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Random thoughts on the Democrats’ thrillas in Vegas and Charleston

By Paul Danish

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he most entertaining moment in the Democrats’ South Carolina debate came when Elizabeth Warren affixed a needle-point bayonet to her musket and with a blood-curdling rebel yell, leaped over her podium and deftly pinned Michael Bloomberg’s ear to the floor.

OK, I plagiarized the gag from an old Mad Magazine. But it sure felt like that, both in Charleston and the week before in Las Vegas. In both debates Warren went on the war-path and scalped the pale-faced swell from Manhattan for his Me Too sins — real, imagined and theoretical.

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She counted coup in Charleston with a particularly stinging hit: She accused Bloomberg of telling a pregnant employee to get an abortion — “kill it” was the phrase she said he used — with the implication being the employee would be laid off if she didn’t.

Bloomberg immediately denied making the comment. It’ll be interesting to see if Warren can produce some evidence to back up the assertion.

For his part, the Little Giant from the Big Apple showed signs of having a pulse during the Charleston debate; there was considerable doubt on this point after his Las Vegas performance.

He even threw a couple of punches at FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Bernie Sanders, accusing him early on of being the beneficiary of Putin’s help.

“Vladimir Putin thinks Donald Trump should be president of the United States, and that’s why Russia is helping you get elected, so you will lose to him,” he said to a loud chorus of boos.

Still, he landed some hits on Sanders, especially on gun control.

Sanders was against gun control before he was for it; his views, uh, evolved after he became a serious candidate.

And Bloomie is Mr. Gun Control USA. The stinking rich one also tried to tell a couple of jokes that fell embarrassingly flat. His attempts at humor made it clear why he got non-disclosure agreements from women who didn’t like his jokes.

Still, he gave a stout defense of his record running, or as he might prefer to say, managing New York City. That might be Bloomie’s biggest problem.

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Vegas debate, he said he considers the presidency a management job. It is — the president is the head of government, the chief executive of the executive branch — but it’s a lot more than that. The president is also the head of the nation — the role that requires him or her to offer an overarching vision of what the country is and where it should be going.

Bloomie the Manager doesn’t do the vision thing. Bernie the Red does — and while Bernie took a lot of incoming fire in Charleston, it didn’t seem to include anything that damaged his vision.

Sure, he has only the vaguest notion of how to pay for all the stuff he wants to do, but, hey, he’s a socialist, and nobody expects him to balance the budget.

And everyone knows how Bernie’s free stuff will be paid for anyway — by running up debt and paying it off with inflated dollars. We’ve been doing it that way for decades. Life is good in America. Why stop now?

All of the candidates were trying to make the case that the socialism thing makes Bernie unelectable. That’s the conventional wisdom, and it may be right.

But they may be wrong, too. Bernie is tapping into the same grievances that Trump did. A lot of the people who supported Bernie in 2016 probably ended up voting for Trump, especially in places like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Bernie may be able to get some of the Democrats’ blue collar apostates to come back into the fold. In other words, he could win.

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risk, high-gain” volunteers. Bernie is a high-risk, high-gain kind of candidate.

I suspect Democrats will have a better chance with a guy like him than with any of the supposedly low-risk alternatives. I keep thinking about what happened when the Republicans ran Bob Dole against then-incumbent Bill Clinton in 1996.

At worst, Bernie is going to come close in South Carolina and kick ass in most of the Super Tuesday states. That probably will make him unstoppable.

And if the Dem establishment tries to stop him with a rigged convention, they will have to try to win the election without his core supporters. And they can’t.

Back in 1964, the Republicans, against the better judgment of the party’s establishment, made Barry Goldwater the party’s standard bearer.

Lyndon Johnson chewed him up and spit him out. But the people Barry brought into the party stayed around to restructure it and eventually deliver the Republican nomination to Ronald Reagan. Bernie’s campaign may end up doing something like that today.

As for the other candidates in the Charleston debate: Biden came across as loud, proud and frequently wrong, but never in doubt (as singer Cheryl Wheeler would say). It may have been enough to let him pull out the win in South Carolina. Tom Steyer came across as kinda crazed. Mayor Pete and Senator Amy had typically strong, non-charismatic performances.

Elizabeth Warren will finish back in the pack, but will keep coming for Michael Bloomberg. You go, girl.

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

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As we vote in the Democratic primary, it’s important to chose the candidate most prepared to quickly rebuild our government and take on the most important challenge we face: cutting carbon emissions in half by 2030 while addressing inequality.

Elizabeth Warren brings a preparedness unmatched by any other candidate. She knows the transition between administrations will be difficult and will announce her Cabinet choices by Dec. 1, 2020.

From her service on the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Warren knows what it will take to restore our diplomatic efforts around the globe. She knows how to build an effective team, and her track record in the Senate shows collaboration and compromise.

International cooperation is the keystone to addressing climate change. I attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 25 in December, and the absence of U.S. leadership stalled progress, just as our time to wait has run out.

Warren’s climate plans are spot on. She understands the seriousness of what the medical community is telling us about climate change and public health. The Lancet Countdown reports: “The life of every child born today will be profoundly affected by climate change, with populations around the world increasingly facing extremes of weather, food and water insecurity, changing patterns of infectious disease, and a less certain future.

Without accelerated intervention, this new era will come to define the health of people at every stage of their lives.”

Warren will fully fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

She will make the mandates EPA and FDA have to protect public health a reality.

As we transition to a green economy, Warren’s strategies will make us more globally competitive.

While incorporating climate priorities into international trade agreements, Warren will create jobs in rural America.

Developing a Federal Renewable Energy Commission and launching a Green Apollo plan to invest $400 billion over ten years in clean energy R&D, Warren will move forward with a Green New Deal and a Blue New Deal. She’ll collaborate with all stakeholders from our most talented engineers and manufacturers to Tribal Nations and local communities in determining the best ways forward.

Warren’s inclusive leadership style will bring diverse perspectives to the table on domestic policy priorities, while restoring U.S. leadership among the international community. Her integrity combined with her original thinking on economic policy are a winning combination.

Christie Renner/Boulder

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With a total disregard for history, many (Republican) folks have decided on their own that our Constitution is no longer valid.

Their selection of a self-described “stable genius” as leader (with 16,000 lies and counting, three wives and bone-spurs)... the personality cult continues.

The problem with ignoring history is that it creates fear and distrust when facts, information and reason are needed. Sadly, the oncerespected Republican Party has been hijacked and has taken on traits of the Weimar Republic with a despotic bully at the helm, and we really don’t want an Aryan rerun of what subsequently occurred... do we?

America deserves better.

Tommy Holeman/Superior

Fighting Corruption

Yet again Donald Trump is playing the airwaves like a maestro. He gets more media mileage and volume out of his tweet-a-phone than all of Michael Bloomberg’s messaging millions. Why spend money when the mainstream/fake news coverage does the job so well? After all, white collar/white guy financial crime is not really corruption. It is just part of “the art of the deal.”

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t’s 9 a.m. on a Friday in Boulder and eviction court is underway. This week, Feb. 21, the docket is fairly light with only a dozen or so cases. Judge Elizabeth Brodsky says that when she started four and a half years ago, her first Friday had 72 cases.

Her clerk says that last year the weekly average was more like 30-35.

Lately, it’s been about 15 a week. The same scenario will play out in Longmont at 10 a.m., albeit in front of a different judge, with approximately the same number of cases, if not more.

Judge Brodsky asks everyone who walks into the courtroom for their name, like taking attendance at school. There are a handful of lawyers who seem to know the judge well. She waits to start the court proceedings, attempting to give everyone time to arrive.

She prefers ruling on the substance of each case, she says.

“These cases have such a tremendous impact on people and I’m reluctant to default,” she explains, as a default would automatically be in favor of the landlord.

By 9:15, she can’t wait any longer.

“Coming to court is a difficult thing to do,” she says, before hearing any cases. “Coming to court with something as important as housing is extremely difficult. Everyone needs to leave with their dignity intact.”

She’s speaking to everyone, but it seems most pertinent to the tenants, none of whom have legal representation on this day. The attorneys are here for the landlords.

It’s a common occurrence in civil eviction court, not just in Boulder County but around the country. In the first half of 2019, Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) observed 410 eviction cases in Boulder and Longmont (Colorado’s 20th Judicial Court) and found that just 2% of tenants came to court with a lawyer, whereas 88% of 10

many tenants are going to face eviction — just looking at average earnings and ratio of earnings to rent.”

When eviction does occur, the process moves quickly, taking only a few weeks from the first notice to someone being forced out of their home. Without legal representation, many tenants show up in court, simply watch the process play out in front of them, and are given a 48-hour window to move out if the judge rules in favor of the landlord.

“The [NEWR] program provides tenants with counsel that at the very least you’re going to be able to file an answer and respond to an eviction proceeding,” Legg says. “Just filing an answer from an attorney is going to buy you a week to two weeks to try to negotiate a resolution and then analyze your case to see if eviction is really justified under the circumstances.”

The Boulder initiative is part of a growing “right to counsel” movement across the country, gaining national attention in recent years sparked in part by Mathhew Desmond’s Pulitzer-Prize winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Desmond argues that often eviction is a root cause of poverty in the U.S., not simply a condition of it.

He suggests, “Establishing publicly

funded legal services for low-income families in housing court would be a cost-effective measure that would prevent homelessness, decrease evictions, and give poor families a fair shake.”

According to the Center for American Progress, representation in eviction court drastically changes the outcome for tenants nationwide. In several studies, a right to counsel resulted in significantly fewer evictions as well as keeping eviction filings off tenants’ records (which could prevent them from finding subsequent housing), reducing fines and fees owed to landlords, and helping tenants find alternative housing and apply for rental assistance.

New York City was the first jurisdiction to implement a right to counsel for low-income renters in 2017, and by most estimations it’s working.

In the first year it saved an estimated $320 million, even after accounting for the cost of providing lawyers, by preventing individuals and families from needing homeless shelters and services, as well as preserving affordable rental units. The mayor has plans to expand the program, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to apply it not just in big cities but nationwide.

San Francisco also implemented the right to counsel in July 2019 in the hopes of preventing eviction, which accounts for about 17% of the area’s homelessness. Philadelphia and Newark, New Jersey, also guarantee legal representation for low-income tenants, while several other cities including Washington, D.C. and Minneapolis have introduced pilot programs. Los Angeles has a growing eviction defense fund.

The Boulder initiative varies slightly from the efforts in other cities, mainly in its funding mechanism.

Because general funds aren’t available due to TABOR restrictions, the fees

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Proponents claim access to a lawyer when facing eviction is a matter of social justice

by Angela K. Evans evicting landlords had one. It’s about the same ratio that existed for the 1,312 eviction filings in Boulder County in 2018, according to a study currently underway by the City of Boulder.

“An eviction ruins life, period,” says Ruy Arango, one of the volunteer DSA members who observed eviction court last year. “Anyone who loses their housing via an eviction trial is made homeless.”

Arango is now the campaign chair for No Eviction Without Representation (NEWR), which is currently circulating petitions to get an initiative on the City of Boulder’s November ballot.

The NEWR initiative would institute a $75 fee per rental unit in Boulder, paid for by landlords, to guarantee legal representation for every renter in the City if and when their housing is threatened. It would also provide tenants’ rights education for all renters and establish a tenant committee, which would oversee a legal services coordinator position and report annually to City Council.

“It’s a bit of a Wild West with evictions right now,” says Jason Legg, a tenants’ rights attorney in Denver who helped draft the initiative. “We have a housing crisis that makes it a matter of when, not if, FEBRUARY 27, 2020

paid by landlords would generate an estimated $1.5 million a year according to Arango. Also, “it’s very important to us that we don’t fund this through a sales tax because that’s regressive and you just end up making the poorest people pay for it,” he says.

Additionally, under NEWR, legal representation would be applied universally to all tenants in Boulder whereas most other legal aid programs in Boulder County are reserved for low-income earners and seniors and also may ask for immigration status as part of eligibility.

