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Highroad How vicious is the GOP’s war on the poor? by Jim Hightower
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enerals plan wars, but battlefield commanders do the bloody work. So, meet HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a quiet but bloodstained commandante in General Trump’s relentless war against povertystricken Americans. Carson is loyally serving the extreme right-wing’s ideological crusade to destroy the very idea of housing subsidies for poor families. He has taken a budget ax to the program that enforces our society’s fair
housing laws, and he even stripped the words “free from discrimination” out of HUD’s mission statement. Such sneak attacks, however, were deemed too subtle by Trump’s political base of hardcore haters of poverty programs, so the commander-in-chief demanded a frontal assault on the poorest of the poor. Carson delivered, dutifully, proposing legislation to triple the monthly rent that the most impoverished of public housing families would pay — including increased rents for the elderly and disabled. To add cruelty to this nastiness, Carson also called for eliminating child-care and medical deductions that public housing families can subtract from their rent payments. He tried to pass off this coldblooded ambush of real people as merely a bureaucratic “streamlining,”
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calling it necessary to cut the federal deficit. That’s a despicable ruse, for the deficit was deliberately and grossly inflated just a few months ago — not by poor people, but by the trillion-dollar tax giveaway passed by Trump and the Republican Congress for the very richest people in America. And let’s not forget that Carson himself was willing to bloat the deficit when he recently tried to spend taxpayer’s money on a $31,000 dining set for his office suite! Fortunately, this plutocratic purchase was exposed and canceled — but was he embarrassed? Nah. So, Trump, Carson and GOP congress critters have also added hypocrisy to the nastiness and cruelty of their ongoing war against the poor. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. July 5 , 2018 5
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onfession: I’m feeling exhausted and a bit overwhelmed. And I suspect you are too, but what can we do? Take a break? Give up? I’ve been doing a lot of people watching lately, watching the way they take in the news of the day and how they react to it. More and more I’m reminded of an abused dog, head down, no eye contact, the posture that accompanies having surrendered to something powerful and abusive. I get it. The news cycle cuts like a knife in the hand of an ignorant, hatefilled man hell-bent on revenge for something he believes we did, but yet, can’t articulate what it was. And worse yet, the powers that be, the people who could stop this man and his mob of likeminded abusers, are either too afraid to confront him or believe they can somehow profit from his actions down the road if they just let him be until after the next election or the next one or the one after that. Our country’s gone mad. Journalists are being fired because they cost money. They are being fired for saying something negative about Trump. The Department of Homeland Security just announced it’s compiling a data base of journalists and media influencers. this at a time when journalist are already being killed because too many people now see them as the enemy because too many people can’t discern propaganda on social media and Fox
News from facts and reality. The oil industry is moving full speed ahead to invade our communities, using its unlimited money and political clout to circumvent the research, common sense and will of the people. It’s happening even though we understand that our health and safety is being sold to corporations simply because they fill campaign coffers and donate millions to groups that purport to be trying to protect us. Sometimes it feels like all I can do is stand by and watch while the best among us — the activists and compassionate people who really do care about the world and the folks around them — get bulldozed at every turn. It just hurts worse when it’s done by the very “Big Green” environmental groups and country-club Dems who act like allies until the real fight comes and then they are nowhere to be found. You know exactly the self-serving cowards I’m talking about, the organizations and politicians who pull in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet can’t collectively scrape together $50K to change the history of our state and save actual lives by helping to support the 2,500 foot oil and gas setback signature collection effort. And yet they have no trouble writing $600,000 checks to elect Jared Polis governor despite his personally investing in Wattenberg Field fracking, opposing the 2,500 foot setback measure and havsee DYERTIMES Page 8
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ell that didn’t take long. On April 17, Boulder sued ExxonMobil and Suncor for damages stemming from global warming caused by the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from the burning of the oil, natural gas and coal they produced. The Boulder suit was similar to a suit brought earlier by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against five major oil companies, including ExxonMobil. That suit was partially based on the legal theory used in successful suits against tobacco companies — that the companies knew their products were doing great harm and that they not only deliberately hid knowledge of the dangers, but lied about them in order to stay in business and keep their obscene profits rolling in. The outside lawyers in the Boulder case may or may not have been dreaming of some obscene profits of their own, but on June 25 a federal judge in California dramatically reduced their chances of getting a big payday when he blew the Oakland/San Francisco case out of the tub. In dismissing the suit, U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote that the issue in the case “is not over science.” “All parties agree that fossil fuels have led to global warming and ocean rise and will continue to do so...,” he wrote. “The issue is a legal one — whether these producers of fossil fuels should pay for anticipated harm that will eventually flow from a rise in sea level.” Judge Alsup called the scope of the plaintiffs’ theory of the case “breathtaking.” “It would reach the sale of fossil fuels anywhere in the world, including all past and otherwise lawful sales, where the seller knew that the combustion of fossil fuels contributed to the phenomenon of global warming. While these actions are brought against the first, second, fourth, sixth and ninth largest producers of fossil fuels, anyone who supplied fossil fuels with knowledge Boulder Weekly
of the problem would be liable... “Their theory rests on the sweeping proposition that otherwise lawful and everyday sales of fossil fuels, combined with an awareness that greenhouse gas emissions lead to increased global temperatures, constitute a public nuisance,” he said. Whether or not the sale of fossil fuels constitute a “public nuisance” is central to the case, because the claim that they do is “the sole claim for relief ” that the plaintiffs are making, according to the opinion. A “public nuisance” under federal law is an “unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public,” Judge Alsup said, quoting from a standard legal work titled the The Restatement of Torts, Second. Where the interference is intentional, as alleged by Oakland and San Francisco, “it must also be unreasonable,” and determining whether or not it is unreasonable involves “the weighing of the gravity of the harm against the utility of the conduct,” according to the Restatement. And in evaluating the utility of the conduct, “it is necessary to consider the social value that the law attaches to the primary purpose of the conduct, the suitability of the conduct to the character of the locality and the impracticality of preventing or avoiding the invasion.” And that context framed the core of Judge Alsup’s decision in the case: “With respect to balancing the social utility against the gravity of the anticipated harm, it is true that carbon dioxide released from fossil fuels has caused (and will continue to cause) global warming,” he wrote. “But against that negative, we must weigh this positive: our industrial revolution and the development of our modern world has literally been fueled by oil and coal. Without those fuels, virtually all of our monumental progress would have been impossible. All of us have benefitted. Having reaped the benefit of that historic progress, would it really be fair to now ignore our own responsibility in the use of fossil fuels and place the blame for global warming on see DANISH PLAN Page 8
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morning knowing there are such horribly misguided people among us that they actually cheer on this racist president and his racist attorney general and his racist secretary of Homeland Security and his racist chief of staff and his racist personal police force known as ICE. Where did all these intentionally cruel people come from? How can there be so many of them? Why does doing harm to the most vulnerable among us seem to ease these racist’s own pain? We have never seen the destructive power of blame-shifting on this scale. I don’t know what to write anymore. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do. I only know that history will one day describe this point in time with the same adjectives reserved for Joe McCarthy, Japanese internment camps, My Lai, the violence of 1968, Nixon and worse. Knowingly forcing people to be exposed to increased cancer risk for corporate profits and taking children away from their moms and dads and sentencing people seeking asylum to death by forcing them back to their countries of origin because they are brown will not go unnoticed by future generations. And our children and grandchildren will rightfully ask what each of us did to stop it. What will I say? What will you say? We should all be losing sleep right now searching for the answer to that future question, because, God help us, we are all responsible and accountable for what happens next. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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those who supplied what we demanded? Is it really fair, in light of those benefits, to say that the sale of fossil fuels was unreasonable?” The Restatement of Torts, Second, published in 1979, is produced by the American Law Institute. It summarizes general principles of common United States tort law. (Common law is law created by judicial decisions and precedents rather than by statutes passed by a legislature.) It’s striking that a federal judge is quoting at length from it in deciding a case that could ultimately involve trillions of dollars in damages and have global repercussions; Judge Alsup is in effect telling the attorneys for San Francisco and Oakland that they should have paid more attention in law school and needed some remedial instruction. But the real import of the ruling is
that the “gravity of the anticipated harm” of global warming must be weighed against the “social utility” of the industrial revolution and the emergence of modern civilization, which were fueled by fossil fuels. The rhetorical question Judge Alsup asks is the one that the city council members in San Francisco, Oakland — and now Boulder — need to answer, but which out of ignorance, cynicism or political solipsism they refuse to ask: Having reaped the benefits of industrial civilization, “would it really be fair to now ignore our own (their own) responsibility in the use of fossil fuels and place the blame for global warming on those who supplied what we demanded?” Or even sane. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
letters Time for Mayor Berg to resign or be recalled Mayor Christine Berg has lost the privilege to represent the people of Lafayette. She should resign due to conflicts of interest or be recalled. Berg has consistently steered the City Council majority to act in the best interest of Extraction, Inc.’s proposed encroachment into residential areas for fracking, rather than working to ensure the health and safety of citizens. The mayor should resign or be recalled for leading a sustained campaign of disinformation at City Council meetings and other public forums. Falsehoods told directly to teary-eyed mothers begging for any reassurance of their children’s safety during City Council meetings are disgraceful. Initial citizen concerns about fracking were dismissed by the mayor, who argued that there hadn’t been drilling in Lafayette in 25 years, and so there’s nothing to worry about. Lafayette passed a ban on fracking by ballot initiative with 60 percent support and was sued. The mayor, along with the 2014 council, kicked the citizen supporters and community rights argument out of the lawsuit, handing a win to the industry. The mayor loves the mantra “we were sued, and we lost” when asked why she’s not enforcing our current ban on fracking. This is a frequent lie by omission. When offered pro-bono legal help from the foremost environmental rights legal network, the mayor wouldn’t even hear them until citizens campaigned for a public forum. “Let’s regulate the heck out of it” — another favorite mantra of hers. Regulating fracking hasn’t worked. Lastly, she works for Mom’s Clean Air Force, a project of the Environmental Defense Fund, a welldocumented front group of the oil and gas industry, which supports “market based” solutions to pollution — like “regulations” that protect no one, while they allow the drilling to continue. Time to resign, Mayor. Terra Rafael/Lafayette
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n the ongoing effort to put Initiative 97 on the November ballot, a few volunteers from the grassroots environmental group Colorado Rising are taking a novel approach to raising funds for the organization’s signature gathering operation. More on that in a moment. Just in case you aren’t familiar with the effort, Initiative 97 is intended to keep Colorado communities free of dangerous oil and gas extraction operations that an abundance of current research has found can harm health, lower property values and will, if left unchecked, eventually destroy the environment and planet. Yes, it really is that important. The measure, should it make the ballot and pass, would create a 2,500-foot setback or buffer zone between all oil and gas development operations and homes, schools, hospitals, water sources and playgrounds. In other words, sign the petition and vote yes in November and you and your kids, according to the research, will be safer and healthier Joel Dyer going forward. Now about that novel fundraising idea. As many of you are all too aware, recent hailstorms took a serious toll on area homes in the form of broken windows, skylights and battered roofs. If you have damage that needs repair, it may be possible to kill two birds with one stone: get your repairs completed while helping to raise funds for the setback effort. According to conversations with several of Colorado Rising’s core members, they have formed a team that has partnered with an A+ rated roofing company as a way of raising money for the Initiative 97 campaign. According to a recent statement they released, “We are offering all of you who had hail in your community a free inspection. If damage is found, you can sign up to replace your roof through us, the members of Colorado Rising, and we will donate the commission straight to the campaign. So you can get a shiny new roof, while fueling a campaign that protects our communities from fracking. The best part is, standard home insurance pays for everything!” The folks behind this idea say the timing is critical for the effort. Signature gatherers for Initiative 97 have reported being constantly harassed and intimidated by what they claim are prooil operatives who they claim, in some instances, have admitted to being paid by the industry and/or groups that support it to slow their signature gathering efforts (Boulder Weekly has not independently confirmed the validity of these allegations of payment). With only five weeks left to gather the nearly 140,000 signatures needed to guarantee a spot on the ballot come November, Colorado Rising needs all the funds it can pull in to support its petition-drive efforts. Novel indeed. If you have hail damage and want to help the setback effort raise some money, voluteers suggest “reaching out to our inspection team by emailing unite@corising.org or calling 914-5636080 to set up an inspection.” Boulder Weekly
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Jennifer Piper n Friday, June 29, the District Attorney’s office of the 18th District announced it was dropping all charges against Castle Rock resident Shauna Johnson, mother of two, for her written protest earlier in the month outside Rep. Ken Buck’s Castle Rock office. Amid growing outrage over the separating of families at the border by the federal government, Johnson brought her two young children to Buck’s office to air her concerns over the policy and her representative’s support of it on June 6. On her way out, Johnson wrote “Stop putting kids in cages Ken Buck” in chalk on the sidewalk outside the building’s entrance. Building management called the Douglass County Sheriff ’s Department and Johnson was charged with second-degree criminal tampering, a class two misdemeanor punishable by three-12 months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine. According to the Colorado ACLU, who picked up her case, she was also told she could be charged with trespassing if she returned to Buck’s office. “Dissent is patriotic, and especially now, we cannot allow government to intimidate or silence those who speak out against injustice,” ACLU of Colorado Mark Silverstein said in a press release, applauding the DA’s decision to dismiss the charges. “Family separation is a moral outrage, and I wanted to express that outrage,” Johnson said in press release. “It never occurred to me that I was doing anything wrong, as I wasn’t damaging any property or blocking any doors. I was just speaking and hoping that my message would appeal to Representative Buck’s humanity and convince him to take action to stop the policy.”
