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Wrecking homeowners’ American Dream

by Dave Anderson

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t the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg told the uber-rich that they should abandon their fossil fuel investments. Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said she should go to college “to study economics” before “she can come back and explain that to us.”

This provoked Yanis Varoufakis, economist and a former finance minister of Greece, to sarcastically remark that if Thunberg studied mainstream economics, she would learn that “neither a climate disaster nor an economic crisis is possible.” He said mainstream I

economics textbooks offer “models of markets where the unfettered private profit drive is shown mathematically to serve the public interest.”

Actually Mnuchin could teach a course on how to wipe out the wealth of millions of American families and get the taxpayers to pay you to do it. That’s what you conclude after reading Aaron Glantz’s impressive book, Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.

Glantz is senior reporter at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, a two-time Peabody Award winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Homewreckers. The book reveals how members of Donald Trump’s inner circle took advantage of the 2008 housing crash to enrich themselves. There was a “recovery” of sorts where large private equity firms bought up hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes and turned them into rental properties.

The culprits in this scheme included Trump pals such as Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Trump’s longtime friend and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican donor Steve Schwarzman.

Glantz writes that now these vulture capitalists of Wall Street have powerful positions in the federal government and “are creating new financial products that threaten to make the wealth transfers of the [housing] bust permanent.”

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Great Recession. He wondered what happened to those houses and who profited? He found that the mess was the result of decisions over decades by both Republican and Democratic administrations. The home ownership rate declined every year of the Obama administration.

Beginning in the 1970s, there was a bipartisan push to restructure the financial sector and unleash credit. The federal government loosened regulations on savings and loan associations and banks.

With the encouragement of both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, the home finance industry engaged in the largest promotion of homeownership in decades.

Lenders pushed high-interest and risky mortgages on people who wanted to own homes. There was quite a lot of fraud and deception going on. There were the so-called NINJA loans (no income, no job, no assets, no problem).

Mortgage lenders encouraged speculation and housing developers overbuilt.

Bad loans came due and there were massive foreclosures. We taxpayers subsidized the foreclosures.

IndyMac in Pasadena, California, was the first major bank to collapse.

Steve Mnuchin and his group of other investors (which included George Soros, John Paulson, Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computer) foreclosed on over 100,000 families, including 23,000 seniors. Under the deal that he made with the government to acquire this bank (which the government owned because it failed) he and his investors paid the government absolutely nothing.

He did invest some of his own money in the bank but we taxpayers then paid him to subsidize his foreclosures. His group received more than $1 I

billion from us, according to documents Glantz obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Wilbur Ross had a similar deal at a failed bank in Florida called BankUnited.

Glantz says that when Obama took office, there were influential people who said that there was a different way to deal with the economic crisis. The Democrats controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. Some prominent economists argued Obama should act like Franklin Roosevelt.

During the Great Depression, FDR established a new government-run bank called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. It refinanced one out of every five home loans in urban America. It saved a million people’s homes, and the government made money because people paid back the loans.

Obama didn’t become another FDR. The people who made the decisions told Glantz that they were feeling “the pressure of time” and didn’t think they could do bold things. They were afraid the country was on the brink of another Great Depression. Now, Glantz told an interviewer, “the people who looted us during the Obama years are now running the country.” He said the Trump gang is “bit by bit, taking away the few scraps and reforms that Obama put in place, defanging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, weakening the Dodd-Frank Act, which regulated the banks.”

Despite all of this, Glantz told an interviewer that he is quite hopeful.

Housing justice has become an issue in the Democratic primaries. Presidential candidates have been proposing bold national action, particularly Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

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

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While writers attempt to avoid clichés it is important to acknowledge that clichés speak often to the truth.

One cliché comes to mind during this impeachment process and the Senate’s partisan refusal to hear valid witnesses and allow the release of

documents pertaining to the case.

That cliché is, “History repeats itself.”

The debacle that we have observed these past two weeks in what was once described as the worlds greatest deliberative body, the U.S. Senate, proves that the Senate majority is, no longer, neither great nor deliberative, but rather, a rubber stamp on the abuse of power by Mr. Trump under the direction of Mitch McConnell’s iron fist.

It may not be an easy task but everyone who cares about democracy and realizes through this impeachment process how fragile democracy has become could really help themselves and their fellow citizens to come to a better understanding of how “history repeats itself ” by reading William L. Shirer’s classic book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It weighs in at 1,143 pages but it is worth every word. The parallels to our time are startling. The gradual descent from democracy to fascism is all there, laid out in highly readable, journalistic prose.

Adam Schiff spoke, during one of his beautifully presented arguments at the trial, of “moral courage.” The disintegration of moral courage on display through the votes and statements of the Republican Senators and from Mr. Trump’s defense team is the exact replica that is presented in Shirer’s book. Ask yourself these questions.

As a citizen of the United States how much are you willing to concede to the rising tide of fascism that is spreading much, much faster in our country than we may be willing to admit? The German people were certainly not ready to admit that such was the case in their own country in the late 1920s. Are you prepared to sit back and watch as your rights and freedoms are chipped away to reveal the darkness that comes to a people who are willing to be hypnotized by a totalitarian rogue and his henchpeople as they show themselves to be more than willing to impose their will upon you?

Think, read about, and study the past and you will see the threat that is waiting just outside your door.

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In response to the article “A new generation of leadership at the Weekly,” (Re: Stew’s Views, Jan. 30, 2019) it is sad to hear who is leaving the paper and who is not. Paul Danish does not “continue the tradition of illuminating truth.” He is instead a cog in a misinformation/ propaganda movement that is choking to death democracy’s need for an informed citizenry. If he’s given column space with the intention of providing “both sides,” then that is playing into the strategies of the misinformation movement which include amplifying and repeating lies, faulty logic, and accusing your accusers of what you are guilty of.

Truly providing both sides would be providing a side-by-side counter argument. Of course the article disputing Paul’s would have to be several pages in length. After a previous column, several people wrote letters to the editor refuting items in his column and they only addressed a fraction of his erroneous arguments.

The political party in power continues to succeed in “working the refs” of the Fourth Estate by fouling every time they are on the field and not being held accountable for every drop of the firehose of falsehoods they unleash. The Weekly is not “championing the cause of the underdog” when it gives a columnist the license to repeat the talking points of those in power and to aid in maintaining power by intimidating future “snitches” by continuing to name and scrutinize the whistleblower rather than the crimes they exposed, which is just the latest service Paul provided to his Mob Boss rather than serving the readers and traditions of the Weekly.

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Referring to Kobe Bryant as a “rapist” is a technical foul

By Stewart Sallo

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y immediate response to the tragic death of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was almost as shocking to me as the incident itself. In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a Lakers fan since the early ’70s as a high school student in Anaheim, California. The Lakers have been “my team” through the ensuing decades, including 11 championships, the last five of which were shared with my wife, Mari, who joined me as a Lakers fan after we married in 1999.

So, it follows that the death of one of my Lakers heroes would affect me on an emotional level, but the depth of my reaction was startling.

After hearing the news, and in a state of disbelief, I walked into the kitchen to tell Mari what I had just learned. My introductory sentence came out just fine: “I don’t even know how to tell you this,” I began. Not wanting her to fantasize excessively about what would come next, I tried to continue. “Kobe Bryant… (pause, unable to speak)... was killed… (longer pause, becoming increasingly emotional)... in a helicopter... (head in hands, struggling to force the final word out)... crash.”

I was immediately struck by the powerful reaction I was having.

After all, I didn’t know Kobe Bryant.

Kobe Bryant was not a close friend or family member. He was just a basketball player I had admired. Why was I this upset? I pondered this for the rest of the day as I followed the story, thirsting for details, unable to turn my attention elsewhere.

As I sat in front of the TV, switching from one channel to the next, it was striking to me that this

story was so big that the mainstream media had finally found something more compelling to cover than the Trump impeachment. Shortly thereafter, like a punch in the gut, the news arrived that Kobe Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him at the time of the crash, along with seven others, on their way to a youth basketball tournament. As the story unfolded, it was clear that I was hardly alone in struggling to process the devastating details.

My day had been hijacked, and my thoughts were fixated on one particular theme: Why do we ascribe

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such significance to certain sports heroes that they occupy the status of a beloved central figure in our lives?

As I was contemplating this, I became aware of an equally disproportionate but opposite reaction to Kobe Bryant’s death.

Switching back and forth from TV to social media, I noticed a post that simply read: “Kobe Bryant,” followed by a series of “sad face” emojis. About three comments down the thread, the following appeared: “Are we supposed to feel sad that a rapist died?” Upon reading this I became incensed, and my outrage — and the subsequent rare comment that I posted in response — raised a fundamental question: “Do we have the right to refer to someone, anyone, who has been accused of rape as a

‘rapist?’” The question of whether we should make any mention of the incident, no matter how we refer to it, within hours of the individual’s tragic death is valid, but diminished to the point of irrelevant within the context of this larger question.

As disturbing as this first example was, I was able to write it off as one of the many inappropriate things people post on social media.

But the next example was an article written by a professional journalist who has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time and Cosmopolitan. In an 1,800-word article on her personal website, Jill Filipovic opines about Bryant’s “complicated” legacy, stating, “...Kobe Bryant raped a woman.” A one-sentence comment on someone’s Facebook page is one thing; an article by a recognized journalist is an entirely different matter.

Now the issue of whether it is proper to refer to someone who has been accused of rape as a “rapist” morphs into another, possibly even more compelling question: Is it irresponsible for a professional writer to forego proper journalistic protocol and represent her opinion as fact in order to make a point? There are many who have done so in the wake of this tragedy, and we must stand up to it.