Legg says an eviction threat is as good a proxy for determining need as income thresholds, and making the program universal will cut down on administrative costs and review time.

“There’s a moral argument to be made for universality, too,” Legg says.

“We believe everyone has a right to a home. And if you’ve got a right to a home, you should have a right to a defense of losing your home no matter what.”

For the City of Boulder, understanding eviction trends is part of addressing the long list of goals regarding economic mobility, housing resilience and stability, specifically in its affordable housing and homelessness strategies.

Overall, the eviction filing rate is 2.78% for the approximately 47,000 rental households in Boulder County according to Wendy Schwartz, policy manager at Boulder’s Department of Human Services.

That’s lower than the statewide average of 5.84%, and significantly lower than other cities in the metro area: Denver’s rate is 4.88%, Westminster’s is 6.97% and Aurora’s is a staggering 11.99% according to Eviction Lab, a nationwide study of eviction started by Desmond at Princeton University, where he is a professor of sociology.

Still, “as part of our goals for housing stability, we want to minimize [eviction filings] regardless of where we start compared to other cities or counties,” Schwartz says.

(Actual eviction rates in the metro area are much lower than the eviction filing rate. Boulder County is not represented in Eviction Lab and Schwartz doesn’t yet have data on actual evictions.)

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While myriad factors can result in an eviction filing, roughly 85-90% of eviction cases in Boulder are over non-payment of rent, according to Todd Ulrich, a property manager and board president of Boulder Area Rental Housing Association (BARHA), a trade organization for residential rental property owners and managers.

Debbie Wilson, a lawyer with Springman, Braden, Wilson & Pontius, who has been representing landlords and management compa-

other resources earlier in this process, it would prevent a lot of these [cases] from ever even going to court,” Ulrich says. “So there wouldn’t be a need for more legal interaction.”

The 20th Judicial District is also working on getting more information to tenants earlier in the process, and strongly advises most cases go through mediation provided by both the cities of Longmont and Boulder to try and resolve cases before the judge makes a ruling.

Before Judge Brodsky starts down

nies in court for 25 years, says in 2018 she filed 86 cases in Boulder County, four of which were over compliance issues. The rest were for non-payment of rent, 60% of which were resolved before the court date.

“Most of the people, if they wanted to stay, they came up with the money in Boulder,” Wilson says. “You don’t really need a lawyer to help you find the money. You need to go and find the resources and get it paid.”

Both Wilson and Ulrich say that providing tenants with community resources and information before they even get into a situation facing eviction would be time and money better spent than providing legal representation in court.

And BAHRA is currently working with the City of Boulder to preemptively connect tenants to resources such as rental assistance, food programs and other services in an effort to avoid non-payment of rent and eviction proceedings.

“We think if we were to offer

the docket in court, she makes sure there are enough handouts to give everyone. The handout lists common eviction court terms, a short rundown of what to expect from the process, what a mediation agreement could look like and a resource list for the few legal aid programs that are available in the community, as well as those for basic needs like the Emergency Family Assistance Association and OUR Center. It’s part of an improvement project she’s working on with Carin Armstrong, community mediation program manager for the City of Boulder, and some of the other mediators. The project is attempting to get people information about potential resources and help in order to prevent eviction altogether.

“It’s in all of our interest to keep people housed,” Brodsky says.

“The language is unfamiliar and confusing for folks and it’s a really stressful time so the more people can have beforehand to try and under-

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stand what might happen the better,” Armstrong says.

Armstrong estimates her office mediates about 75 tenant/landlord disputes each year, and she’s able to help the parties reach an agreement in 70% of those cases.

“Usually agreements can look like one of two things, either a payment plan for the tenant to get caught up with rent and stay in the property. Or if that’s not option,” Armstrong says, “it’s usually an agreement around a move-out date.”

But it’s hard to say whether or not having legal representation helps tenants, Armstrong says, as every case is different.

“Negotiating and navigating the process is an important piece, and maybe legal representation would help in some cases and others maybe it wouldn’t make any difference at all,” she says.

Susan Spaulding, community relations specialist and mediator for the City of Longmont, says her office sees approximately 90 mediation cases a year.

“It’s a very emotional relationship, and it’s a very weird relationship, too,” she says. “This is the tenant’s home with all the emotional significance of that. But for the landlord, they’re turning over a very valuable asset to the total care and control of this person. So there’s a lot of innate tension there.”

In a recent case, Spaulding says she was able to get the landlord to hold off from a forcible eviction two additional weeks in an effort to try and assist the tenant in finding financial help from the community. She also just helped another tenant, who has multiple sclerosis, get funding from the MS Society.

Spaulding is skeptical of the NEWR initiative, suggesting, like Ulrich and Wilson, the resources could be applied elsewhere in the community to prevent evictions.

“To me that money would be better spent getting mediators. Not that an attorney can’t help once in awhile,” Spaulding says. But “what people need is really competent mediation.”

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abuse issues, could also really help.

“The landlord needs to have help.

They’re not doing this to be social workers.”

Those with the NEWR campaign would also like to see more people connecting to increased resource pools. No one is arguing against increased social services.

However, providing legal representation for every tenant facing eviction is a matter of equity, given the majority of landlords have lawyers.

“Right now, with the circumstances we have where some more equitable and just solution to the housing crisis isn’t on the table, what’s happening in Boulder (with the NEWR campaign) is the next best thing,” Legg says. “It’ll make meaningful change for people facing eviction.”

Even with free mediation services, having an attorney who understands residential law and tenants’ rights can really make a difference, Legg says.

“You have a mediator interested in reaching a resolution and you have one side (the landlord) with an attorney zealously advocating for their interests…” Legg says. “Tenants deserve to have representation there.”

Legg is currently representing a client who was asked to pay rent via moneygram, but it disappeared from the landlord’s account. Now they’re facing eviction over what appears to be non-payment. But by filing an answer in court, Legg was able to buy them more time to figure out what happened. Or there are situations where electricity or hot water goes out and tenants think they have the right to withhold rent and then find themselves in eviction proceedings.

“Even in situations where it is clear-cut,” Legg says, “being able to get some time and some leverage to negotiate [makes for] a much more humane society worth living in.”

Arango for one is optimistic the people of Boulder will support NEWR and the campaign already has a third of the signatures it needs to get the initiative on November’s ballot with four months left to gather more. From there, Arango says, he hopes the program spreads to other jurisdictions in the area.

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County,” Arango says.

“There’s going to be pushback and it’s going to be from landlords, but we’re confident that if you’re a renter, this is going to be something that is obviously to your benefit,” he continues. “If you are a homeowner, presumably you have some amount of sympathy for people who rent and are less fortunate than you.”

As for the City, Schwartz says, they’re hoping to have their analysis wrapped up by April, including a more thorough examination of the NEWR proposal.

“There’s going to be probably a range of options in terms of what can be effective,” she says. “And so we’re — over the next couple months — going to be looking more into that to see where we have the opportunities to partner across the community and really across the region to bolster housing stability.”

Back in the courtroom on Friday, Feb. 21, everything wraps up in about 30 minutes.

There are some procedural missteps that prevented rulings in a few cases, other cases go into mediation to see if the parties can come to some sort of agreement short of a forced eviction.

One man starts arguing that he doesn’t have heat and his garbage disposal doesn’t work. Does that give him any rights in this case? But the judge can’t give legal advice and suggests he goes into mediation.

In two cases, the tenants aren’t there and the judge rules, by default, in favor of the landlords.

In another case, the tenant is there with some paperwork, ready to do whatever it takes to keep his house, but neither the landlord or their lawyer are present. “Dismissed without prejudice,” Judge Brodsky says, explaining that means the landlord can start the process all over again as soon as they want.

Two other cases are dismissed the same ways as neither the landlord or the tenant are present.

With the two cases still going through mediation out in the courtroom hallway, Brodsky dismisses court in order to go back in her chambers and prepare for court at the jail in a few hours.

And with that, eviction court is over for the week.

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Tearing the safety net

Access to food, health and housing assistance may soon be out of reach for 90,000 Boulder County residents

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ore than one out of every four people in Boulder County accesses federal funds to help pay for food, health care, housing and more.

Assistance from safety net programs like Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHP+ in Colorado) don’t pay all the bills, but they help fill in gaps so low- and middleincome families can make ends meet as the cost of living continues to rise in Boulder County and beyond.

But new federal rule changes and a proposed federal budget, if passed, will limit the amount of people who can access these crucial funds, and, for those who still qualify for the programs, limit the amount of assistance they can receive.

One federal rule change, which will take effect April 1, kicks about 700,000 people nationwide out of SNAP eligibility. SNAP gives program recipients funds to buy food in farmers markets and participating grocery stores. With few caveats, any nondisabled, unemployed person between the ages of 18 and 49 without children will now only be allowed to access SNAP funds for three months in a three-year period.

U.S. Department of Agriculture chief, Sonny Perdue, sounded gleeful announcing the cuts: “Americans are generous people who believe it is their responsibility to help their fellow citizens when they encounter a difficult stretch.

Government can be a powerful force for good, but government dependency has never been the American dream. We need to encourage people by giving them a helping hand but not allowing it to become an indefinitely giving hand. ... Now, in the midst of the strongest BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

economy in a generation, we need everyone who can work, to work.”

Of course, just because someone is working doesn’t mean they don’t need assistance. If people work more than 80 hours a month and still qualify for SNAP, they’ll get full-time benefits.

About 65,000 people currently access Medicaid or CHP+ funding in Boulder County, and about 22,000 peo-

ple access SNAP benefits, says Jim Williams, strategic communications director with Boulder County Housing and Human Services (HHS), which administers funds from federal support programs. More people came under the Medicaid and CHP+ umbrella when the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2014 — in 2013, Medicaid expenditures totaled $144 million in Boulder County; in 2019, expenditures were $313 million.

That increase proves the demand for federal assistance. But a proposed 2021 federal budget, which is unlikely to pass as is but indicates the current administration’s priorities, would further strip resources. It would cut Medicaid coverage nationally by $763 billion over the next decade and SNAP by $213 billion over the same time frame, according to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

A portion of the SNAP funds would be reallocated to the federal government to send prepared, “We know I

what’s best for you” boxes of non-perishable foods to people and families who still qualify for the benefits.

“Currently the SNAP program gives families, parents a choice in what they purchase for themselves and for their children,” Williams says. “That can make a difference when it comes to getting the right nutritious foods to people.

So having that choice is beneficial for many in the program, and it’s hard to know how a change that includes boxed foods would impact people.”

It might also impact the statewide Double Up Bucks program, which allows SNAP beneficiaries the chance to double their SNAP money when it’s used at farmers markets, ensuring people get access to local, healthy food, while critically supporting local agriculture. And these changes may also stress Boulder County food banks.

This is all on the radar of Boulder County health officials. Williams says his department has “built-in flexibility” during times of uncertainty so they are best able to help those in need, regardless of if and how much they qualify for federal assistance.

“We’re watching all of this very closely because we serve the community, and we want the community to be healthy and thriving. In order for us to do that we need to be able to stay ahead of any changes that are coming. We try to be as realistic as possible as to whether those changes are likely, and then with the flexibilities of Health and Human Services, we know we have some cushion if those changes do occur that would allow us to formulate plans for what happens if those are sustained changes.”

Williams reiterates that changes to federal assistance programs will have a direct impact on the local community, as there are 90,000 federal aid recipients in Boulder County.

“That’s a large number,” he says of the number of Boulder County federal aid recipients. “It’s a real number. Our hope is we can continue to do the work that we’re doing through making sure we are getting the right supports to people early rather than having them not get the help they need and come to a crisis of some sort.”

