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hat’s in a name? By definition, the name of a person, place or thing is its personal designation... a distinct way of being known to others. Unless, of course, it’s the opposite — a label meant to disguise who or what a person or thing really is. In other words, a fake name. Hiding one’s true identity can be done for many legitimate reasons, but it’s widelyused these days by flimflammers and corporate front groups. For example, “Restaurant Workers of America” is not made up of waiters, cooks, bartenders, etc. It’s a front group for chain restaurant owners who
oppose raising the sub-minimum wage of their actual workers. Such astroturf “citizens” groups often hide behind patriotic-sounding names like “Americans for Prosperity” to run massive campaigns of deceit to benefit the corporate sponsors at the expense of the public interest. And now, from out West, comes a brand-spankin’ new group: “Cowboys for Liberty.” What a positive moniker! Cowboys are seen as down-to-Earth straight-shooters, and America is all about liberty. But wait, is this just a front for corporations wanting to grab our public lands? Au contraire, as the old cowhands say. It’s an audacious, fun-loving network of hell-raising, cli-
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mate-change activists who are out to expose, shame and defeat the corporateserving profiteers behind the climatedenier industry. They chose the cowboy image both to symbolize the True-West ethic of defending Mother Nature — and as a spoof of the Orwellian perversion of language by dishonest corporate powers. This is Jim Hightower saying... But Cowboys for Liberty is more than a name. It’s a public campaign to unveil the shameful, avaricious individuals who are behind climate-change pollution, putting their personal wealth and political advancement above the well-being of all other earthlings. Join the campaign at www.whydeny.org This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. September 20 , 2018 5
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the anderson files Another reason to vote by Dave Anderson
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he tide is turning. Donald roots progressive movements. But it Trump’s popularity is sinking matters who is in office. The 2018 and fast, and it looks like the 2020 elections are particularly imporDemocrats may win control of tant. The slide toward an authoritarian the U.S. House and just possikleptocracy is alarming. The decisive bly the Senate. At least, that’s what the defeat of Trumpism and the polls are saying at the moment. But Republican Party is a prerequisite not pollsters usually don’t ask people, “Are only for progressive social change but you actually going to also the survival of vote?” democracy. That’s In 2016, why the antiTrump received Trump resistance approximately the ranges from modsame percentage erate rightwingers of votes as previto far leftists. Politics, on the ous Republican Since this is an presidential candioff-year election other hand, is dates. A new and the study from the Republicans condepressing.” Pew Research trol all levers of Center found that power in —Ethan Young, four in 10 Washington D.C. Americans who as well as many longtime were eligible to state capitols, vote did not do so Democrats don’t activist in 2016. The drive the national researchers said, agenda or policies. “nonvoters were more likely to They end up reacting to the be younger, less educated, less Republicans. No one speaks for all affluent, and nonwhite” and that, Democrats. For example, it shouldn’t “Democrats and Democratic-leaning be too surprising that a Democratic independents made up a 55 percent senator from Alabama sounds different majority of nonvoters.” An increase in from a Democratic senator from under-30 voters in crucial swing states California. could have made Hillary Clinton presHowever, progressives running as ident. Nationally, almost 6 million Democrats have been winning a lot of under-30 people who were registered elections lately. It is surprising that a didn’t vote. fair number of candidates publicly Ultimately, significant social change see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7 comes from the bottom up by grass-
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identifying as Democratic Socialists are among them. Democrats now view socialism more favorably than capitalism, according to a recent Gallup poll. That’s the first time that’s happened since Gallup started asking the question a decade ago. But it would be myopic to think that the stigma against socialism has disappeared. Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t care too much about ideology. Political scientist Philip Converse has said that only, “about 17 percent of the public could both assign the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ correctly to the parties and say something sensible about what the terms meant.” Political scientists Donald Kinder and Nathan Kalmoe have reported that, “ideological differences have little influence over opinion on immigration, affirmative action, capital punishment, gun control, Social Security, health insurance, the deficit, foreign aid, tax reform, and the war on terrorism.” Since most people don’t pay too much attention to politics, ideological identities can change quickly. That’s frustrating for those of us who are political obsessives, whether we are liberals, conservatives, moderates or socialists. Ethan Young, a longtime activist for progressive causes, says his socialist worldview is invigorating but that there is a difference between ideology and politics: “Ideology is fun. It gives you new perspectives. It makes you feel like there’s a way out, even if it’s really just a slight shift in the lighting. Politics, on the other hand, is depressing. It involves talking to people who might hate you, or it might require thinking on your feet, empathy, patience, courage, and seeing things from the perspective of your enemies. If you fail it not only affects you, it affects everybody you care about. And you can pay dearly. If you succeed, you might end up becoming what you started out trying to fight. “But,” he adds, “politics is the way to change power relations, and that requires strategy that sets out where the power is, and what alignment of forces can counteract the foundations and trajectory of the regime of the moment.” Politics is tough but it can also give meaning to your life. That is the message of Paul Loeb in his book Soul of A Citizen: Living With Conviction In Challenging Times. He tells stories of “ordinary” Americans who fought off the pervasive feelings of cynicism and Boulder Weekly
powerlessness in our society and changed things with their activism. For many years, Loeb has been challenging the attitude of “my vote doesn’t matter” among young people with his “Campus Vote Project.” He points out “the incredibly small margins by which critical elections can be won.” He says: “There’s a temptation to view voting as a vehicle for self-expres-
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he Peoples League for Action Now (PLAN)-Boulder County supports City Council’s Aug. 22 decision to proceed with the CU South Campus flood mitigation scheme, referred to as Variant I plus upstream detention (according to the upstream detention concept proposed by Dr. Gordon McCurry).We applaud Council for making the criteria for decisions about what is best for Boulder with regard to flood mitigation and environmental protection, life-safety and technical considerations; not who owns the property. Of all the flood mitigation approaches considered thus far, Variant I offers the best potential for complying with Boulder County Comprehensive Plan policies for public safety, protecting Open Space, critical habitat and other environmental resources, and City of Boulder Open Space Charter provisions. That is because Variant I’s fundamental premise is to maximize protection of public safety and the environment over other considerations. As Council and CU consider the next steps with regard to the South Campus, now is a good time for the City and CU to engage in a conversation about CU’s long term growth plans and what they portend for Boulder’s future ability to manage housing, traffic and the multitude of City-provided facilities and services that will be necessary to support demands arising from CU’s growth. Will the CU South site be able to significantly accommodate future CU growth and the consequent demand for academic, program and living spaces, or will redevelopment of other sites within Boulder better serve both CU’s and Boulder’s needs? Knowing some of these answers sooner rather than later will enable both CU and Boulder to make more informed plans for the future. As plans for the CU South property evolve, PLAN-Boulder looks forward to CU developing a detailed annexation plan that appropriately addresses impacts on public safety, the environment and the surrounding community. Appropriate considerations should include the following: Annexation Considerations: • The City must not consider annexation until detailed plans of future development are submitted by CU as
part of the annexation application so that all stakeholders have a clear understanding of what will be built and the consequent impacts on the surrounding community, such as traffic, are understood and addressed. Detailed annexation plans are the core of any annexation agreement. If specific and clearly articulated plans are not incorporated into an annexation agreement, the City will have no influence over the final development. • Annexation plans must be based on the results of scientific and engineering analyses of flood mitigation plans and the impacts of flood mitigation and future development on open space, critical habitat and other environmental resources. The analyses results must ensure there are no significant impacts on city-owned open space resulting from flood mitigation or future development on the site subsequent to annexation. • Scientific and engineering analyses must receive independent third party review and the results of the analyses and review must be shared with the public every step of the way. In other words, the City must not consider annexation until the flood mitigation and environmental analyses are completed and vetted through the public process. Flood Mitigation Considerations: Making policy before you have validated the engineering and economic feasibility, as the initial flood mitigation proposals sought to do, is a recipe for disaster. The City should continue scientific and engineering analyses of the Variant I plus upstream detention flood mitigation scheme to confirm that it is the optimal flood mitigation approach from both engineering and regulatory standpoints. This includes thorough studies of the scheme’s impacts including: • Examination of groundwater and surface water flows to provide assurance that natural groundwater flows on-site are not interrupted so that designated Open Space, wetlands and other important ecological resources on both sides of Highway 36 are fully protected. • The impact of a 500-year flood on ecological resources on the site. • An unconstrained assessment of the maximum potential for ecological restoration on the site. see GUEST COLUMN Page 9
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safety is not being used as a priority decision point in the fracking operations. This is why she supports Proposition 112, formerly known as Initiative 97, the 2,500foot set-back requirement for oil and gas operations which will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot. Sonya has been endorsed by Conservation Colorado, the largest environmental organization in the state. As a licensed pharmacist, Sonya knows health care from the ground up. She is the only candidate who has worked as a frontline health care practitioner and as a policy maker. Sonya helped implement the statewide Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) program and associated mental health services. She is uniquely qualified to advocate for Medicare for all and for drug pricing transparency because she knows our healthcare system. Sonya is endorsed by Planned Parenthood and other health care and women’s organizations. Sonya is not a one-issue candidate. She has served and assisted working families in HD 12, who are struggling with affordable housing. During the catastrophic floods of 2013, through the Boulder County Board of Health, she worked to provide assistance to hundreds of families who lost their homes. She will keep working families in the forefront as shown by being the only candidate in the race endorsed by the AFL-CIO and the Boulder Area Labor Council. And finally, as a Latina LGBTQ Coloradan, Sonya’s voice is needed more than ever today. She has a lifetime of experience in community organizing, building coalitions, and getting the job done. Whether it was working on voter registration drives in the South or marching with Dolores Huerta for DACA rights, she has always been a leader and part of the solution. She is the voice our district needs today. This is why we are supporting Sonya Jaquez Lewis for Colorado House District 12! Christine Berg, Mayor of Lafayette, and Bob Muckle, Mayor of Louisville
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tion plan or future development. Public Participation and Collaboration Considerations: • Open and transparent public participation during the next phase of flood mitigation development include ongoing and updated information on results of all project related analyses and plans. Moving forward according to the considerations described above, will result in a solution that best serves the interests of Boulder citizens. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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et me explain a little bit about this ongoing project. The dictionary defines sanctuary as “a place of refuge and protection.” In our current political environment, it’s a word often applied to pro-immigrant efforts by religious groups, activist organizations and even entire cities. But beyond this realm of support efforts, there exists another level of sanctuary comprised of very real physical spaces — windows and walls, if you will. These sanctuaries include churches, religious retreats, monasteries and parsonages of varying denominations. In the past couple of years, many religious locations have been transformed into literal sanctuaries by providing safe haven for immigrants who would otherwise be forcibly removed from the United States, often sent back to countries where physical abuse, violent crime, life-threatening poverty and even death await them. Not to mention separating them from loved ones, including small children. So what is it about these religious sites that makes it possible for them to thwart the law enforcement efforts of the federal government, particularly the efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)? It’s a good question considering there are no actual laws preventing ICE from simply entering church property and apprehending whomever they want. They can do that at any time, but so far, they haven’t. The reality is, the only thing protecting the hundreds of people who have taken refuge on church property over the last two years is what can best be described as invisible lines. Since our nation’s founding, it has been customary for law enforcement to respect the sanctity of church property. It is a tradition based on some of our longest-held core values. And just because the lines are invisible doesn’t mean they are weak. In one instance in New Mexico, ICE agents actually chased a man from 10 September 20, 2018
Colombia, bumping his car with theirs in an attempt to prevent him from reaching his local Catholic church. Those agents stopped their pursuit and simply parked across the street once the man made it into the church’s parking lot. It is a powerful line. But for how long? By its very nature, the current political crisis that has engulfed our nation — a crisis exemplified by President Donald Trump and his administration’s mistreatment of immigrants — is the result of our elected leaders having abandoned many of our nation’s long-held social norms. Overt racism, lying and the general ignoring of moral precedent have become the everyday behavior of the current administration, as well as its most rabid supporters and those who have chosen to look the other way because such apathy serves their political or economic interests. Under these conditions, we should have no illusions that the long-held considerations that have protected immigrants in sanctuary thus far, as well as the sanctity of our religious institutions themselves, are not under grave threat. They are. Their violation is only a tweet away. These invisible lines of protection may be powerful, but they are also vulnerable because they are no more than a manifestation of our past cultural sensitivities, protections willed into existence by our better angels in days gone by, presumably to protect us from ourselves should darkness one day descend upon our nation. I believe “one day” has come. And we would do well to realize that it is not just our persecuted migrant friends who are in refuge within these lines and behind these walls, it is all of us who now hope and wait for our country’s sanity and
