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legislated safety, health and aesthetic standards.” e standards that rental housing has to meet in the city of Boulder is now called the Property Management Ordinance (PMO), which was strengthened in 1981 — but for simplicity’s sake, I call it the housing code.
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Boulder’s housing code regulates issues including heat ing, ventilation, light, the size of bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens, working appliances, plumbing, weatherization, energy e ciency and much more. For a more exhaustive list, check out the city’s Landlord-Tenant Handbook, or go online to see the extensive details of Boulder Revised Code Title 10, Chapter 2 at bouldercolorado.gov.
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n my last column (Unrepentant Tenant, “Do tenants have a right to a habitable home?”, Sept. 8, 2022), I wrote about the history of the warranty of habitability, which is essentially the right to rent a home that is liv able. I mentioned that the city of Boulder has the oldest housing code in Colorado. Apparently I was incorrect — Boulder was not the rst, but the fourth city to pass a housingAccordingcode. to the publication Municipal Government History, Boulder, Colorado 1965 to 1971, “A signi cant piece of legislation was the housing code, approved in May (1968). Boulder would be the fourth city in Colorado to enact minimum housing standards for its residents. As a building code set structural standards, so a housing code
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Kevin Bennett, licensing supervisor with Boulder’s Planning and Development Services, oversees much of the PMO. He said his department gets about 300-400 com plaints per year about code violations from tenants, even though few tenants know about the code that protects them. Bennett believes Boulder still has the strongest code, and good enforcement of it.
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GOVERNMENT IS THE VILLAIN
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Want a ordable housing? e only path to a ordable housing is separating government from housing altogether. Put the villain back in chains where it belongs. en build, baby, build!inkof the jobs that will be created by building much more housing.Some critics will say if we free the housing market from political controls, there will be more tra c congestion (widen the damn roads!), views will be blocked (people should be deprived of housing so you can enjoy the view? How callous is that?), water demand will increase (conserve, pipe in water from where it’s plentiful, and farm in less arid places), and increased pollution, which can be addressed without creating a housing crisis. All of the criticisms are minor inconveniences compared to being priced out of housing.Freedom is the answer to high rents and the housing crisis. Govern ment is the problem.
VOTE FOR JANICE MARCHMAN IN COLORADO SENATE DISTRICT 15
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Representation is on the ballot this midterm election cycle given the new redistricting maps. In fact, educating the electorate on the maps is a big concern as many Boulder County voters do not realize they are in a new district. is is particularly true in Senate District 15, which now includes western portions of Boulder County, where Janice Marchman is challenging Sen. Rob Woodward, who represented the prior version of the Mrs.district.Marchman is a formidable candidate. As a middle school math teacher, former school board member in the ompson School District, and mom, she is a regular person pledging to run on a value-based platform to provide real representation for the entire district. is district comprises 28 distinct communities, ve school districts, and three counties. She is committed to personally visit each one to learn the local needs, concerns andShedesires.has strong Colorado val ues — protecting the environment, enshrining women’s rights, reaching for equity, promoting strong public education, creating good jobs, extend ing quality health care, and expanding a ordable housing. She will bring her teaching and working experience to the Capitol to bring a reality not currently voiced and certainly not exhibited by Mr. Woodward’s record, such as his votes against expanding rural broadband and the Reproductive Health Equity Act.
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To no one’s surprise, perhaps 1,000 units are not licensed, accord ing to Bennett, and are likely illegal — but that doesn’t stop landlords from renting them out. Is your rental licensed? You can check by going IwhichofmustanyBennett’sof“SearchandBoulderrentalhousinglicensing.comtoscrollingtothegreenboxlabeledforLicensedProperties.”ecitypreviouslyhadanumberrentalpropertyinspectors,butdepartmentnolongerhasinspectorsonsta.Rentalownersnowhireonefromthecity’slistninelicensed,privateinspectors,sometimesleadstoabacklog.Ifyoumissedmylastcolumn,wroteabouthowthewarrantyof
Just as importantly as the PMO, Boulder likely has the strongest rental licensing program in the state, and was the only one for decades to have one until very recently (Denver, West minster and Federal Heights have some form of a rental license). is crucial policy gives teeth to minimal housing standards. Long-term resi dential rental properties in the city of Boulder are required to have a rental license. To protect tenants, rental owners need to register their property with the city and get their unit(s) inspected to verify they meet the housing code standards — only then can they be licensed. Rental licenses must be renewed every four years by passing an inspection. An important exemption is owner-occupied rental units — while they still need to meet code requirements, they are not man dated to have a rental license.
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So,advice.ifyou’re going to have repair or maintenance problems, try to have them within Boulder city limits, where you’ll have your best shot.
e WOH law is complicated (thanks to landlord resistance and lobbying), and withholding rent is a last resort. Of course, if you have a big hole in your roof or the furnace is broken in the middle of winter, you might need to move out. Bennett said the city can post a notice on the unit that it is unsafe or uninhabitable, but they can’t force tenants out of their home. Nor can they advise the condi tions amount to a constructive evic tion (where conditions are so bad, the tenant e ectively evicts themselves). Regardless, document everything you can, notify your landlord and talk to an attorney or tenant resources ASAP.
My last column lists some of those resources. One resource I neglected to mention for CU students is the O Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations. ey have resources and a sta attorney who can give help and legal
Senate District 15 deserves a representative who listens to con stituents, holds town halls and votes our shared Colorado values. In 2022, please vote for the candidate who will provide real representation of Senate District 15: Janice Marchman.
For a lot more detail on license requirements, the city publishes the Rental Housing License Handbook online (bit.ly/3dtUF3W).
Behind the University’s current buy and build (acquisitions and devel opment) boom is simple arithmetic: It is making money hand-over- st on its various rental assets and needs to turn it over into projects to make more money. Lowering student costs for tuition, fees, housing, cafeteria food, or increasing salary for faculty and sta would be counterproductive.
habitability (WOH) allows — un der certain conditions — a tenant to withhold rent. I want to emphasize that even if your unit doesn’t have a license, or if there are signi cant housing code violations and repairs are not made in a timely manner, don’t just withhold part or all of your rent.
Why is the rent so damn high, and why do we have a housing crisis? One word can summarize what caused high rents and the housing crisis: government. e government is the Governmentvillain. programs arti cially pump up the demand for housing while at the same time government policies choke o the supply of housing. at can only lead to soaring prices. e government stimulates de mand via the home mortgage income tax deduction, FHA and VA guaran teed loans, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, arti cially low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve, rent control, and rental assistance. Pouring more mon ey into the housing market results in highereprices.government chokes o housing supply using zoning, growth limits, height limits, occupancy limits (for reasons other than safety), open space purchases, absurdly byzantine and expensive building permit process, ridiculous and expensive building code requirements, other land use restric tions, tari s on imported construction materials and major home appliances, rent control, and severely limited con struction worker immigration.
their sub urban Houston school district this past year as a high school senior, with great success. Starting as a lone voice decrying parental challenges to books at their school, Samuels gradually built a coalition of students, engaging the school board and broader com munity, and creating a “FReadom Week” initiative that distributed more than 700 banned titles. e campaign Samuels led kept many challenged books on the shelves at the school’s library, garnered national attention, and led to Samuels being recognized this year as BBW’s rst-ever Youth Honorary Chair.
Moving forward, one thing is clear: although the country is divided on many topics and issues, canceling views or perspectives with which one disagrees is not the solution. Open di alogue, discourse and debate hold the answers to our current conundrum. Opposing censorship and supporting academic freedom must be bipartisan issues. It is one thing to prohibit one’s own child from reading a speci c book, shortsighted and ine ectual as that prohibition may be; it is another thing altogether to extend that forbidding desire to the public at large, depriving others of hearing the many wondrous and diverse voices that comprise our society. Children should not be taught to fear ideas di erent than their own, and adults should not let ignorance guide their civic
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According to the ALA’s O ce for Intellectual Freedom, the top ten most challenged books in recent years are by or about marginalized peoples, including BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors and characters; these books typically address complex, challenging issues such as sexuality, abuse, and violence; or they simply use pro fanity. Some of the books reference traumatic realities in people’s lives, others question the societal status quo on issues from police violence to heteronormativity or identity politics. Regardless, all are important works of literature, including many artistic and broadly appealing comics that have something to teach us, especial ly in educational settings. However, increasingly, parents and local com munity members around the country disagree.InSpring 2022, PEN America published ndings from its rst-ev er Index of School Book Bans, a comprehensive count of more than 1,500 instances of individual books banned by some 86 school districts in 26 states, between July 2021 and March 2022, impacting more than 2 million students. e ALA’s O ce for Intellectual Freedom reported elding
Mickey Hu is director of Proj ect Censored, president of the Media Freedom Foundation, and a professor of history and journalism.
the nation’s schools.