Sage-grouse habitat opens to oil and gas leasing under the Trump Administration
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espite widespread protests from conservationists and other stakeholders, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering up oil and gas leasing on public lands across the West inside protected habitat for the greater sage-grouse, according to new mapping. Although in line with the Trump Administration’s directive to prioritize energy development on public lands, the recent activity goes against Obamaera habitat conservation management plans created in 2015, which advise leasing outside priority habitat. The Obama plans also prevented the bird from being listed under the Endangered Species Act. According to a press release from the National Wildlife Federation, half of the lands being offered in Colorado’s June 7 BLM lease sale intersect with sage-grouse habitat, as do 99.9 percent — or 1.3 million acres — of upcoming lands being offered in Wyoming and 47 percent of offered leases in Utah. “Ironically these are precisely the sorts of places where leasing should be minimized, because of the importance of grouse as well as big game habitat and because many of the leases have low development potential,” said Barbara Vasquez, a resident of Jackson County and former member of BLM’s Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council, in a press release. “Unfortunately, this sale is indicative of the Trump Administration’s approach to managing leasing in sage-grouse habitat across the West. Instead of prioritizing leasing outside of grouse habitat, which so often provides good quality habitat for big game, the administration is blindly offering as many leases as it can.” Existing and future leases also threaten sage-grouse habitat in Moffat County, as well as additional habitat in Wyoming and Utah. Sales in Montana have been deferred, and in Idaho, withdrawn.
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ow in its fourth year, the 101-word fiction contest has become one of our favorite traditions here at Boulder Weekly. We savor the chance to read the best flash fiction from writers in Boulder County and beyond. We had more submissions to this year’s contest than in any year prior, and we think it shows in the quality of the winning entries. Here are the nuts and bolts of how we determined the top 20 entries: As in years prior, each writer was limited to five submissions. Many of the writers who entered the contest submitted more than one piece, but we did not take abundance of entries into consideration while judging. And about that judging: There were five judges who assigned a score between one and five on each entry. It
was a blind process, as the name of the writer was stripped from each entry before reading, and we only learned of the winning identities after tallying up the scores. Thus, you’ll see some writers appear more than once in the list of winners. Bully for them. In the case of ties, we put the pieces into a mini-competition and rescored them to gain a final order. We ended up with five winners, five honorable mentions and 10 additional finalists, however there were plenty more we wished we could have included. The top 20 finishers have been published here. Thanks to all who participated in this contest. We hope you enjoy this year’s selections as much as we did. We’re already looking forward to the next batch in 2019.
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FIRST PLACE Scented Memory
SECOND PLACE My 1st Best Friend
THIRD PLACE In Time
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eird little things remind me of her. I don’t know why. Cabbage for instance. She was always cooking the stuff. Her apartment smelled of the pungent odor of pirozhki, borscht, and cabbage pie. Yes, she took her Russian heritage seriously, which I suppose was tolerable in her kitchen but when we met at the coffee shop and embraced, I could smell metallic old-lady breath followed by that waft of cabbage emanating from her pores. But now I miss all that. —Susan Williams
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orman was my first best friend. We went to war together and killed hundreds of krauts by the time we were seven. His backyard was crawling with them. We took breaks from the killing to munch cookies from our fathers’ mess kits. Sometimes we’d get shot, too. Clutching my gut, I’d cry out and drop. Bleeding out, I’d close my eyes dreaming of Mary from next door nursing me back to health. A few years later I found Norman and Mary kissing behind the school. Bayonetted through the heart by my best friend. And Mary wasn’t really a nurse. —Craig Kupras
don’t plan on living in irrelevance, here in the middle of nowhere, like you,” the son declared, but the father had tripped on the skulls of his great, great grandfather’s cows in this ranch’s earth. Older still, he’d seen rockshard butchering tools buried alongside bison bones below these bluffs. Buffalo, a different cattle, had once been driven from the cliff above by different men, different temporary caretakers. Every life was a dust-thin footprint in the striations of cruel, beautiful eons visible on that cliffside. “We’re all irrelevant,” he replied with reverence, hoping his son would understand in time. —Kate Jonuska Boulder Weekly
FIFTH PLACE Love Story
FOURTH PLACE Boycott
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itting on the porch, life unfolds around me. Children play games in the street and dogs join the mayhem. Barbeque grills are lit. Neighbors visit back and forth stopping by to say hello. My loneliness set aside for a brief interlude. I have family. My children call daily with a reminder to take my pill. They have my best interests at heart. No pun intended. At ninety with aching bones and a sharp mind, I have chosen to boycott the pill. I want to stay up, watch the night sky and see the sunrise in all its glory one more time. —Jane Lewis
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ctober. American Spirits. Closing your eyes till I guess the color. The way you look on Sunday mornings. Socks with sandals. Campfire coffee. The curb beside the mailbox. The sunrise over Mt. Sanitas. A bass line. Whiskey, on the rocks. The art of delivering a proper apology. My feet in your hands. Salted chocolate. A gallon of water and a mug of wine. The super blue blood moon. Asleep beside you in the desert. Asleep beside you in the canyon. Asleep beside you on the airport floor. Your hands in my pockets. Agreeing we can’t be better people. Agreeing we tried. —Lexi Schwartz
fourth annual
101-word fiction
honorable mentions
Wobbly Toilet Seat
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’m prepared when my migraine visits, laying perfectly still in my darkened bedroom, counting breaths through a sacred sequence, eyes closed behind night shades, my naked body under cool cotton sheets and the ticking clock silenced; the melody, harmony and rhythm of my life completely halted and replaced with big grey archival boxes in my head, all boring and empty now, but their corners still hard and piercing. The trigger could be anything, from food to light to smell to, anything. All I know is that without fail, when my migraine visits, the toilet seat is always wobbly. —Jon Theunissen
La Maldita
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ax woke up tasting Maggie on his lips, a second from calling out her name. He was relieved to see he hadn’t, looking over at his wife sleeping soundly. He had the sudden urge for a cigarette; it had been years since he’d quit, but he’d never been a good quitter — he was much better at getting people started on things. He flexed his forearm, watching the veins, remembering what he started Maggie on and why she wasn’t here to grow old with now. That version of him wasn’t here either, he reminded himself, biting his cheek until he fell back asleep. —Lexi Schwartz
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t is a Sunday morning, early, and in the bathroom of the Atocha train station a woman uses her sleeve to wipe grime from the mirror. She pulls a squashed tube of toothpaste from her purse and squeezes a dollop onto her finger, sliding it into her mouth. She spits, rinses, and splashes water onto her face. When she stands to face the mirror again, she sighs at nothing. A young girl watches through a crack in the stall. What had her mother told her about ghosts, vampires, monsters who don’t appear in mirrors? Surely not that they brush their teeth? —Lexi Schwartz BjornS/Wikimedia Commons
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he house sold,” my landlord said when it wasn’t for sale. “I have a spare room,” my friend’s cousin said. He had never met me. “You can’t do that,” my mom said. “The divorce is final,” the court said. That first weekend, I watched my roommate spend considerable time in the yard hacking at bushes and trying to tame a sour cherry tree that had gotten “too leggy.” I wondered if maybe that was why I was in Colorado. To be pruned? Straightened out so I could grow up instead of sprawling all over? “Nah,” I thought. “I’m gonna stay wild.” —Kerry Love
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ellow Toadflax is a noxious weed, there is also Dalmatian Toadflax, more difficult to kill, and both kinds are early flowering, that is, early in the growing season, thus depriving native grasses and plants of moisture and growing space, since native plants begin their growing season much later. Because we had sex before you knew me, while still in wedding outfits, well, mostly, with champagne and crappy hors d’oevres in our stomachs and loud stupid sentimental sappy crappy music screaming around from the backside of the bar, I think, like toadflax, ripping out at the roots is probably best. —Jon Theunissen
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Cost of Living
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hate this place,” said Frankie. His shift was over. He searched inside his slim black wallet for the ten dollar bill he saved for a bottle of Kombucha. Hair like Jesus. Teeth like Seabiscuit the Wonder Horse. His frame made you think, ‘Where is Waldo?’ Frankie had happy expectations that radiated out of his hair, teeth and wiry limbs. Frankie quit the community college two miles from his mom’s house and moved to the Rocky Mountains. He found a job as a cashier for a small nostalgic grocery store. And he found that Nostalgia has a high price tag. —John Dungan
e must have been near 100 when he sat next to me at the diner counter. Roger said he was a rancher. When I said I was from Florida, he told me about the time he caught a baby alligator there and brought it back to Montana. They let the gator loose at the hot springs. They figured he might like it. He did. The bathers didn’t. The waitress had often heard this story. Before he thanked me for talking to him, he told me he was a millionaire. I didn’t believe him until months later, when I got the letter. —Kerry Love
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n 8th grade English we had to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and write a poem about it. I got the gist of the book - It wasn’t the monster’s fault. And that was very relatable to me. My poem got an A, and they even wanted to put it in the school paper. “No,” I said. “Really?” they said, “but it’s so good.” “No,” I said. So it never went in the paper. People who relate to monsters do shit like that sometimes. It’s not their fault. I think I want to be in the paper now. —Jonathan Montgomery
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alking along the shallows of the creek his bare foot suddenly felt a cool muck. It was the same consistency of the dog shit he stepped in as a barefoot boy, at an age when his mother wiped the tears and shit away. He accidentally found the man they were looking for, hidden in the flotsam near a storm grate. The waterlogged shirt moved like a trout waiting for a midge to fall in the cold spring current. When the police finally arrived they gave him a blanket to wipe his feet but for both men the tears never stopped flowing. —John Dungan
Halfway Home
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get monsooned. My dress feels like a handkerchief after a funeral for a baby. Electricity goes south with the storm. No hot kettle for tea. Shape my soggy straw hat on a chair, set my dress to drip dry, and observe the segmented garden through bars of open window. Rain brims pond and sprouts small rivers as though it came up from the earth as it blooms and bubbles forth. Clouds lose their train, forget what they were doing, wander off muttering. For a moment, between rush of motos, something like silence hovers. Something like patience sinks in. —Tree Bernstein
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Chautauqua
The Last Animal
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walked a mile to the light rail station where I hopped on the E and took that to Union Station where I walked downstairs to the bus depot and got on the FF which I took up to Boulder and called an Uber that took me to Chautauqua Park where I climbed up to the top of the mountain and felt nothing but wind so I came down and found my way to the visitor’s center where I walked across the lobby and into the restroom, stared into the mirror and found what I was looking for the whole time. —Brice Maiurro
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he last animal died on August 17, 2213. After years of debate, the WGO finally ruled the resources needed to maintain DeAnne the dolphin and her nine-square-meter tank were no longer justifiable according to World Law. There was no formality to the euthanasia, yet it appeared ceremonious due to the massive media presence and 24-billion worldwide Screen viewership. DeAnne’s body was immediately delivered to a local energy port and reutilized into the System. The site was deemed residentially viable, so construction on a 300-floor studio tower began that afternoon. —Thomas Fuller
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e promised her, for 65 years, that he would stay alive longer than she. She demanded it, so fearful of being alone. He loved her, adored her, so promised her without hesitation or regret. Agreed to dialysis at 93 — four hours of giant needles piercing him three days a week... because he promised. Dead man walking, he knew. She refused to give him permission to renege. He loved her too profoundly to make it a lie. So I did, when he was in such pain that he could not speak. I did — a gift that will always haunt me. —Don Koplen
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you.” “Which part?” “Any of it. Even if one part of it is revealed, it will all come out, and then your shit’s in the breeze.” I realized he was right. No one must learn of any of it. “Who have you told?” “Just you.” Steve was one of the few friends I had left. Not a great friend, though. Not completely trustworthy. Always playing the angles. The corners of his mouth curled slightly. So, I shot him. Steve was right, it will probably come back to haunt me. —Craig Kupras
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rock, the resident raven, greeted me with shrill alarm calls when I leaned over to pick wax currents near my cabin. I stood up and saw that she wasn’t the only one watching. There was a crouching cougar. His yellow eyes locked onto mine as I stumbled backwards, tripped and fell. Struggling to get up, I saw the cougar whip his head around. Grock had pulled his tail. Safely back in the cabin, I looked through the window and saw Grock on her favorite tree. A black feather lay on my stoop the next morning. —Kristen Marshall Boulder Weekly
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What has become of the American farm?
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Frank Reese describes his work ethically raising poultry as a religious experience in the new documentary Eating Animals.
