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Highroad Rampaging debt collectors are committing highway robbery by Jim Hightower

ome corporations engage in such abusive consumer ripoffs that they’re just evil. But some profiteers dig even deeper into the dark void of their corporate souls to achieve the ultimate status: TRULY EVIL. Consider debt collection firms that are thuggishly and lawlessly running roughshod over consumer rights and common decency. Susan Macharia, a California administrative employee, is

one of thousands of middle-income and low-wage workers each year who get robbed by these rampaging money grabbers. Out of the blue, she got a rude call in January from a collector demanding she pay $10,000 for a credit card debt she ran up in 2003. Only, Ms. Macharia had no such debt. In fact, as she told the New York Times, she didn’t even have a credit card until 2013. Yet, the collection agency declared that it had a copy of a 2006 court judgment against her, addressed to her California residence — so, pay up! But wait, she lived in Atlanta in 2006, not California. Nonetheless, ignoring facts, the callous collection outfit got a court to rubber stamp an order to garnish Macharia’s paycheck, effectively stealing $800 a month from her. “I couldn’t sleep,” she told the Times, “I couldn’t eat. There was so much stress. And I knew I hadn’t done it!” Luckily, however, a group named

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Public Law Center took her case, went straight to the company she supposedly owed, and showed its executive the obvious errors in the collection agency’s debtor file. Embarrassed, the company called off its attack dogs and returned the money it had taken from her paychecks. Few are so fortunate, however. This collection firm and hundreds like it are still marauding across the land, with some 3,000 people a month filing formal complaints that they’re being hounded mercilessly for debts they do not owe. It amounts to legalized highway robbery. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 18, 2016 5

danish plan The first marathon by Paul Danish

hen Michael Phelps won his 13th individual Olympic gold medal last Thursday night, he eclipsed a 2,168-yearold record for the largest number of individual victories in the games, ancient and modern. That prompted a burst of interest in the guy whose record he broke — Leonidas of Rhodes — and the events he dominated. Leonidas wasn’t a swimmer. The ancient games weren’t into water sports. He was a runner, and his events involved sprints — specifically three sprints: the Stadion, the Diaulos, and the Hoplitodromos. The Stadion was a sprint of roughly 200 yards. The Diaulos was the length of two Stadion. Runners ran to a pole, circled it and ran back to the start line. The Hoplitodromos was the same length as the Diaulos, only it was run with the participants wearing helmets, armor, greaves, and carrying weapons and a shield. The gear came to something like 50 or 60 lbs. Leonidas won all three races at four separate Olympics (164 B.C., 160 B.C., 156 B.C. and 152 B.C.). The Hoplitodromos, which roughly translates as “the soldiers’ race,” deserves special mention, because the activity to which it pays homage — running in armor — played a central role in the first marathon. Not the one run at the first modern Olympic games in 1896, but the one run on August 12, 490 B.C.. There were no gold medals or laurel wreaths handed out at the end of that one. But the participants were contesting for a prize infinitely greater than gold or laurels — personal and collective survival. August 12, 490 B.C. is the date of the Battle of Marathon. It is commonly believed that the modern race of the same name was inspired by the run of Pheidippides, an Athenian herald who allegedly ran from the Plain of Marathon where the battle was fought back to Athens to report the Greek victory over the Persians — and then died on the spot. Chances are much of the Pheidippides story is a legend. The earliest mention of Pheidippides’ name in connection with a run from the battle to Athens occurs in histories written sever6 August 18, 2016

al centuries after the battle. (The claim that he ran 140 miles from Athens to Sparta to solicit Spartan help is more plausible.) Little matter. The real story of the first marathon is better. Hoplitodromos-style running occurred twice in the battle, and both times it was critical to its outcome. First, some military history. In early August 490 B.C., a Persian amphibious expeditionary force landed 25,000 to 30,000 men at Marathon, a plain between the mountains and the sea approximately 26 miles northeast of Athens. An Athenian and allied force of around 11,000 armored hoplites, including most of the men of military age in Athens, marched out to meet them. For several days, according to the British military historian Peter Green, the two armies faced each other at a distance of about a mile with both hesitant to start hostilities. The Persians hesitated because they knew the Athenian force was better armed, trained, disciplined and motivated. The Greek force hesitated because they were badly outnumbered, and because the Persians had brought two military assets that could be game-changers, cavalry and archers. Then, on August 11, the Persians forced the issue. They started loading the cavalry’s horses back on their ships. Defectors told the Athenians that the plan was for the main Persian force to sail down to Athens and attack the largely undefended city, while a smaller Persian force remained to delay the return of the Athenian army. So at about 6 a.m. on August 12, the Athenians launched a preemptive attack. The Athenian plan was to place most of their forces on the left and right of their line of battle and thin out the center, inviting the Persians to attack them there and then enveloping them from the flanks. But for the plan to work, the Athenian force had to engage the enemy before it was shot to pieces by the Persian archers. And the way it succeeded in doing so was to break into a double-time march when it got within range of the Persian archers — a disciplined “hoplitodromos” in other words. see DANISH PLAN Page 7

guest column The “them” in “us versus them” by Víctor Daniel Meléndez Torres

n the July 20 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore made an ominous prediction. He said, “I think Trump is gonna win.” If we concede that Clinton embraces a political centrism that’s steadily shifting to the right, then we’d have to say, with horror, that Moore’s prediction could very well be confirmed. To quash a Trump victory in November, Clinton must move left of center and embrace a discourse where the formation of progressive collective identities and passions take center stage. Trump, with his black-and-white right-wing discourse à la Marine Le Pen, shows (perhaps inadvertently) a Gramscian understanding of politics as a battle for cultural hegemony. This means, among other things, that he intuitively grasps politics as the space where the dominant “common sense” is challenged with “straight talk.” Being a reality TV star, he understands that the media is the most important producer of political culture in the United States, and he’s aware of its value in polemicizing the common sense of the time. Trump shows an understanding of the necessity of establishing a clearly defined adversary in order to win the 2016 presidential election. That is to say, he seems to understand that a simplification of the political space into a vertical “us” versus “them” dichotomy is

essential for a Republican victory in November. He also shows a strong grasp of the crucial importance of forming collective identities. Moreover, he seems to have an intuitive understanding of how highly ambiguous phrases — such as “Make America Great Again!” — lead to ideological ambivalences that contribute to the formation of collective identities. Highly ambiguous phrases are crucial for collective identity formation and voter mobilization because their end result is to effectively weave together the claims of very dissimilar groups. Likewise, Trump demonstrates that he understands the centrality of collective emotions — what renowned Belgian political scientist Chantal Mouffe refers to as “passions” — in establishing a new dominant common sense that leads to victory in November for the political Right. Of course, all this means that the Trumpian discourse is populist to its core. But we really shouldn’t be surprised to see this kind of right-wing nationalistic discourse at this moment in American history. As Spanish political scientist Juan Carlos Monedero has said, “Populisms exist whenever there are problems of aggregation of demands and of social inclusion.” It really isn’t difficult to see that these problems are at an all-time high in the U.S., and that Trump has successfully see GUEST COLUMN Page 7

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The plan worked to perfection. According to Herodotus, after three hours of fighting the Persians had lost 6,400 men; the Athenian casualties were 192. However, the battle wasn’t over. The remaining Persian forces had managed to get on their ships and set off for Athens. And it was at this point that history’s first “marathon” was run — not by Pheidippides, but by the entire

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capitalized on them. In light of this, a Clinton victory would require that she abandon her adherence to the right-shifting political center — which is evident not just in her positions on many domestic and foreign policy issues, but also in her political discourse when she fails to use phrases such as Sander’s “the billionaire class” and “the top one-tenth of one percent.” She must abandon her right-shifting centrism simply because it deprives politics of its sex appeal, especially for the more progressive voters in the Democratic Party. Unlike Trump, Clinton seems to gravitate away from vigorously dividing the political space, and her attempts at stoking the fires of collective emotional identifications are tepid at best. Nevertheless, it would be very difficult for her to simplify the political space vertically. In the minds of many voters, her status as a too-close-to-Wall Street member of the political establishment unequivocally makes her part of the “them” in the “us-them” dichotomy. In this sense, being considered the most qualified presidential candidate ever — as Obama described Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — could be a major disadvantage vis-à-vis Trump. In any case, if Clinton fails to make the formation of progressive collective identities and passions the cornerstone of her political strategy, the Trumpian discourse could go on to become the new dominant common sense in American politics. A broad cultural shift to the populist nativist political Right would be on the horizon. Victor Daniel Meléndez Torres is Puerto Rican and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

Athenian army. And it was run Hoplitodromos-style — by men burdened with 50 to 60 pounds of armor and weapons who had just emerged from three hours of handto-hand combat on a hot August day. Accounts vary as to the details of the run. Some say the runners “ran to the cry,” a description that suggests they were in some sort of formation and chanting as they ran. Historian Peter Green says it was every man for himself.