Banned in the USA
Most e orts to curtail access to books involve younger readers at schools and public libraries. ere are recurrent themes to such chal lenges that result in the muting of voices from outside the so-called “mainstream” of American society.
higher education.” ey include not only the infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law and Stop WOKE Act in Florida (which several other states are mim icking), but also legislative attacks on critical race theory (despite it seldom being taught in K-12 classrooms) and requirements to enforce the teaching of more “patriotic” (read: acritical) assessments of American history, whatever that may be. All of the bills were launched by Republicans in their respective states, with only one Democratic sponsor among them. While many in the GOP denounce cancel culture on the left, they seem to be perfectly ne controlling what can be read, discussed, and taught in
the only issue facing students and our schools. ere has also been an increase in legislative e orts to curtail curriculum, controlling what can and cannot be taught, in at least 36 states. Another PEN America study, “Amer ica’s Censored Classrooms,” measured a 250% increase over the past year in what the study refers to as Education al Gag Orders, state legislative e orts to restrict “teaching about topics such as race, gender, American history, and LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 and
But challenges to books are not
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Challenges to books are not the only issue facing students and our schools. There has also been an increase in 36taught,cancontrollingcurriculum,effortslegislativetocurtailwhatandcannotbeinatleaststates.
can learn how to “agree to disagree,” while honoring the higher ideals of an open society, free expression, and the right to read. Censorship anywhere is a threat to “FReadom” everywhere. Celebrate Banned Books Week Sept 18-24, but stay vigilant and keep reading and sharing banned books every week throughout the year.
n her best-selling novel Speak, young-adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the Ameri can Library Association (ALA) and Association of American Publishers helped launch Banned Books Week (BBW) 40 years ago, that dys functional family of censorship has unfortunately grown larger and more vociferous. Across the United States, this past year has brought a staggering increase in book challenges, bans, and other attacks on the right to read and academic freedom.
729 book challenges in 2021 alone, targeting nearly 1,600 titles at schools and universities. Both organizations clearly state that the number of reports received are only a fraction of the challenges and potential bans that occur, many of which result in books being removed from shelves, in breach of existing policies, without fanfare or Samuelsmeetings.andlines,backstudentshasalarm,haveconcernedthoughfromtheculture”apanicofStatestimecensorshipfacultyamongunderknowledge,publicandoftenacloudoffearlibrarians,andstaisriseincomesatawhentheUnitedisinthethroesalargermoralepitomizedbycorrosive“cancelthatspanspoliticalspectrumrighttoleft.AleducatorsandcitizenssoundedthecancelculturealsogalvanizedtoghtonthefrontinclassroomsatschoolboardCamerondidjustthatin
As banned books week celebrates its 40th anniversary, it’s time to unequivocally condemn censorship by Mickey Huff
But, city of Boulder sta and waste haulers are on board with A1 to create higher-quality compost, despite the challenge of decreasing contamination.
whole truckload’s potential to create compost from organic waste.
“I think [front-of-house compost receptacles] have always been an issue,” says Jamie Harkins, sustainability coordinator for Boulder, acknowledg ing the confusing consumer composting experience, especially with common foodware items that look
eco-friendly but are not certi ed tocreateincitypolicyhaulers,onetiveSuzannecompostable.Jones,execudirectorofEco-Cycle,ofBoulder’swastesaysthechangesinbybothA1andtheofBoulderareapushtherightdirection“[esepolicychanges]anopportunityforusgetitrightandproducethe
Even with these new policies in place, Sander says A1 is still rejecting loads. A1 has also seen up to 50% reduction of loads from some waste haulers, signaling that contaminated loads are being suc cessfully turned around earlier in the process.
he journey of a banana peel doesn’t end in the compost bin. at’s only the beginning. Whether it’s in a 65-gallon bin outside a family home or in one of the receptacles camou aged around Boulder, the peel will eventually get picked up by one of several waste haulers serving the city. From there, the peel is joined by organic waste from 100 other bins in the same truck and taken to a transfer facility.
Contamination spurs changes in Boulder policies by Will Matuska
Black gold: shifting to quality compost
is is an all too familiar story for Keenes burg-based A1 Organics — they’ve rejected 30-35 loads over the last seven weeks. Instead of that organic waste being composted, it gets sent to the land ll.
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at truck’s load will end up with four other truckloads (each estimated to have 100 bins worth of organic waste) in one large trailer headed to A1 Organics, the state’s largest organic processor, to be composted. A1 sta dumps the load, inspects it, and nds a shard of glass.
To avoid A1’s contamination fees, Eco-Cycle drivers are inspecting bins before picking them up. If there’s any contamination, they give immediate feedback to that customer.
e load can’t be accepted because of contami nation. It’s a frustrating and nicky process, as one non-organic item can ruin hundreds of bins and the
On Sept. 13, the city changed its compost rules for businesses to allow them to remove front-ofhouse and customer-facing compost receptacles, which are notorious for introducing non-organics to waste hauler loads.
quality compost that we’ve always said was our intent,” says Jones, who also helps Eco-Cycle manage the county-owned Boulder County Recycling Center. “Now we need to step up to the plate and follow through.”
But, while the extra ltering means less contam ination issues for A1, ultimately, that means those organics aren’t making it to them to be composted.
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“ at’s why we’re at a point now where we can’t keep hitting this path,” says Clinton Sander, the marketing manager at A1.
Despite investing millions of dollars in equip ment to help remove plastics and other contami nants, the recent rise of contamination led A1 to start charging waste haulers a contamination and reloading fee starting Aug. 4.
TO THE LANDFILL: A1 Organics receives a load of organic waste that is contaminated with non-organics that cannot be composted, forcing the load to be sent to the landfll instead.
COURTESY A1 ORGANICS
Bene ts extend further into creating healthier soils, increasing agricultural yields and providing carbon sequestration.
“What you put in this bin becomes something that helps heal our nutrient depleted soils and absorbs carbon and creates more diverse, healthy ecosystems,” says Leah Kelleher, Boulder’s climate communication specialist.
ese numbers are higher than both state (15.3%) and national (32%) waste diversion numbers.
“We need accountability at all touch points, from curbside all the way until it lands on [A1’s] ground,” he says.
“Compost is the solution to many of our greatest challenges,” says Jones of the bene ts of compost.
ey call it ‘back gold’ for a reason.
Looking ahead
Best in the county is Boulder, which diverted 53% of its waste from the land ll in 2020 (20% was com posted), with the goal of diverting 85% of waste by 2025.
“Boulder has a chance to create a model that works for the rest of Colorado, the opportunity to create a compost system that really works.”
All this work for dirt?
Onso.top of hauling, Eco-Cycle is leading e orts to educate students about recycling and composting in the Boulder Valley School District, as well as ad vocating at the state level. Jones thinks there’s room for growth, but is optimis tic about policy changes.
When organic waste enters anaerobic conditions (without oxygen) in land lls, it generates methane, a greenhouse gas more than 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. It can also stay in the atmosphere for about a decade — much longer than carbon dioxide.
IN THE BIN: Composting recy cles organic matter into a natural soil amendment. Both Eco-Cycle and the city of Boulder have compost ing tips on their websites.
Boulder County ad opted a resolution to reach “zero waste — or darn near” by 2025. According to the Eco-Cycle 2021 report, the county recycled and compost ed 43% of its waste in 2020.
“Many of the cities within Boulder County are the top communities in the state of Colorado when it comes to composting and recycling,” says Jones.
Sander emphasized the importance of sta conducting quality control at source points as well, while acknowledging that not everyone has the resources to do
Jones says that 40% of the waste stream is organic — which creates an op portunity for composting to play a pivotal role in land ll diversion and decreas ing greenhouse gas emissions.
Compost also helps with water retention. According to the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture, 1% of organic matter in the top six inches of soil can hold around 27,000 gallons of water per acre. Sander says the nal compost product at A1 has an average of 30-50% organic matter.
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“Being here in the metro area, a lot of our water is brought from different regions, which is leaving other folks out,” says Water Is Life co-curator and exhibiting artist JayCee Beyale. “This is an opportunity to start having a real conversation about how our water is being distributed, who has access to it and how we are caring for it.”
“Many of these artists have stories about bodies of water they once swam in or were close to growing up, which at this point have become contaminated. Now this fond memory is tainted and toxic,” says Drew Austin, curator of visual arts at the Dairy Arts Center. “There’s a ton of personal connections that run really deep throughout the show.”
Other featured artists include El Paso-born Zeke Peña, who expands on his 12-color serigraph The River, meditating on the past, present and future of the Rio Grande River on the U.S.-Mexico border. Educator Theresa Clowes offers a closerto-home exploration with a new series of color studies using water from the Colorado River to create a hand-felted map of the essential and iconic waterElsewheresource. in the upcoming Dairy Arts exhibi tion, visitors can expect a deep and diverse offering of works in a variety of media designed to spark dialogue surrounding water and how we use it.
ON VIEW: Water Is Life at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, Sept. 23-Nov. 19. Tickets: thedairy.org
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The decimation of this crucial river system was among the grim harbingers of climate catastrophe discussed during a U.S. Senate hearing on Western drought earlier this summer, which spurred a suite of emergency measures to address record-low reservoirs in the Centennial State and Butbeyond.canartists
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For Beyale, the journey to Water Is Life began on the Navajo Nation reservation in 2013. That’s when the artist and his friends set out on a rezwide road trip across the Four Corners area of the
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‘Painting an ecosystem.’
he Colorado River is in trouble. Now in its 23rd year of drought, the once-mighty water source fowing nearly 1,500 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California is drying up at an alarming rate, send ing potentially devastating ripple effects through communities and ecosystems whose existence depend on it.
