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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: A bawdy house of bad rightwing ideas 6 DANISH PLAN: An open letter to Michaela Mujica-Steiner 7 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 25 OVERTONES: Mozart concerto, Handel, Corelli, and a kinder, gentler Schoenberg 27 ARTS & CULTURE: ‘Ben is Back’ writer/ director Peter Hedges on the heroin/opioid crisis 29 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 39 FILM: How we got here? ‘Vice’ knows we’ve always been here 41 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County 47 DRINK: Know your brew: Winter warmers 55 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 57 SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies 59 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Gardner’s First Step Act fails to include cannabis provisions 61 CANNABIS CORNER: Gardner, take two Boulder Weekly

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Highroad A bawdy house of bad right-wing ideas by Jim Hightower

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f you’re wondering where Congress’ next truly bad idea will come from, keep an eye on a secretive far-rightwing outfit called ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council.

It’s a legislative bawdy house with an exclusive corporate clientele. The Koch brothers, AT&T, ExxonMobil and other giants pay ALEC to hook them up with Republican state lawmakers who’re... well, on the make. In exchange for sponsoring the corporations’ special-interest bills, the legislators gain corporate sugardaddies to fund their future campaigns.

It’s a hanky-panky quid pro quo that

produces litter after litter of bad laws.

Consider one that is an absolute corporate wet dream, for it would remove the people’s power to elect our United States senators, letting state legislators choose them. This maneuver to take power from the people and turn it over to for-hire legislators would return America to the days of outright auctioning of Senate seats. Until the people passed the 17th Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen in backroom deals between corporate bribers and crooked lawmakers, and ALEC’s draft proposal is bluntly succinct: “The seventeenth article

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of amendment... is hereby repealed.”

Back to the future!

This idea of ripping off the people’s democratic power is being touted by such intellectual giants as Rick “Oops” Perry, the corrupt ex-governor of Texas who’s now turning tricks for oil and nuclear power conglomerates as Trump’s energy secretary. Perry wails that the 1913 law letting the public elect senators “took the states out of the process.” So now Rick and other corporate supremacists want to take the People out of the electoral process so the state can control it. The corporate state, that is.

To repeal this repeal effort by plutocratic extremists, connect with Common Cause: CommonCause.org.

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danish plan An open letter to Michaela Mujica-Steiner by Paul Danish

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read with interest your piece in the Dec. 13 Boulder Weekly (Re: “Déjà vu at U.N. climate talks”) about your visit to the United Nations Climate Talks (COP24) in Katowice, Poland.

If I understand you correctly, you flew 5,800 miles from Colorado to Poland to disrupt a panel discussion at which representatives of the U.S. government and American fossil fuel companies expressed views with which you disagree.

And now you’re bragging about it.

Ever hear of the First Amendment?

It’s in the Constitution in order to protect Americans from people exactly like you. And you have the temerity to claim you speak for “the people.” In your dreams.

You not only don’t speak for the American people, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You think American energy companies are to blame for global warming. In your 817-word rant I counted at least ten separate places in which you attack the industry or its executives. You are self-evidently more anti-corporatist than pro-environment. Worse, you’re wrong.

Energy companies are not responsible for global warming. The people who use their products are. People like you, who drive cars and who don’t think twice about flying to Europe to indulge in 20 minutes of political exhibitionism.

Your hatred for energy companies blinds you to the incredible value of the

products they produce — products that give ordinary people all over the world a level of prosperity, comfort, freedom and, yes, health — undreamed of for most of human history. Most normal people recognize and appreciate that value, even if you don’t, and aren’t about to stop using them, even if they think it will cause the climate to change.

Your real quarrel isn’t with oil companies. It’s with their customers, who feel their way of life is more threatened by authoritarian bullies like you and your pals than by either oil companies or climate change.

I was particularly struck by your assertion that “the real solutions” to the climate crisis lie in “communities of color who have been working toward a just transition away from fossil fuels for many years now.”

That’s pretty rich.

Roughly two-thirds of the approximately 80 million barrels a day of oil produced on this planet are produced by “communities of color.”

Approximately 32 million barrels of the world’s daily production comes from OPEC, an international cartel that consists entirely of “communities of color,” including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria, to mention just some of OPECs larger producers.

Ninety-eight countries have at least some oil production, and the overwhelming majority of them are “communities of color” — and most of those see DANISH PLAN Page 7

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letters Disappointed in Dems I am at a loss to know what to do with certain thoughts and feelings following the mid-term elections.

I am relieved that my wife and I, as well as tens of millions of other Americans, will not have to fear our Social Security retirement benefits being cut by 25 percent by the Republican Senate and House. With the Democrats taking over the House, we will no longer have to be scared for the next two years. The Democrats will block any Republican attempt to cut our benefits. The same holds true for those who rely on Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, college student loans and unemployment insurance benefits.

But I am angry, resentful and disappointed with many of my fellow

Democrats who I thought cared about people like me who have low incomes.

These Democrats are members of the upper-middle-class and upper-class, although they don’t see themselves as wealthy or well-off. I am angry at how they scolded me, admonished me, and tried to shame me and bully me for the past two years because I did not care much about the “identity politics” and “cultural wars” issues that they constantly bashed Donald Trump over. I focused on the bread-and-butter and kitchen-table issues of everyday survival. I focused on protecting the safetynet programs like Social Security.

These financially well-off “liberal/ progressive” Democrats thought that I see LETTERS Page 8

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view oil and natural gas production as a heaven-sent ticket out of centuries of grinding poverty.

You’ve got a lot of nerve playing the race card.

Other than sliming oil companies and a single reference to switching to renewables “as soon as possible,” the only solution you and your pals brought to the climate conference was chanting “keep it in the ground” — “it” being fossil fuels.

Keep it in the ground, huh?

Unfortunately, most of the people on this planet want to “do it in the road.”

Like the French, who just told Macron to take his 30-cent-a-gallon, anti-climate change fuel tax and put it where the sun don’t shine.

Or like your neighbors in the Denver metropolitan area, who own about 2.5 million cars and trucks — roughly two per household. I’m sure they would love to have you share your thoughts about how they would get to their jobs, take their kids to school, get their food, go to the doctor, and otherwise function in what passes for civilization around here if we “keep it in the ground.”

The obvious way of reconciling “keep it in the ground” with “do it in the road” is to replace gasoline and diesel-powered cars with electric ones.

Since there are more than 200 million cars and trucks in the United States, that’s kind of a big undertaking, but probably doable over, say, 20 years.

The more daunting task is coming up with the electricity to run them, which is the energy equivalent of 5 billion barrels of crude oil — which, you Boulder Weekly

may recall, we are leaving in the ground.

The obvious solution is to start building nuclear power plants as fast as we can pour the concrete. The purveyors of wind and solar power will be otherwise occupied with replacing the country’s existing coal- and natural gas-fired power plants and offering all-electric alternatives for heating the country’s 115 million homes — among other things. That’s why you need to learn how to conflate nuclear power with wind and solar instead of fossil fuels as you did — assuming you’re serious about wanting to leave the latter in the ground.

But aren’t nuclear reactors dangerous? Yes. Reactors at Chernobyl and Fukushima exploded and one at Three Mile Island melted down, leaving behind multi-billion-dollar radioactive messes that it took years to clean up.

And don’t they produce plutonium that can potentially be made into atomic bombs by terrorists or rogue states? Yup. And don’t they produce mountains of radioactive waste that have to be stored somewhere for tens of thousands of years? They sure do.

But my question for you is this: Which, in your estimation, is the greater risk? Building nuclear power plants, which may from time to time blow up or melt down, or a 3-, 4- or 5-degree Celsius global temperature increase, which you suggest is “catastrophic warming at an apocalyptic scale.”

I’m 76 years old, and I’ll be dead before either butcher’s bill comes due.

So it’s your call, not mine.

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should have been more concerned with the plight of illegal immigrants, for example. I don’t understand how they could be so insensitive to my plight and the plight of millions of us seniors who have to live on Social Security checks of $1,200 per month.

A good friend of mine who does not earn as much as they do has provided me with the answer — they can well-afford to care primarily about the “identity politics” and “cultural wars” issues and to focus on constantly bashing Trump over them.

People like my wife and I can’t afford that luxury. We don’t have their high yearly incomes. They don’t need Social Security. They never will. It will not affect them if their Social Security checks get cut by 25 percent.

Yet I am still surprised and disappointed that these self-proclaimed “humanists” are so insensitive. I expected more empathy and compassion from them.

For the next two years, I will still focus on the bread-and-butter issues that the poor, the near-poor, the lowermiddle-class and the middle-class struggle with that these affluent Democrats do not.

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There is a battle going on in Boulder — opportunity zones versus affordable housing, and affordable housing is losing.

Our city administrators and the Colorado Economic Development Office have established an “opportunity zone” in Boulder, where investors can develop property, sell it in 10 years, and not pay income taxes on the profit. It is supposed to “spur economic development and job creation in distressed communities.” Obviously Boulder is not “distressed,” and why would any smart investor choose to build affordable housing — with a very slim chance that it can be sold for a profit in 10 years — instead of elite office space, which will definitely yield a profit?

Boulder’s opportunity zone goes from 28th to 55th Street, and Iris to Arapahoe, totaling 2.5 square miles.

Questions: Are we not already bursting at the seams with 60,000 cars arriving daily to bring employees to their jobs in Boulder? And when did staff decide that they had the authority to make this momentous decision?

Last week, City Council was finally informed of this astonishing staff decision, now probably a done deal lasting 10 years. Council members are hustling to minimize the dilemma, suggesting

various actions, perhaps a moratorium to gain time. Council should do it ASAP to prevent an investor from spending some early money and then say “it’s a taking” if the City rescinds the financial opportunity-zone benefits.

We all know we have an affordable housing crisis for those who already work here but cannot afford housing — like school teachers, police and firefighters. The huge disparity between jobs and housing will only get worse with a job-generating opportunity zone. Our only hope is to slow down job creation. Sounds extreme? It is the reality. Do we have the will?

Ruth Wright/Boulder

Vigil for Yemen Local Muslims are inviting people of good will to join them for a vigil for Yemen this Sunday, Dec. 23 at 2 p.m. on the Pearl Street mall in front of the courthouse. We will be witnessing to the calamity, calling for an end to U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia, and handing out literature listing relief organizations at work in Yemen.

Please come join us. Following the vigil, at 3:30, some of us will convene for Coffee with Muslims at Boulder Baked, at 1911 Broadway.

If you cannot attend either event but want to help the people of Yemen, you can send a contribution to International Rescue Committee, Islamic Relief USA, CARE, Save the Children, or Oxfam, among others.

Todd Buchanan/via internet

On immigration The immigrant “crisis” in Europe has roots in the Colonial conquest and exploitation of Africa and the Middle East, as well as in the turmoil and destruction of whole cities in the wars begun, funded and armed by the United States and our allies. When one adds in climate refugees from drought and lost agriculture, this is not a reality with easy answers. Changing climates and weather patterns are here into the foreseeable future. Migration in the Americas has similar roots in violence and economic exploitation compounded by white European supremacist Manifest Destiny and its holocaust and genocide of Native Peoples and cultures. One can suggest, if the concept of karma is true and can be applied to cultures, that the masses gathering at our southern border are simply people seeking access to their former homeland. The burning question of the 21st century is not immigration but whether or not humankind will terminally bomb, exploit and pollute itself (and the Earth) into oblivion.

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The king’s forest or the people’s lands How Donald Trump Jr.’s Sportsmen for Trump campaign helped win the 2016 election and usher in unfettered fossil fuel extraction on public lands

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ith tin cup in hand, fully clad in hunting camouflage, and with binoculars for spotting game strapped to his chest, Donald Trump Jr. sits around a fire at “hunting camp.” This image of Trump Jr. as a rugged hunter came compliments of a 2016 presidential campaign ad entitled, “Heartland for Trump.”

“If you don’t start being vocal and show up, and vote your conscience on these things, it’s going to be gone because the other side — their hobby is getting rid of your freedoms and your pastime, especially when it’s hunting,” Trump Jr. proclaims in the video ad.

In this message and others that ran throughout the 2016 election on the internet, in print, and on television, Trump Jr. worked to embody the persona of a hunter and angler, aka a “sportsman” in political advertising vernacular. He also effected this persona at campaign rallies.

Altogether, it was an effort to capture critically needed votes for his father, and it’s an effort Trump Jr. continues to this day.

The message during the election was clear: A vote for Hillary Clinton and/or the Democrats is a vote to have your guns taken away as well as your right to hunt and fish on our nation’s public lands.

While such claims were never true, a post mortem of the 2016 presidential election cycle confirms that this false messaging was a powerful component in Donald Trump’s victory.

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Trump’s success was significantly aided by the micro-targeting of sportsmen voters in swing states across the country, specifically in the Midwest and West, via the subsidiary of the Trump campaign known as “Sportsmen for Trump.”

What makes this sportsman tactic even more interesting to political observers is that it directly mimics the efforts of oil and gas corporations operating in Colorado — as previously reported in BW’s article, “Sportsmen Beware.”

The similarity between the messaging coming from the Trump campaign and resource extraction industries is unlikely a coincidence. Sportsmen targeted by these ads make up a politically powerful constituency in regions where oil, gas and coal companies want to exploit public lands and where Trump needed votes in order to win the electoral college and set national natural resource policy.

In the end, it appears both groups behind the false messaging got what they wanted, which is the same thing. Trump is president and resource extraction industries now have nearly unfettered access to public lands in the name of “energy dominance.”

Among the ironies of this outcome is that sportsmen, who played a significant

role in the election of Trump, did so to the detriment of the sanctity of their own sportsmen traditions while enabling the destruction of the very public lands they say they are fighting for. As the messaging is broken down, the reasons for this conflict emerge.

Trump Jr. acted as a credible messenger to sportsmen voters not only by purporting a love of hunting and fishing on public lands, but also by shaping those activities as their own form of patriotism. It created a powerful combination designed to mingle with other fear-based, primarily xenophobic, political narratives.