compassion to again show itself. If these invisible barriers built of history, empathy and respect for religious freedom should fall, all of us and the country we call home will be forever changed. In many ways, these lines that form our islands of sanctuary are our nation’s last line of defense against the hatred and totalitarianism that has swept over us. For all of our sakes, we must fortify them by any and every means possible. And that is the hope and intent behind this project. I launched the Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines project back in May with the belief that when we come to know our neighbors in sanctuary in a way that transforms the statistics into people with faces and stories, we will become better equipped to fight the ignorance and prejudice that have become so prevalent. As I travel the country spending a few days photographing and getting to know these amazing women, men and families, I become more convinced every day of the power of their stories. In order to amplify the project’s impact, the dissemination of its content will be multifaceted. The interviews and
photos will eventually culminate in a book, a traveling photo exhibit, a multi-month-long ongoing series in Boulder Weekly that is coordinated with Motus Theater’s UndocuAmerica Performances and Media Project. Most of the essays will not begin running until early next year. But for a number of reasons, we’ve decided to launch the project now as it pertains to the four women who are, or were, in sanctuary in Colorado when the project launched. (Sandra Lopez and her children have recently been able to return home after more than a year in sanctuary in Carbondale.) The reason for this timing is to help support the People’s Resolution, a petition effort that is the culmination of a five-month-long effort by the four women — Lopez, Araceli Velasquez, Ingrid Encalada Latore and Rosa Sabido — to identify a number of concrete steps that elected leaders in Colorado and beyond can take to create a pathway to legal status for people, including those now in sanctuary. The Resolution was created in the hope that other families won’t have to be separated and torn from their homes and lives as has happened to those now living in sanctuary or detention, or those who’ve already been deported or the millions of our neighbors now living in constant fear of such horrific scenarios. We’ll be running an essay each week for the next four weeks culminating with an exciting event titled Women of Resolution, a collaboration between Motus Theater and Boulder Weekly, on Oct. 14. See the information box on page 16 for more details on that program. Boulder Weekly
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s I drove west of Durango, Colorado, on Highway 160, the absurdity of it all began to set in, aided by the landscape. I topped a hill and what seemed like the entire West came into view all at once — the horizon so distant and blurred by heat I could only assume it was there. As I continued across the expanse, I saw mostly nothing: a few cows, a home on an acreage here and there, the occasional grisly reminder that some deer are less lucky than others. I wondered aloud why, in all this emptiness, is there not room for one 53-year-old woman named Rosa? But I knew that overcrowding was hardly the issue as I pounded the horn with my fist a few times for good measure — only to startle a post-sitting magpie who had nothing to do with our current immigration policies. No, the mistreatment of our immigrant neighbors these days has little to do with lack
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of space or jobs or crime or any of the other false justifications suggested. Rosa Sabido and her peers in sanctuary are just more collateral damage from a political war being waged from the West Wing of the White House some 2,000 miles to the east. There isn’t room for Rosa these days because someone has determined that throwing this creative, hard-working woman out of the country she has called home for the past 30 years will somehow motivate the president’s base of supporters to vote in the next election cycle. I find it a maddening reality made more so as I travel the nation experiencing the transformation that occurs when statistics become people with names and faces, tears and tales of shattered lives... and every so often, hope. Rosa grew up in Mexico City from the age of 4 until her early 20s. She is funny, writes poetry, loves rock music, lights a room when she smiles and is so sensitive and empathetic to living things that she cried when they cut
down the diseased tree in front of the church in Mancos, Colorado, where she has entrapped herself in her effort to remain free. Sanctuary is funny that way. And she cried again when I asked her why she keeps an old limb from the dead tree next to the makeshift shrine in her room. “Someone should remember it,” she told me. I left it there, preferring not to hear the answer to my next obvious question. In 1986, after visiting her stepfather Roberto — who had moved to Cortez, Colorado, a few years earlier and had recently received residency under Reagan’s amnesty — Rosa felt that Southwest Colorado might just be the perfect spot to carve out the independent life of which she had always dreamed. So, approximately a year later, after one more vacation to scope out the region, she decided to find work and put See ROSA Page 12
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down roots in the Four Corners area. It is a decision Rosa claims she’s never regretted. For 30 years she has called Cortez home, living in her small blue house on the south end of town nextdoor to her elderly and ailing mother and stepfather whom she physically cares for... or at least did until she was forced to take sanctuary in the tiny Mancos United Methodist Church on June 2, 2017, to avoid deportation. She says she misses the sunsets over Sleeping Ute Mountain, which she could see from her home. She’s taken hundreds of photos of those sunsets over the years because, she says, “every one is different and always beautiful.” While she misses her home and is deeply saddened over the absence of her five pet dogs, whom she says are getting older and need extra attention, it’s not being able to care for her parents any longer that has been arguably the most stressful aspect of living inside the church walls. She says it’s hard, always fearing that leaving the church property to help them would likely result in her detention and deportation. Listening to her describe their relationship, it’s clear they are close and that they badly need her help. Just 48 hours before Rosa planned to enter sanctuary back in June 2017, her mother called and said 12 September 20, 2018
need to be there.’ her stepfather was very sick. “So, that next day and a It was right when she was half, gosh, it was crazy. I trying to finalize her entry was crazy packing. It was into sanctuary, a very connot as warm as it is now, it fusing and stressful time. was kind of cold. You don’t “There was going to be know what to pack, if you a conference call between want to pack for the next the pastor, my attorney and week or for the next year, me... but that morning, my so you grab whatever you stepfather was feeling very can.” sick. He couldn’t even Top: Rosa Sabido passes time in the sanctuary of Mancos United Methodist Church. The small church But once in sanctuary, walk and he was all bent. in Southwest Colorado voted to become a things got even worse for My mom was very scared sanctuary congregation months before it was that Rosa would be taking refuge within its her parents. and she called me, and she known walls. Rosa’s mom, who has a said that something was Bottom: The small adobe church was always one number of serious health going on with him. And of Rosa’s favorite buildings in Mancos, one of the issues already, went to visit then suddenly I ended up towns where she sold her fresh tamales. But she never dreamed she would one day have to take her son in Mexico and in the emergency room, shelter in the church to avoid deportation. started feeling very poorly and he had some kidney in December 2017. stones. It was very painful “She was visiting and for him. she wasn’t feeling very well,” Rosa said. “So she went “We did the conference call when I was in the to get some tests... because she has high blood preshospital and we were talking what the plan was sure, problems with her thyroid, liver problems. going to be for me to come, and they told me, ‘You There are more, like she has an enlarged heart, she have to be in the church by Friday afternoon,’ and had pneumonia three years ago and damaged one of this was Wednesday,” she said as she let out a sigh. “And I was like, ‘Can this be Sunday night?’ and they her lungs, so she has apnea, and she’s overweight and said, ‘You don’t really want to take more risks. You See ROSA Page 14 Boulder Weekly
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Left: The church turned its nursery into a living space for Rosa. The church had to build a shower and make other modifications as well. She has now lived in this small space for nearly 16 months. Above: Rosa taking Holy Communion. A devout Catholic, Rosa now finds herself in sanctuary in a Methodist church, which among other compromises, means each Friday someone from the Catholic church must come by to administer the rite.
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she’s short. She’s very short, so that makes it harder on her body. And now with the diabetes — even worse. So, she wanted to get her prescriptions, but she needed to go to the doctor, so she did, and they started finding things here and there, and she had some test, and they told her that she had breast cancer. ... They decided to do the mastectomy.” It’s no wonder being in sanctuary makes Rosa feel helpless at times. Her mother has been forced to remain in Mexico because there’s no one in Colorado to take care of her now. “Because my stepfather has to work, I told her, ‘Well, all I can do is take care of you here in this room where I’m sleeping.” “For me,” she continued, her voice beginning to crack as her eyes teared up, “the day of her surgery was like, I’ve never been more stressed and being here, and how it was that day... I almost had a panic attack here. Because my fear was she was never going to make it. She was so sick. ... I told her, ‘You might not even make it. You might be scheduling the day of your death.’ So, I’m like, ‘You’re out there, I’m here, and I really want to see you again and I miss you, but I’m not sure if that’s ever going to happen.’” Rosa’s story has similarities to many of the others I’ve heard over the last two years. By all accounts, she’s a wonderful friend and neighbor and an incredibly hard worker, who has been nothing but an asset to her community. She has tried to live in the United States legally, but like millions of others in her position, has found the system nearly impossible to navigate. For her first 10 years in Cortez, Rosa went back and forth on her visa with no problems, spending nine months each year in Cortez and three months in Mexico. But then, for reasons she still can’t explain, while flying into Phoenix in 1998, she had her visa canceled and she was held in the Maricopa County jail overnight. The next morning, she was placed in handcuffs, paraded through the airport and put on a flight back to Mexico. 14 September 20, 2018
The only way she could get back to her home and family and pets in Cortez at that point was to pay a coyote to bring her across the border, an experience that still haunts her and which she describes as, “the last nightmare I have ever gone through.” “Talk about hell,” she said. “And I didn’t go through what others go through. I had special treatment, because we had paid more, because I will never run a mile, I will never hide from... I will never be good enough to do it, truly. I feel for those people who cross the border, who are seven days without food, without... I have heard all kinds of stories. For me, it was terrible. “First we tried through Juarez. They made us cross the river, which the river came up to here,” she said, holding her hand to her neck. “So it was a line of people, just follow the leader, just walk. ... You don’t know where to look, front side. It was daytime, it was like noon. Outside [of town], but not far. I guess it was easier back then, but when I got to the other side and turned my face up, there was this patrol guy with this big rifle pointed at my forehead. He went and told me all of these words like, “Hey you, get out of there,” and of course I was wet all the way up to my neck.” Eventually her family sent a cousin across the border to cross with her to keep her safe even though it doubled the price. She finally got back home to Cortez via a drainage system at the border in another city. But her bad experience and the economics of it meant she could no longer risk returning to Mexico. She would have to rely on her efforts to navigate the confusing and expensive maze to legal status, which she had already begun years earlier. “They said that the only way [to be here legally] is if my mom becomes a resident and she applies for you. So, we started that through my mom. My stepfather applied for my mom, and then my mom got all of this employment and authorization, and she had that for three, four, five years. It was not like by tomorrow. My stepfather had to become a citizen, which he was not really willing to do [at first],
because he had to learn all of these questions and answers and talk in English, and whenever he has an interview, he was like, ‘I don’t know.’ But back in ’98 he became a citizen, and in the meantime my mom had some sort of authorization, so she was working all this time, and she became arrested in 2001. Right away, we applied and she became a citizen in 2004, but we already had the application. So, we sent a letter to USCIS [United States Citizenship and Immigration Services] to let them know that she had become a citizen so they can update the status of the application [to make me legal]. And then in 2006, the application was approved, meaning that doesn’t give me any legal status, but it gives me the opportunity that when my number comes, that year, I will be able to apply for a permanent residency. So, in 2001, that was years since we applied. And 2006, [it’s been] 12 years since it has been approved. And it’s [still] going to take another 15 to 20 years when my turn comes [because] it’s backlogged. I’m 54 years old, how old will I be? And if [my mom] dies, the application cancels automatically.” For years Rosa had been given a series of extensions while she waited for “her number” to come up, but in 2017 she was suddenly told she had only a few days to leave the country. At the time she took sanctuary, Rosa was working at least three jobs while also trying to build her own business. “I started from being a dishwasher to working in a hotel and then I ended up in the same place doing the laundry, the rooms and the front desk because I knew how to do all that. And they had a restaurant and I was also helping at the restaurant and I have been working at the casino and at the same time working at another restaurant and doing gardening for other people,” she said, before continuing her list. “I strip copper wire of its casing, do secretarial work for the Catholic church, do taxes on our block, do translating, you know. ... I was the only person when people needSee ROSA Page 16
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When Rosa entered sanctuary in June 2017, she had to leave behind her five dogs. It’s still incredibly hard for her to talk about them. She says she dreamed of being back at her home in Cortez and walking up behind her oldest dog, who is blind. The dog is playing with a turtle and when the dog turns it doesn’t recognize her. (At this point in the telling she burst into tears.) Eventually the dog realizes who Rosa is and the reunion is everything she hopes for in real life. But the dream soon turns dark again when Rosa realizes she must get back to the church in Mancos before she’s apprehended and deported. Her hands shake as she says she doesn’t know who to call that can help her, so she begins to run. That’s when she woke up.
People in Mancos know how much Rosa misses her dogs so they bring by their own pets — like the one pictured at left — and leave them with her for a few hours and sometimes even overnight. The smile says it all.