It is critical to acknowledge that, while there are millions of admirers who consider Kobe Bryant to have been the embodiment of human athletic perfection — physical strength and beauty, superstar-like talent, unparalleled work ethic, indomitable commitment to success — there is also a substantial group of people for whom Kobe Bryant represents something completely different. For many, Kobe Bryant is the “poster boy” for the

pampered, privileged, overpaid athlete who can misbehave at will and maneuver his way out of a jam with his wealth and celebrity status. It is undeniable that many celebrities, and particularly sports figures, have done just that, and we are all understandably fed up with the multi-tiered justice system of our culture.

Nevertheless, there are certain principles — both legal and ethical — that must be considered here.

The long overdue #MeToo movement is a powerful and necessary social justice campaign which condemns sexual harassment and sexual assault, and provides support for victims. But how do we reconcile our desire to prevent and punish sexual assault with the need to uphold the presumption of innocence — aka, innocent until proven guilty — principle that is a fundamental precept of our judicial system? The many who have interjected their dissent into this story by claiming as a fact that Kobe Bryant committed rape have failed to find the balancing point between these two vital principles. Indeed, they have abandoned one for the other.

There are only two people who know exactly what transpired in that Edwards, Colorado, hotel room some 17 years ago. What we do know is that Kobe Bryant had a sexual encounter with a member of the hotel staff and was accused of rape the next day, that the evidence that was subsequently collected remains ambiguous, that the charge was dismissed before going to trial because his accuser refused to testify, and that Bryant and his accuser resolved the matter in civil court. We also know that Bryant has never since been accused of sexual impropriety (with the possible exception of extra-marital affairs, which is between his wife and him, and none of our business).

If there are some among us who feel compelled to apply a Cancel

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Is it irresponsible for a professional writer to forego proper journalistic protocol and represent her opinion as fact in order to make a point?

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Culture approach to the life and times of Kobe Bryant, so be it.

Whether the 2003 encounter was consensual or not, at a minimum Bryant cheated on his wife and admitted that he had done so on other occasions. He also infamously had strained relationships with some of his fellow NBA players, most notably Shaquille O’Neal, who left the Lakers after the 2004 season as a result, and Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who referred to Bryant as “uncoachable,” in his book, The Last Season. And in 2011, Bryant directed an anti-gay slur at a (non-gay) referee during a game. All worthy of criticism.

However, to refer to Kobe Bryant as a “rapist” is not supported by the facts as we know them, as he was never tried or convicted of rape, nor did he confess or acknowledge having committed a sex crime. To do so is to place Kobe Bryant in the same category as Bill Cosby, who was accused of various forms of sexual misconduct by more than 60 women, convicted of the same in three cases and currently incarcerated; Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State football coach who was found guilty of 45 of 52 counts of rape and sexual abuse and currently serving a de facto life sentence; and even Louis C.K., who acknowledged (“these stories are all true”) multiple acts of sexual misconduct; and many others.

There is a reason that millions of people worldwide are grieving over the death of someone who they didn’t personally know. Kobe Bryant was more than a mere basketball player; he was a true champion, worthy of our admiration for the way that he battled through and overcame adversity — on the basketball court and in his private life. His example is a source of inspiration that we too could meet and conquer the challenges in our lives.

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It is appropriate to allow Kobe Bryant his well-earned legacy as a legendary, even iconic athlete who represented his sport, his community, and the human race through BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

dedication, commitment, discipline and an unparalleled work ethic. To do otherwise delegitimizes the very real grief felt by the millions he touched. And far from mutually exclusive is the way his story underscores the need to continue to double down on our commitment to condemn sexual assault and pro-

tect the weak from the powerful, in all walks of life, and under all circumstances.

Finally, we need to hold journalists — even “citizen journalists” — accountable for the accuracy of what they write and post. Our profession is under siege at this time like never before, at least among free societies.

And when we post or otherwise publish accounts of current events or other information that has not been verified for accuracy, we throw another log on the fire of “fake news,” thereby creating a smoke screen that serves to obfuscate truth and empower those with a deceptive agenda.

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Rollbacks on federal regs imperil Colorado waters

by Matt Cortina

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n Jan. 23, the Trump administration finalized a rule that would remove protections for waterways throughout the country, and as much as 70% of Colorado’s water, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment.

Framed as Trump “fulfill[ing] yet another promise,” the Navigable Waters Protection Rule strips environmental safeguards previously covered by the Clean Water Act and the Waters of the United States rule.

“Basically it takes protection away from intermittent and perennial streams, anything that doesn’t flow yearround,” says Gary Wockner, director of Save the Colorado. “If this goes through, we will no longer be protecting a lot of streams in the mountains that don’t flow year-round.

“That’s extremely bad news, there’s no other way to look at it,” he says.

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rivers and lakes; tributaries that flow year-round; lakes and ponds that are connected to larger bodies; and adjacent wetlands. In the West, where many tributaries don’t flow in warm months, and are being drained and diverted due to infrastructure projects, the amount of impacted waterways is likely to be large.

Wockner places blame on multinational agriculture corporations, the national chamber of commerce and industries like oil and gas for supporting the move — or, at least, they’ll be the greatest beneficiaries.

“Depending on the possible impacts for the proposal of a housing development or ski area expansion or anything they’d propose to do where they’d formally need a Clean Water Act permit, it will completely negate protection,” Wockner says. “It will completely negate the entire public process required by the Clean Water Act, and it will negate any kind of watchdog effort. If you were a developer and applied for a permit in the past, the public could challenge that permit and appeal to court.”

It’s another blow to public input on projects that could harm the environment, as the bedrock environmental law, the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) is also on the chopping block. On Feb. 11, the fedFEBRUARY 6, 2020

eral Council of Environmental Quality will hold one of three public hearings on rollbacks of NEPA, which will shorten periods for environmental review and lessen the standards that operators need to meet in order to build large projects.

Sam Gilchrist, Western campaigns director at the National Resources Defence Council, says the move to curb NEPA’s scope “seems political” and will severely restrict public input that, in the past, has largely made projects better, and not, as the Trump administration claims, hampered them. For instance, Gilchrist says, the NEPA process prevented extensive mountain blasting and rerouting of the Colorado River during I-70 work.

“Anytime you limit public input, then you have worse-off projects, and NEPA in Colorado has really shown good results on almost every project on which it’s been implemented,” Gilchrist says. “It’s funny because there really are not that many NEPA cases filed annually. To say this is going to help push through big projects is speculative on the administration’s part, or that it will help them happen faster, because they don’t take as long as the administration is claiming.”

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it will be up to Western states to ensure appropriate environmental protections are enacted to mitigate the new rules’ impact.

“In the absence of federal leadership, we are going to do everything possible to protect streams and wetlands in Colorado,” said Patrick Pfaltzgraff, director of the state Water Quality Control Division, in a statement. “It’s sad that we have to step up in contrast with our federal government on something so basic as protecting our water, but we must.”

Wockner said the state legislature, as in California, can enact stringent water protection laws that restore the water regulations, and that Attorney General Phil Weiser can sue the federal government for the changes, independent of support from the governor or legislature.

But state action can only go so far, he adds.

“This is the kind of law you want at a federal level not a state level,” Wockner says. “Local control might make sense on certain things, but it does not make sense on water, because water doesn’t know a boundary. Colorado is a headwater state, so the state of Colorado can do a lot.

Every other state downstream of our water is not protected. They’re going to get the pollution.”

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Peer support professionals have become integral for Colorado’s behavioral health workforce. But will they get the support they need to keep going?

by Angela K. Evans

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ictor King applied for his job at Mental Health Partners (MHP) on a handwritten note from the Boulder County Jail. He was in the transitions program at the time, taking classes and seeing counselors to help him prepare to reenter the community. One of the counselors told him about a job opening at MHP for a peer support professional, someone with a history of mental health issues or substance abuse who uses their experience to help support and mentor others.

“Peer support is going to meet someone where they’re at with respect and dignity,” King says. “Being able to connect with someone and really sit down and listen to them and be authentic, you know, creates a connection, which is important. It also shows people that hope is possible.”

King first came to Boulder in 1993 as a college student at the University of Colorado, but he quickly got into the party scene and eventually dropped out. When he experienced a loss in his family, he didn’t have the appropriate coping skills, he says, which led to substance abuse and bouts of homelessness, almost entirely in Boulder. The longest stretch was from 2010 to 2014, and he eventually landed in jail.

King wasn’t initially hired by MHP. He still had to go through the drug court program and finish his probation. Plus, he wanted to get his son out of foster care. In the meantime, he completed a five-day peer support training and eventually applied for the job again.

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“When I first started working here, I was working with people from my past,” he says. “It was good for them to see my progress. Like, ‘Oh Victor is not selling meth anymore, he’s in here handing out bus tickets.’

Literally that’s the transition that I made.”

ANGELA K. EVANS That was five years ago, and a lot has changed in the peer support field since King started.

There’s increased attention for the role around the country, as research has shown it decreases psychotic episodes, substance abuse and depression, as well as reducing hospital admission rates, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Peer support is also shown to increase self-esteem and provides a sense of empowerment. In Colorado, a state-wide certification process for peer support specialists was introduced in 2016 and training for peer support professionals has become much more rigorous.

For the most part, Colorado health providers, health care agencies and lawmakers see the benefits of peer support, especially since 70% of the state’s mental health care needs aren’t being met, earning a Health Professional Shortage Area designation from the Kaiser Family Foundation. New bipartisan legislation, which passed in the House Public Health Care and Human Services committee on Wednesday, Feb. 5, seeks to expand the settings where peers can serve. The bill also provides tax incentives for peer support professionals to continue their education both in and outside of the I

behavioral health field.

