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onopolies are not merely un-American, they’re virulently anti-American, suppressing our fundamental values of fairness and opportunity for all. So, our people have instinctively rebelled at monopoly avarice — the Boston Tea Party, the Populist Movement, union action, trust busters, muckrakers, the New Deal, Ralph Nader... and on and on. Yet, in just the last couple of decades, corporate elites
and their public officials have enshrined monopoly power as a legitimate form of business in our land, aggressively protected by lawmakers, regulators and judges. For example, after our grassroots economy was crushed in 2007 by the greed of too-big-to-fail Wall Street banksters, officials bailed out the villainous banks at taxpayer expense and deliberately made them bigger, more powerful and more dangerous than ever. Today, just five banks control nearly half of all financial assets in the U.S. You’d think such a massive power grab by bank monopolists would produce an equally massive, 24/7 barrage of coverage by the nation’s media outlets, which purport to be defenders of democracy. But while an occasional story pops out about monopoly abuse, there’s no comprehensive coverage to rally a public
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rebellion against what’s become the “United States of Monopoly Rule.” Why? Look at who owns America’s mass media. Three decades ago, 50 large media conglomerates controlled 90 percent of the media. This year, after a frenzy of mergers among those giants, just five mega-media monopolists will control 90 percent of what we see, hear and read. It is not in their interest to inform the public about the threat that monopolies pose to our democracy — so, they won’t. As the great journalist, A.J. Liebling, warned nearly 40 years ago, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” To help battle the monopolists, go to The Center for Media and Democracy www.prwatch.org/cmd. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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in the Central/Great Lakes region (aka “the heartland” and “flyover country” in the coastal enclaves) may reflect a spike in resentment among the area’s deplorables over the coastals’ contempt for their values and economic pain. Question: If that is the root cause, did Russian attempts to use social media to polarize the country play a role in catalyzing that resentment? If the answer is yes, Putin may be doing kazotsky kicks around the Kremlin. The more interesting results from the survey may be the ones Zogby didn’t share — the demographic breakdown of the Statement B cohort: Which demographic groups are most supportive of crushing a secession attempt by military force? Are nanny-statist Democrats or libertarian Republicans more in favor of fighting to preserve the country? Given their military traditions, is the most support for Statement B in the South? Are blacks less willing than whites to use force to keep the country together than Whites, or vice versa? And so on. So is there anything here that we should be concerned about? Oh heavens no. Why would anyone be alarmed just because nearly 40 percent of the American people are kind of insouciant about the possibility of the country disintegrating, and only about one-third of Americans think it’s worth fighting to keep it together? Absolutely nothing, nothing, do you hear, to worry about here. P.S.: John Calhoun, call your office. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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Over the past several weeks, Boulder Weekly has reached out repeatedly to various persons at the I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County (IHDF) for comment on this story. We have requested (via phone and email) to meet with IHDF’s President and CEO Lori Canova, former Board Chair Joel Dyer Kristen Solomon as well as the IHDF employee who has been accused of improper behavior by parents with children in the IHDF program. We received no response from the employee in question. Canova and Solomon both declined to meet with us in person to answer questions, requesting written questions via email instead. We explained that BW, on investigative news stories, does not allow its reporters to conduct interviews by email. There are many reasons for this position, including not being able to verify who is actually answering the emailed questions or who may have had input into the questioning process. It is also difficult via email to get confirmation on whose signatures are on documents or to confirm who within an organization saw which documents, etc. We also explained to Canova that we understood that she could not discuss personnel issues, and we assured her we had many other questions concerning her and the Foundation’s actions that did not fall under the category of personnel. In the end, Canova stopped returning calls and emails nearly two months ago and, on June 19, issued the following statement in an email to BW as her final response to our request to meet and discuss allegations of abuse concerning IHDF: “Our number one priority is to champion the advancement of youth from low-income communities to empower them to reach their education and career goals through mentoring, tutoring and cultural enrichment opportunities. Our entire staff works hard every day to meet that goal. We are committed to constant improvement with the thousands of children and parents we have served over the past Boulder Weekly
28 years, and we are very proud of our record of success. I’m pleased to share that in our most recent survey sent to parents involved in our program, the parents overwhelmingly reported that they were pleased with our program. If a parent has a concern about the program, we take it seriously and work
constructively to promptly resolve the concern. Due to confidentiality, I cannot comment on specific parent concerns or personnel matters. I can confirm, however, that we have no evidence of any child in our program being harmed in any way. Although you have not provided any specifics with respect to the matter you wanted to ask about, I assume this may involve allegations raised in 2015 by a few parents. Assuming that is correct, I can share that others investigated these allegations, including the Lafayette Police Department and the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, and none of those investigations corroborated or substantiated any allegation of misconduct.” Prior to going to press, Boulder Weekly informed Canova of additional information that conflicted with her statement and gave her the opportunity to issue a new statement. We held the paper past press time but received no response.
After reaching former Board Chair Solomon by phone, requesting a meeting and explaining BW’s position on emailing questions, Solomon asked if she could call us back later. The next day she texted, “I have nothing further to add to the response provided on June 19th from I Have a Dream’s CEO.” We asked Solomon to reconsider but she did not respond. Through email and phone calls we have requested to speak with current IHDF Board Chair Allen Ginsborg as well as numerous other members of the current IHDF board. None of our calls or emails were returned prior to press time. We have also attempted to meet with persons who were working at IHDF during the time in question only to have them agree to meet with us and then inexplicably break off all contact with us. Also, on two occasions — when we contacted Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) school board member Richard Garcia and BVSD Chief Communications Officer Randy Barber — both were already aware of our investigation even before our initial contact with them. During a sit-down interview, Garcia told BW that Canova had contacted him ahead of BW regarding our investigation. Because BW strives for fairness in reporting, we would prefer to publish this story having had the opportunity to speak with and present information from IHDF employees, executives and board members, but that did not occur by their choice. We want to assure our readers that we have made every possible effort, for months in some cases, to give all persons involved in this story the space necessary to provide their version of events or to dispute or clarify any of the allegations concerning them or their organizations. BW will continue to make space available in the future for any of those who have chosen not to speak with us prior to the publication of this article but may desire to do so at a later date. End of Editor’s note. See INVISIBLE Page 12
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n the affluent Boulder County community, there are ‘invisible,’ impoverished communities whose young people face tremendous obstacles to academic and life success.” So reads the opening line of the “overview” section of the website of I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County (IHDF). This description of the Foundation’s work goes on to stress that “the ultimate goal of ‘I Have a Dream’ is to provide the youth it serves with the necessary support and trusting relationships they need to close the achievement gap with their more affluent peers and complete high school prepared for higher education and a fulfilling career.” There is no doubt that this Joel Dyer well-respected nonprofit organization — whose popularity is evidenced by its ability to raise millions of dollars each year from hundreds of influential individual and business donors within the Boulder County community — has done much good, particularly for the low-income Latino youth who comprise more than 80 percent of the program’s participants. IHDF’s success has been amplified through its close partnerships with local institutions including the St. Vrain Valley (SVVSD) and Boulder Valley (BVSD) school districts and Community Foundation Boulder County. But in April this year, Boulder Weekly reporters sat in a living room in Lafayette, Colorado, and with the help of an interpreter, listened to a very different story about IHDF. The small living room was filled with nearly a dozen, mostly Spanish-speaking parents of children who were either currently attending, or had, in the last few years, stopped attending one particular IHDF class, which is currently being conducted at BVSD’s Centaurus High School in Lafayette. For the purposes of this article going forward, this group of Lafayette parents will simply be referred to as “the parents.” The reason for our meeting that night can best be described as desperation on the part of the parents. The families simply felt they had nowhere else to turn. They told BW they had exhausted every avenue they could think of to tell those running the IHDF program, along with other authorities, that they believed their children had been emotionally, and in some instances 12 August 16, 2018
physically, abused and otherwise mistreated by a particular IHDF employee. After listening to the parents’ stories at that first April meeting — stories told through tears and anger that belied the many months that had passed since their journey began — their waning hope seemed understandable. For approximately three and a half years, these families had been making their allegations known to any and everyone who would listen. The parents claim they had on multiple occasions told both IHDF’s CEO Lori Canova and the members of the Foundation’s Board of Directors about their allegations of mistreatment. Letters and other
documents provided to BW as well as police incident reports from late 2017 that BW has in its possession appear to corroborate this claim. The parents also claim they informed BVSD administrators at both Angevine Middle School and Centaurus High School, as well as BVSD Board Member Richard Garcia, of the alleged abuse. They even went to the Lafayette Police Department and eventually thenDistrict Attorney Stan Garnett in late 2017. Yet despite all of the parents’ ongoing efforts, it now appears that no legally authorized outside agency ever interviewed the children, the accused IHDF employee, other IHDF personnel who worked with the employee, Canova, former IHDF Board Chair Kristen
Solomon, Garcia or in any other way investigated the parents’ allegations of mistreatment and abuse during the past three and a half years. Since both the Lafayette police and the former DA have told BW that they never investigated the parents’ allegations, that means that the only “investigation” of the allegations ever conducted between 2014 and now, according to IHDF correspondence with the parents, was a purported internal investigation conducted by the accused Foundation itself and what was referred to by IHDF as an “outside review,” which the Foundation’s letter to the parents described as a member of the community along with an unnamed individual from the University of Colorado being asked by IHDF to sit in and observe a few classes wherein the accused employee was working. This lack of an independent investigation by a legally authorized outside agency seems somewhat surprising considering that the allegations of abuse by the parents — according to police reports and letters of complaints written by the children and their parents that were given to IHDF — include claims of children being punished by being made to stay on a hot bus without ventilation in summer; children being grabbed by their shoulders and shaken; and a student being pulled “violently” backwards by their backpack in 2015 leaving red marks on their arms and pain in their shoulders while being screamed at by the employee. Copies of the police reports and letters examined by BW are also full of other complaints of mistreatment as well — from constant yelling at the children that allegedly left them stressed and frightened to various accounts of students being treated in a fashion that humiliated them in front of their peers, all of which made them want to leave the program, and more. There was one other item of note by students and the parents that makes multiple appearances in the documents, including the police reports. There is an oft-repeated claim that the accused IHDF employee on more than one occasion told the students that it wasn’t possible for the employee to be fired from IHDF. So despite Colorado state law (see sidebar page 14) which requires immediate, mandatory reporting of any suspected child abuse to either local law
enforcement and/or the local child welfare agency, in this case Boulder County Housing and Human Services (BCHHS), none of the persons or organizations informed of the allegations by the parents over the years ever did so — with the exception of one BVSD high school vice principal who called police in August 2017, more than two years after parents and students claim they had first reported many of their allegations to IHDF. At the time, the phone call to police was to no avail — due to what the Lafayette Police Department recently admitted was an error of judgment on its part that resulted in no investigation of the families’ allegations — the call may yet prove a decisive factor for all involved. In recent days, due to Boulder Weekly’s contact with the Lafayette Police Department concerning this case, the Department told BW that it had discovered the allegations had been improperly categorized by the department at the time, which led the officers in charge to mistakenly believe the statute of limitations on the alleged abuse had already expired. It was a technicality that led the Department to close the case without actually investigating the families’ claims. As of last week, Lafayette police told BW that the alleged incidents are now being properly recategorized as “child abuse,” which carries a five-year statute of limitations rather than the 18 months under the original mistaken classification of assault. This correction by Lafayette police will allow the Department to finally launch a full investigation into the families’ allegations. However, the police caution that due to the significant passage of time since the alleged abuse was said to have occurred and was allegedly first brought to the attention of IHDF, the investigation will now be much more difficult than it would have been had the allegations been reported to law enforcement authorities or BCHHS at the time they first became known. After being informed that the case has been reopened by Lafayette Police Department, BVSD’s Chief Communications Officer, Randy Barber, provided BW with the following statement which was delivered to us through email: “When the allegation was brought to our attention, the Boulder Valley School District reported it immediately to law enforcement, as required by law. We understand that the case, which was previous closed, has now been reopened, and will respond accordingly See INVISIBLE Page 14
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if new information is revealed through this investigation by law enforcement. “While no BVSD employees are involved in this case, out of caution we have asked our partners at the I Have A Dream Foundation to keep anyone involved in the case from working with students, until this issue is resolved.” It has been a long road to this point. While some readers may wonder why the parents, in some instances, would still allow their children to attend the same class with the same IHDF employee they have accused if their claims of abusive behavior are true, such a question fails to understand what the IHDF program represents for lowincome Latino families. In many, if not most instances, IHDF represents the best hope for these parents to ever see their children go to college; it is one of the few opportunities for their kids to ever break the cycle of economic hardship. This is why giving up on their children’s IHDF program has been so difficult for the families in question. It is also why the parents feel so outraged and harmed. They do not view what they claim has happened as simply a difficult circumstance, they say they view it as a negative, potentially lifealtering tragedy that may well impact their children for the rest of their lives, having ended their opportunity for a college education. The parents and children — whose identities BW has agreed to protect due to their fear of retaliation, a fear which for some is exacerbated by their immigration status — have long felt betrayed, unheard and ignored. The very program that promised
them “trusting relationships” to lift their children to success, stands accused, in the words of one parent, of “making us more invisible than ever.” And they think they know why. These families are clear that they do not believe their allegations of abuse would have been so easily ignored by so many for so long had their skin had been white instead of brown.