New Dairy Arts Center exhibition unpacks the politics of water in a changing climate by Jezy J. Gray
JayCee Beyale. Ni’hodootl’izh (Blue World/2nd World), 2022. Acrylic on Canvas. 7’ x 6’.
illuminate existential prob lems like the water crisis in ways lawmakers can’t? That’s the central question driving Wa ter Is Life, a new group exhibition on display at the Dairy Arts Center from Sept. 23 through Nov. 19. Showcasing a diverse slate of artists from across the country, the eco-conscious show explores the politics of water access in a changing climate.
“It started to grow into this more all-inclusive movement for me,” Beyale says. “Because water has become more commodifed and less available not only for Indigenous people, but for people in general.”
Despite casting a broader net in this critical conversation about ac cess, Beyale — now based in the Denver metro — says the tribal traditions of his ancestors color his approach to the subject of water and the art-making process writ large.
“I think all those different narratives and voices need to be part of the conversation to be truly heard,” she says. “Because people who are still trying to fgure out if they should take action on climate change need to fnd their counterpart in that story. They need to fnd that connection. And I think the more voices that are part of it, the more possibility for people to fnd that connection and realize they’re a part of this fght to save the planet.”
Zeke Peña. The River, 2018. 12-color serigraph on paper (printed at Self Help Graphics by master printer Oscar Duar do). 22” x 30”.
“My Indigenous background infuences how I want to represent and create my works. Having that culture and tradition means a whole lot to me,” he says. “There’s a lot of knowledge, wisdom and teachings I can share with people, whether they’re Native or not.”
“I’m not usually so direct in my work, in terms of what I’m speaking about or speaking to. My pieces are usually not as aggressive as these are,” Tsouhlarakis says. “They’re very new, and it’s something I’m still working out, but I’m really excited about it.”
Water Is Life artist Anna Tsouhlarakis also draws from her Navajo background in the new exhibition. In Her Second Story, an update on a previous installation at the University of Denver, the local artist and CU Boulder professor references tribal butchery traditions in the space between sculpture, video and narrative poetry. The result is a discipline-scrambling installation that tells a haunting story of violence through blood and water.
Visitors to the upcoming Dairy Arts exhibition will experience one important piece of Beyale’s intergenerational edu cation through four large panels of acrylic on canvas. Together, the individual works explore water’s essential role in the Navajo creation story.
southwest, painting murals and hosting talking circles to discuss tribal water rights. But he says the mission of exploring the politics of local waterways soon became bigger than his slice of the world.
Theresa Clowes. Colorado River (detail), 2019. Hand dyed and spun wool, wet felted process. 12’ x 5’.
But for Tsouhlarakis, the new water-focused exhibition is about more than the experience of a single artist. As climate change continues to ravage the world’s water sources and forge new political realities, she says the show’s potential as a catalyst for social change lies squarely in its multiplicity of perspectives.
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“In Navajo creation, water would create division, or water would create unity, or it would food out different worlds. I’m painting about that as an underlying theme,” Beyale says. “But I also have images of animals, plant life and minerals that have a relationship with each other. I guess, in reality, I’m painting an ecosystem.”Fellow
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later, the eight members of the “oneoff group” known as The Burroughs are now cult heroes for soul music in the least likely of places.
“I’ve literally been doing it my whole life,” Burroughs explains. “I grew up in the church, and have been leading worship since I was 15.”
Burroughs transfxed Basarich on that late spring evening: his movement on stage, the raw passion in his voice, the way he captured an audience (even a pub crowd) with relative ease. Basarich wanted in. It was there, between distant mountain ranges and nearby pastures, under a soft-orange Greeley sunset, that the two musicians agreed upon a joint performance. Basarich got the horn section together, and Burroughs handled the rhythm section.
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Greeley couldn’t be farther from a hub of soul and funk, both geographically and culturally. Burroughs will be the frst to tell you this. The town is an agricultural hub steeped in country twang and old-West tradition. Acres of corn and annual rodeos come to mind, not disco balls and sweatsoakedNonedancing.ofthis matters to Burroughs, though. As long as he’s got a microphone and a stage to create organized chaos, local popularity is inevitable. Oftentimes, it doesn’t need to be a stage — Burroughs remembers jumping from table to table with his bandmates at the Bohemian Biergarten just off Pearl Street, fguratively setting the pour house on fre with sweaty soul music in the wee hours of the morning.
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“We planned one show only,” Burroughs laughs. That was the agreement, but then the frst show happened.
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8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, Nissi’s, 1455 Coal Creek Drive, Unit T, Lafayette.
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That offer turned into another, and another, and another. Local shows snowballed into sets all over the country. Nine years
“People went bananas,” he says. “I turned to Craig and gave him that ‘holy crap’ look, like, ‘How is this happening?’ Then we were offered another show.”
music pastor and a trumpet player walk into a bar. It’s May of 2013, and Johnny Burroughs — a licensed minister — is at open mic night at Pat rick’s Irish Pub in Greeley to perform soul songs by Otis Redding, Bill Withers and other covers from his favorite genre. Craig Basarich — another soul music fanatic and a trumpet player at University of Northern Colorado — is there to take in the music.
The Burroughs are working on releasing their next full-length album next year — their frst since 2018.
The goal has remained the same for Burroughs, whose live presence comes naturally.
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“We’ve always tried to not just talk about what we believe will lift our community up,” says Burroughs, “but to actually stay fully involved.” Their work stretches to numerous organizations, like Weld Food Bank, Greeley Boys and Girls Clubs, Habitat for Humanity, and an on going partnership with the Greeley-Evans School District, titled #BandsGiveBack — a campaign giving local artists a chance to uplift area students with the power of music education.“Weused it during the pandemic to raise around $10,000 to purchase instruments for Weld County schools,” Burroughs says. “Since then, we’ve opened it up to music masterclasses for schools around northern Colorado.”Thepush-pull between Greeley and The Burroughs is a big part of what gives the band its unique energy, and is a testament to the power of community in fostering a vibrant creative scene. “The town supported us frst,” Burroughs says. That’s why, during the band’s inaugural Christmas show, they solicited donations to the Weld County Toys for Tots in lieu of traditional tickets.
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“Our bass player, Brian Claxton, is a doctor of jazz drumming. He tours around the world on the drums, but remains a dazzling bassist with us,” Burroughs says. “Greeley is just an incredible music community that’s allowed us to grow.”
This approach to musicality — one of unfinching love and positivity, transferred through the mind, soul and sweat glands — is why a little old farm town, and nearly every town that has hosted The Burroughs since that frst performance nearly a decade ago, buys into the mission.
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“This past spring and all throughout the summer, we’ve been doing some very intense recording and mixing sessions,” he says. “It won’t come out until next year, and this is the frst time I think I’ve spoken about it on paper. We are unbelievably ex cited to give fans our frst full-length since 2018. It’s a no-holds-barred, smackdown record, like James Brown and Prince going at Theirit.”most notable release to date, Sweaty Greeley Soul, is a 2015 live recording at the city’s Moxi Theater. It encap sulates everything The Burroughs look to project on stage.
releases, and when asked about the possibility of another studio album, Burroughs hints at something huge.
On “Intro/Turn It Loose,” Burroughs hypes up his octet in front of a roaring crowd, between pockets of max-volume, onhighBurroughstroubleswalkaatFestivalupcomingtheastresscanblissfulpercussion,melodictionSoul,drum-smashinghorn-bleating,goodness.Halfwaythrough“SweatyPt.1,”afull-scaleexhibibeginningwithBurrough’sshoutingoverspeedythehornsburstintobrassbeauty.Listenersalmosthearthecrowd’sdissolving.BurroughsanticipatessimilaratmospherewhenbandheadlinestheLafayetteMusiconSaturday,Oct.8Nissi’s.“We’regoingtocreatespacewheretheycaninandlettheirfallaway,”says.“Theenergywebringstageissoyoucan dance equally as hard on the foor. We’ll surprise you with songs you defnitely know, and with songs you defnitely do not.”
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“I just want to make sure everybody walks out of that place feeling like life is good, and that it’s only going to get better,” Burroughs says. “And if it’s only for that night that you could feel it, then we’ve done our job.”
Burroughs never ceases to push for something new in front of an audience. Soul music, throughout its deeply rooted history, demands improvisation. Luckily, Burroughs has a group so deeply entrenched with talent that, if he wants to take a risk, his eight-piece ensemble (four in horn section, four in rhythm section) picks it up seamlessly. The group, whose only remaining original members are Burroughs and baritone saxophone player Hayden Farr, hail entirely from the University of Northern Colorado’s nationally renowned jazz program.
Another facet of The Burroughs’ success is their unwavering dedication to community.
The Burroughs frst full-length studio album, Got to Feel (2018), came a few years after their debut self-ti tled EP in 2014. The Burroughs take their time between
“With any show, when people let go and give them selves to that moment, something beautiful happens,” he says.