Sportsmen saw this messaging as a call to preserve their God-given American right to take their children hunting and fishing on public lands. But the real goal appears to have been the Trump administration’s interest in multinational resource extraction corporations’ access to those very same lands.

In key regions, the Sportsmen for Trump strategy, and Trump Jr.’s role in it, appear to have worked. According to a May 2018 Guardian report, many American hunters and shooters “adore” Trump Jr. on social media, viewing him as authentic, and regularly exhorting him to run for office, which he has publicly entertained; the New York governorship being a potential goal.

But not all sportsmen are in agreement.

Jayson O’Neill, deputy director of Western Values Project (WVP), a Montana-based sportsmen rights group in the West, tells BW, “people can identify that faux hunting Boulder Weekly

persona when they see it.” He adds, “We’ve seen Don Jr. visit out West several times and it seems like every time he does it, he’s got a new wardrobe to wear and to show off to people... but as most Westerners know, actions speak louder than words.”

It calls into question what type of sportsman Trump Jr. actually represented on the campaign trail, the subsistence hunter dependent on abundant and healthy public lands and wildlife or the wealthy, private-land trophy hunter who favors oil and gas extraction consistent with President Trump’s “energy dominance” policies.

But Trump Jr.’s legitimacy as a hunter or angler isn’t the primary point, rather it’s the political goals — and consequences — of his sportsman persona that are the root of the problem.

Requests for comment from the Trump organization were not returned.

Messengers and motives Analysis shows Trump Jr.’s sportsman persona was a carefully constructed political narrative deployed to elicit a fear-based response in voters. The fear came from the narrative that without President Trump, gun ownership and hunting would cease to exist, and gone with it would be integral parts of the sportsmen’s tradition and healthy economies dependent on such outdoor recreation.

The Trump campaign’s effort to target sportsmen included Trump Jr.’s close friend and trophy hunter, Gentry Beach, and Tom “Tommy” Hicks Jr., the son of a Texas billionaire. Both worked as Trump campaign strategists and fundraisers in the last stretches of the 2016 campaign. Beach and Hicks Jr. were part of a small group that coordinated campaign contributions from north Texas that nearly equaled all contributions raised for Trump from California and New York combined, according to a Nov. 2016 Dallas News report.

Trump Jr. has also invested in oil and mining business ventures with Beach and his family and connected Beach with a Saudi Arabian contact when Beach was working on a potential oil purchase, according to a March 2018 Associated Press report.

But Don Peay of Utah, founder of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife and Big Game Forever, both conservative sportsmen’s organizations, seems to be among the primary drivers of the Sportsmen for Trump narrative.

Peay’s Big Game Forever is currently leading the charge in Colorado to vilify wolves and prevent their reintroduction here (see BW’s “Will Coloradans free wolves on the state’s public lands?”). It has also been paid millions of dollars by the State of Utah Boulder Weekly

to prevent protections for sage-grouse and wolves under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) via lobbying in Washington, D.C. The Trump campaign, including Trump Jr., has referred to the ESA as a “Trojan horse” by which “access” to public lands is restricted, meaning that it largely protects public lands and wildlife from resource extraction.

Peay, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, also has financial ties to oil and gas, previously founding a petroleum environmental management company and facilitating the transfer of

public lands to an oil and gas company in Utah. Reportedly, this company also financially benefitted his group, Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. Peay has also disparaged the public ownership of public lands and wildlife, which he referred to as “socialism.”

In a Sportsmen for Trump video dated Jan. 21, 2015, presidential candidate Trump is shown directing a group of people, including Peay, to focus on winning the battleground state of Iowa.

And in a video dated days later in Des Moines, Peay appears directing strategy targeting sportsmen to this end. And so

it appears the Sportsmen for Trump effort began in Iowa and included the launch of Trump Jr.’s sportsman persona.

In these videos, Peay details the method: “What we’ve learned in the past is if you can find leaders in each county, find out who these people are, see who wants to get involved, and then they have networks already through their experience and relationships. You push one button, they talk to 20; they talk to 100; they talk to 1,000. And at See SPORTSMEN Page 12

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some point we get critical mass.”

Peay says this won Trump the presidency, according to a post-election KUTV-Utah report. He claims he helped his campaign “engineer a strategy for the Midwest that worked” because there are 500,000-800,000 hunters in the Midwest states who tipped the election.

A post-election analysis by The Washington Post found that of the more than 120 million votes cast in the 2016 presidential election, 107,000 votes in three states effectively decided the outcome. These states were Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, which account for 46 electoral votes. And according to a national poll conducted in May by Public Opinion Strategies for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP), 27 percent of sportsmen voters surveyed reside in the Midwest.

Further, Jon Lauck, a Midwest political expert, says that perhaps the biggest story of the 2016 presidential election was in fact Trump’s victories in the Midwest, which he argues occurred largely because Trump won in “outstates,” places outside of metro areas of a million-plus people.

“Outstate areas accounted for 61 percent of the vote in Wisconsin, 47 percent in Michigan, 100 percent in Iowa (where there is no metro of over a million people), and 44 percent in Ohio,” according to Lauck. He goes on to say that Trump won 93 of 99 counties in Iowa, and flipped 32 counties that had voted for Obama in 2012. Additionally, Trump won 88 of 92 counties in Indiana; 75 of 83 counties in Michigan; 61 of 66 counties in South Dakota; 81 of 88 counties in Ohio; and 59 of 72 counties in Wisconsin.

The TRCP poll also found that of the sportsmen surveyed, including those in the Midwest, nearly 65 percent of those who voted live outside of cities.

Thus the Sportsmen for Trump effort may well have had a major impact.

Doug Holt, a leading expert on branding and marketing, says sportsmen are a crucial constituency that operates as a political faction, “similarly to the Moral Majority back in the 1990s.”

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Holt, who has done work on the politics of public lands, says as a political faction sportsmen are super powerful in the states dominated by public lands and extractive industries such as the intermountain West and Alaska.

Concurrently, 45 percent of those in the West who consider themselves sportsmen voted for Trump in 2016, according to the Colorado College Conservation in the West poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies. Trump won nearly all intermountain Western states, only losing Colorado and New Mexico. And according to the same poll, those who identify as sportsmen comprised 41 percent of the voting population in the West.

Trump Jr. was prominently featured as a hunter in an article covering the

Great Lakes, including Michigan and Wisconsin, which appeared in over half a dozen local publications. His sportsman persona was also broadcast by Pennsylvania media, and extensively in Iowa.

And as for the national news media, many outlets — among them CNN, The New Yorker and The New York Times — amplified the Sportsmen for Trump narrative via profiles of Trump Jr. throughout the campaign, further legitimizing his sportsman identity.

This continues today, including a November 2018 feature of Trump Jr. in The Washington Post.

Likewise, sportsmen-related forums, organizations and publications like Bowhunter, the TRCP and Field and Stream, along with a swath of local and regional publications, gave Trump Jr. an unscrutinized platform to deploy this

narrative, legitimizing it all the more.

And although many media outlets throughout the campaign noted Trump Jr.’s targeting of sportsmen voters, none have yet delved into the strategies or strategists behind this effort, the impact — if any — it may have had on Trump’s election, nor the relationship between Trump Jr.’s sportsman persona and his father’s subsequent unleashing of resource extraction upon America’s public lands and wildlife, his cutting of national monuments, and his rolling back of environmental protections; all antithetical to sportsmen’s concerns.

Drilling for patriotism According to the Colorado College poll, 73 percent of Western voters perceive dependence on foreign oil as a serious concern. And a January 2017 poll conducted by Quadrant Strategies of the Upper Midwestern states, reveals that 96 percent of Trump supporters believe American-made energy sources should be used to reduce dependence on foreign hostile nations.

The production of this narrative functions to manufacture sportsmenvoter consent for extraction and mining access to public lands for the benefit of multinational corporations, along with the multifarious impacts of those extractive industries, even when a majority of sportsmen voters oppose them. And since sportsmen comprise over 40 percent of voters in the West and a significant portion of the rural electorate in the Midwest, it is a narrative with potentially significant electoral force, apparently putting those voters into ideological checkmate.

The full arc of this narrative is evidenced by the words of Peay in a 2007 High Country News report, where he says he believes predator control will be one of the main tools needed to protect big game and other wildlife as oil and gas extraction expands on Western public lands. Implicit in his statement is a tacit admission that oil and gas extraction in fact does impact big game populations, which is contrary to assertions made by that industry. In Peay’s view, it is in fact inevitable. “[I]f you don’t think

we need energy independence, you are wrong. ... Wildlife is not as important as having 22-year olds dying overseas for oil,” Peay says.

Thus domestic oil and gas extraction on public lands is only necessary inasmuch as it fulfills the myth of energy independence, aka granting multinational oil and gas corporations — whose allegiance is with no country, state or sportsman, only with shareholders — with expanded access to public lands, which is precisely what the Trump administration has done.

Like Peay’s comments, Trump’s campaign platform asserts that any impacts to big game populations must be accompanied by “predator management,” which appears to be a policy akin to the one apparently deployed by the oil and gas industry to scapegoat predators for its impacts on wildlife habitat in Colorado. For more see BW’s “Off Target” series.

It’s similar messaging, if not exactly the same, as that deployed by the oil and gas industry’s propaganda machine, CRED (Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development) in Colorado.

And therefore, the cumulative impacts of that industry on public lands and wildlife is framed as an unavoidable consequence of a necessary solution to dependence on foreign oil.

Akin to CRED, the Sportsmen for Trump webpage also specifically linked veterans to sportsmen, bolstering the myth that resource extraction on domestic public lands prevents wars.

Both components of these websites have been taken down but are still available for view via internet archive tools.

Drawing tighter the connection to CRED, Peay’s quote about 22-year-olds and wildlife appeared just before Pac/ West Communications began its efforts on behalf of the oil and gas industry to target conservative sportsmen organizations via the oil and gas industry group known as the Independent Petroleum Association of the Mountain States (IPAMS), now known as the Western Energy Alliance, whose president Kathleen Sgamma is a former U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer.

After successful fracking bans in Colorado municipalities, Pac/West launched and began managing CRED on behalf of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Noble Energy. Most recently CRED led the effort in defeating Colorado Proposition 112.

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was also appointed this year to the board of the Boone and Crockett Club, a conservative trophy-hunting organization with ties to the Trump campaign.

Phillips was also appointed by soon-toresign Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke as an alternate to the Federal Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council in May 2018.

Peay, along with National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action Executive Director Chris Cox and Congressional Sportsmen Foundation representatives Jeff Crane and John Green, was also appointed to this Council (for a look at the sportsmen-related efforts of CRED, CSF, NRA and Safari Club International on behalf of oil and gas, see BW’s “Sportsmen Beware”).

The NRA contributed significantly to Trump’s campaign via its Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund, while Trump stoked fear that guns would be taken from citizens by his political opponents during the campaign. This became an integral part of Trump’s fear-based political brand, interrelated with the Sportsmen for Trump component. Trump Jr. also cochaired the campaign’s “Second Amendment coalition” with Cox. Trump Jr. put this narrative into action thoroughly on the campaign trail, including a Sep. 22, 2016 rally in Grand Junction, Colorado, where Peay played emcee. On Colorado’s Western Slope, Grand Junction is a prime example of the intersection of oil and gas and sportsmen’s concerns.

The rally began with Mark Geist, a military veteran who was also featured in the “Heartland for Trump” ad and provided the energy independence component of the narrative. It then segued into Trump Jr., who, according to reports prior to the event, was to speak on issues related to wildlife and conservation. In his speech, the “sportsman” talks about hunting and fishing, livestock grazing, and of course, oil and gas extraction, all in the context of “multiple use” federal public lands, saying we can have “the best of all worlds... We can multi-purpose those lands.”

By the rally’s figurative pairing, the Trump campaign essentially links oil and gas extraction on public lands with a patriotic Western identity, attempting to cause any sportsman who considers themselves a patriot to reconsider any opposition to domestic oil and gas extraction on public lands. After finishing his speech, Trump Jr. refers attendees to watch the “Heartland for Trump”

ad online.

Trump Jr. gave similar speeches, specifically targeting sportsmen, throughout the Midwest, and went on several other publicized pheasant hunts in Iowa on behalf of Sportsmen for Trump across the campaign trail. In late October 2016, he and his brother Eric, went on a much-publicized pheasant hunt on a private farm in Akron, Iowa, a key Midwestern swing state that Trump Sr. eventually won. Just days before the election, Trump Jr. held another rally at the massive outdoor gear retailer Bass Pro Shops in Altoona, Iowa.

Days later, Trump Sr. won the election. And with this victory, Trump Jr. appears to have helped usher in an era of unprecedented resource extraction on America’s public lands via his father’s policies and appointments of fossil fuel lobbyists to key positions within his administration, making him seem a sportsman less like Teddy Roosevelt and more like a fossil fuel investor dressed in brand-new camo with a shiny new rifle.

Truth or consequences Since the election of Trump Sr., the U.S. has surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia in terms of oil production, producing more oil than in any time in the country’s history, amid dire and imminent threats and catastrophic impacts from fossil fuel-caused and -driven climate change detailed in both federal and international scientific reports.

By the end of the 2018 fiscal year, more than 12.8 million acres of federally controlled oil and gas parcels have been offered for lease, triple the average offered during President Barack Obama’s second term, according to a recent analysis by The New York Times.

Furthermore, on Dec. 6, the Trump administration detailed its plan to open some 9 million acres of sage-grouse habitat to resource extraction.

And on Dec. 11, the Trump administration proposed eliminating an Obama-era rule designed to limit pollution in about 60 percent of the nation’s bodies of water, removing protections for drinking water sources for about a third of the U.S. The proposed elimination is a stated goal of Trump’s “energy independence” policy.

This has all been enabled by the Trump administration’s appointment of former oil and gas executives and lobbyists to top positions within the federal government, a far cry from his “drain the swamp” campaign chant.

