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The myth of the center-right By Dave Anderson

enator Sherrod Brown of Ohio says that too many pundits and Democratic leaders pose a false choice “between fighting for our progressive values or winning elections.” He should know. He has one of the most progressive voting records in Congress yet he won re-election in 2018 by seven points in a state that supported Donald Trump by almost double digits in 2016. He says, “Elections aren’t about some ‘electability’ calculation — they are about one question: Whose side

are you on? Are you on the side of corporations or workers? Wall Street or consumers? Drug companies or patients? The mainstream media identify folks like Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden and Howard Schultz as the sensible, pragmatic centrists who are the most electable. In an article on The Intercept, Mehdi Hasan argues that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are the actual centrists since they advocate for policies supported by the vast majority of

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Americans. He cites many public opinion polls on a wide variety of issues. Hasan wonders if “the center ground” really exists. “It moves, it shifts, it reacts to events,” he says. “The center of 2019 is not the center of 1999 or even 2009.” Eric Levitz, political writer for New York Magazine, is sure there is no center. He says there aren’t very many voters who hold consistently liberal or conservative ideological views. He explains: “Public opinion varies across more than one ideological dimension. There are a good number of people in America who support increasing Social Security see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

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benefits and banning Muslims from immigrating to the United States. Which shouldn’t be surprising, given that there is no inherent contradiction between those two beliefs.” He cites a 2014 study by Berkeley political scientists David Broockman and Douglas Ahler who surveyed voters on 13 policy issues. They offered them seven distinct positions to choose from on each, which ranged from very liberal to very conservative. The centrist position was the most popular on only two issues (gay rights and the environment) On marijuana, the most popular policy was complete legalization. On immigration, the largest number of people supported “the immediate roundup and deportation of all undocumented immigrants and an outright moratorium on all immigration until the border is proven secure.” On taxes, the most popular proposal was to increase the rate on income above $250,000 by more than 5%. The third most favored policy was to tax all income above $1 million at 100%. So if a politician advocated those positions, would he or she be considered a centrist? Not really. Levitz notes that when pundits urge Democrats to be middle of the road, they are urging them “to embrace a combination of moderate fiscal conservatism, a cosmopolitan attitude toward globalization, and moderate social liberalism — in short, to become the party of Michael Bloomberg. ... The former New York mayor is routinely referred to as a centrist in the mainstream press, despite the fact that his policy commitments — support for Social Security cuts, Wall Street deregulation, mass immigration and marriage equality — when taken together, put him at the fringes of American public opinion.” A study of the 2016 electorate by political scientist Lee Drutman found that voters who had Bloomberg’s politics (right of center on economic issues and left of center on “identity” issues) was only 3.8%. David Broockman told Vox’s Ezra Klein in 2014, “When we say moderate what we really mean is what corporations want. ... Within both parties there is this tension between I

what the politicians who get more corporate money and tend to be part of the establishment want — that’s what we tend to call moderate — versus what the Tea Party and more liberal members want.” If the Democratic nominee advocates a Michael Bloomberg style of politics, Donald Trump will win. Very few voters have any ideology, but a majority of Americans consistently support a left-of-center economic agenda when they are polled on particular policy questions. Levitz cites Drutman’s analysis that “73.5% of 2016 voters espoused broadly liberal views on economic policy. If people voted solely on the basis of their intuitions about how government should intervene in the economy (when interrogated about such matters by pollsters), Democrats would dominate all levels of government.” But that isn’t how most folks vote. They view politics through the lens of group identity (religion, ethnicity or race, region, class) rather than an abstract philosophy of government. Levitz argues that the Democrats “should do the pragmatic thing in 2020, and wage a vicious class war.” He mentions Boston University political scientist Spencer Piston and his 2018 book, Class Attitudes in America. Piston studied the “open-ended responses” section of the 2008 American National Election Studies (ANES) survey of voters and found that the electorate is a great deal more class-conscious and populist (in the original progressive sense) than portrayed in the media. A majority of Americans in the survey said that the rich “have more money than they deserve” and expressed sympathy for the poor, while large pluralities were comfortable saying, unequivocally, that they felt “resentment” toward the wealthy. Levitz notes that Piston’s research is buttressed by many polls that show that a supermajority of Americans want big tax hikes on the rich. So we have a moderate middle and they want to soak the rich. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Greenland and the art of the deal

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rump, don’t get in a snit just because everyone in Greenland and Denmark blew off your idea about the U.S. buying Greenland. Do what any good real estate guy does when he gets a “not interested, you’ve got to be kidding” reply to an unsolicited buy-out proposal. Make them an offer. A serious offer. An offer that can’t be ignored. An offer that’s really hard to reject. Something along the lines of this, maybe. First off, a Greenland deal will require a willing buyer and a willing seller. A hostile takeover won’t fly, much as the Marines might like the practice. This means that both the Greenlanders and the Danes have to willingly, and preferably enthusiastically, agree to the deal. How to get this sort of buy-in? Start by taking the rubber band off the bankroll. According to the CIA World Factbook, an indispensible work for anyone contemplating mergers and acquisitions on an international level, the population of Greenland as of July 2018 was 57,691. Offer every man, woman and child $2 million each, tax-free, if 75% of the island’s citizens vote in favor of the sale in a national referendum. This works out to a payment of $115.38 billion. Round it up to $120 billion for easy figuring. In addition, offer American citizenship to all who want it, or permanent resident status for those who want to retain their Danish citizenship. Throw in a generous infrastructure package as a further deal-sweetener. OK, that’s all well and fine for the Greenlanders, but what about Denmark? What could get the Danes to buy into the deal? There are too many Danes, roughly 5.8 million, according to the CIA, to offer each of them $2 million. Instead, offer the Danish government a sum equal to the payout to the Greenlanders: $120 billion. And to sweeten the deal, throw in a $1 billion endowment for each of the country’s

eight universities. And all the F-35s the Danish Air Force wants, free of charge. If there’s still resistance to the idea of selling, raise the payout to Greenlanders to $3 million per head and the payment to the Danish government to $180 billion. Would payouts of this magnitude persuade the Greenlanders and the Danes to sell? We won’t know unless we ask. But it’s certainly reasonable to assume that there will be some Greenlanders and Danes who would argue that within a few years of a U.S. acquisition of Greenland, the Greenlanders’ culture and way of life would be swept away by a gringo Tsunami. And there’s a good chance they would be right. So offer a Plan B. Instead of buying all 836,325 square miles of Greenland, offer to buy only 95% of the island (794,508 square miles). The remaining 41,817 square miles would be retained by Denmark in the form of 1,000- to 5,000-square-mile enclaves around the island’s communities. That way the local way of life could be preserved for those who wanted it. The real question isn’t what would it take to get the Greenlanders and the Danes to sell, but why would the U.S. want to buy Greenland in the first place? After all, about 80% of Greenland is covered with ice. So would paying $250 billion or so for Greenland be worth it? You bet it would. It would be a bargain at twice or three times the price. And not just for the natural resources — the CIA says Greenland has coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, molybedenum, diamonds, gold, platinum, niobium, tantalite, uranium, fish, seals, whales, hydropower, and possible oil and natural gas — or for national security reasons like keeping the Chinese from setting up outposts there (they’ve already been feeling out the Danes). Eight-tenths of Greenland may be under ice today, but thanks to global warming, the ice is melting. And there is ample reason to expect that the rate

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We are already great Americans

That a president of our United States of America implied this week that Jews voting Democratic are “disloyal” if they are Democrats is horrible! Are Methodists disloyal if they are Republicans? Are Catholics disloyal for voting one way or another? Jews, Catholics, Methodists and others are Americans who are already great! And, at the same time, a president pretending to try to buy Hong Kong; oh, I mean Madagascar; oh, I mean Greenland! Why not China? LOL. Less amusing is that Fascist killer Adolf Hitler used Jews as scapegoats in the 1940s. He blamed everything on them. After he blamed his shortcomings on the Jews, layering more and more on them as their faults, then Hitler murdered them. If our beautiful Americans, including Jewish, Presbyterian, Native American, and all our patriots of every background had not so bravely fought in World War II, what would have happened then? Listen to me, Mr. President: America is already great! Kind Americans of every faith accept and cooperate with each other’s religions and communities to help other great

Americans get through floods, fires, tragedies and wars. We all together are smart enough to instantly identify your Hitleresque emulation of Jewish prejudice. America is way above your slanted behavior. To separate out Judaism to use it as a selfish distraction from your stock market failures is despicable and not the American way. When Wall Street graphs shot down 800 points this week with stock market graphs negatively colored a bright, scary red, you reached a new low yourself, President Trump! Grow up! Louise Love/Boulder

Trump, bankruptcy and a way out

When Donald Trump, as an overreaching businessman, overspent and underfunded frequently foolish enterprises, bankruptcy was the parachute that saved him from his crashing pursuits. His creditors shared in the losses. Three years now into an overreaching and underfunded presidency, his outs, and those of all America, are much more sketchy. Perhaps he is indeed “the Chosen One,” a divine revelation of just how awry excess capitalism can go. Robert Porath/Boulder

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at which it’s melting will accelerate. “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” Mark Twain once remarked, but in Greenland land is defrosting, which is almost as good as making it. Talk about an appreciating asset. The real reason the U.S. should buy Greenland is because we’re going to need more land. That’s because, unlike most other countries, millions of people want to move to the U.S. About a million people a year immigrate legally. The waiting list for a green card currently has about 4 million names on it, and it keeps getting longer. Depending on a potential immigrant’s status under the law, the wait can be more than a decade. That helps explain why there are 11 million non-Americans in the country illegally. America used to absorb and assimilate millions of immigrants effortlessly because it had a frontier. I

Unfortunately, it closed about 130 years ago. Today we need a new one, to accommodate both wannabe Americans and American malcontents looking for a new start. Greenland is no Louisiana Purchase or Alaska Purchase even. But a) it has the virtue of being almost totally uninhabited, and b) it’s thawing out. Granted, like the old frontier, Greenland wouldn’t be for the faint of heart. But while people who walk from El Salvador to the Rio Grande in order to sneak into the U.S. can be called many things, faint of heart isn’t one of them. In fact they may be just the people you would want to invite to help you settle a new frontier. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. BOULDER WEEKLY

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Phillip Doe is a former environmental compliance officer and head of the Reclamation Law Administration for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He currently serves as the environmental director for Be the Change Colorado.

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he many citizens who believe Governor Jared Polis is slowwalking implementation of the new Colorado oil and gas law, Senate Bill 181, were served no surprise the other night at a meeting in Thornton. These citizens now know with certainty Polis will not implement the new law any time soon. In place of SB 181 is a fabricated set of 16 “Objective Criteria” established by Jeffrey Robbins — Polis’ choice to head the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) as well as his former attorney who managed to push drillers back from the governor’s country estate a few years ago. Robbins was invited to speak in Thornton to a group of citizens threatened by what the writer Rob Nixon has termed the slow violence of fracking. It was there that Robbins explained his 16 “Objective Criteria.” He told the crowd these criteria are the law, and will remain the law until new rules governing the real law, SB 181, could be promulgated. He defended this position by noting that as the head of the COGCC it was his responsibility alone to come up with an implementation plan within 30 days of SB 181’s passage. Indeed, in his view, the law made him Czar — his term — of all things oil and gas in the state of Colorado. A fairer reading of the legislation’s fine print would be for Robbins to set out in detail within 30 days of the law’s passage how he, as the state’s designated representative, was going to swiftly and faithfully implement SB 181. This bill’s intent is guided by the precautionary principle that when there is doubt about the impacts of an oil and gas activity on the public’s health or the environment, precaution requires the government not to proBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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by Phillip Doe ceed until those doubts are reasonably settled. But such an approach would inevitably cause delays in approving oil- and gas-drilling permits, which appears to be the reason Robbins has ignored the precautionary principle to date. Robbins’ approach has been the opposite. It appears to have been developed not from the language of the bill, but from the announcements of expected results by some highranking Democrats, particularly those Governor Polis made at the bill’s signing, where he said, “This is an important step forward for the stability of Colorado, to end the oil and gas wars in a way that everybody wins.” On its face, this statement may be dismissed as just one of those meaningless politician-speak clichés. The oil and gas industry clearly lost the legislative battle on SB 181 because the state went from fostering oil and gas development as its top priority to protecting the public and the environment as a condition for permitting new development. Legitimate rulemaking by Robbins I

and the COGCC as it pertains to SB 181 would mean the real war had only just begun. The only way the Governor’s “end of the war” proclamation could be true is if SB 181 were to be used as a prop to disguise a business-asusual approach adorned in vague promises of future enforcement. At this point it appears that is exactly what Polis intended. At the Thornton meeting, Robbins emphasized the governor opposed any statewide ban or moratorium. And he made it clear Polis favored the “Criteria” and undoubtedly approved them before their issuance. IT’S ALL ABOUT OUR HEALTH The sixth edition of The Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction) was released in June of this year. The Compendium is recognized as the definitive source for scientific and cultural information on fracking. It AUGUST 29, 2019

has been translated into Spanish and used as a source and reference document in the European Union, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico and Argentina. The vast majority of the studies and articles it contains expose fracking as a prevailing threat to the planet and most life on it. These are a few of the Compendium’s observations. • Wastewater samples collected from 329 fracked oil wells found that virtually all — 98% — contained benzene at levels that exceeded standards for permissible concentrations in drinking water. (Note: Benzene is a carcinogen and is unsafe to humans at any concentration.) • By April 2019, the amount of natural gas burned off via flaring in the Permian oil fields in Texas reached a record high, exceeding the amount of gas needed to power every residence in that state. (Note: Flaring and venting of natural gas in Colorado is also common. Drillers want the oil, but methane comes up with it. In many cases, the cost of getting the methane to market is greater than its market value so it is simply released into the atmosphere, where, according to the IPCC — the United Nations panel on climate — it has 125 times the heat trapping potential of CO2 over the critical time frame of 10 years. That’s the same time frame the IPCC recently warned we have left to control climate warming or face a perilous future. • Over 90% of all original research studies published from 2016-2018 on the health impacts of fracking find a positive association with immediate or potential harm. (Note: In the scientific world, 90% agreement constitutes consensus and cannot be legitimately ignored by any government serious about protecting public health and the environment.) Mr. Robbins’ 16 “Objective Criteria” do not acknowledge any of the more than 340 pages of abstractsee SB 181 Page 14