The pace could not have been more than a jog. The “winning time” in that first marathon was between six and seven hours — about 4 miles an hour to cover the 26 miles to Athens. (Modern marathon times by non-champion runners sans armor are around 4 hours, 20 minutes.) They weren’t racing each other, of course. The real race was between them and the Persian fleet. And they won. They arrived less than an hour ahead of the Persians. Not long afterwards, the

Persians sailed for home. Ancient Olympiads were often ended with a Hoplitodromos. The International Olympic Committee could do worse than revive the event and make it a climactic act of the modern games as a way of paying homage to the race that saved Athens — and kept western civilization from being strangled in the cradle. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Saving children is something our Colorado Representatives know well. I want to thank the representatives I’ve already worked with, those who are cosponsoring the Reach Every Mother and Child Act: Mike Coffman (R-6th), Diana DeGette (D-1st), and Jared Polis (D-2nd). These three representatives know that coming together has the power to change lives. Will the rest of our Colorado Representatives take the pledge? Contact Senator Gardner (R), Senator Bennett (D), Scott Tipton (R-3rd), Ken Buck (R-4th), Doug Lamborn (R-5th), and Ed Perlmutter (D-7th) to join this legislation today. Alaina Dougherty/Denver, CO

ColoradoCare fills physician RX for broken health system

Soon Colorado citizens will decide whether to support the current insurance system or muster the courage to change the entire system. The Colorado Medical Society has been dedicated to advancing the profession of medicine and to caring for the people of Colorado. In 2006, the CMS House of Delegates recognized that: “The health care system in Colorado is broken and the entire system needs to be reformed. Working only on one part will cause problems in other areas.” The delegates then approved the CMS Guiding Principles of Health System Reform: 1. Coverage — Health care coverage for Coloradans should be universal, portable, and mandatory. 2. Benefits — An essential benefits package should be uniform, with an option to obtain additional benefits. 3. Delivery system — The system must ensure choice of physician and preserve the patient/physician relationships. The system must focus on providing care that is safe, timely, efficient, patient-centered, and equitable. 4. Administration and governance — The system must be simple, transparent, accountable, efficient, and effective in order to reduce administrative costs and maximize funding for patient care. The system should be overseen by a governing body that includes regulatory agencies, payers, consumers, and care givers and that is accountable to the citizens. 5. Financing — Health care coverage should be equitable, affordable, and sustainable. The financing strategy should strive for simplicity, transparency, and efficiency. It should emphasize

personal responsibility as well as societal obligations due to the limited nature of resources available for health care. We believe that ColoradoCare, Amendment 69, can achieve the principles listed above, and will replace the present adversarial relationship between physicians and insurers. ColoradoCare will improve health care across the state via a working health care system in Colorado that benefits both patients and providers. Please vote yes for ColoradoCare, Amendment 69, on Nov. 8. Ben Vernon MD, FACS, past president of the Colorado Medical Society Laird Cagan MD, FACP, past president of the Boulder Medical Society and Physicians for ColoradoCare co-chair Mark Matthews MD FACP, Physicians for ColoradoCare co-chair

What’s left of our rights?

Now that the limit-fracking petitions have been submitted (again; thanks for nothing, Jared Polis) we can only hope none of the boxes containing same were “hijacked” on the way to Pueblo for verification. I still wonder what carrot or stick was offered to Polis to withdraw all OUR petitions in 2014, just as oil prices began to crater. It is useful as well to wonder why the petroleum industry is so apoplectic over what once could have been a ban on its activities in only about 1.5 percent of the surface area of the state – the urban portion. While it is true that proscription of oil and gas exploration and production from just under four million acres doesn’t imply that statewide oil production (93 million barrels in 2014, while gas totaled 1.6 trillion cubic feet in 2013 — gas prices began slipping in August 2008) would therefore recede by 1.5 percent, it is also true that Colorado oil and gas employment would not necessarily soften by 1.5 percent from its June 2016 level of 25,900. Moreover, 1.5 percent of related state severance taxes (where DO they go?) — near $100 million at the recent price peak — would not necessarily be threatened by denying the “strat” rigs access to urban greenbelts, etc., near you or me. The industry is nervous. Despite the advantages of multidirectional drilling that can reach resources more than three miles from the pad, the very reliance on such a method tends to reveal the certainty that all the low-hanging fruit is likely gone, that a scramble to avert the so-called “Hubbell Curve” (geologist Hubbell predicted in the Boulder Weekly

letters early 1970s that oil production would peak in the ‘90s) is on in earnest. Hence, the industry panics at the thought of denial of access to any place. The fear is that such denial may be contagious. This desperation will grow regardless of the result of ballot measures promoted this year. Some 81percent of Colorado oil production is attributed to Weld County. Insight into that County’s land use and other philosophies might be suggested by the location there in 1971 of the state’s only nuclear power plant. Some could say, if you don’t favor proximity of oil work then don’t live in Weld (or Garfield, number two). Fine. I can still choose where to live. But I’d prefer the industry stay away when I do. Gregory Iwan/Longmont

Time to wake up.

Trump set the narrative: 1) Hillary is President; 2) Hillary picks a liberal judge; 3) “Then — nothing you can do folks”; 4) “Although, Second Amendment people ...” In that context, AFTER the election, voting is not an option, so what was he hinting at if not violence? Also, there was Trump’s body language, and that of the people behind him. Trump shrugged slyly as his eyes shifted side to side. In the crowd, eyes grew wide, then smiles and laughter erupted. Is that the behavior of people excited to vote? At best, it’s a tasteless display of humor. Then, there’s Trump’s record: Needs to research David Duke and the KKK before denouncing them; Veterans who were captured are losers; Protesters at his rallies should be punched, kicked and ... (shrug); Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers; Ban Muslims; etc.; etc.; etc. Trump supporters argue, with a great deal of anger, that Trump is misunderstood, demonized by a “liberal” media (which has never been what I consider liberal). They say Trump’s relentless stumbles (attacking an American-born judge for being of Mexican decent and a gold star military family) are not what he means … that Trump’s a good man that wants the best for everyone. Still, Trump’s unyielding off the cuff, authoritarian, ego driven rhetoric, in which he regularly doesn’t finish sentences then turns around and complains about being misunderstood, has divided the Republican Party, not to mention the reaction he incites in most Democrats. If Trump causes this much confuBoulder Weekly

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EAB: opportunity for growing local fruit

With ash trees being about a sixth of our urban forests, imagine how much less shade we’ll have once the Emerald Ash Borer [RE: Boulderganic, July 28, “Slow-moving disaster reaches Longmont”] has done its work. If you have an ash tree in your landscape, now is a good time to consider what, if anything, you want to do about it. If your ash is already infested, with visible dieback, it may be too late to treat it. Consult with an certified arborist regarding whether to treat and the ongoing annual cost if you do. Know that some arborists may recommend neonicotinoid insecticides that can severely impact pollinator populations if used carelessly (there are options other than “neonics”). If you decide to let your tree die, be aware that tree removal can itself cost quite a bit. Again, ask an arborist about your particular situation. We see the Emerald Ash Borer as an opportunity to include more local fruit production in our urban forests. Our project, Widespread Malus, is grafting and distributing apple trees from a backyard nursery. In Spring of 2017, we’ll be distributing a number of rootstocks (small apple trees only a foot or so tall) that can be planted and then grafted the next year to a good eating or cider variety. Cost of rootstocks in bundles of 50 is relatively low ($1 to $3 per tree) and they perform well if given appropriate care. We’re also growing out wild apples of the species Malus sieversii, collected by USDA in Central Asia. Wild populations of this species are threatened by habitat loss, but represent an important genetic reservoir of disease resistance and other useful traits that may be bred into domesticated apples. We’ll gladly make grafting material from these trees available to interested folks. You can also find fruit trees at local nurseries, of course, or you may decide that a fruit tree is not the best choice for your replacing your ash. But if you’re interested in planting a rootstock and learning to graft, we’d love to keep you up to date on our plans for 2017 grafting classes and rootstock orders. Please visit www.widespreadmalus.org for more information. Eric Johnson/Boulder

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As the Tipi Raisers ride, a staff leads the horses; they slow when the staff is held high in the air or stop when it is outstretched.

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his is my way home,” says Matt Bad Wound. He is one of several people making a 350-mile journey from Boulder, Colorado, to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on horseback as part of a fundraiser for the South Dakota based nonprofit, the Tipi Raisers. It’s day seven of the roughly three-week ride and we start the day with a traditional prayer and smudging ceremony, as Tipi Raisers Executive Director Dave Ventimiglia carries burning sage to each of us, circling our horses in the rising smoke as we take in its earthy smell. Boulder Weekly

Bryan Deans, a Lakota member and staff carrier, offers a horse song, honoring the connection the animal provides between man and the universe. The horse points in all seven directions — north, west, east and south, plus the ears point towards heaven and the hooves ground us to the earth below. As the rider sits in the middle of the horse’s back, they become centered as the animal’s heartbeat points towards the seventh direction, the inner self. Deans then hands over his traditional hooked staff to See PINE RIDGE Page 12

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Ventimiglia who will carry it for the day. “Dave’s a nonmember but I think the thing is we have to pass this knowledge on to others,” says Deans. “We can’t do it alone. We have to cultivate relationships like this because allies are very important.” Carrying the staff on horseback creates a trail of blessing, Deans explains. The staff leads riders all day, as the horses slow when the staff is held high in the air or stop when it is outstretched. There are six of us riding today between Greeley, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the wide ditch of tall grass and wild sunflowers along U.S. 85. We start at a walk, then begin to trot, occasionally breaking into a canter. A group of both Lakota and nonnatives, the Tipi Raisers are working to bridge the gap between Native American traditions and the modern world. According to its website, the group believes, “that the wisdom, culture and traditions of the Lakota People can inform and benefit the Modern World at the same time that the Modern World can assist and support the Lakota People in creating more prosperous and humane living conditions on the reservations.” Home of Crazy Horse and the Wounded Knee Massacre in the late 12 August 18, 2016