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Scott Pruitt, who was exposed in 2014

by The New York Times to have had a secretive alliance with oil and gas corporations to oppose federal regulations while Oklahoma Attorney General, resigned earlier this year, he was replaced by EPA Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Just prior to joining the EPA, Wheeler was a lobbyist representing the coal company Murray Energy, as well as the Lakewood-based uranium company Energy Fuels Resources. On behalf of the latter, Wheeler lobbied DOI Secretary Zinke to shrink Bears Ears National Monument in the spring of 2017 to gain access to uranium deposits.

Wheeler was also a long-time staffer of leading climate change-denying Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma).

Similarly, David Bernhardt, who’s poised to succeed Zinke, has questionable connections to the oil and gas industry.

(Before announcing his resignation on Dec. 15, Zinke faced an ethics probe for establishing a foundation that is playing a key role in a real-estate deal backed by the chairman of Halliburton.

Zinke has also tried to embody the sportsman persona, prominently flubbing it when in an interview involving flyfishing he attached his reel improperly. His Twitter photo also features him in blaze orange, required for big game hunters using a rifle in Colorado and other states.)

Bernhardt, a prominent oil and gas lobbyist formerly employed by Colorado-based law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (BHFS), the second largest such firm in the nation, carries a list of over 20 associations and corporations with which he cannot be involved because of potential conflicts of interest.

Among the lengthy list of mostly petroleum and mining companies and associations are the oilfield services corporation Halliburton and CRED cofounder Noble Energy.

According to an August 2018 report by the Center for American Progress, the Trump administration political appointees at the DOI, specifically Bernhardt, can exploit federal ethics guidelines weakened by Trump to work in positions where they can deliver favorable decisions to past clients and mask their portfolio of responsibilities from public inspection. For example, the report lists four past clients of Deputy Secretary Bernhardt who have received or stand to receive financial benefits from specific decisions by the Trump administration’s DOI, including oil and water interests.

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viduals who have benefited from Trump’s elimination of the two-year lobbying ban, which until Trump removed it, prevented individuals from seeking or accepting employment with any executive agency that they lobbied within the previous two years, the report says. Wheeler may also benefit from this ban’s elimination.

Further, information from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that in recent years CRED co-founder Noble Energy has frequently lobbied DOI on issues relating both to oil and gas permitting and to the greater sagegrouse. Both issues are now under Bernhardt’s oversight, who has appeared as a hunter in photos and worked on behalf of Safari Club International while with BHFS. In sum, the report finds the DOI has built a “favor factory” that remains largely hidden from public scrutiny, concluding internal policy strengthens the executive branch’s ability to curb transparency and deludes oversight of America’s public lands. And not much is expected to change under Bernhardt.

“That will be part of the legacy of, not only this administration, but also Ryan Zinke and Don [Trump] Jr.,” O’Neill from WVP says. “So when the next generation comes up and says, ‘Why can’t I fish this trout stream?’ It’s from the policies that are going to have lasting impacts implemented under the guise of ‘energy dominance.’”

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The real choice In speech after speech on the campaign trail, Trump Jr. spun a tale to capture sportsman voter perception by embodying a sportsman identity. Atop his idyllic storytelling about learning to hunt from his grandfather, he drummed up a kind of folksy ethic, born, he said, of the hunting and fishing life he’s led.

However, the facts presented here call into question what type of sportsmen Trump Jr. and company actually represent; the subsistence hunter dependent on abundant and healthy public lands and wildlife, the wealthy private land trophy hunter who favors oil and gas extraction consistent with President Trump’s swampy “energy dominance,” or maybe just the person that likes to believe they’re a sportsman.

Regardless, American sportsmen are left with a choice, the king’s forest or the people’s lands — land and waters fit to eat from, or polluted waterways and well-pad strewn wildlife habitats?

Depending on their answer, they would be wise to re-examine their perceptions of Trump, especially the true intentions of Trump Jr.’s sportsmen persona and its consequences.

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Men across the country are eager to get their hands on the new pill and according to the research, they should be.

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These same men also experienced an astounding 82% increase in the desire for sex (libido/sex drive) and an even greater improvement in overall satisfaction and ability to satisfy their partners.

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Many men taking Vesele described feeling horny and aroused through the day. The anticipation before sex was amazing. They were also easily turned on. Their moods were more upbeat and positive, too.

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“Most of the research and treatment methods for men’s sexual failures have focused on physiological factors and have neglected the emotional ones.

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Research shows that with age, many men lose their desire and interest in sex. They also struggle to produce an erection firm enough for penetration.

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n his recent book Accessory to War, astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson and coauthor Avis Lang document the historical relationship between science and the military, describing it as an uneasy alliance in which knowledge flows in both directions. For example, science has thrived in the age of the internet, which was created by the military as a communications medium capable of withstanding nuclear war. On the other hand, the military has drawn upon scientific expertise to explain mysterious events, and to avoid unnecessary escalation. A particularly dramatic case was published by a local researcher last month, detailing a 1972 solar storm that apparently detonated thousands of sea mines during the Vietnam War. Solar storms occur when magnetic fields near the surface of the Sun become twisted and suddenly release a burst of energy. The harmful radiation from such events takes less than 10 minutes to reach the Earth, where much of it is absorbed by the atmosphere. The massive clouds of charged particles that get swept up by the bursts usually take a few days to reach our planet. They slam into the atmosphere near the magnetic poles and create shimmering curtains of light in the sky known as aurora. But these solar ejections can also damage orbiting satellites, and wreak havoc on power grids and communications systems on the ground.

The biggest solar storm in recorded history took place in September 1859, as British astronomer Richard Carrington was actually watching. While sketching a detailed image of a sunspot, features that are now known to be strongly magnetic, he witnessed a fantastic burst of energy in real time.

The eruption was so powerful that the associated cloud of material reached the Earth less than a day later. Aurora could be seen as far south as Panama, and the red skies were so bright in Denver that the fire department spent hours searching the city for a burning building that didn’t exist. The event was named after Carrington, and serves as a benchmark for the intensity of other solar storms throughout history.

“There are things that the Sun can do that put us in very precarious positions,” says Delores Knipp, a Boulder Weekly

Solar storms, releasing a burst of magnetic energy from the Sun, can be disruptive to technology on Earth.

research professor in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences department at the University of Colorado and a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

As the daughter of a farmer, Knipp grew up with an interest in weather forecasting. To pay her way through college she joined the Air Force ROTC, the start of more than 20 years in military service. In the late 1980s, the Air Force sent her to do graduate studies in the emerging field of space weather. One of her Ph.D. supervisors was a scientist at NCAR, a connection that would ultimately bring her back to Boulder in 2008.

Two years ago, Knipp uncovered the story of how a solar storm led the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war in 1967. It was the height of the Cold War, and the U.S. had deployed several new radar stations across the northern hemisphere to act as an early warning system for ballistic missiles. Just weeks after the new defense system was in place, it suddenly stopped working.

“The radio disturbances from the Sun were so strong that they caused the radars to appear to be jammed,” Knipp explains.

At the time, military leaders assumed that the Soviets were intentionally jamming the radars in preparation for an attack. Fighter pilots were scrambled, and the world was within minutes of a nuclear confrontation.

Fortunately, the military had established its first space weather program a few years earlier, and scientists confirmed that the Sun was responsible for the

radar outage before any nucleararmed aircraft left the runway.

After reading about the 1967 events, one of Knipp’s colleagues contacted her about another military incident several years later.

In the early 1970s, he had been working in what is now the Space Weather Prediction Center at NOAA when a group of Navy officers and a few people in dark suits visited his boss. He wasn’t inside the meeting, but he knew it was related to some military impact of a recent solar storm.

Knipp wondered if it might be the strong storm that took place in August 1972, and she eventually found the military reports that described what happened.

Late in the Vietnam War, the U.S. placed thousands of sea mines around major ports in an attempt to choke off supply routes to North Vietnam and bring an end to the conflict. The mines had magnetic triggers that were designed to detect passing ships.

When the solar storm hit the region, it created a sudden magnetic fluctuation that caused thousands of mines to explode within minutes. The solar storm was effectively a giant mine sweeper that set back the military operation by months.

“The August 1972 event was much more extreme than anyone seemed to recognize,” Knipp says. “Had the astronauts been on their way to the moon, they probably would have suffered severe radiation sickness.”

The 1972 storm is now thought to have been almost as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859, even though the aurora were less visible. It suggests that disruptive solar storms are more common than previously assumed. Both the military and the general public are more dependent on vulnerable technology than ever before, so scientists are now building the capacity to predict future events rather than just learning from history.

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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n Dec. 13, at a near-empty board meeting at the Boulder County Courthouse, proposed amendments to the County’s Land Use Code got the rubber stamp of approval. It marked the end of a nearly year-long cooperative effort between farmers and County staff.

And the changes look promising for local market farmers.

The Land Use Code, for all intents and purposes, is the law of the open space land here in Boulder County. It stipulates how open space can be used, for what purposes, and outlines all the rules and regulations for farming it. The code had not been updated since 2012, and Nicole Wobus, the Land Use Department’s long-range planning manager, says the County has been gathering feedback and information from farmers ever since an open house in January 2018.

“So we started broad and just honed in after the open house, after we had identified some priorities,” Wobus says. “And we just kept honing in further and further after that.”

After the open house outreach project, ensuing public meetings and surveys, literature reviews, and farm visits, the Department identified several core aspects of the code that needed updating.

Last Thursday, at the public hearing, Wobus and several other Land Use staff members sat before the Board of County Commissioners to review their findings and amendments.

First up, they talked about Verified Established Farm Use (VEFU), a fresh designation that will serve as sort of a fast-pass for farmers in Boulder County. Existing market farmers who contribute reliably and significantly to producing local food, who make productive use of

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open-space land and do so with minimal impact to it, will be granted a VEFU designation. The County can then use that gold-star to expedite any review processes the farmer wants to apply for, knowing that legitimate agricultural practices are in place.

VEFU-designated farms would be allowed to host greater numbers of attendees for farm camps and demonstration classes. They would be allowed an average of 200 daily vehicle visits and an occupancy load of 150 people.

Unfortunately for small farms, only large operations with a track record of large-scale agricultural activity will qualify. Which is to say, small farms with small farm sales likely won’t make the cut.

Next on the docket was farm sales, something the County intends on expanding. Many farmers at January’s outreach session expressed frustration with the narrow market for selling farm produce in Boulder County. The code’s previous language limited the number of days on which they could operate farm stands and farm stores, and it confined agricultural sales to “zone districts.”

Among several re-definitions and semantic alterations, the amendments reject the need to constrict the duration of farm sales. They also expand the zone districts wherein agricultural sales can occur.

Farm events were another bone of contention brought up at the January open house. The new amendments will allow for more, and larger, annually hosted farm events, and farmers will now be able to use the permanent structures on their property for these events (which was previously prohibited).

In a similar vein, more farm camps and demonstration classes can be held every year, the number of people allowed to attend them will be

New amendments to Boulder County’s Land Use Code could mark the beginning of a new era for market farming, one that is a few steps closer to the ideal.

higher, and farmers can use their existing structures.

The final proposed update was an amendment to the County’s regulation of hoop houses, high tunnels and shade structures — or “season extending agricultural structures” (SEAS). In the past, SEAS have been considered part of a farm’s floor area, and therefore building any new structure that increased a farm’s floor space by more than 500 square feet would trigger a site plan review from the County. This process invariably costs thousands of dollars, and takes several months to complete, making building SEAS logistically challenging to say the least.

The new updates clarify the definition of these structures, designating dimensions and specifying them as “any structure designed to extend the growing season.” They also allow farmers with more than five acres to build up to 3,000 square feet of SEAS without triggering a site plan review.

When Wobus finished her presentation, the Board of Commissioners had only a few questions for her. Then, they unanimously agreed to adopt the proposed changes and update the Land Use Code.

These amendments represent progress for agriculture in Boulder County. They could mark the beginning of a new era for market farming, one that is a few steps closer to the ideal.

Though, even Wobus admits there is always work to do.

“We’re always working,” she says. “We have a long list of code updates and different topics we’re still working our way through.”

While this is a good start to updating the law of the land, certainly, its evolution is far from over.

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Echoing across the vista

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The High Art Project’s musical ascent

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13,300 feet above sea level, waiting out a snowstorm and finally reaching the perfect spot on the east face of Longs Peak, Willis Kuelthau had to rappel down to retrieve his tambourine. He attached it to his belt with a carabiner and proceeded to pull himself back up, jingling festively, panting as he reached the ledge. Kuelthau, along with his best friend, Colin Doyle, needed the percussion — along with the battery-powered keyboard, violin, guitar and amplifier they had also brought up to the ledge — to accompany their concert, which they performed to an audience of mountain rocks. While they fought off exhaustion from the trip and vertigo from the altitude, they kept their focus on the music.

“Playing while looking out over a vista made me feel both smaller and larger,” Kuelthau recalls. “It was more intimate because it was just about us on this tiny ledge on a gigantic wall, but it was also the biggest stage imaginable. It was this very weird moment of being on the wall and just focusing on this thing we were doing that probably no one had ever done before.”

In a video of the concert — titled “Songs Boulder Weekly

on Longs” — the camera angle presents the duo in profile on the Diamond, their eyes resting on something beyond what the viewer can see. (Doyle and Kuelthau brought multiple cameras to get various angles but lost the footage from all but one.) What lies beyond the frame captivates the two musicians for the entirety of the performance, and as Doyle’s voice floats in a rendition of Richard Schumann’s “Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai” — the opening of both the song cycle “Dichterliebe” and the duo’s mountain-side concert — it’s easy to imagine the two have seen something otherworldly, something that has inspired an emotion so intense it could only be expressed through music.