But peer support roles remain mostly entry-level positions with little room for professional development outside of getting an advanced degree. The cost of training and continuing education can often be a barrier for many who qualify for the role having experienced mental health issues and substance abuse.

The proposed legislation (H.B. 1139) would allow newly defined recovery support service organizations to be reimbursed for the work of peer support professionals through Medicaid. Currently, alternative services, like peer support, qualify for Medicaid reimbursement but only if provided by hospitals and community mental health centers like MHP. “This bill would broaden the scope of those settings so that somebody providing care services can be reimbursed in a whole variety of different settings for which they are not currently qualified,” says Vincent Atchity, with Mental Health Colorado, one of the main proponents of the bill.

For example, Atchity says, a peer support specialist could be instrumental in an OBGYN’s office for perinatal mental health, or in primary care offices, or jails and prisons. But, currently Medicaid doesn’t cover those services. The legislation also includes a tax incentive for peers who want to continue their education both in and outside of the behavioral health field.

“It’s not really the [type] of job that’s going to give anybody a whole lot of professional development opportunities,” Atchity says. “So the tax credit would incentivize people to pursue professional development and give them a tax credit. It’s basically workforce development.”

The Colorado Behavioral Health Council (CBHC), the state-wide membership organization for community behavioral health providers like MHP, hasn’t officially taken a position on the bill.

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CBHC. “For our organization, we’re trying to understand the fiscal impact and the cost of the bill, and then we’re trying to figure out what the new definitions for the peer support professional and the recovery support organization mean for the Medicaid program and for our existing peer workforce,” he says.

The bill limits tax credits to $100,000 per year, but, Cornelia says, there isn’t good state-wide data on how many peer support professionals would be eligible for it. Plus, CBHC wants to know how accountability will be built into the expanded services, and how it might impact the current peer workforce.

“How do we ensure quality and accountability both for Medicaid members but also for peers?” Cornelia says. “They want to expand types of settings ... they talk about wanting to put peers in libraries or jails or primary care offices and that’s all wellintentioned. But they just need the right types of support and that’s peer supervision and clinical supervision as well.”

“I don’t think anybody’s advocating for unattached peers being reimbursed,” Atchity says, acknowledging the importance of a well-rounded care team when it comes to mental health and recovery. And the bill still has to go through both the Colorado House appropriations and finance committees to fully understand the fiscal impact. If the legislation continues to move forward, it’s going to take coordination between the Office of Behavioral Health, which will develop the criteria for recovery support organizations, and the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, which runs the state Medicaid program, to implement. As Atchity says, that’s all just part of the process.

But the bottom line?

“We need more peers, we need more certified peers,” says King, who is now certified peer navigator supervisor at MHP. He also travels as a see RESOURCE Page 13

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certified trainer, bringing peer support education and information to communities around the state.

“It takes a certain tenacity to go through those (mental health and recovery) experiences and come out shining. But it also takes a certain tenacity to say, ‘Hey, I want to work as a peer,” he says. “I want to be a peer support, where I can share my experience, where I can work with people and support them in a clinical setting, but in a nonclinical way.”

Through his work with the Colorado Providers Association (COPA), which administers the certification, King estimates there are less than 100 certified peers in the state. MHP employs 14 peer support specialists throughout the county, and there are a few job openings listed on its website.

King says when he first started, his salary was $10, hardly enough to make it as a single father. Luckily for him, he was able to join Boulder County’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program, and his father reentered his life after more than 30 years, provid-

ing some financial help. But he knows most people aren’t as fortunate and wants to see more opportunities available to his clients.

The training and certification process can be a barrier for many people with the qualifications to be a peer but lack the resources. Matched with a starting average salary of $13 an hour, it can be difficult for those coming out of recovery and mental health situations to see peer support as a viable career choice.

“How are you going to attract talent if you’re paying 13 bucks an hour and McDonald’s is paying $14, literally,” King says. “It hasn’t been made a viable career choice yet. It’s still this entry-level [position].”

And that’s if someone is certified.

There are only two or three training sessions a year, King says, which cost between $300 and $600.

Certification costs an additional $295 and requires six months of employment, 500 work hours, 25 hours of supervision, a high school diploma and passing a 75-question exam.

Audit finds COGCC let oil and gas operators off the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars

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il and gas operators in Colorado failed to submit 50,000 required monthly well reports between 2016 and 2018. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) failed to collect over $300 million in penalties from the operators for missing those and other reports.

And as a result of those and other reporting issues, the state of Colorado — which already has one of the lowest severance tax rates in the country — failed to collect much of the severance tax it was owed by the oil and gas industry operating in the state.

(Severance taxes are a fee imposed on industries that make money from extracting natural resources.)

Those were the key takeaways from a state audit released last week that looked into why Colorado is not collecting enough severance tax from BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

oil and gas operators and mining companies.

Over the last four years, the severance tax collected — once tax credits for flaring, capitol costs, transportation, and “stripper wells” that produce less than 15 barrels a day are factored in — has dropped 66%. In fact, the state actually had to pay operators a $14.3 million refund in 2017 while collecting no severance tax at all.

Colorado’s .54% rate is the lowest in the West, and abysmal compared to North Dakota’s 9.81% and Montana’s 9.55% rates.

What the audit found is that the COGCC does not adequately follow up and penalize operators that do not produce monthly well reports, even though it has the resources — and responsibility — to do so. In response, the COGCC claimed in the audit that it only has two staff members who can I

“That’s a barrier for someone who doesn’t even have a job and wants to pursue a career,” King says.

Once someone does become a certified peer support specialist, there also isn’t much room for upward mobility within the field, King says. Most of the time, people are encouraged to get more advanced degrees and move out of the peer support role.

“It’s generally an entry-level position,” adds Amanda Bushek, a clinician with MHP and manager of its Boulder Adult Behavioral Health Home. “The future of peer support services, [needs] to have some ways for people to stay at those kinds of roles but have opportunities. There’s not a lot of room for advancement.”

Regardless of what happens with this specific piece of legislation, peer support professionals are becoming an integral part of health care teams in Colorado, and it’s a field that could benefit from additional resources.

“From a clinical perspective [peer support] can help our operations,”

Bushek says. “It really helps us design things to truly be centered on who we’re trying to help. … It’s very effective to not just know what helps people from what our textbooks tell us.”

Plus, peers are more available than clinicians and counselors, King says. They work as “resource brokers,” he adds, noting they easily connect people to services they themselves once used. They can drive people to appointments, visit them at home, get to know their family and friends. So much of the work is just being present with people wherever they are on their journey.

“No matter how great my story is, it’s not about me, it’s about this person and their experiences and if they’re ready to get help. So sometimes I can show them those ropes and sometimes they have to find it on their own,” King says. “Part of the work is watching people struggle sometimes until they find that path and just being there as a support for them when they are ready.”

review 15 operators per year. There are 420 operators in the state.

“I don’t find it hard to believe that that Commission does not have the resources they need to properly ensure public health and safety, much less make sure that the industry is paying their fair share given the incredibly low rate for the industry compared to other states,” says Kelly Nordini, executive director of Conservation Colorado.

The audit suggested the COGCC automatically follow up with oil and gas companies that don’t file reports and routinely run delinquency checks — a suggestion the COGCC accepted.

The COGCC also notified the auditors that it often negotiates with delinquent oil and gas companies, frequently reducing fines up to 90%. If the COGCC had actually fined just the three largest offenders between 2016-18, the state could’ve gathered $120 million from them.

The audit also found there was a five-fold increase in flaring from 2018 to 2019 — a technique that earns a tax exemption and allows drillers to continue operations when there is a surplus of natural gas.

The audit also found eliminating the stripper well exemption would boost severance tax revenue by $55 million per year, and that by taxing the roughly 500 operators, and not the 13,000 groups that own interest in the operations, the Department of Revenue would be able to more efficiently govern severance tax collection.

Megan Castle with the COGCC told Boulder Weekly that the agency is “committed to being transparent, operating efficiently, and to being good stewards of taxpayer’s dollars” and has already implemented some of the recommendatios from the audit.

But the question of how effective the state will be at ensuring oil and gas operators pay their fair share remains.

“Every single time that I’ve seen in the last 15 years or so that there has been an issue with raising the bar for the industry to do better, they have said it was going to be the end of everything. And it has not,” Nordini says. “I think we need to write rules that prioritize communities and Coloradans and workers and stop buying into the industry hyperbole.”

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THE PARKER SOLAR PROBE was launched in August 2018 and will eventually make an orbit within 4 million miles of the sun.

by Travis Metcalfe

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ust after Christmas 2019, a NASA spacecraft soared past Venus toward the inner solar system, and near the end of January 2020, it passed closer to the sun than any satellite in history. Along the way, it has been measuring the intense radiation, harmful charged particles and dynamic magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere, aiming to unlock the secrets of the matter and energy that flow out and occasionally burst toward the Earth. Scientists at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in Boulder designed and built some electronics for the mission, which recently sent back exciting new discoveries about our local star.

The Parker Solar Probe was launched in August 2018, and has already had three close encounters with the sun to make unprecedented measurements of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that flow out into the solar system at speeds ranging from 150 to 450 miles per second. Named after Eugene Parker, a physicist who developed the prevailing theory of the solar wind in the mid-1950s, the spacecraft will gradually get closer to the sun over its sixyear mission.