19th century, Pine Ridge has since become one of the poorest zip codes in the country. More than 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and unemployment rates are estimated at 80 percent with a per capita income of $4,000 to $6,000. Life expectancy is often reported as the lowest in the Western Hemisphere with the exception of Haiti, estimated at 48 for males and 52 for females. The infant mortality rate is five times the national average while overall suicide rates are twice as high and include teen suicide rates four times the national average. Living conditions on the reservation have often been described as substandard with many homes lacking water, electricity and indoor plumbing. Overcrowding is also an issue, Bad Wound says, as multiple families have no choice but to share living space. “Housing is a big need,” he says. “There’s maybe five families in a home most of the time. And a lot of families live in trailers ‘cause it’s cheaper.” In a collaborative effort to address these issues, the Tipi Raisers organize

service trips to Pine Ridge, where participants are introduced to the traditions of the Lakota people while also working on a service project. Groups and individuals participate in inipi or traditional sweats, drum and dance ceremonies, and horseback rides, while also repairing and building houses, planting gardens and building fences. The current cross-country trip on horseback is a way to raise money for the service projects while also honoring the culture of the Lakota people. “You have this incredibly beautiful culture that has this desperate need and you have to figure out how to put money into a culture that that’s not really how they do things,” says Ventimiglia. “So we’ve really struggled with how do you bring money in because that’s necessary but in a way that’s respectful to their culture.” The group’s first fundraising horseback ride in 2014 took them from Breckenridge to Lyons, raising $45,000 in the process. This year, the group started at Fairview High School in Boulder and plans on arriving on Pine Ridge Aug. 18. They have already raised over $60,000 in both cash and in-kind

donations. “We want this to become an annual thing,” Bad Wound says. “We need it, we need more horse rides like this you know, because we’re the horse nation, it’s who we are as a people. People should be on horses. To me it’s a whole different experience.” Bad Wound, who was raised traditionally, rode horses when he was younger, but has only just started riding again. “I was always given the stud, you know, the really stubborn horse and I always had a bad experience. I really didn’t like riding horses,” he says. “But now that I’m older I have more confidence on top of a horse. I think if I fall, it’s not going to hurt as bad. It still hurts though.” An hour or two into the ride, Ventimiglia picks up the pace once again and our horses begin cantering, maybe even galloping, towards the distant horizon beneath an endless and cloudy Western sky. But we’re soon stopped by a honking horn. It’s Deans, who is pulling the horse trailer along the side of the road behind the group. Ventimiglia raises the staff, as our horses slow we turn and see Bad Wound’s riderless horse, the young man See PINE RIDGE Page 14

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running up from behind with a sheepish grin. It seems that as the horses began running, Bad Wound lost his balance, rolled right out of the saddle and into the tall grass. We all get a good laugh as he climbs back into the saddle. Ventimiglia breaks into even a wider smile as he begins to recall another time when he was hosting a group on Pine Ridge. He says the whole group looked up to see Bad Wound riding horseback along the crest of the hill, silhouetted by the setting sun. He dramatically paused, sitting straight upon the back of his horse, before beginning to gallop down the hill towards the group. As he rode, his long jet black hair whipped behind him. The group felt as if they had been transported back in time, Ventimiglia says. It was like a scene from an movie. But as horse and rider approached the group, the horse suddenly swerved sharply right and Bad Wound flew, less than gracefully, left. The spell was broken and the onlookers were catapulted back into the 21st century. Lighting a cigarette, Bad Wound laughs again at the retelling of this story. “We’ll let you finish that cancer stick before we start going again,” Ventimiglia says. A few minutes later, the horses start to trot, Bad Wound once again bringing up the rear.

Although he grew up on the reservation, Bad Wound spent most of his teenage years moving around the country, from California to Arizona to Louisiana. “We moved down south, just everywhere because my little brother’s dad, his job took him everywhere. We would stay in motels, wherever we could, we went to school everywhere,” Bad Wound says. “I went to schools, public schools, around white kids. For the longest time they thought I was Mexican.” Later leaving his stepfather whom he alleges abused him, Bad Wound returned to Pine Ridge with his mom for his final year of high school. It was just the two of them — his twin sister had just gone off to military school after running into some trouble and his younger brothers stayed with his stepfather. Although he appreciates the conveniences of life outside the reservation, he was more than happy to return. “I don’t ever want to leave home,” Bad Wound says. “We live on this road, they call it dam road or lakeside road. ... Every time I get on that road I just have the ‘ah, I’m safe, I’m home’ [feeling]. I don’t have to worry about nothing. As soon as I’m home, it’s quiet.” The mother and son moved into his grandparents’ house, which stood in disrepair having been boarded up since their death 17 years prior. They’ve been working to remodel the house ever since, which is how Bad Wound met Boulder Weekly

news Ventimiglia and the Tipi Raisers. Then he heard Ventimiglia was looking for a cook to help out with the groups he brought up to the reservation. “I took cooking classes in high school, growing up. I had to cook a lot being the oldest son, the oldest, you know, sibling,” he says. So he began cooking for the Tipi Raisers, eventually helping them with several of the building projects and eventually becoming a youth ambassador. The Tipi Raisers youth ambassadors program brings students from Pine Ridge to schools around Boulder, sharing their culture as well as the realities of life on the reservation. “When we go to these groups we have to decide what we’re going to talk about because you can’t just talk about hard-core poverty with young elementary kids,” Bad Wound says. “Maybe with high school kids we can talk about the real things that go on back home, the molestation and stuff like that. But I’m not going to bring that up with 5-yearold kids.” But the elementary school kids have shocked Bad Wound with their curiosity and questioning, not only about the Lakota traditions, but also the tense history between the European settlers of the West and the Native American tribes who already called the land home. “These kids had some deep questions like ones adults would ask. They said, ‘What are your feelings towards white people since they killed everybody at Wounded Knee?’” Bad Wound says. Although the question caught him off guard, and he had to stop and think about how to answer it, Bad Wound also appreciated the honesty of it. In the end, “We said, ‘No, you know, it’s a new day,’” he says. “To me it’s new anyways.” When not working with the Tipi Raisers, Bad Wound spends his time beading, an artform he taught himself by watching others on the reservation, with a few tips from his grandmother. He also recently started his own garden, growing corn, tomatoes, watermelon and several varieties of squash. Now 24, Bad Wound says he’s one of the few people his age who hasn’t already had children and he finds it difficult to find full-time work on Pine Ridge as he battles nepotism and a lack of professionalism, he says. He would like to continue his education, first attending community college on the reservation but then admitting he’ll most likely have to leave to get a full degree. He wants to get a business degree and study tribal law, although Boulder Weekly

not to practice, he says. “I guess it’s just good to have back home,” he says. “I don’t want to get political or anything. I want to have that education if someone has to argue or something or if I want to change something back home. You just kinda need that education.” And that seems to be Bad Wound’s goal working with the Tipi Raisers —

to help preserve the Lakota heritage and traditions while also finding solutions to combat the harsh realities of life on Pine Ridge. Last summer was particularly rough. Two of his cousins died in a drunk driving accident on the 4th of July, then a good friend in North Dakota overdosed in August and his aunt committed suicide. Despite all this, Bad

Wound remains hopeful as we ride toward the Wyoming border. “There’s a lot of people dying back home,” Bad Wound says. “But we’re riding for the Lakota people. For me, it’s a lot of weight on my shoulders but when I get home, hopefully there’s a change.” Visit thetipiraisers.org for more information or donate to the ride.

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you used to love to get fucked-up,” Leonard writes. “I had no ideas, but I was intent on escaping Iowa.” At 23, Leonard had already been to jail twice for DUIs and had just finished substance abuse treatment. He was looking for something to take hold in his life, like alcohol once did. Leonard writes, “I wonder if everyone has a period in their life when they’re at least a little lost about what it is they’re supposed to do. You tread water until the boat marked New Identity comes by to pick you up. Sometimes it takes years. You’re never in danger of drowning; you’re just listless, maybe frustrated enough to feel like screaming, ‘How fucking long do I have to do this?’ For me, it was the year I lived by myself, no friends, no money, no car, and no idea what to do with myself in my tiny apartment in Missoula.” After moving for the University of Montana’s journalism program, Leonard found himself frequenting the outdoors, and when his brother gifted him a climbing rope — the standard 60 meters in length, á la title — he was

taught, albeit reluctantly he admits, how to climb. What he learned, however, was more than how to scale vertical terrain; he learned how to efficiently face hardship, overcome fear and to trust himself and his partner to keep their lives safe. “On the surface it looks like a book about rock climbing and adventure, but it’s really not. It’s really the story of a guy and 13 years of figuring out who he is,” Leonard says. “And that’s something a lot of people can relate to.” Leonard, who is now 37 and based out of Denver, has preserved his transformation through the written word. Now a healthy, successful writer with three books, numerous magazine articles and his own sponsored blog, Leonard confesses it was a long time before anyone took him seriously. “I’ve really been working on 60 Meters to Anywhere since 2003, but it was more like 2009 when I had my first draft ready. I sent it out then, and publishers rejected it,” he says. Nearly six years elapsed until Mountaineers Books agreed to publish 60 Meters to Anywhere. Since then, the Boulder Weekly

ADVENTURE book has gathered acclaim, receiving dangerous sport. high praise from some of the foremost 60 Meters to Anywhere, however, adventure and outdoor writers. Greyson takes a different tone than his two preSchaffer, senior editor of Outside ceding works. Rather than allowing the Magazine, commented in review, humorous and often sarcastic voice in “Nothing is off-limits for Leonard in his blog, his memoir adopts a somber, this shocking memoir about recovery meditative and confessional tone. from addiction and redemption in the “It’s the one thing I can write that mountains.” has the potential to help people,” Katie Ives, editor-in-chief at Leonard says. “I’m not telling my story Alpinist, lauded, “Brendan Leonard’s in a narcissistic way; here’s an example prose has the clariof a life that isn’t ty of all those perfect, but in my times when, near eyes has become the top of a moungreat.” tain as the air It is not only spreads out and through writing the world expands that Leonard MY STORY IN A below, you feel as shares his wit, NARCISSISTIC WAY; though the simple, humility and yet mysterious act understanding of HERE’S AN EXAMPLE of ascent could the human experiOF A LIFE THAT ISN’T ence. He has also actually change PERFECT, BUT IN MY created and proyour life.” duced several In 2011, EYES HAS BECOME award-winning Leonard created GREAT.” — BRENDAN films, including Semi-Rad.com, a LEONARD Frank and the popular, humorous Tower, winner of climbing and outthe 5Point Film door blog reflecting on adventure Festival “Pure Joy” and the human experience. award, and “35,” winner of the best “I didn’t want to short film at the lose touch with the Banff Mountain Film ON THE BILL: Brendan Leonard, 60 Meters to outdoor part of me,” Festival. Anywhere book signing. 7:30 he explains. At the Since launching p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., time, he’d accepted a himself in the freeBoulder, 303-447-2074. new job that took lance and “creating him out of the outworld,” he says his door industry. “And I proudest moment was had all these things I’d written that when a college kid emailed him out of couldn’t necessarily work for a magathe blue, asking if he’d be a writing zine. I wanted a place to share them.” mentor. In the introduction to Semi-Rad. “The kid was working on his senior com, Leonard writes, “I think we all thesis. I told him I wasn’t sure what I need to spend more time doing things could teach him, but I could share we love, going to places that make us everything I knew,” Leonard says. “He’d feel small, remembering to laugh at been guiding in Zion [National Park]. ourselves, and getting a little cold, tired He took me big wall climbing, and and scared every once in a while. taught me a lot of things I didn’t know “I have not been featured in a up there. So we traded knowledge. And climbing video, or a ski film, and I will now he’s got a 26-page mountain prolikely never win a bike or foot race. But file in Alpinist,” an admirable achieveI love the mountains, and being outside. ment for a budding writer. I’m probably a lot like you.” Though Leonard loves writing and The first book Leonard wrote, The producing films, “I’m not a reclusive New American Road Trip Mixed Tape churning out art,” he says. Through his (2013) — a beatnik, soul-searching nar- work, he likes to share and inspire others rative about moving into his van, travel- to make necessary and beautiful changes ing the American West and jumping in their lives, sharing his story with othhead-first into the dirtbag life — he ers along the way. published himself. His second book, “When you do that, you give peoalso self-published, Funny Shit in the ple an opening to share their stories and Woods, is a collection of Semi-Rad. connect with each other too.” com’s most popular essays, running the At the end of the day, it’s been a gamut from mishaps while going to the long road, he admits, but “the success bathroom outside to the pitfalls of of anything is taking it seriously introducing a new love-interest to a enough.”