‘Eating Animals’ encourages audiences to think about their meat supply by Sara McCrea
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ating Animals is not out to tell you to appealing about taking a look at the 1 percent that become a vegetarian. Instead, the new doc- still survives... We have to see what we’re giving up umentary, directed by Christopher Quinn with the cost-efficient system of industrialized agriand produced by Natalie Portman and culture.” Jonathan Safran Foer, aims to illuminate The narrative-based documentary puts the spotthe truth of the meat industry and contemplate how light on the other “1 percent” by exploring the stories factory farming became what it is today. of farmers, activists and whistleblowers who speak What you do with that information, out against the industry’s mistreatment of poultry and Quinn says, is up to you. livestock. By centering the narrative on those who are “What I didn’t want to do was to keeping traditional farming alive, the film displays wag a finger at anyjust how much we are giving up to body,” the director says. keep cheap meat in our diets. “Those films are out “Parts of the movie are joyful and ON THE BILL: Eating there, and you can find a happy,” says Frank Reese, a fourthAnimals. Various times at vegan abolitionist film generation Kansas poultry farmer Cinebarre Boulder 11, 1164 Dillon Road, and you can find a profeatured in the film. “I think the Louisville; and Landmark meat film. What I wantscenes of me and the turkeys in the Mayan Theatre, 110 Broadway, Denver. field show you what can be. Then ed to do was present Opens July 6. there are parts of the movie that I the evidence and, after can’t watch.” somebody watches the In the production process, Quinn had no shortage film, be able to have a conversation... of confrontation with those he calls the agriculture I’m a big believer in filmmaking to be corporation managers (“I don’t know if you could able to give somebody the space to even call them farmers anymore,” he says). But within intellectually think on their own.” the secrecy, surveillance and policies like “ag gags” Based on Foer’s 2009 book of the that make filming in certain locations illegal, Quinn same name, Eating Animals traces the senses that the industrial farming companies know rise of mass-produced meat by Big their practices are immoral. Agriculture and corporate farming. But unlike most pro-vegetarian/vegan films, “There’s something really interesting about the the documentary starkly contrasts the fact that they know something’s wrong, and in that horrors of large-scale factory farming there’s some sort of hope,” Quinn says. “They’re very with localized farmers who possess a aware that this is something not for people to see.” deep love for their animals and their The film also seeks to destroy common misconcraft. ceptions about purchasing meat labeled as “cage-free.” “Ninety-nine percent of our meat comes from While the animals may not literally be in cages, factory farms,” Quinn says. “There was something warehouses can keep thousands of birds in a dark
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he river had dropped two feet in as many days prior to our excursion, our guide told us. But the water in the Cache la Poudre River was still The Cache la Poudre River is the dynamic as it flowed through the canyon from only designated its headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Wild and Scenic River in the state. Park and into Fort Collins. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the local advocacy group Save the Poudre, hosted dozens of people, including journalists, for a rafting trip on June 23. The event was one of 20 happening throughout the summer around the country, sponsored by Toyota U.S.A. through the national Waterkeeper Alliance, in support of local Waterkeeper organizations like Save the Poudre. Despite widespread drought in the West and near-record low snow levels this year, it was the perfect Saturday for a 12-mile rafting trip down the canyon. While I’d seen the river many times from its bank, maybe wading a few feet in, floating down the middle, pushed and pulled by the currents, was a new experience. There were moments of pure serenity, as we gazed at the cliffs hovering above, and floated silently. Other moments were adrenaline inducing, as we navigated through class II, III and IV rapids with help from the Mountain Whitewater guides. The sun was out, helping battle the frigid yet refreshing water temperature. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act was created by Congress in 1968 to preserve free-flowing rivers recognized for their outstanding natural, cultural and recreational values. It now includes 12,734 miles of 208 rivers across the U.S., or less than one quarter of 1 percent of the nation’s rivers. In contrast, 600,000 miles — about 17 percent — of America’s rivers have been modified by large dams. With 107,403 miles of river in Colorado, only 76 miles of the 126-mile Cache la Poudre River is officially considered wild and scenic. Designated in 1986, the Poudre is the only Wild and Scenic River in the state of Colorado. Still, 63 percent of the Poudre’s water is diverted to farms and cities before it ever reaches downtown Fort Collins. And as it grows, the City of Thornton has been discussing a 70-mile pipeline to divert more in coming years (although conservationists criticize the plan). A contentious proposal to create two reservoirs on the Poudre, known as the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP), is currently waiting for the Army Corps of Engineers to release its final environmental impact study (expected any day), to see if the project will move forward. If approved, it would further deplete flows in the river, especially in May and June, right as rafting season is at its peak. But the event on June 23 wasn’t about Save the Poudre’s dam and diversion fighting efforts, and there was no overt talk of water policy. It was about celebrating the protections we still have in place for the river, protections that allow groups like ours to explore the river and be awed by its raw power and undiminished beauty. 18 July 5 , 2018
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Fast, fun and functional The e-bike revolution is a new way to ride
by Tom Winter
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he headwind is powerful. It blows up the valley, scattering leaves, dust and debris, each gusting blast enough to send small children skyward. A kilometer in front of us we can see a road cyclist struggling, head down, into the maelstrom. Aileen looks at me and stomps on the pedals of her townie bike. In seconds she’s picking up speed, knifing through the wind. Moments later she’s screaming past the roadie, accelerating into the dust. Eventually I pass the roadie too, and when I do he gives me a wan smile. Lean and toned, he’s spent enough time in the saddle to know the truth: Aileen isn’t a stronger cyclist than this road-hardened warrior, it’s her e-bike that gives her the edge. Increasingly sophisticated and lighter
thanks to improvements in battery and motor technologies, e-bikes are useful, controversial and fun in equal measures. They anger traditionalists, bring joy to the casual and less fit, and challenge the status quo along with assumptions about just what you can do on a bike. E-bikes generally fall into a variety of categories based upon power and if the bike is “pedal assist” or fully electronic, i.e. you don’t have to pedal but access power via a throttle, like a moped or motorcycle. Featuring rechargeable batteries coupled to electronic motors with a maximum of 750 watts of power, e-bike categories range from class one to three, with the latter maxing out at 28 miles per hour, fast enough to blow away any grizzled roadie you might cross paths with. Of course, with more power and speed come more restrictions. If you’re looking to ride the greatest variety of trails, class one and two bikes face the least restrictions. Boulder, a long-time center for innovation in the sciences and with a tech-friendly population that embraces new ideas, is fertile
Top: A cyclist speeds along a multi-use path in Eagle County thanks to an e-bike. For commuters, ebikes offer freedom from the daily drive, without the sweat and effort that can be a deterrent to many when it comes to adopting a bike as their “daily driver.” Left: Pedego’s Conor Canaday makes an adjustment on one of the store’s cycles. The best thing about these bikes, says Canaday, is that they’re “fun!”
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ground for the e-bike revolution. And indeed, the city has opened much of the urban bike path infrastructure to e-bikes. Most of the town’s cycling and multi-use trails are fair game (with some restrictions, such as a blanket 15mph speed limit, for example), with city planners emphasizing access to key commuting and travel corridors. “E-bikes are a viable mobility option for community members and we do promote their use,” says City of Boulder Senior Transportation Planner David “DK” Kemp. “They are great for longer trips and hilly terrain, and good for commuters and the aging population too — good to stay active — and e-bikes provide a little kick to help some go further.” The view of e-bikes as a transit solution is reflected on the county level. Outside of Boulder city limits, Boulder County tends to “OK” the use of e-bikes on regional trails that connect urban zones such as the 36 Bikeway, and the Coal and Rock Creek Trails, as well as on the county’s recreational paths and trails east of the foothills. However, once you get off of the flats and into places like Betasso, Caribou and Heil Valley Ranch, you’d better plan on using a mountain bike and 100-percent physical effort to get your two-wheeled thrills in. It’s much the same in Jefferson County. Known for a progressive mountain bike trail policy and some of the Front Range’s best rides, class one e-bikes are allowed on natural surface trails while class one and class two e-bikes are allowed on paved trails within the parks and open space managed by Jefferson County. These approaches are comparable to
Above: Local e-bike specialist retailer Pedego has a full line of rental bikes at their Pearl Street location for those who want to give e-bikes a try. Below: The Bosch motor on this bike is small, light and powerful. Combined with pedal-assist, it makes riding a bike a breeze.
the approved uses that e-bike users experience across the state, including the popular tourist destinations of Vail and Summit County. In Summit County, where regulations are in the formative stage, e-bike use is allowed on paved pathways but not on natural surface trails. In Vail, class one and two machines can be used on pathways throughout town, including the welltraveled Gore Valley Trail, which connects the town to down-valley Eagle County destinations. This regulatory landscape is informed by federal law. At the federal level e-bikes are classified as motorized vehicles and are only allowed on motorized trails within federally held public lands such as Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Forest (USFS) holdings. However, a recent United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) decision to allow class one, no throttle, pedal assist inside California’s Mammoth Mountain ski area’s special use permit boundary is expected to open up some similar access to federal lands within Colorado’s ski areas. The USDA decision is a nod to tourism, which along with the daily commute, seems to hold plenty of promise for e-bikes, and it’s a developBoulder Weekly
ment that Jonathan Wienert, sales and marketing manager for Bosch, a supplier of batteries and motors to e-bike manufacturers, is excited about. “Our perspective and the perspective of our colleagues in Europe is that for these ski resorts, e-bikes make all types of mountain trails accessible. This is much different than the typical demographic of mountain bikers, which tend to be guys in their 20s,” says Wienert. “In the winter, families ski together,” he adds. “Maybe they’ll take different runs down, but they can all ride the chairlift up. These [e-bike] mountain bikes equalize access to the great outdoors. Now everyone can be on the trails together.” This accessibility for all also has local retailers excited. “They’re perfect for families or groups,” says Canaday of Pedego. Canaday is, like Wienert, bullish on the impact that e-bike technology can have on accessibility, pointing out that Pedego sees a consistently positive response from bike rental clients such as families visiting University of the Colorado Boulder, who are able to quickly explore the campus and surrounding community regardless of disparate fitness levels. But mobility and transit issues aside, there’s one key attribute that makes e-bikes so compelling, says Canaday. “They’re fun!” he exclaims with a wide smile. It’s the same kind of smile that’s plastered across Aileen’s face when I finally catch up to her. She’s radiant with stoke. “Let’s do that again!” she enthuses, and so we head out for more riding. This, perhaps, is the secret ingredient that will see e-bikes make inroads throughout Colorado’s cycling community. Sure, the grizzled roadies will still be out riding the canyons and Flagstaff, putting the hammer down. And the hardcore mountain bikers will still slay the singletrack in the foothills. But for the casual cyclist, who perhaps wants to ditch the car commute but hasn’t yet due to hills or distance, or the tourist family looking to explore Boulder, or the potential CU student with parents in tow who wants to quickly tour the campus, or your elderly uncle who needs a bit of extra help getting up a hill, these bikes offer the promise of making cycling fun again. And fun never goes out of style. With the popularity of e-bikes exploding, expect to find more and more bike shops offering sales, rentals and service of these fun two-wheeled toys. If you’re looking to get into the e-bike game, here’s a non-inclusive list of some local shops that can get you up to speed. Boulder Weekly
GET ON YOUR BIKE AND RIDE! Pedego (pedegoelectricbikes. com) 2015 13th St., Boulder. An exclusive e-bike retail and rental shop, Pedego’s full service facility offers everything you could want or need when it comes to e-bikes. Boulder Cycle Sport (bouldercyclesport.com/bikes/e-bikes)
4580 North Broadway, Boulder. Boulder Cycle Sport offers e-bike rentals, sales and service in addition to their human-powered cycle inventory. University Bicycles (ubikes. com) 839 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, pictured at top and right, studied painting before she took up perfume design. Her Boulder store, the Essence Studio, is coming up on its 10-year anniversary.
