior you should diligently avoid in the coming weeks. It’s unwise and unprofitable for you and yours to stir up a certain kind of trouble simply because it’s trouble that you and yours have become skilled at solving. So how should you use your problem-solving energy, which I suspect will be at a peak? I suggest you go hunting for some very interesting and potentially productive trouble that you haven’t wrangled with before — some rousing challenge that will make you even smarter than you already are.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: The heroine of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is curious, adventurous, and brave. First she follows a well-dressed rabbit down a rabbit hole into an alternate universe. Later she slips through a mirror into yet another parallel reality. Both times, with great composure, she navigates her way through many odd, paranormal and unpredictable events. She enjoys herself immensely as she deals with a series of unusual characters and unfamiliar situations. I’m going to speculate that Alice is a Pisces. Are you ready for your very own Alice-in-Wonderland phase? Here it comes!
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wife is currently some combo of highly risk-averse and completely overwhelmed. (Hey, are you doing your fair share of the housework and childcare?) Instead of threatening to divorce her (which would amount to pressuring her), I would encourage you to find a sex-positive counselor who can help you two talk about what your sex life can look like once your children are a little older. If she can express it without being expected to act on it tomorrow, my hunch is your wife can see cuckolding you again once your kids are older. Since finding women who are into this isn’t easy, as you already know, it would be in your own self-interest to take the long view and be patient. In the meantime, CHURN, content yourself with hot memories of all the times the wife cuckolded you in the past and hot dirty talk about all the times she’s going cuckold you in the future. On the Lovecast, summer sex toys with Erika Moen: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage ITMFA.org
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Yet with federal prohibition on marijuana and a federally-funded agency tasked with providing pot to federally-approved studies on cannabis, there’s been some pretty whack research out there about cannabis and cannabinoids, like a recent CBD study by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. To make a long research paper short, this team of scientists force-fed mice CBD, ranging from a “low” dosage of 246 mg/kg up to a shockingly high dosage of 2460 mg/kg. For reference, the maximum recommended human dosage of Epidiolex is 20 mg/kg. Within 24 hours, livers ballooned and failed and mice died, leading the researchers to claim that CBD is not nearly so safe as it’s been made out to be. But some folks are questioning the validity of the research. “The Little Rock study made no mention of humans, which is a hugely important distinction,” wrote nonprofit group Project CBD in a rebuttal to the University of Arkansas research. “Moreover, in the real world CBD consumers are not ingesting 0.25 percent of their body weight — the maximal dose that [the University of Arkansas team] used in their study of liver toxicity.” The researchers claim their dosage was based on allometric scaling, which takes into consideration the weight and body mass index of research animals. Writing for the website Merry Jane, Randy Robinson, a Denver-based writer who studied cannabinoid science while getting a degree in molecular biology, says that with allometric
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scaling we’d expect to see a dose “somewhere in the range of 0.3 mg/kg” for a mouse. “The researchers instead dosed the mice on 0, 246, 738, or 2460mg/kg,” Robinson says. “Yeah, you read that correctly: at the higher end, the mice got 120 times the recommended dose for a full-grown human being. “So, no shit the mice got liver damage and died.” It’s not news that CBD can wreak havoc on the liver. During the FDA’s public hearing on CBD in late May, plenty of doctors and toxicologists testified that CBD could cause health complications for some people, particularly at high doses. David Bienenstock, writing for the website Leafly, makes a compelling argument about testimony from GW Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed Epidiolex. During testimony, GW representative Alice Mead argued for a “strong regulatory framework.” “[W]hat that really means is GW Pharmaceuticals wants a regulatory framework for CBD so strong that only they can surmount it,” Bienenstock writes. “And so here’s the thought experiment,” he continues. “You’re GW Pharmaceuticals, and you’ve invested heavily in both time and money to create a patented CBD drug. Now you’re about to go to market, and want to make a huge return on that investment without having to compete with CBD hamburgers and truck stop snake oil. “So what’s the biggest threat to your bottom line — that people think CBD is too dangerous, or that people think CBD is too safe?”
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an a genetic mutation make about one in 10 people diagnosed with Cannabis Use Disorder are marijuana users predisposed to becoming more likely to share a mutated version of CHRNA2 addicted to pot? Researchers in Denmark than a control group. think they have found one that does. Ditte Demontis of the Center for Genomics and Danish researchers claim they have Personalized Medicine at Aarhus and colleagues identified a gene that increases the risk of a marianalyzed the SNP patterns in the genomes of 2,387 juana user developing “cannabis use disorder,” a people with cannabis use disorder and 48,985 conterm that covers both dependency and addiction, trols from a nation-wide Danish sample. They then and a lot more (more on that in a moment). checked their work by analyzing data in the national The Danish researchers identified a variant of Icelandic genetic database, one of the world’s largthe gene for CHRNA2 (aka Cholinergic Receptor est. They got the same results for 5,501 cases of Nicotinic Alpha 2 Subunit), that affects the risk Wikimedia Commons/Christoph Bock, Max Planck Institute for Informatics of developing cannabis use disorder. This is a significant finding, because CHRNA2 is not one of the main receptors to which THC and CBD bind. Those are dubbed CB1 and CB2. According to an article posted on the Genetic Literacy Project’s website, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are much more abundant and widespread than the two cannabinoid receptors. Each of the CHRNA receptors has five parts, with a different gene encoding each of the parts. Mutations in the CHRNA2 gene have been associated with a type of epilepsy and with nicotine dependence. The new work found an association with cannabis use disorder as well. The mutation that the researchers identified consists of a variation in a single nucleotide or “letcannabis use disorder and 301,041 controls. ter” in the CHRNA2 gene. Such variations are called Further experiments that looked at gene “single nucleotide polymorphisms” or SNPs (proexpression in brain slices found that while normal nounced ‘snips’). CHRNA2 is active in the cerebellum, the variant The researchers, who are associated with linked to cannabis use disorder is less so. Aarhus University and with deCODE Genetics Significantly, reward and inhibition pathways arise Amgen, found the offending SNP by conducting a from neural networks in this part of the brain, “genome-wide association study.” Such studies where both cannabinoid and CHRNA receptors are compare many SNP sites in the genomes of thoucommon. sands of people who share a trait or illness, seekIf the study has a weakness, it might be in its ing SNP patterns that they share. The study found seemingly uncritical acceptance of the definition of
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cannabis use disorder. There are seven or eight criteria (depending on how you count) that are used to define cannabis use disorder. Here’s the eight-criteria version of the list: 1) Craving marijuana 2) Great effort to get marijuana 3) Problems with work, school, home life due to marijuana use 4) Stopping other pleasurable activities 5) Increasing intake over time 6) Attempting to cut down or stop 7) Continuing even if recognizing social problems and endangered health 8) Withdrawal symptoms If you experience two of these in the course of a year (or three if you don’t experience withdrawal) after having used pot as few as six times a year, you can get a cannabis use disorder diagnosis hung on you. This suggests that a lot of people who use marijuana infrequently (seven times a year, for example) or in moderation are included in the cannabis use disorder cohort — possibly enough to affect the results of the study. Still, the finding that a genetic variation might make marijuana use risky for about 10 percent of users, but not for the other 90 percent, is a big deal. For one thing, it opens the possibility of developing drugs that counter the effects of the CHRNA2 mutation in those who have it. Perhaps more important, it means that it might be possible to develop a genetic test that would tell people whether they could use pot without the risk of developing a dependency or addiction. And that in turn would destroy the rational for using prohibition as a strategy for fighting marijuana abuse and relegate it to the category of medieval medicine, where it has always belonged.
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