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The Boulder Burlesque gets honest about the hidden aspects of sexuality at this year’s Fringe Festival.

A walk on the fringy side THE BOULDER INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FEST IS BACK — AND FRINGIER THAN EVER

by Claire Woodcock

hen Al Stafford began his transition from female to male, he realized that a lot of the conversations and performances attempting to narrate the transgender experience tended to be very negative. “It was always these horrible stories, and I realized that wasn’t the trans experience that I wanted to have,” he says. “And it didn’t make sense to me because people transition to be happy, so why was it this horrible thing?” Stafford has been acting and participating in theatrical events for decades. After beginning his transition, he found a platform in stand-up

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comedy to present an alternative view of what being trans looks like. “The one thing I try to do with my show is to break the gender binary a bit more. I tend to be pretty gendered because I transitioned from female to male, whereas lots of trans people are somewhere in the middle,” he explains. “So I try to really include [the experiences] of all trans people.” Over the years, Stafford’s comedy has evolved into a one-man show called “Inappropriate Questions by Inappropriate People” that he’s debuted in Fort Collins and all along the Front see FRINGE Page 28

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Range. He’s brought his show to PRIDE Festivals, to new stories and explain how and why things are the route, and with no shows going over an hour, there’s the university circuit and to open mic events. In all of way they are and sometimes that’s uncomfortable but no excuse not spend the day show hopping by bus or these venues, he uses humor to help others who have it’s always necessary.” by foot. made a transition of their own heal. Cooley began her career at the Fringe a decade ago “Boulder is small, but we’re fierce,” Cooley says. “Part of it is you go through puberty a second time; as a performing artist. For her, the festival’s power lies “We have these amazing patrons and audiences who your mom calls you by two different pronouns within will try something new and different. We’re hoping to in the stories of independent artists. the same sentence. These funny situations just hapcreate more of a place for that, that more people will “Every artist is like the bravest person I’ve ever pen,” he says. met,” she says. “And at any given time, the Fringe gives be daring and go see shows that they may not know a And he’s bringing his show to the 2016 Boulder lot about. Making it fun and safe but at the same time a home to artists who wouldn’t normally be given that International Fringe Festival, experiential and really engaging Kate Austin-Groen Photography August 17-28. — that’s a big part of the Boulder “My piece looks at my tranFringe.” sition from female to male and This year, Pine Street Church just sort of the different experiis a hot spot for performances, Al Stafford ences I’ve had, but also how I including several days of Boulder performs his interact with the world and how Burlesque, a conscious burlesque one-man comedy show the world interacts and just gettroupe. The troupe stemmed out “Inappropriate ting to teach people better quesof Jenna Noah’s master’s degree Questions by Inappropriate tions to ask,” he says. “It starts project at Naropa University in People” at the out like you’re at this training contemplative psychology. Now Boulder International session for Gender 101 and as it the current madame of Boulder Fringe Festival. goes along, I’m giving a Burlesque, Noah says she had this PowerPoint presentation and seed idea to create a dance modalthere are these pre-recorded ity that would bring together voices that interrupt and start mindfulness group support and an asking questions as though from honest conversation about the the audience.” hidden aspects of sexuality. Today During his set, Stafford the troupe celebrates the sacredopenly contemplates how to deal ness of profanity. with the inappropriate and often “What really separates us from downright rude questions that traditional burlesque is a lot of the trans folks deal with every day. dance pieces are really about peoExcept in this scenario, he ple’s personal stories, like what they’ve been through, what breaks the social rules. they’ve felt and experienced through this wild thing “I just say what I want to,” he says. In this scenario, opportunity. I think it’s because the festival itself gives we call sex and sexuality, in ways that are sometimes he’s a superhero of wit and words. a place for stories that we don’t hear or don’t have positive and sometimes not such positive experiences,” This is Stafford’s fourth year at the Fringe, and he’s access to, but it also gives a place for audiences to Noah says. ready — excited, actually — for the intimacy of a experience art in a more intimate way. It allows audiThis is Boulder Burlesque’s second year at the small stage performance. It was in these intimate setences to engage more forward and keep that experiFringe Festival, and Noah can hardly contain her tings that Stafford was able to explore his own ideas of ence, so we’re constantly growing as a community and excitement about sharing her troupe’s work with the what theater is and how he can use this platform to the community is challenged constantly.” community. She says Fringe Fest audiences can expect tell his story and educate others, ultimately helping Over 12 days, the festival aims to produce 195 dances that are romantic and dances that are rooted in audiences to become even better allies to the transgen- shows that Cooley assures will be wild with creativity. some darker themes, like loss. der community. Shows will include music, art, dance, comedy, theater, “It’s not your typical show where you’re just going “I really like theater that kind of expands how peo- puppet theater and clowns. At the Fringe, Cooley says there to be dazzled and entertained by tips and tasple think and what sort of turns things that people everyone has a unique story to share. sels,” she says. “It’s a show where there’s a lot of conthought they know about on their sides and they can “These [stories] automatically bring new vigor to examine them a little closer,” he says. what our community already has, which is phenomenal tent that has a lot of meaning to the performers. And I think it’s a form of art in that way, specifically because That’s exactly what the Boulder International because now we’ve got new thoughts, new ideas, new it’s the dancer’s stories that are coming from their lives Fringe Festival sets out to do. It provides a place for ways of problem solving and then new art.” very often.” stories that we don’t typically hear or have access to, Cooley says this year’s event will be the smallest Noah, or shall we say Madame, will also lead a but it also gives a place for audiences to experience art geographic footprint ever in the history of the Boulder workshop for the Fringe on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 12:30 in a more intimate way. It allows audiences to engage, Fringe. This is partly because the festival isn’t using p.m. During this hour-and-a-half workshop, the move forward and honor that experience, so we’re con- The Dairy Center for the Arts as a venue space this troupe will go through the basics of overcoming nerves stantly growing as a community. year, due to building renovations. Cooley describes “Al Stafford, he’s really gracious about letting his these venues as “unconventional and quite exceptional.” and freeing the mind and body. She says the workshop is meant give patrons a confidence boost. experience be known. But that helps take care of other “We’re in churches, we’re in bookstores, we’re in “We’re going to be getting wild, we’re going to be people, who wouldn’t or can’t or who are scared. So dance studios,” she says. “We’re more fringe this year. getting naked in the church, which is going to be fasnow there’s a voice. Someone who’s representing Possibly the fringiest we’ve ever been.” cinating. I’m actually really kind of excited, in a weird them,” says Alexis Cooley, executive director of the For the most part, the festival will take place along way,” she says. Boulder International Fringe Festival. “And it’s becom- Pearl Street, from Free Motion Community Dance The Fringe Festival, as with all festivals of this ing something that people will go see and want to Center on 22nd Street, to Trident Booksellers and type, is unjuried. Artists are chosen Hogwarts style, know more about. 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buzz their names drawn from a giant, fringecovered hat, so Cooley and Team Fringe have no idea what the exact lineup of shows will be. However, she does notice a theme of body image throughout the Fringe Festival entries this year. “All of these shows are made up of brave, independent artists who are telling their stories, but they all seem to have this bit of a thread about being who you are and seeing the world as you see it,” she says. “And then we have people figuring out who they are in their own skin.” Ultimately, the apparent theme of this year’s festival is being happy with yourself. “And I don’t think there’s a better message to have right now,” Cooley says. “We can have lots of messages in this political time. But if we could all get to a place of comfort with who we are and the body we’re given, then maybe other things can start to be more real and be more conversation than reactionary.” As a nonprofit, Boulder Fringe gives 100 percent of the ticket sales to the artists performing in the festival. And the organization is in the midst of transitioning to support independent artists year-round, not just for the festival circuit. “We have a program called Venue in a Box, where we can offer to any artist very reasonable technical equipment, technical engineers, house managers, box office and now ticketing,” Cooley says. “So if someone wanted to do a house show or a concert or work at the church or produce something in the park, we can help them do that. That way there are more opportunities for our own local independent artists and that was what we felt was our commitment to our community year-round.” The Venue in a Box program also provides artists with help increasing social media presence, writing press releases and other resources to enhance their professionalism. Throughout the event, even the youngest Boulderites get to take a walk on the fringy side. This is the second year of Family Fringe, where programs, activities and, ultimately, the structure of the event are all created by children. “The goal is to give them enough to tell us how to create. So teach them a little bit about body and movement and then let them choreograph something,” Cooley says. “Give them an introduction to musical instruments and then let them tell us how the beats should go. And then they can carry on…” Boulder Weekly

On the final day of the festival, Sunday, Aug. 28, there will be a ‘Best of Boulder Fringe’ at the Nomad Playhouse. The festival will present three awards to participants: a media award, an artist-choice award and an audience-choice award. As in years before, fringe-goers can rate Fringe performances online. Audience members can go to boulderfringe.com and submit a review by creating a quick sign-

in name and joining the fringe community in an unfiltered and unedited forum that provides fringers with the chance to recommend the shows they enjoyed to the rest of the Boulder community. “Everyone’s a critic at the Fringe. You can say what you liked. You can say you didn’t like it. It’s OK,” Cooley says. “We don’t need to dance around comfort zones. Those are broken for everyone.”

