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e Americans believe everyone has a right to have their day in court. Right? But what if the court is turned into a loony bin, making a mockery of justice? Welcome to the federal immigration courts that are struggling to deal with the insanity of Trump’s imperious “zero tolerance” decree that all Latino asylum seekers will be jailed and prosecuted as criminals. How insane is it? Toddlers, separat-
ed from their parents by Trump’s border guards, are being put on trial for entering illegally. “We were representing a 3-year-old in court,” said a dismayed defender of a migrant kiddo, “and the child — in the middle of the hearing — started climbing up on the table. It really highlighted the absurdity of what we’re doing with kids.” Not just doing “with” them, but to them. Fleeing unimaginable trauma in their home country, then suffering the pain of being torn away from their parents inside our border, the expectation that these little ones can mount a legal defense has rightly been labeled “unconscionable” and “grossly inappropriate” by experts. But I would add, inexpertly, that it is insane and evil. Here’s a bit of Trumpian evil for you: Johan, a 1-year-old Honduran boy
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taken from his amnesty-seeking father by border agents, was hauled into federal immigration court in July. A 1-yearold! As an AP reporter wrote, the baby briefly played with a ball, drank from a bottle, then “cried hysterically.” The law doesn’t even require that children have a lawyer to represent them. The judge said he was too “embarrassed” to try explaining this judicial proceeding to anyone: “I don’t know who you would explain it to, unless you think that a 1-year-old could learn immigration law,” the judge said in exasperation. Maybe he could try explaining it to the U.S. president who has foisted this lunacy on us. It’s a case of the inmates having taken charge of the insane asylum. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. July 26 , 2018 5
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the widespread corruption in Washington D.C. The Republican leadership is particularly concerned about what may unfold. But the scandal may raise questions that will discomfort leading Democrats as well. In November 2017, millions of leaked documents known as the Paradise Papers revealed that the U.S.led push for free trade and a globalized economy created vast, unaccountable flows of untaxed offshore wealth. A transnational capitalist elite has emerged, which looks for ways to shelter and launder this money across borders. For example, the papers revealed the secret business deals of Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary, with the family of Vladimir Putin. On Sept. 14, 2016, Newsweek published a remarkable and lengthy cover story by Kurt Eichenwald entitled “How the Trump Organization’s Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security.” The piece dealt with the organization’s business dealings in many nations around the world. Eichenwald noted: “A close examination by Newsweek of the Trump Organization, including confidential interviews with business executives and some of its international partners, reveals an enterprise with deep ties to global financiers, foreign politicians and even criminals, although there is no evidence the Trump Organization has engaged in any illegal activities. It
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Recently I received a mass letter from your office concerning your work as a congressman to help senior citizens with problems they may encounter with Social Security and Medicare benefits. As a senior citizen myself I thank you. Perhaps you may someday become one of the leaders of the national Democratic Party. I imagine you have a very good chance of being the next governor of our state of Colorado. I’m writing you now about a most urgent concern: the lack of leadership of the Democratic Party to serve as a countervailing force to the excesses of President Trump and the Republican Party, now the majority party in Congress. In my judgment the Democratic Party leadership is hellbent on blaming the Putin government for the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Yes, it’s possible that the Russians may have influenced the outcome of the election. While this preoccupation continues to capture the news, the Trump administration, behind the limelight, is destroying the
safeguards of our governmental environmental policies and attempting to tear down the social safety net for poor Americans. What are the Democrats doing about it? Shouldn’t this be one of the top priorities of the minority party? Moreover, the lack of Democratic Party leadership of the DNC has not addressed the problems of foreign policy. In his rantings about NATO there is a grain of truth — why has NATO continued to encroach on the borders of Russia? Trump has asked why make Russia an enemy? Trump in his ravings has something there even though he is the wrong messenger. I hate to say it, because I have been a Democrat since the George McGovern candidacy, but I’m now of the opinion that the Democratic Party is about as bad as the Republican Party. Most recently I have come to the conclusion that the DNC is corrupt in its sabotaging of Bernie Sanders in his run for president in the Democratic primaries. Hillary Clinton was a tainted, warsee LETTERS Page 9
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also reveals a web of contractual entanglements that could not be just canceled. If Trump moves into the White House and his family continues to receive any benefit from the company, during or even after his presidency, almost every foreign policy decision he makes will raise serious conflicts of interest and ethical quagmires.” Eichenwald concluded: “Never before has an American candidate for president had so many financial ties with American allies and enemies, and never before has a business posed such a threat to the United States. If Donald Trump wins this election and his company is not immediately shut down or forever severed from the Trump family, the foreign policy of the United States of America could well be for sale.” Over the years, Trump went bankrupt so many times that legitimate banks wouldn’t lend to him. He turned to Russian oligarchs to fund his projects, and he laundered their dirty money for them. In 2014, Donald Trump, Jr. told a reporter, “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” On July 13, 2017, The New Republic published a lengthy cover story by investigative journalist Craig Unger entitled “Trump’s Russian Laundromat.”
The subtitle was “How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.” Michael Klare, professor emeritus of peace and world security at Hampshire College, said that most observers missed “the principal outcome of the (Helsinki) summit: Trump’s and Putin’s rollout of what could become a new model of international relations based on their joint, monopolistic management of world affairs.” He felt that it would be dangerous if world power was centralized “in the hands of two nuclear-armed megalomaniacs. The erosion of democracy at home is of great concern, to be sure, but so is its disappearance on the world stage.” Bernie Sanders has outlined the dangers we are facing: “Inequality, corruption, oligarchy and authoritarianism are inseparable. Around the world we have witnessed the rise of demagogues who, once in power, use their positions to loot the state of its resources. These kleptocrats, like Putin in Russia, use divisiveness and abuse as a tool for enriching themselves and those loyal to them.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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mongering candidate and thus many Democrats didn’t vote or didn’t vote for her. That’s not being discussed. We desperately need new leadership of the Democratic Party. Irving Franke, Ph.D./Boulder
Get real on democratic socialism I was a Bernie Sanders supporter, as I saw him as the single honest candidate in the entire field of Democrats and Republicans, and certainly the most intelligent. Unfortunately, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and any other Democratic Socialist or Democrat, have no real fiscal answers as to how they are going to take care of everybody. This is the fatal flaw of the Dems and has been for decades. Fiscal non-reality. One of the negative impacts of this non-reality, and one that has rubbed me raw, is the drain of resources for illegal immigrants on our public education system. Just give it all away and compound that with Mrs. DeVos siphoning public funds to the affluent, and you have an over-milked school system. I am all in favor of socialized policies and have seen on a firsthand basis the positive effects of socialized education and medicine in my wife’s home country of Switzerland, but let’s get real... until we find new resources of our tax base, like giving less to Israel, Iraq, Lower Slobbovia, etc. and spend less on defense and other items that countries that have successfully implemented socialized policies are not saddled with, we will never get there. Michael Ortiz/Lafayette
Strike back to protect poor What can we do to turn back the current “war on the poor?” (Re: “How vicious is the GOP’s war on the poor?” The Highroad, July 4, 2018). Of course our votes matter, but so do our voices. By calling, writing, and/or visiting those who represent us in Congress we can make a difference. For example, the current Farm Bill is ready to be decided by House/Senate conference. The House version will increase hunger in America by causing 2 million people to lose their SNAP benefits. The Senate version doesn’t cut SNAP, ask for that. Ask instead for action to help end the causes of hunger. Then follow-up. Together we can win this war and actually create the political will to end hunger and poverty. Willie Dickerson/via internet
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On ZTE With dreams of sexual conquest likely having hit the wall of aging reality, what most occupies Donald Trump’s brain, other than his own ego and popularity, is making money. A case in point is the sanctioning of the Chinese company ZTE for ignoring sanctions against trading technology with Iran. Facing financial collapse, the company has been granted, in essence, a Presidential pardon by agreeing to pay a “fine” of a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. Having this kind of collateral, presumably from future profits, is boggling to an average person, but apparently such is the reality of global trade. Here what is important to realize about these numbers so casually tossed about is that a million seconds is roughly 11 days, a billion seconds 32 years, and a trillion seconds 320 centuries, but the important question is: how is this not “pay to play” extortion and/or bribery? Sadly, bullies and mob bosses succeed when surrounded by true believers, sycophants, and those forced to knuckle under. Robert Porath/Boulder
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eople gathering signatures for Ballot Initiative 97, which would increase the minimum distance between oil and gas development and homes, schools and other vulnerable areas to 2,500 feet, are claiming protesters are being organized to stifle their efforts and deter citizens from signing. Colorado Rising, a group promoting Initiative 97, has alleged that signature-gatherers are facing targeted protests verging on harassment in Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins and Greeley. They’ve documented on audio and video recordings protesters interrupting conversations, and have engaged police in several situations to determine whether protesters are committing criminal acts of harassment. Colorado Rising informed the Colorado Secretary of State about volunteer signature-gatherers feeling intimidated, but since the office has no investigative authority, according to Ben Schler, internal operations and legal manager, it refused to look further because it felt the claims would be criminal matters, thus referring Colorado Rising to District Attorney’s offices. The Boulder County District Attorney’s Office is currently reviewing one such case to determine whether or not charges should be filed. Public Information Officer Catherine Olguin declined to provide further information because the investigation is still active, but said a meeting on the matter was held on July 23. It’s not definitive who is funding and organizing the protesters, but Boulder Weekly talked with signature-gatherers, protesters, and oil and gas representatives, and reviewed several documents that begin to uncover how and why the signature-gathering effort for Initiative 97 is being disrupted. • • • • Micah Parkin, executive director of 350 Colorado, claims there have been more than 100 incidents of people being harassed and intimidated while gathering signatures. “We’ve had young women frightened and crying after being followed by these men for hours and all the way back to the office,” Parkin says. Parkin says petitioners have been advised to cite state law that prohibits people from interfering with elections or “willfully suppress(ing) any initiative or referendum,” when confronted with protesters. The protests appear to unfold the same way, according to those who’ve come in contact with protesters: First, signature-gatherers set up somewhere and begin to collect signatures. Eventually, protesters in groups of two or three approach the location where signature-gatherers are working, often with poster board rolled up. The protesters unroll their protest signs and stand near the signature-gatherers, attempting to discourage potential signers by saying things like, “Don’t sign,” “Bad for business,” or, “Protect Colorado jobs.” Other protest signs have read, “Would you give this guy your information?” and “Protect Colorado Families.”