During its first few orbits, the satellite came within 15 million miles of the sun’s surface, already closer than any previous mission and well inside the orbit of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. The next two orbits will bring it within 12 million miles, and over the next several years it will BOULDER WEEKLY

step closer to 9, 7, 5, and eventually less than 4 million miles, about five times the sun’s own diameter.

To survive the extreme temperatures that could damage its sensitive instruments, the spacecraft is protected by a carbon-composite shield thicker than the door on an industrial refrigerator. At closest approach, the temperature of the shield is expected to reach nearly 2500 degrees F, and the spacecraft will be moving through the particles and dust in the solar wind at up to 120 miles per second, hundreds of times faster than a bullet.

“You’re sort of flying through this hail-storm at incredible speeds, and the spacecraft has to be designed to survive it,” says David Malaspina, a research scientist at LASP who helped build a signal-processing unit for one of the mission’s instruments. “[Parker] Solar Probe is now the fastest human-made object.”

Malaspina earned a degree in physics from Purdue University in Indiana before coming to Boulder in 2005 to begin his doctoral work building instruments to measure electric fields in space. Toward the end of his studies in 2009, he contributed to a proposal to develop one of the instruments for the Parker Solar Probe. The proposal was selected for funding by NASA, so after finishing his Ph.D in 2010 he was hired on as a

postdoctoral researcher at LASP to help build the FIELDS instrument.

“FIELDS measures electric and magnetic fields near the spacecraft,” Malaspina explains. “The piece that we built is sort of like the brains of the instrument; it makes decisions about what data are interesting and what data are not.”

In early December 2019, the mission announced its first results with several scientific papers published in the high-profile journal Nature. The papers analyzed observations from the first two orbits of the spacecraft, which measured previously unknown conditions near the sun and came up with some surprising results. The solar wind near the Earth has been monitored for decades, and is known to be extremely turbulent, like waves on the shoreline of a raging sea.

Theoretically, the scientists expected the wind to get more and more turbulent as they approached the sun, but that’s not exactly how it turned out.

“It’s like going toward a hurricane and expecting more turbulent seas the closer you get,” says Malaspina.

“What we found was these calm patches of solar wind in between the very turbulent structures.”

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prises that may be in store for the Parker Solar Probe as it gets even closer to the sun over the coming years. The mission aims to improve scientist’s understanding of the basic physical processes that drive the solar wind, not just the steady background flow but also the violent eruptions that sometimes crash into the protective magnetic field of the Earth, disrupting communications and endangering satellites and astronauts. If scientists can improve their ability to predict this “space weather,” the impacts can be managed and potentially avoided.

“Being able to predict when these things happen, and what direction they will be pointed, is something that will be important for future travel through the solar system,” says Malaspina. “If these types of events were to happen while astronauts are outside the Earth’s atmosphere, they could be badly irradiated.”

As NASA prepares to send crewed missions that return to the moon and eventually travel to Mars, the ability to monitor and ultimately predict the powerful explosions coming from the sun will be essential to keeping astronauts safe. In the meantime, the Parker Solar Probe will provide a broad array of new measurements from an ever-closer perspective to help make such predictions possible.

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

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Bacteria bricks

CU researchers develop living building materials that reduce carbon dioxide emissions

by Angela K. Evans

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oncrete is by far the most utilized building material around the world. But it’s also responsible for 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions, according to Chatham House, an international think tank. Producing cement requires a chemical reaction that releases CO2 in addition to requiring the burning of fossil-fuels for the material’s heating process and mining of its raw materials. It’s estimated that the cement industry would need to decrease its annual emissions by 16% by 2030 in order to meet the reduction goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.

So what if we could create a living building material that could replace cement altogether? That just might be a very real option.

Using sand, water and bacteria, researchers at CU-Boulder, have developed an alternative building material that requires very little energy to produce and even captures CO2 in the process.

“Growing something from carbon dioxide rather than emitting it is particularly exciting,” says structural engineer and CU-Boulder professor, Wil Scrubar, who heads up the University’s Living Materials Laboratory.

There are several green building standard programs and initiatives out there that promote the use of sustainable materials made from biological matter, but Srubar says this new technology takes the concept one step further.

“Ours is the only one that has been shown to stay alive,” he says.

It all starts with a small culture of cynobacteria, as originally suggested

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research at CU-Boulder that brought together a variety of disciplines from structural engineering to biochemistry to microbiology, Srubar says.

To create the bricks, cynobacteria grows on sunlight, CO2, some water and nutrients. Then the team mixes in some sand and some gelatin, and elevates the temperature, all of which creates calcium carbonate — one of the main ingredients in cement.

“During that process, the bacteria are growing, they’re multiplying, they’re creating the minerals that are being given off to the system and that’s helping to cement everything together and then we can pour that into any shape,” Srubar says.

But that doesn’t mean a house will turn into a skyscraper overnight if built with the new material, he jokes. Once the material takes the desired shape in a mold, researchers can drop the temperature and dehydrate it, causing the material to gel together and stop growing.

“So you can imagine just like putting leftovers into the fridge, when we cool the bacterial culture inside of the brick, the bacteria shutdown. They don’t replicate nearly as fast as they would at the elevated temperature,” he says. “And then, especially when we dry it out, the bacteria metabolisms are inhibited even further than that.”

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The bacteria remain alive, however, allowing the researches to essentially “resurrect” a brick and begin the multiplication process all over.

What’s more, the same process could be used to repair cracks.

All it takes, Scurbar says, is a little bit of water, more sand and heat for the bacteria to start growing again.

“We definitely understand the bacteria and we control them and only trigger the growth phase when we want it,” he says.

The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, motivated to find a way to build something out of seemingly nothing in places like deserts, Srubar says.

“They’re interested in it for deployment of military installations in those environments.”

But the technology could also be used in other “resource scarce environments,” say, for example, Mars.

“When we talk about human settlements on other planets, I don’t think we’ll be trucking bags of cement with us,” he says. “I think we’ll actually be bringing biology with us.”

But before it’s sent into space, Srubar says, the material will be best used inside — for insulation, solidifying foundations or sub flooring — due to the controlled humidity of most indoor environments. It could also eventually replace bricks, but that would require something to protect it from the elements, like a stucco exterior.

The living bricks aren’t on the market yet, but could potentially start showing up in buildings in the next five to 10 years, Srubar says, especially, as an alternative to current emission intensive construction materials.

“The demand for carbon storing, or really a carbon neutral building material alternative to something like a mortar or a concrete, is actually quite high.”

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ULTRA-DISTANCE runner Robert Marrow learned his lessons on overtraining the hard way. Now he’s enjoying life and running more than ever.

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t was during the drive to Moab that Robert Marrow realized he might be making a huge mistake.

Relatively new to trail running, Robert had signed up for the Dead Horse Ultra 50k in October 2019 — his second race of that distance.

His first 50k had been in Montana just months prior, and it went well, so he felt ready to tackle another — plus, this one would be at a much lower elevation, so he figured it was well within his reach. Still, he could feel tension building in his chest.

After moving to Colorado from the East Coast, he took up running to help him recover from a skiing injury.

He quickly fell in with a group of trail runners, and in the months leading up to the race, he soaked up as much of their advice as he could.

Robert didn’t get a coach, opting instead to use training plans from a few different athletes, all of which had been running for years and had solid, proven routines.

“The weeks leading up to the race, I was pushing myself, adding mileage and weight training,” he says.

“I was completely overtrained. I wasn’t listening to my body.”

The morning of the race, everything hurt.

“I was trying to hide the fact that I didn’t feel good. Standing out of bed hurt. Getting off the couch hurt.

I didn’t want to admit it. It was fear.”

Robert knew he had the capacity to run 31 miles — after all, he’d done it before. The morning of the race, he toed the line with a friend and they set off together at the sound of the gun. But about 25 minutes in, he told his friend to go ahead.

“I started hitting mental walls.

After mile three, it was just regret after regret. I was in a dark place.”

ture of Boulder.

“You go to a party and everyone there has run a 100-mile race or has done an Ironman, and they do these things casually, so it becomes no big deal,” she explains. “People can make reckless decisions because it’s the norm here.”

Ellis often sees clients fall victim to the “perspective problem,” signing up for a 50- or 100-mile race before they’re ready, and dealing with devastating consequences once it’s over.

“A 100-mile race takes such a toll that it can deplete you in ways that you don’t realize until months afterwards.”

She says overtraining manifests as deep fatigue, with people feeling like they may need to sleep 12 hours every night. Or, mild injuries might take much longer than usual to heal.

“There’s a deeper level of depletion that might not rear its head right

away,” Ellis says.

That fatigue, usually obvious by its physical manifestations, also profoundly affects emotional and mental states.

Dr. Marek Dvorak is a psychologist in Boulder — he’s seen burnout fatigue often since moving to the area a few years ago.

“The Boulder athlete is very performance-oriented.

They tend to have very high standards for themselves and tend to be very harsh on themselves should they not meet those standards,” Dvorak says. “When an athlete doesn’t meet those standards, often this affects their daily functioning, or their mood. They get very discouraged, show signs of depression, frustration or anger.”

Dvorak echoed that it’s a perspective problem; being surrounded by such a high level of athleticism can be inspiring on one hand, but more often than not it can lead a budding athlete to believe they’re ready for huge undertakings.

“I think it can be dangerous for someone who comes to Boulder and is less experienced, or who has unrealistic expectations,” he explains. “If you were once a big-time woman or guy in Podunk, USA, and then you come to Boulder, all of a sudden you don’t stand out. You may not garner that same attention and admiration from other people, and that may be difficult to take.”

And then there’s social media.