Kuelthau and Doyle are the creators of The High Art Project, an artistic initiative to explore the intersection between nature and music. From playing folk on top of the Crystal Crag, a cliff above Mammoth Lakes, California, to singing Italian opera on the Shawangunk Ridge in upstate New York, the duo pushes the boundaries of climbing logistics, as well as musical performance. On Aug. 1, they embarked on their ascent of the Diamond — the most ambitious component of their project thus far.

Although they didn’t have an immediate

audience, Kuelthau and Doyle believe that filming the experience to share online is a necessary component of the project.

“We wanted to go up and play the music and it was an important goal for us, but we also wanted to be able to show what that was like,” Kuelthau says. “Music in some ways must have an audience, so we wanted to be able to bring people there with us.”

The two met in sixth grade at Platt Middle School and became best friends, later singing together in the rigorous choir program at Fairview High School. In his senior year at Fairview, Doyle gave a memorable performance as Jean Valjean, the impoverished hero of Les Miserables, in a school production of the musical. The role of Valjean is a vocally and emotionally demanding role for anyone — let alone a 17-year-old — but Doyle delivered a performance so riveting that Kuelthau says strangers recognize him for it whenever he returns to Colorado. Even seven years after the show, someone asked Doyle about the performance in the parking lot at the base of Longs Peak before he and Kuelthau were about to make their musical ascent. see HIGH ART Page 22

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Growing up in Boulder, rocks weren’t foreign to Doyle and Kuelthau, but it was only after they left the valley that they first began to climb. After spending a year at CU, Doyle transferred to study vocal performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and soon after he started to make climbing trips to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Reunited in Boulder the summer before their junior year (Kuelthau was attending Williams College in Massachusetts), Doyle brought his friend with him on his climbing adventures. With Doyle double-majoring in math and vocal performance and Kuelthau in physics and philosophy, the pair already demonstrated an interest in uniting the humanities and arts with the calculative mindset required for planning complex climbing trips.

Now 25, both reside in Philadelphia, where Doyle works as a classical vocalist and Kuelthau as a writer and filmmaker.

The first inkling of what would become the High Art Project came to Doyle as an image of pulling a piano up the side of a cliff. The concept seemed absurd, but it was an image he couldn’t get out of his mind.

“A lot of times what tends to happen is that Colin gets super excited about something and then I figure how we can make it happen,” Kuelthau says.

“We’ve been able to do some really wild and cool things that way, though we have a habit of getting in over our heads, which we also did this time.”

When Kuelthau heard Doyle’s idea, he was immediately enticed by both the visual and the complexity of the logistics. As the “more analytical” of the pair, he wanted to figure out if such a project was possible and how it could be done.

The original draft of the project had been to summit El Capitan, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley.

They had planned for months — crafting setlists for three nights of concerts, planning out the logistics, practicing on smaller cliffs in New York and

California.

“One of the really cool moments was the first few times that we played music on cliffs,” Kuelthau says. “We were learning what it would feel like to sing out over a void, and that combination of feelings, of being high off the ground, of trying to figure everything out and make art there.”

But as soon as they traveled to California and drove toward Yosemite, they knew they would have to revise their plan. The Ferguson Fire was blazing dangerously close to the park, filling the air with thick smoke.

“We drove into Yosemite Valley to see if it was going to be remotely possible, and both of us had headaches in about half an hour,” Kuelthau recalls.

“It was impossible to breathe. You couldn’t even see it through the smoke.

Climbing was pretty much out of the question, let alone singing and playing instruments and filming.”

So they changed course and brought their gear to Colorado, where they had a short amount of time to make a new plan. While driving to the base of Longs Peak, they were still figuring out their route.

“By the time we got to the actual Longs Peak adventure, the logistics were pretty wild because we had the two of us carry all of our gear, which involved a lot of climbing gear in addition to all the instruments,” Kuelthau says. “It was shockingly brutal.”

In addition to figuring out how to get all of the instruments and equipment up the side of the face, they also had to rearrange the programming of the concert, which they would have to cut to one night instead of three.

Although they tried to select a variety of tempos, genres and composers in choosing a setlist, the only real guideline of the music was that it had to be important to them.

“The whole experience was about being calm and being in the Rocky Mountains on one of our favorite lulls, playing our favorite songs,” Doyle says.

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friends for a really long time, so it was about stuff that’s close to us.”

Even with the careful planning, Doyle and Kuelthau recount the trip as harrowing.

By the time they reached the ledge, they remember feeling a level of exhaustion more intense than they had ever experienced.

“I don’t know how to not understate this, but it was periling on a level I don’t know that either of us had experienced before,” Kuelthau says.

“Getting up was hard because of hiking with the packs, and the next morning we had to repel into the ledge where the climb started, and that took a long time because our system didn’t work well with heavy bags.”

On the trip down, it began to rain, and hiking was like walking on river rocks. Even with headlamps, the boulder field was barely visible.

“There are some pretty sketchy moments where you could slip and break your leg, you could take a huge fall very, very easily,” Doyle says. “We’re lucky that nothing terrible happened, but I was worried when Will took a pretty big fall. He was kind of motionless and didn’t say anything for a while.”

At 3 a.m. they reached the base, where hikers on the Keyhole trail were preparing for the next day.

“We were walking their direction and they would stare at us, these two blank-faced, mysterious men with keyboards sticking out of their packs, stumbling down the trail, unable to speak,” Kuelthau says.

While reflecting on the progress of the project, Doyle and Kuelthau emphasize the experience of completing a goal that many — including the two of them — initially thought impossible.

“We fought for this project to happen, and we fought really hard,” Doyle says. “That’s a really cool thing to show people, to remind them that they can take obstacles that people are telling them are insurmountable and then surmount them. Part of our project is just Boulder Weekly

to remind people that that’s important in life.”

Tackling seemingly impossible tasks is part of Doyle and Kuelthau’s relationship, which both say played a large part in the experience of performing the concert.

“For us, it’s been a part of our friendship for a number of years, that we every once in a while have crazy ideas and admit that they’re crazy and do them anyway,” Kuelthau says.

With the recent release of an extended video documentary about their experience on the Diamond, the duo is looking to the future of what other “high art” they can create. Doyle and Kuelthau hope to continue the project with even bigger endeavors, including an eventual summit of El Capitan, staging an opera on the side of a mountain and even a performance with a grand piano on top of a cliff.

“Beyond that, even, I’m trying to figure out a way we can get grant funding and bring other musicians with us, cover their travel expenses,” Doyle says. “We do have a system in place where we could bring people who have almost no experience, and they wouldn’t have to do any climbing, but they could still come up the wall with us and play. I think that could be really valuable, having people with us who aren’t climbers and who don’t have experience being that high up.”

Sitting on the ledge of the Diamond, Doyle and Kuelthau closed their concert with Mark Knopfler’s “Sailing to Philadelphia,” their eyes still fixed on the abyss before them. The sun started to dip below the horizon, and as soon as they played the final note, a peaceful silence resonated across the mountainside. All the other climbers had left, leaving the two musicians to receive the silence alone, on the biggest stage they could imagine.

“It was the best applause I could ever get, just the silence of the mountain and being there on the ledge with Will,” Doyle remembers, “being done with something that was so much bigger than us and so much harder than we ever could have imagined it would be.”

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Mozart concerto, Handel, Corelli, and a kinder, gentler Schoenberg

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ou know it’s an unusual Christmas concert when one of the composers is the fearsome atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg.

But conductor Bahman Saless, who has programmed the Schoenberg Christmas Music for concerts Dec. 21 and 22, assures listeners it is thoroughly enjoyable, not written in the composer’s dissonant and fiercely intellectual style.

Instead, it is a gentle fantasia on Praetorius’ familiar carol “Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen” (Lo, how a rose e’er blooming).

“I think in his spare time he wrote some stuff for fun,” Saless says. “He was probably tired of his own intellect.”

That is exactly the kind of music Saless searches for when planning his annual December concert, titled “The Gift of Music.”

“I always look for something interesting for the holiday season,” he says. “I like to make it an adventure for the listener. I ran into this on YouTube and I thought it would be a cool addition.”

In addition to Schoenberg’s Christmas Music, the program will feature Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in B-flat, known as the “Christmas Concerto”; another Concerto Grosso in B-flat by Handel; some regular Christmas carol arrangements; and pianist David Korevaar playing and conducting Mozart’s Piano Concerto in B-flat, K595.

The Mozart performance recalls Korevaar’s first-ever performance as both soloist and conductor. A few years back he was engaged to perform the same concerto in Japan — but as far as he knew the engagement was just as soloist.

“I showed up in Japan and my thenmanager basically told me there was no conductor,” Korevaar says. “I had one week’s notice on that.”

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of the concerto in his suitcase — “that’s normal for me,” he explains — and the performance went well. Korevaar found that he enjoyed both playing and conducting, and it is something he now seeks out. Last year he performed a full concert of Mozart concertos conducting from the keyboard at the Dairy Arts Center.

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tuosity, but even that seems understated.

“The other thing with Mozart is his ability to explore a very surprising emotional territory. There’s overall a warmth to the material, but in the middle of the first movement he wanders of into some extraordinary keys. The development starts at the point farthest away from the safety of the opening, and then it becomes very much about the journey back to the reassurance of [the opening key].”

Courtesy of University of Colorado Boulder While he can sit back and enjoy the Mozart, for Saless it will be Baroque pieces — Handel and Corelli — that he enjoys most. “One of my goals in life is to do all the concerti grossi by Handel,” he says.

“They’re just such marvels — every single one is a creation bomb by itself! I absolutely love doing them.”

Like Handel’s best known music from Messiah and the other oratorios, the concertos are filled with lively and attractive music propelled by the rhythms of Baroque dances.

And each one has its own character, Saless says. “They’re like Beethoven piano sonatas — every single one is different.”

The comparison to Beethoven is deliberate. “He was Beethoven’s favorite composer,” Saless says. “Even over Bach.”

Corelli, though less known than Handel, is also on Saless’s list of great composers. “If conducting. Saless not only didn’t mind; Vivaldi’s Four Seasons weren’t so well he was delighted. “I’m like. ‘Great! You known, Corelli would be on par with take over,’” he says, laughing. “I’m going Vivaldi,” he says. “It’s sad that he’s overto sit and listen.” looked.”

Korevaar enjoys conducting while The Concerto Grosso in B-flat is playing because the performance known as the “Christmas Concerto” from becomes very much like chamber music. an inscription on the score, “Fatto per la “And there’s a certain level of authenticinotte di Natale” (Made for the night of ty,” he says. “Mozart didn’t use a conduc- Christmas). It does not include any known tor for his piano concertos, and in the Christmas songs, but it concludes with a 18th century it was pretty standard for Pastoral movement that is associated with people to conduct from the keyboard.” the shepherds in the Christmas story.

K595, also known as Piano Concerto “I was raised on this piece,” Saless No. 27, was Mozart’s last piano concerto. says. “It was one of the first pieces I ever Coming after three large-scale concertos heard, and I fell in love with it from day with relatively large orchestras, it repreone. If had a Baroque orchestra, we’d sents a less showy style. “This piece is perform (Corelli’s music) a lot more.” much more lyrical and chamber-orientFor Saless, it’s all part of the advened,” Korevaar says. “It has its share of vir- ture.

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‘Ben is Back’ writer/director Peter Hedges on the heroin/opioid crisis

by Michael J. Casey

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ccording to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, more than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017.

The primary offender: opioids — heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine and more — claiming nearly 50,000 lives. It’s a public health emergency with profound personal impact.

“The decision to write about the heroin/opioid epidemic came a number of years ago when a close friend overdosed and died,” filmmaker Peter Hedges tells Boulder Weekly. “Then a close relative nearly died, and I decided I need to write something because it’s ravaging my immediate life, the communities and the country.”

That was in 2014, right when the opioid epidemic started to garner headlines with the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a heroin overdose. In 2016, both Prince and Tom Petty died from accidental overdoses of fentanyl, bringing more attention to the dangers of prescription opioids. But for many, it wasn’t an introduction, it was reinforcement: Opioid use was getting out of control.

Hedges, the writer/director behind Pieces of April (2002), Dan in Real Life (2007) and The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), knew there was a personal story at the core of this crisis, and spent the next two years researching opioid use and the lives it has destroyed — not just the addicts, but their family members as well.

“Then after the [2016 presidential] election — feeling a bit hopeless and helpless about where things were heading — I decided to re-commit, or commit in a new way, to making impactful and urgent work,” Hedges recounts.

Out of that commitment came Ben is Back, a social

realist drama about one family’s dark night of the soul in the icy grip of heroin addiction.

Starring Hedges’ son, Lucas, as Ben Burns, and Julia Roberts as Holly, Ben’s steadfast and supportive Mom, Ben is Back takes place on Christmas Eve when Ben shows up unannounced from rehab. Ben’s stepfather (Courtney B. Vance) and sister (Kathryn Newton) are suspicious of Ben’s sudden appearance, but like most mothers, Holly is just happy to have her son back under her roof.

But, as one suspects by the arrival of Ben, all is not well in the Burns’ household, and when mother and son find themselves tied together in a Dantean quest, not even finding rock bottom will be a relief.

“For this film to work, it needs to feel the least like a movie that we can make a movie feel,” Hedges explains. “Obviously, it’s a film, and obviously it’s Julia Roberts, but there are ways to making a film that will make it lean toward the feeling that you’re peaking in or peering into life.”

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cal locations, not sets, and confining his story to a specific period of time.

“Part of why we wanted to set [Ben is Back] over the course of a day is that you only have so much time for the kind of cyclical repetition one experiences with an addict over a long period of time,” Hedges explains.

“They say they’re not going to use; they use. They say they’re not going to use and they use.”

Thankfully Hedges does not rely on honesty alone and dips into the dramatic quiver when needed, allowing Ben is Back to walk a razor’s edge of accurate depiction with a glimmer of hope. If it didn’t, audiences would leave the theater despondent.

“We wanted to start this story with hope,” Hedges says. “That [Ben] had strung together 77 days of sobriety.”

