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Highroad Wall Street thieves find ‘new way’ to steal from us by Jim Hightower

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e know that millions of American families lost their homes after Wall Street’s 2007 financial crash... but where did all those houses go? It turns out that Wall Streeters themselves formed profiteering investment groups that rushed out to scoop up tens of thousands of those foreclosed properties, usually grabbing them on the cheap at courthouse auc-

tions in suburban metro areas that were hard-hit by the crash. These moneyed syndicates have deep, deep pockets, so they easily outbid local buyers to take possession of the majority of the singlefamily homes being sold off in many distressed places. Why are they buying? To turn the homes into rental properties and become the dominant suburban landlord, controlling the local market and constantly jacking up rents. For example, the Wall Street Journal found that in Nashville’s suburb of Spring Hill, just four of these predatory giants own 700 houses — giving this oligopoly of absentee investors ownership of threefourths of all rental houses in town. One of these bulk buyers is an arm of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm, another is an equity outfit that was spun out of the housing specu-

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lation department of Goldman Sachs, and another is a billionaire whose investors include the Alaska state oil fund. Not only do rents jump dramatically when such outfits seize a market, but Wall Street’s intention is to impose “a new way” on housing America: They’re pushing a cultural shift in which homeownership is no longer part of the American Dream and tenants are taught to accept annual rent increases as the price of having a home. So the banksters crash the economy, you lose income and your home, they buy your house at auction, then they rent it to you at an ever-increasing price. The “new way” is the same old story: The rich robbing the rest of us. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 10 , 2017 5

the anderson files The devil is in the details by Dave Anderson

hen he was on the campaign trail, Donald Trump denounced “free” trade agreements, promising something “much better” for working people than the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico. In one of his first acts as president, he withdrew the U.S. from the TransPacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-country trade deal which includes Canada and Mexico. He recently released his goals for re-negotiating NAFTA. In May, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross spoke before the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank which supports these agreements. He told them that the Trump administration wants NAFTA to adopt provisions from the TPP which would enforce stricter intellectual property rules (a gift to Hollywood and Big Pharma) and remove barriers to digital trade. The new NAFTA would still have the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, a secret private extrajudicial court that provides monetary awards to corporations for lost profits due to changes in law that protect workers, consumers and the environment. Trump shared his perspective on trade when he spoke before a group of Fortune 500 CEOs from companies such as Ford, Dell and Dow Chemical. He promised he would provide incentives for them to stay in the United States — huge corporate tax cuts and the destruction of possibly three-quarters of government regulations. Reporter David Dayen writes there are a few advances in the document. The Trump administration wants NAFTA countries to “avoid manipulating exchange rates” to make their goods cheaper and gain an unfair advantage. This is the first time that the subject would be dealt with in a trade deal. There is no indication how this would be enforced. Progressive trade activists are skeptical. Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division, says: “Trump’s conflicts of interest and self-dealing opportunities with NAFTA renegotiation are not hypo-

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thetical; the sprawling Trump business empire has 14 Canadian and two Mexican investments. Some of Trump’s clothing line is made in Mexico. Trump won’t divest his business holdings or release his tax returns, so unless he reveals his full Mexican and Canadian business dealings, we won’t even know in whose interest these NAFTA talks are being conducted.” Meanwhile, Trump has his publicity stunts. In December 2016, less than a month after becoming president-elect, Trump announced that he had met with Carrier, a unit of United Technologies, and convinced the company to keep 1,100 jobs in Indiana that they had previously scheduled to move to Mexico. Then it turned out the number of jobs saved was only 730, and 1,873 jobs were still lost. The concession to keep 730 jobs in Indiana was made only after the State of Indiana, where Vice President Mike Pence was still governor, promised Carrier a big tax break of $7 million. Trump was apparently counting hundreds of engineering jobs that weren’t going to Mexico. Then Trump claimed that Carrier’s employment was going to “go up substantially.” That was a lie. Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents Carrier workers in Indiana, was angry. In an interview with the Washington Post, he said Trump had “lied his ass off.” Trump responded quickly with a tweet: “Chuck Jones … has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!” A little later, Trump tweeted again: “If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working — less time talking. Reduce dues.” Jones immediately received threats via email, social media and calls to the union local and his personal cell phone. But most responses were supportive. “I’d say 10-to-1 positive overall,” he says. His local supported Bernie Sanders in Indiana’s Democratic primary andJones voted for Clinton in the general election. see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

letters Need for cars no excuse for Trump voting

What’s so important about buying a new car? [Re: “Trump’s victory and the price of cars,” Danish Plan, Aug. 3, 2017] Why does it have to be new? I’m 80 years old and may be assumed to have been driving for 64 years, and I have never owned or bought a new car; in fact, for several years back when hitchhiking was feasible, I didn’t own any car at all. Used vehicles always served my purposes perfectly well. So I don’t have much sympathy for people who voted for Agent Orange because they couldn’t afford to buy a new car. Anthony Lee/Lafayette

More to the Russia story

I was glad to see that Joel Dyer’s article, “Pipeline Diplomacy,” [Re: News, July 27, 2017] contained a statement about the flagrant U.S. intervention in the Russian presidential election of 1996: “President Bill Clinton intervened in Russia’s political system and its election process in far more egregious ways than what Russia is currently accused of doing in our most recent election.” However, the overall thrust of Dyer’s article is unfortunate because it adds to ill-founded and dangerous hostility toward Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin. Dyer’s analysis is built upon an insubstantial and contentious empirical foundation. At least five of its major factual assumptions are open to serious challenge. First, Dyer assumes that Putin is primarily motivated by concern for money rather than national security. Yet well over 80 percent of Russian adults express apprehension about the encroachments of NATO on Russia’s borders. Any responsible Russian leader, conscious of

the bloody history of invasions, would be gravely troubled by the NATO encroachments. Second, Dyer takes for granted that Russia hacked the 2016 U.S. elections. Despite incessant media proclamations, no substantial evidence for such hacking has emerged. A number of knowledgeable critics, such as Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, provide strong reasons for doubting claims about Russian hacking. Third, Dyer gives an unreasonably dismal and imbalanced account of the Russian economy. He totally ignores major economic achievements under Putin’s leadership, including substantial increases in disposable income and reductions in poverty. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, recently praised how Russian economic authorities responded to plunging oil prices: “They took the right fiscal measures. They kept inflation under control. They adopted very good monetary policy.” Fourth, Dyer gives a warped account of events in Ukraine and Crimea, placing virtually the entire fault upon Russian machinations. He disregards U.S. interventions, but claims reliable knowledge of what the majority of Ukrainians desire. Nevertheless, Dyer seemingly doubts that the overwhelming bulk of Crimean people favor reunification with Russia. His account contrasts sharply with the compelling analysis provided in Frontline Ukraine by Professor Richard Sakwa in 2015. Fifth, Dyer lends credence to the speculation that “Vladimir Putin is now the richest man in the world” and implies that personal wealth acquisition see LETTERS Page 8

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may motivate his political actions. No serious evidence for Putin’s personal wealth currently exists. Moreover, concern for a nation’s overall economic welfare must be distinguished from regard for private wealth. Given these flawed or highly questionable interpretations, I trust that the claims made in Dyer’s “Pipeline Diplomacy” will engender appropriate skepticism. Tom Mayer/Boulder

Consider climate change commitments when voting this November

Climate change can be compared to the World Wars, where the countries, states and cities of the world came together to fight a large threat to our world’s wellbeing. I applaud the mayors of Longmont, Lafayette, Nederland and Boulder for signing to adopt, honor and uphold the commitment to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement through joining the Climate Mayors (CM). In doing so, they joined 363 other mayors, including 15 in Colorado. Additionally, Governor John Hickenlooper recently joined the U.S. Climate Alliance (USCA) consisting of 13 other states including Puerto Rico. Another 10 states have pledged their support for the Paris Agreement but are not members of the USCA. It may be surprising to some that these coalitions are bipartisan and tripartisan. Eleven Democrats, two Republicans and Puerto Rico’s New

Progressive Party are the governors of the USCA; six Republican and four Democratic governors pledged their support to the Agreement; and many Democratic and Republican mayors and several from the Green Party constitute the CM network. This furthers the notion that climate change is viewed as a significant issue at the state and city levels in at least three political parties, and that the current federal administration and Congress are completely out of touch on this topic. Our roll in electing the next mayor and our next governor that support these policies is crucial for continued progress on climate action. The USCA and CM coalitions are mostly symbolic. This is where we come in to collectively keep up the pressure to ensure real achievements occur. We must vet them thoroughly before making the decision to vote, based on their past decisions and their current viewpoints. We must research their business ties and their political connections. If the political parties we currently support do not commit, then we need to seriously consider voting for other parties that will. This will take substantial individual effort, and we need to be resilient. In addition to making sure we elect people to keep us on this path, there is still more to do. While fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas and coal) currently make up 81 percent of the U.S.’s energy sources, they constitute the lowest level of this mix in a see LETTERS Page 9

the anderson files THE ANDERSON FILES from Page 6

Micah Uetricht of In These Times asked Jones why the focus on trade and outsourcing had such an impact. Jones replied: “I’ve been through probably eight to 10 plant closures, and I know what it does to people’s families and communities. The average wage at Carrier was $23 an hour... These folks aren’t going to find jobs that will come anywhere close to that. Some people will have to work two jobs at minimum wage to make even half of that. And they’ll be saying, ‘Do you want fries with that?’ “And pretty soon people run out of their unemployment, so then they lose their car, then they lose their house, then they lose their spouse. Sometimes they end up taking their own lives. I’ve seen this among my

own members.” Trump blamed Jones and the union for Carrier leaving. Jones told labor reporter Steven Greenhouse that Carrier officials told him that the only way the steelworkers union could save the Indianapolis plant was to cut their wage levels to about $5 an hour. That’s below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Carrier said it would save $65 million annually by closing its Indianapolis plant and moving to Monterrey, Mexico, where it pays workers $2 to $3 an hour. But Trump doesn’t bother himself with such petty details. Everything is theater to him. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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hundred years. On the other hand, renewable energy sources (biomass, hydroelectricity, solar, wind and geothermal) are at their highest level at 10.5 percent. Longmont’s electricity is generated by the Platte River Power Authority (PRPA), which is a nonprofit owned by Longmont, Estes Park, Fort Collins and Loveland. Around 68 percent of the energy is sourced from coal, natural gas is 0.5 percent and renewables are 30 percent. Boulder, Lafayette, Lyons, Berthoud and Louisville use Xcel Energy, which sources 54 percent of its energy from coal, 24 percent from natural gas and 22 percent from renewables. Substantial progress by both the PRPA and Xcel has been made, but there is much more to do to reduce our collective carbon footprint. The old argument that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables is no longer entirely true. Wind energy has become the cheapest while the cost of solar has decreased. One may argue that subsidies make renewables cheaper, but remember that fossil fuels receive subsidies too. Even when removing the subsidies, wind is still the cheapest form of energy and solar is not far behind natural gas and coal. Together conservatives and liberals need to make efforts to ensure our politicians will continue to take action on climate change, and we must hold them accountable to produce actual results. Our future and the next generations’ future depend on it. Jake Cseke/Longmont

