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The Battle in Seattle 20 years on

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wenty years ago, activists gave us an adrenaline rush. Tens of thousands of people flooded downtown Seattle, challenging the global economic order and yelling “another world is possible!”

They were protesting the World Trade Organization (WTO), which was conducting a major meeting with 5,000 delegates from more than 130 nations.

The demonstrators weren’t against trade but they felt that runaway corporate greed was undermining democracy, community and the planet.

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service cuts, deregulation and privatization. Under WTO rules, multinational corporations can sue individual nation-states over labor, environmental, public health and consumer protection laws that violate their sacred right to maximize profits.

The Seattle protesters in 1999 had come from all over the world and from a wide variety of groups — those advocating for labor, environmental, human and animal rights, alongside progressive religious people and small family farmers. There were a lot of college students. There were giant puppets, dancing, music, Christmas carolers with anti-WTO lyrics and stilt walkers portraying corporate demons with death’s heads and big scissors for fingers.

About 300 environmentalists wore turtle costumes to draw attention to the WTO’s overturning of national endangered-species laws. The longshore union shut down all the ports along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to San Diego.

Harold Meyerson reported in the L.A. Weekly: see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 6

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WTO code for labor standards and rights, and administer sanctions to nations that violate them, just as the WTO currently administers sanctions against nations that violate property rights. Instead, Clinton proposed that the WTO create a working group to study the impact of trade on labor rights and standards.

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“Most astonishing, there was the intermingling of all these disparate movements, generations, nations and lifestyles. There were the kids blocking the WTO delegates, who parted like the Red Sea to make way for a group of Steelworkers, identifiable by their blue-poncho rain gear as members of the most ubiquitous of the protesting unions this week. There was Amparo Reyes, a single mother who puts in a 74-hour week (for a lordly $69) at her local maquiladora, shouting ‘ Long live the Zapatistas!’ at the official AFL-CIO rally. And amid Teamsters chanting ‘Hoffa! Hoffa!’ and babyfaced animal rightsters chanting ‘No violence! No violence!’ there was the sign that proclaimed, ‘Teamsters and Turtles—Together at Last!’ “ Meyerson said the labor leaders had become enraged at the Clinton administration. They had wanted Clinton to support a WTO code for labor standards and rights, and administer sanctions to nations that violate them, just as the WTO currently administers sanctions against nations that violate property rights.

Instead, Clinton proposed that the WTO create a working group to study the impact of trade on labor rights and standards.

AFL-CIO president John Sweeney agreed to sign a letter thanking the administration for this tiny step.

Then the Clinton administration announced its deal to admit China to the WTO. Meyerson said Sweeney felt “snookered.” Meyerson explained: “...The WTO acts by consensus, certainly by consensus of its major members, and the prospect that China — which independent authorities estimate has at least 850,000 workers in forced-labor camps run by the army, where child labor is rampant and unions are viewed as

treasonous — would permit the WTO to pass any binding labor code was nonexistent.”

At the official AFL-CIO rally, there was a militant tone. AFSCME president Gerry McEntee, told the crowd, “The system turns everything into a commodity! A rain forest in Brazil, a library in Philadelphia, a hospital in Alberta! We have to name that system: It is corporate capitalism!”

Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota talked about another movement at the turn of the last century against laissez-faire capitalism and robber barons. They were populists, progressives and socialists.

“No one thought they had a chance,” he said. “Their point was to civilize the national economy. We are here — a broad coalition — to civilize the global economy.”

The WTO still exists but it is dying, according to Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, she argues that it continues to “constrain democratic governments’ ability to address their societies’ needs.”

In a particularly absurd development, she notes: “Recently the WTO has facilitated a circular firing squad over climatechange efforts. The European Union and Japan challenged Canadian incentives on renewable energy. The United States won a case against a solar-power program in India. Then India attacked renewable energy programs in several American states.

Then China filed a case in 2018 against additional American renewable energy measures.”

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Within town, the University can be regarded as a multi-stemmed-andheaded mushroom, a growing fungus, or, more negatively, from its constant expansion and lack of concern for the wellbeing of its host, a spreading cancer. How Google will reveal itself remains to be seen. Will it be a wart or a flowering garden?

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Benzene at Bella Romero: What’s the big deal?

In the most recent of controversies at Bella Romero Academy, concerned parents, neighbors and environmental groups across the state raised concerns about elevated levels of benzene detected at the school.

On Nov. 25, 2019, the state’s health department publicly released that earlier in the month, the states air monitoring equipment stationed at the school detected elevated levels of benzene. The federal short-term regulation for benzene emissions is 9 ppb, while the benzene detected near Bella Romero was at 10 ppb.

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As a result, much controversy has brewed in the comment sections of articles across the state. Parents and neighbors are frustrated that they were not notified of elevated levels of benzene until 21 days after the incident occurred. Oil and gas employees are disgruntled by the fact that it was an “isolated incident” and that energy sectors are the most regulated sectors in the state. We get it, there is a high need for jobs here.

What is questionable is the way that the City of Greeley and Weld County have responded to other forms of benzene, and yet there has been a total disregard for the benzene at Bella Romero, and the benzene brewing all over the rest of the county for that matter.

An example of the hypocrisy comes to mind, with a recent smoking ban implemented by the City.

After several years of work the employees at the Weld County Department of Public Health and the Environment, the Youth Commision, and the City of Greeley “Voted to extend smoking bans to, public ball fields, pools and splash parks, and playgrounds.” The vote was backed by a survey conducted by the Youth Commission, and according to survey results, “87% of

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(The Greeley Tribune) The irony of this ban, and the resident approval rates of this ban is that benzene is one of the deadliest components of smoking, and second-hand smoke. “The average smoker takes in about 1.8 milligrams of benzene a day” (Toxicological profile for Benzene from CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances). Why then does the City and County take action on banning smoking in order to improve the air quality for our children, but takes no action to prevent benzene near schools such as Bella Romero? 1.3 milligrams of benzene emitted per smoker on a playground versus 10 ppm of benzene emitted next to a local school’s playground?

Sure benzene can be found in a variety of other products too, but unless our children are huffing glue, pesticides and detergents, they are not taking anywhere near the risk of exposure to benzene as they are when they simply step outside to play in their own backyards, or on school playgrounds near an oil and gas site. We won’t know the outcome of their exposure until years down the line.

It really is a shame that our local health department is limited in what preventive air quality measures they can implement.

Perhaps the department is limited because of the fact that the Oil and Gas Liaison’s office is located right next to the Air Quality Inspection office in the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment building?

To conclude, the next time you are concerned about someone sparking up at the park your kids play at, remember the concerns of the parents at Bella Romero are legitimate too. Just because an industry feeds the children in this county, doesn’t mean it should be given a free pass to expose them to known carcinogens. Where is the compensation?

Megan Meyer/Former Intern, Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment

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Economic growth does not equal Earth destruction It’s difficult to make sense out of Paul Danish’s recent column (Re: “Another Year, Another Record and COP25,” Danish Plan, Dec. 5, 2019). He erratically quotes statistics ranging from atmospheric CO2 levels to a useless remark that CO2 varies “day to day” (showing charming confusion between days and seasons) to the Pliocene epoch to increasing world population. He provides no coherent connections. He does accept that CO2 is causing disasters. But then he concludes that because people enjoy fossil fuels, we’re doomed to live with drowned coastal cities and drought-stricken, burned-out continental interiors.

Get over it, everybody, seems to be his conclusion.

Blaming foreigners in India and China (of course), he says, “...the world will ditch fossil fuels when the alternatives offer superior performance and price...” That remark is especially egregious because it’s a lie that carbon is cheaper than other energy. It just looks that way when we spew its poisonous, heat-inducing waste into the air for free while stupidly believing there’s no consequence for that.

Danish is right about one thing: Our CO2 warming problem is daunting. But his resignation to forfeiting the fight is pathetic. By his light the Continental Army should have seen reason and surrendered at Valley Forge. Aiming for first place on the Moon was clearly hopeless because Russia had the jump with bigger rockets. The Patent Office ought to close now because everything worthwhile has been invented, seems to be his philosophy.

Here’s the reality: Carbon emissions can go down while economies grow. We have the know-how and the guts to do it. We just need adequate leadership nationally and world-wide. Danish with other conservatives should do his part, quit crying like a baby about how hopeless everything is, and join the rest of us in the fight for a brighter, and cooler, future instead.

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Sutherland Bipolar Center closing symptomatic of a larger statewide crisis

by Caitlin Rockett

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t’s easier for Brett to talk about his depressive episodes than it is for him to talk about his manic episodes. We agree to use a pseudonym, but fear still makes him hesitant to talk.

He’s a new dad, gearing up to go back out into the job market, and he’s spent years in therapy learning to manage his mood; he wants to stand up against the stigma, but there’s so much to lose in doing so.

Depression, that’s something people understand — at least a little. Long before Brett was diagnosed with bipolar I disorder there was depression: crippling, heavy, befuddling.

“There were days when I had to crawl to go to the bathroom,” he says, “hoist myself up to the toilet and crawl back to the bed.

Just no thought that there was anything worth living for. And even if there was something worth living for, I didn’t think I could have the energy or the wherewithal to do anything.”

He assumed he’d escape it one day by killing himself. The thought of his loving mother always stopped him.

But there was also the mania.

“The mania is just so the opposite of that,” he says. “Like, life is so good. Life is full of possibilities. I’m a genius. I’m hilarious. I’m sexy. I’m wonderful. I’m going to go start a business, write a book, travel around the world, have sex with all these girls, blow all my money because I’ll get so much more tomorrow, do all these drugs, drink all of this liquor, get in bar fights and nothing can hurt me. And life is wonderful. It is the best feeling. It feels like you have super powers.”

About seven years ago, Brett experienced his first psychosis.

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says. “Me in my pajamas in the basement drawing symbols on a white board at 4 in the morning, convinced that it was a most powerful thing and a message for humanity that would affect everyone.”

Brett sighs heavily, like he’s just sat down after a long day on his feet, part relief, part exhaustion. This is the part that’s hard for him to talk about, but it’s an important moment. His girlfriend at the time insisted Brett get help. Strapped for cash, Brett turned to the graduate student therapists at CU Boulder’s Raimy Psychology Clinic.

It took two years of therapy at Raimy before Brett agreed to transfer to the Sutherland Bipolar Center, housed in CU’s psychology department, where he could receive specialized treatment for his bipolar disorder on a sliding scale. It is the only stand-alone bipolar treatment center in Colorado.

He felt “freedom” for the first time “to not have to lie about myself.”

“Because I lied to employers, girlfriends, family, friends, neighbors,” he says. “How many weeks I left work to go to the Sutherland Center and I just had to say nothing. ‘Oh, just gotta take care of something. Just got to run an errand.’ Very, very, close friends, I would not tell them. … I mean, I had a psychotic episode where I drew symbols on the wall at 4 in the morning.

It took me a long time to admit that, and I still really struggle with saying that out loud, so that sense of freedom, of acceptance, of being in a room with people that have your same struggles was just so valuable.”

But now that valuable space is set to close in May due to insufficient funding, adding to what experts and journalists are calling a mental health care crisis in Colorado. see SUTHERLAND Page 12

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Over 17 years, the Sutherland Center has served more than 2,000 Coloradans like Brett affected by bipolar disorder, providing a range of services — in-depth diagnostic evaluation, psychotherapy (individual, family and group), medication management, lifestyle coaching and community education — regardless of a client’s ability to pay. The Center has also trained nearly 40 graduate student and post-doctoral therapists, and produced an eight-hour seminar series that has reached more than 1,000 people.

“We just need more spaces like that in America,” Brett says. “And Sutherland was the space for bipolar disorder as far as I know in Colorado and now there’s no space left.”

THE COST OF BIPOLAR DISORDER Colorado’s prevalence of mental health issues is among the highest in the nation while its access to mental health care is among the poorest, according to research by Mental Health America (MHA).

A 2019 report by MHA estimates that about 20% of the state’s adult population — about 832,000 people — lives with some kind of mental health condition, and nearly 450,000 of them aren’t being treated for that illness.

There’s a growing shortage of behavioral health workers across the country, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy, exacerbated by “too few people entering the profession, an aging workforce, overall lack of resources for behavioral health services, and comparatively low salaries.”

Research by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Bureau of Health Workforce found that half of Colorado’s population lives in areas without enough mental health care providers, with 49 of the state’s 64 counties lacking a single mental health inpatient bed as of 2017.

The problem is bad enough in Colorado that Gov. Jared Polis directed the state’s Department of Human Services to spearhead a Behavioral Health Task Force to “set the roadmap to improve the current behavioral health system in the state.”

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According to the National Institute of Mental Health, bipolar disorder affects more than 5.7 million adults (about 3% of the population) in the United States each year. While it’s tricky to find exact numbers about the prevalence of bipolar disorder in Boulder County, the Sutherland Center estimates around 8,300 people in the county are affected.

“Next to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder is the most expensive mental

Their findings, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, found that bipolar disorder type I alone cost the U.S. more than $202 billion in 2015, with a total cost of $81,559 per individual affected by the disorder.

