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13 NOW YOU KNOW: Boulder talks occupancy limits; new homelessness advocacy group; Community Foundation gets award BY WILL

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16 COVER: Local fundraiser celebrates the art and music of the world’s first free Black republic BY JEZY

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21 SCREEN: What four New Yorkers learned about romance in front of the cameras and under the Flatirons BY

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34 NIBBLES: When they wish for Michelin stardom, chefs never know if they’ll get kudos or a conundrum BY

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5 THE ANDERSON FILES: RFK Jr.’s anti-vax, MAGA-parroting ’60s nostalgia campaign under fire

19 MUSIC: Indie-folk fixture Sera Cahoone returns to the Front Range for her Red Rocks debut

25 THEATER: ‘Ruin’ world premiere tackles Colorado’s bloody history of colonialism 26 EVENTS:

31 SAVAGE: ‘I’ve been corresponding with the man who killed my abuser’

33 FILM: ‘Asteroid City’ is a series of engaging but not entirely convincing puzzle boxes

37 GOOD TASTE: Brunch returns to Mateo

38 WEED: Federal health agency says cannabis addiction is rampant — the public disagrees

JUNE 22, 2023

Volume 30, Number 44

COVER: Artwork by Viktor El-Saieh: Jiskobou (Until it’s done), 2020–2021. Courtesy of the artist and Central Fine. Collection: Institute of Contemporary Art Miami.

PUBLISHER: Fran Zankowski

EDITORIAL

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Will Matuska

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