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POTENTIAL CHANGES TO FEDERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Data provided by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities • Cuts Medicaid coverage for up to 13 million people who secured coverage through expansion of the Affordable Care Act • Cuts SNAP benefits for nearly 700,000 low-income adults living in areas with high unemployment on April 1 • Cuts SNAP by nearly 30% over the next decade • Replaces SNAP payments with prepared boxed foods for some eligible people • Raises eligibility age for senior SNAP recipients from 60 to 65 • Cuts the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program by $21 billion over the next decade BOULDER COUNTY BY THE NUMBERS • 90,000 Boulder County residents receive federal assistance • 65,000 people access Medicaid and CHP+ in Boulder County annually • 22,000 people access SNAP benefits in Boulder County annually • $20: The maximum amount of cash given to SNAP recipients to spend on top of their SNAP allocation every week at local farmers markets and participating farm stands.

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y thighs burn hotter than red coals, muscle fibers straining, screaming. I have to release. I fall. Facefirst like a tripped kid on the playground. Rather than asphalt, though, it’s three feet of pillowy snow that catches my chin, then cheek, then forehead, as my left ski goes flying and my right shoulder drives straight into the slope. I pause as ice crystals turn to water against my bare skin.

Like an exhale, my thighs release their ropy grip.

My third try at powder skiing feels just as hard as my first.

These skinny, slippery sticks stuck to my feet... How to keep them from sliding underneath the snow? How to turn when there’s nothing firm to push against? How to glide and bounce, fly and float like everyone else?

From the top of the run — the most mellow at Colorado’s newest ski resort, Bluebird Backcountry, the country’s first chairlift-less, humanpowered ski resort — the only answer I could muster was my thighs. So, I leaned back, kept my ski tips up, squatted low for balance, and dropped into the 17 inches of fresh snow. Within a minute my thighs were on fire, and that’s when I ate it.

I sit up, shaking the snow from my ear, my rogue ski a few feet below me. I slide down to grab it, clumps of snow tumbling in my wake.

Though I’m a novice skier, I’m a backcountry skier. Three years ago I bought my first pair of skis and went straight for a touring set up (skis with adjustable bindings that allow both uphill and downhill movement). Around the same time, Jeff Woodward and Erik Lambert, two backcountry fiends from Denver and Golden respectively, were starting to brainstorm concepts for Bluebird Backcountry. They envisioned a ski area with no chairlifts and hundreds of acres of avalanche-evaluated powder, where someone could safely learn the innards of backcountry touring while still enjoying traditional resort amenities like ski patrol, a lodge, rentals and guides.

If only Bluebird had been up and running when I started: I’m the perfect example of someone who would’ve benefited from its existence. All things considered, I’m lucky I’m still alive.

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Northward, Highway 40 runs up and over Rabbit Ears Pass to Steamboat Springs. About 20 miles south is Kremmling, a 1,500-person town that’s been growing its adventure-industry offerings (hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, ATVing) for years. Bluebird is the latest addition.

When I moved to Colorado, in February 2017, I knew I wanted to ski, and I wanted to ski big mountains like I’d seen in ski movies. Too broke to afford new skis or resort passes, my partner and I scoured Craigslist. We bought used cross-country skis for $35 and drove up to Nederland’s Hessie Trailhead (not understanding the difference between cross-country and backcountry touring gear). All we knew was we wanted to be in the mountains, far from I-70, lift-line crowds and empty bank accounts — we didn’t know anything about avalanches, the deadliest natural hazard in Colorado.

A few months later, I started working at REI and there I learned what backcountry skiing is really about.

With my employee discounts, I bought my touring set up; as winter rolled around again, I ponied up for Eldora’s season pass.

I watched YouTube videos and taught myself to ski on the bunny slope, following toddlers leashed to parents. I loved facing gravity head-on, gently pressuring the inner arches of my feet — pizza then french fries.

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Awareness sessions hosted by Friends of Berthoud Pass. We couldn’t afford beacons, shovels or probes, which we knew we needed, but figured we could just stay in terrain too-gentle for avalanches, with trees and other skiers who knew more than us.

That spring we summited 14,231-foot Mt. Shavano and skied down its Angel of Shavano couloir. I pizza-ed the entire way.

Last Christmas my partner booked me a $559 spot in an AIARE I (American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education) course. Instead of him joining me, we decided to pay $427.14 for one beacon, shovel and probe. Maybe next year we’ll be able to afford all of that again for him — but maybe not. Long story short: skiing, even backcountry, is expensive as hell.

I never bought another resort pass. I love the meditation of uphill skiing, the feeling of working toward something momentous, the childlike glee of downhill motion. It all comes with an edge, though — now knowing its hazards, hearing about backcountry fatalities in the news, reading about buried friends of friends. Last year 25 people died in U.S. avalanches; so far this year, 16 people have perished, four in Colorado.

I DIY-ed most of my backcountry skiing not to reject safety, but due to financial constraints and the fact that I had no one to teach me. My mountain-love mixed with my autonomous personality, lead me to countless slopes I truly had no business on. Driving through Kremmling the day I visited Bluebird, a radio journalist was reporting two Coloradans buried and killed in an avalanche near Vail. This is exactly the situation Woodward and Lambert hope to resolve.

• • • • Inside the Bluebird Backcountry ski patrol hut (1.5-mile into the resort, at the base of Whiteley Peak), Woodward hands a volunteer a pack of bacon.

“Here,” he says, “I brought a resupply.”

On the cookstove, the pan is already hot, sizzling with fatty strips. The next burner over has a giant bubbling pot of hot chocolate — free for all Bluebird guests to indulge. Two skiers come in, taking off their goggles, sniffing the air, “Mm, bacon!”

The idea for Bluebird surfaced after Woodward took his brother backcountry touring a few years ago.

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considering he had no mentors nor easily accessible gear.

Woodward and Lambert, buddies from Dartmouth College, talked this conundrum over and came to a realization: There exists no straightforward way to learn backcountry touring, and at the same time, interest in the backcountry is growing exponentially — in 2018, sales of backcountry touring bindings jumped 84%, according to Snowsports Industry America. The two set out to create a solution for those backcountry-curious, tapping into the growing market.

Lambert likens the backcountry industry to that of climbing. But, while climbers have gyms to practice in, backcountry users have no safe location in which to learn. “Backcountry skiing is about 30 years behind rock climbing,” Lambert says, envisioning Bluebird closing that gap.

At Bluebird, avalanche conditions are pre-evaluated daily, and while they won’t use ammunition to help mitigate dangers, they’ll only open slopes safe for users. Still, all Bluebird skiers/splitboarders must carry a beacon, shovel and probe — which they can rent on site — along with any specialized touring gear, including boots, skis and skins.

They also offer a half-day “Intro to Backcountry.” A day pass costs $50.

“The whole concept is an alternative to the resort scene,” Lambert says.

Chairlifts or no chairlifts, it takes a lot to get a ski operation running. Finding suitable land and a decent insurance policy took months. Without investors or clear pathways to follow (no one’s ever done anything like this before), they crowd-sourced funding. Their Kickstarter surpassed expectations: 1,024 backers pledged $107,493 (free

bacon and hot cocoa were incentives), and they donated $5,000 to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center to celebrate. This season, Bluebird is only open weekends until March 15. They’ve opened about 300 acres for unguided access, with an additional 1,200 acres for guided parties.

The day I went, I ran into a friend who was taking the intro course. Then I met two people from Boulder — one of whom had stopped backcountry skiing five years ago, but decided to try Bluebird because it felt safe.

Another gentleman I chatted with on the uphill track lives in Breckenridge, backcountry skis all the time, and loves the idea of Bluebird as an alternative to days when it’s too dangerous to ski elsewhere.

Despite widespread positive support, “Some people are not happy with what we’re doing, or they don’t understand it,” Lambert says. “We are people who like to share great experiences rather than hoard them — that has been our driving philosophy on this.

“Ultimately, the reality is that the interest in backcountry is huge,” he continues. “If there’s no easier ways to get around the high barriers of entry, then we’ll have more people who are just going for it, rather than working their way safely into the sport.”

In other words, someone like me.

When I finally make it to the bottom of that powdery run, exhausted, I look back up the slope, Mt. Whiteley standing in its glory: a perfect bluebird backdrop sky. While the other ski lines weave like strands of elegant DNA, mine is a crude Christmas tree. I click out of my bindings, switch everything to uphill mode, and head back up to try again.

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he Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) keeps getting bigger. Helmed once again by Beeck sisters Robin and Kathy, BIFF 16 (March 5-8) offers moviegoers 88 features and shorts to choose from. And, as has become the tradition in recent years, BIFF is no longer bound exclusively to Boulder. Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium gets in on the action with six features and a shorts package, March 6-8. And on March 27 and 28, BIFF heads to Fort Collins’ Lincoln Center with seven features and a collection of shorts.

If that wasn’t enough, BIFF 16 features another first: A film festival within the film festival. Taking place March 7 and 8 at eTown Hall, BIFF’s Adventure Pavilion comprises an extensive collection of adventurethemed short films. It’s a diverse selection — international in production, global in scope — and the lengths of each short range from a couple of minutes to nearly an hour. Most are documentaries, but a few narratives are sprinkled in for good measure. And since no festival is complete without a centerpiece Q&A, BIFF’s Adventure Pavilion will host a discussion with author, filmmaker and podcaster Cheryl Strayed of Wild: From Lost To Found on the Pacific Crest Trail fame. Patagonia climbing ambassador and advocate Timmy O’Neill will moderate. Tickets to Strayed’s

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talk are required ($25 plus service fee), but eTown’s downstairs Sponsor Lounge and BIFF Filmmaker Lounge at The Post Brewing Co. (2027 13th St.) will livestream the Q&A for free (space will be limited).

Strayed won’t be the only celebrity at the festival; musician extraordinaire Robbie Robertson will be joining moderator Ron Bostwick on Boulder Theater’s stage for a chat in conjunction with the documentary Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (March 6).

Though the festival begins in earnest on Thursday, March 5, Friday night’s Boulder premiere of Once Were Brothers will act as BIFF’s official opening night film.

It’s fitting considering the festival likes to kick things off with a raucous musical documentary to get the energy up and bleed over into the opening night after-party, which will feature music from the Wendy Woo Band. Individual tickets are currently sold out, but a festival pass will net you a seat at the opening night soiree.

Once Were Brothers isn’t the only musical doc on the bill this year, and, coincidentally, not FEBRUARY 27, 2020

the only one from a Canadian songwriter.

Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (5 p.m. March 7) provides a fitting companion to Once Were Brothers; while Billie (3 p.m. March 6), an archeological documentary of sorts, explores a wildly different side of a performer’s story.

Billie attempts to construct a complete portrait of the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday from those who knew her best. The evidence here: Archival interviews unearthed from neverbefore-heard cassette tapes. Those interviews were recorded in the 1970s, 20 years after Holiday died at the age of 44, and were the background research journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl compiled for her planned biography of the singer. But when Kuehl died, so did the project; at least until filmmaker James Erskin came along and brought the story to the screen.

The above three are all Boulder or Colorado premieres, as is Resistance (7 p.m. March 7), a bio-pic about the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, starring Jessie Eisenberg as the young Jewish actor turned French Resistance member when the Nazis invade. Eisenberg will be in person at the screening.

And while celebrity Q&As, opening and closing night parties and regional premieres will always be a draw, the true pleasures of a film festival lie in the far-flung corners of international cinema. Make time for Corpus Christi (3 p.m.

March 8) — a Polish film about Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia), a 20-something criminal who inadvertently becomes a rural town’s priest.

Masterfully told by director Jan Komasa, Corpus Christi takes Daniel from juvenile detention — where he sees salvation and escape in the church — to a small town governed by juvenile pettiness. A chance moment of mistaken identity allows Daniel to pose as a visiting priest coming to replace the alcoholic parson. Daniel I

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Corpus Christi was relatively unknown in the country until it was one of the five nominated for Best International Feature at this year’s Oscars. But even that nomination proved futile as South Korea’s Parasite steamrolled the competition. A pity, as Corpus Christi is an excellent movie, one you won’t want to miss.