U.S. sanctions against Russia are hypocritical

Newly imposed U.S. sanctions on Russia, for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and its military aggression in Syria and Ukraine, are hypocritical and dangerous. The bill that imposes sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea passed with a vote of 419-3 in the House and 98-2 in the Senate. In response, Russia has ordered 755 U.S. diplomatic staff to exit its country. In spite of Trump’s ties to Russian oligarchs, U.S.-Russian relations are increasingly more hostile. The U.S. Congress loves to blame Russia and other countries, while ignoring America’s own dismal track record. The monitoring group Air Wars is reporting that the U.S. bombing campaign in Syria is now responsible for the majority of civilian deaths. Our regime change policy has failed to bring peace and stability. Apparently, it is OK for the U.S. to kill civilians, but Russia must be held to a higher standard. Congress is outraged over alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, yet the U.S. has interfered in 81 forBoulder Weekly

eign elections by my count. Mainstream media promotes alleged Russian election interference as fact. The declassified intelligence report by the CIA, NSA and FBI ( January 6, 2017) provides no conclusive evidence that Russia hacked the DNC and Podesta emails, published by Wikileaks. Why should we trust intelligence agencies that have lied to Congress, overthrown democratically elected governments, engaged in torture and assassinations? Rather than reform our corrupt political system that Wikileaks exposed, Democrats and Republicans would rather lead us into a new cold war while arming NATO troops on the Russian border. Mark Rolofson/Boulder

Looking for leadership

After another of our president’s childlike Twitter fits, it’s been brought to light that he’s longtime friends with the owner of The National Enquirer, and that the tabloid has supported him since he announced his run for office. That’s right, the man who denounces long-standing news organizations as “fake” aligns himself with The National Enquirer. I accept that some think network news is liberal, I think the news has sided with conservatives far too often — all news is told and heard through filters. Still, the irony of Trump embracing The National Enquirer and calling The New York Times “fake” should not be lost on anyone. Whether conservative, liberal, independent or other — like Hillary or want to lock her up — we should be alarmed that our president, master of creating alternative facts and realities in media, decided to launch a cyber-attack on a couple of small time loud mouth talk show hosts. And, a tabloid magazine threatened to run articles on the loud mouth hosts that would make their lives hell. And, the president’s wife, national spokeswomen for anti-cyber-bullying, approved of her husband hitting back. President Trump has regularly failed to uphold one of the leadership qualities I admire most: Don’t stoop to their level. Gandhi and his followers did it when the British hit them with clubs. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers did it when whites used dogs, fire hoses, bricks and bombs. Jesus did it when they nailed him to a cross. Millions of Americans vehemently disagree with many things our president has said and done. And, until Trump demonstrates how intelligent passionate people with opposing views act and communicate constructively to resolve differences, he will not unite us. Curtis Griffin/Boulder

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the beginning, Tamara Williams Van Horn loved her time at the University of Colorado. She was recruited from Ohio to enter the sociology program; CU flew her out and introduced her to faculty members. A “we interview you, but you interview us” scenario in which the goal was to sell Williams Van Horn on a program and a school that had expressed interest in increasing diversity. The department never made any bones about its abundant whiteness, Williams Van Horn says, but the tour concluded with “an extra little supplementary piece just for me showing me the four black people that were on campus.” Since it was founded 60 years ago, the CU sociology department has graduated only five black doctoral students. Many more students of color, like Williams Van Horn, dropped out or transferred before completing their degree, citing racial discrimination within the department and across the university as a whole as the main reason. Those who claim to have experienced this discrimination say it took many forms such as reduced departmental support, increased teaching workloads, unwilling advisers and derogatory comments. And despite student surveys that appear to confirm these concerns, as well as others such as gender discrimination and sexual harassment, those within (and recently exiled from) the program say a lack of leadership within the department is the main reason the cracks within

the system continue to widen. The department’s alleged failures on discrimination may be a symptom of university-wide directives that include a push by its leaders to bring the university in line with their more conservative perspectives. In recent years, CU has pushed to bring in conservative speakers, advertised the school in conservative publications, and now hosts a conservative thought scholar. According to critics, the casualties of this ideological war on campus culture may be that legitimate claims of discrimination are being viewed as nothing more than a tactic of the “identity politics” of progressives. Williams Van Horn worked in human resources in the private sector before rerouting her career toward a doctorate in sociology. At 33, her goal was to get a degree within four or five years, then return to help black communities in Ohio. CU promised she could accomplish those goals, Williams Van Horn says, and for the first couple years it was “a utopia.” “I had a blissful experience,” she says of the first few years in the department. “I was the department cheerleader. I was doing professional seminars. I was going to different places on campus to represent the department. I was going to recruiting functions.” And despite being the first person in her cohort to pass the tests that place students on their doctoral track, she was also teaching a lot. More than others in her cohort, she says. And, she was being switched between courses from semester to Boulder Weekly

semester, meaning that she had to develop more curricula, read more books and generally spend less time on her doctoral work than her peers. In her seven years in the program, Williams Van Horn was asked to prepare eight different courses — well more than most tenured professors, she says. Jo Painz, a graduate student who entered the year before Williams Van Horn, says for every hour of class, teachers are expected to spend four hours prepping. Painz, who also left the program recently due to what she perceives as a lack of support and organization from faculty, saw first-hand how that workload affected Williams Van Horn, and how different students and faculty treated her from her peers. For instance, Williams Van Horn was reported to the CU’s Office of Discrimination and Harassment (ODH) (now under a different name) more than anyone else in her cohort for classroom issues. “By the time I was done, we were all on a first-name basis,” Williams Van Horn says of her relationship with ODH. Those complaints spanned everything from claims that Williams Van Horn “was angry at white people and I take it out on them” to one claim that she made a Christian student attend a “pro-choice rally.” (In actuality, Williams Van Horn says, every student was asked to attend a panel on reproductive health, and the complainant never mentioned an ethical concern with the issue, nor signed in to the event, nor told anyone she was there before she “approached the door and heard things that were against [her] religion” and left.) Those kind of claims against Williams Van Horn routinely made it to the ODH. That was not the case for Painz and her other white colleagues. “I don’t think we have anything distinctively different about our teaching styles,” Painz says. “I am 100 percent not a warm, caring and compassionate person and I had one complaint the entire time.” Much has been written about the “snowflake” culture of college campuses, but the issue isn’t with the complaints themselves; it’s how the department, and university, treats the complaints made against black teachers versus white ones. Painz says Williams Van Horn received standing ovations when she gave guest lectures in her classes, but when a grading component was involved, there was more scrutiny placed on the person of color, than the white person. That’s a problem with a solution, Williams Van Horn says. “If the department had stepped up, stepped in and said, ‘This is ours to handle,’ it never would’ve escalated to ODH,” she says. Boulder Weekly

Instead, she says, the concerns were not only passed on, but she was then given advice from within the department that differed from what she thinks white department members received. “[Faculty members told me], ‘We know you. We know how good you are with students one-on-one. If you could just transfer that warmth to when you’re lecturing, then it would just be so much better for everyone, right?’ “That was the point when I snapped and said, ‘Can you please give me a scale of warm? Is it Oprah warm? Is it Mammy from Gone with the Wind

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warm? Or is it The Help warm? I really need to know on the black woman warm scale where you need me to be because I thought I was a scholar and a scientist.’” Too, Williams Van Horn says when she started dating (and eventually marrying) a man, the “feminists” in the department told her she “was a much better person before I met him.” So Williams Van Horn quickly soured on what had been her utopia, but she kept teaching and working toward completing her thesis and doctoral degree. That’s when, beginning around

2008, the department started to change, she and Painz say. Gone was the focus on getting students into either a research or teaching track. And in was a focus on just research, spreading thin those established students who did teach (like Williams Van Horn and Painz). Making matters worse, certain faculty members left, many of whom took year-long sabbaticals, leaving students without advisors at critical junctures. Williams Van Horn says her advisor gave notice of her sabbatical the day before she left on it. See SOCIOLOGY Page 12

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Department heads came and went, bringing in varied focuses — some wanted an accelerated program, others wanted to maintain a longer track. Professors came and went through a revolving door. That all made it hard for people like Williams Van Horn and Painz to stay on track. They each went through two advisors, and had trouble assembling panels to approve important program milestones. After a while, neither knew many of the professors, and so had difficulty building critical relationships. But that departmental shape-shifting also revealed deep cracks of racism and gender discrimination, Williams Van Horn says. Faculty members started to hole up in their own research. “Instead of using their tools, they just went into la la land, which was their own individual research,” Williams Van Horn says. “Like they forgot about everything else and it became, ‘My research is the most important thing.’ Teaching falls by the wayside. Running a department goes by the wayside.” When concerns were expressed about discrimination, the department would listen, Williams Van Horn says, but nothing was ever done about it. Thus, grad students worked to create a climate survey that would better assess how those within the department felt about racial and gender issues and how the faculty was responding to it. The 2016 survey found that only 4 percent of students felt the department was very successful with the recruitment, retention or support for students of color — about 53 percent said it had failed in that endeavor. Equally important, about 85 percent of grad students “expressed some level of concern about being retaliated against” for complaining against a faculty member. Erin Campbell (not her real name), a grad student who helped develop the survey, says the fear of speaking out extends to students who have left the program, who are still concerned that having their name associated with complaints will prevent them from future opportunities. Indeed, Boulder Weekly reached out to more than a dozen people who had either left the department or who were close to finishing the program, and many declined to comment out of a fear of retaliation or that their reputation would take a hit. As an example of that retaliation, Painz says when she decided to switch advisors, she was given the silent treatment by her former advisor and the person who had originally recommended 12 August 10, 2017

