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Humpty Dumpty, Jews and Armageddon By Joel Dyer
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y mom always told me opening my big mouth about politics and religion would be my downfall. I don’t disagree. But this is one of those weeks where I’ve got to put her theory to the test. God help me… and I mean that in all sincerity. Jews who vote for Democrats are disloyal and have a total lack of knowledge. Let’s start there. What could go wrong? The President of the United States recently made this tone-deaf proclamation, considering how the term disloyal has been used to disI
criminate against Jewish people in the past. I think we can all agree it’s a pretty insensitive observation, even for a white guy whose previous public observations regarding Jews were mostly anti-Semitic screeds regarding money. But I suppose it’s to be expected from a known white nationalist racist. At this point, it would seem this is the 2020 reelection plan. Trump literally wants to make our next election for the presidency all about race, religion and division. The funny part is, he and his fellow elected Republicans who spend their days reading “Two Corinthians” and proclaiming their willingness to fight for Israel anywhere in the AUGUST 22, 2019
world for any reason are, in fact, the most anti-Semitic people I know. Seriously. Here’s a very poorly kept secret. The reason Republicans pledge their allegiance to Israel is because a large portion of the Republicans’ evangelical base demands that Israel must be supported at all costs because it fits with their religious prophecies. In other words, Republican support for Israel is all about reelection, not getting primaried and not pissing off the Christian right voting bloc. Please read this next paragraph carefully. Anyone who makes blanket statements about Christians all being this way or that is as big an idiot as Trump and as destructive as his cult of Republican yes-men. As most of see DYERTIMES Page 6
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you who read this column regularly know, I have spent a good part of my life in Christian circles, some quite conservative. I have done so because of my upbringing and personal life, my years of reporting on the anti-government movement and more recently my work documenting the sanctuary movement. And I don’t mind saying that in the last couple of years while working on immigration issues, I have found myself inspired and filled with hope by my experiences, and I have met many extraordinary people who count themselves as Christians. But most of the Christians I’ve been reporting on lately are not the churchgoers who now comprise the base of the Republican Party that Trump et al. are sucking up to. So, let’s dig a little deeper into why Trump’s base is so enamored by his support of Israel and supposed support of Jews. It’s not what you think, unless you’ve been spending a lot of time reading the Book of Revelation in a conservative church. Just in case Donald Trump is reading this, I should point out that the Book of Revelation is in the Bible. You see, many of these conservative, Trump-Republican-supporting Christians care about Israel because they believe their prophecies need Israel to bring about the second coming, the rapture, the end times, tribulation and Armageddon. It’s called dispensational pre-millennialism. Short version: In their interpretation of scripture, Israel has to first be reformed as a nation. They got that in 1948. Jerusalem has to be Israel’s capital. That is the case and explains why Trump moving our embassy there was such a big deal to his evangelical base. And finally, the end times can now arrive so Christians can all be taken up into heaven in the Rapture. Thanks to Israel. Unfortunately, in this version of the end times, the Jews who are not Christians don’t get raptured. They must now endure the battle of Armageddon, which the evangelicals believe will be so horrible that Jews will finally convert to Christianity to be saved from the slaughter. Those who don’t become Christians won’t be in heaven, meaning a hotter, less pleasant final resting place will be provided. Some denominations believe that only 144,000 Jews will
make it to heaven with all the other millions of Jews being killed and getting the eternal heat treatment. Others believe the 144,000 number is simply a holy symbol not a literal number and it represents an unknown number of Jews who will convert to Christianity and be saved. For the purposes here, the number doesn’t really matter. The point is, Trump’s Republican base supports Israel as a matter of prophecy not politics. And the reason Israel and Jews are so important and deserving of support is because of the belief that Christians won’t get raptured in the end times unless Jews and Israel fulfill their part of the prophecy including being slaughtered into becoming Christians. Trump is working overtime to drive a wedge between Israel and Democrats and Jews and Democrats because he knows appearing to do so will solidify his base — who is hoping he’ll bring about Armageddon. Trump’s narcissism makes him the perfect fit for this end-times role playing. Just this past Wednesday, Trump actually retweeted a wellknown conspiracy theorist who referred to him as the “King of Israel” and the “second coming of God.” Those outrageous claims — which equate Trump to Jesus — would previously have been seen as blasphemous by the very evangelicals currently making up his base. But alas, they remain mostly silent and loyal to their party and its leader. And this only serves to further the view that politics has replaced God as the priority for many, but not all, who count themselves among this small but politically influential wing of the Christian church. It’s time we put Trump’s vision of division to rest once and for all. He believes that an America divided by race; divided by religion; divided by gender; divided by political party; divided by fear; divided by hate; divided by wealth; divided by rural versus urban; and divided by lies is a winning reelection strategy, and that is all he cares about. It reminds me of Humpty Dumpty. Enough division and we may never put ourselves back together again. Let’s not let that happen. And a good place to start is not stereotyping groups of people, whether it be Jews, Christians, Republicans, Democrats, people of color or anyone else.
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Danish wrong on guns
I have lived in Colorado for 40 years, 20 in Denver and 20 in Boulder. I surely appreciate the Boulder Weekly especially since we get such poor coverage from the Post and Camera since they were bought out. Also we don’t get Westword at the grocery stores any more as they do not want to pay anything to simply have Westword available for free. I always read all the columns; you have great columns and good writers who make interesting points. That includes the Danish column on Yang who is running for President (Re: “Is the world’s most interesting man running for president?” The Danish Plan, August 15, 2019). Interesting and eyeopening. However I didn’t think it was possible for someone as smart as he obviously is to write a dumber or more vile paragraph than his views on gun control. Especially when the country and Colorado are reeling from gun massacres and our children are afraid to go to school. Only the NRA crazies would write such garbage, and of course our even crazier president who just told his dumb base at his rally to remember that it’s not the gun that pulls the trigger. Guns are manufactured for only one reason: to kill. I hope that Danish will apologize to Boulder Weekly readers for expressing such awful inhumane views on guns in our local paper. Carole Bayer/Boulder
because doing nothing will only embolden Trump to trample over our democratic norms and to keep breaking the law. Doing nothing sets a dangerous precedent for future presidents. For all of these reasons, it’s time for our representative and the rest of Congress to take action to hold Trump accountable by opening a formal impeachment inquiry now! Craig Wright/via internet
Time for impeachment inquiry
After Mueller’s testimony last week, it’s never been more clear to me: it’s time for Congress to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It’s time to put all the evidence out there for the American people. It’s time to hold Trump accountable. No more excuses. No more delays. The Mueller investigation found extensive criminal activity committed by Trump and his team. It resulted in 37 indictments and at least seven convictions or guilty pleas, uncovered over 10 instances of obstruction of justice by Trump himself, and revealed over 100 secret meetings and communications between his campaign and Russian and their cronies. If any other American had obstructed justice as flagrantly as the president has, they’d be going to jail. Congress needs to step up now, BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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ach morning the Earth turns east in its orbit and the sun’s rays hit the highest peaks in Colorado. As the foothills and mountains heat up, the cool air that cascaded down them at night heats and rises up and away. As this nearly daily cycle occurs, air is drawn in from the eastern plains to replace the rising air of the foothills. Unfortunately for Front Range communities, this replacement air comes from an area where large numbers of oil and gas wells spew ozone precursors including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) into the air. As these pollutants are drawn west toward the mountains, they too are heated by the sun and undergo a photochemical reaction, becoming ozone. This ozone is trapped in polluted air and eddies above western parts of Golden, Boulder, Loveland and Fort Collins. And as a result, this area is known to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the Northern Colorado Front Range (NCFR) Nonattainment Area. Detlev Helmig, associate research professor at the Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research (INSTAAR), described this process to BW on a scorching August afternoon. He says this airflow pattern has likely been going on for millennia, and is simply a result of Front Range topography. But what is in the air today is not what has always been there: The ozone precursors, and therefore the ozone, are relatively new, historically speaking. They come from a variety of sources, but in this region, the oil and gas industry is the predominant
Oil industry exemptions may doom EPA efforts to improve Front Range air quality By Rico Moore
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source of VOCs, according to Helmig. Summertime ozone is a problem in Colorado’s northern Front Range, where concentrations periodically exceed the current 75 parts per billion (ppb) health standard set by the EPA. Maximum summertime ozone in Denver has increased slightly in recent decades, in contrast with many locations in the eastern United States, where maximum summertime ozone has decreased significantly in response to emissions reductions, according to a report by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES). Oil and gas emissions in northeastern Colorado sometimes push ozone levels over the EPA standard. According to Lisa McKenzie, assistant professor in the CU Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, there are sever-
al studies that have been done along Colorado’s northern Front Range that indicate the oil and gas sector is contributing anywhere from 30–40 percent of the ground-level ozone that we’re seeing along the Front Range, including VOCs and NOx. “That impacts millions of people, not just those who live within site of oil and gas operations, because that’s the distance that air travels during half a day,” Helmig says. He estimates this half-day range to be 50 miles. According to the EPA, ozone can make it more difficult to breathe deeply and vigorously. It also causes shortness of breath, pain when taking a deep breath and can cause coughing and a sore or scratchy throat. It can even damage the airways through inflammation and aggravate lung diseases such as asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. It increases the frequency and severity of asthma
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attacks, and it makes the lungs more susceptible to infection. And finally, it can cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and it continues to damage the lungs even after the symptoms have disappeared. A study published on Aug. 13 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that living in areas of elevated ozone pollution could have impacts equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes each day. “In fact, the researchers found that if the ambient ozone level where you live is 3 ppb higher compared to another location, in just 10 years, you could increase your odds of emphysema by roughly the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes every day for 29 years.” A 2018 EPA study predicts we will see an estimated 970 ozone-related premature deaths for the year 2025 nationwide from oil and gas pollution, including 34 such deaths in Colorado. Helmig says that because of the way ozone behaves here, on average, it’s actually the communities downwind from the pollution sources that frequently end up with the higher ozone, as opposed to the communities where the ozone-producing pollutants are released. He notes this is specifically true in the DenverJulesburg Basin in Weld County, which doesn’t see ozone levels as high as Front Range communities because they get clean air from the east in the aforementioned airflow process which transports their pollution west. This research has become increasingly relevant in recent days. On Aug. 8, the EPA announced the Denver Metro/ see OZONE Page 10
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North Front Range ozone nonattainment area did not meet the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) by the specified deadline and should therefore be reclassified from a moderate to a serious non-attainment area. According to the EPA, the consequences of this failure mean that “Under the Clean Air Act, areas that do not achieve national standards within specific time-frames are ‘bumped up’ to the next level of nonattainment to secure additional measures to achieve compliance.” But who is at fault for this Front Range failure? According to a 2017 paper co-authored by Helmig, the abundance of high ozone transport from the oil and gas heavy DenverJulesburg Basin into the Northern Colorado Front Range suggests that the oil and gas VOC emissions play an important role in our local NAAQS exceedances. And he’s not alone in this assessment. According to a Denver Post article from April 2019, “In Colorado, state health officials recently testified to lawmakers that the oil and gas industry is by far the biggest source of VOCs and a significant source of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas that’s causing climate change.” EPA’s proposed action would require the state to revise its air quality plans and look at additional control technologies and sources to make progress on reducing ozone-forming emissions, according to an EPA press release. Some of these “serious”-area requirements would be effective as soon as this federal action is finalized, and could include things such as lower-emissions thresholds for permitting large point sources of pollution. The EPA’s proposal would also set a new deadline of July 20, 2021, for the Denver/NCFR area to attain the 2008 ozone standard. If finalized, the potential impact on large-source emission permits would lower the threshold each permit holder could emit from 100 tons of VOCs per year to 50 tons of VOCs per year. According to data compiled by the Colorado Department of Health
and the Environment, there are about 600 permitted companies that could face these more stringent requirements under the proposed rule change. Considering that there are 52,000 active oil and gas wells and thousands of production platforms in Colorado, the 600 number means that despite being the primary cause of the Front-Range pollution that has sparked this EPA action, most of these wells and platforms will likely be exempt from tougher regulations. That’s because, as has been previously reported by BW, the vast majority of all oil and gas wells drilled after 1980 have been exempted from being considered point sources for pollution under the Clean Air Act, no matter how many dangerous contaminants they put into the air. While a large oil and gas production platform may spew tons of VOCs into the air each year. It is exempt, according to the Natural Resource Defense Council, unless it falls within the city limits of a city with more than a million residents. In other words, the only nonexempt polluting oil and gas wells in Colorado would have to be located within the city of Denver. So even though the NRDC found that the 400-plus gas wells in Garfield County produced 30 tons of benzene — approximately 20 times more than the largest oil refinery in Denver, which does fall under the Clean Air Act — they aren’t regulated under the Clean Air Act. And the same is true for the tens of thousands of Weld County oil and gas wells that are causing much, if not most, of the Front Range’s air quality issues. For now it is unclear how stricter point source regulations can solve our communities’ pollution problems so long as the largest source of pollution remains exempt from the Clean Air Act. EPA will be accepting public comment on its proposed action for a 30-day period that began Aug. 15. The agency will also hold a public hearing at the agency’s regional office in Denver on Sept. 6. The EPA’s action didn’t come about because of the agency’s own
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at the well and production platform level, Front Range residents should expect more ozone-polluted days along with the human health and environmental impacts they cause.