The Dream The concept behind IHDF is a proven one. Give a group of young, lowincome students the incentive of a college scholarship if they stay in school and graduate high school with adequate grades, and many will do just that. More specifically, under the program a class of 50 low-income students called “dreamers,” is put together under the guidance of an IHDF program director when the students are in second and third grade. The program director is charged with multiple responsibilities, which, according to the IHDF website, include maintaining personal relationships with the Dreamer Scholars and their families, serving as a support and resource for academic and personal problems, providing referrals to other agencies to meet overall family needs and serving as a liaison between Dreamer Scholars and their families and schools. Each of the Dreamer classes begins in elementary school and stays together through middle and high school, preferably with the same program director leading the entire 10-year experience. Each Dreamer class is financially supported by specific donors to IHDF. According to IHDF materials, the cost for a donor to support an entire class
beginning to end is approximately $1.2 million. For one student a donor can pledge $3,000 per year or roughly $30,000 over the course of the entire program through graduation. Obviously, donors are critical to the program’s success. For the parents in Lafayette who met with BW, the first signs of discontent with their IHDF program appeared in 2014 following an unexpected and unexplained change in their children’s program director. As a result of this change, according to the parents, between 30 and 50 parents in their IHDF class demanded a meeting with Canova to voice their concerns over the loss of the program director and IHDF’s decision to combine their class with another already existing class of Dreamers. There were no allegations of abuse at this time, simply complaints resulting from the sudden changes in the program. The parents claim that by 2015 their children were telling them that they did not like the way they were being treated by the accused IHDF employee who worked in their new class. BW has examined letters written by students and their parents in early 2016 describing their alleged mistreatment. The letters were given to Canova in early 2016. Most of the complaints have to do with what the letters describe as excessive yelling at the children, who also claim they were being treated differently and worse than the kids from the class with which they had been merged. Some of the letters examined by BW, however, do contain allegations of what the police reports would later
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itle 19 of the Colorado Revised Statutes outlines how issues relating to child abuse should be handled throughout the state. Anything that threatens the health or welfare of a child is considered child abuse including emotional abuse, failure to thrive and a variety of physical signs of injury that may not be an accidental occurrence. It also includes suspected sexual assault or exploitation of a minor, lack of adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or supervision of a child, and the manufacturing of controlled substances in the home or presence of a child. A person should report if they have “reasonable cause to know or suspect” a child is in danger, and cannot be held liable in good faith if the allegations aren’t or can’t be proven. The state offers free online training about how to recognize and report child abuse, especially for people who are mandatory reporters. BVSD also 14 August 16, 2018
trains all employees and provides a legal document on its website that addresses mandatory reporting procedures. The list of mandatory Joel Dyer reporters includes doctors, firefighters, peace officers and public or private school employees or any worker in a licensed or certified facility. It includes anyone who works with or around children including coaches, facility maintenance personnel and members of the clergy. According to Colorado state law, anyone who qualifies as a mandatory reporter has to report the incident to either the county department in charge of child welfare (Boulder County Housing and Human Services) or the local law enforcement agency. Calling the statewide child abuse
describe as accusations of “abuse and assault.” Based on BW’s interviews and an examination of documents related to this case, the first known allegation of physical abuse reported to IHDF was in spring 2015 and was in regard to a seventh grader who claimed that they were “violently” pulled backwards by their backpack while being yelled at by the IHDF employee as they tried to go meet their mother outside Angevine Middle School. Because this was the first, though not necessarily the most serious, allegation of abuse, we will take the time here to report it from the viewpoint of all of the available source materials we have found over the course of this investigation.
The earliest allegations The earliest written account of the alleged backpack incident can be found in a letter written by the alleged seventh-grade victim in March of 2016. As it pertains to this alleged incident, the student wrote (all items in brackets added by BW): “Once I was in a hurry because I had to be somewhere after dreamers and she [the accused IHDF employee] stopped me and was screaming at me for some reason (I don’t know why). I asked her if she could tell me tomorrow or some other day and walked out the door because my mom told me to hurry — and she pulled me by the backpack really violently and screamed at me to never leave her speaking alone.” The student’s letter concerning the See INVISIBLE Page 16
reporting hotline system, which then coordinates with the proper agencies, is also sufficient for reporting. Although employees can also alert supervisors or HR departments of suspected abuse if it involves another staff member, doing so does not absolve them of the responsibility to immediately report it to the proper authorities as well. There are also penalties for failing to report suspected child abuse to the aforementioned agencies. Failure to report can result in a Class 3 misdemeanor charge, a $750 fine or up to six months in jail. The BVSD mandatory reporting legal document also warns that failure to report “may create liability for you and the School District for any further injuries suffered by the child following a failure to report.” State law also states that this liability includes “damages approximately caused.” Boulder Weekly
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According to correspondence dated April 6, 2016 between IHDF and various parents whose children had written letters, Canova explained to the parents the actions she claims her organization took in response to all the allegations by parents and students, which would have included the alleged backpack incident. The letters from Canova, which were written to different parents but were identical in content, state the following: “After hearing about these concerns, per our policy, I conducted both an internal and external review to look into this further... Internally, we interviewed and talked with Dreamers, staff, volunteers, AmeriCorps members, teachers, counselors and the principal at the school [this would have been Mike Medina at Angevine Middle School]. In addition, the Vice President of Programs, Health and Wellness Coordinator, and three other Program Directors visited the after-school program to share their observations with me regarding the concerns. Externally, a representative from the University of Colorado came several times to observe the program regarding the concerns that were brought to our attention. “After doing this internal and external review regarding the complaints brought to my attention, we have come to the conclusion that there is nothing that would warrant a change in personnel, as some of you had requested.” Note that Canova uses the term “I conducted” for both the internal and external review, indicating that both reviews were under IHDF’s purview as opposed to an independent outside agency. The parents told BW that they have asked IHDF for a copy of the report they say the organization has claimed it produced from the above investigations, but to date, they have never been allowed to see the report or obtain a copy.
