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or more than a century, The New York Times has unabashedly bragged in a banner slogan that it publishes “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” Really? Then why did it publish a June 25 front-page article that was neither news nor fit to print? It was a gutjob attacking Our Revolution (OR), the aggressively progressive, grassroots political movement that sprang out of
Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run. The Times scoffed that “fewer than 50 percent of the more than 80 candidates (OR) has endorsed have won elections this year.” Huh? News flash for clueless media cognoscenti: Winning anywhere near half of your campaigns is a stunning achievement. It’s all the more stunning that it’s being achieved by the feisty progressive rebels of OR, for nearly all of the candidates they endorse are unconventional, first-time contenders who start out with no name recognition, no fat-cat money, and no support from establishment power brokers. I happen to be a board member of the upstart OR movement, so I know many of these gutsy mavericks personally, and I’ve seen their surprisingly successful campaigns from the ground level.
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They are winning because they’re bringing political integrity and Bernie’s big policy ideas to voters hungry for both — and because, in less than two years, OR has organized hundreds of thousands of democratic populists into more than 600 active political networks all across the country, including grassroots organizing in red areas the party has long ignored. Asked about the Times’ mocking of the movement’s win-loss record, Sen. Sanders deadpanned: “It’s not a baseball game.” In fact, even the biggest of baseball superstars have never come close to a .500 batting average. Nor will the Times ever hit .500 on its pledge to cover all the news fit to print. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 2 , 2018 5
dyertimes A new recording sheds more light on the questionable efforts to stop setback initiative by Joel Dyer
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t’s been one long, hard road to get the 2,500-foot setback initiative (Initiative 97) on the November ballot. Not because the majority of people in Colorado don’t support the idea — the polling says they do and by a large majority to boot. No, the reason it’s been hard is because the oil and gas industry has a ton of money and there are enough people in this world with the moral character of a rabid hyena who will take their money in exchange for stomping on our democratic process. Just last week, the guy in charge of Direct Action Partners (DAP), the original company hired to collect petition signatures, suddenly absconded with 15-20,000 signatures that his company had gathered in support of Initiative 97. It took Colorado Rising, the organization supporting the setback push and paying DAP for its services, threatening a lawsuit to get the signatures returned. At least we hope they got them all back. And if that weren’t bad enough, it occurred at the same time a movement by paid operatives to harass signature gathers picked up steam — at least some of the operatives were working at the direction of oil industry front group Protect Colorado (see Boulder Weekly’s story “The intimidation of democracy,” July 26).
And I just have to stop here and say, yes, I believe the techniques being used by pro-fracking protesters (as if such a thing really existed minus industry employees and people paid to pretend they are pro-fracking) are absolutely intimidation tactics, including harassment. They are not a matter of free speech. To believe what is happening out there in the real world is simply free speech you’d have to be doing your research on your couch by reading Anadarko Petroleum’s website and watching CRED commercials on TV. So, with all of this as a backdrop, it would be easy to assume that it couldn’t get much worse for Initiative 97 proponents. But that would be wrong because as of press time, this all-handson-deck industry push to stop the initiative appears to have reached a new low. Just a few hours before going to press with this week’s paper, I was given a recording that contained some pretty shocking information. By early Wednesday afternoon, Colorado Rising had posted links to the recording and put out an incendiary press release accusing the oil and gas industry of buying off the very firms Colorado Rising had contracted to gather the signatures needed to put Initiative 97 on the ballot. The recording is of a conversation
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between two people working to pass the initiative and, according to the press release, Dan Fessler of Petition Connection, LLC. BW attempted to contact Fessler but he did not answer his phone before press time and his voice mailbox had been disconnected. On the recording, when asked by the two Initiative 97 supporters if he quit working to gather signatures and was leaving town because he was “bought off,” the person purported to be Fessler in the press release answers affirmatively. When asked if “they” had paid him enough to justify his actions he said, “enough for me.” Also, according to the release, “Fessler was subcontracted by Hiram Asmuth of Encore Political Services just days before [Asmuth] abruptly dropped his work on the initiative.” (Asmuth was brought in to take over DAP after its abrupt departure.) The release also notes that “Although Fessler refused to say exactly who provided the buyout, he mentioned working with” several other petition gathering companies he claims are well known for buying out other gatherers to stop their efforts to put certain initiatives on the ballot. To hear full recording go to tinyurl. com/y8slc662 I’m not being more specific right now because we simply didn’t have
time before going to press to investigate and get responses from all the parties allegedly involved in this alleged scheme to thwart the setback initiative. But make no mistake, we are on it and will be writing far more in the near future on this issue. I wanted to say something about it now because by the time we come out with our next issue on Aug. 9, the deadline for signing the petition to put the 2,500-foot setback on the November ballot will have passed (Deadline to sign is Aug. 6). As I seem to say with the conclusion of each column these days, please don’t let the cheating oil and gas industry win. No wait, that makes it sound like some giant faceless entity. Don’t let the immoral, greedy people who take the oil industry’s money in exchange for lying, manipulating, bribing and otherwise stomping on your constitutional rights win. The oil industry’s dirty tactics can only work if you let them by being too lazy or convincing yourself that you are too busy to find out where you can go and sign a petition. Is it really even possible to be too busy to save our health, our home values, our communities, our children’s futures and our planet? I don’t think so. And I don’t think you do either. Much more to come.
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Colorado. Colorado Rising, the group leading the Initiative 97 petition drive, has to collect 98,492 valid signatures by Aug. 6 to get the measure on the November ballot. It will probably have to turn in 30,000 or 40,000 additional signatures to ensure it has enough valid ones. Colorado Rising is claiming that its petition circulators are being harassed and intimidated by the pro-fracking activists. The alleged “harassment” and “intimidation” seems to consist of two or three pro-fracking activists showing up at locations where Initiative 97 petitioners are working, unfolding signs that say things like “Don’t Sign,”
“Protect Colorado Jobs,” and “Would you give this guy your information?” and urging people not to sign the petition. If the Initiative 97 petitioners move, the pro-fracking activists move with them. It takes a lot of chutzpah for antifracking activists to characterize this as harassment and intimidation, or to complain about harassment and intimidation at all. Their whole movement is defined by its use of harassment and intimidation. A couple of weeks ago anti-fracking activists broke up a meeting of the Lafayette City Council. For months, the same activists have been badgering and brow-beating the Lafayette Council
and the Boulder County Commissioners for failing to ban fracking — despite the fact that both Colorado law and the Colorado Supreme Court says they can’t. Before that, anti-fracking activists in Lafayette campaigned for months to get the city to legalize “civil disobedience” aimed at shutting down oil and gas operations within the city. Some local anti-fracking firebrands have urged vandalizing drilling rigs and physically attacking drilling crews. That anti-frackers routinely use rudeness, shaming, bullying, harassment and intimidation is hardly surprising. see DANISH PLAN Page 7
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The movement is the ideological descendent of Occupy Wall Street, and its playbook comes straight out of Saul Alinsky. And now they’re whining because the oil and gas industry has started playing by their rules. Except the industry seems to be more polite about it. Anti-frackers charging harassment and intimidation have called the cops on several occasions. But according to Jon Anderson, an attorney advising several groups running what he called “voter education efforts” against Initiative 97 and several other lefty ballot measures, the antifrackers’ complaints have been dismissed “usually on the spot, but always within a couple of days.” “This is not a close call,” Anderson told Colorado Politics (née the Colorado Statesman). “The First Amendment applies to Coloradans trying to stop bad-for-business initiatives as much as it does to out-of-state petition firms trying to kill jobs and wipe out entire industries.” Anti-fracking activists have also charged that pro-fracking activists are being paid by the industry, which they probably are. But it turns out that a lot of Colorado Rising’s anti-fracking activists are also hired hands. Last week it emerged that Colorado Rising had hired four separate petition-circulating companies to collect signatures for Initiative 97. So we have paid anti-fracking activists being confronted by paid pro-fracking activists. What a country. When it comes to using paid activists, the main difference between Colorado Rising’s activists and the oil and gas industry’s activists is that the oil and gas industry knows how to meet a payroll. A couple weeks ago Colorado Rising’s main petitioning outfit, Portland, Oregon-based Direct Action Partners, abruptly closed its field offices in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, and skipped town — paying hundreds of the temporary workers it had hired as petition circulators. The company’s president, Mike Selvaggio, even tried to take seven crates of the signed petitions — containing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 signatures — with him. (He backed off and turned them over to Colorado Rising after it sued his sorry ass.) Selvaggio’s public statements make him sound like some kind of a weasel, but he’s acting like a guy who stiffed his workers because he got stiffed by his client. He may well have, too. According Boulder Weekly
to a story by Associated Press writer James Anderson about the dispute, Colorado Rising leader Suzanne Spiegel said her group had agreed to pay Direct Action Partners nearly $405,000. But according to a Colorado Politics piece published on July 25, Colorado Rising had raised only $270,000 up to that point. Colorado Politics interviewed a couple of the erstwhile petition circulators who were left in the lurch. One
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addresses. And then getting stiffed after working their butts off for $14.50 an hour. Boy that really makes an offender want to go straight and play by the rules. The anti-fracking crowd wants you to believe they are God’s gift to social justice. A good way to test that claim is to see if Colorado Rising pays the petition circulators who got ripped off. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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grassroots-led and mainly peaceful effort despite the media’s attempt to portray it as a cynical and violent Hamas ploy. The media coverage, besides being biased, is also incomplete in that it seldom considers the reasons that led Gazans to participate in this resistance action and to return week after week. Generally, as shown above, Palestinians in Gaza face dire living conditions. In addition, many have lost confidence in the Palestinian leadership that has been unable to bring about relief. Thus the grassroots are organizing and acting. In particular, Palestinians are: 1) protesting the illegal Israeli siege that will likely bring about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza; 2) standing up for their internationally recognized right of return to their former homes or for compensation for their losses; and 3) protesting the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. The Israeli reaction to this mainly peaceful march was to have well-protected snipers firing from long range into crowds and even at people away from the protest. The media desperately tried to justify this reaction. Only one side was shooting and killing/wounding large numbers of people. Some Palestinians, against the stated desire of the grassroots organizers, have thrown rocks or flown burning kites over the fence setting some fields on fire. To date, the Israeli snipers have killed 136 Palestinians including women, children, press, doctors and nurses, and wounded over 14,000, whereas one Israeli soldier was slightly wounded when hit by a rock. Unfortunately, perhaps these killings could have been or were foreseen. For example, in 2004, Arnon Soffer, a Haifa University demographer and advisor to Ariel Sharon, said: “When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. ... The pressure at the border will be awful. ... So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day. ... If we don’t kill, we will cease to exist.” This abominable Israeli behavior towards Palestinians will continue as long as the U.S. provides political cover at the U.N., vetoing resolutions that would impose any penalties on Israel for its crimes. The most effective cursee GUEST COLUMN Page 9
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news Mine troubles
If you only read one story about gravel this year, make it this one by Matt Cortina
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wenty years ago, Boulder County granted a special use permit that allowed a company to mine gravel on about 650 acres between Lyons and Longmont in three phases over 33 years. Despite having the permit, mining on that parcel of land stopped in 2001, only three years in. The original company was sold and then sold again. Martin Marietta Materials, which now owns the land, has submitted plans to once again mine gravel on a segment of that parcel. Last January, the Boulder County Board of
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A presentation at the Boulder County Board of Adjustment meeting on July 25 indicated exactly where Martin Marietta is hoping to mine gravel. The total property is close to 900 acres between Lyons and Longmont.