efforts. It was the result of a lawsuit filed against the EPA by WildEarth Guardians that compelled it to comply with the Clean Air Act. “The state was under a deadline to bring ozone levels into compliance with federal health standards that were adopted in 2008,” according to Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for WildEarth Guardians. “They were under a deadline to do that by July 20, 2018, and they blew that deadline.” Nichols says EPA didn’t deny they broke the law. “They didn’t fight it at all. It’s really kind of odd,” he says. The judge ruled in WildEarth Guardians’ favor and compelled EPA to hold that the Denver Metro/North Front Range region did indeed fail to attain the required ozone standards. Nichols says he and his organization are concerned the EPA will find some way to upend the requirement to reduce ozone, saying the Trump administration is “deliberately flouting the law. They’re finding any way possible to accommodate the looters. Our concern is that they will find some way to upend this upgrade. People call it a downgrade; we actually call it an upgrade, in terms of what it means for clean air.” And that upgrade can’t come soon enough. Helmig says since climate change is driving temperature increases, which in turn increases the efficiency of ozone production, research studies project what’s known as a climate penalty, which means that for every degree (centigrade) of temperature increase, we can also expect subsequent increases in ozone pollution. “As the climate warms up in regions where you have ozone production, you would forecast more ozone in the future under the same emission scenarios — if you don’t change the emissions,” Helmig says, “If you bring emissions down, then very likely, ozone production would come down.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
But emissions of ozone precursors from oil and gas aren’t coming down in Colorado, they’re climbing with each new well approved by state regulators. According to a recent analysis by BTU Analytics, Colorado oil production will increase by approximately 39 percent between 2018 and 2024. Not only is oil and gas extraction driving up ozone production, it’s also contributing — more than previously known — to climate change, according to a new study from a Cornell University researcher recently published in the journal Biogeosciences. Researchers concluded that shale-gas production in North America over the past decade may have contributed more than half of all of the increased emissions from fossil fuels globally and approximately one-third of the total increased emissions from all sources globally over the past decade. Negative impacts from ozone pollution also extend to the agricultural industry. According to the USDA, areas of elevated ambient ozone pollution can experience significant crop yield loss and that can be devastating to farmers raising sorghum, field corn, winter wheat, soybeans, peanuts and cotton. Until serious action is taken at the well and production platform level, Front Range residents should expect more ozone-polluted days along with the human health and environmental impacts they cause. As for now, the Polis administration, by way of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, continue to approve thousands of new oil and gas wells that will continue to pollute Front Range communities. At the current pace, these new oil and gas wells and production facilities are increasing air pollution and global warming in the state far faster than all the small incremental steps being proposed by the Polis administration to combat global warming and poor air quality to date. I
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n a surprising move following on the heels of the passage and signing of Colorado Senate Bill 19-181 — a piece of legislation said to be intended to return regulation over oil and gas extraction within communities to the communities themselves — the group Colorado Rising for Communities filed a motion in Boulder County District Court designed to reinstate Longmont’s ban on fracking. Colorado Rising’s motion was filed on behalf of the citizen-led group Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, which was responsible for passing Longmont’s historic citizen’s initiative that banned fracking in 2012. The motion proposes to reopen the case brought by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) and later joined by the state via then-Governor John Hickenlooper and TOP Operating Company that eventually led to the ban being tossed out despite having been supported by 60% of Longmont THIS IS THE residents. TOP Operating well by a school that According to Judith originally caused Blackburn, who sat on the Longmont residents board of directors of Our to seek a ban on fracking. Longmont back in 2010 and 2011, the push for a ban came about after it was reported that an oil company had plans to drill and frack wells near Union Reservoir, and that an old well owned by the same company had leaked contamination near a middle school. The success of Our Longmont in standing up to one of the most powerful industries in the world had an impact that traveled well beyond its city limits. Other cities and municipalities including Lafayette, Fort Collins, Thornton, Boulder County, Loveland and Windsor all followed suit by passing or trying to pass their own bans and moratoria on fracking. Reading the writing on the wall, COGA sued Longmont. Then Gov. Hickenlooper joined onto the suit along with TOP Operating Company who had numerous wells proposed in and under Longmont. Eventually, the Boulder County District Court ruled in favor of COGA. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
Flash forward. According to the motion recently filed by Colorado Rising Executive Director and attorney Joe Salazar, the District Court “made a curious observation.” Salazar cites the ruling, which states, “The Court recognizes that some of the case law described above may have been developed at a time when public policy strongly favored the development of mineral resources. Longmont and the environmental groups, the Defendant-Intervenors, are essentially asking this Court to establish a public policy that favors protection from health, safety and environmental risks over the development of mineral resources. Whether public policy should be changed in that manner is a question for the legislature or a different JOEL DYER court.” The District Court ruling was appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court, which affirmed the lower court’s ruling and enjoined Longmont from enforcing its fracking ban as of 2016. But the law and public policy have now substantially changed, according to Colorado Rising’s motion, which further argues that with the passage and signature of SB 19-181, public policy now favors protection of public health, safety, welfare, environment and wildlife resources over oil and gas development. SB 19-181, aka the Protect Public Welfare Oil and Gas Operations Act, “prioritizes the protection of public safety, health, welfare and the environment in the regulation of the oil and gas industry by modifying the oil and gas statutes and by clarifying, reinforcing, or establishing various aspects of local governments’ regulatory authority over the surface impacts of oil and gas development.” The motion further argues the new law gives “enormous power to local governments to regulate oil and gas operations,” as well as arguing SB 19-181 expressly assures that local governments can adopt stricter and more protective regulations than state requirements. The motion also states there is no language in the new law prohibiting local governments from implementing moratoria or bans against fracking within their jurisdictions, particularly where the local government aims to protect and minimize adverse impacts to public health, safety and welfare, and the environment. “Simply put, if the legislature intended to prohibit local govI
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ernments from banning oil and gas operations within their jurisdictions, it would have clearly said so,” the motion argues. As a result, the motion concludes, Longmont’s fracking ban is no longer in operational conflict with the state law. In response, Longmont City Council called an executive session Tuesday night Aug. 21 to discuss the motion. Mayor Brian Bagley says that presently, the official position of the City is to have no position. “What that means is, we will not be supportive, nor will we be in opposition to. Our position is, no position,” he says. Bagley, who has worked over the years to defend the fracking ban and prevent oil and gas extraction on the surface within city limits told Boulder Weekly prior to the executive session that oil and gas is not coming back into Longmont, regardless of what happens in Tuesday’s executive session. In addition to Bagley, BW reached out to all members of the Longmont City Council. Only Polly Christensen, Joan Peck and Tim Waters responded before press time. Each of those members said they had been initially supportive of the 2012 ban. Council member Waters now says he is concerned that Longmont’s position on the motion might affect the City’s contract with TOP Operating Company and Cub Creek Energy. The City made a land use deal with those companies in May 2018, that officials have said will prevent virtually all future oil and gas drilling on surface lands within city limits. Cub Creek Energy appears to have 20 directional well bores drilled beneath, and to the east of, Union Reservoir according to COGCC GIS data, which also shows an additional 20 directional well bores planned to be drilled by the same company beneath the western part of the reservoir and shore. Longmont currently owns 85% of the shares of water in Union Reservoir, a popular recreation area. Dan Haley of COGA said in a statement that the sponsors of SB 19-181 said the legislation doesn’t allow for a ban on oil and gas extraction, calling Colorado Rising’s motion, “political theater.” But according to Anne Lee Foster of Colorado Rising, the law doesn’t explicitly prohibit bans or moratoria. “The reason that the Longmont residents took that on is because they were concerned about health and safety, and they thought that that was a necessary and reasonable action to protect the health and safety of Longmont residents,” she says. The ban still exists within the Longmont City Charter. It’s now up to the courts to decide if SB 19-181 really is a reprioritization of health and environment over fossil fuel production or more meaningless campaign rhetoric by Colorado Democrats who now control every branch of state government and have the power to enforce this change, if that was ever really their intention. I
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“They are not in the countryside.” But every new technology comes with a cloud of doubts and skepticism, and Square Roots is not immune. Critics have questioned whether or not Square Roots will require more fossil fuel energy to grow food inside, as well as the limits to the type of food that can be produced without soil, and the unrealistic possibility of feeding millions of people with a technology that cannot produce food for the masses. Musk says that Square Roots’ electricity consumption is mitigated because the containers use electricity at night when power plants have excess energy. “The energy is being produced anyway,” Musk says. “The farms don’t pull more energy from the grid, which allows us to get electricity at a much lower price.” For farmer Maxwell Carmack, a Square Roots graduate, the future of vertical farming seems promising. Aware of the critics, he says the carbon footprint of the transportation and refrigeration costs currently in use to move food across the country is worse than the electricity needed to run the indoor farms. Still, he is looking forward to incorporating sustainable energy production technologies to the industry of vertical farming to take it to the “next step.” While critics may think it will be impossible to feed cities out of containers, Carmack, an engineer who decided to stay on with Square Roots after graduating the program, is excited to prove them wrong. “I spend my time making all of the marginal gains that can add up,” he says. “In fact, in the past year we’ve doubled the production. I see improvement every day. In the end, as an engineer, I care about what might be possible and not what might not.” Since its founding two and half years ago, the Square Roots program has graduated 30 people, and many graduates have taken the path of entrepreneurship, from rooftop garden installations to catering. And it’s expanding, as urban farmers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will soon start producing fresh herbs as well. Musk says the ultimate goal over the next 10 years is to have Square Roots systems in every U.S. city and to graduate around a thousand new urban food farmers, while continuing to improve the technology. While he’s aware that Square Roots can’t feed America alone, he hopes it’s the start of a vertical revolution with its roots in Boulder.