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ed their documents to be translated into English for their documentation for immigration. They all came to me, because they hardly find anyone who could have done it in this area. And I make my food, selling, shopping and trying to build my food truck business.” For all the different jobs she’s had, it was her “making food” efforts that made Rosa a bit of a local celebrity throughout the area from Cortez to Mancos on up to Dolores, all communities on the route where she sold her fresh tamales. The members of the Mancos United Methodist Church had taken a vote to become a sanctuary congregation should the need ever arise long before they knew of Rosa. In fact, the only reason she knew anyone at the small adobe church that now protects her, including its Pastor Craig Paschal, was because he and a couple of other attendees were regular customers, aka enthusiastic consumers, of her tamales, the addictive qualities of which I can personally attest. Rosa can cook. 16 September 13, 2018
She told me that her greatest joy is to see the smile on the face of someone who has just tasted her “real Mexican food” for the first time. “It has been my dream in this country to have my own business, a well-established business. But I had never done it because, even though back in 2000 I bought a food truck and it’s still there, my situation was never really stable. It was always like immigration, lawyers, fees, money, money, money. And you think, well, if I don’t have the status, what is going to happen? And of course, that prevents me, all of the expenses, really prevent me from starting my business. ... I paid $30,000 for that truck and I bought a smaller truck, it was part of my dream. But if you see those trucks and you see my house and you see how those things look right now, it’s like how things have turned, it’s just like... They’re getting old with the dream inside. That’s what they are. And it happens to me now. I’m getting old,
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Above: Rosa says a prayer as evening approaches. She is a creative who says the night is her muse. It is the time she is alone and when she writes poems, such as this one: How many more moons and suns Days and nights Winds and rains and wasted tears Unused minutes, eternal hours When the future will become
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with the dream still inside.” Despite the hardships of sanctuary, Rosa says she’s still optimistic because she’s a very spiritual person who believes that all the things unfolding in her life have meaning and purpose and that God is very much in control. “I’m not planning to give up, because [being in sanctuary] is something that I’m doing not just for me but for others,” she said. “And I really want to live in a world — when the time comes, whenever I die — and
feel like I did something in my life and did not live as a parasite here. I feel like life should have purpose, because when you get to this age it is really haunting, like what am I going to do? What is my mission and what is my calling? “And suddenly I was thrown here. “I was praying every day. And I don’t think we know what our mission is until we die, but certainly this will help me not to feel so bad. It is a big mission.” And that mission is getting bigger. Rosa explaining the meaning of all the items on her shrine where she says she stops and prays every morning and every evening. “I don’t leave this room without my prayer, and I always ask God for protection and guidance and to not let me lose hope.” The dead branch from the tree that was cut down is visible on the table just beyond the shrine.
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of algae in the lakes, and it’s affecting the chemistry of soils and influencing some of the nutrients that are there.” Essentially, nitrogen pollution is making it harder for native flora to thrive by acidifying the soil and inviting non-native plant invaders to stay — all of which changes the ecosystem from its delicate foundation. According to Bowman’s research, even if we made a dramatic reduction in nitrogen pollution today, it wouldn’t do much to stop the problem. “That nitrogen builds up in the system, builds up in the soils, and once you stop adding it, it’s not like it’s all going to go away,” he says. Not only that, but when it comes to global warming and air pollution, there is a lag between causes and effects — a delay with a lot of inertia behind it. The alpine degradation Colorado is experiencing today could be the result of nitrogen pollution from more than a decade ago. “The other important thing is there’s kind of a positive feedback in the system,” Bowman adds. When there are higher levels of nitrogen in the air and soil, the natural cycle of nitrogen production is stimulated and accelerated, he says. That’s bad news for plants with such short growing seasons. Alpine fauna can’t absorb the massive levels of nitrogen they’re being bombarded with, and, according to Bowman, “That’s where the acidification goes on. If those plants were corn or sorghum or something like
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his is not a story about danger. This is a story about fear. It’s serendipitous that my most recent exploration of the differences between real threats and out-of-nowhere anxiety revolved around the Great American Solar Eclipse. Eclipses are perhaps the perfect metaphor for that which is both earthshakingly frightening and as dangerous as a leaf falling gently from a tree. In times as recent as the 16th century, eclipses were observed with fear and foreboding — at best received as bad omens for the future, and at worst noted as the sun literally being devoured by the moon. Now, sitting on the pedestal of 21st-century astronomical technology, it seems silly that something as benign as one large object casting a shadow onto another object would come with the almost-unanimous terror that accompanied viewing solar eclipses in the past. But then again, as someone who suffers from anxiety, I understand this type of fear all too well. It was August 2017, a few weeks before the predicted date of the Great American Solar Eclipse, when I threw my running shoes and gear into the back of my stuffy, beat-up Saturn and drove to the Wind River Range in western Wyoming. After nearly five years of pouring over eclipse tables, topographical maps and historical 22 September 20, 2018
ECLIPSING FEAR weather charts in order to optimize a viewing spot for the eclipse, I had finally narrowed it down to the trail systems near Ross Lake and Whiskey Mountain. I’d like to say that my nearobsessive planning mitigated the need to do an in-person scouting trip of this area, but my worries about not finding a campsite, or a parking spot, or even an unobstructed view of the sun at midday were as obnoxiously persistent as the anxiety that accompanied them. For most of my life, I’ve suffered from Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). In the two weeks leading up to my period each month, I’m inundated by depression, suicidal ideations, anxiety and panic attacks as a result of an abnormal brain response to my body’s naturally cycling hormones. When my PMDD became more severe at age 24, I went from training for a sub-three-hour marathon to being incapacitated and overwhelmed at the mere thought of running half a mile. Fear that a panic attack would hit me in the middle of any run instilled so much worry in me that I decided to avoid running altogether. Getting stuck out on a run with no water, no warm clothes, or alone late at night because a panic attack had left me sitting on the side of the trail, unable to call for help, was my worst nightmare. Until I started to recognize how it
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was fear, not danger, holding me back. The solar eclipse of 2017 imposed a non-negotiable deadline for me to get my running act back together for a scouting adventure in the Wind River Range, and I could only accomplish this by tackling my anxiety head-on. After years of meditation and therapy, slowly learning how to manage panic attacks on one-mile runs until I could handle progressively longer efforts, I arrived at the Ross Lake Trailhead finally feeling in control of my ability to run through anxiety without letting anxiety control me. It was a clear and dewy morning when I topped off my water in the back of my car and started up the trail to Ross Lake. I had mapped out about 24 miles of trail to cover in order to find the perfect viewpoint for the eclipse and started on a muddy trail, dampened in the previous night’s storm. With a fresh breeze gusting up the hill from an expansive emerald valley, I jogged the switchbacks of Whiskey Mountain that would lead me to the lake. The prickly, dry foliage flanking me on either side appeared to be my sole companion on this run, as the path itself was scattered with leaves and twigs that hadn’t been crushed by another traveler’s foot for days. Reveling in the solitude, a quick look behind me unveiled an idyllic
arena for eclipse-viewing only a few miles into my pendulum-like ascent, and I burst into an easy smile. With a bright mood and a view like this so early into my run, my plans for the Great American Solar Eclipse were finally falling into place, I thought. Almost in an instant, my sunny disposition was darkened by a sharp signal of unease that started in my abdomen and shot up through my shoulders into my brain. It was fear. I stopped abruptly to survey my surroundings and held my breath, searching for the signs of some creature poised to threaten my life. All was quiet and still. Noticing nothing, frustration immediately attempted to overtake my fear. Anyone who has stood on the precipice of a cliff, looking down into shimmeringly opaque water and contemplating the prospect of a recreational jump, might know the “screw it” attitude that often accompanies fear. The heart starts racing and the body hums with an electricity designed to make you second guess what the heck you’re doing. For some, forcibly choosing to ignore the distress signal is the only way to make the jump. Standing in the middle of the Ross Lake trail with goosebumps rising to peaks on my arm, I remembered how notorious my body was for making up threats when no real danger was present, and I decided to take the metaBoulder Weekly
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phorical jump beyond my fear. I picked back up into a jog and continued climbing through a now-forested section of trail. Fearful thoughts of being watched by some predator continued to elbow into my consciousness, and I took the next few miles at a slow pace. My paranoia hovered, barely tolerable, until I reached the end of a long, luxurious meadow. My anxiety was not subsiding, and while I could tell that the meadow held nothing but peace in its grassy waves, I couldn’t enjoy it with my brain sizzling like that. I turned around abruptly, picked up my pace and chased an elusive sensation of safety downhill to the trailhead. Even as I darted through the short brush trees and sky-wide views on the southside of Whiskey Mountain’s back, down to my origin point, my panic didn’t dissipate. Still clipping through the trees and slopping through the small mud spots not yet dry under the forest’s shade, I jumped over a large brown pile in the middle of the trail just as I noticed I had returned to the area where I first felt the lightning-strike of panic. Wait a minute... I slowed down. I didn’t see that before. I turned around to examine the brown pile more closely. Curiosity outweighed my fear. It was long, cylindrical and mushy. I looked around for a dog or his owner, but shook that idea out of my head knowing that I hadn’t seen another soul in the area since arriving a day ago. Surely I would have passed them. I examined what I knew to be some sort of animal scat more closely, and felt another jolt of fear. Shit shit shit! Literally. It was mountain lion scat. I stood bolt upright and scanned through the trees again, this time with even more urgency. So my fear hadn’t been the precursor to a panic attack — it’d been healthy intuition warning me of the very real risk that a mountain lion was shadowing me on the trail. I stepped back cautiously, carefully putting distance between myself and the scat. I knew whichever big cat had left it likely wasn’t interested in me if I’d been ignored for the past 60 minutes, but the risk of getting pounced on and mauled by such a formidable feline still felt palpable. I broke into a crisp walk, then an all-out run after no signs of yellow eyes or a lithe, 150-pound body threatened to erupt from the trees. I didn’t stop until I reached a trail juncBoulder Weekly
tion, finally feeling fear release its grip on my thoughts just enough to assess what had transpired. One thing was clear: my anxiety had just put me in danger. Yes, my instincts had risen to the occasion and clued me in to potential danger, but having a chronic mental illness had also forced me to dismiss a real threat. Panic attacks and anxiety were such common experiences that I needed to ignore them in order to function in daily life. But today, I hadn’t been able to notice the difference between the manufactured threats of my mind and the real ones in my environment. How could I stay safe if my ability to make calm, rational decisions could be hijacked by anxiety so thoroughly that it warps my perception of reality, even danger? This question isn’t unique to me; even without anxiety or mental illness, we all can have our decision-making in the outdoors impaired. When we are stressed out, we may be more likely to impulsively chase that scary new line in the backcountry; when we spend too much time on social media, we might be more anxious to capture a badass, but dangerous, photo opportunity; social anxiety might incline us to outweigh the pros and cons of sticking together versus allowing summit fever to take hold in the face of an impending storm. Fear permeates each of our lives, and while fear serves a proper function and purpose, understanding the nuances in how it can impair or enhance our assessment of danger is imperative. Anxiety, solar eclipses and mountain lions can all be scary, but they each come with different risks and require different approaches to manage them. Two weeks after my fear-filled encounter with the lion scat, on Aug. 21, 2017, I stood near the shores of Ross Lake better prepared for all three. Armed with bear spray, anti-anxiety medications and solar viewing glasses, I gazed skyward, and for a brief 2 minutes and 21 seconds the sun wasn’t the only thing eclipsed: my fear was too. If you believe you or someone you know may be suffering from Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, contact the Peer Support Team at iapmd.org. IAPMD is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to education, awareness, support and advocacy for individuals with Premenstrual Disorders.
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what new beginnings... North Boulder celebrates ‘transformation’ from strip club to affordable housing/artist space by Josh Schlossberg
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fter 42 years of topless and nude entertainment, the Bustop Gentleman’s Club in North Boulder has closed and is slated for demolition. In its place are plans to build 53 affordable housing units and 2,200 square feet of artist
space. Merlyn Holmes, founder of local nonprofit Mmmwhah! (Music, Movement, Mindfulness — whoa! and — Art) and former North Boulder Art District board member, was “thrilled” when she heard of plans for the space this spring. So when someone suggested a celebration her first thought was “we’ve got to have dance there!” The result of which is a free music, dance and arts-filled event called “Transformation” to honor the occasion at the 4871 Broadway location on Saturday, Sept. 29. Holmes explains that the transformation theme refers not only to the site’s rebirth — developed by Allison Management and Thistle Housing and managed by North Boulder Art District — but the ongoing artistic happenings throughout North Boulder. Boulder Weekly
“How do we really think of this transformation, especially within the context of an art space and supportive housing for people like artists who aren’t necessarily earning a ton of money?” she asks. “How to take this transformation inward and evolve through it to essentially try to form a healthier community?” Holmes has recruited several partner groups for the event, including North Boulder Art District, City of Boulder, Thistle Housing, Allison Management, Boulder Art Therapy Collective, Conscious Burlesque, BAHRI research unit in CU Boulder’s Department of Geography, Partners in Social Justice, and CU dancers. “Transformation” will also usher in the creation of some fresh art. Boulder artist Jerry Shapins, a retired urban designer and landscape architect who sits on the board of North Boulder Art District, will guide the launch of a community art project where a construction fence will be the canvas for larger-than-life photographs of local residents to show, as he puts it, “the vernacular or the local character of North Boulder.” The majority of photographers will be locals, however Shapins says he’s also reaching out to artists across the country. At the top of his list is John Raymond Mireles, a San Diego photographer whose project “Neighbors” — a see TRANSFORMATION Page 26
Mmmwhah!, a nine-person cross-disciplinary collective, has partnered with several local groups, including the City of Boulder, to host a celebratory event welcoming the new affordable housing units and art space that will replace the Bustop Gentlemen’s Club in North Boulder.