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Commissioners approved the Site Plan for that project — the “Rockin’ WP” gravel mine. If the project gets final approval, it’ll bring 20-foot-tall lights, a decently sized processing plant and mining operations to North Boulder County for the next 10 years. It wasn’t soon after the Site Plan was approved that residents living near the proposed mining activities cried foul. Not only would the light pollution impact their quality of lives (the County, in its approval, allowed lights from 6 a.m.-8 p.m.), but the project could impact water quality, traffic on Ute Highway and potentially imperil sensitive species populations, including bald eagles, they said. So the citizen group Save Our St. Vrain Valley (SOSVV) formed, and asked the County Land Use Department to invalidate Martin Marietta’s permit, citing the Land Use Code that says if the land isn’t used
for any consecutive five year period, the permit is voided. Amanda Dumenigo is the executive director of SOSVV and lives near the proposed mine. She says she knows there haven’t been any mining operations for close to 20 years because she drives past the site every day. In response, the County asked Martin Marietta to submit evidence of the fact that there have been operations on the land that would allow it to keep the permit. And Martin Marietta, through attorneys, submitted a long list of supposed actions — reclamation projects like reseeding and weeding; maintenance projects like prairie dog management; and statemandated actions like water testing and submitting administrative fees. SOSVV was nonplussed. “In any event,” Mark Lacis, an attorney representing SOSVV, wrote the County, “the permitholder’s response confirms that no gravel or sand has been mined, extracted, processed, and/or hauled from the site since 2001.” Martin Marietta’s attorneys didn’t take exception to that. In fact, a state agency required the mine’s previous owner to classify the mine as in “temporary cessation.” And yet, after getting all the materials from Martin Marietta, County Land Use Director Dale Case ruled that the mine had not experienced the damning five-year lapse, and thus the company would not have its permit voided. SOSVV appealed, and last week, the County Board of Adjustment took up the hearing. Let’s take a step back for just a minute, because what this will eventually boil down to is a semantic argument about what constitutes “activity.” Certainly there are concerns with the mine that are specific to the neighbors who will have to deal with the increased traffic, noise and refuse of the mine, but there are also broader concerns. Dumenigo points out that the area is still not recovered from the 2013 floods. To renew industrial activity in light of what the County knows can happen when a flood of that magnitude strikes is folly, she says. “It’s not a matter of if it will flood again, but when it will flood again,” Domenigo says. Matt Condon lives in the first house downstream See GRAVEL Page 12
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from the proposed mining site. “The point of the struggle over this proposed mine is not that mines should not exist, but that they need to be located in places that are the least sensitive to the environmental impact they produce,” Condon says. “This mine is smack-dab in the middle of one of the most sensitive environments that can exist in Colorado. This is especially true since the flood occurred in this very area.” Condon says he’ll personally employ hydrologists to test river water before and after mining operations commence (if they do). Too, archaeological and biological discoveries have been made in the area since the permit was initially granted. If known before 1998, these discoveries might have impacted the scope of the decision. Lane wrote in a letter requesting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consultation that the area has a high density of Preble’s Meadow jumping mouse, as well as a high-profile bald eagle nest. And then there are concerns about population growth — the rate of Boulder County’s housing expansion was much lower in 1998 than it is today, and mining operations could have a big impact on both new housing locations in East Longmont and the increasing number of people who use Ute Highway to commute to work. But, again, all of these considerations were put aside on July 2., Instead, lawyers for both sides argued in front of the Board of Adjustment about how much activity Martin Marietta and previous owners had to have done on the site to keep the permit active. To be precise, County code states that a permit is inactive “if there has been no activity under any portion of the special use permit for a continuous period of five years or more.” Case, in his initial determination, said that activity isn’t limited to mining, but includes pre- and postmining activity, which Martin Marietta proved the mine’s previous owners had done. But James Silvestro, arguing on behalf of SOSVV, said that because none of the activities the mine’s owners were doing on the property required the special use permit, then they couldn’t be considered activities that would uphold that permit. Silvestro also argued that the five-year lapse provision was codified so that Boulder County residents wouldn’t be subject to years of industrial activity. Special use permits are granted because an individual or company wants to do something outside of what has been determined acceptable by the Land Use Code. Yes, the mine’s owners weeded and grew grass and filed permits, but the special use permit was for mining, and that hadn’t been done in 17 years, Silvestro argued. “If you’re not going to use (the five-year lapse provision) in this situation ... when is this provision ever going to apply?” he asked. “If 15, 16, 17 years of non-use isn’t a lapse of a permit, then there’s really not going to be any situation where it has happened.” In response, Mark Mathews, outside counsel for Martin Marietta, argued that reclamation work like reseeding and weeding is real work. He argued that Silvestro and SOSVV were putting their own words into what County law said — “no activity under any portion” of the permit would invalidate it, but clearly the mine’s owners had done some activity, even if it wasn’t mining, Mathews argued. The Board of Adjustment deliberated. Board members Eric Moutz and Kari Stoltzfus took the side of SOSVV. 12 August 2, 2018
“If Martin Marietta wants to mine gravel, ... the County needs to make sure this is still an appropriate use,” Moutz said. “I have no sympathy for Martin Marietta’s purported loss of property rights … because Martin Marietta has known all along there ... was an issue concerning the validity of this permit.” “Logging the bare minimus of land ownership does not constitute activity under any portion of the special use permit,” Stoltzfus said. “Reseeding does not count. ... Martin Marietta and previous owning companies, them still being in business and them maintaining their permits does not count as activity under the special use permit.” Board of Adjustment
Scott Rudge and James Greer sided with Martin Marietta and the County’s original determination. Rudge lamented that “our land use permits are not very clear. It would help me a lot if land use permits said, ‘Here are the uses that prevent lapse in use.’” Both Rudge and Greer said they pored through the documents Martin Marietta provided and found countless examples of activity that met the permit’s requirements. Janell Flaig sided with SOSVV as well, ultimately giving that side a 3-2 majority. However, to overturn a County Land Use decision, four out of the five board members had to agree to overturn. Thus, the Board denied SOSVV’s appeal. That all said, Martin Marietta is still five years out, at least, on mining gravel in the area, which was a point Case and others made throughout the process. “They (Martin Marietta) want to begin soon,” Case said. “Prior to mining, there’s a five-year review. Also a requirement is they need to form a neighborhood advisory group. That would push the timing out on this quite a bit.” The Boulder County Planning Commission and Board of Commissioners will review the next phase of mining in public hearings before Martin Marietta is allowed to proceed. This is where new conditions may be imposed, or old conditions may be tweaked so as to accommodate environmental and social considerations.
The Martin Marietta Site Plan was approved by the Boulder County Commissioners in January 2017 and includes new lighting, structures and operations.
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feature Speaking for America New anthology reckons with the state of the country
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ike campers around a campfire sharing ghost stories, except all the stories are supposedly true, and the thing we’re gathered around is not a fire but a shared sense of camaraderie. Much like a campfire, it’s this camaraderie that gives us a sense of security.” So says the narrator of the short story “Charlie and the Aliens” written by Ganzeer. It’s a story that finds three aliens, narrator included, imprisoned together on the Moon. In the cell, there’s also a Human Being, which the reader soon learns is somewhat of an endangered species, confined to reservations as alien colonists, who, presumed to be the planet’s sole ambassadors, have taken over the Earth. As the story unfolds, the reader begins to see themself in the narrative — the characters and themes are thinly veiled metaphors applicable to present-day American life. The short story is published as part of an anthology of writings titled Who Will Speak for America?, birthed out of national Writers Resist events held around the country on January 15, 2017 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as well as five short days before the inauguration of Donald Trump. “With words we can fight back,” says Nathaniel Popkin, an author and co-editor of the new anthology, who participated in the 2017 Writers Resist event in Philadelphia. One of the pieces of work read at the event was a speech by Barbara Jordan, the first black woman to speak at a Democratic National Convention in 1976. It was a pivotal moment in American politics, soon after the Vietnam War and Watergate, which more or less destroyed Nixon’s presidency and the public’s faith in politicians along with it. Right in the middle of her keynote speech at the DNC, Johnson asks a question that is perhaps as relevant today as it was then: “This is the great danger America faces — that we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual; each seeking to satisfy private wants. If that happens, who then will speak for America? Who then will speak for the common good?” The question ultimately inspired the title of the anthology of creative work — from poetry to essays to fiction, comics and photography — edited by Popkin and author Stephanie Feldman. “I think it creates a real sense of energy and dynamism that replicates the feeling that we had
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at Writers Resist, and that sense of diversity of American voices. It’s not just who we are, but it’s how we speak and how we express ourselves,” Feldman says. “I think that it’s important to show that people have different, not just perspectives, but different priorities and interests, and together they have something to say about society today.” For the project, Popkin and Feldman enlisted 40 different creatives from a variety of backgrounds — from lawyers and activists to evangelical Christians, children of immigrants and recent émigrés. People like Ganzeer, the Egyptian artist and writer who came to the U.S. in 2014 amid increasing hostility in his home country following the 2011 revolution. He now spends the majority of his time working on a graphic novel from his home in Denver. “All the narratives happening in this country are still narratives that are still muddled in that haze of confusion and none of it should be. I think it’s very obvious to people from the outside, especially [those] who might have had similar experiences where all of a sudden all of the hazy bullshit in the world might have been lifted, even periodically,” Ganzeer says. “I think that helps you see other things really clearly.” The call for submissions was open to any form of expression, asking people to not just consider American ideals, but their experience of the country in light of the recent shift in government and public discourse. Through the variety of voices and articulations, they not only address the question of who will speak for America, but also who will be allowed to speak for America. “The best way for me to address that [question], is to step outside, try and have the reader, who is likely going to be American, have the story transport them outside of that context, outside of America, and maybe outside of our current reality entirely,” Ganzeer says. Through the art of science fiction, he created a world where Human Beings are rare and Americanism is an ancient religion, practiced by the persecuted few, who fight to preserve the purity of the country’s ideals.
“In the far, far future, this idea of America at all is an ancient obsolete concept, which is something to think about,” Ganzeer says. “Of course Americans might find it difficult to even be capable of thinking that since it’s such a young country. But people who come from the Ganzeer old world, where many civilizations have risen and fallen, you can say that yes, this nation will cease to exist in the future.” The anthology as a whole speaks to this particular moment in history and yet also seeks to provide commentary that transcends a specific point in time. Compiled throughout 2017, the editors submitted the manuscript, in some ways, unsure of how the works would translate almost a year later. But its publication, in early July 2018, came on the heels of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy that separated thousands of children from their parents at the U.S. southern border, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the president’s controversial travel ban, and increased questions about Trump’s relationship to Russian President Vladimir Putin. And who knows what tomorrow will bring. “The book feels as relevant as ever,” Feldman says. “As a fiction writer and a teacher, one thing I always come back to is that the specific can be universal. We can take this specific moment and examine it in a way that is going to yield insight that is larger than just, say, Donald Trump.” As writers, the people represented in Who Will Speak for America? have a unique ability to respond to the current political and cultural climate through their art. As readers, it brings us understanding and clarity, along with the challenge to critically think about the world beyond ourselves. “In the United States, we don’t elevate our writers to any particular degree. There are other countries and cultures where writers are looked to in times of crisis. And we don’t have that recent tradition in this country,” Popkin says. “This is a chance for writers to grab the mantle, because we need writers to write the future.” August 2, 2018 15
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espite being an entirely landlocked state, Colorado is home to the sixth largest population of certified scuba divers in the U.S. This may be puzzling information to non-divers, but Jonas Pologe, an avid diver from Boulder, says it makes a lot of sense. “People in Colorado are generally very outdoorsy people,” he says. “When you want a break from the mountains, where do you go? You head to the ocean.” Pologe and his family, despite living nowhere near a beach, have been diving together for years, traveling annually to satisfy their love of the ocean. One day, Pologe, his wife, Irene Schauer, and their nephew, Kevin Schauer, were coming back from what they considered to be an especially fascinating dive when they heard other divers on the trip complaining about how boring the day had been since they didn’t see any sharks. “They didn’t see anything bigger than four feet, so they had a ‘terrible’ dive,” Pologe says. He believes it’s an attitude that needs to change. “Diving is incredible at every magnification,” he says. “The little things are just as amazing as the big things, but if you don’t know what anything’s doing or what anything is, then it’s not so amazing.” In repsonse, the family designed a Boulder-based diving program dedicated to fostering appreciation for marine ecosystems by combining marine biology with hands-on engagement in a hybrid scuba trip. Schauer is pursuing a PhD in marine biology, and Pologe says diving with someone who understands the reef well, and is happy to explain what’s going on, makes everything about diving all the more enjoyable. By combining marine biology courses with scuba div-
ing, they hope to create a unique experience that inspires people to become invested in these marine ecosystems. “In this world, you don’t protect something you don’t know, understand and love,” Pologe says. “We’re so abusive of the environment in general. We’re killing ourselves and everything else on the planet. If people understand the reef, they come to love it and they want to protect it.” CREWS (Coral Reef Ecology Workshop Series) was started in 2015 by Pologe with his wife and nephew in conjunction with Weaver’s Dive and Travel in Boulder. Each year they offer a trip for certified divers, organized and planned here, but which takes place at a different coastal location. This year, the trip will take divers and scientists to Little Cayman in the Cayman Islands Aug. 11-18. With eight 45-minute talks spread out over one week, the CREWS trip teaches its participants about all
things having to do with the reef — from corals to frogfish to the shapes of fish tails. Every talk is immediately relevant to the next dive, so that participants get to see the things they learn in a lesson on land play out underwater. “It’s amazing that people who aren’t as experienced with creatures don’t get that there’s so much more to know,” Pologe says. Since the course’s first run, it’s become clear, he says, that there is no shortage of interest in the science of the reef. In fact, one of the most presumed “boring” topics ended up being a surprise fan favorite. “We thought that the coral class would be sort of the least appreciated, because coral just kind of looks like a rock,” Pologe says. To the contrary, the lesson on corals is the most popular of the entire course. This, he says, proves the effectiveness of a program like CREWS. Paul Hultgren, a long-time diving companion of Pologe and his family, has been a participant of CREWS since its conception. He says that, while “environmentalism is a broad term” for the program, he does believe that many participants desire to learn more about the reef simply because they already care enough to do so. “I’ve observed people enjoying their diving more,” Hultgren says. “There’s an appreciation that comes with learning about the reef.” As Pologe and CREWS get ready to set out on their 2018 trip, they are constantly encouraging people to get more invested in learning about their environment. “We’ve done talks on ocean acidification and global warming and all of those effects. Plastics in the ocean, which are an incredible disaster, causing just unspeakable damage,” Pologe says. “We’ve got a lot of work to do, but this is the way you start it.”