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that advisor to Painz, which is a sort of death sentence in a culture that mandates connections. The problem, according to at least six current and former grad students (most of whom asked that their identities not be made known out of fear of retaliation), is a lack of leadership and accountability in the department. Any talk of increasing diversity is just PC lip service, they say. The reality is that even when it’s not outright racism or sexism, which they allege is common, it’s an unwillingness to work with certain people. That creates a cycle where marginalized students are not given proper support, therefore they flail in their tracks, and eventually they are asked to leave, critics say. “No one’s saying that this is just a witch hunt for students of color, but students of color are not treated in the way white students are,” Campbell says. “I think it’s important to think about faculty not only being uninterested but passing off students of color. For some reason, students of color have more advisors ‘breaking up with them,’ leaving them in a position where they don’t have support. So then therefore when they’re asked to leave [the department], there’s no one to fully support them.” Both Williams Van Horn and Painz claim they had physical breakdowns that led to their exit. Painz left for eight months, losing 30 pounds, because of the uncertainty of her future in the department and the stress of trying to make it work. Williams Van Horn says she experienced blood clot-like symptoms before an important research presentation, and after she presented in spite of the medical issue, she went to the emergency room to receive treatment. She says the faculty treated her as if she chose to come down with those symptoms. “That lead to an extreme anxiety episode where I could not answer email, go outside,” she says. “My husband had to handle all communications with me for three months. I turned my phone off, and I was like, ‘I’m done with the world for a minute.’ Just seven years of

work, moving away from my family, a little bit of sacrifice, $200,000 in debt. Living in Boulder for seven years, when I was only supposed to be here for four.” She says when she left, no one from the department called her. No one checked up on her. Not even her advisor, for whom Williams Van Horn babysat. The Office of the Registrar was the only one to reach out, and they just asked her to submit the grades for the courses she taught. When Williams Van Horn attempted to return, she was given a tight deadline to get back on track. She met those deadlines, she says. Nonetheless, she says she was denied a chance to present her research, which would have given her the opportunity to write a dissertation. This after seven years and countless hours of courses taught for the department. Nonetheless, she planned to finish out the summer course she was scheduled to teach. “About a week into it, I was like, ‘I am not coming back. I’m done,’” she says. In addition to Williams Van Horn, several other grad students and faculty members have recently left the department. Hillary Potter, a former sociology professor, called herself “an outsider” in a letter to students and faculty in which she listed observations from her 11 years in the department. In the letter, Potter says it’s sad that sociologists don’t “recognize racial intolerance, ... sexual harassment, ... [and] classism when they see it.” She implies the department questions whether foreign-born professors with accents can “connect” with students, a claim Campbell, Williams Van Horn and others have corroborated. Potter, who is now in the ethnic studies department, says the transgressions in the sociology department are still ongoing. “I spoke out a lot and regularly begged the administration (including Chancellor [Phil] DiStefano, Provost Russ Moore, Vice Chancellor Bob Boswell, [Arts and Sciences] Dean Steven Leigh) — even after I was transferred to ethnic studies — to do something about the sociology department,” Potter says in an email. “With all that,

not much, if anything, was done to correct the decades-long racial problems in that department.” But not all people of color who have left the department did as a result of racism or discrimination. Citing many reasons including professional enhancement, funding and resource availability (including an African studies center) Sanyu Mojola expressed in a letter to colleagues that her move to the University of Michigan was mischaracterized by her peers as racially motivated. Though Mojola writes that she has experienced racism both in the classroom and in Boulder at large, it’s important to note “that there is a diversity of experiences” among women of color, and that reducing her decision to leave to her skin color is erroneous. BW reached out to many other sociology faculty members for this story, asking for comments on the allegations of racial and gender discrimination outlined above. What we got was a response from CU spokesperson Ryan Huff, who says he had been notified by faculty member(s) of our inquiry and primarily cited one ongoing investigation regarding sexual harassment within the department. We assume this ongoing case is their reason for not responding. “We take all allegations of harassment very seriously,” Huff writes. “We looked into the allegation made by a sociology department employee in April (reported via Colorado WINS, a union that has no official relationship with the university) and did not find evidence of harassment. “We understand there are climate concerns among graduate students and we want to better understand those issues to create a more welcoming environment for all.” Painz says she feels “horrible” for not reaching out to the students who she saw sort of float away from the department — and then she became one of them. Painz now works at a community college, which she says she prefers given the increased diversity in her classes. Williams Van Horn works in a craft shop. Her husband still works in the department. She says she largely gets pity from her former colleagues when she runs into them. “Like cancer. It’s the cancer how you doing? I say, ‘Every day I don’t have to come here I’m fine,’” she says. “[But] that’s what the narrative is: If you’re gone, you did it, and you couldn’t hack it. It wasn’t until after I left that I realized I had normalized that. When other people leave, you just learn to keep your head down and not acknowledge it.” Boulder Weekly

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will be short-lived during the current festivals and in reality will likely lesson the overall impact on the Lyons community. While to most folks this may sound like a win-win situation, the town of Lyons still wanted to be sure its residents agreed. Since the Lyons community is a model of democracy — it has the highest per capita voter turnout in the County — residents were given the opportunity to approve or not approve the annexation and expansion via a special, mail-inballot vote. The results of the vote were announced this past Tuesday, Aug. 8, and we are happy to report

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lic use until next year’s festival season. Repeat: Don’t go there in 2017, you’ll only scare the ON THE BILL: 27th Annual Rocky Mountain cows, make them run, and that makes the meat Folks Festival. Aug. 18-20, tough. Just kidding, kids… probably. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, What all this expansion, annexation and Lyons. Tickets and camping on sale now at shop. zoning stuff adds up to is an enhanced festival bluegrass.com or 800-624experience going forward. In the future when 2422. that last note of the evening bounces off the cliffs above the stage and its sadly time to head for home, it will only be a short walk along the river to your car. While the new parking and camping area won’t be in play for this year’s Folks Festival, what you will find this year is one of the best top to bottom lineups Planet Bluegrass Ranch has ever hosted. If you act fast you might get lucky and still get your hands on a three-day pass. But if those are all gone, single-day tickets are still available and as you can see from the full schedule below, there isn’t any day of the Fest that won’t leave you with a great memory of this summer. For more on this year’s music, check out BW’s interviews with some of this year’s artists on pages 24, 27 and 29. And if you do make it out this year, it’s possible that if you mosey down by the river, close your eyes and listen real hard between sets, you might just hear the crack of a whip, the snort of a sturdy steed and the thunder of 16 hooves being driven across the 26.2-acre Apple Valley plain. So head ‘em up and move ‘em out… to this year’s Folks Fest and don’t forget to try one of the steak sandwiches. Just kidding, kids.

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n some ways, Phoebe Hunt is just one among a sea of millennials, one who routinely submits herself to existential crises, bobbing and weaving however she can to enjoy her life and escape the “hook” of the corporate world. Like many of her peers she does yoga, goes on meditation retreats, lives with her husband in a Brooklyn house full of artistic and self-employed friends and dreams of a life successful in ways that have nothing to do with money. “I want to be free,” she says. “Freedom is limitless. Within a social construct and within the capitalist society we are in, actually being able to be free means being able to connect to your deepest truth and owning it. It’s about trusting others enough to share that self, collaborating with them to come together in an authentic community. It’s about being totally vulnerable.” Her ideation of freedom has a decidedly feminine quality, invoking notions of yielding instead of conquering. It’s a philosophy that requires her to forsake the license to do whatever she wants in the name of a more universal liberty. This is the ethos with which she leads her band and also the way she measures their success: “Lately people have been telling me that my music opens their hearts. To spiritually release things is what we are here for and if my music can do that, well, I think that’s beautiful.” It’s no surprise that Hunt is softening — she spent two months in the past year on spiritual quests, first on the Camino de Santiago in Spain and then at a Vedic meditation retreat in India. It was on that second trip that she spent time studying with master violinist and vocalist Kala Ramnath, who taught Hunt to play her instrument in the North Indian classical tradition.

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uth Moody, the highflying soprano for the Canadian folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys, is vacationing with her family in Wisconsin prior to hitting the road for a few Jennys’ shows, including one at Folks Festival in Lyons on Aug. 20. But Moody’s work never exactly ends. “We’re on vacation but it’s still a full-time job,” she says of raising her eight-month-old son. Still, like any loving parent, she wouldn’t trade it for all the riches in the world — or all the Junos (the Canadian Grammy) or Billboard chart-toppers. This is a new chapter in Moody’s life, a fresh source of inspiration for a prolific and highly lauded artist. “[Having a child] really opens you up, opens your heart and opens your eyes, but the challenge is there’s not one second to follow any of these new ideas or feelings,” Moody admits. “I wrote a lot when I was pregnant but I haven’t written anything since [my son] came along. He takes all my energy. I can feel [the ideas] percolating and every once in awhile I’ll write an idea or a thought down or record a melody; I try to keep it alive. Once he needs me less I’ll be able to follow those creative sparks.” It’s been six years since The Wailin’ Jennys put out an album of original material — 2011’s Junowinning Bright Morning Stars — but the girls have

been plenty busy. Mezzo-soprano Nicky Mehta welcomed twin boys back in 2009, who, at seven months old, hit the road with the Jennys for the next year and a half. Since then, Mehta’s taken time to enjoy her family and nurture other passions, mentoring at-risk youth and young musicians, serving on artsaffiliated boards and writing music for contemporary dance performances. She’s said (in other interviews) she’s working on her sophomore solo album, her first independent work since 2001’s Weather Vane. Heather Masse, the alto glue for the Jennys, has released three non-Jenny’s albums since 2008: Bird Song, Lock My Heart (2013), and last year’s August Love Song, a collaboration with trombone maverick and octogenarian Roswell Rudd. The title of her latest work is a tender ode to her son August Loyal. Outside of the studio, Masse (often with the rest of the Jennys, but sometimes on her own) appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion numerous times (with the Jennys it’s likely more than a dozen). On Aug. 13 she’ll join Richard Dworsky and Fred Newman at the Denver Botanic Gardens for Keillor’s Prairie Home “Love and Comedy” show. Last but not least, Moody has released two solo works: The Garden in 2010, and These Wilder Things in 2013, both critically acclaimed and award-nominated.