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series of photos of his actual neighbors hung on the fence outside his home — inspired Shapins’ current work. While Shapins acknowledges Boulder’s well-worn debates around housing and gentrification, for this particular installation, “We want to do something really positive, we don’t want to anything that’s polarizing.” “We want to promote the idea of yes rather than no,” he clarifies. “It’s about unification.”
While many Boulderites are psyched about the new possibilities, the transition is not without its casualties. Dalia, a Bustop dancer for more than five years, tells Boulder Weekly that while she and the other dancers had heard rumors of the club closing for years, they didn’t know for sure until their second-to-last night. Perhaps equally distressing was the fact that they only heard the news through a staff member who had been told by
higher-ups to keep it secret. “I literally just cried,” Dalia says. “And I was so sad I couldn’t make any money [dancing that night]. I couldn’t do anything.” (Boulder Weekly was unable to reach former club owner, Omar Aldabbagh, for comment.) Despite the circumstances, Dalia has nothing but kind words for her former place of employment. “The Bustop was like a family right away. They wel-
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comed me in, the girls were like big sisters or something. ... I didn’t expect it be such a close-knit group of people who actually care. “The actual club, the actual people there, there was something really just magical about it,” she says. “Something really special.” While most of the other dancers are now at other clubs, Dalia has yet to find work, though she’s exploring her options as a musician. “The Bustop was really the only place that I wanted to work as a stripper,” she says. “It’s just so hard to go to all these clubs and for them to tell you that you’re too fat, or that you need to tone up, or that you need to do this or that.” While the Bustop dancers are gone, the Broadway space hasn’t seen its last dance. Emily Duffy, aka Agent Sauvage, will perform at “Transformation” along with fellow members of Conscious Burlesque to “honor and celebrate all the dancers who have worked [at the Bustop] and help hold a threshold space for community members to come together during this transition.” “I see stripping as a beautiful art form, and dancers work for years to hone their craft,” Duffy says via email. “A club can be a form of worship — a glimpse at something beyond the dayto-day.” Duffy sees a lot of overlap between her burlesque act and the dancing that Dalia and others performed at the Bustop. She says that at Conscious Burlesque, “We hold profanity and sanctity at the same time and understanding that these aspects can coexist without negating one another.” In a similar vein, Holmes points out that the Bustop was a commercially-viable business for a reason. “It would be too easy to say, ‘Oh, that was the shadow side of Boulder and we’re done with that,” she explained. “That would be way too easy of a way of not evolving as we need to evolve as a community.” Instead of negating the past, Holmes sees “Transformation” as an opportunity to showcase all kinds of art, with the community simultaneously acknowledging the previous use of the space while forging a new path into the future. “If we turn inward and look at our shadow side.. in a way that we can work with it, and integrate it, and possibly even embrace it,” Holmes ponders, “what new beginnings would come from that place?”
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The band moves from the outdoors to the city, and beyond, with Vide Noir by Angela K. Evans
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ll of our Schneider’s own life representaprogression. tives are Having grown up in currently the Midwest, the move busy. The to Los Angeles came current wait time is seven with its surprises, years,” a recorded voice Schneider says, some of says when you call which at least seem to 1-877-VIDE-NOIR. have influenced the latest The next cycle through it work. Most of his childsays the wait time is four hood experiences ceneons. You’re then taken tered around his advenon a journey of choices to tures outdoors, discovereither the land of psychic moonbeams eager ing and learning about the world outside himto predict your future, a fictionalized radio self. But moving to L.A. caused the artist to ON THE BILL: Lord station promising to reveal “the secret truth turn inward, to venture into the unexplored Huron. 8 p.m. Thursday of the cosmos,” or an option to purchase a self. Oct. 4, and 9 p.m. Friday “consciousness neutralizer,” although it’s cur“Strangely, moving to a big city, although Oct. 5, Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., it’s a time to explore and there are a lot of rently backordered. Denver. Lord Huron DJ interesting things to do, I’ve found it to be There may not be a final destination, but Set, 11 p.m. Thursday, more of an inward exploration for me,” he you could get lost for hours in the maze of Oct. 4, Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. says. “In a strange way, I’ve turned more options and pre-recorded storylines, with towards my interior life and figuring out songs from Lord Huron’s latest release, Vide what’s going on there. It’s just as complicated, Noir, playing softly in the background. and I’ve found mysteries vast as the world outside.” “I believe the music stands on its own,” explains lead For Vide Noir, Schneider says, the band had a certain singer Ben Schneider. “But if you want to dig deeper, go on sound in mind, looking to capture some of “the urgency and some other adventures, they’re there for you.” propulsion of our live show and integrate that into our Schneider is the visionary behind the indie-folk band recordings.” So, they enlisted the help of producer Dave Lord Huron, enlisting his childhood friends from Michigan to join him in L.A. after a few initial solo EPs started drawFridmann of Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips and Tame ing attention in 2010. Creating a band wasn’t always Impala fame. Schneider’s goal, however, originally moving to the city to “He’s the guy whose name has popped up in liner notes pursue visual art and graphic design. But Lord Huron has in records I’ve listened to since I was 12,” Schneider says. become quite the creative outlet for Schneider, as the band’s “When I was growing up and buying records and watching albums all come with a rabbit hole of artistic side projects. movies and stuff, it was this impossible-to-define thing that Their breakout release, 2012’s Lonesome Dreams, uses the sto- you’re looking for in music or in art. It’s this insatiable ries of George Ranger Johnson, a fictional Western dime search, which can be really rewarding at those moments novel author, who, however made-up he may be, has his own where you do glimpse whatever that mysterious essence is.” website. 2015’s Strange Trails chronicles the emotions, conBut Fridmann is a busy guy, recently mixing records for flicts and tragedies of the World Ender biker gang, also the a variety of bands including MGMT, Spoon, Mogwai and subject of a comic book. Interpol, to name just a few, and when Schneider first That’s not to say there isn’t at least a little bit of asked, it looked like the timing wasn’t going to work out. Schneider in the characters he embodies and the stories he Lord Huron moved along with the album regardless, tells. recording at their studio, Whispering Pines, in L.A. and mix“I think it’s pretty essential that it starts from some place ing with a different engineer. Then Fridmann called with true and from experience just to make it relatable and real sudden availability in his schedule, and Schneider dropped and emotional,” he says. “But from there, I kind of let it spin everything to fly out to New York. off into other things and explore it from other points of view “I think it was a great bit of luck,” he says. “I feel like I or other extreme scenarios that might better illuminate some learned a lot from him, just in life lessons as well.” of the ins and outs of the human experience.” But the project didn’t end there. Schneider says there was Vide Noir, more or less, shares the story of one man’s still so much of the backstory he had created that, naturally, desperate quest for... “something,” Schneider says, followcouldn’t be squeezed into the format of a song. What’s left ing the character on “a nighttime odyssey through a city” becomes the immersive experience that is Vide Noir, from and ultimately himself. The album is full of intrigue, existhe psychic hotline to a geocaching map to unlock tracks by tential crisis and romance, with a fatalistic flare, set to the “following the emerald star” and a “Products of the Universe” backdrop of ethereal synthesized echoes and guitar riffs. VHS tape for sale. However fictionalized the band’s inspiration may be, it’s “It’s just ways to expand upon the story,” Schneider says, easy to correlate Lord Huron’s evolution from whimsy out- “but it’s up to the listener to decide if they want to do it.” door ballads to celestial city explorations with the story of There’s no telling where the rabbit hole leads. Boulder Weekly
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a r t s & culture Composer’s daughter, NY Phil concertmaster, prominent scholar visit College of Music by Peter Alexander
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he University of Colorado College of Music has joined the rest of the musical world to celebrate the centennial of the unique American composer, conductor, teacher, writer, lecturer and humanitarian Leonard Bernstein. Just about the entire College of Music is represented in the months-long festival, from individual faculty members to the University Symphony, the Eklund Opera Program and even the Marching Band. The celebration gains an extra dimension starting Monday, Sept. 24, with the arrival on campus of three prominent guests: Jamie Bernstein, the composer’s daughter and author of the recently released memoir Famous Father Girl; violinist Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 34 years who played many performances Bernstein conducted; and Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University and one of the leading Bernstein scholars. The three guests will open the week with a joint appearance Monday afternoon. Oja will present a keynote address for the celebration, followed by a public discussion moderated by Susan Thomas, director of the CU American Music Research Center. Each of the guests will then participate in individual events during the rest of the week. Andrew Cooperstock, CU professor and artistic director of CU Bernstein at 100, organized the festival. He recorded all of Bernstein’s piano music, and talks about the composer’s importance. “Bernstein was one of the most significant musical figures of the 20th century, particularly in America,” he says. “He helped define American music, with a fresh, personal voice that combined an interest in both classical and popular idioms. Rather than just focusing on one [thing], his mission seemed to be to synthesize all of them. Whether he was conducting the New York Philharmonic, producing a Young People’s Concert, playing the piano for friends, writing about music, or participating in humanitarian efforts, he was Boulder Weekly
teaching us something about the importance of music.” Two performances in particular will feature the guests, starting with Faculty Tuesday (Sept. 25) in Grusin Hall. The program will feature Bernstein’s chamber music, performed by faculty and students, introduced and narrated by Jamie Bernstein. Bernstein can’t give details about her presentation, but you can expect insights from within the Bernstein orbit. “What
Holman, director of the Eklund Opera Program, will sing the anti-war song “So Pretty” with pianist Jeremy Reger; and Daniel Silver will play the Sonata for clarinet and piano with Margaret McDonald. Thursday’s University Orchestra concert will feature two of Bernstein’s pieces — the ubiquitous Overture to Candide, and the less familiar suite from the film On the Waterfront. These again will be introduced by Jamie Bernstein, and Dicterow will play the Barber Steven J. Sherman Violin Concerto for the second half of the program “The primary criterion for selecting repertoire for the university orchestra is to serve the students,” conductor Gary Lewis says. “On the Waterfront is really terrific music, and ON THE BILL: Bernstein has solo at 100. Throughout the fall 2018 semester. All opportunities events are free and open for musicians to the public. For a full in the schedule of events, please visit: colorado. orchestra, so edu/event/bernstein. I think it was a good fit in our curriculum.” The Barber Concerto is another piece that serves the students well, Lewis says. “It has such beautiful tunes, and the last movement is incredibly challenging for the orchesI usually do is to say something about tra as well, but the orchestra is just really each piece, but not necessarily between eating it up.” every piece,” she says. “The likelihood is Dicterow has played the Barber with that I will talk about three or four selecBernstein, including once on tour before tions at a time.” an audience of 10,000 in the Great Hall One highlight of the concert will be of the People in Beijing. “Fortunately Cooperstock’s performance with there was a mic,” he says. Bernstein. “She and I will collaborate on “It is an absolutely beautiful piece. It five of the ‘Anniversaries’,” he says, referwas a pleasure for me to learn and to ring to piano pieces that Leonard Bernstein keep in my repertoire. He managed to wrote for close friends and family memwrite something beautiful and tonal and bers. “She will project personal pictures of individual, and do it in such a sincere the people [the pieces were written for] way. Who could help but love the Barber and share anecdotes about them, so there’s Concerto?” a direct connection with Leonard For Jamie Bernstein, it is her father Bernstein by way of his daughter.” as teacher that she wants to highlight. To mention just three other faculty “He was a compulsive teacher and comperformances on the program: Soprano municator,” she says. “Everything he did Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson and pianist was a form of teaching, whether he was Alexandra Nguyen will perform the rehearsing an orchestra, or telling a good humorous cycle “I Hate Music!”; Leigh Jewish joke.”
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ZEE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL.
Sept. 21-23, Boulder Public Library — Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
The “greatest literary show on Earth” is back for its fourth year in Boulder, and it’s still free and accessible to everyone. ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival brings distinguished contemporary authors from across the globe to share their reflections and visions for the human experience. There are sure to be provocative conversations about life, economics, arts, equity, freedom and the environment.
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KYLE DONOVAN’S ‘THE SONGWRITER HOUR’ FEATURING BONNIE SIMS AND JESSICA EPPLER. 7:30 P.M. THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, STILL CELLARS, 1115 COLORADO AVE., LONGMONT, 720-204-6064. The Songwriter Hour is a live, interview-style show featuring original songs from established independent musicians, along with a round-table discussion and a Q&A section, where questions are fielded from the audience. The evening’s featured songwriters will discuss topics such as the songwriting process, melodic choices and band dynamics with host Kyle Donovan. The two-hour event will also include a short intermission to allow listeners a chance to mingle and meet the artists in-person.