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ed scientific studies and articles documented in the Compendium. Instead, he simply asks that any drilling permits in an urban environment that are within 1,500 feet of people’s homes be sent to him for review. He, as Czar, will decide whether they pose a threat to public health and the environment. Rural folk and their proximity to proposed wells are apparently outside his purview. To date, over 450 wells have been approved since SB 181 was signed into law. Roughly 1,500 permits have been approved since Polis took office in January. Thus, from all appearances, the transition from the Hickenlooper to the Polis administration has been substantively seamless for oil industry interests despite all the shouts and murmurs that this would not be the case. One thing can be said with certainty; all the scientific evidence concerning fracking’s health and environmental impacts is not going to inform the Polis administration’s decision process any time soon. It will be done with magic tricks designed to gull the public. Lest you think I exaggerate, a woman at the Thornton meeting — hand-picked out of the audience by Robbins — gushed that Robbins had been successful in getting a driller to change his fracking formula, thus lessening the resulting stench in her neighborhood. But our review of the chemicals exchanged indicate both were diesel-based. Thus both contained benzene. So it appears there was a placebo effect — the smell got better — but the threat probably didn’t. The true extent of the toxic releases from the fracking operation would have been known had a continuous monitoring system been in place at those wells as required by SB 181, but the realization of that requirement now appears to be years out. Until that far-off day, we’ll have to rely on testimonials from nosesensitive neighbors on how the poisons from urban fracking can be ameliorated if you just know the right person. It is indeed fortunate for Robbins that the latest statistical study from Dr. Lisa McKenzie at the Colorado School of Public Health was not released until a day or two after his meeting in Thornton. McKenzie’s 14

peer-reviewed study indicates pregnant women living in proximity to fracking activity have up to a 70%-increased chance of giving birth to children with heart defects compared to pregnant women living away from fracking during pregnancy. During his Thornton presentation, an activist in the audience interrupted Robbins to say his 16 “Objective Criteria” were actually 16 “Subjective Criteria,” noting they weren’t based on any objective scientific information. He replied dismissively and somewhat nonsensically, “that could be your opinion.” The differences between the Robbins Law and SB 181, the law written to protect the people and the environment, are vast and numerous. Here are but a few of the more significant differences. SETBACKS One of the long-festering controversies over fracking has been the proper setback distance needed to protect human health. Fires and explosions are not uncommon at oil and gas facilities. Leaks and discharges of toxins, such as benzene, are ubiquitous. A significant number of deaths from explosion and fire have occurred. The state has continually increased the setbacks as a sop to the public’s clamor for better protection. Robbins’ 1,500-foot setback is simply the latest example in this official policy based on nothing more substantial than dampening public unrest whenever it reaches what the neoliberal establishment thinks is the boiling point. A citizen-sponsored setback iniAUGUST 29, 2019

tiative, Prop 112, was on the November election ballot. It called for a setback distance of 2,500 feet from where people live and work. It was opposed by establishment Democrats, including Polis, who explained his opposition with the trifling sound bite: “one size doesn’t fit all.” A compliant press never asked the future governor what that statement meant. Certainly it could be reasoned to mean that some people deserved more protection than others — particularly in light of the Robbins “Criteria,” which gives urban people a small amount of additional protection while excluding rural people from any additional setback protections. In part, it seems SB 181 was a peace offering to the proponents of Prop 112. The sincerity of the legislative effort, given present enforcement, could be called into doubt. As a participant in all the hearings on this bill and someone who even drafted language for it when asked, I believe the bill’s sponsors were sincere. It is unfortunate that a couple of them were prodded into denying industry claims that the purpose of the bill was to ban fracking. This created a talking point for the industry, which knew the actual purpose of the legislation is to protect the public and the environment. But what is required to protect the people and the environment will not soon be known or enforced given the Polis administration’s dallying. Robbins magisterially peering at some drilling applications, to the exclusion of others, is not a valid test for fracking’s wide range of negative and dangerous I

impacts. A mountain of scientific information exists suggesting setbacks, no matter how large, won’t mitigate the many harms of fracking. There are simply too many other factors that must be weighed and aggregated in any mature effort to evaluate the risks today’s drilling practices pose to people, the environment and the planet. This is not to say setbacks are not important. They are the first line of defense for people living in the fracking fields of Colorado. But 1,500 feet is nowhere near adequate to protect human health. Fire lines in Colorado for oil and gas fires are a one-half to 1 mile. Impacts on the fetus of pregnant women have been measured up to 10 miles away from extraction operations. In fact, the 1,500-foot Robbins’ setback of choice really isn’t a setback. It’s just a standard. Those permit applications with less than a 1,500-foot setback will still be reviewed and a permit could be issued. For those with at least a 1,500-foot setback, no review, no problem — except near schools where a 2,000-foot setback has now been arbitrarily dictated by Robbins. It seems no coincidence that a 1,500-foot setback was the compromise position developed for the oil industry by RS Energy last year during the battle over Prop 112. The industry study prepared at the time found that at 1,500 feet, the setbacks’ impacts on the industry’s core holdings would be minimal. Even Extraction Oil and Gas, whose business model is based on urban drilling, sometimes within shouting distance of playgrounds and parks, would have been only moderately impacted. FINANCIAL ASSURANCE SB 181 has a requirement that every driller, in order to get a new drilling permit, must present financial evidence that the company is capable of fulfilling its obligations to monitor, maintain and eventually close, plug and reclaim the wells being permitted. Though not a public health issue (except when wells are improperly plugged), this test for “can and will” is necessary to protect the public welsee SB 181 Page 16

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fare and is one of SB 181’s specific requirements. It is not covered in Robbins’ 16 “Objective Criteria.” The question of financial solvency has long plagued the industry. It has never made a sustainable profit from horizontally drilling and fracking shale formations. Its expenses have always exceeded the income generated from its oil and gas production from this expensive process. In 2017, the Wall Street Journal estimated the industry had debt totaling $280 billion. Its debt has only increased since then. It wasn’t long ago that some Wall Street analysts were saying Elon Musk would have to sell Tesla when his debt load reached $10 billion. That prophecy has not come true because the big difference between Musk and the frackers is that Musk can work himself out of debt if he can just build enough cars. He makes a profit on each one of them. The very opposite is true of today’s shale oil and gas industry — the more they drill the more they lose, and that has always been the case. In the past, the industry was able to get Wall Street investors to bet on its future. But those investors are now rightfully leery of continued funding for what appears to be a losing proposition. Without tremendous amounts of new borrowed money, the overall oil and gas shale extraction industry simply cannot survive at current market prices or even much higher prices. A recent report from one of the world’s leading banks warned that “the economics of renewables are impossible for oil to compete with.” It is their opinion that all the money presently being spent for developing new oil is a waste and could amount to as much as $24 trillion in lost investment capital for gas alone in the next 25 years if there isn’t a strategic U-turn in energy policy. This calculation does not include health and environmental costs. For example, another new study found that “coastal communities in the U.S. must spend upwards of $400 billion at a minimum in the next five to 10 years alone to protect property from sea level rise.” Colorado won’t have to worry about ocean flooding, but increased flash flooding, wildfires and drought are also impacts of climate warming and instability. And they do 16

carry costs. The evidence suggests the Polis administration does not believe in U-turns, even though the legislature provided a usable road map in the form of SB 181. The result of ignoring the realities of shale-oil-extraction economics is that the public will very likely, one day, have to pick up the tab for the closing, plugging and remediation of many, if not most, of the wells in this state, of which there are approximately 100,000. The costs will be many, many billions of dollars and will strain the state’s budget to the point of breaking. BONDING SB 181 directs the COGCC to revisit the bonding requirements to determine what amount of insurance is needed to adequately protect the public from someday inheriting the costs of closing and maintaining the industry’s old, played-out wells. Presently, drillers have to post a $10,000 bond for one well, but bonding is capped at a laughable $100,000 for all wells a driller owns and/or operates. Noble Energy, though the second largest producer in the state, has the most wells, more than 7,000. At $10,000 per well, that would require a bond of some $70 million not the $100,000 the current law requires. Last year about $5 million had to be allocated from the state’s general fund to close a few old, abandoned wells the COGCC had determined were an immediate health and safety risk. The cost came to about $250,000 per well. The COGCC has identified 365 more abandoned wells that should be likewise closed soon for public health and safety reasons. The legislature will likely have to allocate at least $91 million from the general fund to close them, and that’s only if there are no surprises. In California, the cost of closing two old wells in Hollywood recently ran to about a $1 million each. It is almost axiomatic that the closer fracked wells are to people and important public resources such as water supplies, the greater the costs of closing, plugging and monitoring. A leaked government report from the Canadian province of Alberta set the likely cost of closing all old wells and attendant infrastructure in the province at $130 billion. The provAUGUST 29, 2019

ince has less than $1 billion in a trust fund for environmental restoration. Colorado has no funds set aside by the legislature and no trust fund. Colorado has about half of Alberta’s 200,000 wells. The immediate question becomes how are we the people going to pay for the closing of old wells, how many will there be, and how likely is it they will become a long-term public liability? It is very likely the public will have to pay to close the majority of the wells in the state for the reasons discussed in the previous section on industry finances. It is a lead pipe cinch that the taxpayers will have to pay for the long-term maintenance of these wells, because the industry will be long gone in 20 years, replaced by renewables, assuming, of course, we humans are interested in and capable of self-preservation. Engineering studies show that old wells have to be resealed repeatedly, on average, every 20 years — concrete decays and steel corrodes. The costs tend to increase with re-closings. They are potentially a horrendous public cost. And still our elected officials treat the oil and gas industry as an economic positive to our state as opposed to the devastating liability it actually represents. This raises the question of why would the state not close off this obvious, known subsidy to the industry at the earliest opportunity? It is likely most of the 450 drilling permits issued since SB 181 became law were deemed bonded under the old system, so the drillers paid nothing, having already posted their $100,000 maximum. Thus, a $113-million taxpayer subsidy has likely been extended to the industry just since the April passage of SB 181 and Robbins’ 16 “Criteria” replaced it as state law shortly thereafter. Robbins’ Law does not address subsides or bonding, though bonding rulemaking is promised soon, perhaps. In another example of what the future holds, Anadarko, the largest producer in the state, was recently bought for $38 billion by Occidental Petroleum. As a condition for approving transfer of ownership under SB 181’s financial assurance requirements, the Polis administration could have insisted that new bonding was required. That could I

have allowed the $100,000 cap on bonding for Anadarko’s estimated 6,300 wells to have been increased to $1.6 billion at $250,000 per well, a much more realistic projection of what will eventually be needed. Still, the only reasonable way to get the funding needed to establish an adequate trust for closing wells is to raise the severance tax. Bonding increases would not be totally adequate to the job ahead since there are already about 100,000 wells in the state with inadequate or zero bonding, many of which are owned by small operators the state recognizes as financially distressed. A new requirement for permitting new wells should carry a caveat that all wells owned by the operator seeking the permit must be updated to at least a bond of $250,000 per well and more for wells in sensitive locations such as near neighborhoods, water supplies, etc. This bonding could also apply to any ownership transfer or financial assurance review which SB 181 specifies must be conducted annually. This would undoubtedly result in a coincidental reduction in new drilling permits. The organization I am member of, Be the Change-Colorado, floated a finished bill to increase the severance tax before Democratic leaders last year. It was not taken up. The Democrats felt that too much had been done with SB 181 on the docket. The severance tax in this state is now an effective .6%, 10 times lower than neighboring Wyoming’s, which funds a good portion of its school system from a trust established with this tax. Colorado’s severance tax is the lowest by far of all western states largely because Colorado allows local property taxes paid to the counties to be deducted from the severance tax bill owed the state. The state also allows other industry operating costs such as transportation, processing and manufacturing to be deducted from the severance tax. As a result in 2017, the severance revenues ran in the red by over $14 million. Money had to be allocated from the general fund just to keep the COGCC afloat and well permitting humming. The overall effect is that in three of the last 10 years, Weld County operators paid no severance tax to BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Colorado at all, even though Weld is by far the largest oil-producing county in the state. Ironically state law also calls for a portion of the severance tax collected to go back to oil producing counties to cover oil and gas impacts even if they pay nothing into the state severance tax that year. For instance, Weld County collected about $490 million in property taxes from the oil industry in 2017, but paid no severance tax to the state. Yet, it received several million from the severance tax pot, a pot into which it had paid nothing. There is some talk at the legislature that a bill will be introduced in 2020 to eliminate the property tax deduction from the county severance tax calculation. That would of course help, as would eliminating the exception for stripper wells, those wells that produce less than 15 barrels of oil and/or 90,000 cubic feet of gas per day on average over the year. Over 70% of the wells in the state are stripper wells and thus pay no severance tax. But these measures alone would not realize enough revenue to bankroll the prospect of closing, plugging, remediating and maintaining all the wells in this state. An increase in the severance tax to at least an effective 9%, a rate similar to North Dakota’s severance tax, would raise enough money to at least start a trust fund for long-term maintenance of this well system. It goes without saying that the idiotic present redistribution of the severance tax back to the counties, as well as the state water program, must cease and be placed instead into this dedicated trust. Such action would unleash the furies of the oil industry as nothing else has. But in the end, there is no other way to start making inroads into the environmental debt coming to the citizens of this state. And make no mistake, the citizens in the gas- and oil-producing counties will not be asked to pay the tab alone. It will be all Colorado taxpayers, no matter where they live. Polis’ temporizing over implementation of SB 181 appears to be an almost reflexive neoliberal reaction to balance the vested economic interests of corporate America, of which he is a prominent member, against the BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

interests of the people and their constitutional rights to protection. Balancing these interests was a central precept of the old law. SB 181 was intended to turn the tables. Polis has simply not accepted the change, and, as a consequence, has made SB 181 a nullity, at least in the short term. In summary, there is a wellspring of official tax breaks and subsidies the oil industry enjoys that SB 181 could

help correct if it were to be faithfully implemented. Robbins’s 16 “Objective Criteria” protect the industry from paying more. The health and safety requirements in SB 181 would protect the people if implemented, but any such action by Robbins and the COGCC are being pushed so far into the future as to create doubt they will ever be implemented. Last month the young Swedish