‘The town supported us first.’
Taking a step back and looking at The Burroughs’ ties to the town they represent, the band’s success in playing a regionally unorthodox sound is hardly surprising, and perhaps expected.
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That once-hidden history, not fully understood by DeCoteau until after her mother’s death from breast cancer at age 47, will meet the light during a screening of the 2021 flm Home from School: The Children of Carlisle at the Museum of Boulder on Thursday, Sept. 22.
To help unpack those heavy concepts, DeCoteau — a new member of the Museum of Boulder Board of Directors — will be joined in a post-screening conver sation by the flm’s associate producer Jordan Dresser, chairman of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, a guest curator and longtime collaborator with the museum.
TOP: Carlisle Indian Training School pupils, 1885.
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rowing up partly on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, Jerilyn DeCoteau was often puzzled by the rigid and disciplinary way her mother ran the household.
“This was so completely the opposite of that,” says DeCoteau, an enrolled member of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. “These places were less about education, and more about forced assimilation.”
‘Not even past’
“It's a flm that can really change and deepen people's understanding of the facets of violence of colonialism,” says Emily Zinn, education director at the Museum of Boulder. “For people who don't have an understanding of the concept of cultural genocide, I think they will carry this story with them for the rest of their lives.”
For Indigenous children in the 19th and 20th centuries, these resi dential programs run by the federal government were a far cry from the camaraderie, prestige and privilege typically associated with the innocuous term “boarding school.”
“Our work as a historic society is really about forging strong, inclusive and engaged citizenship,” Zinn says. “And there’s no better way to do that than [by working] in service of repair with the communities and individuals who have been disenfranchised, and against whom violence has been committed, in order to live the lives we live in Boulder today.”
“There was so much silence around it,” she says. “That was kind of a hidden part of our family history, and a hidden part of Native history.”
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ON SCREEN: Home from School: The Children of Carlisle. 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway. Tickets: $10, muse umofboulder.org. The flm is also streaming free on-demand through the Kanopy online video platform (with your Boulder Public Library card) at kanopy.com.
The documentary by director Geoffrey O'Gara centers on the Carlisle Industrial School in southeastern Pennsylvania, the nation’s fagship Native boarding insti tution, where hundreds of children died over the course of its 39 operating years.
Among the Carlisle victims were three Northern Arap
For DeCoteau, whose own family history sports the bruises of the forced assimilation at the heart of Home from School , the film and resulting conversa tion is an opportunity for the public to explore how the violence of settler colonialism remains baked into public life in America — and how we might begin to affect
“It'schange.stillvery much in our institutions and our way of thinking,” she says. “I don't know how you undo all the damage. But some of it definitely needs to be undone.”
Rights Fund, DeCoteau has dedicated her profession al life to the uplift of Indigenous people, including the excavation of this dark and misunderstood chapter of American life.
INSET: Shoshanna Miller, North ern Arapaho, places a Northern Arapaho fag on the grave of Little Chief at Carlisle Indian Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
As Captain Richard Henry Pratt said during an 1892 speech in Denver, the mission of these federal boarding schools — whose operators took children from their fam ilies, replacing their tribal traditions with forced learning of English, Anglo culture and Christian dogma — was disturbingly simple: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”Colorado was home to fve such boarding schools, from the Grand Junction Indian School on the Western Slope to the Good Shepherd Industrial School in Denver. Another was located on the grounds of Fort Lewis out side Durango, where History Colorado researchers are now conducting a state-mandated examination of the site after mass graves were discovered last year at similar residential schools in Canada.
“She used to say things like, ‘I'll make you kneel on a broomstick,’ or ‘I'll wash your mouth out with soap.’ You know: ‘I’ll make you scrub the foors with a toothbrush,’” she recalls. “I don't think we really understood where that came from, except we knew that at some point she had been in boarding schools.”
As former board president of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and a former attorney with the Boulder-based Native American
ahoe boys — Horse, Little Chief and Little Plume — whose remains were repatriated in 2017 by a delegation of tribal citizens from Wyoming. Home from School is the story of their journey from the Cowboy State to the Keystone State, taking viewers into the beating heart of this still-raw history and the efforts to heal intergenerational trauma.
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Violence and trauma at Indian boarding schools take center stage in Museum of Boulder screening of ‘Home from School: The Children of Carlisle’ by Jezy J. Gray
Since Ellis Island became a symbol for immigrants looking to build a life in the “New World,” the mythology of the United States has centered on the idea of E plu ribus unum: “Out of many, one.” But for the frst peoples who established sovereign nations on these lands, that process of becoming one wasn’t a choice — and for many, the price of assimilation was paid in abuse, trauma and even death.
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“I graduated, had a corporate career, started a business, had kids, and I had played a little bit of guitar in high school but pretty much put the guitar under the bed until I was, like, 40,” Kennedy says. “My kids started do ing a rock camp at Dog House Music [in Lafayette] and I saw they had an adult band camp. I wanted to play with other people, so I did it and met a bunch of people and had a horrible band, but we had fun playing. We rented a practice space and when we’d fnally practiced and were good enough to play gigs somewhere, I started trying to just network and say, ‘How can we get a gig?’”
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space, from running sound to doing social media. Every body involved seems to just care
That’s why Kennedy founded the Roots Music Proj ect, which secured its current space in 2019 — inside one of the warehouses near Pearl Street and 47th Street — and recently took its mission “to foster the local scene for musicians, fans and venues” into overdrive with concerts, lessons, rehearsal availability and more.
“The three pillars of it are fans, artists and venues,” Kennedy explains. He says he realizes the importance of small music venues like Denver’s Hi-Dive, where, on the way to headlining big-time clubs and theaters, bands can develop in a place where people only walk in the door to see live music. The tiny Velvet Elk Lounge is helping bridge that gap in Boulder, as is Roots.
Muddy Waters guitarist Bob Margolin, once a staple at the much-missed Outlook Hotel in Boulder, will play Roots on Friday, Sept. 30 and host an invitation-only Masterclass Blues Workshop the night before.
In managing a space that is part venue, part incubator, Kennedy draws inspiration from Fort Collins’ strong local music commu nity, particularly the city’s vital Music District.“We’re on a smaller scale than them. We’re trying to get our focus and our story really clear,” he says. “We have a great events space, but the mission is really way broader than that. We have aspirations to do more things.”
“Boulder was once known around the country as a town where new artists could come to blossom,” he says. “I’m grateful to Dave. His understanding of Boulder’s history, and our current gold mine of talent, may be just what this town needs to regenerate its amputated limbs.”
part of the ethos.”
Gasoline Lollipops frontman Clay Rose, who Ken nedy says “has deep roots in Boulder” (no pun intend ed) hosted his frst songwriting showcase at Roots on Sept. 21, with more to come on Thursdays every month moving forward.
“It has been my hope for the past decade that someone would open a small, independent listening room in Boulder. Beginning in the mid-’90s they were all systematically removed due to corporate greed in one form or another,” Rose says. "When I heard that Dave had opened up Roots Music Project, I jumped at the opportunity to pitch him my idea for a monthly songwriter showcase. He seemed equally eager to host the event, as our visions of nurturing Boulder’s dwindling music scene were apparently parallel.”
As a student at the University of Texas, Kennedy was obsessed with seeing blues music at the legendary Antone’s, where, as a kid, his parents snuck him into a Muddy Waters concert. His love of music stuck with him but didn’t become a big part of his professional life until he moved to Colorado in 2004.
Along with hosting concerts, lessons and rehearsals, Roots offers free songwriting circles and even a service where a backing band learns musicians’ original compo sitions and helps bring them alive. There is also talk of launching DIY management-and-publicity workshops.
As the Roots Music Project continues to grow its offerings for local artists, Rose says the ultimate value of the nonproft lies in its potential to restore a once-thriving
Roots also provides local musicians the opportunity to work and volunteer at the
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Local nonprofit Roots Music Project aims to regrow the Boulder music scene with expanded offerings for artists, fans and venues by Adam Perry
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Sucks” bumper sticker, remember a lot of good things we enjoy around here have come from the Lone Star State: Alamo Drafthouse, Torchy’s Tacos and Dave Kennedy, founder of the local nonproft Roots MusicKennedyProject.sold the Texas company that became Match.com, which he co-founded in 1996, and has been a partner at Alamo Drafthouse since it frst branched out of Austin in 2004. With his new Front Range venture designed to give local musicians and venues a boost, the 56 year old is intent on bringing small concerts back to Boulder.The Fox and Boulder theaters keep a veritable stranglehold on live music here, and local acts seek something in between the café-and-small-bar scene and big-time venues. That’s where the Roots Music Project comes in, offering a performance space for local gigging musicians and providing a suite of services to help Boul der establishments develop thriving live-music programs.
he next time you bemoan a bad driver in Boulder with a Texas license plate, or see another “Go Back to Texas and Tell Your Friends Colorado
During a sold-out show at Roots on a steamy Friday night this July, the venue opened up its big garage door for air and to let the music wash over the community. It felt like one of those unforgettable nights seeing music in high school or college when the venue could be anywhere — your parents’ basement, a clothing store, a skate park — and being part of a local scene was all that mattered.