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According to statistics from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. and the seventh in Colorado. More than 3,000 people are expected to participate in the fourth annual Denver Metro Out of the Darkness Community Walk to raise awareness and funds for new research, educational programs and support programs for survivors of suicide loss. Online registration closes at noon the Friday before the walk. However, anyone who would like to participate can register in person at the walk from the time check-in begins (8:30 a.m.) until the walk starts (approximately 10:20 a.m.). Registration is free and open to the public. Walk donations are accepted until December 31.
PROXY.VOTE PRESENTS: ‘THE TRUTH HAS CHANGED’ BY JOSH FOX. 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, ETOWN HALL, 1535 SPRUCE ST., BOULDER, ETOWN.ORG. Filmmaker and activist Josh Fox takes to the stage for a monologue called The Truth Has Changed, which traces the arc of American propaganda and misinformation from 9/11 to Trump. Fox draws from his experience as a first responder during 9/11, from his reporting on fracking, from his flights over the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil spill, from his time at rallies for Bernie Sanders and among protesters in North Dakota at Standing Rock. The eTown performance of The Truth Has Changed supports ballot initiative 112, which looks to increase setbacks for new oil and gas development. Tickets are $20.
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CU BOULDER EVENTS For more information on any event, visit calendar.colorado.edu. Courtesy of CU Boulder
THURSDAY SEPT. 20 Ai Weiwei: Global Artist, Borderless Humanist, Contemporary Emperor.
Cultural Dialogues Workshop: Appropriation and Appreciation.
[UN]W.R.A.P. Traversing Memory: Performing Resistance and Resilience.
7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Charlotte York Irey Theater, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. More performances through Sept. 23.
FRIDAY SEPT. 21 APPM Colloquium: Yingda Cheng.
3 p.m. Engineering Center, Room 245, 1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder.
Facing Humanity: Masks of History and Culture, a Performance Demonstration. 6:30 p.m. University Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 23 Einar Selvik, ethnomusicology.
Visiting Artist Program: Delilah Montoya lecture.
Noon. Imig Music, Music Theatre, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
Takács Quartet: Haydn, Shostakovich and Schubert.
5:15 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
Francis H. Buckley: Conservatism in the Age of Trump.
7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 250, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.
Climate Change in our Backyard: Breaking the Ice.
Dee Dee Bridgewater and the Memphis Soulphany.
Performing Resistance: Performance as Healing and Transformation.
4 p.m. Imig Music, Music Theatre, 1020 18th St., Boulder. More performances through Sept. 24.
9 p.m. University Theatre, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
Denver Digerati.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 22 CU Wizards! Illusion and Reality: The Science of Perception.
CU Bernstein at 100: Screening: The Dybbuk.
9:30 a.m. Duane Physics and Astrophysics, G1B30, 2000 Colorado Ave., Boulder.
Colorado Skies The Autumnal Equinox. 2:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
Saturday Physics Series Lecture — A Look Inside the World of Quantum Encryption. 2:30 p.m. Duane Physics and Astrophysics, G1B30, 2000 Colorado Ave., Boulder.
5 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, Black Box Theatre, 1125 18th St., Boulder.
6 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, ATLAS 100, 1125 18th St., Boulder.
MONDAY, SEPT. 24 CU Bernstein at 100: Public talk with Jamie Bernstein, Glenn Dicterow and Carol Oja.
4 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 25 Mini Law School.
7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Law School and via Livestream, Wittemyer Courtroom 2450, Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.
5:30 p.m. Fleming Building, 154, 2445 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder.
6:30 p.m. Art & Art History Building, Visual Arts Complex, 1B20, 1085 18th St., Boulder.
Faculty Tuesdays: CU Bernstein at 100: Chamber Music with Jamie Bernstein. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26 Wonder-filled Wednesdays: Curiosity, Collections, Connection.
9:30 a.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Discovery Corner, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. More dates through Nov. 28.
ENVS Colloquium: Thomas Struhsaker.
3:30 p.m. Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC), N124, 4001 Discovery Dr., Boulder.
AIA Lecture: Painted Reflections: Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery.
7 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
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Thursday, September 20 Music Alex Snyder. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Deehen Hawk Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Dueling Pianos. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Latin Beats: Sonidos de las Américas. 7 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Laurie D. 1 p.m. Soft Voices Drop-In Center, 501 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 303-776-0410.
Great American Beer Festival®. 5:30 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-447-0816. Through Sept. 22.
Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note. 2 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.
Green Building 101. 5 p.m. KB Studio, 2460 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.
Finn O’Sullivan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Lyle Divinsky, Mingo Fishtrap, The Copper Children. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Hard Rock Mining Tour. 1 p.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N. Bridge St., Nederland, 303-258-7332.
Halleway, The Ballroom Thieves. 7 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Nobide, Late Night Radio, MIDIcinal. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Ignite Boulder 36. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
The Height, Pacific Dub, The Ries Brothers. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Jeffrey Dallet. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Katie Costello. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Kyle Donovan’s ‘The Songwriter Hour’ featuring Bonnie Sims and Jessica Eppler. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Paul Soderman and The Boulder Blues Club. 7 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Pop Music Choir. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5968. Steve Manshel. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Events Far From the Tree. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
Jay Larson. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-947-7331. Mindful Cinema. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Old School Film School New School Film School. 9 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Spiritual Forum: The Hero’s Journey in Everyday Life. 7 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette, 720-917-9303. SPOKES Denver: A Pop-up Live Comedy and Storytelling Event. 6:30 p.m. Invisible City, 1545 Julian St., Denver, 303-886-7391.
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What Will People Say. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 7:00 PM
CLIMATE CHANGE IN OUR BACKYARD 9:00 PM
LASER STRANGER THINGS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21 7:00 PM
BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 9:00 PM
LIQUID SKY: COLD PLAY 10:30 PM
LIQUID SKY: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 11:59 PM
LIQUID SKY: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Monday, Sept. 24
Music
Chris Hedges — America: The Farewell Tour. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
The Nobel Lecture Series Fall 2018. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Alex Bugnon. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.
Radha Agrawal — Belong. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Ali Grayson, Beth Wilberger. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Friday, Sept. 21
Anderson East. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Poetry Writer’s Workshop. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
Active Minds Lecture — John Williams & American Film Music. 5 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Chris Hedges — America: The Farewell Tour. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St. Boulder.
Laurie Halse Anderson — Speak: The Graphic Novel. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Friday, September 21
Andy Landis. 7 p.m. Grossenbart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Unit A, Longmont, 720-438-2060. Art Lande Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Beloved Invaders. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Boulder Taproom, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-645-1749. The Blind Leads The Blind. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.
El Ten Eleven. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
9:00 PM
10:30 PM
LIQUID SKY: MICHAEL JACKSON 11:59 PM
LASER FLOYD: THE WALL SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23 12:00 PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 1:30 PM
STARS AND MOONS 3:00 PM
HABITAT EARTH 4:30 PM
SUPERVOLANOES
Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive
(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder)
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Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver. Sunday, Sept. 23
Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
7:00 PM
THAT 90’S LASER SHOW
Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Brandon Calano, Martin Better. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Eef Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
BELLA GAIA - BEAUTIFUL EARTH
Saturday, Sept. 22
Stuart Motola — Fixing You is Killing Me. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
2:30 PM
COLORADO SKIES: THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
Book Club Happy Hour. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Blue Dime Cabaret. 9:30 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Unit 1, Denver, 720-989-3283.
Durand Jones and The Indications. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA
In his book, ‘America: The Farewell Tour,’ author Chris Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problems facing the U.S. See Hedges speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20 at Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax Avenue in Denver, and at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 at Boulder Book Store.
Thursday, Sept. 20
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22
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Pollinator Lego Storytime: Plant Helpers. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Free Range Marmot. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-1561.
Open Mic Fridays with Leon. 7 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing Co., 2510 47th St., Suite A2, Boulder, 720-446-9387. Pallbearer. 11:08 a.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Tuesday, Sept. 25 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Elizabeth Fox — We Are Going to Be Lucky. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Wednesday, Sept. 26 Rebecca Clarren — Kickdown. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Sylvia Verange — Two Breaths, One Step. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Barb Maiberger & Arielle Schwartz — EMDR Therapy & Somatic Psychology. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Events ArtMix 2018. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Fusion Dance Party. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
Selecta Razja, Fayuca, Project 432. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Greensky Bluegrass. 8:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
Spinphony. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Boulder Bookies. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
The Jerseys. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Stevie D. 5:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
Comedian Dale Jones. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777.
Marisela. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.
Tim Wendel. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Meat Beat Manifesto. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.
Tom West. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Mtnmen. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Viva: Una Celebración del Día de Independencia! 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Of Good Nature. 7 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Dog Dance. 7 p.m. Floorspace, 1510 Zamia Ave., Suite 101, Boulder, 706-372-4830. Handmade in Colorado Expo in Denver. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467. Through Sept. 23. see EVENTS Page 38
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GravitaS recordinGS ShowcaSe
Feat pSymbionic & au5 w/ SuperSillyuS, edamame & baSSline driFt Saturday September 22 dual venue!
level 1 – ZiG ZaG wedneSday September 26
the Garcia project Friday September 28 dual venue!
color red launch party: matador Soul SoundS Feat memberS oF the new maSterSoundS, Soulive, pimpS oF joytime & orGone w/ Quantic dj Set, analoG Son (album releaSe), conGo SancheZ, color red all StarS, nobide dj Set, receSS dj Set & on the patio: Freebear
Saturday September 29
chelSea wolFe & ruSSian circleS Sunday September 30
mod Sun
w/ caSkey, chxpo, jimmy bennett, loStinveGaS, ForGetbrennan, pdF & dallaS Garcia
monday october 1
denZel currey w/ kid trunkS
tueSday october 2
reGGae tueSdayS
Feat SenSamotion & ital vibeS
thurSday october 4
the deer & pickin on ween (late Set)
w/ charlie roSe (oF elephant revival)
Friday & Saturday october 5-6
thurSday September 20 GraSS For that aSS preSentS
minGo FiShtrap
w/ the copper children; on the patio: lyle divinSky (the motet) & dane FarnSworth (minGo FiShtrap)
Friday September 21
tatanka
w/ project 432, Fayuca, oF Good nature (patio) & Selecta raZja
tueSday September 25
michael chriStmaS & Sylvan lacue
w/ khary, vintaGe lee, treaZon & otiS
wedneSday September 26 re: Search
Feat om unit
w/ moreSoundS, mikey thunder & jordan polovina
thurSday September 27
hoodie allen
w/ Gianni & kyle on the patio: kbonG w/ kaSh’d out & red SaGe
Saturday September 29
lyricS born
w/ indiGenouS peopleS & aG Flux
tueSday october 2
doja cat
w/ weS period
wedneSday october 3 re: Search
Feat Soohan & oF the treeS
w/ mikey thunder & jordan polovina
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Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20
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Anthrome: A Survey of Jason DeMarte’s Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 18.
Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.
Art in Action: The Process of Design. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through September.
Fragments of Places — by Yuge Zhou. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7.
Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October.
Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.
Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Through Dec. 1.
Elements of Peace — by Marlene Siff. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22
Connecticut-based artist Marlene Siff uses her paintings, works on paper and sculptures to depict imagery of personal events and psychological issues. The paintings on view in her exhibition at The Dairy Arts Center now through Oct. 7 pay homage to people who have been affected by war. Siff utilizes the color white to create a space for rest, retreat, connection, reflection and identification.
A collection of early newspapers, restored cameras, artifacts and old-time commerce. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.
Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21. New Paintings — by Sue Hammond West. Naropa University Nalanda Campus, White Cube Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Oct. 12. Oil Paintings By Nickie Barbee. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Nov. 3.
REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6, 2019. Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6. Strong Women in Bloom — by Stephen Parlato. Naropa University, Arapahoe Campus, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 15. Terry Maker’s Magic Marks. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Sept. 23. What’s Wrong With Our Country? — by Deborah Nehmad. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan & Hand-Rudy Galleries, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7.
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Inclusive Communities Celebration. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Kenn Kington Ultimate Comedy Theater. 7:30 p.m. LifeBridge Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-2927. Marc Maron. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Oktoberfest Boulder. Noon. Boulder Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 855-7323771. PEACE Weekend UNIFY Global Broadcast and Events. 8:30 a.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 303-916-8639. Through Sept. 23. Rocky Mountain Home and RV Show. 2 p.m. Sports Authority Field at Mile High, 1701 Mile High Stadium Circle, Denver, 720-258-3000. Sing and Play Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. The Song of Sway Lake. 6:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival at Boulder (JLF). 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Sept. 23. Saturday, September 22 Music 500 Year Flood. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Blue Canyon Boys. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Bottlerocket Hurricane. 10 a.m. Stone Cup, 422 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Jackson Cloud Band. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Brazilian Carnaval. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-960-8972.
The Jerseys. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
CapathiaNYC. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Lionell Young and the International Blues Challenge Victory Band. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
The CBDs. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Co, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Unit 1650, Lafayette, 303-499-1829. Cloudchord. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Colorado Midnight Train. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Colorado Wind Ensemble: High Five. 7:30 p.m. King Center, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver, 303-556-2296. The Custom Shop. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. eivør & Wardruna. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra: Masters of American Song. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. FACE Vocal Band. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303258-3637. Ginga. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Iron and Wine. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.