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BOULDER; Community-created sculpture dedication and celebration. Sept. 6, 2 p.m., TB-1 building, CU campus east of Macky Auditorium and west of the Rec center at 3:30 p.m., Speakers and a screening of the film Symbols of Resistance at Case Auditorium.

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Artist Jasmine Baetz (right) speaks with Steph Boulton, one of the more than 200 people who worked on the Los Seis de Boulder sculpture project. The sculpture is located in front of the TB-1 building on the CU Boulder campus.

By Joel Dyer

f it’s true that it’s the history we don’t know that dooms us to repeat the mistakes of our past, then familiarizing ourselves with the story of Los Seis de Boulder (The Six of Boulder) at this time could not be more pertinent. The racism and inequity that once took our nation to the brink has resurfaced with a vengeance. Today, we have millions of our Latinx neighbors living in fear of having their families torn apart by arrest and deportation. We have brown babies being torn from the arms of their mothers and locked in cages. We have sick children suffering from life-threatening diseases being deported from our hospitals back to countries where they will die without treatment. We have tens of thousands of Latinx people being held in tortuous conditions in facilities so overcrowded as to make laying down impossible. We have a president who calls all brown migrants rapists, drug smugglers and MS-13 gang members. And we have a federal government that is treating migrants — most of whom came here seeking asylum after fleeing the violence and severe poverty of their home countries — as if the president’s lies were true. The last time this level of racism against Latinx people was so overt it was the 1960s and ’70s. That era eventually gave rise to the Chicano Movement, and Boulder was at the epicenter of this national struggle for social justice and racial equality. So, what lessons can history teach us about today’s struggles, and what does a new piece of public art on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus have to do with that history? The answer to both questions is “a great deal.” The referenced public art is a rectangular sculpture approximately seven feet tall containing six mosaic tile portraits that has been placed on a concrete slab in front of the TB-1 building just east of Macky Auditorium. The sculpture is the result of a community art project dreamed up and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

brought to fruition by Jasmine Baetz, a Master of Fine Art student from Canada currently studying at CU. In 2017, by chance, Baetz attended a screening of the film Symbols of Resistance, a documentary telling the story of Los Seis de Boulder and what was going on at CU in 1974. Baetz says, “I try to impress upon people how random it was that I went in the room to see it. I got an email from the Women in Gender Studies listserv saying, ‘Hey, this film is screening tonight.’ And I happened to be in my studio in the building next to where it was screening. And I just went over because I wanted a break from the studio. I had no understanding of what the content of the film was. And I think at that point, if I’d ever seen the word Chicano, I didn’t understand what it meant.” But the film stuck with her as did the words of the panelists that night, which included Pricilla Falcon, Chicana activist, professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Northern Colorado and widow of murdered Chicano leader Ricardo Falcon. Baetz saw Los Seis as something akin to Kent State, only in Boulder. That’s to say she understood the important historical significance of Los Seis and what was hapI

pening in the struggle for educational equity and social justice on the CU campus in the early 1970s. What she didn’t understand was why that rich and important history seemed to be missing from the University’s conscience. So Baetz did what artists do. She decided to create a piece of art that could honor the sacrifice of Los Seis de Boulder while also serving as a tribute to all those who fight for justice and equity in education. From the beginning of the project, which took two years to complete, Baetz was committed to making this public work of art a community effort. She posted flyers and sent out notices that read: “You are invited to participate in this community sculpture project that is creating a public art sculpture to commemorate the activism of the Chicano Student Movement, during which Los Seis, as they became known, were killed in two separate and unexplained car bombs on May 27 and 29, 1974.” Her efforts were successful. Baetz says that more than 200 people eventually worked on the sculpture in some capacity, including creating the many tiles that make up the mosaic portraits of Los Seis. If you look closely at the finished work, you’ll see the names of AUGUST 29, 2019

some 60 or so of those who worked on the piece written on small individual tiles within the mosaics. For now, the sculpture’s location at TB-1 has only been granted on a temporary basis. But many hope this will be the sculpture’s permanent home. It is the perfect place. The statement that encircles the sculpture’s base reads, “Dedicated in 2019 to Los Seis de Boulder & Chicana and Chicano students who occupied TB-1 in 1974 & everyone who fights for equity in education at CU Boulder & the original stewards of this land who were forcibly removed & all who remain.” And it adds “Por Todxs Quienes Luehan Por La Justicisa (for all those who fight for justice). For most people familiar with the story of Los Seis, this work of art is a long overdue acknowledgment of their sacrifice. For those who lived the story in the 1970s and for those now willing to hear and understand that story, this piece of art can and should serve as a permanent reminder of what happens when inequality and racism become the law of the land and the victims of that inequity are left with no option but to confront it head-on at all costs. Forty-five years ago, Boulder was a hotbed of political activity. Years of anti-Vietnam War activism coupled with the pursuit of racial justice and women’s rights had put the CU campus and Boulder on the government’s activist watch list. And they watched no groups more closely than those within the Chicano Movement. Thanks to a number of new student-aid programs launched in 1970, the number of students of Mexican heritage on college campuses exploded, and Colorado was no exception. For the first time, students from the San Luis Valley, Pueblo and the greater Denver area were arriving on campus in record see LOS SEIS Page 22

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numbers thanks to these new Educational Opportunity Programs. Activists within the growing Chicano Movement acted as recruiters across the state in an effort to get as many young Chicanos as possible into colleges under the programs, which provided money for books, tuition, food and housing. By 1973, there were nearly 1,500 student members of UMAS (United Mexican American Students) on the Boulder campus and they were, to say the least, politically active. But not everyone approved of the school’s changing demographics. Joseph Coors was a CU regent in those days, and his beer company had been the target of a very effective national boycott started by Chicanos over its lack of Mexican-American employees and antiunion stance; Coors’ support of conservative politics in general; and his backing of grape growers who fought against the boycott organized by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in the 1960s. As a result of these tensions, according to BW’s past interviews with a number of those UMAS students from the 1970s, things began to change on campus around 1973. These former students claim CU administrators and trustees had decided that there were too many Chicano activists at the school and that the University began trying to reduce their numbers by any and every means possible, ethical or not. According to those who were there, they say the University began to lose the aid files of Chicanos without explanation. Badly needed stipend checks failed to arrive on time and some students who fell behind on their tuition while waiting for their money were told to leave school. This tinkering with student aid only added fuel to the already growing fire of the Chicano Movement. Eventually, frustration erupted into action over the aid situation coupled with demands from the UMAS students that two university-hired staff members be fired. On Monday, May 10, 1974, eight students, including Neva Romero (one of Los Seis), went to TB-1 early in the morning and barricaded themselves on the building’s third floor and refused to leave until their demands were met. By evening, a larger group of UMAS students and supporters had gathered in front of TB-1. This group then decided to take over the main floor of the building. The next day, now holding the entire building, no one knew exactly what to expect. There were police with rifles on nearby rooftops but no one seemed willing to negotiate with the students over their 22

demands and the phone lines were cut. The occupation went on for days, then weeks. School finally let out for summer but the Chicano students stayed, still holding the building. And then things took a turn that no one could have foreseen. At 9:47 p.m. on May 27, the students occupying TB-1 heard, and felt, a massive explosion, as did most of the residents of Boulder. Emergency vehicles rolled south past the university and up Baseline Road toward Chautauqua Park. A few hours later the tragic news arrived at TB-1; Neva Romero and fellow Chicano activists Reyes Martinez and his girlfriend, Una Jaakola, had all been killed in a massive explosion while sitting in Martinez’ car behind Chautauqua Hall. Their body parts, along with pieces of the car, were blown out over several blocks. The students inside TB-1 were devastated. Their friends were gone, and they couldn’t understand how or why it had happened. The next two days were long and filled with sadness and confusion, and then the unthinkable happened again; another massive explosion shook the windows of TB-1. On May 29, in the parking lot of Pudlik’s Liquor near what is now a Burger King on 28th Street, four more young Chicano activists familiar to those in TB-1 were in a car that mysteriously exploded in a nearly identical fashion as what had occurred only 48 hours earlier. This time the lives lost belonged to Francisco Dougherty, Heriberto Teran and Florencio Granada. The fourth man, Antonio Alcantar, was very seriously injured, suffering terrible burns and losing a leg in the blast. Inside TB-1, shock turned to fear and anger. Six of their own, Los Seis de Boulder, had been lost in explosions that no one could explain and that were simply too bizarre to have been some kind of freak coincidence. Finally, following the tragic deaths of Los Seis, the CU administration called and negotiated an end to the standoff, giving in to most of the student’s demands and promising that no one involved in the occupation would be prosecuted. Still, it was a hollow victory. So, what was happening in Boulder in 1974 that could possibly explain the tragic deaths of Los Seis? There are several theories to explain the deadly explosions. Chicano leader Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales had launched his nationally influential Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1967. Having grown weary of trying to work on Chicano issues within the established AUGUST 29, 2019

Democratic Party, Gonzales eventually concluded that Mexicans should fight for self determination over their historical lands in the Southwest. Following a shootout between some members of the Crusade and Denver police that included an explosion, Gonzales and his organization landed squarely on the radar of law enforcement authorities, including the FBI. As the Chicano Movement grew and became more influential within the community, it was only natural that there was plenty of crossover between the Chicano activists within UMAS on campus and the larger Chicano Movement in Colorado, including the Crusade. Part of the history of 1974 that has been mostly lost to time is the fact that a bomb was going off somewhere in the U.S. on average every four days throughout that year. These explosions were blamed on the Black Panthers, the Weathermen, the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, the American Indian Movement and numerous Chicano organizations, including the Brown Berets, the Crusade for Justice and the CU Chicano activists. Virtually all of these bombings were conducted at times when people would not be injured. Today they would be called terrorism. But 50 years ago, they were considered a tactic for garnering media attention in a world that was largely deaf to the voices of people of color. Few who walk the Pearl Street Mall today have any idea of what was happening here in 1974. The Boulder Courthouse was bombed that year. The CU police annex and the university president’s house were bombed. A local elementary school was bombed because it was considered to be discriminating against Spanish-speaking students. And, of course, the other two bombs that killed Los Seis. To understand the controversy around the Los Seis bombings requires yet another dip into history, this time concerning the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations. As previously described, the country was coming apart at the seams in 1974. The Vietnam War was still winding down and many groups had been formed around racial and geographical identity for the purpose of forcing long-overdue political change. These groups, particularly those seeking self-determination over certain lands within the U.S., were viewed as a serious threat by the U.S. government at the time and still today. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and a lot of great work by journalists over the years, we now know that the FBI’s COunter

INTELligence PROgram, COINTELPRO, was in full swing in numerous locations during the 1960s and ’70s. In South Dakota, for instance, the FBI’s use of this program is blamed for dozens of deaths on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where the Bureau’s efforts to disrupt the American Indian Movement (AIM) were a priority. COINTELPRO was a hideous, albeit effective tactic from the government’s point of view. It preyed upon the natural paranoia that exists within groups organized to bring about radical political change that required secrecy and potential violence. For instance: Imagine the FBI orchestrating the arrests of 20 activists at the same time at a meeting, but then letting just one person go after an hour while holding the others for days or weeks. Then later the FBI puts that same activist in the back of an FBI car, and drives them past places where they will be seen and recognized. And finally, a paid FBI plant within the activist ranks starts spreading the rumor that the person who got out early and was seen in the car must be an FBI spy. Mix in a little fear and paranoia and the next thing you know that perfectly innocent person turns up dead, likely at the hands of one of their own. These are the kind of deadly, dirty tricks that COINTELPRO employed and likely still employs albeit under a different name. The government claims that it officially ended its decades-long COINTELPRO operations in 1971, which it admits were designed for surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations. But the evidence suggests otherwise. COINTELPRO also fabricated evidence in order to arrest and imprison leaders of these groups. Such was the case for AIM leader Leonard Peltier when the FBI fabricated ballistics evidence to secure his conviction. And this happened in 1977, long after the program was said to have been dissolved. There were also numerous mysterious killings of activist leaders in the first half of the 1970s that have never been reasonably explained, including Los Seis and their fellow Chicano leaders Ricardo Falcon, Luis “Junior” Martinez and Carlos Zapata. The Chicano Movement, including people from CU and the Crusade for Justice, had close ties to AIM during the period of armed conflict in South Dakota. Considering the FBI’s operations regarding AIM and its claims that Chicano Movement activists were responsible for a series of bombings in Boulder and Denver at the time, it makes sense that the FBI would have deployed its COINTELPRO operations among the Chicano activists on the