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n ancient Egypt, to anoint a statue of a god with perfume was to bring that statue to life, for the gods were imbued with divine essence and perfume was the sweat of the sun god, Ra. While a stone statue without its fragrance was only a figurative representation of a god, applying the right scent was believed to transform it into the literal god, animated and incarnate. Hundreds of years later, when Egyptians began applying the sweat of their god to themselves, a similar belief took hold. Perfume was not only an essential part of getting ready, it infused humans with the energy of the gods. It offered them the healing powers of the perfume god, Nefertum. It was what made people, to the fullest extent, alive. While our enjoyment of scents may have lost 24 July 5 , 2018
some of its holiness somewhere between anointing statues and the department store counter, perfume artist Dawn Spencer Hurwitz believes olfactory pleasure is something for which society is regaining appreciation. As a niche perfume artist and the owner of DSH Perfumes and the Essence Studio, Hurwitz creates innovative concept fragrances for customers around the world. Her workshop and store, located in North Boulder, has been open for 10 years come November. As rain drizzles outside the perfumery and Ella Fitzgerald croons over the speakers, Hurwitz sprays and dabs different scents onto glistening paper squares. “This one is moonlight in a bottle,� she says, spraying one of her newest fragrances, Je Suis La Lune. The art of perfume-making requires Hurwitz
MAKING SCENTS
Edwin Hurwitz
How Boulderbased perfume artist Dawn Spencer Hurwitz crafts fragrances BY SARA MCCREA
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Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
to effectively bottle imagery and emotion, requiring her to be more than a perfumer. When she makes a scent evocative of a different time period, like a metal and jewelry workshop of the 1700s, she is a historian. When she looks for the harmonies between different scents to make the perfect blend, she acts as a musician. When she creates a line of perfumes to resemble Japanese haikus, she assumes the role of a poet. And when she designed a series of scents for Denver Art Museum’s 2015 exhibit In Bloom: Painting Flowers in the Age of Impressionism, she took her position as a painter of aromas, making museum visitors feel as if they were strolling through the spring gardens of Giverny. Motion sensors in the gallery released the perfumes as visitors walked by. The first scent in the exhibit was reminiscent of a garden, with notes of rich soil and fresh grass. Another scent was evocative of an early morning, with spring blooms of lilac and iris, dew still settling onto the petals. The third scent delivered hints of jasmine, peonies and roses, open to the afternoon sun. In organizing the scents for the exhibit, Hurwitz wanted to communicate the passing of time. Painting with scents seems fitting for Hurwitz, as it was through the visual arts that she first discovered perfume design. While studying painting at Boston University in 1991, Hurwitz landed a part-time job at a small perfumery on bustling Newbury Street. Painting, she says, allowed her to come to perfumery from a classical standpoint, even without any prior experience. She was a quick learner of the practice, discovering that her strong sense of aesthetics from visual art and her good sense of smell made her a natural at crafting the right scent for a customer. Though she says the first perfume she made for a customer was far from complicated, that customer still places orders for the same fragrance almost 30 years later. “This is her scent,” Hurwitz says. “She feels attached to it. She wouldn’t feel dressed, she wouldn’t feel prepared, she wouldn’t feel like herself without her perfume.” In perfumery, customers often fall into two categories of how they choose and wear a scent: signature and wardrobe. For the signature customer who purchases the same scent again and again, who associates the scent of the perfume with an aspect of themselves, Hurwitz says perfume can be used as a reminder or a reinforcement of their identity and give them a sense of security. The wardrobe customer, contrastingly, associates different scents with different moods or feelings — a sultry scent for date night, a motivating scent for a busy work day — and can use the moment before they apply their fragrance as a way to bring awareness to their current state. Boulder Weekly
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
“It gives you the moment to check in with yourself and ask yourself, ‘How am I feeling today? What do I need?’ It’s a moment of self-care,” Hurwitz says. Designing for wardrobe customers is like building a soundtrack — or, as Hurwitz jokes, a “scent-track” — to a person’s life. Hurwitz, a self-described wardrobe person, carries around six or seven vials of different scents in her pockets. Walking through the park or going grocery shopping, she will often take out and smell one of her pocket perfumes, thinking of what she can tweak to get the scent to what she wants it to be. After running a boutique on Newbury Street, Hurwitz had no plans to open a similar shop after moving to Boulder in 1995. The niche perfume industry was rarely heard of then, and when Hurwitz told acquaintances what she did, she was usually met with blank stares. (“They assumed it was my side-hustle,” she says.) But as Boulder clientele seemed eager for Hurwitz to open a boutique, she found her location in North Boulder, a small storefront with space for a workshop and studio in the back. The space was previously run as a television repair shop, so it took significant decorating to turn it into the oasis of scent Hurwitz envisioned. “I feel that we’re still this hidden gem,” Hurwitz says. “The people who know about us love us, and our clientele is always growing. We’ve been here 10 years, but we still get people who think this is a new business.” While niche perfumery may be just taking off in Boulder, Hurwitz says the industry as a whole has grown in popularity through the last 15 years, especially in Italy, Ukraine and England. Now, when she
tells people about her career, they seem more familiar with the niche perfume industry than ever before. Hurwitz’s work has caught the attention of perfume aficionados around the world, with her largest market outside of the U.S. in Japan. She says that men have also recently embraced scent culture, making up almost 45 percent of her customers. Some ideas for perfumes come to Hurwitz as fast, middle-of-the-night flames of inspiration, but others start as sparks, simmering over the years as she thinks about the themes she wants to explore. For her recently-released scent Onycha, she began looking for materials in 1993. She had found many scents with the label of Onycha, named for a fragrance mentioned in Middle Eastern texts, Calvinistic texts and the Bible. Through her research, she narrowed down the dominant fragrance to benzoin resin, ladanum or, oddly enough, what was described in the Bible as a mollusk scent. It was this last possibility — the idea that there could be an ancient aromatic from a shellfish that people applied as perfume — that initially grabbed Hurwitz’s attention and convinced her it was a perfume she had to figure out. So she set off in search for the perfect mix that balanced ancient aromas of musk, smoky smells of incense and oceanic odors of a pleasant-smelling shellfish. After years of formulating the perfume in her head, she finally released the scent in 2015, more than 20 years after the idea first came to her. When she designs perfumes, she brings out all of the individual smells in front of her and raises small strips of paper to smell. “I start seeing the harmonies,” she says. “It’s almost like it resonates; this one yes, this one doesn’t work, this one is even better than I thought. I narrow it down and I can streamline really what I want.” Hurwitz has created a perfume museum in the back of the Essence Studio. Inspired by the Osmothèque in Versailles, the world’s largest scent archive, Hurwitz rotates through the thousands of artifacts she has collected over the years, gathering them in small “exhibits” to adorn glass cases. While at the Osmothèque one could smell a recreated version of Francois Coty’s famous Chypre, an iconic scent with top notes of bergamot and base notes of moss and musk; included in Hurwitz’s collection is a 1930s’ bottle of Chypre which she says in many ways set a new standard for perfume design. For many niche perfume fanatics, smelling the famous fragrance is a dream, and Hurwitz is happy to pop off the top for customers who call ahead. “I’m really sort of an amateur perfume historian,” see SCENTS Page 26
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Hurwitz says. “I love to see not only the progression of materials and ways of going about it but also the cultural influences that perfume reflects, like what perfumes were popular when and why and where.” Hurwitz began collaborating with the Denver Art Museum in 2007 for their Artisans and Kings exhibit, which featured various pieces of art from the Louvre. Wanting to give visitors a full image of the royalty of Versailles, they organized presentations to illustrate the different senses of the era. Cheesemakers and wine producers gave lectures, carpenters explained furniture. For the olfactory aspect, the museum asked Hurwitz to create scents of the time period. Since then, she has collaborated with the museum on numerous exhibits, including Color as Field, King Tut, and Passport to Paris. Her artwork with perfumes has also led to collaborations with the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and the Dairy Arts Center. While art shows allow Hurwitz to explore less traveled paths in scentmaking, a key component of her life as an artist are her customers. “When you want to make avantgarde perfume it’s almost as if you are making olfactory art,” she says. “If it’s only for an installation then you should go for it and make a scent that is soot on the roof of a Soviet Union factory; but if it’s meant to be olfactory art and a perfume, it must be both. There is certain criteria I’m always trying to balance.” When a customer comes into the Essence Studio looking for a new perfume, Hurwitz begins by asking them a series of questions meant to suss out what kind of scents they will enjoy. Finding the right fragrance for a customers requires a grasp of the other senses, which allows Hurwitz to build a perfume that reminds a customer of their favorite sweater or of sitting in the forest at night. “You have to take that imagery and those textures and ideas and find the right kind of terminology,” Hurwitz says. In the English language, Hurwitz explains, we have adjectives to describe everything we see, hear, taste and touch. Yet when it comes to describing what we smell, words often fail us. But Hurwitz is synesthetic, that is
she experiences scents as colors and shapes. This allows her to superimpose her visual arts background onto her scent design and gather a clear idea of what a customer wants through terminology of the other senses. “Designing scent is very much like making sculpture or designing architecture,” Hurwitz says. “It’s spacial, there’s movement, there’s edge quality.” While visualizing neroli, an oil derived from the blossoms of bitter orange trees, Hurwitz sees a butter yellow color, with edges of light green. As a shape, Hurwitz describes the scent as an upside down draped handkerchief — blooming at the top with curling edges spiraling down. “If you could take silk and cashmere and mix them together so it’s like sheer silk with a little bit of a fuzzy tone, that’s neroli,” she says. Hurwitz understands scent is incredibly personal, and what may be a calming smell for one person may not evoke the same feeling in another. Because scent is the only sense to bypass the cerebral cortex, Hurwitz explains, she has gotten good at recognizing how people react to different fragrances through their instantaneous body language. As she observes her customers reacting to different perfumes, she waits for the reaction that will tell her she has found the right match. “It’s seeing a shine that comes into their eyes. Their whole body lifts up. They rejoice. It’s amazing,” she says. “That’s one of the experiences that, each and every time is happens, is reaffirming.” Even 27 years into designing fragrances, Hurwitz is always ruminating on different concepts and ideas, looking for the scents that will bring a twinkle to someone’s eyes. “I still feel like I’m learning,” she says. “There’s always new materials and new ideas, and there’s always new things I’m trying to do to push the art form. I’m always trying to push the boundaries of what’s possible.” Boulder Weekly
Be Patient, Flower Girl by Katelin Gaeth
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Be patient, flower girl. Take time to grow, Teach the importance of knowing. Taking a look at perspective It is always changing. Leave dried seed heads and grasses Pruned back only to promote new growth each spring. Preserve the natural character Living in the decaying wood So richly adorned with wildflowers. Be patient, flower girl. Require fire to germinate. Living stones send up tiny jewel-like flowers [Please do not climb on the rocks.] An equally fierce group of grasses Flourish in the dry exposed terrain Evokes the ripples and swirls Each rotation symbolizes an uttered prayer. [Stay on path, stay on path, stay on path.] Much more than just portals or barriers Notice the views that are framed. Pomegranates and palms, the Etrog, (It’s humble role in fruitcake) To heal swelling and sore throats.
How do plants meet and fall in love? More, or less, tragic deaths. In spring, the queen bee does all the work. Wintercreeper, (don’t) be a smart ash, Uncle Fogy, mock orange, Devil’s dung. Caution. Closed for the season. [Push pull, push pull, push pull.] Contemplate in tranquility. Rock gardening was pioneered by the Czech [Please do not climb on the rocks.] Golden full moon maple, beard tongue Give meaning to the design (Start of training unknown.) Be patient, flower girl. Landscapes painted with flowers Take time to grow.
Katelin Gaeth works in the education department at the Denver Botanic Gardens. She’s also a graduate student of biology with the Denver Zoo and Miami University, where one of her goals is to connect local communities with native plants in new and intriguing ways.
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aybe the greatest subconscious human fear is that life is meaningless, or, as the late guru Alan Watts put it, that life is nothing more than “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.” And Watts believed just that. “It seems that only in moments of unusual insight and illumination,” Watts said, “that we … find that the true meaning of life is no meaning, that its purpose is no purpose, and that its sense is non-sense.” Todd Snider is a big fan of Watts — he’s a big fan of nonsense, for that matter. The iconoclastic troubadour says he’s been hooked on Watts’ books for the
Defining the artist inside
he adds. “Then when you’re 30 or 40, you realize the whole back row is nowhere near there for a revolution, but you have to find a way to tell yourself that they still are. And that may take acid, that may take something, but we’re taking the roof off this place even though we know it’s a silly [endeavor].” At 50, that’s just what Snider did; he holed up with some friends a couple springs ago and took a bunch of acid, then eventually took to the studio to blow the roof off the thing with a splendidly strange collection of high-octane boogie-woogie, 2016’s Eastside Bulldog. “It was just based on this ethic of partying and not thinking and just letting go,” Snider says. “All the songs are about fighting or fucking or both, maybe cars. But that’s it.” (For the record, Bocephus is also a recurring theme.) Clocking in at 25 minutes, Eastside Bulldog pays blistering tribute to the two-word rock classics of the ’50s and ’60s — “Tutti Frutti,” “Wooly Bully,” “Hanky Panky” — by modernizing and adding some booze... and maybe a bump or three of cocaine. It’s a marked departure from the jangly yarns he’s woven over the years in his solo career, and certainly different from the meandering socialcommentary Snider has been cooking up with his band Hard Working Americans over the last five years. If his previous work engaged in soul searching, Eastside Bulldog is a cleansing fire, the record of a man admitting, from the first track, that he likes “chicks and cars and partying hard.” This is Snider truly embracing the sense of nonsense, accepting that his art — that everything — is bullshit. And there’s nothing futile about it. “I feel like whatever your medium is, if you work hard enough at it you’ll see through it — I hope, if
Todd Snider’s real addiction ain’t drugs by Caitlin Rockett past eight years or so, and just like Watts, Snider doesn’t believe there’s some divine equation we’ve all got to work out before we shuffle off this mortal coil. “[Alan Watts] talks about defining the artist inside of yourself once you realize the art you’re doing is bullshit,” Snider tells me early on a Friday morning from his home in East Nashville. “And not, like, that means my songs are fake. No, it means no matter how real the songs I’ve been singing my whole life are, songs are bullshit — now go make one up. “I’ve heard Chris Robinson (of Chris Robinson Brotherhood) talk about [how] when you’re young it’s easy to tell yourself that your concert is a revolution,” 28 July 5 , 2018
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you’re genuine with it,” he says. “At a The day we talk it happens to be his certain point it occurred to me that good buddy, comedian Richard Lewis’ words aren’t the greatest; they’re almost 71st birthday, and Snider muses on the the least effective means of communiconsequences of Lewis’ — and, in a cation. I think the thing that draws roundabout way, his own — talent. people to music so much is that “I’ve noticed that for him to be so rhythm is such an effective way to fucking funny all the time that he communicate. doesn’t really get to keep anything,” “So if I’m a good poet, eventually Snider says. “If he goes to the doctor or I’ll shut up,” Snider explains. “That’s whatever, it’s all open. If he shits himthe natural course of things.” self, that’s open. There was some comeIt’s been a painful and transformadian the other night that ripped his tive few years for Snider. He and his pants on stage — I was thinking about wife, artist Melita Osheowitz, divorced that the other day ... it was brilliant for in 2014. The emotional pain formed an him. It would have been terrible for Joe unholy union with the very physical Perry.” I highly doubt Snider — a man pain of degenerative arthritis, and who’s sung about the mortification that Snider “fell in the hole for a couple of comes with getting years” using opiates. He gave some arrested for possession scary interviews, one of pot at 40 — would ON THE BILL: Todd have a problem ripin particular in which Snider — with Matt ping his pants on he told Rochester’s McCormick. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 8, Fox Theatre, stage. It’s just another Democrat & Chronicle 1135 13th St., Boulder. story, and that’s that he thought he’d Snider’s real addiction. be OK if he died that “I’ve never really day since he didn’t feel partied,” Snider says, and he means it, like “there is anything on this planet that is worth hanging around for,” save and I kind of believe it. “Even if I’m for a Dylan record or two. He missed a going to try to find some ridiculous few engagements, walked off stage a card game, I’m hoping there’s gonna be few times and fired his long-time tour a guy there with a nickname that’s manager. gonna give me the title of my next Somewhere in all that he left East song. I always think he’s there, and so Nashville and went and stayed with anytime I go to the weird drag race some friends at a lake house and went after work it’s not for the party, it’s for on a “Hunter Thompson vacation”; he the story. I feel like that’s addictive. dropped so much acid in the course of That happened to Mark Twain, to a few days that he had a major seizure. Hunter S. Thompson, to the guy who “I had a good time for about twoalways wore the white suit. It’s like and-a-half days and then the last half crack. And then you’re like, ‘Let’s find of the last day was the day that I was another weirder bar.’” like, OK I should be feeding pigeons. That may prove to be the most difTime to be that guy.” ficult obstacle to Snider becoming Snider’s never been afraid to talk what he laid out as a “good” poet, one about his demons and miscalculations. who finds happiness and eventually (“I have friends that wish I would shut shuts up. More than drugs or booze or up sometimes.”) While his mom and chicks and cars, what Snider craves dad were “football-y,” “U.S.A. chant-y” most is a good story, one told by an types, Snider was “naturally a White idiot, full of sound and fury and signiAlbum type” — emotive, introspective. fying nothing. Boulder Weekly
