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The City, CCA and cottage owners continue to spar at Chautauqua

by Angela K. Evans

Why Colorado won’t be Iowa

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departments 5 The Anderson Files: Big change or stability?

7 Letters: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 23 Arts & Culture: Celloist Zuill Bailey plays new score inspired

by Ernest Hemingway 25 Boulder County Events: What to do and where to go 31 Film: The Lyric’s Essential Cinema: South Korea is worth the trek 33 Food/Drink: Food news and what to try this week in Boulder County 39 Nibbles: Elbow out of the macaroni with tastier radiatore, pappardelle and orzo 41 Astrology: by Rob Brezsny 43 Savage Love: Friends with benefits?

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Big change or stability?

by Dave Anderson

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emocrats are divided over whether to support a presidential candidate who proposes big structural change for the working class majority or a candidate who is sane and promises a return to pre-Trump normal times with some incremental progressive changes that don’t frighten the corporate elite. We are all pundits, trying to evaluate which candidate can definitely beat Trump.

The campaign this year is likely to be wild and nasty. After he was acquitted in the impeachment trial, Trump has concluded that he can do pretty much anything he wants. He is I

retaliating against anyone who has challenged him.

Trump called Senator Mitt Romney a “pompous ass” for voting to convict him, and his son, Donald Jr., called Romney a “pussy.”

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Chair Matt Schlapp announced via tweet that Romney was “formally NOT invited” to this year’s four-day CPAC event.

He told Greta Van Susteren, “We won’t credential him as a conservative.”

Then Schlapp added, “This year, I would actually be afraid for his physical safety, people are so mad at him.”

It’s somewhat hilarious that Romney is now a non-conservative because he doesn’t worship Trump. In his speech at the impeachment trial, Romney said he voted with Trump 80% of the time.

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and his thuggish fans anymore but isn’t it a bit disturbing that even Romney, the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, is not immune to gangster-style threats?

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) penned a New York Times column saying that in private, Republicans admit they voted to acquit Trump out of fear. In the fall of 2002, Brown says there was a similar atmosphere of fear when members of the House and Senate voted on the authorization to go to war in Iraq. It was just a few weeks before the midterm elections.

This time, the Republican senators were scared that if they voted to convict, Trump would give them a humiliating nickname, relentlessly attack them on Twitter and quite possibly come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 6

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It’s great that Romney stood up to Trump, but back in 2012 he sought and celebrated getting Trump’s endorsement as a presidential candidate after the buffoonish game show host had become a political figure with his promotion of the racist birther conspiracy theory about Obama.

Historically, the two major parties have been coalitions of constituencies that might be separate parties in a parliamentary system. Today, the Democrats remain a coalition with a wide variety of views but the Republicans resemble an authoritarian personality cult.

Journalist Ron Brownstein portrays the GOP as the “coalition of restoration,” fighting against a “coalition of transformation” led by Democrats.

The religious dimension of Trumpism is important. Robert Jones, head of the Public Religion Research Institute, has described Trump as the defender of a “white Christian America” which is in decline. He notes in a December 2019 article, “After more than two centuries of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance, the United States has moved from being a majority-white Christian nation to one with no single racial and religious majority.”

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“the nones,” the growing number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation. This exodus is related to the culture war politics of the Christian Right. Many people under the age of 30 lean progressive and are highly supportive of LGBTQ rights.

Jones says, white Christians aren’t primarily attracted to Trump because of his personality or character, but because they want to restore “white Christian demographic and political dominance.” He writes: “The white Christian population’s anxieties about the future as they lose traction in the present have created a nostalgia for the past that has fueled support for Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda, and not just among white evangelicals. Solid majorities of each white Christian subgroup voted for Trump in 2016 and, in the Public Religion Research Institute’s most recent American Values Survey, nearly 9 in 10 (88%) white evangelicals and approximately two-thirds of both white mainline Protestants (68%) and white Catholics (65%) oppose impeaching and removing him from office.”

Trumpism is an unstable explosive. Trump is a historically unpopular president but he can be reelected.

He has a formidable propaganda machine pushing out lies, confusion and disinformation.

This incipient fascism can be defeated by a transformational vision of a better world. Hope can conquer fear.

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

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CM Brown’s letter, “Look to the Past,” in the Feb. 6 BW issue remains most cogent and important for today. Brown wrote: “History repeats itself. ... The gradual descent from democracy to fascism is all there, laid out,” referring to Shirer’s giant book, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Let me support the endeavor by identifying methods Hitler utilized to gain supreme power. This can also be gleaned relatively quickly from the first few episodes of BBC’s classic documentary (on DVD) entitled, The Nazis: A Warning from History, or from Rees’ book of same title. Fasten your seatbelts. The list: 1) Powerful charisma: Hitler was not only a very talented, practiced, forceful speaker, but also could “read” people to know how they feel and what they want to hear.

2) Vehement nationalist: He blamed international treaties for being extremely unfair and hurting farmers and other workers. He claimed to be the one to fix them all. His rallying motto was “Make Germany Great Again!”

3) Radicalize his base: Being conservative white Protestants, associated with white (Arian) supremacy.

4) Scapegoat immigrants and the others whom are not the trueblooded Germans but the source for the nation’s problems. Contempt of the “other” expanded to Jews, Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals,

non-Christians, French, Polish and political opponents. Solutions were to seal the borders and make them leave, if not worse.

5) Triumph of the Will is the Nazis great propaganda film of superiority. It demonstrates how to will it and believe it unquestionably, so that it becomes true. “Germany is the strongest ever and can never be defeated.”

6) Absolute loyalty: Eliminate anyone who is not loyal.

7) Attack the press as “the enemy of the people” and fake news, if critical of the “Fuhrer.”

8). Proliferate false conspiracies: Nazi’s imposed a label of “Gypsy” onto the Roma people as being racially undesirable and having criminal lifestyles, not to mention outrageous fabrications about Jews.

9) Amass great wealth from power: Hitler became one of the richest in Germany.

10) Gain power by serving the rich and powerful: While reducing welfare, he gave great tax breaks and privileges to the “industrialists,” whom in turn increased power for Hitler.

11) Expanded the military greatly: He appealed to the military and its industries with excessive spending, creating massive deficits and threatened war. Then war kept him in power.

12) Contempt of the masses: Believing them to be gullible and forgetful, Hitler controlled them with crafty propaganda.

13) His transgressions and “genius” was justified by the strong economy, which did initially flourish during Hitler’s rise.

Though perhaps overkill, this list should clearly illustrate similar risks we face: to lead us down the slippery slope of unrecognized dictatorship. Warning from History rings loud yet is rarely heard. It is barely seen through the Fog of War, amid constant blaming and attacking.

Though the path to fascism may seem inevitable, thankfully we still have choices.

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Could the future of Chautauqua as we know it really be at stake?

The City, CCA and cottage owners continue to spar over control of historic landmark

by Angela K. Evans SUSAN FRANCE

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t’s the gateway to the Flatirons, Boulder’s crown jewel. Sixhundred thousand people a year visit Colorado’s Chautauqua, situated off of Baseline Road in central Boulder, to access the area’s iconic open space, enjoy a summer concert in the auditorium, relax on the vast lawn, or eat in the dining hall. Some come to stay, renting a cottage for a few nights in the summer or months at a time over the winter. Some visitors are new, experiencing the breathtaking views and respite Chautauqua offers for the first time. Others have been coming their whole lives, inheriting cottages passed down through the generations since the Chautauqua was established in 1898.

But it takes a lot to maintain the National Historic Landmark amid rising costs for just about everything. The lawn and grounds need upkeep. The auditorium, dining hall and academic hall must be kept in good repair. Cottages need to be modestly updated, maybe even improved. Some need air-conditioning, as summer temperatures continue to rise across the region, spurred by climate change. The entire electrical system is somewhat outdated and there’s talk of undergrounding power lines. There are other deferred maintenance costs as well, including those to make the site more resilient to fires and floods, a new stormwater drainage system and road repairs.

The City of Boulder, which owns the property, shares some of the burden for these costs. But there is also the expectation that the Colorado Chautauqua Association (CCA), a nonprofit responsible for the preservation and continuation of the historic site, must contribute to the effort, as it leases the main 26 acres housing all the buildings for just $1 per year from the City of Boulder. It’s a public-private partnership that has seen its fair share of controversy over the decades as it seeks to balance the interests of a diverse group of users from

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the cottage owners, to concert goers, to hikers and vacation renters, all with the mission of being open and accessible.

This unique balancing act between disparate interest groups is all coming to a head once again as the City of Boulder threatened CCA with being in breach of its lease in late November 2019. And some cottage owners responded to that threat with a lawsuit filed in early February. It all comes down to concerns about the governance of CCA, specifically the makeup of the board of directors tasked with managing the nonprofit and essential-

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People on all sides are concerned about special interest groups gaining control of the board of directors and preventing CCA from fulfilling its stated mission. The City, along with a good portion of current and former members of CCA leadership, are concerned that the board is being taken over by cottage owners, people whose families have lived in the neighborhood for decades. For their part, the cottage owners and their supporters are afraid the CCA and the City are trying to take away their historic representation on the board that has helped preserve Chautauqua for generations. There are claims of deception and spreading misleading information on all sides.

Amid all the he said/she said back and forth, it’s clear CCA needs more money to address a long list of current and deferred maintenance costs at Chautauqua. If CCA, the cottagers and the City can’t figure this out, the future of the Colorado Chautauqua as we know it could be at stake.

• • • • On Nov. 25, 2019, City Attorney Tom Carr — with support of City Council — sent a letter to CCA charging that certain board members, particularly those who own cottages at Chautauqua, have not acted in the interest of the public or CCA in recent years, but rather have “advocated for special financial benefits for themselves and their families.” Additionally, the Carr letter states, the governance structure of the CCA board is problematic in that it allows for this conflict of interest to persist, most notably in the form of lower than normal sublease rates for the 38 privately held cottages at Chautauqua. The letter does not impose a strict timeline or define how CCA needs to remedy the situation, but it does state that if CCA doesn’t take some action, it could be in possible breach of its lease with the City.

CCA’s board of directors responded by proposBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

ing to update the organization’s bylaws to address some of the governance issues Carr raised. Over a period of a few weeks, the board drafted new bylaws and announced a membership vote on the changes. Ballots went out electronically at the end of January, and voting concludes on Feb. 24. The entire process has drawn pushback from CCA members and cottage owners who argue they were left out of the process. What’s more, they say the proposed changes will further disenfranchise them.

“We never wanted to do this before because we knew it was going to cause the reaction it’s causing right now. We were just going to try and change little policies along the way,” says Shelly Benford, executive director of CCA. “Then Tom Carr said you’re potentially in breach of the lease.”

Carr says the last CCA board election in 2019, where there was a huge spike in voting membership purchases, was the impetus behind his letter.

Under the current bylaws, the majority of the 15-member CCA board is voted in by membership to serve three-year terms. Becoming a voting member to CCA is as simple as paying the $25 annual fee that gives members discounts and early access to concert tickets, which, according to Benford, is why most of CCAs approximately 1,900 members exist.

According to CCA data, membership purchases usually spike around the time the concert calendar is announced, but they also tend to spike around July, right before the board election. Allegations of “vote buying” are rampant, as cottage owners are accused of purchasing memberships for friends and family members in order to sway elections and get their endorsed candidates on the board, which critics claim allows them to advocate for low rental rates that benefit their friends and families.

Benford says there have been efforts to shore up the membership process over the years, making it more transparent as to who is actually getting a membership — a requirement for a separate email address, for instance.

Still the problem has persisted, becoming “flagrant” in 2019, she says.

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The unique balancing act

between disparate interest groups at Chautauqua is all coming to a head once again as the City of Boulder threatened CCA with being in breach of its lease.

According to CCA, 230 memberships, with voting rights, were purchased in the two and a half days leading up to the 2019 board election. She admits there was some “defensive buying” by other CCA board members who don’t own cottages to gird up their side as well.

Currently as it stands in the bylaws, Benford says, the concept of “vote buying” is legal, although it’s discouraged. Changing the bylaws and making the board self-appointed essentially solves this problem, she says. Under the proposed bylaw changes, members will still get access to advanced ticket sales for events and concerts, but they will no longer have a vote when it comes to electing the board of directors or any other major changes in the government structure of CCA. “If people are not handling memberships appropriately, there’s ways to tighten up on that — short of disenfranchising the people that own property up there,” says Stan Garnett, who is representing cottage owners in the lawsuit against CCA and the City.