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Front Range. But any documents that the Bureau had regarding its surveillance and efforts to disrupt the CU and Denver groups is said to have been destroyed in a fire. So, for now, we are left with three theories of what happened to Los Seis. The law enforcement version of events is that the young activists blew themselves up accidentally while setting the timers on bombs they intended to plant at nearby locations. Space does not allow for a full examination of the criticisms of this theory here. But issues concerning the handling of the crime scene and the actions of the FBI and local police and first responders in the days and hours before the explosions do challenge this perspective. There is also a theory that turf wars within the Chicano Movement itself could have led to Chicano on Chicano violence resulting in the deaths of Los Seis. But that theory has no evidence to support it and, even if true, would likely have been attributable to FBI COINTELPRO operations. And the final theory, which has long been the most accepted within Chicano circles, is that the government, by way of COINTELPRO, killed the six young activists by planting bombs in their vehicles or by rigging the timers on bombs that were going to be used as a form of protest to go off prematurely. The ultimate goal for the FBI under this scenario being to disrupt the growing Chicano activism on the CU campus, the Front Range, across Colorado and the nation. The Chicano Movement was born in response to the long-held racism and inequitable treatment of people of Mexican descent living in the U.S. — some who immigrated here legally, some who did so without proper documentation and some who were born here after the border had crossed them. Los Seis de Boulder are considered martyrs within the past and current Chicana/ Chicano Movement because regardless of the circumstances that led to their tragic deaths, they died fighting for justice for their people. That point is not arguable. It is good that CU is allowing these six young Chicano activists to be honored by the sculpture in front of TB-1 and much good can, and needs, to come from it. On a recent afternoon I asked 225 people walking past the sculpture if they knew who the people in the mosaics were or the story behind the art. A staffer in TB-1 knew because she had taken the time to research the story after the piece was sited. Another university employee from the archive department also knew the story because of her position of employment. But the other BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

223 people — mostly students but also some faculty — had no idea who Los Seis were or the story of the TB-1 struggle for educational equity. That is why this piece of art is so important to this campus and this town and this country. If the history of what occurred in the 1960s and ’70s in the struggle against racism and inequality for Latinx people is lost or forgotten or simply unknown, then we are surely doomed to repeat that history. If we can learn the lessons from our past, perhaps we can change our current

course away from the horrible racism that has overtaken our government and too many of our citizens by using the voting booth instead of more drastic measures. If so, then perhaps the deaths of young innocents can be avoided this time around. For many, that is the message and importance of this sculpture. It is the history we don’t know. It is the history we must learn. The sculpture will be officially dedicated on Friday, Sept. 6. See the details in the On the Bill box on page 21. Everyone is invited.

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This photo from 1974 shows the front steps of TB-1 during its occupation by Chicano activist students.

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Winter is coming... and that’s OK

Local fiddle maestro Natalie Padilla explores the seasons of life on her second full-length album

by Caitlin Rockett

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ometimes (OK, most of the time), turning out like our parents isn’t such a bad thing. Take, for example, fiddler player Natalie Padilla (that’s puhdill-ah, by the way). Padilla was around three or four when her mother, Nancy, looked beyond her fiddle and off stage — Padilla thinks they were at the Targhee Bluegrass Festival in Wyoming — to see her daughter holding two sticks perpendicular to one another, one tucked under her chin, the other sawing back and forth. The young Natalie swayed to the music of her make-believe fiddle, and Nancy decided it was time to get her youngest daughter a violin of her own. It wasn’t just Nancy who passed on the musical genes. Natalie and her older sister grew up at bluegrass festivals, watching their mom play fiddle alongside their dad on upright bass in a band called Wheel Hoss. At home in Montana, their mother also taught a youth fiddle group called the Gallatin Valley Junior Fiddlers, who performed around the county regularly. The early exposure, especially to other young musicians, drew both Padilla sisters to the violin. Natalie has made the fiddle her life’s work, recently completing her second fulllength solo album, Fireweed, a collection of original material that puts a modern spin on the foundations of traditional folk sounds. She’s set to release Fireweed on Sept. 6 with a concert and — Padilla’s really excited about this — line dancing at Altona Grange Hall in Longmont. As little more than a toddler, Padilla began studying Texas-style fiddle with her mother and was winning contests by the time she was 6 years old: first there was the Montana State Pee Wee Fiddle Contest, then she became the National Small Fry Fiddle Champion. As a larger fry, Padilla won a slew of adult championships at the national and regional levels, including the National Young Adult Fiddle Contest and RockyGrass Fiddle Contest. When we chat on the phone, Padilla

has just wrapped up teaching at a fiddle camp in Boston and is back home in Greeley, where she works as an instructor of folk and bluegrass fiddle at the University of Northern Colorado. But Padilla’s interest in the violin has always been expansive. “Growing up, we lived in Belgrade [Montana], which is just outside of Bozeman,” she says. “Belgrade did not have orchestra programs… but there was an honor orchestra program in Bozeman, just down the road, and so I started going to that little school every week, in the mornings really early. And I think that might’ve been the first time I saw a cello and a viola, and as a little kid you’re like, oh, this is kinda cool.” Like most teenagers, Padilla says, she developed a “stubborn” attitude and quit classical violin lessons for about a year. But, like most teenagers, her attitude adjusted and she found her way back to her passion. “Then I went on to get a classical violin degree” at UNC Greeley, she says. During and right after college, Padilla played violin with the National Repertory Orchestra, Breckenridge Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Boulder Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony and Denver’s Sphere Ensemble. She was even the associate concertmaster of the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra for six years. She stayed in Greeley after finishing her degree, thinking she wanted to teach classical violin — but the prospect of more school was unappealing. But Greeley’s rich musical community offered

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ON THE BILL: NATALIE PADILLA — ‘Fireweed’ album release show. 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6., Altona Grange Hall, 9386 N. 39th St., Longmont. Line dancing will follow the concert. Other chances to see Natalie Padilla: Masontown. 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, nataliepadillamusic.com/events

her ample opportunity to explore different avenues. “There weren’t many bluegrass or Texas-style musicians in Greeley at the time — at least not that I knew,” Padilla says. “But eventually I was introduced to Blayne Chastain. He had just gotten back from Ireland, getting a master’s in Irish flute playing, and he was totally gearing up to just play with anyone. Basically he and I met once a week for four years. We started an Irish session that still continues.” Padilla continued to focus on her passion for folk music of all stripes, founding the American acoustic quintet Masontown (which recorded an LP in 2017), helping to build UNC Greeley’s Folk and Bluegrass Program from the ground up (also starting in 2017), teaching at fiddle camps around the country and, somehow, laying down two solo albums between 2017 and now. She recorded Fireweed in Idaho with mandolinist and producer Ben Winship. Padilla’s fresh and nuanced approach to folk fiddling, combined with her warm and accessible lyrics, give the album a familiar feel, like coming home after a long day at work or sitting by the fire with friends reminiscing. The album’s title track is a reflection of Padilla’s view of life, a meditation on the growth and wisdom that comes from weathering life’s seasons. “First the rain, then the snow,” she sings, “It’s been here, I’ve been there, really must I go / To the place we all know? / I’m heading there, it’s too late, darkness I know.” “Fireweed blooms most of the summer,” she explains over the phone, “but then towards the fall and heading into winter, the blossoms only form at the top, and so when you see the flowers blooming at the top, it’s a symbol that here comes another winter.” But over the years Padilla has learned that winter, dark and cold as it may be, is a chance to reflect on the bounty of summer and prepare for the hard work of spring. Life is about change, and embracing the seasons of our lives is how we find true peace and contentment — that and listening to good music with good friends. AUGUST 29, 2019

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The intimate is political

Boulder-based artists use female anatomy to explore contemporary women’s issues

by Amanda Moutinho

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ON THE BILL: ‘Vagina China’ is part of ‘Collectivism’ and is on display through Oct. 19 at the Center for Visual Arts at Metropolitan State University of Denver, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

n the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Boulder-based artists Julie Maren and Joyce Alice Eisenhauer were excited. The two had partnered up to create the Women’s Art League and collaborate on a new project. Anticipating the election of the first female president, their idea was simple: Since incoming presidents get to select a set of china for the White House, Maren and Eisenhauer would give their prospective candidate a bold option. “We were being kind of cheeky and thought, let’s create vagina china!” Maren says. “We wanted to celebrate having our first female president in a fun way.” But their celebratory project took a dark turn. “[After] the presidential election, we were all in such shock,” Maren says. “It was traumatic and depressing to see everything that I thought was moving forward actually feel like it was going backwards. So it was a tremendous motivating force. I had to do [the project] just to help myself feel sane and to speak out about what was happening.” Their idea remained the same — to create casts of vulvas and mount them on plates — but instead of one commemorative set, Maren and Eisenhauer used Vagina China as a way to delve into contemporary women’s issues. So far, they’ve created four different sets dealing with resistance, pleasure, wage inequality and sex trafficking. They’ve drawn on classic pottery trends from Greek antiquities for “Flower of Life” and traditional blue-and-white patterns for “The Silk Road,” which is now on display at Metro State University’s Center for Visual Art through Oct. 19. “The Silk Road” features multiple plates mounted on a wall. From far away, the blue-andwhite designs seem typical, but upon closer inspection the paintings on the plates feature women in chains, being groped and shooting money out of intimate areas of the body. Scattered among these are plates with realistic vulvas rising from the center. The title of the piece calls back to the historic trade route threading between Asia, the Middle East and Europe that was used, in part, for sex trafficking, a problem that still plagues the world today — including Denver, as the artist statement notes. The imagery of the female anatomy presented tacitly on a plate is poignant. It’s a part of the body that is hidden and not spoken about, just like many of the topics examined with Vagina China are hidden and not spoken about. By using such evocative images, Maren and Eisenhauer hope to draw people in and increase awareness about taboo, misunderstood or underrepresented subjects. “It’s provocative,” Eisenhauer says. “The name Vagina China makes people raise an eyebrow and pay attention. We want people to pay attention” see CHINA Page 28

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The first set of plates, titled “Vulva la Résistance,” was inspired by the Women’s March and the emblematic “pussy hat.” The trend of using female anatomy to push back against patriarchy and to symbolize women’s rights may come from the vulva’s historically multifaceted symbolism. In Vagina China, it represents revolution, pain, pleasure, inequality and power. Just as women’s bodies have frequently been objectified, activists and artists like Maren and Eisenhauer are flipping the script to control the narrative and put the vulva, and in turn women’s issues, on display. “Yes, in some way this work is hyper objectifying the image of the vulva,” Eisenhauer says. “But it’s the real image of what women look like, and we’re putting it in a place of honor and contextualizing it with societal issues that affect women. It’s so important to know our bodies and be able to claim our bodies and be empowered in our bodies.” Part of their goal is to demystify female anatomy. The artists wanted to showcase the diversity of women. After the election, they learned more about the issues affecting women, and grew concerned at how labiaplasty surgery was gaining popularity, which they credit to a lack of “real” rep“THE NAME resentation of female anatomy in ‘VAGINA CHINA’ media. makes people raise an eyebrow and pay atten“A lot of imagery that’s out tion,” Joyce Alice there has been altered. A lot of Eisenhauer says. “We imagery people see has been airwant people to pay attention.” brushed,” Eisenhauer says. “One of the fastest-growing surgeries in the world is labiaplasty. [Mostly] young women from 18–25 years old are cutting off their labia because they don’t realize what women look like, that they’re not supposed to look like a barbie doll. We were just blown away by this information. It’s horrific. It’s like every part of the body. We are all different. And to be able to really show this in a beautiful and honoring way was important for us.” Vagina China is the newest iteration in a long line of feminist art. There’s a clear lineage drawn from the work of Judy Chicago and her piece “The Dinner Party.” As a young artist starting out in the ’70s, Chicago noticed a lack of women in history books or in positions of power in the art world. In “The Dinner Party,” she attempted to revise history by setting a table with personalized place settings for significant historical women, including Emily Dickenson, AUGUST 29, 2019

Sacagawea and Sappho. Each woman’s plate depicts a sculptural representation of a vulva. But this tradition goes even further back to the work of Virginia Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell and her husband, Duncan Grant, who also created a set of plates in the early ’30s honoring important women. The set, entitled The Famous Women Dinner Service, was privately commissioned and was not shown publicly for decades; it features portraits including Marie Antoinette and Pocahontas. Along with “The Silk Road,” MSU’s exhibit includes a short film that chronicles the evolution from Bell to Chicago to Vagina China. All of these artists essentially had the same goal: to remind society that women — not just men — played a role in creating society as we know it. The artists each use the female body to get their point across, but their methodology evolves with the times — from portraits to embellished representations to realistic casts of vulvas in plates. Depicting the vulva in a realistic, unaltered way lends meaning and humanity to the issues presented in Vagina China. The pieces are potent in their explicitness. While sex trafficking is a crime so horrific it can feel unreal and incomprehensible to many, Vagina China brings the human element to the forefront by using this private, intimate body part. It’s not an easy-toignore statistic; each vulva plate was derived from a real woman, just as trafficking affects real women. Presentation was important to the artists as well. Instead of a canvas or any flat surface, the artists chose to present the subject matter on dinnerware. Plates are traditionally thought of as women’s craft. Moreover, fine china is commonly associated with grandma’s house. It’s a reputation that suggests women are docile, delicate and fragile — but Vagina China subverts this and uses the china to hold a powerful, forceful message. Plus, not only are the plates inviting the viewer into the topics, they’re offering women a seat at the table. “Thinking about this project and Vanessa Bell and Judy Chicago, it’s taking these domestic objects out of the home and in many ways, it’s bringing women and women’s issue out into the world in this brighter, contextual level where we all belong,” Eisenhauer says. “The personal is political” was a rallying cry for feminists in the 1970s. Vagina China builds on and modernizes that sentiment, making the intimate political as well. I

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6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale are known to disagree about lots of stuff, from on-stage wardrobe and setlist choices to geography and grammar. But they share a taste for dry humor and introspective indie folk music. It was an opposites-attract, love-at-first-disagreement story for this Grammy-nominated duo, who has gone on to make five albums together since 2011.