Mandatory reporting There are reasons why day care centers, schools or other programs that care for children like IHDF train all of their employees on the legal requirements of mandatory reporting (see sidebar page 14). In IHDF’s case, according to former employees, the Foundation’s mandatory reporting training is provided by BVSD. Immediately reporting something such as an alleged physical assault on a child by an adult to police, BCHHS or through the statewide hotline as required by law makes good sense. Most nonprofits working with kids have no
expertise in criminal investigations, not to mention the obvious potential conflicts of interest in allowing any organization to investigate itself and then declare itself and its employees innocent of the alleged offenses, which, if substantiated, would likely cause embarrassment, loss in donations or even criminal charges against the organization and/or its employees. This is why the law has set out substantial criminal penalties for anyone who has a reason to even suspect that an act of abuse may have occurred to a child yet fails to report that suspicion to one or both of the two authorized agencies required under the law. Doing an internal investigation along with an investigation by an authorized outside agency seems like a good idea, but such an internal investigation would not nullify the requirements of the law to notify the proper authorities when there is any reason to suspect potential abuse. “My obligation as a mandatory reporter is not met until I make the call to the hotline or to the county. Or I sit with the supervisor and hear my supervisor make my call,” said Minna Castillo Cohen, director of the Colorado Office of Children Youth and Families during a recent interview. “You either have to do it yourself or witness it happening to meet your legal obligations.” When asked specifically if an internal investigation does not fulfill mandatory reporting requirements, Castillo Cohen answered, “Correct. That can be done independently.” Obviously, mandatory reporting is only required if the person witnessing or being made aware of allegations of abuse believes that they rise to that level. The parents, who speak primarily Spanish and acknowledge having no understanding of Colorado’s laws pertaining to child abuse, tell BW they’ve never heard of the child abuse hotline or knew they could report their allegations to BCHHS. And as with many firstgeneration immigrants in this day and age, they have been hesitant to go to law enforcement. But not knowing where to turn next did not mean that the parents had given up. A full year and four months passed following Canova’s letter telling the families that their claims had no merit based on the Foundation’s investigation of itself before the parents reached out to IHDF again. According to a letter dated Aug. 17, 2017 from Solomon, IHDF Board Chair at that time, to one of the parents, a phone call had been made by the par-
ents requesting a meeting between parents and the IHDF Board of Directors to discuss the allegations from 2015-16. In the letter, Solomon’s response states, “I am writing on behalf of the I Have a Dream Boulder County Board of Directors in response to your phone call requesting to meet to discuss the parent concerns originally brought to our organization’s attention in 2016 regarding the [name withheld] Dreamer Class. “The Board again reviewed the actions taken nearly one and a half years ago in response to these concerns. We take all allegations of this nature seriously, including the ones you and others raised in 2016. As a result of those allegations, the organization took a variety of actions to investigate the matter...” At this point Solomon’s letter lists off the exact same description of the “internal” and “external” review process that was stated in Canova’s April 6, 2016 letter to parents and reported in full earlier in this story. Solomon goes on to say that based on IHDF’s investigation, “we concluded that there was no basis to terminate the employment of the staff member, as you requested. In the intervening year and a half, we have received no information to support a different conclusion.” Solomon’s letter is important for a couple of reasons. First, it confirms that the entire IHDF Board of Directors had been aware of all of the allegations of abuse and mistreatment since at least 2016. By her use of the words “again reviewed,” Solomon seems to confirm that the Board in place in 2016 had reviewed all of the parents’ and children’s allegations, which would have included the alleged backpack assault. This prior knowledge would of course be contingent on Canova having provided the Board with all of the letters and allegations that had been made known to her. This acknowledgment of the IHDF Board’s involvement is also important because for many years the nonprofit has had high-ranking representatives from both BVSD and SVVSD. Since the parents allegations were first leveled until present, BVSD’s Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership Sandy Riplinger has been on the IHDF Board. So as early as 2016, according to Solomon’s letter, BVSD and SVVSD administrators were apparently aware of allegations of emotional and physical abuse at IDHF. It’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which members of the See INVISIBLE Page 18
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alleged incident and the apparent discrepancy regarding the IHDF investigation and the other allegations made by the parents, he told BW via email, “I have no knowledge of this matter. I will refer all questions to BVSD’s Communications Office.” Following the initial visit in August 2017 by the police officer to talk to Vice Principal Di Laura, nearly two full months, according to the report, passed before the Lafayette Police Department did any follow-up on this case. We should note that Di Laura’s swift mandatory reporting of this alleged assault is the only time over the entire span since the parents first alleged abuse in 2015 that anyone reported the allegations to outside authorities as prescribed under Colorado law. The information given to Di Laura that prompted his call to police even knowing the alleged incident had occurred a year and a half earlier, was essentially the same information that the alleged victim had provided to IHDF in their letter in early 2016. According to police reports, on Oct. 26, 2017, a different officer assigned to the case contacted the parent and asked if he still wanted to press charges against the accused IHDF employee. The parent told the officer he would talk to his wife and get back to him. Later that day, according to the report, the officer spoke with the alleged victim and the child’s parents. The child retold the same story about being pulled backwards by her backpack by the accused employee. The officer again asked if the student and their father wanted to press charges against the accused employee. They said they would think about it and get back to the officer. According to the report, the next day, Oct. 27, 2017, the officer spoke to the “Principal at Centaurus” who told the officer, “When he spoke to [the accused employee’s] supervisor Laurie (sic) [Canova], she told him that they had this reported to her a couple years ago when it happened. Laurie (sic) told the principal that she investigated it internally and had a third party investigate it as well and it was unfounded.” The police report goes on to describe how on Oct. 31, 2017, at 11 a.m., the student’s father told the officer that he did want to press charges against the accused employee for the alleged assault. The report then goes on to say that on Nov. 2, 2017, at 9:30 a.m., the officer asked the father when exactly the alleged assault occurred. A few minutes later the father informed the officer that Boulder Weekly
news it was between March and May of 2015. The father also then told the officer that he and the other parents had called the Lafayette police the day before (Nov. 1, 2017) and had met with them and that all the parents had pressed charges against the accused IHDF employee. The report concludes by noting that at 2 p.m. on Nov. 2, 2017, less than 24 hours after the father and other parents had finally decided to press charges, the officer called and informed the father that he had spoken with his supervisor about the alleged incident and that “we decided that the incident was past the statute of limitations.” Once again, the police never spoke to the accused employee, any of the students in the employee’s class or any other IHDF employees or volunteers. In short, the police had closed the case on the alleged backpack assault before they had ever investigated it. Not, apparently, because it wasn’t a serious or credible allegation, but simply because no one, not the parents nor anyone at IHDF or BVSD, had brought it to their attention in time. The parents told BW they were unaware that there was such a thing as a statute of limitations. It was one more disappointment that felt unfair to them.
Mixed messages So what about the other allegations made by the other parents who also pressed charges on Nov. 1, 2017? According to the police report, “Upon arrival, several families asked police take a report in regards to child abuse that occurred at Angevine Middle School by a ‘I Have a Dream’ [employee]. The families stated the staff at the school has ignored their complaints and stated that [the accused employee] has told the victims that she cannot be fired.” The following are some of the allegations made by some of the parents to police on Nov. 1, 2017 (translated by police from Spanish): Parent 1: “One of the punishments, they were left inside of a school bus in the middle of summer for 15-20 minutes.” Parent 2: “On one occasion my son [name withheld] was intimidated and threatened by telling him if on another occasion he behaved badly he would be placed on the school bus as a punishment. [Name withheld] personally informed me, one of the punishments she could do to my son [name withheld] was to take him and put him on the school bus. One of the punishments was to take away his Christmas presents in December 2016.” Parent 3: “On one occasion he was Boulder Weekly
forced to sit on the floor, obligating him to eat his snack, telling him to eat it like a dog. “In the summer of 2015 my son was disciplined by shutting him in a bus without ventilation with very high temperatures for a period of 15 min. “We later contacted [name withheld] and he commented my case was for the jail, but later he did nothing regarding my case.” Parent 4: “My son was assaulted physically when he was grabbed and shaken by the shoulders, and was also yelled at. This happened approximately in 2015. And once again in February 2016 was assaulted verbally and intimidated. And one summer they were left on the bus with very high temperatures for 15 min. as punishment, summer of 2015.” Parent 5: “My son [name withheld] was assaulted physically by [name withheld] when he was pulled by his arm. This occurred February-March of the 2015-2016 school year. His dad went to complain directly to [name withheld] and her answer to him was, the children would not listen to her and stressed her out.” Parent 6: “My daughter was punished inside of a school bus, in the summer without ventilation for 15 minutes. My daughter arrived home very stressed and tired, affecting her due to the punishment given by [name withheld] by leaving them on the bus... My daughter was also witness to how [name withheld] would humiliate the kids, how she would scream at them. And would also tell them not to speak in Spanish, my daughter took this as racism. This is why my daughter [name withheld] has not attended the ‘I Have a Dream’ program, and has disinterest of what she experienced in the program. As a parent I made the decision to not send my daughter until there is justice with [name withheld]. [Name withheld] also made mention to my daughter she could not be fired from the program, she would yell this to all the kids.” Parent 7: “On one of the excursions, they were disciplined by leaving them on the bus for more than 20 minutes, without air conditioning, in the summer of 2015. [Name withheld] assured the children she could not be fired from the program.” The police report also states, “Several of the parents voiced their concerns that they were afraid [the accused IHDF employee] or the school would retaliate... One of the parents voiced concerns that [the accused employee] See INVISIBLE Page 20
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would never be fired because she has a relationship with one of the ‘I Have a Dream’ executives. [The accused employee] had apparently told students and parents that she could not be fired because of this relationship.” When BW asked the parents about the accused employee’s alleged claims that she could not be fired back in April, they said they suspected it was because of some relationship with someone at IHDF but they didn’t know whom that might be. This relationship that the parents allege made it difficult for IHDF to terminate its accused employee is just one of the many things we would have liked to have spoken with Canova, Solomon or any other Board members about — because it at least appears that such a relationship may have existed. A family member of the accused employee was on the IHDF Board when they were hired in 2012. In 2014-15, when the parents first began making their allegations of abuse and mistreatment, the family member had left the Board but was still a donor to the Foundation. In addition to personally supporting IHDF, the family member was also president of a $500-million corporation that also financially supported IHDF. And in a final act of charity — at approximately the same time IHDF was doing its internal investigation into the parents’ allegations — it was announced by IHDF that the family member had become one of the Foundation’s “legacy donors,” meaning they had designated IHDF as a beneficiary in their will and estate plans. The accused employee’s family member was battling cancer at this time, and passed away on May 18, 2017. The obituary requested that in lieu of flowers, people donate to IHDF for a college scholarship fund in their name. One can only imagine the difficulty of having to have put the family through a difficult and public outside investigation into alleged child abuse at a time when they were already dealing with serious illness.
The non-investigation continues According to the police report, after the parents’ formal complaints and their agreement to file charges on Nov. 1, 2017 — and the officer telling one of the parents on Nov. 2 that the statute of limitations had already expired — the police took no further actions on any of the parents’ allegations until the week of Nov. 20, 2017. According to the police report, [officer’s name withheld] found the parents’ written statements untranslated from Spanish in the case file.
Next the report says, “As the statements were in Spanish, I had them translated by [name withheld] of the Lafayette Police Department. On Friday, Nov. 24th 2017, I read the translations. There are no allegations in the statements that rise to the level of criminal in nature. I did however forward both translated and Spanish version copies of the statements to the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) for possible follow up should they see necessary... This case is closed unfounded.” The last entry of the police report is on Dec. 12, 2017. An officer is asked to call Canova but he has a bad connection and instead goes to meet her in Lafayette. When the officer arrives to talk to her, he notes that she already has a copy of the police report. In the report the officer states, “It seemed as if Lori was trying to determine where the investigation was leading the police department. Lori seemed relieved when I advised her that we were finished with this.” Once again, based on their own reports, police had not actually investigated any of the parents’ allegations of abuse. They did not speak with the accused IHDF employee, nor any of the alleged victims other than the one conversation concerning the backpack incident. They did not ask to see the results of IHDF’s internal investigation. So in a final act of desperation, the parents went directly to then-District Attorney Stan Garnett. In an interview with BW, Garnett remembered the case but explained that there was nothing he could do because he is dependent on the police coming to him and asking for charges to be prosecuted. “Nothing was presented to us that would have been appropriate for us to investigate further,” he told BW. Although Garnett remembers communicating with the Lafayette Police Department about it, he acknowledges that his office never opened a file or conducted a formal investigation regarding the parents’ allegations of abuse. Also, he admits that he knows Canova personally, participates in IHDF events and is a donor to the Foundation. Although he knew at the time that IHDF was “concerned with the fact the police were looking at it,” Garnett told BW that as DA he couldn’t speculate about any of the details until he was given evidence for review. “The devil’s in the details in this kind of a case. You can have allegations of abuse, etc. But some agency needs to look at it, interview people, make a determination about whether there’s evidence to support it and then decide Boulder Weekly
news what to do,” he said. “I would imagine the organization would want to review some things as well, but I don’t know.” BW found it difficult to understand how allegations of children being punished by being made to stay on a hot bus, or a child being grabbed by the shoulders and shaken or a child being yanked backwards by their backpack causing red marks and pain, or another child being yanked by the arm by a person in a position of authority could have been deemed to “not rise to the level of criminal in nature.” So we started calling the Lafayette Police Department and leaving messages.