She’s appeared on works by Mark Knopfler of Dire Strait’s fame, string band The Fretless, Suzanne Elizabeth Ungerleider (the alt-country singer/songwriter who performs as Oh Susana) and the Coloradonative, card-counting general badass Darryl Purpose. And then last year she became a mother. “I had a whole plan; I was planning on touring in Europe in a couple months with a new album,” Moody says. “All that changed but I don’t regret it one bit. “When my son came along it was my solo stuff that I put on the back burner and I continued to tour with the Jennys,” she says. “I think maybe next year I’ll try to get into the studio. There are songs I wrote when I was pregnant I’d like to record. I think I thought when I was pregnant I would record [a new solo album] this year. I’m nowhere near a position to do that. But I’m not in a rush. I want to be present for my family, also to enjoy life. I think maybe I was a bit of a workaholic before. I’m trying to be more present and enjoy these moments. He’s not gonna be a baby forever.” For Moody, Mehta and Masse, enjoying the moments, enjoying life, still means making time for making Jennys records, even if it’s less frequently. “That is actually the thing we did make happen. We went into the studio in February,” Moody says. “Against all odds we found five days [to record].” Moody says the new record should be out before the end of the year. Boulder fans get the chance to hear The Wailin’ Jennys debut music from their new record at a Boulder Theater show on Nov. 19. Until then, whet your appetite with some classic Jennys on the Planet Bluegrass lawn.

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where to go next. “It’s never formulaic in the way it has to happen. There’s always a way to grab the song and go a little deeper,” Gekas says. The combination of opinions can be chaotic at times but more often than not the band generally all knows when a song needs to go a certain way. “I’ve heard of three pieces that have way more [trouble] than the seven of us do,” Gekas says. Any number of band members share writing credit on different songs, but for the breakout hit “Wish I Knew You,” yons is a great little town that they’re trying to keep the credit goes to Gekas and frontman David Shaw. a secret, but I don’t know. I think the secret’s out by The band was in the studio, Gekas says, finishing up the now,” says bassist George Gekas. The same could last few tracks on the album. But this particular song just be said for his band, The Revivalists, a seven-piece wasn’t sitting right with the group. New Orleans-based group that’s been playing “And we kinda just started bare bones from nothing together for more than a decade, but only again,” Gekas says. They started jamming recently launched into the national spotin the recording booth, trying to get into ON THE BILL: The light with their third album, 2015’s Men some sort of groove to move the song forRevivalists. 9 p.m. Saturday, Against Mountains. ward. Aug. 19, Rocky Mountain Folks Named one of the 10 new artists you “I guess I came up with a bass line and Festival, Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons. Tickets at need to know in 2016 by Rolling Stone, the it took off from there and we reworked the shop.bluegrass.com or 800-624band’s style can be hard to peg down, mixentire song completely around there,” he 2422. ing elements of Southern blues, R&B and says. “We could tell the producer was getsoul with their decidedly alternative rock ting really amped and excited about it and persona, which often drifts into jam bandso were the engineers.” type sessions featuring a pedal steel guitar and brass. It reminds Gekas of the way Guns N’ Roses wrote “We’re definitely a rock band and we’re not afraid to say “Sweet Child ‘O Mine,” Slash “mockingly playing [the guithat,” Gekas says. But, “we’ve never tried to put ourselves in tar part] like it was a circus piece.” But then the song one box. … Because there’s so many of us and we’re so difbecame a fan favorite, launching the band’s career. ferent, it allows us to take on different forms and bop “You’re just never going to know what the people are around from different styles.” going to attach to,” Gekas says. “If everybody could guess it The group is undeniably influenced by the sounds of the right, it’d be a very different industry. It’s a lottery almost city that gave birth to it. There’s music pretty much everyand sometimes you get lucky with hard work and perseverwhere you turn in New Orleans, from the buskers on the ance and people connect to something on a meaningful corner to the famous clubs of Bourbon Street to the jazz level.” funerals that march through town with hundreds of people Whatever The Revivalists are doing, it’s working. “Wish following a brass band in honor of a loved one. I Knew You” reached no. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs “It’s such a part of the cultural identity and way of life chart in May of this year, and the band’s been on back-toand town that it’s hard to not have it affect you. You can’t back sold-out tours propped up by a growing community of really escape it,” Gekas says. “It becomes a part of who you fans, or self-proclaimed “Rev heads,” who have really “taken are and it’s one of those places where the longer you live on a life of their own.” there, the harder it is to leave.” “They’re in it for the long haul,” Gekas says. “They’re The band writes songs “every which way possible,” just as happy about the new-come success as we are because from start to finish in the studio to off of a jam at a live we are their band. We’re part of their family and the music session, with all seven members offering thoughts on is what brings us together.”

But The Revivalists (and their fans) are in it for the long haul

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— with LP, The Shelters. 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 11, Fox Theatre 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets $45. The Shelters

Racial Just Movie Night: I Am Not Your Negro

7:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 11, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Pamela Littky Boulder.

6:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 11, Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

The Shelters take the stage at Fox Theatre fresh off an appearance at Lollapalooza and before heading on tour with Tom Petty — the bands’ mentor and co-producer of their self-titled debut album. The Los Angeles-based quartet have drawn attention for their classic garage rock style reminiscent of the 1970s and ’80s played with their own, what Billboard calls, “modern swagger.” Get ready to dance to these toe-taping, care-free tunes, followed by Portugual. The Man & LP. Tickets $45.

Join the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder for a screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Scripted from American author James Baldwin’s unfinished work Remember this House about his friends Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the film pieces together images and clips of the civil rights activism of the 1960s juxtaposed to more current shots of the Black Lives Matter movement and race riots in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere. The result is a moving masterpiece depicting the intricacies and nuances of race in modern America.

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“Planetary Transits Near and Far: Shadowy Measurements” — a talk by Dr. Mark Coffey 6 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 15, Boulder Public Library, West Senior Alpine Room, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. NASA on The Commons @ Flickr

Commons The last time a total solar eclipse crossed the U.S. from the Pacific to the Atlantic was June 8, 1918, roughly following the same path the eclipse will traverse on Monday, Aug. 21. As a lead up to this year’s total solar eclipse, the City of Boulder invites the public to come learn about the movement within our solar system. Dr. Mark Coffey, a physics professor at the Colorado School of Mines, will give a talk called “Planetary Transits Near and Far: Shadowy Measurements.” Admission is free and open to the public. Dinner will be available from Meals on Wheels at 5:30 p.m. for $7.

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Derrick Velazquez

Art Inspired by the Land. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 10.

COSTUMES FOR

Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2017. Courtesy of the artist & Robishon Gallery.

Common Ground. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 12.

CONCERTS

Dasha Shishkin: Tram Pam Pam. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 10.

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Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 27.

FESTIVALS

Jenny Morgan: SKINDEEP. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 27.

BOULDER’S FUNKIEST COSTUME SHOP! 673 30th St., Boulder Corner of 30th & Baseline in Williams Village Shopping Center

Mauro Giaconi: Cae a plomo/falls to lead. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 10.

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Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 22.

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 20.

Paper on Paper: The Art of Chine-Collé. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Aug. 20.

Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 31.

Paper.Works. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Aug. 20.

The Western: An Epic in Art and Film. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 10.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 10 10:00 AM

DREAM TO FLY

Thursday, August 10 Music

2:00 PM

Black Heart Saints. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

7:00 PM

Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder.

HABITAT EARTH CLIMATE CHANGE IN OUR BACKYARD: FRACKING ON THE FRONT RANGE 8:30 PM

LASER: QUEEN FRIDAY AUGUST 11 8:00 PM

Brad Parsons Band — with Still Stompers, Sour Bridges. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. CaraTrom. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Colin Hay — with Trace Bundy. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Jaden Carlson Band — with Brisco Jones. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Jocelyn & Chris Arndt. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. José González — with Darlingside. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Julian Archer’s Going Away Concert. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Justin Townes Earle and The Band of Heathens. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

LASER: VAN HALEN

Eric Deutsch and Bill Kopper. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Late Night Radio “Vinyl Restoration Set” — with Marvel Years, Paul Basic (The Official Pretty Lights Pre Party). 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

LIQUID SKY: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

FIXATE Artist Showcase by RAW Denver. 7 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.

Mikey Smith Trio. 8 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Franklin & Friends. 9 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.

Myles Parrish (of Kalin & Myles). 7 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Hazel Miller and Friends. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder.

Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder.

SOLAR SUPERSTORMS 9:30 PM

11:00 PM

SATURDAY AUGUST 12 1:00 PM

MOONS & LASER ROBOT ROCK 2:30 PM

Raven Black. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Stay Rooted — with Aaron Brooks Workshop and Special Guests. 7:10 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Sylvan Esso. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Zac Wilkerson. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. Events Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder. Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Learn to Swing Dance. 8 p.m. Savoy at Curtis Park, 2700 Arapahoe St., Denver. Opportunity Coalition Event featuring Tamara Banks, Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, Talk Show Host, Documentary Filmmaker. 5 p.m. WeWork, Triangle Building, 1550 Wewatta St., Denver.

DYNAMIC EARTH 9:00 PM

LASER: DOORS/HENDRIX 10:30 PM

LASER: QUEEN

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SUNDAY AUGUST 13 1:00PM

Monday, August 14

2:30 PM

Tuesday, August 15

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA PLANETS AND LASER: GALACTIC ODYSSEY 4:00 PM

DREAM TO FLY

So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Susan France

Share your poetry with fellow poetry lovers at Innisfree’s weekly open poetry readings on Tuesday evenings.

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder)

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events Steve Simeone. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Meniskus — with Florea. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Synergy Dance Collective. 7 p.m. Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Ave., Boulder.

moe. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Friday, August 11

Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville.

Music 032 featuring Calyx & Teebee. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. 311 After Party featuring The Unity All Stars. 11:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. A(nother) Night of Grand Guignol. 8 p.m. The Bakery, 2132 Market St., Denver.

Norman Brown. 7 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. The Pickin’ Pear. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. Rancid. 5:30 p.m. Sculpture Park, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Sammy Miller & The Congregation. 6:30 p.m.

Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. The Selecter (DJ Set). 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. The Shelters (Velorama After Party). 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Silent Bear Trio. 9 p.m. License #1, 2115 13th St., Boulder. Son Moreno Cuban/Latin Band. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Strange Americans. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Friday the 13th at Your Mom’s House. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Swingin’ Denver Presents: Jeremy Mohney & His Big Four-Dance Lessons & Concert. 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Twiddle. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Ugandan Children’s Choir Concert. 6 p.m. Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder. Wink. 6 p.m. Boostrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Zach B. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. see EVENTS Page 34

Amelie Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder. Angry Neighbor Collective. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Anthony Ruptak: B-Side Music. 5 p.m. Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Ballyhoo! featuring Special Guests The Holdup, Kash’d Out — with P432. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Benefit for The Blue Bench. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. Carpe Diem String Quartet. 7 p.m. The Academy, 970 Aurora Avenue (entrance on 10th Street), Boulder. Channel 93.3 presents 311. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver. Charming Disaster, firstimers. 7 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver. Colony House, Marlon Williams. 8 p.m. FMQB Free Outdoor Stage on the Hill, 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder. Confluence: A Musical Journey — Album Release + Performance by Infamous Flapjack AffairB. 8 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Cosmic Synergy. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. A Deer A Horse (Brooklyn). 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Dirty Bourbon River Show. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Emily Scott Robinson, John Adam Smith, Rachel Laven. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. EyeHateGod — with Primitive Man, Fathers, Boar Worship. 5:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Family Dinner Theater: Remember What It Was Like? 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Flatirons Jazz Orchestra — Big Band Swing Dance. 6 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Gentlemen’s Club. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Happy Hour — with DOTSERO. 5:30 p.m. Jazz@ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver. Hypnotech, Bil Bless, Seied. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Jess Wayne. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Khaotika. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 20, Boulder. Boulder Weekly

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Zapp — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Roka Hueka. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Events

Saturday Breakfast — with Pancakes & Biscuits. 10 a.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Adult Gymnastics. 5:30 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont. Argentine Tango GroundSchool Classes. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Dance on Screen Summer Class. 9 a.m. Boulder Ballet, 2590 Walnut St., Suite 10, Boulder.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY AUGUST 10

CARATROM 8PM THE DELTAZ 9PM FRIDAY AUGUST 11

MCLEOD NINE 8PM JESS WAYNE BAND 9PM SATURDAY AUGUST 12

ALLIE CHIPKIN 8PM COPPER LEAF 9PM SUNDAY AUGUST 13

ERIC BUDD’S RUN FOR BOULDER CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT/ LAUNCH PARTY 3PM WOMEN IN SONG: DENVER ARTIST SHOWCASE 9PM MONDAY AUGUST 14 8PM “SO YOU’RE A POET” PRESENTS

OPEN POETRY READING TUESDAY AUGUST 15

JAY ROEMER 8PM QUINN & THE CONFLUENCE 9PM WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16 8PM

JAZZETRY NIGHT FEAT. VON DISCO

THURSDAY AUGUST 17 8PM

BRAZIL NIGHT

FRIDAY AUGUST 18 8PM

THE CONSTELLATION COLLECTIVE

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Integral Steps Presents Music & Movement. 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.

Saving ABEL. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Second Annual Fritz Festival — A Benefit Concert for the ACLU of Colorado. 6 p.m. American Legion Post 10, 4760 28th St., Boulder.

Events Brown Palace Hotel and Spa 125th Anniversary Weekend. 8 a.m. The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, 321 17th St., Denver. Comedian Dean Edwards. 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver.

Christine Fisk

Louisville Street Faire. 5 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville. Steve Simeone. 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. We Still Like You: Denver. 7 p.m. El Charrito, 2100 Larimer St., Denver. Saturday, August 12 Music

theater Anything Goes. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 1.

¡Cubanismo! 10 p.m. La Rumba, 99 W. Ninth Ave., Denver.

Broadway Bound. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 20.

Blingfaced Reunion. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 East 13th Ave., Denver.

Footloose: The Musical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 3.

Blues & Brews on South Pearl Street in Denver. 12 p.m. Swallow Hill Music. 1200 S. Pearl St., Denver. Blues Night — with Ricky Earl Band. 10:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Born I Music. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. CAAMP — with The Wonderfool. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Engage Music Festival. 11 a.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Forever in Your Mind. 8 p.m. Elitch Gardens, 2000 Elitch Circle, Denver. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Jackson Cloud-Live Music. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont.

Hamlet. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder. Through Aug. 13. House of Gold — presented by square product theater. Roser ATLAS Center 1125 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 12.

In 1924, two wealthy students at the University of Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, murdered a young boy in order to commit “the perfect crime.” Focusing on the obsessive nature of their relationship, beginning with a 1958 parole hearing, Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story is a stunningly beautiful musical and recommended for mature audiences only.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. Julius Caesar. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder. Through Aug. 12. The Little Mermaid. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 19 Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Live! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Aug. 27.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder. Through Aug. 13. The Taming of the Shrew. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder. Through Aug. 13. Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver. Through Aug. 19.

Johnny & The Mongrels. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. KUVO’s Signature Event. 6:30 p.m. Balistreri Vineyards, 1946 E. 66th Ave., Denver. Live Music: Dan Haynes Trio featuring Stacey Turpenoff. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Modern Leisure. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. moe. — with Twiddle (Acoustic). 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. A Night Of Pablo — All Kanye, All Night, DJ Big Styles (Motown on Mondays/So What!). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Old 97’s. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Olde Town Arvada Summer Sounds. 3 p.m. Olde Town Arvada, Olde Town Square, 57th Avenue and Olde Wadsworth, Denver. Priests. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Ran off the Rooster. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 6 p.m. Casa Alegre, 1006 Oine St., Louisville.

Sista Soul. 9 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Sister City Music Exchange Fundraiser. 3 p.m. Fort Greene Bar, 321 E. 45th Ave., Denver. Stu Larsen. 7 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The Substitutes. 4 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Tenth Mountain Divison — with Part & Parcel and Swimmer. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Turner Jackson Love. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Vinyl Me, Please and Alamo Drafthouse Present: An Evening with Tom Berninger. 6:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse Denver, 4255 W. Colfax Ave., Denver. Winehouse: An Embodiment of Amy (Amy Winehouse Tribute). 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. ZURC (Late Show). 11 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder. The Goddamn Gallows. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Left Hand Brewing Presents Collapsing Stars (Minneapolis). 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont. Mike Massé presents Epic Acoustic Classic Rock. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

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Paisha Love Early Album Release and Birthday Party. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. School of Rock Denver Tribute to Jam Bands. 12 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Vinyl Sundays. 12 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver. Events Beatles Cartoon Pop Art Show featuring Animator Ron Campbell. 12 p.m. Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Chicos Malos Salsa-Salsa Lessons and Live Show! 4:30 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St.,

Denver. Comedian Dean Edwards. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver. Films @ Central. 1:30 p.m. Denver Central Library, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Garrison Keillor’s “Love and Comedy” Tour 2017. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens-Chatfield, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton.

HB Woodsongs Presents: Ukulele Concert & Workshop with Mark Baker. 5 p.m. HB Woodsongs, 3101 28th St., Boulder. Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Loopr Mobile Cannabis Lounge Routes. 2 p.m. 1-Up Colfax, 717 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Lucha Libre & Laughs: Killing The Business! 7 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver. Outlaw Yoga. 10:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

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Liquid Mechanics Brewing Third Anniversary Bash and Outdoor Music Festival. Noon. Saturday, Aug. 12, 297 U.S. 287, Suite 100, Lafayette.

You’ve never been to a toddler’s party like this one — at least, we haven’t been to one. Head over to Liquid Mechanics Brewing for their Third Anniversary Bash. There will be 16 beers on tap, including a number of special releases such as the Batch #3 bourbon barrel-aged imperial porter. Food trucks will be onsite to soak up some of that imperial porter (there are other beers to try) and live music will give you a chance to show off some of your porter-inspired dance moves. Live music on the outdoor stage includes headlining acts Last Men On Earth, a ’70s/’80s/’90s tribute band playing everything from Guns N’ Roses to Toto, and Judge Roughneck, Colorado’s premier ska/reggae band. Other acts include the bluegrass band Rusty 44, and up-and-coming singer/songwriter Lindsey Saunders. Local favorite Rogue 2 takes over the inside stage to finish the night out at 9:30 p.m. Free third anniversary branded pint glasses and free pint tickets are available to the first people in line while supplies last. The party turns to 21-plus at 7 p.m.

Velorama Colorado. 8 a.m. River North Art District, 2700 Larimer St., Denver. Monday, August 14 Music Barbarian. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Herbie Hancock — Presented by Swallow Hill Music. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Hold Close — with In My Room. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Mondaze: Service Industry Night. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. see EVENTS Page 38

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Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder. Prospect Sound Bites Presents Stone Beat Invasion. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. Seether. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Events Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Noches de Verano: Tango at the Teahouse. 6 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder

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Tuesday, August 15 Music The Chick Corea Elektric Band and Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Community Night Concert. 5:30 p.m. Sandstone Ranch, 3001 Sandstone Drive, Longmont. Freddy & Francine. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Goth-Trad & Roommate. 9 p.m. Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Keyboard Counterpointe — with Neil Bridge & Steve Denny. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Laney Jones and the Spirits. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The Lituation. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Live Music: Tony Rosario. 6:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. MEW. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder.

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by Bradford Tice I tell myself softly, this is how love begins— the air alive with something inconceivable, seeds of every imaginable possibility floating across the wet grasses, under the thin arms of ferns. It drifts like snow or old ash, settling on the dust of the roadways as you and I descend into thickets, flanked by the fragrance of honeysuckle and white primrose. I recall how my grandmother imagined these wanderers were living beings, some tiny phylum yet to be classified as life. She would say they reminded her of maidens decked in white dresses, waltzing through air. Even after I showed her the pods from which they sprang, blossoming like tiny spiders, she refused to believe. Now, standing beside you in the crowded autumn haze, I watch them flock, emerge from brittle stalks, bursting upon the world as young lovers do—trysting in the tall grasses, resting fingers lightly in tousled hair. Listen, and you can hear them whisper in the rushes, gazing out at us, wondering— what lives are these?