The cottage owners feel the changes are meant to keep them out of the democratic process that is supposed to assure they have ample representation on the board. And they point out that their representation on the board has never led to cottage owners dominating the board.

Since the start of the century, at least, cottage owners or their allies haven’t held a majority of board seats. At most, they held five seats from 20082013, says Tom Galey, who served on the board from 2000-03 and again from 09-14. And in the last several elections, several cottager-endorsed candidates have lost.

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But it’s not just about cottage owners, Benford says. The current board election process allows for any special interest group to take over the board. For example, a decade ago, development interests proliferated the board and there was talk of tearing down the picnic shelter in favor of a new multi-use building and putting in an underground parking lot beneath the green. The City eventually stopped the plan.

“We have no idea who the next round of vote buyers could be,” Benford says, whether it’s cottagers, other board members, or other outside influences such as large corporations who may want to use Chautauqua for their own benefit. Benford says in the last few years the board, which gets to appoint two members a year under the current bylaws, have shown that they’re looking for board members who represent a wide array of community interests, including more diverse voices.

But a self-appointed board prevents “the larger Boulder community from having any kind of say about what’s going on up there,” according to Matt Moseley, a CCA member who lives near Chautauqua and who is doing communication work for the Committee for a Living Chautauqua, which represents the views of cottage owners and others opposed to the proposed bylaw changes.

And there are concerns that a selfappointed board would not work in the interest of property owners or even the general public.

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only allowed to live at Chautauqua in the summer, as none of the buildings were winterized. And his family was there when that all changed in 1970.

“We were the first generation to live there year-round,” says Galey.

These days, Galey lives in Gunbarrel and is a member of CCA but no longer serves on the board or owns property there. But he’s seen the issues surrounding CCA’s governance play out over the decades he’s been involved. There was controversy surrounding the renewal of the CCA’s 20-year lease with the City in the late 1990s and again in 2015.

When it comes to the cottage owners, the 2015 lease requires CCA to “increase rents substantially” with the additional revenue going to the major renovation projects. In turn, CCA signed a sublease with cottage owners that set the ground rates charged for allowing their cottages to be located on City-owned property. In his November 2019 letter, Carr contests CCA hasn’t raised these ground rates enough to fulfill the obligations of its $1 lease with the City.

In 2015, there was an additional fee tacked on to the ground rates, a $2,400 a year price tag in addition to yearly adjustments based on the consumer price index. Galey says there are also a number of other fees cottage owners pay each year for mail, trash service, programming, etc. By the end, he says his family was paying between $8,000 to 10,000 a year before they sold their cottage.

“It’s relative, but they’re not insignificant,” Galey says. “They are not a sweetheart deal.”

Benford confirms that on average, cottage owners pay $11,118 a year for taxes, ground lease and other fees. The City’s contention, however, is solely focused on the ground lease fees which equal approximately $4,239 a year, or $353 a month.

“What they pay to sublease the ground that the City owns is way below market. I mean, talk about a million-dollar home paying 400 bucks a month to lease while somebody in a mobile home that’s worth maybe $50,000 is paying twice as much,” Carr says. “We’re basically subsidizing see CHAUTAUQUA Page 10

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their existence.”

What’s more, he contests, the cottage owners and their representatives on the board have always advocated for low rental rates for the 61 cottages that are a part of CCA’s rental program. At least two-thirds of CCA’s revenue comes from renting these cottages, short-term in the summer and long-term over the winter. CCA leadership, City Council members who have also been a part of CCA’s board and Carr say that cottage owner board members have advocated to keep these rates low so that their friends and family can come stay near them over the summer.

“Cottagers said very clearly, ‘My whole purpose in being on this board is to get reduced rates for my family and friends,’” says Lisa Morzel, former City of Boulder Council member who served on the CCA board from 2016-2019. This is the crux of Carr’s conflict of interest concerns in arguing CCA is in potential breach of its lease.

“The idea of discounting the cottages for the personal benefit of the cottage owners, that means those are dollars that will not be spent on improving the grounds,” Carr says.

“And that’s the direct conflict that I’m worried about.”

But the cottage owners don’t see it that way. They see their advocacy for lower rental rates as a means of keeping Chautauqua more affordable for everyone in the age of increasing wealth disparities across the country.

“I can tell you, cottagers aren’t trying to get prices for themselves to save money. I believe sincerely ... the reason why you want less price pressure is because it’s astronomically expensive,” Galey says. “If cottagers are looking for lower prices, they’re saying, look, this is the mission: we want middle-class people. We don’t want to make it exclusive for the rich only. But that has been twisted into private benefit and advantage.”

Benford, however, says Chautauqua’s rates are below market value for vacation rentals along the Front Range. Plus, there are seasonal discounts and a loyalty reward program for returning renters.

Additionally, in order to alleviate some of the revenue pressure, she says, CCA hired a development director for the first time this year to help the nonprofit fundraise.

“We’ve always made enough money through lodgings and we didn’t have to do that [before],” she says.

“But now we don’t want everything to be dependent on lodging. We don’t want to have to raise our rates so high that people can’t come here.”

For CCA and the City, that’s really what this all boils down to. How can the nonprofit continue to balance its mission to preserve and continue the Chautauqua by engaging the community with a need for revenue generation in order to maintain the property?

“We have an obligation to the City that we never let it go into the demise that it was in the ’70s,” Morzel says. The board, in her estimation, is dysfunctional and unlike anything she’d seen in her 20 years of public service. She raises concerns over the ability of such a board to meet its fiduciary responsibility as it seeks to become more sustainable and afford a long-list of maintenance costs. And it’s not just former Council member Morzel who sees CCA in this critical light; current Council members agree with her assessment.

According to the 2015 lease, CCA and the City agreed to a shared responsibility for major improvements, such as the roads, maintaining sewer and water lines and the possibility of undergrounding utility lines. The association also needs to contribute to the effort, according to the lease.

Overall, Benford says, CCA estimates deferred maintenance at Chautauqua is upwards of $10 million to $20 million to make the property more resilient to floods and fires, including a new stormwater management system and undergrounding power lines.

Currently, CCA contributes about $2 million annually to the maintenance of the grounds, which if the organization is found in breach of the lease would leave the City footing that bill.

As Carr says, “CCA is responsible for maintenance of the grounds up there. They put about $2 million a year into the facility, which the City then doesn’t have to pay.”

• • • • In early February, Garnett filed a lawsuit against CCA and the City in Boulder District Court on behalf of 16 people who either own cottages at

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Chautauqua or are members of CCA. “The cottagers are a different voice and occasionally I think they’re inconvenient to other folks at Chautauqua.

Some of them are kind of eccentric folks. They see things a little bit differently,” Garnett says. “They have all this history, but the solution is not to cut them out and cut out their voice.”

The suit claims that CCA operates as a residential nonprofit under Colorado law, giving people who own or lease property within its area a right to vote. It also challenges the notion that CCA can increase the ground rates for cottage owners under the current sublease which is good until 2035. Lastly, the suit claims CCA violated its own bylaws by not adequately announcing meetings and votes regarding the proposed bylaw changes, making the entire voting process currently underway void and invalid.

“I think a lot of people over the years have expressed some concerns about the governance and how the board is run,” Moseley says, and he agrees the concerns aren’t unwarranted. “We are willing to come to the table and talk about these governance issues, but not be force-fed them… in the dead of night.”

But the fact that CCA could be viewed as a residential nonprofit is “a nightmare for the City,” Carr says.

“That’s everybody’s biggest fear: that it becomes essentially a gated community for the benefit of a few homeowners.”

Carr says the City’s next steps are yet to be determined, as it is all dependent on the outcome of the bylaw vote, which needs 75% of a 10% quorum of the approximately 1,900 members in order to pass.

Meanwhile, Garnett’s lawsuit is making its way through the courts, with an official response from the City due Feb. 27. In the end, there’s the possibility it could nullify the results of the bylaw vote, leaving CCA back where it started in November, facing threats of a breach of lease from the City.

The entire ordeal is putting the nonprofit at risk, and CCA is having to fork out money for lawyers that otherwise could be going to maintenance. Benford says all the public scrutiny and media attention raises questions about the organization’s tax-exempt status, by calling into question whether or not addressing the cottage owner concerns is actuBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

ally offering a private benefit to certain individuals.

“If you’re offering someone a private benefit, that’s not something you can do [according to] 501(c)(3) rules and so, is what’s happening up here considered private benefit?” she asks.

“And if it is, then that could have IRS implications.”

Not only that, it also threatens the value of all the properties, including the privately held cottages. If the lease is terminated, Carr says, theoretically, the privately held cottages “have to go away.”

“The cottages themselves have to either be removed or transferred to the City within six months if there’s a default,” he says.

All of this sets up the possibility of more lawsuits, Galey says.

“Imagine you have a home that’s worth $1 million today and the CCA says, no, I’m not going to renew your lease. The house tomorrow is worth $0. You can’t sell it,” he says. “I think there’s going to be 38 lawsuits that are million-dollar lawsuits. That’s a $38 million mistake.”

Regardless, Carr says the City Council, which has expressed unanimous support of Carr’s letter to the CCA, most recently at the Feb. 4 Council meeting, is “absolutely serious” about following through with its demands, all in the name of preserving Chautauqua.

“There are several other avenues available to the City that we’ll address if the bylaw changes don’t pass and they will not be as nice,” Carr says. “And that’s unfortunate.”

If that happens, and the partnership between CCA and the City falls apart, it’s unclear how Chautauqua would be managed moving forward, opening up a realm of possibilities for the future of the site. “If we don’t have something like the Colorado Chautauqua Association, who knows who will come in,” Morzel says.

In the end, the entire system of managing, maintaining and perpetuating the values of Colorado’s Chautauqua could be upended, threatening to change the very nature of Boulder’s iconic and historic park.

That’s one point all sides seem to agree on, even as they are all trying to prevent this from happening. As Galey says, “This could potentially end in massive disaster for Boulder and Chautauqua.”

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hen Colorado voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday, March 3, or drop their mail-in ballots (sent last week) in the days leading up to it, they will be engaged in a state voting process that has changed significantly in recent years.

This will be the first year in two decades that Colorado voters will vote for party presidential nominees through a primary and not a caucus. This will be the first presidential primary year in which the votes will be tallied on Super Tuesday. Voters who are 17 years old but will turn 18

by Election Day can vote in the primary. Unaffiliated voters can vote in either Democratic or Republican primaries. And if a voter has interacted with certain state agencies, like the DMV, they’re automatically registered to vote.

There are more polling places than previous years, more drop-off boxes and people can register to vote on the day of the primary.

Colorado has won accolades for its voting protocols, but, then again, few people had any questions about Iowa’s caucus process until it completely fell apart and made a mockery of our democratic system on Feb. 3.

Too, a new study from MIT raised questions about the security of an app used by the City of Denver (Voatz) to accommodate military and overseas voters.

So what makes Colorado’s voting system less susceptible to fail?

First, Iowa’s caucus was run by Democratic party members using an app designated by the party to report results. Colorado, by virtue of switching to the primary format, puts the responsibility of election integrity in the hands of trained election officials.

“This is still a new environment that people are operating in,” says Boulder County Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick. “We are working hard to ensure there are people — election judges, staff workers — trained to understand first and foremost how to be an ambassador and promote the BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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ways we are secure and ensure they have the training to combat threats.”

Every vote in Colorado is done on paper. In Boulder County, mailedout ballots are tracked from the time they leave the Clerk’s office to the time they return. Once ballots are received they are scanned into a system that is not connected to the internet and which was installed according to state protocol.

Signatures are verified through closed-source software, and a team of trained judges helps ensure signatures match and that the system logged votes the way voters intended. When votes are ready to be uploaded and reported, they are put on a clean flash drive and transported to another area to avoid any possibility of corrupting the system.

The entire system is open to the public (cameras run 24/7), and in fact, the public is encouraged to participate either by attending walkthroughs at the Clerk’s Office before the election or by serving as an elections worker. That’s a necessary part of the process, Fitzpatrick says, as it reinforces the strength of the system already in place.

“One of the things we’re trying to do is implement strong protocols ... and also ensuring that if you’re accessing critical information that you have only the levels of information you need to have,” Fitzpatrick says.

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That’s all on the local level. On the broader level, Secretary of State Jena Griswold has her eye on how to protect our systems from being attacked by bad actors.

“We do know from the Mueller Report, FBI reports, there are actors who are trying to undermine our election system,” Griswold says. “If systems aren’t set up correctly, suddenly you have a [way in].”

Griswold says that the way she’s most concerned about bad actors accessing government systems is not through election protocols or clerks’ offices, but through other county systems — “They end up being the spaces that get attacked.” And so Griswold is pushing for broader cybersecurity measures on all levels of government, in all departments, to mitigate risk.

(There is still a caucus in Colorado, by the way, only it will be held by the political parties on March 7 and will help determine which non-presidential candidates make the ballots for June primaries.)

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ne of the new challenges for Griswold, Fitzpatrick and county clerks across Colorado is rooting out misinformation that comes in the form of social media posts, dubious news articles, campaign mailers and more. It’s a challenge that has not typically been under the purview of election officials, but one they are taking on in light of how impactful misinformation was in 2016.

“The thing I think about is the misinformation that we’re likely to see amped up over the next nine months or so,” Fitzpatrick says. “The challenge of how do we spot it, how do people report it, how do we get out in front of it when we don’t always see it ourselves?”

Griswold is unequivocal about the impact outside influences, particularly foreign actors have had — and could have in the future — on elections.

“These are coordinated attacks coming from countries like Russia,” Griswold says, adding that bad actors “use social media as a tool to trick people.”

In response, Griswold listed comprehensive foreign election interference measures as one of her legislative goals for 2020.

Among the proposed solutions are prohibiting campaigns from coordinating with foreign entities, requiring candidates to disclose all foreign contact, cracking down on “deep fake” videos intended to mislead voters, and banning ads that have foreign financial ties.

“If a political ad is purchased in non-U.S. currency — say, rubles — they are very likely breaking Colorado law,” Griswold says.

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Climate research struggles to find funding

Since 1990, it has won less than 5% of the research funds available

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ith the crisis of global ing granted to climate change heating now widely recog- research, the social sciences received a nized as one of the most relatively minuscule amount. challenging issues facing “From 1990 to 2018, the natural the world today, you might and physical sciences received a total assume that vast amounts of money of U.S. $40 billion (for climate are going into climate research. change research) compared to only But researchers at the Norwegian $4.6 billion for the social sciences Institute of International Affairs and humanities.”

(NUPI) and the University of Sussex Contrast these figures with the in the U.K. say the reality is very difprofits over a similar period by some ferent. of the world’s biggest oil companies.

In a study published in the journal TIMO PALO VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Energy Research and Social Science, researchers report how they examined a dataset containing details of 4.3 million research funding awards made from 1950 to 2021. In total, the awards were worth more than a trillion U.S. dollars.

After sifting through copious amounts of material, the study’s authors estimate that in the period between 1990 and 2018, only from 2.4% to According to recent analysis for the 4.6% of the total global research Guardian, BP, Shell, Chevron and funding made available was devoted Exxon made almost $2 trillion in to investigating aspects of climate profits in the 1990 to 2019 period — change. a time when the climate emergency They then analyzed the various was becoming widely recognized, areas of climate change-related fund- including within the fossil fuel indusing, looking specifically at the try. amounts given to research on the The study defines the social sciissue in the field of social science. ences as encompassing anthropology, economics, education, international MEAGER RECENT FUNDING relations, human geography, developThe study comes up with several ment, legal and media studies, politifindings. “The first is that hardly any cal science, psychology and sociology. social science research was conducted The academics say the research on climate change before 1990,” the carried out within social science has authors say. tended to concentrate on ways of “The second observation is how adapting to climate change — such little funding has gone into research as how to manage extreme weather on climate change overall since 1990, events and recover from disasters — regardless of discipline.” rather than mitigating its effects.

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NEED FOR REFORM Social science can play a key role in coming up with answers, the study states. It’s vital, the authors say, that issues be addressed such as how to persuade households to adopt lowcarbon lifestyles, or how to promote decarbonization among cultures and market economies as diverse as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the U.K. “Although the natural and technical sciences often generate results that are, or are perceived to be, clearer and more concrete than the social sciences, they cannot handle issue areas — such as attitudes, norms, incentives and politics — that are intrinsically social.”

The study expresses caveats about its findings: Its data set on funding awards covers only competitive research grants. In some countries such as Germany, France and China, large amounts of research funding are distributed in the form of basic grants, and it is often difficult to know precisely on what areas such money is spent.

The study says social science has to reform itself and be more in tune with what’s happening. “Some social science research is wishy-washy, lacking an understanding of the natural sciences and the physical world.”

Social scientists, it says, need to do a better job of ensuring rigor and validity in their research.

This story previously ran on Climate News Network.

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What makes TAUK tick?

TAUK bassist Charlie Dolan chats about Stevie Wonder, the best venue in the world, managing parts and getting sympatico with the EDM faithful

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heaven and hell, sometimes in the same moment.

Hate is unbridled, as is fanatic love. It’s exhausting.

But it’s also refreshing — affirming, even — a place to find a community of people who love the same wonderful things you love... even if it’s a little over the top sometimes.

Like the guy on YouTube who commented on one of TAUK’s live sets from 2019: “I’m just glad I didn’t die before hearing that set.”

“Whoa,” says Charlie Dolan, the laid-back bassist for TAUK. “That’s, um, pretty heavy.”

The sentiment was appreciated, but what’s behind this kind of fervor? A fourpiece band from Long Island, aggressively virtuosic players all, plying the waters of post-jamband fusion. Their all instrumental works blend crafty arpeggiated figures against dynamics ranging from languid chill to elbow-throwing stomp, whiplash time changes, aerodynamic soloing and dizzying interplay. Old schoolers will catch passages and runs recalling the genre’s earliest days, but TAUK is its own beast, fully embracing the liberated componenture of bands like Phish and Umphrey’s McGee — the latter outfit a group that helped guide TAUK through the band’s earliest days and with whom they still maintain a close relationship — while maintaining its own identity.

Tenured for about nine years as a working franchise, the band has evolved, as most bands do, beyond their personal influences to the point where they are more or less their own influence, judging compositions and albums and show performances against the standard they set for themselves. It’s always a subtle thing, but eventually you get good enough to trust your instincts and your fans, and everything else dissolves into the background.

Musicians get asked all the time what their influences are, or were, but Dolan is circumspect on the subject.

“It’s kind of hard to say. Matt (Jalbert, guitarist) and A.C. (Carter, keys) have been playing together so long, almost 20 years, since we were in middle school. We started out playing classic rock, then BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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started doing more jammy songs, then we did jazz band together, and then we all went to different schools. Isaac (Teel, drummer) came from a church background... We all have different influences, some similar ones too, but it’s the dynamic we put together as friends that we can collaborate in a way

that everyone can put their own thing into it.”

With steady work as a festival and club draw, it’s not a stretch to imagine a world where a band like TAUK could forego albums altogether, where the live show is both the bait and the catch. But their recorded output is actually pretty generous for a band that spends so much time on the road. They finished up a double-release, kind-of concept album cycle in 2018 called Shapeshifter, and Dolan says there’d be more — probably a lot more — if they had time.

“That’s really the burden of touring so much,” he laments. “We have so much new music that we haven’t even played, because we don’t have the time to practice it.”

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and structure than simply capturing the live vibe with endless soloing and technique clinics. If the album as art form is a sclerotic fossil on its last legs, someone forgot to tell these guys.

“We kind of try to build on what we’ve been doing and always try to bring a new element into it,” Dolan says. “When we’re in the studio, we really try to go deep into a song, get at it with a microscope.

We listen back, take it apart, figure out what parts will make it work dynamically, what parts need to go. I feel like the stuff we focus most on in the studio, after we get the song down, is dynamics.

“Sometimes, when people are focused on playing the song right, that’s different from playing it with feeling.”

And for a band that finds itself on plenty of EDMthemed festival stages, notably absent from TAUK’s recorded output, or the live show for that matter, is the Ableton thing.

Carter does his share of synth padding and pitch-wheel soloing, but plays it.

Although interestingly, the band will occasionally drop into a sequenced interlude or transition, a repeated arpeggio figure or riff, a digital flourish in an otherwise analog framework. We asked Dolan if parts like this reflect a resonance of the scene they play.

“Yeah, I guess so. I think there are parts of our song catalog that could cater to that crowd. But I think a lot has to do more with experimenting with different keyboards and sequencers and all that stuff. That world is huge, with all the access to technology... soundbanks. It’s not analog synths anymore.

“For us, we’re trying to create music that you can dance to, but also just sit back and listen to and nerd out on the musicality.”

The band’s second set of the evening at the Boulder Theater gig includes a TAUKing Wonder tribute to Stevie Wonder, with former Motet trumpeter Gabe Mervine, Nick Gerlach, vocalist Kim Dawson and some other local friends. Wonder’s “classic period” output from ’72 to ’76, which Slate critic

Jack Hamilton called “arguably the greatest sustained run of creativity in the history of popular music,” is a bounty of rowdy funk, pristine pop, ruminative treatises on the state of the black experience in Nixon’s America, and joyous, inexplicably perfect radio gems that have proven immune to the pitiless grind of time or fashion. An embarrassment of riches, and Dolan says he can’t wait to dive in.

The band has done a few of these multi-band, quasi-trib mashup shows in the past, including Umphrey’s and The Beatles, and a Hendrix show last December in New York, but Dolan says this one is extra-prime.

“Stevie Wonder is definitely one my favorite musicians of all time. Super excited to do this.

We do a couple of Stevie covers, but now we’re really digging in. What’s cool about this show is we’re bringing in a lot of other people for it. There’s an album called Natural Wonder, a live album that pretty much changed my life. There’s more than one keyboard part on a lot of the tracks, and different percussion parts, and we’re going to have enough players to cover all of it. It would have been a huge challenge if it were just the four of us trying to cover all the parts. And we kind of put our own spin it, so it’s not so much a straight-up tribute thing.”

Although TAUK was last in town in November at Denver’s Mission Ballroom, the band’s press photos and website banner video show them at that hallowed stage outside Morrison. Dolan recalls the time they first came to Denver and made a pilgrimage to Red Rocks, when the air temp was 10 below zero... just to be there. They’ve since played as support there four or five times.

“It’s the perfect place to play, really, it’s such an honor to play up there. This past year I had a daughter, and I had to take her up there, when she was just four or five months old. It’s the ultimate bucket list gig, headlining at Red Rocks. We love it. We’d play there every show if we could.”

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ON THE BILL: SAM BUSH BAND — with Bowregard. March 1, Boulder Theater. bouldertheater.com Also: Colorado Springs (Feb. 28), Englewood (Feb. 29), Steamboat Springs (March 3), Grand Junction (March 4), Beaver Creek (March 9) and Fort Collins (March 10).

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hey call him the “King of Telluride” because the Kentucky-born, Nashville-based musician has performed every June for 45 years at the town’s legendary bluegrass festival. You could also call Sam Bush the King of Colorado.

The poster for the Sam Bush Band’s current tour shows a cartoon musician riding a moose through a piney, snowy forest with a mandolin on his knee. It also announces stops in Colorado Springs, Denver, Steamboat Springs, Grand Junction, Beaver Creek, Fort Collins, plus a March 1 Boulder Theater show. Not many bands can do that.

Sam Bush has found a second home in the state where he first discovered were once the rebels. listeners who were into his band, the New Flash-forward 40 years and Bush is Grass Revival. regarded as one of the top two or three “Our first impression was in 1972,” he mandolinists on the planet. He is revered says. “It was like 20-below when we by next-gen jamgrass bands including the played in Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Punch Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers we’d stay at these really old hotels. When and Greensky Bluegrass, along with the we toured with John Hartford we played homegrown Leftover Salmon and Yonder the Hungry Farmer in Boulder.”

Mountain String Band. The music has Listeners in Boulder County really got come to be called “newgrass” and Bush “it.” acknowledges he helped “High in “Right off the bat we father the genre.

Telluride, up started meeting people Since the 1970s, Bush with a different attitude has played everywhere in on Bridal Veil/Ten thousand feet above the toward music. The audiColorado that you can play, sound/The news came ences here were wide first with two lineups of New around and sent me to open and ready to listen, Grass Revival, in Emmylou count all my blessings/And to thank you for all the good Harris’ Nash Ramblers and, and they didn’t want to friends that I’ve found.” hear the same old tunes. starting in 1995, the Sam —“Circles Around It’s a very different attiBush Band playing his hybrid Me” by Sam Bush tude than in the South at bluegrass Americana with that time” Bush says. drums.

That tale is retold in the 2019 docu“We now have friends we visit all mentary Revival: The Sam Bush Story, over the state, even Ridgway,” says which includes commentary from Alison Bush, who has won multiple Grammy Krauss, Emmylou Harris, David Grisman Awards. and Del McCoury. It’s about how a blue“We had driven through Ridgway grass-loving musician (and many other (near Telluride) many times but a friend long-haired pickers) scared the hell out of called me. He said, ‘I’m in Ridgway and I the establishment with their fusion of twang saw a Grammy with your name on it.’ with jazz, rock and reggae. Bill Monroe and That’s how I found out the statues were his ilk objected, having forgotten that they made there. It was for Oh Brother Where BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Art Thou,” Bush says.

Known as the Energizer Bunny of roadhardened performers, fans were concerned when emergency stomach surgery forced Bush to cancel spring shows in 2019.

However, there was one gig he had to make.

“I wanted to play my 45th Telluride (Bluegrass Festival) in a row. That was the first show back.

Talk about coming to a place where singers wilt onstage from the lack of oxygen! I went into training, walked a lot and worked with a vocal coach on breathing,” Bush says.

He stepped into the spotlight in June to thunderous applause.

“That was a truly emotional experience. It was good to be back,” he

says.

In 2019 he also received an honorary doctorate from Western Kentucky University.

“I’m now Dr. Bush almost 50 years after almost attending the university. I was ready to enter with a string instrument scholarship when this band, the Bluegrass Alliance, called and offered a gig playing five nights a week,” he says. Decades of picking followed.

Bush says he doesn’t feel particularly “venerable” at this point in his career.

“I’m happy I’m still employed. I’m really happy my hands still work.

“I tend to think about the mandolin players. Some of them say I’ve been an influence, but I feel like they are contemporaries,” says Bush who famously jams with everyone at festivals.

“My wife, Lynn, said, ‘Sam, If you don’t get out and play with the young bands, you’ll lose touch with what’s going on.’ She was right,” he adds.

In fact, Bush found the newest member of his band — young banjo whiz Wes Corbett — while at a recording session for Nefresh Mountain, a band that melds Jewish klezmer music with bluegrass.

If you miss Bush this time around, don’t worry. He’ll be back for Telluride in June, Rockygrass in July and beyond.

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Zuill Bailey and Boulder Phil will perform ‘unbelievably successful’ new piece Michael Daugherty’s new score was inspired by works of Ernest Hemingway

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uill Bailey loves watching the audience as he performs.

Unlike pianists and other soloists with orchestra, Bailey, a cellist, sits facing the audience when he performs. “It’s a complete magical ride,” he says. “I can literally be guided by their expressions. I can see where the music takes people and go with it.”

Bailey will be the soloist with the Boulder Philharmonic Saturday, Feb. 22, playing music written for him by American composer Michael Daugherty. In addition to Daugherty’s Tales of Hemingway for cello and orchestra, the Boulder Phil and conductor Michael Butterman will also present Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2.

Tales of Hemingway is essentially a concerto for cello in four movements, each inspired by a different Hemmingway story. The four very contrasting movements are based in turn on “Big TwoHearted River,” an early short story; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea; and The Sun Also Rises.

Daugherty heard Bailey play and responded to the sound of Bailey’s 1693 cello. “Once he heard that, he said he now could realize a dream, writing a work around the literature of Ernest Hemingway,” Bailey explains. “He said my cello would be the perfect storyteller of Hemingway’s tales.”

Bailey and Butterman agree that familiarity with the Hemingway stories is not necessary to enjoy the piece. “What he does in these pieces is evoke a mood and a world,” Butterman says. “That definitely comes through. And it’s exciting because Zuill plays it in a very passionate and committed way.”

Bailey enjoys working with a living composer — even one who was continually making changes. “He went back to the drawing board after hearing what I was doing [in rehearsal],” Bailey says.

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“The piece was quickly evolving in front our eyes. A week before the premiere, I was looking at a lot of new ink. He was so excited, when I was quite frankly very scared.

“Literally as I was walking out onstage he was verbally telling me to do things that weren’t in the music.” On the other hand, Bailey says, “It’s a thrill to be able to report back to a living composer, and not go kneel at the grave of some composer and say, ‘I wish you were here.’”

Going onstage for that first performance, Bailey didn’t know what to expect. “I had no idea how it would be received,” he says. “And it was unbelievably successful. It’s been a thrill ride for the last few years, taking it to new audiences. Everywhere I’ve gone, whether Estonia, or Turkey, or all over the United States, it’s embraced as a great piece of music.”

The only other piece on the program, Sibelius’s Second Symphony, is more well-known. “It’s his most often performed symphony,” Butterman says. “It’s successful for audiences because it has a very winning way about it at the end of the movements.”

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ON THE BILL: Boulder Philharmonic — with Zuill Bailey, cello.

Michael Daugherty: ‘Tales of Hemingway’ for cello and orchestra.

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., CU Boulder campus. Tickets at boulderphil.org.

movements because of the way that Sibelius composed. Most classical music before Sibelius — Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and others — starts with an identifiable theme that is varied and transformed to reach the conclusion. Listeners can easily follow the theme.

In contrast, Sibelius starts with small melodic ideas that are assembled over the course of a movement, only reaching a final form at the end. “It’s like he tossed a bunch of things out on the floor, and asked, ‘Now what am I going to do?’” Butterman says. “It’s a journey of finding ways to stick these little elements together, until they create a mosaic.”

Butterman believes that listeners who expect to go on that journey with Sibelius will be more satisfied than if they expect to hear a big tune right away. “By the end he’s got something astonishing, but it’s a process of discovery together,” he says. “As a listener you have to be patient — you have to approach this as a journey that you can take with the composer. And the destination will feel very satisfying when you’ve reached it.”

Sibelius wrote his Second Symphony in 1901-02, during and after a trip to Italy. The music does not recall Italy so much as Sibelius’s homeland of Finland, except perhaps the very ending. “I hear a lot of the sort of brooding qualities that much of his music has,” Butterman says.

At the end of the final movement, though, a long, gloomy passage in minor suddenly gives way to a key change to major, and the sun seems to break through the clouds — which could be a reflection of Sibelius’s time in Italy.

“When the clouds do break it feels wellearned,” Butterman says.

“The end of the movement is affirmative and you feel like you’ve been on a journey that ends in an uplifting way.”

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7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

When Willie Nelson is your dad, you know a thing or two about hittin’ the road, about playing guitar... about legacy. In fact, Lukas Nelson understands legacy so well that he knows better than to rely on the legacy of his family name, so he’s spent some time showing folks what he’s got to offer, blending rock ‘n’ roll, country, soul, folk and R&B into original songs with his band, Promise of the Real. And when he’s not busy doing that, he’s leading Neil Young’s band, or making BAFTA-winning soundtracks with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper for ‘A Star is Born.’ Nelson’s newest album, ‘Turn off The News,’ showcases his musical range and appeal with cameos from Neil Young, Margo Price, Kesha, Lucius and, of course, the Redheaded Stranger himself, Willie. —CR

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Friday, Feb. 21-Feb. 23, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Don’t miss Boulder GUSTAV BORGEN Ballet’s premiere performance of ‘Airs,’ choreographed by Paul Taylor, performed to music selections by Handel. ‘Airs’ has been a hit since it premiered in the late 1970s.

Taylor choreographed 147 dances between 1954 and 2018, premiering his last work only a few months before his death at the age of 88. Boulder Ballet will also premiere ‘Five Movements, Three Repeats,’ an example of English choregrapher Christopher Wheeldon’s signature blend of ballet and modern dance, set to music by Max Richter and Dinah Washington. Tickets at thedairy.org.

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‘DAVEY, DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?’

7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-3524327.

Based on the true accounts of trapped miners and their days deep underground in a Pennsylvania coal mine, ‘Davey, Do You See the Light?’ is an epic poem, an Americana folk concert and a mesmerizing multimedia experience.

Created by Denver songwriter Jim Broyles, it’s also a personal telling of a childhood memory and an unexpected voyage to dimensions beyond this world. Jim (guitar) is joined on stage by Steef Sealy (banjo), Chris Sealy (mandolin), Benjamin Cowhick (bass) and Luke Halpin (fiddle). Together, they present an emotionally engaging tale in rhyming verse, woven together by a collection of original songs with elegant harmonies and vivid instrumentation. Tickets are $15 at coloradoboxoffice. com.

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CITIZENS’ CLIMATE BENEFIT FEATURING LATE FOR SUPPER. 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-993-5431.

Colorado roots musi- COURTESY LATE FOR SUPPER cian Jon Garson brings together talented local string players for a rousing evening of classic bluegrass, country, Western swing and honky tonk to benefit Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonpartisan organization.

Funds from this concert will be used to send Colorado volunteers to the 2020 National Citizens’ Climate Lobby Conference to lobby for major climate change legislation. For more information email boulder@citizensclimatelobby.org.

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Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), 1750 13th St., Boulder: ‘Night Reels: The Work of Stacey Steers,’ through May 25; Margaretta Gilboy: ‘Flying in the Hands of Time: A Retrospective,’ through May 25.

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BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: Paul Gillis: ‘When Kingship Ascends to Heaven,’ through May 1.

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Woman Up Music Festival Feat: Mojomama, Kerry Pastine and the crime scene and The Cass Clayton band A night of Funky Blues Rock, Rockabilly, and Roots Rock.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Maker Made,’ Canyon Gallery, through March 30; Bill Vielehr: The Artist Behind “The Vielehr,” Arapahoe Ramp, through March 22.

Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: ‘The Ties That Bind: Demry Frankenheimer,’ Feb. 21-April 4.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Brutal Realities,’ featuring Natascha Seideneck and Regan Rosburg (Hand-Rudy); Michael Theodore (Polly Addison Gallery); Annette Isham (MacMillan); and theTECHNE Lab with Déesse, Jon J. Satrom, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Melanie Clemmons, Ryan Wurst, Rick Silva, Nicholas O’Brien and Mariana Pereira Vieira (McMahon), through Feb. 23.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through July; ‘EYES ON: Anthony McCall,’ through May 31; The Light Show, through Nov. 29.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont: Chelsea Gilmore, artist in residence, South Gallery.

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Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Terry Maker: Because the World is Round,’ through May 17; ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History,’; ‘125 Years of Distinctive Cameras’; ‘Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse’; ‘The Flood of 2013’; ‘Native American Artifacts,’ and more, lyonsredstonemuseum.com Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through June 15; ‘Our Living Landscape: Exploring Boulder’s Watershed,’ through March 30; ‘Leaving a Mark,’ through March 14.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5.

THERE IS A REASON why visitors to Demry Frankenheimer’s studio have been known to weep in front of her art. Using specific, unusual methods and tactile materials as her vocabulary, Frankenheimer has developed an elegant yet visceral artistic language that strives to visually capture and articulate the world within her and around her. The juxtaposition of these materials give Frankenheimer the ability, she says, to “write what I see and sense.” ‘The Ties That Bind: Demry Frankenheimer,’ is on display at Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center Feb. 21-April 4.

Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Mystery and Beauty,’ by Mark Brasuell, The Lincoln Gallery, through March 15.

NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive: Acrylic paintings by Lisa Lynch; Glass mosiac by Delcia Litt through March 28.

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Persuasive Prints,’ through March 21; ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June; Mary Mattingly: ‘Last Library,’ through July 18.

Naropa University Galleries: Nalanda Campus,6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Cathedral,’ by Kevin Sloan, The Cube Gallery, through Feb. 28; ‘Haven,’ by Kelly Duffield, The Nalanda Gallery, through Feb. 28.

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Ross Sea; The Last Ocean;’ ‘Genomics: Observing Evolution;’ ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

Swing Night with Chez Coucou. 8 p.m.

Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Spirit Nia Dance Class. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

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3rd Thursday Community Dinner & Line Dancing. 6 p.m. Lyons Regional Library, 451 Fourth Ave., Lyons, 720-600-3483.

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3.29 Hippy Bluegrass Church 4.17 Concert: Holly Bowling 5.1 & 5.2 Concert: Adam Aijala & Ben Kaufmann of YMSB WHERE: eTOWN Hall 1535 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302 TICKETS: eTOWN.org

Ben Knighten, Finn O’Sullivan, Joe Teichman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

Dueling Pianos. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Francisco Marques Solo Live & Loopy.

6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont.

Music of the Renaissance: ‘The Earthquake Mass.’ 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246; 4 p.m. on feb. 23, UCC, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont.

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Dance For Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Every Tuesday and Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $5.

The Empowered Empath. 7 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living Boulder Valley, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette, 720-917-9303.

Game Design Workshop: Level Up the Library. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Michelle Wolf. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Feb. 23.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Boulder. 7 p.m. 2132 14th St., Boulder; 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

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ALO & Tea Leaf Green. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Beatlemania 2020. 5:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Black Sheep Friday: Sock Puppet Karaoke.

6 p.m. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

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

Friday Afternoon Concert: Planina Songs of Eastern Europe. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

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

The Jellyroll Bakers. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

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PAM HOUSTON IS the author of the memoir, ‘Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country,’ as well as two novels, ‘Contents May Have Shifted’ and ‘Sight Hound,’ two collections of short stories and a collection of essays. Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century among other anthologies. Houston will speak about her work at Inkberry Books in Niwot on Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.

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

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

My Blue Sky. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

TAUK + A Special Tauking Wonder Set — with Eminence Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Winter Folk: Music & Photography Showcase. The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635. Through March 1.

Women of Folk — A Tribute to the Classics. 6 p.m. The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635.

Events Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 35th Anniversary Tour — with Paul Reubens. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

SPARK! Tours for Individuals with Memory Loss. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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Nolan Higdon — United States of Distraction. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

U.S. Census Open Mic. 5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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

Pam Houston — author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country and more. 7 p.m. Inkberry Books, 7960 Niwot Road, Niwot.

MONDAY, FEB. 24 World Literature Series: Gish Jen. 7 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

(Note: Authors will not be present at the lectures in this series.)

Thomas “Detour” Evans — Be the Artist.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26 From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub — Girl, Woman, Other. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Music 6th Anniversary Celebration. 11:30 a.m.

300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

TAUK — with Aaron Kamm and The One Drops. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Arena Rock All-Stars. 8 p.m. Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Boulevard, Unit A, Longmont.

Events

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Hemingway Portraits and Sibelius 2. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 0285, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Joe C. Wails Gand. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Montage. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Nerea the Fiddler & Marty Smith. 8 p.m.

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

North Mississippi Allstars: Up and Rolling Tour. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Ott. — with Dynohunter (Dj Set), MXXNwatchers. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Salasee and the Fafa Family. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Schmidt Swindler Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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ABANC Alpaca Extravaganza. 9 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-341-1673.

Denver Familyfest. 11 a.m. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver.

Gaza Fights for Freedom. 6 p.m. I.O.O.F, 1543 Pearl St., Second Floor, Boulder, 303-506-7889.

Longmont’s Tiniest Mardi Gras Parade. 4 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130, Longmont, 303-258-6910.

Master Class Workshop. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Ballet, 2590 Walnut St., Ste 10, Boulder.

Spy Science: See Behind Glasses. 3 p.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Music The Bachelor Live on Stage. 7:30 p.m. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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

Essential Music of the Holocaust: History and Hope. 3 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-355-0232.

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

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Mark Guiliana: Beat Music — with Dandu, Chronologue. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Rapsody. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Soundbridge Music Artist Mixer. 2 p.m.

300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

DINNER! TUESDAY - SUNDAY 4-9pm BOTTOMLESS WINE WEDNESDAYS 4-8pm

Synesthesia Chamber Music. 4 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Willie Watson, Otis Taylor, Bonnie & Taylor Sims, Andy Mann & Nick Dunbar. 5 p.m.

The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635.

Events Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Music Ana Corral, Novella Spielman. 9:30 p.m.

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

Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

Guest Master Class: Anne Epperson, collaborative piano. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. see EVENTS Page 28

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FILMS For 50 years, Agnès Varda lived on Paris’ Rue Daguerre, a quiet street of merchants not far from Montparnasse. She saw the men and women (mostly husbands and wives) who ran the shops, cut the hair, baked the bread and carved the meat. What are their stories? Varda wondered, and with her trusty camera, she took to the street, photographed their faces and hands, asked for their tales, and preserved these perfectly ordinary Parisians for future historians, sociologists and archeologists.

Forty-plus years later, we are the archeologists investigating those faces, most of whom are long since dead. As is Varda. But, as long as there is electricity to power projectors, their faces will never fade. Such is the beauty of cinema, and ‘Daguerreotypes’ — a play on the street’s name and an early form of photography — feels closer to the daguerreotypes of the 19th century than it does to the commerce of ours. Simultaneously enchanting and tragic, Varda allows a neighborhood magician to preside over her documentary, further emphasizing cinema’s hypnotic powers. Culminating with a silent curtain call of the rue’s shopkeepers, ‘Daguerreotypes’ is a work of kindness and curiosity that will leave you breathless. —MJC

BOULDER:

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., 303-786-7030: BANFF Centre Mountain Film Festival, Feb. 25-27.

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘1917’ ‘The Assistant’ ‘Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island’ ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘The Color Purple,’ 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23.

‘Dolittle’ ‘Downhill’ ‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘Just Mercy’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Little Women’ ‘The Lodge’ ‘Parasite’

‘The Photograph’ ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: ‘Beanpole,’ Feb. 26-29.

BMoCA presents an evening with Stacey Steers, 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23.

‘Daniel Isn’t Real,’ 8:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21.

‘Olympic Dreams,’ Feb. 21-24.

Oscar-nominated Animation shorts, Feb. 26-29.

Oscar-nominated Live Action shorts, Feb. 19-22.

‘Pariah Dog,’ Feb. 19-22.

‘Paris is Burning,’ 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 25. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., 303-443-8696: ‘The Biggest Little Farm,’ 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 26.

International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662: ‘The Birds,’ 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25.

‘Birdemic: Shock and Terror,’ 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 26.

‘Daguerreotypes,’ 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20.

Found Footage Festival Vol. 9, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21.

‘Nightmare Alley,’ 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24.

‘Pain and Glory,’ 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22.

‘Weight of Water,’ 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, 303-449-3464: ‘When They See Us,’ 3 p.m. Sundays in February.

Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., 303-443-7510: ‘The Beaver Believers,’ 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23.

DENVER:

Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., 720-420-0030: 14th Annual Fly Fishing Film Tour, 4 and 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 22.

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: ‘Carrie,’ 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Fifth Annual Colorado Dragon Film Festival, Feb. 20-23.

‘Goldie’ ‘Olympic Dreams’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street,’ 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20.

‘Sorcerer,’ 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 ‘Kids: Chasing Paradise Community’ Film Screening. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25

LONGMONT:

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., 720-494-4673: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 7:15 p.m. Thursday, February 20.

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island’ ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Downhill’ ‘Free Burma Rangers,’ Feb. 24-25.

‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘The Photograph’ ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

LOUISVILLE:

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Downhill’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

NEDERLAND:

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

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Pick Up A Guitar. 6:30 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-561-5968.

Events National Geographic Live: Untamed with Filipe DeAndrade. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.

Propulsion Goes Green. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Ukes Unite! Reynolds Ukulele Workshop.

6 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Women of the West AND Beyond. 11:30 a.m.

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

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Music 10th Annual Mardi Gras Celebration.

6 p.m. St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-443-2503.

Distinguished Music Lecture: Aaron Dworkin and Afa Sadykhly Dworkin. 11 a.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Faculty Tuesdays : Mike Dunn, tuba. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Fat Tuesday Celebration with Mama Roux & the Music of New Orleans. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Felonius Smith Trio. 7 p.m. Dairy Center For The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Mardi Gras with Defunkt Railroad. 9 p.m.

Dark Horse Bar and Grill, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder.

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

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20 RE: SEARCH

STEVE DARKO & WORTHY

W/ LUCATI (DIRTYBIRD) & JORDAN POLOVINA

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21

ALO & TEA LEAF GREEN W/ THE RED PETALS

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 RE: SEARCH

ULTRASLOTH (kLL sMTH/ DUFFREY/BioLumigeN)

W/ JON1ST, SHIELD (LIVE), RESONANT LANGUAGE & JORDAN POLOVINA

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28

DANCE PARTY TIME MACHINE ROBERT RANDOLPH, MARC BROWNSTEIN, ARON MAGNER, ALLEN AUCOIN, MIKE GREENFIELD, JENNIFER HARTSWICK, NATALIE CRESSMAN & JEFF FRANCA SATURDAY FEBRUARY 29

PHORA

W/ MARTEEN

TUESDAY MARCH 3

MARC E. BASSY

W/ GIANNI & KYLE, KID ASTRONAUT

THURSDAY MARCH 5 - DUAL VENUE

RUSS LIQUID & MARVEL YEARS

W/ FUNKSTATIK VISUALS BY ANDROID JONES

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20

CRIS JACOBS BAND & DELLA MAE

W/ JON STICKLEY TRIO & LINDSAY LOU

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21

PASSAFIRE

W/ PROJECT 432, BETARAY & DJ NAYSAYERS

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22

TAUK & FRIENDS

W/ AARON KAMM & THE ONE DROPS

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23

MARK GUILIANA: BEAT MUSIC W/ DANDU & CHRONOLOGUE

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25

FAT TUESDAY MARDI GRAS PARTY

EDDIE ROBERTS, KIM DAWSON, CASEY RUSSELL & MORE WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26

DUSTY GREEN BONES BAND FEAT TYLER GRANT & DEVIL’S SHARE

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27

THE LOVING HOUR

FEAT MEMBERS OF THE MAIN SQUEEZE, TAUK & KARL DENSON W/ ZETA JUNE

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28

DJ CRAZE & SFAM W/ JON CASEY

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 29

SATURDAY MARCH 7

KENDALL STREET COMPANY & CBDB

W/ THE DIRTY GEMS FEAT JORDAN POLOVINA

WEDNESDAY MARCH 4

THURSDAY MARCH 12 - DUAL VENUE

W/ SWIZZY J & MEELO V

Z-TRIP & DJ QBERT RE: SEARCH

JANTSEN & PROTOHYPE

W/ G-SPACE + SPICYBOIS TAKEOVER FEAT MESO

FRIDAY MARCH 13 SOLD OUT

PHAB4

(PHOFFMAN & ANDERS BECK) FEAT WILLIAM APOSTOL & TODD HERRINGTON

W/ DYLAN KISHNER BAND

RAMIREZ

FRIDAY MARCH 6

NAUGHTY PROFESSOR & THE BURROUGHS W/ SARAH MOUNT & THE RUSHMORES

SATURDAY MARCH 7

THE NTH POWER & BROTHER MAKER

SATURDAY MARCH 14

FEAT MEMBERS OF TURKUAZ W/ DIJON MUSTANG

W/ SUPERVISION, MIDICINAL, LWKY & FLATS STANLIE

GROOVESAFE ALLSTARS

MANIC FOCUS

WEDNESDAY MARCH 18

YOUNG M.A.

THURSDAY MARCH 19 RE: SEARCH

CHRISTIAN MARTIN W/ DATELESS & C.H.A.Y.

FRIDAY MARCH 20

ROBAG WRUHME & LEAFAR LEGOV

BELOW RADAR 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

SATURDAY MARCH 21

EVANOFF

W/ THE PARTY PEOPLE, FUTURE JOY & HU

WEDNESDAY MARCH 11

FEAT MEMBERS OF LOTUS, DOPAPOD & MAGIC BEANS

FRIDAY MARCH 13

CON BRIO

W/ SIXTY MINUTE MEN & SMIRK

SATURDAY MARCH 14

TOUBAB KREWE

W/ KESSEL RUN & DESMOND JONES

TUESDAY MARCH 17 SOLD OUT

THURSDAY MARCH 19 FRIDAY MARCH 20 SOLD OUT

CITY MORGUE

FRIDAY MARCH 27

W/ TOKYO’S REVENGE & KAI

MONDAY MARCH 23

SATURDAY MARCH 28

W/ THEYCALLHIMAP & SHOOTERGANG KONY

W/ GRABBITZ, TRUFEELZ, EXO & IAM_JACKO

WEDNESDAY MARCH 25

YULTRON - RAVE PROM TOUR THURSDAY APRIL 2 - DUAL VENUE

SOB X RBE

GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS

RE: SEARCH

THURSDAY MARCH 26

MILE HIGH SOUND MOVEMENT TAKEOVER FEAT PROJECT ASPECT

W/ ROSS KISER & REID GOLDEN (LATE SET)

BREAK SCIENCE FRIDAY APRIL 3

BASS INFERNO

RE: SEARCH

DETROIT SWINDLE FRIDAY MARCH 27

PICKIN ON TALKING HEADS

FEAT VIRTUAL RIOT, SHIVERZ & AKEOS

W/ TUTTLE-GREUEL EXPERIENCE FEAT SILAS HERMAN

THURSDAY APRIL 9

SATURDAY MARCH 28

RE: SEARCH

MONOPHONICS

W/ LIQUID BLOOM & POTIONS (LATE SET) VISUALS BY ANDROID JONES

BILLY FAILING BAND

PHUTUREPRIMITIVE SATURDAY APRIL 11

KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH BAND

W/ JOEL CUMMINS (UMPHREY’S MCGEE) & THE JAUNTEE

SUNDAY APRIL 19

LIVWELL PRESENTS METHOD MAN & REDMAN X ACTION BRONSON W/ AFROMAN, RDGLDGRN& LITTLE STRAGER @ OTHER SIDE DUAL VENUE

MONDAY APRIL 20 - AT RED ROCKS

LIVWELL PRESENTS ICE CUBE X METHOD MAN & REDMAN W/ ACTION BRONSON THURSDAY APRIL 23

LATE NIGHT RADIO

W/ ARTIFAKTS, SWUM (LATE SET) & JORDAN POLOVINA

SATURDAY APRIL 25

SNBRN

WEDNESDAY APRIL 29

LOUIS COLE BIG BAND

WEDNESDAY APRIL 1 FEAT JARROD WALKER

FRIDAY APRIL 3

OLD SALT UNION

W/ PART & PARCEL & PONDER THE ALBATROSS

SATURDAY APRIL 4

AMORAMORA & CHOMPERS W/ SLIDEWOK

THURSDAY APRIL 9

STEELY DEAD W/ LIL WEEN

FRIDAY APRIL 10 - DUAL VENUE

THE DENVER PANCAKES & BOOZE ART SHOW SATURDAY APRIL 11

THE GREEN HOUSE BAND & INDIE JAM 500 BAND W/ ZOLTAN

WEDNESDAY APRIL 15

JESSE ROYAL SATURDAY APRIL 25

FATHER

W/ MELTYCANON

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Jekyll and Hyde. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Through March 29.

twenty50. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through March 1.

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

When We Were Young and Unafraid. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver.

Through March 14.

The Merchant of Mumbai. The BITSY Stage, 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Through March 29.

Murder on the Orient Express. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17.

You Lost Me. Denver Center for Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Feb. 23.

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W/ ARMCHAIR BOOGIE

W/ SPACE BACON & DIZGO

MAGIC BEANS

Happy Birthday Wanda June — presented

by Theater Company of Lafayette. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through Feb. 29.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Through April 19.

LORD BUFFALO

NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS

DAILY BREAD

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 1.

The Secretary. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Feb. 22.

W/ LENTRA

THURSDAY MARCH 26 W/ MEGAN HAMILTON, MOTIFV & JORDAN POLOVINA

Bloomsday — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 1.

PUFFS: or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic — presented by Lost and Found Productions. The Evanston Center, 2122 S. Lafayette St., Denver.

Through Feb. 29.

BBNO$

W/ BUFFALO COMMONS & TIFFANY CHRISTOPHER

RE: SEARCH

Airness. — presented by Benchmark Theatre Company. 40 West, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood.

Through Feb. 29.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 18

WEDNESDAY MARCH 25

ROD WAVE

‘SHOCKHEADED PETER’ is a delightfully macabre adaptation of 19th-century German children’s book ‘Der Struwwelpeter.’ The book recounts several varieties of misbehaving children and their dreadful ends. This punk opera adaptation, which opened on the West End in London in 1998 and ran for several world tours, cranks up both the comedy and Grand Guignol to 11. In artistic director Amanda Berg Wilson’s multi-generational, immersive staging, The Catamounts will examine how terrifying parenting can be, especially when we try and let children be their strange, independent selves. Showing now through March 7 at the Dairy Arts Center.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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

Podcast Workshop with Local Podcaster, Dave Gonzales: Recording and Producing a Podcast. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

REI Workshop: Winter Camping. 6 p.m.

1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Music Dusty Green Bones Band & Black River Revue. 7:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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

The Glenn Miller Orchestra. 5:30 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Max Davies, Toni Oswald, Donnie Mortimer, plus special literary guests: Madeleine Seltzer & Nicolas Wesely. 8 p.m.

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

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Up with People. 7 p.m. Centaurus High School, 10300 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.

Events Anime-niacs: Anime Club for Adults. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

Code for Boulder. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m.

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

Dungeons & Dragons. 5:15 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

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The Lyric’s Essential Cinema: South Korea is worth the trek

by Michael J. Casey Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.

—Bong Joon-ho’s Golden Globe acceptance speech.

ON THE BILL: Essential Cinema: South Korea. Feb. 22-April 1, The Lyric, 1209 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, 80524, 970-426-6767.

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n May 25, 2019, Bong Joon-ho, the 49-year-old filmmaker from Daegu, South Korea, ascended the stairs to the Palais des Festivals stage and accepted the Palm d’Or for Parasite. It was the first time a Korean filmmaker claimed the prestigious prize in what many considered to be the greatest film competition in world cinema. And the decision was unanimous: Parasite was the best film of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.

On Feb. 8, 2020, Bong once again ascended the stairs, only this time he did so in the hallowed halls of Hollywood, and he did it four times: first for Original Screenplay, second for International Film, third for Director and fourth for Picture. First times all for a film from the Korean peninsula and the first for a foreign-language film netting top prize. Parasite was the best film of the 92nd Academy Awards.

Parasite, a black and bleak comedy about the haves, the have-nots and the have-lesses, will go down in cinematic history for a variety of reasons, in addition to being a damn good film, but no award is without context. Parasite’s critical and box office success is both a tip of the hat to the film itself, and to the industry from which it came. And some of the best movies from the 21st century have come from South Korea.

Has Parasite piqued your curiosity?

Then Fort Collins’ premier movie house, The Lyric, has the series for you, Essential Cinema: South Korea. Five movies over the next six weeks to get you hooked.

Parasite is up first (Feb. 22, 29), followed by The Host (Feb. 29 and March 4) and Mother (March 7 and March 11), all from the fertile mind of Bong, and all exemplifying Bong’s cinematic range.

The Host is iconoclastic — a monster movie in the vein of Godzilla, audaciously filmed in broad daylight — Parasite is metaphoric, and Mother’s subversion plunders the depths of the monster within.

A familiar face in Bong’s movies, Song Kang-ho stars in A Taxi Driver (Feb. 29 and March 4), a 2017 historical drama from director Jang Hoon set during the May 1980 Gwangju Uprisings. It’s a well-made historical drama, the kind designed to expose the moviegoing public to a massacre often overlooked at home and virtually unknown aboard.

The final film in the series, The Handmaiden (March 28 and April 1), is from Park Chan-wook, one of a handful of Korean directors whose name has currency on the world stage. And like Bong, Park derives a certain amount of pleasure in being diabolical with both the rich and poor.

Yet, there’s nothing rotten in the cinema of Seoul — each of these films is vibrant, energetic and bursting with cinematic pleasures. To see them is to love them and to love foreign cinema is to experience life beyond your borders.

And, as a bonus, Wednesday screenings will be followed by a discussion led by Dr. Hye Seung Chung, associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University.

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WE’LL CUT TO THE CHASE:

If you want to eat seafood in Boulder County, your first stop should be Tortugas in Longmont. Their menu borrows from Caribbean, Southern and Creole cooking traditions and features fresh catches, prepared simply and accompanied by bright, flavorful sauces, slaws and garnishes. Stop in and order the catch of the day (mahi-mahi on a recent visit) and your choice of preparation: Cuban mojo (sage, citrus and spices); Voodoo (dynamite étoufée sauce and dirty rice); West Indian curry; or, our choice, Jamaican Jerk — grilled with habanero, mustard, honey and a robust spice blend and topped with mango salsa. The grill provides irresistible smoky flavor, and the fish is cooked with precision. Served alongside maybe the best sweet potato fries in existence, and earthy, porkified collard greens.

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But if you do, it also happens to be National Margarita Day on Saturday, Feb. 22. To celebrate, Big Red F’s Centro Mexican Kitchen and Zolo Grill are offering specials. Zolo’s got their house marg available for $5 all day long and prickly pear versions for $7. Also feel free to dive into their selection of 250-plus tequilas and mezcals. Centro’s got a weekend-long event with $5 margs before sunset, $8 frozen margs and a variety of other specials.

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t’s been said that if beer didn’t already exist, no one would have invented it.

That’s probably true; for all its simplicity, beer involves a series of complex processes and transformations, none of which occur without some form of human intervention.

And it all begins with the malt. Often called the “soul of beer,” the primary function of malt is to provide yeast the fermentable sugars (maltose) needed to produce alcohol. Additionally, malt contributes color (pale, amber, brown, black, etc.) as well as body (sometimes called mouthfeel) and a variety of flavors.

Go back through history, and you’ll find brewers all over the world using just about every cultivated cereal grain as malt, but then as is now, barley is by far the preference. And, similar to coffee beans, where barley is grown does provide some nuances, but the roasting process is where the action is.

The process begins simply: barley is harvested and soaked in water — which forces the seeds to germinate and sprout. Once they do, the maltster arrests germination by drying and roasting the grains, turning them into malt. Here is where the maltster decides the flavors the malt will produce in the brewing process. Most malts are roasted or kilned with either indirect heat (creating palecolored malts, which yield flavors of cracker, bread and biscuit) or direct heat to generate darker colors and acrid flavors. In between those two reside a sea of colors and flavors, such as caramel, toffee, coffee and chocolate.

The malt can even be smoked, which will impart the char-

acteristics of the wood used (applewood, beech, hickory, etc.), which suffuses the beer during the brewing process.

Other grains can be malted (wheat, corn, rice, etc.) either for flavor, mouthfeel or fermentable sugars. These malts can come whole (and must be milled before use) or flaked. Some styles even take on regionalisms: Vienna malts are brown and biscuity while Munich malts are darker and bready. Pilsner malts give Pilsners their light straw color, while chocolate malts give stouts a rich black. Next time you’re near a homebrew supply shop, take a peek at the malt room, and you’ll be gobsmacked by the variants and options available.

Much like other ingredients in beer, local brewers have turned to local maltsters in search of local flavors. Troubadour Malting in Fort Collins routinely pairs with area breweries to produce beers made from all-Colorado ingredients. To wit: Odd13 Brewery in Lafayette makes The Colorado Kid, a hazy IPA with 100% Troubadour malt. Root Shoot Malting in Loveland and Colorado Malting Company in Alamosa also produce a wide array of Colorado base and specialty malts.

Every beer you drink conveys some sense of malt, from the pillowy mouthfeel of a juicy/hazy IPA to the dark, roastyness of porters and stouts. No sip of beer is complete without a moment for the malt: The crucial ingredient that connects brewers throughout the ages. While wine occurs naturally, beer requires purpose and intent.

One does not haphazardly ferment a beer, nor should one haphazardly drink it.

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Uhl’s Brewing Co. — The Big Molé Imperial Stout

by Michael J. Casey THOUGH HE HASN’T opened his Boulder taproom yet, you ought to be familiar with one of Aaron Uhl’s ales — especially if you’re a hophead digging the 21st century hazy craze.

But in addition to all those dry-hopped juicy/hazy IPAs, Uhl makes one mean stout. His Big Molé Imperial Stout has been known to frequent a can or two, but tastes best on tap.

Lucky for you, The Big Molé is one of the guest stouts featured at Mountain Sun Pubs & Breweries’ Stout Month.

Clocking in at a deceptive 13% alcohol by volume, The Big Molé is jet black with a slight translucent brownish/reddish rim. It comes sans head — evidence of its high ABV — but the nose exhibits plenty of cinnamon and vanilla and a tickle of peppery spice. The brew is full and creamy in the mouth, with a good deal of heat between rich and decadent malts. The heat lingers but doesn’t overwhelm. According to the tasting notes, it’s a rather international affair: The cinnamon is of Indonesian and Vietnamese origin, the cacao nibs are courtesy Ecuador, the ancho chilies hail from Mexico and the vanilla beans are Tahitian.

It’s outstanding. Here’s hoping that when Uhl does open his taproom in March — at 5460 Conestoga Court, Boulder — The Big Molé will be a staple.

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Clint and MaryKay Buckner on how to raise animals for meat

by Matt Cortina

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was sitting in Blackbelly one afternoon when a rock star walked in. The butchers dropped their tools and shook hands with the man in a puffy coat. Minutes later, they left to unload what must have been hundreds of pounds of meat from a truck.

“That’s Clint Buckner,” I was told, as if I were supposed to know that already.

I, and you, can’t go too many places in Boulder County without seeing Buckner Family Farm, or their trade name Boulder Lamb & Meats, on the menu. Restaurants emblazon it on their menus as a point of pride.

It’s local, all grass-fed, they say, and it’s the best meat you’ve ever tasted.

I’ve since had Buckner Family Farm pork, beef and lamb many times and, yes, it’s good — one of the most memorable meals I’ve ever had is a 3-oz Buckner filet mignon I once took home and grilled. I literally scraped off the caramelized onions and herb butter I’d topped it with after one bite because the meat’s flavor and texture were singularly perfect.

But I didn’t know why it tasted so

good, and why so many chefs in Boulder County seem to agree on how good it tastes. So I visited the Buckners one morning on their Longmont ranch. There’s one plot with around 27 acres where pigs and chickens walk freely and lambs graze in a herd, and another 800-some acres leased from the County where the animals graze on alfalfa — for the lambs and cattle, no corn, no grain, just grass.

“We really believe in animals eating what they’re supposed to eat and having an existence that they’re supposed to have,” MaryKay says from their modest kitchen, Clint sharpening knives in the sink.

But learning the day-to-day mechanics of raising 350 sheep, 400 cattle and 150 pigs per year took some time.

“We knew absolutely nothing,” MaryKay says of their beginnings in 2011.

If there is a routine on the ranch, it’s the routine an ER doctor has— clock in, scrub up and go where you’re needed. In fact, it’s an apt metaphor for the hands-on training

the Buckners have undergone on the ranch.

“Let’s just say this,” Clint says, “I have personally done amputations.

I’ve done castrations on every species that we have, I’ve stitched up wounds with dental floss and betadine, and at first we didn’t know how to do any of that stuff.”

The meat the Buckners sell is literally hand-raised. Animals live more than twice as long on the ranch than they do in conventional farms, which contributes to better-tasting meat.

Cattle are raised to over 2 years old, which is extremely uncommon.

Lambs are slaughtered at one year, as opposed to five months.

“Which adds a lot of fat,” Clint says of fattening lambs and slaughtering them young, “but it doesn’t necessarily add a lot of complex flavor. Americans are really used to fat as a flavor, but when you get some of our meat, the difference is it tastes more like meat and less like fat.”

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n ‘We were about to go bust’ CLINT AND MARYKAY BUCKNER both grew up around farms — MaryKay in Nebraska, her parents butchers; Clint’s family owned one of the largest sheep ranches in the country in Twin Falls, Idaho.

But in 2008, Clint was working as a mortgage broker, when “that job basically died.” So with two small children, and some hands-on help from the family, the Buckners decided to make a go of it in the lamb game — selling wool, not meat.

“We quickly discovered that the wool market is not profitable at all,” Clint says.

Out tens of thousands of dollars and with few options, MaryKay suggested having one of their lambs slaughtered. They brought the meat around to restaurants in Colorado.

“The first place we went, they just were like, ‘Oh, this is amazing. How do I get more of this?” Clint says.

So the two former vegetarians who met 30 years ago at Alfalfa’s started raising lambs for meat. The Buckners won early support from local chefs Kyle Mendenhall, Samuel McCandless and Alberto Sabbadini and restaurants like Frasca, the Stanley Hotel and Aspen’s esteemed The Little Nell, which soon took to ordering six lambs per week.

Today, the business has grown with the help of the local food scene: “It’ll sound like [we sell to] a lot [of restaurants], but we only sell a little bit to each one, because what we try to do is sell the whole animal. Let’s say Salt wants all the pork chops in a week, then we’ve got to figure out how to sell the shoulders and bellies and necks to somebody else. So one of our main jobs is to figure out how to sell the whole animal because, as you know, animals don’t grow in parts,” Clint says.

“We really rely on having chefs who understand that about us and are really flexible.”

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Below is a sampling of some dishes currently available at some of the county’s ARCANA: Buckner Family Farm Beef.

Ribeye and brisket, sunchoke, collard greens with a red wine garlic purée.

BLACKBELLY: Buckner Family Farm Lamb. Braised roots, heirloom beans, fennel, lime, black hairs and petite herbs.

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Many of these restaurants have sourced meat from the Buckners since their inception in 2011, but note: “When you see our name, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re buying from us,” Clint says, with a laugh.

“They maybe bought from us for a few months, but then when we got a reputation of having this really great stuff, yeah, everybody wanted to keep our name on their menu.” It’s “free advertising,” he says. Really, he think it’s funny.

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Many will be sent to slaughter so we can eat their meat and put it on our menus and write stories about how good it all tasted.

But the key to why it might taste so good, I realize, listening to Clint talk about the effort involved in raising these animals or watching MaryKay pet the friendly boar in the slop-pit munching on feed, is the love the Buckners have for their animals.

“We had a piglet once, it was like two days old, so it’s like the tiniest little thing ever,” Marykay says. “And I went out there one day and it had this gash. You could see all the way to its leg bone, but it didn’t strike an artery, so it wasn’t really bleeding. We called our vet who was just like, ‘Put it down.’ But Clint said, ‘You know, I’ve hunted, I’ve stitched stuff up, I’ve stitched up amputated legs. If it’s I

going to die anyway, let’s just try it.’

“I don’t know if you’ve ever picked up a baby pig. They squeal like bloody... and all the pigs come running at you because they’ve got this defense mentality. The sow will push through a fence to get to a baby piglet. So I ran it up to the house and our daughter came in, and we held it down, and Clint got dental floss. We got betadine and Neosporin, and he stitched it, and we put it out there and six months later it went to market. And it was beautiful. It was beautiful.

“I don’t know that I could ever lose that connection to the fact that every single one of them is a life,” MaryKay says.

“And our whole thing is we want our animals to just have one bad day.”

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Shape-shifting pasta

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his may be a little too personal but seriously: How’s your pasta life?

If you’re like most Americans, pasta night is fairly bland and predictable. You probably have fewer than six shapes of pasta on your shelf, led by the usual suspects: spaghetti, elbows (or macaroni), fettuccine and penne with maybe some ravioli and rigatoni. Cue the weekly spaghetti with marinara and mac-ncheese.

Yet, if you look on Boulder supermarket shelves, you’ll find an arsenal of other great dried pasta shapes and sizes. You can upgrade your pasta meals simply by switching up the shapes of pasta you use without changing anything else. It’s worth experimenting because pasta is an affordable pleasure — even imported pastas aren’t that pricey.

“Pasta is our common language,” says Claudia Bouvier, who grew up in Brazil in a thoroughly Italian family devoted to traditional cuisine. Bouvier trained under a pasta maker in Bologna, Italy, and opened Pastaficio, a Boulder company producing fresh and dried pastas from freshly ground, locally grown ancient and heritage wheat. She hand-makes and cooks pasta virtually every day ranging from malfaldine (frilly fettucine) to gnocchetti sardi (shells) to ruffled casarecce.

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Italian thing. “Different pasta shapes really are better with certain kinds of sauces. Flats including long, thin pastas like fettucine and spaghetti go with thin, light and oil-based sauce. Chewier shapes are for thick and hearty sauces,” she says.

It’s not a question of SUSAN FRANCE fresh versus dried.

“People perceive fresh pasta as being higher end, but each type is used for different preparations. You can’t get al dente pasta unless it’s dried first,” Bouvier says.

Here are some easy pasta substitutions: Instead of spaghetti, use linguine for a little more chew with tomato sauce. Substitute wider pappardelle noodles that will grab chunky preparations. Papardelle also works perfectly for Thai “drunken noodles.”

Instead of rigatoni, try radiatore — yes, they look like little radiators! — with lots of nooks and crannies to grab thick Bolognese meat ragu.

Instead of penne or shells, try small shapes like “trompetti” (shaped like a horn) or orrechiette (little ears) in baked pasta dishes.

For mac and cheese, skip the same old macaroni elbows and try chewier small shapes like gemelli, fusilli or farfalle. “With mac and cheese you have to cook the pasta very al dente, use better cheeses and have lots of sauce because the pasta will absorb it,” Bouvier says.

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For extra zest, add roasted green chilies.

For a simple preparation, sauté al dente farfalle noodles with olive oil, chopped fresh garlic, chile flakes and finely chopped broccoli rabe or kale.

To cook dried pasta, use a much bigger pot than you think you need “so the pasta has room to cook properly and evenly,” Bouvier says. Also, use plenty of salt CLAUDIA in the water but no olive oil ever.

BOUVIER When the water boils hard, put the prepares pasta in and stir gently. After it pasta sheets comes back to a hard boil, turn it for shaping into ruffled down to medium. Check cooking casarecce. times on the package and add a few minutes because of the altitude, but remove when al dente. You want a little crunch because the pasta needs to finish cooking in the hot sauce, she says.

“The main thing cooks get wrong is in draining the pasta. Don’t use a colander,” Bouvier says. Use tongs or a slotted spoon. You get the pasta directly from the pot and put it into the hot sauce, toss and serve immediately with a drizzle of olive oil.

“There’s a magic that happens when you get that technique right,” she says.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Do you feel ready to change your mind

about an idea or belief or theory that has been losing its usefulness? Would you consider changing your relationship with a once-powerful influence that is becoming less crucial to your life-long goals? Is it possible you have outgrown one of your heroes or teachers? Do you wonder if maybe it’s time for you to put less faith in a certain sacred cow or overvalued idol? According to my analysis of your astrological omens, you’ll benefit from meditating on these questions during the coming weeks.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: When she was alive more than 2,500

years ago, the Greek poet Sappho was so famous for her lyrical creations that people referred to her as “The Poetess” and the “Tenth Muse.” (In Greek mythology, there were nine muses, all goddesses.) She was a prolific writer who produced over 10,000 lines of verse, and even today she remains one of the world’s most celebrated poets. I propose that we make her your inspirational role model for the coming months. In my view, you’re poised to generate a wealth of enduring beauty in your own chosen sphere. Proposed experiment: Regard your daily life as an art project.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Have you ever dropped out of the daily

grind for a few hours or even a few days so as to compose a master plan for your life? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to give yourself that necessary luxury. According to my analysis, you’re entering a phase when you’ll generate good fortune for yourself if you think deep thoughts about how to create your future. What would you like the story of your life to be on March 1, 2025? How about March 1, 2030? And March 1, 2035? I encourage you to consult your soul’s code and formulate an inspired, invigorating blueprint for the coming years. Write it down!

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian novelist William Makepeace

Thackeray (1819–1875) is famous for Vanity Fair, a satirical panorama of 19th-century British society.

The phrase “Vanity Fair” had been previously used, though with different meanings, in the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes, as well as in works by John Bunyan and St. Augustine. Thackeray was lying in bed near sleep one night when the idea flew into his head to use it for his own story. He was so thrilled, he leaped up and ran around his room chanting “Vanity Fair! Vanity Fair!” I’m foreseeing at least one epiphany like this for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. What area of your life needs a burst of delicious inspiration?

LEO

ever before.

that it’s only the nasty prognostications that are interesting. In that spirit, I make the following forecasts: The number of homeless Virgos will decrease dramatically in the near future, as will the number of dreamhome-less Virgos. In fact, I expect you folks will experience extra amounts of domestic bliss in the coming months. You may feel more at home in the world than

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: I don’t require everyone I learn from to be

an impeccable saint. If I vowed to draw inspiration only from those people who flawlessly embody every one of my ethical principles, there’d be no one to be inspired by. Even one of my greatest heroes, Martin Luther King Jr., cheated on his wife and plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation. Where do you stand on this issue, Libra? I bet you will soon be tested. How much imperfection is acceptable to you?