Case reopened As stated earlier, Lafayette Police Commander Brian Rosipajla called BW to explain the Department’s position. He said that after looking up the file and double-checking with the operations commander, the Department “erred in the statute of limitations” by classifying it as an assault misdemeanor instead of a case of child abuse. “We felt more compelled that it should be a child abuse, which actually extends the statute of limitations to five years and not just a year and six months,” Rosipajla told BW. “We’re going to reactivate the case and have the detectives take a look at everything.” When asked if his Department ever did a full investigation in 2017, which would have included talking to other students, staff, teachers, the accused IHDF employee etc., as IHDF has told the parents and claim again in their statement to BW, Rosipajla confirmed that the Department did not investigate. Rather, the officers gathered some initial information, but under the statute of limitations issue, couldn’t proceed with an investigation. “They gathered the information,” he said. “As far as looking into it, yeah, there was a statute of limitation issue, and there wasn’t that much more to be done.” He couldn’t talk about the specifics of the case given that it deals with child victims, but he did explain that the officers involved felt the next best thing to a police investigation in the case would be to give it to BVSD to look at more thoroughly. “What the officers and detective sergeant ended up doing was forwarding all the information on to the school so that the school could do their own internal review and internal investigation,” Rosipajla said. “And that’s what they thought was the best approach since we could not handle it under the statute of limitations issue. That way it Boulder Weekly
was still looked into and everything was checked out.” It’s unclear exactly what action, if any, BVSD took after getting the police report containing the parents’ allegations. In their written statement and refusal to meet with BW to answer questions regarding the parents’ allegations, IHDF is standing behind a statement that claims “others investigated these allegations, including the Lafayette Police Department and the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, and none of those investigations corroborated or substantiated any allegation of misconduct.” IHDF has had copies of the police reports for almost a year, reports that make it clear that the parents’ allegations were never investigated just as the Lafayette police have now clarified and rectified. The police reports and the statements of Rosipajla make it clear that the allegations were never investigated because the people who apparently knew of their existence never reported them to law enforcement, so by the time police eventually were made aware they incorrectly believed that the statute of limitations had already expired. The primarily Spanish-speaking parents who have alleged the abuse of their children by an IHDF employee reported their claims to IHDF officials. They told BW they were unaware of who else they should or could tell. Their status as immigrants in our culture left them fearful of retaliation and understandably afraid to go to law enforcement authorities to complain about one of Boulder County’s most powerful and beloved institutions. Under those circumstances, they say they had little choice but to trust that IHDF would do what was best for their kids. The parents have recently been contacted by officers from the Lafayette Police Department as part of the nowreopened investigation. Still, no one knows what will come of the current ongoing police investigation into the parents’ claims since years have passed and potential evidence will be difficult to come by after so much time. It is also unclear if anyone will ever be investigated for possibly failing to “mandatory report” alleged child abuse allegations being made by more than a dozen persons against the same individual. But as of now, these families are no longer invisible. They now have reason to hope their voices have finally been heard.
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annoying if he weren’t the real deal, a genuinely nice person, born and raised in Eastern North Carolina with corresponding Southern manners. Helms greets me and leads us through the main room to the racks of dumbells where his trainer, Allen “Watty Watt” Watkins, and training partner, Huy Tran, are waiting. Watkins, a former MMA fighter turned sought-after trainer, nods to me in greeting and then gets straight to business. There’s a lot of trash talking between these three, but it’s good-natured and productive, if trash talk can be productive. It matches their all-natural, no-steroids approach to bodybuilding. Today and for the past several months, Helms and Tran are training for the National Physique Committee (NPC) Colorado Muscle Classic, where, Helms explains, they will compete mostly against guys taking steroids. Still, Helms placed sixth out of 12 contestants in his first NPC competition last year — no steroids involved. “All those fucking dudes are juiced up,” Watkins says as Tran finishes up a set of bench presses. “And you’re doing everything in your power to be natural. You took the harder route, but it’s the better route.” Every path Helms chooses is the harder route. He adheres to strict diet, tightly monitoring macros — fat, protein, carbs, calories — and often practicing intermittent fasting for 16 to see HELMS Page 24
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20 hours a day. Hardin tells me. “It’s ingrained in the Helms wakes up every day around 6 [ballet] technique to stretch with every a.m. and cooks most of the food he’ll exercise. Better stretching, you breathe eat for the day, but he doesn’t eat yet; better, you contain your muscles better, he’s got an hour or so of fasting cardio engage better when it’s appropriate, so to do. He goes home for a nap after you ideally are becoming so in tune that, eventually eats at the 16-hourwith your body that any variable is fasting mark, then goes to the gym at something that you might expect his apartment complex for a couple of instead of being fearful of. It’s about hours before having another bite to eat fine-tuning the best instrument that we before bed. He tells me he’s managing all have at our disposal.” to eat 4,000 calories this way. (Watkins, Helms has been fine-tuning his shocked by this news, instructs Helms body since he was 3, when his mom to cut back to 2500 calories a day.) enrolled him in martial arts classes. By That’s a lot of 9, Helms had Courtesy of Matthew Helms calories, but it’s won nine consecno fun: no utive world titles breads, no sugar, in competitive very limited sport-karate and amounts of fruit, made his way to even. Helms is The Tonight Show dreaming of the with Jay Leno to night after the talk about it. He NPC competicaught the eye of tion when he talent agents and plans to gorge snagged roles in himself on commercials and Mexican, Italian children’s proand American gramming before fare at Golden finally landing Corral. the small-butIf Helms’ standout role of Dennis in the schedule sounds 2003 horror flick crazy, consider Cabin Fever when that this is his he was around 13. routine when his Helms’ dad, Tony, dance company, Boulder Ballet, is on break for the sum- had already taken a job in Colorado at this point and moved the family to mer. When it’s ballet season, Helms Wheat Ridge. adds between four and six hours in the By 15, Helms was wondering where studio to his schedule. He manages to to go next with martial arts. His teach dance, too, although when that happens seems to defy the rules of clas- instructor asked his mother to get the teen involved in something to improve sic physics. his flexibility, and that’s where ballet “Have you seen him dance?” came into play. Watkins asks. “He’s incredible.” “My mother drug me into some Just two weeks earlier I sat with Helms and the assistant artistic director hole-in-the-wall ballet school and I hated it,” Helms says. “I hated ballet. of Boulder Ballet, Lance Hardin, in a studio at the Dairy Arts Center. Helms I did not want to do it. I thought it was the stupidest thing. But after and his dance partner, Melissa Heslep, receiving a fifth-degree black belt were preparing for a small show meant and being inducted into the Black to introduce young children to ballet Belt Hall of Fame (at the Martial and theater. Their routine was only a few minutes long — performed to Isaac Arts History Museum in Burbank, California) at 15, teaching since I Albeniz’s “Tango in D major” — but was 9, I was like, what next?” Helms broke a serious sweat in their Starting three or four years later half-hour practice. than even some of the older dancers, Hardin explains that the two have Helms saw something he loved about clocked only between five and seven ballet more than he hated: a great chaldays of rehearsal together over the course of a month-and-a-half. It’s sum- lenge. In the summer of 2008, Helms mer and the company is off for the sea- attended Ballet West’s summer intensive program and was awarded a full son. Everyone is involved with other scholarship to the Ballet West Academy projects — like preparing for the NPC in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he perMuscle Classic. formed for several seasons. “What I think gives Matt a lot of Helms auditioned for Boulder success in his duel roles is flexibility,” Boulder Weekly
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Ballet in 2011 at the urging of a friend. He’s been a principal dancer in the company ever since, in Cinderella, Swan Lake and Copellia. He also played the lead male role in a movie version of The Nutcracker, filmed in Tennessee in 2011. He is a guest artist with several regional companies, including Centennial State Ballet in Longmont, Denver Academy of Ballet, Ballet Society in Colorado Springs, and the Academy of Classical Ballet in Arvada. And he often finds time (or creates it using black magic) to do guest performances with out-ofstate companies in California, West Virginia and Tennessee. But as it goes with Helms, last year he reached a point with ballet where he wondered, what’s next? “When I started ballet I was the skinny, scrawny kid,” Helms says. “I just didn’t feel it was my fullest potential. I always had this idea that a male ballet dancer is like a statue, like a Greek god statue; it’s very noble, manly, robust, but it should also float like a feather. Hearing these terms and then growing up in marital arts, I wondered, how can I make this happen, because I don’t see it happening with a lot of people.” Last year, Tran, a little brother figure if ever there was one, challenged Helms to do a NPC competition. The next one was about a month away, so they just started training. Helms was always kind of an anomaly at the gym. “The first time I went to the gym, lifting serious weight and then going over into the studio area and stretching, I was sitting in the splits, head down, eyes were closed, just tired, and someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was this big guy. He looked like he was on the football team or something and he goes, ‘Are you stuck? Are you OK?’” It seems like a rare occasion when Matthew Helms gets stuck in much of any position. If things look stagnant, he devises a way to shift priorities and perspective. He placed fourth in his category in this year’s NPC Muscle Classic on Aug. 4, and he’s proud of that, but he and Watkins are re-evaluating his training during “off-season” to achieve what they hope will be greater gains for Helms’ next competition in 2019. But what I really want to know is whether he ever got to chow down at Golden Corral. “Actually not by my choice,” he writes via email. “It was decided to go to Cheesecake Factory where a lot of pastas, cakes and whiskey were the final hooray that night.” A night free from counting carbs and calories? Sounds like a win.
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From a whisper to a scream The many influences of Boz Scaggs by Alan Sculley
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oz Scaggs calls the trio of albums he’s released beginning with 2013’s Memphis a trilogy. These releases — Memphis, 2015’s A Fool To Care and his new album, Out of the Blues — find him covering songs by artists that impacted him as he was growing up near Dallas, absorbing blues, soul, New Orleans music and early rock ’n’ roll, while beginning his own music career. Scaggs, though, says his trilogy is not the typical tribute-to-his-influences album. Yes, he has recorded songs by artists that inspired him — such as Bobby “Blue” Bland, Jimmy Reed, Curtis Mayfield and Al Green. But he didn’t include a number of artists that he would consider essential if he made an album devoted to his influences. “There are way too many influences, and important ones, that I would include in a tributestyle production,” Scaggs says in a recent phone interview. “To me, I’m thinking Ray Charles would have to be in there. But I can’t sing, I’ve never been able to take a Ray Charles song into my own realm. And there are a number of people, Smokey Robinson, there are any number of players that I would include in that compilation.” In fact, if there’s one quality that unites the three albums of impeccably chosen covers (supplemented by several originals from Scaggs’ songwriting collaborator and friend, Jack Walroth), Scaggs says, it’s his voice, which has long been considered a strong point in his artistry. Yet Scaggs says only in recent years has he started to feel like he’s coming into his own as a vocalist. So while Scaggs drew his share of accolades for his supple and soulful tone on hit songs like “Look What You’ve Done To Me,” “Lowdown” and “Breakdown Dead Ahead,” which propelled him to major stardom during the late 1970s and early ’80s, he doesn’t rave about his vocal work, especially
Scaggs says. “Over a period of several years, I put together enough material that I did some shows with him and we did a record (2003’s But Beautiful). It was the most challenging thing, that record of standards, it was the most challenging thing that I’ve ever put myself to. “I’m just more aware of what I want to do and what I’m able to do, and I can do that now in a way that I couldn’t have done at any other time in my life,” he says. “So I’m getting someplace with my voice that really satisfies me.” Scaggs’ singing has indeed been a highlight on his acclaimed current trilogy of albums. On “Out of the Blues,” his singing stands out from the opening notes of the Walroth original “Rock And Stick,” where Scaggs stretches certain words, letting his voice flutter up to a falsetto and flow back down to a soft fade before accenting other lines with considerable assertiveness. That sort of range, control and command is evident on other songs, such as Bland’s smoky ballad “I’ve Just Got To Forget You,” the crisply swinging Jimmy Reed tune “Down In Virginia,” and the gritty and rocking Texas shuffle of the Scaggs/Walroth cowrite “Little Miss Night and Day.” The breadth of the music Scaggs can now perform is reflected in his concerts, in which he and his versatile band can tailor his set lists to suit the venue he’s playing. “We might be doing a symphony one night, with which I actually do some standards,” Scaggs says. “Then we might be doing a casino, where they want 60 minutes of burning hits. We might be doing a comfortable performing arts center, where we get to stretch out and do some acoustic things and some more complex music. So it’s a complicated repertoire. It requires the musicians to go from jazz to rockabilly to New Orleans, from a whisper to a scream. So they’re really fine musicians, and they have to be very, very professional.”