Strava is a fitness app in which users can publicly log their activities; whether they’re running, cycling or swimming. It gives athletes an opportunity to share their results, and often can turn into a highly competitive virtual race.

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Overtrained and underprepared A look into Boulder’s perspective problem

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There were some added pressures, Robert admits. His girlfriend was there, his parents had come out, and he felt he had to finish — partly for them.

“But, I didn’t have it in me.”

The scenery kept him going for another 18 miles, but he felt more and more miserable with every step.

Robert pulled out at mile 21.

“It was the first time I’d failed in running. It was something I’d become pretty cocky about.”

After the race, he thought about selling all his running gear.

“I felt I’d ruined it for myself. I kept looking back at everything I’d done wrong,” he says. “I punished myself.”

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KIDS FUN & CAMP DIRECTORY Robert says his burnout started when he started using Strava. He got sucked into the competitive aspect of the app, always checking how his runs stacked up to the athletes he followed.

“I was comparing myself to people who had been in the sport far longer than me, and who have coaches and dieticians. Essentially, people who know their body and what it can handle. And here I am, 16 months into running, trying to emulate these pro-athletes.”

Often, Dvorak sees athletes conflating identity and results, explaining that when self-identity and notions of self-worth are attached to performance, there are dire consequences.

That’s where perspective comes into play: honest self-appraisal and realistic expectations are vital for the hobby or recreational athlete.

However, self-appraisal can be very off sometimes, Dvorak says.

Robert admits his perspective was a little warped by what he was seeing on his trail runs.

“You go out intending to do a small run, like the Sanitas Loop, but in that time you might pass two or three pro-athletes. I’d be looking at them, and thinking, I’m going to catch them — even if that wasn’t the workout I’d planned for myself,” Robert says. “I was just trying to compete.”

Ellis, who has often seen the physical impacts of overtraining as an acupuncturist, says it’s a downward spiral that can sink an athlete quickly.

“Overtraining can have these devastating effects. By the time you realize what’s going on, it’s often too late.

They think they’re doing everything right and then all of a sudden, they can’t get off the couch for three months.”

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sus your emotional or work stress, she explains. It’s all the same to your body, and can present itself in a number of ways; fatigue, loss of motivation, irritability and sleep loss are all classic signs. And, it’s a moving target — what’s possible for some athletes can be way too much for others.

“Boulder is full of passionate, highly motivated people, which inspires people to do things they wouldn’t normally think possible,” she says. “I don’t see Boulder as being a hotbed of toxic competitive energy, but it’s a bubble in so many ways — one of them being that everyone is a super athlete, and so you kind of lose perspective.”

• • • • Robert’s devastating 50k shook him up — in a good way. It was clear to him that he’d pushed too hard leading up to the Moab race, compromising his mental and physical state to the point at which he hit a wall, head-on.

He took some time off after the race and focused on himself, his relationship and his dogs.

It was the community that brought him back.

Despite all he’d been through with the Moab 50k, Robert has already signed up for two 100-mile races this year: the Leadville Ultra and Bryce Canyon Ultra.

He still has a couple months to change his mind, but says he’s “dangling the carrot.”

However, he’s doing things differently this time: he changed up his training routine, has a friend coaching him, and is focusing on listening to his body more. Social media is now where he goes for injury prevention advice; Strava is now serving as his own personal metric, rather than a source of competitive energy.

“I’m feeling strong and positive recently. I don’t want to burn out again. I want to stay happy and love this sport.”

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Punching up Zoe Rogers wants to give everyone a seat

at the table at the debut Boulder Comedy Festival

by Caitlin Rockett

This is the first in a series of profiles we’ll be featuring over the coming months in the run up to the Boulder Comedy Festival.

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hen Zoe Rogers decided to produce a comedy festival in Boulder, diversity was on her mind — but that was nothing new.

Before moving to Boulder with her husband and three children a couple years ago, Rogers cut her teeth in LA’s comedy scene, a “vibrant and varied universe,” as the Los Angeles Times called it in 2017.

Coming up through the ranks, Rogers regularly found she was the only woman on a lineup. Rarely did she see comedians of color.

“From a producer standpoint, for 60 to 90 minutes you control what’s being said and the energy that’s being created and the inspiration that could be happening, the representation that could be happening,” Rogers says. “So why are you doing this? If I wanted to hear a bunch of straight white guys I’d watch C-SPAN.” When Rogers launches the Boulder Comedy Festival June 4-7, she’ll be creating the environment she hoped to find when she started in comedy, an intelligent-but-not-prudish atmosphere, showcasing nationally touring comics, festival winners and local comedians with a focus on women and diversity.

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in “itchy, dirty back rooms to like, one drunk person.” That was fine; that’s how every comic finds a voice and works out material. What wasn’t fine was the dearth of variety. Once, after a show with a strong turnout, she suggested to a club owner that she and another female comic whose work he’d expressed enjoying could both fill empty slots in a coming week’s lineup. “‘It’s not ladies’ night,’” Rogers says he responded.

She kept going, ultimately landing gigs at meccas like the The Comedy Store, Laugh Factory and The Ice House in Los Angeles. She got TV time on NickMom and Disney, and traveled to the UK to perform at Edinburgh Fringe.

With a few years of stand-up under her belt, Rogers began producing her own shows around LA, filling the lineup with voices she felt were under-represented.

She made some waves by flipping her experience as a female comic on its head, producing a show called “Token Straight White Dude” featuring — you guessed it — only one man.

“That’s it, no more, because that’s what women hear all the time [in comedy shows],” Rogers says.

The show — held in a private backyard after Rogers says venues refused to host something with such a “divisive” title — even got a mention from right-wing propaganda factory Breitbart, which accused “[social justice warrior] comedians” of ruining comedy with a “new wave of political correctness.”

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If you don’t believe Rogers’ view of the comedic landscape, pros like Tina Fey have gone public with their thoughts.

In 2017, Town and Country magazine asked Fey why it was “an amazing time” for women in comedy.

“It’s a terrible time,” Fey replied. “The boys are still getting more money for garbage, while the ladies are hustling and doing amazing work for less.”

“Just because (Tina) Fey is superfamous and Amy Schumer is #5 on the 2017 Forbes list of highest-paid comics and women can now be Ghostbusters does not mean we have achieved full comedy equality,” former stand-up comic Lynn Harris wrote for Time magazine in 2017. “Women comics are still fighting the unfunny fight for equal respect, equal opportunity, equal pay. Which includes fending off harassment that limits their choices and chances and is protected by ‘armies of enablers.’”

Schumer, by the way, is the only female comic to have graced the Forbes list. A comic must earn a minimum of $15 million to make the list. Schumer came in at number 7.

“The lack of inclusion of women on the list isn’t for lack of female comics working,” Newsweek wrote last year. “[In 2018] a number of comedy specials from women were widely praised (and nominated for multiple Emmys), including Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, Ali Wong’s Hard Knock Wife and Tig Notaro’s Happy To Be Here.”

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You’ve likely ON THE BILL: BOULDER COMEDY seen one if not all FESTIVAL. June 4-7, of those specials, various venues, bouland perhaps seen dercomedyfestival.com one of their shows live. And yet despite their popularity, their work was never valued as highly — literally — as that of their male peers.

That could be because as recently as 2007, editors at Vanity Fair thought it prudent to run a piece by (the now deceased) Christopher Hitchens called “Why Women Aren’t Funny” that attempted to say it was just a matter of biology — science — 3,000 words of backhanded (not to mention racist, homophobic and body shaming) compliments that reduced women to little more than baby-obsessed caregivers ruled by the phases of the moon.

“In any case, my argument doesn’t say that there are no decent women comedians,” Hitchens acquiesces. “There are more terrible female comedians than there are terrible male comedians, but there are some impressive ladies out there. Most of them, though, when you come to review the situation, are hefty or dykey or Jewish, or some combo of the three.”

That was 14 years ago, you might say.

But unlike Hitchens, the ethos of his article is alive and well, easily found on websites and forums like Breitbart and Men’s Rights on Reddit.

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ple,” Tyler Daswick wrote for Relevant magazine last year, outlining how female comics have often had to take behind-thecamera roles to find titanic success like Tina Fey. “How many people are following them?”

Zoe Rogers is looking to find out Boulder’s answer to that question.

Born in New York, the youngest of four children in a “big, loud, Irish family,” Rogers was, in her words, fighting for stage time from birth. Like many kids who came of age in the ’80s, Rogers grew up on a steady diet of HBO comedy specials from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Ellen Degeneres.

But even though she was raised in the epicenter of comedy, it wasn’t until she and her husband moved to California that she gave stand-up a try.

“I started doing comedy after my son stopped breastfeeding. I felt like he broke up with me,” Rogers jokes. “My friend, who had been doing stand-up comedy, kept telling me to take this comedy class.”

She finally did, “and it changed my whole life.”

“I love my kids and I love being a mom, but it is not surprising to anyone that it can be very isolating, like crying on the bathroom floor isolating,” Rogers says. “I can’t speak for everyone, but I had no idea what I was doing. It was like getting your dream job but you had no idea the hours that would be required of you or the fact that people, sometimes strangers, were constantly going to be assessing your performance.”

Rogers felt like she had no one to talk to about the experience, and even if she did, she worried her experience was singular.

“And when I took this class that was the first thing I talked about was just how completely crazy the expectations were (on mothers) and the way that the world felt to me since [having children],” she says. “It was the first time that this thing that felt so isolating to me was something that I could connect with other people about it. And instead of it being something that I was crying about on the bathroom floor, it was something that I was connecting and laughing with people about in a theater.”