Branching out
ON THE BILL: Raw Chicago Blues with Bob Margolin (guitarist for Muddy Waters). Doors at 6:30 and music at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, Roots Music Proj ect, 4747 Pearl St., Suite V3A, Boulder. Tickets: $15-$25 at Eventbrite
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5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, Martin Park, Boulder. Free.
n [un]WRAP: ‘Radical Reimagining’
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n Martin Acres Block Party
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Panel discussion: 4 p.m. Reception: 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Free.
According to featured artist and co-curator JayCee Beyale, the Water is Life exhibition, on view at the Dairy Arts Center Sept. 23-Nov. 19, “will serve as a bridge to unite community members in Boulder and the desert Southwest in shared concerns about access to clean water.” At 4 p.m., artists, grassroots organizers and scientists from CU Boulder’s Mountain Research Station will gather for a panel discussion about water conservation and use, our spiritual connection to water and how art speaks to these understandings. The ex hibition will feature art from Nicole Salimbene, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Zeke Peña, Theresa Clowes, JayCee Beyale and Kendall Rose Kippley.
NATIVE ARTIST EXHIBITION. Creative Nations Sacred Space, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 2022.
TIPI TO TINY HOUSE: HANDSON HOMEBUILDING. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 8.
n ‘Water is Life’ Opening Reception
Community members and students who are currently living in or considering a future home in the Martin Acres neighborhood are welcome to come to a free block party at Martin Park. Come out and mingle with neighbors and enjoy free food from local favorites Illegal Pete’s and Sweet Cow, plus infatable games, henna art and more.
LASTING IMPRESSIONS. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through June 2023.
IMPRESSIONISM. R Gallery + Wine Bar, 2027 Broadway, Boulder. Through Oct. 16.
JONO MEMENTOWRIGHT:VIVRE.
7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23 and Saturday, Sept. 24; 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, University of Colorado Boulder. Tickets: $5-$23, cupresents.org
THE DIRTY SOUTH. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Feb. 5.
Firehouse Art Center, Main Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Long mont. Through Oct. 2.
ONWARD AND UPWARD: SHARK’S INK. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 2023.
LA MUSIDORA. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 21.
AQUEOUS BODIES, now on display at BMoCA, explores trauma, healing, and close inspection through Marcella Marsella’s textile and collage-based practice. Pictured here: “Nightmare No 5840”, 2021.
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, PHOTOGRAPHER. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver. Through Nov. 6.
MARCELLA MARSELLA: AQUEOUS BODIES. BMoCA at Macky, 1595 Pleasant St., 285ucb, Boulder. Through Nov. 13.
RISKY BUSINESS: CURATED BY JONO WRIGHT. Firehouse Art Cen ter, South Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Oct. 2.
CU Dance invites you to kick off the season with international choreographers and performers in Radical Reimagining, a new dance series rooted in decoloniz ing the university and imagining new futures for the art form. The series was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, struc tural racism and an open letter written by CU Boulder performing arts students.
2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, thedairy.org or in-person at the Dairy Box Offce
Join curator Ana Weir at Ana’s Art Gallery on Friday, Sept. 23 for the Colorado premiere of Honduran artist Miguel Guzma, as well as new work from Armando Torres, Miguel Arziuga Marlenis Hidalgo, and works by Boulder artists Lonnie Granston and Alexandra Elliott. A variety of mediums and styles will be represented. The opening is set from 5-8 p.m. Refreshments and good conversation will be served.
9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, Niwot High School, 8989 Niwot Road, Niwot. Tickets: $25 via Eventbrite
NEWSICAL THE MUSICAL Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Gar ner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Sept. 25. Tickets: $48, tickets.denvercenter.org
n The Found Collective Market
n Vintage Baseball Game and Autumn Heritage Day
LOUISVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS’ pro duction of Puss in Boots (Sept. 25) is the perfect introduction to opera for youngsters. Xavier Montsalvatge’s take on the classic story of an ingenious and quick-witted feline with magical talents is sure to entertain the whole family.
THEATER OF THE MIND York Street Yards, 3887 Steele St., Den ver. Through Dec. 18. Tickets: $65, theateroftheminddenver.com
PUSS IN BOOTS/GATO CON BO TAS — BY MONTSALVATGE. 1 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Tickets: $20-$25
ARTS IN THE OPEN PRESENTS FRANKENSTEIN Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Sept. 24-Oct. 30. Tickets: $15-$20
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Noon–3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, Walker Ranch Homestead, 7701 Flagstaff Road, Boulder. Free
n New Art at Ana’s Art Gallery
Drop by Walker Ranch Home stead between noon and 3 p.m. on Sept. 25 to enjoy a vintage baseball game in a picturesque and historic setting. The home team, the Walker Ranchers, will play a team from the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association. Costumed volunteers will also share games and chores of the past for visitors to take part in. Bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating. No food will be available on site, but feel free to bring a picnic and drinking water.
5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, Ana’s Art Gallery, 110 Spruce St., Boulder. For more 303-997-5346anasartboulder@gmail.cominformation:or
THE CHINESE LADY Denver Cen ter for the Performing Arts, Singleton Theatre, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Oct. 16. Tickets: $35, tick ets.denvercenter.org
The Found Collective Marketplace will bring together more than 20 artists, makers, vintage collectors, and small business vendors for this series of outdoor markets, kicking off Saturday, Sept. 24. You can expect to fnd jewelry, personal styling, ceramics and more. Attendees can also receive tarot readings from Healing House and graband-go bouquets from Mountain Flower Farm, plus live music. Food and drink will be available for purchase.
The St Vrain for the Brain 5K is an annual fundraiser in which all of the profts beneft the National Brain Tumor Society. Join either in person or virtually for a morning of fresh air, community, prizes and more. Virtual participants can join the St Vrain for the Brain Facebook group; in-person participants can meet on the track at Niwot High School. Feel free to wear a costume — the best one gets a prize.
BUTTERFLY EFFECT THEATER OF COLORADO [BETC] PRESENTS THE CHILDREN Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 8. Tickets: $15-$51, thedairy.org
n St Vrain for the Brain 5K
COURTESY LOUISVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
A fantastical art tour featuring La fayette artists. Check out some work from hard-working creatives that have studios in alleys or backyards. Featuring more than a dozen artists.
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BOULDEROPERA Manon Manon February 18th, 2023 at 7pm February 19th, 2023 at 3pm by Massenetby Massenet by Humperdinck 9th, 11th, 17th, & 18th December2022 Gala C cert 2022 A Haunted Mas erade October 15th, 2022 at 7 pm Dairy Arts Center, Boulder For Tickets and More (303)BoulderOperaCompany.comInformation:731-2036 Shows at the
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, Wild Bear Property, 88 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Tickets: $12-$15, wildbear.org
n Boulder Ballet presents ‘Fall Passages’
Sept. 23 and 24, Graystone Castle, 5331 Flagstaff Road, Boulder. Tickets: $450 via TOK
n Lafayette Art UnderGround Hustle (LAUGH) Art Tour
7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24; 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, Stewart Auditorium, 400 S. Quail Road, Longmont. Tickets: $18-$25
The Centennial State Ballet returns for two performances of their fall showcase featuring new work by choreographers Ellie Hara and Laura Malpass, and a one-act ballet favorite, Stravinsky’s The Firebird.
7:30 p.m. Sept. 24, Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder. Tickets: $25$65, chautauqua.com
Families and children of all ages can take a tour on the trail at Mud Lake and meet forest creatures (costumed characters) and learn about their natural habitats. Enjoy goodies in your goody bag, live owls and eagles, magic and music throughout the day. Enjoy drinks and live music 4-6 p.m.
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n ‘Top Chef’ Two-Night Charity Gala
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9 a.m.-2 p.m. Tour laughevent.org/tour-mapmap:
n Centennial State Ballet: ‘The Firebird’
Boulder Ballet will showcase three distinct cho reographic voices during this evening of contemporary dance. For the frst time, Boulder Ballet will bring to the stage a work by the legendary Twyla Tharp, Junk Duet. In addition, Boulder Ballet will present two world premieres, one by Jacob Mora of Moraporvida, and a second by Boulder Ballet artistic director Ben Needham-Wood.
n Enchanted Forest
This two-night event brings the team from season 18 of the beloved Bravo TV show Top Chef to Boulder to raise money for those affected by last Decem ber’s Marshall Fire. The Top Chef team will be serving a three-course meal alongside a sweet-yet-spicy cocktail featuring Venezuelan rum Santa Teresa 1796. For an additional cost, guests can experience a “meet and greet cocktail hour” with the Top Chefs.
Comfortableshoes.com Save on Clog Styles from Dansko, Haflinger, Merrell, & more! SEPTEMBER CLOG SALE $10-$40 OFF Go Out Local and Green TheNaturalFuneral.cominfo@thenaturalfuneral.comdavid@thenaturalfuneral.com720-515-2344 In The Natural Funeral’s Green Section of the beautiful Lyons Cemetery. Green burial means: • No Vaults (grave coverings, usually cement or plastic) • Only biodegradable caskets or shrouds • Ritual of hand-lowering • Natural care of the body Contact our Advance Planning Consultant, David Heckel for tea and a chat in our parlor to pre-plan to minimize your nal footprint. Other green options include body composting (natural reduction) and water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis). We also offer flame cremation.