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during those early years of his career. “Let me put it like this. This is very frank and honest about this,” Scaggs explains. “I hear other singers, let’s just talk about singers, who were fully formed at an early point in their musical careers, shall we say. You hear a young Van Morrison or you hear ( John) Lennon or (Paul) McCartney. You hear a style that was developed when these cats were 17, 18, 19 years old. And still, it was whole and it was a defined style. I listen to my early stuff and I can hear that I had certain inflections and certain ideas of a style and a certain voice to do it, but I don’t really necessarily like what I hear when I listen back to that at all. I had the idea, but I couldn’t do it.” Scaggs feels he started to turn the corner as a vocalist when he began testing the waters in the early 2000s on recording some music from the Great American Songbook with pianist/arranger Paul Nagel. “He played piano and I sang, and we went through songs just for hours,”
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ore than once as we sit soaking up sunshine and sipping on tea in her backyard, Anne Waldman alludes to her own death — but not in a macabre
way. At 73, Waldman has lost friends, several of them just last year, like fellow poet and friend Joanne Kyger, jazz pianist Geri Allen, and composer Pauline Oliveros. Waldman’s new collection of poetry, Trickster Feminism, a meditation on gender, power, activism and consciousness, is dedicated to these three powerful, active, conscious women. Setting the tone for the work, Waldman openly navigates her grief in the opening poem, “trick o’ death.” “when you are sitting/ with the corpse of your friend/ this is what to do/ when what do you do” After a sprawling conversation that touches on climate change, #metoo, the gender spectrum, immigration and, of course, Trump, it’s clear that when the co-founder of Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School talks about the time she has left, she’s really talking about the work she has left to do. “The sense of urgency was different,” Waldman says of writing her new book. “I’m older. I’ve gone through some health stuff, like other people my age. Suddenly you feel reinvigorated; one more battle. And also feeling like I’m a journalist, I’m on assignment. I’m a field poet; I have to see what’s going on in the field and with my dying last breath, I have to tell this story.” Waldman has long told stories of being feminine in a masculine world, but Trickster Feminism stakes out new territory for femme folks, calling for a new wave of feminism driven by adaptability, passion, agility and creative resistance. The idea came to Waldman after reading Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World. “They are the lords of in-between,” Hyde wrote of tricksters like Hermes and Mercury in Greek mythology. “In short, trickster is a boundary-crosser. Every group has its edge, its sense of in and out, and trickster is always there, at the gates of the city and the gates of
does the word serve primarily as a way for men to imply devious, lecherous behavior in women. No, Merriam-Webster clearly defines tricky as “requiring skill, knack, or caution.” That’s trickster feminism. “Also,” Waldman adds, “working to undermine the patriarchy. Undermining his ON THE BILL: Anne Waldman, Trickster con. Sometimes you have to Feminism. Monday, Aug. con a con to beat a con — and 28, 6-7 p.m. Innisfree then you’re gone,” off to create Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., the next great cultural shift. Boulder, innisfreepoetry. Trickster Feminism isn’t an com. easy read, by any means, but the symbolism and meaning waiting in the text is worth the labor — just like any good challenge. Waldman employs familiar and complex poetic devices to tell different stories within the collection. Some are written like ancient chants, fresh and ready for your next protest. Others use blues refrains or prose. But perhaps the most striking form is dithyramb, an irregular strain sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility. These verses shun repetition, rhyme and echo to create something that is constantly new. life, making sure there is commerce.” Tricky poems for a tricky feminist. Hyde argues that society flourishes and evolves “I think of poetry as the first religion,” Waldman because of these “figures whose function is to uncover says. “I think there’s always been poetry in human conand disrupt the very things that cultures are based on.” sciousness, whether it’s oral or scribbled on tree bark or Unfortunately, Hyde says, there just aren’t any femiincised on a little stone or cuneiform. nine tricksters. Sorry. Blame it on patriarchal mythology. “You’re creating a fabric that’s not just about you Sure, female tricksters may be scarce in literature, or your personal life or even your time,” she says. but they’re embedded in everyday life. “You can summon your sisters, your witchy sisters, “I’m sure you can think of many tricksters from our and it helps you feel more efficacious through art. fair sex,” Waldmen says, and I immediately picture Maybe it’s just your own salvation, but hopefully it Anne Frank, Rosa Parks and McKayla Maroney. can help wake people up to something that’s trou“Women seem to be more fluid, shapeshifters,” bling. For me, literature has always done that, providWaldman says. “You’re a Madonna, you’re a whore, you’re ed a way to describe things that are going on that you a mother, you’re a child. You have to adapt and be quixotic; can’t really talk about in any other way. It might be you have to work with what comes up in the moment. the difficult times we’re in now, the only way they That’s been my path, to somehow be awake moment to can describe it in the future is in some artistic way. moment when things are vastly changing.” We have all the TV reportage, we have so many of Trickster Feminism reclaims the deeply overburthe facts. I can’t wait for the Mueller investigation. If dened word “tricky” for feminine people; no longer he can just hang in there...”
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9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, Old Town Lafayette on Public Road, Lafayette. Whether you prefer pies, cobblers, smoothies or just a juicy bite of a fresh peach, the Lafayette Peach Festival has it all. The festival features food vendors, crafters, antique dealers and artists from across the Front Range and the West, as well as plenty of activities for the kiddos, including free face-painting. Oh, and don’t forget there’ll be over 30,000 pounds of organic peaches from a variety of orchards. —Sara McCrea
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SHARK’S INK. AT BMOCA — WITH BARBARA TAKENAGA. 5:45 P.M. THURSDAY, AUG. 16, BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 1750 13TH ST., BOULDER.
Barbara Takenaga, Lines of Force (TBR) State II, 2014, Color lithograph with handcoloring
In collaboration with Lyon’s print studio Shark’s Ink, BMoCA presents a conversation between printer Bud Shark, painter Barbara Shark and abstract painter Barbara Takenaga. Known for her swirling dotbased paintings evocative of cosmic and cellular imagery, Takenaga plays with the twists and wonder of space while including vibrant color. The event will include a talk from Takenaga from 6-7 p.m. at BMoCA, followed by a reception and exhibition at the 15th St. Gallery. Tickets are $8 for BMoCA members and $12 for non-members. —Sara McCrea
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Courtesy of Leia Squillace/ When it feels like the lawless world of sexuality The Herd is devouring you alive, how do you make your body your own? Such is the question explored by theater company The Herd’s I Killed the Cow, a one-woman show presented as part of the 2018 Boulder International Fringe Festival. After an extended run in New York last fall, the show focuses on a woman’s memories of the moments that shaped her: mortifying phone-calls, sexual encounters and — true to the show’s title — lectures on veganism. See more showtimes and purchase tickets at boulderfringe.com.
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If you’re looking for the best possible way to spend $6, look no further. Benevolence is a one-day music festival to benefit migrant families who have recently been separated from their children. Just $6 gets you in to see six live bands: Native Station, Ben Hanna Music, Whiskey Autumn, The Beeves, ChinaRose and Augustus. Every single nickel, penny and dime from the event goes to RAICES, an organization helping migrant families reunite with their children and cover legal costs.
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For the exhibition ‘Spine,’ showing through Aug. 26 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Lisa Oppenheim repurposed photographs from Lewis Hine, a photojournalist from the early 20th century. Hine’s images dwell on the conditions of immigrant and child labor in American mills and factories from that time. Oppenheim appropriated specific works by Hine from the Library of Congress’ photographic archive that depict adolescent textile workers — primarily young women with physically misshapen backs.
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Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15.
Honey — by Kristen Hatgi Sink. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Connections — by Imagine! C.O.R.E./ Labor Source. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 19.
A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.
Echo Trail — by Laura Ahola-Young. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 19.
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Fuzzy Logic — by Jordan Vinyard. Firehouse Art Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Sept. 1. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.
Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21. Nature Photography by Kirk Fry. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31. New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 16.
Paintings by Vivienne Douglas. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31. Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Pink Progression. Metropolitan State University, Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Aug. 18. Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16. Slow Mover. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. Transmission — by Derrick Adams. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
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Thursday, August 16 Music Alyssa Hankey. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Andy Eppler and David Ford. 6:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Callie Carlucci. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Dueling Pianos. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Dustbowl Revival. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Goose Hands. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. A Light Among Many. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Los Colognes. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.
Sammy Brue and Pearl Charles. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-296-1003.
Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452.
Stu Larsen & Natsuki Kurai II. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Generation Wealth. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
The Unlikely Candidates + My Body Sings Electric. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Events 63rd Anniversary Celebration & Block Party. 8 a.m. Natural Grocers, 100 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-926-1600. Back to Back Karaoke. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. The Blueberry Tour — with Joe Pera, Jo Firestone & Conner O’Malley. 7:30 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. The Cakemaker. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. More show times at thedairy.org.
Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Chris Tucker. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More showtimes at comedyworks.com.
Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130.
Paul Soderman & the Boulder Blues Club. 7 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.
Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-5452017.
Here Lies a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Noon and 8:45 p.m. Boulder International Fringe Festival, The Parlour, Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 217-714-1752. More showtimes throughout the week at boulderfringe.com. Multi-dimensional Energy Healing with Bette Hanson. 7 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette. Old School Film School New School Film School. 9 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Shark’s Ink. — with Barbara Takenaga. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Third Thursday Improv Show. 7 p.m. Wesley Foundation Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-588-0550. The Two-Step. 6:15 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. More showtimes at boulderfringe.com. U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. see EVENTS Page 34
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words For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. When two young men become intrigued by her, Kya opens herself to a new life — until the unthinkable happens. Author Delia Owens speaks about the book, Where the Crawdads Sing, at Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
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Richard Bender — Wild Winemaker. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
An Evening with Pam Grout. 5:30 p.m. Halcyon Hotel Cherry Creek, 245 Columbine St., Denver.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
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Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Poetry Writer’s Workshop. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
Emily France — Zen and Gone. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Saturday, August 18
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.