These figures do not take into account bipolar type II disorder.

health illness to treat because it’s so complicated,” says Rachel Cruz, executive director of the Sutherland Foundation, the parent organization that has supplied the Sutherland Center with around 80% of its funding since the beginning. “There are a lot of comorbid diagnoses that come with [a bipolar diagnosis]. Substance abuse is huge.”

Because bipolar disorder can present itself along a spectrum, much like autism spectrum disorder, the cost of treating the disorder can vary widely.

The presence of concurrent (also called comorbid) conditions such as anxiety or substance abuse, the coverage and deductibles of a person’s insurance policy, and the type of program needed to treat the disorder (inpatient or out-patient) can all affect the cost of treating bipolar disorder.

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by Martin Cloutier published a comprehensive study on the societal costs of bipolar type I disorder in the United States. It was the first such study in two decades.

conversation, with people offhandedly referring to erratic weather as “bipolar,” or deeming a friend’s runof-the-mill moodiness “manicdepressive” (a term that has become outdated as mental illness classification systems have become more sophisticated).

“I think it gets diluted,” Natasha Hasen says of the word bipolar.

Hasen is a sixth year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at CU Boulder who has worked as a student therapist at the Sutherland Bipolar Center for three years.

“There are common misconceptions about bipolar disorder,” Hasen explains. “People often [use the word bipolar to] mean [something is] really quickly changing from two extremes or that it’s unreliable. Bipolar disorder isn’t like that at all. Bipolar disorder is more like a weather front that comes in rather than a lightning bolt out of the sky.”

Bipolar I disorder is typified by depressive episodes and manic episodes. People with bipolar II disorder

also have depressive episodes, but their “up” periods are hypomanic, a more functional form of mania.

Sutherland Center director Alisha Brosse likes to use the imagery of building blocks to explain bipolar disorder. Mood episodes — manic, hypomanic or depressive — are the building blocks of a mood disorder like bipolar. A mood episode is a markedly altered change in mood that someone experiences at one particular time. Someone in a manic state may begin to express pressured speech that keeps anyone else in the room from getting a word in edgewise. A depressive episode may severely slow a person’s speech.

Each type of mood episode has a cluster of symptoms dealing with things like energy levels, sleep, appetite, cognitive processes like distractability or concentration or racing thoughts. These clusters of symptoms must persist together for at least four days to qualify as a hypomanic episode, at least a week (or requiring hospitalization) to qualify as a manic episode, and at least two weeks to qualify as a depressive episode.

A diagnosis on the bipolar spectrum takes into account someone’s entire lifetime of episodes. Someone who comes to a psychiatrist expressing symptoms of hypomania but who has previously experienced a fullblown manic episode will be diagnosed with bipolar I. Someone who expresses symptoms of a depressive episode but has never experienced mania or hypomania will be diagnosed as unipolar (i.e., depressed).

“I think of it as hierarchical,” Brosse says. “Once you go up a rung, you can’t come back unless it was a misdiagnosis,” Brosse says.

Bipolar disorder is often misdiagnosed, especially on initial presentation. Many patients only seek help during depressive episodes (because, as Brett says, mania can feel like a super power), leading to a misdiagnosis of major depressive disorder.

The stimulants that are often prescribed for those suffering from depression can cause full-blown manic episodes in a person with bipolar disorder.

A 1994 survey taken by the National Depressive and ManicDepressive Association, found that 69% of patients with bipolar disorder

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UNDERSTANDING BIPOLAR DISORDER The understanding of bipolar disorder can get muddied in colloquial

were misdiagnosed initially and more than one-third remained misdiagnosed for 10 years or more.

THE FUTURE OF THE SUTHERLAND CENTER While Brosse knows there are other organizations in the community that can serve some of Sutherland’s clients, she believes there’s something “very impactful” about the specialized services Sutherland provides. “[Clients] really benefit from having multiple services under one roof with a coordinated team,” she says.

“We have a weekly team meeting where we’re talking about intakes and groups and we have two hours of group supervision where people are talking about their individual and family therapy cases. And so when somebody comes to group, if they’re also in individual therapy, whoever’s leading group actually does know quite a bit usually about what’s going on for them. And then their individual therapist knows what’s being covered in group and they run those groups.

“And so they can help their individual client take that information that was presented in group and actually apply it in their life. So the synergy of the different services that we offer is what I think will really be lost.”

For Bob Sutherland Jr., the end of the Center is the end of a project he helped launch 17 years ago to honor his father, who suffered from bipolar I disorder. Like Brett, Bob Sutherland Sr. was reluctant to share his diagnosis with even his closest friends.

“When he passed away, his condition of being bipolar was not known to anybody except really his family,” his son says. “It was 25 years ago and there was probably even more stigma around it then.”

While Sutherland Jr. will work with Rachel Cruz and Alisha Brosse over the next several weeks to determine if the Center can make cuts and administrative changes that can keep the Center going for awhile longer, Sutherland isn’t optimistic. The Sutherland Foundation, which handles fundraising that supports the Sutherland Bipolar Clinic, recently lost a large amount of funding from a long-time contributor, The Colorado Grand, a charity sports car racing event that his father was a foundaBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

tional member of.

“Everybody wants to see it continue, but the phone hasn’t rang with a group of individuals who want to pay for it,” Sutherland says.

“You know, society wants to deal with mental illness after the problem, after somebody has ended up on the streets or in jail or lost their job, and then society figures that they have to deal with it because they have this mess on their hands,” Sutherland says. The Center was operating on

around $100,000 a year, providing treatment to dozens of clients at a time, some of whom were unable to pay even the most modest slidingscale fee of $20.

Brett was one of these clients.

While he’s in a better place now, capable of paying for full-cost treatment elsewhere, he wonders what will happen to others once the Center closes.

“Struggling like this [with bipolar disorder]... it’s almost a job,” he says.

“It’s almost like you have a pet lion in your corner. Sometimes the lion is a nice, pretty kitty, and sometimes she can leap up and bite your neck off. So you have to learn how to train it and you can’t just figure that out on your own. A lot of therapists just want to medicate the lion and make it go away. But you need classes to learn how to figure out how to do that, how to train and how to keep it from killing you. How to keep it from running your life.”

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Voluntary depopulation

by Travis Metcalfe

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uring the first two weeks of December, deleAS WORLD LEADERS meet this month to disgates from around the world are meeting in cuss solutions to climate Madrid for the latest round of international change, a 2017 study negotiations to address climate change. suggests considering one oft over-looked Although the Trump administration has stated option: having fewer its intention to withdraw from the historic 2015 Paris children. agreement, a congressional delegation led by House speaker Nancy Pelosi is attending the Madrid summit to “reaffirm the commitment of the American people,” according to a press release from her office. This raises an interesting question: If ordinary citizens are truly committed to battling climate change, what are the most effective actions that individuals can take?

A recent letter to the Boulder Weekly alluded to a 2017 article in Environmental Research Letters, in which sustainability scientists Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas attempted to answer exactly this question. The study identified four lifestyle choices with the greatest climate impact: eating a plant-based diet, avoiding air travel, living car-free and having fewer children.

Although the first three are unlikely to surprise most people, the final one is rarely discussed in relation to climate change. But in the U.S., where ecological footprints are relatively large, the long-term impact of reducing the birthrate is much greater than other lifestyle choices. Having one fewer child in the U.S. is roughly equivalent to 40 people living car-free, 80 people avoiding one transatlantic flight per year or 120 people going vegan.

To arrive at this conclusion, Wynes and Nicholas assumed that consumption patterns would remain the same in the future, and they divided the total climate impact of each child over the lifetimes of both parents. If national policy eventually changes the per-capita ecological footprint, the impact of having one fewer child might actually be lower. And because the benefits to the climate are spread over the lifetimes of the parents, the effects are less immediate than other lifestyle choices. The reality of the climate crisis is that immediate actions are needed to address current heat-trapping emissions, but additional reductions will also be needed in the future to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

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IF WIDELY ADOPTED IN THE U.S., voluntary depopulation could cut the average birthrate in half, potentially reducing the population (and heat-trapping emissions) by about 25% over 40 years. That’s not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, but it’s a much greater reduction than national policy has achieved so far.

“Those of us who want to step forward on climate need to know how our actions can have the greatest possible impact,” said lead author Seth Wynes, a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia in Canada. “This research is about helping people make more informed choices.”

So why do governments promote lower-impact actions like recycling when other lifestyle choices would have a much greater effect? The answer may be that economic growth has historically been connected to population growth.

Without any real increases in productivity, the economy naturally grows with the population because more people buy more things. Trying to sustain economic growth without a growing population, whether by birth or by immigration, is difficult. Government programs like Social Security and Medicare depend on more workers today paying for the benefits of previous generations, who are now living longer than ever. And a national response to the climate crisis, like investing in renewable energy infrastructure, is also much easier in a growing economy.

Any talk of depopulation brings to mind China’s disastrous experiment with the one-child policy, which officially ended in 2015. In addition to creating a horrific gender imbalance for an entire generation, this policy continues to be a source of hardship for only-children, who are now trying to meet the cultural expectation of taking care of their parents. The lesson may be that any deliberate effort to depopulate in other countries should be voluntary rather than forced. To avoid disrupting family structures, efforts could focus on promoting childless living for most of the population, rather than one child for every family.

If widely adopted in the U.S., voluntary depopulation could cut the average birthrate in half, potentially reducing the population (and heat-trapping emissions) by about 25% over 40 years. That’s not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, but it’s a much greater reduction than national policy has achieved so far.

“We recognize that these are deeply personal choices. But we can’t ignore the climate effect our lifestyle actually has,” said study coauthor Kimberly Nicholas, an associate professor at Lund University in Sweden. “It’s especially important for young people, establishing lifelong patterns, to be aware which choices have the biggest impact. We hope this information sparks discussion and empowers individuals.”

What can governments do to promote childless living among most of the population? To start, they could eliminate the tax exemption for children, replacing it with a tax credit for childless households and maybe even a per-child tax penalty for families with more than two kids. This goes against government interests, because it ensures fewer taxpayers in the future, but politicians must resist the temptation to continue providing incentives for population growth.

Whatever per-capita reductions in heat-trapping emissions are possible over the coming decades, it is a mathematical certainty that future citizens can enjoy a better standard of living when there are fewer people on the planet.

Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder. The Lab Notes series is made possible in part by a research grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Out from below A 1,800-foot long-line rescue in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

By Emma Athena A CLIMBER shatters his foot after a fall in Black Canyon, prompting an allhands-on-deck rescue.

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ave you ever wondered what would happen to you if you woke up at the bottom of a remote, 2,000-foot-deep canyon with a smashed foot dangling from your ankle like a sack of smithereens?

Mitchell Friedeman and Aaron Hedges found out the hard way.

It was Mitch’s idea to go to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, a dramatic gorge in southwestern Colorado with dizzyingly steep walls that bend into the earth’s crust like an acute parabola.

Aaron wasn’t even supposed to be there. He’d only moved into Mitch’s spare room in Boulder a few months back and was still easing himself into Colorado’s classic climbs. Years ago, the two were college roommates at the University of Kansas, where they’d met through the rock climbing club.

Boulder, of course, was the ultimate dream for both their climbing souls.

The Black, however, posed possibilities of nightmares.

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death-defying leads [and] narrow escapes” create “a dramatic aura that can quickly shift from surreally beautiful to dark and frightening,” writes Vic Zeilman, a seasoned National Park Service climbing ranger in the Black in the area’s guidebook. “All it takes is a short stroll from the campground [at the rim] to the overlook to feel the energy of the place, fueled by the raging river 2,000 feet below and the magnitude of the sheer walls.”

Unlike the Grand Canyon, the Black is much deeper than it is wide, exposing the tallest vertical wall and the oldest granite found in Colorado.

The Gunnison River runs along the canyon’s bottom in rapid spurts and twisty curves between car-sized boulders, loose talus fields and thickets of poison ivy.

Despite the reputation, Mitch had been planning a trip to the Black for weeks, eyeing a multi-pitch route called Stoned Oven (5.11+). The 1,800-foot route follows a series of corners and cracks up a section of the canyon’s northern wall. All was a-go until his original partner bailed.

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Mitch figured Aaron was a fine replacement, and Aaron was more than gung-ho. The two had already climbed another Colorado big-wall test piece — the Diamond in Rocky Mountain National Park — completing the technical, overhanging Ariana (5.12) without much fanfare. All things considered, their odds of success in the Black were relatively high.

So, they loaded up Mitch’s Volkswagen with climbing gear, puffy jackets and lots of snacks. Mitch threw in his first aid kit — a small baggie of tape and painkillers like Valium and Hydrocodone. They’d end up using everything they brought once they got into the belly of the canyon.

Tom Schaefer, one of three climbing rangers at the Black, was alone at his ranger post on the north rim when he got the first call. It was a little after 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5.

On the line was a law enforcement ranger stationed on the south rim. “We’ve been notified of some yelling down in the canyon,” he BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

reported to Tom. “Tourists at the overlook called it in.”