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The following story presents another perspective of Emma Murray’s attempt to complete the Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup, which Murray detailed in the July 26 article “Where fear and anxiety collide.”
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rom our respective points, two-and-ahalf miles apart, Emma Murray and I watched the sun dip behind distant mountains. As the clouds gathered and the rain began to drop, Emma slid down a gully to escape the lightning-prone ridge. I waited at the top of Hidden Peak on the aerial tram that couldn’t run. “There’s too much electricity in the air,” the operator told me. “Everyone has to go inside the structure.” A wedding reception happened to be taking place at the structure and a woman from the party gently held her infant against her chest as she passed beneath the rain. I followed behind and sat in the entryway of the building, a concrete haven atop this 10,992-foot mountain that houses a ski-resort restaurant, aware that my neon windbreaker set me apart from the well-dressed crowd. Music bounced and people drank in suits and pearls. I imagined Emma, soaked and shuddering, as she picked her way through a rocky slope to a campground on the valley floor. I stared at the dry bag stuffed to the brim with burritos, energy gels, chips, snack bars; it was nearly all for Emma, who’d been on the go since 6:52 a.m. This was supposed to be our second rendezvous of the day. Lightning splayed the dark, and she was still alone.
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lete by any means. So when Emma contacted people who have either completed or have spent a lot of time on the WURL, she was often left with condescending and intimidating messages. “I understand their hesitations,” she said the night before she was to begin, “I’m about to try to onsight the WURL.” True to doubt, Emma had never hiked any of the peaks on the route, and this very notion perplexed the minds of those who didn’t know her. The “professionals” have a difficult time, so why wouldn’t she? While her training consumes an average of 15 hours per week, and has become more or less an unpaid part-time job, the intimidation and the label of imposter in the Wasatch Mountains lingered nonetheless — but, why not try anyway?
Behind the scenes of an ultra-running mission by Sara Aranda
“Why not me?” After driving eight hours from Boulder, we arrived at the trailhead of Ferguson Canyon, a toe of the Wasatch Mountains, at 1:40 a.m. We’d made the same trek to Salt Lake City together almost exactly a year prior, but unlike last year, this trip felt formidably impromptu. Tucked in the corner of a wealthy suburban neighborhood, we set up the bed in the back of Emma’s van and slept comfortably without blankets. A “No Overnight Parking” sign passively scolded us by the trail a few paces behind us, but no matter; 18 August 2, 2018
Emma was about to embark on a mission of ultrarunning proportions, the most arduous for her yet. The Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup, (WURL) circumnavigating the Little Cottonwood Canyon of Utah, typically begins at Ferguson Canyon, continuing in clockwise fashion over to the Bells Canyon Granite trailhead. This nearly 36-mile endeavor, with around 18,000 feet of accumulated elevation gain, was first documented in 2004 by Jared Campbell in 21 hours and 30 minutes. Since 2004, a growing list of completions, currently at 35, has inspired all the more attempts by professional and other serious athletes. The case seems to remain, however, that a man has been a part of every successful execution, leaving the field wide open for an all-female attempt. Emma and I both first heard about the WURL during our last Salt Lake City visit, and the original intention was for us and two other women to attempt the traverse together. Circumstances took their toll, of course, and the prospects of an attempt seemed to fall away; I was suddenly dealing with a severe knee strain and tendonitis. One of the women relocated to the West Coast. As partner after new potential partner bowed out, Emma was ultimately left with the reality of doing it alone. For the past year, Emma had increased her mountain training in tandem with preparing for her first 100-mile race, set to take place in Leadville this August. She is not sponsored, not a professional ath-
The thirteenth hour Around 1 p.m. I hiked up the steep, one-mile trail to Cardiff Pass with Lauren “Lo” Jones, our Salt Lake City friend and contact. We’d planned to meet Emma there for her first resupply, as she only carried enough food and water to last a few hours at a time. The afternoon was hot, but the wind pleasant. Innocent white clouds passed, and the wildflowers dressed the slopes in thick swaths of yellows, pinks and blues. When a brief shower of rain passed, we waited. By the time Emma made it down to Cardiff — three hours later than predicted — Lo had already gone home. “It’s really hard,” Emma said with her back slumped and her eyelids looking heavy. She sat on a flat stone with her legs folded and stuffed a breakfast burrito into her mouth, guzzling water. It was now just after 4:30 p.m. “It hailed on me while I was traversing Monte Cristo,” she added, then glanced across the valley to where I’d be meeting her next, another nine miles of ridge traversing. “At this rate, it’ll take me nine hours to get there. I didn’t even bring a headlamp for this next section.” I could tell she was disappointed in her pace thus far, and a part of me wanted to say something like, “Yeah... I don’t know if I’d continue.” I kept the thought to myself. Luckily, I had my headlamp on Boulder Weekly
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me so I handed it what to expect; to her. what was I even “How do your about to get myself legs feel?” I asked. into? “Amazing,” she The wind picked replied, and with a up and I hid in a relinquished sigh, corner. I could see she re-packed her the south side of running vest with Devil’s Castle, which more food and stood between water, zipped up Emma and me, the her windbreaker, two points looking and added, “Well, I like horns dipped in guess I better get alpenglow. I could going.” also see Mt. Baldy, a When I started softly rounded hiking down, I intersummit easy on the Sara Aranda waits for thuneyes. mittently glanced derstorms to pass at the top I liked the idea back to see if I could of Hidden Peak aerial tram in Utah, as Emma Murray of seeing Emma see her along the attempts the first solo female rocky Flagstaff cross it. But lightcompletion of the Wasatch Ultimate Trail Linkup. Mountain ridge. I ning flashed in the distance, to the was in awe of her east. Little did I audacity to keep know that Emma was watching anothgoing. I did spot her once, the outline er storm form in the west, behind me of her blue jacket growing smaller and and the structure. smaller until she looked as tiny as the The coming rain posed a dangerous wildflowers that grazed my legs. slipping hazard; the lightning drew At 7:30 p.m., I rode the Snowbird aerial tram up to Hidden Peak in antic- thick lines across the fraying indigo ipation of meeting her there at mile clouds. At 8:38 p.m., after 13-and-amark 19.4. The summit was noticeably half hours of effort, my phone rang. colder than the valley below. The last “So sorry,” she said when I tram would descend at 8:30 p.m., so I answered, “I’m a bit emotional right knew I had several solitary hours to now.” We both knew lightning isn’t a sleep before meeting her potentially as force to be reckoned with. The safest late as midnight — that is, if she condecision became all the more obvious tinued with the pace she’d set earlier in with every flash. the day. “I’ll meet you with the van. Be The plan was for me to join her on safe,” I said to her before hanging up. the section from Hidden Peak to the I grabbed my bag of food and Pfeifferhorn trail in the pitch black of water and began to head for the dirt night. I would be a fresh pair of eyes road that would take me all the way and a rested mind to help her decision- back down to the valley floor when making processes, even a source of con- the aerial tram operator stopped me. fidence if needed. It was now safe enough to run the From my perch at the entrance of tram, and they were evacuating everythe structure, I stared at the ridgeline to one from the summit. I had the easy come. The American Fork twin peaks, task of waiting for the lightning to with their red sediments, loomed. The pass and the tram to run. Emma had spine leading up to them looked thin to escape the mountains that had and technical. I had absolutely no idea preoccupied her for a year. Boulder Weekly
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Pedro Silva knows his job as an associate pastor at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Boulder gives him a platform that many people of color don’t have. So he uses it to facilitate conversations about race and social change.
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ast summer, Pedro Silva, an associate pastor at First Congregational United Church of Christ, was walking toward the pop-jet fountain on Pearl Street when he noticed a police officer across the street following him. It was a hot day, and his older daughter ran along in front of him, eager to play in the water. Not wanting to jump to any conclusions about the situation, Silva stopped and sat down on a bench. The officer also stopped, Silva says, suddenly fascinated with the sky and other people on the mall. “I said to myself, ‘If he sees my daughter run over to me and he leaves, then I’ll know he was following me,’” Silva recalls. A few minutes later, his daughter ran over to him, giddy with all the fun she was having. Silva says he saw the officer take note and walk away. “I am not under any illusions,” Silva says. “I know how culture works, so it doesn’t hurt my feelings because I think that person is programmed by their culture. Obviously, before Jesus died he said, ‘Forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ I take that seriously, that people do things out of ignorance. If they weren’t ignorant, they wouldn’t do them.” Sometimes, in meditation or prayer, Silva tries to visualize what he wants to do if a police officer ever aggressively approaches him. He hopes to make it a learning opportunity, one in which he can say, “I don’t want to be fearful of you, and you don’t want to be racist. Let’s work this out. Let’s both be better off from this situation.” Silva says he works on himself in this way because he doesn’t want to react, but he also knows many people of color don’t have the luxury of such reflection. “Me being in this job in Boulder, I came here with a voice, because I’m a pastor in a large church,” he says. see SILVA Page 22
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“Other black people might come here If racism were to be completely gone by both black and white kids because and they don’t have a voice. They tomorrow, would any of them feel of his name. “Pedro, Pedro, go back to might work for a company and come to slightly disappointed that they no lonMexico,” some of this peers would work and be sad because another black ger had a cause to fight against? Hands chant. Silva’s name had come from his person got killed, but they have to hold tentatively reached upward in the dark- father, who was from Cape Verde. “I’m that in. I can come to work and say, ness. Though no one could see whose not even Mexican!” he remembers ‘This is messed up. I’m saying somehands were in the air, Silva says the act thinking. “Why should I go back to a thing on Sunday.’” of confession in itself allows particicountry I’ve never even been before?” On Sundays, Silva preaches at the pants to evaluate themselves in a way Silva recounts an incident when he front of the chapel, but it’s a was 15: A white man put his Sara McCrea Wednesday, so we sit in the mouth to Silva’s ear and said, back. There are only four of us “I hate niggers.” Silva turned in the sanctuary, Silva’s oldest to him calmly and asked, “Do daughter waiting patiently as we you mean black people?” The talk, his youngest squirming in man was taken aback. “How his arms. Sun streams through many black people do you the stained-glass windows, castknow?” Silva asked. The man ing wide stripes across the knew none. wooden benches. “We had a conversation, Silva wears a green T-shirt and he started getting all from Andover Newton weepy,” Silva recalls. “He didn’t Theological School, his alma know what he was talking mater. In thick lettering it reads, about. You have to own your “Think outside the pulpit.” Like ignorance. There’s a lot of stuff most pastors, he frequently I don’t know. I’m not going to turns to analogies, but he does go tell anyone about brain surso casually, often punctuating gery because I know nothing them with a burst of laughter. about it, but with the cultural Recently, Silva has been things, people feel like they’re working with The Blind Cafe so afraid to say, ‘I don’t know. Experience, a Boulder-based I’m ignorant about this.’ People project that brings people just talk.” together in total darkness to Silva believes ignorance can often come from lack of exposhare a dinner, listen to live sure, a factor he says is certainmusic and engage in conversaly present in Boulder County, tions about social change. With which, according to the U.S. Silva’s help, the project is develCensus Bureau, is 90.5 percent oping a program for people to white. discuss race and racism in the “People don’t like being dark. In the pilot sessions of the inadequate, and it’s hard for program, which took place at people sometimes, if they’re eTown Hall earlier this year, legally they can carry Silva says his decision successful in some areas of blind ambassadors ushered participants with them into to engage in their life, to admit that they’re into the darkness, taking enough twists future expericonversations about race was motivated by failures in other areas. You get, and turns to be disorienting. The leadences and conhis older daughter: “If ‘I’m a scientist’ or ‘I’m a profesers of the experience urged participants versations. she sees me and I get in front of white people sor’ or ‘I’m an entrepreneur.’” to dive headfirst into conversations Silva says and I’m not honest, Silva lets out a small laugh. without trying to find common ground, he’s always felt then she doesn’t get permission to just be What you don’t hear, he says, wanting to harness the vulnerability drawn to the her.” is,“‘I’m successful, but if I see a that arises in the darkness. These consensory-heightblack person on the street, I versations between strangers aren’t ening and disrun the other direction because meant to be comfortable, but Silva traction-miniI’m ignorant.’” compares it to building a muscle: use it mizing effects of the dark, using it as a Silva describes his grandmother as and it grows, ignore it and it atrophies. tool to aid his meditation practice. In a fundamentalist Republican who often “Ultimately we talked ourselves into the dark, he says, people put trust in talked of family values and of everyone division, and we’re going to have to others more quickly than they do in going to hell. Instead of cartoons, Silva talk ourselves into unity as well,” he the light. would sit in front of Jimmy Swaggart says. Silva’s parents divorced when he and Oral Roberts, 1980s televangelists, In one exercise, Silva read a series was young, forcing him to spend his with his grandmother beside him. of statements and asked participants to school years in Virginia and summers Later in their lives, each of her children raise their hands if they identified with in Mississippi. He mentored black dealt with their religious upbringing in what was read. Have they told or children in reading programs, “to give different ways and had different relilaughed at a racist joke when they’re to kids what I felt that I was missing,” gious focuses. 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Muslim cousins handle discrimination with honor and grace, he decided he wanted to be a Christian in the same way they were Muslim. “I got to a point where I was not condemning them anymore,” Silva recalls. “If my faith says that I’m supposed to love my neighbor and I’m too busy trying to figure out who’s gonna burn, how am I going to be doing the love part? It never seemed like that’s what Jesus taught. So I’m going to try to love everybody the best I can.” But Silva quickly realized that when he stopped condemning “the other side,” his “side” began to condemn him. Unsure of his next steps after high school, Silva eventually entered the Air Force, where he served as a satellite communications technician and a language analyst for eight years. Though he remembers enjoying the work, he felt his soul pulling him in a different direction. Preventing war and creating peace, he says, are not the same thing, and he wanted to focus on what he could do to create peace. From there he entered AmeriCorps Vista, an especially formative experience, as he was able to see the conditions from which many of America’s cultural tensions arise. He lived in Georgia and tutored refugees from Somalia, Liberia, Kosovo and Sudan. Many of them were also being picked on by American kids, which Silva could see was making them even more insecure and isolated as they tried to navigate their new home. He found that while he could try to work with kids to stop biases from a young age, those kids would go home and be exposed to their parents’ biases and fears. After thinking about how he could work with adults in a way that would expand their perceptions, he transitioned to working in human resources and recruiting. “People spend their time at work more than anything, and so I thought if I could help corporate cultures, then it would trickle into everyday life,” Silva says. “I realized that religion and Western culture, it’s hard to separate them. You could be an atheist, but you’re still shaped by it, in America and in some other Western countries. The history of the country is shaped by religious pursuits or at least pursuits that were perceived religiously.” He compares corporate culture to the Catholic Church — the CEO as a pope, other executives as cardinals and bishops. As he noticed the depth of Boulder Weekly