Those moments, fleeting as they are, make Ben is Back all the more potent.

“You see what the cost is,” Hedges says. “The presence of [heroin and opioids] in this family, how it ravages them and tears them down.

“I wanted you to see what they were in danger of losing,” Hedges continues. “My experience with people who fight with this disease, when they’re not using they’re often the most dynamic and interesting and vital people.

“What makes this story tragic: you see the potential, you see the possibility,” Hedges says.

And thanks to two unforgettable performances from Roberts and Hedges, Ben is Back will hopefully find the audience that needs it most.

“If we could make a film that would reach them, then we would have done the most important work,” Hedges says. “Which is to make something relevant, urgent and impactful.”

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COLORADO SKIES: THE WINTER SOLSTICE. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002, colorado.edu/fiske.

Interested in learning about tonight’s sky and the constellations that are up there this time of year? In this seasonal talk series, you can explore the stars, planets, constellations and deep-sky objects such as galaxies and nebulae using the analog star projector at Fiske Planetarium, which produces a stunning night sky with 10 million stars. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for children/seniors/veterans.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE GRAND GALA. 8 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, hotelboulderado.com

New Year’s Eve 2018 marks the Hotel Boulderado’s 110th anniversary. In celebration of this milestone, they will be hosting a grand gala in the historic mezzanine and lobby. The evening will begin with cocktails and passed appetizers, followed by a lavish New Year’s buffet, dancing to a history of musical favorites by the Mark Diamond band and a countdown and balloon drop at midnight.

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HAVANA MEETS THE BIG EASY AT ST JULIEN. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, stjulien.com

Live music will be going throughout the hotel, with three separate bands. Grown-A$$ Man (soul-jive) kicks off in the Great Room at 6:30 p.m., Quemando Salsa plays in the ballroom beginning at 9 and Funkiphino (high-energy funk) takes over the Great Room at 9:45. Enjoy Cuban cuisine with New Orleans classics, dessert stations, a balloon drop, party favors, a Veuve Clicquot ice bar, a Champagne toast and more. For tickets and more information, please call 720-406-9696.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY AT THE AVALON BALLROOM. 6:45 p.m. The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, dancelaughlove.com

Three rooms open for your dancing pleasure, with two live bands in the main ballroom. Waltzing and ballroom dancing in the ballroom starting at 7 p.m. Joe Smith and the six-piece Spicy Pickles swingtet will play the ballroom 7:30-9:45 p.m. The After Midnight Jazz Sextet will play the ballroom from 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE SPEAKEASY. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, bmoca.org

Put your glad rags on and celebrate New Year’s Eve at BMoCA’s speakeasy-themed party and benefit.

Embrace your 1920s gangster or glamorous flapper as BMoCA is transformed into a juice joint. Featuring live jazz, craft cocktails, late-night burlesque, tarot card readings, mugshot photography, complimentary Champagne toast and light bites. Proceeds benefit BMoCA’s exhibitions and programs. Gin cocktails provided by Roundhouse Spirits. Dapper accessories provided by Goorin Bros. Craft beer provided by Avery Brewing. This event is SOLD OUT (tickets were $35/$30 members).

LICENSE NO. 1 | NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY 2019.

7 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, boulderado.com

Gogol Bordello formed in New York in 1999, injecting Eastern European musical influences into underground rock to forge their distinctive “gypsy punk” sound. Hailing from Detroit, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas combine elements of rock ’n’ roll, soul, R&B, surf pop and Latin psych into their sound.

GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS — WITH RIVER ARKANSAS, GRANT FARM AND MORE. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, foxtheatre.com

Gasoline Lollipops, a Fox Theatre favorite, are loved for their high-energy alt-country sound

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT BDT STAGE — WITH FACE VOCAL BAND. 6:30 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, bdtstage.com Face is a nationally recognized vocal rock band based out of Boulder. Using just four singers and a vocal drummer, the band creates a rock-music sound with no instruments or effects — just pure vocal talent.

SELASEE & THE FAFA FAMILY. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Taproom, 921 Pearl St., Boulder

Enjoy the best reggae, world beat and highlife music on the Front Range with Selasee & The Fafa Family.

Dance the night away with DJ B-Money, quench your thirst with signature drink specials and enjoy light bites throughout the evening. There will be festive party favors, a free photo booth and house games, special souvenir shot glasses and, of course, a complimentary Champagne toast at midnight. Tickets are $25-$30.

GOGOL BORDELLO — WITH JESSICA HERNANDEZ & THE DELTAS. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, bouldertheater.com

that combines the rootsy-ness of folk with the irreverence of punk. They’ll be joined by River Arkansas and Grant Farm for a fun evening of great Colorado music.

EAST COUNTY

WILD GAME NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION — WITH JOE COOL BAND. 7 p.m. The Wild Game Longmont, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, thewildgamelongmont.com

VIP Access tickets are only $35 and include a Champagne toast at midnight, late night sweet treats, party favors and live music by the Joe Cool Band. The full Wild Game menu and a cash bar will also be available all night long.

Bowling, arcade, pool tables, shuffleboard, cornhole, darts, foosball and ping pong will also be ready for action throughout the evening. Standard tickets will be $40 at the door.

OSKAR BLUES NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont Enjoy a private party in the upstairs venue at Oskar Blues featuring the band Ninety Percent 90s. Your ticket gets you: one Oskar Blues Brewery core beer, one well liquor, one wine drink and a Champagne toast at midnight.

Tickets: $25.

BODY ALIVE NEW YEAR’S EVE FEATURING MIRAJA, BUDDHA BOMB. 7 p.m. The Experience Building, 473 Main St., Longmont

The Body Earth Collective presents an engaged conscious community event. Give birth to a new cycle around the sun with meditation, dancing, healthy imbibements and community playfulness. Nurture your body, mind and spirit in the cuddle spaces and participatory performance art. Clear the karma of 2018 with a RadianceMatrix sound healing meditation ritual. Dance into the night with DJs Buddha Bomb, Miraja and DJ Tracy.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

MOUNTAIN TOWNS

NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE PARTY FEATURING HALDEN WOFFORD, THE HI-BEAMS — WITH BANSHEE TREE. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder, goldhillinn.com

Light dinner buffet served from 7-10 p.m. SOLD OUT.

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STRING CHEESE INCIDENT. 6 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 1stbankcenter.com

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NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE. 7 p.m. Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church & School, 900 W. Midway Blvd., Broomfield

Nativity’s young adult group is hosting this event for all Catholic young adults in the area. All are invited for a vigil Mass for the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God at 7 p.m., which will be followed by dancing, drinks, light food and joyful celebration. Tickets are $20 early, $25 at the door and $15 for designated drivers (via a refund at the door). Price includes drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), food and entertainment.

Suggested attire: Semi-formal/cocktail. Any proceeds we make will go to the Saint Vincent de Paul Society.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE BLACK TIE PARTY 2019 8 p.m. The Westin Westminster, 10600 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, newyearsevenight.com

The NYE Black Tie Party features two incredible live bands — The Henderson Band and Bigwheel Electrosoul — multiple headlining DJs (DJ Spyda Tek, DJ SD), Vegas-style casino games, a huge confetti blast and Champagne toast. Guests will have access to three rooms with multiple all-inclusive open bars serving liquor, beer and wine serviced by 30-plus swift bar staff. Grab some party favors and take photos at the complimentary photo booth. Black tie is encouraged but not required. Tuxedo is optional. Tickets are $94-$99.

D&B FAMILY NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION. 4 p.m. Dave and Buster’s Westminster, 10667 Westminster Blvd., Suite 100, Westminster Designed for families, this event will run from 4-7 p.m.

There are two package options: 1. Fun Package ($34.19 per person): An appetizer buffet with family favorites, dessert, unlimited soft drinks, $20 Power Card per guest, a video ball drop to ring in the New Year.

2. LOL Fun Package ($42.19 per person): An appetizer buffet with family favorites, dessert, unlimited soft drinks, $25 Power Card per guest, unlimited video game play (not available on first package), a video ball drop to ring in the New Year.

D&B 21+ NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION. 9 p.m. Dave and Buster’s Westminster, 10667 Westminster Blvd., Suite 100, Westminster

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE! $99.00 PER PERSON | $185 PER COUPLE FEATURING THE MUSIC OF: QUEMANDO (SALSA) | BALLROOM 9PM-12:30AM GROWN ASS MAN BAND (SOUL JIVE) | GREAT ROOM 6:30PM-9:15PM FUNKIPHINO (HIGH ENERGY FUNK BAND) | GREAT ROOM 9:45PM-1:15AM CUBAN STREET FOOD AND NEW ORLEANS CLASSICS TWO BALLOON DROPS | PARTY FAVORS ICONIC VEUVE CLICQUOT ICE BAR | CHANDON CHAMPAGNE TOAST ROOM PACKAGES ALSO AVAILABLE STARTING AT $449

All packages include a dinner buffet of all your Dave & Buster’s favorites and play in the Million Dollar Midway.

1. PREMIUM Package ($57.58 per person): Dinner buffet, dessert, unlimited soft drinks, $15 Power Card per guest, a video ball drop to ring in the new year.

2. VIP Package ($79.68 per person): Dinner Buffet, dessert, unlimited soft drinks, two Premium drink tickets (not available on Package 1), $20 Power Card per guest ($5 more than Package 1), unlimited video game play (not available on Package 1), a video ball drop to ring in the New Year.

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NYE 2018 BLACK & WHITE MASQUERADE AT BAR LOUIE. 8 p.m. Bar Louie Westminster, 10661 Westminster Blvd., Suite 900, Westminster

Bar Louie’s Black and White Masquerade is an ode to Truman Capote’s infamous Grand Masked Ball, hosted in New York in 1966. Get ready to ring in 2019 with our Champagne toast, party favors and great friends while you sip on our specialty New Year’s Eve cocktail, the Velvet 19. Masquerade masks encouraged but not required. Tickets are $50.

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The Resolution experience includes an open bar with premium liquors, beer, wine and Champagne, with 38 bartenders ensuring fast and convenient service. Throughout the night, you’ll also enjoy a perfect blend of music styles from Denver’s best DJs, theatrical performers, astounding festival-quality sound and lighting production, and stunning NYE decor from our internationally renowned event design team. Enjoy a mind blowing audio and visual

display at midnight. Tickets are $119

NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH DENVE 9 p.m. Union Station, 1701 W

Ring in 2019 at Denver Union Station Light Show. Don’t miss the ultimate N Down. Three DJs spinning jams in De up to an extravagantly epic light show $75 per person.

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE: NEW IMPROPER CITY. 9 p.m. Improper City, 3201 W

This New Year’s Eve we are throwing only imagine the epicness will be 200 Hunger Games. From the outrageous décor, let’s go all out. There will be m dance party, open bar and more. Food Tickets: $60.

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Denver’s NYE Champagne Gala features passed Champagne all night, premium open bar and a light hors d’oeuvres buffet from 9 p.m until 1:30 a.m. Put your glass to the sky and experience magical confetti blast at the stroke of midnight while having a panoramic view of Downtown Denver. One of Denver’s top DJs will be spinning Top 40 dance music, EDM, old-school hip-hop and more.

Dress to impress and stop by the photo booth to capture the night and the Champagne gala will provide all your NYE 2019 party favors.

NEW YEAR’S MUSTACHE MASQUERADE. 9 p.m. The ART, a hotel, 1201 Broadway, Denver

Join us at FIRE Restaurant & Lounge for a luxurious night of music, dancing, drinks, friends, photos and resolutions.

For a little bit of classy, and a lot of bit of fun, we’ll be partying in mustaches and masks to ring in the new year!

The evening will begin with a prix fixe menu from 5-8 p.m.

17TH ANNUAL WHITE ROSE GALA. 9 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Champa streets, Denver, newyearspartydenver.com

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Flapper dresses, stylish sequins and fancy fedoras for NYE?!? White Rose Gala is a high end and elegant charity awareness event where you are enveloped by musical and theatrical performances. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in the classic elegance of art deco of the Roaring ’20s. Be transported to an era of a modern renaissance where style, opulence and grace were the only way to swing. Tickets are $99-$875.

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BUNK WITH THE BEASTS. 6 p.m. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver, denverzoo.org

Decadent New Year’s Eve creations by our Master Sushi Chef, Iwasa Yukiji

Children are invited to celebrate New Year’s Eve with a sleepover at Denver Zoo’s Bunk with the Beasts adventure.

They will explore zoo lights, and celebrate the new year in a safe and fun environment, while parents get a night out on the town. The evening will include a pizza dinner, an evening snack and a warm morning breakfast. Children must be 5-13 to attend. Tickets are $65 for members, $75 for non-members.

NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS IN DENVER. Downtown Denver

Put on your finest festive clothes and join us for champagne toasts throughout the evening —with a midnight champagne toast for all

Time’s Square Ball Drop on our big screen TVs Accepting reservations through 11:30pm on Dec. 31—reserve online at BoulderJapango.com or by phone at 303 938 0330 We will be closed December 24th & 25th and January 1st so our team can enjoy the holidays with family and friends.

The two spectacular fireworks shows will occur at 9 p.m. and midnight. For the best viewpoints, stand along the 16th Street Mall. Costumed entertainers will interact with crowds between shows, including magicians, mascots, balloon artists, stilt walkers and comedians.

NEW YEAR’S EVE ON THE ROCKS — WITH MIGOS, POST MALONE, YOUNG THUG, LIL YACHTY, DIZZY WRIGHT, KING GREEN. 6 p.m. Magness Arena, 2201 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, nyeontherocks.com

Promoter Feyline has announced its decision to move the New Year’s Eve show featuring Migos, Post Malone from Red Rocks Amphitheatre to the University of Denver’s Magness Arena. All tickets for the Red Rocks show will be honored at Magness Arena. GA tickets: $175.