After hanging up, Tom examined the backcountry permit log — a large whiteboard nailed to the side of the ranger cabin. Who was down there at the moment?

Tom saw Mitch and Aaron’s names scrawled in expo marker next to Stoned Oven — the route in direct sight of the south rim’s tourist overlook. As Zeilman writes in his guidebook, “With sustained pitches of physical climbing, and prolonged sun exposure throughout the day, this route tends to put a spankin’ on folks.”

Just as Tom hurried over to the north rim with a megaphone and rappelling gear, two climbers pulled themselves over the lip. He approached them, asking if they’d been hurt or heard any yelling.

They were fine, no injuries. But they, too, had heard some yelling — maybe — it was hard to say for sure with the roaring river down below and the wind sweeping back and forth, muddling everything inside the canyon.

Tom quickly secured himself to a rope and lowered himself 200 feet down the rim. He scanned the rock below. Nothing. He strained his ears, holding his breath, keeping still. Was that yelling? He couldn’t be sure. He hauled himself back up and radioed the south rim rangers — he could see them across the chasm, barely a quarter mile away. He asked them to zoom in on Stoned Oven through binoculars.

“We’ve got eyes on a party of two,” the officer reported back. “Little less than midway up the wall.”

Tom requested they use a more powerful spotting scope. “Anything else?”

“They’re rappelling,” they reported back. “Looks like one is favoriting their right leg.”

Though this was only Tom’s third season as a Black Canyon climbing ranger, he’d spent the previous 14 years working on ski patrol and search and rescue teams in both Colorado and Alaska. He was no stranger to this sort of situation — all the moving parts, its intricacies, the decision-making process, the deep breaths, the pain. He’d also been on the other side of a rescue; he himself was supported by a combination of metal and reset bones from when he’d severely broken his leg a few years back.

Tom pulled out the megaphone and aimed into the chasm, shouting,

trying to alert the two climbers, trying to get more information, trying to let them know help was coming.

Silence.

If both climbers were rappelling, he figured, then both were conscious enough to manage ropes and lower themselves back down to the canyon floor — meaning they were most likely not in critical condition. Even still, extracting them would be difficult — if they couldn’t make it out of their own accord, they would need to be hauled out of the vertical maze by search and rescue.

He radioed back over to the south rim, “Keep eyes on them and let me know if anything changes,” he said, turning back toward the cottage. It was time to put a plan in motion.

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Mitch and Aaron had set their alarms for 4 a.m. Saturday morning. They crawled out of their tent to an inky, pre-dawn sky.

From the campground, it’s a few minutes walk to a well-worn path that cuts through stubby trees toward a shallow dip in the rim of the canyon: the entrance to the Cruise Gully — a tight drainage filled with loose rocks, steep enough to require two rappels, plus the poison ivy.

Mitch and Aaron descended slowly, carefully. For two and a half hours, their headlamps guided the way down to the river. They briefly traversed the water’s edge to reach the base of their route.

The first few hundred feet of climbing Stoned Oven were relatively straight forward.

Mitch took the first lead. When he neared the end of the rope, he built an anchor and pulled up their haul bag filled with food, clothes and emergency supplies. He yelled down to Aaron, “You’re on belay!”

Aaron left the ground, climbed up to Mitch, then kept going. They continued for more than five hours, taking turns leading each pitch.

About 1,000 feet off the ground, it was Aaron’s turn to lead again. He stood atop a small pillar and looked to his right, scanning the band of pegmatite — a slippery type of crystallized granite — he’d have to traverse to reach the next crack system.

It was around 11 a.m. The sun was now hitting their backs.

He placed a piece of gear near his feet and started to pick his way across the relatively blank rock. He saw an old bolt that someone had pounded into the rock decades before, and traversed below it, toward a flake, where he figured the climbing would get significantly easier. He didn’t clip the old bolt, as Zeilman’s book recommends.

When he reached the flake, he took a deep breath, trying not to overthink his last piece of protection — how far it was, a dozen feet back.

Then, he fell.

A hold didn’t break. A rock didn’t shift. A cam didn’t blow.

It was a simple, good-old-fashioned fall. He botched a move and slipped.

Mitch watched from below in slow motion: the rope going slack in his hands, Aaron falling, hitting, falling more, screaming.

There was a small ledge and Aaron’s right foot had found it, immediately shattering on impact. The force flipped him upside down and he kept falling, bashing his back and helmet on the dark granite below.

Aaron immediately jerked himself upright and grabbed his foot.

Throbbing with streaks of hot-white pain, his foot dangled, a sack of broken bones. The base of both tibia and fibula completely destroyed. “I broke my leg!” he screamed. “I broke my leg!”

Mitch yelled up to him, “OK, we have to get you down here!” What about Aaron’s back? His head?

Aaron kept screaming.

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anchor and assessed him. Aaron’s back and neck seemed to be fine but it was immediately, painfully clear his foot was broken.

Aaron kept yelling. “I’m so sorry!” he repeated. “I can’t believe this!”

“Stop apologizing,” Mitch tried calming him down. Thinking over his screams neared impossible.

What do you do half-way up a canyon wall? They were 1,000 feet above the river, yet 800 feet below the rim. Should they go back down and hike up to get help, or try to climb out?

He shoved 500 milligrams of Tylenol into Aaron’s hand. “Take these.”

Mitch spotted two tiny people at the overlook across the canyon, on the south rim. “Help!” he yelled, waving his arms. “Help!” Could his voice even reach them?

He pivoted back to Aaron, who was growing nauseous with pain. “I think we have to rap down and get you on the ground.”

Aaron grimaced, nodding. Mitch dug out the roll of tape and held Aaron still while trying to wrap his limp foot.

At the hint of any pressure, Aaron reeled. “I just need to lie down,” he kept saying. “I just need to lie down.”

Mitch double-checked their anchor, thinking to himself: “This is when bad shit actually happens. Aaron breaking his ankle is bad, but this is when people die. They make dumb decisions and move too fast and mess it up.” He lowered himself down to a large ledge some 200 feet below. He yelled up, “OK, you can lie down here!”

He surveyed the rock for places to build another anchor, but realized he didn’t have enough gear to build anything. Everything was on Aaron’s harness. So, he placed one protective piece into a crack but couldn’t quite clip it.

As Aaron arranged the rope to lower himself down, Mitch felt it pull taught on his harness and instinctually unclipped himself. For a second he stood free, not clipped into anything.

“Shit,” he scrambled to secure himself. “Alright,” he muttered, resolute.

“We’ve got to do this right.”

Aaron slowly lowered himself down, grating his left side along the wall or hopping on his left foot, trying to figure out what could dampen any swinging in his shattered foot.

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descended. Mitch retaped Aaron’s ankle and went over their game plan: they’d rappel the length of the wall in short sections, one at a time, Mitch first, then Aaron. Mitch would scout out places to build anchors with their dwindling supply of gear — once they rappelled off their pieces, there’d be no way to get them back.

With the ropes situated, Mitch lowered another 200 feet or so and spotted figures down below. Rangers!

They carried long, flat objects, probably stretchers.

Now alone on the ledge, Aaron felt like he was going to pass out. What would happen next? It was a pain unlike anything he’d ever experienced.

They’d get to the bottom of the canyon, and then what? Mitch would hike back up for help? Would it be dark by then? How long would he have to be alone?

When Aaron lowered himself again, Mitch pointed down, “Look!

They must’ve heard us!”

Aaron’s chest swelled with hope as he craned his neck toward the canyon floor, only to realize they were kayakers, with kayaks. He deflated.

More than six hours later, they reached the canyon floor. Mitch had left their entire rack of gear up there.

All he could think about, though, as he watched Aaron lower the final hundred feet, was how long this day was going to be. Darkness was already beginning to fall.

Nick Wasser was about to go on a bike ride in Montrose, where he works as a nurse at the Memorial Hospital, when he saw Tom’s number light up his phone.

“Can you come now?” Tom asked.

On the rim, Tom was weighing options. There’s only one helicopter in I

Colorado that’s capable of performing the Black’s long-line rescues, but it wasn’t available. The next-closest rescue helicopter was in the Grand Canyon, so he called over, and was told it could be ready the next morning. Though it wasn’t even 3 p.m., Tom knew Aaron wouldn’t be getting out of the canyon that night, chopper or no chopper.

He’d have to send folks in to spend the night below.

When Nick arrived, he met Naomi, another volunteer and registered nurse on the Black Canyon Search and Rescue team. Tom handed them both overnight packs — stuffed with sleeping bags, food, a stove and a bundle of first aid supplies including an IV drip and splints. The plan was to make contact with the climbers, then assess whether or not to call the chopper for the morning.

The trio headed down down the Cruise Gully, picking their way around poison ivy and loose talus, until they reached the base of Stoned Oven.

Nick couldn’t help but think about the last major rescue he’d helped with in this section of the canyon, a few years back when another climber fell on Stoned Oven, fracturing his skull.

That was a nightmare situation, hauling him out by hand in the dark, unsure if the climber would make it out alive.

When they arrived at the base of Stoned Oven early Saturday evening, however, they found Mitch already on the ground and Aaron, his foot wrapped in white tape, just about to touch down. He lowered himself awkwardly as Nick, Naomi and Tom rushed over.

Mitch explained what happened as Nick and Naomi assessed Aaron’s wounds. They splinted his leg and took his vitals. Mitch fished out the Valium BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

and Hydrocodone he kept in his first aid kit. With a nod from Nick and Naomi, Aaron took both.

“Was it the right decision to come down?” Mitch peppered Tom with questions.

Tom nodded — if they’d stayed up on the wall, SAR might’ve been able to lower lines and haul them out from the rim that afternoon, but since the climbers had no way of knowing whether help was on the way, the safer bet was to lower. Glancing up at the rim, Tom said, “You can pull rope with us tomorrow.”

Because Aaron was stable, Tom forwent calling in the helicopter and directed Nick and Naomi to stay overnight with him where they were. In the morning, they’d implement a manual long-line rescue.

Tom and Mitch hiked back up, reversing the dirty gully, pulling themselves up the fixed lines. By 8 p.m. they reached the rim. Mitch, exhausted, crawled into his sleeping bag.

Tom finalized the plans for the morning. He savored a tinge of pleasant coincidence. The next day was the SAR team’s final training session of the season, thus most SAR members were already on the canyon’s rim. This was the moment they’d all been practicing for; it was the first time in many years they’d have to execute a rescue like this.

Some of them, including Nick, have been working together for 15 years. He sent out a call for a 6 a.m. meeting.

By 10:30 p.m. Tom was asleep.

At the bottom of the canyon, Nick and Naomi woke up every hour all night to monitor Aaron’s vitals.

Doped up on Valium and Hydrocodone, in and out of sleep, Aaron gazed at the stars, a highway of twinkling lights bound by the canyon’s dark walls.

Then, light broke the day.

At 6 a.m. Nick radioed up to Tom. Everyone had gathered at the north rim. A handful of extra personnel from Ouray’s SAR team and Crested Butte Mountain Rescue also drove in to lend a hand. Tom reviewed the plan: They would use pulleys and ropes (two 1,200-foot ropes each tied to 600-foot ropes) to manually pull Aaron out of the canyon — two ropes in case one snapped or shredded under pressure.

They split into teams. One group prepared the litter — a metal stretcher that Seth, another SAR volunteer, would sit in as it was lowered down, and which Aaron would lie in while BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

being hauled back up. Another group worked as “edge attendants” protecting the ropes from sharp rock edges. Two people rappelled just below the rim, laying down pieces of canvas and metal rollers for the rope to slide on.

Within 45 minutes, they began lowering the litter. Tom radioed down to Nick, “Seth’s mitigating rockfall hazards.”

As Seth had been instructed — “Anything that has the potential to fly, fly it” — he started yarding on loose rocks, chucking them into the canyon.

Nick and Naomi heard the whizzing first, then watched explosions from the safety of an alcove at the base of the wall. The deadly rock storm continued for nearly two hours. Then Seth, the litter, plus all of Mitch and Aaron’s gear (which Seth retrieved), finally hit the floor.

Nick would ride up with Aaron.

Naomi and Seth helped him position and secure Aaron in the stretcher. With everything cinched tight and systems double-checked, they radioed a green light.

Up on the rim, Tom directed the rest of the SAR team on the operation of a three-to-one pulley system they’d built — a manual hauling system giving them a mechanical advantage.

Fifteen people pulled on the rope with their hands, walking backward until they reached the pulley, then jogging back to get in line again, pulling some more. Mitch hopped right in line, pulling, walking, pulling, walking. Like clockwork.

Inch by inch, Nick and Aaron rose.

Nick used his legs and palms to keep the litter from scraping the wall, minimizing any jarring for Aaron’s sake. The Valium and Hydrocodone had long worn off.

Two hours later, the team maneuvered Nick and Aaron over the edge. It was just past 2 p.m. and everyone cheered.