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A mix of operas large and small drives the season at Central City Opera The method in artistic director Pelham Pearce’s madness by Peter Alexander
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elham Pearce, general/artistic director of Central City Opera (CCO), insists, “there is method to my madness!” The madness is expecting audiences to attend opera high in the Colorado mountains. And the method involves a mix of big pieces and small pieces, famed operas and unknown operas, with first-rate casts and imaginative productions. For the 2018 season, Pearce says, “you’ve got Handel, Mozart, Verdi and Mollicone. It represents a broad swath of styles.” The formula devised through trial and error is to present two major productions in the historic Central City Opera House — this year, Mozart’s Magic Flute and Verdi’s Il Trovatore — and two shorter works in smaller venues — this year, Handel’s Acis and Galatea and The Face on the Barroom Floor by Henry Mollicone, a work that was written for CCO 40 years ago. The season opens Saturday ( July 7) with the Magic Flute; Il Trovatore opens a week later ( July 14). These productions run in repertory until Aug. 5, with the shorter works being presented over a span of 10 days, July 25–Aug. 3. (Dates and tickets: centralcityopera.org/2018-events) The Magic Flute will be the most familiar opera this year. CCO has presented it twice before, and it is a staple from college campuses to major opera houses. A tale of the quest for enlightenment, with a prince and his comedic sidekick, a damsel in distress, a benevolent philosopher king and an evil queen, the opera contains many elements common in the literature and theater of Mozart’s time. The CCO production will be presented through the eyes of three magic spirits that help guide the action. Pearce explains that in the concept of director Alessandro Talevi, “the piece is about the journey to adulthood and the process of enlightenment that takes us from being a child to being an adult.” Showing it from the spirits’ perspecBoulder Weekly
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RAMAYA AND THE TROUBADOURS tive will help explain a confusing aspect of the plot: that the ruling characters, The Queen of the Night and Sarastro, switch standing midway through, with the Queen apparently going from good to evil, and Sarastro from evil to good. But whatever you think about the plot, Pearce knows his priorities. “The music is absolutely glorious,” he says. “That’s the point.” The cast includes CCO debutants Joseph Dennis as Tamino and Jeni Houser as the Queen. Returning artists include Kevin Langan as Sarastro, appearing in his 20th production of Magic Flute, and Katherine Manley as Pamina. Il Trovatore is one of Verdi’s most famed operas, but, Pearce says, “It’s so incredibly hard to cast that it’s not a regular outside of the big houses. Finding four people that you can put together on the stage to do this, and have the hair stand up on the back of your neck — which is the only reason you should do it at all — that’s hard. But when that music is sung well, it is heaven.” The four singers CCO has are Alexandra Loutsion as Leonora, one of the most demanding dramatic coloratura roles in opera; Jonathan Burton as Manrico, the lead tenor; Lindsay Amman making her CCO debut as the crazed gypsy Azucena, a dramatically challenging role; and Michael Mayes in the difficult Verdi baritone role of Count di Luna. Beyond casting, Trovatore presents two production challenges. One is that much of the action is in the past.
Director Joachim Schamberger, who is also a video designer, holds the key to that. “You may be seeing things that happen off stage via projected video,” Pearce explains. The other is a plot filled with intrigue and betrayals that strain normal credibility. The production deals with that by placing the action in a neo-medieval, “Game of Thrones-esque” setting. “It fits into that world very well, because it’s all about killing people and burning people up,” Pearce says. The shorter works have proven very successful for CCO. “When we started doing [one-act operas], I didn’t know how people would respond,” Pearce says. “I don’t know what it is, but we sell out the one-act operas. CCO had done Face on the Barroom Floor every year since 1978. They decided it was time for a break several years ago and brought it back for the opera’s 40th anniversary. Based on a 19th-century poem and a painting in Central City’s Teller House, it is one of Pearce’s favorite pieces. “Mollicone did a beautiful job,” he says. “There’s a trio in it which I wept at every summer. It’s just beautiful.” Acis and Galatea was Handel’s most poplar opera at one time. “It’s about nymphs, shepherds and cyclops, but it’s got really beautiful music,” Pearce says. It was written for a wealthy English patron and originally performed outside around a fountain. “If I could have found a fountain, I would have done that, too,” Pearce says. “But I couldn’t.”
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BOULDER PLAYBACK THEATRE. 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 7, TRIDENT CAFÉ, 940 PEARL ST., BOULDER. Playback theater is a form of improv where people from the audience tell stories and then performing artists instantly act them out (playback, if you will). The crew at Boulder Playback Theatre has been at this a while, so prepare for an exciting evening of improv. No one is forced to share a story, so come on and enjoy the fun even if you’re not interested in being a part of the entertainment. But if you do feel like sharing a tale, the sky’s the limit. Stories can be funny, serious, poignant and everything in between. A “mystery” musical artist will provide live music to enhance performances. Tickets are $12.
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80 YEARS OF SMALL TOWN POEMS. 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY, JULY 10, LYONS REDSTONE MUSEUM, 340 HIGH ST., LYONS. Hear about the charm, delight and pleasures of small town living through the art of poetry as eight poets each read two poems — one they’ve written about living in the Lyons area and a second by a deceased popular poet from Lyons’ past. The event is organized by Kathleen Spring, a writer, poet and historian, who has collected dozens of published poems written by Lyons residents about the small town’s treasures and placed them in an album available for public viewing. Admission is free.
CASE STUDIES IN RELEVANCE IN THE ARTS: NIKKI PIKE AND MARTHA RUSSO. 5:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, ELDORADO SPRINGS ART CENTER, 8 CHESEBRO WAY, ELDORADO SPRINGS. Courtesy of Nikki Pike
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In 2017, Boulder County Arts Leadership Forum (BCALF) presented two panels on Relevance in the Arts featuring arts professionals from the metro area. As a follow-up to those panels, BCALF is embarking on deep dives into the topic with local professional artists. This first event is with acclaimed visual artists Nikki Pike and Martha Russo. Each artist will present a sample of their work followed by a moderated discussion. Presentation begins at 6 p.m. Suggested donation of $5. RSVP at bouldercountyarts.org.
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Aj Fullerton. 6 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Arthur Lee Land Trio. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Back to Back Karaoke. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Big Sam’s Funky Nation. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. CMF: Mozart & Mahler. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Defunkt Railroad. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Jeremy Enigk. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Ashley Koett. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Hunts. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Jon Ridnell Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Live Music & Drinks on the Deck. 6 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. Many Mountains. 8 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Mighty Twisters. 9:15 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 720-266-8300.
Thursday July 5
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Martin Gilmore. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Mozart Under Moonlight. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
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Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
CMF Festival of Diners: A Night in Spain. 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.
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Paul DeHaven (Album Release). 9 p.m. HiDive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Sam Burns. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
The Red Petals. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Strawberry Girls. 8 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-861-9103. The Traveling Ones. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Wild Road Band. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Events Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130. Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-5452017. Conversations in English Thursdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Fahim Anwar. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Hawaiian Hula New Beginning Classes. 6 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Mary Shelley. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. NIA Parent-Child Class. 10 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4752. RBG. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Summer of Discovery: Pop Rock Cuisine for Teens. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. TinkerCarnival Workday. 10 a.m. TinkerMill, 1840 Delaware Place, Longmont, 720-204-3090. Urban Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467.
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Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (Free Concert Series). 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Sparta. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Ultralowfi. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Events Adult Open Gym — with PJ. 5:30 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Museum Morning: Live Like a Miner. 10:30 a.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N. Bridge St., Nederland, 303-258-7332. Buddhist Arts and Film Festival. 5:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-338-2301.
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Drag Saves Lives. 8:30 p.m. Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave, Unit 1, Denver, 720-989-1764.
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Family SRP Movie Matinee: Ferdinand. 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821.
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Groove N Motion. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Revenge. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Saturday, July 7 Music Acoustic Prayers for Evening. 5 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. see EVENTS Page 34
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Back Stabbath, Trickshot. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Buckethead. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Buddhist Arts and Film Festival. 10:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-338-2301. CMF: Young People’s Concert. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Envy Alo at Upslope Brewing: Umphrey’s Red Rocks Pre-Party. 3 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Freddy & Francine. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.
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In November 1943, Marine 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. was mortally wounded while leading a successful assault on a critical Japanese fortification. His remains, along with those of hundreds of other Marines, were hastily buried and lost to history following the battle. In Bones of My Grandfather, Bonnyman’s grandson, Clay Bonnyman Evans, tells the remarkable story of one organization’s mission to recover hundreds of Marines long lost to history in the sands of Tarawa, Japan. See Evans speak about his new novel at Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m.
George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Friday, July 6
Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.
Kat Shepherd — Babysitting 7 see EVENTS Page Nightmares. ? p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
The Jazz Cowboys. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Saturday, July 7
Longmont Songwriters’ Festival. 4 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Mmmwhah!’s Yoga + Music and Movement Meditation. 9 a.m. Vista Village Mobile Home Park Green, 5000 Butte St., Boulder, 303-443-3002. Ragged Union with Benny Galloway. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Saturday Sing-Along: The Beatles. 3 p.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Silent Disco. 7:30 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 720-470-8810. The Strange Parade. 6:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Vespertina Dance Project’s Fifth Annual Summer Sizzler. 6 p.m. Historic Grant Avenue, 216 S. Grant St., Denver, 303-7338940. The Vipers. 8 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. What About Jim. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Winterland. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Events Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. BAFS Fifth Annual Summer Poetry Camp for Adults and Kids. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. 34 July 5 , 2018
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Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver. Michael Isikoff & David Corn — Russian Roulettte. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Sunday, July 8 Aaron Schneider — Renew Orleans?. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Tuesday, July 10 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Active Minds Lecture: The Year 1968: Chaos, Conflict & Change. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Sara Lefsyk and Maureen Seaton. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Anne Waldman — Trickster Feminism. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Josh Viola & Mario Acevedo — Blood and Gasoline. 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.
Victor Pearn — Light Across the Alley and Dream Season. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Monday, July 9
Wednesday, July 11
Graydon D. Hubbard — At the Altars of Money. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Clay Bonnyman Evans — Bones of My Grandfather. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Cherry Creek Arts Festival: Bubbles & Bites: (Free Event). 8:30 a.m. Cherry Creek Arts District, 210 Clayton St., Denver. Dance Till You Glow Beach Party. 6 p.m. Deviant Spirits Distillery, 2480 49th St., Unit E, Boulder, 719-440-4477. CMF Festival of Diners: Dinner Under the Grape Arbor. 5:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Fahim Anwar. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Fifth Anniversary Party. 12 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. First Saturday Yoga: Frogs and Turtles. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120
Grassroots Power Event — with County Commissioner Candidate Cliff Willmeng and music by Tierro and Bridget Law. 2 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 612-229-5217. Hobbyhorse Revolution. 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Irish Tales Along the Trails. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Mountain Flower Goat Coffeehouse Dairy Goat Coffeehouse Yoga. 8:30 a.m. Mountain Flower Goat Coffeehouse Dairy, 3240 Broadway, Boulder, 301-938-3953. Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St. (in back of School), Lyons, 303-823-5925. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Boulder Weekly
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Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21.
Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15.
Nature Photography by Kirk Fry. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.
Amuse Yeux. Foothills Art Center, Community Gallery, 809 15th St., Golden. Through August 12.
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 16.
Chair of the Board. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through July 15. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22. Echo Trail — by Laura Ahola-Young. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. 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.
Vivienne Douglas paints stories of people, with blanks left open for the viewers to fill in for themselves. She is most drawn to stories of women and their roles in life, whether they come from across the street or halfway around the world. Her stories can come from the day’s headlines with scenes of immigration or refugees, and portray everyday life in a harsh and difficult environment. Douglas’ work will be featured in UCAR’s Community Art Program at NCAR through Aug. 31.
Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Pink Progression. Metropolitan State University, Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Aug. 18.
Kinetic Iterations — Sherman Finch and Jiffer Harriman. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29.
LineScapes — by Ayn Hanna. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29.
RUST — by Madeleine Dodge. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison 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.
Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Transmission — by Derrick Adams. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Like a Hammer — by Jeffrey Gibson. Denver
Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
The Hillbenders (Free Concert Series). 4 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Saturday Sing-Along: The Beatles. 3 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Jet Black Pearl. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.
Taylor Shae. 12:30 p.m. Stone Cup, 422 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Buddhist Arts and Film Festival. 10:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-338-2301. Chris Dismuke. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. CMF: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Cowboy Junkies. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Dirty Rain Revelers. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.
Todd Snider. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events BAFS Fifth Annual Summer Poetry Camp. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Fahim Anwar. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.
Music Bandshell Boogie. 7 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 310-658-6587. Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Scott Carpenter Park, 1505 30th St., Boulder. Children’s SRP: Wild West Show. 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. Desiree Cannon. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 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. The Living Organ: A concert of contemporary music by living composers. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.
Outlaw Yoga. 10:30 a.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
Mahadev OK. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Reynolds Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Meeting. 2:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
The Mavericks. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-8653500.
Yellow Submarine. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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A Place in History. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through July 28.
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Paintings by Vivienne Douglas. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.
Honey — by Kristen Hatgi Sink. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Tween Time. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Written 400 years before House of Cards or Game of Thrones, Shakespeare’s Richard III explores corruption in the government that will feel startlingly relevant to contemporary audiences. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival production, playing now through Aug. 11, explores timely themes surrounding the portrayal and agency of women, whose roles have historically been cut dramatically in productions of the play but are strong and vibrant here.
Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Summer of Discovery: Bouldering Bus Climbing and Slacklining Open Session. 12:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Geology of Climbing and Bouldering Bus. 11:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Wire Wrapped Stones for Teens. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Agnes of God. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through July 8.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 8.
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Elizabeth Rex. 7:30 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through July 14.
Anthony Green. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
The Arsonists — presented by Benchmark Theatre. 40 West Arts District, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through July 21.
Love’s Labour’s Lost — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave, Boulder. Through Aug. 12.
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Children’s Dances. 6:15 p.m. Plaza beside the Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. Children’s SRP: Music Makers. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. White Chapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Aversions Crown. 5:15 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Events 2018 FIFA World Cup Final Four Stream. Noon. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Adult Dance Classes. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-524-5405. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Complex Fabrication & 3D Soldering for Wearable Sculptures — with Lauren Markley. 9 a.m. Boulder Metalsmithing Association, 4919 Broadway, Unit 15, Boulder, 720-346-3233. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. For a Piece of Paper: Autobiographical Motus Monologues and Music About the Challenges Facing Undocumented Americans. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Getting Started with Genealogy. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Kids Film Series: Little Mermaid. 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
The Book of Mormon. Denver Center for Performing Arts, The Ellie, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through July 7. The Bridges of Madison County. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 5. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]. 7:30 p.m. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through July 21.
Lives Well Lived. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Summer of Discovery: Bouldering Bus and Slackracks for Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Geology of Climbing and Bouldering Bus. 11:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, July 11 Music Bands on the Bricks: Oakhurst, Taylor Shae. 6 p.m. Pearl Street, 1300 block of Pearl St., Boulder. Barbara Paris & Kevin Lufkin. 6 p.m. La Madeleine, 1236 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303449-3061. Ian Moore. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Ilika Ward. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Movie at the Symphony: Jaws in Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Quicksand, Glassjaw. 7:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-8321874. 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, 720-438-2500.
Newsies. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 26. Richard III. University Theatre Building, University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Opens June 22. Through Aug. 11. Oddville. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.
Events 2018 Fifa World Cup Final Four Stream. 12 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Charlie Chaplin Comedy Night (1917 & 1919) — with The Silent Cinema Trio. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Conversations in English Wednesdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lives Well Lived. 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Professional Artist Forum. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Bouldering Bus Climbing and Slacklining Open Session. 12:30 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Summer of Discovery: Geology of Climbing and Bouldering Bus. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-4414250. Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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f Fox News made Ambien, the opening sequence of Sicario: Day of the Soldado would be its signature hallucinatory nightmare. A classic “You got peanut butter in my chocolate!” mashup of fear-mongering stereotypes sees Islamic terrorists joining forces with Mexican drug cartels. Here in the unreal real world, the Supreme Court just gave a high-five to xenophobia via a Muslim travel ban while arguments are erupting over whether the cages we’re keeping kids in at the border meet the technical specifications of concentration camps yet. So it’s unquestionably the worst possible moment in American history to roll out a stupefyingly dumb action movie where the premise is Stephen Miller’s wet dreams. To put a finer point on it: The only argument is whether Sicario 2: The Sickest Ario is more casually offensive than it is lazily bad. The best part of the first Sicario was Emily Blunt, so clearly she wasn’t invited back. Hey, who needs a dynamic actress with limitless range when you can make a twohour epic bro-down in which Josh Brolin wears cargo shorts and crocs, am I right?! Writer Taylor Sheridan brings his vast life experience as a white person who has sometimes lived near brown people to bear on 2 Sick 2 Ario. Government goober Matt Graver Alejandro (Benecio (Brolin) is given the green light to start a war Del Toro) has apparently spent his free between Mexican drug cartels. Alejandro (Benecio time since the last Del Toro) has apparently spent his free time since movie cross-stitching an “I sure do miss kilthe last movie cross-stitching an “I sure do miss lin’!” pattern. killin’!” pattern, dreaming of once more making murder upon the kingpin who killed his family. Graver gets Alejandro to kidnap the daughter (Isabela Moner) of a cartel leader in the hopes of pinning it on a rival group and starting mayhem. Sicario 2: I Say Sick, You Say Ario is one of those movies that confuses changing locations with actually developing a storyline. So the vast majority of the runtime is spent reading small white text in the lower left corner of the screen to see where the people who aren’t telling any kind of meaningful story are now. The first film was a fascinating exploration of one woman’s descent into a hellish world where the border between right and wrong pixelates into a vanishing point. Sicario 2: The Sicarioquel just points at criminals and government stooges and says, “Bad.” One of the most shocking things about Sicario 2: Armed and Fabulous is how hideous it looks. This isn’t a “shock and awe” reaction to the violence, but a technical assessment. Scenes are often framed where it’s impossible to tell who is talking and everything looks like dookie was smeared on the camera. The only thing more unpleasant than the visual aesthetic is listening, for a second time, to a white screenwriter condemning a world he once lived near and Googled. Maybe the next time we explore the callous brutality of Mexican crime, we let someone who at least lived on that side of the border talk about it?
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f you’ve seen a hundred Westerns, then you’ve seen it a hundred times: a mysterious ON THE BILL: figure rides into town looking for someone. Damsel. Landmark Esquire, 590 N. Downing St., With guns drawn, frontier justice is enforced, Denver. Damsel is currently the two characters’ shared backstory bubbles in limited release. up to the surface, and, if our mysterious figure is a hero, he’ll get the girl and ride off into the sunset; simple, efficient and ripe for subversion. “We’re using the tropes familiar with the Western genre, using that as a foundation — a kind of entry point — and then subverting it from there,” Nathan Zellner tells Boulder Weekly about Damsel, the latest film he’s made with his brother, David. Set in the Wild West of 1870 — a place where a man can enjoy a fresh start, maybe — Damsel kicks off with Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson), a pilsnerdrinking dandy with a goofy gold tooth, a guitar slung over his rifle and a miniature horse named Butterscotch, riding into town looking for Parson Henry (David Zellner). The Parson has agreed to accompany Samuel on his trek across the frontier in search of his beloved Penelope (Mia Wasikowska) and rescue her from a band of misfit suitors. But as we learn soon enough, the Parson isn’t exactly who he says he is (though his heart’s in the right place), Penelope might not need rescuing and Samuel’s affections might be severely misplaced. “The madness in the middle of the film was the impetus for this story,” Nathan says. “We liked the idea of having it in the Western setting, where you have this sense of lawlessness. ... You have a nice playground to ratchet things up from what was otherwise a normal messed-up relationship.” David chimes in, pointing out that the contrast between the Western setting and Samuel and Penelope’s relationship holds Damsel back from any idealized romanticism. “You idealize things from the past for being simplified,” David explains. “Especially in terms of relationships. You always think about break-ups and complicated relationships as contemporary. ... We like taking something that feels contemporarily relatable on that level and then putting it in this backdrop from another time.” And Damsel will feel relatable, frustratingly so to many modern-day viewers, while managing to remain humorous. That humor — a touch gallows with a healthy dose of observation and absurdism — is by far the Zellners’ greatest asset, one they’ve cultivated since they first grabbed a camera. “We’ve been making films since we were little,” Nathan says. “And that started off with us wearing multiple hats, not knowing what the difference between an actor or a director or a producer or any of the crew things was.” Though Damsel sports a larger budget and bigger stars than their previous projects, the Zellners retain their signature touch while incorporating Western hallmarks. From the opening image of a weathered and craggy face who’s seen it all (a delightful Robert Forester), to Nathan’s role as an opportunistic trapper with an unrequited attraction, to a woman rowing her way off into the great unknown, Damsel teems with humor and commentary.
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Pesto Penne Carelli’s 645 30th St., Boulder, carellis.com arelli’s has long been one of our readers’ top choices for best Italian food come Best of Boulder time. It’s no wonder why: a large menu of pasta, salad, meat dishes, pizza and more; a vibrant bar with unique cocktails, draft Italian beer and a deep wine cellar. But the key to Carelli’s greatness is in the food, which is prepared simply and well. The pesto penne brings together small penne pasta, marinated sundried tomatoes that burst in the mouth, feta cheese and robust basil pesto. $14.95.
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olorado is famous for a lot of great things. Sandwiches are just not one of them. In fact, our most famous sandwiches are somewhat questionable. The cheeseburger wasn’t invented in Denver. Louis Ballast, who opened Colorado’s first drive-in restaurant, did coin the word “cheeseburger.” There is a granite monument in a bank parking lot in Denver engraved with these words: “The cheeseburger trademark was registered by Mr. Ballast on March 5, 1935.” The Denver Sandwich also wasn’t invented in Denver. Also called the Western, it is a ham, bell pepper and onion scramble on toast, with or without cheese. The Denver Sandwich eventually became the familiar Denver omelet. There are many origin stories for the dish in the early 1900s. One suggests that it was based on an egg foo young sandwich created by Chinese railroad workers.
Open wide for The Denver, The Fool’s Gold and The Bacon Denver’s most famous sandwich owes its fame to the dietary obsessions and lack of impulse control of one man: Elvis Presley. On Feb. 1, 1976, Elvis and friends flew from Memphis to Denver solely to eat Fool’s Gold Sandwiches made at the Colorado Mine Company restaurant in Denver. The “sandwich” — an entire hollowed-out loaf of French bread filled with peanut butter, jelly and bacon — was delivered to the plane. The legend and the sandwich are still on the menu at the Boulder Weekly
cash-only Nick’s Café in Golden, which is decorated with Elvis memorabilia. Pueblo’s legendary Slopper, served at Gray’s Coors Tavern, may not even qualify as a sandwich: It consists of two open-face cheeseburgers awash in pork green chile and covered in onions, cheese and/or saltines. As culinary legend James Beard so pointedly put it: “Too few people understand a really good sandwich.” Whether they’re called subs, grinders, hoagies, po’boys or even “sangwiches,” the great ones are not haphazard stuff between anonymous slices of starch. They are carefully composed to give you perfect bites that have just the right amount of everything in each one. The right bread is critical. Great sandwiches get nicknames that stick. You know how great a Reuben tastes. Colorado may not have an extensive sandwich history, but it is now home to many iconic creations. Here are some of the local epic sandwiches I have known and loved. These are the sandwiches of summer, if only because it’s too damn hot to cook. see NIBBLES Page 44
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La Cubana Torta At Sancho’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Boulder, the essential ingredients of tastiness are a bollilo roll nearly overwhelmed by ham, breaded pan-fried fried steak, hot dog, melted cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo and avocado. Run the La Cubana through the salsa bar for extra oomph. sanchosmexican.com Chinese Roast Pork Sandwich Longmont’s Brooklyn Deli, run by New York native Steve Podel, recreates a ridiculously tasty item popular at East Coast diners. Warm garlic bread is spread with sweet plum sauce and hot Chinese mustard and layered with marinated roast pork. thebrooklyndeli.com Egg Salad Sandwich How great can an egg salad sandwich be? Cured in Boulder elevates this humble lunch with great ingredients. Fresh local organic eggs are hardboiled and spread on a salty pretzel roll along with fresh greens and house-pickled red onions. These pre-made sandwiches are usually sold only on Saturdays and often run out. curedboulder.com Toasted Raclette Sandwich Freshly baked ciabatta bread provides a perfect canvas for my favorite grilled cheese variation. Moxie Bread Co. in Louisville tops it with melted Raclette cheese and house-pickled onions with a splash of Sicilian garlic oil. moxiebreadco.com Eggplant Parmesan Sub Right from its beginnings 20 years ago in a small shack on Pearl Street, I have happily scarfed down Snarf ’s Eggplant Parmesan Sub. It’s a comfy harmony of breaded eggplant slices, plenty of marinara and melted cheese on a toasted bun. This sandwich doesn’t need any extra tweaks but some add hot peppers, grilled onions and tomatoes. eatsnarfs.com Turkey and Bacon Jam Sandwich This serious upgrade on the iconic club sandwich at the Organic Sandwich Co. in Boulder features sliced roasted turkey, tomato, lettuce, avocado aioli and amazing house-made bacon jam spread on a pretzel loaf. organicsandwichco.com Italian Beef Some favorites are more like secret vices such as the Italian Beef served at Mustard’s Last Stand, one of Boulder’s longest lasting eateries. This is a wet, Chicago-style item with sliced roast beef in Italian-style gravy on toasted French bread. I add green peppers, giardiniera, hot peppers, grilled onions and tomato. mustardslaststandcolorado.com Bacon Sandwich Il Porcellino Salumi’s bacon sandwich is like a BLT to the third power. The Denver temple of preserved meat products starts with slices of cooked,
house-cured bacon. Grateful Bread’s toasted country bread is spread with apple butter on one slice and jalapeño aioli on the other, plus tomato and a splash of pecora cheese fondue. It’s messy and totally consuming. ilporcellinodenver.com Banh Mi The marriage of French baking and Vietnamese freshness produces the made-to-order banh mi at Vinh Xuong Bakery in Denver. The soft rolls for the sandwiches are baked up the street at the bakery’s tiny original location on Federal. The offspring site is a cozy, cool café that serves crafted coffee beverages. The bread is buttered and piled with a salad’s worth of pickled carrots and daikon radish, cucumber, cilantro and jalapeño plus a choice of meats including grilled pork, ham, barbecue pork or chicken. 2370 W. Alameda Blvd., Denver, 303-922-4968. My other favorites include The Pilgrim — house-smoked turkey, garlic mashers, cranberry relish on toasted brioche — at GQue BBQ in Westminster (gquebbq.com); the Italian sausage sandwich at Dolce Sicilia Bakery in Wheat Ridge, which tops house-baked crusty bread with sliced links, marinara and melted provolone (dolcesiciliabakery.com); and the Brown Sugar Toaster Pastry and Maple Ice Cream Sandwich at Boulder’s Heifer and the Hen (heiferandthehen.com).