Adam Clayton-Holland — Tragedy Plus Time. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Wednesday, August 22 Delia Owens — Where the Crawdads Sing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Friday, August 17 Music 28th Annual Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422. Fourth Anniversary Party and Outdoor Music Festival. 2 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-550-7813. Through Saturday, Aug. 18. The Absolutes. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. The Aristocats Band. 3:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Barbara Paris & Friends and Special guest Roberta Brenza. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-449-3061.
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Evidence/Pete Sheridan. 7:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, Black Box Theatre, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577. Felonious Smith Trio. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-645-1749. The Goonies & Blink 90210. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-8349384. Grant and Tone. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Hindsight Classic Rock. 6 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Joe Kuckla and Irons in the Fire. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Junior Varsity 3. 8:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
Bear Grillz. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
King Buffalo. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.
Danny Shafer Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Lawn Concert: Dustbowl Revival. 5:30 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880.
Esmé Patterson + The Still Tide. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Little Twist (T Five & Maria). 6 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 720-266-8300. Boulder Weekly
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It’s Christmas 1183, and King Henry II is planning to announce his successor to the throne — but things are complicated. Henry has three sons, and wants his youngest, John, to take over. Henry’s wife, Queen Eleanor, has other ideas. She believes their oldest, Richard, should be king. As the family and various schemers gather for the holiday, each tries to make the indecisive king choose their option. The Upstart Crow Theatre Company presents The Lion in Winter, showing now through Aug. 26 at the Dairy Arts Center.
#BEST YOU — presented by Pipedream Productions. JMAC Studios White Box, University of Denver, 1903 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Through Sept. 1.
The Producers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 30.
CryBaby. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Aug. 18.
Reunion 65. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Through Aug. 29.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 8. Guys and Dolls — presented by Equinox Theatre. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Aug. 18. Lend Me a Tenor. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 19. The Lion in Winter — presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 26. Mixed Taste. DCPA Off-Center, Seawell Grand Ballroom, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Aug. 22. Newsies. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 26. Once Upon a Mattress. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 2.
Los Cheesies. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Lyn Koonce. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Malai Llama. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Nacho Men. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Pepe Aguilar. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Railroad Earth. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Rico Jones Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Silent Bear Solo/ Songwriter Series. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Sixty Minute Men. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Tamoya Oboya. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Thousand Frames — Album Release Show. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Velorama Music Festival. 4 p.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver, 303-292-0200. Boulder Weekly
Reunion ’85. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Through Aug. 25. Sleeping Beauty — presented by Miner’s Alley Children’s Playhouse. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 18. The Sunshine Boys. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Sept. 9. War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Aug. 18. Waistwatcher, The Musical! Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Through Aug. 26. WYSIWYG. Avenue Theater Company, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Through Aug. 18.
Wake Up and Live: A Bob Marley Tribute. 8 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-666-1386. The Zoo: Hosted by The ZooKeepers. 8 p.m. Deviant Spirits Distillery, 2480 49th St., Boulder, 719-440-4477. Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Chaos Theory (as it relates to family). 8:30 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Flatirons Food Film Festival. 4 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. ‘I Killed the Cow.’ 4:45 p.m. Pine Street Church, Secret Chapel, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-4426530. More showtimes at boulderfringe.com. Nirvamlet. 7:30 p.m. Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, 810-569-1908. More showtimes at boulderfringe.com. see EVENTS Page 36
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Red Shoes. 8:45 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. More showtimes at boulderfringe.com Storytime Break: Sing and Play Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Under the Tree. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, August 18 Music First Annual Canvas Carnival. 4 p.m. Grossen Bart, 1025 Delaware St., Longmont, 303-651-2787. 28th Annual Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422. Amen Dunes. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Bear Grillz. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express + John Statz. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Dechen Hawk Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Desert Dwellers + Thriftworks. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Free Opera in the Park. 7 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, Boulder, 970-379-7539. Guerrilla Radio. 9 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Mad Dog Trio. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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Beer Run! 11 a.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Dairy Comedy: Derrick Rush. 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Lafayette Peach Festival. 9 a.m. Old Town, Public Road, Lafayette. Learning Dog Dance: A Dance Workshop. 1 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Living in Lion and Bear Country. 9 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch Open Space, Boulder. MoreGreenThings Food Truck Experience. 4 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Paul Reiser. 7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. Pearl Street Burlesque presents SEA NYMPHS. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St., (in back of School), Lyons, 303-823-5925. Storytime Break: Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Urban Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467. Sunday, August 19 Music 28th Annual Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422.
Peak2Peak. 6:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400.
The Chick Corea Akoustic Band — with John Patitucci and Dave Weckl. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-6230106.
Phish Curveball: Watkins Glen, NY, Livestream Webcast. 5 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800803-5732. Repeat event on Sunday, Aug. 19.
Earth to Aaron. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514.
Pickin on Ween. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Heart Society. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Toxic (2000s Throwback Dance Party) featuring Spencer Foreman B2B Dj Wushu. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Levitt National Tour Presents: Paul Thorn & Blind Boys of Alabama. 4 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Velorama Music Festival. 10 a.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver, 303-292-0200. Whiskey Starshipin. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-6524186. Women in Song hosted by Shanna in a Dress. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Yo Mama. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette. Zoso. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Events Annual Car Show — with The Von Hodads and Cat Jerky. 12 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
Lipbone Redding Sunday Brunch. 11:30 a.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. The Magpie Salute. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Velorama After-Party: The Shacks. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Velorama Music Festival. 10 a.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver, 303-292-0200. Zac Clark (of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness) — with Special Guest Bob Oxblood. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Events Bark in the Park. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-272-7467. Boulder Weekly
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Bad Bad Hats. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Crafty Brews: 2018 FOD. 6 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.
Barrel of Blues: Blues & Bourbon Night! 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North park Drive, Lafayette, 720-398-8172.
High Plains Comedy Festival Presents Chris Charpentier Live Album Recording. 7:30 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303477-9984.
Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
On Your Feet (ASL Interpreted). 2 p.m. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. RiNo Sunday Urban Market. 12 p.m. Infinite Monkey Theorem, 3200 Larimer St., Denver, 303-736-8376.
Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-4428292. Eugene Tyler Band. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Finn O’Sullivan. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115
Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Joe Goodkin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Ludoesmusic. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-296-1003. Open Bluegrass Jam at Grossen Bart Brewery. 7 p.m. Grossenbart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave Unit A, Longmont, 720-438-2060. Red Shahan. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Rod Stewart — with Cyndi Lauper. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.
Ziggy Marley: Rebellion Rises Tour. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Events Altra Movie Night — with Jason Schlarb + Meredith Edwards. 6 p.m. Go Far Shop, 2005 Pearl St., Boulder, 804-514-9863. Araby. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Becoming Who I Was. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
Westword Tacolandia 2018. 4 p.m. Civic Center Park, 101 E. 14th Ave., Denver. Yarn-fiti Knit-in. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday, August 20 Music Andrew Sturtz, David Burchfield. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731. Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Events “Mis Pininos”/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Chaos Theory (as it relates to family). 8:30 p.m. Pine Street Church, Sanctuary, 1237 Pine St., Boulder. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Modern Physics Book Discussions. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. VIVA Theater at the Library. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Tuesday, August 21 Music Abigail Dowd, Ken Stevens, TBA. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731. Lydia. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: Joe Smith and the Spicy Pickles. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Events Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, August 22
UPCOMING SHOWS Friday, August 17 – 6:00 pm, Liquid Mechanics Brewing CO, Lafayette Saturday, September 8 – 8:00 pm, Por Wine House, Louisville
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About Bob by Jenn Zuko
Smiling at the paper: it’s telling him a secret (the secret of the margin-labyrinth) Look at the sky—it’s much closer here. Hazel starry The long eyelashes. (more masculine: this is lovely yang) “Screw the fuckin’ side of the mountain—I wanna get to the top.” An essay on the gentle mouth in a male face: The ultimate strength Is to look someone in the (other) eye And say, “You intimidated me before” I’m a girl and I talk, so here: This is a poem, babe (yes, you are a man babe) And you know what? It doesn’t work for me, either. Is it a race? Did you win?
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This kitchen apparently needed me. I’ll always be grateful that the chef and owners took a chance on me. I work hard, and I’ve become a decent prep cook. I’ve seen cooks and chefs come and go. Some local eateries go months or much longer without ever being fully staffed. There are a limited number of applicants for food jobs, which often start at $11 an hour. Some applicants have had a little experience working in other kitchens. Others are the fresh culinary school graduates with Top Chef fantasies who aren’t prepared for the physical rigors and minor injuries involved in preparing food for four weddings over the course of a single weekend. ver Look through Craigslist and you’ll De n les k find hundreds of postings for Pic RU Boulder-area restaurant jobs with fT subject lines like: “!!!SERVERS NEEDED!!!” and “Night Time Line Cooks-$15/Hr. & $300 signing bonus.” The reasons for the worker shortage are multiple and varied including the current presidential administration’s businessdamaging approach to immigration, the opening of many more restaurants, and competition from the health care, construction and cannabis industries, which offer significantly higher wages. If you have the interest, skills and stamina, you may be welcomed into a kitchen regardless of whether you are a baby boomer or a millennial. Tons of free culinary training is also available locally. Approximately 140,000 Colorado high school students take ProStart classes in culinary and restaurant management every year. The Culinary Quick Start program at Denver’s Emily Griffith Technical College is a free, hands-on, four-week course that
includes a restaurant-focused job fair. You are basically guaranteed to be offered a job as soon as you complete the course. What if this trend continues and the supply of cooks continues to dwindle? California-based Miso Robotics has raised $10 million to expand deployment of Flippy the burger-flipping robot at CaliBurger chain restaurants. (Comments and questions to: nibbles@boulderweekly.com)
Some late season grilling advice
“Put the onions, either unpeeled or peeled and foil-wrapped, just at the edge of the fire to roast. Remove the charred outside, or the foil, and eat this most pungent and delicious of vegetables while it is hot, crisp, and tender, adding some salt, freshly ground pepper and butter.” — James Beard
Tired of Gatorade?
Athletes have long sipped electrolyte-rich pickle juice straight from the glass jar to fight leg cramps. Meanwhile, many others routinely pour the juice down the drain after chomping the dills. Littletonbased artisan pickle packer TRU made sipping a little easier recently by introducing TRU Juce, a 4-oz shelfstable pickle juice pouch. Juce is just Tru pickle juice with no calories, no gluten and no sugar.