Mitch got the car ready, and rescuers eased Aaron into the back seat. It’d be a long drive and a few more days until he got surgery — pins and plates and screws — but for now, he was safe, back on high ground.

“It’ll come back,” Tom said to Aaron, patting his own leg, the one with metal holding it together. “Don’t worry. It comes back.”

By 4 p.m., the rim was cleared of ropes and pulleys. Twenty-eight hours after the accident, folks kicked back to drink a beer. As Tom would later say, “All in a day’s work.”

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It’s all good The Wood Brothers bring a two-night stand to the Boulder Theater, capping off a year of firsts, some industry props and readying new music about how things are maybe OK by Dave Kirby ALYSSE GAFKJEN

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to First Street in Alabaster, which slips by a couple of used car lots and a strip mall or two before crossing over at the courthouse. The locals browsing America’s Thrift Store or drying their towels at Frank’s Coin Laundry or scooping up the last of the guac at the Taco Fiesta can feel the pulse of freight cars as they rumble their way north toward Birmingham. Across the tracks, a faded wall sign offers new auto batteries installed and flat tires fixed.

This could be anywhere, but it’s the place where the protagonist in the Wood Brothers’ new single has left, once and for all, for the promise of something else, something bigger and noisier and maybe more kinetic, in the cold, chaotic embrace of Gotham.

The last phone booth in New York City/ Ringin’ all day, calling somebody home/ She doesn’t answer/ She walks faster/ She won’t be goin’ back to Alabaster.

A character study in liberation, the tune launches with an uncertain, dissonant electric piano chord courtesy of Jano Rix before relaxing into a poised, languid, gospel-y kind of swing, teeing up the mood to Kingdom In My Mind, the seventh studio offering by the

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ON THE BILL: The Wood Brothers.

Wood Brothers — We caught up with Oliver Wood a couwith Katie Pruitt. 8 ple of weeks ago and couldn’t help but ask p.m. Friday, Dec. 13 and if he’d ever been to Alabaster, Alabama.

Saturday, Dec. 14, Boulder Theater, 2032 (We kind of wanted to ask how a town in the 14th St., Boulder.

Deep South got a name like Alabaster in the Tickets: $36-$65 first place, but we assumed he wouldn’t know.)

“I ... drove past the sign for it, which is what inspired the title, inspired the whole thing,” he says. “Just driving through the outskirts of Birmingham, coming back from a family function. I just love that word, it’s always intrigued me. It just inspired an idea and a story.”

We don’t know, and we’re left to wonder, how Oliver’s unbound protagonist fares in the crush of The Big City, or who was on the other end of that unanswered phone call. The best stories invite us to write the postscript ourselves.

But if she pulled up stakes at the promise of a new life, much of the rest of the new album’s songs suggest that, hey, maybe

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things are OK. Three tunes in particular — “Cry Over Nothing,” “Don’t Think About My Death” and “Satisfied” — all seem to tie into a single thematic sentiment. Ain’t perfect, nothing is perfect, but we know what we’re doing, and we’re doing the best we can, and we’re learning to value the good, and all that’s good in this mortal comedy is worthy of thanks and appreciation.

“I think it’s sort of an acceptance of [the idea that] you’ll be best off if you come to grips with the fact that you’re not in control, or that not every day is going to be good or everything is going to turn out. But if you can live with that, in a new way, you can get a fresh start,” Oliver says.

“Like the ‘Satisfied’ song ... what I like about that song is that it’s sort of saying, ‘This is the best world you got, make the best of it’ ... and, at the same time, you can be very curious about the next world, and that doesn’t go away.”

Maybe it’s about... gratitude.

“Yeah. The gratitude thing, maybe it’s a cliché these days, but there’s really something to that,” he replies. “And when I think about these songs. I think of them in those terms. If I want to get something out of these songs, it’s gratitude. Even if it’s not spelled out.”

The new album drops Jan. 24 (“Alabaster” and “Cry Over Nothing” are available now as preview singles), and it follows in the wake of the success of 2018’s One Drop of Truth, which by many critical estimates represents the trio’s overdue commercial watershed, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and garnering a Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album.

Neither Oliver nor Chris (Boulder natives) are particularly fully vested music-biz mavens, so we wondered how it felt to get their names up on that marquee. Kind of a surprise?

“Absolutely, it wasn’t something that was ever on our radar before,” Oliver says.

“When Chris and I started out, we started on a major label. We were on Blue Note records for a few years, then on another label — Southern Ground — for a couple of years and, I dunno, we normally associated that music business stuff as all being really connected, and the last couple of albums we’ve been very independent, producing our own albums and doing things the way we wanted to do them, and I guess we thought of that as going even farther off the radar.

“But I think that was one reason why the Grammy thing was actually extra special, was that that was something we did BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

completely on our own, without a producer or a label. We’d been doing it long enough that we figured out a cool way to do it on our own, and we’re happy to be recognized for that.

“It was cool to get the recognition, and be involved in the spectacle of the whole thing. We actually went there and saw the whole commercial/TV/Cardi B side of it too. It was just ridiculous and funny and fun to watch, and just being glad we’re not part of that scene.

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being under the radar.”

And after the Grammy confetti got swept up, the trio got to enjoy the fruits of wider recognition. First time playing the storied Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, playing two nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco (from which was culled a live album, released last September), and the ultimate for hometown kids: first time headlining Red Rocks.

We ask Oliver if he remembered his first Rocks show as an audience member.

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1982, or ’83. But not long after that, I saw the Talking Heads ‘Stop Making Sense’ show... oh man, I took it for granted then, but looking back, that was amazing. Tom Petty, Stevie Ray Vaughn with Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal supporting. That was incredible. Very fond memories.”

And that headlining threshold, that “next great leap” wasn’t lost on Wood, despite his decades in the business.

“Oh yeah. We felt a little like imposters, like, ‘What are we doing up here?’

But it was super fun.”

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Bringing joy

Infamous Stringdusters’ mission goes beyond the music

by Alan Sculley

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arly in their 12-year career, the Infamous Stringdusters had a mission that was plenty ambitious.

“Originally, our goals were almost strictly musical, I think, being the best improvisational progressive bluegrass-based band we could, that was the goal,” Andy Hall, dobro player in the group, says.

That remains an objective, but over time, that mission AARON FARRINGTON has evolved.

“As we’ve sort of grown and matured, a higher goal has come to the forefront. And that is the idea of, like, bringing joy (to people),” says Hall, on a recent call to talk about all things Infamous Stringdusters. “The idea of being like the hottest pickers or that sort of thing, it’s still fun, but it’s become less important than the idea of connecting with fans and bringing joy to their lives.”

There’s no better example of that mission at work than Rise Sun, the most recent studio album from the Infamous Stringdusters.

“Overall, from the first song being ‘Rise Sun’ to the last song, there’s really an element of an uplifting, hopeful vibe that we really wanted to capture,” Hall says. “We want to use the album as an opportunity to uplift people and make them feel good and hopeful. So there is almost this spiritual element to the record, and certainly not religious in any way, but just that there’s something deeper.

There’s love, there’s understanding, there’s togetherness, and all those things have been infused into these songs.

That’s what we’re trying to promote.

Yeah, there are hard times, but there’s hope, there’s fun, there’s joy. That has really coalesced on this album.”

Indeed, the album-opening title song sets the lyrical tone, expressing hope for “a new day coming,” and asking “Why are we worried, tell me / Why are we crying, tell me / Can we live together without BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

pain?” Other songs expand on that basic message. For instance, “Planets” is a call for unity and understanding, wondering, “Will we ever be as one / or are we just planets circling the sun?” and “Truth and Love” urges people to “let the light shine from your soul” and live a good life, clearly inferring this outlook will rub off on others.

Musically, Rise Sun fits nicely within

the catalog of the Infamous Stringdusters, which now numbers eight studio albums.

As on the earlier albums, the new songs are rooted in bluegrass. But uptempo numbers like “Rise Sun,” “Comin’ Again” and “Carry Me Away” possess both an energy that’s more akin to rock ‘n’ roll and vocal melodies that are richer and more developed than what’s typical in bluegrass. Combining energy and melody has long been a trait of the Infamous Stringdusters, but the group’s sound has grown more seamless over time.

In addition, the scope of the band’s music widens a bit with this latest collection. “Long Time Gone” has almost a cowboy country feel in its twangy sound.

“Somewhere in Between” hints at a mix of gospel, country and bluegrass. And on songs like that latter tune, “Thunder” and “Truth and Love,” the Infamous Stringdusters slow their roll, while still finding ways to embue these ballads with an edge and hooks that hold one’s attention.

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into the Rise Sun project after a particularly auspicious period for the band that began with the early 2017 release of the album Laws of Gravity. The acclaimed album sent the group on nearly two years of touring, and at the end of January 2018, it was named co-winner of the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album with Rhonda Vincent’s All The Rage – Volume 1.

But Rise Sun delivers on the expectations created

by Laws of Gravity.

What’s more, the band, which includes Hall, fiddle player Jeremy Garrett, bassist Travis Book, guitarist Andy Falco and banjo player Chris Pandolfi, has been progressing with its live shows.

Over the past couple of years, the group has been using improvised segues or instrumental segments to weave together several songs into longer pieces within the show. Hall says this creates fewer breaks between songs and gives the show a better flow from start to finish.

The band has continued its tradition of changing up its setlists from show to show. But in addition to starting to add in songs from Rise Sun into its sets, the Infamous Stringdusters have taken steps to make the shows even more varied from night to night.

“We have a huge repertoire right now, and as of this year, we’ve really made a point to try to use more of it than we had, say, in the last year,” Hall says. “In the last year, we would kind of focus on certain songs that we felt were strong and we would do them more (often). But we’ve kind of made an effort to really incorporate a lot of the good music that sometimes just falls by the wayside because we have so much. So we’ve gotten more organized with having like song lists that dig a little bit deeper into our original catalog and we mix up the sets even more.”

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Art from the soul

Peggy Turchette brings the costumes and fashion of ballerina Anna Pavlova to life

by Angela K. Evans

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y dancing belongs to the world,” Anna Pavlova once said. Yet almost a century after the ballerina’s death, many people have never heard of Pavlova or her dance company, which she used to bring ballet to the world. And that’s something Boulder artist Peggy Turchette wants to change.

“There were other dancers that were better, probably, there were other ballets that were more interesting, there was other music that has withstood the test of time, but her presence on the stage was unforgettable,” Turchette says. “People said they never forgot the experience.”

Turchette’s Pavlova Project is showing as part of the Diary Art Center’s We Are What We Wear exhibit featuring artists who use textiles to tell the story of people and places — whether that’s Jim Arendt’s story of Flint, Michigan, through his work with denim, Erika Diamond’s reaction to 2016’s Pulse nightclub shooting with her collection made of Kevlar, or Winnie van der Rijn and Noah Pica’s examination of the patriarchy through Oxford shirts. But Turchette’s work is really the foundation, the raison d’etre, of the entire exhibit, says Interim Curator Drew Austin.

“Peggy was really interested in Anna Pavlova because of her fashion and because of her artistry,” Austin says. “And so [Turchette] is telling her story through her choice of costuming, through her choice of color and what she’s doing and who she’s interacting with.”

Turchette recreates Pavlova’s life — through her hand-sewn costumes and outfits displayed on dolls — from the earliest photograph of the young girl through her final performance: “Autumn Leaves,” a one-act ballet set to music by Chopin and choreographed by Pavlova, who last performed the piece in London in December 1930, six weeks before her death at the age of 49.

Formerly an illustrator, Turchette began the project about eight years ago, BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

THE PAVLOVA PROJECT: A MultiMedia Event Exploring The Life & Art of Anna Pavlova featuring artist Peggy Turchette and a performance of “The Swan” by Melissa Helsep with Boulder Ballet. 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 29, Gordon Gamm Theater, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets are $5-$10.

‘We Are What We Wear’ is on display through Jan. 12.

bridging her childhood love of ballet, dolls and sewing into a single artistic endeavor as she cared for her aging parents.

Using scrap fabrics from Boulder’s Elfriede’s Fine Fabrics, Turchette, who is self-taught, designed the costumes based off of old photographs of Pavlova. Some of the images are incredibly rare, others feature costumes, like “Christmas” and “The Sleeping Beauty” that are preserved

and high society of Europe became a performance art for everyone.

“She ran a ballet company at a time when ballet dancers were completely dependent on wealthy men’s support,” Turchette says. “But she broke out of that tradition, which really makes her an important early 20th century woman.”

Pavlova spent the next two decades traversing over 800,000 miles across six continents with her company, ANGELA K. EVANS dancing in everything from tea rooms to salons to circus tents, often designing the costumes and choreographing the pieces herself.

“She certainly brought ballet to the United States and she was the most famous ballet dancer in the world during her time,” Turchette says. “Everyone knew who she was.”

It was a time of great upheaval: World War I came and went, the Bolshevik Revolution had taken over Pavlova’s homeland of Russia, and colonialism, with its white supremacist underin museum collections to this day. tones, was the ideology of the day. And Throughout the show Turchette employs yet, wherever Pavlova went, be it Mexico artistic license, using her vast amount of or Japan or Thailand or India, she incorresearch to interpret black and white pho- porated local culture and dance into her tographs and create colorful, detailed cos- repertoire, creating a language all her tumes and outfits that share Pavlova’s own. place in history.