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Here’s a poem celebrating milkweed by Bradford Tice, whose most recent book of poetry is What the Night Numbered, from Trio House Press. Our Monarch butterfly population depends upon milkweed, and perhaps a few people who read this won’t chop down or pull up or poison one of these generous plants. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2013 by Bradford Tice, “Milkweed,” from Rare Earth, (New Rivers Press, 2013). Poem reprinted by permission of Bradford Tice and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. Boulder Weekly

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‘The Dark Tower’ is fine, epic-free epic by Ryan Syrek

s is the case with every rabid fanbase to which I do not belong, the cult of Stephen King is scary. And not, like, “Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining” scary; I’m talking “the TV adaptation of The Shining with the guy from Wings” scary. As is the case with the vast majority of books written in the English language, I have not read King’s Dark Tower series. And yet, I know for a fact — much to the outrage of King’s nigh-omnipresent acolytes — that adhering more doggedly to the novels was not how to fix this Dark Tower movie. Although reviews and thinkpieces have chucked discarded plot points from the books at me with the frequency of a belligerent, drunken octopus armed with infinite tomatoes, the adaptation only needed a few basic fixes to go from “meh” to “mmm.” First off, electoral college results aside, we’re not all The Dark Tower total idiots. The Dark Tower opted for the bare miniopts for the bare minimum mum in narrative development. The latest in a long line in narrative of brooding, misunderstood-but-deep-down-super-taldevelopment. ented-and-awesome generic white boys, Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), has dreams about a bad guy in black (Matthew McConaughey) who is trying to bring about the apocalypse by using children to blow up a tower. A good guy with guns (Idris Elba) aims to stop him. The problem is not that the film wasn’t infused with the minutiae that King wordhumped into eleventy-billion pages of books, but that it worried “good guy fights bad guy” was too complicated. Second, if your film is going to be a dumbed-down spectacle, your moments of spectacle can’t be tepid weaksauce that looks like cut scenes in a video game. The coolest visual thing that the gunslinger does is reload. Putting bullets into the gun should not be the most captivating part. Also, snot in nasal spray TV commercials have had more compelling CGI than the demonic hordes in The Dark Tower. Third, casting Elba gets an A-plus, but making Angsty McTeenager a white messiah central figure gets an F-minus. Elba does a great “fatigued cowboy seeking revenge before riding off into the sunset,” but he gets less screen time than Jake “I gots telepathy and make purdy drawings” Chambers. Also, nearly every single woman with a speaking role dies or gets physically violated. That’s not great... Finally, if you’re going to bring in McConaughey to chew scenery, don’t force him to subsequently redub his weirdo performance with “hooked on phonics” enunciation afterwards. His vocal re-recording and physical acting are more distant than the parents of grown children. It was the only thing more distracting than his box-dyed hair and impossibly tiny vest. Basically, The Dark Tower didn’t inherently need more King stuff; it needed less “magnificent white boy;” better female characters; more trust in Elba, McConaughey and its audience; and a bigger budget. It was a “made for SyFy Channel” movie with Lord of the Rings aspirations that ultimately satisfied neither die-hard fans nor laypeople who don’t know a langolier from a Pet Semetary. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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“It was definitely one of the most fun camps I went to this summer (believe me, I went to a lot) and I came back for seconds. It taught me how to make music with other musicians and that will be very useful for the future. And I learned how to take a better solo.” Student

“The ability of the instructors to help these kids find their creativity, create songs, maximize their musical ability, and get up on stage and be stars is always impressive. Participating with his band at Dog House has improved not only his musical ability, but also his confidence, creativity, sense of responsibility, and his ability to work with a group.” - Parent

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here’s no question why the La Choza food truck expanded to two brick and mortar locations in Boulder — the street tacos are just that good. Each order comes with four tacos, a maximum choice of two meats, and toppings of onion, cilantro and tomato. Meat choices vary from barbacoa (cheek meet) to al pastor (marinated pineapple pork) and everything in between. But you can’t go wrong with keeping it simple and ordering four carnitas tacos. Small, corn tortillas are filled with an ample portion of tender, pull-apart pork meat that bursts with flavor in ever bite. The garnish, including a fresh lime squeeze, adds brightness to the meat. And don’t forget the salsa — either red or green, both are tangy and delicious. $7

art of what makes a great smokehouse is a plethora of sides to choose from: mac and cheese, coleslaw, baked beans, grits or, at least at Russell’s Smokehouse, spoonbread. What is spoonbread, you ask? So did we. With roots in South Carolina, originally from a Native American tribe living outside of Charleston, this Southern dish is a cross between cornbread and corn pudding. Corn flour is mixed with eggs, butter and milk, then fried in spoonfuls. The team at Russell’s adds whole corn kernels and serves each piece in a neatly fried triangle, crisp on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside, with an ample helping of whipped butter. Just the tiniest bit sweet, it is the perfect addition to any barbecue meal. $5

s the weather gets cooler, you’re going to want to put a pin in Miller’s Bar and Grille in Lafayette. It’s because of Miller’s BBQ bowl — a whopping, mercury-dense bowl packed with mashed potatoes, corn, gravy, bacon and smoked meat. Tender strips of pork (or chicken or ribs) are the stars of the bowl, providing smoky, salty and savory piggy goodness, while almost melting in the mouth. The roasted corn and fried onion strings are sweet and pop on each bite. Mashed potatoes, an ideal firm, yet pillowy texture, provide the base. And crispy chunks of bacon heighten all the other grill-centric flavors and generally adds to the indulgence of the bowl. $12.95

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is finicky and slow to flower. It has been growing for a year now, having started from one seed that popped up in a pepper plant pot. It will probably move back inside at the first sign of frost. For some folks the only way to eat a sunwarmed garden tomato is simply dipped in salt or served with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Personally, my summer isn’t complete without a few tomato sandwiches, as in slices of artisan non-grainy bread, mayonnaise or aioli, one thick layer of tomato slices, and possibly bacon and lettuce. I like to take firm tomato slices, dip them in egg and coat them in cornbread mix before frying until see NIBBLES Page 46

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crisp in a little oil or butter. They are great served on a bun with a slice of cheese or used to make tomato Parmesan. I buy ugly tomato “seconds.” When I get a bunch that are overripe I puree them and use it to simmer macaroni.

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When too much of something I love is in season, I tend to encase it in pastry. There are two main tomato pie varieties. If you ask for “tomato pie” in certain Italian neighborhoods in the Northeast they will bring you a pizza variation. Make or buy some pizza dough, brush it with olive oil, top it with thin, drained slices of ripe tomato, chopped basil leaves, salt and fresh mozzarella cheese. The numerous other tomato pie variations include some that are quiche-like and others that can involve pie crust, bread stuffing, salad dressing, sugar or pimento cheese spread. Google “tomato pie” and you’ll find recipes substituting green tomato slices for Granny Smiths in a traditional sweet apple pie. After all, the French called tomatoes “pommes d’amour.” My recipe lands somewhere in the middle. When you have great tomatoes you don’t need to add a lot of extraneous flavors but somehow I always do. Fresh Tomato Pie 1 pie crust, your recipe or refrigerated 3 pounds (approx.) meaty ripe tomatoes, 1/2-inch slices 1/2 cup bread crumbs 1 teaspoon kosher salt freshly ground black pepper (and/or red chile flakes) 1 sweet yellow onion, peeled and finely chopped 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 cup freshly grated ParmigianoReggiano and/or extra sharp cheddar cheese 1/2 cup (approx.) basil leaves, minced Optional: Other fresh herbs, chopped bacon, roasted green chilies, fresh mozzarella slices, sautéed wild mushrooms Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Line a deep glass pie plate with one crust and top with one layer of tomato slices. Use ripe tomatoes but let them drain 20 minutes after slicing so you don’t end up with tomato soup. You can use the reserved juice in a sauce. Combine bread crumbs, salt, pepper, onions, cheese and olive oil and sprinkle it lightly over each tomato layer and then add basil. Repeat the layering process at least twice. Optional ingredients can be added to the layers. Top layer should be tomato slices drizzled with olive oil. Bake on top shelf in oven for about 40 minutes or until top tomatoes start to brown. It will be hard to leave it alone but the pie needs to sit for an hour or two to reach perfection and become sliceable. This pie tastes even better the second day... if it lasts that long.

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he route Christiana Scott took to owning a personal chef business, one that currently enjoys much more demand than supply, is similar to those of a lot of people in the food business. She found her passion, went to culinary school and started cooking professionally. But Scott, like many women in the food industry, had to elbow her way through a professional scene that wanted to pigeonhole her. “I didn’t want to make cupcakes, that’s not my thing,” Scott says. “I think particularly to be a woman in this industry, you have to be pretty tough and advocate for yourself, otherwise you will get pushed aside. I think I was comfortable doing that because I was so sure of what I wanted to do and how important it was for me to learn those skills.” Scott is the sole proprietor and chef at Wildberry, a personal chef service in Boulder County. Her lineup of clients includes five families, and she visits and prepares a week’s worth of meals at each family’s home. Home cooking has always been important to Scott. “I grew up with parents who were really amazing cooks,” she says. “Never professionally or anything, but I grew up with that sort of being part of life, that we sat down and ate dinner together every night and cooked dinner on weekends.” Scott grew up in the Boston suburbs and remembers her dad cooking lasagna Bolognese and boeuf bourguignon, “those things that take a lot of time to cook during football on Sundays.” Those early memories served as the foundation for what would become a career for Scott. “When I got to college, I came to the realization that not everyone ate like we did,” she says, adding that while training for a marathon, she realized how important food was to healthy athletes and how few knew how to make it work in their lives. So Scott went to Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, an intensive five-month program that caters to adults who already have college degrees. The goal was

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TABLE to “get experience in some of the things I didn’t have growing up,” Scott says, but she knew from being around athletes that she wanted to cook food on an individual basis. The self-agency of running her own business appealed to Scott, too. Though her days are busy, she controls everything from the menu generation to sourcing to cooking; things that brick and mortar restaurant positions wouldn’t offer her for years if she were interested. A typical day for Scott starts with a grocery list. She’ll have gotten a menu approved by one of her clients a couple days prior, and on the cook day, she looks over the menu, plots out ingredients and goes to Whole Foods. Scott has a library of staple spices, oils and other standards, and selects produce and meat on the day of cooking.