She built her brand of comedy around motherhood without sacrificing the irreverent takes on life that make great comedy so great.

“You don’t get any formal training for being a parent,” Rogers muses in one of

her jokes. “I never got a course on hanging out with 5 year olds, but I’ve hung out with drunk girls, and it’s pretty much the same thing: They make you late for everything, they insist on wearing something ridiculous and the night ends with some kind of drama about a random tiara that no one came in with. And the car ride home is always like, ‘Are we going to McDonald’s?’”

When her family decided to pack up and move to Boulder, Rogers wasted little time getting involved in the local comedy scene. In the spring of 2019 Rogers began hosting Dairy Comedy in the Boe, and by late last year she wondered if she could produce a comedy festival in Boulder. After taking the temperature to see who might be interested, Rogers went all in, securing time and space at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder and Tilt Pinball in Louisville as venues for the four-day festival. She currently has a dozen comedians slated to perform — including Vanessa Gonzales, Heather Pasternak, Kristal Adams, Wally Baram and Tamar Kattan — and is reviewing more applications in the hopes of presenting as many as 20 acts. She’s also still in search of more sponsors and venues.

Rogers hopes to offer sets that present different perspectives on the world without “punching down,” or, as she puts it, “shitting on people.” (Though, if I am to believe the staff at Interrobang — and I don’t — any use of the phrase “punching up” must come from people of the “high-minded, socially liberal persuasion, who hold all of the ‘correct’ opinions, and who are, almost universally, not very funny.”)

If you’re looking for the kind of queerbashing, why-me comedy served up in recent sets by comedians like Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari, look elsewhere.

“Humor,” as Mary Hirsch once said, “is a rubber sword — it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.”

“I have problems with the punching down theory,” Rogers says. “First, I’m not really on your side if I think you’re kind of a bully. Second, I don’t know anything about you; you’re leaving the stage and I know nothing about you. You haven’t shared anything real or vulnerable about yourself except for the demographics you hate and discriminate against. So I would have rather listened to somebody who’s being real and vulnerable that I could connect with and who didn’t just reinforce a bunch of stereotypes. That’s not new.

That’s some old syndicated hate, and I just don’t have time for that.”

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Gunning for a Grammy

G. Love teams with blues legend Keb’ Mo’ to craft his slickest album to-date

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hen G. Love approached his friend and musical colleague Keb’ Mo’ about producing the album that became The Juice, one of his goals was very straight-forward and ambitious.

“The intention here is to win a contemporary blues Grammy,” Love says. “So then, what’s my path to it? So then I said, well, I know Keb’ Mo.’ Keb’ Mo’ wins a Grammy every time with a record of stuff. He knows how to do this.”

Love (real name Garrett Dutton) had good reasons for wanting to try something new in his approach to writing and recording. His previous two albums, Love Saves The Day (2015) and Sugar (2014) found Love and his band, Special Sauce, plugging in, going for a more rocking blend of blues, folk, rock and hip-hop and getting what they thought were great results in the process. But the albums, especially Love Saves The Day, didn’t connect commercially.

“We felt like, ‘Man, we sound fucking great. That’s what we felt like,” Love says, referring particularly to Love Saves The Day. “We really played it well. And then you put them out and no one really cares. So that was a little tough. And you’re kind of like, ‘Well, what are we going to do?’”

The answers to that question are found on The Juice, and they involved both taking a starkly different approach to how the album was produced and raising the bar on certain aspects of the songwriting.

The first test from Keb’ Mo’ came before a note was recorded for The Juice.

“He said, ‘Hey, G, send me your five most sincere songs that you feel most connected to,’” Love says. “And I [thought], well, that’s kind of a weird thing to ask. I feel like I’m connected to all of my songs and I feel like they’re all sincere.”

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But Love complied with the request.

The verdict from Keb’ Mo’ was that Love should work with a songwriter for The Juice project.

That response wouldn’t play well with many artists, as it calls into question the strength of their songwriting chops. Love, though, took it in stride, and was soon in a Nashville studio with Keb’ Mo’ and his frequent songwriting collaborator, Grammy-winning writer Gary Nicholson, starting a three-way songwriting collaboration that generated many of the songs on The Juice. One of the biggest changes for Love was to embrace Keb’ Mo’s approach to recording and producing.

“Keb’s like, ‘I know you like to make, like, dirty sounding, old, kind of lo-fi records. My thing is, why can’t the blues sound like a Beyoncé record?’” Love recalls. “He wants a blues record to sound like a pop record, that’s what his goal is, but still be a real blues record. I think it’s really interesting, and obviously, he’s had success.

“Most of the records I’ve been putting out in the last 10 years are live, in-studio records, with as little overdubbing as possible, trying to capture performances,” Love adds. “And this record was just the opposite. It was about having the material be so strong that you didn’t have to worry about trying to like capture some kind of magical performance with a whole band.

It was more like the song itself would lend I

itself to everybody who played on it, giving a spirited, inspired performance, and the messages of the lyrics and the song would carry the whole thing.”

Love said he put his heart, his soul — as well as his head — into his songwriting for The Juice, resulting in a group of songs that were both quite personal (“She’s The Rock” is about his wife, “Diggin’ Roots” is about settling in with family and friends) as well as topical, especially with the title track, a call to action for these times.

“That to me is the greatest song I’ve ever been involved in, that message: ‘We got the juice / We got the love / We got the dreams / We won’t give up / We are the change / We’ve had enough / We’ve got the juice / Time’s up,’” Love says, reciting the chorus. “I mean, what else can I ever say as great as that?”

The Juice manages to sound modern and polished, while retaining an earthy quality. Part of that feel is a product of using plenty of guitars, drums and other live instrumentation. The strong presence of acoustic sounds gives The Juice a similar aesthetic to earlier Love albums such as 2011’s Fixin’ To Die. While the players on The Juice were mostly musicians Keb’ Mo’ has used, Love will tour behind the album with his long-time Special Sauce bandmates.

“For better or worse, I’m not going to have the live show sound exactly like the record,” Love says, noting that in addition to new songs, the show will include plenty of fan favorites and deep cuts from his catalog. “To me, it’s always going to be an interpretation, whether it’s the same players or not who played on the record. I’m excited to see how these songs will kind of shape and grow with (bassist) Jim (Prescott) and (drummer) Jeff (Clemens) behind the wheel.”

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For A Far Cry, ‘Memory’ has many meanings

Self-conducted string orchestra will play Mozart, Elgar, Tchaikovsky and Pärt

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by Peter Alexander

Far Cry, a self-directed string ensemble of 17 players headquartered in Boston, will play “Memory” Saturday (Feb. 8) in Macky Auditorium.

No, not the ballad crooned by Jennifer Hudson in the new film of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Cats.

A Far Cry’s “Memory” is a program of concert music that includes Tchaikovsky’s popular Serenade for Strings, performed from memory. Other works on the program will be Arvo YOON S. BYUN Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten, Mozart’s Serenade in D major, K239, known as the Serenata notturna (Nocturnal serenade), and Edward Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings.

Founded in 2007, A Far Cry is one of a growing number of orchestras in the classical music world that perform without a conductor — or as they put it, they are a self-conducted orchestra. “A Far Cry is not conductorless,” founding member Megumi Stohs Lewis says. “We have 18 conductors, but we rotate so that we’re not all conducting at the same time.”

According to their website, A Far Cry is “a democracy in which decisions are made collectively and leadership rotates among the players.” Lewis admits that this makes the selection of repertoire and other artistic decisions more complicated than in a traditional symphony, but she says, “it’s really invigorating for everyone.

“The fact that we all pitch in on programming also affects the concerts, because for every piece we play, we know why we are playing it. We voted to play that piece, so [there’s] 100% buy-in from everybody.”

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group can suggest a program, which is then voted on by the membership in group meetings.

“We usually vote on a whole program, so we keep the thread that ties the program together,” Lewis explains. “We might workshop it together, or we might say I love the concept but one piece doesn’t fit very well.”

In addition to the collective decisionmaking, the players rotate in the parts they play and in taking solo or leader-

ship roles in performance. For example, Lewis will be serving as concertmaster for the Tchaikovsky Serenade for the very first time on the current tour.

“We’ve played that so much, and I’ve been waiting for the right time,” she says. “I think doing it on the ‘Memory’ tour is the perfect time.”

It is the Tchaikovsky that provides the theme for the program, since it is literally played from memory. “That’s probably the piece that we’ve played the most since the beginning,” Lewis says. “We don’t have a conductor already, and then we’re taking away the music and the stands — it really changes the dynamic for us. It makes it all about communication.

“You have to know the music so well, you have to know what everyone else is playing. It brings out for us, and also for the audience, the pure music. We have played it from memory before, [but] never I

toured with it from memory. It’s been a special experience, and we want to share that with more audiences.”

The other piece on the program with an obvious “memory” connection is the opening piece, Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten, written in memory of a composer Pärt particularly admired. “It’s kind of meditative and is really beautiful,” Lewis says.

“I think of it as setting the stage for the concert. It’s taking you out of your everyday world, taking you somewhere different and getting you ready to experience everything that you’re about to hear on the concert. It’s the kind of music you can fall into.”

The Elgar Introduction and Allegro is on the program for a reason that is more personal for the “criers,” as the members of the ensemble call themselves. It has been part of the group’s repertoire from their very first year, and therefore conjures up special memories for the players.

“It’s just lush and gorgeous,” Lewis says. “Elgar really knew how to write for strings. It’s not easy — there’s a fugue that is really hard — [but for] audiences it’s kind of a sonic bath.”