“The world was at war with itself and “I realized that each costume has its she believed that ballet could bring people own story,” Turchette says. “And I realized together because it was not dependent on that if I put all the stories together in a language,” Turchette says. “Everywhere chronological way, it would be a really she went, she embraced the people and unique way to tell [Pavlova’s] story to peo- the culture, which again, was very unusual.” ple who didn’t know who she was.”

All in all there are about 100 dolls in Born in St. Petersburg in 1881, costume as part of Turchette’s exhibit, the Pavlova set her sights on a ballet career centerpiece being a recreation of after seeing Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Pavlova’s most well-known role, “The Beauty at the age of 8. She studied at Swan.”

Russia’s Imperial Ballet School before Turchette’s enthusiasm for her subject joining the company and becoming is palpable, much like the way her subject prima ballerina a few years later. But it connected with her audience all those was a 1909 trip to Paris with Ballets years ago.

Russes that changed Pavlova’s life.

“She didn’t have great technique,” Soon after, she moved to London and Turchette says. “But she had emotion, formed her own ballet company. What which was not a part of ballet at that time. was once reserved for the royal families She definitely danced from the soul.”

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WINTERFEST IS A WEEKEND of holiday festivities in Boulder’s most magical set-

ting. Take a horse-drawn carriage ride through the historic Chautauqua campus; glide across the outdoor skating rink encircled with holiday lights; join in the Chautauqua scavenger hunt; take home a keepsake family Polaroid. Tickets include hot cocoa and crafts in the Community House, meet and greets with Santa, cottage tours and a fabulous WinterFest Market in the Missions House Lodge. Day passes are $18 ($15 for concert members); weekend passes are $28 ($25 for concert members).

see EVENTS Page 28 W O N D E R.

STRINGS & STORIES — WITH THE LONESOME DAYS.

Dec. 13-15, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272, thedairy.org.

Short days and PXHERE.COM long nights call for a little magic to lift the spirits.

Join Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Company for a blend of live music and aerial dance that’s sure to lift the spirits.

Nine aerialists and three musicians (violinist Leslee Smucker, guitarist Amanda Botur and guitarist Rebecca Folsom) will bring together an evening of nourishment, light, movement and musical medicine for the soul in the dark of winter. Tickets are $26-$28.

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7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

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It’s time to break out that ugly frickin’ Christmas sweater, the one Aunt Linda gave you with all the tiny bells and the working string of lights that take AAA batteries. Sure, it’s awkward to figure out where to tuck that battery pack all night, but you could win prizes at the /pôr/ Wine House Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. Join in the festivities this holiday season with photo booths, ugliest sweater competitions, seasonal craft cocktails, live music and special giveaways. The party is free, but dinner reservations are recommended.

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THE LONESOME DAYS The Strings & Stories concert series features national and local musicians in an intimate, stripped down setting. Musicians will play songs from their catalog, tell the stories of how the songs came to light and answer a few audience questions. The December show features The Lonesome Days, a five-piece, high-energy, modern bluegrass ensemble from Denver. Blending heartfelt songwriting and powerful vocals with precise instrumentation and undeniable groove, The Lonesome Days have charged their way to the forefront of the Colorado bluegrass scene. Songwriting is a major focus for the band but listeners can always expect a unique repertoire of standard bluegrass and other cross-genre covers.

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NELSON RANGELL HOLIDAY SHOW “Contemporary Jazz” Sunday December 22

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Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: 5th Annual Holiday Bazaar, Nov. 29-Dec. 31.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘We Are What We Wear,’ featuring: Jim Ardnt, Erika Diamond, Noah Pica and Winnie van der Riijn, and The Pavlova Project: a brilliantly costumed life, through Jan. 12.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ through Feb. 2; ‘Shantell Martin: Words and Lines,’ through Jan. 31; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History,’ Swift/Smith/ Bohn Family’; ‘125 Years of Distinctive Cameras’; ‘Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse’; ‘The Flood of 2013’; ‘Native American Artifacts,’ and more.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont: ‘Nacimiento’ — Justin and Isabel Favela, through Jan. 5.

MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020.

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Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Wild: Buffalo in Boulder,’ through Jan. 12; ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through January.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’

KNOWN FOR large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience, Justin Favela has exhibited his work both internationally and across the United States. ‘Nacimiento,’ now showing at the Firehouse Art Center through Jan. 5, is inspired by traditional Mexican constructions, and in particular his grandmother’s creative scenes. More than 30 volunteers and students created the various elements of the exhibition. The structure leaves room for additions to be made during the month of December.

through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5.

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning,’ through Dec. 21.

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Feathers and Flora,’ Henderson Building, through Jan. 31; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 Music Ars Nova Holiday Concerts: ‘Northern Lights.’ 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. Through Dec. 13.

The Blind Cafe Experience: Music + Social In The Dark. 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Dec. 14, thedairy.org.

Tuesday December 31

Christkindl Market Denver. 4 p.m. 1515 Arapahoe Ave., Denver, 303-558-8185. Through Dec. 23.

NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH THE CORPORATION

David Benoit: A Charlie Brown Christmas.

7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.

TWO SHOWS: 6:30PM & 10PM

Espirit d’Core and Front Porch Ensemble.

7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Grant and Tone. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Hip Pop for Adults. 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.

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Joe Johnson. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

JoJo Hermann (of Widespread Panic) and Jerry Joseph. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Kerry Pastine & The Crime Scene: A Crime Scene Christmas — with special guest Larry Nix. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Louis Futon Live Band — with The Orcastrator. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Music, Media, & Philosophy: Pop Culture & Philosophy. 6 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8411.

Nightwaves: French Horn Rebellion. 9 p.m.

Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Rayburn Lee, Andrew Sturtz, Joseph Kasprzyk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Salsa Thursday. 9 p.m. Rosetta Hall, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 609-284-514.

The Songwriter Hour. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Souly Had — with 12AM & Foggieraw. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Sunny Sideways (Single Release). 8 p.m.

Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Third Annual MENV Winter Ball. 7:30 p.m.

Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder.

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Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

Ferment-ology. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Film/Still: ‘Through the Repellent Fence.’

7 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880.

Kermet Apio. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Dec. 15.

Living the Righteous Slacklife. 7 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Nick Offerman. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Boulder. 7 p.m. 2132 14th St., Boulder.

Paint Dancing Boulder. 7 p.m. The Spark Performing & Creative Arts, 4847 Pearl St., Boulder.

Studio Arts Boulder Holiday Sale. 3 p.m.

Prana Boulder, 1147 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-6033. Through Dec. 15.

Tabletop Gaming Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. see EVENTS Page 30

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 Music Acoustic Eidolon’s annual Swallow Hill concert. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Association, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 970-391-5022.

theater JESTERS DINNER THEATRE

PUBLIC WORKS THEATRE COMPANY

Adam Lopez Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Alister M, Derek Pedersen, Finn O’Sullivan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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Holiday Lighting Ceremony -at- 5:00PM DEC 14 & 15 -from- 10:00AM to 7:00PM

Break Science. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

A Colorado Christmas. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Daniella Katzir Band. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Dead Floyd — with Rumpke Mountain Boys. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Dirtwire. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Dwarf Planets. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856.

The Evergreen Chorale in concert with the Denver Children’s Choir. 7:30 p.m. Wellshire Presbyterian Church, 2999 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-758-2233.

Felonius Smith Trio. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Friday Afternoon Concert: Boulder Big Band. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol. 7 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

Glory of Christmas. 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-402-6408.

Laser Journey. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Last Men On Earth. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

Lloyd’s Christmas Show. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Music & Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821.

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats — with Mavis Staples. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

Second show on Sunday, Dec. 15.

Nova Fest 7. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Outdoor Skating continues Wednesday - Sunday 1:00PM to 7:00PM -from- DEC 18 to FEB 2

O’Connor Brothers Band, Rick Van Patten Band. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Billy Strings. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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ONE OF LONGMONT’S most enduring holiday traditions takes Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and adds a heaping helping of music, dancing and comedy, plus a full meal, while still serving up the heartfelt Yuletide themes of charity and goodwill. ‘Scrooge: Bah Humbug!’ has been an annual staple of the Jesters Dinner Theatre repertoire since 1987 — and it even stars the same actor in the title role. A family-friendly event with a bedtime-friendly length. Now at Jesters Dinner Theatre through Dec. 29.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 E. Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 14.

Calendar Girls — presented by Firehouse Theater. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Dec. 22.

A Christmas Carol — Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Dec. 28.

A Christmas Carol. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Dec. 23.

A Christmas Carol: The Musical. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 22.

Hip Hop Nutcracker. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Dec. 24.

Ponderoso. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Project Aspect, Kavsko, Patrick Skyler, Low Frequency Output, Mr Bugatti. 9 p.m.

Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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

Snoop Dogg. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Taylor Shae Duo. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder, 720-204-8767.

Tom Weiser Quartet’s Swing Nights at Sole. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22.

Looped. Vintage Theatre Productions, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Dec. 15.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver.

Through Dec. 28.

Scrooge Bah Humbug! Jesters Dinner Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 29.

The Thanksgiving Play. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 15.

Tuck Everlasting. Vintage Theatre Productions, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Jan. 5.

Twelfth Night. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Events Downtown Longmont Holiday Cheer Walking Tour. 5:30 p.m. 600 Main St., Longmont.

Free Legal Clinic. 3 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

It’s A Wonderful Lifetime: Lifetime Improvised Movie. 9 p.m. Grafenberg Sketch Comedy And Improv Theatre, 70 S. Broadway, Denver.

Jack Box Games. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tourist + Matthew Dear. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

The Kanabbis Family Holiday Special. 9:30 p.m. Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver, 720-989-3283.

W o n d e r. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272. Through Dec. 15, thedairy.org.

Longmont Lights Holiday Celebration. 5 p.m. Longmont Ice Pavilion, 725 Eighth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8404.

Winter Music Series: Liz Barnez. 7 p.m.

Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

The Wood Brothers — with Katie Pruitt. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Playtime Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows

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LIVE MUSIC!

FILMS If you’ve been missing CWA’s annual Ebert Interruptus and the

tion, then head down to Denver’s

The Doc Haze Band The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, December 13 7:00-9:00 PM - NO COVER Happy Hour till 7pm

1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tuneupboulder.com

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BOULDER:

8:30 PM

FRIDAY DECEMBER 13

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100: ‘Polar Express,’

professor John Anzalone (New York’s Skidmore College),

and the murder that brings them

7:00 PM

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3011.

‘Love Streams,’

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‘Pain and Glory,’

Boedecker Theatre, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: ‘Anna and the Apocalypse,’ ‘By The Grace of God,’ ‘In Safe Hands,’ ‘Linda Ronstadt: Listen to My Voice,’

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., 303-744-9686: ‘Apollo 11: First Steps’ ‘The Polar Express 3D’ ‘Superpower Dogs 3D’ ‘Turtle Odyssey’

‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Midway’ ‘Playing With Fire’ ‘Playmobil: The Movie’ ‘Richard Jewell’ ‘The Tale of Princess Kaguya,’

Landmark’s Chez Artiste Theatre, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., 303-758-3496: ‘63 Up’

‘They Shall Not Grow Old,’

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ ‘Black Christmas’ ‘Dark Waters’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘The Good Liar’ ‘Harriet’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Queen & Slim’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Playmobil: The Movie’ ‘Richard Jewell’ ‘The Tale of Princess Kaguya,’

Landmark’s Mayan Theatre, 110 Broadway, 303-744-6799: ‘Honey Boy’ ‘Marriage Story’ ‘The Two Popes’

‘They Shall Not Grow Old,’ ‘Waves’

LONGMONT:

Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., 720-420-0030: Sips n’ Cinema: ‘The Big Lebowski,’ Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: ‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Sleepaway Camp,’

Backdoor Theater, 243 W. Fourth St., 303-258-0188: ‘Knives Out’

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ ‘Black Christmas’ ‘Dark Waters’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’

Denver Public Library, Smiley Branch, 4501 W. 46th Ave., 720-865-0260: Guerrilla Film School: ‘Monsieur Hire,’

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood’ ‘Black Christmas’ ‘Charlie’s Angels’ ‘Dark Waters’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘The Good Liar’ ‘Harriet’ ‘Joker’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Richard Jewell’

NEDERLAND:

‘Temblores’

DENVER:

LOUISVILLE:

WESTMINSTER:

Alamo Drafthouse Westminster, 8905 Westminster Blvd., 303-731-3330: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ ‘White Christmas,’

7:00 PM

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10:00 PM 11:30 PM

SATURDAY DECEMBER 14

Reception: ‘Nacimiento.’

SPARK! Tours for Individuals with Memory Loss.

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1:00 PM 2:30 PM

Boulder Concert Band: A Family Holiday.

Music

11:30 PM

2-Nite KS 1075 Classic Pass.