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On Aug. 31, The Storytellers — an allmale vocal quintet — will take you on a musical journey while chefs Andy Nowak and Dennis Taylor curate a threecourse meal harvested from their farm. You’ll also have a chance to go on a farm tour and learn about the mission and work of Community Table Farm. Each course will be vegetarian-friendly and can be served without meat. Participants are free to communicate any other dietary restrictions. Tickets are $50-$80 at https://bit.ly/30zqU64.

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LEST WE FORGET: REMEMBERING BOULDER COUNTY’S BLOODY LABOR STRUGGLES.

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2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, The Green @ The Civic Area, 1056 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 1, Lafayette Cemetery, 111 Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-304-6125. D OM A LIC

This ceremony will remember B six local coal miners who PU were shot by state militia during the coal strike of 1927 at the Columbine Mine in Erie. Local author and historian Nicholas Bernhard, whose novel ‘November in America’ recounts the events of the 1927 strike, will host the event. There will be a brief talk on the struggles of Colorado miners and the significance of the 1927 strike. The event is free and open to the public. After the ceremony, there will be a reception at East Simpson Coffee Company, at 411 E. Simpson St., in Lafayette.

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The PLAY Boulder Foundation will once again host the duck race at the 2019 Hometown Festival. The race raises funds for the PLAY Boulder Foundation’s ongoing work to support parks and recreation in Boulder. More than 7,000 community members will compete to win prizes. All proceeds from the Duck Race go toward the PLAY Boulder Foundation’s core programs: Boulder Reservoir, EXPAND, PLAYpass, Tree Trust and YSI. It costs $10 for one duck, $25 for three and $50 for seven. To learn more, visit playboulder.org/duckrace.

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BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder. ‘Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me,’ through Nov. 24; Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. ‘A Passage from India,’; Arapahoe Ramp, opens Sept. 1, through Sept. 30; ‘Under- & Overstories,’ Canyon Gallery, through Sept. 29. Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. ‘Potato People and Other Flights of Fancy: Gerda Rovetch Retrospective,’ through Oct. 5. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. ‘Abstracted Facts — Digital systems in design, painting and sculpture,’ through Sept. 1. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. ‘Eyes On: Erika Harrsch,’ Hamilton Building, through Nov. 17; ‘Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz,’ through Nov. 17; ‘The Incubation Effect,’ through Sept. 9; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. ‘Interesting Times — Robin Hextrum, Samatha Simpson and Kathryn Jill Johnson,’ through Sept. 1.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5, 2020. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. The museum has numerous permanent and temporary exhibits, lyonsredstonemuseum.com MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/ event/monumental/. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. ‘A·MAZE·D,’ through Sept. 1; ‘Boulder Through The Decades,’ through Sept. 31; Google Garage, ongoing with changing activities; ‘PACK-IT-UP,’ through Sept. 23. National Fine Art Show — Louisville Art Association. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville. Through Sept. 8. Naropa University Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

‘ITS HONOR IS HEREBY PLEDGED’ brings together four installations in which artist Gina Adams addresses the complicated history and present-day relevance of treaties negotiated between the United States government and indigenous peoples. Drawing from her Ojibwa, Lakota and European heritage, Adams employs historical research and traditional and contemporary craft techniques to promote healing of inherited trauma experienced by indigenous peoples. Now showing at the University of Colorado Art Museum through Nov. 2.

‘Fine Evident’ — by Cathy Ellis, Cube Gallery, through Sept. 29. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. ‘Watercolor by Anne Gifford’ and ‘Fiber Art by Dianna VanderDoes,’ through Sept. 6. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Object: Color,’ through September; ‘Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams,’ through Nov. 2. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder. ‘Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez,’ Anthropology Hall, through Sept. 8; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 Music Amy Helm. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Cordovas. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. David Rogers, classical crossover guitar. 10 p.m. No Name Bar, 1325 Broadway St., Boulder, 541-840-7074. eTown presents Kyle Donovan & Bonnie & the Clydes. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Farmers Market. 4 p.m. Simpson Street at S. Iowa Avenue, Lafayette. Felonius Smith Trio. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. GRiZ (Special DJ Set). 7:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482. Hellgrammites. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. 32

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Jackson Cloud Duo. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Jersey Party Part 2 — with Trev Rich. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Kaph, Old Fuss & Feathers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Kinesics (Farewell For Now). 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Mic — with Tony Crank. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Seeing Stars Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Six O’Clock & Friends. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840. Wild Rivers — with The Copper Children. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. I

Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Events Bobby Slayton. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Aug. 31, comedyworks.com Dance For Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays (Gordon Gamm Theater) and Thursdays (Boulder Ballet Studio 3). Cost is $5, thedairy.org. Front deRanged Improv Comedy Troupe. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Boulder. 7 p.m. 2132 14th St., Boulder. Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 Music 6 Million Dollar Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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ALTHOUGH CLIMBING Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks has become increasingly popular in recent years, many of the best climbs in the state are actually 13,000-foot peaks. In his new book, ‘Colorado’s Thirteeners,’ Gerry Roach includes accurate and user-friendly information on 59 major peaks in six mountain ranges, with a difficulty scale and effort rating for each route. Roach will speak about his new book on Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Book Store.

Esther Cohen — The Alchemy of Nourishment: The Art, Science and Magic of Eating. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, AUG. 30 Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

SATURDAY, AUG. 31 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

LC’s Latin Jazz Band The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, August 30 7–10 PM Happy Hour till 7pm No cover 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tuneupboulder.com

Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 1 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

MONDAY, SEPT. 2 So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 3

Adam Wakefield, C. J. Prestwood & Br. Angels, Buck’d Off, The Schofields. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840. All Church Garage Sale. 8 a.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523. ‘Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth.’ 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Darrell Scott and his Bluegrass Band. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Dessa — with MONAKR. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Dylan Montayne. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Erik Boa Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. An Evening with Kronen, Collusion, and Bathing Lagoon. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. FEYK Friends Duality Capsule. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. The Gaslamp Killer presents Airplane Mode. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Generationals. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Katya: Help Me I’m Dying Tour. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Hunter Stone. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Gerry Roach — Colorado’s Thirteeners: From Hikes to Climbs. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Lil Jon. 9 p.m. Temple Nightclub, 1136 Broadway, Denver, 303-309-2144. Lindsey Saunders. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. The Milk Carton Kids. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Molly Tuttle. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Mutual Benefit. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Nuancer (LP Release). 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4 Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse and Patrick Egan — Caregiving: Hope and Health for Caregiving Families. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Taylor Shae Duo. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Think Twice, GhostBridge. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-2064. 8-Bit Comedy. 8 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. Art Lunch Break. 11:30 a.m. One Boulder Plaza, 13th Street between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street, Boulder. Comedian Gabriel Rutledge. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. Through Sept. 1, denver.improv.com Laser Queen. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Louisville’s 27th Annual Senior Dinner. 5 p.m. Memory Square Park, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville.

The Phunk Sessions Phish Late-Night. 11:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Rocky Mountain Showdown Viewing Party. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder.

Redlands. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31

Young Pine, Sophia Elise & Abbigale Dawn. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Soundpost Sessions: Pamela Machala Trio & Shanna in a Dress. 8 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525. Squnto. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. I

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Events

Phish. 5 p.m. Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, 303727-3500. Through Sept. 1.

Silent Bear Trio. 9:30 p.m. Licence No. 1, 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

THURSDAY AUGUST 29

Music All Church Garage Sale. 8 a.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523. Aver y Patio Jam. 4:30 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 4910 Nautilus Court North, Boulder, 303-440-4324. Chewy&Bach (Unofficial GRiZ After Party). 10 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. see EVENTS Page 34

AUGUST 29, 2019

BELLA GAIA - BEAUTIFUL EARTH 8:30 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 10:00 PM

LASER QUEEN 11:30 PM

LIQUID SKY FLOYD: THE WALL SATURDAY AUGUST 31 1:00 PM

LIFE OF TREES & HABITAT EARTH 2:30 PM

MAX GOES TO THE MOON & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 7:00 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 8:30 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 10:00 PM

LIQUID SKY: PRETTY LIGHTS 11:30 PM

LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1 12:00 PM

LIFE OF TREES & PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 1:30 PM

WE ARE STARS & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 3:00 PM

LIFE OF TREES & HABITAT EARTH 4:30 PM

WE ARE STARS & PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA

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

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UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL

The Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

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Dining in Harmony — Acapella Farm Dinner. 6 p.m. Community Table Farm, 8049 Saint Vrain Road, Longmont, 267-374-7472.

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IN ‘SUICIDE LIES,’ The SOURCE Theatre Company presents three stories that shed light on the insidious nature of suicide. Now showing at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver through Sept. 7.

An Evening with The Contraltos featuring Linda Styles. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Aug

eTown Presents

Kyle Donovan

Bonnie & the Clydes

Evergrey. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Felix Jaehn. 9 p.m. Temple, 1136 Broadway, Denver. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Heart: Love Alive Tour. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Radio Show Taping

Aug

Darrell Scott

& Kaia Kater

Herbie Hancock Tribute — Phish After Show. 11 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. John David Pennington. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Darrell Scott & Kaia Kater. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Ronnie James Duo. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Sep

eTown at Red Rocks

The Wood Brothers Fruition & Steep Canyon Rangers

Stereo Clone. 9:30 p.m. Herb’s Bar, 2057 Larimer St., Denver, 303-299-9555. The Ordinar y Two. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Palms. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Ravin’Wolf. 6 p.m. Casa Alegre, 1006 Pine St., Louisville, 720-606-1734. Saturday Celebration Service at Unity of Boulder. 5 p.m. Unity of Boulder Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Radio Show Taping

Strand 16 of Oaks

Sep

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9.14 9.18 9.20 9.27

Concert: Vienna Teng & more Taping: The Commonheart & more Concert: Paul Kimbiris & more Concert: Ryan Montbleau Band

WHERE: eTOWN Hall 1535 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302 TICKETS: eTOWN.org

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Tenbucksixer. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Beauty and the Beast. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 21.

The Never Summer. Theater 29, 5138 W. 29th Ave., Denver. Through Aug. 31.

Escape — presented by Royal Players Guild. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 30.

Nunsense. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees, through Sept. 29.

The Great American Trailer Park — presented by Equinox Theater Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Aug. 31.

Suicide Lies — presented by The SOURCE Theatre Company. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Sept. 7.

Les Miserables (school edition). Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 15.

St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Free: Dance with a Doc. 10 a.m. Harlow Platts Community Park, 1360 Gillaspie Drive, Boulder. Double Feature: ‘Life of Trees / Habitat Earth.’ 1 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Drop-In Tech Help. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Magic Within. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 720-883-6132. PepsiCo Roadster at A Taste of Colorado. 11 a.m. Civic Center Park, 101 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 650-703-3712. Through Sept. 1, atasteofcolorado.com

To Be Astronauts. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Pig Roast Party. 5 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

The Von Hodads. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Pints in the Park. 12 p.m. Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-666-5747.

Weekend Coffee Shop Jazz Jam. 11 a.m. 1055 Courtesy Road, Louisville.

Reptiles and Samurai. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Events 19th Annual HWNA Outdoor Cinemas. 6:30 p.m. Thompson Park, Longmont, 720-280-7228. Annual Car Show and Party. 3 p.m. Shelby American Collection, 5020 Chaparral Court, Boulder, 303-516-9565. Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl AUGUST 29, 2019

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Music Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-875-2292. I

Three Tall Women. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Sept. 13.