DENVER Next to REI at 15th & Platte at 2368 15th St.
2-10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, The Louisville Underground, 640 Main St., Louisville. Tickets: $20-$100 via Eventbrite
IN THIS the lives of four dreaming outsiders become intertwined through Anthony Doerr’s dazzling imagi nation. Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See, and brings a similarly immersive type of world building and story telling to Cloud Cuckoo Land 1425 Pearl St. 303-449-5260 in The Village next to McGuckin 303-449-7440 720-532-1084
2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Free
The League of Women Voters of Boulder County (LWVCO) are organizing a virtual community conversation open to the public. América Ramirez, the program director at COLOR Latina, and Sharon Davis, LWVCO Reproductive Justice Task Force chair, will be facilitating the event.
ALISON AMES — IT LOOKS LIKE US. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder
KATHERINE E. STANDEFER — LIGHTNING FLOWERS 6:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder
see EVENTS Page 28 BOULDER On the Downtown Mall at
n Books on the Chopping Block
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Mysto’s Really Big Magic Show is a vaudeville-style magic production fea turing fantastically, mind-blowing magic illusions, comedy, fun, and featured circus performers.
ANTHONY DOERR — CLOUD CUCKOO LAND. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $20, axs.com
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6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, virtual event. Free and open to the public.
Enjoy a live dramatic reading by professional actors of excerpts from the top 10 most challenged books from the past year in the U.S. This 60-minute performance is presented by Outlaw Production Collective, presented in a countdown from 10-1 format with an audience discussion/Q&A to follow.
NATE SCHWEBER — THIS AMERICA OF OURS. 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore McGregor Square, 1991 Wazee St., Suite 100, Denver
n Reproductive Health and Justice Community Conversation
LEADERS AS READERS: SIMONE D. ROSS. 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore McGregor Square, 1991 Wazee St., Suite 100, Denver
n The Mysto Really Big Magic Show
Thursday, Sept. 29
Wednesday, Sept. 28
Tuesday, Sept. 27
For more event listings, go online at boulderweekly.com/ events
DIRTWIRE WITH BANSHEE TREE. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Tickets: $25-$35
THE SKINNY. 6 p.m. St Julien, 900 Walnut St., Boulder
For more event listings, go online at boulderweekly.com/events
PAUL SHUPACK. 6 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder. Tickets: Free
DEAD FLOYD. 8 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Neder land. Tickets: $15
STORYHILL. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Tickets: $20
ROLLING HARVEST. 8:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $15
BILL MCKAY. 6 p.m. St Julien, 900 Walnut St., Boulder
H Friday, Sept. 23
QWANQWA. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $17-$23
H Thursday, Sept. 29
NICK SHOULDERS + SUSTO WITH K.C. JONES. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $20$25
STRANGEBYRDS. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $10
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H Tuesday, Sept. 27
H Wednesday, Sept. 28
MADISON CUNNINGHAM WITH BENDIGO FLETCHER. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25
THE FRONT BOTTOMS WITH MOTHERFOLK & MOBLEY. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $30-$35
MONOPHONICS WITH GA-20, KENDRA MORRIS. 8 p.m. Fox The atre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25-$30.
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ATOM JAZZ COLLECTIVE. 6 p.m. St Julien, 900 Walnut St., Boulder
ADAM BODINE TRIO. 6 p.m. St Julien, 900 Walnut St., Boulder
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SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 WITH ATOMGA. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25-$30
DAVID ROGERS. 7 p.m. Muse, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette. Tickets: $20
TWO FEET WITH BROTHEL. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tickets: $25
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JULYLEO23-AUG.
JUNECANCER21-JULY
22: In the coming weeks, you should refrain from wrestling with problems that resist your solutions. Be discerning about how you use your superior analytical abilities. Devote yourself solely to manageable dilemmas that are truly responsive to your intelligent probing. PS: I feel sorry for people who aren’t receptive to your input, but you can’t force them to give up their ignorance or suffering. Go where you’re wanted. Take power where it’s offered. Meditate on the wisdom of Anaïs Nin: “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
19: Poet Susan Howe describes poetry as an “amorous search under the sign of love for a remembered time at the pitch-dark fringes of evening when we gathered together to bless and believe.” I’d like to use that lyrical assessment to describe your life in the coming days — or at least what I hope will be your life. In my astrological opinion, it’s a favorable time to intensify your quest for interesting adventures in intimacy; to seek out new ways to imagine and create togetherness; to collaborate with allies in creating brave excursions into synergy.
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20: “Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind,” wrote Gemini poet Gwendolyn Brooks. I love that advice! The whirlwind is her meta phor for the chaos of everyday life. She was telling us that we shouldn’t wait to ripen ourselves until the daily rhythm is calm and smooth. Live wild and free right now! That’s always good advice, in my opinion, but it will be especially apropos for you in the coming weeks. Now is your time to “endorse the splendor splashes” and “sway in wicked grace,” as Brooks would say.
APRILTAURUS20-MAY
21: I invite you to be the sexiest, most intriguing, most mysterious Scorpio you can be in the coming weeks. Here are ideas to get you started. 1. Sprinkle the phrase “in accordance with prophecy” into your conversations. 2. Find an image that symbolizes rebirth and revitalization arising out of disruption. Meditate on it daily until you actually experience rebirth and revitalization arising out of disruption. 3. Be kind and merciful to the young souls you know who are living their frst lifetimes. 4. Collect deep, dark secrets from the interesting people you know. Employ this information to plan how you will avoid the trouble they endured. 5. Buy two deluxe squirt guns and two knives made of foam rubber. Use them to wage playful fghts with those you love.
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‘Buddha’ means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is called a Buddha.” So according to him, the spiritual teacher Siddhartha Gautama who lived in ancient India was just one of many Buddhas. And by my astrological reckon ing, you will have a much higher chance than usual to be like one of these Buddhas yourself in the coming weeks. Waking up will be your specialty. You will have an extraordinary capacity to burst free of dreamy illu sions and murky misapprehensions. I hope you take full advantage. Deeper understandings are nigh.
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FEB.PISCES19-MARCH
20: Author Colin Wilson describes sex as “a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time partners slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other’s identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.” I love this way of understanding the erotic urge, and recommend you try it out for a while. You’re entering a phase when you will have extra power to refne and expand the way you experience blending and merging. If you’re fuzzy about the meaning of the words “syner gy” and “symbiosis,” I suggest you look them up in the dictionary. They should be featured themes for you in the coming weeks.
AUG.VIRGO23-SEPT.
22: Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh was born under the sign of Libra. He said, “The root-word
MARCHARIES21-APRIL
There’s an ancient Greek saying, “I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed.” I regard that as a fne motto for you Sagittarians. When you are at your best and brightest, you are in quest of the truth. And while your quests may sometimes disturb the status quo, they often bring healthy transformations. The truths you discover may rattle routines and disturb habits, but they ultimately lead to greater clarity and authenticity. Now is an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your nature.
22: “Don’t look away,” advised novelist Henry Miller in a letter to his lover. “Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.” While that advice is appealing, I don’t endorse it unconditionally. I’m a Cancerian, and I sometimes fnd value in gazing at things sideways, or catching refections in mirrors, or even turning my attention away for a while. In my view, we Crabs have a special need to be self-protective and self-nurturing. And to accomplish that, we may need to be evasive and elu sive. In my astrological opinion, the next two weeks will be one of these times. I urge you to gaze directly and engage point-blank only with what’s good for you.
Let’s imagine you are in your offce or on the job or sitting at your kitchen table. With focused diligence, you’re working on solving a problem or improving a situation that involves a number of people. You think to yourself, “No one seems to be aware that I am quietly toiling here behind the scenes to make the magic happen.” A few days or a few weeks later, your efforts have been successful. The problem is resolved or the situation has improved. But then you hear the people involved say, “Wow, I wonder what happened? It’s like things got fxed all by themselves.” If a scenario like this happens, Capricorn, I urge you to speak up and tell everyone what actually transpired.
OCT.SCORPIO23-NOV.
22: Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Play at least as hard as you work. 2. Give yourself permission to do anything that has integrity and is fueled by compassion. 3. Assume there is no limit to how much generous joie de vivre you can summon and express. 4. Fondle and nuzzle with eager partners as much as possible. And tell them EXACTLY where and how it feels good. 5. Be magnanimous in every gesture, no matter how large or small. 6. Even if you don’t regard yourself as a skillful singer, use singing to transform yourself out of any mood you don’t want to stay in.
20: Social reformer Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) had a growlery. It was a one-room stone cabin where he escaped to think deep thoughts, work on his books, and literally growl. As a genius who escaped enslavement and spent the rest of his life fghting for the rights of his fellow Black people, he had lots of reasons to snarl, howl, and bellow as well as growl. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to fnd or create your own growlery, Taurus. The anger you feel will be especially likely to lead to constructive changes. The same is true about the deep thoughts you summon in your growlery: They will be extra potent in helping you reach wise practical decisions.