LOVE, Boulder Symphony. 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 720-383-1610. Loverboy, Gin Blossoms, Tommy Tutone. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. MC Chris. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Native Station — with Glass Cases. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Paper Diamond. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 716-785-7655. Peak2Peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Rick Perry (from Ashes Of Folly). 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Sammy Dee Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Sensory Friendly Concert with Jeff and Paige. 10:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. The Tannahill Weavers. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. see EVENTS Page 40
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events Courtesy of Vintage Theatre In ‘The Kentucky Cycle,’ a series of nine short plays, Robert Schenkkan offers an unblinking look at the truth behind our American mythology. Spanning two centuries, from 1775 to 1975, this is the story of three families — black, white and Native American — whose lives are intertwined. Playing now at Vintage Theare in Aurora through Oct. 21.
Annie — presented by Performance Now Theatre Company. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Through Sept. 23.
Mamma Mia! Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Sept. 30.
Barefoot in the Park. CenterStage Theatre Company, 901 Front St., Louisville. Through Sept. 23.
Mary Poppins. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 11.
Broken Bone Bathtub. The Lakewood Glens, Denver. Location provided to ticketholders on day of show. Through Sept. 23. The Cake. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 31. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 13. Dear Evan Hansen. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 13. Don’t Dress for Dinner. The Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 23.
An Evening with Leslie Odom, Jr.
Honor Killing — presented by the Athena Project. Jewish Community Center, 350 Dahlia St., Denver. Through Sept. 30.
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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 3.
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Latin Beats: Sonidos de las Américas SEPT 20 THU 7:00
Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra: Masters of American Song SEPT 22 SAT 7:30
Christopher Dragon, conductor Capathia Jenkins and Tony DeSare, vocalists
The Improvised Shakespeare Company. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Sept. 30.
Rodgers and Hammerstein Celebration OCT 6 SAT 7:30
Invaders from Planet 9 — presented by Arts in the Open. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Through Oct. 28.
Christopher Dragon, conductor Sarah Jane McMahon, Gary Mauer, and William Michals, vocalists
The Kentucky Cycle. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 21.
An Evening with Leslie Odom, Jr.
Lungs. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 14.
OCT 13 SAT 7:30
Brett Mitchell, conductor Leslie Odom, Jr., vocalist
Gershwin Concerto in F Conducted by Brett Mitchell
Schubert Unfinished Symphony
Brett Mitchell, conductor Joyce Yang, piano Three Black Kings ELLINGTON GERSHWIN Concerto in F JOHN ADAMS City Noir
Carlos Kalmar, conductor Michael Thornton, horn GOULD Spirituals for Orchestra GLIÈRE Concerto for Horn in B-flat major, Op. 91 SCHUBERT Symphony in B minor, D. 759, “Unfinished” WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger
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Potted Potter — The Unauthorized Harry Experience. Newman Center Presents, University of Denver, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Through Sept. 23. Pride and Prejudice — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7. The Producers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 30. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 14. Vietgone. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Ricketson Theatre, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Sept. 30. You Can’t Take It With You — presented by Lowry’s Spotlight Theater. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Sept. 29. Uncanny Valley. Benchmark Theatre Company, 40West, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through Oct. 13.
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Oh my God! — presented by Theatre Or. Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the JCC, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through Sept. 30.
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Men on Boats — presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Arts Center, The Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Sept. 22. Through Oct. 13.
Around the World Storytime (JLF). 10:45 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Comedian Dale Jones. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. Full STEAM Ahead: Bee’s Wraps. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Marc Maron. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Night at the Carnival: Gala to Benefit Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance. 6 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Studios, 3022 E. Sterling Circe, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Oktoberfest Boulder. 10 a.m. Boulder Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 855-732-3771. Through Sept. 22. Professor Phelyx, From the Vest. 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Boulder Weekly
events Sunday, September 23 Music The Ali Rose Band, The Glass Jaw Poets. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Caleb Martin. 10 a.m. Stone Cup, 422 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Chris Dismuke. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. eivør & Wardruna. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514.
STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Women of the West and Beyond. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Tuesday, September 25 Music Cory M. Wells. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
A Human Named David. 7 p.m. Stone Cup, 422 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Lecrae and Andy Mineo. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.
Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.
Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Calexico, Eric Andersen. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Ravinwolf. 4 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130, Longmont, 303-258-6910.
Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Graham Nash. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Stephen Stills and Judy Collins. 8:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,.
Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Traditional Irish Music. 7:30 p.m. Boulderado Hotel License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4560.
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Adventure Fest 2018. 11 a.m. The Green (North), 8303 E. 49th Place, Denver. An American in Paris: The Musical. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday, September 24 Music Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Pick Up A Guitar. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5968. Stolie, Dave Tamkin, Kait Berreckman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Birding Through the Seasons. 6 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Legit Knits @ MAIN. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder Weekly
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Wednesday, September 26 All In. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Lucas Wolf, Emily Barnes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events
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BeeChicas: Making and Using Field Journals. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BoulderReads Tutor Roundtable. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Love, Gilda. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Landscape, Mid-Consequence by Colin Dodds
The oft-oppressive miracles of the combustion engine beckon from whiny highways of a degradation we must call fair An asymmetrical face appears in the exhaust drift between the taillight and license plate of an idling sedan What is meant to show is pre-failed presidents and glittering tragedies-waiting-to-happen The residue accumulates The aperture in danger of occlusion The substance mysterious Every night walking home I hear someone having the worst night of their life By the car dealerships, the sky opens up Supposed solutions flicker and flare from Gideon’s Bible to giddy-on out of town Try to look closer But the subterfuge that goes into seeing a face won’t necessarily relent
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Where the coconuts are
‘Zama’ and the elusive search for a better place by Michael J. Casey
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ama — the latest from Argentinean writer/director Lucrecia Martel — opens ON THE BILL: Zama. with a parable: There is a fish, a long7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, suffering fish, which spends its days in International Film Series, the very waters that try to cast it out. The Muenzinger Auditorium, University of Colorado water, which does not want the fish, tries and tries Boulder, internationalfilmto wash the fish up on dry land while the fish does series.com everything it can to remain in the water. A similar struggle provides the core of Zama, around which Martel wraps a historical portrait of existential despair. Working from Antonio di Benedetto’s 1957 novel of the same name, Zama is set in 17th-century Argentina and focuses on Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a Spanish colonialist in an unnamed village waiting to be transferred to another village while slowly being worn away by the elements. Consider the movie’s opening image: Zama staring across the sea, clean white hat, pressed red coat, saber at his side; posing as if a painter is just off camera working on his profile. On the soundtrack, cicadas grind away in the sweltering heat. Zama won’t look nearly this composed in the movie’s final images, but those cicadas will still be grinding their endless song. Suffering from the same sort of nausea that plagued Antoine Roquentin, Zama is slow to act and slower still to understand. As he waits for a transfer that will never come, Zama meanders around the village with disgust for the locals — though he’s fathered a child with one of them — and disdain for the bureaucrats who run the colony. Martel matches his plight in the movie’s pacing; life moves slowly here and information even more so. Instant gratification isn’t an option; even advances from a smoldering Luciana (Lola Dueñas) leave Zama unsatisfied. Though Zama builds slowly, it does so assuredly. Rui Poças’s photography is particularly enchanting, especially the third act when the action moves entirely into wide-open spaces. Out here, Zama finds the man he’s been looking for, but even this discovery is just another illusion, another deceit. Finally, Zama refuses to play ball: “I do for you what no one did for me,” he says with enlightened calm. “I say no to your hopes.” And for this brief moment, the fish accepts that the water does not want it, and surrenders to life on the sand. Not everyone is as lucky; others have little choice in the matter. Take the servants back at the village; in almost every interior scene, you can see one character in the back mechanically pushing a poll up and down or turning a crank of some kind. No doubt they are opening and closing a shutter just off camera in an attempt to create a breeze. But the bugs still zip around, sweat still pastes those awful powder wigs to Zama’s head and you can practically see the stench. And there they are, turning that crank without complaint. We must do what is asked of us, no matter how meaningless it must seem and how worthless those coconuts really are. Boulder Weekly
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pslope capitalizes on its penchant to deliver best-in-class, no-frills beer with its pumpkin ale. To make it, Upslope marry organic baby bear pumpkins with malt and hops. The custom sixspice blend is the star — not overwhelmingly sweet or robust, the flavors mellow out like an expertly made pumpkin pie. On the palate, Upslope’s pumpkin ale is crisp and crunchy, but that spice blend and the pumpkins make your soul feel complete. And at 7.7 percent alcohol by volume, the pumpkin ale is surprisingly sluggable. But don’t take our word for it — the pumpkin ale took home a Great American Beer Festival gold medal in 2011. $5.
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et’s face it: Lots of us are stuck when it comes to cooking, myself included. We make variations on the same five dishes using the same 10 safe ingredients. We grab the same wines and beers because we know we like them. We eat out at the same handful of eateries because we know that they won’t be bad. We settle for sameness. Autumn is the season to extract yourself from your avocado-toast-every-morning culinary rut and send your buds back to school for some taste-expanding experiences. This season, Boulder County and environs are home to an impressive and appetizing roster of food events, classes, films and tastings. Boulderites famously commit to attending events at the last possible second. Don’t be like them if you want to be part of some of these small, cool events that tend to sell out. Here is your culinary to-do list for the next few months: 1. Taste CBD chocolate bars. Boulder’s Shanao Cacao, which focuses on supporting
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From homebrewing to chile fests, Colorado has a lot of fall culinary events.
indigenous Peruvian farmers, and True Kind Botanicals have teamed up to create artisan farm-to-mouth CBD chocolate bars. Sample them, other artisan chocolates and watch a cacao ceremony 5-9 p.m. Sept. 22 at 2746 47th St. shanaocacao.org 2. Sip the best of Colorado. Colorado wines have matured to the point that the state is regarded as one of the nation’s hot winery destinations. The best way to appreciate how good our wines have gotten is Colorado Uncorked, a public tasting of winners of the
Colorado Wine Governor’s Cup Competition Nov. 8 at the History Colorado Center. coloradowine.com/governors-cup 3. Increase your java IQ. Ozo offers a free tasting education opportunity Fridays at 2 p.m. at Ozo’s Pearl Street store. One coffee variety is brewed three ways — pour over, Chemex and French press — so you can taste the differences. Serious geeks can enroll in Boulder Weekly
introductory barista classes. ozocoffee. com/classes 4. Be like Julia. Julia Child once said: “You learn to cook so that you don’t have to be a slave to recipes. You get what’s in season and you know what to do with it.” Start by mastering Child’s own classic recipes at an Oct. 27 workshop at Boulder’s Foodlab. foodlabboulder.com 5. Celebrate Bourdain. A tribute to Anthony Bourdain will be a centerpiece at the annual Flatirons Food Film Festival, Oct. 11-14 in Boulder. Events include eight short films, 26 speakers and seven feature films including one of my all-time favorites, Babette’s Feast, as well as Brewmaster, Cuban Food Stories, Eating Animals and The Cakemaker. flatironsfoodfilmfest.org 6. Eat some place new. The best way to find the places that will be your new old favorites is at First Bite, Boulder County’s restaurant week, Nov. 9-17. Notable local eateries offer threecourse, $34 meals to introduce you to their fare. firstbiteboulder.com. 7. Stock your winter pantry. Your last easy opportunity of the year to access your favorite local produce, natural meats, eggs, artisan breads, preserves, cheeses, condiments, wines, prepared food and more is the Boulder County Farmers Markets’ Winter Market Dec. 1-2 at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont. bcfm.org 8. Follow the chile winds. My favorite Colorado food festival remains the larger-than-life Pueblo Chile & Frijoles Festival, Sept. 21-23 in downtown Pueblo. It’s worth going just to inhale the mesmerizing perfume of tons of native Mosca chilies plus jalapenos and other varieties of varying heat levels being roasted over gas flames. Chow down on the event’s addictive signature dish: griddled cheese quesadillas middled with whole-roasted green chilies. The event includes food competitions and a jalapeño-eating contest. festival.pueblochamber.org 9. Sample farm-to-Sukkot fare. Celebrate the Jewish harvest festival Sept. 27 at the Boulder JCC with a local dinner collaboration by Milk and Honey Farm and Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly. boulderjcc.org 10. A brew of one’s own. Longmont’s Brewmented offers a free Learn to Brew Beer Class on Sept. 29. It’s a hands-on beginner’s introduction to equipment, ingredients and techniques all done while helping to brew a batch. brewmented.com 11. Overcome bake-o-phobia. Rose Levy Beranbaum is recognized as one of America’s greatest bakers. On Oct. 2, the legend joins Les Dames Escoffier, a legendary women’s culinary organization, at The Fort Restaurant in Morrison to introduce her newest cookBoulder Weekly
book. Rose’s Baking Basics features 100 beginners’ recipes for cookies, cakes, pies and breads presented in clear stepby-step style with 600 photos of critical steps. The evening for baking geeks comes with a signed book, Champagne, hors d’oeuvres and plenty of dessert. lesdamescolorado.org 12. More melted cheese, please! Some foodie events are just about indulging, like the Mile High Grilled Cheese and Beer Fest Oct. 6 at Denver Rock Drill. Grilled cheese variations are offered by local chefs and paired with local beers. Proceeds benefit Minds Matter, which provides college scholarships for talented low-income high school students. grilledcheesebeerfest. com 13. Mastering creamy saag paneer. Creamy spinach with chunks of chewy cheese ranks as one of the world’s great vegetarian comfort foods. Learn to make it with Spice It Up with Neha Indian cooking classes in a Lafayette home. These are not sit-around-andwatch classes. The small (four-person) sessions focus on hands-on experience, making everything from stuffed okra and butter chicken to chai and mango lassi. spiceitupwithneha@gmail.com
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The Flower Pepper is one of Boulder’s genuine hidden culinary gems. It’s easy to miss the Chinese eatery shoehorned into a cubbyhole at 2655 Broadway in the side of a parking structure across the street from Breadworks. One taste of the remarkably good Chinese home cooking dished here is enough incentive to deal with parking in the structure, ordering and picking up at the counter and dealing with the very limited seating inside and outside. I would go back simply for an all-dumpling meal featuring pork and leek (or chicken and shitake) steamed dumplings, or the fantastic soup-filled dumplings or pork wontons in a chile-oil-slicked broth. On a recent visit I also tasted spare ribs with a memorable five-spice-accented gravy, dan dan noodles with pork and sides of baby bok choy and crunchy cucumber salad. Foodies formerly had to trek to Denver’s Lao Wang Noodle House to sample some of these dishes.