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The protests appear to be effective in deterring both potential signers and those collecting signatures. Parkin relayed the story of Gina Hardin, a 62-year-old Denver woman, who, Parkin says, in the act of gathering signatures for Initiative 97 at a Denver farmers’ market, was followed and harassed for hours by two men. In an affidavit, Hardin says that shortly after she arrived at the market, two men in their early 20s approached her, each carrying a poster board, one saying “Keep CO Economy Strong,” and the other saying, “Bad for Business...” According to the affidavit, Hardin says the two were initially polite, “saying they were being paid by the Denver Economic Development [mumble].” But, she said, their physical position became intimidating and subsequently impeded her ability to gather signatures. The two then allegedly followed Hardin as she crossed streets trying to get away from them. She called 9-1-1 and asked for an officer to come. “The men were humored by this,” Hardin stated in the affidavit. An officer then came and said it was unclear whether the men were violating any law with the exception that they had admitted to him that they were following her. The officer then left, and the two men redoubled their harassment and became more aggressive, according to Hardin’s affidavit. “They stood between me and whoever I was trying to talk with, speaking loudly over me and putting their posters in front of me and between the person I was attempting to speak with and me,” Hardin said in the affidavit. She said she then fled to her home, calling police again on her way. An officer was waiting for her at her house. Another similar incident hints at what might be motivating protesters. Two protesters in front of Boulder Public Library told a Boulder Police Department Officer that they were employed by an organization that supports fracking, according to an incident report filed by Boulder Police Officer K. Williams. The two protesters informed Williams that they were engaged in counter-protest to express their First Amendment rights, according to the report. Williams further reported that the individuals indicated they were tasked with going to various locations in the city, where contact with the public was likely. Regarding the incident, signaturegatherer Ken Bonetti stated in an affidavit that soon after he began taking signatures for Initiative 97, “Two young males arrived with two large hand-lettered signs, one sign saying something Boulder Weekly
to the effect [of ] people should not trust me and another about the need to protect Colorado jobs.” Bonetti said that they stood between one and two feet of him, sometimes directly in front of him, and told a passerby not to trust him or sign the petition. In the affidavit, Bonetti said that the two men told passersby that if they signed the petition Bonetti was circulating, their information would be made public. “I felt this was a blatant attempt to intimidate voters during a legally sanctioned electoral activity,” he said,
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would be pursued at the time. “I explained due to First Amendment considerations the incident would be documented, researched and forwarded to the appropriate legal resources for additional review if and as necessary,” Williams wrote. • • • • According to internal documents reviewed by Boulder Weekly, the political committee Protect Colorado appears to have requested that individuals, known See SIGNATURES Page 12
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as “ambassadors,” report the specific location of individuals gathering signatures for Ballot Initiatives 94 (concerning a severance tax increase) and 97, as recently as June 20. There could be as many as 1,800 ambassadors, according to a 2015 presentation given by former Anadarko lobbyist Chris Castilian. Protect Colorado was co-created by Anadarko and Noble Energy to defeat oil and gas ballot measures in Colorado. Protect Colorado has received nearly $11 million in contributions since the beginning of 2018, with the majority coming from Anadarko, Extraction Oil and Gas, Noble Energy and PDC Energy. The internal documents reviewed by BW, which are in the form of e-mails, request that ambassadors report signature-gathering activity to Protect Colorado by directing people to send information to an e-mail address or via a text line, using the code word “CANVASS.” (We tested the text line, and got an immediate response: “Where did you see a canvasser in your area?”) In response to our request to confirm the documents and answer what Protect Colorado does with locations of signature gathering, the group offered this statement via Karen Crummy: “We are exercising our First Amendment rights, which includes asking people to think about and read what they are signing. We have also asked the public and oil and gas employees to let us know when they see individuals gathering signatures on the 2,500-foot setback measure. This is standard practice in modern campaigns. We get asked about the activities in the field and want to understand what is going on. Monitoring opposition is important. The proponents of these bad measures monitor us as well.” Advocacy groups funded by and sympathetic to oil and gas interests, such as the Colorado Economic 12 July 26, 2018
Leadership Fund, have also Protesters often been running show up with signs ads on TV urgthat indicate information will be ing people not made public and to sign the jobs will be lost if Initiative 97 petitions. passes. Indeed, the stakes are high for those with financial interests in the oil and gas industry. Initiative 94 proposes an increase in severance taxes paid by the oil and gas industry for minerals extracted from Colorado, stating, “In Colorado, the oil and gas industry pays an effective severance tax of only 1.5 percent; but, in the neighboring states of Wyoming and New Mexico, the oil and gas industry pays an effective severance tax of 6.5 percent,” according to the initiative. It continues, “It is the intent of the people of this state to require the oil and gas industry to pay its fair share in severance taxes and stop exploiting Colorado’s natural resources and people.” According to the Colorado Legislative Council Staff ’s fiscal impact statement, if passed, Initiative 94 will increase oil and gas severance tax revenue by $148.3 million in FY 2018-19 and $307 million in FY 2019-20, with ongoing increases in future years. The increased revenue would be used to establish all-day kindergarten in Colorado public elementary and secondary schools; and medical care and treatment for people suffering negative health impacts caused by oil and gas production in communities impacted by oil and gas production. According to the same state research, Initiative 97 constrains well location and “thus potentially reduces future oil and gas development in the state, particularly in heavily populated counties,” adding production in the Julesberg Basin in northern Colorado will be the most affected. Thus, according to the stateBoulder Weekly
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advisory committee of CRED. Opponents of Initiative 97 The oil and claim the gas industry is measure, if passed, would also backing inidestroy the tiatives to insuindustry in Colorado. late itself from potential impacts relative to local government regulations, including initiatives 178, 179, 180 and 181. • • • • The lingering question isn’t who, but what: What impact will protests have on signature-gathering efforts as the deadline of August 6 approaches? BW asked a citizen, who engaged one of the protesters and then signed the petition, about his experience. Robert Walton of Fort Collins said of the protesters, “Their sign said, ‘Don’t sign,’ and so I asked them, ‘Why not?’ And he said, ‘It’s bad for business.’” Walton says the protester was reading off the back of his sign, adding that he didn’t seem to know what he was talking about. Walton says he asked the protester, “What businesses?” to which the protester replied, “Business.” Walton says he was never able to get another answer. Walton asked the protester if he was being paid, and he said he was not, but Walton didn’t find him convincing regardless. “I was hoping to hear the other side of the argument, and I heard nothing of value from them at all,” Walton says, adding the protester seemed to have no knowledge of the topic at all. If the oil and gas industry or its proponents are indeed going to such lengths in order to prevent Initiatives 94 and 97 from making the ballot in November, then they probably believe there is a strong chance that Coloradans will approve them. But in the meantime, signature-gatherers like Bonetti and Hardin will have to wade through the ruckus to get their petitions signed.
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In the wake of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ May announcement of the zero tolerance policy promising to criminally prosecute people crossing the border, the lawyers at RMIAN have worked to place about 40 cases of family separation that have come through the Aurora facility with pro bono attorneys in the Denver area. They’ve also taken on eight cases themselves. They’ve created a network of social workers, doctors and mental health professionals to help their clients’ cases. And they’ve connected them with organizations like Casa de Paz, a nonprofit based in Aurora that hosts immigrants released from the detention facility, and recently has been specifically helping parents separated from their children. In the last several weeks Casa de Paz has hosted 13 parents waiting to be reunified with their kids. The organization has purchased calling cards, raised bond payments and covered transportation costs for parents either held in or recently released from the detention facility. At the last volunteer training, 315 people showed up. Volunteers have raised bond amounts through events and lemonade stands, they’ve gone to the detention facility to pay bond, they’ve met people outside the detention facility who have been released and brought them back to the Casa — a nondescript house in a suburban neighborhood. They’ve cooked them meals, provided clothes and Boulder Weekly
toiletries. They’ve sat and listened to ent since she had been transferred, their stories, and helped make travel communicated with Jackson, who is arrangements, sometimes even walking currently in Texas helping the families them through the airport, navigating previously held in the Aurora facility. security and making sure they board Jackson arrived at the Port Isabel facilitheir flights. ty early Tuesday morning to present the “The theme is people from Central cash bond, but when she got there, she America who are fleeing violence in all was told Lunn’s client had already been forms, whether that’s domestic violence released. or gang violence or even in the family,” Lunn seems exasperated by the prosays Sarah Jackson, founder of Casa de cess. Paz. “None of the parents that I talked “My level of frustration is unparalto had any idea that their children leled,” she says, after finding out that would have been taken away from Sarah Jackson them at the border so they were in shock. ... When the parents get here, the moms arrive to the Casa, you can just see it in their eyes, that they are 100 percent worried about their kid.” The Casa recently hosted another of Lunn’s clients, who was separated from her 6-year-old son after being told he was being taken to go get a bath, the attorney says. Initially detained together after crossing the border in mid-May, it took her a monthand-a-half to locate her son while being held in detention in Aurora. After almost two months in detention, Lunn’s client was released on bond after passing the first step of the asylum process. Volunteers from Casa de Paz delivered the bond money raised by the nonprofit to the Aurora facility, and the mother spent a few hours at the Casa before heading her client, who is scheduled for another out on a flight to Texas. The mother court appearance in Colorado in a couand son were reunited on Tuesday, July ple weeks, was released without her 17, almost a week after the mother was knowledge. “The rule of law no longer released, with the help of Casa de Paz. applies, if you don’t follow the rules and “I would be at a loss if I didn’t have you don’t adhere to the law.” them (Casa de Paz) as a resource,” A federal judge in California Lunn says. “Because as hard as we work ordered the Department of Homeland to get people bond amounts, if they Security (DHS), which is holding the can’t pay them, they can’t get out of parents, and Health and Human detention. As hard as we work to get Services (HHS), which has custody of people the contact information to call the children, to reunite families by their kids, they can’t make those phone Thursday, July 26. According to the calls if they don’t have money on their ACLU, which brought the case foraccounts. And as hard as we work to try ward, the Trump Administration told and get bond amounts, they can’t get the court on July 23 that it had reunited out if they don’t have a sponsor.” or “appropriately discharged” approxiAll of it was a response to a broken mately 46 percent of the 2,500 children system with what appears to be a hasti- between the ages of 5 and 17 who were ly implemented policy, but at least it separated from their parents as part of was working. the zero tolerance policy. Children Casa de Paz found a local family in under the age of 5 were supposed to be Colorado to sponsor the mother Lunn reunited before July 10 as part of a was representing at the bond hearing court order, but only 58 out of 103 chilon Monday. They’ve offered her and dren in that age group have been her son a home while they work reunited with their parents thus far. through their asylum claim. “DHS and HHS are working tireAfter trying to get her client on the lessly to reunite parents and children phone in the courtroom on Monday to within the court-ordered timeline,” an no avail, the judge proceeded with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement case, ultimately awarding the lowest bond (ICE) spokesperson said in a statement. amount of $1,500 for Lunn’s client. “To do so requires large-scale transfers of Lunn, who hadn’t spoken to her cli- minors to ICE custody and both agenBoulder Weekly
cies have been actively engaged in managing the logistical challenges these large-scale transfers present.” The ICE spokesperson said that at Port Isabel, the agency is using additional resources, and that for the most part, families have been reunified within hours of the children arriving at the detention facility. But the last minute push to meet the deadline, including the mass transfer of both children and parents, has created a level of uncertainty for advocates and lawyers trying to help them. “That’s the main question for all of these cases: Who is helping all of these family members understand their rights and obligations?” Lunn says. “There’s really no rhyme or reason as to what’s going on and nobody can figure out up from down.” Meanwhile in Texas, Jackson scrambled to find out what happened, both with Lunn’s client and others who she had connected with in Aurora. “[We’re] dealing with a group of people who are traumatized and aren’t thinking straight and then we’re expecting them to navigate these murky waters that lead to nowhere,” Jackson says. She posted several videos throughout the day documenting her attempts to locate people and help them on their way. By late afternoon, she had located Lunn’s client, who had been reunited with her son, in a nearby church. She bought them plane tickets back to Denver on Wednesday, where their sponsor family is ready to host them. It was a relatively successful ending to a confusing day. “Today was crazy, it was up and down, and twisty and turning. And that is kind of how life is I guess, but I would consider today to be a success,” Jackson says in the video. “And tomorrow, I’m going to try and do as much as I can.” On Tuesday afternoon, Lunn was finally able to talk to her client, who told her that before being released she had spent the night shivering on the floor at Port Isabel. Still, she took comfort in knowing that she was one step closer to seeing her son. “The most profound thing is how when you do change the rules like this so often it’s with complete disregard for the feelings and emotions, the hopes and dreams of these wonderful human beings,” Lunn says. “It’s treating them like they’re not human, and shipping them around the country from place to place is disorienting especially once they have set roots here, where we have been able to connect them with so many people that are willing to help.”