SUNDAY DECEMBER 15

Boulder Samba School Holiday Party.

The Absolutes.

Detox Unit — with Mickman, Navigatorz (Vinja & Sortof Vague), Thought Process.

Analog Son — with Death By Dub, Digg.

Eric Bellinger.

4:30 PM

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John Bunzli Band Birthday Bash.

King Cardinal Holiday Spectacular — with Corsicana and Bellhoss.

Lee Fields & The Expressions.

Foxfeather.

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas

Glory of Christmas.

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

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

Harry Tuft and Friends.

KS Classic Christmas — with Bone Thugsn-harmony.

1:30 PM 3:00 PM

Happy Hour Live Jazz.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14

10:00 PM

12:00 PM

Boulder Chorale’s Brightest & Best Holiday Concert.

WinterFest.

7:00 PM 8:30 PM

Boulder Bach Festival.

Billy Strings.

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FRANK ZAPPA’S BIRTHDAY PARTY: CELEBRATING ZAPPA’S MUSIC W/ STEELY DEAD & MARAFIKI

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JAMES MURPHY DJ SET OUT (LCDSOLD SOUNDSYSTEM / DFA)

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SATURDAY, DEC. 14 Stories on Stage: Making Merry. 1:30 p.m.

Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder.

Ashia Ajani. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

SUNDAY, DEC. 15 Stories on Stage: Making Merry. 1:30 p.m.

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MADDY O’NEAL & NOBIDE + THE NEWDEAL

SUMMER CAMP ON THE ROAD

King Center, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver.

World’s Best Books Bookclub — Jane Eyre.

7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 28

SATURDAY JANUARY 25

EVERYONE ORCHESTRA

THURSDAY, DEC. 12

WINTERFEST

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FEAT RYAN STASIK OF UMPHREY’S MCGEE W/ MARCUS REZAK’S GATEWAY

ASHIA AJANI IS A BLACK storyteller hailing from Denver. Her work confronts black environments, exploring the legacies of trauma and resistance in diasporic communities. She released her first chapbook, ‘We Bleed Like Mango,’ in October of 2017. Ajani will read some of her poetry at Innisfree on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m.

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Music of The Grateful Dead For Kids.

11:30 a.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 646-560-0065.

College Essay Workshop. 1:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Old Man Saxon. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

Peak2Peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Reason to Rhyme Music Presents: An Evening with Collusion & Special Guests.

6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Season of Light + Holiday Music Show.

1 and 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Strings & Stories — with The Lonesome Days. 7:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Community Karoake. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

CSED: Design Your Own Video Game Controller. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Firefly Handmade Holiday Market. 10 a.m.

Balch Fieldhouse at the University of Colorado, 1951 Colorado Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 15.

Fourth Annual Winter Fest. 10 a.m. Fillmore Plaza, 2401 E. Second Ave., Denver.

Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. 6 p.m. /pôr/ Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-666-1386.

Grand Opening Party.

School of Superior, 301 Marshall Road, Superior, 720-594-5481.

The Voice is a Wild Thing: Sound Circle 25th Anniversary Solstice Concert. 1 and 5 p.m. Columbine Unity Church, 8900 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-546-0114. 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15

Handcrafted Holiday Market. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

The Wood Brothers — with Katie Pruitt. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Wookiefoot at Fox Theatre. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Holiday Changemakers Market. Noon.

Sanitas Brewing, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 888-852-8935.

Jamestown Holiday Art and Craft Sale.

10 a.m. Jamestown Town Hall, 118 Main St., Jamestown, 303-444-5053.

Events

Longmont Lights Holiday Festival & Parade. 5 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

BoulderReads Holiday Potluck. 3:30 p.m.

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

Santa & Mrs. Claus at Longmont Parade of Lights. 5 p.m. Longmont Recreation and Golf Services, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

Breakfast with Santa. 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Scrooge Bah Humbug! Auditions. 2 p.m.

Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

The Brewery Comedy Tour. 7 p.m. Colorado Technical Center, 657 S. Taylor Ave., Louisville, 303-604-6675.

Stand Up Comedy Showcase. 8 p.m. Endo Brewing, 2755 Dagny Way, Suite 101, Lafayette, 720-442-8052.

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Stonebridge Farm Holiday Fair. 9 a.m.

Stonebridge Farm CSA, 5169 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-823-0975.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15

Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Music Beer and Carols. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Boulder Chorale’s Brightest & Best Holiday Concert. 4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-554-7692.

The Delta Sonics Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Handel’s ‘Messiah.’ 4 p.m. Westview Presbyterian Church, 1500 Hover St., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Open Jam. 4 p.m. Dog House Music Studios, 525 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-664-1600.

Rocky Mountain Revels: Mid Winter’s Night Revels. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Season of Light + Holiday Music Show.

Noon and 4:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Tyler Adams & Caton Sollenberger. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events Breakfast with Santa. 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Handcrafted Holiday Market. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Holiday Make & Take. 1:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Unity Holiday Craft Fair. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Yarn Social. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 16 Music Carlos Prieto, Kyle Ash. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events

VIVA Theater at the Library. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 Music Julien Kozak, The Lone Bones Trio. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Surfaces. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Boulder Brass. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Drop In Tech Help. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18 Music Jazzetry Night! featuring Von Disco. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events Boulder Arts Commission Meeting. 6 p.m.

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

BTAB. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conversations in English Wednesdays.

10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Flatirons Mineral Club Junior Geologists Group. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Lego Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100; 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Legit Knits. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Another mother passed along a whisper: there’s this boy, he might have a gun.

Should I tell you, or leave you in the dark?

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Should I tell you to collect things to throw?

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Everything’s fine, no one is even talking about it.

Should I tell you, my rule-following child, to run?

That this is one of those times we’d rather make small mistakes.

That you always have my permission to walk out of a bad situation, and we’ll sort it out later.

You text later from class, ever the optimist: It’s lucky this is happening during photography.

Our teacher says the dark room is the safest place to be in a situation like this.

This, I think, is you dying at school.

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ON THE BILL: ‘Little Women’ opens A few moments earlier, she was in excruciating pain: in theaters on Another pie-eyed scribbler stranded on the non-editorial Christmas day. side of the desk. Too shy to admit the truth, Jo (Saoirse Ronan) claims the story is a creation of her friend, but Mr. Dashwood (Tracy Letts), the editor, can see her inkstained fingers from here. He chuckles as he reads, turns pages over and stabs them down on the desk with a tremendous thunk, and scratches out paragraphs whole. He’ll buy it, he says, with the edits of course. Jo asks if he might be interested in more stories. Yes, he responds: “But if your main character is a girl, make sure she is married by the end. Or dead. Either way.”

Written for the screen and directed by Greta Gerwig, Little Women is a playful twist on that “either way.” It’s a faithful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel with a nod to autobiographical elements. The publishing company Dashwood works for is the Boston-based Roberts Brothers — the publishers of Little Women in 1868 and ’69.

Jo’ll return to Dashwood in due course, but now she runs happy and free — a writer with cash in hand.

And run she does — smiling broadly as her long, curly hair clings to her skull for dear life. She is joy incarnate, and the cinematography (Yorick Le Saux) and cutting (Nick Houy) can barely keep up.

Freely hopscotching from present to past, Massachusetts to Paris, Gerwig rearranges Alcott’s narrative to extrapolate themes connecting the four March sisters — Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth (Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen) — with mother, Marmee (Laura Dern), Aunt March (Meryl Streep), nextdoor neighbor, Mr. Laurence (Chris Cooper) and his grandson, Laurie (Timothée Chalamet). It’s a veritable murderers’ row of performers, and each one bursts from the frame the way Alcott’s prose pops off the page.

Few books in the American canon are as beloved as Little Women, or as adapted.

Gerwig’s version marks the eighth time the March sisters have graced the silver screen, and each iteration bears the mark of its time. It’s what makes returning to this material so enjoyable decade after decade — each version finds something else in Alcott’s story echoed in the present day. For Gerwig, it’s four sisters, similar but different, trying to find their way in an America trying to find its footing. “I’ve had a lot of troubles,” wrote Alcott, “so I write jolly tales.”

Everything here feels present tense. The obstacles Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth face are easily extrapolated to today. As are the answers Aunt March and Laurie offer. The 1860s were troubled times in America — so are the 2010s for that matter — but when the March sisters find their place in this world, they do so not by concession, but by compromise.

“No one will forget Jo March,” she declares defiantly.

“I can believe it,” the man sitting opposite says. He is her confidant, but not yet her lover. She’s a writer, but not yet an author. By journeys end, they’ll be both. Or dead.

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ith its rich flavors, welcoming vibes and unique, comforting cuisine, there is no shortage of Indian and Nepali options in Boulder County. The Lunch Buffet at Mt. Everest Cuisine is stand-out, all set in an unassuming but comfortable strip mall location. Featuring a wide variety of classic Indian dishes, Nepali favorites and a few unique offerings, it’s hard to know where to stop. Served with naan bread, we recently chose the sweet potato masala over rice, with some saag paneer and a vegetable samosa. The rich flavors of the sauce paired well with the soft, cubed sweet potato, as each bite literally melted in the mouth. For dessert, we sampled the banana pakora: slices of banana, fried in chickpea flower and sprinkled with sugar. It was just enough sweetness to balance out the warm meal on a cold day. $9.95.

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imply put, Tiffins is one of the best Indian restaurants on the Front Range.

The quintessential strip mall gem, Tiffins prepares classic curries, biryanis and tandoori plates with an eye on flavor. Take the chicken masala curry — a dish we’ve likely all had, but that Tiffins perfects, with a tomato and cream curry that is rich, deep and buttery. The chicken is tender and smoky, and the rice has perfect texture. $13.95.

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We opted for the 36-hour brisket, which would likely get lost in all that flavor if it weren’t such a satisfying, meaty slab. If you’re craving that unique combination of textures and flavors that is the banh mi, Daikon’s a good place to start. $11.80.

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Fill my stocking with great local jams, chocolates, seasonings and salumi

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ou have a busy few weeks ahead what with Solstice/Yule (12/22), Hanukkah (12/22), Festivus (12/23), Boxing Day (12/26) and Kwanzaa (12/26) plus Christmas and New Year’s Eve on the schedule. The one thing these yearending festivities have in common is that they involve food. That means that you need to figure out food and beverages to cook, bring or wrap for festive celebrations.

My simple holiday message is this: If you are going to buy wine or cheese or salumi or dozens of other nibbles and sips for the season, choose local when you can. It’s not simply a feelgood, environmentally sensitive choice or a generally good idea for supporting Boulder County’s economy. You should sample, serve and gift the following local products from our various communities because they really are first-class foods and beverages and incredibly tasty.

Roasted Peach & Fennel Jam: Extraordinary exotic jams crafted in Boulder include Tomato Ginger Lime, Apricot with Honey & Lemon Verbena, Musk Melon, Rhubarb & Mezcal, and Meyer Lemon & Walnut Jam. sabajamsf.com Pistachio and Pepita White Chocolate: Besides bean-to-bar 55% Light Milk Chocolate with Mint, Boulder’s Fortuna Chocolate makes a wonderful white chocolate bar. fortuna-chocolate.com.

Instant tea reinvented: Boulder’s CUSA produces instant tea for the 21st century: little envelopes of perfect, crystallized English breakfast, oolong, spicy chai, lemon black and mango green tea. Amazingly tasty and an ideal stocking stuffer for road trippers and backpackers. cusatea.com

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Sweet Milk Chocolate Toffee: Homemade by a Nederland family with butter, sugar and almonds topped with milk chocolate and pecans. Also: Espresso Dark Chocolate Toffee. tungstentoffee.com Original Salted Pretzels: Broomfield’s On Tap Kitchen cracked the code on the besttasting packaged pretzels that are winning national recognition. ontapkitchen.com Orange Liqueur: The best tasting orange liqueur I’ve ever sampled is crafted by Longmont’s Grove Street Alchemy. grovestreetalchemy.com Tingala: This is the world’s first liqueur infused with spilanthes — or buzz button flowers. Made with local corn spirits in Denver, it has a light cinnamon aroma and a taste that leaves your tongue both tingling and slightly numb for a few minutes. It’s an entertaining after dinner drink. tingalaspirits.com More Culinary Gift Ideas: Any of the above local food and drink can be combined into a gift basket with the following: bletours.com), which guides group restaurant tours in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins.

Thai-born cook Bee Rungtawan Kisich. facebook.com/beesthaikitchen. cookbook that really yields yummy results: No Gluten, No Problem Pizza. The volume by Boulder bloggers Peter and Kelli Bronski features 75 detailed recipes to craft GF-free versions of thin to thick crust classics. noglutennoproblem.com give carb lovers a membership in the monthly Pasta Club from Boulder’s Pastaficio. Claudia Bouvier makes and delivers artisan, fresh, heirloom grain pastas and scratch-made sauces to homes in Boulder. pastificioboulder.com How I Learned to Cook, An Artist’s Life published this year by Barbara Shark. The Lyons artist and cook chronicles her life in 326 pages of paintings, drawings and story-like recipes from pear

kuchen to creamy zucchini gratin. howilearnedtocookanartistslife.blog THE GIFT OF HOMEMADE TOFFEE Jean Bolger — fiddler for Colcannon, Colorado’s premier Celtic band annually shares her recipe for wonderfully simple almond toffee. Colcannon performs an Irish Christmas Show Dec. 18 at the Longmont Theatre. colcannon.com.