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t all started with a wedding, specifically, the marriage of Ludwig, Bavaria’s future king, and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on Oct. 12, 1810. All of Munich was invited to the celebration, which lasted for five days. A horse race was held to mark the nuptials, and copious amounts of beer were consumed. It invoked so much national pride in the citizens of Munich that they decided to commemorate the event the following year. They named the site Theresienwiese (Therese’s meadow), and the annual tradition of Oktoberfest was born. Running 16 days, from mid- to late-September until the first Sunday in October, Oktoberfest remains a major event on the German calendar. According to Oktoberfest.net, more than 7 million people trek to Munich for the three-week celebration, downing 6.9 million liters of beer. What kind of beer? Oktoberfest, naturally; or, officially, märzen.
Know your brew: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Toasting Munich from the Centennial State by Michael J. Casey Introduced by Spaten in 1841, and officially dubbed “Oktoberfestbier” in 1872, märzen (pronounced maer-zen) is a medium-body amber lager exhibiting a good deal of sweet maltiness and healthy hops. Slightly stronger than most pale lagers, typically in the 5–6.5 percent alcohol by volume range, märzen derives its name from the German word for March, März, the month when these beers are brewed. Before refrigeration, brewers cease brewing operations on April 24 because the summer heat would spoil the beer. Hence, märzen was brewed in March, stored all summer long and then tapped by the mayor at noon on the opening Saturday of Oktoberfest. But in America, we like to get a head start on things. No doubt you started noticing this year’s batch of märzens at the start of September. Hell, if you go pick up a case or two from your local liquor store today, you’ll probably find a Christmas ale already clogging the shelves, but that’s a story for another day. Oktoberfest officially kicks off Saturday, Sept. 22, and the Centennial State has plenty for you to hoist in celebration. Boulder Country’s best comes from Wibby Brewing, Longmont’s purveyors of lager brewing. Their Wibtoberfest is an incredibly well-balanced beer: dark amber color and sticky lacing enchant the eyes, a fresh and floral aroma tickles the nose, and roasted, sweet malt please the palate while a healthy amount of hops clean everything up. And if you want to make a little side-by-side comparison, pour Wibtoberfest next to Spaten’s iconic Oktoberfest: perfectly translucent cola color, a frothy head of foam, a sweet flavor of caramel and just enough roast to keep things interesting. Though they are similar beers, both exhibit their respective homeland through distinct flavor profiles. Boulder Beer Co.’s Festbier is of the pale variety, but its solid malt backbone and a hint of hops on the nose make this a perfect pair for pretzels and sausages. And for dessert, Avery Brewing Co. has The Kaiser, an Imperial Oktoberfest Lager, highlighting all the syrupy sweetness malt can provide. Prost! Boulder Weekly
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very year, any number of publications proclaim the Next Big Thing in food. We label these things “food trends,” but really they’re just whimsical prognostications — nothing much more than culinary guestimates. How many years in a row have we braced ourselves for a coming bugpocalypse, where we down cricket powder and eat deepfried grubs because they’re sustainable sources of protein? Who knows, but we can say that we’ve rejected bugs in the mainstream for as long as the idea has been floated around.
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Boulder County, as a hub for both restaurant innovation and small-brand food company creation, serves as one of the better barometers for checking how well these trends are catching on. Our distance from the coasts means that the outliers are sifted out in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago — if something makes it here, it’s likely to stick. First, a look back. The National Restaurant Association releases what could be called the flagship trends list. Of all the entities that release an annual list of food trends, it’s the NRA (yikes, that’s unfortunate) that most people in the industry look to. Last year, the NRA picked out 20 food trends liable to grace menus and shelves across the country. A few of those 20 are cropping up in Boulder County. Number one on the list was new cuts of meat. These include the shoulder tender, oyster steak, Vegas Strip steak and merlot cut. Now, if you pop in at Blackbelly, Corrida, Boulder Cork or the Chophouse, you’ll still be able to order a ribeye, but part of the model of the new meat economy is using the whole animal. At Blackbelly, for instance, more traditional cuts appear on the menu of the dinner-only restaurant; at the enterprise’s butcher shop, however, lesser-known cuts are available to take home or to sample in a variety of dishes. These cuts also appear in
Thai-rolled ice cream is one of many so-called trends that haven’t quite caught on in Boulder County yet.
Which food movements are coming to Boulder County, and which aren’t by Matt Cortina Still, food trend lists continue to emerge and 2018-19 is no different. At the very least, we can consider the content of these lists as a sort of runway for big food ideas. Never do we see the actual garments on display at big-city fashion weeks worn on the street, yet still — we’re told — those designs influence what we see everyday folks wear. Similarly, listing culinary trends presents an opportunity to pinpoint blind spots and work gradually to introduce what was lost or has been hidden from our mainstream food sensibilities. Boulder Weekly
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the group’s breakfast burrito, which is a clever way to incorporate cuts that people would otherwise be hesitant to order alone. The NRA list includes a nod to donuts with non-traditional fillings. Though we’ve yet to have a stand-alone donut shop emerge that embraces the obscure, OAK at fourteenth has a rotating donut of the day, which incorporates both savory and sweet fillings. House-made artisan pickles? Boulder County has that on lock-down, and there are several places, including the County’s Colorado State agricultural extension, hosting classes that’ll help you make them at home. Still, there are plenty of “trends” that haven’t quite come to fruition. Thai-rolled ice cream, African flavors, gourmet items in AnouarNACH/Wikimedia Commons kids’ meal and ethnic-inspired breakfast items (like chorizo scrambled eggs and coconut milk pancakes) have yet to latch on in a big way. For the record, though, you can head over to Parkway Cafe for knockout Mexican-inspired breakfast creations. The NRA list sequesters out an additional 10 concepts to look out for, and most revolve around raising food locally and sustainably. That is happening in Boulder County, but it’s also been happening elsewhere for decades. Look around and you’ll see communities from Maine to North Carolina to California that have been building local food economies for years. Now, what’s exciting is the forecast for 2019. The NRA releases its list in December, but other groups, which take a broader, possibly more applicable survey of the food scene, are already looking forward. Take the Culinary Visions Panel. Its list of five upcoming trends has Boulder County written all over it. The first trend is “replenishing with purpose,” citing data that indicates nearly three-quarters of people are looking for food that both satiates their hunger and is nutritious. In addition, the Panel forecasts people will limit foods they historically have avoided, claiming that people will eat food they feel good about as opposed to sticking to strict diets. One actionable trend the Panel foresees is a proliferation of healthy, grab-andgo foods. We see that in Boulder County both from our abundance of natural food brands and from restaurants who are willing to offer kiosk service to walk-up patrons who may not have the time or money to sit down for a full meal. Lastly, the Panel predicts a continued search for global flavors and ingredients. If the past 10 years have been focused on sourcing and eating locally, the next few might revolve around farmers bringing in crops from around the world and food scenes complementing that choice by embracing new dishes and flavors. The big regions the Panel sees getting a spotlight include Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Korea, Morocco and the Philippines — yes please, to this last one; it’s high time we bring the robust, multicultural food of the Philippines to Boulder County. It can seem sometimes like there is nothing that won’t work in today’s crazy food landscape. Obscure and one-item restaurants, producers and events seem to flourish in a culture where people are looking for unique, authentic food experiences that deliver the best of the best. But Boulder County, as many places elsewhere, has a lot of room to grow. Whether we’ll be following trends, or setting them, remains to be seen. Boulder Weekly
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the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” So says poet and philosopher Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening. Now I’m transmitting his observation to you. I hope it will motivate you to expend less energy fantasizing about what you want and devote more energy to becoming the beautiful, useful, irresistible presence that will attract what you want. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make plans to produce very specific blossoms.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Budi Waseso, the former head of
the Indonesian government’s anti-narcotics division, had a radical plan to prevent escapes by people convicted of drug-related crimes. He sought to build detention centers that would be surrounded by moats filled with crocodiles and piranhas. But his replacement, Heru Winarko, has a different approach. He wants addicts and dealers to receive counseling in comfortable rehabilitation centers. I hope that in the coming weeks, as you deal with weaknesses, flaws and sins — both your own and others’ — you’ll opt for an approach more like Winarko’s than Waseso’s.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: In one sense, a “patron saint” is a
Catholic saint who is a heavenly advocate for a person, group, activity, thing or place. St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, for instance. St. Francis of Assisi is the guardian of animal welfare and St. Kentigern is the protector against verbal abusers. “Patron saint” may also be invoked poetically to refer to a person who serves as a special guide or influence. For example, in one of his short stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to a veteran nurse as “the patron saint of young physicians.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to fantasize about persons, groups, activities, things or places for whom you might be the patron saint. To spur your imagination, here are some appropriate possibilities. You could be the patron saint of the breeze at dawn; of freshly picked figs; of singing humorous love songs in the sunlight; of unpredictable romantic adventures; of life-changing epiphanies while hiking in nature; of soul-stirring music.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: As he stepped up to use an ATM in a supermarket, a Scottish man named Colin Banks found £30 (about $40 U.S.) that the person who used the machine before him had inadvertently neglected to take. But rather than pocketing it, Banks turned it in to a staff member, and eventually the cash was reunited with its proper owner. Shortly after performing his good deed, Bank won £50,000 (about $64,500 U.S.) in a game of chance. It was instant karma in dramatic action — the positive kind! My analysis of the astrological omens reveals that you’re more likely than usual to benefit from expeditious cosmic justice like that. That’s why I suggest you intensify your commitment to doing good deeds.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: As you dive down into your soul’s depths in quest for renewal, remember this testimony from poet Scherezade Siobhan: “I want to dig out what is ancient in me, the mistaken-for-monster ... and let it teach me how to be unafraid again.” Are you brave and brazen enough to do that yourself? It’s an excellent time to douse your fear by drawing wild power from the primal sources of your life. To earn the right to soar through the heights in November and December, delve as deep as you can in the coming weeks.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: According to author Elizabeth Gilbert, here’s “the central question upon which all creative living hinges: do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” When I read that thought, my first response was, why are the treasures hidden? Shouldn’t they be completely obvious? My second response was, why do you need courage to bring forth the treasures? Shouldn’t that be the easiest and most enjoyable task imaginable? Everything you just read is a perfect riddle for you to contemplate during the next 14 months, Sagittarius.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: A blogger named Sage Grace offers
Woolf wrote a critical note to her friend, the composer Ethel Smyth, lamenting her lack of emotional subtlety. “For you,” Woolf told Smyth, “either things are black, or they’re white; either they’re sobs or shouts — whereas, I always glide from semi-tone to semi-tone.” In the coming weeks, fellow Cancerian, you may encounter people who act like Smyth. But it will be your sacred duty, both to yourself and to life, to remain loyal and faithful to the rich complexity of your feelings.
her readers a list of “cool things to call me besides cute.” They include dazzling, alluring, sublime, magnificent, and exquisite. Is it OK if I apply those same adjectives to you, Capricorn? I’d like to add a few more, as well: resplendent, delightful, intriguing, magnetic and incandescent. I hope that in response you don’t flinch with humility or protest that you’re not worthy of such glorification. According to my astrological analysis, now is one of those times when you deserve extra appreciation for your idiosyncratic appeal and intelligence. Tell your allies and loved ones that I said so. Inform them, too, that giving you this treatment could help mobilize one of your half-asleep potentials.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: In August 1933, author Virginia
JULY 23-AUG. 22: “People think of education as
something they can finish,” said writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited over 500 books. His point was that we’re wise to be excited about learning new lessons as long as we’re on this earth. To cultivate maximum vitality, we should always be engaged in the processes of absorbing new knowledge and mastering new skills and deepening our understanding. Does that sound appealing to you, Leo? I hope so, especially in the coming weeks, when you will have an enhanced ability to see the big picture of your future needs for education.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Virgo businessman Warren Buffet
is among the top five wealthiest people on the planet. In an average year, his company Berkshire Hathaway adds $36 billion to its already swollen coffers. But in 2017, thanks to the revision of the U.S. tax code by President Trump and his buddies, Buffet earned $65 billion — an increase of 83 percent over his usual haul. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re entering a year-long phase when your financial chances could have a mild resemblance to Buffet’s 2017. I’m not predicting your earnings will increase by 83 percent. But 15 percent isn’t unreasonable. So start planning how you’ll do it!