Mozart’s Serenade has the least connection to the “memory” theme, except that as music it seems to fit with the other pieces. Both the Elgar and the Mozart have a solo quartet of players in addition to the larger string group, which ties them together conceptually.

The four solo players for the Mozart are not quite a standard string quartet: two violins, viola and string bass in place of cello. “The fact that the bass gets to be so virtuosic is really cool, and so unusual for that time,” Lewis says.

“It is so fun, I think of that piece as a big party.”

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G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE JONTAVIOUS WILLIS TUE. MAR 3

SHE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING

WED. MAR 11 & THUR. MAR 12 105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENTS: NATURAL AFFAIR TOUR 2020

THE GROWLERS SAT. MAR 14 97.3 KBCO PRESENTS

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THE DRUNKEN HEARTS TUES. MAR 17 105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENTS

ANDERS OSBORNE + JACKIE GREENE THUR. MAR 19 DISRAELI GEARS TOUR

THE MUSIC OF CREAM SAT. MAR 28 “NAME DROP” BOOK TOUR

ROSS MATHEWS

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DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS WED. MAR 4

MASON MAYNARD

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Saturday, Feb. 8, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

For the sisters of Oregon-bred trio Joseph — Natalie, Allison and Meegan — there’s a connection that borders on telepathic. You can almost hear it in their otherworldly harmonies. On their sophomore album, ‘Good Luck, Kid,’ the sisters break away from the dreamy folk that typified their debut album and take up a grittier form of storytelling that’s no less effective. Intimate and intense, you’ll find yourself lost in their soaring voices and uplifting messages. — CR

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WINTER FOLK: MUSIC & PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWCASE.

Feb. 7-March 1, The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635, thestvrain.com/winterfolk

This 12-day, 40-band music and photography showcase spans four weekends at Longmont’s St Vrain.

Colorado’s finest folk acts — Daniel Rodriguez, SHEL, Esme Patterson and more — and some of the best photography coming out of the Centennial State will be featured. Purchase a monthlong event pass to attend any and all of the 12 days, or get a three-day weekend pass. Lineup, schedule and tickets at visit.fafcolorado.org/winter-folk.

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DAVE SHOWALTER: FREEDOM TO ROAM.

EAST MEETS WEST MEETS EAST.

U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE In this presentation, conservation photographer and author Dave Showalter seeks to make a deeper connection between us and our Western lands while discussing how we can contribute as a community of conservation. Showalter will take the audience inside the lives of the greater sage-grouse, an icon of the West, down the Colorado River that provides water for 40 million people, and roam the prairie with bison and native species. Tickets are $12 ($9 for concert members) at chautauqua.com.

India’s iconic violinist, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Dr. L. Subramaniam and CU’s College of Music double bass professor Paul Erhard journey through landscapes of sound, color, rhythm and mood in this must-see performance in Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater. Subramaniam has collaborated with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Jean Luc Ponty and Maynard Ferguson, and his insatiable curiosity has made him a master of endless styles, genres and techniques. Prepare yourself for a borderless musical journey. Due to anticipated popularity, registration is required at boulderlibrary.org.

7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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The Doc Haze Duo

The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, February 7 7:00-9:00 PM - NO COVER Happy Hour till 7pm

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

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.

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, Feb. 8–March 30; Bill Vielehr: The Artist Behind “The Vielehr,” Arapahoe Ramp, Feb. 7-March 22.

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

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ through Feb. 2 (SOLD OUT); ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through July; ‘EYES ON: Anthony McCall,’ through May 31;

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6 7:00 PM

LIVE TALK: A CLOSER LOOK A DECADE IN REVIEW: ASTRONOMY’S GREATEST HITS OF THE 2010s 8:30 PM

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MARGARETTA GILBOY, DAPHNE & APOLLO (DETAIL), 2008, OIL ON LINEN, 24 X 30”. COURTESY OF PAUL GILLIS.

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.

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.

MARGARETTA GILBOY (1943-2017) was a much acclaimed and influential artist whose work — though often described as realist — defies easy classification.

Working primarily in oil and watercolor, Gilboy created paintings brimming with a seemingly incongruous and occasionally off-kilter deployment of objects both Eastern and Western. Her expertly and tenderly painted still lifes and portraits owe much of their sophistication to an oblique dialogue between art-historical masterpieces and objects of quotidian domesticity. Margaretta Gilboy: ‘Flying in the Hands of Time: A Retrospective,’ is showing at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art through May 25.

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

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

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June.

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.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7 7:00 PM

BEARS AND AURORA OF ALASKA 8:30 PM

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BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY LASER RADIOHEAD 11:30 PM

LASER SCHISM TOOL SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8 10:00 PM

LIQUID SKY U2 11:30 PM

LIQUID SKY THE WALL SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9 12:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS & PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA 1:30 PM

MAX GOES TO THE MOON 3:00 PM

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Etown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-5075052.

Centennial Celebration: Featuring the CU Wind Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 0285, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Discovery Days: Art — ­ Big Kid Friendly.

9 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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

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

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

Nightly, The Wldlfe, Sawyer. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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Phora. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Swing Night — with Chez Coucou. 8 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Every Thursday and Tuesday.

Cost is $5.

Steve Rannazzisi. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Feb. 9, comedyworks.com

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Music 19th Annual Bob Marley B-Day Bash - featuring YVAD (former Wailers lead singer).

7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

CBDC presents: From The Ashes. 7:30 p.m.

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

Cheshire Cat: 25 Year Reunion Show. 8 p.m. The WIld Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

A Night in Neverland Gala. 5:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Derek Weiman and Matt Flaherty. 8 p.m.

Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856.

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

First Friday Artwalk. 6 p.m. NoBo Art District, N. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-523-1117.

Retro Toy Pendants. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Gasoline Lollipops, Whippoorwill, J. Robert Miller. 6 p.m. The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635.

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Happy Hour Chamber Concerts presents Amanda Balestrieri. 6 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-451-6381.

A Human Named David. 7 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017.

WAS BENJAMIN L. E. BONNEVILLE, captain of the U.S. Army, granted a two-year leave to try his hand as a fur trader in the Rocky Mountain West? Or did his superiors have ulterior motives, tasking Bonneville to spy on the British in the Pacific Northwest? The Bonneville expedition began in Missouri and made its way to the Oregon country, territory at the time shared through mutual agreement by the U.S. and Great Britain. Yet the British presence there caused grave concerns about the geographic boundaries of our nation.

‘West of Green River,” by Jerry Keenan, is a fictional account of the Bonneville expedition that brings to life the difficult trek Bonneville and his men faced on their westward journey to Oregon.

Keenan will speak about and sign his book at 7 p.m. on Feb. 7 at Inkberry Books in Niwot.

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

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

Laser Schism TOOL. 11:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Late Night Radio (Live Band), Star Kitchen. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Live Music. 5 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 14, Boulder, 720-938-7285.

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

Live On Broadway: Denver’s Only Weekly Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Grafenberg Sketch Comedy And Improv Theatre, 70 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-803-8894.

The Long Run (Eagles Tribute). 8 p.m.

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

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

Rachel Ann and the Toymasters. 6:30 p.m.

Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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

Silent Bear Trio. 9:30 p.m. License No 1, 13th St., Boulder.

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

Tasting Room Open. 4 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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

Under A Blood Red Sky. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Winter Folk: Music & Photography Showcase. The St Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-534-2635. Through March 1, thestvrain. com/winter-folk Wylie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Events Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México de Silvia Lozano. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.

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

Dave Showalter: Freedom to Roam. 7 p.m.

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

Drag Decades — with Drag Queen Shirley Delta Blow. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Electric Feels. 9 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 11

Daniel McQueen — Psychedelic Cannabis.

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

Charlie Daze. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

FRIDAY, FEB. 7

Winter Bookclub Night. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Jerry Keenan — West of Green River. 7 p.m. Inkberry Books, 7960 Niwot Road, Niwot.

SATURDAY, FEB. 8 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

SUNDAY, FEB. 9 BAFS Second Sundays Poetry Workshop.

2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

First Friday Food Lab: Mints. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

First Friday FÜKD Up Comedy & Kink. 11 p.m. Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver, 720-989-3283.

Small Town Murder. 6 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Wax Motif. 9 p.m. Temple Nightclub, 1136 Broadway, Denver, 303-309-2144.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Music 070 Shake. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Bailey Elora ‘All The Feels’ EP Release Show. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Blue Canyon Boys — with Jackson Earles.

8 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons.

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

CBDC presents: From The Ashes. 7:30 p.m.

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

The CBDs. 7 p.m. GrossenBart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

Chinese New Year Celebration. 2 p.m. Silver Creek High School, Longmont, 720-494-3721.

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

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12 Write Your Life in Poetry. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Kristin Grayce McGary — Holistic Keto for Gut Health. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

A Far Cry. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder.

Fiesta Flamenco. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Gerald Albright. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

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

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

Gumbo le Funque. 4:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

A Masquerade in Red. 6 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

The Max Mackey Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Mr Big Bear. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. see EVENTS Page 32

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FILMS Mexico City is home to 9 million souls, but the government operates fewer than 45 ambulances to aid them in times of need. To fill the gap, an entire underground industry of for-profit ambulances has cropped up. None are regulated, most are unlicensed physicians with little to no training, and all of them are in competition with one another. First on the scene gets the injured, which has created an unholy system of police bribes and partnerships with private hospitals.