Same for The Truth (12:15 p.m.

March 8), the first film from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda produced outside his home country.

Set in France, The Truth is a powerhouse of actors: Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke — each channeling the best aspects of their personas — in this story of family dynamics, role-playing and gratification.

Deneuve is elegant and proper, Binoche is ruffled and frustrated, Hawke is roguish and charming.

Deneuve plays Fabienne, an aging actress who is still capable of giving a phenomenal performance but is finding it harder and harder to find phenomenal roles. The publishing of her memoir brings her stateside daughter Lumir (Binoche) back to France, dragging husband (Hawke) and daughter (Manon Clavel) in tow. Fabienne and Lumir have scores to settle, scores both refuse to yield.

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Others to seek: Deerskin (7:30 p.m. March 6), a dark French comedy starring Jean Dujardin as a filmmaker who becomes infatuated with his vintage deerskin jacket; Hope Gap (3 p.m. March 7), an English family drama starring Annette Benning and Bill Nighy as a married couple of 29 years who will not see year 30 together; The Personal History of David Copperfield (3:45 p.m. March 7), a comedic reimagining of Dicken’s classic with Dev Patel leading a cosmopolitan cast; and from BIFF’s patented “call to action” section, The Story of Plastic (2:45 p.m. March 7) and Toxic Beauty (10 a.m. March 6), two documentaries to leave you positively furious and ready to make some changes.

And don’t miss out on a chance to see Mr. Jones (7:15 p.m. March 7), the latest film from Polish phenom Agnieszka Holland. There’s a power to her work, particularly the ones revolving around the Holocaust, which happens to be the setting of Mr. Jones, a true story of propaganda, the same one that inspired George Orwell to pen Animal Farm.

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ON THE BILL: Electric Hot Tuna: Celebrating 50 Years.

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n light of the spate of music biopics and memoirs that have come out recently, anyone expecting lots of hot dishing when they crack open Been So Long: My Life and Music, Jorma Kaukonen’s 2018 autobiography, is advised to look elsewhere.

Despite the fact that the Jefferson Airplane founding member experienced his first dalliance with fame during the group’s halcyon late-’60s Haight-Ashbury days, it’s more of an intriguing and straightforward account of Kaukonen’s life path. It’s part of the reason why he decided to pass on doing a project like this when he was first approached about doing it a decade or so ago.

“In the mid to early 2000s, I had an offer to do a book with somebody else as a co-writer,” Kaukonen recalls. “But it became apparent that the publishing company that we had been discussing things with wanted all that salacious stuff we talked about that I don’t have in my book. As soon as I realized that they wanted me to dish dirt on people that were more famous than myself, I thought I didn’t want to do that. So I just shelved the whole idea. The same thing happened when I didn’t make the cut for the “Janis: Little Girl Blue” PBS special because Janis and I never had sex or did drugs together. We just played music.”

Born in Washington, D.C., Kaukonen boasts Finnish lineage through his paternal grandparents and Russian Jewish ancestry on his mother’s side. Given that his father was a State Department employee, quite a bit of traveling framed the future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s life. In experiencing far-flung locales like Pakistan and the Philippines, Kaukonen took to keeping a diary, a habit that carried into adulthood and was an enormous boon in detailing the finite detail that flows through Been So Long. It also helped when it came to sitting down to write the book “For the book, I let the process be BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

my inspiration,” he says. “I’d sit down and maybe the first few minutes, it would be labored. But once I got into the flow, I found that I could do it.”

The book’s narrative thread is wrapped in a straightforward honesty about Kaukonen’s journey, with selfexamination that touches on his addiction and self recovery, his troubled first marriage and still-thriving current one, his musical journey, the creation of the Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp and the joy of fatherhood. Lyrics are sprinkled throughout, providing handy narrative bridges.

Of course, the memoir deals with Kaukonen’s bands, most notably Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. The Airplane was already a well-established project with several iconic hit songs to its credit (“White Rabbit,” “Somebody To Love,” “Volunteers”) when Kaukonen and Airplane bandmate, bassist Jack Casady, formed Hot Tuna as a side project in 1969.

The seeds for Hot Tuna were planted during a Jefferson Airplane gig at the Fillmore East when Paul Kanter asked Kaukonen and Casady to “...go play an acoustic tune.”

In Been So Long: My Life and Music, Kaukonen reflects on the musical freedom he and Casady found with Hot Tuna, which came to include a revolving cast of other musicians and played both in acoustic and electric settings.

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without financial constraints,” Kaukonen writes. “It was fun and a real relief to be able to just get together with friends and play music without it being a ‘career move,’” Hot Tuna stayed quite active during the 1970s, releasing eight albums that decade before taking a hiatus that lasted until 1986. Kaukonen and Casady have kept the group together since then, adding a pair of studio albums and several live releases to the Hot Tuna cata-

These days with Hot Tuna, Kaukonen plays the part of bard. As someone who started learning finger-picking while at Antioch College and subsequently worshipped at the altar of the storied blues/ gospel singer Reverend Gary Davis, Hot Tuna’s shows are rife not only with songs from the Hot Tuna catalog, but material from greats associated with the Americana canon.

Fans can expect to hear a set list populated with gems from the likes of Jelly Roll Morton (“Winin’ Boy Blues”), Blind Willie Johnson (“Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning”), Jimmy Cox (“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”) and Davis (“Candy Man”). And there may even be nuggets plucked from the Jefferson Airplane (“Embryonic Journey”) and Kaukonen (“Wolves and Lambs”) catalogs.

With his memoir now in the rearview mirror, Kaukonen says the biggest gift that came out of the project was his ability to hone his narrative craft.

“I found that I really enjoyed the process and was utterly un-self-conscious about telling my story, which would not have been true four years ago,” he says.

“I really enjoyed the process and when you think about writing a memoir and put down the last period, what do you do?

Drop dead? I was just thinking this morning that I might want to write something else. I don’t know what it’s going to be about — I’ve already told that story, so I can’t go back. But we’ll see.”

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Motus Theater seeks to help us overcome our disconnection and be a part of the change

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ON THE BILL: INVISIBLE LINES — presented by Motus Theater. 2 and 7 p.m.

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n Feb. 27, the day this edition records — people like Sabido — protectaken public sanctuary in a church to avoid hits newsstands, Rosa Sabido tion from deportation. deportation. Sabido was one of the people will have been in sanctuary at What has remained in place from the he visited. When Dyer started the Mancos United Methodist Obama administration is a 2011 policy Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines projChurch for 1,000 days. that designated churches, hospitals and ect, there were an estimated 25 to 30 peoThat’s two years and seven months schools as “sensitive locations,” places ple in 22 states who had taken public inside the small adobe building on Grand where ICE has been told not to enter sanctuary. The best estimate for people Avenue. She’s lost a lot over those thou- and arrest undocumented immigrants. who had taken nonpublic sanctuary in the sand days: big things, like her mother With the Trump administration recently United States was just over 100. So far, and her five dogs, and little Dyer has visited 21 people in THOSE BUILDINGS ON THE ROOFTOP things, like the view of sanctuary in nine states.

by Rosa Sabito Sleeping Ute Mountain from March 5-8, Motus Like monsters, always looking at me, like taller walls of a the front porch of her home in Theater will present Invisible prison without end. nearby Cortez. Unable to Lines, based on Dyer’s phoThey are silent neighbors, witnesses of my lost sight when I look around leave the church for fear of tographs and reporting thus and nothing changes. I can almost being picked up by U.S. far. While Motus has always listen, the tick tock of that big clock, where the Immigration and Customs aimed to facilitate dialog time is always the same.

Enforcement (ICE), Sabido around difficult social justice ...Always the same... Always the same… was unable to attend her issues, Invisible Lines is the This poem is about Ded Rranxburgaj (above) who has been in mother’s funeral in 2018. company’s most collaborative sanctuary in Detroit, Michigan, Sabido — a native of theater experience yet, profor more than two years.

Mexico who’s called viding improvisational reenSouthwest Colorado home for actments of stories from more than 30 years — was one of nearly announcing plans to deploy law enforce- Dyer’s project, but also inviting the audi40 undocumented immigrants publicly ment tactical units to sanctuary cities ence to reflect on how to use their indiknown to have sought sanctuary in the around the country, it’s easy to wonder vidual skills to find a solution to what United States in 2017. That year began how long churches will remain safe plac- artistic director Kirsten Wilson calls a the largest wave of sanctuary-seeking es for immigrants. human rights crisis. immigrants in the United States since the In March 2018, Boulder Weekly’s Joel “We may lose DACA (Deferred Action 1980s, a result of the Trump administraDyer set out on the first leg of a project for Childhood Arrivals) in June and if we tion’s rolling back of Obama-era policies that aims to photograph and interview do, almost half my staff and the majority that provided immigrants without criminal everyone in the United States who has of my performers will not be able to work FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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or travel in safety any longer. I get really creative when I get afraid because I love people and I want them to have the same opportunities that my own child has, and I know that anytime someone’s human rights or options are diminished so with that goes the safety and the democracy and the possibilities for my kid. So it’s a selfish desire and also a strategic desire to be part of creating a democracy that I thought was possible.

“I think a lot of people are feeling really powerless right now,” Wilson says.

“I feel like Motus has the opportunity to love people up so that they can show up the way they want to show up for a human rights crisis. If they don’t figure out how to, they will continue to feel more and more shut down.”

Invisible Lines will include some workshop-like components such as shared storytelling where audience members can reflect on their experiences with immigration and sanctuary, but also more traditional elements of theater where stories are acted out to live music. Wilson says the audience will be mobile in the Grace Gamm Theater, “in order to feel themselves differently in BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

relation to these stories.”

“We will be doing brief check-ins with the audience about how they’re handling the stress of watching a human rights crisis happening and knowing it’s happening,” Wilson says. “How do they negotiate the gap, the distance of their privilege and disconnection from those issues and their desire to be part of a change? We’re coming into this performance with the idea that everyone is hungry for their humanity: to feel it, to experience it, to express it. We will be discovering as a group what we can do in order to feel our impact in terms of addressing some of the issues at hand and be reminded of our power.”

And even from the confines of the tiny adobe church in Mancos, Colorado, Rosa Sabido will contribute to Invisible Lines via several poems she penned about other immigrants in sanctuary from Dyer’s original project.

One of the poems is about Vicky Chavez, a mother from Honduras who has been in sanctuary in Salt Lake City with her two young daughters for more than two years.

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“Oh, my little angels,” Sabido writes, “you may think I am saving you / but you are saving me / They talk about keeping children in cages / yet I was forced to wall you in / take away your sky, your earth, your flying feet / I hope one day you can forgive me.”

“I know Vicky because we have a weekly video conference with other people in sanctuary,” Sabido says in a phone interview. “So I know how Vicky is, how she feels, and that touched me even more when I saw her picture [with her daughters.]”

On Feb. 27, on her 1,000th day in sanctuary, a group of her supporters will to deliver a petition to Rep. Scott Tipton in Durango urging him to craft legislation that will halt Sabido’s deportation order and free her from sanctuary.

“The minimum required for them to pay attention to the issue is 1,500 signatures; we got over 1,200 more [than that],” Sabido says. “So that could mean a lot to me and not necessarily mean anything to the congressmen. We are not a priority. They don’t want to risk their seats just for one person.”

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6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-579-0184.

EVENTS

MICHAEL MARK PHOTOGRAPHY If the dark, cold days of February are getting you down, enjoy a night of funky blues, rockabilly and roots rock at the Woman Up Music Festival at eTown.

Mojomama, Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene, and The Cass Clayton Band join forces for a night of music that’s sure to warm the bones. Mojomama blends R&B, Americana and straight-up rock ‘n’ roll to build their sound, which earned them a semi-finalist spot at the International Blues Challenge in 2018. Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene will have the house jumping with their big band and rockabilly blues, while The Cass Clayton Band will make you think you’re sitting on a patio on Beale Street. Tickets are $22-$40 at etown.org.