To honor your entrance into the most expansive phase of your astrological cycle, I’m calling on the counsel of an intuitive guide named Nensi the Mercury Priestess. She offers the following advice. 1. Cultivate a mindset where you expect something unex pected to happen. 2. Fantasize about the possibility of a surprising blessing or unplanned-for miracle. 3. Imagine that a beguiling breakthrough will erupt into your rhythm. 4. Shed a few preconceptions about how your life story will unfold in the next two years. 5. Boost your trust in your deep self’s innate wisdom. 6. Open yourself more to receiving help and gifts.
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Q: At a party recently, I was chatting with a parent who mentioned that he lets his (elementary school age) kids look at porn. He had a laissez-faire attitude about the whole thing, but I found it disturbing. Am I being a judge-y childless witch?
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A: “Maybe this letter writer should’ve chosen a more appropriate time for inti mate relations — like when This American Life is playing,” said Peter Sagal, the host of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio’s long-running news quiz program. “Still, I completely understand why the letter writer would be offended by this man’s behavior. First, by thinking our show would be appropriate as an audio background for lovemaking — although Bill Kurtis is known, for good reason, as the Barry White of anchormen. And sec ond, the fact that he actually answered questions out loud while in fagrante. But the letter writer shouldn’t think he was completely ignoring her to concentrate on us: our questions aren’t that hard.”
A: There were no middle schools where I grew up, so an “elementary school age” child could be a six-year-old frst grader or 14-year-old eighth grader. For the record: I obviously don’t think a six-year-old should view porn, and a re sponsible parent would not allow a young child to view pornography. I also know it’s almost impossible for a parent to stop a motivated 14-year-old kid from looking at porn. So, if this man’s children are older, perhaps he said he “lets” his kids, when he meant he “can’t stop” his kids. Whatev er his kids’ ages, you can’t stop him from not stopping his kid from looking at porn, but you are free to offer him some unso licited advice. (Is there anything parents enjoy more?) You could also send him the clip of Billie Eilish on Howard Stern talking about how watching porn at a young age really messed with her head.
A: The Ass Ceiling. (It’s also a boundary of his, and one you must respect — but you’re free to ask him about it. Conversations, even follow-up conversations, about limits, boundaries and reasonable expectations are not inherently coercive. Wanting to better understand a “no” doesn’t mean you didn’t hear it and don’t respect it. But at the start of a follow-up conversation like that, you need to emphasize that you did, indeed, hear that “no,” and will, of course, continue to respect it.)
Q: I’m a 40-year-old cis het man. For more than 20 years — most of my life so far — I’ve been obsessed with one woman. We were never a couple, and I haven’t had contact with her since my mid-20s. How to get past this? The easiest way would probably be to start a relationship with another woman. Or I could get therapy — but I don’t know if my insurance would cover it.
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Q: Been playing with one of my fellow guys recently — I’m a gay guy — who says he’s into men, but who absolutely
refuses to let me (or anyone else) touch his butt. What is this?
Q: 44-year-old here who’s on the dating scene for the frst time in 11 years. A few months ago, I hit it off with a hot, hot guy. Great! But once during inter course, Hot Guy called out an answer to an NPR news quiz that was playing in the background. Is this behavior rude? I’m op erating under the assumption that if one’s mind wanders during sex, one should at least pretend to be focused.
A: Some days my Instagram feed is mostly memes about how straight guys will do literally anything to avoid getting the therapy they clearly need... you’ve been miserable for almost two decades and you can’t be bothered to check whether your health insurance covers the therapy you so clearly need? Jesus, dude. Make that phone call, get some therapy, and don’t date anyone until you’ve been seeing your therapist for at least a year.
Q: My husband and I (bio female, newly transmasc) recently became poly. We have created a “closed kitchen table poly quad” with our two best friends. The breakdown is one older married couple, one younger engaged couple, and it’s getting serious. We are now talking about moving in together. Any tips on living to gether for poly newbies? I think we have a chance at making it work long-term, but I don’t want to add pressure.
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Hence the release of Story of Film: A New Gener ation, a nearly three-hour ex ploration of cinema’s last two decades. It was a mission Cousins didn’t initially want to undertake, “but then a lot of good stuff hap pened,” he says.
asm for the “aliveness of cinema.” It’s what keeps his work from feeling elite or snobby, and it’s right there in A New Gen eration’s opening: A sly analysis of two of the most watched movie scenes in recent memory, Frozen and Joker — you can probably guess the scenes from each. Both involve staircases; both feature outcasts ecstatically embracing their inner selves. Only one character sings, but the song speaks for both of them.
“When you see an innovative main stream flm, it’s so exciting,” Cousins says. “The energy is not only in art cinema. [Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse] was, in some ways, as innovative as Godard.”
ovies aren’t just making history; they’re making our history,” flmmaker Mark Cousins muses in his latest documenta ry, The Story of Film: A New Generation “They’re showing us what we are. What we want. What we fear. What we’ve lost. And what we’re still willing to fght for.”
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“He electrifed us,” Cousins says. “I’m looking for that kind of electricity, you could say. That voltage. That cattle prod. And it’s still there.”
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ON SCREEN: The Story of Film: A New Genera tion is available for rent/purchase on all major VOD platforms.
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“Cinema was a comfort,” Cousins tells me over Zoom. He’s talking about watch ing movies and making movies — this movie — during the COVID-19 pandemic. “If there’s a slightly melancholic quality to the end of The Story of Film: A New Generation, it comes from that.”
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In The Story of Film, as in most of his work, Cousins lets his hushed and rever ent Northern Irish accent guide viewers through decades, countries and artistic movements with ease. He revitalizes flms and flmmakers that have been talked to death. Take the recently departed JeanLuc Godard, a director Cousins calls “a kind of cattle prod into cinema.”
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Cousins is probably best known for 2011’s The Story of Film, a 15-hour road trip through cinema’s frst 100 years of ideas and innovation. The movie isn’t just a crash course in the medium; it’s an invigoration of cinematic appreciation. And not just for traditional signposts, but for cinema from every corner of the world. To borrow one of his phrases: “Movies are good at leaping boundaries.”
A New Generation is offcially a companion piece to The Story of Film, but it fts beautifully next to Cousins’ other great essay documentaries: Women Make Film, A Story of Children and Film, The Eyes of Or son Welles and the soon-to-be-released My Name is Alfred Hitchcock. And he’s back at work. On the day I spoke with him, Cousins had just signed the contract for a new movie, The Story of Documentary Cinema, a “good international history — like a big, 10-hour history of documentary cinema.” The future of cinema’s history has a grand champion.
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More than a chronicle of the evolution of Japanese home-cooked, packaged and restaurant foods in America, Tabemasho! is an engaging frst-person page-turner by the Tokyo-born author.
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“I’d bring friends home after school and my mom would be cooking dinner and it would be something terrible-smelling like fsh head soup. I’d have to say, ‘Sorry guys, my mom’s cooking,’ and we’d run upstairs to my room,” Asakawa says with a laugh.
Asakawa traces the path those foods — as well as tempura, Hi Chews and mochi — have taken in becoming mainstream in his engaging book, Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!:
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“I didn’t want to write an academic research paper. It’s personal. It’s my journey through Japanese food,” AsakawaAsakawasays.is
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a Colorado journalist, music critic and author of the book Being Japanese American. An avid
S ushi was far from hip in the mid-1960s when an 8-year-old named Gil Asakawa arrived in the U.S. from Japan with his family. Actually, few Americans had even heard of it. When they did, the initial reaction to sushi was less than“Whenenthusiastic.wemoved to the States, sushi was gross. Eat raw fsh? Uh-uh,” Asakawa says with a laugh.
Asakawa’s family moved to Colorado in 1972 and Tabemasho! explores the evolution of local Japanese restaurants, including such infuential Denver eateries as
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He also discusses the touchy subject of culinary as similation, the process where a dish like sushi or spaghetti gets Americanized and loses its original identity. It hap pened in Japan, too. “I love Japanese curry. It’s a thicker, milder gravy with potatoes and beef served over rice. I thought it was Japanese food when I was growing up, but it’s really borrowed from the British, who stole it from India. Tempura came from the Portuguese,” Asakawa says.
Now, sushi rolls are available at almost every super market, kids take them for school lunch with that familiar green wasabi glob and pickled ginger, and sushi bars (including some with conveyor belts) abound. Ramen, too, has evolved from being an obscure Japanese noodle to a staple grocery item in American pantries, and ramen shops now popping up in shopping centers.
A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America, freshly published by Stone Bridge Books.
His dining habits have al ways embraced both cultures with traditional American and Japanese dishes on the table. “When I was a kid, we could be eating spaghetti and meat sauce, but there was always rice on the table,” he says. Occasionally, the cultures would collide.
GIL ASAKAWA traces the history of a num ber of Japanese foods through a frst-person narrative in his new book, Tabemasho!
home cook and gardener, he writes about his foodie life in his blog, NikkeiView.com.
