DEPARTMENTS

6 WRITERS ON THE RANGE: Colorado is conflicted about cutting its water use

9 NEWS: Boulder County residents help spur investigation that could close CEMEX plant near Lyons

12 NEWS: Colorado lawmakers consider reforms to the way family courts handle abuse allegations

14 NEWS ROUNDUP: What’s going on this week in Boulder County and beyond

16 MUSIC: New Zealand’s The Beths narrow their aim on third LP

17 MUSIC: With the debut of his first solo release, Carmine Francis bids farewell to the Front Range

21 A&C NEWS BRIEFS: Homelessness benefit concert and Zimbabwean dance in Boulder

22 EVENTS: What to do this week in Boulder County

26 SCREEN: Colorado-born filmmaker Scott Beck digs deeper than dinosaurs on prehistoric ‘65’

27 FILM: ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ documents the ‘artwashing’ of pillpushing pharma family

28 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny

29 SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

35 DRINK: Tonantzin Casa de Café offers hospitality, Indigenous flavors

37 GOOD TASTE: Blackbelly Market reopens in a big, bright new space