PILOBOLUS.

7:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder. Pre-Concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

COURTESY PILOBOLUS By popular demand, Pilobolus returns to Boulder for an athletic and arresting performance. Pilobolus is an American modern dance company that began performing in 1971 and has now performed in more than 64 countries around the world. In this performance, the audience will have the chance to engage the senses through both classic and new repertory that begins by examining human biology and ends in an immersion in the world around you. Tickets are $23-$91 at cupresents. com.

AN EVENING WITH COREY RICH, PHOTOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR.

7:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Unit A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

COREY RICH Corey Rich started taking climbing pictures when he was 13 years old, and over the years his work has helped define the genre of adventure photography in both the editorial and commercial spaces. In his new book, ‘Stories Behind the Images,’ he gives insight into what it means to create a career doing something you love, and how success is all about building great, lasting relationships in business and in life. Join Rich at Neptune Mountaineering for a fun and entertaining digital presentation filled with a lot of inspiration. RSVP at neptunemountaineering.com.

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Bill Frisell

featuring Petra Haden, Hank Roberts, Luke Bergman.

8 p.m. Monday, March 2, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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arts 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.

HUNG LIU

‘FOREIGN BORN’ EXPLORES the unique perspectives of female immigrants from Asia, South America and Europe. Individually, each artist charted a unique path to citizenship, while collectively that path ultimately inspired a desire for artistic expression. By referencing birth, femininity and cultural identity, their unique perspectives form a singular message around the significance of immigration and the power of the female viewpoint. Opening reception on Feb. 28 at the Dairy Arts Center from 5-8 p.m.

BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: Paul Gillis: ‘When Kingship Ascends to Heaven,’ through May 1; 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,’ through April 4 Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: Foreign Born: Taiko Chandler [Hand-Rudy], Erin Hyunhee Kang [Polly Addison], Taiko Chandler [MacMillan], Roberta Restaino, Danqi Cai, Eriko Tsogo, Hung Liu, Ana Maria Hernando, Dianna Frid [McMahon], opening reception on Feb. 28 from 5-8 p.m.

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.

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.

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 mosaic 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.

Leoncavallo’s ‘Pagliacci.’ 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Through March 1.

Talks: Museum of the Spheres. 7:15 p.m.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

The Loving Hour featuring Members of The Main Squeeze, TAUK, Karl Denson & More — with Zeta June. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Vincent with Prince Fox, Brazen, KLO, Roses & Rubies. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Music Colorado Christian University Symphonic Band and Jazz Band in Concert. 7 p.m.

FaithPoint Church, 833 15th Ave., Longmont.

Early Music Ensemble: Vocal. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

An Evening with Travis Tritt — Solo Acoustic. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

The Expendables — with Authority Zero. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

The Glenn Miller Orchestra. 5:30 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through March 1.

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

Meditation, Music and Tea. 6 p.m. Museum of Boulder 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

RE:Search featuring Ultrasloth (kLL sMTH, Duffrey, BioLumigeN) — with Jon1st & Shield, Resonant Language. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert.

7 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Second performance at 2 p.m. on Feb. 29.

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

Susto. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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Conversation with Barbara Shark & Simon Zalkind. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Also on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m.

Cost is $5.

Matteo Lane. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Feb. 29.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Music Any Colour: A Tribute to Pink Floyd. 8 p.m.

Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

INNISFREE POETRY BOOKSTORE & CAFE gives you an opportunity to hear from upand-coming writers before they make it big. Friday, Feb. 28 you can hear a reading from Stephen Mruzik, a third-year MFA candidate at CU-Boulder with a focus on fiction and creative nonfiction.

Originally from the St. Louis area, Mruzik’s favorite genre is mediocre, high-stakes high school drama.

DJ Craze & sfam — with Jon Casey. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Electric Hot Tuna — with David Bromberg Quintet. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Georgia Boys BBQ Music Series featuring Flynn & the Electric Co. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

The Goonies ’80s Dance Party. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Jenn Cleary Acoustic Duo. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

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

Logo Ligi West African Drumming/Dance Ensemble. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

The Lonesome Days with Adam Aijala. 6 p.m. The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635.

Luna Luna — with Nightlove. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Music & Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Party Pupils. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

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

Ravin’wolf Acoustic Blues. 6 p.m. Kettle & Spoke Brewery, 2500 47th St., Unit 12, Boulder, 720-606-1733.

Sambadendé. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel & Spa, Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Soul Sacrifice — A Tribute to Santana.

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

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

Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 0285, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Winter Folk Bluegrass Weekend! 6 p.m.

The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635. Through March 1.

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

Events All Creation Gives Praise. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Fourth Friday Fandom: Book Hedgie Characters. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

IMAGINE 2020 Speaker Series: A Chronicle of Race in America. 6 p.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 27 World’s Best Books Bookclub — The Adventures of Augie March. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Heidi Piper — Choose Love. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, FEB. 28 MFA Showcase: Stephen Mruzik. 5 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 Trefot. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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

Stacy Dicker — Psychstrology. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, FEB. 29 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree

Open Space: Curated by CU Dance Connection. 7:30 p.m. Charlotte York Irey Theatre, University Theatre Building, CU-Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through March 1.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 Music Adam Aijala & Ben Kaufmann of Yonder Mountain String Band, Wood Belly & More. 6 p.m. The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635.

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

Anna of the North. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Antibalas. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Authority Zero. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Denver Pops Orchestra Presents: Magical Journey with Soloists Suzanne Morrison and Joel Hillan. 4 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 720-261-9415.

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

Electric Hot Tuna — with David Bromberg Quintet. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

An Evening with Ross Newell. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

G. Love & Special Sauce — Pre-Show Pop Off. 6 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Full show with Jontavious Willis begins at 8:30 p.m.

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

The Ballroom Thieves. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

Bluegrass at the Audi: Kody Norris Show. 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 720-887-2371.

A Human Named David. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Che Apalache. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

A Human Named David. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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

Kendall Street Company & CBDB — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

A Collection of Choirs: Songs of Hope. 7 p.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-774-7994.

CU Boulder Honor Band Festival: Spring 2020. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 0285, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

KS1075 Snow Show 2020 featuring Tyga, Doja Cat and More. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Leap Day Songbirds. 5:30 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder, 720-938-7285. see EVENTS Page 32

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FILMS Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) is handsome, clever and rich. She’s also a bit of a wrecking ball — the kind who thinks she’s holding the world together, when she’s the one holding on for dear life. And if she spent a little less time modeling Harriet Smith (Mia Goth) and a little more time with George Knightly (Johnny Flynn), then various friends and family members might have a more agreeable time. Adapted by Eleanor Catton and directed by first-timer Autumn de Wilde, whose resume includes a respectable number of music videos, ‘Emma.’ is an earnest adaptation of Jane Austin’s 1815 novel with a lackluster pace. Taylor-Joy nails Emma’s incredulity, and Goth plays Harriet as a girl composed of innocuous giggles. Coupled with the costume designs, they are the best parts — as is Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse, a man endlessly searching for the source of that infernal draft. But Flynn’s Knightly lacks brooding, de Wilde’s adaptation lacks momentum, and ‘Emma.’ comes to a full stop before it even gets started. —MJC

BOULDER:

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3011: ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27.

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘1917’ ‘The Assistant’ ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘Downhill’ ‘Emma.’

‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘Impractical Jokers: The Movie’ ‘The Invisible Man’ ‘Little Women’ ‘The Lodge’ ‘My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising’

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

Boulder Jewish Film Festival, March 4-15.

‘Disappearance at Clifton Hill,’ 8:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28.

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

‘In Search of Chopin,’ March 1-2.

International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662: Free show: ‘The Bit Player,’ 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28.

‘Parasite (Black & White version),’ Feb. 29-March 2.

‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 3.

Patagonia Boulder, 1630 Pearl St., Boulder: Leaping Forward: Our Planet & Food & Film — A Leap Day Fundraiser for SOIL Boulder, 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.

DENVER:

The Bug Theater, 3654 Navajo St., 303-477-5977: ‘The Medicine,’ 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., 303-744-9686: ‘Amazon Adventure 3D’ ‘Dinosaurs of Antarctica 3D’ ‘Hidden Pacific 3D’ ‘Into America’s Wild 3D’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106: Banff Mountain Film Festival, 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28,

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: CatVideoFest 2020, Feb. 28-March 1.

‘Dead End Drive-In,’ 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 ‘The Death of Dick Long,’ 7 p.m. Monday, March 2.

‘Hoop Dreams,’ 1 p.m. Sunday, March 1, ‘The Lodge’ ‘Olympic Dreams’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’

LONGMONT:

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Downhill’ ‘Fantasy Island’ ‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘The Invisible Man’ ‘My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’

LOUISVILLE:

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Downhill’ ‘Emma.’

‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘Impractical Jokers: The Movie’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

NEDERLAND:

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

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Longmont Symphony Beethoven Cycle: Schubert & Beethoven. 7 p.m. Stewart Auditorium at the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-772-5796.

The 92’ Dream Team: A Completely Fictional True Sports History. 9 p.m. Grafenberg Sketch Comedy And Improv Theatre, 70 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-803-8894.

Marshall Hayes, Toney Rocks, Trio of Rejects. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Dairy Arts Center and Elena Mathys Studio: Infante Margarita’s Colorful Adventures. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Old’s Cool Rock. 10 p.m. Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline, Boulder.

Pepper: Step to the Local Motion tour.

7:30 p.m. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

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

Traditional Indian Kirtan. 7 p.m. Raj Yoga & Meditation, 2750 Glenwood Drive #1, Boulder, 720-287-3361.

Wendy Woo Band — with Logan Thomas.

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

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Mardi Gras Murder Mystery At the Empire Hotel. 6 p.m. The Grizzly Rose, 5450 North Valley Highway, Denver, 303-295-2353.

Workshop with Artist Stacey Steers. 2 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 Music The Dear Landlords. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

DYAO Spectacular: Ellis Island. 2:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Live eTown Radio Show Taping with Aoife O’Donovan & Che Apalache. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Sam Bush. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Super Whatevr. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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

Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 and 9:15 p.m.

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

Nemr. 6 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

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

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

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

Music & Me Class (pre-K to K). 2 p.m.

Adventure Judaism, 825 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-417-6200.

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

Events Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 6 p.m.

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

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

Boulder Story Slam & Workshop — Teen Edition. 4:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

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

Drop-In Aerial Foundations. 5:45 p.m.

Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group.

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

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

An Evening with Corey Rich, Photographer and Director. 7:15 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway St. Unit A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

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

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

Nobel Prize Inspiration and Action. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

Reynolds Reading Pals: Tuesday Session.

4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

West Coast Swing Dance Lessons - Free.

5:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Music After Funk (The Floozies & Sunsquabi Afterparty). 11 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

David Booker. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. see EVENTS Page 34

Turn Your Miles Into Smiles Donate Your Miles Credit to One of Three Charities at Checkout.

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

Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Ukes Unite! Reynolds Ukulele Workshop.

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

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 Music Angela Hewitt performs J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations: Boulder Bach Festival.

7:30 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-507-5052.

Bill Frisell featuring Petra Haden, Hank Roberts, Luke Bergman. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Boulder Drum Circle. 7:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908.

Dave Hause. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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Derek Warwick & Tom Stephens. 8 p.m.

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

Donny McCaslin Trio. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5100.

Durand Jones & The Indications w/ Kaina.

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

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

Faculty Tuesdays: Janet Harriman, harp.