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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Many educated Americans and Europeans think of reincarnation as a loony delusion, even though it’s a cornerstone of spiritual belief for over 1.5 billion earthlings. I myself regard it as a hypothesis worthy of intelligent consideration, although I’d need hundreds of pages to explain my version of it. However you imagine it, Aquarius, you now have extra access to knowledge and skills and proclivities you possessed in what we might refer to as your “past lives” — especially in those past lives in which you were an explorer, maverick, outlaw, or pioneer. I bet you’ll feel freer and more experimental than usual during the next four weeks.
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Dear Dan: I am newly divorced and have started a relationship with a man I’ve known and deeply cared about for decades. The sex is amazing — from start to finish, I feel better than I ever did even in the best moments with my ex. And in the most intense moments? He makes me see stars. He is a very generous lover — he turns me on like crazy and I regularly come while sexting with him. But I have yet to have an orgasm with him. In the past, I have had an orgasm with a partner only from oral or very occasionally from digital clit stim. My ex-husband was not skilled at oral, so I always had to fantasize pretty hard to get there (and regularly chose not to bother). My new partner has amazing moves and amazing oral skills. And he is willing to keep at it for as long as it takes. But regardless of how amazing I feel when he’s going down on me, every single time I eventually hit a wall where I am just done. I haven’t had a single session with him where I’m left feeling unfulfilled, despite the lack of orgasm. In contrast, any sex with my ex that didn’t end in an orgasm left me feeling frustrated or, worse yet, bored. (There were also times when I’d ask my ex to leave the room so I could masturbate after sex.) Do you have any ideas as to why I can’t get over that hump? I wonder if I just need him to be more boring and repetitive so that I can focus. But if that’s the case, is it even worth it? Why would I want to make the sex worse to make it “better”? Or should I just be satisfied with the mind-blowing sex I am having, even if it means I don’t have an orgasm? Is it OK to give myself permission to give up on partner-based climaxing? —No Orgasm Possibly Ever Dear NOPE: Beware of those selffulfilling prophecies! If you sit there — or lie there — telling yourself that being with Mr. AmazingMoves means giving up on “partner-based climaxing,” NOPE, you’re increasing the odds that you’ll never have an orgasm with this guy or any other guy ever again. Here’s what I think the problem is: You had tons of shitty sex with your ex, but you could climax so long as you focused, i.e., so long as you were able to “fantasize pretty hard.” Your ex provided you with some half-assed oral and/or uninspiring digital clit stim that didn’t interfere with your ability to focus/fantasize. In other words, NOPE, with your ex you were able to — you had no other choice but to — retreat into your own head and rely on your own erotic imagination to get you there. You may have been physically present during sex, but you were not emotionally or erotically present. Boulder Weekly
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Because Mr. AmazingMoves’ moves are so amazing — because he turns you on like crazy, because whatever he’s doing feels great, because sometimes you see stars — you aren’t able to retreat into your own head. For years, you had to figuratively leave the room so you could focus/concentrate on whatever it was you needed to focus/concentrate on in order to come; sometimes you even asked your ex to literally leave the room. You created a powerful association between going to a private, safe, sexy place — pulling away from your partner emotionally, erotically and sometimes even physically — and climaxing. You aren’t able to pull away from your current partner in the same way. Nor do you want to. And, hey, wanna know why you come when you sext with him? Because sexting is assisted fantasizing. You’re alone when you’re swapping those dirty messages with Mr. AmazingMoves, NOPE, kind of like you were alone when you were having sex with your ex. It’s going to take some time to carve a new groove, i.e., you’re going to have to create a new association, one that allows you to be fully present (emotionally, erotically, physically) during partner-based sex and able to climax during it. The trick is not to rush it and, again, not to box yourself into negative self-fulfilling prophecies like the one you ended your letter with. So instead of telling yourself you’re never going to come again during partnered sex, tell yourself that your orgasms will come again. It may take some time, sure, but trust that your body and your brain are already hard at work carving that new groove. One practical suggestion: The next time you have sex with Mr. AmazingMoves — the next 10 times you have sex with him — tell him in advance that you’re going to ask him to stop eating you out long before you hit that wall. Then stimulate yourself, either digitally or with a vibrator, while he holds you. If you need to lean back and close your eyes, lean back and close your eyes — but do not retreat into your own head. Maintain physical contact and ask him to say dirty/ sexy things to you while you get yourself the rest of the way there, so you’re always aware of his presence. A couple of dozen self-administered orgasms with both of you in the room — in the room emotionally, erotically and physically — will speed that new-groove-carving process along. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org. On the Lovecast: Dan can’t do it alone this week! Hola, Papi! savagelovecast.com.
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by Sidni West
Cannabis sign language
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ince legalization has taken off, we’re starting to change the way we talk about cannabis. There’s a ton of new vocabulary, scientific terms and slang words to use when shopping for weed, which can be intimidating even for lifelong stoners. For consumers who are d/Deaf, it becomes even more problematic. In general, people who aren’t hearing impaired often don’t understand much about the experiences of people who are d/Deaf. (The uppercase D is often used to describe people who have been deaf all their lives, also known as culturally deaf — people who communicate primarily through sign language and are actively engaged with the Deaf community. The lowercase d simply refers to the medical condition of having hearing loss. People who identify as deaf with a lowercase d often don’t have a strong connection to the Deaf community and most likely do not use sign language, preferring to communicate orally.) And because of the way we talk about marijuana, people who are d/Deaf have been marginalized from enjoying the full range of benefits that legal cannabis has to offer, as well as a limited consumer experience when visiting dispensaries. Deafness doesn’t just affect hearing — it has an impact on general communication skills, too. This is mostly because d/Deaf people often have had a lot less exposure to language and vocabulary throughout their lives. Also, interpreting is very different from simple translation. For one thing, signs don’t equate directly to words — d/Deaf people use slang, and the meaning of many signs changes based on the situation. Even in the case of having an interpreter, d/Deaf people have their own personalities and nuances and want to communicate directly. Since dispensaries don’t have to comply with ADA stan-
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dards, this radically changes the consumer experience and gives them very limited options to communicate: writing things out, gesturing, basic sign language or, if absolutely nothing else is possible for communication, d/Deaf customers can attempt to lip-read. However, it’s estimated that only 30 percent of the English language can be lip-read, so it’s not always very effective. Also, it’s basically impossible for d/Deaf people to communicate with someone they can’t physically see, so dark lighting or a lack of visuals in dispensaries can be problematic as well. Now, a local nonprofit in Boulder is looking to change that. Dr. Regina Nelson, president of cannabis education nonprofit eCS Therapy Center, will lead a new project called Sign of the Times, which aims to bring cannabis-related sign language to deaf people. Nelson is a longtime medical cannabis activist who wants to empower people in a way that allows them to communicate and benefit from cannabis and hemp. She plans to meet with a team of certified deaf interpreters in Denver in October to discuss their upcoming platform. Nelson is a cannabis expert with a background in teaching endocannabinoid classes to health-care professionals and consulting for cannabis brands. She’d never worked with the d/Deaf community, but noticed a need for services for the hearing-impaired while working as a doctor in Boulder. Sign of the Times interpreters will tour local dispensaries and formulate the new language directly off of real-world necessities. Part of their plan involves putting together a comprehensive video glossary around cannabis terminology. This would also allow for teaching other deaf interpreters, so that this service becomes available to patients when they go in to see their doctors. By translating names of specific cannabinoids, types of concentrates and general dispensary processes into sign language, Dr. Nelson and her co-workers hope that they can push the legal weed industry closer to federal standards enforced by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). eCS hopes to begin presenting the Sign of the Times curriculum by early 2019, but without federal nonprofit funding — thanks to weed’s Schedule I status — eCS relies on private funding to pay for cannabis education initiatives like this one. To learn more, check out signsforthetimes.org.
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cannabis corner
by Paul Danish
Marijuana Use Disorder: The weaponization of mental health
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ost marijuana prohibitionists have health or emotional problems associated with use, given up on claiming that marijuana “6. reduced or eliminated participation in other is addictive. activities because of use of the drug, and That’s because in order to make “7. experienced withdrawal symptoms when the charge stick they have to expand respondents cut back or stopped using the drug.” the concept of addiction to the point where it doesn’t For most illicit drugs, “dependence is defined as have much meaning. Instead they’ve come up with a meeting three or more of these seven criteria” accordmore invidious concept to demonize pot use: ing to NSDUH, but in the case of drugs where with“Marijuana Use Disorder.” drawal symptoms are not an issue, which presumably According to a passage in the National Survey on includes marijuana, dependence is defined as meeting Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), which every year three or more of the first six criteria. interviews 70,000 people over the age 12 about their These may sound like a plausible set of criteria drug and alcohol use (if for defining marijuana Cannabis Training University/Wikimedia Commons any), the interviewees dependence — except for “were categorized as havone small detail: ing a Marijuana Use National Survey on Drug Disorder if they met the Use and Health “responDSM-IV criteria for dents who used marijuaeither dependence or na on 6 or more days in the past 12 months” were abuse for marijuana.” categorized as having a DSM-IV refers to the Marijuana Use Disorder classification codes found if they met three or more in the American Psychiatric of the criteria. Association’s Diagnostic and In other words, if you Statistical Manual — smoke pot six times a year, Fourth Edition. once every two months on The DSM-IV criteria average, you can be classiused for defining marijuana “dependence” are the fied as being dependent same as those used for defining “Illicit Drug Use on marijuana and having a shiny new mental illness Disorder,” which encompasses drugs like cocaine, her- — Marijuana Use Disorder. oin, hallucinogens, inhalants, methamphetamines or Now then, just for grins let’s see how the six criteprescription opioids, as well as marijuana. ria hold up when applied to someone who smokes pot The seven criteria are: six times a year: “1. spent a lot of time engaging in activities related Criterium 1: You “spent a lot of time engaging in to use of the drug, activities related to use of the drug.” For the six glori“2. used the drug in greater quantities or for a lon- ous days a year on which you inhaled? What in the ger time than intended, name of sanity were you doing on the other 359 days? “3. developed tolerance to the drug, Lurking in head shops? Downloading pot pictures “4. made unsuccessful attempts to cut down on use from Google Images. Getting off while reading back of the drug, issues of High Times? Give me a break. “5. continued to use the drug despite physical Criterium 2: You “used the drug in greater quanti-
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ties or for a longer time than intended.” Maybe you were planning to get stoned every three months, but you got stoned every two months instead. Bang! Smoking gun evidence of dependence. Criterium 3: You “developed a tolerance to the drug.” You developed a tolerance for marijuana by smoking it once every 60 days? Give me a break squared and cubed. Criterium 4: You “made unsuccessful attempts to cut down on the use of marijuana.” You couldn’t cut your six days a year, ganja Jones, down to five days a year, no matter how hard you tried? You obviously need professional help. Criterium 5: You “continued to use marijuana despite physical health or emotional problems associated with use.” So smoking pot once every two months turned you into a physical and emotional wreck? Oh sure. Criterium 6: You “reduced or eliminated participation in other activities because of use of pot.” Activities like not using power tools or driving under the influence, maybe? You thought you were just being careful, when actually you were flying your Marijuana Use Disorder flag. Question for the folks conducting the National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Is someone who meets three of the six criteria while using alcohol six times a year or who has a beer after work or a drink before dinner suffering from alcohol dependence and Alcohol Use Disorder? And if not, why not? Using these foregoing metrics, the NSDUH survey concluded that 4 million Americans over the age of 12 have a Marijuana Use Disorder. What’s going on here is plain enough. Some credentialed charlatans in the federal government and the psych community are trying to define normal human conduct — occasional use of marijuana or regular use in moderation — as mental illness. It kind of reminds you of how the People’s Republic of China, and the Soviet Union before it, tried to weaponize mental health, doesn’t it?
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