religion’s influence on Western culture, he felt that if he could get a better knowledge of it, he could learn to leverage the influence. So, like many of his colleagues had done, he enrolled in seminary. When he and his family moved to Boulder and he got his job at First Congregational, Silva remembers saying to the former senior minister, “I don’t want to be the person who has to deal with the race stuff when it comes up, just because I’m black.” He felt burned out, and he wondered if it was even possible to change people. But, as in many cases, his role as a parent changed his perspective. He had been asked to give the Martin Luther King Day speech in Longmont, and his older daughter was inconsolably nervous. When he asked what was wrong, she replied, “I don’t want you to get shot like Dr. King. He did the ‘I have a dream’ speech and he got killed.” “It’s obviously not a direct correlation to what I was doing,” Silva says, “But with stuff like that, I have to say something. I have to get in front of it because both of my daughters are growing up in this world. So if she sees me and I get in front of white people and I’m not honest, then she doesn’t get the permission to just be her.” After a number of controversial police shootings, Silva decided to host some conversations about race through the church, a space people could feel safe to talk and vent and be curious. He wanted to create a discussion where people could be open and communicate across differences, something he says is one of society’s biggest challenges. It was then that he got connected to Living Room Conversations, an organization that provides a structure for engaging in conversations with people of differing beliefs. The conversations take place between four to seven people and can be on topics ranging from status and privilege to health care to defining the American dream. Silva now serves on the organization’s core team as its faith partner. During one of the conversations, Silva found himself in a room with another black man and a couple of conservative people. “I’m glad I met you because you proved to me that a black man can pull himself up by the bootstraps,” a conservative woman said to him at the end of the conversation. Silva assumed she had meant it as a compliment, but he felt there was no
way he could accept such a remark. So he told her, “I don’t mean to offend you, but I can’t accept that you think it’s a compliment in good conscience because that would be to spit on Dr. King, Malcolm X, all the people who spoke up and died so I can actually sit here and have a conversation.” Silva believes everything — including our current political climate — can be redeemed, as long as people, not just those in positions of political power, are willing to put in the work. Part of this includes speaking up and holding people accountable for their words, even that relative who always makes cringe-worthy remarks at the dinner table. “Everyone says, ‘I want to keep the peace,’ but that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s not peace, it’s just not saying anything,” Silva says. In looking for peace during a divided time, he advocates taking a hard look at where we are and where we want to be. “Say you call me at three in the morning and you say, ‘Pedro, I’m lost.’ The first thing I will say is, ‘Well, where are you?’ And if you say, ‘I have no idea where I am,’ then you’re probably going to stay there. If people want peace, they have to figure out where they are. “If we say, ‘I’m in this system, this society, this is where we are.’ Now, where we want to be is way over there. There are some trees, some potholes, some messed up systems in the way. We have to go through that to get to where we want to be. But we have to start by knowing where we are.” Faith — and not always through religion — guides Silva as he encourages people to wrestle with their experiences. Faith makes Silva continue to work toward something he’s never seen before; he believes it’s possible because it’s present in his imagination. “I don’t want to be ignorant. That’s what it comes down to,” Silva says with a laugh that echoes through the chapel. “I want to pay attention and I want to be a contribution, not for a purpose, but because that’s what life does. Flowers don’t say, ‘I want to be a flower and let people smell me and beautify the Earth,’ but they do, and that’s them experiencing life to the fullest.” His voice softens. “We suppress life all the time in so many forms, and then we wonder why the world doesn’t mirror the beauty that we know is possible.”
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Summoning a little magic behind every unturned stone, Bruce Hornsby survives early fame, challenges the fates, and can still rebound by Dave Kirby
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t’s no great concession for any but the most hardened cultural cynic, that most artists working in popular music eventually must explore the limits of their muse, or their abilities, or even the limits of what their audience will tolerate. Some will walk away and turn to something else to make a living. But some choose to remain, like sharks chasing new waters. In pushing their limits, they either keep swimming or sink to the bottom. Bruce Hornsby swims. The pianist/songwriter has been working with his well-established band The Noisemakers in various configurations for almost 20 years. But that time has also been marked by Hornsby’s forays into jazz, soundtrack music, electronica, bluegrass and Grateful Dead-andassociated projects. For most casual observers, Hornsby’s story starts in 1986, when his band at the time, The Range, released their first album, and the breakout single “The Way It Is” rocketed up the charts. With his crystalline piano and gently summoned Appalachian resonances, Hornsby lit up the AOR airwaves like a shiny dime in an other-
wise murky puddle of fading electro-pop and jangly guitar bands. The fact is, though, Hornsby had been working professionally for several years, both as a contract songwriter in L.A. (with his brother) and as part of Sheena Easton’s touring band. Still, celebrity in his own right came hard and fast, as he began opening for acts like the Grateful Dead, Eurythmics, Steve Winwood, Huey Lewis and John Fogerty. He also recorded with Willie Nelson and played on his TV special. To some extent, the fact that stardom hit at age 32 probably helped Hornsby get through it with all faculties intact, and some wisdom about the game. “My ‘late bloomer’ status aided me in one very important area,” he says. “I had seen friends get signed and sign bad deals that hurt them financially, especially in the long term, so I learned what not to do, what to watch out for.” Hornsby cites Colorado — and especially his soldout night at Red Rocks in summer of 1987 — as one of those defining, early-stage milestones. “I think Colorado is a special place for lots of musiBoulder Weekly
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cians. For years it has shown a demonstrable, deep love for bluegrass, folk, Americana and Grateful Dead-inspired jam band music and supported all that music so intensely. There are several bands I know that play small halls and clubs around the rest of the country, and come to the DenverBoulder area and sell out Red Rocks. “Yes, I remember it well — our first really ‘big-time’ gig. I don’t remember if we had an opening act that night, but Crowded House had been opening for us in that time period of spring/early summer 1987, so it may have been them — great guys and band.” He also credits Boulder radio station KBCO for helping break his original band. It “was the first prominent station in the U.S. to play our music in a heavy rotation, and the subsequent reaction put us on the map. We broke biggest in England and Europe, but in the U.S.A. it all started with KBCO in Boulder.” After a few follow-up hits with The Range, Hornsby drifted between production gigs and some sit-in shows with the Grateful Dead. (“I wouldn’t trade my time with the Dead for anything; it was a truly singular and often transcendent experience for me,” he says.) Eventually, he ended up in a couple of jazz settings with the likes of Branford Marsalis and Pat Metheny. This wasn’t entirely unexpected, as he had studied jazz at both the University of Miami and Berklee School of Music in the late ’70s. It’s something he’d return to with Christian McBride and apparently immortal drummer Jack DeJohnette in a trio setting in 2007. (He toured with this trio again earlier this year.) And of course, there’s his on-again-off-again with Ricky Skaggs, which also first bloomed in 2007. In between, there have been solo piano projects, a lengthy residency at Yoshi’s in Oakland, California, Dead tributes/offshoots and album releases of both accessible and unexpected fabric, like the cheerfully disruptive Big Swing Face. Hornsby’s seemingly bottomless capacity to absorb and personalize wildly disparate musical disciples hasn’t aged. The lead track from The Noisemakers’ latest album, Rehab Reunion, “Over the Rise,” drifts along with a distinctly Celtic vibe, delicately wrought with challenging and provocative vocal intervals. Hornsby makes it sound easy. Boulder Weekly
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his year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) is a bit of an odd duck. But then, isn’t it always the oddest ducks that quack the loudest? Only 50 percent of the plays at this year’s CSF were penned by Shakespeare. And no, that’s not an invitation to debate the actual authorship of the plays he’s generally accepted to have written. Put down your Bacon; we’re not heading to Oxford by way of Marlowe for the Derby. It’s merely an observation that two of the four plays at the CSF this year were, without any doubt, written by other playwrights. The first Shakespeare play of the festival is the lesserknown and therefore less often produced comedy-without-ahappy-ending, Love’s Labour’s Lost. The second of the master’s plays at the 2018 CSF is the history Richard III, and while it boasts some extremely quotable lines, it is, as with all of Shakespeare’s histories, more of an acquired taste than the Bard’s more crowd-pleasing comedies and tragedies. The third CSF offering this year, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, is filled with the doing of der and the buckling of swashes as well as some conflicted and conflicting life lessons. The final CSF show is You Can’t Take It with You, a theater of the absurd comedy set in, of all times, the Great Depression. Thought its title is certainly a truism, the play easily takes the cake as the most entertaining and enjoyable entry on the 2018 CSF slate. Counterintuitive as it may be, the winner of the 2018 CSF is, in fact, not a Shakespeare play.
The odd duck quacks the loudest
And the winner of the 2018 CSF is... by Gary Zeidner
Vanderhof (Sam Gregory) was a sucThe Moss Hart and George S. cessful businessman — which explains Kaufman-written You Can’t Take It how he afforded the rather sprawling with You debuted in 1936. It was an manse in Manhattan — until one day, immediate hit and won the 1937 some decades previous, Pulitzer Prize for he quit business in the Drama. In 1938, the name of happiness. His film adaptation won ON THE BILL: You daughter, Penelope Academy Awards for Can’t Take It with You. both Best Picture and (Leslie O’Carroll), an Colorado Shakespeare Best Director. If you’re erstwhile painter, now Festival, University of Colorado Boulder, puts her energy into lucky enough to get to www.cupresents.org. writing plays. see Director Carolyn Through Aug. 12. Penelope’s husband, Howarth’s take on this Paul (Leraldo Broadway and Anzaldua), spends his Hollywood classic at days making — and testing — fireCSF, you’ll understand why You Can’t works in the basement of the family Take It with You has endured so easily home. for so long. Penelope and Paul’s daughter, Essie Three generations of unusual free (Chloe McLeod), has spent the past spirits live together under one New eight years studying under mad York City roof. Grandfather Martin
Russian Boris Kolenkhov (Rodney Lizcano) to become a ballerina, although to watch her dance it could just as well have been eight weeks. Essie’s husband, Ed ( Jihad Milhem), plays the xylophone and delivers Essie’s homemade candy to customers around town. Essie’s sister, Alice (Lindsay Ryan), works as a secretary at a big-time investment firm, and she’s in love with Tony (Christian Ray), the boss’ son. The will they/won’t they between Alice and Tony serves as the play’s through line. Alice is convinced that Tony’s uppercrust family will never accept her family’s eccentricities, and, sure enough, when the families meet their cultures clash quite calamitously. What elevates You Can’t Take It with You above such a simple plot is its openhanded, almost childlike sincerity. The play, and its characters, aren’t presented ironically or sardonically. Perhaps that’s why this play was such a hit during the Great Depression and why it resonates just as strongly today. Everything about the CSF’s You Can’t Take It with You works wonderfully. The set by Caitlin Ayer — filled with curios and bric-a-brac, boldly patterned wallpaper, heartshaped chair backs and stained glass windows — is a character unto itself. The cast is a Murderers’ Row of talent. Sam Gregory does what he’s done for years and blasts past any expectations you might have of him. His Grandpa is the calm center of the chaotic action, and his every moment on stage is a joy. Leslie O’Carroll, another of my longtime favorites, can and does do more with a single look than most actors can do with an entire soliloquy.