7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Marc E. Bassy - PMD Tour w/ Gianni & Kyle. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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Thursday March 5 - dual venue

Friday March 6

russ liquid & Marvel years

nauGhTy proFessor & The BurrouGhs

saTurday March 7

The nTh power & BroTher Maker

w/ FunksTaTik visuals By android Jones

Z-Trip & dJ qBerT

w/ The dirTy GeMs FeaT Jordan polovina

Thursday March 12 - dual venue re: search

JanTsen & proTohype w/ G-space & spicyBois Takevover

Friday March 13 sold ouT

phaB4

(phoFFMan & anders Beck) FeaT williaM aposTol & Todd herrinGTon

saTurday March 14

w/ sarah MounT & The rushMores

saTurday March 7

FeaT MeMBers oF TurkuaZ w/ diJon MusTanG

wednesday March 11

GroovesaFe allsTars FeaT MeMBers oF loTus, dopapod & MaGic Beans

Friday March 13

con Brio

w/ sixTy MinuTe Men & sMirk

saTurday March 14

TouBaB krewe

Manic Focus

w/ kessel run & desMond Jones

wednesday March 18

The GreaT conTeMpT, in plain air, sTay Gypsy, TrouBle Bound & The udder

Thursday March 19

Tuesday March 17 sold ouT

w/ supervision, Midicinal, lwky & FlaTs sTanlie

younG M.a. re: search

chrisTian MarTin

w/ daTeless (dirTyBird/hoTTrax), c.h.a.y. (dirTyBird/Mau5Trap) - laTe seT & Jordan polovina

Friday March 20

roBaG wruhMe & leaFar leGov saTurday March 21

evanoFF

w/ The parTy people, FuTure Joy & hu

wednesday March 25

rod wave

Thursday March 26 re: search

daily Bread

sunday March 15

The ides oF March

BBno$ w/ lenTra

wednesday March 18

lord BuFFalo

w/ BuFFalo coMMons & TiFFany chrisTopher

Thursday March 19

new orleans suspecTs w/ arMchair BooGie

Friday March 20 sold ouT

ciTy MorGue

w/ Tokyo’s revenGe & kai

saTurday March 21

Tay Money

Monday March 23

soB x rBe

w/ MeGan haMilTon, MoTiFv & Jordan polovina

w/ TheycallhiMap & shooTerGanG kony

Friday March 27

wednesday March 25

MaGic Beans

w/ space Bacon & diZGo

GraTeFul BlueGrass Boys

w/ river valley ranGers & FoGGy MeMory Boys

saTurday March 28

Thursday March 26

w/ GraBBiTZ, TruFeelZ, exo & iaM_Jacko

deTroiT swindle

yulTron - rave proM Tour Thursday april 2 - dual venue re: search

Break science

Mile hiGh sound MoveMenT Takeover

Friday april 3

Bass inFerno

FeaT virTual rioT, shiverZ & akeos

Thursday april 9

re: search

w/ ross kiser & reid Golden (laTe seT)

Friday March 27

pickin on TalkinG heads

perForMed By ThaT daMn sasquaTch FeaT kyle TuTTle & adaM Greuel w/ TuTTle-Greuel experience FeaT silas herMan, Jean-luc davis, scoTT slay Trio FeaT allen cook & eMMa rose

Monophonics

saTurday april 11

Billy FailinG Band

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 sTranGer @ 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

Friday april 3

old salT union

w/ parT & parcel & ponder The alBaTross

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

Thursday april 16

(TalkinG heads TriBuTe)

Thursday May 14 re: search

Jesse royal re: search

Michal MenerT Trio

w/ laZy syrup orchesTra, yak aTTack, Jordan polovina, alix pereZ & Tsuruda

Thursday april 23

danny Barnes Trio

Freddy Todd B2B MysTic GriZZly

FeaT nick ForsTer (hoT riZe) & eric Thorin w/ chain sTaTion (laTe seT) & kyle TuTTle Band

Friday & saTurday May 15-16

saTurday april 25

5/15: FeaT chris pandolFi, andy hall & paul hoFFMan 5/16: FeaT chris pandolFi & andy hall

sunday april 26

BlueGrass Generals wednesday May 20

JereMy pinnell Friday May 22

FaTher

w/ MelTycanon

aZiZi GiBson Friday May 8

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Tuesday May 12

psyMBionic & ZeBBler encanTi experience

ryan BeaTTy

Friday May 29

Felly

w/ Milano (losT doGZ)

sTorMZy

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saTurday June 6

GroundaTion

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lonG Beach duB allsTars

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Happy Birthday Wanda June — presented

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

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

Through March 29.

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

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 16.

Friday June 12

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Shockheaded Peter — presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 7. twenty50. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through March 1.

When We Were Young and Unafraid. — Firehouse Theater Company. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through March 14.

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Johnny & The Mongrels. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Regina Carter & Xavier Davis. 6:30 p.m.

Dazzle at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5100.

Linking Longmont: Efforts to Enhance Safe Walking, Riding and Rolling. 5 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Events

The Lone Bellow with Early James and the Latest. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Lyle Lovett and his acoustic group.

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

Marc Emerson Townes of Kind Hearted Strangers featuring Hunter Stone. 8 p.m.

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

Mason Maynard. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

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

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

Through April 19.

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

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The Runner Stumbles — presented by Coal Creek Theater of Louisville. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Feb. 28-March 14.

saTurday april 4

wednesday april 15

Friday May 8

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

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

FeaT Jarrod walker

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sTarT MakinG sense

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

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

Through Feb. 29.

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wednesday april 29

louis cole BiG Band

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

Through Feb. 29.

saTurday March 28

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‘WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID’ takes us inside an underground women’s shelter in the early 1970s — before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, before women had places to turn in times of distress. Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where a woman on the run can seek refuge. But her latest young runaway is having a profound influence on her teenage daughter, forcing each girl to question her destiny. Playing at John Hand Theater in Denver through March 14.

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

Conversations in English Wednesdays.

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

Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce: Unleashing Your Dog. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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

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

REI Campfire Sessions: Boot Care & Maintenance. 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

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

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WATERMARK

by Paul Rodgers

When I left You remained A watermark Those who know me Who see right through me See you in me

Paul Rogers is a writer, stepdad and punk rock bassist living in Los Angeles.

Boulder Weekly accepts poetry and flash fiction submissions of 450 words/35 lines or fewer, accompanied by a one-sentence bio of the author. Send to: poetry@boulderweekly.com

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: From author Don DeLillo’s

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: You may sometimes reach a point

where you worry that conditions are not exactly right to pursue your dreams or fulfill your holy quest. Does that describe your current situation? If so, I invite you to draw inspiration from Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), who’s regarded as one of history’s foremost novelists. Here’s how one observer described Cervantes during the time he was working on his masterpiece, the novel titled Don Quixote: “shabby, obscure, disreputable, pursued by debts, with only a noisy tenement room to work in.” Cervantes dealt with imperfect conditions just fine.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: “True success is figuring out your life

and career so you never have to be around jerks,” says Taurus filmmaker, actor and author John Waters. I trust that you have been intensely cultivating that kind of success in the last few weeks, Taurus — and that you will climax this wondrous accomplishment with a flourish during the next few weeks. You’re on the verge of achieving a new level of mastery in the art of immersing yourself in environments that bring out the best in you.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: I would love for you to become more

powerful, Gemini — not necessarily in the sense of influencing the lives of others, but rather in the sense of managing your own affairs with relaxed confidence and crisp competence. What comes to mind when I urge you to expand your self-command and embolden your ambition? Is there an adventure you could initiate that would bring out more of the swashbuckler in you?

CANCER

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: For my Cancerian readers in the Southern Hemisphere, this oracle will be in righteous alignment with the natural flow of the seasons. That’s because February is the hottest, laziest, most spacious time of year in that part of the world — a logical moment to take a lavish break from the daily rhythm and escape on a vacation or pilgrimage designed to provide relaxation and renewal. Which is exactly what I’m advising for all of the earth’s Cancerians, including those in the Northern Hemisphere. So for those of you above the equator, I urge you to consider thinking like those below the equator. If you can’t get away, make a blanket fort in your home and pretend. Or read a book that takes you on an imaginary journey. Or hang out at an exotic sanctuary in your hometown.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Leo author Walter Scott (1771-1832)

was a pioneer in the genre of the historical novel.

His stories were set in various eras of the Scottish past. In those pre-telephone and pre-internet days, research was a demanding task. Scott traveled widely to gather tales from keepers of the oral tradition.

In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I recommend that you draw inspiration from Scott’s old-fashioned approach. Seek out direct contact with the past. Put yourself in the physical presence of storytellers and elders. Get first-hand knowledge about historical events that will inspire your thoughts about the future of your life story.

VIRGO

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Rembrandt (1606-1663) gazed into a mirror as he created more than 90 self-portraits — about 10% of his total work. Why? Art scholars don’t have a definitive answer. Some think he did self-portraits because they sold well. Others say that because he worked so slowly, he himself was the only person he could get to model for long periods. Still others believe this was his way of cultivating self-knowledge, equivalent to an author writing an autobiography. In the coming weeks, I highly recommend that you engage in your personal equivalent of extended mirror-gazing. It’s a favorable time to understand yourself better.

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many literary works, I’ve gathered five quotes to serve as your guideposts in the coming weeks. These observations are all in synchronistic alignment with your current needs. 1) Sometimes a thing that’s hard is hard because you’re doing it wrong. 2) You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

3) Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look. 4) The world is full of abandoned meanings.

In the commonplace, I find unexpected themes and intensities. 5) What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself just by being a cabbage,” wrote Scorpio author Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944). “Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage — unless you have an agent and pay him a commission.” He was making the point that for us humans, it’s not enough to simply become good at a skill and express that skill; we need to hire a publicist or marketing wizard or distributor to make sure the world knows about our offerings. Generally, I agree with Giradoux’s assessment. But I think that right now it applies to you only minimally. The coming weeks will be one of those rare times when your interestingness will shine so brightly, it will naturally attract its deserved attention. Your motto, from industrialist Henry J. Kaiser: “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: When he was 29 years old, Sagittarian composer Ludwig Beethoven published his String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 4. Most scholars believe that the piece was an assemblage of older material he had created as a young man. A similar approach might work well for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I invite you to consider the possibility of repurposing tricks and ideas that weren’t quite ripe when you first used them.

Recycling yourself makes good sense.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Are there parts of your life that seem to

undermine other parts of your life? Do you wish there was greater harmony between your heart and your head, between your giving and your taking, between your past and your future? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could infuse your cautiousness with the wildness of your secret self? I bring these questions to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect you’re primed to address them with a surge of innovative energy. Here’s my prediction: Healing will come as you juxtapose apparent opposites and unite elements that have previously been unconnected.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: When he was 19, the young poet Robert Graves joined the British army to fight in World War I. Two years later, the Times of London newspaper reported that he had been killed at the Battle of the Somme in France. But it wasn’t true. Graves was very much alive, and continued to be for another 69 years.

During that time, he wrote 55 books of poetry, 18 novels and 55 other books. I’m going to be bold and predict that this story can serve as an apt metaphor for your destiny in the coming weeks and months. Some dream or situation or influence that you believed to be gone will in fact have a very long second life filled with interesting developments.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: If you’re like most of us, you harbor

desires for experiences that might be gratifying in some ways but draining in others. If you’re like most of us, you may on occasion get attached to situations that are mildly interesting, but divert you from situations that could be amazingly interesting and enriching. The good news, Pisces, is that you are now in a phase when you have maximum power to wean yourself from these wasteful tendencies. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to identify your two or three most important and exciting longings — and take a sacred oath to devote yourself to them above all other wishes and hopes.

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Boulder Vision Center Hometown heroes

2020 Boulder Jewish Film Festival to play Dairy Arts Center

by Michael J. Casey

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arch might be the best month for Boulder movieON THE BILL: Boulder Jewish goers. From the smattering of archival prints Film Festival. March unspooling at CU-Boulder’s International Film 4-15, Dairy Arts Series to the delightfully bizarre and thought-proCenter, 2590 Walnut St., voking images beaming from the Brakhage 303-444-7328.

Center Symposium (March 14-15). From regional premieres and climate-minded documentaries at the Boulder International Film Festival (March 5-8) to the always-popular and equally international Boulder Jewish Film Festival (March 4-15).