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How do the shapes of letters — also known as typography — affect the meaning of text? Does a typeface affect the meaning of a word? The experimental works in Type/Cast, a student exhibition showing at the Dairy Arts Center through Jan. 13, explore how form and material subtly but powerfully influence language.

All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

Clas Oldenburg with Coosje Van Bruggen.

Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 2), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6.

Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

Ongoing exhibit.

Cut Paper Wildlife Sculptures — by Tiffany Russell. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Jan. 4.

DIOR: From Paris to the World. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through March 3.

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.

Eat Well, Play Well. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Jan. 6.

EYES ON Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 4), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.

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EYES ON Shimabuku. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 4), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.

Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6.

Florian Hecker: Synopsis Seriation. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Through Dec. 22.

Tara Donovan: Fieldwork. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

Through Jan. 27.

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder.

Ongoing exhibit.

Type/Cast — by Joel Swanson and students.

Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy & MacMillan Family Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through Jan. 13.

Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Jan. 13.

Watercolor — by Nancy Sullo. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Jan. 4.

Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.

Where the Body Sits and Learns — by Benjamin Rogers. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 13

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Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through Jan. 20.

SEASON OF LIGHT

penumbra — by Diane Martonis. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 13.

REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Jan. 6.

World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

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Thursday, December 20 Music Asadi. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Doe Paoro. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Dueling Pianos. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Herman Clan featuring Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Silas Herman, Colin Huff, Dan Andree and more TBA — with Turkeyfoot, The Cody Sisters. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Jami Lundi Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Mark O’Connor and Friends — An Appalachian Christmas. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

One Way Ride. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Paul Soderman & the Boulder Blues Club.

7 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

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

Scott Martin Piano Duos Holiday Concert.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177.

Television Generation, Mr. Atomic, The Rainbow Treatment. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Vista Kicks. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Wild Lives. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-296-1003 Events Cuban Food Stories. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

The Guilty. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

The Hidden Holiday Bazaar. 10 a.m. The Hidden Holiday Bazaar, 2330 Main St., Suite D, Longmont, 720-340-9951. Through Dec. 31.

Holiday Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Dining Hall, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. More dates at chautauqua.com.

The Learned Ladies by Molière. 7:30 p.m.

Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-578-5667. More show times at thedairy.org.

Mercedes-Benz Denver Christkindl Market.

11 a.m. Skyline Park, 16th Street Mall and Arapahoe St., Denver. Through Dec. 23.

Nutcracker — with Colorado Ballet. 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-837-8888. Through Dec. 24.

Old School Film School New School Film School. 9 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group.

7 p.m. Out Boulder Pride House, 2132 14th St., Boulder.

The Snowman/Miracle on 34th Street (1947). 7 p.m. New Trojan Movie House, 513 Main St., Longmont.

Winter Festival. 6 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Winter Solstice Storytime. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8477.

LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 11:59 PM

LIQUID SKY THE WALL SATURDAY DECEMBER 22 1:00 PM

SEASON OF LIGHT 2:30 PM

COLORADO SKIES: THE WINTER SOLSTICE 7:00 PM

SEASON OF LIGHT 9:00 PM

LASER STRANGER THINGS 10:30 PM

LASER QUEEN 11:59 PM

LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

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A Christmas Carol. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 24.

A Christmas Carol. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Dec. 23.

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Xanadu follows the journey of a magical and beautiful Greek muse, Kira, who descends from the heavens of Mount Olympus to Venice Beach, California, in 1980 on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, Sonny, to achieve the greatest artistic creation of all time — the first roller disco. (Hey, it’s 1980.) Now playing at DCPA through March 31. (Lauren Shealy in DCPA XANADU)

A Christmas Carol – The Radio Show. Vintage Theatre, Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Dec. 23.

Alone for the Holidays. Denvers Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Denver.

Through Dec. 23.

The Christmas Spirit — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Kanabbis Family Holiday Special. Denvers Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Denver.

Through Dec. 29.

Meredith Willson’s Miracle On 34th Street: The Musical — presented by Peanut Butter Players. Harlequin Center for the Performing Arts, 1376 Miners Drive, Suite 106, Lafayette.

Through Dec. 22.

Miss Bennet — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through Dec. 24.

Santa’s Big Red Sack. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Through Dec. 24.

The SantaLand Diaries. DCPA Theatre Company, Jones Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver.

A Christmas Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Jan. 5.

Scrooge Bah Humbug. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 30.

Cirque Eloize — Hotel. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Dec. 23.

Scrooge! The musical. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Through Dec. 31.

Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Seussical! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through Dec. 29.

Elf, The Musical. Arvada Center for the Ats and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through Dec. 23.

The Humans. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver.

Through March 31.

Joaquin’s Christmas. Su Teatro Theatre Company, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Dec. 23.

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Friday, December 21 Music Danny Shafer Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Decades Collide: ’80s vs. ’90s Mashup — with DJ Biz Markie. 9 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Dressy Bessy. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Flex — with Art Lande, Dru Heller and Gonzalo Teppa. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Hazel Miller Christmas Show. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Jade Cicada and Detox Unit — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Joey Porter’s Shady Business. 9 p.m.

Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Kaph, National Park Radio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

Matt Flaherty Album Release/ Birthday Party. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Miles Over Mountains. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

Too Hot to Handel. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Another performance on Dec. 22.

A MidWinter Night Circus. 11 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Vail Jazz & eTown present Dave King Trio.

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

The Nutcracker. 7 p.m. Niwot High School Auditorium, 8989 Niwot Road, Longmont.

A Very Brown Christmas — with El Vez, The Mexican Elvis. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Events Celebrate Winter Solstice at Botanic Gardens, Blossoms of Light. 7 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver.

Through Jan. 1.

Conscious Alliance Holiday Party — with Boombox. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Dancing the Dark: Winter Solstice Celebration. 7:30 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9258.

Dog Dance. 7 p.m. Floorspace, 1510 Zamia Ave., Unit 101, Boulder, 706-372-4830.

FNWeird: Rankin/Bass Holiday Clip Show.

8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Irish Dance Theatre Presents: The Celtic Gift. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,.

It’s A Wonderful Life. 7 p.m. New Trojan Movie House, 513 Main St., Longmont.

Josh Blue. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

More show times at comedyworks.com.

The Nutcracker Circus. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. Through Dec. 23.

Winter Festival. 1 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Winter Solstice Celebration. 8 p.m. Unity of Boulder Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-246-0008.

Winter Solstice Hike. 6 p.m. Flagstaff Road, Green Mountain West Ridge Trail Access, 4870 Flagstaff Road, Boulder.

Winter Solstice Storytime. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8477.

Saturday, December 22 Music The Aristocats Band. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Bay Bryan. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents Gift of Music. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522.

Brother Ali — with Reason the Citizen. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. see EVENTS Page 37

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The Messy Hour: Denver’s Drag Talk Show.

6 p.m. Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Unit 1, Denver, 720-989-3283.

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Callie Carlucci. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

The Noisy Residents. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Charlie Brown goes to the Nutcracker. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 281-960-3501.

Sunday Blue Grass Service. 10:30 a.m. First Baptist Church Longmont, 701 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-776-1128.

Ballet Zurich: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

A Country Christmas. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Sunday Live Music. 3 p.m. BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-638-5193.

Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker. 10:55 a.m.

Regal Denver Pavilions 15, 500 16th St., Denver, 844-462-7342.

Traditional Irish Music. 7:30 p.m. Boulderado Hotel License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4560.

Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

A Crime Scene Christmas — with Kerry Pastine & The Crime Scene. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

David Benoit Christmas Tribute to Charlie Brown featuring Sara Gazarek. 10 p.m.

Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

The Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Dru Heller Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Inside the Orchestra’s Christmas Tiny Tots.

9 a.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-355-7855.

Keys N Krates. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

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

Music Christmas Eve Service. 2:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

Christmas Eve. 4:30 p.m. The Well Church, 1301 High St., Boulder, 720-583-5189. see EVENTS Page 38

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Native Station. 7 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, Longmont, 303-652-4186.

One Flew West. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Ray Reed. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Shower Me Blue, Black Stabbath. 8 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Superb Beats Collective Takeover, Parrish B2B Mport. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

A Very Caribou Christmas featuring Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon) and friends. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

The Vipers. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

Zoe Berman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events Annual Festivus Party. 6:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

Holiday Presentation: White Christmas (1954). 7 p.m. New Trojan Movie House and Art Cinema, 513 Main St., Longmont.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Sunday, December 23 Music Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services. 6 p.m.

Unity of Boulder Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

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Jim Dalton y Amigos Sunday Brunch. Noon.

Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

JoFoKe. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

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Poetry Writer’s Workshop.

7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Saturday, Dec. 22 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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Tattered Tales Storytime.

10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

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Sunday, Dec. 23 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Monday, Dec. 24 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

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Christmas Eve Candlelight Services. 6 p.m.

Unity of Boulder Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

A Magical Cirque Christmas. 7:30 p.m.

Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Christmas Eve Service. 6 p.m. Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-601-6349.

Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Tuesday, December 25 Music Christmas Service. 10 a.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

Christmas visits to Nursing Homes and Hospital in Metro Denver. 9:30 a.m. Metro Denver Area, 8275 E. 11th Ave., Denver, 303-333-3747.

HARSHER X-Mas. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Events Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 7 p.m.

Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Wednesday, December 26 Music Ben Hammond. 8 p.m. Henry’s Denver, 500 16th St., Denver, 720-399-8466.

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Take a break from the holiday festivities to indulge your creative side at So, You’re a Poet open poetry reading at Wesley Chapel at 9 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 24.

Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.

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Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Kiltro. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Lindsey Saunders Music. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234.

Events Conversations in English Wednesdays.

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

Deconstructing the Beatles: The Birth of the Beatles. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Liyana. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

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

Storytime Break: Lap Babies. 11:15 a.m.

NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

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

Storytime Break: STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Storytime Break: Wobblers & Walkers.

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

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s the old saying goes: Hindsight is 20-20. But therein lies the trap, the ON THE BILL: Vice. notion that since we can see the Opens Dec. 25. Century past clearly, we can also understand Theater, 1700 29th St., it. If history has taught us anyBoulder, 303-444-0583 thing, untangling what we know from what we thought we knew is harder than it looks. And in some cases, more knowledge only confounds and obfuscates the simple truth at hand.

Take the two documentaries from Errol Morris: Fog of War and The Unknown Known, featuring former Secretaries of Defense Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld, respectively. Both movies interrogate their subjects about foreign wars (Vietnam for McNamara and Iraq for Rumsfeld), both are obsessed with knowledge (McNamara bases everything on data, Rumsfeld on definitions), and both paint a strikingly similar portrait. Neither man set out to do evil, but along the way they did. Was it out of their control? Or because of it?

The same can be asked of former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose life gets the biopic treatment in Vice.

Written and directed by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale as the former Veep, Vice takes a giddy approach to the monster movie where the monster is the hero while the villagers with pitchforks settle for the back seat.

Using mixed media, voice-over narration, text on screen and stream-ofconsciousness editing, Vice opens with a ne’er-do-well young Cheney, drunk as a skunk behind the wheel on a desolate Wyoming road. The next morning, his then-girlfriend, now wife, Lynne (Amy Adams), dresses him down and commands him to change. While she does so, flies buzz In Vice, Christian Bale presents Dick Cheney around Cheney’s already rotting corpse. not as a caricature, While John Milton’s Lucifer decreed that it was but as a man of flesh and blood, the hero in better to rule in hell than serve in heaven, Cheney the Dick Cheney story. quickly figured out it was even better to rule from the shadows. So, he did. With Rumsfeld (Steve Carrell) by his side, Cheney served under Nixon, then Ford, then Reagan and finally H.W. Bush before running with the son, W. (Sam Rockwell) and, quite possibly, becoming the most powerful Vice President in the history of the United States.

Under heavy makeup, significant weight and a mouth that barely cracks a slit, Bale presents Cheney not as a caricature, but as a man of flesh and blood. To paraphrase a quote from Lee Marvin, no bad guy ever sees himself as “the bad guy.”

Cheney certainly didn’t, and in Vice’s pivotal scene, Cheney stares dead into the camera, possibly echoing Morris’ two docs, and harangues those who dared stand in his way or questioned his decisions. After all, Dick Cheney will always be the hero in the Dick Cheney story.

Vice isn’t perfect. Nor should it be taken as entirely factual — the best art aims to illuminate while entertain — but Vice succeeds by presenting the actions and words that comprise a man in power. As Jesus once asked, “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?” Vice wonders: What if he never had one in the first place?

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Choose a salsa from the plentiful bar in the small restaurant, usually packed and standing-room-only during lunch. With quick and friendly service, and customers debating what salsas to use, how many tacos to get and whether or not to mix it up and get a burrito instead, we’re sure to visit again soon. $1.50 each.

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Medjool dates are stuffed with chorizo, wrapped with applewood bacon and served over a coconut cream and roasted red pepper sauce.

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find myself standing at a stainless-steel table under bright fluorescent lights wearing tight bright blue gloves and holding a shiny, sharp blade. It’s a surgical view my M.D. Dad would have appreciated. This is not an early a.m. dream. I’m at work at the catering company making 220 devils on horseback — bacon-wrapped, almond-filled dates. It takes several hours. The mind has time to wander.

1) We get a lot of food returned uneaten from weddings and parties. Quinoa salad comes back.

Gravy comes back and so does mac and cheese.

Bacon-wrapped, toasted-almond-stuffed dates do not return. Their salty, smoky, fatty, sweet, crunchy sex appeal is undeniable. The first step is to get raw blanched almonds and count 220 of them, plus a few for snacks. Constant counting is critical in see NIBBLES Page 44

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catering. Toast the almonds lightly on a parchment paper-lined sheet tray. You can find dátiles con tocino — baconwrapped Medjool dates with garlic and lemon — at The Med in Boulder.

2) Get a case of pitted Medjool dates from the walk-in. Count out 220 dates.