ON THE BILL: International Boulder Fringe Festival. Aug. 17-28. Various times and locations along Pearl Street, from Free Motion Dance Center on 22nd Street to Trident Booksellers on 9th Street. For a full artist lineup and more information on the festival, visit boulderfringe.com.

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ndy May is a soft-spoken and 12-year-olds by the name of Nickel she was 4 years old. “She would carry man who calls children Creek,” May says. Now, Acoustic Kids her violin with her to music events like “youngsters” and adults also participates in MerleFest in that, just in case she could play with “folks.” His talent as a musi- Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and, as of someone,” says her mother, Mary cian and teacher is undislast year, at Copper Mountain’s Guitar Shumway. puted, but he’s likely best known as the Town festival. It’s tough to imagine 4-year-old founder of the Acoustic Kids Showcase. While there is an audition process Ruth’s tiny hands lugging a violin The showcase is a non-competitive for the kids who join the program, one around a national festival, the pre“Opry-style” performance program that of May’s goals is to give anyone who schooler desperately hoping to jump on allows musicians 17 and stage in front of a large crowd younger to perform on profes- Courtesy Andy May of people, but she denies ever sional stages at festivals around feeling anxiety around performthe country. On Aug. 13, ing. May’s “acoustic kids” took to “It was just fun and enjoythe Guitar Center Stage at able and everyone was doing it Guitar Town in Copper, CO. and I wanted to do it, too,” “I’m an artist, a guitarist, a Ruth says. singer-songwriter, a performer, In fact, none of the a band leader and many things Acoustic Kids interviewed as well as an educator,” May recalled ever feeling perforexplains. “I’ve produced many mance anxiety. One after the records and won awards but other described being on the this is something different. Acoustic Kids stages as a purely Acoustic Kids is something joyous, communal experience. kind of, well I don’t know Ruth’s mother, Mary, has what. Some people say it’s my her own thoughts on the lack of legacy. I hope it’s not a bad nerves among Acoustic Kids. Andy May’s Acoustic Kids Showcase gives young players the legacy to have.” “Andy told us that his criteopportunity to perform in front of a real festival crowd, yet in The first Acoustic Kids rion was that each kid has a a fun and supportive atmosphere. event took place in the 1980s positive experience,” she says. in Fort Collins, where May “I think that because Ruth had was, at the time, producing music and those opportunities she never developed can benefit from the program a chance teaching. to participate. “If they’re ready for stage, anxiety. It just always seemed like something that everyone did.” “Back then there was the Midwinter it doesn’t matter if they’re beginners or Nearly all of the Acoustic Kids parBluegrass Festival held each year in highly advanced, we accept them all as ticipate in competitions on the side — Fort Collins and I went to the fella’ long as the opportunity will be worth fiddler’s conventions in Ruth’s case — who ran that festival, Mr. Ken Seaman, while for them — as long as it’s someand said, ‘What about giving some thing they really want to do,” May says. that entail higher stakes and a more serious demeanor. And while Ruth admits youngsters the opportunity to per“If they can do a job that they can look she enjoys the competitive atmosphere at form?’” May says. “I explained the phiback on and be proud of in the future these conventions, she sees the benefits losophy behind it: that it’s not a contest — something that can capture the of May’s approach clearly. but an opportunity for deserving audiences’ imagination and attention, “Acoustic Kids has definitely fosyoungsters to perform in front of an that’s what we’re looking for in tered my level of performing,” Ruth audience at a real, legitimate venue. Acoustic Kids.” Ken thought it was a great idea and so And, yes, May does welcome begin- says. “I’ve met a number of great friends there, unlike competition where you began the first Acoustic Kids program.” ners into the program quite warmly. don’t really talk to the other kids perThe program grew from there. In But the “highly advanced” Acoustic forming.” 1991, Bob Redford, head of the Walnut Kids, what May now calls the Acoustic And, unlike competition, Andy Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, Kids Ambassadors, are likely to leave May’s Acoustic Kids was built to be happened to be sitting in the audience audience members slack-jawed at the what he thought a young musician’s at an Acoustic Kids Showcase at sight of their tiny, pre-teen fingers flyexperience should be. It should be comMidwinter Fest. Redford approached ing across the strings of their guitars or munal, supportive and respectful. May about bringing Acoustic Kids to violins with skill well beyond their “If they’re up there, there’s a reason Walnut Valley and, 25 years later, the years. they’re up there and they’re treated with program is still a staple. Among these gifted Acoustic Kids respect. There’s nothing condescending “Thousands of youngsters have Ambassadors is 13-year-old Ruth gone through the Acoustic Kids proShumway. Ruth has been playing fiddle about it,” May says. Simply put, and wholeheartedly enforced. gram there, including a bunch of 11as an Acoustic Kid at MerleFest since

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Finishing School explores the era of surveillance at BMoCA

ALK INTO THE MAIN gallery of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and you will be blinded by industrial spotlights mounted on large white boxes, shining with blaring aggression. Upon seeing the light, you will instinctively squint, raise your hands to your face to shield your eyes and shift your body to ward against the glare, as you try to find your bearings. Shining light into someone’s eyes is a basic military tactic used both to identify and disorient a potential threat, creating a power imbalance as one is seen without themselves being able to see. “We want you to not be able to look at [the boxes] so as to introduce a way of hiding by becoming something that you can’t look at. The boxes become invisible in plain sight,” says Matt Fischer of Finishing School, the Los Angeles-based artist collective

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behind BLISS, on exhibition at BMOCA through September 11. The lights are mounted at eye level on three large, white cubes that mimic the classic white and square gallery room. The boxes are shelters designed to be like bunkers that offer protection and isolation in times of war. Constructed of thick kevlar and other ballistic materials they are completely impenetrable — bulletproof, soundproof, impermeable to radio waves, Wi-Fi and heat sensors. The piece isn’t finished until someone shuts themselves inside a bunker, entering a completely private space where there is no way for outsiders to know what is done inside. Once the door on the shelter is closed, a strict barrier is formed between the inside and the outside world and the participants find themselves uniquely and totally alone. Stepping into such true privacy draws a strict contrast to the mass surveillance at work in the world today. It is as if there has been a subtle takeover in which what was once considered a right is now only an afterthought. Fischer says the goal of the exhibition is not only to question what it means to lose privacy, but for the viewer to consider their participation in that process. In seeking both physical and psychological participation there is a transactional aspect to BLISS — an intentional acknowledgement that the era of surveillance isn’t just happening to us but comes with our consent. The justifications come in many forms — from national security to corporate interest to personal comfort and social connectivity — all of which work to create a network of surveillance with profound effects on our understanding of humanity. “We are all going through this social experiment for the first time, together,” Fischer says. “It’s not like we know more about this than anyone else. With the Boulder Weekly

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rapid way that culture has changed in the last ten ON THE BILL: Finishing years, there is no one on the planet that has the School: BLISS. Boulder perspective to be able to speak on it rationally Museum of Contemporary because we are all doing it simultaneously. There Art, 1750 13th St., 303-4432122. Through September is no way to really gain a firm point of view on 11. what is actually happening.” The title of the show, BLISS, is a subtle callback to such repercussions of lost privacy. Finishing School offers three definitions of the word, the first two reference a sort of salvation: complete happiness or, in the philosophical sense, a perfect place of peace. The third definition, however, is a military acronym used to instruct soldiers to find and construct shelter in a survival situation — Blend in, keep a Low profile, build an Irregular shape, stay Small, find a Secluded location. “It’s interesting when you read the survival manuals for when you’ve been shot down behind enemy lines. The first steps that they take you through are really psychological,” Fischer says. “It is not things to do physically, rather it is ways to set up your mind. It was this weird mix of psychology and movement that really seemed like it was hitting the nail on the head. To complement the psychological experience of the front room, in the back room we incorporated movement related to the sense of military authoritarianism. They are really opposite in an important way.” The back half of the exhibition, done in collaboration with artists from the University of Colorado Boulder, shows videos of people moving slowly through militarized evasion tactics and performing everyday acts of privacy. A woman blinks, a man crawls into a corner, a woman covers her mouth to hide her breathing and another woman crouches low and shuffles side to side, her back pressed firmly against a wall. Compared to the blank architecture of the front gallery, the movement portrayed in the back room is starkly corporeal and gestural. The embodiment of evasion and the performance of blending-in exposes the vulnerability in being seen. There is an implicit sadness in having to hide oneself as if, without privacy, we are all somehow living behind enemy lines. “I think we have a right to be able to erase parts about ourselves, or at least let them drift off organically the way that they have in the past, as they have for hundreds of thousands of years,” Fischer says. “I think there is something really wonderful about moments passing and being forgotten.” Boulder Weekly