And the eighth Boulder Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) kicks off with a celebration of a hometown hero: Dave Grusin. Born June 26, 1934, in Littleton, Colorado, Grusin studied music at CU-Boulder, graduating in 1956 before heading off to Hollywood and an award-winning career as composer and songwriter. His most notable contribution will probably always be his PHOTO BY JULIO RODRIGUEZ work on 1967’s The Graduate, but it was his score for 1988’s The Milagro Beanfield that finally netted him an Oscar.

Grusin has always had a close connection with Boulder — including appearances at the Conference on World Affairs, notably as a dueling pianist against brother Don Grusin — so it’s only fitting BJFF kicks off March 4 with Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time, a loving documentary directed by Barbara Bentree, herself an alumna of CU-Boulder’s College of Music. Bentree will be in person for the opening night festivities.

Both BJFF screenings of Not Enough Time are currently sold out (check thedairy. org should additional seats open or shows added), but, considering the close ties between Bentree and Grusin to the city, there will be plenty of opportunities to catch the doc in the future.

That’s not necessarily the case with the rest of BJFF’s slate. For many of the movies screened, BJFF is the only time audiences will have a chance to see them on the theater screen, if at all.

Not sure where to start? Try something humorous: BJFF offers several options.

Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive won Best Film at the 2019 Jerusalem Film Festival for writer/director/actor Yossi Atia’s light-hearted look at the effects of daily trauma on the Israeli psyche. Also in the comedy vein: Holy Lands stars James Caan as Harry, a grumpy old man who decides to retire to Israel and start a pig farm.

Like many of the films playing BJFF, the above are concerned primarily with Jewish identity. As is The Spy Behind Home Plate — the almost unbelievable story of Moe Berg, a major league catcher during baseball’s Golden Age (the 1920s and ’30s) who was an OSS spy during World War II, and helped undermine Germany’s efforts to develop and build an atomic bomb. (Should the documentary pique your interest, Paul Rudd played Berg in the 2018 drama, The Catcher Was a Spy.) More than 15 features and two short film packages will screen at this year’s BJFF, all of them at Dairy Arts Center. Like previous BJFFs, there will be conversations, talkbacks and various receptions throughout the festival. And, like previous BJFFs, screenings will sell out fast. For a full schedule, tickets and information, visit thedairy.org.

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Were you just looking at your phone or computer?

According to an American Optometric Association survey, 62% of respondents spent 5 or more hours on their digital devices every day. The blue light from those devices contributes to sleep loss for some.

There is also concern that the blue light may be aging eyes and could eventually cause retinal problems.

Dr. Terri Oneby 303-443-4545

The good news is that blue light blocking glasses lenses have improved immensely. The newest lenses block a more targeted range so they are not “orange-y.” And they don’t have to have that purple reflection.

Dr. Lowell Steinberg 303-447-8470

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doing. Even in the dead of winter, this salad is appealing. A generous portion of fresh kale is laid with creamy, robust curry chicken salad; tender GMO-free chicken pieces are mixed with just the right amount of curry spice.

Adorned with shaved multi-colored carrots, toasted almonds and house-made polenta croutons, the dish comes alive with the addition of an apple cider vinaigrette.

There’s a reason SALT has won accolades for its fresh, local offerings and glutenfree menu. (This salad is only served at lunch, by the way.)

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n Big news for bagel lovers

Denver’s award-winning Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen will open soon at 1089 13th St. (formerly Rose Hill Wine & Spirits). It will serve breakfast and lunch before becoming Rosenberg’s After Dark at 5 p.m., and serving other specialties.

It’s the latest outpost in New Jersey native (and CU grad) Joshua Pollack’s mini empire of East Coast-inspired fooderies along the Front Range.

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n Vegan food academy opening in Boulder

This summer the Vegan Fusion Culinary Academy will open in Boulder offering courses for professionals and home cooks. Founded by award-winning chef Mark Reinfeld, a pioneer in the plant-based culinary world, the academy is “one of the first professional cooking schools in the world dedicated to classic and cutting-edge vegan and raw cuisine while building a thriving vegan community.” Evening classes, 1-3 day workshops and 5-10 day immersions will be available. veganfusionculinaryacademy.com FEBRUARY 27, 2020

n New Boulder food hall announces first tenants

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n DRINK OF THE WEEK Profiles in brew: Gordon Knight

The legacy of Boulder County’s pioneering brewer lives on

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f you’re a dedicated craft beer drinker, you’ll probably recognize the names of Adam Avery, Sam Calagione, maybe even Ken Grossman. But what about the names: Fred Eckhardt? Bert Grant?

Joseph Owades? All are the hands and minds behind the craft beer movement, but only the first group is still with us. Eckhardt, Grant, Owades, they’ve all passed on. And though their names still appear in beer history texts, as it is with the dead, the farther we get from their lineage, the further their legacy fades from our mind.

In some respects, that’s true for Gordon Knight, Boulder County’s pioneering brewer. Then again, Knight’s legacy lives on in the brewery he founded and the connections he forged. And if you ever need proof, head down to your favorite liquor store and pick up a sixpack of G’Knight Imperial Red IPA from Oskar Blues Brewery — a big, sticky, piney hop bomb tempered by sweet malt and bolstered by palate-cleansing bitterness.

It’s Oskar Blues’ tribute to Knight. “A bold, simple way to represent a guy who lived that way,” says owner Dale Katechis.

Released in 2005, G’Knight was originally named Gordon until Gordon Biersch issued a cease-and-desist, prompting Oskar Blues to change the name to G’Knight.

But, as Katechis explains, the name change is just as good: “Drink two or three of them in a row, and you’ll go g’night.”

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30, 2002, fighting the Big Elk Fire northwest of Lyons, when his helicopter crashed, killing him in the process. He was 52.

G’Knight isn’t the only beer you’ll find with Knight connections in Boulder County. Over at Twisted Pine Brewing Company, Hoppy Knight Black IPA still graces the brewery’s extensive tap list — a beer brewed for Twisted Pine’s 15th anniversary and in honor of its founder.

Twisted Pine was the second of three breweries Knight opened. His first, High Country Brewery, opened in Boulder in 1993, moved to Estes Park in 1994, and was sold to Ed Grueff and renamed Estes Park Brewery.

In 1995, Knight opened up Twisted Pine in a small space on Valmont Road, just east of the train tracks. That’s where Bob Baile first met Knight.

Also a brewer, Baile was running Peak to Peak Brewing out of his garage in Rollinsville. Knight was looking to sell Twisted Pine and Baile was looking to buy. “[Knight] was never really good at establishing breweries,” Baile recounts. “He liked to start breweries.”

Baile bought Twisted Pine in ’96, merged the two breweries and kept the Twisted Pine name.

Now located in a much larger facility on Walnut Street, Baile keeps the spirit of Knight alive, especially with Hoppy Knight, a black IPA featuring roasty malts mingling with resinous and piney hops — balanced, complex and clean, just like Knight.

“We’ve always followed his philosophy,” Baile says.

“Play it close to the vest and put out the best product you can.”

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ack when Gordon Knight released Hoppy Boy, the clarion gold color, the snappy grapefruit citrus of Cascade hops, and the strong backbone of bitterness (65 international bittering units) placed the ale firmly in the India pale ale category. And when Knight handed the brewery over to Bob Baile, Baile kept Hoppy Boy’s taps flowing, making the brew Twisted Pine’s flagship ale.

But times change, and so do tastes. As IPA became the reigning style among craft beer drinkers, Hoppy Boy seemed to match up less and less against the bitter bombs and hop-saturated ales.

So, in 2015, they tweaked the recipe and rechristened Hoppy Boy as a Pale Ale, dropping the alcohol from 6.2% to 5.7%, the IBUs from 65 to 52, and letting the caramel malt shine through citrus and pine.

The results are a song. Pops on citrusy hops and sweet caramel malt walk hand in hand down the glass while middle-of-the-road bitterness gives the beer presence without aggression. It’s reminiscent of Sierra Nevada’s Pale Ale (another pioneer from craft beer’s early days) and easily one of the best quaffs you’ll find in Boulder County.

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experiences growing up and eating throughout France. What makes Le French Café a gem, though, is the casual, vibrant atmosphere inside the restaurant — colorful décor, families sharing meals, French speakers all around — and the accessibility of the cuisine, both in cost and in form.

“We really wanted a place where people could come and feel comfortable. It’s simple food... it’s what we were eating when we were young,” Agnes says. “Most of our customers love our food, but some people still don’t understand why we’re not having truffles or foie gras. But in France we don’t eat that every day. We wanted to show people you can eat simple, good food.

“If you put butter inside, everything is good,” she adds, laughing.

Agnes and Quentin moved to the U.S. 10 years ago, settling in Florida for a time. But Boulder, similar in climate to Agnes’ Alpine upbringing, was always on their radar. When the chance to open a restaurant came up they jumped at the chance.

Now they, and their young son, are using the restaurant to build a community.

“For us, it’s like we are not at work, we are at home, because we have no family than us here so our customers become a little bit of family,” Agnes says. “I know it’s cheesy to say that but it’s the truth. It’s just we are so alone in America because we are just the three of us. We build our own family with our business and our customers.”

Agnes gives back to that community not only through her and Quentin’s food and restaurant, but through spreading goodwill.

She’s embraced what she recognized as a uniquely American positivity, and she goes out of her way to share it.

“I believe in kindness,” she says.

“You can see somebody on the street, a customer, who just changed her haircut... you can tell her she’s beautiful and it makes her day. It’s so important to do it. Where we live right now, what we are right now... it’s important to be kind to each other.”

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gnes and Quentin Garrigou, the husband-wife owners of Boulder’s Le French Café, grew up around food. For, they are French.

“Food is so important,” Agnes says. “Like me and my family keeping for five hours at the table, you get outside and walk and come back and eat again. ... Don’t do Christmas with French people, you will not go to bed before 3 a.m.”

Agnes remembers her dad catching rabbits in their countryside home in the Alps outside Chamonix. He cured meat in the basement, Agnes’ mother cooked sausage with cabbage.

“The smell, I still have everything in my head,” she says. “When I was young, people used to do everything by themselves.”

Fortunately, Agnes and Quentin (who serves as head chef) use a lot of those recipes at Le French Café.

Sandwiches, quiches, salads, pastries and select entrees are born from their

n ‘Food is French’ QUENTIN AND AGNES GARRIGOU weren’t able to take everything from their French culinary upbringings to the U.S. “Like rabbits,” Agnes says. “You never find rabbits in America. When you raise rabbits in a good way, it’s so good — the texture, everything... But when we moved to America, we would go to the store and ask for it and they would look at us like we were crazy people.”

Quentin says he misses France’s regional charcuterie — rillettes (cured fatty pork) from his native Loire Valley — and fresh, funky cheeses that lose their, well, freshness and funkiness when shipped overseas. He reminisces about the simple pleasure of fresh blood sausage with potatoes and apples.

Foie gras is also becoming less available in the U.S., compared to France, at least. One meat that’s no longer available (easily) in either country? Horse. Agnes remembers horse-specific butcher shops in Paris, and seeing horse tartare on menus, heralded because horse meat was supposedly the healthiest meat.

“We tried to ask for that in a store in America, I think they were almost putting us to jail,” Agnes says.

Agnes says any changes from original, family recipes on the menu of Le French Café were made mostly because of a lack of access to traditional ingredients, though substitutions for flavor have been made.

“We have some stuff we had to change like the vinaigrette; we make it a little thicker, and we put onions inside, so it’s a little American but it’s still pretty French. The salads don’t taste the same; it’s more earthy in France than here... I think because here the salad you buy is in big quantity.

“But the duck confit we do tastes exactly like in France,” Agnes says. Check out the recipe on the next page.

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Duck Confit

from Agnes and Quentin Garrigou of Le French Café CHEF QUENTIN GARRIGOU offers a traditional take on duck confit, a classic French dish made from cooking duck meat slowly in its rendered fat.