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f you take the gear off your bike and hold it up to the light, you may be taken aback by the beauty of its symmetry. If you polish it off and asses its artistic merit as a piece of metalwork, you may be struck with inspiration. As a base for a mobile or a candle holder, an addition to a sculpture or to a steampunk accessory, the gear becomes much more than the greasy part that turns your wheels — it becomes a material for endless creative possibilities. Featuring a table with polished bike gears hanging from a display tree, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center is all about exploring artistic potential in pre-loved items. In the first room of the center, items are grouped together by raw materials in an attempt to disguise them from their previous use. Clustered around the room are bags of glass beads, sheets of antique papers, little bowls filled with stones, feathers, keys or porcelain doll legs. In the fiber room, grade-A leathers, fur pelts, fabric bolts and yarns drape across tables. At Art Parts, donated items from industry surplus, estates of artists and local creatives are discounted 33-90 percent. Customers can buy whatever quantity they need, whether that be one glass bead or a few individual sheets of watercolor paper. In addition to keeping the cost low, it also prevents waste from overbuying. Denise Perreault, the founder and executive director of Art Parts, says that while utilizing reclaimed materials in art is nothing new, the genre has recently gained recognition and respect. “Many of us love the patina of age and antique and vintage goods that new goods try to emulate but really just can’t,” she says. “Pre-loved items have a beauty and an energy, a juju all their own, that a new thing in a plastic bag just can’t match.” After watching a window treatment company where her husband works struggle with conscientious
ways to handle surplus, Perreault was inspired to save items with creative potential. At the end of the week, excess material from curtains would go into the dumpster, including a bold of Italian brocade worth $125. When Perreault noticed that the business didn’t have the manpower to find a worthy home for the excess, she realized that other businesses in the Boulder area must be struggling with the same problem. So, she started calling quilting friends, letting them know that if they came by the shop before 5 p.m. on Fridays, they could have all the high-end upholstery and fabric bolt ends they could carry. Soon enough, Perreault began collecting donations in preparation for the reuse center. Art Parts is 97 percent volunteer-powered, with everyone from high school students working for their graduation requirements to community service volunteers who are part of restorative justice programs. The community involvement is important to Perreault, and Art Parts often makes donations to schools and organizations across the country. The reuse center also hosts Bricolage Gallery, which features exhibits with art made from at least 60 percent recycled materials. Alongside galleries in
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was at the entrance to Devil’s Castle when the first lightning bolt struck. From where I stood, on the rocky ridge connecting Unnamed Peak 10,864 to the Castle like a sleeping dragon’s spine, I could see thick, low-hanging clouds bubbling a few mountain peaks west — right where I was supposed to go. I took another few steps forward but stopped short as thunder ricocheted between Little Cottonwood Canyon’s peaks. I’d been moving for 13 and a half hours at this point, but I’d only covered a little less than 17 miles; picking through the ridgeline’s technical terrain was tricky, slow going and exhausting. Imagine crawling up a sharp, skyscraper Jenga tower, and then back down the otherside — over and over again. It was 8:30 p.m. and I had a decision to make. If I could finish this route — the Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup, otherwise known as the “WURL,” an entire circumnavigation of the canyon’s ridgeline — I would be the first woman to ever do so solo. Only 35 people had ever managed to finish, most between 23 and 30 hours, and only four women, as far as I could tell from research online. But, staring at the bruise-colored clouds, it was hard to determine whether the storm was going to stay or pass over. I was in high exposure territory — at some points my skull was the highest object for miles — just as much as I was in high ego territory. Being the first woman to complete the route was an incredibly motivating prospect. Earlier in the day, I’d already spent 20 minutes pressed against a boulder as hail ping-ponged off the surrounding rocks like an eerie percussion interlude. At the storm’s decrescendo I’d re-emerged — going up and over the next peak, Monte Cristo, was my fastest option to safety at that point, in case the precipitation came back. Otherwise I was facing a thousand-foot drop to the canyon’s floor on either side of the ridge, or a multimile backtrack to the last reasonable gully descent. Monte Cristo was all-hands-on-deck terrain, and as I worked my way up its now-wet “fifth class” rock (read: full-on climbing), I started to consciously even out my breath. Even as my foot slipped and my heart dropped, I kept my lungs even, in and out, in and out. By the time I’d reached the summit, thankfully, most of the rock was dry and the clouds had lifted so I pressed on. Boulder Weekly
According to Jared Campbell, the first to publicize and document the Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup, only 35 people have finished the gnarly circumnavigation of Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Where I stood at Devil’s Castle was just shy of the WURL’s halfway point. Ahead of me, I was looking at another 14 to 15 hours of movement, scrambling from peak to peak, keeping three points of contact on rock at all times — the kind of mountain travel that requires near-constant mental engagement, constantly evaluating and reevaluating route finding, rock quality, hand and foot placements. No daydreaming, nor, I thought watching the sun drop behind Lone Peak (the WURL’s final summit), no night dreaming either. When I started, I estimated the WURL might take me between 26 and 30 hours to complete. The 36-mile ridge follows up and down the 20-plus mountaintops that loop around Little Cottonwood Canyon, just east of Salt Lake City, like an elongated horseshoe. Ski bums know this area as Alta and Snowbird. If you stand on the valley floor, you can imagine me running clockwise across the entire skyline. But here I was, past the horseshoe’s vertex, sitting at what would look like a “J” if you’d mapped out my route thus far. I first heard about the WURL last summer, while staying with two friends in Salt Lake City. When I realized that not only had no woman ever done it solo, no all-female group had ever finished it either — meaning a man had been present on every single successful mission — my first reaction was “why?” That thought quickly morphed into “why not,” and eventually “why not me.” Come spring, I was researching maps of the WURL, had applied to and received a grant from the women’s running organization Trail Sisters, and reached out to as many people as I could find who’d completed the route. Generally, the warnings I received were about the unforgiving terrain (“I implore you to scout this with people who know the route intimately before attempting the whole thing...”
an elite ultrarunner told me — which I, admittedly, didn’t do, leaving all my navigation and route-finding decisions to game day). I received some specific notes, too. “There are a few areas of high-consequence choss,” one wrote back, naming Devil’s Castle first. “Also,” they added, “there is 0 water up there.” I didn’t love the idea of going solo, but when my first partner and then my second partner couldn’t make it, I decided I at least had to try. In the five or so miles leading up to Unnamed Peak 10,864, the slow-going rocky ridge gave way to an actual trail connecting a few summits. It was smooth and joyous, but during that time, bending around the horseshoe, I’d been staring at Devil’s Castle’s jagged skyline. The rippled gray rock, pointy and bare, looked devilish indeed. “High consequence choss” rang through my head as I summited Peak 10,864. Choss is loose, sometimes soft, always unstable rock prone to sliding, crumbling in your hand or simply breaking off without notice — a climber’s nightmare. I took a video of myself stomping up 10,864’s slope. “I’m getting kind of nervous,” I say to my phone. “I’m trying to preemptively practice my breathing, see WURL Page 22
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staying calm. The sun is setting,” I exhale forcefully, my lips bubbling. I’m trying to settle the stomach butterflies and regain control over my breathing — it’s getting too quick, my anxiety knocking. “I’m pretty nervous,” I say again before ending the clip. By the time thunder started booming, I was staring Devil’s Castle in the face. While from the side it looked like a fossilized jaw bone, head-on it looked like Bowser’s rundown fortress: two pillars stood like a gate, crumbling yet resolute. Two peaks beyond it, just off to the left, was Hidden Peak, and atop sat the Snowbird Ski Hut. Inside, my friend Sara, who’d taken the aerial tram to the top, was waiting for me with warm clothes, water and food. A gentle sprinkle descended. I looked up, and that’s when I saw the first burst of light flush through the clouds. Fear is a chain reaction, like pulling out the wrong Jenga block and watching the tower collapse in slow motion. It starts with a stressful stimulus that revs up chemicals in the brain, ending with a racing heart, fast breathing and alert muscles. For some, anxiety can also follow stressful external stimuli. But for me, anxiety Emma Murray comes from within; it’s the thoughts I stack up inside my head that manifest selfdoubt. Normally I’m capable of pausing when I notice anxiety hit, slowing down, breathing, rationalizing a situation’s reality and understanding when it’s OK to move forward — effectively re-instilling faith in myself and my capabilities. That’s what allowed me to start the WURL in the first place, continue on Monte Cristo and push forward as high-consequence choss loomed above. In the mountains, distinguishing between fear and anxiety is as important as having the right shoes and enough food. Because I’ve recognized my anxiety is internal self-doubt, I actively try to work through it every time I face a challenge. My fear, on the other hand, is externally caused worry; it’s my instinct telling me something is wrong and that I need to react. But when I’m tired and I’ve already made what feels like a hundred life-or-death decisions over the course of the day, the two start to look the same. My heart was racing, I was breathing fast and my body was on high alert. All of a sudden I couldn’t tell what was fear and what was anxiety. What should I push through, what should I react to? Looking at Devil’s Castle, I considered how strong I still felt physically, (even if I was tired mentally); how much hard, scary work I’d already put into the route; and the exciting prospect that I might actually be capable of being the first solo woman to finish the WURL. What I wanted was to be scared about what was actually in front of me, not what I’d built up in my head. It was so hard to tell. I didn’t want to give up. So I waited. Across the canyon I could see where I’d first popped up on the ridgeline after the grueling 6,000-foot ascent, the ups and downs I’d traversed (amounting to 12,500 vertical feet up and more than 8,000 feet down), the small pass where Sara had met me for “lunch,” when I was nine hours in. I’d come a long, long way. I called Jordan, my fiancé, and relayed the situation. “I’m scared,” I admitted softly, and I think he knew I meant the fear of prematurely quitting. “Trust yourself,” he said, and I called Sara because I didn’t trust myself. I was too tired to make the decision alone. My gut told me to run as fast as I could downhill, away from the clouds, away from the billion joules of energy that coalesce in a lightning strike. But my heart was saying “What if you tried?” Looking at the lights in the warm ski hut, the sun now fully down, knowing Sara was inside with more food... it was agonizing. If I could just get there, past the Castle, we could weather the storm together. And once it stopped raining and the rock dried out again, just like earlier that afternoon, I could finish. “It’s a risk assessment,” Sara told me. I closed my eyes, felt more raindrops hit my bare shoulders, tried to distill the root of my emotions. When I quieted everything, listening both inside and out, I realized my heart knew, too: the right decision was to bail. I recorded another video right before I dipped down off the ridge and followed a rocky funnel down to the valley floor. It starts with a large exhale. “So I’m calling it quits for now. It really sucks. It’s been a long day. I’ve put a lot of work into this,” I say. “But, I can come back. It’s not going anywhere.” Boulder Weekly
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to. There are a lot of people in a lot of companies in a lot of businesses that have done well by doing right. I don’t subscribe to the belief that we should shy away from saying that’s right or doing what’s right. Period. That’s a question of mortality.” But in the end, it’s the music that truly draws people together and makes the activism component possible. “There’s something that’s so ancient about our need to come together with music,” Bassis says. “It’s in our DNA. It’s as old as humanity. And there’s something about that and coming together in a festival environment like this in a beautiful place like Sunrise Ranch. There are other places you could go to where there are large gatherings of people, football games, Red Rocks, but those are different than a music festival. There’s less sharing at those things. Sure, at a baseball game everyone’s rooting for the same team, but there’s not an exchange, not that level of sharing and connection. That’s the kind of thing that’s unique, when you feel that bond. It’s something so rare in our society. It’s cherished by people.”