Pick the big ones. It’s easier on the fingers. Press 220 toasted almonds inside 220 dates, checking for pits. I use the edge of a towel or end up with a cramped, bruised thumb. Boulder’s North End at 4580 offers bacon-wrapped, chorizostuffed Medjool dates with coconut cream and roasted red pepper sauces.

3) Grab a case of pre-sliced bacon from the walk-in: You cut each slice roughly in half.

Trim them on the fat side to the width of an average date. Sounds easy but every slice is different, or at least every pork belly is a slightly different size and shape.

You have to adjust your knife work. You wonder where the hogs lived and died.

Regular sliced bacon is .062 inches thick (1/16 inch) with 16 to 20 slices per pound. Thick sliced bacon is .111 inches thick (1/8 inch) with 10 to 14 slices per pound.

4) Do this 220 times, stack them up, and keep them cold or the bacon will be hard to slice. You do it efficiently but not too rapidly. You are spending hours with a sharp chef ’s knife in one hand and people passing behind carrying hot pans from the ovens. One slip of concentration and there’s blood on the cutting board.

5) It could be snowing outside but

you wouldn’t know. All you see is the pile of bacon trimmings you have created. You cook them to produce bacon bits and bacon fat for the blue cheese dressing. 101 Things to Do with Bacon

by Centennial-based writer Eliza Cross offers recipes for bacon corn flake cookies, bacon toffee and baconwrapped, chèvre-stuffed dates with fresh basil.

6) All that prep is designed to bring you to this rolling moment, with all components in place.

Hydrate early and often.

Take an almond-stuffed date and place it on one end of the trimmed halfslice. Roll and transfer to a draining rack over a sheet pan. William Oliver’s Publick House in Lafayette dishes thick bacon strips with a shot of real maple syrup.

7) Repeat 220 times (plus a few extras for samples). When done, pierce each devil with a bamboo skewer so it holds the whole assemblage together, but not so the point sticks out too far. Watch out for painful finger puncture wounds. Baconwrapped dates stuffed with Haystack Mountain goat cheese drizzled with chipotle are available at Timberline Steaks & Grille at D.I.A. 8) You will lose count of the baconwrapped, almond-stuffed dates and have to recount all of them. It pisses you off and disrupts the flow. Il Porcellino Salumi in Denver serves The Bacon sandwich: rustic toast layered with shaved, house-smoked bacon, apple butter, jalapeno aioli, pecora cheese fondue

and arugula.

9) Place the sheet tray in a 375-degree oven for about eight minutes and then turn the tray around and bake for another eight minutes or so.

Pull them out and see if they are crispy enough. We precook the devils, which are then crisped-up in an oven at the event. Denver’s famous Fool’s Gold sandwich was a loaf of sourdough bread stuffed with a pound of crisp bacon, a jar of peanut butter and blueberry jam.

It was once served at Stapleton Airport to Elvis Presley and friends who flew in from Memphis just to taste it.

10) The kitchen air is bacon-infused but don’t forget to set the timer on the oven. Do not forget the devils. When done, you carefully pull out that hot tray holding a pool of molten bacon fat and date sugar and place it on a rack to cool.

11) While the devils cool, replace your bacon-coated cutting board and rinse your knife in super-hot water.

Once the 220 devils are cooled, transfer them to a rack in a hotel pan. Doublewrap in plastic, label carefully, move them to the walk-in. The bacon, date and almond are now wed like a piece of savory candy. The Bacon of the Month Club for Denver’s Tender Belly delivers first-class meat in four varieties.

12) Devils on horseback are a Victorian-era British hors d’œuvres often served around Christmas.

Traditionally a prune was used. The name derives from angels on horseback: oysters wrapped in bacon. Denver’s Berkshire restaurant serves a heritage bacon flight four ways: garlic, sweet chili, balsamic and candied maple.

13) If you make devils on horseback for a holiday party don’t worry. They are very hard to screw up. You can also

change up the dried fruit and fill with macadamias or cheese. Denver’s Bacon Social House offers flights of bacon strips from artisan smokehouses. That’s all there is to say about bacon-wrapped, almond-stuffed dates.

(With apologies to Wallace Stevens.)

Tasty stocking stuffer

For any promising bakers on your gift list, pick up a copy of the freshly published Lucky’s Bakehouse Holiday cookbook. Boulder pastry whiz Jennifer Bush compiled a collection of just 14 memorable bakery classics that are each fully explained and beautifully photographed. Some treats like chocolate fudge and painted sugar cookies are relatively simple. Others like candyland cloud cake require multi-step attention.

The slim volume is available at the Bakehouse and at Lucky’s Market.

Taste of the week

Westminster’s Early Bird Restaurant boasts a destination garnish and table condiment worth the drive. The eatery’s brunch fare includes hush puppies, red potato home fries, Anson Mills cheesy grits and chicken and johnnycake waffles. The house garnish for many of the sandwiches and entrees is a baconwrapped date. On every table is a true rarity: A bottle of real maple syrup.

Words to chew on

“If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 vinyl recording.” — Tom Waits John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU. Podcasts at: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles

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or every month, there’s a beer: maibocks in May, märzen in September and winter warmers in December.

Also known as English-style old ales or strong ales, winter warmers are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. Popular in England in the 18th and 19th centuries, and rebranded as winter warmers in 1971, these beers were typically stronger (6-9 percent alcohol by volume), malt-centric and often came spiced. The “old” indicated that the beer was aged for some time, and often served stale or flat.

Old, stale, flat? Not exactly the kinds of marketing adjectives a 21st-century beer drinker seeks, which might explain why the style isn’t flourishing these days.

The other culprit: big, beastly imperial stouts with alcohol levels soaring well into the double digits, making a strong ale with 8 percent ABV look positively passé.

But there is an undeniable charm to a winter warmer. Like a spiced ham or Santa-shaped sugar cookie, these beers signal a specific time of year and a particular frame of mind. There is an undeniable sense of reflection and contemplation that accompanies the holiday season, the perfect mindset for a delicious winter warmer. Not to mention, these beers pair spectacularly well with food, particularly roast beef, mashed potatoes made with garlic and heavy cream, and sticky toffee pudding.

Malt is the name of the game when it comes to winter warmers. Hops can sometimes be present, but mostly for the sake of bitterness — which should be soft and delicate. Instead, sweet, caramel malt with plenty of roast aromas and a dollop of dried fruit are what you hope to find in these mahogany brews.

Hands down the best one around is Odell Brewing Co.’s winter staple, Isolation Ale. Beautifully balanced malts bring out caramel, biscuit and almond cookie flavors with a clean and crisp bitterness that keeps the sweetness from building. Each sip finishes assertively, which draws you down the glass with enthusiasm. Clocking in at 6.1 percent ABV, Isolation Ale perfectly warms the body, lubricates the mind and turns softly falling snowflakes into a thing of beauty — and not something just waiting to be shoveled.

Equally impressive is Gravity Brewing’s Olde Gravitatem. A bit heavier, 8.1 percent ABV, Olde Gravitatem favors roasted malt and dried fruit — like cherry and blueberry fruit leather — with a touch of tannin on the tongue and a hint of candy sweetness.

Need a little more hop assertion in your ale? Give Great Divide Brewing Co.’s Hibernation Ale a try. True to style, Hibernation Ale embraces the sweeter sides of malt: caramel, cola and brown sugar are predominant, but with some healthy dryhopping, Hibernation’s 8.7 percent ABV is well hidden and quite palatable.

Both Isolation Ale and Hibernation Ale are available at your quality liquor stores. Olde Gravitatem might be too, but a trip to Gravity Brewing’s headquarters in Louisville will guarantee you a sip. Just act fast; springtime and doppelbocks will be here before you know it.

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istorians believe the first New Year’s resolutions were to pay debts and return borrowed objects. These days, the most popular ones have been to eat better, exercise more and, ultimately, lose weight. Alas, New Year’s Day is a poor time to make these promises.

Resolving to eat better after gorging over the holidays makes sense. And while it’s easier to find the resolve after you’ve hit bottom, you can avoid that problem altogether if you fend off the extra pounds at the start, which means that diet-related resolutions would be a lot more effective if made early. Say, this afternoon. Before tonight’s holiday party. Because an army of hosts, caterers and event planners are plotting to fatten you up. You need to be prepared to defend yourself at all times.

The best part is, you don’t have to sacrifice too much holiday gluttony. You just need to glutton-ize responsibly. So here are some tips to help you develop a system to navigate holiday temptations.

1) Treat your stomach like the most valuable piece of real estate on Earth. Don’t just give away that space to the first platter on the first table you walk by. It’s easy to surrender to gluttony and slip into devour mode and just eat, eat, eat to the point where you’re totally bloated by the time you find the good stuff, at which point you have no choice but to continue eating. Take your time to get the lay of the land. Something more worthy will be around soon enough, and you’ll be glad you waited.

2) Wait until lunchtime to eat breakfast, especially the day after a pig-out. Some people worry that skipping breakfast leads to more eating later in the day to compensate, which can actually cause weight gain.

I understand the reasoning behind that idea, but the most recent evidence — not to mention the anecdotal experiences of actual breakfast skippers — suggests that skipping breakfast does not, in fact, usually lead to weight gain. In any case, during the holisee RESOLUTIONS Page 50

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days you know you were already going to eat more later in the day, so think of it as skipping breakfast to compensate in advance for the gluttony that you will be committing. You won’t starve, and amid the holiday feasting it may actually feel like a relief to pause and give your belly a chance to sort itself out and get some rest.

3) Up the activity. Not to imply that you can exercise away the excess. In theory you could, but unless you become an endurance athlete for the month of December, any workouts you sneak in probably won’t compensate for the level of indulgence typical of holiday fare. But exercise is always good for you, and if you’re skipping breakfast, you do have the morning time slot available.

4) Pre-party with green plant fiber.

If you show up with a contented belly, you won’t be that guy salivating at the food table. You will be prepared to control yourself and better adhere to the first resolution.

Arriving at a lavish buffet with green fiber in your belly has other benefits, too. Green plant fiber is a good digestive aid that will help move along all the custard puffs, pumpkin pies and cookies.

A bowl or two of the following massaged kale salad will put a good base layer in your belly, taking the edge off your hunger, so you can control yourself when you arrive. The recent E. coli outbreak is certainly a good reason to avoid romaine, but kale has a lot more to offer anyway. If you are looking to maximize fiber per forkful, or just prefer the hearty flavor of a mustard family plant to the crispy water of lettuce, there are many reasons to make this salad.

Be warned, like many salads, this one isn’t exactly low on calories. But

the calories come from fat, which, like fiber, satiates the belly and takes the edge off of hunger. Calories from salad are more nutritious than calories from cake.

Massaged kale salad

This is a hands-on recipe. You have to literally grab at the kale leaves and rub them with salt and lime juice, which breaks the cell walls, leaving the kale soft, pliable and easier to eat than non-massaged kale. The effects of massage are similar to those of cooking.

The kale shrinks and becomes more tender.

My kale of choice is the long and narrow-leafed lacinato kale, aka dinosaur kale, black kale or Tuscan kale.

Curly green kale is a good second choice.

Serves four 3 bunches kale, stems removed, chopped crosswise to about 1/2 inch slices (about 8 cups) 2 limes, juiced 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup green cabbage, thinly sliced 1 cup sweet onion, thinly sliced 1 clove garlic, pressed (garlic lovers can multiply as necessary) 1/2 cup olive oil 1 cup grated Parmesan or crumbled feta 1 cup pitted olives Optional: 1 golden beet and 1 medium carrot, shredded finely Place the kale, lime and salt in a large mixing bowl. Squeeze and knead handfuls of kale as hard as you can, over and over, for about a minute. Add the rest of the ingredients, toss together and serve. If using the optional orange roots, mix in or use as a garnish on top.

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between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose from about 9,000 to nearly 47,000. The glut is holding steady. Years ago you selected from among three or four brands of soup and shampoo.

Nowadays you may be faced with twenty varieties of each.

I suspect that 2019 will bring a comparable expansion in some of your life choices, Aries — especially when you’re deciding what to do with your future and who your allies should be. This could be both a problem and a blessing.

For best results, opt for choices that have all three of these qualities: fun, usefulness and meaningfulness.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: People have been trying to convert

ordinary metals into gold since at least 300 AD. At that time, an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis unsuccessfully mixed sulfur and mercury in the hope of performing such magic. Fourteen centuries later, seminal scientist Isaac Newton also failed in his efforts to produce gold from cheap metal. But now let’s fast forward to twentieth-century chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a distinguished researcher who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951. He and his team did an experiment with bismuth, an element that’s immediately adjacent to lead on the periodical table. By using a particle accelerator, they literally transmuted a small quantity of bismuth into gold. I propose that we make this your teaching story for 2019. May it inspire you to seek transformations that have never before been possible.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: United States President Donald

Trump wants to build a concrete and fenced wall between Mexico and America, hoping to slow down the flow of immigrants across the border. Meanwhile, twelve Northern African countries are collaborating to build a 4,750-milelong wall of drought-resistant trees at the border of the Sahara, hoping to stop the desert from swallowing up farmland. During the coming year, I’ll be rooting for you to draw inspiration from the latter, not the former.

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CANCER

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Cancerian poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau advised artists to notice the aspects of their work that critics didn’t like — and then cultivate those precise aspects. He regarded the disparaged or misconstrued elements as being key to an artist’s uniqueness and originality, even if they were as-yet immature. I’m expanding his suggestion and applying it to all of you Crabs during the next ten months, even if you’re not strictly an artist. Watch carefully what your community seems to misunderstand about the new trends you’re pursuing, and work hard to ripen them.

LEO

honeysuckled not just by honeysuckle but by everything — marigolds, bog after bog of small sundews, the cold smell of spruce.”

Salter type of year for you. You’re likely to be ahead of your time and primed to innovate. You’ll have the courage and resourcefulness necessary to try seemingly unlikely and unprecedented feats, and you’ll have a knack for ushering the future into the present.