Jean’s Microwave Almond Toffee 12 tablespoons butter (a stick and a half of regular salted butter) 1 cup (packed) light brown sugar 1 cup coarsely chopped raw almonds 1/3 to 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips Line an 8-inch-square pan with foil. Put the sugar and butter in a biggish microwaveable bowl.

Microwave on high for about 3 minutes, then whisk it until it’s blended.

Back in the microwave, this time for about 4 minutes. Now stir in the almonds and pop it back in the micro.

Cook it about 2 to 4 minutes more. This is where the timing gets a little tricky. In my microwave, which is not super powerful, it takes about three more minutes — you may have to experiment.

Using a spatula, pour it into the foillined pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips over it.

When melted, spread the chocolate evenly. Save a few chopped almonds to sprinkle on the top. Let it cool completely before serving. Note: Dry-roast almonds first for extra flavor.

WORDS TO CHEW ON “Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.” — M.F.K. Fisher John Lehndorff was the founding director of Boulder’s Home for Unwanted Fruitcake and will celebrate National Fruitcake Day (12/27) if he can find a locally baked artisan fruitcake.

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Instant Coffee Reinvented: Equally portable and flavor-filled is the crystallized instant coffee from one of Boulder County’s Ozo Coffee locations, which makes fine hot or iced coffee on a plane or a mountain. Plus: No grounds or K-cups to dispose. ozocoffee.com Umami All-Purpose Seasoning: I was already a fan of Seed Ranch Flavor Co.’s Umami Hot Sauce. Now the Boulder company offers Umami All Purpose Seasoning, a sprinkle-on combination of sea salt, porcini, kelp, smoked paprika and nutritional yeast that adds savory appeal to almost any dish. seedranchflavor.com Jalapeño, Hatch Green Chile, Cheddar Grits: Really tasty, spicy, easy-to-prepare grits from Boulder’s FishSki Provisions are great for camping, but why wait? fishskiprovisions.com Rosa de Jamaica: Best known for hot sauces, Green Belly Foods (Boulder) now bottles this refresher popular in Central America and the Caribbean. The drink is flavored with jamaica, the vibrant hibiscus flower that is the “red” in Red Zinger, plus a touch of cinnamon and a little raw cane sugar. greenbellyfoods.com CBD chocolate: This great-tasting, singleorigin, bean-to-bar chocolate made in Boulder is infused with Colorado-grown full-spectrum hemp CBD oil. It’s organic, vegan, nut-free, gluten-free and non-GMO. mokshachocolate.com Picaflor Bulgarian Carrot Pepper Flakes: Picaflor (Boulder) replaces flavorless red chile flakes with these heat treats made from fermented, dried organic peppers grown at Longmont’s McCauley Family Farms. picaflor.co Rescued Fruit Preserves: Community Fruit Rescue (Boulder) uses fruit harvested by volunteers from local backyards to make Apple Sauce, Apple Butter, Pear Sauce, Spiced Canned Pears (with cardamom, star anise and cinnamon) and Plum Jam. fruitrescue.org Hawaiian BBQ Sauce: This full-flavored tropical fruity barbecue sauce with some heat from Chiporro Sauce Company (Longmont) is made for grilled or smoked pork. chiporro.com

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RESISTING THE PUN, because its sad to see a good brewery go down, it seems kismet that Ska Brewing and Peach Street Distillers are taking over the Boulder Fate Brewing Co. location off Arapahoe. You’ve seen Ska’s cans, you’ve had its beer on tap, you may have even picked up a Peach Street — a sister company started by one of Ska’s founders — bottle of spirits at a liquor store, but you haven’t likely experienced the breadth of what Ska and Peach Street provide.

How many distillers in Colorado, for instance, have a giant rickhouse in which it’s been aging spirits for 15 years? How many distillers have 27 spirits to sell? How can a craft distillery even afford to make that many spirits without going belly up, and who’s driving that creation?

“It’s clearly a brewer’s distillery,” says Peach Street director of sales Dustin Lemoine from inside its forthcoming Boulder County outpost, still in the process of renovation. “Diageo owns all these brands, but they would never try to convince you that Hennessy should be making something other than Hennessy. This is what we do in craft beer. You trust a name, you’re like, ‘Oh, I trust Ska. They make 30 see PEACH STREET Page 44

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different flavors. If they make a citrus IPA, it’s probably good. I’ll give it a shot.’

“Peach Street had a similar idea. We had all these ideas, and we were out in Palisade, all of this agriculture’s right there. And so that might mean a farmer shows up one day and says, ‘You want two tons of plums? I’ll give them to you for 8 cents a pound.’ And you’re like, ‘Shit, can we make an eau de vie out of plums? Probably, let’s do it.’”

Ska and Peach Street can tell that story over a bar in Palisade or Durango, Ska’s headquarters, but it’s the chance to tell it on the Front Range that has them and local consumers itching for the brewery/distillery/restaurant to open (tentatively, in spring).

Ska and Peach Street have an ethos that aligns with Boulder County — it sources locally and makes products based on ingredients it gets only because it maintains relationships with local farmers. Like the plum eau de vie, or the smoke rye whiskey made from rye grown on a century-old farm in Colorado and smoked over peachtree wood cultivated from the company’s own orchards in Palisade.

“When you can control the experience from grain to a consumer’s glass … people get it more, they get rooted in it, and they get the spirit of it. And that seems to be the direction of this company, putting down deeper roots in Colorado,” Lemoine says. “And the lifestyle aspect of it. I mean, it gets really cliché in the craft beer world, but they’re living it, they’re putting people and planet above profits. They’re maintaining a healthy company that doesn’t have grandiose desires. It doesn’t need to be this giant thing. It just needs to support itself.”

But being large(-ish) helps subsidize the costs of Ska and Peach Street’s innovation. For instance, now that it runs three restaurants, including the forthcoming Boulder spot, Ska and Peach Street can better source its own meat and vegetables; it can better capitalize on those connections it’s made to local farmers by, say, offering a special menu item when a farmer has a one-time-only crop for which Ska and Peach Street previously didn’t have the capacity to use.

Its size also allows it to let spirits age.

Peach Street has a lineup of clear liquids that haven’t hit its aging rickhouse at all or for only a short amount of time, which has allowed the company to make money while other spirits sit in barrels, and while the natural aging process sucks up sometimes more than half of what’s in the barrel into the wood or into the air.

Take, for instance, its 10-year bourbon, which Peach Street recently released. It’s a I

rye-forward whiskey that aged quicker than it would if it were barreled in Kentucky or Scotland due to Colorado’s unique dry climate. Large diurnal shifts — the temperature change between day and night — up to 40 degrees, means the wood is rapidly expanding and contracting, moving the spirit in and out and giving it more contact with the oak.

That large temperature shift presented an economic challenge, but, unsurprisingly, not one from which Peach Street backed down.

“You can go to Kentucky and look at these very drawn-out charts of, at 10 years you’re going to have this much loss at this humidity rate, and people dial in a percent of humidity to try and get this much extraction,” Lemoine says. “And [Peach Street’s bourbon] has been in a little, weird rickhouse in the desert, where there’s no background for it. We’ll open up that barrel at 10 years, we think that there could be as few as, you know, 150 bottles, when usually we get over 300 out of it. It’s like, what’s that going to be worth?

So it was just the risk of laying it down.

“You know, when you’re a brewer, you play around with small-batch stuff. It goes wrong. Three barrels go down the drain. Yes, it costs some money, but if you do something stupid with bourbon, that’s three years, five years, 10 years old, you suddenly just throw away $10,000,” Lemoine says.

Peach Street has some barrels reserved for opening at the 15-year mark and a single-malt whiskey that should get bottled next year.

The new Ska and Peach Street location will feature a small still (alongside brewing equipment) that Lemoine says opens opportunities for small-batch spirits but also the chance for guests to, perhaps, participate in the distilling process.

Too, the restaurant will feature veganand vegetarian-friendly cuisine (along with plenty of meat-based options) that coincide with the company’s ethics.

It’s an approach that worked out west, and Lemoine thinks will work on the Front Range.

“The Western Slope has been very kind to Ska and Peach Street, and in Colorado, when you talk to people on a chairlift or at a bar and you ask about the Western Slope, everybody’s got a story.

‘Well I passed through one time, I rode a mountain bike in Fruita,’” Lemoine says, but there is a gap between those one-off experiences and the fist-hand knowledge of what Ska and Peach Street have become. “I think what we’ve been doing over there for 25 years is really relevant on this side of the state. And Boulder ... is a great place to share it.”

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Open daily: 11 spend the evening with friends and any number of Upslope’s a.m.-10 p.m. beers.

By contrast, Upslope’s Flatiron Park production facility — opened in 2013 — is positively spacious. Nestled between Ozo Coffee and White Labs’ yeast factory in the industrial/office parks of East Boulder, Upslope’s taproom features a large concrete bartop, several tables, a backroom for meetings or film screenings, and a patio should the weather permit. The lighting is softer, the colors darker and deeper. It’s less MICHAEL J. CASEY industrial but more contemporary. Drinking here feels more like a lodge bar than a factory — even if this is where the majority of Upslope Citra Pale Ale and Craft Lager are brewed, canned and shipped out into the world.

By now, you’ve probably had your share of the two.

Citra Pale Ale is arguably the best pale produced in the county while Craft Lager remains a go-to easy-drinking lager for the BC brewing intelligentsia. But you really ought to go off script and work your way through Upslope’s bevy of new and new-to-you brews. Who knows, someday they may be as iconic as Citra Pale Ale and Craft Lager.

Start with the brand-spanking-new Spaghetti Western-Style IPA, a true beauty. As the name implies, this is a West Coast IPA, with bracing bitterness and a crystal clear appearance. Buy a pint at the bar, and Upslope’s nucleated pint glasses — the logo is etched on the bottom — produces a stream of tight bubbles racing up the core of the beverage, maintaining the head as you drink the beer down. It looks a little like Champagne, and this IPA complements visuals with a dry, hoppy flavor of snappy pine and citrus. Why the name? Because spaghetti noodles were included in the brewing process, though there is little in the final product reminiscent of the chewy gluten stuff.

Just a tight and refreshing beer.

Want to keep to the hoppy side of life? Upslope has eight or so pale and India pale ales for you to drink your way through — from the Spruce Tip IPA to a Double Dry-Hopped Pale Ale. Looking for malty goodness? You’re in luck. Upslope’s head brewer, Sam Scruby, adores malty English ales and recreates them with surprising accuracy. Try the English Porter and the Bourbon Barrel-Aged Barleywine — careful; the latter is a beast, as is the Brandy Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout. You’ll wish this one came in to-go cans for an icy winter night.

Like any brewery, the experimental stuff goes fast, so head down to Flatirons Park and see what Upslope is brewing.

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doing,” says Aries comedian Conan O’Brien. “And there are two ways to go with that information,” he continues.

“One is to be afraid, and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.” I hope you’ll be inspired by O’Brien’s example in the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect that if you shed your worries about the uncertainty you feel, you’ll trigger an influx of genius.

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us, “Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.” Here’s what I’ll add to his advice. If your risk muscle is flabby right now, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to whip it into better shape. Start with small, modest risks, and gradually work your way up to bigger and braver ones.

And what should you do if your risk muscle is already well-toned? Dream and scheme about embarking on a major, long-term venture that is the robust embodiment of a smart gamble.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Many people engage in laughably feeble

attempts to appear witty by being cynical — as if by exuding sardonic irony and sneering pessimism they could prove their mettle as brilliant observers of modern culture. An example is this lame wisecrack from humorist David Sedaris: “If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between s--- and syphilis in the dictionary.” I bring this to your attention in the hope of coaxing you to avoid indulging in gratuitous pessimism during the coming weeks. For the sake of your good health, it’s important for you to be as open-minded and generous-spirited as possible. And besides that, pessimism will be unwarranted.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: “You can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for,” writes pundit Paul Krugman, “but bookstores are where you find what you weren’t looking for.” That’s a good principle to apply in every area of your life. It’s always smart to know exactly what you need and want, but sometimes — like now — it’s important that you put yourself in position to encounter what you need and want but don’t realize that you need and want.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “Bachianas Brasileiras” is a nine-part

piece of music that blends Brazilian folk music with the compositional style of Johann Sebastian Bach. The poet Anne Sexton relied on it, letting it re-play ceaselessly during her long writing sessions. My painter friend Robin sometimes follows a similar method with Leonard Cohen’s album Ten New Songs, allowing it to cycle for hours as she works on her latest masterpiece. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to select a new theme song or collection of theme songs to inspire your intense efforts in behalf of your labors of love in the coming weeks. It’s a favorable time to explore the generative power of joyous, lyrical obsession.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination,” mourned Virgo musician Nick Cave, who’s renowned for his original approach to his craft. I’m bringing this to your attention because I suspect you will be endowed with an extra fertile imagination in the coming weeks. And I would hate for you to waste time and energy trying to make full use of it in the presence of influences that would resist and discourage you. Therefore, I’ll cheer you on as you seek out people and situations that enhance your freedom to express your imagination in its expansive glory.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: A scholar counted up how often the Bible

delivers the command “Fear not!” and “Don’t be afraid!” and similar advice. The number was 145. I don’t think

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that approach to regulating behavior works very well. To be constantly thinking about what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about tends to strengthen and reinforce what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about. I prefer author Elizabeth Gilbert’s strategy.