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hat makes you get up of capitalism. Instead, Equity is a every morning? It’s a tightly constructed thriller of the psystraightforward queschological variety, one based in Fox’s tion, but rarely does it research. illicit a straightforward “What I tend to do is look for situresponse. Ask that question of 20 difations that are going to be interesting,” ferent people and you’re likely to get 20 Fox says. “I’ll think: OK, she’s got this different answers that all sound good boyfriend or this guy that she’s involved and righteous and altruistic, but probawith, and he works at the bank too. bly aren’t honest. Or as magnificently Maybe they’re at dinner and they’re blunt as, “I like money.” If you did, talking about their day and there are you’d want to write a whole movie things they can and can’t discuss with around it. each other.” That’s what Amy Fox did. Fox uses this theme dramatically to Born and raised in Boulder, build tension between Naomi and her Colorado, and now living in New York, boyfriend, Michael ( James Purefoy), Amy Fox is the screenwriter behind the Amy Fox and Equity’s producer and co-star Alysia Reiner. another Wall Street player. Even when new Wall Street movie, Equity. The engaging in a casual conversation about film centers on Naomi (Anna Gunn), work, Naomi must guard herself as any an investment banker trying to climb information could compromise her the corporate ladder by putting a previposition while benefitting Michael — ous failure behind her during the an aspect of the script that also came launch of a newly acquired initial public from Fox’s interviews. offering. If this isn’t hard enough, “There is a lot of double-speak on Naomi must keep tabs on her VP Wall Street,” Fox says. “When you talk (Sarah Megan Thomas) nipping at her to people who work on Wall Street, heels and a prosecutor, Samantha there is a strange disconnect where they (Alysia Reiner), who’s watching over sort of claim that everything they’ve her, waiting for her to slip up. It’s a cutever done is on the up-and-up. I’m not throat world that Naomi inhabits, but saying that they’re not telling the truth, it’s one she loves. She likes money — a line that came out of an interview Fox but there is a disconnect between what we know happened, what the industry as a conducted with a woman who worked on Wall Street for 20 years. whole has allowed to happen to the economy, and what the individual people “She just cited some pretty rough things that used to happen in the ’80s,” Fox think they’re doing in their jobs. And that’s interesting to me, in terms of how tells Boulder Weekly. “There were strippers in the office and very blatant misogyny. honest and self-reflective people are being about their roles in this larger instituAnd I said, ‘So what kept you coming to work every day? What got you through tion.” that?’ And her response to me was, ‘I really like money.’ And that honesty is reflected in Fox’s dialogue. Naomi’s line, “I like money,” is I thought that it was stunning because it was so direct and unapologetic,” Fox later echoed by another character: “Money doesn’t have to be a dirty word.” Who says. “And I just immediately knew that I wanted Naomi to say that.” says this line is just as important as why she says it. There is a resignation these Equity, directed by Meera Menon, is the first feature film produced by Broad characters have to the forces just outside their grasp — be it backroom deals, glass Street Pictures, which was founded by Equity’s two producers, and supporting ceilings or the harsh reality of a mortgage payment. actresses, Reiner and Thomas. Fox is quick to acknowledge not everyone on Wall Street is corrupt, and that “Their goal was to produce films with more complicated, interesting roles for the majority aren’t participating in backroom dealings, but that it is a legitimate women,” Fox explains. “And this was their idea for what they wanted their first blind spot. movie to be — a female-driven Wall Street story.” “There’s also a lack of acknowledgment that those backroom dealings are going Though the movie, and the character of Naomi in particular, has been nick- on at all,” Fox says. “Most people you talk to will assure you that it’s all on the up named “the She-Wolf of Wall Street” in the press, Equity features none of the -and-up, and that’s not really reflected in what you read in the newspaper.” cocaine, Quaaludes or excessive bacchanals of Martin Scorsese’s 2013 bad boys Equity opens nationwide August 19.

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Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Company, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Celtic Session hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. DJ Tip Top. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Halden Wofford and the Highbeams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Homage To The Thief - Boulder Fringe Festival. 5 p.m. Trident Bookstore and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder. Jake Bergstrom. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Jason Pawlina. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Kyle Donovan. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Ladies Night Featuring The Den City Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. McKay Brothers Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Michael Howard. 6 p.m. Blue Owl Books, 176 CO 119, Nederland. Miller and the Other Sinners. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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25th Annual Colorado Watercolor Society State Exhibition. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28. 41st Annual Exhibition Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28. Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through Oct. 22. Becoming Imperceptible — Adam Pendleton. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 11. Crossing Borders. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, 303-665-5200. Through Aug. 25.

On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8, 2017.

Finishing School: BLISS. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through September 11.

The Resilience Project. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave. 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 24.

Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Sept. 10.

Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7.

Imagine! Into the Future. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Aug. 21. International Artists Residency: Tomoko Sauvage. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Aug. 31. Mestizaje, Hubridity. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave. 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 24.

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Why We Dance. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 14. Women of Abstract Expressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 25.

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Creative Fix Adult Class. 6:30 p.m. Crackpots Pottery Studio, 505 Main St., Longmont, 303-776-2211.

Honeytree Duo. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Dechen Hawk, Colin Robinson, Jarrad Menard. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

John Mckay. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Defunkt Railroad. 7 p.m. American Legion Post 10, 4760 28th Ave., Boulder. Delta Sonics. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Hazel Miller. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway

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Lee Johnson. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road Unit 20, Boulder, 508873-9185. Longmont Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Ensemble. 6 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467.

Mr Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Carmen — presented by Boulder Opera. 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, The Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-731-2036. Defending the Caveman. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239. Through Aug. 28

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Kort Mcumber. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Miner. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Footloose. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Sept. 3.

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Little Shop of Horrors. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Aug. 21.

Nom de Guerres. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Pineross (Featuring members of Chimney Choir). 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Pistols in Petticoats. 8 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Ravin’ Wolf. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Rocky Mountain Folk Festival. 11 a.m. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 West Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422. Stomp Street Heist. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl see EVENTS Page 42

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Imagine! Into the Future Exhibition. 9 a.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

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Mary and Max. 8:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Therefore turn and draw’. 2 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Tickled. 1:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Viktoria. 3:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Music The Alcapones. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Barbershop Harmony Festival. 6 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282. Blues On The Lamb. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Brady O’ & FeralHeart. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Carbonated Insight. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. CIT 7. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

3:00 PM

The Delta Sonics. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

5:30 PM

Electric Red. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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Joe the Bare. 7:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Friday, Aug. 19

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2016 Boulder International Fringe Festival. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Enion Tiller Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Poestry Workshop. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Bradford Tice and Kyle McCord. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, Aug. 22 Poetry Writing Circle. 10 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Tuesday, Aug. 23 Joy Sawyer. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Brendan Leonard — Sixty Meters to Anywhere. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. (see page 21 for more on Brendan Leonard.) Wednesday, Aug. 24 Katherine Marlowe — The Valet & The Stable Groom. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Molly Kollier, Steve Itterly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Nikka Garcia. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Ninety Percent 90s. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. One On One. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ran Off the Rooster. 9 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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Felonius Smith & Steve Sheldon. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Ravin’Wolf. 11 a.m. Louisville Farmers’ Market at Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville.

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The Foggy Tops. 10 a.m. Boulder Farmers’ Market, 1301 Canyon, Boulder.

Rob Nance and The Lost Souls. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

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Guerrilla Fanfare Brass Band. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Rocky Mountain Folk Festival. 11 a.m. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422.

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Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. The Hawthorne Roots Live. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Rogue 2. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

Boulder Craft Beer Festival. 1 p.m. West Central Park, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Creating the Compost Modern. 12 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. Imagine! Into the Future Exhibition. 9 a.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. LWVBC Voter Registration Drive. 8 a.m. Longmont Farmers Market, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Tickled. 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Unit B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Under the Stars w/ Brews & the Bard: As You Like It. 7:30 p.m. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Viktoria. 3 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Sunday, August 21 Music

Rolly Fest. 11 a.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Banshee Tree. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Heartstring Hunters and Chain Station. 1 p.m. West Central Park, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

Smoking in the Womb. 7 p.m. World Of Beer, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Three Finger Salute. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Boulder Market. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

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Open Mic Hosted by Silent Bear. 7 p.m. Sancho’s Boulder Arrow, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 720-8498458. Monday, August 22 Music Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Company, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Homage To The Thief - Boulder Fringe Festival. 5 p.m. Trident Bookstore and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder. Native Station. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. The Pete Kartsounes Band. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont. Thomas Gronberg and DonCleason. 9:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Tunisia Band. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. Events Boulder Mountainbike Alliance Beginner MTB Ride. 6 p.m. Various Locations, Boulder.

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orned beef was one of those foods that sat perennially in the pantry of my parent’s kitchen, opaque jelly covering pinkish meat in an oblong can. Let’s not mince words: straight from the can, it’s not aesthetically pleasing. But people around me seemed to love it, and serve it. My grandfather would layer it with sauerkraut and mustard in a sandwich (rye if it was on hand), my mom would put it in a crockpot with cabbage and potatoes and carrots, and once in awhile a friend’s grandmother would make hash with it and serve it to us with toast (for breakfast or dinner).

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The older folks, the grandmas and grandpas, liked corned beef because they’d grown up eating it. The canned meat was popular in both World Wars when food was rationed. They fed it to their kids, who also grew to like it, and then they fed it to us. And despite the weird gelatin in the can, I grew to like it too. It’s a salted-cured meat, like country ham, so it’s savory and brackish with no added effort. The “corned” part comes from Old English, where “corns” are hard particles, like the salt used to cure the beef. Corned beef hash was really the dish I enjoyed best, perhaps because breakfast is indisputably the most pleasurable meal of the day — for me. There’s that golden hour of sunlight and everything is quiet. And there’s coffee. So I found myself driving down Diagonal

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with an open kitchen, windows all around the dining room so folks can look out as they eat. The tables are simply set with paper napkins, a fork, a spoon and a knife, a sugar caddy and salt and pepper shakers. The shakers at my table were porcelain unicorns. There were electric mixer shakers, cacti, houses, and of course, little dogs at other tables. The Two Dog pulls off cute without venturing into kitschy. And on their menu is corned beef hash. In a rush of nostalgia I ordered it, eggs over easy. Now, hash has always been seen as kind of a last resort for breakfast. It’s how you use up the leftovers in the fridge. But as of late, as it is with most foods, hash seems to have come back into vogue, and with good reason. It’s simple, but it’s versatile; it involves a protein, a starch and vegetables. And why wouldn’t you want to use all the leftovers in your fridge? (It’s a game at my house to see what I can make for dinner when the fridge has hit bachelor status.) The corned beef hash at Two Dog was a traditional hash like the kind I ate as a kid: the beef sautéed with tri-colored bell peppers, garlic and potatoes, over easy eggs on top for a rush of gooey yolk, and marbled rye served on the side as a perfect crusty instrument for delivering egg-soaked hash to the mouth. And don’t worry — they’re served up with extra potatoes for good measure. With a hot cup of coffee to wash it all down, the meal was as comforting as it was as a child This may be a little premature, but Sept. 27 is National Corned Beef Hash Day here in the U.S. So if you’re jonesing for a little nostalgia, head to Two Dog Diner and celebrate the odd, tasty treat that is corned beef hash. Two Dog Diner. 645 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-772-2364.