None of which seems to be in the patient’s best interest. Produced, directed, shot and edited by Luke Lorentzen, ‘Midnight Family’ follows the Ochoas — an uncle, a father and his two sons — as they stalk the streets of Mexico City waiting for tragedy. Lorentzen embeds himself with the Ochoas, racing along with them in the ambulance as they hurtle down crowded streets toward car crashes, asphyxiated infants and a young girl who fell four floors. It’s exhilarating filmmaking, and at a brisk 81 minutes, you’ll be in the parking lot, halfway to your car, before the ethics of it finally catch up to you. —MJC

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Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3011: Cinemouth Discussion: Hardy Fredricksmeyer, Ph. D., Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, CU-Boulder, ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., 303-786-7030: ‘The Big Lebowski,’ 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8.

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Birds of Prey’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Gretel & Hansel’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Just Mercy’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘The Last Full Measure’ ‘Little Women’

‘Love Story,’ Feb. 9 & 12.

Oscar-nominated Best Pictures Oscar-nominated Shorts ‘Parasite’ ‘The Rhythm Section’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘Uncut Gems’ Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: ‘The Disappearance of My Mother,’ Feb. 12-15.

‘Parasite,’ Feb. 5-8.

‘Scandalous: The True Story of the National Esquire,’ Feb. 5-8.

‘The Song of Names,’ Feb. 12-15.

‘VHYes,’ 8:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7.

International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662: Free show: ‘Americaville,’ — with director Adam Smith in person, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7.

Oscar-nominated documentary shorts, Feb. 8-9.

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

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: ‘Color Out of Space’ ‘Foosballer,’ 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11.

‘Krisha,’ 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10.

‘Little Women’ ‘Midnight Family’ ‘Parasite’ Advanced screening, ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12.

‘Psychomania,’ 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7.

‘Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street,’ 7p.m. Feb. 12, 15, 16, 20.

LONGMONT:

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Birds of Prey’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Gretel & Hansel’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Little Women’ Oscar-nominated Best Pictures ‘The Rhythm Section’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘Uncut Gems’

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DENVER:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., 303-744-9686: ‘Amazon Adventure 3D’ ‘Apollo 11: First Steps’ ‘Hidden Pacific 3D’ ‘Turtle Odyssey 3D’ JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303-316-6360: Denver Jewish Film Festival, Feb. 5-19 Mayan, 110 Broadway, 303-744-6799: ‘Harriet’ Oscar-nominated animated shorts Oscar-nominated live action shorts Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030: Backcountry Film Festival, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Birds of Prey’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Gretel & Hansel’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Little Women’ ‘Parasite’ ‘The Rhythm Section’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘Uncut Gems’

NEDERLAND:

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

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The Music of Phish For Kids. 11:30 a.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 646-560-0065.

Pair of Three. 5 p.m. The Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont, 720-494-9348.

‘Puss in Boots.’ 3 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.

Run River North. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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

Thrive Fest Hawaii. 10 a.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Events DIY Crazy Soap and Bath Fizzies. 11 a.m.

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Father Daughter Dance. 4:30 p.m. First Pres Boulder, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-402-6400.

REI Presents: Know Before You Go Avalanche Awareness. 9:30 a.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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

Sexclamation! Pole & Aerial Dance Show.

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

Sweetheart Valentine Dance. 6 p.m. North Boulder Recreation Center, 3170 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-413-7260.

Vintage Valentines Make + Take. 1 p.m.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

Windows to Wellness Fair. 9 a.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8411.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Music Crick Wooder. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

Cantabile: Brahms -—A Requiem for the Living. 3 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 720-204-8806.

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

Bubble Boy The Musical. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Feb. 15.

Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (youth production). Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 16.

Peter Pan. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Feb. 9 Romeo and Juliet — presented by Tara Performing Arts High School. 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 7, The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder. Through Feb. 9.

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

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

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

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

Through April 19.

Frost/Nixon. Vintage Theatre Company, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Feb. 9.

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. 7:30 p.m. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver.

Through Feb. 9.

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

Through March 29.

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

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

Through Feb. 23.

FeaT members oF TurkuaZ w/ diJon musTanG

Thursday march 19 w/ daTeless & c.h.a.y.

ROBERT RETURNS TO DUBLIN to reunite with Cait, the woman who captured his heart during a James Joyce literary tour 35 years ago.

Dancing backwards through time, the older couple retraces their steps to discover their younger selves.

Through youthful Robbie and Caithleen, they relive the unlikely, inevitable events that brought them (briefly) together. ‘Bloomsday’ is a time-traveling love story that blends wit, humor and heartache into a buoyant, moving appeal for making the most of the present before it becomes the past. Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents ‘Bloomsday’ Feb. 7 through March 1 at the Dairy Arts Center.

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Culture and Hawai’i. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 720-771-9772.

East Meets West Meets East. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Ja Rule. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

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

Music in the Galleries: Ivalas Quartet. 1 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880.

Rigby Summer, The Bent Brothers. 8 p.m.

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

Double Feature: ‘We Are Stars’ & ‘Perseus and Andromeda.’ Noon. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

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

Kids Make Lemon Berry Scones. 2 p.m.

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

Tattered Cover Presents: A celebration of books by Stories on Stage. 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-494-0523.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Music

Trixie Mattel: Grown Up. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Beethoven 2020. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Ysn Flow Live. 8 p.m. The Roxy Theater, 2549 Walton St., Denver, 720-242-9782.

Beethoven Birthday Event. 6:15 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

Events 92nd Academy Awards Watch Party. 5 p.m. La Vita Bella, 471 Main St., Longmont, 303-588-4995.

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

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

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OPEN MIC Thursday, Feb. 6 Gunbarrel Monthly Blues Jam. 7 p.m.

Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

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

Friday, Feb. 7 Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night.

7:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Saturday, Feb. 8 Weekend Coffee Shop Jazz Jam. 11 a.m.

1055 Courtesy Road, Louisville.

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

Monday, Feb. 10 Open Mic. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing

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

Open Mic & Hoppy Hour (happy hour prices all day). 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Wednesday, Feb. 11 Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

The Doo Wop Project. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Ukulele Club. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Info Session about Adventure Bar and Bat Mitzvah. 5:30 p.m. Abo’s Pizza, 637 S. Broadway, Unit S, Boulder.

Events

Monarch HS Jazz Concert. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Brother Ali: Secrets & Escapes Tour 2020 — with Open Mike Eagle. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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

Mitch Fatel’s Sweet & Sour Valentine Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Troy Stone and the Spent Shells. 9 p.m.

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

Upstanders. 6:30 p.m. Friends School North Campus, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-499-1999.

Events

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids.

4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Music

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

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

How is Mars Different From Earth. 7 p.m.

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

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

REI Presents: Winter Skills & Local Trails.

6:30 p.m. 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Music American Authors, MAGIC GIANT. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

The Classic Crime — with Assuming We Survive. 6:30 p.m. Roxy Theatre, 2549 Welton St., Denver, 732-462-4262.

Double Concerto: L. Subramaniam with Paul Erhard and CU Symphony Orchestra.

7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Alan Parsons Live Project. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Beethoven and Brews. 6 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

CU Philharmonia Orchestra: Celebrating Voices of Classicism and Unity. 7:30 p.m.

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

Deborah Stafford & The State of Affairs.

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

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

Zach Deputy with Lucas Wolf, Cous. 8 p.m.

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

Events BeeChicas: Love the Bees Pollinators Flags! 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

Tyler Sanford Coalition. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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Irreconcilable Differences

by Cassie Hottenstein Love takes time— as does its loss, to sink its sucker-lined tendrils into a lonely heart, to wrench desire for one more sex-crazed night out of mitochondrial geyser, to feel the heat

of you one last time. With bated breath loss takes its time, tictocing against every fiber of an empty bed, dryer alarm groans finished, leaving me to put on the fitted sheet by myself for the first time, to spread the patchwork quilt of paisley-sick memories, stained and threadbare upon a brand-new mattress in a brand-new room—loss is tedium,

THE BRENTANO STRING QUARTET

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The Dark, Coiled Intensity of F Minor 4:30 - 6:30 pm Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th St., Boulder Tickets: $25; students $10 Featuring music in F Minor by Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich plus the world premiere of Bruce Adolphe’s Coiled, based on Beethoven’s F Minor quartet “Serioso” Opus 95. Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim.

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fumbling fingers wind a broken clock that clicks its tongue against its teeth, echo echo off chilly walls of box-lined single studio— such a shame— how piteous it must be to touch myself alone in the dark, under the old covers, dirtying the past by myself, my orgasm begging and pleading to a deaf and dumb loom to stitch shut the holes that keep us separated.

I now tidy alone; chores once divided,

now united in regretful sweaty clasp of slow back-and-forth, whirring up the dust bunnies left over in hopes a clean carpet will reveal the steps our ghosts are taking.

Cassie Hottenstein is a poet most recently from Jacksonville, Florida, though she’s made Colorado her home for over 3 years. Her poetry and stories have been published in Inklette, Every Pigeon, the Talon Review and the Tampa Review Online.

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A woman’s work and a son’s obsession ‘The Disappearance of My Mother’ and an unwanted portrait

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here’s a bit of fairy tale when it comes to Benedetta ON THE BILL: ‘The Disappearance of Barzini. As the story goes, it was 1963 when Barzini My Mother.’ Feb. was discovered on the streets of Rome by American12-15, Dairy Arts born Italian countess Consuelo Crespi, the editor of Center, 2590 Walnut Vogue and Vogue Italia. Vogue’s editor-in-chief, St., Boulder, 303-4447328.

Diane Vreeland, requested Barzini’s presence in New York City, and soon the 20-year-old found herself on the cover of Vogue, the first Italian model to do so.

Fame soon followed, and three years later, