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A lesson from Borderland

by Joel Dyer

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Meditations on love, death and what it means to be fully alive

by Emma Murray

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A portrait of the small town as a young man

by Matt Cortina

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Nit nittay garabam: Man is man’s medicine

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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Our war president 6 ANDERSON FILES: Housing is a human right 7 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 26 OVERTONES: GasPops channel Petty 31 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 40 WORDS: ‘Decadence Outside Dior’s’ by Steve Arney 41 SCREEN: ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ is somehow better than you’ve heard 43 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County 48 COMMUNITY TABLE: Tock’s Nick Kokonas on pre-paid reservations and improving hospitality 50 DRINK: Profiles in brew: Aaron Uhl of Uhl’s Brewing Co. 55 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 57 SAVAGE LOVE: Breaking up 59 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Top cannabis moments of 2018 61 CANNABIS CORNER: Evolution in action on the right coast Boulder Weekly

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Highroad Our war president

by Jim Hightower

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hat did you do in the war, Daddy?

“I was on the front lines, stringing bands of concertina wire along the border.”

Concertina? Were you in the Army band?

“No, no, not a concert. Concertina wire is razor wire, very sharp and painful.

It keeps people out. Or in.”

What people?

“Migrants from Central America, thousands of them coming to the U.S.A.” Why are they coming here, Daddy?

“Because they are fleeing gang wars, hunger, rape and murder back home — they’re desperately poor, mostly women and children, seeking safety by walking hundreds of miles to our Land of the Free.”

So why the Army? Don’t we have a Border Patrol, Customs agents, state and local police, National Guard troops? And couldn’t a few local contractors handle the wire-stringing job, instead of deploying 6,000 active-duty troops and tons of equipment, costing taxpayers about $210 million?

“Stop making sense.”

But it doesn’t make sense.

“It doesn’t have to if you’re President Trump. The congressional elections were coming up and he needed to scare people into voting for his party, so he used the Army as his political prop. We soldiers

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know this, but it’s not our job to tell the commander in chief how to deploy America’s fighting forces. So we’ve spent the whole holiday season down on the border idly stringing concertina wire.

Now, with the election over and no border “crisis” having occurred, we’re being sent out to take down some of the wire.”

But don’t think the commander in chief is unappreciative of our soldiers’ work on his behalf. While he didn’t bother to thank the troops he sent to do concertina duty, he did take a moment during his two-week Thanksgiving getaway at his opulent Mar-a-Lago golf resort to issue best holiday wishes to all the military members deployed around the globe.

Afterwards, he told reporters: “Nobody’s done more for the military than me.”

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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the anderson files Housing is a human right

by Dave Anderson

Housing is really the foundation of so many of our social structures and without it, people just can’t succeed.” — Cathy Alderman of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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ore and more people are struggling just to have a roof over their heads. In 99.6 percent of counties in this nation, a full-time minimum wage worker can’t afford to rent a one-bedroom home. People are experiencing rising rents, foreclosures and evictions but many are invisible — they are couchsurfing, doubling up, sleeping in their cars.

The homeless folks in public spaces stand out. Some observers have compared them to the canaries in a coal mine. They reflect a broken society with neglected social problems like mental health issues, alcohol and drug abuse, and a lack of housing.

On Christmas night of 2017, a homeless man named Benjamin Harvey froze to death on a park bench after being denied a bed at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. This December 13, nearly a dozen community members delivered a demand letter to Greg Harms, the executive director of the shelter. They were led by Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America and homeless advocacy group Boulder Rights Watch. The letter said:

“An infraction of shelter rules should never be a death sentence. Under your leadership, people experiencing homelessness are subject to the arbitrary and capricious enforcement of Shelter rules, often resulting in expulsion from the shelter on unreasonably short notice, with insufficient warnings, and no offer of transportation — even though City Council created a requirement for transport to other services in the event of a suspension.”

The letter added that “your facility is run without public oversight, despite receiving one-third of its funding from public sources.”

Boulder’s handling of homelessness has been examined in two reports by the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Homeless Advocacy Policy Project. Over two years ago, the project released a report entitled ‘Too High A Price’ which detailed “the tremendous expenditures” Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs make “that criminalize some of our most basic, life-sustaining activities.” It focused on laws dealing with “camping, sitting or lying in public, begging, and loitering.”

In May of this year, the project issued a follow-up report entitled “Too High A Price 2: Move On To Where?”

The chapter on Boulder is called “Making Homelessness Inevitable by Trying to Make It Invisible.” The authors say that “The City of Boulder’s continued enforcement against its homeless residents reflects a willingness to spend whatever is necessary to crimisee THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7

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letters Is Trump fighting a lost war?

Danish wrong on climate

Having declared himself a nationalist while being white and observing his fascist viewpoints as well as a penchant for assuming autocratic power like Putin, one can only assume that Donald proposes to see a decrease or even the riddance of minority DNA in The white American gene pool. Trump’s gassing of Honduran refugees at the border under his mantra that they are thieves, murderers and only wish to steal our jobs and rape our women while he employs an undocumented housemaid to change his bed sheets reveals a hypocrisy and paranoia that conveniently resonates well with his core constituency.

Since DT is not interested in doing any research that may change his gut opinions or confide in actual facts he has launched himself into a series of ugly battles.

For one example, in the mid 1500s Spaniards came to America mixing their DNA with Mexican and North and South American Indians as they began to populate New Mexico, Arizona and California with rich mixtures of brown and red blood cells many of which I am a proud vessel.

DT trying to purge 370+ million of our great, well marinated population from 500 years of red, brown, black and yellow genes by building walls and separating babies from their parents simply represents futile skirmishes in a war long ago lost.

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Paul Danish (Re: “Macron and les deplorables,” Danish Plan, Dec. 6, 2018) cited strong opposition to recent gas taxes in France to suggest that any form of domestic carbon tax is similarly politically infeasible. But recent developments here in the US suggest otherwise. The bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act was recently introduced in the House, followed by a companion bill in the Senate.

These proposals provide an excellent template for a what an effective carbon tax could look like. A fee is imposed on fossil fuels at their point of entry into the economy, rather than specifically on gasoline, for which demand is known to be unresponsive to price changes. The proposal is revenue-neutral; all money raised is returned each month to the American people.

Danish also implies that efforts to reduce emissions are futile, but here too his pessimism is unwarranted. The science is unambiguous: the actions we take now can make the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels. While Danish is correct that global warming is not yet “settled politics,” scientists, economists and citizens across the political spectrum are increasingly converging on a carbon tax as the best way to incentivize the transition to renewable energy sources.

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nalize people experiencing homelessness.... Boulder does this despite warnings from local law enforcement leaders that this criminalization is expensive and solves nothing.”

They note that their earlier report “conservatively estimated that Boulder’s enforcement of the anti-homeless ordinances alone cost Boulder just shy of $1 million over five years. Boulder has since reported its own spending; Boulder spent $1.8 million per year.”

They discuss the barriers that homeless people encounter in trying to access the available services for them. They say the City is dealing with a paradoxical situation: “With one hand, Boulder gives generously to its homeless services; with the other, Boulder uses law enforcement to tighten its grip on those who are not able to access those services.”

The report emphasizes that changing demographics and population are making things worse and not just for the homeless: “Whether it is people experiencing homelessness or housed residents, the changing demographics and increased population in Boulder has challenged Boulder Weekly

the city. Boulder’s population boom is exacerbating an already expensive and competitive housing market for even those above moderate means. The monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment increased over $200 between 2014 and 2017. Increased housing costs increases homelessness. Research shows ‘a $100 increase in rent is associated with an increase in homelessness of between 6 and 32 percent.’ Not surprisingly, Boulder residents have listed affordable housing as one of their top concerns.”

This goes beyond Boulder. A housing justice movement is blossoming around the country pushing rent control, just cause eviction laws, tenant unions, renters’ assemblies, publicly-funded social housing, community land trusts which can replace market-rate housing.

The advocacy group Homes for All has been around for only five years but they have already created a network of 68 grassroots organizations in 24 states.

Housing is a human right, not a commodity.

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A lesson from Borderland

by Joel Dyer

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irst a crackle, then a woman’s voice over the radio: “I’ve got eight under 12 zone six.” It’s been a few years now, but as best I can recall that’s what she said.

I asked the border patrol agent I was riding with that day back in 1999 who the woman was and what her message meant. I’d been bouncing around along the California/Mexican border in white Broncos with the border patrol for a few weeks by then and I knew it wasn’t one of the regular dispatchers. He explained she was a bored housewife (his words not mine) whose husband was a long-haul trucker. He went on to tell me that her hobby was to spend all day looking through a big telescope she’d mounted on the back deck of her house, which just happened to stand on one of the highest hills between Campo Road and the border fence west of Tecate, Mexico. He said she could see darn near everything from there and that it gave her something to do when she was lonely.

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border patrol elaborated, “I think she mainly does it because it gives some of the guys an excuse to drop by her place during the day... if you know what I mean.”

I did.

So, what’s this “eight under 12” stuff, I asked. He explained that the whole area along the border was divided into zones and virtually every tree and rock in each zone has been given a number. That way every border patrol agent can instantly know exactly where an individual or group of migrants has been spotted. Because the woman spent so much time starring through her telescope, the border patrol had honored her by allowing her to use its maps, numbering system, etc. “We even gave her a thank you plaque once,” he added.

The woman was just one more bizarre character in my exploration of our nation’s southern border. On one side of the never-ending struggle that defines the borderlands (the first 50 or so miles of U.S. soil north of the border) are the migrants; men, women and children caught in a life and death game of cat and mouse as they desperately try to make their way from the violence and poverty of their home countries to the better life they’re headed for. On the other side are the border patrol, other law enforcement types and a good number of peculiar people who fancy themselves as some sort of vigilantes.

It’s a dangerous place. Where I was that day in California, crossing the borderlands requires a two- to three-day journey through 20 to 40 miles (depending on trail) of no man’s land without nearly enough water or anything else. It’s a bizarre area, part carnival show and part militarized zone complete with the constant, and stressinducing, low-frequency thumping of helicopters that cruise along just above the treetops.

The lonely woman was a good example of the carnival show aspect. I mean, where else but the borderlands could a horny, middle-aged, racist housewife trade the lives of desperate families for an ongoing supply of twotiming nooners with la migre. And she wasn’t even the worst example of humanity I encountered in this land of chest high brush and cacti where dreams and people so often die for no justifiable reason.

A few days earlier and a few miles farther west I’d come across a two-acre compound sporting U.S. and Confederate flags alongside a homemade shooting range in the backyard of what appeared to be an unpainted concrete-block house. A “no trespassing”

sign adorned the razor-wire-topped on night-vision goggles, arm themselves chain-link fence that surrounded the to the teeth, break up into teams and property. The sign seemed a bit redunplay what they called war games. He dant. said they doled out points for how I’d asked another border patrol many immigrants they could capture agent about the compound. He told me and turn over to border patrol. the guy who owned it had started a The agent — correctly identifying militia group of sorts. He said he the look on my face as something thought they were antigovernment in between horror and disgust — quickly general, but were definitely anti-Mexiadded that no one had ever been can in pretty much every way imagininjured or killed by these “games.” I AD_BoulderWeekly_PreeshLightning_01-19_Output.pdf 1 12/17/18 able. For fun, he said, they liked to put waited for him to add, “at 2:48 leastPMas far as

we know,” but he didn’t. And I found his definition of “injured” a bit too narrow. Ask the person or family who just got deported because of some crazy gun-toting racist using them as part of a twisted game if they felt injured and you’d likely get a different answer.

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along with the border patrol, as well as accompanying parties of migrants as they illegally crossed the border.

I had first been drawn to this area east of San Diego by a tragedy. On April 2, 1999, a freak storm hit the Laguna Mountains dumping several inches of snow and dropping temperatures well below what anyone could have expected for that time of year so far south. At least nine migrants who had crossed the border a day or two before the storm hit and were trying to make it up to their ride waiting along I-8 lost their lives that night and another 24 were rescued with varying degrees of hypothermia, frostbite and other serious ailments resulting from the extreme conditions.

I heard unimaginable stories from that night. One man, who was freezing to death, built a small fire and eventually burned his only pair of shoes and some of his clothing in his last ditch effort to stay alive. He died. A young mother had to choose which child to carry and which to leave behind. Let that soak in.

It was a chaotic scene. Once the coyotes abandoned their groups to save themselves, dozens of people were simply left wondering alone in the middle of a snowstorm at night in the mountains in a place they’d never been before not even knowing which direction to go.

The storm caused a terrible tragedy, but is also exposed another terrible thing: our indifference to the plight of our fellow human beings when they are brown and without what we call “the proper paper work.” As far as I know this horrific event didn’t even make the

nightly TV news. I only knew about it from a three-inch wire story buried deep inside a newspaper I was reading under the headline “Illegal aliens detained by snowstorm.”

Detained?

Nine dead, dozens badly injured equates to “Detained?”

Only when you’re skin’s not white.

I remember wondering what Woody Guthrie would have said about that headline if he’d lived to see it. I think he would have noted not much had changed since he penned “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).”

Thinking back on this incident exposes something in me that I don’t like. The memories have me reevaluating my feelings regarding the current immigration crisis. It seems that quite often these days I treat my moral outrage over what is happening at our border and to our 11 million undocumented neighbors as shrapnel I cram down the barrel of the cannon I like to aim at my political enemies, like the president, in an effort to disparage them.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem justifying my disgust with Trump and his band of cruel idiots. But I have to wonder, “Are things really all that different now when it comes to how we treat immigrants and why am I so much angrier now than I was back then?”

Those people died in 1999 because a 60-mile-long border fence had been built

by Bill Clinton from San Diego to the east in 1994. And it was built for purely political purposes. This fence known as Operation Gatekeeper allowed Clinton to tout a strong on border security position, a politically popular position useful when Boulder Weekly

gearing up for a 1996 election against Republican Bob Dole who saw immigration as one of his strengths. It was just the kind of thing we’d grown to expect from Bill. After all, he was the man who once polled public opinion before making his decision as to whether or not he should commute the death sentence of a mentally disabled man facing the chair in Arkansas. Clinton let the man die on his way to winning his next election.

It wasn’t just the nine people on April 2, 1999 who died as a result of Clinton’s fence. The barrier removed the easy and safe pathway for migrants along the beach from Tijuana to San Diego. The fence forced most migrants to make a multi-day crossing through the dangerous mountains and deserts to the east and to do so, most had to use the services of unscrupulous coyotes.

The result? Deaths from crossing the border illegally in California went up five-fold. Thousands have died because of Clinton’s fence.

Remember the outrage from the left in the 1990s as more and more men, women and children were killed because of this misguided border policy born of political expediency?

Don’t worry if it doesn’t ring a bell.

You don’t remember it because it didn’t exist aside from the few activists trying to put a stop to it. Despite thousands of unnecessary deaths, there were few notable complaints being leveled by elected Democrats and of course most Republicans, then as now, saw dead bodies as a deterrent to the crime of trying to flee violence and poverty for a better life.

I’m not making this comparison to rail against Clinton. Until Trump and his overtly racist policies came along it was President Barack Obama who had deported the most people, breaking up the most families in U.S. history. And it was Obama and Hilary Clinton who set the policy to turn back unaccompanied minors at the border, no doubt sending many of these young people to their deaths at the hands of the very gangs they were fleeing in their home countries.

It seems we’ve been needlessly killing Latinos one way or another for decades with our politically motivated immigration policies in this country.

Democrats and Republicans have taken turns separating families and causing children to die in our deserts and mountains.

But now, after years of indifference, we are suddenly outraged over what Trump is doing at the border and to our undocumented neighbors. A quick check of social media reveals that a lot of people consider the recent death of a seven-year-old girl who died while in ICE custody to be a case of murder litBoulder Weekly

erally perpetrated by this president.

I understand that sentiment.

I agree with it in many ways.

But I have to ask, where was I while hundreds of other children and thousands of parents and sons and daughters and brothers and sisters were being similarly put to death by the inhumane immigration policies of our former presidents? And more importantly, where will my outrage be when Trump is gone but the people are still dying and the families are still being torn apart?

If I only feel my current level of “righteous” anger over immigrant deaths, family separations and unjustified deportations when I can use them to further my political opposition to a horrible person like Trump, then what should I call it? Is it really righteous?

Does it really have its roots in my concern for others?

Or, as I fear, is it just another, albeit less obvious, form of racism in its own right? Am I, at least partially, using these dead children and separated families as just another excuse to justify my anger and disdain for Trump and the political other?

My motive does make a difference.

In fact, I think motive is really the only thing that matters here. If politics is the catalyst for my concern then I will once again become numb to the tragedies spawned by our cruel immigration system once Trump has been relegated to just another footnote in our history books alongside Andrew Jackson, Joe McCarthy and Nixon. But if I really care because I am seeing, really grasping the immense pain our system has long heaped upon those who have come to our country hoping to find compassion and opportunity — albeit without certain pieces of paper — then there is reason for hope.

In the borderlands, when you care about the wellbeing of migrants you show it by hanging bottles of water and warm clothes on your fence or leaving your shed unlocked on cold nights.

I think it is past time for all of us to find ways to show our concern for those seeking asylum and opportunity in our country, as well as for our 11 million undocumented neighbors who are already here and forced to live under the constant threat of incarceration, deportation and family separation.

I think I’ve learned my lesson from the borderlands, I hope I have. I know it’s time for me to unlock the shed and leave it that way from now on, no matter who the president or what party is in control.

Despising or fearing Trump can’t be my motivation for doing the right thing.

It’s a poor substitute for compassion, empathy and sympathy and love.

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Essay Issue 2018 Emma Murray

Meditations on love, death and what it means to be fully alive

by Emma Murray

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emory is a funny thing. One recent lunch break, my sister’s on the phone and she mentions Daisy’s resurrection. I’m walking down the street with my new 8-week-old red heeler puppy, Paco, and have to stop, stand still on the corner.

The earliest memory I can conjure is shrouded in blue — that seen-through-thetop-of-the-windshield kind of blue — and from what I can tell, I’m sitting in a dog bowl the size of a basketball hoop in the backyard.

All I can discern is the back door (hazy) and the blueness of the plastic, monochromatic dog bowl (beneath and surrounding me). I think I’m splashing around, and that feeling, maybe now I’d call it glee.

But how I can remember a scene from the time I was small enough to fit inside Daisy’s giant water bowl, but not her death and coming-back-to-life, which would happen five years later? I call Mom and Dad, and they confirm my sister’s story. Memory just works like that.

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apartment, “Oh I used to feel that way too,” she tells me. “But then I learned that dogs have such short-term memory that they don’t even remember you leaving by the time you get back.” That’s why they’re always so happy to see you, and love you, despite the fact you continually exclude them from the rich world outside. I doubt her, so I Google it. National Geographic suggests dogs can forget things as quickly as two minutes after they happen. I think of this as I leave Paco alone in the apartment after lunch, again, while I go back to work, to a place he can’t come.

Death comes and death goes. Four days after my parents tell me and my younger siblings that our golden lab Daisy is dead (and we thr0w away all her toys and dog accessories), they sit us back down and tell us that, as a matter of fact, Daisy is very much alive. I’m still shocked I don’t remember any of this. “I mean you were five,” my dad says when I call back to ask for more details about this resurrection story. “You might not have exactly comprehended life and death.”

Good strangers exist out there. Daisy’s first death was the result of a mysterious accident (“No witnesses,” Dad says) resulting in

twin four-inch gashes down the length of her forearms, which my parents (a public school teacher working two other part-time jobs, and a career mom waitressing on the side) couldn’t afford to surgically mend. But, days after they’d signed the paperwork to put her to (permanent) sleep or give her away in the event of a miraculous recovery, Mom saw our next-door neighbor walking Daisy, bandaged forearms and all, down the sidewalk. In hysterics, Mom called the vet demanding to know why they’d given our dog away — and to our next-door neighbor of all people!

It turned out the dog the neighbor was walking was an imposter (weird coincidence), “but,” the vet explained, “Daisy is doing just fine now and you can come pick her up whenever you want!” Apparently the heartof-gold vet took it upon herself to mend and care for Daisy’s life on her own time.

Sometimes life is actually like the movies.

There’s a desolate road in Argentina that runs between a gas and a police station (and hundreds of more barren miles in either direction). On the side of it, my partner, Jordan, and I wait. We’ve been waiting for hours and the moody, overcast clouds are starting to Boulder Weekly

resemble our resolve — bruised and battered. The unrelenting wind is tangling my hair into knots that’ll take hours to undo but no truck driver pauses to let us hop in, maybe catch a ride north. Our patience grows stale and we amble toward the police station. A small puppy, midnight black and tiny enough to eventually curl up on Jordan’s chest inside his jacket, crawls out from behind a half-built, concrete retainer wall. We coo over it and when it affectionately takes to our attention, I run down to the gas station to buy salami, and we name her Fray, after the mountain range shadowing the town in which Jordan and I had recently met. Sleeping in Jordan’s jacket, pressed to his heart, Fray spontaneously comes with us when a trucker finally pulls over.

A few days later, we’re at a different gas station, 400 miles north, and Jordan and Fray are sprinting down a road that’s leading into the belly of nowhere. Just grassy fields, a boy I’m in love with, and a puppy that makes me smile for as far as the eyes can see. That night, I write in my journal, thinking of that moment: “Feeling so alive.

Like I’m living a movie. Don’t forget this.”

Jordan and I both grew up with dogs, and as we planned our wedding and moved into a new pet-friendly apartment, adding a dog to the mix gradually became a feature more consistent in our conversations. I wanted a companion to run and walk with (hello, mountain lions); Jordan has just always loved dogs and when he spotted a Craigslist ad the morning I was due at the airport, he said we should “just go look at the puppies.”

Paco was born a few miles east of Fort Lupton to a red heeler mama and a blue heeler papa. The litter was split in color, and we got the impression both parents worked long days on the farm, chasing chickens or herding sheep or whatever it is farm dogs do these days. We drive to the farm from the airport. And when we turn to leave (having forked over $200 for Paco), I walk over to the three elementary school-aged girls swinging on a porch rocking chair. 11-pound, 7-week-old Paco is curled in my arms like a sack of jumbled steamed potatoes. I ask if they want to say goodbye. “Bye, gordito.” They giggle, rub his tummy. Bye, little fatty.

We drive back down the dirt road, straight toward the sunset-silhouetted mountains, and after a few minutes, it occurs to me this puppy doesn’t understand he’s never going back. He yelps, then collapses, naivete gone, into a pile of stress.

That night Paco pees on our hardwood floors not twice, but three times.

Strangers and puppies, when together, have no boundaries. The first family errand Jordan, Paco and I run is at Home Depot.

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needs to stop, pet Paco, and comment on his adorable cuteness. At the cash register, I tell Jordan, “You really have to be in the right mood to take him anywhere, huh.” A certain threshold of extroverted energy must remain in my system in order to bring him out in public. Later I decide not to bring him to into a store, even where he’s allowed, because I’m in a mood where I can’t deal with people.

Forgiveness works best as a two-way street. When Paco gurgles and dry heaves at 4 a.m., regurgitating the stick he’d chewed and swallowed over the course of the night, I get out of bed to clean it up, blurry-eyed until an acrid whiff of his vomit hits my nose and I’m suddenly up for the day. I don’t want to look at or acknowledge him. But I do. And I remember he’s not only a dog with an innate proclivity to chew things, but he’s also learning. I can’t help but cuddle with him on the couch again. I practice letting go like this every day now. Maybe it’ll bleed into other facets of my life.

Whenever we open the front door, Paco tries to weasel out. When I have to leave the apartment, he wags his tail across the floor as if sweeping away the ants that have conquered our lower cabinets. I have to close the door in his face, have to hear him whimper, let out a little bark, fall silent, defeated again. When I peak back in through the window, he’s just staring at the doorknob. He notices me (accidentally hit the glass with my bike helmet) and his face lights up. I feel horrible for having to keep him there for hours at a time. Yet when I come home, he lavishes me with kisses.

Patience isn’t just a virtue; it’s a lifestyle.

I’m walking him and we stop every once in a while between the neighbor’s apple tree, the church’s lawn, the Little Free Library.

We have no reason to rush. The point is being outside, roaming.

I find myself talking with him like I would a human child. “Why must you bite everything?”

Silence.

“Why don’t you like baths?”

Silence.

“Why is your poop still so runny?”

Silence.

“Why are you whining?”

Anything but silence.

There’s a lot of guessing, a lot of trial and error. I guess that’s life, too. Trying and learning. Tweaking and observing.

Following your nose is good advice. I take Paco skiing for the first time in early December. I’m touring with a new-ish friend and her blue heeler, Kodha, and as we push ourselves up the mountain, we talk about things exciting us about the future. I look forward to slowing down a little, pursuing more projects that stem from deeper inspiration, nothing forced.

“Just like how Paco decides what to go

after — instinct, intuition and his nose,” my friend says, laughing.

Paco loves to roam, but he also knows the standard tricks (sit, lie down, roll over, shake, kangaroo). I worry, though, if all the camping we do and the miles he explores off-leash is making him less submissive. Once, while camping shortly after he’d turned 5 months, I write in my journal, “He does not always do as told when we’re in the wild — even when treats are plentiful! What does this fresh air and borderless roaming do to our souls but slowly unravel the framework of ‘musts’ and ‘shoulds?’ Perhaps Paco is merely more susceptible to the power of arid wind and a constant grinding of red dust. We’re all worn down to our cores, our roots of connection to the earth and landscapes. There’s not a lot of junk in Paco’s way, no clutter filling the mind or soul. He gets it quick, feels it big.”

Though purpose might elude us, contentment is achievable. I sit in a camp chair on Independence Pass, a drive-up lookout at 12,000 feet with views of the Rocky Mountains’ Continental Divide. Paco is curled in my lap. He whirs in soft, irregular snortles. He’s 10 weeks old and as I notice the completeness of his relaxed, sleeping weight, I look across the rounded mountain tops and feel my own completeness, sunken into the canvas chair. I’m here. It’s now. I’m at peace.

The night Paco comes home from the vet after being neutered, he can’t figure out how to relax with the giant plastic cone around his neck. We set up his bed at the foot of ours, and sleep flipped around with our heads by him. I try to coax him down, but he stays propped up. He whines periodically, and finally at 4 a.m. I crawl on the floor and pull him into my embrace, let him drape his chin over my shoulder. I feel his entire weight drop onto me. He sighs now, no whine.

My favorite leash is our hands-free leash. You wrap a black strap around your waist, thread the velcro through a metal ring and fold it upon itself. Then you clip the strap’s other end to Paco’s collar. One day we’re out running and I realize it’s like a 10-foot, heavy-duty umbilical cord.

Living thing secured to living thing. Not exactly how I thought I’d end up thinking about it when I was dreaming about owning a dog to accompany me running.

One night when we’re sleeping in our car, Paco curls up in the space next to me and Jordan. “He’s our animal,” I say. “We love him. He loves us, too, right? He didn’t have a say in the matter — we just plucked him from the farm. Made him ours. Now he relies on us for his life. And we are happy to reciprocate.”

Jordan, impersonating an old man voice, says “Well, if you ask me, he got pretty damn lucky.”

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turned off my phone and put it in my desk. I quit Facebook, and closed my email accounts. I deleted my LinkedIn profile, so potential employers wouldn’t be wooed by my two summers at a day camp and unpaid writing internship at an obscure online publication. I unliked all the Pearl Jam concert videos and David Foster Wallace interviews on my YouTube account. The only trace of me I’d leave in New Jersey would be a receipt at the bottom of a Walmart parking lot trash can for three disposable cameras, a bag of tortillas and a case of canned beans.

ping like corn on a skillet. I stopped for the horse.

“Never mind her,” Ardis said, walking down the hill from her home. “Go, git.”

The horse wandered back into the prairie. Ardis touched my face.

“You shaved,” she said.

“What do you mean?”

“How come I ask is I saw your picture online,” Ardis said.

A headshot I took in my parent’s bathroom and used exactly once when my first short story got published in a now-defunct literary journal.

“What happened to your beard?” she asked.

“Oh, I got rid of it a while ago.”

“You on the run or something?”

Maybe. I’d bought a University of Nebraska hat at a gas station on the way to fit in with the locals. I was 30 miles from the center of the country, even farther from home. I’d ghosted my girlfriend at a time when ghosting was just called being a terrible person. I’d rejected a job offer to work in a small publishing house despite literally everyone in my life telling me I should take the job and not move to Nebraska.

Not cut ties with my family and friends,

Essay Issue 2018 After miles on highways, quarts of watery gas-station coffee and, at last, tunnels of titanic, late-season GMO corn, I pulled into town. A town deep in the Heartland into whose name on a map I’d stubbed my index finger with my eyes closed. My car’s headlights struck figurines in the windowsill and cast monstrous silhouettes across Ardis’ dining room. I drove toward the farm cottage in the back of the property, the gravel on the driveway popBoulder Weekly

move to a town of 2,000 people, write a novel and attempt to pick up Miss Nebraska at the State Fair and convince her to move into a cottage I was renting for $100 a week. “But there are horses,” I’d tell her, and I’d pull out my disposable camera and say, eyes bleeding, “Just wait until I get these developed.”

That would all work.

What was I doing?

I rode my bike into town the next morning, about a half-mile from the cottage. That gave me away pretty quick.

“People in this town don’t ride bikes,” the librarian, Ardis’ daughter-in-law, told me.

Certainly I was after some authentic experience. A neo-Luddite, navel-gazing quest to find something real in a world where everything and everyone felt fake. I needed to grow up. Instead, I photocopied pages of local history books for five cents a page and squealed with delight at the smell of hot paper and the sound of clinking change. Oh to read about this town on paper, a stop on the Burlington Northern line. Willa Cather wrote My Ántonia here; two museums and three homesteads are dedicated to her. Boomed in the ’20s, then slowly died over the following 90 years.

This was real.

I walked downtown. The streets were See PORTRAIT Page 18

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I was eating French fries in a McDonald’s parking lot months prior when Ardis’ son, a banker in New York, called to see what horrible thing I had designs on doing when I called his mother to see if I could stay in the cottage for several months.

After proving myself harmless, he gave me the town gossip, and I used notes from that conversation to comprise a guided walking tour of the town.

There was the old opera building; once thriving, now padlocked and serving as a garage/trash heap. Looking through dusty windows, I saw the covered classic cars Ardis’ son told me the building’s owner, “a shitty man,” kept in there. A Subway, “the place to go out.”

A pharmacy, now closed. A bank, now closed. A building front with spectacular art installations made by the town doctor whose wife left her. A bookstore, closed. The Palace, “a good place to get a steak.” South Bar, “a good place to get meth.” The two-lane bowling alley, “a good place to get French toast in the morning.” The shack off Webster, “a good place to get Filipino food from a mail-order bride on Fridays between noon and 2 p.m.” A train station — the train station — that had been picked up and moved two blocks, painted and padlocked. The grain elevator, no longer working. The Republican River, brown and dry and festering.

I walked to the Sinclair gas station.

A man in Terminator sunglasses stared at a rotating display of Hunt’s Brothers pizzas, sizzling under orange tubes. A boy and his brother, during school hours, scratched lotto tickets at the counter. They won.

“We’ll take another.”

“You wanna cash in your winner?”

“No, I’ll pay for it.”

The older boy wrote a check for $2.

At the grocery store next-door, I stood in line behind a mother and four children, all jumping and crying around her in a hurricane. A starch-white elderly woman leaned over and asked why they all had cell phones if the mother was paying with WIC stubs.

A better writer, like, say, Tolstoy, would’ve taken all that information, gone back to his cottage and wrote about how every dying American small town is miserable and dying and small in its own way. I bought an iced tea and ate a bean taco and wrote about trains.

“What the hell are you doing here?”

That’s what Jeff asked after a few rounds in South Bar a few afternoons later. The draw of two-dollar Budweisers had called me.

“What the fuck are you gonna write about us for?”

Well, I’m not really going to write about you… I’m just here to write.

And so it was that Jeff would say, “Hey, write this one down,” every time he said something important. Hay “making bank” because Texas and Oklahoma were in a drought. A joke about how you know you’re in Kansas if you’re banging a goat. How he can’t be tied down because he “lives by the tracks.”

“Jeff, quit it. Your wife left ’cause you’re screwing around all over town,” the bartender, a senior at the University of Nebraska, cut in.

Jeff and a buddy invited me to see what life really was like down by the tracks after a long night at South Bar a few days later. The bartender told me, definitively, not to go. We sat in the Boulder Weekly

Tantric Sacred Sexuality Exploration & Education backyard as quarter-sized mosquitoes made half-dollar-sized bubbles in our skin, and Jeff smoked meth. They say life in small towns can feel like a drain, and I felt like I was at the bottom, where the water swirls fast, so fast you can’t see outside it. If our country were a pool, here in the center of it the horizons would be most obscured.

The next morning, Ardis and her husband took me for a ride around the area. Ardis had moved from Lebanon, Kansas, 30 miles south, the actual geographic center of the lower 48. We ate lunch in the town’s general store — a buffet with meatloaf, potatoes and green beans for $3.45. Everyone was over the age of 65, at least, and I wondered how. How is this town going to survive? How does it even exist?

We drove by a field of glimmering building frames, long abandoned midconstruction by a group of Transcendental Meditation practitioners, who were going to build a center for world peace at the direction of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. “They were weird, and then they stopped coming,” Ardis said. “Don’t know how come they chose here,” her husband added.

We stopped for a milkshake, 89 cents, in a neighboring town with even more empty storefronts. “It’s hard,” Ardis said. “We need more people to come back. They leave, and they don’t come back.” Her husband added, “They say they will.”

Back in town, I went to a volleyball game at the high school. The bleachers could accommodate the whole town, and then some, but only the parents were there. The announcer introduced every player, and mentioned where the seniors would be going the following year. Many were off to a state school, some to the community college up the road, and some players had to sweat out a pregnant silence that gestated after their names. A parent curious about my presence eventually told me they can only field a six-man football team, and in fact, all the high schools in south-central Nebraska had switched to six-man football years ago.

“So why are you here again?”

I had no answer anymore. I was exposed. A voyeur. I had options elsewhere. I had lived a life that afforded me the privilege of throwing it all away and, still, expect to regain most of it whenever it was I returned. If I was looking for authenticity, it was there. It was ugly. If I was looking for solitude to write free from my own life, I found it.

If I was looking to escape, with horses and meth and Miss Nebraska, I could escape forever. It was lonesome.

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I was fooling myself if I thought just living in a cottage on the end of town made me anything other than a tourist. I wanted this town to exist, but only for me.

I dawdled around town for a few more weeks, continuing to write. Soon, though, my fingers were just moving on keys. The words didn’t make sense. I missed my friends. I missed my family.

I missed the creature comforts of a stepping-stone job, of Pearl Jam videos, of sardonic Facebook commentary, of a phone with a camera on it, of hope.

We were watching The Patriot at South Bar on my final night in town. It was just me and the bartender — not the one who was a senior at the university, the one who stood there the rest of the year while she was gone. I was drunk on cheap beer, and asked the bartender if I could stay until the movie was over. It was early in the morning.

“You can stay as long as you want.”

When Mel Gibson saved America, I paid and left. I ran for some reason. I nearly ran into a cop.

“Going somewhere?” he asked.

“Home,” I said, thinking about the cottage, worried I’d be arrested on my last day for public intoxication.

“Then get going,” he said.

A couple years after I left, I got an alert on Google News about the town.

A white supremacist had come in and attempted to buy up the tax liens on a bunch of homes. He was trying to create an all-white colony, a community in his image, where he’d be the savior, like the Transcendental Meditation people had tried before, like the boomtown residents had tried before them, and, maybe, like I’d tried a few years prior.

My heart sank. This couldn’t happen to Ardis. To the doctor-artist. To the poor kids scratching off tickets at the gas station. Not even Jeff deserved it.

It didn’t happen. The townspeople pooled their money and paid off the liens themselves. The white supremacist came and left, just as I had before him, and the TMers, boomers, and Willa Cather before me.

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They were selling craft coffee. South Bar had been bought and renovated, and when we stopped in, a wedding party dressed in Canadian tuxedos took shots and bought us drinks. The opera house was getting refurbished by the historical society. Laura Bush had come to speak at a Willa Cather conference.

They were surviving.

It was like I was never there.

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Nit nittay garabam: Man is man’s medicine

by Angela K. Evans

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s I slid down the hillside, rocks and dirt and plants tumbling underneath me, I remember a scream so loud, it couldn’t possibly have come out of quiet, peaceful Miriam.

The dust settled, and my feet found their footing on a rocky ledge. I looked around trying to find her. Where was she?

She wasn’t that far behind me — a boulder almost too big to wrap my arms around separated her body from her foot, her left leg pinned underneath.

Miriam and I had first met about six weeks earlier in the terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare airport waiting to board our flight to Dakar, Senegal.

We were going to study international development, me for a semester, Miriam for a year. Connecting over email, we had decided to go a few days early, before classes began, to explore the city we would call home for See MEDICINE Page 22

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the next several months.

We spent those first few days wandering around the capital, often wary of what would soon become routine. We cautiously took the blue and yellow cars rapides to get from one place to another, without the confidence that would soon be part of our daily commute. We debated before sitting down at what would become our favorite restaurant in the middle of the open-air market, plastic table cloths covering wooden picnic tables, women stirring large pots of thieboudienne, simmering rice, vegetables and fish. At night, we sat in the hotel room, unsure about wandering around after dark, unaware of the many nights we’d soon spend dancing, singing karaoke and walking the city streets well into the next morning.

Where I was anxious and cautious, Miriam was bold — quiet perhaps, but not reserved. She was enthralled by the culture and life around her, no matter how different it was from her own. She was also extremely patient with me, encouraging me when I felt hesitant.

As the weeks went by, and we settled into our lives with our respective host families and weekly classes, Miriam only became more at home, responding to the world around her with unending curiosity and positivity, whereas I struggled with homesickness and culture shock. In time, we both became more adventurous, wandering farther and farther from school and home, planning weekend trips to other towns and cities, even considering making the trek all the way to Timbuktu.

That’s how we found ourselves on a breezy Saturday in mid-October, with a group of other study abroad students on

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Îles de la Madeleine, an uninhabited island 4 kilometers off the coast of Dakar. It’s both a national park and the westernmost land in Africa. The chartered boat dropped us off in the crystal clear turquoise water of a sandy-bottomed lagoon, the captain assuring us he’d be back in six hours or so to pick us up.

After a few hours laying in the sand and swimming in the shallow waters, a few of us decided to explore an unmarked trail up the steep embankment to the top of a wide plateau. As we wandered around the brush, we could see sprawling Dakar to the east, the vastness of the Pacific Ocean to the west, as haunting deep blue water crashed in waves over black volcanic rock below us.

Someone pointed out a cave in the distance, and we scrambled down to a rocky ledge to check it out. We sat and listened to the booming waves fill the cave over and over again; we watched birds flying into their nests to feed chicks; we looked for ocean life in the swirling tide pools. Soon we began to make our way back to the lagoon, drawn by the lunch and friends waiting for us.

As I climbed back up the steep embankment, behind Ella, another study abroad student, I took one step to the left and the rocks began falling out from underneath me. I slid with them, my entire front-side scraping down the hillside as I frantically tried to get a foothold. I finally hit the rocky ledge and stood up, with some minor scrapes and scratches and one cut that would later require a few stitches.

I looked up and saw Ella on top of the plateau, silhouetted in the bright

African sun. It was then that I heard Miriam’s scream, again. We rushed over, five students in all. As we removed the rock and laid Miriam down, I could hardly process what was happening. As much as I wanted to sit down and sob — reeling from the reality that I caused a rock slide, that we were on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that my friend’s leg was essentially destroyed — I couldn’t. No one could.

Ben, who was premed, quickly told us to block Miriam’s vision as he attempted to put her leg back together, one hand at the knee, the other at the ankle, muscles, tendons and bone fragments spilling out between the two. The image of her leg, looking more like a dead animal you pass on the road than a human limb, will never fade from my memory.

We needed something to stop the bleeding, a tourniquet of some sort to tie off the wound, Ben said, as we all looked at each other clad in nothing more than bathing suits and sandals. (Where were my sandals, I was wearing sandals?) One detachable bathing suit strap worked right above the wound. Once Ella had scrambled back down the hillside, someone grabbed her sarong, and we used a rock to apply pressure at the femoral artery up at Miriam’s hip. Ella then ran back up the slope to tell the others what had happened and use a cell phone we hoped had service.

Then we waited, taking turns holding the limb together and using our bodies to shield Miriam both from the unrelenting sun and the view of her broken leg. We gathered rocks to prop up her knee, trying to keep her as still as

possible. There was such hopelessness in her voice that first hour. She kept asking us questions, trying to make sense of what happened. In response, I recited poetry; we sang songs together.

As the time passed, she somehow regained her positivity, telling us funny stories of her childhood, asking us to share our memories in return. She told us about her grandparents’ parrot who drinks tea with them and her fifth grade class pet ferret. We swapped prom and college stories, we joked about our siblings, roommates, parents and friends, as if we weren’t a world away from all of them.

A few times I didn’t think I was going to be able to handle anymore, and yet Miriam always had a way of refocusing on a funny memory that would bring a smile to her face and make us all laugh, encouraging us to just hang on a little longer. “Your calm disposition saved us all from despair out there on the island,” I wrote her in an email months later.

She was the girl who put smiley faces in all her emails, even the most mundane ones coordinating travel arrangements. The one who stopped and talked to anyone who asked her to, patiently communicating through both French and Wolof (the national language), never furrowing her brow or sighing in exasperation. She was the one who had committed to an entire academic year away from home, family and friends, whereas I could hardly imagine making it through the semester. The one who jokingly wrote, “I just went on a giant hike and didn’t break my tibia!” in an email years later, reaching out to wish me a happy birthday, reminiscing

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about the night I turned 21 on my host family’s rooftop, as we all clinked glasses and ate cake.

Five hours after I’d first felt the hillside slide under my feet, we were standing back atop the plateau, watching as Miriam, strapped to a stretcher, dangled from the helicopter hovering above our heads. There were more people with us now: our study abroad program director; a Senegalese doctor who came by boat, climbing up the cliff from the choppy water; and two French paramedics who happened to be the only other people on the island that day, who spent the last couple of hours checking Miriam’s vitals and giving her water. They’re also the ones that called friends at the French military base, accessing the only helicopter in the country. As the helicopter flew toward the city, we followed Miriam to the hospital, hiking back to the lagoon (me, now wearing Miriam’s sandals), and getting back on a boat headed for shore.

She was supposed to stay in Senegal, not me. I triggered the rock slide. Why did I get to walk away unscathed, while she was rushed home on an airplane the next day, an external fixator holding her leg together, her other foot unknowingly broken as well?

Even before the accident I had spent weeks longing to go home, uncomfortable with heat rash, mosquito bites and the carnivorous diet I daily consumed, forgoing years of vegetarianism. As we traveled in crowded buses to school, I often felt like I was suffocating, every last inch of space filled with people, animals, bags and dirt. At my host family’s there was no place to escape, every

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moment filled with communal dinners, neighbors’ visits, TV blaring popular music and dance videos. Each night as I lay in my own bed in a shared room with my three young host siblings, the oscillating fan providing brief reprieve from the dense heat every 30 seconds or so, I tried to convince myself I could do it. I could stay.

After the accident, this feeling only got worse. I was desperate to feel the comfort of home. I longed for people who told me they were sorry about what happened, who didn’t scold me for climbing the hillside and causing the slide. All I wanted was to be alone in a place where solitude was culturally taboo.

But slowly, it got better. I still took those weekend trips with other friends, squeezing into sept-places and bumping along dirt roads. We still went dancing on the weekends and searched for fresh watermelon, mango and cold bisap juice on the way home from school. We played soccer in the street with my host brothers and attempted to debate world politics in French with our host families.

Before I knew it, the semester was over, and I was headed back to the U.S. Landing back in Chicago, Miriam was the first person I saw, her smiling face looking up at me from the wheelchair in the arrivals hall. She held up a puffy winter coat as I stood there shivering in sandals and a jean jacket, the warmest clothes I had with me.

We piled into her parents’ sedan — four people, three large suitcases (one Miriam’s, two mine) and a wheelchair. It felt oddly comfortable to be squished up

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against the car door, bags and people filling every last inch of space. The sheer proximity of people and things soothed me as the cold and reverse culture shock began to set in. Where I once wanted my own space in Senegal, here I craved the nearness of anyone and anything.

Where I once longed to return home, here it all felt foreign: the English on the radio, the orderly traffic, the frigid winter air and Christmas decorations.

We drove to her parents’ house, as I told her about the rest of the semester, the times I sat peeling fish as they came off the smoker with ladies in the village as part of my “environmental” internship. The daunting task of standing in front of 70 students, attempting to teach them English. I told her about dancing on the beach with my host brother and his friends, the heavy drum beats filling the ocean-scented air. I told her about the weekend travels we took to the Gambia and Saint-Louis, the bike rides, animal parks and marriage proposals, genuine or otherwise, we all received on a daily basis.

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in an attempt to heal her leg and help her walk again. I listened, in the cold night of winter, longing for the warmth of not just the Senegalese climate but its people.

I told her how much we missed her, and how I would lay awake at night under my mosquito net replaying the rock slide in my head, wondering what I could have done differently, how it should have been me, not her that left.

But she stopped me, with a furrowed brow and in the most stern voice she could muster, she refused to let me go on. Every time I wanted to blame myself, she was the one who wouldn’t let me. I told her how, in the months that had passed since the accident (it was an accident, I reminded myself again and again), I tried to embody as much of her spirit as possible. Entering into each situation with positivity and grace, curiosity and excitement, forgoing hesitation, skepticism and anxiety.

We’ve since lost touch, separated by time and place, life changes and choices. But the last emails I have from her, ones I received years after that fateful day, are still signed with her signature smiley face :-) and a Wolof proverb, a lesson we both learned from our brief time in Senegal. Nit nittay garabam: Man is man’s medicine.

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by Caitlin Rockett

T

he other day, a good friend shared another woman’s tweet that read: “I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but if you’re going through a rough time right now… leave your hair alone.”

Sage advice.

This is the story of how I ignored it.

• • • • When I was 29, I dyed my naturally blonde hair for the first time. I was in grad school, stressed far beyond the call of duty, slipping into debt by the tens of thousands as the semesters rolled by, and in a fairly unstable relationship... so this was obviously the right time to make a decision that couldn’t easily be undone.

Equally obviously, I dyed that shit black. For all you colorists out there, we’re talking level 9 to level 1. Boom.

Done. From Buffy to Morticia in about an hour at the salon.

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ing to stop me. You had my best interest at heart. And don’t worry, this story has a happy ending.)

It was the beginning of a wild search to take control of something — anything — in my life. I needed, whether I realized it or not, for my outsides to match my insides.

But I hated having black hair.

Without makeup, my light eyebrows and eyelashes looked nonexistent against the cascade of sable hair, and when my blonde roots grew out, they gave the impression that I was balding.

My roots needed a touch-up every six weeks, and because I was too scared to do it myself, I went to an insanely expensive salon and spent money I didn’t have.

I was ashamed of how vain I felt about all of it.

For years my mother and other people close to me had dissuaded me from dying my hair because people would kill to have naturally blonde hair like mine, they said. I would ruin

my hair, they said. I would regret it, they said.

So I’d be damned if I was going to admit regret to anyone, least of all myself.

But it was hard to see myself in the mirror sometimes, and for someone like me (i.e., neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it), it was a constant reminder of how out of control my life was... or at least how it felt.

After several months of black hair I couldn’t take it anymore. I needed to move back toward something I didn’t have to deal with every other month, so my stylist and I started the long journey back to blonde, a path paved with many shades of orange, no matter how much toner we used to cool the color. My stylist, a saint of hair color, went slowly so as not to fry my hair. And he always talked to me about the process, so I learned a bit about how to “lift” — a good colorist, he claims, never says they’ll “bleach” your hair.

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I stayed fairly true in my course back to blonde, but I (read: my stylist) sprinkled in some streaks of blue and purple along the way. During hours in my stylist’s chair, we talked about basic color theory for hair, about the molecular size of primary pigments and how that determines how long a particular shade stays in the hair: The larger the molecule, the quicker the fade. Hair color is created by a blend of the primary colors, blue, red and yellow. Blue molecules are the largest, sitting closest to the edge, or cuticle, of the hair, making them the easiest to remove during a lift. Red molecules sit deeper in the hair shaft, and deepest are the yellow molecules, the hardest to fully remove.

Because red and yellow are last to go, this is why black hair moves through shades of orange and yellow before finally making it to the sought-after platinum blonde.

I learned that to “cool” down those warmer reds and yellows you use an opposite color on the wheel. Toners are typically blue or purple, which are opposite of red and yellow, respectively.

I learned that developer (peroxide) is used to activate bleach, and it comes in four solutions: 10-, 20-, 30- and 40-volume. The percentage of peroxide present in each developer is determined by dividing the volume of the developer by 3.3. So a 30-volume developer has a 9.09 percent hydrogen peroxide solution.

One day — and you knew this part was coming — I found myself at home oddly daydreaming about bleaching... erm, uh, lifting my own hair. I’d watched it a dozen times... I could do this. I mean, I had no illusions that I’d do it as well as my stylist, but I figured this was a little like horseshoes and hand grenades, right? Close enough does the trick? (To my stylist: I’m still sorry!)

So I did it. And it wasn’t a disaster.

But it was terrifying, the bleach getting warm against my scalp, my hair fading into a Howdy Doody shade of orange, the smell, the waiting, the way my hair felt when I rinsed it in the shower...

Yeah, it was pretty scary.

I did a lot of stuff wrong: I didn’t leave my roots for last to avoid the “hot spots” that can emerge when the heat from your scalp processes the bleach at the roots faster than the bleach that is on the lower part of the hair; I probably could have used a 20-volume developer instead of a 30 because it does less damage; I should have put some coconut oil in my hair the night before and prepped my workstation better... but I did get a decent toner that canceled out all of the scary orange, and in the end, nobody really noticed that I’d done much of anything to my hair. I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or Boulder Weekly

a bad thing, but for the purposes of this story, we’ll say it’s good.

Over the next few years I explored more color with my hair, sometimes with the help of my stylist, but over the last year completely on my own. It’s helped me work through some feelings about my personal appearance, strangely enough, because I’ve forced myself to embrace how I look with red, purple or silver hair. I don’t always love it at first, but I usually grow to love it, especially when I’ve done it myself. I take pride when someone compliments my hair because it’s a

form of art, honestly, and I kind-of-sort-of-almost feel like an artist when I do it. I spend hours researching methods and color brands and toners, then I hole up in my bathroom for a few hours with some music and a glass of wine and set about seeing how I can express how I feel through my hair.

Six years later, I’ve embraced my need to make my outsides match my insides.

But seriously, if you’re going through a rough time right now, at least call a friend before you color your hair.

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Clay Rose dishes on Petty, owning responsibility, and the Spin-You Ride Principle

by Dave Kirby

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eemed a curious thing that Clay Rose and the Gasoline Lollipops should be doing a Tom Petty complete-album for New Year’s Eve at the Fox this year. Not that it’s all that rare, of course, for bands to trib-up for special events. But Petty struck us as maybe an unlikely subject, at least for a guy like Clay Rose, artistically steeped in the turbulent second-cousin worlds of Townes Van Zandt, old time country and punk rock.

And a Petty solo album to boot: Wildflowers. Petty is a fairly regular installment on classic rock radio, of course, and his death last year cast plenty of critical reflection on his long career and faded-jeans, his regular guy oeuvre. There aren’t many of his generation that could so effectively marry plaintive elegies to hurt, and toss-off whimsy and everyman injustice to straightforward, consonant hooks and sing-along choruses. Most of that critical appreciation naturally focused on his work with The Heartbreakers, but his solo work did not go unnoticed, and for Rose, Wildflowers has a special time-and-place resonance.

“Donny, our guitar player, is obsessed with Tom Petty,” he said during an interview earlier this month, “and that album came out [in 1994] at a very formative time for me. I’d moved back to Tennessee, and fell

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in love for the first time, and the girl I fell in love with was also obsessed with Tom Petty. We were all a bunch of stoners, hanging out in the park playing hacky sack, and that album was playing out the back of everyone’s car that summer.

“I’ve often referred to that as my own personal summer of love, since I missed out on the historical one. That was sort of the soundtrack to it.”

We suggested there’s a kind of hopelessness to the songs on the record, almost a darkness. Critics have pointed out that the album came at a rocky time in Petty’s life — an increasingly intrusive drug habit, a failing marriage — and many of the songs pivot around the corrosion of ideals, loss of confidence, a sense of being pick pocketed by time itself.

Ironic, maybe, that it summons a glow of nostalgia, and maybe less so if Rose relates to the songs’ content differently as an adult.

“Yeah, I guess there’s definitely melancholy to it. I don’t know that I’d call it darkness. I can’t think of a single song on there that I’d call dark. It’s bittersweet.

“I guess as I’ve been playing these songs a lot, I definitely relate to a lot of the stuff in there. But at the same time, it’s very nostalgic for me. It’s hard to see it as new material, or just as it relates to myself now.”

We caught Rose at a uniquely chaotic time: His wife was a few days overdue for the birth of their second child (at the time, the child’s sex was unknown — “We’re old fashioned,” he confessed) and Rose was running errands for his way-pregnant wife and helping a friend through a kind of life-maintenance situation, so he was in the car. It was actually kind of fitting, since we have an abiding sense that chaos, controlled and otherwise, is more often than not Rose’s co-pilot anyway. (Not that chaos gets the better of him... at zero hour, the midwife didn’t get to their house in time and Rose delivered the baby himself.

How’s that for meeting a deadline?)

Some of that chaos gets released in unexpected ways.

Last October, Rose and Garrett Ammon, creative director of the Denver-based dance company Wonderbound, staged Wicked Bayou, a ballet production based around Rose’s other musical project, Widow’s Bane, and starring its main character, the soul larcenist Governor Mortimer Leech.

Inspired by the swampy fever mythology of Cajun folklore, dancing skeletons reveling in Dionysian abandon, and based on a story Rose composed with his 6-year-old-son Cohen, Rose and Wonderbound created a unique and grimly entertaining experience, an almost natural extension of the Widow’s Bane aesthetic. Sort of — forgive us — a macabaret.

Most of us have never scored a ballet, we’re not shy about admitting this. We asked how much creative octane the project extracted from Rose.

“All that I had. It was intense.” And yeah, think about Boulder Weekly

it. You compose a record, and record it when you’re ready.

Something like a ballet has to be written, choreographed, probably rewritten, rehearsed and finished by a date someone set months before.

Hard stop.

But Rose insists another is in the works, set around GasPops material. Asking why a creator creates is a bit trivial, but doing this, again? Rose explained: “During the time we were finishing writing the ballet and we were in pre-production, and I was stressing out, we went to the county fair, in Longmont. My son wanted to go on this crazy ride, The Spider. You get in these little buckets, and the buckets spin around and you fly up in the air. It’s nuts.

“So we get in there, he’s barely big enough to ride the thing, he’s slidin’ around, I’m trying to hold him in with one arm, we’re both screaming bloody murder, it was terrifying. And we get off the ride, and he goes, ‘Let’s do that again!’

“And I say, ‘Why would you want to do that again, it was so scary?’ And he goes, ‘Because I like to do things that scare me until they don’t scare me anymore. Then they’re fun.’

“So, I’m applying his philosophy to writing ballets.”

But in between, GasPops has a year coming up. Tours through California and the Midwest, another gig in Belize in January (not scary), and local dates as well, including a Gothic date in February. The band just released a new single, a haunting and grimly poised meditation on regret and damaged faith called “Broken,” which debuted on KBCO recently. With more new material to come, road work, another ballet and two kids at home, does he ever feel like he’s being chased by his own commitments?

“Constantly. But at the same time, the only way I can function in this reality is to relinquish responsibility, completely. I do what I can, y’know. Operating under the belief that my responsibility is only in the effort, not in the outcome. I have to restrain myself from putting qualitative values on products, and I have to relinquish control over making people happy.

“These days, more than ever, the band is really helping to shape the songs. So I’ll write the song, bring it into the studio, and then it’s kind of a think tank. ...We’ll try it one way, then change the dynamic and try it another way, and we’ll talk it over. So I kind of feel like I’m giving the process more time. ... I’m letting songs percolate a lot longer than I used to.” As for the New Year’s Eve gig, we asked if the sinister Governor Leech was likely to make an appearance.

“Uh, no. The Governor will most likely be shitfaced drunk in some whorehouse on East Colfax.”

We should all be so lucky.

ON THE BILL: Gasoline Lollipops New Years’s Eve performing Tom Petty’s Wildflowers in its entirety — with Grant Farm, River Arkansas. 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Tickets: $20-$25.

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Essay Issue 2018

For my mother

by Michael J. Casey

Courtesy Michael J. Casey

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY DECEMBER 27

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t’s been almost two years since my mother got divorced.

Unlike some middle-age separations, hers was a complete and sudden shock — no falling out period, no prolonged argument; just an unsuspecting implosion followed by a swift and tidy divorce.

Like most people wishing to distance themselves from memories of a complicated past, she started giving her belongings away shortly thereafter. The first thing she gave me was a plant. I can’t recall if I asked her then how to care for the plant. Or maybe I did and received no answer.

Either way, the plant came into my life unannounced and unnamed.

Not knowing what kind of plant it was — and being too stupid to look it up — I found the only space in the apartment where I didn’t think the cat could get it, though that happened to be a dark corner. I watered the plant a little bit each week and left it to do its plant things. Since the plant didn’t die immediately, I figured this location and watering schedule was acceptable. But after a month or so, I noticed a couple of its stiff leaves had fallen off.

They had not withered and died, simply broken off from the stem whole and still green.

I figured this was the plant’s way of telling me it would like some sun. So I moved it to a table that got about 30 minutes of daily sunshine via the patio door. There it sat for another couBoulder Weekly

TAYLOR TUKE 8PM MICHELE CASTRO 9PM ple of months until, alas, a few more leaves fell off. The plant was relocated once more.

The plant and I did this dance for nearly 18 months. Watering schedules were adjusted, as was its position in the apartment. Never did it stay in one place for too long, yet never did it hurry to the next location. At one point it dawned on me: This plant had spent more time in my apartment’s nooks and crannies than I had.

But in September, the rate of losing a couple leaves every few months had caught up with the plant. I could deny my poor caretaking skills no more. In a last-ditch effort to revitalize it, I moved the plant into the bedroom, to a small shelf where it would get roughly three hours of bright, yellow sunshine each morning.

Then on Thanksgiving morning, I noticed a first in my tenure as the plant’s caretaker: a tiny, green bud. After all this time, the plant was ready to grow again.

That tiny bud has unfolded into a beautiful dark green leaf with yellow trim. Three other buds have sprouted in the past few weeks — one of which I just discovered this morning — and the plant finally told me his name: Fawkes.

It has been my pleasure to care for Fawkes these past two years, but the time has come for him to return to my mother. I’ll be giving her Fawkes for Christmas; I hope she appreciates the metaphor.

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CLOZEE — WITH DORFEX BOX, SOMATOAST. 9 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 30, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, bouldertheater.com.

Tickets: $25-$50.

CloZee’s skill as a classical guitarist is the foundation for her melodic, electronic grooves. Her style has been praised for its ability to vacillate between different bass and glitch rhythms, all while incorporating emotion-provoking melodies from around the world.

see EVENTS Page 30

TAYLOR TOMLINSON.

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7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, thedairy.org.

At only 24 years old, Taylor Tomlinson commands the stage with the confidence of an expert comedian.

Her stage presence is matched by her honed and authentic point-of-view. Her selfdeprecating charm and conversational wit have made her a favorite at comedy clubs, colleges and corporate events across the country. She recently made her latenight debut on Conan and just filmed her first Netflix special. This is your chance to see the magic in person. Tickets: $18.

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POTTERY PAINTING. 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, Echo Brewing, 600 Briggs St., Erie.

COLORING FOR ADULTS. 1-6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 30, Settembre Cellars, 1501 Lee Hill, Unit 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.

If the holidays have you feeling a little wound up, take some time to wind down and head to Settembre Cellars Winery for the Sunday afternoon adult coloring sessions. $12 gets you a glass of wine, your choice of coloring sheets and pencils to work with. Go alone or bring some friends — it’s the perfect way to reset after a hustling, bustling, happy holiday season.

torange.biz To celebrate the new year, Echo Brewing has a variety of new pottery and new glazes for you to enjoy. Stop by Echo on Jan. 2 for some pizza, craft beer and pottery painting. When finished, the pottery is collected to be glazed and fired. It is then brought back to Echo Brewing Company in one week for pick up.

The cost covers the pottery, glaze, supplies, firing and delivery. Depending on the piece, it’s $18-$30.

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Caroline Douglas’ Caravan of Dreams: A Healer’s Path uses dreamlike imagery to create a singular environment in which to capture over 100 clay creatures being transported or transporting wheeled vehicles on a long journey. Douglas’ work is part of the multi-artist exhibit Worlds Suspended in Reality at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, now showing through Jan. 20.

Affordable Art. Osmosis Gallery, 290 Second Ave., Niwot. Through December.

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 Avenue 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.

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

Flirtacious — by Alex Zablocki. Firehouse Art Center, Main Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Through Jan. 5.

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

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

Through Jan. 13.

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

Robert Restaino. Firehouse Art Gallery, South Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through January.

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

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

Through Jan. 27.

Type/Cast — by Joel Swanson and students.

Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy & MacMillan Family Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 13.

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

Through Jan. 4.

Where the Body Sits and Learns — by Benjamin Rogers. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 13 Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through Jan. 20.

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

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Free Workshop: Goal Setting for the New Year using Agile Techniques. 4 p.m. Alfalfa’s Market, 785 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville, 720-420-8400.

Ashlei Priest, Ryan Dart. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Billy the Poet. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

David Booker. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

The Dear Landlords. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

Jump Beat Project: Funk for a Cause. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Laurie and Lorrie Duo. 5 p.m. East Simpson Coffee Company, 414 . Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-449-3529.

Mugshot — with Crows Kalfou Hindrance. 7:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

Reiki Healing Grid Sacred Sound Bath. 6 p.m.

Green Light Reiki, 2954 Welton St., Denver, 303-522-8460.

Robert Randolph and The Family Band. 7 p.m.

The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Events Deconstructing the Beatles: The Birth of the Beatles. 2:30 and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-

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

Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain, Boulder.

Holiday Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Dining Hall, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

More dates at chautauqua.com.

INDIVISIBLE: Expressions of Union and Divide.

4 p.m. Historic Zang Building, 1553 Platte St., Unit 100, Denver, 303-808-8912. Visit facebook.com/ ZeelArtistGroup Liyana. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

More show times at thediary.org.

Open Improv — Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.

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

Friday, December 28 Music 6 Million Dollar Band. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Blind Melon — with special guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Emelise Munoz. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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

Fortune’s Fool. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Fruition. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques.

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

IHF — with Volo and special guests. 9 p.m.

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

Jenn Cleary Solo Acoustic Show. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Le Pompe Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

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

Snap ’90s vs 2000s Y2K Dance Party. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

STS9. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. see EVENTS Page 34

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Bias & Hate Crimes Are on the Rise Many local organizations are working to combat this bias and hate.

Find comfort in solidarity and diversity, for we are stronger together.

If you think you may have experienced a bias or hate crime, call the

District Attorney’s Hate Crime Hotline to ensure your case is handled properly:

303-441-1595 *This hotline is for non-emergency reporting only.

Please call 911 for in-progress crimes.* It’s not your fault. Nobody has the right to violate your boundaries or commit violence against you, no matter where it happens or how you met.

Know your rights. Report crimes. Find support.

Learn more & nd resources at: https://www.outboulder.org/hatecrimes What is a hate crime?

Any crime motivated by hostility/bias to the victim due to personal characteristics of a protected class.

A person commits a bias motivated crime if, with the intent to intimidate or harass another person because of a protected class, that person: a) knowingly causes bodily injury to another person; or b) by words or conduct, knowingly places another person in fear of imminent lawless action directed at that person or that person’s property such as words or conduct are likely to produce bodily injury to that person or damage to that person’s property; or c) knowingly causes damage to or destruction of the property of another person.

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Out Boulder County ‘s mission is to educate, advocate and provide services, programs and support for Boulder County's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) communities. The vision of Out Boulder County is that Boulder County serves as a model of equality, respect, and well-being for LGBTQ people.

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

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

Through Dec. 29.

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

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

Through Dec. 31.

Seussical! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 29.

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Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through March 31.

‘A Christmas Story, The Musical’ is the hilarious account of Ralphie Parker’s desperate quest to ensure that his most desired gift ends up under his tree at Christmas. Directed on Broadway by Tony Awardwinner John Rando and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, this musical based on the classic 1983 movie features funny and heartfelt songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a faithful yet inventive book by Joseph Robinette. Now showing at BDT Stage through Jan. 5.

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Twist & Shout Presents: The Still Tide Holiday with Kyle Emerson and Oxeye Daisy. 8 p.m.

Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver, 720-456-7041.

Events 5280EDM Presents: AvtrHaus Pre NYE Party. 10 p.m. Thee Haus Ov Where Gallery, 100 Kalamath St., Denver.

FNWeird: Prospect. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

A New Years Toga Party with The Yawpers and special guests Eldren. 9 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Password:Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 970-787-1251.

Pre-Yule Ball Dance Lesson. 5:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Steve Simeone. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com.

Storytime Break: Sing and Play Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Taylor Tomlinson. 7:15 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com.

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

bluesoul, Haley Gowland, Ryan Hutchens. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Clozee. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Marc Rebillet — with special guests. 8 p.m.

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

DeVotchKa. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Michele Castro, Taylor Tuke. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Glovebox Money. 7 p.m. Mountain Sun, Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Noisywaters, EAZRON, ill vandals. 9 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver, 720-456-7041.

The Infamous Stringdusters. 8:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Peak2Peak. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Jonny Miller. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Rogue 2. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

Mary Russel and Robb Candler Year End Blues Extravaganza. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Ron Ivory’s One on One and the MilesApart Band Holiday Show. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Sandi Siegel. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Shakedown Street. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

STS9. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

New Beginnings Sacred Cacao Sound Journey.

5 p.m. Magic Sounds Sanctuary. Please email ana@ thewellofwellbeing.com for address, 303-523-2348.

Son Volt. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Sound Temple — Future Vision at StarHouse. 6 p.m. The Star House, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-516-1004.

STS9: Denver New Year’s Run. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Through Dec. 31.

Saturday, December 29

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

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

Ben Hammond. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-622-5021.

303s & Heartbreak. 8 p.m. Grafenberg Theater, 1223 21st St., Denver, 303-803-8894.

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

Brunch with ZiMbira AfroFusion. 10:30 a.m.

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

A Benefit for Suicide Prevention. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

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

Church Fire Album Release. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303830-9214.

Curren$y — with Indigo Ace, JT Runninman, Old Man Saxon, PDF, Black Buddha. 8:15 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Itchy-O New Years Trifecta. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Krizz Kaliko. 7 p.m. The Roxy Theater, 2549 Walton St., Denver, 720-242-9782.

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

Steve Simeone. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com.

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

Zilla featuring Michael Travis (String Cheese Incident), Aaron Holstein (VibeSquad), Jamie Janover — with Soulacybin and special guests.

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

Events

Daniel Rodriguez. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Taylor Tomlinson. 7:15 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com.

2019 Super Human New Year’s Trifecta. 8:56 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Deborah Stafford and Swingtet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Sunday, December 30

Boulder Comedy Show. 7 and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Fruition. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Heavy Ghost. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

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

Music AztroGrizz (Album Release Party) featuring Stilz Uniq, Deon Wilson and special guests. 8 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Decadence NYE. 6:30 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000. see EVENTS Page 36

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events Poetry Night. 7 p.m.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787.

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

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Tattered Tales Storytime.

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

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

Hone your skills with fellow poets at Wesley Chapel on Monday at 9 p.m. during the So, You’re a Poet open mic.

Sunday, Dec. 30 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Monday, Dec. 31 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Tuesday, Jan. 1 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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End of Year Library Tasting. 1 p.m. BookCliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Boulder, 303-449-9463.

New Year’s Eve Grand Gala 2019. 8 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2880.

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

New Years Eve Party. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Steve Simeone. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

New Years Eve: Casino Royale. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

The Winter’s Tale: Globe Theatre. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

A Night in Vienna. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Monday, December 31 Music Chromeo New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Temple Nightclub, 1136 Broadway, Denver, 303-309-2144.

Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles — with special guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Dean Ween Group and Dumpstaphunk. 9 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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Dearling — Tribute to Fleetwood Mac New Year’s Eve Party. 9 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Denver’s Grandest New Year’s Eve Party 2018. 8 p.m. Grand Hyatt, 1750 Welton St., Denver.

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

Economy of Sound. 9 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

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

Guilty Pleasures NYE. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

The Infamous Stringdusters. 8:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Leather and Lace New Year’s Eve. 8 p.m. Tavern Downtown, 1949 Market St., Denver, 303-299-0100.

Less Than Jake. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

*offer only available in-store and once per customer

New Beer’s Eve 2018. 6:30 p.m. The Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-997-9911.

NYE 2019: An AfterHours Space Odyssey.

Spectra Art Space, 1836 South Broadway, Denver, 720-535-7244.

Rebellion & Resolution. 8 p.m. Le Méridien Denver Downtown, 1475 California St., Denver, 720-9961514.

Robert Wilson Blues Band NYE Party. 8:30 p.m.

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

Salasee and the Fafa Family. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Sass Capacity presents New Queers Eve Studio 54 Disco Dance Party. 7 p.m. Blush & Blu​, 1526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-484-8548.

Shine NYE 2018 — Free Dance Party. 8 p.m.

Shine Restaurant & Potion Bar, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Suite M-1, Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Son Volt. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Steve Everett, Bradley Rhodes. 8 p.m. Sounds of Simon House Concerts, 1086 East Roggen Way, Superior.

STS9. 9 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Events 2019 Denver New Year’s Eve (NYE) Bar Crawl.

8 p.m. Celtic on Market, 1400 Market St., Denver, 303-484-1066.

2019 Super Human New Year’s Trifecta. 8 p.m.

Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720420-0030.

Annual Epic New Year’s Eve Highly Inappropriate Gaming Bash and Party. 7 p.m. The Dragon’s Den, 1092 Malory St., Lafayette, 303-781-5822. see EVENTS Page 37

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Assc Group 2019 No Regrets New Years Party. 9 p.m. Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse St., Denver, 303-779-1100.

Snowshoe at Wild Basin to Calypso Cascade. 10 a.m. Stone Cup, 422 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Body Alive NYE. 7 p.m. The Experience Building, 473 Main St., Longmont, 303-641-7372.

Rebellion & Resolution. 12 a.m. Le Méridien Denver Downtown, 1475 California St., Denver, 720996-1514.

Decadence NYE. 6:30 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000.

Senior Center Singers. 1 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

Introvert’s New Year’s Eve Party. 9 p.m. BookBar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver, 303-284-0194.

Events

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

New Year’s Eve 5 Course Chef’s Tasting. 3:30 p.m. Coohills, 1400 Wewatta St., Denver, 303-6235700.

New Year’s Eve All That Glitters Ball. 9 p.m. The Fusion Factory, 3563 Walnut St., Denver, 720-4320331.

New Year’s Eve Beer Dinner. 4 p.m. BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-6385193.

New Year’s Eve Burlesque Countdown. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance — with the El Jebel 18-piece Big Band. 8 p.m. Clarion Hotel Ballroom, 200 West 48th St., Denver, 303-617-4166.

30th Annual Niwot New Year’s Day Auction. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

Cheesemaking 101 plus Creamery Tour. 2 p.m.

The Art of Cheese, 505 Weaver Park Road, Suite E, Longmont, 303-579-9537.

New Year Caribou Ranch Snowshoe Hike. 10 a.m. Caribou Ranch Open Space, 1521 County Road 126, Nederland.

New Years Intention Setting Ceremony. 2 p.m.

Rooted Heart Yoga & Wellness, 1409 N. Ogden, Denver, 720-770-8280.

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

New Year’s Eve Party 2019. 7 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0486.

A Sunrise for a New Year: Sugarloaf Mountain — Low Altitude, Moderate. 6:30 a.m. Switzerland Trail, Sugarloaf Mountain Road, Boulder.

New Year’s Eve Singles Party. 9 p.m. Renaissance Denver Downtown City Center Hotel, 918 17th St., Denver.

Tuesday Tapping at Upslope Brewing. 11 a.m.

Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

New Year’s Eve Soirée in the Parlor. 8 p.m. Urban Farmer Denver, 1659 Wazee St., Denver, 303-262-6070.

Wednesday, January 2

New Year’s Eve Tavern Deluxe. 4 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

New Year’s Eve Cannabis Ball. 8 p.m. Tetra Private Lounge and Garden, 3039 Walnut St., Denver.

New Years Eve 2019. 9 p.m. The Crimson Room, 1403 Larimer St., Denver, 720-639-6987.

New Years Eve Ball. 6 p.m. The Grizzly Rose, 5450 North Valley Highway, Denver, 303-295-2353.

New Years Eve Master Mixologist Class. Noon.

Denver Pavilions, 500 16th St., Suite 268, Denver, 303-260-6001.

New Years Eve Sacred Sound and Cosmic Cacao Ceremony. 2 p.m. The Star House, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

Noon Year’s Eve Drag Queen Story Time. 11 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Noon Year’s Eve Party. 11:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821.

NYE 2018 Black & White Masquerade. 8 p.m. Bar Louie Denver (Shops at Northfield Stapleton), 8332 Northfield Blvd., Denver, 303-457-5900.

Roaring ’20s New Year’s Eve Party. 8 p.m.

Bigsby’s Folly Craft Winery & Restaurant, 3563 Wazee St., Denver, 720-485-3158.

Rodriguez Jr. and secret guests NYE. 9 p.m. Club Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303-506-8078,.

A Toast to the New Year. 7 p.m. Poka Lola Social Club, 1890 Wazee St., Denver, 720-460-2725.

WOW!’s New Year’s Eve Parties. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Tuesday, January 1 Music Day One 2019. Derailed. 7 a.m. Bar Standard, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 720-416-6209.

Fresh Agenda. Noon. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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

COMMUNITY HOUSE CONCERT

Eric Wiggs, Dylan McCarthy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Midday Music Meditation. Noon. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

RE:Search featuring Shooka BDay B2B Bash — with special guest, plus MZG, Mikey Thunder and Jordan Polovina. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Events Burning. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

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

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

Maria By Callas. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

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

Storytime and Program Break — Teen Game Night. 6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Storytime Break: Lap Babies. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

THE RIVER ARKANSAS

Storytime Break: Lego Storytime. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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Storytime Break: Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100; 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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BOULDER WEEKLY WISHES TO THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT All events will be held on Dec. 31.

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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. Tickets: $235.

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. Food and snacks organized by Halina Palmer, with homemade cider by Craig Kontny. Champagne toast at midnight included with price of admission.

A cash bar will also be available. Dress to impress.

Tickets: $40.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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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.

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BLUEFIN, BUBBLES & CAVIAR JOIN US FOR THE BEST NEW YEAR’S EVE C E L E B R AT I O N I N B O U L D E R

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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

You know who they are. You know where they’re from.

Now go party with them.

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 allinclusive 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

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 tick-

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ets (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. Prices include tax and gratuity.

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.

Put on your finest festive clothes and join us for champagne toasts throughout the evening —with a midnight champagne toast for all Decadent New Year’s Eve creations by our Master Sushi Chef, Iwasa Yukiji 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.

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9 p.m. McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, resolutiondenver.com

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-$234.

NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH DENVER UNION STATION. 9 p.m. Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver

Ring in 2019 at Denver Union Station with the Great Hall Silent Disco and Light Show. Don’t miss the ultimate NYE experience presented by SoundDown. Three DJs spinning jams in Denver’s historic Union Station leading up to an extravagantly epic light show on the Great Hall ceiling at midnight. $75 per person.

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE: NEW YEARS EVE AT IMPROPER CITY. 9 p.m. Improper City, 3201 Walnut St., Denver.

This New Year’s Eve we are throwing it forward to 2250 to party like we can only imagine the epicness will be 200 years from now. Think high society Hunger Games. From the outrageous outfits, magical hair and fantastical décor, let’s go all out. There will be multiple music acts, an unforgettable dance party, open bar and more. Food trucks will be on site for snacks. Tickets: $60.

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.

NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS IN DENVER. Downtown Denver 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.

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Decadence Outside Dior’s I walked down the avenue of obscenity, of unspeakable wealth, store window displays glazed with million-dollar baubles for women waltzing by in shoes of gold, bandaged faces newly contoured by plastic surgeons to attract men driving by in Porsches so sleek they slice the air like knives, and pass a man dressed in impeccable black carrying a pink shopping bag with the head of a tiny, perfectly coiffed dog sticking out, next to a ragged woman, dark complected, head scarfed, sitting on the cold concrete sidewalk wrapped in a ratty blanket a bewildered child on her lap a battered tin box in front of her containing two small, round, worn euros and I thought, surely, another revolution is at hand.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is somehow better than you’ve heard

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atching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the single closest feeling I’ve had to the first time I cracked open a comic book, beginning a lifelong love affair with a legendary onesie wearer. The same way Steve Ditko’s pencils popped my eyeballs, Spider-Verse explodes like a shotgun blast of pop-art, right to the kisser. Infused with the noblest parts of Stan Lee’s legacy, this is a film where a father and son repeatedly verbally and physically demonstrate their love for one another, where a talking pig and Nicolas Cage finally share screen time, and where reductive fanbaby arguments about inclusivity are gently smothered beneath the Kingpin’s love handles.

Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is the second most authentic screen teen this year, trailing only Elsie Fisher’s Kayla from Eighth Grade. That’s right, the best coming-ofage movies this year involve Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham and the directorial acumen of Bo Burnham, just as we all predicted. At the onset of Spider-Verse, there’s only one Spider-Man, and it’s not Miles. It’s Peter Parker, as voiced by Chris Pine, who is immediately eligible for eight quintillion nerd points by completing the quasi-impossible Star Trek, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man trifecta. Except, and I swear this isn’t a spoiler as it happens in the first 30 minutes, Peter Parker dies.

Prior to Peter Parker picking to perish, Miles is bit by a genetically engineered spider. His investigation into his arachnid love nip is what gives him front row seats to the squashing of Spider-Man by the Kingpin (Liev Schreiber). Spidey was trying to stop the rotund mob boss from borking the multiverse by firing up a shoddy Hadron colThis hallucinatory, in- lider. He failed, and the result is a bunch of Spider-people spired animated film is easily among the best from different dimensions trapped in Miles’ world. of the year (not just The paunchy, midlife-crisis-havin’ Peter B. Parker (Jake animated films).

Johnson), from an alternate Earth, reluctantly takes Miles under his webbed armpit after a grand slapstick meet-cute at a gravesite. The dysfunctional duo aims to stop Kingpin and return the other Spiderfolks home. This includes Spider-Man Noir (Cage), Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn), Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) and Spider-Ham (John Mulaney). If it sounds too crammed with characters and overly busy, well, I haven’t even mentioned a handful of other major characters. But please know that the hyperkinetic storytelling is purposeful, playful and most other positive, P-based adjectives.

From the hallucinatory animated approach to one of the best superhero soundtracks, Spider-Verse feels like the first major superhero movie genuinely made for today’s young people and not primarily made for older people who loved superheroes when they were young people. In so many important ways, Miles represents the best version and inspired evolution of Lee’s Spider-Man conceit. He is relatable to everyone but looks, talks and acts like a subgroup of Americans who have long deserved to see a mirrored reflection of themselves as hero on the big screen.

You bet your bottom Spider-buck that the overarching moral is the expected riff on “with great power…” But the film also deploys the concept of a multiverse as a sly argument in favor of inclusivity as a blessing and not a threat. Coyly, it says “Calm down. See! White Spider-Man is safe. But look how cool all these different perspectives are?!” Combine the artistic splendor with that message and you have one of the best movies of the year.

This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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hen you want something fresh and fast for breakfast or lunch, you won’t go wrong picking up one of Etai’s sandwiches or salads. The artisan bakery has grown substantially over the years, and now operates several brick-and-mortar restaurants, and distributes its meals to various locations around the Boulder-Denver area. No matter where you go, you’ll likely be able to snag the spicy jalapeño-cheddar turkey sandwich. Fresh turkey, thick-cut and crispy bacon, punchy cheese and cool avocado are piled high on ridiculously good jalapeño bread. Prices vary.

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ork & Class is a lively spot in the RiNo District of Denver, uniquely blending Latin (and) American food created by co-owners from working class backgrounds in Detroit and Mexico. The dishes are served up family style, broken down into salads and appetizers, meats and sides, to share. While there are a few stand-out gluten-free sides (the chickpea croquettes and spiced fried sweet plantains, for example) the meat dishes are sublime. The cabrito is roasted young goat, served shredded and so juicy it really does feel like it’s melting on the tongue. But make sure to save room for dessert, as the carrot cake with goat cheese and mascarpone frosting is irresistible. $9.75 for 1/4 pound, $18.76 for 1/2 pound, $36.75 for 1 pound.

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Osaka’s, in Boulder, serves unique Japanesestyle burgers.

Goodbye and hello

Eatery closings and openings change face of Boulder County dining

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am the keeper of Boulder’s eatery history.

It’s ended up as my job by default because I’ve written about Boulder food since the late-1970s. I’m the one that knows where the restaurants are buried.

I’ve helped my friend Laura Bloom chronicle the comings and goings at a crowd-sourced web page: servingboulderlist.com/menu.

We have a lot of modifications to make in the list after a wave of change in Boulder County restau-

rants in 2018 from the closing of Arugula, The Walrus and The Cheesecake Factory to the opening of Osaka’s, Steakhouse No. 316, Corrida and Chimera.

One example: 1123 Walnut Street was home to Walnut Brewery for years (and a seafood eatery before that). It was shuttered for a makeover last year and became the second Boulder Beer Company location, but that was closed in 2018. Squared Pizza + Beer — a Detroit-style pizzeria — opened in the space a few

months ago and it went out of business shortly thereafter.

Open and closed in Boulder

Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub closed after 17 years at 1922 13th St., formerly home of The James Pub. The upscale Steakhouse No. 316 opened recently at the location.

Alec Shuler’s Arugula Restaurant closed after nine years at 2785 Iris Ave., former location of see NIBBLES Page 46

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Laudisio and A La Carte. Lunetta Shopping Center, former site of Le Italian Restaurant opened there.

Francais Bakery.

Edwin Zoe opened the pan-Asian Tadka Indian Cuisine opened at eatery Chimera at 2014 10th St., for5290 Arapahoe Ave., formerly Royal merly Sushi Tora, next door to his Zoe Clay Oven and the Royal Peacock.

Ma Ma. Longtime pastry source Erhard’s The short-lived French Quarter European Cafe and Bakery closed at 4800 Brasserie closed at 1207 Pearl St., forBaseline Road. Breakfast Champion mer site of Woody Creek Bakery, opened dishing American and Turkish Paradise Bakery and Potter’s (where I breakfast items, coffee, tea and cakes. worked in the late ’70s.).

Vic’s Espresso closed its original The most talked-about Susan France opening of the year is Corrida, 1023 Walnut St. Bryan Dayton and Amos Watts opened the Spanish-inspired steakhouse atop the building on the former Daily Camera site.

The Walrus Saloon — which once offered Boulder’s first salad bar — closed after 46 years in business at 1123 Walnut St. Osaka’s opened at 2460 Canyon Blvd. serving okonomiyaki-style burgers and yakimono teppan grill dishes.

Community Plaza Shopping Center After nearly 20 years on Pearl Street, location after 25 years in business.

The Cheesecake Factory closed in Beleza Coffee Bar opened at the site.

December.

Gabee Coffee opened at 3040 28th Going to the DMV will never taste St. (formerly Quizno’s) serving organic the same. Sancho’s Authentic Mexican coffee drinks, flower teas and sweet Restaurant closed its Boulder location potato lattes. but serves the same menu (and salsa La Choza opened a second brickbar) at its Gunbarrel shop at 6545 and-mortar Mexican restaurant location Gunpark Drive. at 1203 13th St. Matthew Jansen of Mateo Taco Bell Cantina has opened at Restaurant opened Raglin Market at 1155 13th St. It doesn’t have a drive5378 Gunbarrel Center Court in thru window.

Gunbarrel, serving Mediterranean Kung Fu Tea opened at 1121 soups, salads and sandwiches.

Broadway, formerly Terra Thai.

Shine closed at 2027 13th St., forPho Kitchen opened at 2900 mer home to Boulder Draft House and Baseline Road.

Redfish. The Post Brewing Co. opened Harpo’s Sports Grill closed at 2860 at the location. The new Shine Arapahoe Ave., originally home to Restaurant and Potion Bar opened at Azar’s Big Boy. In 2019, Ralphies Bar & 2480 Canyon Blvd., formerly Volta Grill will open.

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Open and closed in Louisville Salvaggio’s Deli closed its kiosk at Redgarden Restaurant and Brewery 14th and Pearl. Ruthie’s Boardwalk opened at 1700 Dogwood St. Social opened there serving grilled Mile High Pho opened at 1116 W. cheese variations and breakfast options.

Dillon Road.

Cured closed its Cured West outCoabana Cuban eatery has closed at post at 2019 10th St. 701 Main St., formerly La Revolucion.

Smooch Frozen Yogurt & Mochi Boulder’s Verde Restaurant opened closed at 1926 14th St., replaced by at 640 Main St., previously home for Peachy’s Superfruit Cafe.

90-plus years of the Blue Parrot.

Vitality Bowls opened at 2525 Arapahoe Ave. in the former Boulder Open and closed in Lafayette Chill space.

A second location of Boulder’s Andrea Frizzi (of Denver’s Il Posto) Tangerine brunch/lunch eatery opened opened Vero Italian in the former at 300 S. Public Road.

Pizzeria Da Lupo space at 2525 Fate Ale House closed at 400 W. Arapahoe Ave. South Boulder Road.

Flower Child restaurant opened at Acreage opened at 1380 Horizon 2580 Arapahoe Ave. Ave. with a restaurant and Stem Ciders The Egg & I closed in Basemar

production facility.

Mici Handcrafted Italian Restaurant opened at 535 W. South Boulder Road.

Miller’s Grill closed at 103 S. Public Road.

Mon Cheri Bakery and Bistro opened at 211 N. Public Road, formerly Pinochio’s Italian Restaurant.

Wapos Mexican Cocina opened at 1389 Forest Park Circle, formerly Martino’s Pizzeria.

Tandoori Kitchen opened at 199 W. South Boulder Road, formerly Asian King Buffet.

Open and closed in Longmont

Loaf and Ladle, home of great pies, closed at 1134 Francis St. Treat Snack House opened at 449 Main St. The Sun Rose Cafe closed at 379 Main St. after nine years in business.

Othermama’s Bakery closed at 237 Collyer St. Tangerine will open a third location at 379 Main St. in 2019.

Open and closed elsewhere

Bella La Crema Bistro and Butter Bar opened at 405 Main Street in Lyons offering flavored savory and sweet freshly churned butters.

Treppeda’s Ristorante closed abruptly Dec. 17 after 22 years in business in Niwot.

The legendary Millsite Inn in Ward closed.

Coming eatery attractions in 2019

Kelly Whitaker will open Dry Storage, a coffee shop offering baked goods, milled-to-order flour and Fortuna Chocolate in The Peloton.

Boulder’s Big Red F will open Jax Fish House and Post Brewing locations at Denver International Airport.

Babette’s Bakery — a great artisan French bakery, opens in 2019 at 2030 Ionosphere St. Shake Shack will open at Twenty Ninth Street in the former Cantina Laredo space.

Tip Top Savory Pies Pie Shack will open at 105 N. Public Road in Lafayette.

Rocky Flats Lounge south of Boulder is rumored to be reopening in 2019 for fish fry nights and Packers games.

Words to Chew On

“To eat such a meal is to remember that, though the world is full of knives and storms, the body is built for kindness.” — Eli Brown John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles Boulder Weekly

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before they can make the reservation. It took a little convincing, but Fitzpatrick came around, and eventually the duo developed and launched Tock.

Kokonas introduced it in his restaurants, and won early support from some of the country’s best restaurants like The French Laundry and Per Se. Boulder’s Frasca and Pizzeria Locale were early adopters, as well.

Immediately, the no-show rate at Kokonas’ restaurants dropped to less than 1 percent and, on the first day alone, one of Kokonas’ restaurants raked in an incredible $562,000 in pre-payments.

There was a blowback, largely from the culinary press, who assumed there must’ve been outrage among diners everywhere that restaurateurs had the audacity to ask for money days, weeks and months before a diner stepped into establishments.

“It was pretty controversial,” Kokonas says. “But restaurants are forms of entertainment. ... I thought theaters, concerts,

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f you’ve ever made a reservation at a Boulder County restaurant, chances are you did so through OpenTable. A long list of restaurants in the area use the ubiquitous booking service, which charges restaurants $1 for every person who books through it. But, there’s no guarantee that a diner will actually show up to the restaurant, potentially causing the business to lose hundreds, if not thousands, due to the empty seats.

“I don’t think people want to be jerky,” says restaurateur Nick Kokonas, who coowns Chicago’s esteemed Alinea and Next restaurants. “It’s just life changes, dogs get sick.”

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Still, it’s a problem that needs a solution as OpenTable and other booking technologies aren’t moving to solve it.

The question is: How does a restaurant hold diners accountable for the reservations they make, while not being a jerk about it.

“There were no tools to do that other than what felt penal,” Kokonas says.

“That didn’t feel like hospitality.”

So, in 2014, Kokonas called his friend and Google executive Brian Fitzpatrick and told him about his idea to develop a new restaurant booking system — one that, if a restaurant chooses, requires diners to pre-pay a portion of their bill

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baseball games all sell tickets. Maybe restaurants should do it too.”

Tock withstood the initial grumbling. It was a shock to the system, literally, but Kokonas found that diners would be willing to pre-pay for reservations at restaurants where they knew they’d have an exceptional experience.

Today, about 1,000 restaurants, wineries and other establishments use Tock, and the company is adding about four diners per day to its list of users.

Kokonas implemented commonsense changes to the reservation status quo with Tock, too. For instance, instead of restaurants calling to remind diners of their reservations and to confirm they’ll still be coming, Tock sends automatic text messages to which diners can respond with a simple yes or no to confirm or cancel a reservation.

That may sound like a small change, but it’s one that better serves modern diners and restaurateurs, Kokonas says.

“People don’t want to be called,” Kokoans says. “That’s why we do text messaging. If my phones rings in my pocket and I don’t know the number, I’m not answering it.”

About 60 percent of the restaurants that use Tock don’t require pre-payment. But Kokonas says diners are willing to sign up and reserve through the platform because they see the restaurants using it and “know the quality is there.”

Indeed, Kokonas chose to make Tock a platform for restaurants to use, and not, primarily, an app for diners to browse, because he recognizes the value of connecting diners directly to their favorite restaurants.

“The way to get people to use Tock is not an app, it’s to have these great restaurants,” Kokonas says. “No one’s dining at Frasca because of Tock.”

Frasca, and its sister restaurants, Tavernetta and Pizzeria Locale, switched to Tock last year after coowner Bobby Stuckey got fed up with not only losing revenue from empty seats, but wasting hard work and tons of food from no-shows. Kokonas says Tock has provided another tool for Stuckey and other restaurateurs to improve their overall hospitality: sharing information based on previous reservations that would help restaurants improve their service.

“For someone like Bobby, if someone comes into Locale 100 times, and then goes to Frasca, he should know who that is,” Kokonas says.

So, for instance, say a person notes they have a dairy allergy on a reservation, that information will transfer over to reservations at other restaurants.

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book reservations through. Most people start their dining searches at Google, and go to restaurants’ websites and book through whatever system they have — Tock or OpenTable or whatever else. So there’s “no risk at all” for restaurants looking to change their booking system, maybe save on booking fees and guarantee more seats are filled and less food is wasted in their restaurants.

Tock still has a ways to go before replacing the current reservation system,

but it’s making inroads in food scenes across the country, from big markets like Chicago, New York and San Francisco to smaller cities like Kansas City and Boulder/Denver. Boulder’s Basta uses Tock, as does Denver’s The Wolf ’s Tailor, and Kokonas says several Boulder restaurants, including Arcana, will be switching to the platform in the new year. And, he’s found that once “seven or eight” restaurants make the switch, a snowball effect occurs wherein other restaurants decide it’s time to make the switch.

Kokonas says something at the end of our chat that makes my heart sink — “on Valentine’s Day, 35 percent of reservations are no-shows. I can imagine guys terrified booking three or four places.”

I’m ashamed to admit I’ve done that. But I also know it’s not a good thing to do to a restaurant. But I also don’t feel like pre-paying for a reservation is punitive. It’s a cultural shift that needs to happen, and right now, Tock is driving that change.

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ny day I walk back into the brewery with beer, it’s a sad day,” brewer Aaron Uhl says with a sly grin. “Even if it’s just a case or two, it’s a sad day.”

Spoken like a salesman with beer in his blood — his ancestors were 19th-century Pennsylvania brewers — Uhl knows that the success and failure of the Uhl’s Brewing Company rest solely on his shoulders. Even his business card — a thick square cardboard that doubles as a drink coaster — reads like a résumé: “Founder, owner, head brewer, quality control manager, lead sales rep, delivery guy and every other role that goes into making a beer y’UHL love.”

That last bit — y’UHL love — is both his slogan and a handy guide to pronouncing the name. Nothing goes to waste with Uhl, a trait that dates back to his homebrewing days.

“I was brewing almost every other week, usually five to six fermenters in the house,” Uhl recounts. “If there was a square foot of tile, there was a spot, in my mind, for another fermenter.”

Uhl’s obsession paid off. His beer was in such demand from his friends and coworkers, “It got to the point where I didn’t get to drink any beer.”

Encouraged by friends and fellow brewers, Uhl began crunching the numbers and looking into opening his own commercial brewery. But an estimated $1–$1.5 million price tag just wasn’t feasible.

Then Uhl met Nick Garrick — the owner of Acidulous Brewing Company, a contract brewer working with Crazy Mountain Brewing in Edwards. Before he knew it, Uhl had a blueprint for the Uhl’s Brewing Co. Contract brewing — where a brewer uses a host brewery’s equipment to make their beer — is nothing new in the craft beer scene. But unlike some contract brewers, which are marketing companies in disguise, Uhl is involved in every aspect of the brewing process. From procuring ingredients to recipe-building, every 15-barrel batch brewed belongs to Uhl. “It’s really my process across the board from beginning to end,” Uhl says.

Currently, three of Uhl’s brews have hit the market, all from The Wayward Hop series: double dry-hopped New England-style double IPAs loaded to the brim with pungent hop aroma and flavor. Volume Three, with nearly eight pounds per barrel of Amarillo, Azacca and Centennial, is soft yet structured, intensely juicy with a bitter backbone holding the sweetness at bay. Uhl calls it an east-meetswest IPA: “You have a juicy mouthfeel at first and good body and malt to back it up and then it finishes with a dry, lingering hop finish.”

Currently, you can find Uhl’s Brewing Co. in 25 liquor stores from Longmont down to Denver. On some days, you can even meet Uhl at the beer case, ready to tell you what’s brewing next. You don’t always need a taproom to put a face behind the beer.

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able to blend a knack for creating more stability with an urge to explore and seek greater freedom. How might this unusual confluence be expressed in practical ways?

Maybe you’ll travel to reconnect with your ancestral roots.

Or perhaps a faraway ally or influence will help you feel more at home in the world. It’s possible you’ll establish a stronger foundation, which will in turn bolster your courage and inspire you to break free of a limitation. What do you think?

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the Sun happens every 18 months. And how often is a total solar eclipse visible from a specific location on the planet? Typically, once every 375 years. In 2019, the magic moment will occur on July 2 for people living in Chile and Argentina. But I believe that throughout the coming year, Tauruses all over the world will experience other kinds of rare and wonderful events at a higher rate than usual.

Not eclipses, but rather divine interventions, mysterious miracles, catalytic epiphanies, unexpected breakthroughs and amazing graces. Expect more of the marvelous than you’re accustomed to.

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have stopped listening to themselves,” wrote mythologist Joseph Campbell. It’s imperative that you NOT be one of those folks. 2019 should be the Year of Listening Deeply to Yourself. That means being on high alert for your inner inklings, your unconscious longings and the still, small voice at the heart of your destiny. If you do that, you’ll discover I’m right when I say that you’re smarter than you realize.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Jackson Pollock is regarded as a

pioneer in the technique of drip painting, which involves drizzling and splashing paint on canvases that lie on the floor. It made him famous. But the truth is, Pollock got inspired to pursue what became known as his signature style only after he saw an exhibit by the artist Janet Sobel, who was the real pioneer. I bring this to your attention, because I see 2019 as a year when the Janet Sobel-like aspects of your life will get their due. Overdue appreciation will arrive. Credit you have deserved but haven’t fully garnered will finally come your way. You’ll be acknowledged and recognized in surprising ways.

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a thousand miles from the Pacific Ocean and more than a thousand miles from the Gulf of Mexico, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. Now here’s a surprise: in the northwest corner of Wyoming, the North Two Ocean Creek divides into two tributaries, one of which ultimately flows to the Pacific and one that reaches the Gulf. So an enterprising fish could conceivably swim from one ocean to the other via this waterway. I propose that we make North Two Ocean Creek your official metaphor for 2019. It will symbolize the turning point you’ll be at in your life; it will remind you that you’ll have the power to launch an epic journey in one of two directions.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: I have come to the conclusion

that softening your relationship with perfectionism will be a key assignment in 2019. With this in mind, I offer you observations from wise people who have studied the subject. 1) “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” —Voltaire 2) “Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.” —Rebecca Solnit 3) Perfectionism is “the high-end version of fear.” —Elizabeth Gilbert 4. “Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.” — Elizabeth Gilbert 4) “It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly.”

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became co-Tsar of Russia. He was 10 years old. His

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24-year-old half-sister Sophia had a hole cut in the back of his side of the dual throne. That way she could sit behind him, out of sight, and whisper guidance as he discussed political matters with allies. I’d love it if you could wangle a comparable arrangement for yourself in 2019. Are there wise confidants or mentors or helpers from whom you could draw continuous counsel? Seek them out.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The body of the violin has two f-shaped holes on either side of the strings. They enable the sound that resonates inside the instrument to be projected outwardly. A thousand years ago, the earliest ancestor of the modern violin had round holes. Later they became half-moons, then c-shaped, and finally evolved into the f-shape. Why the change? Scientific analysis reveals that the modern form allows more air to be pushed out from inside the instrument, thereby producing a more powerful sound. My analysis of your life in 2019 suggests it will be a time to make an upgrade from your metaphorical equivalent of the c-shaped holes to the f-shaped holes. A small shift like that will enable you to generate more power and resonance.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Sagittarian singer-songwriter Sia

has achieved great success, garnering nine Grammy nominations and amassing a $20 million fortune. Among the superstars for whom she has composed hit tunes are Beyoncé, Rihanna and Flo Rida. But she has also had failures. Top recording artists like Adele and Shakira have commissioned her to write songs for them only to subsequently turn down what she created. In 2016, Sia got sweet revenge. She released an album in which she herself sang many of those rejected songs. It has sold more than two million copies. Do you, too, know what it’s like to have your gifts and skills ignored or unused or rebuffed, Sagittarius? If so, the coming months will be an excellent time to express them for your own benefit, as Sia did.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: A typical fluffy white cumulus cloud weighs 216,000 pounds. A dark cumulonimbus storm cloud is 106 million pounds, almost 490 times heavier.

Why? Because it’s filled with far more water than the white cloud. So which is better, the fluffy cumulus or the stormy cumolonimbus? Neither, of course. We might sometimes prefer the former over the latter because it doesn’t darken the sky as much or cause the inconvenience of rain. But the truth is, the cumulonimbus is a blessing; a substantial source of moisture; a gift to growing things. I mention this because I suspect that for you, 2019 will have more metaphorical resemblances to the cumulonimbus than the cumulus.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: A hundred years ago, most astronomers thought there was just one galaxy in the universe: our Milky Way. Other models for the structure of the universe were virtually heretical. But in the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble produced research that proved the existence of many more galaxies. Today the estimate is that there are at least 400 billion. I wonder what currently unimaginable possibilities will be obvious to our ancestors a hundred years from now. Likewise, I wonder what currently unforeseen truths will be fully available to you by the end of 2019.

My guess: more than in any other previous year of your life.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Author Elizabeth Gilbert offers advice for those who long for a closer relationship with the Supreme Being: “Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” I’ll expand that approach so it applies to you when you’re in quest of any crucial life-enhancing experience. If you genuinely believe that a particular adventure or relationship or transformation is key to your central purpose, it’s not enough to be mildly enthusiastic about it. You really do need to seek your heart’s desire in the way people with their heads on fire look for water. 2019 will be prime time for you to embody this understanding.

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SAVAGE

by Dan Savage

Love

Dear Dan: I’m a thirtysomething soul mates, and it’s certainly not somestraight woman married for 16 years. thing a guy says to someone he regards Eighteen months ago, I met a man and there as his soul mate. Soul mates are typically was an immediate attraction. For the first told they’re special and irreplaceable, but 15 months of our relationship, I was his priyour guy sees you as one of many potenmary sexual and intimate partner, as both tial seconds out there, and therefore sex and intimacy were lacking in his marutterly replaceable. riage. (My husband knew of the relationship Here’s what you ought to do: You from the start and is accepting for the most aren’t interested in being your lover’s part.) After my lover’s wife found out about secondary partner (nor are you much me, she suddenly became very responsive to interested in being your husband’s wife), my lover’s sexual and emoso you’ll have to call your tional needs. My lover has told © Rachel Robinson lover’s bluff. And the only his wife that he will not let me card you have to play — go. He has also told me that he and it’s a weak hand (all is not willing to let his wife hands with just one card go. She isn’t happy about being are) — is to dump your in a triad relationship, but she lover unless he leaves his allows him to continue seeing wife for you. Success rests me with limitations. I am no on the outside chance your longer his primary sex partner, lover was bluffing when he said he’d replace you, but I and I have been relegated to suppose it’s possible he the back seat. He claims to love regards you as the irreus both, yet his wife and I both placeable one and only said those hurtstruggle knowing the other exists. Recently ful things to make you think he while out shopping, my lover asked me to wouldn’t choose you when you are the help him pick out a Christmas gift for his one he would’ve chosen all along. If it wife. I got upset because I am in love with him, and I have made him my priority (over turns out that this was the case, my husband), but I am not his priority. I SMACK, you’ll wind up with your soul love this man, and we feel we are soul mates. mate... who happens to be kindasorta My lover has said that if we fall apart, he cruel and manipulative. will have to find a new secondary partner Calling your lover’s bluff — ending a because his wife can never give him the soul- relationship that, in its current form, ful fulfillment he needs. Should I continue in brings you no joy — is your only hope of this relationship? having this guy to yourself. But the like—Soul Mate Avoids Choice Knowingly lier outcome is that you’ll be left alone (with, um, your husband).

Dear SMACK: You complain about being relegated to the back seat, Dear Dan: My boyfriend and I met at SMACK, but it’s your husband whose a bondage party a year ago. He’s not into existence only comes up in parenthetical bondage (he tagged along with a kinky asides. You also describe this relationship friend). We hit it off in the chill-out room as a triad when there are four people and started seeing each other. He told me it involved (you, your lover, your lover’s was OK for me to keep going to bondage wife and your husband), which techniparties and seeing some guys I play with cally makes this a quad. And from the one-on-one. Then right after we moved in sound of things, only one member of together, he said he doesn’t want me playing this messy quad seems happy — your with anyone else because we are in love. lover, the guy who refuses to make you a Which means I can’t get tied up at all any“priority” over his wife. more because he has zero interest in bondAnd while you’ve convinced yourself age. He can’t see why I’m upset, and I’m not that your lover feels as strongly for you sure what to do. as you do for him — “we feel we are soul —Boy In New Drama mates” — it kindasorta sounds to me like you may be projecting, SMACK. Dear BIND: So now that you’re in Because in addition to asking you to love, and now that you’ve signed a lease, pick out Christmas gifts for his wife, and now that you’re trapped, BIND, now your lover and alleged soul mate regards — NOW — your vanilla boyfriend yanks you as expendable and replaceable. And back the accommodation that convinced he’s told you as much: He intends to you to date him in the first place? There’s “find a new secondary partner” if you only one thing you can do: DTMFA. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, two part because his wife doesn’t “give follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit him the soulful fulfillment he needs.”

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weed between the lines

by Sidni West

Top cannabis moments of 2018

I

think we can all agree that this year was disappointing for everything (mostly democracy), so we’re more than happy to throw it out like the trash it is. However, cannabis had great year — the industry is growing at a crazy rate, everyone is making money and public support is at an all-time high. So if you’re hoping that 2019 is the year that you’ll finally be a wealthier, less stressed person, then you might want to consider working or investing in the cannabis industry. Because anything that can come out of 2018 looking better than it did during the pre-Trump era is something we should be paying attention to, and for cannabis advocates, entrepreneurs and consumers, things are just getting started.

Canada legalizes it Canada became the second nation in the world to end prohibition after Uruguay, and the first G7 country to pass a nationwide recreational cannabis program. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered on a campaign promise when the country’s Parliament voted in June to legalize recreational cannabis for adult use. The new market launched in October, spurring a rampant supply shortage across the country and the creation and growth of several huge publicly traded cannabis companies. Analysts believe Canada will see sales of $4.34 billion in 2019.

U.S. ends hemp prohibition President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill last week, which legalizes industrial hemp after decades of the crop being caught up in broader cannabis prohibition. Cannabis plants must contain less than 0.3 percent THC in order to be classified as hemp and it is explicitly removed from the list of federally banned drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. Hemp legalization is all thanks to an unlikely ally: Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who championed the bill after including provisions that fully legalized industrial hemp. He was so thirsty for everyone to know how down he is with hemp that he tweeted photos of himself signing documents using a hemp pen. The bill received bipartisan support, which brings us to our next trend.

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Conservatives chill out, slightly As cannabis legalization becomes less controversial, support for reform transcends party lines. At this point, federal legalization is inevitable. It’s no longer just a social issue: even among Trump voters, only 18 percent believe cannabis should be illegal, according to an America First Policies poll. Now that there’s a lot of money involved and they stand to lose voters by stubbornly holding onto to their stance against it, conservatives are starting to chill. In April, former Speaker of the House John Boehner announced he’s “all in on the cannabis industry,” which he promises can “quite possibly” be worth as much as “$1 trillion” in the near future. He joined the advisory board of the cannabis company Acreage Holdings, which was weird to everyone that remembers him saying he was “unalterably opposed” to cannabis legalization nine years ago. Voters in Missouri, Oklahoma and Utah all overwhelmingly approved medical cannabis ballot measures this year while at the same time voting to elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate or nominate conservative candidates for statewide office. Welcome, red state stoners, there’s plenty of room in the circle for everyone.

The movement spreads Ten states and Washington, D.C. currently have recreational cannabis programs, and 33 states have medical ones. Cannabis-related companies raised nearly $13.8 billion so far this year, compared to just $3.5 billion in 2017, according to data from Viridian Capital Advisors, a financial and strategic advisory firm for the cannabis industry. With a record 66 percent of Americans now supporting cannabis legalization according to an October Gallup poll, the outlook is favorable to seeing close to half the nation’s states with recreational programs in place in the short-term future. Vermont legalized adult-use cannabis through its state legislature. Michigan became the first state in the midwest with a ballot measure to replace cannabis prohibition with a legal and regulated system of cultivation and sales approved by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent.

California and Massachusetts finally made it official In January, California’s much-anticipated recreational market opened. The initial issues — slow issuing of licenses, burdensome tax levels and an overly complicated regulatory system — caused sales to be lower than expected. However, the California cannabis market is still the biggest in the world, with Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics projecting annual sales of $7.7 billion by 2022.

In November, nearly two years after voters approved adult-use legalization, the first cannabis dispensaries opened in Massachusetts. Customers waited in long lines in cold, rainy New England weather to be among the first people to legally buy weed on the East Coast.

FDA approved first CBD drug, Epidiolex Epidiolex, G.W. Pharma’s oral cannabidiol (“CBD”) solution for the treatment of seizures, became the first cannabis-based medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The twice-daily oral solution is now available by prescription in all 50 states. It is approved for use in patients 2 and older to treat two types of epileptic syndromes: Dravet syndrome, a rare genetic dysfunction of the brain that begins in the first year of life, and LennoxGastaut syndrome, a form of epilepsy with multiple types of seizures that begins in early childhood, usually between ages 3 and 5.

Colorado experiences another record-breaking year During the first six months of 2018, cannabis concentrate unit sales skyrocketed 94.6 percent, and sales of edibles jumped 13.8 percent year over year. As a result, Colorado’s annual sales surpassed $1 billion in August, which is the earliest it has ever achieved that milestone. In its first year of legalization, Colorado reported almost $684 million in cannabis sales. Last year, Colorado’s full-year sales were a record $1.5 billion and the numbers aren’t official yet, but experts estimate that 2018 sales in Colorado could reach $1.6 billion.

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Evolution in action on the right coast

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ynthia Nixon may have lost her primary, but she seems to have won her point.

Earlier this year, the Sex and the City actress mounted a challenge to incumbent New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) in the state’s Democratic primary.

She made legalizing marijuana one of the central issues in her campaign.

Wikimedia Commons In the end Cuomo blew her out, getting 65 percent of the vote to her 35 percent, roughly 978,000 votes to 512,000, but the marijuana issue resonated with enough Democratic voters that Cuomo’s views began to “evolve” on the issue.

Fast.

A year ago he was still calling marijuana a “gateway drug.”

Last week he announced that legalizing recreational marijuana was one of his “top legislative priorities for next year.”

“The fact is, we have had two criminal justice systems: One for the wealthy and well off and one for everyone else,” Cuomo told the New York City Bar Association. “And that’s going to end.”

“We must also end the needless and unjust criminal convictions and the debilitating criminal stigma and let’s legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana once and for all,” he added.

He has also pointed to “the disproportionate criminalization of one race over another” by the dispropor-

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tionate number of blacks who get busted for pot compared to whites, despite marijuana use by both races being roughly similar.

Chances are Nixon’s primary showing wasn’t the only factor influencing Cuomo’s evolution on the issue. New Jersey, which is just a rail ride under the Hudson River away from Manhattan, is on the verge of legalizing recreational marijuana.

New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Phil Murphy campaigned on marijuana legalization last year (New Jersey holds its state elections in oddnumbered years), and recreational marijuana legalization was recently recommended by two committees of the New Jersey legislature. A bill will be brought to a vote after its sponsors come to agreement with Murphy over how much to tax marijuana and cannabis products.

Which means recreational marijuana could be legal in both New York and New Jersey by the end of next year — that would be a big deal. The combined population of New York and New Jersey is about 29 million, or 9 percent of the U.S. population.

If their populations are added to the states where marijuana is already legal, it will mean that about 30 percent of the American people live in states that have ditched pot prohibition.

And there’s likely more to come in the Northeastern U.S.

Like Murphy, Connecticut’s incoming governor, Democrat Ned Lamont, campaigned on marijuana legalization.

“We’re going to have a legislative session. It’s going to be one of the priorities,” he said last month, adding that he didn’t “want the black market controlling marijuana distribution in our state.”

During the campaign, he said marijuana legalization was “an idea whose time has come.” A poll taken last summer found that 59 percent of Connecticut voters support legalizing pot.

Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo (D) recently told the Providence Journal that probable legalization in Connecticut and the start of legal sales in Massachusetts may force Rhode Island to act.

“Given my druthers, if I could make all of these decisions in a vacuum, I’ve been favoring a waitand-see approach,” she said. “However, Connecticut is going to do it. The new governor-elect has been crystal clear, and this is a priority. It’s happening.

Massachusetts is already doing it. We’re a tiny state in between those two other states.”

“If you look at states next door to Colorado... they spend a lot of money on the externalities (trying to bust travelers from Colorado bringing marijuana into their states presumably). Like, if we think that there [are] not going to be Rhode Islanders crossing the border into Seekonk or, you know, Putnam, Connecticut, we are crazy.”

The only New England governor who isn’t open to marijuana legalization is New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu (R), who says he’ll veto any legalization bill the legislature sends to him. But he also admits there’s a good chance that there’s enough pro-legalization feeling in the New Hampshire legislature that a bill could be passed over his veto.

Which just goes to show that when everyone else is evolving, there’s always one guy who’s gonna be the dodo.

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