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thought about what festivalgoers needed to hear, what they needed to learn. “When I was a young lawyer I would see people saying ‘I know my rights, man’ in police reports,” Salahuddin says. “No they didn’t. First of all, if you know your rights, you’re not going to say that.” Jokes aside, Salahuddin plans to talk to workshop attendees about knowing their rights wherever they are: in the airport, in the car, on the street or at ARISE. “Know your rights in those areas,” Salahuddin says. “How do you invoke them properly? What would you expect police to do in terms of coercion?” And perhaps most importantly, Salahuddin wants white people to know what they can do. “It’s people of color I’m seeing abused by the police, but I want these white, hippie kids to know what they can do.” Salahuddin’s outspoken demeanor is what makes ARISE so special. It’s a festival that has a voice, that isn’t afraid to take a stance. “I think not taking a stance is scary,” Bassis says. “I never feel that doing the right thing, saying the right thing, is something that we should ever cower
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ON THE BILL: Colorado Music Festival, July 26-Aug. 4. All performances at Chautauqua Auditorium. Tickets and a full schedule at coloradomusifestival.org
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eter Oundjian, the internationally recognized Love’s Crusade is a cycle of four songs, all taken from very artistic advisor of the Colorado Music Festival, different sources, from Shakespeare to Collins’ own texts. will be in residence for the festival’s final days, “When I put these four songs together, it seemed that there through Saturday, Aug. 4. was a common underlying theme of love, the struggle to proThe remaining orchestral concerts, all under tect love, and eternal love, so that’s where the title Love’s Oundjian’s direction, will reflect the theme he selected, celeCrusade came from,” Collins says. brating the Leonard Bernstein centennial. Or as Oundjian “I’m very excited to hear this for the first time.” explains it, the programs will comprise Bernstein’s own music, DeYoung will also sing the “Abschied” from Mahler’s Das plus “things Bernstein loved, things he Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Chris Lee was famous for, and by extension, Earth), one of the iconic works for music written on American soil.” mezzo-soprano. Oundjian chose that There will be a series of soloists for the program both because it was over the final week-and-a-half, startwritten in the United States, while ing tonight ( July 26) with violinist Mahler was director of the New Augustin Hadelich, who Oundjian York Philharmonic, and because it is describes as “one of the greatest tala piece with which Bernstein was ents in the history of the violin,” and closely associated. “The ‘Abschied’ is “an absolutely wonderful human immensely powerful and really a being, too.” The extraordinary singer wonderful tribute to Bernstein as Michelle DeYoung will be a soloist well,” Oundjian says. Saturday, July 28, for a recital with On the program with the pianist Cody Garrison, and will join “Abschied” are Made in America by Oundjian and the orchestra Sunday, Joan Tower, a one-movement July 29. orchestral work based on “America The final week of the festival the Beautiful,” and another work offers two more soloists: Tchaikovsky that was literally “made in America,” Competition gold medalist, Armenian Stravinsky’s spiky neo-classical cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan on Aug. Pulcinella Suite. 2; and popular Russian pianist Olga The “Made in American” theme Kern for the fourth year running, for continues on the Aug. 2 orchestral the Festival Finale concert Aug. 4. program, opening with Three Hadelich, who performs the Dance Episodes from Bernstein’s Barber Violin Concerto July 26, has Fancy Free ballet. Based on a an impressive international reputation. moment in the ballet where three He began playing violin at age 5, but sailors have a dance-off for the at 15 he was seriously injured in a fire attention of two girls, it is, Oundjian says, “very Pianist Olga Kern will on his family’s farm. Unable to play for witty music.” close out CMF this more than a year, he discovered how Dvorák’s Cello Concerto, to be performed by year with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. important music was in his life, and Tchaikovsky gold medalist Hakhnazaryan, is yet once recovered, he went on to study at another work written in America. “The Cello Juilliard and win several major compeConcerto is absolutely at the peak of anything that titions. Dvorák wrote,” Oundjian says. “It’s just masterful and Oundjian considers him a unique artist. “Listen to his magical all the way through.” Paganini Caprices,” he says. “It’s the most virtuosic and the The Aug. 2 program will conclude with one of the greatmost beautiful playing you could imagine.” est works written on American soil, the Bartók Concerto for On the same program will be Paul Hindemith’s Orchestra. Composed in 1943, after Bartók had fled Europe Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, during World War II, it was written while the composer was a piece not well known to American audiences. “It’s wonderin a New York hospital suffering from an ultimately fatal ful!” is Oundjian’s verdict. “It’s not a particularly modernist blood disorder. piece, very entertaining, brilliant for the orchestra.” The Festival Finale concert Aug. 4 sees the return of Filling out the program will be Lyric for Strings by one of CMF’s most popular soloists, pianist Olga Kern, George Walker and Dr. Atomic Symphony by John Adams. playing one of America’s most popular pieces, Gershwin’s Extracted from Adams’s opera Dr. Atomic, currently in proRhapsody in Blue. The Rhapsody shares the program with a duction at the Santa Fe Opera, the symphony is a 23-minute less well known American masterpiece, Samuel Barber’s musical abridgment of the dramatic work. First Symphony. DeYoung’s recital on July 28 will include both standard “The Barber Symphony is a very, very intense mastersong repertoire and a world premier. In addition to art songs work,” Oundjian says. “It has one of the most staggeringly by Brahms, Strauss and Barber, she will premiere Timothy beautiful slow movements that I can think of, from any periCollins’ Love’s Crusade, which was written specifically for her. od. It’s one of my favorites.” Boulder Weekly
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Amidst the chaos, the voice of the people grows stronger
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Clearly, the world is in crisis. Yet there is reason for hope. People everywhere are beginning to sense their power: their right to speak, to influence, and to shape their destiny. What is behind this surge in People Power?
Please join us for a free, thought-provoking talk to learn about the galvanizing force behind the "voice of the people", a group of enlightened teachers, led by Maitreya, the World Teacher. Boulder Public Library 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder CO Monday, July 30 • 6:30pm • Flatirons Room For information contact Ron 303-819-2100
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409 Fourth Ave, Longmont CO Tuesday, July 31 • 6:30pm • Conference Room For information contact Connie 303-834-0526
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Just the beginning
StarWater Wednesdays are reminiscent of a Boulder of yore by Jonathan Montgomery
ON THE BILL: StarWater Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, VisionQuest Brewery, 2510 47th St., Suite 2A, Boulder. More info at starwatermagick.org or StarWater Wednesday’s Facebook group.
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t’s a busy night at VisionQuest Brewery’s StarWater Wednesday. Sitting at a back table, behind the typical crowd of hug-loving, smilewearing, hairy eccentrics, are two out-of-place normies. As performers come to the mic, reading poetry, playing music, making antiestablishment political statements and uttering phrases like “we are all one” with no irony, the normies shake their heads in disbelief. “This is like a hippie caricature,” one laughs and points out all the dreadlocks in the room. “Totally,” the other says. “When’s the last time anyone here’s taken a bath?” StarWater Wednesday — put on by StarWater Collective — is a throwback to an earlier era of Boulder culture. The weekly event, billed as “live people, live poetry, live magick!,” began back in 2013 at the old 303 Vodka distillery and quickly established a loyal following, bringing together poets, musicians, artists and other general bohemian types. After 303’s closing in early 2016, the event briefly found a home at Sancho’s on The Hill before settling in at VisionQuest Brewery in early 2017. The current venue, located in the warehouses of East Pearl, feels like old Boulder in that it’s welcoming to weirdoes and doesn’t seem to need to impress someone’s rich parents with sleek decor. Boulder Weekly
The front room is full of old pinball machines and a piano, the walls painted in a zany outer space motif with rockets and astro-dogs. The main room has a typical warehouse-style garage door on one wall, some quirky decorations (bumper stickers, Thunder Cat action figures, flyers for “sustainable dog treats”), and a classic L-shaped wooden bar in front of 12 taps and a modern LED menu with an everchanging variety of exotic sounding concoctions like “Space Jelly.” StarWater Wednesday events start with a spoken word/music open mic (usually around 7:30 p.m.), followed by featured music until 11 p.m. They sometimes kick things off with a live interview with someone of interest from the community, such as the organizers of the ARISE Festival (August 3-5, Sunrise Ranch, Loveland). The StarWater Collective is very connected to festival culture. The group has been auditioning musical acts since the spring for their own stage at ARISE, and their choices have been fairly diverse, from acoustic folk to electric blues, hiphop to opera and even reggae-harp. Matt Bovard, aka Dank Phart the Pirate Poet, has hosted StarWater Wednesdays since the beginning. The wild-bearded emcee wears a signature neck-tie around his forehead and always starts by reading his own poetry, which thematically orbits around expanding consciousness, creating permaculture and generally loving one another. “After four-and-a-half years it feels like it’s just beginning,” Bovard says of the event. He’s passionate about the power of art to bring people together, insisting, “We want to create so much good energy here
they can’t help being a part of it.” The event’s main organizer, Zoe Clare StarWater, shares this vision. She looks the part, with purple semidreads, dark witchy outfits and tattoos scribbled down her forearm, but she also has a down-to-Earth focus in her eyes. Her intentions are to create a community that provides a regular counterweight to social media culture and an increasingly materialistic Boulder. “StarWater Wednesday is about people truly expressing themselves,” she says. “Not trying to get attention, not showing off or competing. We call it the openmind open mic because everyone here is valued for what they do.” She laughs and rolls her eyes at the notion of it being a “hippie” event. “I hate that word,” she says, preferring bohemian or counterculture, or maybe even just “collection of misfits.” She sees the label as a way those in power write off the group. “They know that gathering in a community like this is the way that real change can happen, and they don’t want that, so they look for ways to undermine us, like, ‘Oh, they’re just hippies,’ or, ‘Oh, they’re just on drugs,’ or whatever.” On that busy Wednesday night, one of the normies says, “This is so out of touch with reality.” “Yeah, get a job!” the other shouts at the stage. Eventually one member of the StarWater community approaches them. The normies tense up like they’re expecting to defend themselves from a scolding, but none comes. Instead, the woman shakes their hands and introduces herself. The three start talking about music and beer preferences, and the normies calm down. “We’re not usually into this kind of scene,” one tells her, “but I guess it’s cool.” The whole interaction feels very satisfying given this current cultural climate, in which the idea of We Are All One seems to get fewer re-tweets than We Are One But You Are Another. If you believe in this kind of connection, and respect any portion of your inner bohemian, you can check-in here each week and have it feel real and validated. At StarWater Wednesday you can drink a beer, read your words, sing your song, connect with others and just maybe feel like things are gonna be alright.