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Appalling incompetence and majestic triumph on Longs Peak Lessons from the jewel of Rocky Mountain National Park
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der an impossible distance away. The air darkened. In 10 steps, I was below the route. I instantly panicked, clawing my way up, not knowing if Tim followed me down and, frankly, not caring. I had my own worries now. Back on route, I soon confronted a drift slanted across the trail, its snow crystalline and hard-packed. Facing this hazard, I developed a mountaineering technique that may someday be named after me. I would hang one boot forward as if testing bath water until, at an intemperate, illdefined moment, I just planted it and sprinted across the snow. Teetering along the Ledges, diving past the recurring drifts, the void tugged me toward Glacier Gorge a thousand feet below. Each time my nerve cracked and I recoiled from the abyss, my ax swung free on its tether and attempted to impale me. The Ledges extended for several lifetimes before we reached the base of the Trough, a steep, 600-foot-high gulley. Several equally unskilled climbers had pooled there, and we inched past them to find the Trough packed with ice. If it’s true that courage is the ability to sally on despite
one’s fear, at this point one might charitably fault us for an overabundance of courage. Though terrified to the point of blindness, I was stricken with heroic images of the ancient mountain greats: Mallory, Messner and Harrer. Would a dusting of snow have deterred those giants? I boldly announced our ice axes had found their purpose — we would chop steps for one another. While the wondering crowd looked on, Tim and I alternated dropping to one knee and chiseling platforms in the ice an inch wide. At 50 feet up, sweat drenched us, and we gasped for breath. After 100 vertical feet, our arms ached. Our axes easily weighed 100 pounds. As one we looked to our forlorn track below, the Trough was a bobsled ride to oblivion. Wordlessly, on all fours, we lowered ourselves back the way we had come. On the Ledges once again, I posed Tim with his back to the gulley. I raised my camera just in time to capture his grimacing face and a rock off the summit, falling soundlessly behind his head. “What’s the matter?” he asked “Say cheese,” I replied. “Let’s go home.” Although this experience gave no indication I possessed any climbing ability whatsoever, I took Wayne’s advice and slogged up those easier 14ers I’d scorned earlier. Surprisingly, each peak seemed more exhilarating than the one before. During the next climbing season, I summited Longs without difficulty. Five years later, with several major peaks under my belt, I returned. I owed Tim a shot at the top, and I talked his 14-year-old son Jason into tagging along. Once again we left the trees to find the heather glowing and the Diamond reflecting light. We moved
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one could dispute our perceived titanic physical strength. We sprang rock to rock, only occasionally pausing to suck down a full breath in the thinning air. We passed the Agnes Vaille Shelter, built to honor the first woman to complete a winter ascent of Longs, and then scrambled the final boulders below the Keyhole. That moment provided an indication of the difficulties to follow. The Keyhole is an irregular opening eroded through to the peak’s west slopes, 20 feet high and overhung on its left by a weathered bar of rock. It bears a distressing resemblance to the Gates to Mordor. Behind it, dragon’s breath mist swept up from the canyon, obscuring the sunlight that had lifted our morale earlier. Nothing but swirling, ghostly air appeared beyond the rock cleft. I crawled forward and peered under the overhanging rock, searching for the gaudy red and yellow bullseyes that supposedly marked the trail. Vertical granite blurred my vision. I slithered forward like a large, befuddled lizard. The world spun when I rocked back up on my knees. A narrow ledge finally materialized before me. It led toward a faded red circle painted on a boulAUGUST 22, 2019
fast, scarcely breaking stride at the Keyhole. Early on the Ledges, a rock clattered past, kicked loose by a woman lost already, scrambling over a boulder above. “Come down from there,” I said, just like her dad. “You’ll kill yourself. The route goes from one bullseye to another.” Maybe that moment, advising a person in the predicament I’d once been in, banished some psychic ghosts and explains what happened next. Suddenly I could stroll the Ledges with my eyes closed. My very soul knew, for yards ahead, where each hand and foot placement would land. I jogged a bit. The kid pressed right behind me, so I jogged a little farther. Time seemed infinite. I couldn’t fall, but if the inconceivable happened, I had forever to correct the misstep. We only slowed when we met other climbers, and, like a crazed cult leader, I gathered a flock of the needy and suffering — a woman who’d missed the top the season before, a senior citizen, and Tim, now stricken with altitude sickness. My method for managing my charges was simple. I dashed ahead with Jason, gave him directions, and then hustled back, goading and inspiring the others in turn: “You OK? Just a bit more. Put your hand here and reach that corner and put your foot there and I’ll be back. No worries.” I caught the woman in our makeshift group by the sleeve and negotiated her upwards. At the Trough, I tipped my chin at Jason, starting him toward the chockstone. Everyone else I cajoled up the scree. On the homestretch below the summit, I grabbed the wobbly-legged older gentleman by his jacket and dragged him along behind. In moments all of us were posing for pictures on top. The descent unfolded in much the same manner. Without a conscious thought, my mind solved what had once been a Rubik’s Cube of boulders and slabs. Jason pressed on my heels, as though this bizarre mood were contagious, as though we shared the same dream. Below the Keyhole and Boulder Field, he broke into a trot, and I hustled after him. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
He beat me to the climbing register and signed us out with the comment, “WE ARE GODS!” I couldn’t have captured the sensation more accurately myself. Whenever I remember these experiences, I invariably wonder how a transformation like this occurs. Training is an answer, but training alone can’t recast a whimpering blob
of protoplasm as Thor’s first cousin. By this point, I’d learned mental conditioning was 90-percent of mountaineering. Since Longs I’ve summited 200 peaks without the miraculous godly high returning. At times on the trail, though, I play with an image instead of a rational explanation. It’s quite a satisfying one: as I swing
under the Keyhole and step out above Glacier Gorge, a shimmer of light appears, barely visible among the granite slabs. Locked in my human failings, I pass beneath it, unaware. But in that moment, one of nature’s old gods rests a hand on my shoulder, allowing me the grace to soar as it once soared along the slopes of Longs Peak.
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The steep walls of the pyramid Denver artist Jonathan Saiz asks, ‘What is utopia?’
by Amanda Moutinho
ON THE BILL: Eyes on Jonathan Saiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. denverartmuseum.org. On view through Nov. 17.
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could see it or connect with it. created 10,000 miniture paintings Saiz likens the idea to a pyramid. in about 150 days “The top of the pyramid is the to create monied, the elite, the educated, #WhatisUtopia. when it comes to art, and then the rest of the base of the pyramid is everyone else,” he says. “And that pyramid is getting steeper and steeper as things get more expensive and more competitive, and it just squeezes everyone away from the reality that art is for them. It’s made for them; it’s made to inspire them.” Rage and frustration began to build in Saiz. He wanted to keep creating, but he wanted to find a new approach, far from what he calls the “meat market” for collectors. After another night disheartened by the system, Saiz went to his studio and thought about change. “If I don’t like how the world looks right now, well, what do I even want the world to look like?” Saiz asked himself. “If I don’t like how art is being shown or why art is being shown, how would I want art to be shown?” The answer to Saiz’s question is now on display at the Denver Museum of Art through Nov. 17. Saiz’s see SAIZ Page 20
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installation “#WhatIsUtopia” is a largescale column comprised of 10,000 miniature paintings all contributing to his view of an idyllic society. The painting topics are wide and varied from nature to animals to portraits to expressionistic bursts. Saiz drew from various cultures and trends, like eco futurism and solarpunk, which strives to counteract dystopian imagery with the possibility of utopia. Saiz also used a diversity of materials including valuables like gemstones, pearls and even the gold engagement ring Saiz gave his husband. In an effort to achieve his vision for a new world, one that’s less concerned with the monetization of contemporary art, at the end of the exhibit’s run, Saiz will distribute the 10,000 pieces for free. He sees a spirit of revolution in “#WhatisUtopia.” “Fuck the system. Fuck the man. I don’t want some rich guy to come in and see this beautiful piece in the museum and say, ‘I want to own that. I want that to be an expression of my ego. I want to put that in my insurance vault,” Saiz says. “So by making it free and by making it dissipate at the end of the exhibition, it allows the piece to exist as a concept and idea. And it doesn’t feed the system of rich people buying more ego jewelry.” Purpose is a driving force for Saiz. He sees people tethered to rules and ways of living that don’t serve a greater purpose. He sees the prioritization of selfpreservation, degradation of the environment and loss of human rights both here in America and all over the world as proof that the old ways of being aren’t working. We can start moving toward a better world if we question the motivations behind our actions. “A utopia is a state of being that’s in
harmony with “IT DOESN’T FEED the system nature, and also in of rich people harmony with a real buying more ego liberated way of livjewelry.” — Jonathan Saiz on ing and a liberated #WhatisUtopia reason behind the things you choose to do,” he says. “If you choose to be a songwriter or a singer, it’s not because you want to have a more secure life with people loving you. It’s so that you can make and share something beautiful, whether in a small way or a big way. Utopia is about reevaluating why we’re doing everything that we’re doing and finding more balance.” Saiz sees so much energy put into maintaining the status quo, but he thinks that same energy would be better spent creating a different system, which will in turn be a more rewarding way to spend time. “Our engines shut down when we overwork for the wrong reasons. I’m exhausted sitting at a desk doing a job I hate, and so I need to zone out and escape and drink a beer and watch movies,” he says. “Or I can be exhausted to the bone but I’m doing something I really believe in, and then [I find] I have all these spiritual reservoirs of energy.” It was these reserves that Saiz had to tap into to create #WhatisUtopia. Saiz had only five months, about 150 days, to make 10,000 miniature paintings — roughly 66 a day. He had no support staff, so it was him working 12–14-hour days, seven days a week. He says it was an almost inhuman task, but that he wanted it to be a grandiose feat to show how much people are capable of and how utopia is possible to create with the right manpower. “If one man, one human, can put their
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focus, and their talent and their energy and their magic toward this intention, what would have been possible if it was 10 humans? Let alone a million humans,” he says. Another element of the exhibit is social engagement. A social media feed displayed on the wall asks museumgoers what utopia looks like to them using the hashtag prompts: #WhatisUtopia and #JonathanSaizatDAM. While Saiz is clear that his piece is his vision of utopia, he believes that for a utopian society to be sustainable, there must be multiple viewpoints. Saiz sees the campaign as a way to crowdsource the multifaceted concept of a modern-day utopia. “I want to give people the opportunity to contribute their voice. I have to admit far and wide I don’t have the answers,” he says. “I’m not an economist or an architect or an anthropologist. “I need people who are scientists and other artists to contribute their versions of what utopia is so maybe there’s a database of ideas or values.” And by giving it all away, people can take home utopia, and a piece of art for themselves. For Saiz, giving away the art is a way to activate people who normally walk into an art museum but never have the experience of owning something on the wall. “Contemporary art isn’t reserved for the rich and powerful. It should be for the society the art is in,” he says. One thousand of the pieces will go to museum staff and volunteers, including the janitorial staff and those who work at BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
Starbucks within SAIZ PLANS to the museum. give away pieces of #WhatisUtopia Giveaways will to museum staff, also take place in volunteers and November and patrons. December at the Denver Art Museum, the Children’s Museum, Saiz’s gallery, K Contemporary, and more. Saiz sees the gesture as an attempt to activate the bottom part of the pyramid. As the elite tip of the pyramid becomes smaller, the base of the pyramid suffers and things like innovation and passion get sacrificed. “At the core of it, what gets lost is art. ... What gets lost is art’s ability to actually mean something,” Saiz says. “It looks good and it feels good and it’s worth something, but it doesn’t mean anything anymore. It doesn’t inspire change or cultural evolution. I think the literal soul of art gets lost as we continue to feed that cycle.” #WhatisUtopia emerged from dissatisfaction and an urge to buck the modernday systemic structures. Saiz wants to remind the world it’s possible to create a better future. “It comes from this deep frustrated, yet optimistic desire to actually do something that means something,” he says. “It’s like an exuberant last gasp. It’s the most I have right now and I’m going to keep trying to do it. It’s an all or nothing approach that I hope adds up to something in some way.” I
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Transcendent connections
Kyle Donovan rejects the road in favor of building community at home by Caitlin Rockett
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n late May, Kyle Donovan packed up his guitar and headed south, about a hundred miles west of Austin, to perform in the Kerville New Folk Competition. Sitting backstage the day of his performance, the Longmont-based musician focused on his breath. In a moment an emcee would announce Donovan’s name and he would step onto the stage and face 500 sets of eyes. He was nervous, and the moment came quickly. But centerstage, a surprising sensation washed over Donovan. “Everyone was dead silent, just waiting to connect, waiting for you to show them something that they already knew but had forgotten, waiting for something powerful to emerge that they could relate to,” he says over coffee recently in Gunbarrel. “In this really beautiful moment, it struck me: I’m not only not alone, this isn’t about me.” If you look at Donovan’s career as a musician, it’s clear he’s always known, at least subconsciously, it isn’t about him. Everything he does is in service of the connections that come from music. It’s all about community — he’s all about community. Though he seems a little bashful when he talks about it, Donovan maintains a regular gig singing to elementary school kids about important topics in science with a program he developed called Rock On! Science. (He has some educational background in astrophysics, which helps. We’re not sure what the political science and philosophy degrees help with.) Then just last year he launched a live performance podcast, The Songwriter Hour, inviting musicians from around Colorado to share their stories and songs in the intimate space at Still Cellars in Longmont. “The podcast was created out of a desire to serve the community, but also a desire to build community, a desire to build a sense of connection with other