He uses simple seasoning in this recipe, as is traditional, but says you can add herbs (rosemary and thyme) before submerging in fat, and recommends serving with something sweet (say, a red wine reduction or fresh fruit). Recipe can be scaled up — you just need enough duck fat (which you can by canned in stores) to submerge the meat.

2 duck legs with thighs attached 2-4 cups (approx.) duck fat salt pepper

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1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees 2. Salt and pepper duck, and place skin-side down on high-rimmed baking sheet.

3. Submerge duck meat in duck fat 4. Bake for 4 1/2 hours 5. Remove duck from oven and place tray (or transfer to smaller plate) in refrigera-

6. After fat congeals in refrigerator (8-24 hours), heavily salt the skin-side of the duck and sear on grill. Reserve the fat for other cooking purposes.

7. Serve whole or shave with knife.

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If homemade duck confit sounds too daunting for your kitchen, Le French Café serves it several ways. At dinner, try the duck confit salad — leg and thigh prepared as above are set atop fresh strawberries, walnuts, bacon, sautéed mushrooms and raisins. It’s all drizzled with a red wine reduction.

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Butter Up

Butterfat regains its rightful throne at a bar in Lyons

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f it came down to choosing my final bite on this planet, I would be happy to taste bread and butter. That said, it would have to be a yeasty, crusted loaf and real fresh butter with a sprinkle of flaky salt. There is something soul satisfying and sigh-worthy about that iconic combination.

Butter has suffered some serious hard times PR-wise over the past few decades with attacks coming from the anti-fat, vegan and green critics. Now that butterfat has been rebranded as a healthy “good” fat, it’s staging a major comeback despite the rise of “plant-based butter”... formerly known as “margarine.”

Butter also has new champion, Shauna Lee Strecker. She opened Bella La Crema as the world’s first butter bar in a small storefront in Lyons. At the 18-month-old shop and eatery, bread and butter is Strecker’s bread and butter. Other Boulder County food spots serve flights of wines, whiskies or craft ciders. Bella La Crema dishes flights of butter.

This unlikely business is the talk of the national and international press with stories in Australia, the U.K. and Germany as well as the Times of India and Food & Wine.

Strecker and her crew add cultures to organic, grass-fed, low-heat pasteurized, non-homogenized fresh cream and churn it into butter. Yogurt-like cultures result in a higher-fat, silkier and richer-tasting

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“Real butter is alive, full of nutrients and flavors. A lot of the butter on the shelf at supermarkets is dead,” Strecker says, noting the way most butter is processed.

Butter has been on her mind since she was growing up in Denver. “One of my first food memories was in kindergarten. We passed around a big jar full of cream and shook it. I was fascinated by the metamorphosis of cream into butter and buttermilk. I’ll never forget the taste of that butter on an unsalted matzoh cracker,” Strecker says.

In the years to come she would experiment with making truffle butter as a Christmas present. In 2012 she found herself with two gallons from a raw cow milk share and discovered the bliss of fresh cultured butter.

She started making compound butter with diverse ingredients and found customers excited about it.

“That’s when I thought: ‘I’m going to make butter great again,’” she says. Strecker opened Bella La Crema as a café and production space for churning butter in September 2018.

Up to 20 evocatively named, seasoned compound butters are on the menu at a time including Ode to Neruda (paprika, garlic, onions and lime), What Lola Wants (ghost pepper, honey and oregano) and Monet’s Garden (lavender, vanilla, rose and nutmeg).

When I stopped in to visit, I ordered a flight of flavors and a warm baguette but made sure it included the right stuff straight from the churner: plain cultured butter. The taste difference is remarkable but hard to describe. It’s fresher, richer, cleaner, tastier and more buttery. I also enjoyed a mug of coffee with an invigorating slick of Mayan Chocolate Muse: butter with chocolate, coffee, cinnamon and cayenne.

Bella La Crema is a tiny place with a handful of tables that has a huge takeout and online business.

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Strecker’s handwritten paper menu each day features simple, French-inspired breakfast and lunch and dishes including pastries, quiche, French onion soup, buttermilk waffles and a breakfast soufflé.

Customers use the compound butter to scramble eggs, sauté vegetables and gnocchi, and to top grilled chicken, steaks and fish. Strecker also makes ghee (clariCHECK OUT fied butter) and an exquisite dessert SHAUNA LEE sauce of brown butter ghee, sugar STRECKER’S and vanilla bean. “I store gallons of fresh butter concoctions frozen buttermilk to make cornbread at Bella La and marinate chicken. People who Crema, 405 grew up drinking it drive a long way Main Street, Lyons to pick up real buttermilk,” she says.

The butter business is getting big. Strecker and crew have been churning 230 pounds of milk at a time, but she says she just bought an even bigger churner to help meet demand.

Evidence of butter’s revival can be seen at restaurants like Chimera, where lobster is butter-poached before topping ramen. At Beleza Coffee Bar, Keto fans look for “bullet-proof” butter-topped coffee. You can find high butterfat French and Irish butters, rolled butters and organic cultured butter on the shelf.

Boulder’s Fireworks Finishing butters and Denver’s chef-run Epicurean make first class butters popular for professionals. But only Bella La Crema makes it from scratch.

WORDS TO CHEW ON “It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it’s, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy? You have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.”

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ome March, Seattleites could see marijuana-toting drones flying over the Emerald City.

Before you get too excited, no, they won’t be delivering to residential homes; this is a business-to-business marijuana delivery service for wholesalers, processors, dispensaries

and grow operations. The hope is that drone-based delivery will reduce cost of transportation, cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and provide another layer of security for marijuana businesses.

The buzz around drone delivery started in December when Bellevue, Washington-based GRN Holdings announced its intent to purchase Squad Drone (also a Washington-based company) to launch a delivery drone program by licensing the company’s drones and technology to

state-registered hemp and cannabis companies.

“We’ve been in the industry for a while and we’ve seen the inefficiencies that transportation has brought to the industry, from Sprinter vans to insurance charging three times the market rate, or the fact that you have to pay people quite a bit of money to deliver [and] vans that sit in traffic for hours on end in places like Seattle or San Francisco,” Justin Costello, CEO of GRN Holdings, told Leafly in a Feb. 20 article. “[All] this hikes up the costs [of delivering cannabis] more than two to three times than for an average deliverable …

We saw an ability to purchase this technology that’s definitely a market disruptor.”

GRN and Squad Drone had been conducting testing and customization for about a year before they announced the acquisition.

The program will launch in March, if all goes according to plan, with a fleet of just six drones that are capable of carrying a payload of up to 40 kilograms (about 88 pounds) each. The drones have a delivery range of 10 kilometers (about six miles). Each drone will be equipped with a GPS navigation system and will be flown by licensed drone pilots from a command center in Seattle. An onboard iPad installed with CannaTrac’s cashless payment system will allow for closed loop payments, which is a pretty big safety feature for an industry that has been shut out of the federal banking system.

Currently, states with regulated marijuana — like Colorado and Washington — use fleets of vans

to deliver products and cash between marijuana businesses. Outfitting these vans with security systems and climate controls (which can cost tens of thousands of dollars), as well as insuring the vans, paying the drivers and fueling is pretty expensive.

“Logistics and security are a large cost to the industry,” GRN said in a statement. “We expect to remove about 80% of costs, increase delivery timelines/safety, and develop a more eco-sensitive process for getting product from point A to point B. The drones are battery operated but have a hybrid system that acts to recharge and extend flight times if needed. … We expect hiring about 20 employees in the various cities to hook the drones into charge ports, calibrate them, and ensure the safety totes and computer systems pass flight requirements.”

But here’s the thing: Transporting cannabis by air is still prohibited by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). According to the Washington Business Journal, GRN has asked the U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA for several exemptions from federal law and regulations. Whether those exemptions have been granted or not is unclear.

GRN CEO Costello told Leafly his company is “putting that off to the people we license or franchise the technology to.”

Sure sounds like a CEO who’s ready to take full responsibility for the consequences of his company’s disruptive technology…

With FAA roadblocks, limited payload carries and a range of only six miles, it’s pretty clear drones won’t be replacing van fleets anytime soon. But it is a sign that the cannabis industry will continue to push the boundaries of how business in America is conducted.

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ippecanoe and Tyler Too” is so 1840.

For 2020 try, “If you get high, Clark’s your guy.”

Especially if you happen to live in Chicago.

Last November, Anthony Clark, who’s running for Congress in Illinois’ 7th Congressional District, smoked pot in one of his campaign ads.

And last week, according to Marijuana Moment, he threw the first-ever “congressional weed party.”

“We just wanted to do something different,” Clark said in a video of the event.

Clark, an Air Force vet, is running in a predominantly Black district that includes parts of the South and West sides of Chicago. He’s in a primary against incumbent Democratic Representative Danny Davis, who’s represented the district since the late 1990s.

Clark says he started using marijuana in high school but rediscovered it as an adult after being injured in a Seattle shooting. He says pot helps him cope with anxiety and post-traumatic stress.

His platform includes legalizing marijuana at the federal level, expunging criminal convictions and reparations to drug war victims.

“I think I have to be… open about my cannabis use because lying to individuals, I think, plays a direct role in enabling status quo, in enabling the oppressors, the top 1%, to remain,” he said in the video. “I don’t hide this at all. I tell people on a daily basis, cannabis saved my life. It continues to save my life.”

Clark is not a one-issue candidate. He is a selfdeclared Democratic Socialist, and the extensive campaign platform on his website comes straight from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.

And he seems to be getting some traction. Two weeks ago, the Chicago Sun-Times endorsed him.

Clark may be onto something with canna-themed

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campaign events. Maybe the next step is to take a page out of old Tippecanoe’s (aka William Henry Harrison’s) playbook. Harrison’s successful 1840 campaign is famously known as “The Log Cabin Campaign” and “The Hard Cider Campaign.”

Seems that one of the ways Harrison’s supporters drummed up support for the candidate was by building mobile log cabins on ox-carts, which were driven from town-to-town where campaign workers served hard cider to potential voters.

The concept could be easily updated with a camper and a fistful of pre-rolls. With campaign events starting at 4:20 p.m. of course.

• • • • According to Arizona Marijuana News, an industry website, some Republican lawmakers in the state legislature believe a recreational marijuana legalization initiative that’s currently being petitioned onto the state ballot is going to win — and that they need to have a Plan B. Plan B in this case is to pass their own recreational marijuana legalization bill in the legislature. That way they will have the power to amend it (or gut it, maybe) in the future.

“I think the legislature needs to accept the fact that

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the initiative is going to pass,” said Rep. Travis Grantham.

The initiative in question, the cannabis industry-backed Safe and Smart Arizona Act, would legalize use, possession, and cultivation of pot and authorize state-regulated sales with a 16% excise tax. Pretty similar to Colorado’s legalization scheme, in other words.

The initiative’s backers need 237,645 signatures to put it on the November ballot. They already have 100,000 and hope to hand in 400,000 by the July 2 deadline.

Although the initiative is for a statute instead of a constitutional amendment, Arizona has a clause in its constitution called the Voter Protection Act, which says that the legislature needs a two-thirds supermajority to change a voter-approved law.

Thus, Plan B. And there is a Plan C as well. Two weeks ago a state Senate committee approved a proposal, presumably a proposed state constitutional amendment, that would gut the Voter Protection Act. Whether either Plan B or Plan C has enough support to cross the finish line is questionable to say the least. But the fact that they are being considered means Plan A, the Safe and Smart Arizona Act, is looking like a winner.

• • • • When Michigan stated legal recreational sales on Jan. 1, one of the first dispensaries to open was the ReLEAF Center in Niles, Michigan — which is just over the Michigan-Indiana state line. Indiana is one of the drug war dead-ender states still refusing to consider any form of marijuana legalization.

Last week a TV crew from WTHR, an Indianapolis TV station, visited the dispensary. They found that 19 of the 26 cars in the parking lot had Indiana license plates.

Quell surprise.

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