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9 p.m. Friday, July 27, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets are $20-$22. see EVENTS Page 34 ANNIE AND THE BANG BANG. 10 P.M. FRIDAY, JULY 27, PIONEER INN, 15 E. FIRST ST., NEDERLAND. Don’t miss the dreamy, grunge-meets-late-’60’s-darkpop of Minneapolis band Annie and The Bang Bang when they stop by Pioneer Inn. Songwriter/guitarist Annie Enneking has made a name for herself as both a rock musician and a musical theater composer, receiving half a dozen or so grants to support her musical endeavors in both worlds. She’s a big name in the Minnesota theater scene, creating four original musical works for theater including Rehearsing Failure and what i want now i will want later. The band is playing in Nederland on Friday, July 27, then in Jamestown at The Merc on July 28, all gearing up for their album release party on Aug. 11. Take advantage of the chance to see this high-energy band in such intimate settings.
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20TH ANNIVERSARY ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA FESTIVAL. 10 A.M.-6 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 28; 9 A.M.-3 P.M. SUNDAY, JULY 29, BOULDER DUSHANBE TEAHOUSE, 1770 13TH ST., BOULDER. Life is always better with a good cuppa, so make your way to the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival to try some new flavors and learn more about one of the world’s favorite beverages. This year’s event includes seminars and workshops led by tea experts from around the country. There will be a Teddy bear tea party for children, a tea marketplace, a four-course tea dinner and more. For restaurant reservations, call the Teahouse at 303-442-4993. To attend seminars and make reservations for any of the tea parties, visit rockymtnteafestival.com.
JERRY GARCIA’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1, FOX THEATRE, 1135 13TH ST., BOULDER. Carl Lender via Wikimedia
Commons Aug. 1 would have marked Jerry Garcia’s 76th birthday, so it’s time to celebrate all the beautiful music he left with us. Head to Fox Theatre to watch a world-class cadre of musicians pay tribute to Garcia’s huge musical catalog, from his work with the Grateful Dead to his solo projects to his contributions to other groups, like the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Dave A’Bear from the Jerry Garcia Band, Church Morris from Lotus, Todd Stoops from RAQ, Brian Adams from DeadPhish Orchestra and Arthur Lee Land from Great American Taxi are just a few of the artists who will be helping you wish Jerry a very happy birthday in the great beyond. Tickets are $12-$15.
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Music Bob Barrick. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Colorado Music Festival: Barber’s Violin Concerto. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Phoenix is preparing for her first day of school. She is excited but scared of being bullied because of her gender identity and expression. Yet when she arrives at school she finds help and support from teachers and friends, and finds she is brave enough to talk to other kids about her gender. Author Michelle Finch stops by the Tattered Cover in LoDo on Saturday, July 28 at 2 p.m. to talk about Phoenix Goes to School, a brightly illustrated book intended to help children engage with gender identity in a fun, uplifting way.
Coulter Lee Brown & The Bad Habits (EP Release). 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Danny Shafer Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Har Mar Superstar. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Jackson Cloud Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Kids Summer Ukulele Camp 2018 (Ages 5 to 9). 10:30 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Lindsay Clark. 6 p.m. Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 407-864-0230. Louisville Summer Concerts in the Park: Jakarta. 6:30 p.m. Louisville Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-335-4581.
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Brooke McAlary — Slow. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Helen Hardt — Misadventures with a Rock Star. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Friday, 27 seeJuly EVENTS Page ? Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Lucas Swafford. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
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Thursday, July 26
Book Club Happy Hour. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Meadow Mountain, Masontown, Lonesome Days. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
Misti Bernard. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Saturday, July 28
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Tuesday, July 31 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Seether. 7:15 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.
D.W. Buffa — Necessity. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Michelle Finch — Phoenix Goes to School. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Keith Martin-Smith — Only Everything. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Celebrating 20 Years of Magic with Harry Potter. 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Wednesday, August 1
Signal Test. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. UMS Kickoff Party — with Zephaniah OHora. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303733-0230. You Knew Me When. 6 p.m. Oskar Blue Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Events
Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Sunday, July 29
Ona Marae — Gum for Gracie. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Wendy Kramer — Your Family. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Adult Dance Class. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-524-5405.
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Back to Back Karaoke. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder.
Champions of Magic. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Home Decor Sewing Camp. 9 a.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245.
Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130.
Karaoke Night. 9:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.
Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. Craft Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. CU Cataylize Demo Day. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dan Soder. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.
Movie Think and Drink: Waking Life. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Dunlevy Family Band Live Performance. 7 p.m. Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 407-864-0230.
So You Think You Can Dance Camp. 8:30 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.
Eef Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Geopolitics Discussion Group. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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The Gospel According to Andre. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
Agent Orange. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.
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Car Seat Headrest. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Colorado Music Festival Fresh Fridays: West Side Story. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
The Escape. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
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Annie and The Bang Bang. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Lil Flyers Aerial Camp. 9 a.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E.Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272.
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“Neither Here Nor There” by Mai Wyn. Oil on stainless steel, 28in x 54in 2018
Paintings by Vivienne Douglas. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.
Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15. Amuse Yeux. Foothills Art Center, Community Gallery, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Aug. 12.
Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Echo Trail — by Laura Ahola-Young. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. Honey — by Kristen Hatgi Sink. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Denver artist Mai Wyn Schantz is known for her contemporary, nature-based paintings in oil on stainless steel. An unconventional medium, Schantz began experimenting on metal 20 years ago in her quest for a smooth painting surface. Her solo exhibition, Magnetic North, on view at the Foothills Art Center July 26-October 29, is a celebration of the distinctive painting style she’s developed over these first 20 years and highlights four overlapping bodies of work.
Kinetic Iterations — Sherman Finch and Jiffer Harriman. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29. A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.
Through July 29. Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21.
Like a Hammer — by Jeffrey Gibson. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 12.
Nature Photography by Kirk Fry. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.
LineScapes — by Ayn Hanna. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 16.
Perilous Journeys. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through July 29. A Place in History. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through July 28. Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16.
Resounding Roar — by Charles E. Burchfield. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 29. RUST — by Madeleine Dodge. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29. Slow Mover. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. Transmission — by Derrick Adams. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
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Haeger & Hoffman: Acoustic Rock. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Jack Cloonan Band. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Art @ One Boulder Plaza. 11:30 a.m. One Boulder Plaza, 1300 Walnut St., Boulder.
Lionel Young Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Blue Ruin. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
Live Music. 7 p.m. The Tune Up @ Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.
Catfish Night. 7:30 p.m. Stearns Lake at Carolyn Holmberg Preserve, Boulder.
Live Music and Drinks on the Deck. 6 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548.
Champions of Magic. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Meniskus. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Dan Soder. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.
Music & Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.
Friday Family Film. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-776-6050.
RAVIN’WOLF Acoustic Mountain Jam Rock. 6 p.m. Bluff Street Bar and Billiards, 2690 28th St., Suite E, Boulder, 303-444-1562.
Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
RockyGrass Festival. 9 a.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 West Main St., Lyons.
Fun on the Farm: Horsing Around. 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, Lyons, 303-776-8688.
Tara Velarde. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Home Decor Sewing Camp. 9 a.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245.
Tiffany Christopher Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Lil Flyers Aerial Camp. 9 a.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272.
Unauthorized Absence. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Events Adult Dance Classes. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-524-5405.
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Adult Open Gym — with PJ. 5:30 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.
Password: Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 970-787-1251. So You Think You Can Dance Camp. 8:30 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.
War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast. 7:30 p.m. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver, 303-562-3232. Saturday, July 28 Music Alex Heffron Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Alex Maes. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. All About The Brass. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875. Big Swing Trio. 7 p.m. Vibe at the Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-507-2824. The Delta Sonics. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. DJ Dance Party. 9 p.m. Breakers Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. The Donkeys. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Drake. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100. Emily Drew. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. see EVENTS Page 38
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In The Whale — with Los Fear of Shrimp. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Mane Event. 4 p.m. Grossen Bart, 1025 Delaware St., Longmont, 720-438-2060. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Element Bistro, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder, 720-266-8300. Nick Critchlow. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Policulture. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Samantha Rise and Wellington Bullings. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette. Tangled Senses. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Underground Music Showcase 2018. Noon. Venues along South Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Events
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It is the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. The world famous tenor, Tito Morelli, is to perform his greatest roll, Otello. However, at the final dress rehearsal, Merelli is nowhere to be found. The manager, Henry Saunders, and his assistant, Max, are in a panic. It appears Merelli’s wife has left him a Dear John letter and the distraught singer, accidentally given a double dose of tranquilizers, is thought to be dead. What follows is a laugh-out-loud chain reaction of mistaken identity, farcical plot twists, double entendres and musical mayhem in Lend Me a Tenor, now playing at Miners Alley Playhouse through Aug. 19.
9 to 5 The Musical — presented by Evergreen Players. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through Aug. 5. The Bridges of Madison County. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 5.
Aug. 19. Love’s Labour’s Lost — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave, Boulder. Through Aug. 12. Newsies. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 26.
Backyard Wildlife at Sandstone Ranch. 10:30 a.m. Sandstone Ranch Open Space, Boulder.
Cabaret — presented by CenterStage Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29.
Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.
CryBaby. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Aug. 18.
The Producers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 30.
Cyrano de Bergerac — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave ., Boulder. Through Aug. 11.
Richard III. University Theatre Building, University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 11.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 8.
Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Aug. 5.
Bub Comedy Presents: Dickin’ Around: A Night of Comedy & Trivia. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Champions of Magic. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Colorado Music Festival: A Poetic Evening. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. The Climate Engineering Reality. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, carolynbninski@gmail.com.
Guys and Dolls — presented by Equinox Theatre. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Aug. 18. Into the Woods. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Aug. 5. Lend Me a Tenor. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Opens July 13. Through
Sleeping Beauty — presented by Miner’s Alley Children’s Playhouse. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 18. You Can’t Take It With You — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Theatre Building, University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Opens July 20. Through Aug. 12.
Irish Tales Along the Trails. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
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Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St., Lyons, 303-823-5925.
Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
Rugged Rugby Tour. Noon. University of Denver, Pioneer Field, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver.
City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver.
Sixth Annual Cheesman Park Art Festival. 9 a.m. Cheesman Park, E. 11th and High St., Denver, 505-550-2471.
Colorado Music Festival: Made in America. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Summer of Discovery: Boulder SummerFest 2018. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
The Deltaz, Many Mountains. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
ThirstyFest Event. 11 a.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514.
Urban Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467.
Family SRP: Daryl Nickel Live Folk Music. 1 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4820.
War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast. 7:30 p.m. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver, 303-562-3232.
Guster. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500.
Sunday, July 29 Music First Annual Reggae on the Grass. 3:45 p.m. Levitt Pavilion at Ruby Hill Park, 1200 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Intro to Brazilian Drumming (four weekly classes). 6:30 p.m. Intercambio Uniting Communities, 4735 Walnut St., Suite B, Boulder, 415-694-376. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.
Events Corgis and Labs Take Over Denver 2018 Part 2. 9:30 a.m. Great Lawn Park, 101 Yosemite St., Denver, 720-515-2514. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. Old Fashioned Playdate. 10 a.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder. Peruvian Festival. 9 a.m. Fox Street Compound, 725 W. 39th, Denver, 303-408-8148. Sixth Annual Cheesman Park Art Festival. 9 a.m. Cheesman Park, E. 11th and High St., Denver, 505-550-2471. Summer of Discovery: Sticky Fingers Cooking for Teens. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tim Hawkins Comedy Live. 7 p.m. LifeBridge Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-7762927. Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. More show times at thedairy.org.