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Scorpio comedian John Cleese cofound-

ed the troupe Monty Python more than 50 years ago, and he has been generating imaginative humor ever since. I suggest we call on his counsel as you enter the most creative phase of your astrological cycle. “This is the extraordinary thing about creativity,” he says. “If you just keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.” Here’s another one of Cleese’s insights that will serve you well: “The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer, and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.”

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Sagittarian philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) developed a vigorous and expansive vision. That’s why he became a leading intellectual influence in the era known as the Enlightenment. But because of his inventive, sometimes controversial ideas, he was shunned by his fellow Jews and had his books listed on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. Understandably, he sometimes felt isolated. To compensate, he spent lots of time alone taking wide-ranging journeys in his imagination. Even if you have all the friends and social stimulation you need, I hope you will follow his lead in the coming weeks — by taking wide-ranging journeys in your imagination. It’s time to roam and ramble in inner realms.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “Absolute reason expired at 11

o’clock last night,” one character tells another in Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt. I’m happy to report that a different development is on the verge of occurring for you, Capricorn. In recent days, there may have been less than an ideal amount of reason and logic circulating in your world. But that situation will soon change. The imminent outbreak of good sense, rigorous sanity and practical wisdom will be quite tonic. Take advantage of this upcoming grace period. Initiate bold actions that are well-grounded in objective rather than subjective truth.

Schubert (1797–1828) created more than 700 compositions, some of which are still played by modern musicians. Many of his works were written on and for the piano — and yet he was so poor that he never owned a piano. If there has been a similar situation in your life, Aquarius — a lack of some crucial tool or support due to financial issues — I see the coming weeks as being an excellent time to set in motion the plans that will enable you to overcome and cure that problem.

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made by many prophets. They experience perverse glee in predicting, for example, that all the rain forests and rivers will be owned by greedy corporations by 2050, or that extraterrestrial invaders who resemble crocodiles will take control of the U.S. government “for the good of the American people,” or that climate change will eventually render chocolate and bananas obsolete. That’s not how I operate. I deplore the idea

Maugham reached the height of success. Four of his plays were being performed concurrently in four different London theaters. If you were ever in your life going to achieve anything near this level of overflowing popularity or attention, I suspect it would be this year. And if that’s a development you would enjoy and thrive on, I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to set your intention and take audacious measures.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22: Who loves you best, Leo? Which of your allies and loved ones come closest to seeing you and appreciating you for who you really are? Of all the people in your life, which have done most to help you become the soulful star you want to be? Are there gem-like characters on the peripheries of your world that you would like to draw nearer? Are there energy drains that you’ve allowed to play too prominent a role?

I hope you’ll meditate on questions like these in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you can access a wealth of useful insights and revelations about how to skillfully manage your relationships. It’s also a good time to reward and nurture those allies who have given you so much.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I’ve been seeing a guy for two years. It was a FWB situation from the start, because he already had a girlfriend. I adore him, we quickly broke the rules (L-word spoken on both sides), but the B part has dwindled to nothing. We haven’t had PIV sex since September, and he just added a second FWB to the mix. He swears he’s attracted to me and says we aren’t having sex — with the exception of me blowing him from time to time — because he’s older. But I know for a fact the other two women are getting some. He says he’s attracted to me — so why doesn’t he want sex? How do I make him see how much I need him without issuing ultimatums?

—Scared But Horny Dear SBH: Your FWB might come through with a little PIV if you issued that ultimatum, SBH, but it sure doesn’t sound like he’s going to fuck you short of one.

You might be able to get this guy to quite literally throw you a bone, but I think your time would be better spent finding a new FWB.

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Dear Dan: I’m a a lesbian or a dyke, we’d shut them down. woman, and I was contactBut in 2020, it’s only acceptable to accept ed on an app by someone everyone for what they say they are. I disclaiming to be a “guydyke.” agree. Part of being a lesbian, being a Based on their profile picwoman, is also cultural and societal. It’s tures, I was basically looknot simply an identity. Living in the world ing at a white, cis, mascas a woman matters. A biological male presenting man who’s said he is queer who presents as a man and has sex only but only attracted to women. And by with women will never know what it’s like masc-presenting, I mean I to be treated as a woman or could not pick him out of a ROMAN ROBINSON a lesbian. He can identify lineup of the most average however he likes, of course, of average-looking straight but he will be perceived as dudes: drab clothes, a a straight man who’s week’s stubble, bad hairfetishizing queer women.” cut. Granted, nobody is obliged to announce their Dear Dan: I’m in my gender identity through late 20s and genderfluid. I clothing or grooming choichave a male physique, but es, but how is this guy not at times I feel more femistraight? nine. I suddenly can’t —Perplexed shake the desire to have more feminine breasts. I’ve Dear P: “I happen to be been looking at women one of those ‘old-school’ lesbians, despite with C or D cups and wishing I had boobs not actually being what most consider to that big. I’ve spent time looking into be old,” said Arielle Scarcella, a popular breast enhancement, but I live in the lesbian YouTuber (youtube.com/Arielle) Midwest. It’s not as bad as the South, but with more than 600,000 subscribers. “Back there are still plenty of people who when I was coming out in 2005, if a male believe violating gender norms is a sin. I person who lived as a man — a male who guess I don’t know what I’m trying to ask lived in such a way that he was always other than whether this is normal. perceived to be a man — claimed he was —Bro Obsessed Over Bust Size

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Dear BOOBS: It’s not normal — in the literal, non-pejorative sense — for an “assigned male at birth” person who presents as male to want to slap large boobs on his otherwise male-presenting physique. But so what? If you’re worried about how your boobs will be received there in the Midwest, perhaps you could get yourself a pair of what drag queens call “chicken cutlets,” i.e., silicone breasts enhancers that tuck into a bra, and try wearing them out.

For the record, kids, I’m not equating being genderfluid with drag, even though many drag queens (but not all) identify as genderfluid and many genderfluid people (but not all) do drag. (I never get tired of tap-dancing my way through this minefield.) But back when I was doing drag, BOOBS, a pair of chicken cutlets artfully placed under my pecs created a pretty realistic looking set of big ol’ titties. Think of chicken cutlets as a temporary, nonsurgical breast-enhancement option — to test the locals as well as your desire to have breasts.

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Ken Buck is always wrong about pot

by Seymour

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hen it comes to marijuana (and most other subjects, but I digress), Ken Buck is always wrong.

Back in 2012, he was wrong about what would happen to Colorado if we legalized recreational marijuana sales, telling Westword’s Michael Roberts, “We’re going to see … a proliferation of young people using marijuana. We’re going to see expulsion and

dropout rates increase in our K-12 system.”

Wrong, Buck: State-funded studies have shown that graduation rates are up and dropout rates are down since 2012. Teen use of marijuana has remained relatively stable as well.

So it’s no surprise that Buck is wrong again about the marijuana banking bill making its way through congress.

On Feb. 13, a dozen Republican representatives — including Buck (R-Windsor) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs) — sent a letter to Mike Crapo, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, to let him know that they share his concerns about the risks posed by the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act that would allow dispensaries, cultivators and other pot businesses access to the federal banking system.

“The SAFE Banking Act jeopardizes public safety by legitimizing banking access for a Schedule I drug,” Buck said in a statement. “It is important that we continue to tread lightly and consider public health concerns that surround the marijuana industry.”

Well, Buck, I’ve gotta agree with you that it’s important to consider how marijuana impacts human health, but we struggle to conduct meaningful research in that arena since pot remains a Schedule I drug in this country. We could remove pot from the schedule of controlled substances, but God knows if the MORE (Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement) Act ever makes it out of committee and to the House, you likely won’t support that either.

I’ve got to fully disagree with you, however, on your point that allowing marijuana busi-

nesses to access federal banking “jeopardizes public safety.” See, Colorado sold a lot of weed last year, $1.75 billion, as a matter of fact. You know what’s dangerous for all of those businesses? Dealing in cash, Buck, that’s where your public safety is jeopardized.

The governor knows it. On Feb. 3, Jared Polis announced a plan to help bring banking to the state’s cannabis industry, stating that Colorado has “an obligation” to pioneer marijuana-related banking.

According to reporting by the Denver Post, burglary is the most common crime at marijuana dispensaries and grows, which experts say is — shock! — because they are forced to deal in cash.

But let’s not forget how wrong Crapo is on all of this. He wants to place a 2% THC limit on all marijuana products before allowing businesses to work with federal banks, which would ultimately wipe out the stock of every dispensary in operation, in Colorado or elsewhere. He also has concerns about “bad actors” laundering money through banks.

Crapo, we’ve got some bad news for you, buddy: bad actors, like cartels, have already been using banks to launder money. There are anti-money laundering policies in place and still it happens. No need to deny marijuana businesses the ability to bank.

Buck, Lamborn... If you want to slow the global drug trade (I say slow, not stop, because let’s be real: humans are going to use drugs) and provide public safety, then disincentivize criminal activity through legislation that legalizes and decriminalizes drugs. Give your legal businesses a way to do business like everyone else and stop making crap up to justify your narcissistic moral crusade.

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Can marijuana help you lose weight?

by Paul Danish

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K, full disclosure.

The first time I smoked pot I went through the host’s party snacks, kitchen cabinets and refrigerator like a one-man locust swarm. It wasn’t just peckishness.

It was that the flavor of everything was fuller, richer and more subtle than anything I’d ever experienced before. The flavors and textures resonated.

They sang. They did a little happy dance on my tongue.

It was my first encounter with “the munchies.”

They were definitely a feature, not a bug.

That was in late 1965. It’s been that way ever since. Marijuana without munchies is like a day without sunshine.

I suspect this has affected my weight, which is kind of like the stock market: It goes up, it goes down, but the long-term trend is up. Smoking pot may not be the main cause of the ups, but it’s hard to believe it hasn’t been involved — especial-

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ly when I reach the bottom of the Cherry Garcia tub.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’ve been skeptical about the claims that smoking pot can keep you thin and can help you lose weight — and that it helps you do this by functioning as an appetite suppressant.

But there is growing evidence that this might be the case. Provided you smoke the right varieties of marijuana.

First some background. Every couple of years a study comes out comparing marijuana users with non-users — and finds that the regular pot users tend to be slimmer than the non-users, munchies be damned.

These results seemed non-intuitive, to say the least, but additional studies keep finding the same thing: That regular marijuana users were on average somewhat slimmer, or at least somewhat less overweight, than non-users.

Then anecdotal evidence started to accumulate linking certain varieties of marijuana with appetite suppression, especially certain sativas and sativa-dominant varieties.

Researchers then analyzed those varieties to see if they contained any specific cannabinoids — there are more than 100 psychoactive cannabinoids in cannabis — that set them apart and could account for the putative appetite suppressive effect. It turns out there was one in particular that could: Tetrahydrocannabivarin or THCV. Biochemically, the THCV molecule closely resembles the Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC molecule, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. And THCV binds to the same CB1 receptor on

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cells that THC binds to in an almost identical way.

The body produces natural cannabinoid compounds called endo-cannabinoids, which play a number of roles in the body’s normal functions, including a role in controlling appetite.

THC has a role as an appetite stimulant.

THCV, which binds to the same CB1 has a role as an appetite suppressant, which means it can block the onset of the munchies and, more important, tamp down appetites generally.

The discovery of how THCV works provides an explanation and a biochemical mechanism for why some varieties of marijuana — the THCV-rich ones — seem to contribute to weight loss.

Those varieties tend to be pure sativas or sativa-dominant hybrids that are often described as “energy-boosting” varieties.

According to several websites, they include: Durban Poison, Blue Dream, Girl Scout Cookies, Cherry Pie, Jack the Ripper, Doug’s Varin and Willie Nelson.

(The last two have been bred for THCV content, according to Chane Leigh writing at the Veriheal website).

Fortunately, some dispensaries are starting to post THCV content on their products. The bad news is that the availability of particular varities of pot is maddeningly erratic. But now that consumers are learning that marijuana might help them control their weight, THCV varieties are becoming more common.

Personally, I tend to prefer sativa dominant varieties for the more energetic head they produce. Since I am currently trying to ditch the holiday weight gain, I’m going to hunt down some flower with known THCV percentages and pay close attention to what it does to my appetite, weight and waistline. I’ll report back in a future column.

I really hope there is something to this. But if there is, I’ll miss the munchies.

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