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was just outside of Silt when the car started to smell like peaches. I figured if I had to drive from Grand Junction to Lafayette I needed to inhale and ingest Palisade’s sweetest all the way home. This time of year the wonderful, aptly named Home Style Bakery in Grand Junction sells fresh peach pie, muffins, peach morning ring and peach fried hand pies and there is someone every thousand yards in and around Palisade selling peaches by the road. The obsession peaks this weekend at the Palisade Peach Festival. I was drawn to pick up a case of No. 2 New Haven peaches at the Ball Fruit Stand in Palisade because the place looked real. I was led to a side area to find the No. 2’s, which are cheaper, smaller, scarred, bruised or slightly overripe — in other words, my kind of peaches. The memory of eating ripe peaches while driving down I-70 will stay with me along with the juicy mess involved. A peach upside down cake got me through the final stretch. The hard part was getting home and figuring out what to do with all that fruit... and quickly. Come winter I will thank myself see NIBBLES Page 52

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for standing at the cutting board for a couple of hours. The firmer peaches got dipped in simmering water for a few minutes to loosen the skin. I froze slices on a cookie sheet to be saved in freezer bags. The overripe peach parts went into a pot with some lemon juice and a little sugar, honey and lemon to make peach butter. To celebrate the season, I also made a peach upside-down quick bread. This is the non-recipe. Take a pie plate, butter it, sprinkle with sugar, and cover the surface with peach slices (peeled or unpeeled). Top it with a batch of biscuits, muffin or cornbread batter and bake until bubbling. For mine I used half Bisquik and half cornbread mix plus nonfat plain yogurt, walnuts, lemon juice, eggs and milk. To serve, you loosen the cake and overturn on a plate to show off that peachy bottom. It’s a nice breakfast. I even buttered and grilled some particularly hard peach halves until they were brown and tender. I couldn’t decide whether they were better as a side dish for grilled chicken or as dessert with ricotta cheese and honey. After all that hauling, peeling, slicing, baking, boiling and freezing I demanded a cooling beverage on a sweaty day. Awhile back I had asked Beth Gruitch at Denver’s Mediterranean-oriented Rioja Restaurant for a white sangria recipe. “I like sangria because it’s unpretentious and everyday, and when it’s hot you can put it over ice,” she told me. “I prefer a drier sangria style so the sweetness comes from the fruit, not the wine.” Gruitch co-owns Rioja and other eateries with James Beard and award-winning chef Jennifer Jasinski. Peaches are part of the eatery’s appeal. I improvised with the available ingredients, which is to say a cold, $4.98 bottle of white wine, peach puree and slices, lemon juice, Triple Sec and ice. That sangria spoke to me as I recovered on the patio. If you are paying too much attention to sangria then you are doing it the see NIBBLES Page 54

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Oh how I wish you might receive the grace of being pampered and nurtured and entertained and prayed for. I’d love for you to assemble a throng of no-stringsattached caretakers who would devote themselves to stoking your healing and delight. Maybe they’d sing to you as they gave you a manicure and massaged your feet and paid your bills. Or perhaps they would cook you a gourmet meal and clean your house as they told you stories about how beautiful you are and all the great things you’re going to do in the future. Is it possible to arrange something like that even on a modest scale, Taurus? You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you most need this kind of doting attention — and when you have the greatest power to make it happen.

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home ... your sweet, energizing, love-strong home ... the home where you can be high and deep, robust and tender, flexible and rigorous ...the home where you are the person that you promised yourself you could be. To stimulate and enhance your brainstorms about your true home, experiment with the following activities: Feed your roots ... do maintenance work on your power spot ... cherish and foster your sources ... and refine the magic that makes you feel free. Can you handle one more set of tasks designed to enhance your domestic bliss? Tend to your web of close allies ... take care of what takes care of you ... and adore the intimate connections that serve as your foundation.

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At the risk of asking too much and pushing too hard, my Guerrilla Prayer Warriors have been begging God to send you some major financial mojo. These fierce supplicants have even gone so far as to suggest to the Supreme Being that maybe She could help you win the lottery or find a roll of big bills lying in the gutter or be granted a magic wish by an unexpected benefactor. “Whatever works!” is their mantra. Looking at the astrological omens, I’m not sure that the Prayer Warriors’ extreme attempts will be effective. But the possibility that they will be is definitely greater than usual. To boost your odds, I suggest you get more organized and better educated about your money matters. Set a clear intention about the changes you’d like to put in motion during the next ten months.

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The odds are higher than usual that you will be offered a boost or promotion in the coming weeks. This development is especially likely to occur in the job you’re doing or the career plans you’ve been pursuing. It could also be a factor at work in your spiritual life. You may discover a new teacher or teaching that could lift you to the next phase of your inner quest. There’s even a chance that you’ll get an upgrade on both fronts. So it’s probably a good time to check on whether you’re harboring any obstacles to success.If you find that you are,DESTROYTHOSE RANCID

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Suggested experiments: 1. Take a vow that from now on you won’t hide your beauty. 2. Strike a deal with your inner king or inner queen, guaranteeing that this regal part of gets regular free expression. 3. Converse with your Future Self about how the two of you might collaborate to fully unleash the refined potency of your emotional intelligence. 4. In meditations and dreams, ask your ancestors how you can more completely access

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

From what I can tell, your vigor is peaking. In recent weeks, you have been sturdy, hearty, stout, and substantial. I expect this surge of strength to intensify in the near future — even as it becomes more fluid and supple. In fact, I expect that your waxing power will teach you new secrets about how to wield your power intelligently. You may break your previous records for compassionate courage and sensitive toughness. Here’s the best news of all: You’re likely to be dynamic about bestowing practical love on the people and animal and things that are important to you.

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cosmos seems to be warming up to your charms. The stinginess it displayed toward you for a while is giving way to a more generous approach. To take advantage of this welcome development, you should shed any fear-based beliefs you may have adopted during the recent shrinkage. For instance, it’s possible you’ve begun to entertain the theory that the game of life is rigged against you, or that it is inherently hard to play. Get rid of those ideas. They’re not true, and clinging to them would limit the game of life’s power to bring you new invitations. Open yourself up wherever you have closed down.

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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Are any of your allies acting like they’ve forgotten their true purpose? If so, you have the power to gently awaken them from their trances and help them re-focus. Is it possible you have become a bit too susceptible to the influences of people whose opinions shouldn’t really matter that much to you? If so, now is a good time to correct that aberration. Are you aware of having fallen under the sway of trendy ideas or faddish emotions that are distorting your relationship with your primal sources? If so, you are hereby authorized to free yourself from their hold on you.

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Dear Readers: I’m on vacation for three weeks—but you won’t be reading old columns in my absence, and you won’t be reading columns by anyone who isn’t Dan Savage. You’ll be reading new columns, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Our second guest Dan Savage is 32 years old, single, and living in London We’re all entitled to our opinions — but only Dan Savage, theatrical marketing exec, is entitled to share his opinions in my column this week. Take it away, Dan! Dear Dan: I am a 65-year-old male new to gay relationships. I placed a listing on SilverDaddies and have had a LOT of responses from great young guys. I have met only one guy so far. He is 23 and says he has had only a few girlfriends and has not had any gay experiences. He is so passionate. Very oral. Long kissing sessions, and he puts his tongue EVERYWHERE. Very submissive and insatiable. Of course I use condoms. I asked him what he gets out of this. He said he gets an intensity he can’t explain over pleasing an older man that he doesn’t get from sex with a female. Being a sub makes him rock hard, and with a woman, he has to be the performer. He considers himself straight, since he is attracted only to older men and is only a bottom. In any case, he will be back at grad school soon, and I will no doubt have another partner. I have

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never had an STD. I don’t want to get one now. I talked to a clinic over the phone about getting the HPV vaccine, and they thought it was funny and would not do it. I will be seeing young guys who are sexually active, so I think I should be able to get this vaccine. I do not want cold sores or warts or whatever at my age. — This Old Pop Dear TOP: I think it’s great — if you don’t mind me saying — that in your advanced years you are able to embark on this new sexual adventure and experimentation, TOP! And you have a hot 23-year-old visiting you for regular sex—something a lot of people much younger than you would kill for! As long as you are safe and wear a condom, you shouldn’t put too much stress on yourself regarding STIs. Maybe just don’t go around picking up boys off street corners who look like they need a good wash. My personal opinion is this guy may not be being as honest with you as you’d have hoped. A 23-year-old straight guy, in his first homosexual encounter, being “very oral”

Love

and “only a bottom” and putting “his tongue everywhere”—that sounds to me like someone who knows what they’re doing. My experience of first times is generally a quick fumble and an even quicker ejaculation. Regardless, he is soon to leave, TOP, and you will find a new sexual partner. Advice from a YoungTOP to an OldTOP: Go with the flow and be safe, but most of all enjoy it! (And to older gay gentlemen who think you can’t get any: TOP is! You can!) Dear Dan: I am 39 years old and my husband is 51; we have been together nine years and married four. This morning, he was jacking off on my arse during foreplay and watching porn on his phone, which is not unusual. The problem is when I looked to see what he was watching (we often watch porn together), he got a little mad. I let it go, but when he got in the shower, I looked at his phone and saw that he was watching gay porn. MEN. I don’t think I have a problem with that, but it kind of threw me. Should I be worried that he is secretly on the down low? Or does he just like to look at gay porn occasionally? When I’m giving him a

blowjob, he also enjoys me licking his arse. I don’t know how to confront him with what I have seen on his phone? — Perspiring Over Relationship Now Dear PORN: People look at all sorts of things online and are turned on by others. Man-on-man porn clearly does it for your man, or maybe this was the first time that he’d looked. Either way, the fact that he was doing this secretly while humped over your naked body and jacking off onto your arse is wrong. And he knows that: He hid the phone! Rather than confronting him and creating a massive issue, why not suggest that you watch gay porn together. See what happens? If he is hiding the fact he’s gay or bi, I’d be surprised that he’d blatantly flaunt it like this… perhaps he wanted you to catch him? He wants you to know what else he’s into but doesn’t know how to tell you? Although it’s rarely spoken about, a lot of straight men like the odd finger or tongue in the bum. It’s not a sign of homosexuality! Maybe this could be taken further? You could go all out and strap one on and dominate him like a bitch! Follow Dan Savage, Londoner and marketing exec, on Twitter @ DanSavage83. Send questions to actual Dan at mail@savagelove. net and follow @fakedansavage onTwitter.