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events Monday, July 30 Music Bandshell Boogie. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 310-658-6587. Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-478-3044. Circle Singing: Spontaneous A’cappella — with Roy Willey. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder. Hussy Hicks. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.
Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
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Jerry Garcia’s Birthday Celebration. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 716-7857655.
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NPR’s How I Built This with Guy Raz: Live with Kim Jordan. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Joseph Kasprzyk, Silver Steven, Allie Chipkin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Summer Concert Series. 6:30 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 720-4382500.
Ava. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Festivals of Dinners: Best of the Season. 6:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Kids Summer Guitar Camp 2018. 10:30 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444.
Princess Camp-Merida. 9:45 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Speedy (1928) — with Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.
The King. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker
Jordyn Pepper. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Kids Summer Guitar Camp 2018. 10:30 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Festival of Dinners: Thai Summer Barbecue. 6 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Open Mic/Jam — with Tom Kendrot, Jam and Jiggatones. 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont, 720-378-3292. Princess Camp-Merida. 9:45 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Renowned Silhouette Artist Karl Johnson. 10:30 a.m. Second Star to the Right, 4353 Tennyson St., Denver. Tuesday, July 31 Music Amos Lee. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Brittany Devens. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Caveman Dave. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Sara Emmitt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. Kids Film Series: Frozen. 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Kids Summer Guitar Camp 2018. 10:30 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Teen Tuesday: “Hamilton” Cooking Class. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8477. Wednesday, August 1 Music Blues & Bourbon — with Deborah Stafford & The State of Affairs. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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great american taXi w/ pick & howl (patio set), heaVy Beauty (late set) & the stumBle Brothers (patio set) Friday July 27
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In the sun oh the things that could be done with a day In the rain oh the nothing pile of books and movies lay It’s a pain knowing how many worse ways It’s a privilege so they say Mumble your half-truth in order to save Fetal position hope the world doesn’t notice Disaffected the further moved on reality Forget the boss’ perpetual profiteering The disappointment from a phone callHis voice is gone now Drowned in the television speaking You did it! You are not the father! Not a father, barely an employee More than the sum of dreams Worthy of a minimum amount of sleep to process information fairly and health Feelings are hyper exhausting in themselves And then when I finally can I smoke my bowl lay back down get awoken by poem And after poem when I finally do Problems are the same except they feel good
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The eternal charm of the go-getter: Part two
Harold Lloyd shines in Chautauqua’s Silent Film Series by Michael J. Casey
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f great comedy must involve something niment by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. beyond laughter,” film critic James Agee 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, writes, “Lloyd was not a great comedian. If Aug. 1,Chautauqua plain laughter is any criterion — and it is a Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, chautauhealthy counterbalance to the other — few qua.com people have equaled him, and nobody has ever beaten him.” So said Agee in 1949, and so it remains in 2018, 69 years after Agee evaluated the work of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon and Harold Lloyd in “Comedy’s Greatest Era” for Life magazine. Attempting to situate each comedian’s place in cinematic history, and in relation to each other, Agee latches on to the key component of Lloyd’s personality: plainness. Lloyd’s films didn’t convey the same level of pathos Chaplin brought, nor did they have the detached irony of Keaton against insurmountable odds. Instead, Lloyd’s “Glasses” character told the tale of a boy next door, a go-getter trying to prove himself to society. True, Chaplin and Keaton also spent the ’20s crafting masterpiece after masterpiece, but neither came close to embodying the pluck and resolve of jazz-age optimism quite like Lloyd. “He said he’ll own the place in six months,” Jane Dillion (Ann Christy) brags to her grandfather about Harold “Speedy” Swift (Lloyd) in Speedy. Grandpa knows better. He knows Speedy talks a good game — especially to a girl helplessly in love with him — but can’t keep a job if his life depended on it. He’s right; Speedy works as a soda jerk and a cab driver, but keeps his mind on neither. And as quickly as he leaves one job, anther is already waiting for him. Lucky for Speedy, the Great Depression is still a year off, and employment is easy to come by. Filmed on the streets of New York in 1928, Speedy is about as good a cinematic time capsule as you’ll find. Many scenes take place around midtown Manhattan and Greenwich Village with a large section at Coney Island’s Luna Park. The plot revolves loosely around Pop Dillion (Bert Woodruff ), Jane’s grandfather, and his horse-drawn carriage, the last in the city. The men who own the trolley system need to either buy out Dillon or sabotage his business if they want a monopoly, but you-know-who stands in the way. Yes, Speedy comes to the rescue, as do the neighborhood merchants, not merely to protect one another, but to protect the history of the city. Even movies from 90 years ago contain streaks of nostalgia for earlier times. The more things change... Which brings us back to Lloyd and his enduring charm, while Keaton had irony and Chaplin had sentimentality, Lloyd had an unfailing belief that everything will work out in the end. The optimism we lack in the everyday world still permeates every frame of Lloyd’s films. It’s an optimism and an assurance that with a lot of hard work, a little dumb luck and an unwillingness to give up no matter what, you can save the day. We sure could use some now. Boulder Weekly
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Sun-dried Tomato Falafel Burger FATE Brewing Company 1600 38th St., Boulder, fatebrewingcompany.com
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he folks at FATE know how to brew excellent beer, which somehow tastes even better when served up alongside a variety of food options on the menu. The falafel burger intrigued us, and then delighted us after we ordered it. The thick chickpea patty has more the consistency of other veggie burgers and less the fried-dry texture of classic falafel. The accompanying hummus, tomatoes and cucumbers add both flavor and freshness to the sandwich. The star of the show is the preserved lemon jam: spread sparsely on the brioche bun, it adds a gratifying citrus flavor to every bite. $11.
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f you’ve never stepped into May Wah in the big shopping complex on Baseline, you’ll be struck by how different it feels. It’s set up like a modern diner, one you’d find in some big coastal city, with white marble, decorated and high ceilings, spacious booths and a hustle-hustle-hustle atmosphere among the wait staff that just makes you feel welcome. The expansive menu of panAsian meals gets pared down at lunch, but the ambiance stays the same. We opted for the veggiefilled fried tofu bowl. It’s perfectly executed rice with sprouts, fried onion, scallion, peanuts, cucumber, carrots, daikon and a side of fish sauce. With a carafe of green tea, it’s a wholly satisfying meal at May Wah. $8.95.
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latiron Coffee has some of the most creative coffee drinks of any shop around. We dove into its honey pot latte recently, and it’s dynamite. Robust espresso is mixed with honey, cinnamon, vanilla and steamed milk. It creates a truly bittersweet sensation — bitter coffee, sweet honey, and the cinnamon and vanilla flavors travel directly to the part in your body where fuzzy memories live, and warms it. $4.
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Tea Town Rocky Mountain Tea Festival has infused Boulder with tea knowledge for 20 years
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That’s the first thing America associates with Dushanbe Tea Boulder... well, beyond house employee Sarah Miller will any news or sports stories. likely be pouring They think of Celestial Seasonings, a lot of tea during the festival. America’s best-known herbal tea company, launched here 45 years ago. It’s part of Boulder County’s larger natural foods aura. This is the home of Red Zinger and Sleepytime and other herbal teas. (Technically they are tisanes since they don’t contain black, green or white leaves of Camellia sinensis.) Tea aficionados know about the abundance of local tea rooms from Boulder’s Ku Cha House of Tea to Louisville’s Cooper Tea Company, plus at least five local companies bottling variations on chai and others focused on making teabased kombucha. However, the center of tea life in Boulder for the past 20 years has been the internationally known Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, a one-of-a-kind handcrafted Persian teahouse given to the city of Boulder by its sister city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. This weekend ( July 28-29) is also the 20th anniversary of Boulder’s quietest ongoing food and beverage gathering, the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival at the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse. “In 1998 after we had just opened the Teahouse, I had this idea of offering tea classes to the community. I was still learning a lot and wanted to invite the mentors who were teaching me about tea,” says Sara Stewart Martinelli. She and her husband, Lenny, co-own the Teahouse and other local restaurants, as well as Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette. “I started inviting my wish list of tea mentors, and they all said, ‘Yes.’ With five of them coming we figured we better make it a weekend. That’s how the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival was born,” she says. It is now one of the longest-running consumer tea festivals in the U.S., yet, it’s largely unknown in Colorado even among avid
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foodies. That small, quiet approach is partly by design. “We put a cap on the number of people in the classes and workshops, and they almost always sell out. It fills a nice little niche because it’s not a trade show, it’s for consumers to have hands-on classes with experts,” Martinelli says. The Rocky Mountain Tea Festival is like Comic-Con. It’s a bunch of likeminded folks getting really nerdy. The geekiness at the 20th anniversary lineup at the Teahouse includes popular returning events including the Japanese tea ceremony, Lenny Martinelli’s Cooking with Tea class, the popular Children’s Teddy Bear Tea Party and a four-course tea dinner. (This year’s menu features oil-poached Darjeeling tea smoked steelhead trout.) Other workshops include Chinese Poetry and Tea, and How to Brew Tea, as well as guided tastings of Taiwanese oolong and Chinese green teas. New additions this year range from a tasting session on the Top Herbal Teas for Wellness with Rob McCaleb of Boulder’s Herb Research Foundation to an internationally known tea bag artist. “Ruby Silvious paints little on used teabags. They’re amazing, so tiny, but really, really good,” Martinelli says. The tea education never stops. “Tea is such an interesting product that varies so much from region to region. You can dig deeper and deeper into the layers of information,” she says.
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ry it was hugely popular and was grown and consumed by early American colonists. However, if I showed you some millet now you would have a two-word response: “Bird seed.” Slowly but surely millet fell off the map as sexier grain products like wheat, rye and corn took over. It’s a great drought-tolerant crop, and Colorado is the largest grower of millet in the United States, although most isn’t for human consumption. It’s a shame. Gluten-free, highfiber, low-glycemic — millet is as high in protein as wheat and delivers niacin, magnesium, copper, manganese and zinc. Those little yellow beads have a mild flavor, taste nutty when toasted and absorb broth and other liquid much like couscous or risotto. Into this millet void stepped Ryan and Lindsey Cunningham. The Boulder couple operated a food truck in 1980 called Rollin Greens and rebirthed the company to produce Rollin Greens Millet Tots, a frozen organic, vegan convenience food. The proso millet they use is grown at Golden Prairie Farm in Weld County. Millet Tots come in three varieties that are a definite upgrade on the familiar fried frozen potato barrels: original, spicy-sweet and Italian. The original-flavor tots are mild enough for kids, a good conveyor for organic ketchup and an ideal base for a healthier poutine, topped with gravy and cheese curds. I liked the Italian herb Millet Tots as a sort of gnocchi with marinara and melted provolone. My favorite was the craveable spicysweet variation laced with organic sweet potatoes and poblano and jalapeño chilies. They cook in 15 to 20 minutes in a conventional oven or air fryer. All three kinds definitely benefit flavor-wise from extra time in the oven getting really crisp. It should be noted that these are actually millet cubes, not the traditional barrels, providing more crunchy surface area.