Natto — a popular Japanese fermented soy food — is distinctly sticky, stringy and smelly. In the book, Asakawa reveals that some JAs — Japanese Americans — call it “snotto.”Some delicacies such as basahi (horse meat) and kujira (whale meat) will never be popular because of cultural and moral objections.
Asakawa also spent time dining in Boulder at places like Pearl Street’s Kobe An, the city’s frst major Japanese eatery. Surprisingly, Kobe An was not the eatery that introduced Boulder to the joy of raw fsh.
Okonomiyaki are savory Japanese meat, vegetable or fsh pancakes now featured on many Japanese eatery menus. They are a specialty at Osaka’s Restaurant in Boulder.
“My hope is that people who like sushi and like ramen will read the book and get curious about tasting other things, like okonomiyaki,” Asakawa says.
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In Tabemasho!, Asakawa details a long list of the next Japanese foods rapidly gaining popularity, from Wagyu beef and nori seaweed, to matcha green tea, miso soup and mochi.
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Other chapters focus on Japanese beverages and candies like Hi-Chews — mango is my favorite — and Kit-Kat bars, a particular Japanese obsession. It’s all written in Asakawa’s witty, accessible voice.
“For almost 100 years there were only three kinds of Japanese food that most Americans knew: sukiyaki, teriyaki and tempura. Today when you say ‘Japanese food’ most Americans have a similar tunnel vision. They think sushi and ramen,” AsakawaSometimessays. when a dish migrates it can get lost in translation. “In Japan, even the best ramen is rarely over $10 a bowl. You can easily pay $17 or more at one of the fancy ramen places here,” Asakawa says. “It’s great that ramen has caught on in such a way that hipsters will wait an hour for ramen that isn’t necessarily that good.”The book also explores the origins of American variations on a Japanese theme that can be viewed either as innova tions or abominations. Take the hugely popular California roll. “It was made by Japanese sushi chefs for Americans,” Asakawa says.
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The restaurant that probably did the most to popularize sushi in Boulder was Sushi Zanmai, which opened in 1986 under the direction of saxophone-playing owner Masao Maki. “Zanmai was big because it was rock ‘n’ roll,” Asakawa says. “Maki brought a different American element to sushi bars. The Emperor and Empress of Japan even ate some of his food when they visited Colorado.”
AT THE TABLE: Asakawa (right) sits with Nao Kanda, the owner and executive chef of Sushi Zanmai.
He notes that Amu, Zanmai’s sister eatery next door, was the frst traditional iza kaya to open in Colorado. An izakaya is a Japanese tavern that serves small plates.
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The process of culinary assimilation is a long path.
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“There are a lot of popular foods in Japan that are slimy. Mountain yams are just all slime,” he says.
“The frst place in Boulder that had good sushi was Pelican Pete’s (now the location for Backcountry Pizza and Tap House) in the early 1980s. It was a fsh restaurant that shipped in fresh seafood,” Asakawa says. “They had a tiny sushi counter and hired a bunch of Japanese sushi chefs. My dad would take us all to Pelican Pete’s and spend two hours eating and yacking it up.”
Asakawa devotes a section of Tabemasho! to Japanese foods he believes Ameri cans will never learn to like because of texture or aroma.
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4. Onions, sliced (spring onions)
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Taste of the Week: War, Culture and Chicken
Thekids.newest dish on Bee’s menu, Korat Bus Stop Chicken, literally took a long and winding road to Boulder County.Tomake Korat Bus Stop Chick en, smaller chickens are butterfied, marinated in a potent blend of garlic, lemongrass, cilantro and chilies and slow grilled on a rotisserie. The result is amazingly juicy, bud-tingling favor combined with sticky rice and sweet chili
You can fnd Bee’s Thai Cuisine truck at various locations in Boulder County each week. Details: beesthai-Bee’scuisine.comThaiKitchen
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Korat, Bus Stop Chicken
Allen Ginsberg’s ‘beet poetry’ makes for an ideal late summer meal
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Kevincuisine.Kisich explains that when he was an 8-year-old in 1969, he lived at Korat Air Force Base with his family. It was the middle of the Vietnam War and the base, he says, was 163 miles of bad road separated from the big city: Bangkok. Airmen had to take the long bus ride to get to Bangkok.Smallfood shops sprang up to provide provisions for travelers, and the menu of Issan (Northern Thai) specialties included one the GIs called Korat Bus Stop Chicken.
Kisichsauce.grew up in northern Thailand near the borders of Laos and Myanmar where she learned to cook from her mother. The fare there is a particular offshoot of Southeast Asian
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oet Allen Ginsberg was a presence in Boulder from the time I arrived in the late 1970s. Over the years I interviewed him several times about poetry and various causes when he was living part-time in Boulder and teaching at Naropa Institute. Late in his life, I reached out and asked if he had any recipes. I quietly hoped for a certain red root vegetable so I could use the catchy-corny “Beet Poetry” headline. Ginsberg lamented that he no longer cooked much, but passed along the following recipe written in his distinctive clipped voice in phrases like “into cold red liquid.”
ertain dishes — espe cially when they emerge from immigrant kitchens in America — come seasoned with the unlikely long journey the recipe took to your taste buds. For the past few years, Bee Rungtawan Kisich has been steadily gathering fans for the authentic Thai food she dishes from Bee’s Thai Kitchen food truck, which she runs with her husband, Kevin, and their two
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n 2021, cannabis edible company Ripple got curious about the absorption rate of its products, and how that compared to the competition. The folks at Ripple knew their proprietary formula was absorbed into the bloodstream fast, but they wanted to fnd out exactly where it ranked among other edibles. So, the company enlisted scientists from Colorado State University (CSU) to perform a frst-of-its-kind study in the U.S.
That frst study found that the water-soluble THC was absorbing into the body as fast as 15 minutes after ingestion. Subse quent studiespharmacokineticshoweditabsorbing in about 10 minutes. This most recent CSU study was the ffth such study that Ripple spon sored, published in the journal Pharmaceuticals in 2021. It was the frst peer-reviewed, published study to use commercially available THC products in the U.S. — as most canna bis studies today are required to use government shwag grown at a facility at the University of Mississippi (Weed Between the Lines, “Clearing the path,” Dec. 24, 2020).
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of fat soluble. Bradley says that’s very common in commercial food products, but in the cannabis industry, it didn’t exist. The company created the original Ripple Stillwater Tea and got some interesting feedback.
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“We had a lot of people saying to us, ‘I feel the effects quicker with this product. Why do I feel the effects fast er?’ And we didn’t know why,” Bradley says. “So we ventured into our frst pharmacokinetic study where we had a couple of participants do blood draws at certain intervals after taking our original ed ible product on an empty stomach.”
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acted 1.9 times faster, and its gummies acted 2.3 times faster, than other leading competitive brands.
The study sought to describe and compare the pharmacokinetics of fve commercial edible cannabis products and determine the infuence of body composi tion on pharmacokinetics. It also aimed to explore how marijuana might offer diabetes protection and infuence glucose tolerance.
The research found that Ripple’s products (specif cally the company’s gummies) adsorbed more than two times faster than the competition — a serious fnding considering the notoriously slow onset of most cannabis edibles.“Itwas critical for us to obtain, and rely on, observ able quantitative data — THC blood levels — rather than subjective self-reports like, ‘I’m starting to feel high now,’” Keith Woelfel, Ripple’s R&D director, told Business Wire. “This pharmacokinetic data lays the groundwork for understanding how our products work in the body. And it answers basic questions that matter deeply to consum ers. Questions like, ‘How fast will this hit me?’ and ‘How long will it last?’”
“The reason for our gummies to exist is because they’re super fast and consistent,” Bradley says. Sure, gummies are the most saturated segment of the canna bis edible market, but Ripple’s aren’t like the rest, she says.Bradley says Ripple wants to help move the needle on other cannabis research. Smaller companies can’t afford to do the science, which Bradley says is “absurdly expensive.” And some institutions still won’t conduct research on
institutions that are doing re search are federally funded, they will not touch the plant,” Bradley says, making it even harder to get good scientifc data on cannabis generally, and on commercial cannabis products specifcally.
“We just really want to better understand cannabis products and how they interact in the human body,” Brad ley says. “We have always sought to push the envelope in terms of what is known about recreational cannabis products.”
The researchers didn’t fnd these cannabis products had any effect on diabetes or glucose tolerance. Howev er, the research did fnd that Ripple’s dissolvable powder
Ripple has been a name in the cannabis industry since the beginning of the recreational market in Colo rado. The brand makes three edible products: a classic dissolvable powder, gummies and “quick-stix.” These products aren’t much different than what the market is al ready saturated with, except in one notable way: Ripple’s THC is water-soluble instead of fat-soluble, resulting in a fast-acting“‘Fast-acting’product.was an accident in its infancy,” Missy Bradley, co-founder and vice president of marketing at Ripple, explains. “We were not out to create a water-sol ubleRippleproduct.”set out to make a cannabis tea beverage in the early days of the company — but to do so, Ripple needed to develop THC that was water soluble instead
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