David Hakan, The Turbos. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Finn O’Sullivan. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Grupo Fantasma. 5 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Kayla Waters, Jeanette Harris, Althea Rene. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. KGNU’s Annual Record and CD Sale. 10 a.m. KGNU Community Radio, 700 Kalamath St., Denver, 303-825-5468. LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Molly Burch. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Money Chicha — with No Touch. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Ryan dart Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Student Recitals: Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral musicians. 5 p.m. Imig Music, Music Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-6352. Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Double Feature: ‘Life of Trees / Habitat Earth.’ 3 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Lest We Forget: Remembering Boulder County’s Bloody Labor Struggles. 11 a.m. Lafayette Cemetery, 111 Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-304-6125. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Music Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Ted & Alice Miller, Willow|speak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777. Snark Attack. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Youth Maker Hangout Volunteer Training. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

Bourbon & Blues — with the David Booker Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Burna Boy — The African Giant Returns Tour. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Music Alamo Black. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Fantastic Negrito. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

blink-182 & Lil Wayne. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Events Children’s Pet Parade. 8 a.m. Main Street, Louisville, Main Street and Walnut St., Louisville. The Great Boulder Duck Race. 2 p.m. The Green @ The Civic Area, 1056 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Labor Day Fall Festival. 9 a.m. Memory Square Park, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Louisville Labor Day Parade. 10 a.m. City of Louisville, Colorado Government, 749 Main St., Louisville. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Museum Open After Labor Day Parade. 12 p.m. Historical Museum, 1001 Main St., Louisville, 303-335-4850. Visit the Museum on Labor Day — Free Day. 9 a.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Music Andrew Kasab, Ethan Mindlin Jones, Maya Bennett. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Faculty Tuesdays: Virtuosic Collaboration. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

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Illest Uminati #Illigion Tour. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Kelly Hafner. 8 p.m. Lion’s Lair, 2022 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-320-9200. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Patty Griffin & John Smith. 7 p.m.eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Open Mic — with Andy Eppler. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

Scarlxrd. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Upon A Burning Body. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

AUGUST 29, 2019

FILMS IOANA IACOB AND ALEX BOGDAN IN ‘I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS.’

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)

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

Friday augusT 30

wednesday sePTemBer 4

FeaT george PorTer Jr (The meTers), roBerT walTer (mike gordon),

w/ sFam, avry (laTe seT) & Jordan Polovina

Saturday auguSt 31 • poSt phiSh Show

shira elias’ goods & services

The Phunk sessions Phish laTe nighT

craig Brodhead, michelangelo caruBBa & shira elias (Turkuaz), lyle divinsky, drew sayers & Parris Fleming (The moTeT)

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

Thursday sePTemBer 19

re: search

suBdocTa

Thursday sePTemBer 5

FeaT isaac Teel (Tauk), d-viBes, Joel gonzalez (Big daddy kane), sasha Brown & dan aFricano (John Brown’s Body) w/ michelle sarah Band

Friday sePTemBer 6

guilTy Pleasures

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 re: search

Bailo

TurkeyFooT

w/ Jonny grande & Jordan Polovina

Friday September 20 • dual venue!

Jon wayne & The Pain wake uP & live – BoB marley TriBuTe

FeaT mike roBinson (railroad earTh) w/ Bowregard (PaTio seT), Jackie & The rackeT (laTe seT), laney lou & The Bird dogs (PaTio seT) 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

Trev rich

w/ kayla rae, aP, mi$FiTs & 100 Packsavy

Friday sePTemBer 27

eminence ensemBle

w/ Jack cloonan Band & dog ciTy disco

sunday sePTemBer 29

aPPalachia on The rocks w/ The wooks, laid Back counTry Picker & chelsea nolan

Thursday ocToBer 3

Bluegrass generals

FeaT chris PandolFi & andy hall (The inFamous sTringdusTers), drew emmiTT (leFTover salmon), adam aiJala (ymsB) & andrew alTman (railroad earTh) w/ Pickin’ on The dead, meadow mounTain, winTer wonder women & Banshee Tree

Friday ocToBer 4

kll Bill (mr. Bill B2B kll smTh) w/ FrequenT & craFTal

Thursday sePTemBer 12

w/ richard vagner

Friday sePTemBer 13

ill.gaTes

w/ ahee, gangus & lowPro.

wednesday sePTemBer 18 re: search

mimosa

w/ TsimBa, grymeTyme (laTe seT) & Jordan Polovina

FeaT george gekas (revivalisTs) w/ alvin Ford Jr (PreTTy lighTs live), Todd sTooPs (raq), ed williams (revivalisTs), zack FeinBerg (revivalisTs), michael girardoT (revivalisTs) & roB ingraham (revivalisTs)

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

w/ ghosT-noTe

w/ For Peace Band & The ries BroThers

iya Terra

sTeel Pulse

Friday sePTemBer 27

Big k.r.i.T.

saTurday sePTemBer 28

wednesday ocToBer 16 w/ raPsody & domani harris

Thursday ocToBer 17

The collecTive

(FacTion ski Film denver Premiere)

Friday ocToBer 18

lucky daye

Tk & The holy know-noThings sunday sePTemBer 29

quando rondo

The main squeeze

w/ swank sinaTra & king Trae

saTurday ocToBer 19

songs oF ‘69

w/ Jaden carlson Band 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

saTurday ocToBer 26

sTarT making sense (Talking heads TriBuTe) w/ graham good & The PainTers

wednesday ocToBer 30

BleeP BlooP

Friday ocToBer 4

FeaT Tori PaTer & Friends wiTh BeneFiTs w/ Pixie & The ParTygrass Boys

saTurday ocToBer 5

The drunken hearTs w/ exTra gold & Bison Bone

sunday ocToBer 6

hoodie allen w/ Jake miller

wednesday ocToBer 9 re: search

Thursday novemBer 7

marTyParTy & viBesquad

(yheTi x ToadFace x mT. analogue) FeaT oTTo von schirach

Thursday & Friday ocToBer 10-11

The TriFiniTy Friday novemBer 8

w/ minx & Jordan Polovina

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Thursday, Aug. 29 ‘The Chambermaid.’ 2 and 7 p.m. ‘The Quiet One.’ 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 3 ‘Art and Mind.’ 4:30 p.m. ‘State of Pride.’ 7 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 30 ‘The Apple.’ 8:45 p.m. ‘The Chambermaid.’ 4 p.m. ‘The Quiet One.’ 1:30 and 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 4 ‘Art and Mind.’ 2 p.m. ‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.’ 4 p.m. ‘Mike Wallace is Here.’ 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 31 ‘The Chambermaid.’ 5:30 p.m. ‘The Quiet One.’ 2 and 8 p.m.

Thursday sePTemBer 19

Thursday sePTemBer 26

sunday ocToBer 13

Sunday, Sept. 1 ‘Art and Mind.’ 1 p.m.

The Funk sessions

Friday & saTurday ocToBer 11-12

The new masTersounds

Showing at the Boedecker Theater inside the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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EVENTS from Page 35

Guest Master Class: Jacqueline Leclair, oboe. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

Musical Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Rabblefish. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. RE:Search featuring SubDocta — with Jordan Polovina and Special Guests. 8:30 p.m. Venue Information, Cervantes’ Other Side 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Events

STEAM Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conversations in English Wednesdays. 10:30 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

ThriftU: Fall Semester. 6:30 p.m. 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8472.

Lap Babies. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Lego Stor ytime. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Librar y Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline I

Teen Open Study. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100; 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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uxury hotels are bizarre, magical places. They are like ON THE BILL: ‘The hermetically sealed chambers where every possible Chambermaid.’ amenity has been accounted for: Food, drink, enterAug. 29-31, Dairy tainment, even pieces of art dot endless hallways of Arts Center, 2590 carpet and soft lighting. Muzak plays in the backWalnut St., Boulder. ground. Massive HVAC systems recycle temperature-controlled air. And the best ones don’t even hint at the possibility of refuse; unwanted food and rubbish are whisked away without a second thought. And if you leave your room early enough and don’t return until dinnertime, you will find your room in two completely different states: first disheveled, then spotless. Only if you decide to sleep in or come back early will you see the hotel fairies expunging waste and producing purity. Many are women, most are migrant, and almost all of them are maneuvering impossibly large carts brimming with fresh linens, towels, toiletries, amenities and heaping bags of garbage. Eve (Gabriela Cartol) is one such woman. She is 24 years old, unmarried and with a 4-yearold son at home. She works long hours and seldom sees him. Or anyone else, for that matter. When a teacher tasked with preparing the hotel staff for GED testing asks Eve what she does on her own time, she doesn’t have an answer. Eve is a steward of the hotel, and for the nearly 100 minutes of The Chambermaid, she doesn’t leave. Instead, Eve is surrounded by an overbearing whiteness. The sheets are white. The walls are white. The towels are white. Everywhere Eve goes, sterility surrounds her. In one brief moment, Eve ventures up to the hotel’s helipad, only to find the sky completely white, its brilliant blue hue smothered by haze and amorphous clouds. All of it gorgeously captured in anamorphic widescreen by director Lila Avilés and cinematographer Carlos Rossini. Their framing device gives Eve’s life one of cinematic importance, but it also plays a trick on us. The spaces Eve does not fill allows for a certain amount of emptiness, stillness and order. It’s calming at first, and as Eve performs her duties with the silence of a monk, the frame gives the impression that there might be sanctuary here. At this point, Eve thinks so too. There is the chance that if Eve works hard enough, she will secure a position on the coveted 42nd floor. But as the work drags on, that empty frame gives way to Eve’s isolation. She is alone, and though others constantly promise to help her, take her elsewhere, or promote her, reality holds no such hope. The Chambermaid isn’t an ode to the hotel fairies that empty your trash, fluff your pillows or flatten your sheets while you’re on vacation. That would be too didactic. Nor is it an exposé of the backroom dealings, alliances and petty squabbles of hotel staff. Instead, The Chambermaid is about Eve, appropriately named, and the crushing reality that no matter what she came here for, she might not get it.

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BOULDER WEEKLY

BY BOULDER WEEKLY STAFF Thai Basil Fried Rice with Pork

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Folsom Thai 1575 Folsom St., Unit 101, Boulder, folsomthaiatboulder.com

olsom Thai serves fresh, modern Thai food, from curries to stirfries to noodles to soups. We opted for the Thai basil fried rice with browned pork on a recent visit. The rice is addictive — long-grain and browned almost to a light char, imparting deep, savory flavor. Ground pork is browned and spread throughout the dish along with bell peppers, onions, garlic, scallions and basil. The basil perfumes the rice dish without being overwhelming, and the thick-cut scallions provide a burst of texture and flavor. Get it spicy. $12.

Nori Wrap

Thrive 1509 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, thriveraw.com

hrive’s a downtown spot for vegan and diet-friendly smoothies, salads, sandwiches and snacks. Flavor and freshness are paramount in Thrive’s raw, organic concoctions, and we found both in its nori wrap. Spicy, crunchy kim chi is combined with fresh, thick-cut avocado, cucumber slices, carrots, mixed greens and a spicy cashew-milk mayo. The nori is rich in umami, and Thrive achieves a pleasant balance of flavor and texture on the inside. The soy dipping sauce served on the side brightens the flavors in the wrap even more. $6.66.

West Vail Sandwich

Yellowbelly Chicken 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Unit 1B, Boulder, yellowbellychicken.com

here are three great things about Yellowbelly Chicken: it’s quick, it’s affordable, and the chicken is high quality. Yellowbelly uses all-natural, hormoneand antibiotic-free, free-range chicken. When fried, as in the West Vail Sandwich we sampled, it’s done so in gluten-free rice flour and pressure-fried in GMO-free rice bran oil. The chicken is tender and adorned simply with lettuce, pickles and a secret zesty sauce on a toasted hoagie roll. Get the smashed fries for a salty, delicious side. $7.

Pumpkin Ale

Upslope Brewing Company 1898 S. Flatiron Court and 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder, upslopebrewing.com

ou blinked and it happened: Pumpkin beers showed up all over your local liquor store. Now, “pumpkin spice” has taken a beating in recent years, but like everything else, you can do the style well or poorly. We think Upslope does pumpkin spice well in their Pumpkin Ale, now available in cans (and soon in the tap rooms). Organic baby bear pumpkins are added to a malt-forward brew imbued with six well-apportioned spices. What makes Pumpkin Ale work is its restraint — less munching on potpourri, and more fresh-baked pumpkin bread. You won’t notice its 7.7% ABV, either. Prices vary.

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Save the bounty!

Freeze, dry, quick-pickle, infuse and preserve sweet summer produce

SUSAN FRANCE

by John Lehndorff

can tell you are drowning in fresh, local produce of summer — the lettuces, peaches, etc. — and taking it for granted. You are in denial. Not to be a Johnny Downer, but this cornucopia of abbondanza is not long for the world. You don’t want to admit that the watermelon, like summer, is not endless. Besides, fresh corn is now always available in early December in Boulder supermarkets. But I don’t really want to taste that sweet corn during the short, dark, shuddering days of December. I want the specific intense corniness of a buttered and peppered Olathe sweet corn cob in August, only days after it’s picked. The same goes for Cherokee Purple tomatoes, grilled Jimmy Nardello chilies, Rocky Ford Persian melon and the myriad vegetables and fruits pouring out of local farms. Buy it while it’s fresh, local and affordable — especially if you ask for “seconds” or smaller, misshapen and bruised produce.