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You can’t outsmart Mother Nature Severe weather events in 2018 have put a crimp in the local food supply by Matt Cortina Courtesy of Aspen Moon Farm
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ext month, we’ll celethis year on the farmers, ranchers brate the Lafayette and growers that supply some of our Peach Festival here in most cherished Colorado produce. Boulder County. For Hail damage, drought, wildfire and those of you willing to disease have all taken their toll on take the drive, you can also get a food producers in 2018, resulting in hands-on peachy experience if you millions of dollars of lost revenue, head out to Palisade for its festival. ruined fields and more. Here’s a runCourtesy of Aspen Moon Farm down of what’s hapIt likely won’t be pening statewide. the main topic of conversation, but you may hear the term Hail “cytospora” pop up Remember those once or twice at three weeks in June either of these festiwhen it seemed like vals. Cytospora is a Boulder County got fungus that’s been a hailstorm every growing in Palisade afternoon? Well, the peach orchards, and hailstones may have researchers at stopped falling, but Colorado State the impact of their University are rapidly damage is still being trying to find the felt by area farms. best way to mitigate At Aspen Moon it before it ruins Farm’s Niwot fields, orchard swaths and operated in concert cuts into farm profits. with the Boulder Valley Waldorf Cytospora is just the latest bit of School, eight acres of vegetable havoc Mother Nature has wreaked crops and seven acres of heritage
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Hail damaged eliminated half of the production capacity on Aspen Moon Farm’s Niwot field.
grain were lost for good after a 30-minute hail storm on June 19. That amount of damage amounted to over 50 percent of the farm’s production. The fields were flattened and rendered unusable for the season. The damage to the farm represents more than a loss of one year’s harvest. The educational farm required co-owner Jason Griffith to secure several grants to install essential farm infrastructure, including a water irrigation system. Aspen Moon workers spent hours plowing and preparing the fields before the hail storms. Now in order to recover, Aspen Moon and the Waldorf School are accepting donations to help repair and mitigate losses. Check it out at bvwaldorf.org/giving/farm-support.
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Much of Colorado is in a state of drought, with several areas experiencing extreme drought conditions. The San Luis Valley is likely getting hit the hardest, and seven Southern Colorado counties have been declared disaster sites by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The declaration means farmers in those distressed areas are eligible for disaster relief funds to help cover their losses. Estimates for the total crop loss so far in 2018 hover around 20 percent. In addition to the state’s dryness, Colorado has set temperature records for consecutive days above 90 degrees, further stressing natural resources and crop yields.
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That heat coupled with the drought dryness has also contributed to the proliferation of wildfires this year. In addition to creating massive damages to property, wildfires have had a severe impact on Colorado food producers this year. First, there’s the allocation of water. Conservation messaging has been sent to farmers across the state since fighting the wildfires has required more and more water. And as the drought exacerbated the wildfires, water became even more limited over the last few weeks. Then there’s the actual property damage to food producers. The USDA announced at the end of June it would issue funding to Colorado farmers who were interested in replacing “critical irrigation systems, replacing windbreaks and shelterbelts, rebuilding fences, protecting and restoring scorched grazing lands and implementing various conservation measures to mitigate losses.” “Agricultural operations in the areas of the wildfire have been devastated,” said State Conservationist Clint Evans. “(This) funding ... can help these farmers and ranchers start the process of recovery.” Boulder Weekly
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Which brings us to peaches. Cytospora is a fungus that is growing on peach trees in Palisade orchards. It kills trees by destroying their ability to intake water. Estimates for lost produce from the fungus skyrocket into the millions of dollars every year. Colorado State University researchers are working on a concoction that will help peach growers fight back against the fungus, but Bruce Talbott, of Talbott Farms, says that maybe the loss of peach life has been overblown so far — they have a bumper crop that helps mitigate losses. Talbott says the real impact of cytospora is that it reduces the lifespans of infected trees, which means growers have to replace orchards more rapidly than they would otherwise. “We end up with 10 or 15 productive years out of an orchard instead of the 20 to 25 that we would normally expect,” Talbott says. “The fruit that is produced is unaffected by the fungus and is of the same high quality that we have had over the last 100 years.” But there is less total fruit produced than there would be if cytospora wasn’t present, and the replacement of orchards requires growers to direct more funds and resources. The Palisade Chamber of Commerce, understandably, wants folks to know that in no way does cytospora impact the amount of peaches they can take away from a visit to the region. Also, for those of us who are Colorado wine lovers, cytospora does not appear to be damaging grape vines, but a long, dry winter did create some issues in the region. But, there is one bit of silver lining: Researchers recently found trace amounts of radioactivity in California wine grapes, which were impacted by the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. So, we may have our issues in Colorado, but at least our wine’s not going to give anyone a tail.
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e want to bring it back to the land,” Lisa Boldt of Primitive Beer says. “Bring it back to being creative, being fulfilled in a more creative pursuit.” And from where she’s sitting — on couches arranged in a horseshoe with her husband and brewer, Brandon, in the middle of their Longmont brewery and taproom — Primitive Beer looks more like an artist’s loft than a brewery. Sure, the space contains all the usual trappings: one side has a counter with six Englishstyle taps, half the area is taken up by stacks of puncheon and Bordeaux barrels, and the koelschip — a large tub where the magic happens — sits under a wooden lattice. But the combination of concrete, white walls, warehouse racking and oak creates a warming and welcoming atmosphere. Here is a place for creativity. Located in the Prospect New Town neighborhood, Primitive Beer is unlike just about any brewery you’re liable to wander into. That’s because the Boldts have decided to forgo the new and follow their bliss: spontaneously fermented ales made using one of the oldest known brewing processes. “There are a dozen breweries that do spontaneous beer,” Lisa says. “But, there’s only — maybe us and two others — that do only spontaneous beers.” “We figured if this was the one we cared the most about,” Brandon adds. “And the one that we would love to take decades to figure out, we might as well become experts,” Lisa continues. The genesis of Primitive Beer dates 50 July 26 , 2018
back to the couple’s trip to Belgium. Both fell in love with spontaneous ales, known as “lambics” and “gueuze,” their production methods, the café culture surrounding them and their historical significance. “This return to authenticity is something that definitely drives us,” Brandon says. Authenticity, and an adherence to specific brewing techniques known as “Méthode Traditionnelle,” is what makes Primitive Beer vastly different than anything you’re likely to find in Boulder County. These are not the treacly lambics you had back in college, nor do they deliver the mouth-puckering fizz that comes with a fruited sour; these spontaneous ales load the glass with subtle funk, balanced acid, touches of fruit and delicious dryness. They skew closer to Burgundy wines and rustic ales, conveying the sophistication of the former and the everyday pleasantness of the latter while being made entirely from Colorado ingredients. “It gets back to the history of this beverage, which is: spontaneous inoculation,” Brandon says. “You’re producing something in your space... harkening back to trying to use that local ingredient and trying to speak to the flavor of your area.” The French have a word for it: terroir, and the Boldts express Colorado’s terroir in every glass. “We figured Colorado is one of the best places to start this project,” Lisa says with a smile, “just given the number of breweries and beer geeks who are just psyched to learn new stuff.” Boulder Weekly
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Cultivate an exaggerated respect for the status quo. Spend an inordinate amount of time watching dumb TV shows while eating junk food. Make sure you’re exposed to as little natural light and fresh air as possible. Just kidding! I lied! Ignore everything I just said! Here’s my real advice: Dare yourself to feel strong positive emotions. Tell secrets to animals and trees. Swim and dance and meditate naked. Remember in detail the three best experiences you’ve ever had. Experiment with the way you kiss. Create a blessing that surprises you and everyone else. Sing new love songs. Change something about yourself you don’t like. Ask yourself unexpected questions, then answer them with unruly truths that have medicinal effects.
have several meanings in English, including “delicacy” and “finesse.” The Portuguese word delicadeza has those meanings, as well as others, including “tenderness,” “fineness,” “suavity,” “respect” and “urbanity.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m making it your word of power for the next three weeks. You’re in a phase when you will thrive by expressing an abundance of these qualities. It might be fun to temporarily give yourself the nickname Delicadeza.
MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Be extra polite and deferential.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Your past is not quite what it seems. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find out why — and make the necessary adjustments. A good way to begin would be to burrow back into your old stories and unearth the half-truths buried there. It’s possible that your younger self wasn’t sufficiently wise to understand what was really happening all those months and years ago, and as a result distorted the meaning of the events. I suspect, too, that some of your memories aren’t actually your own, but rather other people’s versions of your history. You may not have time to write a new memoir right now, but it might be healing to spend a couple of hours drawing up a revised outline of your important turning points.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: One of the most famously obtuse
book-length poems in the English language is Robert Browning’s Sordello, published in 1840. After studying it at length, Alfred Tennyson, who was Great Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892, confessed, “There were only two lines in it that I understood.” Personally, I did better than Tennyson, managing to decipher 18 lines. But I bet that if you read this dense, multi-layered text in the coming weeks, you would do better than me and Tennyson. That’s because you’ll be at the height of your cognitive acumen. Please note: I suggest you use your extra intelligence for more practical purposes than decoding obtuse texts.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: Ready for your financial therapy
session? For your first assignment, make a list of the valuable qualities you have to offer the world, and write a short essay about why the world should abundantly reward you for them. Assignment #2: Visualize what it feels like when your valuable qualities are appreciated by people who matter to you. #3: Say this: “I am a rich resource that ethical, reliable allies want to enjoy.” #4: Say this: “My scruples can’t be bought for any amount of money. I may rent my soul, but I’ll never sell it outright.”
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: As you wobble and stumble into the
New World, you shouldn’t pretend you understand more than you actually do. In fact, I advise you to play up your innocence and freshness. Gleefully acknowledge you’ve got a lot to learn. Enjoy the liberating sensation of having nothing to prove. That’s not just the most humble way to proceed; it’ll be your smartest and most effective strategy. Even people who have been a bit skeptical of you before will be softened by your vulnerability. Opportunities will arise because of your willingness to be empty and open and raw.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Since 1358, the city of Paris has
used the Latin motto Fluctuat nec mergitur, which can be translated as “She is tossed by the waves but does not sink.” I propose that we install those stirring words as your rallying cry for the next few weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens gives me confidence that even though you may encounter unruly weather, you will sail on unscathed. What might be the metaphorical equivalent of taking seasick pills?
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SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Uninformed scientists scorn my oracles. Reductionist journalists say I’m just another delusional fortuneteller. Materialist cynics accuse me of pandering to people’s superstition. But I reject those naive perspectives. I define myself as a psychologically astute poet who works playfully to liberate my readers’ imaginations with inventive language, frisky stories, and unpredictable ideas. Take a cue from me, Scorpio, especially in the next four weeks. Don’t allow others to circumscribe what you do or who you are. Claim the power to characterize yourself. Refuse to be squeezed into any categories, niches, or images — except those that squeeze you the way you like to be squeezed.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “I have no notion of loving people
by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.” So said Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. I don’t have any judgment about whether her attitude was right or wrong, wise or ill-advised. How about you? Whatever your philosophical position might be, I suggest that for the next four weeks you activate your inner Jane Austen and let that part of you shine — not just in relation to whom and what you love but also with everything that rouses your passionate interest. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due for some big, beautiful, radiant zeal.
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AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: What are your goals for your top two alliances or friendships? By that I mean, what would you like to accomplish together? How do you want to influence and inspire each other? What effects do you want your relationships to have on the world? Now maybe you’ve never even considered the possibility of thinking this way. Maybe you simply want to enjoy your bonds and see how they evolve rather than harnessing them for greater goals. That’s fine. No pressure. But if you are interested in shaping your connections with a more focused sense of purpose, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do so.