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Tony Furtado and Special Guests. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Tickets are $17.
TOWN MOUNTAIN 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, goldhillinn.com.
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There’s nothing quite like a night of bluegrass at the historic Gold Hill Inn. With its up-closeand-personal stage, Gold Hill is the perfect venue to host Asheville quintet Town Mountain, known for their raucous, no-holds-barred live performances. Currently on tour in anticipation of the October release of their sixth studio album, New Freedom Blues, the band fearlessly considers what it means to make bluegrass-influenced music in the modern era. Get ready for a night of music that spans their eclectic influences, from traditional bluegrass to roots pop to hardscrabble honky-tonk. Tickets are $12.
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SHAKE IT UP: COCKTAILS AND CUISINE — FLATIRONS FOOD FILM FESTIVE FUNDRAISING EVENT
40 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MAGIC MUSIC MOVIE
6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, Boulder Brands, 1600 Pearl St., Boulder, flatironsfoodfilmfest.org.
4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8; 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, thedairy.org.
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Mojado Fill your belly with some of Boulder’s best cuisine and cocktails, all in support of the Flatirons Food Film Festival. The Shake it Up event will offer bites from Blackbelly, Bramble and Hare, and Emmerson, with custom cocktails made with local spirits. Learn about cocktails from experts from Bougie Syrups and Cocktail Punk, enjoy short cocktail films and live jazz, and throw in a bid at a live auction. Prizes include a $2,000 certificate from Pack a Fork!, which offers luxury cultural and culinary overseas tours, a mid-season CSA share from Pastures of Plenty Farm, and a spice party for 20 at Savory Spice Shop. Tickets are $75 in advance, $85 at the door.
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In the ’70s, Magic Music was Communications huge in the Boulder music scene. No band embraced the Boulder ethos quite as well: living in teepees, cabins and converted school buses up in the mountains. With original songs and tight harmonies, Magic Music was tremendously popular in Boulder, and many people expected them to go on to much wider success. Although they brushed against wider fame several times over the years, the group eventually broke up in 1976. Director Lee Aronsohn, who attended the University of Colorado at Boulder before leaving for Los Angeles in 1975, always wondered what happened to one of his favorite bands. Teaming up with Magic Music member Chris “Spoons” Daniels, Aronsohn has created a documentary about this lost jewel in Boulder’s musical crown.
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Dana Stokes. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Thursday, August 2 Music Belly First Productions present Hip Hop for Homes: Benefit Show. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-860-4516. BoDeans. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Clare Thérèse, Lindsay White. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Colorado Music Festival: Bernstein — Dvořák — Bartók. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Jeremy Dion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Johnny O. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. King Cardinal, Thunder and Rain, Bison Bone. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Midnight Growlers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Official ARISE Pre-Party featuring Family and Friends — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Official ARISE Pre-Party: Magna Carda. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Performance by the African Children’s Choir. 7 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-388-4962. Psychedelic Furs. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Rickie Lee Jones. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Shook Twins and Dustbowl Revival — with The Copper Children. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. The Strangbyrds. 6 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Town Mountain. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023. Events
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Eef Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
While researching her book about mushrooms, Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes — those life forms that are too small to see without a microscope. She wanted to understand the microbes that lived inside other organisms, so she enrolled at Columbia University to study ecology, evolution and environmental biology. Her book, Microbia, takes the layman on a survey of the role of microbes in nature and illustrates their importance to the existence of everything: atmosphere, soil, plant and us. Bone will speak about the book at Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
The Jackson Cloud Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
The Infamous Stringdusters. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Monday, August 6
Ona Marae — Gum for Gracie. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Friday, August 3
Emily France — Zen and Gone. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Catlyn Ladd — Strip. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Josiah Hesse — Carnality. 9:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Saturday, August 4 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver. Rebecca Roanhorse — Trail of Lightning. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Sunday, August 5 Jane Derrick — See Jane Beat Cancer. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Tuesday, August 7 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Shahir Masri — 50 Misconceptions on Climate Change. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130. Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. Confluir: The Grand Canyon of the Amazon — Boulder Film Premier. 7:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. Conversations in English Thursdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Karaoke Night. 9:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. The King. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
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Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Lego Storytime. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Musical Storytime. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Power of Video Storytelling for NonProfits. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Shrek: The Musical. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130. A Unique Kind of Fun: How to Run Across the Alaskan Winter. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Unit A, Boulder, 303-499-8866. Urban Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467.
Live Music and Drinks on the Deck. 6 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. Music at the Boulder County Fair: 101st Army Country Band. 7 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. NO BS! Brass Band. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Peter White, Euge Groove. 7 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Pink Progression First Friday Summer Party. 6 p.m. Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-294-5207. Purely Patsy: A Tribute to Patsy Cline. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Ravin’wolf Acoustic Jam Rock n’ Blues. 6 p.m. Salto Coffee Works, 112 E. Second St., Nederland, 720-606-1733.
Maria Olsen — 50 After 50. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
The Seers. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Tim Wendel Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Eugenia Bone — Microbia. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Wednesday, August 8 Lloyd Lewis & Corinne Joy Brown — Why Not Them? 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. James Munn — This Is No Dream. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Alex Moffat. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Ava. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. More show times at thedairy.org.
Live Music. 7 p.m. The Tune Up @ Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.
Friday, August 3 Music
20th Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performances. 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272. Adult Open Gym — with PJ. 5:30 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Alex Moffat. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com. Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
ACLU Benefit Show. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-861-9103.
BJDW Performance 2018. 8 p.m. Irey Theatre, Boulder Campus, University Theatre Building, University of Colorado, Boulder.
A Bears Choice — with Dave Hebert. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Beni Brosh. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Discon 2018. 10 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
The CBDs. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-1829.
Friday Family Film. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-776-6050.
Chanel West Coast — with THC, Essence and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Games @ Meadows. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Colorado Music Festival: Family Fun Concert – Meet the Brass. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
The Jester’s Court. 10 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079. see EVENTS Page 30
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Imagine!’s CORE/Labor Source department operates curriculumdriven services so that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities may fully experience and participate in the local community. One of the ways Imagine! does this is by exhibiting works of art that the people in their services create. Visit the Dairy to see Connections, on view Aug. 3-19.
8:00pm NO COVER 8/4 WHAT ABOUT JIM? 8/11 TUNISIA
Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15.
A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.
Paintings by Vivienne Douglas. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.
Amuse Yeux. Foothills Art Center, Community Gallery, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Aug. 12.
Like a Hammer — by Jeffrey Gibson. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 12.
Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Pink Progression. Metropolitan State University, Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Aug. 18.
Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21.
Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16.
Nature Photography by Kirk Fry. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.
Slow Mover. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 19.
Connections — by Imagine! C.O.R.E./Labor Source. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. Echo Trail — by Laura Ahola-Young. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opening reception Aug. 3. Through Aug. 19. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.
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Honey — by Kristen Hatgi Sink. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
New NoBo Library Community Engagement Session. 6 p.m. NoBo First Friday, Hoi Polloi Workshop and Crowd Collective, 4939 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair. 2 p.m. Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 E. 58th Ave., Denver, 303-761-3755. Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Spirit & Spirits Cemetery Bus. 7 p.m. Wild Women Winery, 1660 Champa St., Denver. Spirit of Denver Cemetery Show. 8:30 p.m. Ivy Chapel at Fairmount Cemetery, 430 S. Quebec St., Denver. Teen and Tea Time. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Saturday, August 4 Music Adam Lopez Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Colorado Music Festival: Festival Finale — Olga Kern plays Gershwin. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
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Transmission — by Derrick Adams. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
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New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 16.
Cuentos y Cantos con Angelique (bilingual). 10:30 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.
Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Jam Rock n’ Blues. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-606-1733.
The Dendrites. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Salasee and the Fafa Family. 6:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Give Me that Old-time Music. 5 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder, 303-776-8848. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. J.W. Schuller, Annie and the Bang Bang. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Listening Together: KGNU’s Opening Reception at MOB. 6 p.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-4885. The Long Run. 8 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Michelle Roderick and Danny Thurmer. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Now, Now. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Old’s Cool Rock. 10 a.m. Boulder Farmers Market, 13th St. Between Arapahoe and Canyon, Boulder. Ravin’wolf Acoustic Jam Rock n’ Blues. 10 a.m. Longmont Farmer’s Market, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-606-1733.
Silent Disco. 7:30 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 720-470-8810. Summer Music Series On The Patio featuring Peak2Peak. 5 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Ukulele Group. 10 a.m. Leaders of the Heart, Boulder Therapy Center, 726 Pearl Street, Unit C, Boulder, 207-664-9220. Veronique Van Pelt, Miles Wilder, and more. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Vonhodads. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. WAR, Tower of Power. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 800-745-3000. Events 25th Anniversary Party. 12 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 4910 Nautilus Court North, Boulder, 303-440-4324.
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Friday august 3
Chanel West Coast
W/ thC, sesugh solomon & essenCe
Friday – sunday august 3-5
arise Festival
(at sunrise ranCh) Feat slightly stoopid, thievery Corporation, trevor hall, pepper, living legends & QuixotiC
tuesday august 7
thursday august 2
shook tWins & dustBoWl revival
W/ the Copper Children (patio set) & speCial guest daniel rodriguez oF elephant revival
Friday august 3
dJ nodJ
W/ universal sigh & akenda
saturday august 4
BaCkWoods riot Festival
the Jive triBe & Flash mountain Flood
thursday august 9
reggae tuesdays
hosted By mike Busey Feat Bezz Believe, demun Jones, seCkond ChaynCe, tWang & round
daily Bread B2B artiFakts sold out!
W/ memBers oF the pretty lights live Band: alvin Ford Jr, Borahm lee, Chris karns, Wax Future & mikey thunder
Friday august 10
Bipul Chettri & the travelling Band
W/ Jaanvi gurung & shuvanzan dWa
saturday august 11
the viCtor Wooten trio Feat dennis ChamBers & BoB FranCesChini W/ roosevelt Collier
thursday august 16
ride the Bus to Joe russo’s almost dead thursday august 16
Breaking BisCuits
Feat marC BroWnstein & aron magner (disCo BisCuits), adam deitCh & Borahm lee (Break sCienCe) W/ tnertle
Friday august 17
herBie hanCoCk triBute Feat dominiC lalli (Big gigantiC), dave Watts (the motet), Joey porter (the motet), garrett sayers (the motet) & dan sChWindt (kyle hollingsWorth Band)
sunday august 19
W/ roots oF a reBellion (patio set) & morsel
tuesday august 7
Feat mystiC BoWie’s talking dreads, reBelde, illuminati Congo (Feat dJ Bloodpreshah) & seleCta razJa
Wednesday august 8 re: searCh
Feat daedelus, gangus, Wylie CaBle, native sun, mikey thunder & Jordon polovina thursday august 9 grass For that ass presents
grateFul Bluegrass Boys W/ Boris garCia & on the patio: arkansauCe & ley line Friday august 10
katastro
W/ tyrone’s JaCket, aloha radio
saturday august 11
the mother hips W/ grant Farm
sunday august 12
money man
W/ dJ tigg, dJ CertiFied, dJ style & dJ Blaze1; hosted By eClasserrWerr & inFamouz age
monday august 13
Chris dave & the drumhedz
lil BaBy
Feat ChriS Dave (D’angelo & anDerSon. paak) W/ paa koW & his aFro-Fusion orChestra
thursday august 23
Wednesday august 15 re: searCh
W/ yk osiris City girls, kollision & B la B
dJ paul & dJ strizzo W/ thC & mrdr
Friday august 24
stylust Beats
W/ mystiC grizzly, notorious ConduCt (late set), godlazer, dozier & in motion
Wednesday august 29
ski mask the slump god W/ danny toWers & Bandhunta izzy
Friday august 31
phish diCk’s aFter party With transportation provided By Bus to shoW
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Friday – sunday aug 31 – sept 2
ride the Bus to phish saturday septemBer 8
Feat g-nome proJeCt W/ Ben silver (orChard lounge), mikey thunder & Jordan polovina thursday august 16 grass For that ass presents
tk & the holy knoW nothings W/ liver doWn the river & on the patio: david BurChField, the Fire guild & shovelin stone Friday august 17
the orCastrator
W/ mass relay, unexotiC, alex BoWman, lFo & spark kent B2B garCia Jr
saturday august 18
Boogie mammoth
roCk For a Cause
W/ WonderliC, henry & the invisiBles
Friday septemBer 21
dirty dozen Brass Band
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Love’s Labour’s Lost — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave, Boulder. Through Aug. 12. Newsies. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 26. The Producers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 30. Richard III — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Theatre Building, University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 11. Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Aug. 5. Sleeping Beauty — presented by Miner’s Alley Children’s Playhouse. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 18. The Sunshine Boys. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Opens Aug. 3. Through Sept. 9. You Can’t Take It With You — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Theatre Building, University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 12.
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Acoustic Prayers for Evening. 5 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Boulder County Fair Parade. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Denver International Festival. 11 a.m. Civic Center Conservancy, 1560 Broadway, Suite 2250, Denver, 720-319-8441.
Boulder, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, Boulder, 303-492-7945. Irish Tales along the Trails. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. LaSportiva Eldora Trail 10k. 7:30 a.m. 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Nederland. Mother Daughter Bookclub. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Outdoor Cinema. 7 p.m. Thompson Park, 420 Bross St., Longmont, 720-280-7228. Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St. (in back of School), Lyons, 303-823-5925.
Discon 2018. 10 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair. 10 a.m. Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 E. 58th Ave., Denver, 303-761-3755.
Firefly Handmade Summer Market. 9 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
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events Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.
Irish Tales along the Trails. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. 10:15 a.m. Barbed Wire Books, 504 Main St., Longmont.
Purl Jam. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Xperiment. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Sunday, August 5 Music Black Oxygen. 7:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Chill Out Summer Acoustic Tour: Sleeping With Sirens — with The Rocket Summer, Kulick. 6:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver.
RiNo Sunday Urban Market. 12 p.m. Infinite Monkey Theorem, 3200 Larimer St., Denver, 303-736-8376. Monday, August 6 Music Bowleg. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday. 5:30 p.m. Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa, Denver.
Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Kids Summer Ukulele Camp 2018 (Ages 5 to 9). 10:30 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444.
Eric Gonzales. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Nick Austin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514.
Triple Nickel. 7 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.
Funk Climate Change Fusion Showcase: The Nature Conservancy Charity Event. 7:30 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-860-4516.
The Weepies — with Mipso. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Jason Eady. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Martha Reich. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Max Mondzac — with special guest Mitch Lujan. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Blue Canyon Boys. 7 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Phish Livestream. 5:30 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868. Sitar Recital. 5:30 p.m. Hamsa Design & Arts, 1919 Spruce St., Boulder. Terror Universal. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Events 20th Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performances. 2 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272. Ben Roy. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Doris’ Sunday Matinee. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. Intro to Brazilian Drumming. 6:30 p.m. Intercambio Uniting Communities, 4735 Walnut St., Suite B, Boulder, 415-694-376. Boulder Weekly
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Ley Line. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Music at the Boulder County Fair: Funkiphino. 7 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.
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Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Eugene Mirman of Bob’s Burgers. 7:30 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720420-0030.
Panic! at the Disco. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Reggae Tuesdays featuring Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads and Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Tuesday Blues. 8 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9258.
Rayland Baxter, Matt Costa. 8 p.m. FMQB Free Outdoor Stage on the Hill, 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder.
Children’s Dances. 6:15 p.m. Plaza beside the Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363.
RE:Search featuring Daedelus, Gangus, Wylie Cable, Native Sun, Mikey Thunder, Jordan Polovina. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Storytime Break: All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Storytime Break: Baby Playtime. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Storytime Break: Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Storytime Break: Open Play. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, August 8 Music Barbara Paris and Kevin Lufkin. 6 p.m. La Madeleine, 1236 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-449-3061.
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Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Grossenbart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave Unit A, Longmont.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Snark Attack Tuesday. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4845.
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Nacho Men. 8 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.
Rabblefish. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Shake It Up: Cocktails and Cuisine. 6 p.m. Boulder Brands, 1600 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-746-4714.
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MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
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GoodCinema Presents: The House I Live In. 7 p.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-381-0813.
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Electric Light Orchestra. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.
Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363.
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Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500. David Foster. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. The Devil Makes Three, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Israel Nash. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Taylor Shae. 5 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-204-8767. Events 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Ballet on Horseback. 4 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) with Hank Troy, piano. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Kids (and Kids at Heart) in the Garden. 5:30 p.m. Louisville Community Gardens, 1108 Lincoln Ave., Louisville, 720-263-0226. Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Storytime Break: Lap Babies. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Storytime Break: Open Play. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Storytime Break: STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Storytime Break: Wobbler Playtime. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Storytime Break: Wobblers and Walkers. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Boulder Weekly
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Denzel’s first sequel is unremarkable by Ryan Syrek
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riting about The Equalizer 2 — unforgivably not titled The Sequelizer — has to be harder than actually writing The Equalizer 2. Sure, penning a franchise’s screenplay is a labor-intensive and pressure-laden endeavor, but getting literally anyone to care about words written in response to an instantly forgettable AARP action sequel is like breeding unicorns. I didn’t care enough to know when The Equalizer 2 was coming out until I was seated to watch it. Why have you even read this far? To find out that I thought the milquetoast mash-up of John Wick and the aging process was predictably average? If you read all the way to the end, I owe you some kind of Wookie life debt. Picking up after the events of the first film, which I swear that I watched in its entirety despite the subsequent seppuku of all brain cells involved, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is now a Lyft driver “setting things right” for people wronged by jerkwads. The first 40 minutes or so of The Sequelizer are just McCall whomping on random A-holes. As everyone predicted, Den- Honestly, given how we currently live in an zel Washington’s first sequel is American society seemingly devoid of any a follow-up to a TV adaptameaningful consequences for wrongdoing, tion about a guy who drives for Lyft and punches bad watching a dude read smart books and then people. As forgettable as beat the shit out of unrepentant douche-dragyou’d expect, but our dads are gonna love it. ons is quasi-therapeutic. Unfortunately, then plot happens. McCall’s only friend from his old life as a government operative, Susan (Melissa Leo), is pulled into a dark and dangerous conspiracy that’s unpredictable to anyone who thinks Tom Clancy himself writes all those books. An approaching storm full of precipitous clichés builds until McCall has to confront his past while trying to also help his neighbors garden and paint. Do things get appropriately settled? Well, they don’t call this series A Man in His 60s Learns to Let Things Go. There is a young, black character in The Sequelizer who uncomfortably acts and talks exactly like he was written by a 62-year-old white guy. That guy is Richard Wenk, whose work feels exactly like the name “Dick Wenk” sounds. Listen, you don’t hire the writer of The Expendables 2 and the Jack Reacher sequel we’ve all agreed to pretend never happened because he’s going to deliver a thoughtful, nuanced script. You hire him because presumably he has blackmail on you or maybe because you know that if he doesn’t write a shitty, forgettable action movie every other year he won’t be able to stave off the urge to kill again. Washington’s first-ever sequel is likely to be remembered for that trivia nugget and almost nothing else. It’s the kind of movie so thematically confused that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ work is repeatedly name checked but the film also stops everything for a tonedeaf respectability politics lecture. Even the action is weird, randomly switching from bloodless neck-snapping and bone-breaking to profound gore. You and I are likely some of the only people in the world to spend this long reflecting on the existence of The Equalizer 2. At least we move forward in this world as kindred souls in that regard, I guess. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of Elvis
Viewing the American dream through ‘The King’ by Michael J. Casey
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ilmmaker Eugene Jarecki is in search of the American Dream. To find it, he loads ON THE BILL: The King. up Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce with Aug. 2–4. King Creole. 4:30 p.m. Aug. 5, Dairy Arts a camera rig and drives around with poliCenter, Boedecker ticians, actors, musicians, activists and Theater, 2590 Walnut St., anyone else willing to climb in and speak their Boulder, thedairy.org mind. Most talk about Elvis on a personal level, conveying what the man and his music meant to them. Others see Elvis as synonymous with America. “If Elvis is your metaphor for America,” one of the subjects tells Jarecki, “then we’re about to overdose.” He’s not wrong. Nor is Emi Sunshine, a 13-year-old folk singer who believes a little bit of Elvis’ spirit was left behind just for her. When Sunshine was born in 2004, the proclaimed King of Rock ‘n’ Roll had been dead for almost 30 years. Sunshine grows older and learns more about her idol. The question becomes what will she think of him then? What will she make of Chuck D’s “Fight the Power” proclamation? “Elvis was a hero to most/but he never meant shit to me/a straight up racist/that sucker was simple and plain.” Both Sunshine and Chuck D weigh in on Elvis’ legacy in Jarecki’s documentary. Many others come to similar conclusions, praising Elvis’ talent while scratching their head at his lifestyle choices. Jarecki finds even more evidence in a fury of archival footage, expertly constructing a revealing montage of America past and present. But Jarecki’s biggest revelation comes when he visits Elvis’ hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi; one side of the town subsists on Elvis’ legacy while the other side slowly withers away in its shadows. As rapper Immortal Technique tells Jarecki, “The American Dream was always someone’s fantasy. And someone else’s drunken nightmare.” It’s a nightmare Elvis wasn’t immune to, himself the puppet of manager/conman Colonel Tom Parker. Elvis consistently found himself on the wrong side of a choice, which, as actor Ethan Hawke points out, was always the side that offered the most money. How perfect then that The Boe is screening 1958’s King Creole in conjunction with its run of The King. While Elvis made a slew of movies, most of them lightweight dreck, King Creole is a masterpiece of moody noir wrapped around a Faustian bargain. Elvis plays Danny Fisher, a high schooler trying to get ahead when a pack of hoods, led by club owner Maxie Fields (Walter Matthau), ensnare the talented young singer, trapping him in Fields’ web. It’s impossible not to think of Parker and the Memphis Mafia while watching King Creole, and that’s precisely the point. To us watching, it’s a movie; for Elvis, it’s his life. Both movies illustrate a similar point: Elvis was just another nobody from nowhere when he decided he wanted to be more. He took it, ran with it and became bigger than anyone could have imagined. Then he ran out of gas. You’re welcome to draw whatever conclusions you’d like between The King and the country that crowned him. Boulder Weekly
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Cochinita Pibil Tacos Mojo Taqueria 216 Main St., Lyons, mojotaqueria.com
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ojo Taqueria is a good place. Inventive cocktails, unique rotating beers, a vibrant atmosphere and, most importantly, fantastic tacos. Their taco menu includes things you’re not likely to find elsewhere, including Korean beef, fried avocado, fire-roasted poblano and guajillobraised short rib. We thought one star, among many, was the cochinita pibil taco. It’s achiote-marinated pork smoked in banana leaves, topped with pickled red onions and habanero salsa. It’s spicy, tart, tangy, bright and, ultimately, irresistible. $3.95 each.
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love a pretty pie, but as a pie judge for the past 30-plus years, I’ve learned that many pies hide their craveable flavors under a fairly plain top crust. There are always some pastry beauties in every contest with a lacy lattice top that peek-a-boos the local fruit inside, whether cherries, peaches or raspberries. Some have been wonderful, but I have been burned by these beauties. Badly. There was this pie I judged a couple of years ago at a local pie contest. My fellow judges remarked about how attractive this cherry pie was with its intricate lattice and brightly hued filling. “I hope it tastes as good as it looks,” one said beforehand. Hope turned to horror with one bite. This was a pie with a problem. The lattice had an odd yellowish hue and was tough, chewy and tasted “off.” The filling was actually a pool of crimson liquid awash in cherries that hadn’t set and tasted worse than the crust. It was, bar none, the worst pie I have ever tasted in my life. I insisted that it not be sold by the slice. I
still cringe at the memory. However, when done right, a criss-crossed lattice top can catch the eye and produce perfect, toasted strips of tasty pastry poached in fruit. I asked a professional pie-maker for tips on making a lattice if you are entering one of the many local contests in the next month. “The key word for pastry is cold,” says Karen DeVincenzo. Known as “The Pie Lady,” her pies can be found at the Jamestown Mercantile Café. “I cut the butter up into bits before putting it in the freezer, usually the day before I plan to mix up the dough. I make the dough in the food processor, adding the butter to the flour right out of the freezer. Add the ice-cold water to it in a bowl and mix it in with a fork, just enough to coat the flour. Don’t over-mix. Wrapped in plastic wrap, it goes into the fridge awhile for more chilling before it is rolled out. For the lattice, cut the pastry strips and store cold until ready to use.” see NIBBLES Page 42
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The local scratch-made pie contest season is upon us. If you’re not ready to enter a pie just yet, attend a contest and see what top pies look like. Whole winning pies are often auctioned off for a good cause and slices are sold. I love seeing the look on bakers’ faces when they win, especially the kids. First up is the second annual Open Pie Baking Contest Aug. 2 at the Adams County Fair in Brighton. This one is for “fruit pies only, no cream, custard or meringue pies. No cream cheese icing or fillings.” The winning pie auction benefits the Adams County 4-H. Details: adamscountyfair.com I’m judging pies Aug. 4 at the Hay Days Pie Contest at Hygiene Methodist Church. The day of family fun includes a dinner with lawn games, a concert, a pie auction and individual pie slices available à la mode. Contest categories include apple, peach and other (which includes other fruits, nuts and berries). No cream pies. First prize is $100. There is a category for kid bakers under 14. Details: hygienecommunityassociation.org. The 49th Carnation Festival Aug. 10 at Anderson Park in Wheat Ridge features a pancake breakfast, spaghetti dinner, chili cook-off and a new pie baking contest. The contest welcomes any scratch-made, single- or doublecrust dessert pie made with fruit, berries and nuts. Details: thecarnationfestival. com I’m also judging at the annual Louisville Homemade Pie Contest at Memory Square Park on Labor Day, one of the biggest and best pie contests in Colorado. Prizes are awarded in three categories: apple, fruit, and nut and cream pies. The competing pies are sold by the slice. Details: thehuckleberry.com. The Boulder County Fair Aug. 5-12 in Longmont includes an open pie baking category, and food-related events include a local distillery festival and a Boulder County farm-to-table dinner. Details: bouldercountyfair.org P.S.: You’ve heard of the tiny house trend. There are now folks baking tiny pies — 3 inches across — in the rings and lids from small-mouth Mason jars. You do it with the jar lid in the ring upside down so sealing compound faces away from the crust.
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With walls of condiments and sauces on supermarket shelves it was hard to imagine a new one that actually fills a need. The Garlic and Pepper ExtraVirgin Olive Oil from Look Out Here I Come is that kind of handy condiment. The Boulder-made product is four ingredients: extra-virgin Spanish olive oil infused with garlic, jalapeño and habanero chilies. It’s great on bread, in salad dressing, drizzled on hummus, and ideal for quick sautéing fresh spinach, broccoli raab, shellfish or chicken. This oil manages to be savory without including salt, full of garlic flavor without harshness and has distinct chile flavor notes minus any bud-scorching Scoville Units. Five-ounce bottles of the oil are available at Alfalfa’s Market and local Safeway stores.
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“The homemade pie has been under siege for a century, and surely its survival is endangered.” — from Pie: A Global History by Janet Clarkson John Lehndorff is the former Chief Judge at the National Pie Championships. He hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU. Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/category/radionibbles Boulder Weekly
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hank goodness for the oil fields. That’s not a sentence you’re likely to ever read again in Boulder Weekly. But I mean it. For if it weren’t for oil fields, we wouldn’t have Ryan Smith’s barbecue. At least it wouldn’t be as good. Smith runs Pepperbelly Barbecue, a mobile meatsmoking operation that started and grew in North Boulder last year, but has since expanded throughout Boulder County and into Denver. Long before that, though, he was a kid in Anchorage, Alaska, smoking salmon. “I think that’s where I picked up the passion for smoking and curing meats,” Smith says. “In Alaska, we would catch probably a thousand, a thousand-plus pounds of salmon every summer. All of my friends, their friends, they would have just as much fish. It was like our chore growing up: smoking, keeping the fires lit at our smokehouses and at our friends’ houses.” In high school, Smith’s father was transferred to an oil field in Houston, and so the family moved south. Smith was shocked by the temperature differences — “It was my first experience burning the back of my legs in the car because the leather seats were so hot” — but there were big cultural shifts as well. The cafeteria at his Houston high school felt like a mall,
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Smith remembers. But the Pepperbelly currently turns change that had out about seven briskets a day. They are the culminaperhaps the greattion of a long journey in est impact on his barbecue for Ryan Smith. life was the introduction of Texas barbecue. “I remember exactly that experience,” Smith says. “I always tell people, ‘If you can remember the first time you had barbecue, then you probably have the bug for it.’ I had a chopped beef brisket sandwich off a little barbecue trailer on the side of the road outside Brazos (Bend) State Park outside Sugar Loaf. I probably hit that trailer up three times a week.” Smith immediately started to smoke his own briskets on whatever rig he could find. “In Texas, there’s always some sort of rusted-up smoking device around,” he says. On his first attempts, he lit up park charcoal grills and cooked the brisket for two hours. He admits those early smokes did not yield great results. But he went onto culinary school in Austin, and then to an internship and job at a restaurant in Lake Tahoe. All the while, Smith was making barbecue, “but at the time ... basically I just wanted to travel. That was my thing: cook and travel. Maybe end up on a cruise ship.” His globe-trotting plans were arrested when, a year into his stint at the Lake Tahoe restaurant, Smith broke his leg snowboarding. He returned to Houston to rehab see PEPPERBELLY Page 46
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his leg, just as his old friends from Alaska started coming down to the area to work in the oil fields, like Smith’s father had done before them. Smith, in need of cash, joined his friends in the fields after his leg healed. “I was like, ‘OK, I’ll do that for a summer,’” Smith says. “And I went out, and it was miserable. The worst job ever: 120 degrees, out in Louisiana, covered in oil… I mean, it was just brutal. I did that for six months and I was like, ‘Alright, I’m done.’” So Smith and some friends went back up to the Pacific Northwest. They restored an old wooden yacht and steered it up to a little island in Alaska. When they got there, Smith managed to find a brisket and smoked it for his friends. “It was always a thing — always trying to barbecue, always getting better,” Smith says. The next few years saw Smith working in and out of restaurants, and on and off of oil fields. When money got tight working in kitchens, he headed out to the oil fields. When the oil field operators laid him off, he went back to kitchens. He worked in Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Texas and points in between, often smoking meats for his friends and co-workers in their little communities. It wasn’t until his wife got pregnant that Smith ended the back-and-forth. They moved to Colorado, and Smith traded in the oil field equipment he’d gathered over the years for a proper smoker, and set it up in his backyard. He also set about refining his craft in true Digital Age fashion — by watching YouTube videos of Austin’s Aaron Franklin, from world-renowned Franklin Barbecue. “That’s when the briskets started taking off for me,” Smith says. “Sure enough, with (Franklin’s) trimming techniques, I nailed the first brisket. And once I nailed that brisket, it was on. I started cooking those things around the clock. My neighbors were giving me meats to smoke. I started smoking meat for friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends. Next thing I know I’m going to catering sites, and finally I just decided to go ahead and pull the trigger.” Smith toured potential pop-up sites for his barbecue operation, and eventually set up a small network of locations
Smith will set up his smoker at a location and cook meat for hours, letting the smells and sights entice customers to check out his operation.
in North Boulder — the Shell station, Atlas Flooring and Cellar West Artisan Ales. “I was nervous as heck,” Smith says of launching Pepperbelly. “My first day I think I cooked two briskets, one shoulder, a rack of ribs, and a small turkey breast, and I was out there all day. But we did get it sold. I think I sold 450 bucks our first day. I think it was all Texans who saw me out there. They’d drive by and see my smoker. The next weekend, sure enough, all those people came back with groups of people, and we sold double. And then the next weekend, we kept increasing. I just kept on meeting new people and networking more. It took off.” Part of the reason for Smith’s success is Colorado’s nascent barbecue scene. That’s the nice way of putting it — talk to a Texan and you’ll get a far nastier diagnosis. To name just two other success stories, look at Georgia Boys and Wayne’s Smoke Shack — both are establishments that brought authentic barbecue to Boulder County on a small scale, and both quickly expanded into much larger operations once word caught on. The point is: Barbecue may not have a long history here, but the future is bright. Smith says the other reason Pepperbelly took off is because people saw him cooking at all hours of the day. The allure of a roadside barbecue pit was too much for people to ignore. “People saw me out there turning those coals, up around the clock out there non-stop,” Smith says. “They saw the firewood. They smelled the oak burning with all the different meats, all the fats rendering. I think that’s kind of why I got a quick takeoff right away. “The barbecue that I do, I don’t have a lot of fancy sauces or rubs, really. The main thing I’m selling is my time and my passion,” Smith says. Smith doesn’t think he’ll have to return to the oil fields to cover his bills anymore. So say what you want about the quality of Boulder County’s barbecue scene — but Smith’s story is evidence we at least prefer barbecue over fossil fuels. Boulder Weekly
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WHEN THE LIGHT BULB GOES OFF So a man wakes up in San Antonio one day with nothing to do. San Antonio is pretty, to be sure, but still pretty boring this time of year. So this man, we’ll call him Timmy, wakes up with nothing on the agenda for the day. After an hour or two of twiddling his thumbs he decides to call Billy and Bobby Sue to see if they’re up to anything interesting. No luck, they’re twiddling their thumbs too, sitting side by side on their couch seeing who can move these opposable appendages fastest. “I have an idea,” Timmy says, a light bulb appearing over his head. “Let’s go to the aquarium.” So the three amigos waddle down to the ocean oasis in the middle of the desert, pushing Timmy’s old baby
stroller he’s kept as a memento of happier days as a kid getting pushed around the neighborhood. To each his own. They spend an hour or two wandering the exhibits, in awe of the exciting lives the marine creatures are privileged to live and speaking for them in knock-off Nemo character voices, annoying everyone else but at least making each other laugh. Then, Timmy sees Miss Helen, a beautiful 16-inch horn shark in a tank where visitors are encouraged to touch the animals. This is when Timmy gets his second bright idea of the day (cue second light bulb). “Let’s take her home,” he tells Billy and Bobby Sue, still enthralled in their competitive thumb twiddling. It all goes down so fast. The trio use the baby stroller to roll Miss Helen right on out of the aquarium and back home, where they fill up the inflatable pool (another relic of Tommy’s misguided past) and dump Miss Helen in. Then they sit back and wait for the police to arrive. Some time at the county jail is better than the promise of nothing to do again tomorrow. True story. The end.
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: I predict that August will be a
Golden Age for you. That’s mostly very good. Golden opportunities will arise, and you’ll come into possession of lead that can be transmuted into gold. But it’s also important to be prudent about your dealings with gold. Consider the fable of the golden goose. The bird’s owner grew impatient because it laid only one gold egg per day; he foolishly slaughtered his prize animal to get all the gold immediately. That didn’t work out well. Or consider the fact that to the ancient Aztecs, the word teocuitlatl referred to gold, even though its literally translation was “excrement of the gods.” Moral of the story: If handled with care and integrity, gold can be a blessing.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Taurus socialite Stephen Tennant (1906-
1987) was such an interesting luminary that three major novelists created fictional characters modeled after him. As a boy, when he was asked what he’d like to be when he grew up, he replied, “I want to be a great beauty.” I’d love to hear those words spill out of your mouth, Taurus. What? You say you’re already all grown up? I doubt it. In my opinion, you’ve still got a lot of stretching and expansion and transformation to accomplish during the coming decades. So yes: I hope you can find it in your wild heart to proclaim, “When I grow up, I want to be a great beauty.” (P.S. Your ability to become increasingly beautiful will be at a peak during the next fourteen months.)
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these questions instead. 1. What experience or information would you need to heal your divided sense of loyalty? 2. How can you attract an influence that would motivate you to make changes you can’t quite accomplish under your own power? 3. Can you ignore or even dismiss the 95 percent of your fear that’s imaginary so you’ll be able to focus on the 5 percent that’s truly worth meditating on? 4. If I assured you that you have the intelligence to beautify an ugly part of your world, how would you begin?
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22-DEC. 21: DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Time does not necessarily heal all “Dear Astrologer: Recently wounds. If you wait around I’ve been weirdly obsessed passively, hoping that the with wondering how to Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob mere passage of months will increase my levels of genBrezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES magically fix your twists and erosity and compassion. and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio smooth out your tweaks, Not just because I know horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. you’re shirking your responsiit’s the right thing to do, bility. The truth is, you need to but also because I know be fully engaged in the process. it will make me healthy You’ve got to feel deeply and think hard about how to diminish and honest and unflappable. Do you have any sage advice? your pain, and then take practical action when your wisdom shows -Ambitious Sagittarius.” Dear Ambitious: I’ve noticed that you what will actually work. Now is an excellent time to upgrade many Sagittarians are feeling an unprecedented curiosity about your commitment to this sacred quest. how to enhance their lives by boosting the benevolence they express. Here’s a tip from astrologer Chani Nicholas: “Source your sense of self from your integrity in every interaction.” AQUARIUS Here’s another tip from Anais Nin: “The worse the state of the JAN. 20-FEB. 18: The questions you’ve been asking aren’t bad world grows, the more intensely I try for inner perfection and or wrong. But they’re not exactly relevant or helpful, either. That’s power. I fight for a small world of humanity and tenderness.” why the answers you’ve been receiving aren’t of maximum use. Try
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: A scuffle you’ve been waging turns out to be the wrong scuffle. It has distracted you from giving your full attention to a more winnable and worthwhile tussle. My advice? Don’t waste energy feeling remorse about the energy you’ve wasted. In fact, be grateful for the training you’ve received. The skills you’ve been honing while wrestling with the misleading complication will serve you well when you switch your focus to the more important issue. So are you ready to shift gears? Start mobilizing your crusade to engage with the more winnable and worthwhile tussle.
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sends the honey,” advises a Moroccan proverb. Let’s analyze how this advice might apply to you. First thing I want to know is, have you been managing well with bread and butter? Have you refrained from whining about your simple provisions, resting content and grateful? If you haven’t, I doubt that any honey will arrive, ether from God or any other source. But if you have been celebrating your modest gifts, feeling free of greed and displeasure, then I expect at least some honey will show up soon.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Don’t worry your beautiful head about
praying to the gods of luck and fate. I’ll take care of that for you. Your job is to propitiate the gods of fluid discipline and hard but smart work. To win the favor of these divine helpers, act on the assumption that you now have the power and the right to ask for more of their assistance than you have before. Proceed with the understanding that they are willing to provide you with the stamina, persistence and attention to detail you will need to accomplish your next breakthrough.
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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: I’m not an ascetic who believes all our
valuable lessons emerge from suffering. Nor am I a pop-nihilist who sneers at pretty flowers, smiling children, and sunny days. On the contrary: I’m devoted to the hypothesis that life is usually at least 51 percent wonderful. But I dance the rain dance when there’s an emotional drought in my personal life, and I dance the pain dance when it’s time to deal with difficulties I’ve ignored. How about you, Virgo? I suspect that now is one of those times when you need to have compassionate heart-toheart conversations with your fears, struggles and aches.
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Deepak Chopra. Most of the time, I agree with that idea. It’s arrogant to think that we have the power to control the forces of nature or the flow of destiny or the song of creation. Our goal should be to get an intuitive read on the crazy-making miracle of life, and adapt ourselves ingeniously to its evershifting patterns and rhythms. But wait! Set aside everything I just said. An exception to the usual rule has arrived. Sometimes, when your personal power is extra flexible and robust — like now, for you — you may indeed be able to steer the river a bit.
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Dear Dan: I’ve been in an on-again, off-again relationship for the past four years. My girlfriend has an assortment of mental-health issues — anxiety, depersonalization episodes, depression, paranoia, among others — that make it very stressful and tiring to be with her. Despite my best attempts at getting her to seek help, she refuses to take the plunge. Whether it’s a result of her illness or not, she refuses to believe that I actually want to be with her. I do care deeply about her, and the good days are wonderful. But nearly every time we go on a date or have sex, it ends in tears, and I have to endlessly reassure her that I do really want to be with her. I’m exhausted by having to defend my feelings for her multiple times per week and I don’t know what to do. —He’s Exhausted And Lost Dear HEAL: There’s only one thing you can do, HEAL: Put this relationship on hold — take it back to offagain status — and make getting back together contingent upon her seeking help for her mental-health issues. You’ve made it clear, again and again, that you want to be with her. By finally seeking help — by actually taking the plunge — she can make it clear that she wants to be with you.
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Dear Dan: I have a very sexy German boyfriend, and he is not circumcised. His otherwise beautiful dick is a problem. It smells — sometimes a little, sometimes it really stinks. After he showers, the smell is still there. He says he uses only water. Is there a better way to wash an uncircumcised penis? Can he use some kind of soap? —Girl Asks Gay 4 Grooming Intervention Near Genitals Dear GAGGING: Yes, GAGGING, there is a better way: He needs to wash that thing with motherfucking SOAP. If the soap he’s got is irritating the head of his penis or the inside of his foreskin, he needs to try other soaps until he finds one that cleans his dick without causing irritation. And you should make allowing that otherwise beautiful German dick anywhere near you contingent upon him learning how to clean it properly. There’s no excuse for stank-ass dick.
Love
Dear Dan: I’m in a six-year relationship with a guy you will probably deem DTMFA-worthy but I deem round-upable to The One. My kids already regarded him as their stepdad before we moved in together about eight months ago. That’s when I learned he’s an addict: He drinks, smokes weed, and jerks off to porn for about two hours every day. He has been this way for more than 20 years, and I have zero delusions he will change for me. Recently he told me he has very little sexual desire for me, that he knows my pussy in and out and it’s boring, but he loves my companionship. How do I deal with this so we can move forward together as an incompatible couple? —Sex Addict Partner Dear SAP: A romantic partner who says something as cruel and negating as what this man has said to you, SAP, either wants out of the relationship or is grooming their partner for much worse treatment to come. If he wants
out of the relationship, the verbal and emotional abuse will escalate until you finally leave him. If he doesn’t want out, the verbal and emotional abuse will escalate a bit more slowly, so that, like the proverbial frog in the pot of boiling water, you don’t realize exactly how bad it’s getting and how much damage it’s doing to you — and your kids. I know it’s not what you wanted to hear, SAP, but I’m going to say it anyway: DTMFA. Dear Dan: Do you ever wear panties, Dan? Would you post a picture of yourself in panties online? I think you would look good in panties. —Panties Are Nice To You Dear PANTY: While I have no particular aversion to wearing panties, PANTY, and while I will not deny the allure of the models at xdress.com, I’ve never worn panties and have no plans to start. As a consequence, I won’t be able to post a picture of myself in panties online to delight you and horrify everyone else. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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by Sidni West
THC tolerance break: Week two/conclusion
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hen I was 16, my friends and I were arrested after a police officer caught us hot-boxing my grandmother’s Camry in what we thought was an empty church parking lot. Because I was a minor, all the charges would be expunged from my record if I completed 90 days of probation. I passed my
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final drug test the same day I took the SATs. Even though I was sober, being forced to sit and concentrate for hours on end left me with a burned-out feeling similar to smoking too much weed, like I had exhausted all my brain cells at once. As soon as I finished my test, I rushed over to a friend’s house to celebrate the end of probation by sparking a fat blunt. After three months of abstaining, that initial sesh felt like I was smoking weed for the first time ever all over again. I could barely keep my eyes open or stop laughing long enough
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to eat the gigantic bowl of cereal I had poured myself. I still felt stoned when I woke up the next morning. This time around, I wasn’t expecting such dramatic results since two weeks is a much shorter time frame. I ended my tolerance break on Sunday night by watching the sunset on my back porch with a joint of Critical Mass, one of my favorite strains for relaxing because it’s indica-dominant with a 1:1 CBD to THC ratio. I can typically smoke joints back-to-back because I have an oral fixation and a history of chain-smoking cigarettes throughout my formative years, so I was completely shook when I realized I couldn’t finish my joint. After just a few puffs, I was on a level of stoned that I forgot existed. Time seemed to slow down as I started to feel giggly and euphoric. I anticipated that I would feel buzzed from the psychoactive effects, but I was most surprised by the strong body high I experienced. I melted into the chair as my body was overcome with heavy, calming sensations, as if I was being sedated with one of those weighted anxiety blankets. A half hour later, I got the munchies for the first time in years. I accomplished everything I wanted with my tolerance break. As I adjust back to consuming cannabis daily, I’m realizing how much less I need to experience the same effects. It made me wonder how I reached the point of being able to endlessly consume top shelf strains all day in the first place. If I want to keep my tolerance low, then it would make sense to stick to smaller amounts of less potent strains, but those are
increasingly harder to come across in a market where consumers are demanding the most powerful strains. My dad, who has been a recreational marijuana user on and off since he was a teen, always jokes about how much stronger weed is these days. In the 1990s, when we were all listening to Sublime and smoking bags of seeds and stems, the ratio of THC (the psychoactive compound) to CBD (the medicinal compound) in the plant was about 11:1. Today, thanks to modern agricultural engineering, we have THC to CBD ratios of 250:1. The demand for increased potency is being driven by stoners, not tourists or casual consumers. It’s estimated that in Colorado’s legal marijuana market, daily or near-daily users account for the biggest share of the demand, almost 67 percent. As legalization spreads, the percentage of people in the U.S. who use marijuana at least 300 days a year continues to rise. Because those heavy users have a greater tolerance and are constantly pursuing a better high, the market has become saturated with high-potency products. The people who want the mellow, less potent stuff don’t buy enough to matter. I’ll continue a lower-dosing regime, but in a culture obsessed with potency, it seems inevitable that I’ll eventually return to a high tolerance. But it’s not fun to roll a joint, take three hits and then put it out. The act of smoking weed should be social and relaxing. I would so much rather take my time on a strain with 10 percent THC, rolled into a joint that I can finish in its entirety. I wish more growers would realize there’s a market for mellow strains that you can casually smoke all day or share with your boomer parents.
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by Paul Danish
Now Oklahoma may vote on recreational pot (no kidding)
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ive weeks ago, Oklahoma voters passed a medical marijuana ballot initiative by a 122,000-vote margin. The initiative was cast as a state law instead of a constitutional amendment, which meant the legislature and the state health department could screw around with it — which the Oklahoma Department of Health immediately did. The Department of Health swiftly adopted implementation rules that were designed to make it nearly impossible for medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in Oklahoma or for prospective patients to use them. Among other things, the regs banned the sale of smokable marijuana, required a licensed pharmacist to be in every dispensary, and required female patients to get a pregnancy test before they could buy marijuana. The ban on the sale of smokable pot and the pharmacist requirement were adopted at an emergency meeting and approved by the board despite its own attorney advising against doing so. Governor Mary Fallin signed off on them the following day. Pushback was swiftly forthcoming. Two separate groups sued the board, and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said the board overstepped its authority and recommended it make several changes. Meanwhile, Green the Vote, the group that had petitioned the medical initiative onto the ballot, started circulating two new initiative petitions, both as constitutional amendments this time, which couldn’t be changed by the state’s elected and appointed officials. The first would write medical marijuana legalization into the state constitution. The second was a state constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana. Both attracted huge surges of support, with the
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recreational initiative actually running ahead of the medical one. To get on the November ballot, each initiative needs about 124,000 valid signatures, and the petitions have to be turned in by Aug. 8. Last Sunday, Green the Vote announced it had 132,527 signatures on the recreational marijuana petition,and that it would keep seeking signers up until the Aug. 8 deadline. It wants to turn in
150,000 signatures to ensure they have enough valid ones. Chances are that even if the petition has enough valid names on it, which it probably will, it won’t be on the November ballot. That’s because it will likely take about 60 days for it to go through the approval process for initiative petitions required by state law, according to Oklahoma Secretary of State James Williamson. More about that in a moment. Whatever the ultimate fate of the recreational initiative, it appears it has already had one positive effect: the popular backlash it represents (along with the lawsuits) is causing the Department of Health to beat a hasty retreat.
Last Friday the Department released new proposed medical marijuana rules that remove some of the more onerous provisions in the old ones, including the ban on the sale of smokable pot, the rule requiring prospective female patients “of childbearing age” to get a pregnancy test, the requirement that dispensaries have a pharmacist on the staff, a limit on the THC content of the products the dispensaries sold, and more than a dozen other regs. The board was scheduled to vote on the revisions at a special meeting yesterday (Aug. 1). Just guessing, but chances are the revisions will pass. But that won’t change the fact that the board’s pig-headedness launched a recreational marijuana initiative that has a good chance of getting on the Oklahoma ballot — sooner or later. If the recreational initiative has enough signatures, but can’t be processed in time for the November election, the call for when it will be voted on would likely be made by Governor Fallin. The choices would be putting it on the ballot in 2020 or holding a special election. Governor Fallin had to make a similar decision on the original medical marijuana initiative. She opted for a special election on June 26, which some observers thought was done to keep turnout down and give opponents a better chance of defeating it. It won with 57 percent of the vote. She might opt for a special election on the recreational initiative as well, not so much in the hope of defeating it, but to keep it off the 2020 ballot, where it could boost the turnout of young, progressive voters. Oklahoma is one of the most socially conservative states in the country. The fact that marijuana legalization is roiling its politics shows how swiftly politics of marijuana are evolving. Even in a state like Oklahoma (where “evolve” is still a very bad word in some quarters).
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