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f ever Buzzfeed were to merge with Wine Enthusiast, let’s call it Winebuzz, they might publish a quiz that reads like so: Tell us what kind of wine you like, and we’ll tell you what kind of worker you are. Napa cab, and you’re a delegating pragmatist. Friulano, and you’re a hard-charging perfectionist. Slovenian table wine, and you just want to let everyone know you work to live, not live to work, man. Of course, that’s only if Master Sommelier Nate Ready is running Winebuzz and not his 30-acre vineyard and farm in Oregon’s Hood River Valley. Ready, who helped launch Frasca Food & Wine and Meadowlark Farm Dinners, is coming back to Boulder this month for special wine dinners at Frasca, and with Cured at Cure Organic Farm. Ready grew up in Napa Valley and got his first restaurant job at The French Laundry. He was 21. It was there that he met Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, and the three moved to Boulder to open Frasca. Ready served as the restaurant’s first wine director. Frequent trips to and from Friuli, Italy, as well as working under Stuckey, allowed Ready to develop a curiosity for wine. “Bobby understood a part of the industry that I had no concept of,” Ready says. “It wasn’t so much about individual things about wine, but more just about the philosophy of how it’s connected to culture and hospitality and food, and how it relates to people. “We made all those trips to Italy, and I Boulder Weekly
Frasca, and worked at vineyards there. When he had time, Ready crossed the border into Slovenia and worked on a family farm. In a few short years, Ready saw three different approaches to winemaking, all in hopes it would help him understand what Stuckey and others were talking about when they said wine is connected to culture. “What it really was, was a window into how people’s lifestyles and cultures had a really profound influence on the way the wines would taste and the decisions that were made (in winemaking),” Ready says. That, at least for this layman, still sounded a little abstract. So Ready laid out how the cultures of Napa, Friuli and Slovenia influenced the wines they produced. “In California, it was really consultant-driven, and there began to get progressively more was this huge separation curious about why wine is the way between what happened in the Nate Ready helped it is. What actually causes wine to winery and what happened in launch Frasca and Meadowlark Farm taste what way? You ask people all the vineyard. You were either dinners. He returns to these questions about winemaking in viticulture and did that as a Boulder with artisan wine from Oregon to and viticulture, and it never really management company, or you share. made that much sense to me. It worked in the cellar as part of was hard to put together the pieca winemaking crew, and there es without seeing it. … I felt like there were was very little connection between those huge things I didn’t understand, and I wasn’t things. going to understand until I got my hands “In Friuli, there was a more cerebral dirty.” approach that was influencing what would go So Ready left Boulder, and Frasca, and down,” Ready says. “Everyone would go down moved back to Napa. He worked a harvest sea- to the field and pick the grapes as quickly as son with a connection he made through The possible in the morning with a huge crew of 60 French Laundry, and learned how winemaking Eastern Europeans, and the winery crew would is done in California. Then he moved to Friuli, be there as well. Napa you never saw a vineyard with another connection he’d made through the entire harvest; the vineyard management July 5 , 2018 47
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crew picked at night. In Friuli, you farm experience. would go down with the team, pick the He moved to Oregon, first trying grapes as quickly as possible, get them the Willamette Valley, but finding it in the press ... and in the tank as quick- too commercially agricultural, headed ly as possible. There was more of a con- east of Portland to the Hood River nection between the vineyard and the Valley and Columbia Gorge. The cellar than there was in Napa.” unique landscape, which marks the And then there’s barrier between Slovenia. rainforest and des“When we would ert, and ascends in ON THE MENU: Hiyu Wine pick, there would be elevation about Farms dinner at Frasca. Monday, July 16, 6-11 p.m. like nine of us, and 10,000 feet in only Reservations at frascait’d be like three gen20 miles, offered foodandwine.com. erations of the famiReady and business Cured and Hiyu Wine Farms ly, and we’d go out partner China dinner at Cure Farm. there and we’d pick Tresemer the opporThursday, July 19, at 6:30 p.m. grapes all day, bring tunity to plant what Space is very limited; call Cured for reservations. them into the winery. they wanted — They sat in the sun. Ready compares the I’d ask, ‘Are we going region to Altoto put them in the press?’ and they’d Adige, Napa Valley (70 years ago), say, ‘No, we’re going to take a nap.’ We and Sicily’s Mt. Etna. wake up from the nap, ‘Are we going At first, it was a seven-acre farm to press?’ They’d say no and we’d have, with only three acres of vines. When like, a three- or four-course meal. And neighboring land went up for sale, then later that night we’d finally put Ready and Tresemer snatched it and our grapes in the press.” expanded. They now serve farm-fresh Ready says the different approaches meals with their artisan wine on weekhave a “huge” impact on the flavor of ends and at special pop-up dinners. the wine, but not necessarily the soReady says he’s happy to let called quality of it. Mackinnon-Patterson and Frasca “It has a huge bearing on charactermatch their food to his wines, and the istics of the wine,” Ready says. “It doesn’t wine dinner — and the one at Cure make the wine better or worse; certainly Farm — represent Ready’s ongoing for some people one of those styles reso- connection and love for Boulder. nates more clearly than others.” “Boulder is a really amazing place,” Ready’s favorite approach was the Ready says. “I feel so close to so many Slovenian model. And he wanted to people there. I think it happens for figure out how to make wines that most people who live there that you taste the way Slovenian wines do. walk down the street and you know Someone told Ready if he wanted to almost everyone. I feel like it’s possible make wine, he had to learn to farm, to develop uncommonly close relationand told him to check out some ships. We’ll never lose that. People Ancient Roman texts on agriculture. come out to visit the farm from So Ready studied Calumella, a firstBoulder relatively frequently, and century agricultural author, and came whenever I come back to Boulder it’s back to Boulder, where he helped start an incredibly warm, welcome embrace. Meadowlark Farm Dinners, which “What we do is so connected to allowed him to gain more hands-on our roots there.” Boulder Weekly
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here’s so much more opportunity in the lager world than there is in the ale world, right now,” Ryan Wibby, co-founder and brewmaster of Wibby Brewing tells Boulder Weekly. Lager is Wibby’s bread and butter, and the way things are going for the 3-year-old Longmont brewery, he might be right. Located just a few blocks east of Longmont’s Old Town Main Street drag, Wibby Brewing inhabits the former truck maintenance facility of the now-defunct Butterball Turkey plant. Wibby and company converted the space into an attractive indoor/outdoor taproom and brewery, producing roughly 3,000 barrels of beer in 2017 with a projected production of 4,400 barrels in 2018. Considering its first year’s production topped out at 1,700 barrels, Wibby’s growth proves there is quite the market for craft lagers. “People haven’t really explored it,” Wibby explains. “Mainly because of all the capital it takes. We have to buy twice as many tanks as a typical ale brewery would.” That’s because producing lager can take up to three times as long as producing ale. While most ale brewers need only seven days, Wibby’s lagers take about 28 days from start to finish. “Technically it’s more difficult to make a crisp, clean lager that’s good to drink,” Wibby says. “We know there’s a whole realm of beer that’s unexplored in the American craft beer industry, and our goal is anything an ale can make, a lager can make better.” Wibby refers to this potential as Boulder Weekly
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While the World Cup is well under way in Russia, U.S.A. fans have been twiddling their thumbs in apparent boredom with no team to cheer for in an international tournament. That is until last weekend, when team U.S.A. cruised along the road to victory in a different, but perhaps more entertaining, competition. Team U.S.A. beat out all others to win top-dog honors at the Quidditch World Cup in Florence Italy. And here come the answers to the obvious follow-up questions. Yes, that Quidditch. The same one from J.K. Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter series. No, muggles (humans) haven’t figured out how to fly on broomsticks. Although their feet never leave the ground, players in the real-life game run around a field with a broomstick between their legs in a sport that takes elements of rugby, dodgeball and wrestling, magically mixing them all into a co-ed, full-contact sport. Yes, people actually participate. It was the largest — with 800 players from around the world — Quidditch World Cup to date, since the inaugural event in 2012. No, Daniel Radcliff wasn’t there. But team U.S.A. did clinch the win over Belgium when its star, Harry Greenhouse (different Harry), found the magic snitch tied to an opposing player’s back. Sneaky, sneaky. No, although you missed out on all the action this time around, you don’t have to wait another four years to watch or
THIS IS ONE BAD TRIP WE’RE ON One thing we can be sure of in the Trump era is increased enforcement, at least when it comes to things like immigration and the war on drugs. (Not so much when it comes to sexual assault, rape, collusion with Russia, perjury, the rule of law, the Constitution and other such trivial matters.) Well the joke’s on the orange man in the big White House with Indiana’s latest six-day, drug bust over the last two weeks. Among a plethora of other illegal substances, officials confiscated bright orange Ecstasy pills stamped with the president’s face on one side, and “great again” on the other. Officials seemed surprised by the find, but really? Make a reality TV star president and there’s no end to how, when or where he will make his way into popular culture. Home to Mike Pence, and plenty of prohibitive policies set in place when the VP was governor, we know people are looking to escape to other worlds in Indiana. But is Trump’s garish face, lying to you about his “great again” ideas, really the last thing you want to see? No, thank you. The real trip we’re all on is bad enough. But give us a pill with puppies on it, on the other hand, and we’re all in.
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described 19the-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to an “electric generator” from which flows a “powerful current always ready to shock not only our morality but our very sense of humanity.” In the coming weeks, I encourage you to find a middle ground between Flaubert and Proust. See if you can be moderately exciting, gently provocative, and amiably enchanting. My analysis of the cosmic rhythms suggests that such an approach is likely to produce the best long-term results.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: You remind me of Jack, the 9-year-old
Taurus kid next door, who took up skateboarding on the huge trampoline his two moms put in their backyard. Like him, you seem eager to travel in two different modes at the same time. (And I’m glad to see you’re being safe; you’re not doing the equivalent of, say, having sex in a car or breakdancing on an escalator.) When Jack first began, he had difficulty in coordinating the bouncing with the rolling. But after a while he got good at it. I expect that you, too, will master your complex task.
ultimately offer you treats? Have you made longdistance inquiries about speculative possibilities that could be inclined to travel in your direction from their frontier sanctuaries? Would you consider making some subtle change in yourself so that you’re no longer forcing the call of the wild to wait and wait and wait?
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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: If a down-to-earth spiritual teacher
advised you to go on a five-day meditation retreat in a sacred sanctuary, would you instead spend five days carousing with meth addicts in a cheap hotel? If a close friend confessed a secret she had concealed from everyone for years, would you unleash a nervous laugh and change the subject? If you read a horoscope that told you now is a favorable time to cultivate massive amounts of reverence, devotion, respect, gratitude,
innocence, and awe, would you quickly blank it out of your mind and check your Instagram and Twitter accounts on your phone?
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cal working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day to focused conversation with each other. And it’s common for a child and parent to engage in meaningful communication for just 20 minutes per week. I bring these sad facts to your attention, Capricorn, because I want to make sure you don’t embody them in the coming weeks. If you hope to attract the best of life’s blessings, you will need to give extra time and energy to the fine art of communing with those you care about.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Allergies, irritants, stings, hypersensitivi-
ties: sometimes you can make these annoyances work in your behalf. For example, my allergy to freshly-cut grass meant that when I was a teenager, I never had to waste my Saturday afternoons mowing the lawn in front of my family’s suburban home. And the weird itching that plagued me whenever I got into the vicinity of my first sister’s fiancé: If I had paid attention to it, I wouldn’t have lent him the $350 that he never repaid. So my advice, my itchy friend, is to be thankful for the twitch and the prickle and the pinch. In the coming days, they may offer you tips and clues that could prove valuable.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Are you somehow growing younger?