Local food news
Major foodie event alert: The James Beard Foundation Celebrity Chef Tour dinner Sept. 8 at Boulder’s Black Cat Bistro features an all-star local chef lineup including Patrick Ayres (Cloverdale, Steamboat Springs), Caroline Glover (Annette,
Aurora), Sheila Lucero ( Jax Fish House), Kyle Mendenhall (Arcana), Kelly Jeun and Eduardo Valle Lobo (Frasca Food and Wine), Will and Coral Frischkorn (Cured), and mixologist Bryan Dayton (Acorn, OAK at fourteenth, Corrida). Tickets: jamesbeard.org/events/boulder ... Boulder’s OZO Coffee Company hosts a hands-on beginning barista class Aug. 25 including green coffee, roasting and milk steaming fundamentals. ozocoffee.com/classes ... Cellar West Artisan Ales is moving from Boulder to 778 W. Baseline Road in Louisville, where it will reopen as a pub, brewhouse and barrel cellar. ... Ashley soft-ripened cheese from MouCo Cheese Co. in Fort Collins took home a silver medal at the American Cheese Society annual competition. ... Happy 10th anniversary to Boulder’s Savory Spice Shop.
Taste of the week
I rediscovered the tastiness of the Parkway Cafe, 4700 Pearl St., at a recent breakfast with old friends. I like Parkway’s side dish choices that range from hash browns to home fries and includes French toast and grits. I enjoyed crispy house-made corned beef hash with eggs over easy and sides of green chile and pancakes... a balanced diet. Also recommended at Parkway: chilaquiles and the buenos dias torta, the jefe of breakfast sandwiches.
Words to chew on
“When immigrants farm your food, cook your meals and clean your plates, that’s politics. When trade tariffs affect the price of your whiskey or your fried chicken sandwiches, that’s politics. When the President is involved in lawsuits with celebrity chefs, that’s politics. When you have to save a little extra to eat out because of changes in minimum wage law, that’s politics.” — Food writer Jessica Sidman, Washingtonian. John Lehndorff is the former dining critic of the Rocky Mountain News. He hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, streaming at kgnu.org)
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elato, cigars and peaches. What do those three things have in common? Boulder County, as it turns out. In the next two weekends, three food festivals will hit Boulder County (or just outside) that confirm we indeed have a curious and eclectic culinary base. The Rocky Slashme/WIkimedia Commons Mountain Cigar Festival, Gelato Festival Boulder and Lafayette Peach Festival bring the top flight of three disparate culinary pursuits to Boulder County.
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producers and the top Three festivals come to cigar aficionados. town over the next two weekends, allowing us the More than 2,500 chance to sample top-flight cigar buffs are expectcigars, gelato and peaches. ed to attend. Guests will sample cigars from classic producers like Montecristo, Macanudo, Julius Caeser and Romeo Y Julieto, as well as dozens from local and international small producers. Unbeknownst to many in the culinary scene, cigars have undergone a quiet renaissance in the last few decades, and craft cigars are liable to shock those of us who only smoke cigars after babies are born or on company golf outings. The list of brewers attending includes some familiar names: Upslope, City Star, Oskar Blues, Grossen Bart and more. And because cigars tend to attract spirits, festival organizers have invited Breckenridge Distillery, Laws Whiskey House, Wood’s High Mountain Distillery and others. There’ll also be lunch provided and live music. If cigars aren’t your bag, we get it. But if you’re looking for a primer on the state of craft cigars, this is your chance. If for no other reason, go because stepping into a humidor is a pleasant and unique olfactory sensation, and this’ll be like stepping into the world’s greatest. Tickets Boulder Weekly
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Gelato Festival Boulder
Aug. 18-19, noon- 7 p.m., Twenty Ninth Street Mall, Boulder.
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he world’s best gelato makers are coming to the Twenty Ninth Street Mall for two days of frozen competition. After a hiatus from the U.S., the organizers of the Gelato Festival are returning to the States with several stages of their gelato-off, with one staged right here in Boulder. Here’s how it works: over the next three years, 5,000 gelato chefs from around the globe are competing for a chance to participate in the grand finals in Italy in 2021. Only the best 26 gelato purveyors get invited to the finals. The 10 chefs selected for the Boulder competition have already gone through competitions to get to this point. The winner of this year’s event will gain entry to the American finals, and the winner of that will move onto the world finals. So, yes, Boulder: We get a chance to not only taste 10 of the world’s best gelato flavors, but we get to have a say in determining the best in the world. Gelato, by the way, is milk, eggs, cream and some sort of flavor, usually fruit, nuts, herbs or chocolate. Gelato has less fat than ice cream, but feels silkier because it uses more milk than cream. Here are the chefs and flavors on display at the Boulder event: Traditional pistachio and figs from Niccolò Poposi of London; Strawberry and fresh basil from Cinzi Orti of Florence; Cannolo Siciliano from Santi Palazzolo of Cinsi, Italy; Panna cotto with strawberry from Walter Bergamaschi of Mesa, Arizona; Blackcurrant from Sukaina Rajani of Houston; Chocolate and caramel sauce from Emily Hopkins of Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Fresh milk and dark chocolate from Josh Collier of Houston; Boulder Weekly
Green apple from Gianlugi Gelato and Dell’Accio of cigars don’t go together, until Washington they do. D.C.; Traditional Italian hazelnut from Annalisa Libralato of Agna, Italy; and Salted B.C. Cherry Cheesecake from Eric Dorval of Vancouver, Canada. The festival includes a “gelato university,” where patrons can see local fruit transformed into frozen treats. The live demo is followed, of course, by a tasting. There’s a kids’ tasting, which probably won’t be a tough sell for Boulder County’s youngsters, and there’s a gelato-eating contest, where 10 contestants will down five cups of gelato and endure the worst brain freeze of their lives. For more information visit gelatofestivalamerica.com.
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n the State of Craft Beer, there is no shortage of beer festivals. And for good reasons: not only do the featured breweries get to show off their wares — especially the flagship beers you may have overlooked in the past couple of years — to a large and captive audience, but drinkers can also find something new to pull them out of the rut of the familiar. Sure, it’s nice to head to a place where everyone knows your name, and you need only nod to make a pint of the usual appear, but variety is the spice of life and nowhere are you going to find as much variety as a beer fest. Back for its fifth year, the Boulder Craft Beer Festival brings the variety with over 30 breweries to sample. You’ll find the usual Boulder County heavy-hitters: Avery, Boulder Beer, Left Hand, Oskar Blues and Upslope; local favorites: 4 Noses, Cellar West Artisan Ales, Crystal Springs, Fate, Front Range Brewing Company and The Post; Downtown Boulder Partnership and a few newbies: Beyond the Mountain, Endo Brewing and Redgarden Restaurant and Brewery. Naturally, you’ll need to hit up each and see what they’re pouring, but now is the time to try some Denver brews without having to head down the Boulder Turnpike or find parking in RiNo. For those who love something wild and sour, Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project can’t be beat. Whether it’s a saison inoculated with Brettanomyces or its Sour Rosé (an American wild ale aged in oak barrels with raspberries and blueberries), there is plenty to consider with each taste. You may need to go back for fourths, maybe even fifths. Barely a stone’s throw from Crooked Stave, Ratio Beerworks also pours a mean saison, Dear You, which is fermented with French yeast, giving the beer an earthy flavor with a pleasant minerality. Another RiNo neighbor, Great Divide Brewing Co. has been around for 24 years now, but age isn’t slowing it down when it comes to new trends. The two most recent India pale ales, Heyday IPA and Hazy IPA, embrace the New England-style with low bitterness and plenty of juicy fruit. Just the sort of thing one needs on a hot summer day in the park. You’d have to go even deeper into Denver should you want to try the ales of Declaration Brewing, but it is just a table away at the fest. Its copper ale, Hardtrack, is remarkably accessible and hop-forward, a beer for the casual drinker and hopheads alike. Same goes for the American pale ale, Purloined Pearl, which balances hops and malt without tipping the scales too much in either direction. And after your tour of Denver is complete, head back to those familiar breweries you call home. It’s a friendly competition between cities, one in which the drinker always wins.
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dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks. You’ll have extra potential to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you produce will generate practical benefits for you and those you care about. But for best results, you’ll have to expend more effort than maybe you thought you should. It might feel more like work than play — even though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play.
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to me now. And don’t do it to anyone who cares about you. I realize that you may need to protect yourself from people who aren’t sufficiently careful with you. But your true allies have important influences to offer, and I think you’ll be wise to open yourself to them.
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ing people when they don’t trust you enough to fully reveal themselves. But they can be just as exciting as any fire sign and just as weird as any Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Aquarius and just as talkBrezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES ative as a Gemini and just and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio as empathetic as a Pisces. horoscopes are also available by phone at Really, Librans are some of 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. the most eccentric people you’ll ever meet, but you LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: “Whoever does not visit Paris might not know it unless they trust you enough to take their masks off around you.” Spurred by Sebastian’s analysis, regularly will never really be elegant,” wrote French author here’s my advice to you: I hope you’ll spend a lot of time Honoré de Balzac. I think that’s an exaggeration, but it does with people you trust in the coming weeks, because for trigger a worthwhile meditation. According to my analysis the sake of your mental and physical and spiritual health, of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase of your cycle you’ll need to express your full eccentricity. (Sebastian’s at when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation venuspapi.tumblr.com) of elegance, understand how it could beautify your soul, and add more of it to your repertoire. So here are your homeSCORPIO work meditations: What does elegance mean to you? Why might it be valuable to cultivate elegance, not just to enhance OCT. 23-NOV. 21: A blogger who calls herself Wistful your self-presentation, but also to upgrade your relationship Giselle has named the phenomena that make her “believe in with your deep self? (P.S.: Fashion designer Christian Dior magic.” They include the following: “illuminated dust in the said, “Elegance must be the right combination of distincair; the moments when a seedling sprouts; the intelligence tion, naturalness, care and simplicity.”) gazing back at me from a crow’s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the ever-changing grey green blue VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Many of us imagine medieval Europe moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio. You’re to have been drab and dreary. But historian Jacques Le entering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic in Goff tells us that the people of that age adored luminous direct proportion to how much you believe in and are alert hues: “big jewels inserted into book-bindings, glowing gold for magic. Why not go for the maximum? objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches, and the colored magic of stained glass.” SAGITTARIUS Maybe you’ll be inspired by this revelation, Virgo. I hope so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you can NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Since 1969, eight-foot-two-inch-tall activate sleeping wisdom and awaken dormant energy by Big Bird has been the star of the kids’ TV show Sesame treating your eyes to lots of vivid reds, greens, yellows, blues, Street. He’s a yellow bird puppet who can talk, write poetry, browns, oranges, purples, golds, blacks, coppers and pinks. dance and roller skate. In the early years of the show, our hero had a good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. Snuffleupagus. After 17 years, there came a happy LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: An astrologer on Tumblr named day when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighborhood realized that Snuffy was indeed real, not just a figment of Sebastian says this about your sign: “Libras can be borBig Bird’s imagination. I’m foreseeing a comparable event
in your life sometime soon, Sagittarius. You’ll finally be able to share a secret truth or private pleasure or unappreciated asset.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Activist and author Simone de
Beauvoir was one of those Capricorns whose lust for life was both lush and intricate. “I am awfully greedy,” she wrote. “I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.” Even if your longings are not always as lavish and ravenous as hers, Capricorn, you now have license to explore the mysterious state she described. I dare you to find out how voracious you can be if you grant yourself permission.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: According to my reading of the
astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to vividly express your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care about most. I urge you to show them why you love them. Reveal the depths of your insights about their true beauty. Make it clear how their presence in your life has had a beneficent or healing influence on you. And if you really want to get dramatic, you could take them to an inspiring outdoor spot and sing them a tender song or two.