If you want to “hold summer in your hand,” as Ray Bradbury wrote in Dandelion Wine, or at least taste it, you’re going to have to spend some quality time in the kitchen. I only mention this because you don’t want to be sorry you didn’t find time to make and enjoy basil pesto, peach-infused vodka, herbed breadcrumbs, pickled beets, roasted garlic oil and local ratatouille long after the farmers markets close until spring. I asked Kate Lacroix about her favorite produce preservation habits. Lacroix owns Stocked, a Boulder-based pantry-building service that helps folks save money on groceries. Dry Herb Couscous Crumble: “I love to dry my herbs (basil, mint, thyme, rosemary, parsley) in the sun on my window sill where I know they will dry well, but not blow away. I make breadcrumbs and couscous crumble for salads (and anything that needs a crunch). It’s just breadcrumbs, dried herbs, salt and pepper and couscous — parcooked, then dried in the oven on a baking sheet

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— and mixed with herbs, salt and pepper. I put both in big Ball jars to use throughout the fall and winter.” Smoothie-Ready Greens: “I blanch and freeze kale and chard and put them in the freezer for boosted smoothies. I stack the leaves whole between sheets of parchment in a sealed bag and then peel them off as I need them.” Bellini Peaches: “I puree ripe peaches and put them into small-serving freezer pouches for brunch-time bellinis.” Winter squash, potatoes, onions and garlic are easy to store whole in a cool, dry place but canning, fermenting and smoking require a certain amount of expertise and equipment. Here are some of my favorite simpler ways to preserve summer. Watching Ratatouille: Roast tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini chunks, whole peeled garlic cloves and onions in an open oven pan at 325 degrees for an hour or so. Add herbs and chilies, if desired. Cool and portion in small freezer bags and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

add to cooked pasta. Freeze Frame: Freeze loose slices of peach to not end up with a brick o’ peach. Use a thin metal tray for chopped herbs, berries and slices of fruit including melons. Store in a freezer bag. Vegetables like beets, bok choy, carrots, fennel and green beans need to be trimmed, cut in pieces and poached in salted boiling water for two minutes, then chilled in ice cold water to stop the cooking. Drain and freeze loose. Sweet corn can be blanched and frozen as cobettes or cut kernels. Roasted chilies can be peeled, deseeded and frozen on sheets. Pesto Variations: One of the best ways to preserve the aroma and flavor of herbs is to make pesto or freeze them in olive oil cubes. To make pesto, place a half cup of pine nuts (or sunflower seeds or walnuts), three-quarters of a cup finely grated Parmesan (or other hard cheese), three large peeled garlic cloves minced, one cup extra virgin olive oil, and one and a half teaspoons salt in a food processor. Add six cups basil leaves at the last minute. Try with fresh cilantro, broadleaf Italian parsley, beet greens, arugula and watercress. You can also purée the same herbs and greens with olive oil or butter and freeze into cubes to keep for sautéing veggies and meats. Poetic Beet Vinegar: Blanche thin slices of peeled beets, place them in a jar, fill with red wine vinegar and keep in the fridge as a salad topper and for dressings. Roasted Garlic Oil: Stellar garlic is grown on farms in the Boulder area. Buy bunches of it, peel a mess of garlic cloves and roast them with a little bit of oil until soft. Fill a jar and pour olive oil over them. Great for garlic bread. Infused Booze: Place a cup of mint, basil or other herbs in a jar, add two cups of local vodka (or rum or tequila), cover and infuse in the fridge for three days. Taste and strain out the herbs. Half-fill a jar with peach slices, add herb-infused vodka and strain for a digestif. Roast those Plums: Roast whole, under-ripe backyard plums, apricots or peaches — rinsed and trimmed — on cookie sheets at 275 degrees for about two hours until the fruit is soft. The pits are then easy to pull out. Puree the fruit and a) roast it another hour to get compote; or, b) freeze in cubes to use later in muffins and to cook pork. LOCAL FOOD NEWS Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant in Boulder has moved to 1710 Pearl St. … BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

… One of Colorado’s top annual pie contests is Louisville’s Fall Festival pie contest Labor Day at Memory Square Park. Judges include yours truly. The contest is limited to only 60 entries in three categories — Cream, Apple, Fruit and/or Nuts — plus the resume-boosting Overall Pie Master. Stop by for a slice of pie. TASTE OF THE WEEK Look for light-green-striped Romanesco zucchini at farmers markets. It’s firmer, less spongy, less seedy and tastier when simmered and grilled and so

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Taste the world

Food festival patrons flock to Boulder County (and beyond) in September

by Matt Cortina

ood news: it’s food festival season. There will be no better time than the next few weeks to sample global flavors, unique beers and celebrate Boulder County cuisine. If you plan it right, you can probably hit all the festivals we’ve pulled out of the food calendar here. From festivals featuring homemade Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine to Oktoberfests throughout the county to tasting events of libations from wine to mezcal, your palate will be satiated this September.

TASTE OF ORTHODOXY

SEPT. 6-8 Sts. Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church, 5460 Jay Road, Boulder, tasteoforthodoxy.org

oulder’s Greek Festival, as a Taste of Orthodoxy bills itself, is a good time. Greek, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food is cooked by the global community of Sts. Peter and Paul parishioners — there’s loukoumades (honey doughnuts), gyros, souvlaki (fried cheese), Turkish coffee, more pastries than you can possibly eat in one sitting, and a full bar that serves two fantastic summer-time Greek drinks: retsina, a white wine with a flavor of pine that harkens back to the days when wine had to be sealed in jugs with pine resin; and ouzo, a Sambuca-like licorice clear spirit. There’s dancing, performances, Greek music and an overall joyous vibe. Tour the church, or just tour the tasting booths, this is a festival in which to immerse

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yourself. Tickets: Entry is free, pay for food and drinks as you go.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEER FESTIVAL

SEPT. 2, 1- 6 P.M. 13th Street and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, bceproductions.com/rocky-mountain-beer-festival

oulder Creek Events puts on the Rocky Mountain Beer Festival in downtown Boulder this Labor Day, with plenty of opportunities to sample local craft beer and brews from the state’s top producers. There will be live music from local artists and classic lawn games to pass the time between sips. Local participating breweries (and cideries, and meaderies) include Asher, Großen Bart, Twisted Pine, Stem Ciders, Wibby Brewing and Redstone Meadery. Tickets: $15-$45.

BOULDER VALLEY WINE FESTIVAL

SEPT. 7, 11 A.M.-5 P.M. Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, bouldervalleywinefestival.com

hat’s better than sipping wine from around the state on a sunny Boulder County afternoon? Not much, as you’re bound to learn at the second annual Boulder Valley Wine Festival in Louisville. More than 20 Colorado see FESTIVALS Page 44

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wineries are coming with samples, and a general admission ticket gets you a commemorative wine glass, a wine tote, and unlimited tastings. There’ll be live music and opportunities to purchase food and wares from local producers. Participating drink purveyors include Aspen Peak Cellars, Avanti Winery, Colorado Sake Company, Decadent Saint, St. Vrain Cidery and Whitewater Hill Vineyards. Tickets: $30 for general admission, $75 for VIP tickets, which include entry into a VIP tent with catered food and a wine bar.

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SEPT. 20, 4-10 P.M.; SEPT. 21 12-10 P.M. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, lhbfoundation.org/ Longmont-oktoberfest

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or the eighth year in a row, the good folks at Left Hand Brewing will put on the Longmont Oktoberfest. More than 10 local breweries (including Left Hand, of course) will be pouring beer, there’ll be pretzels and brats, a robust lineup of bands are set to play, and best of all (well, the beer is pretty good), all the event proceeds benefit the Longmont Humane Society, the Future Arts Foundation and the Left Hand Brewing Foundation. This event was listed as one of DRAFT magazine’s “Must-Visit Oktoberfests,” and we agree. Tickets: $15 in advance, $75 VIP tickets available, which include access to VIP area with unlimited free beer, hors-d’oevres and prime viewing area of the stage.

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et your lederhosen on and head to downtown Boulder for an Oktoberfest celebration featuring Paulaner beer, Stem ciders and Jagermeister (you know you’ll want it when you’re there). The drinks are fantastic, but you’ll also want to check out the gigantic pretzels and authentic Bavarian foods. All that goodness is likely to get you to Central Park for the festival, but what’ll keep you there are the events: cornhole, hammerschlagen (a contest in which participants drive a nail into a wood beam), live music, stein hoisting, keg bowling and a human glockenspiel (which is, according to the event promoters: “Remember that I

clock your grandparents had, where the dancers come out on the hour? Mix that with live dancers and a bit of choreography.” Tickets: $5 for 1 ticket (which gets you one drink), $18 for 4 tickets, $40 for a commemorative stein and two tickets.

BOULDER VALLEY BEER FEST AND CHILI FEST

SEPT. 7, 2-6 P.M. Community Park, 1350 Coalton Road, Superior, boudlervalleybeerfest.com

hat’s better than a beer fest? A beer fest that also features a chili festival. At the 19th edition of the Chili Fest, patrons can sample free chili from local restaurants and community cooks. New this year, though, is a community chili competition, with three categories of winners named: homestyle, red and green, as judged by a panel with community (that’s you) input. At the adjoining Boulder Valley Beer Festival, sample beer from 20 breweries, including Asher, Crystal Springs, Endo and Liquid Mechanics. Tickets: Chili Fest admission is free; Boulder Valley Beer Festival tickets are $30-$35, with VIP tickets for $65.

COLORADO LEBANESE FESTIVAL SEPT. 14, 11 A.M.-11 P.M.; SEPT. 15, 11 A.M.-6 P.M. St. Rafka Maronite Church, 2301 Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood, coloradolebfest.com

he sixth annual Colorado Lebanese Festival returns to Lakewood, and with it comes the opportunity to sample traditional food and drinks and enjoy contemporary Lebanese folk music. There’ll be music and dancing, a Lebanese wine tasting, and all the kibbeh and hummus you can pack in. Tickets: Free, with food and wine tickets available.

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SEPT. 15 Finn’s Manor, 2927 Larimer St., Denver, mexinabottle.com

ead down to Denver for this unique traveling festival that provides the opportunity to taste 100 mezcals and agave spirits. There will also be Mexican wines, craft beers and “a few suprises,” according to the organizers. Local restaurants will be serving food and local bartenders will be pouring cocktails. Tickets: $60-$70. BOULDER WEEKLY

Beyond beer

Books and booze expand the brewing world

by Michael J. Casey

very week brings beer releases, anniversary parties and a festival or two, but there are ancillary aspects of beer that sometimes fall between the cracks. And with a long holiday weekend ahead, what better time to catch up on a little reading and mix a cocktail from one of America’s oldest breweries.

BOOKS The Guide to Craft Beer — Put together by the Brewers Association (BA), The Guide to Craft Beer is a 188-page pocketbook perfect for those new to beer and those interested in delving deeper into the specifics of beer. Geared toward craft beer — i.e., the independently owned brewers the BA represents — The Guide to Craft Beer opens with a few short chapters on what craft beer is, who brews it, how to identify it, what’s (usually) in it and a few basic tips on how to think about what you drink. SUSAN FRANCE The heart of the book is an encyclopedic breakdown of 80 specific styles by color, alcohol content, bitterness and common hop, malt and yeast components. Additional information touches on serving and pairing recommendations and a short history of the beverage. This information is also available via craftbeer. com — a division of the BA — but the size of the guide makes it a handy bar companion and easy to search. And with extensive food and beer pairing suggestions — Moroccan duck with Britishstyle barleywine, who knew? — The Guide to Craft Beer is an excellent addition to your beer bookshelf. Beer Lover’s Colorado: 2nd Edition — The beer landscape changes fast. So fast that Globe Pequot Publishing felt the need to update their 2012 Beer Lover’s Colorado. This time around they brought in Colorado Sun reporter John Frank and photographer Dustin Hall (The Brewtography Project) to put together a sleek and colorful roundup of breweries, brewpubs, beer bars, homebrew recipes and festivals around the Centennial State. Each entry offers a little bit of history alongside a Beer Lover’s Pick. The writing is both informed and lively — Frank’s poetic description of drinking on the Sanitas patio concludes with “hashtag Boulder.” And though the book is a paperback, it has a sturdiness that ought to stand up to years of consultation. BEYOND BEER Without a doubt, 2019 will go down as the summer of seltzer. Led by the massive success of White Claw, craft breweries got in the game with their lines of hard sparkling waters. Oskar Blues has Wild Basin, Upslope Brewing has Snowmelt (and rumors of the world’s first barrel-aged hard seltzer) and an Arvada brewery revamped themselves as Elevated Seltzer, Colorado’s first all seltzery. It only makes sense then that a legacy brewery of 175 years would get in the spirits game. Debuting along the Front Range before expanding nationwide, Pabst Blue Ribbon’s Whiskey is the brewery’s first spirit. The grain bill is 52% corn, 27% barley, 17% wheat and 4% rye. It’s clear as a bell and aged for a grand total of five seconds. It’s not a sipper so break out the mixers, maybe even a seltzer, and enjoy without pretense. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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And then nature pushes back by compelling you to slow down. The result may be a rhythm that feels like constantly taking three steps forward and two steps backward. May I suggest a different approach this year? Would you consider surrendering, even slightly, to the invitation to relax and recharge?

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Here are examples of activities I recommend you try in the coming days. 1. Build a campfire on the beach with friends and regale each other with stories of your most interesting successes. 2. Buy eccentric treasures at a flea market and ever thereafter refer to them as your holy icons. 3. Climb a hill and sit on the grass as you sing your favorite songs and watch the moon slowly rise over the eastern horizon. 4. Take naps when you’re “not supposed to.” 5. Sneak into an orchard at night and eat fruit plucked just moments before. 6. Tell a beloved person a fairy tale in which he or she is the hero.