Once the shopping is comChristiana Scott prepares a meal plete, she heads using farm fresh to her client’s ingredients and herbs that she has house, where she grown. spends anywhere from four to eight hours preparing the week’s meals, often with multiple dishes going on in multiple appliances. That’s a skill unique to the personal chef. “When I first started I wasn’t comfortable having so many things going at once. Especially if you’re searing fish, it can get overcooked in a matter of seconds, so I wasn’t comfortable. I would sit there and watch the fish. Because if I overcook it, I have to go back to Whole Foods and buy it on my dime to make sure it was right for the client. I think in order to avoid that, the cook day took a lot longer,” she says. Scott will cook things according to when they’ll be eaten in the week and leave detailed instructions on how to reheat items. Steak, for instance, will be cooked a temperature below what the client requested so that it’ll finish in reheating. But since she’s not there to see the job out, there’s a bit of trust she has to put in the folks eating her food. “I don’t know what happens,” Scott says. “Sometimes it’s like well, maybe they murdered the steak in the microwave, who knows? I just try to set them up for success and make it as good as possible.” At the end of the day, Scott cleans the kitchen and leaves. At home, she’ll spend up to two hours doing paperwork on the business side and developing menus that are different from what she’s cooked recently for families. That process starts with a questionnaire she gives clients, asking them to determine what foods they like and don’t like. There’s some art in that — if people say, “I don’t like Mexican food” (which is a ridiculous thing to say), Scott will try to find what it is about their perception of Mexican food (usually that it’s unhealthy or too spicy) and develop dishes to see SCOTT Page 50

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emphasize flavors of that cuisine in a format that pleases the family. That doesn’t always guarantee success. “To be in the culinary industry, you have to have a thick skin,” Scott says. “You just have to be OK with the fact that you can execute a dish perfectly according to how Susan France it’s supposed to be done and somebody just may not like it.” Scott’s now faced with the challenge of expanded her business. One of the issues she knew she’d face eventually was that her most valuable resource is time. There are just not a lot of extra shifts she can pack into her business. That means she’ll likely bring in another person to start expanding the operation. Though she doesn’t work in restaurants, Scott’s business is undoubtedly a product of the local restaurant scene, and the impositions that it puts on women. Scott, for instance, said one of the reasons personal cheffing appealed to her was because she wants to have a family some day, and there’s “no maternity leave or any of that stuff that you sort of come to expect in other jobs.” She’s also taken on the role of mentor to up-and-coming female food professionals, because that’s how she progressed. She also knows that the ubermasculine culture of restaurant kitchens

has dissuaded women from advancing their careers there. “I think I’m one of them,” Scott says. “If the culture was different, I would’ve really valued just having another set of experiences, working in kitchens. So I hope for future generations that changes. Not that it has to be all puppies and rainbows — there’s time pressure, there’s knives, there’s fire. There’s a lot going on in the kitchen ... but I think the prevalence of harassment that women face is different from other industries. And there’s no HR department, it’s just sort of accepted.” Boulder, like many other places, has a severe lack of women in kitchen positions. Though gender equality is often talked about in corporate settings, Scott says it’s not something she hears brought up a lot in the restaurant industry. “You hear ‘is this restaurant organic,’ or ‘where are they getting their ingredients,’ but not a whole lot about the people behind the curtain, so it’ll be interesting if that starts to change or whether it’s just kind of status quo,” Scott says. For Scott, the growth of her business doesn’t just mean more clients, more money and more opportunities to cook, it means the elbow room she’s carving out for herself in the food scene is getting bigger, too. Boulder Weekly

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amed after the nearby 13,000-foot mountain — the second tallest peak in the surrounding wilderness — the James Peak Brewery & Smokehouse has elevation on its mind. It even goes so far as to incorporate it into the logo. That’s partly out of pride, and partly to remind you things work a little differently up there. Life may move a little slower, but the beer hits you a heck of a lot faster. Ah, the beauty of high-altitude drinking: more bang for your buck. In addition to a slight lack of oxygen, James Peak Brewery might be the most picturesque place to drink in Nederland. Originally built by Tom Boogaard in 2007 for his Wild Mountain Smokehouse & Brewery, the building ON TAP: James has the disPeak Brewery & tinct look of Smokehouse. 70 E. First St., Nederland, a large rustic 303-258-9453, jamescabin that peakbrew.com overlooks Boulder Creek. After nine years of beer and barbecue, Wild Mountain closed its doors in September 2016 and opened up as the James Peak Brewery & Smokehouse in November under new ownership. The ownership isn’t the only thing that changed, and the new name, one that puts the brewing part of the equation first, is a dead giveaway. James Peak currently offers three in-house beers — Belgian Witbier, Elkhorn Brown Porter and Nedhead Red — a couple guest taps, wine and spirits for you to kick back with on the patio. On a clear day, you can see Eldora Mountain Resort. On a rainy one, you’ll just be enjoying the Boulder Creek washing by. Either way, the beer tastes exactly the same. Lovely and cloudy in the glass, James Peak’s Belgian Witbier (5 percent alcohol by volume) is crisp, clean and refreshing all the way down. A good witbier should be light with a touch of sourness, and James Peak’s offering has both in spades. It’s the kind of beer that you drink to lubricate the gears, get the ball rolling and open up the palate for smoky, savory meats. Elkhorn Brown Porter (5.6 percent) is the kind of beer you’ll want during dinner. Dark brown in the glass, this beer features just the right amount of roasted malts to play nicely alongside James Peak’s sweet barbecue

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Drinking at 8,228 feet by Michael J. Casey sauce and char. Both the Belgian Witbier and the Elkhorn Brown Porter are on the lighter side. Should you need a little more bitterness in your brew, Nedhead Red (six percent) has you covered. With a nose of hops and pine to match the outdoors,

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TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano

defines “idiot memory” as the kind of remembrances that keep us attached to our old self-images, and trapped by them. “Lively memory,” on the other hand, is a feisty approach to our old stories. It impels us to graduate from who we used to be. “We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are,” writes Galeano. “Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case.” Here’s another clue to your current assignment, Taurus, from psychotherapist Dick Olney: “The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the dream that they are their self-image.”

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Sometimes, Gemini, loving you is a

sacred honor for me — equivalent to getting a poem on my birthday from the Dalai Lama. On other occasions, loving you is more like trying to lap up a delicious milkshake that has spilled on the sidewalk, or slow-dancing with a giant robot teddy bear that accidentally knocks me down when it suffers a glitch. I don’t take it personally when I encounter the more challenging sides of you, since you are always an interesting place to visit. But could you maybe show more mercy to the people in your life who are not just visitors? Remind your dear allies of the obvious secret — that you’re composed of several different selves, each of whom craves different thrills.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Liz, my girlfriend when I was young, went to extreme lengths to cultivate her physical attractiveness. “Beauty must suffer,” her mother had told her while growing up, and Liz heeded that advice. To make her long blonde hair as wavy as possible, for example, she wrapped strands of it around six empty metal cans before bed, applied a noxious spray, and then slept all night with a stinky, clanking mass of metal affixed to her head. While you may not do anything so literal, Cancerian, you do sometimes act as if suffering helps keep you strong and attractive — as if feeling hurt is a viable way to energize your quest for what you want. But if you’d like to transform that approach, the coming weeks will be a good time. Step One: Have a long, compassionate talk with your inner saboteur.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Each of us comes to know the truth in our own way, says astrologer Antero Alli. “For some it is wild and unfettered,” he writes. “For others it is like a cozy domesticated cat, while others find truth through their senses alone.” Whatever your usual style of knowing the truth might be, Leo, I suspect you’ll benefit from trying out a different method in the next two weeks. Here are some possibilities: trusting your most positive feelings; tuning in to the clues and cues your body provides; performing ceremonies in which you request the help of ancestral spirits; slipping into an altered state by laughing nonstop for five minutes.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Would you scoff if I said that you’ll soon be blessed with supernatural assistance? Would you smirk and roll your eyes if I advised you to find clues to your next big move by analyzing your irrational fantasies? Would you tell me to stop spouting nonsense if I hinted that a guardian angel is conspiring to blast a tunnel through the mountain you created out of a molehill? It’s OK if you ignore my predictions, Virgo. They’ll come true even if you’re a staunch realist who doesn’t believe in woo-woo, juju or mojo.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: This is the Season of Enlightenment

for you. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It’s not a guarantee that you’ll be freestyling in satori, samadhi or nirvana. But one thing is certain: Life will conspire to bring you the excited joy that comes with deep insight into the nature of reality. If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer Elissa Giles: “Enlightenment is not an asexual, dispassionate, head-inthe-clouds, nails-in-the-palms disappearance from the game of life. It’s a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hard-headed practical grist.”

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Some zoos sell the urine of lions and tigers to gardeners who sprinkle it in their gardens. Apparently the stuff scares off wandering house cats that might be tempted to relieve themselves in vegetable patches. I nominate this scenario to be a provocative metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Might you tap into the power of your inner wild animal so as to protect your inner crops? Could you build up your warrior energy so as to prevent run-ins with pesky irritants? Can you call on helpful spirits to ensure that what’s growing in your life will continue to thrive?

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: The fates have conspired to make it

right and proper for you to be influenced by Sagittarian author Mark Twain. There are five specific bits of his wisdom that will serve as benevolent tweaks to your attitude. I hope you will also aspire to express some of his expansive snappiness. Now here’s Twain: 1) “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” 2) “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” 3) “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” 4) “When in doubt, tell the truth.” 5) “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “My grandfather used to tell me that

if you stir muddy water it will only get darker,” wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales. “But if you let the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and the water will become clearer,” he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink or splash around in the muddy water.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In 1985, Maurizio Cattelan quit his

gig at a mortuary in Padua, Italy and resolved to make a living as an artist. He started creating furniture, and ultimately evolved into a sculptor who specialized in satirical work. In 1999 he produced a piece depicting the Pope being struck by a meteorite, which sold for $886,000 in 2001. If there were ever going to be a time when you could launch your personal version of his story, Aquarius, it would be in the next 10 months. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should go barreling ahead with such a radical act of faith, however. Following your bliss rarely leads to instant success. It may take years. (16 in Cattelan’s case.) Are you willing to accept that?

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Tally up your physical aches, psy-

chic bruises and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments and existential nausea. Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If you bravely examine and deeply feel the difficult feelings, then the cures for those feelings will magically begin streaming in your direction. You’ll see what you need to do to escape at least some of your suffering. So name your griefs and losses, my dear. Remember your near-misses and total fiascos. As your reward, you’ll be soothed and relieved and forgiven. A Great Healing will come.