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In her book Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, Piscean knitter Kyoko Mori writes, “The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches.” The idea is that the mistake “is a crack left open to let in the light.” Mori goes on to testify about the evil spirit she wants to be free of. “It’s that little voice in my head that says, ‘I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.’” I’ve quoted Mori at length, Pisces, because I think her insights are the exact tonic you need right now.
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Dear Dan: I’ve been enjoying consensual nonmonogamy for the past two years, in part thanks to your column and podcast. I have a delightful young lover, and our connection has evolved into a kind of Master/slave relationship. I “allow” her to fuck other men and women, and she delights in asking my permission and recounting the details of her other trysts to me. We are curious how much of this she needs to disclose to her other lovers. They know she isn’t monogamous and they are aware of her relationship with me, but so far she has chosen not to tell them the extent to which I “own” her and have jurisdiction over her body and actions. Of course, it’s just an elaborate role-playing game — but is it wrong to be using these people as pawns in our game without their knowledge and consent? If so, when should she tell them? Before she sleeps with them even once? Or after she’s developed a more intimate rapport with them? There’s a perverse thrill in her other lovers being totally oblivious to it, but we want to be ethical in our polyamorous ways. —Masochists And Sadists Tackling Ethical Relations Dear MASTER: This falls under the header of permissible secret perving (PSP), MASTER, and I will allow it —
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with one caveat. My go-to example of PSP is the foot fetishist who works in a shoe store. So long as he’s good at his job and his secret perving is undetectable — no bulges, no heavy breathing, no creepy comments — no harm done. And if he goes home and jacks off about all the sexy, sexy feet he saw and, yes, handled during his shift, he’s not hurting anyone or doing anything unethical. It’s important, however, to note that the foot fetishist salesclerk’s perceptions aren’t the ones that matter. If he thinks he’s playing it cool — he thinks his perving is secret — but his customers or coworkers are creeped out by his behavior, demeanor, heavy breathing, etc., then his perving isn’t secret and is therefore impermissible. The secret perving you’re doing —
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the girlfriend has to beg for your permission to fuck other people and report back to you afterward — is small and it’s a bank shot. The other people she’s fucking provide mental fodder for your D/s role-playing games, MASTER, you aren’t directly involving them. Your role-playing games take place before she fucks someone else (when she asks your permission) and after she fucks someone else (when she recounts her experience). And what turns you on about your girlfriend sleeping with other people — and how you and your girlfriend talk to each other about it — is no one’s business but yours. Now for the caveat: If one of your girlfriend’s lovers strongly objects to Dom/sub sex, relationships, or role-playing games, and your girlfriend is aware
they object, and you two want to be exquisitely ethical, MASTER, then either your girlfriend shouldn’t fuck that person or she should disclose your Master/slave dynamics to that person and allow them to decide whether they want to fuck her anyway. Zooming out for a second: Some people in open relationships don’t want to know what their partners get up to, and these couples usually have “don’t ask, don’t tell” agreements about sex outside the relationship. But many more people in open relationships do want to hear about their partners’ adventures because it turns them on. Someone who doesn’t want to risk being fodder for a couple’s dirty talk or even their D/s role-playing games shouldn’t be sleeping with people who are partnered and in open relationships. There are things we have a right to ask the people with whom we have casual sex — like whether they’re practicing ethical nonmonogamy, if they have an STI, what kind of birth control they’re using, whether they’re on PrEP, etc. — but a casual fuck isn’t entitled to details about your relationship. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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by Sidni West
Smoke like a star
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pay attention to celebrity culture. I can name all the Kardashian sisters, and I have a favorite. I’ve spent hours researching the cultural references behind Beyoncé lyrics and which tech startups she’s investing in. I’m absolutely fascinated by everything Rihanna does, no matter how basic or mundane. I think that’s something most people would be too ashamed to admit or sheepishly refer to as a “guilty
Rihanna’s favorite. This is why celeb collaborations are all the rage right now, and the marijuana market is no exception. Unfortunately, Riri doesn’t have a cannabis brand yet, but plenty of other celebrities are either collaborating with growers to make their own strains or starting marijuana brands of their own:
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Snoop was one of the first celebrities to release his own line of actual cannabis products. Leafs by Snoop started as a Canadian enterprise in 2016, but legalization of recreational marijuana drove the company to sell its products in the states. The brand delivers a wide variety of cannabis flowers, edibles and concentrates that are available exclusively for purchase at LivWell dispensaries and retail locations in Colorado.
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pleasure,” but I don’t care. I like paying attention to how all the wealthy, powerful and professionally goodlooking people are spending their time. Whether you admit to caring or not, celebrities play a dominant role in many aspects of our personal lives. With social media, we’re able to connect with them on a level that was previously unavailable to us, which influences everything from our values and priorities to our spending habits. It’s true: scrolling past photos of Rihanna smoking blunts in Hawaii makes me feel like her lifestyle is both a reasonable and attainable life goal. If I could smoke the same weed on the same beach, it would basically feel like I am her. Seriously, I wouldn’t think twice about paying above market value for a strain if it was marketed as
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Tommy Chong is one of the most notorious stoners in the world. He’s had a big impact on cannabis culture and has spent the past several decades using his platform to advocate for marijuana reform. So naturally, when states started to legalize medical and recreational weed, he was one of the first to launch his own line of products called Chong’s Choice, which includes pre-rolled joints, flower, cannabis oil and THC strips.
Khalifa Kush Like his idol and longtime mentor Snoop, Wiz Khalifa was quick to get involved in the marijuana industry once more states started to legalize. His Khalifa Kush brand includes a hybrid strain grown specifically for the rapper, pre-rolled joints, rolling papers and pot accessories.
Whoopi & Maya Whoopi & Maya was launched in 2016 by Whoopi Goldberg and award-winning edibles maker Maya Elisabeth, founder of Om Edibles and winner of ten High Times Cannabis Cup awards. The Californiabased medical marijuana company’s initial offerings included a signature line of herbal medical cannabis products, formulated to provide relief for women experiencing menstrual cramps and discomfort. One year later, Whoopi & Maya products are available in over 300 dispensaries.
Willie’s Reserve Legendary country singer Willie Nelson was notorious for sharing his stash of pot with friends and followers while performing around the country back in the day. And at 85 years old, he continues to share, except now he does it legally with better weed than he smoked in the ’70s. Willie’s Reserve consists of strains grown personally by Nelson and his crew. It includes flower and pre-rolled joints, hard candy edibles, chocolates and smoking accessories.
Marley Natural Obviously, Bob Marley is the real OG. The plant was very important to the late reggae icon and influenced a lot of his music. Thanks to his family, fans can share his passion by indulging in Marley Natural, a line of smokeable and edible marijuana products, hemp seed-infused body products and accessories.
WuGoo After a decade-long tolerance break from cannabis, Ghostface Killah, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, has returned to the cannabis scene. He teamed up with vape pen maker Dr. Zodiak’s Dynamite Stix to develop his own line of hash oil cartridges called WuGoo. Why is he picking up pens over blunts? As Ghostface points out in a hilarious infomercial on his site, “You can hit this anywhere, wherever the fuck you wanna hit it. You can hit it in front of your moms, man. She not gonna smell it.”
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cannabis corner
by Paul Danish
Good news from North Dakota, bad news from Oklahoma
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ood news: A petition drive to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota has succeeded in putting the measure on the state’s November ballot. Activists needed 13,452 signatures to qualify for the ballot. Last month they turned in more than 18,000. North Dakota uses a random sampling method to determine if an initiative has a sufficient number of signatures. In the case of the pot petition, it found that 15,039 signatures were valid. NORML Executive Director Erik Public Domain Altieri put out a statement saying he expected “North Dakota voters to send shockwaves across the country this fall” by approving the initiative. North Dakota is one of the country’s more socially conservative states, so passage of the initiative would certainly send shockwaves. But passage isn’t going to be a slam dunk. A poll taken earlier this year found North Dakota voters supported legalization by a 45-to-39-percent margin, with 15 percent undecided. That level of support typically isn’t high enough to assure passage of a ballot initiative, especially if the initiative attracts organized opposition. On the other hand, the poll was probably taken before Canada, which shares a border with North Dakota, legalized pot. Michigan will also have a recreational marijuana legalization measure on their state’s ballot this year, and Utah and Missouri voters will also be casting ballots on medical marijuana initiatives. • • • • Bad news: Oklahoma will not be voting on whether to legalize recreational pot this year. It turns out that the group circulating a legalization
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petition was lying when they said they had gathered more than the necessary number of signatures to get on the ballot. On July 29, the group Green The Vote announced that it had collected 132,527 signatures for State Question 797, which would legalize recreational marijuana in Oklahoma. They needed about 124,000. But last week the group’s leaders admitted that they had inflated the number of signatures they had gathered in order to keep their cadre of peti-
tion circulators engaged. The actual number of names they collected is closer to 73,000-78,000. This obviously will not do the credibility of the legalization movement in Oklahoma any good. Chances are recreational marijuana in the Sooner State will be coming later rather than sooner. • • • • Back in the ’60s, before everything went to hell in Lebanon, the country’s Beqaa Valley was famed for its hashish. Today, not so much. A generation of civil war, the rise of puritanical Islamic
militants like Hezbollah, and international pressure on the Lebanese government to crack down on drug production pounded down hash output. But now the legalization movement has reached Lebanon. Last month Lebanese lawmaker Antoine Habchi introduced a bill in parliament to legalize marijuana production in the country. The aim of the legislation is to “allow farmers to live in dignity,” he said. Despite everything, hash production has never been totally wiped out in Lebanon. If there’s any doubt on this point, the Associated Press noted in its story on Habchi’s bill that there are more than 40,000 arrest warrants out against locals in the Beqaa Valley. • • • • Heh! — Drug war tweety birds have claimed for decades that legalizing marijuana would lead to more accidents in the workplace. Like a lot of pot prohibitionist claims, a new study has found the opposite to be true. The study, which will be published in the International Journal of Drug Policy in October, found that workplace deaths declined by about 34 percent five years after a state legalized medical marijuana, with the trend being most pronounced among workers between ages 25 and 44. The study’s authors are D. Mark Anderson of Montana State University; Daniel I. Rees, of the University of Colorado, Denver; and Erdal Tekin, of American University, Washington D.C. The researchers, who analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1992 to 2015, think the reason for the decline is workers using marijuana as a substitute for alcohol and prescription drugs to deal with pain.
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