musicians and with other people in the community,” he says, “and I discovered quickly that it was way more than either of those things ... there was something more powerful and almost divine about the space that was created. The space [at Still Cellars] can only hold about 45 people, but when you have a group of 45 people who are really silent, really listening to every word these people are singing, there’s a power there. It’s almost palpable in the air.” Donovan finds himself searching more and more for this “transcendent connection,” the sense of unity that flooded him at Kerville and during his podcasts. When he decided to pursue songwriting seriously just five years ago, he figured the best thing he could do for himself and his music was to define success on his own terms. “You have to know what your values are, what your goals are,” he says. “You have to know what you’re going after because nobody can define success but you. ‘Making it’ is making a living. Other than that, it’s all up to you.” His work always serves his core values: it builds community, it’s a genuine form of self-expression, an act of service, a positive influence for others… and it earns Donovan at least a little income. (Remember: ‘making it’ is making a living.) His forthcoming solo album, Then and Now, is a physical representation of Donovan’s values. More than 200 people pooled their resources — whether that was donating to a Kickstarter campaign,
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creating the album art, adding percussion to a track or providing advice on mastering in postproduction — to bring the album to life. Donovan penned all nine tracks, and also took on all the post-production work. Local troubadours Bonnie and Taylor Sims, Antonio Lopez, Jason Bertone and Michelle Pietrafitta of Banshee Tree added their talents
to the album. Taking cues from master songwriters like Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) and Paul Simon, both vocally and lyrically, Donovan presents an album that examines the human experience through personal narratives of love and loss and the befuddling relativity of time. His voice, a clear, effortless tenor, celebrates and soothes as easily as it laments and unsettles. With genuine charm (and, frankly, boyish good looks) on his side, there’s no question that Donovan could travel far and wide. But that’s not exactly what he wants to do. Again, he’s doing this on his terms. His friend Michael Wooten, a drummer who’s played and toured with Carole King and traveled for several years with Leftover Salmon, gave Donovan a tip he holds dear: “He says, ‘Don’t spend your life on a bus. Don’t spend your life waiting in a small airplane cabin to get to the next place. Be with the people you love, be doing the things that you love right now.’” Other artists have told Donovan that touring is the only way, and he knows they’re giving him the best advice they’ve got. But he believes there’s another way, a way that lets him do what he loves... right now. “I’m not going to spend 200, 300 days a year on the road. I want to be here. I want to be with my community. I want to be building that sense of unity.” AUGUST 22, 2019
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The antidote to despair
Dancer Ondine Geary invites us on an abstract exploration of grief by Caitlin Rockett
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n a storage unit in Boulder sits a stantly thinking about the way that we all sort of museum of remembrance, endure grief, and yet it’s such a lonely momentos of lives past, curated experience. Sometimes as we weather intentionally by CU Theatre and our own loss, we end up comforting other Dance Department staff member people as they try to console us. We’re Ondine Geary. Each cardboard box is a asked, politely, to move on with our own glimpse into a life that no longer walks lives, the way our loved ones would have among us. On a radio, voices of family wanted, and so we do, but the loss is like and friends talk about what these items white noise in the background, refusing to meant to the deceased: A husband’s let us move on in peace. Some of us handkerchief, a box of handwritten recihave a clear understanding of where our pes, a bowling trophy, a toolbox, a negaloved ones now reside. Others are less tive pregnancy test. CAITLIN ROCKETT This museum is the first in Geary’s three-part, multi-disciplinary project Radius of Transmission. It’s a site-specific, roving exploration of grief born from Geary’s journey through loss. In 2017, Geary’s older brother suddenly died. He was 40. Geary traveled to Memphis, her hometown, to help clean out her brother’s apartment. “I found it so hard and so cathartic to be in his space,” she says. “To be there with all his objects... it was almost like those objects became a stand-in for him. He was this amazing painter. ... I could just imagine his presence there in a way. Those [paintings] held his presence in a way that none sure. of the other objects did. And it made me With these thoughts in mind, Geary think a lot about what it means to create separated Radius into three parts, the something. He stood there and created first focusing on the objects of the something that didn’t exist before and that deceased, the second examining the creation was somehow kind of a record or empty space where the dead once lived, an archive of his days on this planet, the and the third centered on the living as things he had encountered and saw and they move forward in the wake of loss. processed through his senses.” While objects helped Geary hold on At the time, Geary wasn’t dancing to pieces of her brother and father’s perregularly, though she’d studied it. But her sonalities, she struggled with their physibrother’s death — organizing his paintings cal absence. She wondered: Where did — brought Geary back to her own art. they go? “I had this renewed sense of the “I don’t have any certainty that there value of making art and that if we have is an afterlife, that there are signs that the capacity to be creative, that we sort there’s any communication happening at of owe it the world to share that.” all. But I read something that Nick Cave So she began to develop Radius of wrote and he says that meaning is the Transmission as a way to process her antidote to despair,” Geary says. “I think emotions. Then, just a year after her for me, mystery is the antidote to brother’s death, her father died. despair.” Geary was swept back by another She began fantasizing about sending high tide of grief. She found herself conradio transmissions to her father and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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brother, communicating with them wherever they were. Sometimes she felt like she could sense — though not decipher — fleeting messages from them, like moving from static to a clear frequency and back on a radio dial. In part two of Radius, participants will drive their cars to an open lot in Boulder and tune into a radio broadcast of spoken word poetry. The caravan will then move through Boulder for about four miles. The experience is meant to mimic the way that grief follows us, the poetry on the radio creating a sense of the intangible connection that the living continue to have with the dead. Part two ends at the location for the final installment, a dance piece that represents the way the living must, well... live. In the Charlotte Yorke Irey Theater at CU Boulder, Geary recently leads a group of seven dancers in rehearsal. Their movements echo the themes of previous installments: the isolation of grief; how space and time warp in the aftermath of loss; how we’re expected to move forward with the weight of loss pressing down on us; how the weight lessens with time. The first part of the project launched on Aug. 19, while parts two and three begin Sept. 4. The entire project will run through Sept. 16. It’s another way in which Geary nods to the way grief stays with us over time. It is, in her words, a way to mimic the way grief “tilts reality.” In creating what some might call “immersive theater,” Geary wanted first and foremost to be respectful. “I didn’t want to create a context where I was asking people to feel grief,” she says. “I think in immersive theater, the audience can feel like a prop in the scene and I did not want to do a disservice to how deeply personal and deeply important grief is by doing any kind of emotional manipulation.” Like grief itself, Radius of Transmission is an individual experience that plays out in a larger group. Hidden in plain sight. AUGUST 22, 2019
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events DUSTY SLAY.
7 and 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. SLAY
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1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, North Boulder Park, Seventh and Dellwood, Boulder.
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FREE SCREENING: ‘MODIFIED: A PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GMOS’
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, Eaton Humanities Building, Classroom 150, CU Boulder, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.
José González — with Bedouine.
6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. In 2003, José González was on his way to earning a PhD in biochemistry when his musical career took flight. He put the doctorate on hold and never looked back. Since then, audiences have enthusiastically embraced his introspective lyrics and minimal approach to indie pop. Don’t be fooled by the solo classical guitar: González puts on a show that will move your body as much as it moves your soul. —Caitlin Rockett
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The Flatirons Food Film Festival and CU’s College of Media, Communications and Information will screen ‘Modified: A Personal Documentary About GMOs’ followed by an expert panel discussion on Aug. 28. Winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media award for best documentary, ‘Modified’ is an investigation into why genetically modified food labels are required in 64 countries but not Canada or the U.S. Tickets are free but reservations are required: https://bit.ly/30nOIK1
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arts Abstracted Facts — Digital systems in design, painting and sculpture. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1.
COURTESY ART PARTS CREATIVE REUSE CENTER
A·MAZE·D. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 1. Amuse Yeux: A Small Delight For The Eyes. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Sept. 15. Boulder Through The Decades. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 31. Clark Richert: Pattern and Dimensions. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 15.
FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, Gerda Rovetch’s mixed media art in collage, oil pastel, watercolor and photography has delighted viewers from London to New York City to Boulder. Back in the day, Rovetch’s art was a best-seller at Boulder’s Mustard Seed Gallery. Over 35 years later, prints of her original art continue to find a large and ardent following. While 95-year-old Rovetch has had many solo and group shows, this is the first exhibit to span her prolific career from the 1940s to the present. See the retrospective at Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center through Oct. 5.
Climate Ribbon. Boulder Public Library, Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 28. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Currently featuring Body Language: Picturing People (June 2020); Object: Color (through September); and Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams (through Nov. 2).
Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change. The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9.
Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.
Interesting Times — Robin Hextrum, Samatha Simpson and Kathryn Jill Johnson. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Sept. 1.
Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.
The Light Show. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 2020.
Fiber Art by Dianna VanderDoes. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Sept. 6. Fine Evident — Cathy Ellis. Naropa University Nalanda Campus, Cube Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 29. Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.
Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. The museum has numerous permanent and temporary exhibits. MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/ event/monumental/. National Fine Art Show — Louisville Art Association. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville. Aug. 28-Sept. 8. PACK-IT-UP. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 23.
Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.
Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1. Potato People and Other Flights of Fancy: Gerda Rovetch Retrospective. Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Opens Aug. 23. Through Oct. 5. Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8. Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture. Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont. Through Jan. 5, 2020. Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America. Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 25. Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020. Watercolor by Anne Gifford. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Sept. 6.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 Music 40 Oz. To Freedom (Sublime Tribute Band). 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The California Honeydrops. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Grateful Dawg. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Laser Rolling Stones. 8:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Mark Keller Album Release. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Sonny Landreth. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.
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Steve Earle & The Dukes. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.
The Chellie Davis Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
That Damn Sasquatch: Pickin’ On Talking Heads featuring special guests Dave Watts (The Motet), Tyler Grant. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.
Citizen Dan. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Events Cirque du Soleil: Corteo. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Dance for Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 Music 35th Annual Fete des Fleurs. 6 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500. ‘Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth.’ 8:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.
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BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
words SAM GEHRKE
THURSDAY, AUG. 22
DESSA DEFIES CATEGORY — she is an intellectual with a rap career and an inhaler in her backpack; a creative writer fascinated by philosophy and behavioral science; and a funny, charismatic performer dogged by blue moods and heartache. Her literary memoir, ‘My Own Devices,’ is an uncompromising and candid account of a life in motion, in music and in love. Dessa will speak about and sign her new book on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at Boulder Book Store at 7:30 p.m.