LIBRA

CAPRICORN

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “Be

very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.” This advice is sometimes attributed to sixteenth-century politician and cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Now I’m offering it to you as one of your important themes in 2019. Here’s how you can best take it to heart. First, be extremely discerning about what ideas, theories and opinions you allow to flow into your imagination. Make sure they’re based on objective facts and make sure they’re good for you. Second, be aggressive about purging old ideas, theories, and opinions from your head, especially if they’re outmoded, unfounded or toxic.

SCORPIO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: In 1891, a 29-year-old British mother named Constance Garnett decided she would study the Russian language and become a translator. She learned fast. During the next forty years, she produced English translations of 71 Russian literary books, including works

by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov. Many had never before been rendered in English. I see 2019 as a Constance Garnett-type year for you, Leo. Any lateblooming potential you might possess could enter a period of rapid maturation. Awash in enthusiasm and ambition, you’ll have the power to launch a new phase of development that could animate and motivate you for a long time.

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Memorize this quote by author Peter Newton and keep it close to your awareness during the coming months: “No remorse. No if-onlys. Just the alertness of being.” Here’s another useful maxim, this one from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” Shall we make it a lucky three mottoes to live by in 2019? This one’s by author A. A. Milne: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

VIRGO

SAGITTARIUS

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: I’ll be bold and predict that 2019 will be a nurturing chapter in your story; a time when you will feel loved and supported to a greater degree than usual; a phase when you will be more at home in your body and more at peace with your fate than you have in a long time. I have chosen an appropriate blessing to bestow upon you, written by the poet Claire Wahmanholm. Speak her words as if they were your own. “On Earth I am held,

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office. There were exceptions.

In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1875, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in 1887. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, 2019 will be a Stanton-Woodhull-

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Studies show that the best possible

solution to the problem of homelessness is to provide cheap or free living spaces for the homeless. Not only is it the most effective way of helping the people involved; in the long run, it’s also the least expensive. Is there a comparable problem in your personal life? A chronic difficulty that you keep putting band-aids on but that never gets much better? I’m happy to inform you that 2019 will be a favorable time to dig down to find deeper, more fundamental solutions; to finally fix a troublesome issue rather than just addressing its symptoms.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Many people in Iceland write poems, but only a few publish them. There’s even a term for those who put their creations away in a drawer rather than seeking an audience: skúffuskáld, literally translated as “drawer-poet.” Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Aquarius? Do you produce some good thing but never share it? Is there a part of you that you’re proud of but keep secret? Is there an aspect of your ongoing adventures that’s meaningful but mostly private? If so, 2019 will be the year you might want to change your mind about it.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Scientists at Goldsmiths University

in London did a study to determine the catchiest pop song ever recorded. After extensive research in which they evaluated an array of factors, they decided that Queen’s “We Are the Champions” is the song that more people love to sing than any other. This triumphant tune happens to be your theme song in 2019. I suggest you learn the lyrics and melody, and sing it once every day. It should help you build on the natural confidence-building influences that will be streaming into your life.

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Dear Dan: I’m a kinky single woman who keeps attracting the wrong men for me — specifically, submissive guys into face-sitting. I’m submissive myself, and face-sitting is not a turn-on for me. But the vast majority of men who hit on me have this fetish. I think it’s a size-related issue — a my-size-related issue. I’m a full-figured/curvy woman with a big butt. Granted, it’s a fabulous butt, but my butt sends the wrong signals, apparently. I’ve tried several times to word my FetLife and other dating profiles so that I’ll attract dominant men, but the messages from submissive wannabe face-sittees pour in. Dating when you’re not thin is hard enough. Help, please.

—Baby Got Back Dear BGB: You’ve worded your dating profiles to attract Doms, BGB, but it doesn’t sound like you’ve worded your profiles to repel — and crush the hopes of — submissive wannabe face-sittees. Let’s fix that: “I get a lot of messages from submissive guys into face-sitting. I’ve got a great butt, I realize, but I’m a sub, I’m not into face-sitting, and I only want to hear from Dom guys.” Some submissive guys will message you anyway — guys who will be letting you know they have a hard time tak-

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SAVAGE

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ing no for an answer, BGB, so not guys you’d ever want to meet up with IRL. Delete their messages and block their profiles.

Dear Dan: While having sex one night with my girlfriend, I pulled out a vibrator for the first time. She asked whether I (a guy) had used it with a previous partner (another woman). I conceded that I had. She refused to let me use it on her on the grounds that it had already been inside someone else. I pointed out that since I am not a virgin, her objection did not seem principled: My penis has been in someone else and she lets me put that in her. Nevertheless, she remained adamant. Do you think she was being reasonable?

—Very Interested Boyfriend Enquires Dear VIBE: I do not, VIBE, but since you don’t want to stick your old vibrator in me — presumably — what I think is irrelevant. When it comes to who gets to stick what in our bodies, we’re allowed to be arbitrary, inconsis-

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That’s why “But my dick has been in other women and you let me stick that in you!” isn’t quite the slam-dunk argument you think it is. So toss that old vibrator and get yourself a new one — but save the packaging so you can pass it off as new with your next girlfriend.

Dear Dan: My cousin was a victim of revenge porn. A bitter ex-boyfriend of his sent several videos they’d made to everyone on my cousin’s contact list, including me. I’m a straight woman who prefers gay male porn, and my cousin and his ex are beautiful men — they’re both dancers — and I couldn’t help myself: I watched the videos, more than once, before deleting them. So how bad a person am I? —Sick And Wrong Dear SAW: You’re a better person than the asshole ex who sent those videos to everyone your poor cousin knows, SAW, but a worse person than those who deleted the videos without wanking over them first.

Dear Dan: Your life is a monstrous affront to God, and your life’s work, your ridiculous “advice” column, encourages people to act on their worst impulses.

Advice column? Take the “D” away! You write A VICE column! I was involved in the gay life once, Mr. Savage, but the love of Jesus delivered me from homosexual sin. Embrace Christ, and you too can be delivered. I pray for you every day.

Someone has to.

—Christ Even Saves Savages P.S. I have read what you’ve written about your mother, who you claim to have loved. Your mother died relatively young.

I’m not suggesting God punished you by cutting your mother’s life short. No, your mother died of shame.

Dear CESS: You pray for me, CESS, and I’ll gay for you — because all the delicious dick you left behind when Jesus raptured you out of homosexual sin aren’t gonna suck themselves, are they?

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weed between the lines

by Sidni West

Gardner tries, but First Step Act fails to include cannabis provisions

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annabis is still illegal on a federal level and the people with marijuana charges are still criminals with criminal records. That’s the message the Senate sent when they blocked Sen. Cory Gardner’s attempt to make cannabis reform part of the First Step Act, a fairly mild criminal justice reform bill.

In an effort to prove that he’s Not A Regular Republican, He’s A Cool Republican™, Gardner is a staunch defender of everything Colorado stands for: money, freedom and weed. He fought to include provisions in the bill that protect consumers and industries that are acting in compliance with state cannabis laws from federal criminalization, as well as any federally insured banks that want to provide services to them. He believes that each state has the right to determine for itself the best approach to cannabis within its borders. Gardner’s amendment also sought to extend those protections to Washington, D.C., U.S. territories and federally recognized tribes, and contains common-sense guardrails to ensure that states, territories and tribes regulating cannabis do so safely.

But Gardner’s attempts have been shut down because D.C. operates on the same level of petty as a high school cafeteria. At first, all senators hoping to offer amendments of their own were blocked by a procedural maneuver from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Gardner then sought unanimous consent for his amendment and was blocked again when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) objected and called the idea a “back door to legalization,” stopping the measure dead in its tracks without a formal roll call vote.

The outing Judiciary Committee chairman and longtime cannabis opponent said the amendment’s effect of allowing cannabis businesses to access banks would be “inappropriate to consider in the context of a criminal justice reform bill.” Grassley did, however, concede that, “Maybe there will be, at

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that point, an opportunity to consider his approach as something lesser than the legalization of marijuana generally.”

Following the procedural defeat before yielding his time to the floor and still reeling from the emotional distress of rejection, Gardner gave a 10-minute passionate speech, telling his colleagues all about how Colorado’s cannabis industry deserves full access to the American financial system. Then he launched into the problems surrounding the discrepencies between federal cannabis prohibition and the growing number of states that allow cannabis for medical or recreational use.

“But being from Colorado, it is hard to think about federal criminal justice reform without thinking about the biggest problem the federal criminal law creates for Colorado: the refusal to respect the will of Coloradans when it comes to marijuana.

Every day, Coloradans of good faith follow Colorado law to a T, yet they are still criminals in the eyes of the federal government. Cancer patients using medical marijuana to control their pain and veterans who are using marijuana to alleviate the PTSD they suffer because they served their country — federal law says they are criminals. The People do not think that. So the federal law should change.

“This disconnect doesn’t just effect the industry’s patrons, or even just its growers and retailers for that matter. It also makes criminals of those outside the industry. Plumbers, electricians, bankers, landlords and real estate service providers, employment and advertising agencies, insurance companies, HR services and all of the everyday businesses that interact with the marijuana industry (like they do any other part of our economy) are affected by the federal law, too. That’s because when they take money from a marijuana business federal law considers them money launderers — putting them at risk for both criminal liability and civil asset forfeiture.

“The disconnect forces Colorado’s $1.5 billion market into the pseudo-shadows, where business is

in hard-to-track cash, inviting dangerous robberies and hindering law enforcement efforts to ensure that legal marijuana sales benefits legitimate businesses rather than illicit cartels. It also means that researchers can’t test marijuana for medical efficacy or to help better understand impairment because those researchers fear of losing federal funding.”

Gardner’s attempt mirrors a bill he introduced with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) last summer. Gardner said he plans to reintroduce that bill during the next Congress. President Trump indicated he would support Gardner’s legalization bill when it was introduced in the Senate in June 2018.

The bill would amend the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) so that — as long as states and tribes comply with a few basic protections — its provisions no longer apply to any person acting in compliance with state or tribal laws relating to marijuana activities. It would also clearly state that compliant transactions are not trafficking and do not result in proceeds of an unlawful transaction.

These federal criminal provisions under the CSA continue to prohibit: endangering human life while manufacturing marijuana; employment of persons under age 18 in drug operations; the distribution of marijuana at transportation safety facilities such as rest areas and truck stops; the distribution or sale of marijuana to persons under the age of 21 other than for medical purposes.

The First Step Act is short for Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act (because Congress stays thirsty for acronyms). The name is meant to indicate that the bill is only the first step in reforming the federal criminal justice system. Without Gardner’s amendment, the First Step Act swiftly passed on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 87-12.

Later that day, Gardner sent out a tweet with a video of his speech, vowing that he “will not give up this fight,” which, yes, has been a long, long fight.

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by Paul Danish

Gardner, take two

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nfortunately, on Tuesday, Dec. 18., Colorado Senator Cory Gardner’s ninthinning attempt to allow states to implement their own marijuana laws without federal interference — which he wanted to add as an amendment to the criminal justice reform bill (First Step Act) that the Senate is considering — didn’t get to first base.

Gardner said the votes to include his amendment were there if he could get a stand up vote on the Senate floor. But getting floor consideration of the amendment to the criminal justice reform bill required unanimous consent of the Senate at this stage of the legislative process, and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) objected.

Grassley, who is sponsoring the criminal justice reform bill, is also a longtime foe of marijuana legalization.

Last June, Republican Gardner and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) introduced a bill titled the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act (aka the STATES Act), which would guarantee that residents and businesses of states that legalized either recreational or medical marijuana wouldn’t be prosecuted under federal law, provided they were following their states’ laws.

The bill would write into federal law the protections the Obama admistration gave to states in a

memo issued by the Justice Department telling U.S. attorneys not to pursue federal marijuana cases against pot users and businesses in states that had made marijuana legal (the Cole Memorandum).

The STATES Act also would make it federally legal for banks to open accounts and make loans to marijuana businesses in states that have legalized pot.

Gardner introduced the bill after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked the Cole memo.

That prompted Gardner to go ballistic, because Sessions had told him prior to his confirmation hearing that he wouldn’t mess with the memo. In retaliation Gardner held up Senate confirmation votes on all new U.S. Attorneys until he got some relief. He agreed to lift his hold orders after Trump said he would support the STATES bill.

The bill attracted bipartisan support, but it didn’t move in the Senate.

It’s not clear why, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) made it clear that while he was strongly in favor of legalizing hemp, he was against legalizing recreational marijuana.

McConnell sponsored the hemp legalization amendments to the just-passed Farm Bill.

Moreover, the STATES Act would have to be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Grassley is the committee’s chairman.

The criminal justice reform bill has already cleared

a Senate-House conference committee, which is why unanimous consent was required for Senate consideration of further amendments.

Following Grassley’s objection, Gardner took to the Senate floor and made a strong pitch for his provisions, which are certain to be re-introduced when the new Congress convenes in January.

“This legislation is the embodiment of the federalism our Founders envisioned,” he said. “It allows each state to move — if at all — at its own pace.

“It lets states like Colorado be the laboratory of democracy the American people have come to expect.

But most importantly, it lets Colorado be Colorado, South Carolina be South Carolina, and Florida be Florida — and they all will have federal prosecutors backing up whatever decision they make with respect to marijuana.

“It’s hard to think about federal criminal justice reform without thinking about the biggest problem that federal criminal law creates for Colorado: the refusal to respect the will of Coloradans when it comes to their decision on marijuana...” he said. “You shouldn’t go to federal prison for following state law.

That in its essence is sentencing reform.”

Grassley said Gardner’s amendment was “a backdoor to legalization” and “allows states the right to break existing law,” which is a dishonest characterization of Gardner’s amendment. Changing a law is not the same thing as allowing someone to “break” the law that was changed.

Earlier this year Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer submitted a bill that would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act altogether, effectively legalizing it at the federal level everywhere. That bill is also certain to be re-submitted, and with support for legalization rapidly growing, marijuana prohibitionists like Grassley may end up finding Gardner’s states rights approach more palatable.

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