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YOU’VE GOTTA TRY THIS This week, an archaeologist from the University of Copenhagen uncovered 14,000-year-old remnants of bread at a site in Jordan. We at Boulder Weekly got our hands on the bread, and some of what it was served alongside, and let us tell you, it was to die, decay and fossilize for. The charred bread crumbs imbued the dish with a smokiness that only a fire that prehistoric humans also used to sacrifice bodies can impart. And 14,000 years of calcification meant that the bread had a delightful crunch that knocked our teeth out... and our socks off! The bread was served alongside a petrified gazelle loaf. We thought it was a little stingy of the chef to allow several millennia to decay the muscles so that there was hardly anything left, but we’ll tell you, what was left was perfection. If you’ve never had fossilized cave gazelle with petrified burnt bread crumbs, then you’re just not a foodie. We washed it all down with a kombucha. Nothing fancy. Rowdy Mermaid. Quality stuff. Rumblings of our meal echoed out into the Boulder County food scene, and word is Colorado’s first “fossil food” restaurant will be hitting Pearl Street in November. The fossils will all be locally sourced from Boulder Creek, and early dishes include trilo-bites and Cretaceous tots. The restaurant will be called Fossil Ron’s.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY? We have this thing in the United States of America called the rule of law. It’s a notion, a concept, a philosophy the country was supposedly founded upon. It’s one of the questions potential citizens are asked to define in the naturalization process. It’s symbolized by a balanced scale in textbooks and on courthouses. And yet apparently, we, as a society, have absolutely no idea what it means. If you look it up, the great Google will tell you it means “the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws,” whatever that means. The civics booklet handed out by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services accepts any of the following answers: Everyone must follow the law; leaders must obey the law; government must obey the law; no one is above the law. Wikipedia puts it plainly: “everyone is subject to the law.” Pretty simple, right? So why does it feel like the law doesn’t apply to everyone, or at least not equally? This week a man shot another man in a Circle K parking lot in Florida in broad daylight and yet isn’t being charged with anything. But a man took a pick-ax to Donald Trump’s Hollywood Star of Fame in California, destroying it, and he could face up to three years in prison. If he’s lucky, he’ll get the same punishment another man received for doing the same thing back in 2016: 20 hours of community service and a $4,000 fine. All for protesting a president who faces allegations of numerous vile deeds that range from rape to collusion to inciting violence and being a white supremacist. Tell us, where is the rule of law in that? Boulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: I’ve been faithfully reading your column in the Chicago Reader for years, and now I’m reaching out to you about my own problem. I’ve been dating this guy for almost a year. Everything is great, except one thing: He wants me to kick him in the nuts. It really bothers me, and I’m not sure what to do. He’s very serious about it, and he brings it up every single day. It makes me really uncomfortable that this is some sort of fetish of his and I need help taking steps forward. P.S. I play soccer, and I kick hard. —To Kick Or Not To Kick Dear TKONTK: It’s a kink called “ball busting,” TKONTK, and as long as you don’t kick him full force — or even half force — you’re unlikely to do permanent damage. That said, childless guys who are into ball busting are often advised to freeze their sperm just in case. And while it’s not a hugely popular kink, it’s common enough that ball busting porn exists, and ball busting Tumblrs, ball busting blogs, etc. Take it slow at first, particularly if your guy has only fantasized about this and not experienced it. P.S. A guy who brings up his kink every single day deserves to be kicked in the nuts — unless he’s into ball busting, in which case he doesn’t deserve to be kicked in the nuts. Dear Dan: My husband and I were married in Toronto, Canada, in 2005, before marriage equality came to the United States. Does the U.S. government recognize our Canadian marriage or do we need to remarry in the U.S.? Can you find out from one of your legal friends? —Does Our Marriage Apply?
SAVAGE by Dan Savage
what pegging is and tips for your more adventurous readers who want to give it a go. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. —[Redacted] PR Agency Dear PR Agency: Pegging? Never heard of it. Wait — what’s that, Wikipedia? “Pegging is a sexual practice in which a woman performs anal sex on a
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man by penetrating the man’s anus with a strap-on dildo... The neologism ‘pegging’ was popularized when it became the winning entry in a contest in Dan Savage’s Savage Love sex advice column [in 2001].”
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Dear Dan: How much sex is too much sex? —Numb Over Numbers Dear NON: “Enough is as good as a feast.” —Mary Poppins Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
Dear Dan: What’s the fairest way to determine who should get tied up? —Bondage Bottom Boyfriends
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weed between the lines
by Sidni West
Nugs and nuptials
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e’re about halfway through wedding season, which is arguably the most arduous part of being 27, right after trying to justify why you don’t have your own Netflix account. (Because the login for the roommate I lived with four years ago still works, duh). At any given point from May through September, christianbed.com/Wikimedia Commons
you are expected to spend thousands of dollars on travel and outfits just to sit through some mason jar ceremony during the hottest part of the day followed by five hours of free booze and doing the Cha-Cha Slide in a rustic (aka non-air conditioned) barn. Meanwhile, you’re just hoping the photographer will get a good candid that will serve as your profile pic for the rest of the summer. And looking so hot that you fool your ex into thinking you’ve actually changed for the better. It’s a great time, guys. Making it through all those never-end-
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ing declarations of love is exhausting, especially if it’s for a couple that you know in five years will most likely be divorced or living in resentful misery. Marijuana helps, and there’s always a chance one of your cool cousins will be there to low-key smoke a joint with you in the parking lot. However, now that weed weddings are trending, you might not have to act sketchy about it for much longer. In legal states, some couples are choosing to celebrate their nuptials with some nugs, which allows the indulgence to be public, glamorized and enjoyed by all. Specialists have launched entire businesses to keep up with this new demand. In Colorado, there’s the Cannabis Wedding Expo, an event where brides and grooms can meet marijuana vendors. By smoking in a social setting instead of sneaking out to get high, a whole new element of togetherness is created. Whether a couple wants to offer guests an alternative to alcohol or simply incorporate cannabis into their big day, there are plenty of options in the growing and lucrative market of modern marijuana weddings. Here are some things you can expect whether you’re attending a wedding or planning your own:
Bud Bar It’s just like an open bar, but way more affordable and with a selection of all different strains of gourmet marijuana. Brides demand a level of quality and sophistication on their wedding day, so it’s not going to look like some grungy corner hangout. There will be a knowledgeable budtender to guide
your experience and help you achieve the type of high you’re going for. Concentrates and vaping stations are also options. There could even be a signature marijuana drink or strain that the couple wants to highlight.
Decor While nobody over the age of 20 wants to see a tie-dyed-peace-sign-pot-leaf-themed wedding, a cheeky nod to the plant could appear in the form of bouquets and centerpieces. Companies like Bud and Blossoms specialize in professional floral arrangements that incorporate cannabis, as long as it’s purchased from a dispensary. The centerpieces are often beautiful bouquets that include bud plants, and each table will have its own personal supply of weed to share and enjoy together. The wedding planner will usually put pre-rolled joints, glass bongs or something else classy to smoke with on each table.
Gourmet Edibles Cannabis chefs provide some fancy weed-infused edible treats as part of the catering. Since some edibles can be super potent for people who don’t know how to use them, there is usually a set number of edibles each guest will receive.
Party Favors For some sick reason, tons of couples decide to blow their budget on tacky shit. You know what guests don’t need? Anything with monogrammed initials on it. Like, what am I supposed to do — hang it on my wall so I can longingly remember your special day? No. Guests should get to bring home something they actually want, like a swag bag including gold rolling papers or a luxe box of infused truffles.
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cannabis corner
by Paul Danish
Backing pot legalization becomes a political plus
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his could be great news if it holds up. Tom Angell at the website Marijuana Moment is reporting that a poll of voters in 60 “battleground” Congressional districts found that candidates who favor marijuana legalization are more likely to get elected than those who don’t. These are the races that will probably decide which party controls the House of Representatives in the next Congress. The poll of 800 likely voters found that 60 percent favored ending marijuana prohibition, and that 79 percent favored legalizing medical marijuana. Those numbers are consistent with a number of national polls taken in the past year. The more interesting finding in the survey is that 44 percent of voters in the battleground districts said they were more likely to vote for a candidate who supports legalization, versus 33 percent who said they would be less likely. Moreover, 26 percent of those polled said they would be “much more likely” to vote for a pro-pot candidate. (The story didn’t state how many would be “much less likely.”) However it did state that 55 percent of voters would be “more likely” to vote in November if a marijuana initiative was on the ballot in their state. At least four states will have or are likely to have marijuana legalization questions on their ballots this fall: Michigan, North Dakota, Missouri and Utah. The Michigan and North Dakota initiatives call for full legalization. Utah will vote on legalization of medical marijuana. Missouri voters may vote on as many as three separate medical marijuana questions. (It’s complicated.) Also, in Oklahoma two initiative petitions for constitutional amendments are being circulated — one to legalize medical marijuana and one for full legalization. Last month Oklahoma voters passed a medical marijuana initiative as an initiated law instead of a constitutional amendment, which meant the
state’s socially conservative state legislature could mess with it. Which it immediately started to do. Supporters of the initiative charged the legislature was attempting to thwart the will of the voters and immediately started circulating separate petitions for medical and recreational legalization as state constitutional amendments, which the legislature can’t change. As of last Sunday they had more than 118,000 signatures on the recreational marijuana petition. They need 123,725 to get on the ballot and would like to get 150,000 to survive signature disqualifications. By law the petitions have to be submitted by Aug. 8. It’s not known how many of the battleground congressional districts live in these states, but there’s a good chance a number of them do. All five states voted for Trump in 2016. All of this is good news, but the poll’s results should be viewed with some caution. The polling, which was done by Lake Research, took place last February, which means the results may be getting a little long in the tooth. (On the other hand, since support for legalization is spiking nationally, it wouldn’t be surprising if the numbers came out the same or better if the same questions were asked
today). The poll was commissioned by MedMen Enterprises, a marijuana dispensary chain with stores in several eastern states. The sample size, 800 likely voters, is too small to draw any conclusions about any of the 60 individual districts. More seriously, the news story about it didn’t contain the actual questions or the proportion of Democrats, Republicans and independents in the sample. It’ll be interesting to see if the results are corroborated by further battleground state polling and by polling in individual toss-up-rated congressional districts. That sort of polling isn’t all that common, but there will be some in the coming weeks. One sign the poll is on target is that candidates in red and battleground states are beginning to campaign as though it is. For instance, in Ohio, Democratic Representative Tim Ryan, who co-chairs the House Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus, wrote an op-ed for CNN in which he called for legalizing marijuana “in all 50 states” and endorsed New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s bill to legalize pot at the federal level. His Republican opponent, Chris DePizzo, countered by endorsing the bill co-sponsored by Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner and Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren that makes marijuana legalization a state decision that the federal government must respect. Ohio Republican Congressman Bill Johnson took a similar approach, saying that legalizing medical marijuana (which Ohio has done) is “opening a door in our culture that is going to be awfully difficult for us to walk back through,” but that “it is a state and not a federal issue.” Ah, candidates for Congress in swing districts arguing over whether pot should be legalized at the state level or the federal level. Life is good.
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May We Suggest Some Gelato with that Wedding Cake
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