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The DEA says ‘no’ to rescheduling marijuana

n August 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rejected two petitions to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Rescheduling would not have changed marijuana’s federally illegal status, but would have demoted it from the list of drugs that the DEA considers to have no medical use to one that at least acknowledges some medical purpose. After the DEA’s Wikimedia Commons announcement, U.S. Representative Jared Polis issued a statement vehemently expressing dissatisfaction with the decision: “To keep marijuana as a Schedule I drug is frustrating, unscientific, and, frankly, out of touch. It is ridiculous to classify marijuana alongside other Schedule I drugs like heroin.” Aware of the high degree of public interest and controversy that would surround their announcement, the DEA wrote two letters, one to each rejected petitioning party, describing their twofold basis for their decision. The first is that marijuana does not meet the standards set forth in the CSA requiring scientific evidence proving the drug has medicinal properties. But, without rescheduling, marijuana is not eligible for such research — a vicious and self referential cycle says Michael Collins of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), a drug policy reform nonprofit in New York. “The DEA has created, very deliberately, a circular problem and it is important to look at how this exposes the flawed logic at the DEA,” he says. “From our point of view it is in the same category as climate change deniers who reject rigorous climate science as completely flawed. Keeping marijuana as a Schedule I drug because there is not enough research is flawed logic because the DEA is the gatekeeper of research.”

(In the pursuit of clarity, the DEA recently told NPR it has “never denied” an application from a researcher to use marijuana in a medical study.) The other rationale cited by the DEA is that the United States is responsible to international conventions, namely the Single Convention, to control marijuana by disallowing possession and penalizing trafficking and distribution. Back in the 1960s, it was the U.S. that was primarily responsible for designing and implementing the Single Convention and they seem to be only one of a few democratic nations still committed to the letter of the law. Internationally, there are a growing number of countries that are either pursuing legalized or decriminalized marijuana, or with laws already on the books doing so. Within U.S. borders, the tension is even more palpable. 41 states have allowed for medical marijuana in some fashion or another, while 25 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have fully legalized medical markets and Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington State and the District of Columbia have legalized adult recreational use. Residents of at least five states — Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada — will vote on legalization initiatives this November. In recognition of this growing chasm between international, federal and state law, criticisms like Polis’ are becoming increasingly common. In response to the DEA’s rejection, the New York Times editorial board joined dozens of papers across the country in condemning the decision in an op-ed called “Stop Treating Marijuana like Heroin” that argued: “Removing marijuana from Schedule I would be ideal. Reducing research restrictions and lessening penalties for users would be a step in the right direction.”

The current setup of operating legal marijuana markets in states while simultaneously upholding federal prohibition introduces a slew of problems. Businesses do not have access to banking relationships, there are tax disadvantages for the industry and they cannot perform any business across state lines. But that is not to say that rescheduling would have solved those problems. “What rescheduling would actually mean for today’s legal cannabis business is really unclear,” says Nancy Whiteman of the Cannabis Business Alliance. “Some people say it would essentially be handing the industry over to the pharmaceutical industry, but how any of this would actually play out we can’t fully understand at this point in time.” There are also a host of human rights implications at stake when considering “steps in the right direction” in drug policy, but Collins of the DPA says that, from their perspective, rescheduling is an empty gesture. “It is very meaningless from a social justice point of view,” he says. “It doesn’t do anything when it comes to ending arrests or to reconciling state law with federal law. It really doesn’t do anything. It would be a symbolic victory, but even then it wouldn’t have any real-world impact.” As pressure mounts toward a reconciliation between state and federal drug laws on marijuana, politicians, industry players, journalists, drug policy activists and cannabis consumers all seem eager for a sign that times are changing and, in light of the DEA’s announcement, it looks like they will have to wait a little bit longer. But marijuana is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ending the war on drugs. “At the DPA, we are very keen to avoid developing a marijuana superiority complex,” Collins says. “When you look at our mass incarceration problem, it is not entirely because of marijuana. In general, drugs should not be treated as a criminal issue. Someone who is possessing cocaine or heroin should not serve prison time for that. If they need help they should get help. They will not be helped through criminalization — we know that.”

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his week’s scary marijuana headline comes to us compliments of the Medscape.com website. It reads: “Marijuana Tied to Persistent Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms in Teens.” According to the website, a study found that adolescent boys who regularly use marijuana (once a week or more) are at increased risk of experiencing “persistent subclinical symptoms, particularly paranoia and hallucinations, even after they stop using the drug.” “Perhaps the most concerning finding is that the effect of prior weekly marijuana use persists even after adolescents have stopped using for 1 year,” said lead investigator Jordan Bechtold, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry. The study was published in the August issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study’s subjects were 1,009 boys recruited from the Pittsburgh public schools. Self-reported frequency of marijuana use, “subclinical psychotic symptoms,” and other relevant data were collected annually from age 13 to 18 years. The researchers reported that for each year the teens engaged in weekly marijuana use, their level of subsequent subclinical psychotic symptoms rose by 21 percent. The increase was greatest for paranoia (133 percent) and hallucinations (92 percent), they said. The effect of prior regular marijuana use on subsequent subclinical psychotic symptoms persisted even after the teens stopped using marijuana for a year, they added. Pretty scary stuff, huh? Maybe not. The first question I would have is WTF does the term “subclinical psychotic symptoms” mean? The term is not defined in the Medscape.com story, nor is it defined in the paper’s abstract. (I don’t know if it is defined in the full article; the text is behind the

Even paranoids have real enemies American Journal of Psychiatry’s firewall.) Just guessing here, but I bet the term “subclinical” is one of those slippery terms that can cover a lot of human behavior that ordinary mortals would consider not so far removed from normal as to mean much. Especially ordinary mortals who smoke pot. Just about everyone who has smoked pot has experienced anxiety or paranoia at some time or another — whether or not you do usually depends on your frame of mind before you smoke. That’s because if you’re anxious or are worried about danger or threats before you smoke there is a chance that smoking will enhance the feeling. (There is also a chance that it will reduce it, especially if you’re ready to quit thinking about the problems of the day before you light up.) Pot smokers generally refer to this state of mind as feeling paranoid. Question: Is this what Dr. Bechtold and his colleagues mean by “subclinical psychotic symptoms?” Just as important, what did his young research subjects mean when they self-reported how they felt

after getting high. The term “paranoid” is thrown around pretty loosely by stoners; it can mean anything from an anxiety attack to seriously freaking out. Whether the teenagers would have used it to describe their feelings if they knew those feelings were going to be described as “subclinical psychotic symptoms” by the folks conducting the study is another matter. In other words, it’s not clear Dr. Bechtold has discovered a new marijuana risk factor or whether he’s just renamed something that’s been known to smokers for decades. A further question I have is whether the kids’ paranoia is being caused by pot or by the war on drugs? If I were a teenager smoking pot once a week or more I would be constantly concerned about getting caught and the consequences of getting caught. Those feelings would be enhanced if I happened to be a black teenager, because your chances of getting caught would be several times higher than those of white kids. The Medscape.com article doesn’t report the racial breakdown of the study’s subjects, but it does say they come from the Pittsburgh public schools, which means it wouldn’t be surprising if they were disproportionately black. It is entirely possible that the teens were experiencing feelings that the good doctor would consider “subclinical” paranoid hallucinations. But hey, even paranoids have real enemies, and sometimes they’re not imagining it. The final question I would have about the study is this: How does the prevalence of “subclinical psychotic symptoms” from pot use compare with the prevalence of “subclinical psychotic symptoms” from alcohol use? The answer to that question, if the researchers even bothered to ask it, is pivotal in determining how much weight Dr. Bechtold’s work should be given in the debate of marijuana legalization and regulation.

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WHAT’S THIS MEAN FOR THOSE OF US AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FOOD CHAIN?

So the big news story this week is that a group of hackers calling itself the “Shadow Brokers” has managed to actually hack the NSA’s hackers and steel our super secret government spy agency’s hacking tools. We know, it sounds like a big circle of double negatives, hackers hacking hackers who are hacking us. But that’s the real story. It’s bad enough that our government now collects all of our emails and cellphone calls and stores them in some massive maze of servers in a giant building in Nevada or Utah or some other empty state where giant square buildings can go undetected for decades. But if you’re going to collect all of our information and spy on us, could you at least be competent enough not to make our information vulnerable to a bunch of slackers calling themselves by a name better suited to a video game? Shadow Brokers has already released some of the NSA’s hacking programs so now any smart high-school kid has the capabilities to infiltrate computer networks as effectively as a super power. But that’s not the whole story. These shadow folks says they’re holding back the really good NSA hacking tools, which it will sell to the highest bidder. That’s effing great. Oh, and did we mention that Wikileaks also has the NSA documents and we can only suppose that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be really careful and responsible with them because hey, he wouldn’t want to cause a problem for the U.S.A., the country that framed him on rape charges causing him to live in an 8-by-10 room in a foreign embassy for years on end so we couldn’t knock him off or throw him into prison for the rest of his life? Why would he hold a grudge? So how long before the world’s bad-boy hackers figure out that the real money is in hacking our governments collected information on all of us. Then they can just start extorting money out of all 300 million of us. The moral of the story for the U.S. government is this: If you’re not smart enough to keep the information you illegally collect on your own citizens safe from hackers, stop collecting it. And guess what, you are obviously not smart enough. Boulder Weekly

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