Alan Paul — Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
FRIDAY, AUG. 23 Linda Hampsten Fox — The Bindery. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
SATURDAY, AUG. 24 Lija Fisher — The Cryptid Keeper. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Sarah Rose Etter, Steven Dunn and Jaime Fountaine. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
SUNDAY, AUG. 25 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
MONDAY, AUG. 26 Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher — African Twilight. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
TUESDAY, AUG. 27
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Jennifer Wortman. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub — Varina. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Stacey Stern & Venerable Bhante Sujatha — Sitting on the Toolbox: Buddha’s Wisdom for a Joyful Life. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Dessa — My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
THURSDAY AUGUST 22 7:00 PM
Joel Ansett Album Release Party. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.
Shovelin Stone, Larry Nix. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Jonathan Foster. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Skillet. 7 p.m. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver.
Kirk Margoles. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-249-8458.
Summer Courtyard Concert Series featuring the Rachel Alena Band. 7 p.m. 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville.
Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Books & Brews. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 8:30 PM
LASER ROLLING STONES FRIDAY AUGUST 23 7:00 PM
The CBDs. 8:15 p.m. Jamestown Art Fair, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-499-1829.
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Events
Drumming with Horses. Noon. Medicine Horse Program, 8778 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908.
Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.
1000 Books Before Kindergarten Celebration. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Food For Bears (Live Music). 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Lost Dog Ensemble Plays Tom Waits. 7 p.m. Dazzle at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5100.
Electric Feels. 9 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Funk Knuf. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Joe Rogan. 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000.
Happy Together Tour 2019. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.
Leon and the Revival. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
The Matt Skellenger Group. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Mister Tim Live-Looping at La Vita Bella. 6:30 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.
Lavish Comedy Showcase: John Novosad, Zoe Rogers & Luke Gaston. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Music and Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.
Opening Reception: Gerda Rovetch Retrospective. 5:30 p.m. Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder.
Nice Work — with Heidi Schmidt (Album Release Party.) 7 p.m. Muse Perfromance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.
Penn & Teller. 8 p.m. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Places Back Home (EP Release). 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Plastic Daggers. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues Trio. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Co., 20 Lakeview Drive, Nederland, 720-606-1734. The Sam Chase & The Untraditional. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
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SATURDAY AUGUST 24 1:00 PM
WE ARE STARS & PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM
STARS AND LASERS GALACTIC ODYSSEY 7:00 PM
CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 8:30 PM
LASER STRANGER THINGS 10:00 PM
LASER QUEEN 11:30 PM
LASER FLOYD: THE WALL SUNDAY AUGUST 25 12:00 PM
LIFE OF TREES & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 1:30 PM
STARS AND GALAXIES 3:00 PM
WE ARE STARS 4:30 PM
DREAM TO FLY
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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION... What percentage of all urban trips are on bicycle in the USA vs in the Netherlands?
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‘ESCAPE’ IS THE STORY of a man in his mid 30s who finds himself isolated in a mental health facility. Alone, terrified and no longer able to run from the trauma of his past, he is finally forced to confront the voices that have haunted him all his life. ‘Escape’ is a heart-rending tale that seeks to transform our personal relationship with those suffering from the unseen illnesses of the mind. Presented by the Royal Players’ Guild at the Dairy Arts Center through Aug. 30.
A) 20% in the US vs 50% in the Netherlands B) 5% in the US vs 25% in the Netherlands C) Less than 1% in the US vs 30% in the Netherlands
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Beauty and the Beast. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 21. Boulder International Fringe Festival — presented by various artists at various venues, Boulder, boulderfringe.com. Chicago. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Studio Loft, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Aug. 25. Escape — presented by Royal Players’ Guild. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 30. The Great American Trailer Park — presented by Equinox Theater Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Aug. 31. It’s Not Me, It’s You — presented by The Second City. Denver Center for Performing Arts, 1345 Champa St., Garner Galleria Theater. Through Aug. 25.
Les Miserables (school edition). Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 15. The Never Summer. Theater 29, 5138 W. 29th Ave., Denver. Through Aug. 31. Nunsense. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees, through Sept. 29. Suicide Lies — presented by The SOURCE Theatre Company. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Sept. 7. Tarzan The Musical. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 25.
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FROM THE DIVIDE TO YOUR DOOR!
The Pamlico Sound Vinyl Release Party. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Flower Arranging Workshop. 5 p.m. Petals By Pedal, 1029 Berea Drive, Boulder, 740-521-9937.
Ravin’Wolf. 7 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-606-1734.
Free Day of Dance for Youth. 9 a.m. Kinesis Dance, 5603 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 6, Boulder, 720-515-6268.
Saturday Celebration Service at Unity of Boulder. 5 p.m. Unity of Boulder Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Signel-Z. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Sixty Minute Men. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Summer Courtyard Concert Series featuring Paper Moonshine. 7 p.m. 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville.
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Zion I with Kind Dub. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Garden Art — with Tinker Art Studio. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Jedi Engineering — with Play-Well TEKnologies. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Laser Queen. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Mountainfilm on Tour. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Events
Polish Food Festival Denver. 12 p.m. St. Joseph Polish Parish Denver, 517 E. 46th Ave., Denver. Through Sunday.
Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.
Preserving Summer’s Bounty: A Hands-on Family Workshop. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
DeFunkt Railroad! 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.
Railroad Memorabilia Show & Sale. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.
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Denver, 303-487-0111.
Music
Owen McMahon. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Anji Kat & Christopher Cesta. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Westerlight. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Events
Compliments to the One. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Legit Knits @ MAIN. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Coffee Talk and Live Music. 10:30 a.m. The
The Dear Landlords. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Hippy Bluegrass Church. 10 a.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 Music
The Annex: Best Of College. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-302-3924. Drew Bell. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Faculty Tuesdays: music+ Friendship. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Papa Roach: Who Do You Trust Tour. 10 a.m., noon, and 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482. see EVENTS Page 32
Hiroya Tsukamoto. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. KoRn & Alice In Chains. 6 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Kyra Gordon. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Nicole Dollanganger. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Patio Blues & BBQ: Eef Music. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Soda Blue and Twenty Hands High. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. A Special Evening with Sherry Williams and the Wayne Wilkinson Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Bryan Ferry. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,. Chevy Chase. 6 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000. Double Feature: Life of Trees/Laser Galactic Odyssey. 12 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Free Aerial Open House. 1 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Master Class Workshop. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Ballet, 2590 Walnut St., Suite 10, Boulder. Paper Weaving Projects. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer Flower Arranging Workshop. 9:30 a.m. Petals By Pedal, 1029 Berea Drive, Boulder, 740-521-9937.
MONDAY, AUGUST 26 Music Bluegrass Potluck Live Music. 6:30 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525. Midday Music Meditations @ Meadows. 12 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Mogwai. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St.,
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FILMS Thursday, Aug. 22 ‘Ophelia.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.’ 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. ‘Hot Summer (Heißer Sommer).’ 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library. ‘Wildland: Young Men and Fire.’ 2:30 and 7 p.m. Boedecker.
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Friday, Aug. 23 ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.’ 8:45 p.m. Boedecker. Movie in the Park: ‘The Lego Movie 2.’ 7 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette. ‘Ophelia.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Wildland: Young Men and Fire.’ 2:30 and 7 p.m. Boedecker. Saturday, Aug. 24 ‘Ophelia.’ 3. and 7:30 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Wildland: Young Men and Fire.’ 1 and 5:30 p.m. Boedecker.
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Sunday, Aug. 25 ‘Monet: The Magic of Water and Light.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker. Monday, Aug. 26 ‘Ask Dr. Ruth.’ 2 p.m. Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave. Boulder 80303, Boulder. ‘Monet: The Magic of Water and Light.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker. Tuesday, Aug. 27 ‘Ask Dr. Ruth.’ 7 p.m. Boulder JCC. Wednesday, Aug. 28 ‘The Chambermaid.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker. ‘The LEGO Movie 2.’ 6:30 p.m. 836 Main St., Louisville. ‘Modified: A Personal Documentary About GMOs.’ 6:30 p.m. Eaton Humanities Building, Classroom 150, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. ‘The Quiet One.’ 2. and 7 p.m. Boedecker.
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Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Cultural Organizations Summit. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dance for Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 Music
Po ery Sale
Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bone Diggers: Paul Simon’s Greatest Hits, Explored. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Saturday & Sunday
Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
September 21 & 22
Elephant Collective. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
film/Still: Gabriel. 7 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-3544880.
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Thursday augusT 22
sTunna 4 Vegas
w/ Blacc Zacc, derrick royce, Mi$FiTs, TahaThakidd & larry legend
Friday augusT 23
isaiah sharkey
(d’angelo/John Mayer/cory henry) w/ Juice FeaT PaTrick harVey (cycles), eric luBa (analog son), sean dandurand (dandu), collin o’Brien (low sPark/cycles) & ghosT TaPes
saTurday augusT 24
Bass Physics
w/ coFresi, Megan haMilTon & caTParTy
Thursday augusT 29
Bone diggers
Paul siMon’s greaTesT hiTs exPlored FeaT leBo (alo), JenniFer harTswick & JaMes casey (Trey anasTasio Band), reed MaThis (golden gaTe wingMen), JeFF Franca (ThieVery corPoraTion), danny eisenBerg & scoTT rager w/ hearTByrne (Talking heads TriBuTe)
Friday augusT 30
The Phunk sessions Phish laTe nighT
FeaT george PorTer Jr (The MeTers), roBerT walTer (Mike gordon),
craig Brodhead, Michelangelo caruBBa & shira elias (TurkuaZ), lyle diVinsky, drew sayers & Parris FleMing (The MoTeT)
Saturday auguSt 31 • poSt phiSh Show
herBie hancock TriBuTe FeaT Joey PorTer, garreTT sayers, daVe waTTs, drew sayers (all oF The MoTeT) & dan schwindT (kyle hollingsworTh Band)
Friday sePTeMBer 6
inFekT, MVrda & saMPliFire saTurday sePTeMBer 7
chain sTaTion
w/ The wrecklunds, BoTTlerockeT hurricane: Pickin’ on John Prine FeaT curly collins, Max Paley & Brandon lee
Thursday & Friday sePTeMBer 12-13
suicidegirls
BlackhearT Burlesque
saTurday sePTeMBer 14
The MoVeMenT
w/ ProJecT 432, arise rooTs, a-Mac & The heighTs
Friday September 20 • dual venue! Balloon PoP
wax Tailor (dJ seT), Blockhead
liTTle PeoPle, yPPah, naTasha kMeTo, arMs and sleePers, & cnJr
saTurday sePTeMBer 21
Mark Farina & chrisTian MarTin
w/ The Bordas BroThers & PruiTT
wednesday sePTeMBer 25 re: search
The geek x VrV
w/ Poldoore, Jordan PoloVina & Juschill
Thursday sePTeMBer 26
Thursday augusT 22
ThaT daMn sasquaTch
Pickin’ on Talking heads FeaT daVe waTTs (The MoTeT), Tyler granT w/ kaTharsis FeaT daVe waTTs, chuck Jones (doPaPod) & Marcus reZak, highland raMBlers (PaTio seT), JacoB Moss & MaTT FlaherTy oF ParT & Parcel (PaTio seT)
Friday augusT 23
Mass relay
w/ noTorious conducT (laTe seT), kruZa kid, doZier, PaTrick skyler & Foxy doPe
saTurday augusT 24
The new orleans susPecTs & cris JacoBs Band
re: search
dJ logic
sunday sePTeMBer 1
2019 end oF suMMer Bash FeaT heaVen n hell, Zingaro, daylighT deliriuM, TheoreTic, Frequency resPonse, a5cV, The slacks, cloud TeMPle, calaMiTy chaMPs, ThisTledown, suiTaBle Miss & The red scare
wednesday sePTeMBer 4 re: search
suBdocTa
w/ sFaM, aVry (laTe seT) & Jordan PoloVina
Friday sePTeMBer 6
FeaT Megan leTTs (MaMa Magnolia), ashley niVen FairMan (Tiger ParTy) w/ isaac Teel (Tauk), Jay coBB anderson, eric luBa (Many colors) & PhanToM VaniTy FeaT Mikey caruBBa (TurkuaZ), d-ViBes, dan aFricano & sasha Brown
saTurday sePTeMBer 7
erica Falls & BoyFriend w/ whaT young Men do
wednesday sePTeMBer 11
kll Bill (Mr. Bill B2B kll sMTh)
wednesday sePTeMBer 18
PnB rock
The new MasTersounds w/ ghosT-noTe
wednesday ocToBer 16
Big k.r.i.T.