Your stride seems bouncier and your voice sounds more buoyant. Your thoughts seem fresher and your eyes brighter. I won’t be surprised if you buy yourself new toys or jump in mud puddles. What’s going on? Here’s my guess: you’re no longer willing to sleepwalk your way through the most boring things about being an adult. You may also be ready to wean yourself from certain responsibilities unless you can render them pleasurable at least some of the time. I hope so. It’s time to bring more fun and games into your life.
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CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: An open letter to Cancerians from Rob
Brezsny’s mother, Felice: I want you to know that I played a big role in helping my Cancerian son become the empathetic, creative, thoughtful, crazy character he is today. I nurtured his idiosyncrasies. I made him feel secure and well-loved. My care freed him to develop his unusual ideas and life. So as you read Rob’s horoscopes, remember that there’s part of me inside him. And that part of me is nurturing you just as I once nurtured him. I and he are giving you love for the quirky, distinctive person you actually are, not some fantasy version of you. I and he are helping you feel more secure and well-appreciated. Now I encourage you to cash in on all that support. As Rob has told me, it’s time for you Cancerians to reach new heights in your drive to express your unique self.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: The ghost orchid is a rare white
wildflower that disappeared from the British countryside around 1986. The nation’s botanists declared it officially extinct in 2005. But four years later, a tenacious amateur located a specimen growing in the West Midlands area. The species wasn’t gone forever, after all. I foresee a comparable revival for you in the coming weeks, Leo. An interesting influence or sweet thing that you imagined to be permanently defunct may return to your life. Be alert!
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: The ancient Greek poet Sappho
described “a sweet-apple turning red high on the tip of the topmost branch.” The apple pickers left it there, she suggested, but not because they missed seeing it. It was just too high. “They couldn’t reach it,” wrote Sappho. Let’s use this scenario as a handy metaphor for your current situation, Virgo. I am assigning you the task of doing whatever is necessary to fetch that glorious, seemingly unobtainable sweetapple. It may not be easy. You’ll probably need to summon extra ingenuity to reach it, as well as some as-yet unguessed form of help. (The Sappho translation is by Julia Dubnoff.)
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Is there any prize more precious than
knowing your calling? Can any other satisfaction compare with the joy of understanding why you’re here on earth? In my view, it’s the supreme blessing: to have discovered the tasks that can ceaselessly educate and impassion you; to do the work or play that enables you to offer your best gifts; to be intimately engaged with an activity that consistently asks you to overcome your limitations and grow into a more complete version of yourself. For some people, their calling is a job: marine biologist, kindergarten teacher, advocate for the homeless. For others, it’s a hobby, like long-distancerunning, bird-watching, or mountain-climbing. St. Therese of Lisieux said, “My calling is love!” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva said her calling was “To listen to my soul.” Do you know yours, Libra? Now is an excellent time to either discover yours or home in further on its precise nature.
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Dear Dan: In a recent column, you said you never hear from married couples whose sex life got better and more frequent over the years. Well, now you have. My wife and I were married 24 years ago, and we are currently having more sex and better sex than we did in the first years of our marriage. There are many reasons why, including therapy, antidepressants, and weight loss and subsequent surgery — but I would have to say that the big reason is communication. If you had known us 25 years ago, Dan, you would not have given us good odds. We’d been dating only a year and a half when we got engaged, and we’d known each other less than two years. I was a virgin, my wife was not, together we hadn’t gotten much past second base, and neither of us had laid our kink cards on the table. We were (and still are) introverts with poor communication skills and anxiety/ depression/mental-health issues. I won’t say it’s been fairy-tale perfect — the kind of perfect that makes you barf and roll your eyes — but it’s been pretty damn close. My wife has been incredibly GGG, and I hope I have been, too. So there you go, Dan! Now you know there’s at least one couple out there whose sex life has only gotten better over the years. —Better Erotic Ties Totally Enhanced Relationship Dear BETTER: Last week, I responded to IMDONE, a woman who
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married a man despite the sex being “infrequent and impersonal” during their courtship. To the surprise of no one who has ever given sex advice for a living, the sex didn’t get better after IMDONE and her boyfriend got married. “Here’s something I’ve never seen in my inbox: a letter from someone explaining how sex with their partner was infrequent, impersonal, uninspired, unimaginative, etc. at first but — holy moly — the sex got a fuck of a lot better after the wedding,” I wrote in my response to IMDONE. I did allow for the possibility that my sample was skewed; people with good sex lives don’t write to tell me everything’s fine. So I invited people whose so-so sex lives improved after the wedding to write in. And did they ever: My inbox is packed with e-mails from couples whose sex lives got better after the wedding. Here are a few. Dear Dan: I was a very experienced woman (five years as a swinger and partners numbering in the high double digits)
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when I first met the man who would become my husband. My husband-to-be was a virgin. Sex was barely OK and very infrequent. But we were both in our early 40s and ready to settle down. We also had an amazing friendship, and we were never as happy apart as we were together. It helped that we shared some kinks and were both up for what we agreed would be a nice and mostly companionate marriage. So we got married. And, wow, did everything change! We went from once a month to a couple times a week. Turns out he needed that emotional attachment to feel safe and secure enough to open up and relax and enjoy himself. We’ve been married for years now. The sex is still good. It’s not as frequent as it once was, but it’s really good when we have it. So, yes, sometimes it does get better! —Woman In Fucking Ecstasy Dear Dan: Am I the first or the hundredth person to write in? Yes, sex for us got better after marriage. I suspect you don’t see it in your inbox very often because this isn’t what most people would consider a problem
and we don’t want to waste your time! All it took for the sex to get better was practice and paying attention to cues and solving problems. I strongly suspect that perseverance and a bit of luck were also major factors. —Practice, Practice, Practice Dear Dan: My sex life improved after marriage. I am a straight male with a highly stigmatized kink. I was deeply ashamed of my sexual interest even before my mother discovered my porn when I was 14 and told me I was a pervert that no decent woman would ever want. When I met my wife, our sex life was OK — but I was never fully present, because I would have to concentrate on my fantasies in order to sustain an erection. I eventually retreated into masturbation. My wife knew I was masturbating in the middle of the night instead of having sex with her, and that led to some enormous fights. So I told her about my kink, fully expecting that it would result in the collapse of my marriage. We didn’t speak about it for a week, and then she calmly asked me if I wanted to do this with her instead of just watching porn about it. —Partnership Improved Sexual Situation Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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by Sidni West
Schumer unveils bill to decriminalize marijuana
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wo-thirds of Americans, most of whom are created to provide financial incentives to local and not stoners, believe marijuana should be state governments that assist anyone convicted of decriminalized. So does Senate Minority minor cannabis offenses in expunging or sealing their Leader Chuck Schumer, who is so thirsty to records. Additional funding would be made available become the majority leader that he’s deterto provide financial assistance to women- and minorimined to give the people what they want ahead of the ty-owned cannabis startups to ensure they have access midterm elections so that we can all get high. Dope. to the new marijuana industries in their states. Last week, Senator Schumer, a totally chill dude The bill allows any state that has legalized (or from New York who is related to comedian Amy plans on legalizing) cannabis to do so without any risk Wikimedia Commons/ Senate Democrats Schumer, introduced the of federal prosecution. Marijuana Freedom and However, it would still be a Opportunity Act, a bill to federal crime to smuggle maridecriminalize cannabis at the juana from legal states to states federal level and effectively where the drug is still prohibitallow states to continue to ed. It also allows the decide how to regulate it. This Department of Treasury to set is a significant milestone for nationwide regulations on marijuana advertising, in order to the legalization movement, as ensure that cannabis products Schumer is the highest-ranking are not being advertised to elected official to ever put forchildren. An additional $500 ward pro-marijuana legislation. million would be set aside for “The time to decriminalize medical research on cannabis, marijuana is now,” Schumer targeted at identifying risks of said. “The new Marijuana long-term use as well as further Freedom and Opportunity Act benefits of medical marijuana. is about giving states the freeThe bill is co-sponsored by dom to be the laboratories that Senators Tim Kaine they should be and giving (D-Virginia), Tammy Americans — especially women and minority business owners, as well as those Duckworth (D-Illinois) and Bernie Sanders convicted of simple possession of marijuana intended (I-Vermont), which should come as no surprise confor personal use — the opportunity to succeed in sidering Sanders was very open about his support of today’s economy. This legislation is simply the right legalizing marijuana during the 2016 presidential thing to do and I am hopeful that the balanced campaign. He also “did” weed twice, and it made him approach it takes can earn bipartisan support in cough a lot, so now we know what “feel the Bern” Congress and across the country.” really means. The new legislation will focus on improving comA number of Senate Democrats have been workmunities that have been disproportionately affected by ing the issue for a while now. (I like to imagine that our current marijuana laws. Grant programs would be they all hang out in Sanders’ office after hours, put-
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ting their chairs in a circle, sparking up a fatty and going over their talking points like an episode of That 70’s Show). Schumer’s bill comes on the heels of a similar bill introduced by senators Gardner (R-Colorado) and Warren (D-Massachusets) last month. Criminal justice reforms are the focus of Senator Cory Booker’s (D-New Jersey) Marijuana Justice Act, introduced last August. His bill would legalize marijuana at the federal level, expunge all federal marijuana-related offenses from criminal records, grant convicts currently imprisoned for those offenses the right to petition for re-sentencing, and cut federal prison and law enforcement funding from states that haven’t legalized marijuana and disproportionately arrest or incarcerate the poor and minorities over pot. Booker’s bill also sets aside $500 million a year in grants for job training, ex-convict re-entry programs, libraries, youth centers and other services and programs within communities heavily impacted by the war on drugs. Legalizing marijuana nationwide would create at least $132 billion in tax revenue and more than a million new jobs across the United States in the next decade, according to the most recent data. President Trump said he “probably will end up supporting” a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown. Of course there always has to be that one annoying narc, and in this case, it’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose remarks put him at odds with Trump on the issue. Sessions has said that “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” Ahem, I am a f***ing good person, Jeff. Sessions seems determined to infringe on the states’ rights to control their own marijuana laws, which is not very Republican of him. It’s chill though, cause the 64 percent of Americans who support legalization will go out and vote for Dems who will pass legislation they favor.
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here was the outrage? A lot of progressives have been in high dudgeon for the last couple of weeks over the “zero tolerance” policy of detaining everyone caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally and separating the kids from their parents. I’m underwhelmed by their outrage. That’s because the concept of “zero tolerance” grew out of the drug war. The term was first used in 1972, and since then has resulted in the arrest of about 50 million Americans for drug offenses (half for marijuana and half for other drugs). Most of those 50 million arrests were for simple possession. And of those who were arrested and also had kids — and there were millions who did — nearly all were separated from their children while they were in detention, sometimes for years. Family separations caused by drug arrests were a major contributing factor to the disintegration of the black family and to all the social pathologies that flowed from that. Not that “zero tolerance” drug policies haven’t broken up plenty of white and Hispanic families as well. With a handful of notable exceptions, like former Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White, I can’t recall hearing a peep out of progressives over family separations caused by the “zero tolerance” policies of the drug war. OK, in the last few years progressives’ views on the drug war have “evolved,” and now most of them oppose it — especially as it pertains to marijuana. Good. But that doesn’t change the fact that to this day family separations caused by “zero tolerance” drug war arrests continue to elicit near-zero expressions of progressive outrage — despite the fact that drug arrests are still occurring at a rate of over a million a year. Under the circumstances, progressives shouldn’t
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be so damned holy about family separations at the border, or should quit being so contemptibly silent about family separations on this side of it. * * * * Meanwhile, the war to end marijuana prohibition continues, mostly under the radar, in at least one very red state, North Dakota. According to a story at the Marijuana Moment website, an initiative petition drive for legalization of recreational marijuana in North Dakota is expected to turn in enough signatures next week to get on the state’s ballot this November. If approved, the initiative would fully legalize recreational marijuana and create a pathway to exonerate those with past pot convictions. To get on the ballot, the initiative needs 13,452 valid signatures. According to Eric Owens Sr., who wrote the initiative, Legalize ND has collected more than 16,000 so far, and expects to turn in about 20,000 to the Secretary of State’s office on July 9. “We’re thousands over the required amount,” Owens told a Marijuana Moment reporter. “When people talk about grassroots, this really, legitimately
was grassroots.” The initiative comes with a back-story: vengence. In 2016 a similar grassroots effort put a medical marijuana initiative on the North Dakota ballot. The measure passed with 64 percent of the vote. But the state legislature effectively sabotaged the measure’s implementation. And so a small team of activists took an old political maxim to heart — Don’t get mad, get even — and launched the current drive for full legalization. It’s logistically really tough to do an initiative petition drive in North Dakota, Owens said, “but we pulled it together — and it’s because people want to have what they voted for — and that was taken away by the legislature.” The initiative hasn’t received any financial support from national legalization groups like the Marijuana Policy Project or the Drug Policy Alliance, so far at least. Owens claims that internal polling shows the initiative has strong support. He also says he expects organized opposition to come from groups like the prosecutors association, the highway patrol and Sanford Health, one of the state’s largest employers. “We don’t have money to fight them with TV or radio, we’re just going to be common sense and let people know through social media,” Owens said. “The people — plain and simple — got screwed out of their medical marijuana and they want revenge.” One possible beneficiary of the initiative getting on the ballot could be Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who is facing a tough re-election fight in a state that went heavily for Trump. The initiative would help bring legalization-friendly younger (and Democratic leaning) voters to the polls who often skip mid-term elections. It will be interesting to see if Heitkamp comes out in favor of the initiative or tries to be a free rider.
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