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Love

by Dan Savage

Dear Dan: My boyfriend of eight months, K, and I are polyamorous. We started the relationship on that foot, and for a while I was the partner he spent the most time with. There have been ups and downs, but overall our relationship is solid and loving. However, recently we both started dating the same woman, L, and they have been spending more time together than with me due to my work schedule. They both reassure me that they love me and care for me deeply, but I am an anxiously-attached person and sometimes I have panic attacks © Rachel Robinson when they spend more time with others/themselves and fear that they’re going to leave me. I’m working on becoming more secure via books on cognitive behavioral therapy, and I’m looking into in-person therapy. This is my first serious relationship, but not his (I’m 22, he’s 35). And while K has been super patient with me, my worry and grasping is a point of friction in the relationship. K has told me he doesn’t want to be solely responsible for my sexual satisfaction and my need for constant reassurances that he cares. The anxiety has been flaring up most strongly concerning sex — we’re all switches, and K and L are both professional Dominants. I feel neglected if K doesn’t penetrate me but he penetrates L, or if L gets to penetrate K via a strap-on and I don’t. He’s very good about voicing what he desires, while I’m learning to speak up despite feeling like I’m just being needy and grasping again. I love both my partners, but I’ve been feeling sexually neglected — and with a HIGH sex drive, it’s been quite painful. This is my first “trio rodeo” and I really want to make it work — I’ve seen a future with K for a while (the I-want-your-children kind), and L is joining those future visions. How can I find a way to create more opportunities for sexy-time and not ruin it with anxiety attacks? BDSM Enthusiastic Lover On Voyage4 Emotional Durability Dear BELOVED: I’m always suspicious when two (or more) people claim to be deeply in love after dating for a short period of time, BELOVED, and eight months qualifies as a short period of time. Premature declarations of love — to say nothing of premature Boulder Weekly

commitments — up the emotional stakes, which can place a strain on a newish relationship (or a trio of them) that it may not be strong enough to bear. Not yet. You’ll feel a lot less anxious about this relationship, BELOVED, if you make a conscious effort to lower the stakes. In other words: Dial it way back, girl. You’ve been dating K for a little more than half a year, and you’ve been dating L for whatever “recently” adds up to in a world where eight months equals LTR. It’ll reduce your anxiety levels and soothe your insecurities if you tell yourself you aren’t committed to K and L as life partners. Not yet. This is the beginning of both these relationships. All you’re committed to right now is continuing to get to know K and L. You’re committed to dating them, you’re committed to exploring where this might go, you’re committed to enjoying your time with them, however long it lasts. But you are not committed to them. Either of them. Not yet. Committing yourself to therapy is a good idea, BELOVED. Everyone should commit to working on their emotional and mental health. You and your therapist can start by reevaluating whether a poly relationship is right for you in practice. In theory, you understand poly and you may want a poly relationship. (Particularly if it’s the only way you can have K.) But as someone with anxiety issues and hang-ups about all sex acts being divided up equally, poly may not be right for you, or it may not be right for you right now. After a little therapy (or maybe a lot), who knows? (Also: Trying to portion out sex between three people like you would ice cream for three small kids — making sure each kid gets the exact same number and size of scoops — is unrealistic. Sometimes you’ll get more; sometimes you’ll get less. Eyeing those scoops too closely is only going to generate conflict.) You’ve been at this rodeo for only eight months, BELOVED, and if these problems are already coming up, it might not be your attachment style or your anxiety. It’s possible this rodeo isn’t for you. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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A philosophical quandary indeed

he not-new but increasingly popular practice of administering psychotropic substances to treat psychological and psycho-spiritual concerns is finding unprecedented success in affecting stubborn diseases like addiction, depression and anxiety with a single dose. That they are effective is becoming broadly accepted in the scientific com- Wikimedia Commons/Rodin’s “The Thinker” munity and, thanks to increasing funding for research, we are beginning to understand how. But why these substances right our relationship with ourselves remains a mystery. According to academic philosopher Philip Gerrans, who has been researching self-representation in psychiatric disorders, “we know quite a lot about the neurochemistry of psychedelic drugs and how they work on the brain. What’s poorly understood is the more complex relationship between the brain, our sense of self and how we perceive the world.” A philosophical quandary indeed. In recently published articles in Neuroscience of Consciousness and Aeon, Gerrans and co-author Chris Letheby suggest that psychedelic drugs “make us better” because they “violate our ideas about ourselves.” Which is to say they work by dissolving the self itself. To understand what this means we have to go

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back to the father of Western philosophy, Rene Descartes, and his famous words “I think therefore I am.” Fundamentally this is a declaration of the self, one of an immaterial soul that knows itself through its changing circumstances, made known to us by our emotional, mental and physical senses. It is a compelling idea, but one that modern neuroscientists mostly reject. Having moved beyond the idea of an immaterial soul, Cartesian philosophy is now viewed as nothing more than a convenient fiction. Anyone who has consumed a substantial dose of psychedelics or cannabis can testify to the dissolution of the notion of an immaterial soul as their ego dissolves and the self ceases to serve as a useful touchstone. Alternatively there is the philosophy of David Hume, who theorizes that the self is nothing more than whatever it is that holds together our string of experiences — like an Instagram handle ties together a feed of pictures of memories and cats. But, according to Hume, that handle isn’t a substantial self, but rather a mere point of connection. According to Hume, there is no soul. So is there a self or isn’t there? If not, who or what is it that is reading and processing the words on this page? Emerging neuroscience, combined

with psychedelic research, is finally putting scientists “in a position to watch the sense of self disintegrate and reintegrate — reliably, repeatedly and safely, in the neuroimaging scanner.” What is being revealed is that while the selfmodel plays an important binding function in cognitive processing, the self does not exist. Increasingly, researchers think that our minds create our experiences through models of predictive processing (much like a computer-simulated world). It turns out we see ourselves the same way we see through our physical eyes: signals enter the eye and are processed by the mind only to be constructed, layer-by-layer, into a consensual reality and a subjective self. But there is too much information to be processed intelligibly (not to mention usefully) and so the brain uses predictive tools to build our worlds — psychologically these tools are states of mind like addiction, depression and anxiety. “People who go through psychedelic experiences no longer take it for granted that the way they’ve been viewing things is the only way,” Dr. Letheby said in a press release. “Psychedelics can assist in enlightening people about the processes behind their subjectivity. This is called ego-dissolution and it offers vivid experiential proof not only that things can be different, but that there is an opportunity to seek change.” Lately there has been a lot of buzz about psychedelic miracles. It’s not that drugs themselves are miraculous, but that they allow for self-transcendence and make room for people to experience profound and boundless connections with the world they inhabit. It’s as if they are seeing the world for the first time and in that moment are experiencing, in the words of Aldous Huxley, “what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation — the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.”

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cannabis corner

by Paul Danish

Kicking Sessions’ can down the road

hat mysterious object sailing majestically past the Justice Department high above Pennsylvania Avenue was the marijuana policy can being kicked down the road by Jeff Sessions’ Crime Reduction and Public Safety Task Force. A lot of people in the marijuana industry and pot legalization activists had expected the task force to come up with policy recommendations for restarting the war on marijuana in states that have legalized both medical and recreational pot. It didn’t happen. The task force submitted its recommendations to Sessions at the end of July. They were supposed to be kept secret, but someone leaked portions to the Associated Press. The most important tidbit had to do with whether the Justice Department should “maintain, revise, or rescind” the Department’s (mostly) hands off existing policy on enforcing federal anti-pot laws in states that have legalized, provided they take steps to keep marijuana out of states that haven’t legalized it, and out of the hands of criminal cartels and kids. The task force’s recommendation: Federal officials should continue to “evaluate” the issue. Three other task force recommendations were equally insipid: • According to the AP, the task force suggested

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teaming Justice and Treasury Department officials to offer guidance to financial institutions, telling them to implement robust anti-money laundering programs and report suspicious transactions involving businesses in states where pot is legal — all of which is already required by federal law. • The task force also suggested officials develop “centralized guidance, tools and data related to marijuana enforcement.” Two years ago, the Government Accountably Office told the Justice Department essentially the same thing. • The task force also said administration officials should continue to oppose rules that block the Justice Department from interfering with medical marijuana programs in states where it is legal. Congress is currently in the process of re-enacting those rules, despite a plea from Sessions in May not to do so. So why did the task force, who’s membership includes more than its fair share of drug war dead-enders, choose to kick the can down the road? John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies marijuana law and who was interviewed by the task force, thinks it might be because the task force knew if it just came out and told Sessions that stuffing the legalization genie back into the bottle was impossible, he would reject anything it recommended out of hand.

“If they come out with a more progressive, liberal policy, the attorney general is just going to reject it,” he said. “They need to convince the attorney general that the recommendations are the best they can do without embarrassing the entire department by implementing a policy that fails.” Mason Tvert, who led Colorado’s legalization campaign, said the vague recommendations are consistent with the fact that “there’s as much evidence that Sessions intends to maintain the system [currently in place] and help improve upon it as there is that he intends to roll it back.” It may also be that the task force formulated its recommendations with an eye on public opinion, as reflected most recently in a Quinnipiac University poll released last week. It found that 61 percent of those polled favored legalizing marijuana, compared with 33 percent opposed, a finding consistent with several other polls taken over the past year. The same poll found that more than seven in 10 Americans aged 18-49 favored legalization, and that the only two demographics opposed were Republicans, 58 percent of whom remained opposed, and Americans over age 65, 52 percent of whom were opposed. The poll also found that legal medical marijuana was overwhelmingly supported by a 94 to 4 percent margin, including at least 90 percent support in all demographic groups. And 75 percent of those polled opposed the federal government “enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states that have already legalized medical or recreational marijuana,” with every demographic opposed to federal meddling, including 59 percent of Republicans. This last finding may be the most telling. It means if Sessions decides to launch a war on legal marijuana, he may find himself walking into a political buzz-saw, and chances are his task force knows it even if the attorney general doesn’t. And so the task force did the sensible thing and kicked the can down the road. Far down the road.

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WRITTEN IN THE STARS

There are lots of reasons why Donald Trump ended up as the leader of the free frickin’ world: a demoralized American working class, a wealth of actually fake news making rounds on social media, because the Democratic Party threw all their weight behind a status quo candidate... and the list goes on. But what if there was another reason, something beyond human control? What if Trump’s win was ordained by the heavens, set in motion long before gravity gathered the gas and dust that eventually formed Earth? Much like your weekly horoscope makes you feel better about the fact that you’re indecisive to a point of dysfunction (“I can’t help it — I’m a Pisces!”), astrology can now relieve you of the nauseating guilt (maybe that’s jealousy) that rises each time your friend from Canada tells you he’s sorry and you can stay at his cabin in Manitoba whenever you’re ready to leave. (“We got Trudeau — snack on that for lunch, you frickin’ hoser!”) Some astrologers are predicting the upcoming solar eclipse could spell disaster for the Commander in Tweet. Astrological consultant — yes, that’s apparently a thing — Wade Caves told AOL News — yes, that’s apparently a thing — that while the stars have been in the POTUS’ favor through his candidacy and election, the celestial tide is about to turn. Caves told AOL there was a total lunar eclipse when Trump was born on June 14, 1946, which Caves believes makes Trump more vulnerable to the influence of the moon. There’s some stuff about the sun being in Leo, and Leo eclipses being connected to the fall of, ahem, kings. So, the position of the Aug. 21 eclipse in relation to the star Al Jabhah (not a Bollywood celebrity, oops) typically “brings loss and danger,” Caves said. This could mean “danger of mutiny and murder.” Caves said he felt well within his “bounds astrologically to make such a prediction given the symbolism.” He added that a health issue could pull Agent Orange out of the Oval Office. “It’s also quite reasonable to suspect ousting, either through official channels or mutiny behind closed doors.” So there you have it. None of this is our fault. Wash your hands of the whole matter. The universe’s got this one. The stars will align, the delicate Boulder Weekly

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