Thursday ocToBer 17
The collecTiVe
(FacTion ski FilM denVer PreMiere)
Friday ocToBer 18
The Main squeeZe w/ Jaden carlson Band
saTurday ocToBer 19 cycles PresenTs
The gaMe show
an inTeracTiVe concerT & gaMe show exPerience
Friday ocToBer 25
sonic BlossoM
FeaT BlueTech, sPoonBill, dynohunTer, The liBrarian, laPa, JanoVer, k+laB, Phlo & PaTrick skyler
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MiMosa
w/ TsiMBa, gryMeTyMe (laTe seT) & Jordan PoloVina
Thursday sePTeMBer 19
TurkeyFooT
FeaT Mike roBinson (railroad earTh) w/ Bowregard (PaTio seT), Jackie & The rackeT (laTe seT), laney lou & The Bird dogs (PaTio seT)
saTurday sePTeMBer 21
The oTher BroThers high counTry TriBuTe To The allMan BroThers Band FeaT Todd sMallie (JJ grey/MoFro), Mark leVy (circles around The sun), roB eaTon Jr (BroTher’s keePer) & Bill Mckay (coral creek) w/ Tori PaTer’s “waiTing For coluMBus”
sunday sePTeMBer 22
Phony PPl
Thursday sePTeMBer 26
saTurday noVeMBer 9
Friday sePTeMBer 27
dr. Fresch
& Kaia Kater
ill.gaTes
w/ For Peace Band & The ries BroThers
Friday deceMBer 6
Darrell Scott
w/ ahee, gangus & lowPro.
(Talking heads TriBuTe) w/ grahaM good & The PainTers
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saTurday ocToBer 26
sTarT Making sense
Aug
Thursday sePTeMBer 12
Friday sePTeMBer 13
w/ nocaP, rylo rodrigueZ
Radio Show Taping
Bailo
Thursday ocToBer 3
Friday & saTurday ocToBer 11-12
Bonnie & the Clydes
guilTy Pleasures
Bluegrass generals
sunday ocToBer 6
Kyle Donovan
FeaT isaac Teel (Tauk), d-ViBes, Joel gonZaleZ (Big daddy kane), sasha Brown & dan aFricano (John Brown’s Body) w/ Michelle sarah Band
Jon wayne & The Pain wake uP & liVe – BoB Marley TriBuTe
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Thursday sePTeMBer 5
sunday sePTeMBer 29
Friday ocToBer 4
Aug
shira elias’ goods & serVices
Friday sePTeMBer 27
aPPalachia on The rocks w/ The wooks, laid Back counTry Picker & chelsea nolan
10 AM – 12 PM
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TreV rich
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Nick Forster's Aug Hippy Bluegrass Church
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The Wood Brothers Fruition & Steep Canyon Rangers
Full Concert: Vienna Teng Taping: Strand of Oaks & more Taping: The Commonheart & more Full Concert: Paul Kimbiris
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e are living in a golden age of cinema. You might not agree if your focus is solely on multiplexes infected with sequilities and franchise-expansion syndrome. And it might not look that way if your only unit of measure is what’s popping up on major streaming platforms. But, add those forms of distribution and exhibition to the myriad of home video releases alongside restorations and discoveries playing at art house cinemas, and you’ll find that the cinematic menu today is far more diverse than it ever was. From silents to sci-fi, Hollywood to Taiwan, studios to independents, you can find them all. Even one made in our backyard. Need proof? The University of Colorado Boulder’s International Film Series (IFS) returns on Aug. 28. That’s all the proof you need. Helmed by programmer Pablo Kjølseth, who has been running things since 1997, IFS is where film school and cinema intersect. Kjølseth is old school. He favors 35mm prints over digital projection, sitting quietly with strangers rather than munching on popcorn and slurping sugary drink, and treating the darkened cinema as a place of sanctuary, where ideas are welcome but phones are not. Like every semester, IFS’s calendar offers three staple programs: Celebrating Stan, Suranjan Ganguly’s monthly screenings of experimental filmmaker and former CU professor Stan Brakhage’s work; First Person Cinema, curated by Don Yannacito and featuring the work of CU students, faculty and visiting artists; and, 35mm prints, some gathered from CU’s collection, others rented from studio archives. Three prints not to miss: The Iron Giant (Dec. 8), I Vitelloni (Oct. 15) and Goodbye Dragon Inn (Oct. 22), which takes place on a movie theater’s final day — there is a particular bit of self-reflexivity that comes when you sit in a movie theater, watching a movie about a movie theater closing. It’s like standing between two mirrors and watching your reflection extend on into infinity. But cinema isn’t about you; it’s about the world around you. Take the Senegalese 1973 film Touki Bouki (Sept. 9), from the great Djibril Diop Mambéty. Using an impressionistic editing style, Touki Bouki is a simple story of lovers on the run, told in a manner that is anything but simple, yet perfectly clear. A true masterpiece. IFS will screen more than 40 movies this semester, kicking things off with an in memoriam screening of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am on Aug. 28. On Sept. 9, the new documentary on longtime Conference on World Affairs panelist Molly Ivins, Raise Hell, is sure to please. As will Unshaken: The Road to Woo (Nov. 16) about Colorado singer/songwriter Wendy Woo, who will perform following the doc. Only the lazy and the narrow-minded complain movies have become passé. But you and I know there is a universe of cinema just waiting to be discovered. See you in the dark.
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Coma Mexican Grill 4800 Baseline Road, Unit E-105, Boulder, comamexgrill.com he latest addition to the shopping plaza on Baseline and Foothills is Coma Mexican Grill — a casual joint with a big menu and bigger flavors. Enchiladas, gorditas, tacos, burritos, all-day breakfast and so much more are there for the ordering. We opted for the chili verde burrito — a massive wrap of pork green chili, cheese, beans, guacamole, tomatoes and sour cream. The heat level is just right (though feel free to add the in-house hot sauce for big spice), and it’ll fill you up for the day for under 10 bucks. $9.99.
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oulder Beer celebrated its 40th anniversary last month, and in concert with the festivities, the esteemed brewery released its 40th Anniversary Ale — a strong golden ale that lives up to the moment. Brewed with Simcoe, Tettnang, Denali and Eldorado hops, the 9% ABV ale has a bright citrus backbone. But atop that foundation there’s the zip of pineapple, which was added in the brewing process; a mellow oakiness, from fresh oak chips that were added during fermentation; and, still, a refreshing dryness from Champagne yeast. Find it in bombers at your local liquor store or stop by Boulder Beer and ask for a taste. Prices vary.
Darleen’z Dillaz Mobile, Boulder County, darleenzdillaz.com uesadillas were in need of an innovation, and Darleen’z Dillaz took on the task. The food truck whips up a menu of unique, tasty quesadillas, including the Stop-Go. It’s made of tender braised pork, jalapeño, roasted sweet corn, caramelized onions, asadero cheese, and topped with a chipotle-lime aioli. The flavor is huge, and what’s remarkable is how the quesadilla is truly packed with ingredients, yet doesn’t get flimsy or fall apart. A great handheld, indeed. $11.
Black Bottom Cupcake
Spruce Confections Downtown: 767 Pearl St., Boulder; Uptown: 4684 Broadway, Boulder, spruceconfections.com
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pruce makes everything — everything — from scratch. It’s hard to find that these days, even in some local coffee shops. Spruce’s light and delicate take on the Black Bottom Cupcake highlights this eatery’s attention to detail. Black Bottom Cupcakes usually place a dollop of cream cheese filling inside a cocoon of dark chocolate cake batter — no frosting necessary. Spruce makes an extremely light version of this crowd-pleasing baked good that reads more like a muffin than a cupcake, with semi-sweet chocolate chips swirled throughout. No heavy cream cheese filling here, just fluffy and moist cake, with a touch of sweetness. This is the perfect mid-afternoon pick-me-up, best enjoyed outside with a bit of a sun and a freshly brewed cup of coffee. $3.50.
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GETTING PAID TO EAT
Jonathan Gold, Anthony Bourdain and how food critics got cool
By JOHN LEHNDORFF AMANDA FAISON interviews the late, great Jonathan Gold at the Flatirons Food Film Festival.
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ood writing was not a serious journalism job. When I started working for local publications in the late 1970s in Colorado, stories about dining, cooking, agriculture and food culture were afterthoughts. They weren’t giving out too many food-writing awards back then. In 1985 when I started writing Nibbles (for the Daily Camera), I was the first male food editor for a Colorado newspaper. That wasn’t surprising, given that the food section was originally called The Women’s Pages. Male editors thought the recipes and tips were just space-fillers around the food ads. That disdain changed dramatically in the years that followed and now, well, food writing is cool. I always believed food was the most important beat. I could write about everything important in life through the lens of cuisine. There are scores of writers and bloggers across multiple platforms chronicling the every nuance of the food world. When the late Jonathan Gold became the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, I — and a lot of professional culinary scribes — felt legitimized. I had always felt a kinship with Gold, who wrote for the Los I
Angeles Times, because we were both music critics locked in food editor jobs. I became a food editor because all the music critic jobs were taken, and so I ended up reviewing restaurants and writing about music on the side. Gold and I also shared an affection for language and a preference for small, family-owned bakeries and take-out joints. And, honestly, we both also looked like your stereotype of a dining critic. Long before the late Anthony Bourdain made edible journalism cool and shared his love of street food, Gold expressed the romance and dignity of true American fare. He knew that the best food stories are always to be found in tiny restaurants run by immigrants. I only met him once for a few moments at the Flatirons Food Film Festival in Boulder after a showing of the documentary about him, City of Gold. Gold was suitably rumpled and gracious while surrounded by folks who wanted to share their latest eatery finds with him. Do your brain and appetite a favor and watch the film. If you want to celebrate his spirit, not to mention Bourdain’s, skip the national see NIBBLES Page 40
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LOCAL FOOD NEWS The Hygiene Hay Days Pie Contest is Saturday in the little town of Hygiene near Longmont. I’ll be heading up the pie judge contingent so be sure to enter your favorite summer fruit pie with flaky crust. ... Flatirons Food Film Festival hosts a screening and discussion on the CU-Boulder campus Aug. 28 for Modified, a documentary on the spread of GMOs in the United States and Canada. Free tickets with registration at flatironsfoodfilmfest.org ... The latest addition to the local produce sellers at the Lafayette Farmers Market is Micro Farms, a collection of tiny farms that are cultivated using backyards and lawns in the Denver area.
PB&J IN LONGMONT This area used to be known as the home of natural foods, herbal tea and craft beer. Soon, we’ll be “the place where they make all the Uncrustables.” The J.M. Smucker Company has opened a new, 430,000-square-foot factory in Longmont solely to make Smucker’s Uncrustables frozen sandwiches, 2 million a day. That’s a flood of squishy white bread, sweet grape jelly and peanut butter heading to Longmont, and 2 million sandwiches a day going out to homes across America. The factory opening creates 200 decent jobs but raises some questions. Since every sandwich is imaged and checked for “unwanted crust or excess fillings,” that means there is a ton of food waste every day. What do they do with all the crusts they cut off: Feed livestock, compost them or provide “seconds” that can feed students at local schools? Why this aversion to bread crust, arguably the best part of a great loaf of bread? I understand the time crunch on busy parents but I wonder why Uncrustables exist since it only takes the better part of a minute to make a PB&J sandwich. To make your own better Uncrustables, start with slices of really good soft bread. Spread both sides with quality nut butter and plop some favorite jam in the middle, and trim it using a thin metal cookie or biscuit cutter and press the edges. Stores like McGuckin Hardware offer an array of cutter shapes from guitars to locomotives. Then freeze them for later.
John Lehndorff is the former Chief Judge of the National Pie Championship. He hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, kgnu.org).
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That’s a wrap Put this summer’s harvest to good use with sturdy lettuce wraps
by Ari LeVaux
THERE ARE PLENTY of hen I was a teenage prep cook, I created a options for wrap vessels, dish that never made it onto the menu, but, when done right, leteven as a special, and even though it was tuce and other leafy greens reign supreme. called the Ari Special. It was a favorite among the staff. Everyone, from the absent manager to the Austrian baker, the waitress I was crushing on and the waiter on cocaine, all loved the Ari Special. It consisted of an 8-inch baguette end stuffed with chopped deli turkey, onions, tomatoes, parsley and mayo. The mix mingled with the spongy, bready insides, while the browned exterior stayed dry. That was decades before this kind of dish would rocket to popularity under the name “wrap,” the universal architecture of a vessel that holds different ingredients together so they can be chewed together just so, like a sandwich, only tighter. Whether it’s a tortilla-clad burrito or a spring roll held together by chewy rice paper, everyone loves a wrap. A wrap’s character is mostly determined by its filling. At least it should be. The wrapper’s job is to contain the filling, and carby wrappers like tortillas and rice paper make supple, forgiving, leak-proof shells. The Ari Special, with its no-leak, tapered end, was ahead of its time. In addition to its one job of holding the insides where they belong, a wrapper can also contribute to the culinary experience. A quality sourdough baguette or a warm corn tortilla can elevate a wrap, but many wrappers trade healthfulness for convenience or performance. Whole grain, multigrain, sprouted grain, spelt grain, grainy-grain and the likes don’t do it for me. They may pack fiber, protein and other nutrients, but they are boring to eat, if not dry or gobby, especially when cold. When the wrapper is made out of lettuce, there are no empty calories. There is not a single diet on Earth, fad or classic, from the Mediterranean to South Beach, that would shun a lettuce wrap. The only problem is that lettuce wraps, technically speaking, barely exist. At least the durable, tubular, burritolike variety. Most recipes for lettuce wraps are for boats, often overloaded, see WRAPS Page 44
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getting soggier by the minute. Under the right conditions, a lettuce wrap will persist briefly on a serving plate, like an unstable subatomic particle. But if you stare with even a hint of desire, the contents get restless, knowing their chance at freedom is nigh. Other leaves, like chard, cabbage, grape leaf or collard greens, make superior wrappers to lettuce, but only if they are steamed, which increases their flexibility and prevents cracking. Plunge the leaves in an ice bath after no more than 30 seconds of steam. Once dried, these leaves have a durable elasticity that can hold a wrap together in a firm grip, with or without an under layer of lettuce. It can even be folded at the bottom to prevent drip, for a truly burrito-like performance. But I prefer my leaves raw. And I’ve always been more of a taco guy, if not a corn chip guy. I prefer my food in smaller units, because smaller units are easier to micromanage into perfect mouthfuls of just the right amount of each ingredient. Boats, it turns out, are on the right track. My initiation into the small wrapper society came at Saigon Restaurant in Albuquerque. I thought I had just ordered a fried fish. It came with a pile of leaves and salad bar’s worth of chopped veggies, herbs and sauces. The trick, we quickly realized, is to not overload the wrapper — a universal truth in the world of wraps. Along those lines, my wife has been wrapping pieces of feta in black kale, from time to time, and popping them in her mouth, and a friend of mine likes to take the ingredients for wraps on outings. “For us it allows on-the-fly construction,” he says. “So no smashed sandwiches, lettuce stays crisp. Plus no bloaty carbs. Just meat and vegetables.” Loading lettuce leaves is an intuitive and fun way to eat. To help get you start44
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ed, I’ll share a deconstructed version of the Ari Special, heavily influenced by the late NPR commenter and food writer Kim Williams. Her recipe for a corn-stuffed tomato was not only a contemporary of the Ari Special, but similar. Alas, a tomato isn’t much of a wrapper compared to a baguette end or tortilla, but Williams’ corn, basil, tomato filling is spot-on. Adding chopped deli turkey brings it closer to old-school Ari Special territory, but protein is optional.
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The core of this dish is learning how to eat it. Leaf loading is a new world, with its own language and customs. Each type of leaf, and even leaves from different parts of the head, will have different structure and flexibility. Let this architecture guide you as you load and fold. Serves 4 1 head’s worth of raw lettuce leaves, cleaned and organized on a platter or large plate ½ cup chopped sweet onions 1 ear’s worth of raw corn kernels 2 tablespoons mayo 1 bunch of basil leaves 1 pound of tomatoes, cut into ½-inch chunks ½ pound protein, chopped coarsely (deli meat like turkey, ham or fake) ½ teaspoon salt Mix the corn with the salt. Arrange the ingredients on a platter, in little piles or in little bowls, and serve. To eat, load a leaf with a modest amount of filling. Aim for pieces of oneand-a-half bites each. You don’t want the pressure of having to get the whole thing in your mouth. Just take a nice bite, and you leave relatively few remains in your fingertips for a follow-up. And that’s a wrap. BOULDER WEEKLY
‘Beer doesn’t just go with chicken wings and a pretzel’
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ow in its eighth year, Chef & Brew Festival is one of Colorado’s premier beer and food events — a flourishing segment in culinary appreciation, but one still in need of attention. As conventional wisdom goes: Wine is culinary while beer is strictly social; a dictate cuisine-minded craft brewers have been trying to overturn since the late 1970s. “If you think about it, beer has more acid; it has less alcohol than, say, wine,” Elizabeth L. Woessner, co-owner of Chef & Brew, explains. “Our philosophy is: Beer doesn’t just go with chicken wings and a pretzel. ... It’s an amazing pairing with high-end, chef-driven food.” Furthermore, wine is often made from a single grape varietal while beer comprises a range of ingredients. Something founders Michael Long and Michael Burns sought to celebrate when THE BREWTOGRAPHY PROJECT they started Chef & Brew — a competition where local chefs and brewers team up to create the “ultimate food and beer pairing.” “It [gives them] a chance to think outside their own daily grind and do something collaborative and totally creative,” Woessner says. “And they totally bring their A-game to this event.” Taking place at Denver’s EXDO Event Center on Aug. 28, this year’s lineup will feature pairings from 20-plus teams. Some are returning favorites and past winners, others are new invitees. “We can make suggestions, but we really let the brewers and the chefs pick each other,” Woessner explains, pointing out that as more restaurants feature beer-driven cuisine, the better events like Chef & Brew get. Three in competition: Westbound & Down Brewing Company, Briar Common Brewery & Eatery, and Liberati Restaurant & Brewery, are bringing in-house chefs, “who work every single day at creating perfect pairings,” Woessner says. “They’re kind of ideal for us.” Woessner singles out Briar Common, which won three awards last year, including Best Pairing: A lettuce-wrapped porchetta with a hazy grapefruit India pale ale. And teams don’t just compete for bragging rights, winners net cash prizes in three categories: Best Beer, Best Dish, Best Pairing, all selected by a panel of judges. There is also the People’s Choice Award. “Every year they get more competitive, and every year they do something a little bit better than last year,” Woessner says. “They really [think] about how they are going to create the perfect pairing.” Woessner recounts the year Joshua Olsen of Squeaky Bean won with a simple Peruvian blue potato with aioli. “It was off-the-hook delicious,” Woessner says, recounting one judge’s proclamation: “This might be the best thing I’ve eaten all year!” “Sometimes you just get surprises,” Woessner says. “And sometimes you get chefs from hotels that nobody’s heard of, that are not famous in this town, who win because they are really good chefs.” Tickets for Chef & Brew VIII start at $49 and can be purchased at chefandbrew.com. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES
MARCH 21-APRIL 19: It’s not cost-efficient to recycle plastic.
Sorting and processing the used materials to make them available for fresh stuff is at least as expensive as creating new plastic items from scratch. On the other hand, sending used plastic to a recycling center makes it far less likely that it will end up in the oceans and waterways, harming living creatures. So in this case, the short-term financial argument in favor of recycling is insubstantial, whereas the moral argument is strong. I invite you to apply a similar perspective to your upcoming decisions.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: African American slaves suffered many
horrendous deprivations. For example, it was illegal for them to learn to read. Their oppressors feared that educated slaves would be better equipped to agitate for freedom, and took extreme measures to keep them illiterate. Frederick Douglass was one slave who managed to beat the ban. As he secretly mastered the art of reading and writing, he came upon literature that ultimately emboldened him to escape his “owners” and flee to safety. He became one of the nineteenth century’s most powerful abolitionists, producing reams of influential writing and speeches. I propose that we make Douglass your inspiring role model for the coming months. I think you’re ready to break the hold of a certain curse — and go on to achieve a gritty success that the curse had prevented you from accomplishing.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: “The learning process is something you
can incite, literally incite, like a riot,” wrote author Audre Lorde. As an astrologer I would add this nuance: although what Lourde says is true, some phases of your life are more favorable than others to seek deep and rapid education. For example, the coming weeks will bring you especially rich teachings if you incite the learning process now.
LEO
MAY 21-JUNE 20: For 25 years, businessman Don
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as one of the survivors. He went on to live to the age of 113. Because of the chaos of World War I, he had never gotten to do his bar mitzvah when he’d turned thirteen. So he did it much later, in his old age. I foresee a comparable event coming up soon in your life, Virgo. You will claim a reward or observe a milestone or collect a blessing you weren’t able to enjoy earlier.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Sailors have used compasses to nav-
igate since the 11th century. But that tool wasn’t enough to guide them. A thorough knowledge of the night sky’s stars was a crucial aid. Skill at reading the ever-changing ocean currents always proved valuable. Another helpful trick was to take birds on the ships as collaborators. While at sea, if the birds flew off and returned, the sailors knew there was no land close by. If the birds didn’t return, chances were good that land was near. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I think it’s an excellent time to gather a number of different navigational tools for your upcoming quest. One won’t be enough.
SCORPIO
immaculate hotbeds of high-tech media technology where interesting people live. He loves the community he has created, which is more important to him than status and privilege. “For me, experiences are more meaningful than stuff,” he says. “I have way more experiences here.” I’d love to see you reaffirm your commitment to priorities like his in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’ll be a favorable time to do so.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Medical researcher Jonas Salk developed
a successful polio vaccine, so he had a strong rational mind. Here’s how he described his relationship with his non-rational way of knowing. He said, “It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner.” I bring this up, Capricorn, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time to celebrate and cultivate your own intuition. You may generate amazing results as you learn to trust it more and figure out how to deepen your relationship with it.
AQUARIUS
has come to mean “mind your own business,” and usually in a pejorative sense. But I’d like to expand it and soften it for your use in the coming weeks. Let’s define it as meaning “stick to what you’re good at and know about” or “don’t try to operate outside your area of expertise” or “express yourself in ways that you have earned the right to do.” Author Zadie Smith says that this is good advice for writers. “You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it, and focus on what works,” she attests. Apply that counsel to your own sphere or field, Leo.
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: What do you want from the allies who aren’t your lovers? What feelings do you most enjoy while you’re in the company of your interesting, nonromantic companions? For instance, maybe you like to be respected and appreciated. Or perhaps what’s most important to you is to experience the fun of being challenged and stimulated. Maybe your favorite feeling is the spirit of collaboration and comradeship. Or maybe all of the above. In any case, Scorpio, I urge you to get clear about what you want — and then make it your priority to foster it. In the coming weeks, you’ll have the power to generate an abundance of your favorite kind of non-sexual togetherness.
VIRGO
SAGITTARIUS
under the sign of Virgo in 1903. His father was a scholar of the Torah, and he began studying Judaism and learning Hebrew at age three. He lived a long life and had many adventures, working as a candle-maker and a candy-maker. When the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, Kristal emerged
Zappos, Sagittarius entrepreneur Tony Hsieh is worth almost a billion dollars. If he chose, he could live in a mansion by the sea. Yet his home is a 200-square-foot, $48,000 trailer in Las Vegas, where he also keeps his pet alpaca. To be clear, he owns the entire trailer park, which consists of 30 other trailers, all of which are
sends to answer our prayers,” wrote author Janette Oke. I suspect that observation will apply to you in the coming weeks. If you’re an atheist or agnostic, I’ll rephrase her formulation for you: “We may be surprised at whom Life sends to answer our entreaties.” There’s only one important thing you have to do to cooperate with this experience: set aside your expectations about how help and blessings might appear.
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became part of Beyond Meat, a company that sells vegan alternatives to meat. I could see you undergoing an equally dramatic shift in the coming months, Gemini: a transition into a new role that resembles but is also very different from a role you’ve been playing. I urge you to step up your fantasies about what that change might entail.
AUGUST 22, 2019
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Aquarian environmentalist Edward Abbey
once formulated a concise list of his requirements for living well. “One must be reasonable in one’s demands on life,” he wrote. “For myself, all that I ask is: 1. accurate information; 2. coherent knowledge; 3. deep understanding; 4. infinite loving wisdom; 5. no more kidney stones, please.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to create your own tally of the Five Crucial Provisions. Be bold and precise as you inform life about your needs.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “We may be surprised at whom God
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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I’m a male in my late 50s. I went to a urologist for my erection problem, which was helped with ED medication. But orgasms are very hard to achieve, and the ED medication does not seem to make orgasms any easier to have. My girlfriend appreciates the erections, but I would also like to climax. This is very frustrating. Any advice? —Pills Inhibiting Lusty Loads Dear PILL: Tits and dicks both sag with age, which is why push-up bras and push-up pills were invented. And while ED meds do make it easier for a guy to get an erection, they can also make it more difficult for a guy to climax. Upside: You last longer. Downside: You may sometimes have sex without climaxing. Or you can shift your perspective and try to see this downside as a secret upside: Sometimes you get to enjoy sex without climaxing — and next time, when you do climax, you’ll blow a bigger load. Dear Dan: I am a bisexual man who’s active in the sex-positive community, and I
love playing with couples. ing relationships with established couples I was updating my Feeld — couldn’t identify as unicorns, too. But profile to reflect this desire, are you a unicorn? People began to call but I realized there’s no those bi women “unicorns” because they consistent term for a male were hard to find and everyone, it seemed, unicorn. So I listed “Male/ was looking for one. People interested in Stag/Stallion/Minotaur/ simply playing with couples aren’t anyPegasus,” various terms I’ve seen people where near as hard to find. use. WTF, it shouldn’t ROMAN ROBINSON require a whole line in my Dear Dan: I’m a profile to run through all the 46-year-old man and I terms! As the person who recently met a 31-year-old famously crowdsourced woman. We have not had “pegging,” I was hoping you PIV sex yet, but we have could work your magic and enjoyed several nights of get everyone to agree on a cuddling, spooning, etc. as nonbinary term that works the relationship progresses. for all sexual identities. She has made it very clear —Having One Reliable she wants our first time to Name be a fairy-tale evening, so we have yet to take things Dear HORN: What’s past mild foreplay. Plot wrong with “unicorn”? Unicorns — the twist: After two nights of us sleeping mythical beasts — can be female, male, or, together, I realized she’s a sexsomniac. I suppose, genderless or genderfluid. They She had no idea until I told her, and she can be anything we want them to be, barely believes me. But if I put my arm HORN, since we made them up. And while around her to cuddle when she’s asleep, the term first came into use to describe bi she immediately sexually responds to the women who weren’t just open to having skin-to-skin contact. On two occasions sex with an established, opposite-sex coushe’s performed oral on me. I’m not comple, but open to committing to a couple and plaining, as this is quite possibly every forming a poly triad, there’s no reason men guy’s dream. My question is around conand/or nonbinary folks who are interested sent when dealing with situations like this. in the same — hooking up with and form—She’s My Dream Girl
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f you’ve exhausted your summer reading list, never fear: We’ve put together a primer on some of the best pot books out there, several of them written by authors from this neck of the woods. We’ve included titles that’ll help you learn to grow more in a smaller space, or how to break into the burgeoning pot industry. Perhaps it’s time to stop making weed butter the same way you’ve been making it since high school and really level up your marijuana-inflused baked goods game — make pot brownies like an adult, damn it. Medicinal, recreational, horticultural, historical… pot is interesting and there are a lot of books about it.
History
Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific, by Martin A. Lee (2012). Lee is a counterculture connoisseur, writing his first drugfocused book, Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion, in 1985. Smoke Signals similarly looks at the way marijuana has shaped American society and politics, tracing its rise as a tool of the counterculture in the 1960s to its dominance today as a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry. It’s colorful, funny and educational. For a classic marijuana history book, check out Jack Herer’s The Emperor Wears No Clothes from 1973.
Cultivation
Marijuana Cultivation Reconsidered, by Read Spears (2014) Spears was a pioneer in the medical marijuana dispensary game in Colorado. He began cultivating pot back in the ’80s and has spent the intervening
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decades working as a consultant with expertise in new business development, funding, and mergers and acquisitions. He’s also scribed countless articles for High Times and other high-profile publications. This book contains all of Spear’s previous book, Small Spaces, Big Yields, plus much more — like, 200 more pages, including an extensive glossary and six appendices filled with useful information. Danny Danko, the senior cultivation editor for High Times, calls it “a must-read for any grower striving to learn more than the basics.”
and greenhouse cannabis cultivation. At nearly 600 pages, this truly is an encyclopedic guide to medical marijuana cultivation and consumption. You can learn about essential grow techniques through more than 2,000 color images and easy step-by-step instructions. Cervantes covers the history of marijuana as medicine, the stages of plant growth all the way through harvesting, drying, curing and finally the many methods by which you can consume. Learn to design a greenhouse, fight nutrient deficiencies in plants, increase yields and cross bred.
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Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis, by Melissa Parks and Laurie Wolf (2015) Classically trained chefs Melissa Parks and Laurie Wolf offer a sophisticated take on cooking with cannabis with more than 200 pages of recipes that allow home cooks to better understanding dosing and flavor profiles. Learn to develop consistent canna-butter, canna-oil and cannaolive oil. Create appetizers, entrees and desserts that compliment the taste of the herb to create truly memorable meals. This is a book for the everyday cook; no special equipment necessary.
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The Cannabis Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to Cultivation & Consumption of Medical Marijuana, by Jorge Cervantes (2015) Cervantes is a world-renowned expert with more than 30 years worth of experience with indoor, outdoor
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The Business of Cannabis, by D.J. Summers (2018) An Alaska resident, D.J. Summers does talk specifically about pot in The Land of the Midnight Sun, but his deep and broad understanding of cannabis policy is critical for anyone in any state who’s interested in trying to break into the pot biz. He explores how cannabis businesses can operate like other established industries (alcohol, pharmaceuticals and tobacco); shares experiences from other legalized jurisdictions; and breaks down federal regulations and how policies at various levels of government interact. At under 200 pages, you’re not going to find a more concise guide to the cannabis industry.
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Marijuana vs. Cancer: The evidence is growing By Paul Danish
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esearchers at Amity University in India recently produced a literature survey of papers on the use of natural and synthetic cannabis compounds to treat cancer. They found that dozens of studies have found positive effects and conclude that THC and other cannabinoids should be “exploited” as anti-cancer drugs and for other medical purposes. Apart from having anti-nausea, anti-pain, antianxiety and appetite-stimulating palliative effects LAURIE AVOCADO/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
for cancer patients going through chemotherapy, THC also shows a “promising role in the treatment of cancer growth, neurodegenerative diseases (multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease), and alcohol addiction and hence should be exploited for potential benefits,” the researchers wrote. The survey was done by Siddharth A. Shah, Anand Shyamlal Gupta and Piyush Kumar of the Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Navi Mumbai. It has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics. The study is highly technical and can be accessed atcancerjournal.net/preprintarticle. asp?id=263538. Here are some of the main findings, as highlighted by Kyle Jaeger at the Marijuana Moment website:
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• Cannabinoids appear to combat tumor growth and activate various biological mechanisms leading to apoptosis (cell death) of cancer cells from glioma, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer. At least one clinical trial showed that patients with recurring glioblastoma who were treated with a “proprietary combination of THC and CBD” in addition to a traditional chemotherapy drug had a one-year survival rate of 83 percent, compared with a placebo group’s 53 percent. • Similar results were observed in some prostate cancer cell lines. There was significant “cell growth inhibition followed by apoptosis” in one cancer cell type in a study that evaluated the in vitro (test tube or cell culture dish) effects of endocannabinoids (cannabinoids found naturally in the body) and the synthetic analog of one of them. • The survey’s authors found studies in which mice with certain lung cancers that had been treated with THC had a “notable reduction of subcutaneous tumor growth and lung metastasis” of cancer cells, pointing to THC’s “significance as a novel therapeutic molecule in lung cancer treatment.” • One study found that blood cancer cells treated with two synthetic endocannabinoids activated cell receptors that “mediated apoptosis.” • An oral cancer cell line that was “highly resistant to anticancer drugs” showed “cellular respiration inhibition” when treated with THC. A conventional treatment option “showed no such effect.” • In addition to THC, other cannabinoids showed anti-cancer effects. A synthetic CBD compound called 940-CBD was effective in combating the proliferative effects and invasiveness of a particular breast cancer cell line. The survey’s authors concluded that research evidence on cannabinoids suggests “tumor inhibiting and suppressing properties which warrant reconsidering legality of the substance.” “Studies on [cannabinoid] receptors, in case of
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cancers, have demonstrated the psychoactive constituents of cannabinoids to be potent against tumor growth,” they added. None of the studies cited were clinical trials. Most of them were studies of cells in test tubes or lab dishes, with a few using mice. Most of them could have been done years, or even decades ago if marijuana research wasn’t blocked by governments. So, here’s a topic for research in the social sciences: How many millions of lives could have been saved if the folks who brought us the war on drugs hadn’t been able to snuff marijuana research for two generations? And should the deliberate suppression of research into the medicinal uses of marijuana be viewed not just as a crime against science, which it self-evidently is, but as a crime against humanity? Just askin’. • • • • The latest data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which includes data on marijuana use, is out. It shows adult marijuana use is rising while youth use is falling. It found that in 2017 (evidently the most recent year for which data is available), 14.5 percent of Americans over the age of 12 had used marijuana at least once in the previous 12 months. For 2002 the number was 10.71 percent, an increase of 35 percent in the last 15 years. Since 2011, pot use by Americans 26 years old and older spiked from under 5 to 8 percent, and use by young adults aged 18-25 rose from 19 to 22 percent. But use by teenagers aged 12 to 17 dropped from over 8 percent to about 6 percent. Jean-Gabriel Fernandez, writing at Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express, succinctly explained the trends: “…[I]t appears likely that legal cannabis — being inaccessible to minors through legal means and harder to find on the black market of legal states — has contributed to this decline.” Which is how legalization is supposed to work.
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