She writes, “I don’t try to kill off my fear. I make all that space for it. Heaps of space. I allow my fear to live and breathe and stretch out its legs comfortably. It seems to me the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back.”

That’s the method I recommend for you, Libra — especially in the coming weeks.

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Isaac Newton (1642–1726) was one of history’s most influential scientists and a key contributor to physics, astronomy, mathematics and optics.

His mastery of the nuances of human relationships was less developed, however. He had one close friendship with a Swiss mathematician, though he broke it off abruptly after four years. And his biographers agree that he never had sex with another person. What I find most curious, however, is the fact that he refused to even meet the brilliant French philosopher Voltaire, who reached out to him and asked to get together. I trust you won’t do anything like that in the coming weeks, Scorpio. In fact, I urge you to be extra receptive to making new acquaintances, accepting invitations, and expanding your circle of influence.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: How did humans figure out that a luxurious fabric could be made from the cocoons of insect larvae? Ancient Chinese sage Confucius told the following story. One day in 2460 B.C., 14-year-old Chinese princess Xi Ling Shi was sitting under a mulberry tree sipping tea. A silk worm’s cocoon fell off a branch and landed in her drink. She was curious, not bothered. She unrolled the delicate structure and got the idea of using the threads to weave a fabric. The rest is history. I foresee a silk-worm’s-cocoon-falling-in-your-cup-of-tea type of event in your future, Sagittarius. Be alert for it.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its

own desires,” wrote Capricorn author Rebecca West.

“It must abandon itself to its master passion.” That’s a high standard to live up to! But then you Capricorns have substantial potential to do just that: become the champions of devoting practical commitment to righteous causes. With that in mind, I’ll ask you: How are you doing in your work to embody the ideal that Rebecca West articulated? Is your soul loyal to its deepest desires? Has it abandoned itself to its master passion? Take inventory — and make any corrections, if necessary.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: My husband and I (straight male/bi female couple) have been married 15 years. We are in our early 40s. When we met, he was inexperienced and crippled by shame from having grown up in an extremely sexnegative atmosphere. I have no hang-ups about sex and was happy to get him involved in some more adventurous stuff — but he quickly became obsessed with kink and shows no sign of slowing. I’m happy to play along with fantasies and role-play, bondage, domination, foot play, anal sex/pegging, going to events, having moresomes, etc. But sometimes I’d like to have gentle and slow “unadorned” sex with an attentive partner who calls me by name, compliments me, and does things to my body he knows I enjoy. My husband has been seeing a therapist for some years. We also went to this therapist for couples therapy, and he gave us some “exercises” to try to tone down my husband’s desire for perfectly scripted kink “scenes” every time we have sex. But my husband was either not able or not willing to try them, and I gave up.

He now basically can’t maintain an erection without either (1) a complicated script with roles and props and costumes and toys or (2) going through the motions of romantic sex as

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long as I keep up a constant stream of “in-character” dirty talk, which makes it impossible for me to be in the moment.

I’ve urged him to go see a dominatrix or to get more involved in the local kink scene without me — but he’s obsessed with this imagined moment where I suddenly “awaken” and fully join him in his obsessions. I find this condescending and stupid. Just because I can enjoy kink play now and then doesn’t mean I’ll ever be someone who gasps with excitement at a woman on a leash being peed on or someone dangling from the ceiling by the clamps on their nipples. It doesn’t shock me or disgust me, it just kind of bores me. It feels like watching someone fill their kitchen with every gaudy, expensive, chrome radish peeler and strawberry diddler when they can’t even boil an egg. Is there a trick to reducing your partner’s dependence on kink? Or a way to make kink more interesting to yourself?

—Bored By Obsessive Kinkster Dear BBOK: You must feel like you created a kink monster. But you didn’t! I mean, you did meet this inexperienced, sexually repressed guy, BBOK, and you did encourage him to let go of the shame, and you did give him permission to be a little more sexually adventurous… and 15 years later, you’re stuck with this selfish asshole who’s so obsessed and/or dependent on his kinks that you’ve

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come to dread having sex with him. But your husband was always the elaborately twisted kinkster he is now; he just needed someone to give him permission to admit to being who he always was — or to get in touch with who he always was — and that person was you.

And now here you are, BBOK, writing to me in the hopes that I can magically cause your husband to become less dependent on his kinks or can magically “awaken” in you a similarly obsessive interest in the exact same suite of kinks he has. And we both know neither is going to happen, because you’re not going to get kinkier (which is what he wants) and you’ve already tried to get him to rein in his kinks (and that didn’t work). That’s what the couples counseling was about, right?

Him learning to be a little less selfish and a little more GGG and a better partner… and the selfish sack of shit couldn’t be bothered, could he?

Both of your proposed fixes are basically pipe dreams, as I suspect you know, BBOK, and I further suspect you’re not really interested in either one. Because what you really want is right here: “Sometimes I’d like to have gentle and slow ‘unadorned’ sex with an attentive partner who calls me by name, compliments me, and does things to my body he knows I enjoy.” (Emphasis mine.)

I don’t think it’s an accident that you wrote about wanting “an attentive partner” to call you by your name and do all sorts of vanilla things to your body that he knows you enjoy. I don’t

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think it’s an accident that you didn’t use “loving husband” in that sentence, BBOK, because deep down you know your husband isn’t interested in doing those things. And he won’t be any good at doing those things. And even if he could fake an interest in doing those things for 20 minutes — which apparently he can’t — you probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy his half-hearted attempts at vanilla sex, because knowing he had to concentrate on BDSM sex the whole time — knowing some script was playing out in his head — would make it impossible for you to be in (and enjoy) the moment.

You want to have loving, tender, connected sex with someone who cares about you.

You want to have sex with someone who isn’t asking you to be someone you’re not each and every time you have sex with him (or her).

And the obvious fix here, the easiest workaround, the reasonable accommodation… well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? You need to have sex with someone else, BBOK, with someone who cares about you. Basically, you need to take your own advice, the advice you’ve been giving your husband, and go find yourself a play partner or two — for vanilla sex, not kinky sex.

If you can find someone who can give you the kind of simple, passionate, connected sex you no longer get in your marriage, perhaps you’ll come to resent your husband less and your desire for kinky sex with him will rebound.

Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage.

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Let’s talk about CBG

by Seymour

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ith more than 120 identified cannabinoid compounds found in cannabis, you can bet your bottom dollar you’re going to keep seeing new cannabis products crop up with three letter compounds you haven’t heard of before.

Allow us to introduce you to CBG, cannabigerol.

Unlike it’s uber-famous cousin CBD, which constitutes up to 40% of the cannabis plant’s extract, CBG is a much more minor constituent, making up about 1% of the plant’s extract. That’s

because during growth, most CBG is converted into other cannabinoids, primarily THC and CBD. Like CBD, CBG is non-psychoactive, so you won’t get high when you ingest it.

A quick cannabinoid primer: The human body has two main cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2. CB1 is associated with the nervous system while CB2 has an effect on inflammation. The dozens and dozens of cannabinoid compounds found in marijuana interact with these receptors, often producing medically beneficial

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results, like CBD’s antiepileptic properties.

As for CBG, there’s still a lot to uncover about what it may be capable of in the human body. But animal studies have shown that CBG stimulates receptors involved in pain and heat sensation and may also play a role in blood pressure regulation.

In an article for lifestyle website Real Simple, Matthew L. Mintz, an internist and primary care physician practicing in Bethesda, Maryland, lays out some possibilities for CBG in medicine.

“In regards to specific diseases, there are two animal studies showing that CBG may be beneficial in inflammatory bowel disease (like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease) and Huntington’s disease (an incurable brain disease). Test tube studies have also shown CBG to have antibacterial properties and prevent colon cancer,” Mintz said.

A 2014 study in the peer-reviewed journal Carcinogenesis found that CBG inhibited the growth of colorectal cancer cells in mice. According to Leafly.com’s interpretation of the study, “CBG inhibited tumors and chemically-induced colon carcinogenesis, therefore demonstrating a very exciting possibility for a cure for colorectal cancer.”

Moreover, European research shows evidence that CBG may be an effective treatment again the incredibly aggressive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) microbial strains, which are resistant to several classes of drugs. MRSA can often crop up in hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis centers where people are immunocompromised. It can wreak havoc because it’s so difficult to treat.

CBG has also been shown to be a non-psychoactive appetite stimulant in rats, as well a muscle contraction inhibitor, which could aid in the treatment of muscle dysfunction disorders such as incontinence.

“Because it is non-psychotropic,” Jacqueline Havelka writes for Leafly, “CBG has a promising wide range of potential applications … as an analgesic, therapy for psoriasis, and as an antidepressant.”

You’ll surely see CBG products popping up in your local dispensary soon if you haven’t already.

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Bloomberg’s views on pot ‘evolve’

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ell, that didn’t take long.

A week after Kyle Jaeger at MarijuanaMoment.net aired Johnny-come-lately presidential aspirant Michael Bloomberg’s godawful record on marijuana, the candidate’s views “evolved.”

“He believes no one should have their life ruined by getting arrested for possession,” a spokesman for the former New York mayor (who racked up 440,000 pot arrests during his years in office) told the Wall Street Journal.

“And, as a part of his reform efforts that drove incarceration down by 40%, he worked to get New York State laws changed to end low-level possession arrests,” spokesman Marc LaVorgna brightly added.

“He believes in decriminalization and doesn’t believe the federal government should interfere with states that have already legalized,” LaVorgna continued.

The claim that Bloomberg worked to get state laws changed to end low-level possession arrests comes with a side of chutzpah. It is true that in 2012 Bloomberg came out for a bill that ended arrests of people who pos-

sessed pot in public view. But not before opposing a 2011 bill in the state legislature that would have made possession of 25 grams or less of pot punishable by a court summons and fine instead of jail time.

At the time, a Bloomberg aide told the New York Times the 2011 bill “would encourage smoking in the streets and in our parks, reversing successful efforts to clean up neighborhoods and eliminate open-air drug markets like we used to find in Washington Square Park…

“Marijuana arrests can be an effective tool for suppressing the expansion of street-level drug markets and the corresponding violence.”

During Bloomberg’s watch, New York City cops used to combine the “public view” ban with “stop-and-frisk” policing to bust people.

First they would use stop-and-frisk to require suspects to empty their pockets and bags. If it turned out the suspects had marijuana in them, they were then arrested for possessing marijuana in public view.

Bloomberg saw the 2011 bill as a threat to these gotcha tactics. What prompted him to change his mind a year later may have had to do with the fact that the courts and the public were wondering out loud whether these sorts of stop-and-frisk arrests were constitutional.

Today Bloomberg is running for president and, correctly, sees his past anti-pot views as politically radioactive. So his stands on marijuana aren’t just evolving. They’re mutating.

So he’s apologizing for his past support of stop-and-frisk pot arrests, which disproportionately targeted black and Hispanic New Yorkers.

“I can’t change history,” he says.

“However, today, I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong.”

Chances are he also realizes that the vot-

ers in the Democratic primaries he will be running in next year will be disproportionately black and Hispanic.

About the only consistency in Bloomberg’s political career is that he is an over-controlling, petty tyrant who thinks he’s entitled to micromanage people’s lives, including what they can eat, drink and smoke.

It’ll be interesting to see if his marijuana epiphany lasts past Election Day, supposing he gets that far. Especially his new-found support for federal non-interference with states like Colorado that have legalized recreational marijuana.

Don’t hold your breath.

Quote of the week: In an op-ed in Forbes, gritty freelance ganja journo Mike Adams offered this beautiful insight on the glacial pace of marijuana legalization at the federal level: “It has been more than eight decades since the federal government outlawed the cannabis plant nationwide, and yet, here we are finally standing on its lawn with torches in hand waiting for a day of reckoning.

“Because no matter how much the suits on the Hill have schemed to enslave a population through backasswards drug laws, the nation has risen up in true knock-downdrag-out fashion and fought for its freedom back.

“Admittedly, this battle for legal bud took a lot longer than it should have, but considering that everyone in the trenches was stoned beyond belief, the marijuana movement seems to be arriving right on time.”

Eat your heart out, Kevin Sabet. No force on Earth is stronger than an idea whose time has come. Even if it arrives on Hippie Standard Time.

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