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APRIL 20-MAY 20: The hardiest creature on the planet may be the bacterium known as Deinococcus radiodurans. It can endure exposure to radiation, intense cold, dehydration, acid and vacuum. I propose we make it your power creature for the coming weeks. Why? Not because I expect you’ll have to deal with a lot of extreme conditions, but rather because I think you’ll be exceptionally robust, both physically and psychologically. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to succeed at demanding challenges that require you to be in top form, now is a good time to do it. P.S. Deinococcus radiodurans is colloquially referred to as Conan the Bacterium, borrowing from the spirit of the fictional character Conan the Barbarian, who is renowned for his strength and agility.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In the yearly cycle of many Geminis,

retreating into a state akin to hibernation makes sense during the end of August and the first three weeks of September. But since many of you are high-energy sophisticates, you often override your body’s signals.

JUNE 21-JULY 22: If you decide to travel to a particular

place via hot air balloon, you must be prepared for the possibility that your route will be indirect. At different altitudes, the wind may be blowing in different directions: toward the east at a hundred feet high, but toward the southwest at two hundred feet. The trick for the pilot is to jockey up and down until finding a layer that’s headed toward the desired destination. I see your life right now as having a metaphorical resemblance to this riddle. You have not yet discovered the layer that will take you where you want to go. But I bet you will soon.

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Considering how bright you have been

burning since the Flame Angels designated you as the Hottest Cool Person of the Month, I hesitate to urge you to simmer down. But I must. Before there’s a meltdown in your vicinity, please lower your thermostat. Not a lot. Just a little. If you do that, everyone will continue to see your gleaming charisma in the best possible light. But don’t you dare extinguish your blaze. Don’t apologize for your brilliant shimmer. The rest of us need your magical radiance.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Libran athlete Mickey Mantle is

in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He had a spectacular 18-year career, winning the Most Valuable Player Award three times, playing in 12 World Series and being selected to the All-Star team 16 times. So it’s astounding that he played with a torn ligament in his knee for 17 years, according to his biographer Jane Leavy. She quoted an orthopedic surgeon who said that Mantle compensated for his injury with “neuromuscular genius.” I’m thinking that in the next few weeks you’re in a position to accomplish an equivalent of Mantle’s heroic adjustment.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Most people who belong to the

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Shogun is a bestselling novel about an

Englishman who transforms himself into a samurai warrior in seventeenth-century Japan. Written by James Clavell, it’s over 1,100 pages long. Clavell testified that the idea for the story sprang up in him when he read one line in his daughter’s school book: “In 1600 an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai.” I suspect it’s highly likely you will soon encounter a seed like that, Virgo: a bare inspiration that will eventually bloom into a Big Thing.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Here are good questions for you to

meditate on during the next four weeks. 1. How can you attract resources that will expand your mind and your world? 2. Are you bold enough to reach out to wise sources and provocative influences that could connect you with useful tricks and practical treasures? 3. What interesting lessons can you stir up as you explore the mercurial edges, skirt the changeable boundaries, journey to catalytic frontiers and make pilgrimages to holy hubbubs? 4. How best can you encourage lyrical emotion over polished sentimentality? Joyous idealism over astringent zealotry? Exuberant integrity over formulaic kindness?

Church of Satan neither believe in nor worship Satan. (They’re atheists, and don’t believe in the supernatural.) I think a comparable principle is true for many rightwing fundamentalist Christians. Their actions and words are replete with bigotry, hard-heartedness, materialism and selfishness: so contrary to what the real Jesus Christ taught that they in effect don’t believe in or worship Jesus Christ. I mention this, Scorpio, in hope of inspiring you to take inventory of whether your stated ideals are reflected in the practical details of how you live your life. That’s always an interesting and important task, of course, but it’s especially so for you right now. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to purge any hypocrisy from your system and get your actual behavior in close alignment with your deepest values.

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by,” wrote author Wallace Stegner, “and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.” That will be an excellent meditation for you during the coming weeks. I trust you are long past the time of fantasizing you can live without any rules. Your challenge now is to adjust some of the rules you have been living by, or even dare to align yourself with some new rules — and then completely commit yourself to being loyal to them and enjoying them.

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symbolize your personal story in the coming weeks and months, I think Piscean author Nikos Kazantzakis articulated the perfect prescription for you. I invite you to interpret his thoughts to fit your circumstances. “We’re going to start with small, easy things,” he wrote. “Then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.” Here’s an additional prod from Kazantzakis: “Reach what you cannot.”

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I’m a straight woman in tionally. Alas, my kink remains, and has my mid-30s. For most of my adult life, gotten stronger to the point where I’m I’ve gotten off on fantasizing about my imagining my guy fucking someone boyfriends fucking other women. So far else about 99% of the time in order to it’s been fantasy-only, but I’m intrigued come. I wish I could get more enjoyby the prospect of a real ment from “normal” sex. ROMAN ROBINSON cuckquean scenario. I’ve read your column However, I’ve always long enough to know that been reluctant to share I should probably just my kink. It’s not that I fear embrace my kink and rejection or judgment. I enjoy it. But while I’m trythink most guys would be ing my damnedest to be into it, including the lovely sex-positive, I can’t get man I’m currently in a around the nagging feelcommitted relationship ing that there’s something with. Rather, it’s my own “unhealthy” about this fandiscomfort with a kink that tasy. If my kink is based I fear stems from an on specific insecurities/ unhealthy emotional fears, do they get even place. Insecurity, avoiding intimacy and more hardwired into my brain with difficulty trusting men are all issues I’ve every orgasm? struggled with, and the cuckquean kink —This Reluctant Cuckquean plays right into all of that. I’ve worked with therapists over the years and gotDear TRC: Two quick questions: (1) ten into a somewhat solid place emoHow much more hardwired could some-

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thing possibly become if you already have to think about it 99 percent of the time in order to climax? (2) What if imagining your guy fucking other women is “normal” sex for you? A lot of people’s kinks are essentially eroticized fears: the fear of being humiliated, the fear of being exposed, the fear of being cheated on, etc. Not everyone eroticizes these fears, of course, but so many of us do that it really should be covered in sex-ed courses. In your case, TRC, your erotic imagination took something that scares you — being cheated on — and turned it into something that arouses you. The difference between your worst fear and your ultimate turn-on is control. If your man fucks another woman, it will happen because you wanted it to (you gave him permission) and there will be something in it for you (it will get you off). Which is not to say you ever have to act on this. You don’t. Plenty of straight men are turned on by the fan-

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tasy of their wives being with other men but know they couldn’t handle the reality of it, so they enjoy it as a fantasy only. But they don’t — or the healthy ones don’t — deny themselves the fantasy, whether it’s just playing it out in their heads or their monogamous partners indulging them with a little cheating-centered dirty talk during sex. We can’t will kinks away, TRC, we can only embrace and accept them. Again, that doesn’t mean we have to act on them — some fantasies can never be realized for moral reasons — but to beat ourselves up about our kinks is a waste of time. On the Lovecast, rival advice columnist E. Jean Carroll: savagelovecast. com. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage ITMFA.org

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developed using tiny carbon nanotubes, “100,000 times smaller than a human hair,” according to a press release. THC molecules bind to the surface of the nanotubes and change their electrical properties. The speed at which the electrical currents recover signals whether THC is present. “Nanotechnology sensors can detect THC at levels comparable to or better than mass spectrometry, which is considered the gold standard for THC detection,” Sean Hwang, lead author on the paper, said in a press release. The other group is Oakland, California-

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based Hound Labs Inc., which has been in the news for the last several years as it worked on developing its own technology to detect marijuana from a stream of breath. The startup dominated marijuana news on Aug. 27 with reports that it had raised a cool $30 million from several investment companies to “boost commercial manufacturing and accelerate general market availability” of their dual marijuana/alcohol breathalyzer, according to a press release by the company. Hound, a private company, has not been as detailed about the technology behind its breathalyzer (though nanotube technology is probably a good guess). In February of this year, Vice Canada wrote that, according to representatives from the startup, “Hound’s breathalyzers work by having a person breathe into the device’s tube, while a disposable cartridge automatically captures [it] into two breath samples. It provides a reading within minutes. The number of breaths required varies from person to person.” A marijuana breathalyzer is a big deal. As states adopt medical and recreational marijuana, law enforcement agencies have been tasked with determining when someone is too high to drive. But it’s been complicated, to say the least. Several states, including Colorado, have adopted “per se” laws, which use bodily fluids to designate a limit to the amount of THC that can be present in a driver’s bloodstream before they are considered impaired. “Colorado law specifies that drivers with five nanograms of active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in their whole blood can be pros-

ecuted for driving under the influence (DUI),” according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. In Pennsylvania, the limit is 0.5 nanograms per milliliter. In California, three years after recreational legalization, there is no stated blood-THC limit. There’s a reason California won’t set a limit: numerous expert toxicologists, including Marilyn Huestis, the former chief of chemistry and drug metabolism at the National Institute of Drug Abuse, say there’s no scientific basis for setting a legal limit on blood levels of THC. “I used to be someone who thought [that] if we could just get a good limit, that would work,” Huestis told LiveScience in January 2018. “But [with] all the work on chronic, frequent users, we realized there’s no one number that’s going to distinguish impairment.” Detectable levels of THC in blood or saliva don’t differentiate between pot consumed last night, sitting on your couch, and pot consumed an hour ago, right before you got behind the wheel. Hound claims its new breathalyzer will “enable a solution that balances safety with fairness.” In other words, folks who enjoy cannabis responsibly, at home and never before operating heavy machinery like a car, will be protected by the more accurate detection from Hound’s breathalyzer. While the creation of a breathalyzer still doesn’t answer what amount of THC will amount to a DUI from state to state, the Pittsburgh team said in their press statement that creating such devices “is an important first step toward making sure people don’t partake and drive.”

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You can’t fool all of the people all of the time — tobacco, alcohol and pot edition by Paul Danish

rohibitionists have spent more than 80 years trying to convince the American people that marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol and tobacco. At first it worked, but not anymore, according to a new survey. The survey, the product of a collaboration between Politico and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that Americans are three times more likely to consider tobacco “very harmful” than marijuana. Tobacco cigarettes were considered “very harmful” by 81% of those sur-

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veyed, compared with 26% of those who considered pot “very harmful.” Marijuana doesn’t get a completely clean bill of health, however; 27% of those surveyed said they thought it was “somewhat harmful” and 26% said it was “not too harmful.” But 18% of those surveyed said pot was “not at all harmful.” Only 1% said the same of tobacco. Unlike many surveys, there was little or no difference in the responses from Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Of those answer-

ing “very harmful” to both the tobacco and marijuana questions, there was only a one percentage point difference among the three groups. The survey also asked people how harmful they considered alcohol to be: 51% said they considered it “very harmful,” with Republicans (at 46%) only a bit less likely to say so. • • • • While you can’t fool all of the people all of the time about pot, it turns out you can fool Representative Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland), who says he believes marijuana is a gateway drug to hard drug use. Hoyer is House Majority Leader, a position that makes him the second highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. In a letter to a constituent who evidently asked Hoyer for his views on marijuana legalization, the Congressman said that while he supports the legalization of medical marijuana and the decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana generally, he still had “concerns” about full legalization “after speaking to people who deal with drug abuse and rehabilitation and particularly after learning of the drug’s harmful consequences as a threshold drug that leads to the use of harder, very harmful drugs.” The constituent Hoyer wrote to shared the letter with the Marijuana Moment website. The “gateway theory,” that marijuana use is a gateway to hard drug use, has been widely debunked, although some marijuana neo-prohibitionists have been trying to revive it lately. Evidently Hoyer has been drinking some of their Kool-Aid. Rober Capecchi, the constituent who made Hoyer’s letter public, told Marijuana Moment that while he voted for Hoyer in the past, “it’s incredibly

disappointing to see opposition to cannabis policy reform — beyond accommodating medical cannabis laws — based on the debunked ‘gateway theory,’ especially from one of the most senior members of Democratic Leadership.” Happily, Hoyer is going to have some ’splainin’ to do about his retro views on pot, because he has a primary challenger this cycle. After Marijuana Moment publicized the contents of Hoyer’s letter, Mckayla Wilkes immediately made them a campaign issue, tweeting that in the year 2019 Hoyer “continues to push the myth that marijuana should remain illegal because it is a ‘gateway drug.’” “We must: Legalize it. Expunge the records. Invest in communities that the War on Drugs has destroyed,” she tweeted. The truth is marijuana use is not a “gateway” to hard drug use. However, marijuana use can be a gateway to illegal drug use, if marijuana is illegal. The obvious way to close the gate is to make marijuana legal. And an obvious way to bring marijuana prohibition to a swift end is for knuckle-draggers like Hoyer to have their sorry butts kicked out of Congress due to their pot views. It arguably happened last year when Representative Pete Sessions (R-Texas), no relation to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was sacked by civil rights lawyer and former NFL linebacker Collin Allred, who made marijuana reform a major issue in his campaign. Sessions had used his position as Chairman of the House Rules Committee to systematically prevent marijuana reform bills from reaching the House floor. If Hoyer could be sent the way of Sessions, chances are even the most obdurate pot prohibitionists would start to evolve.

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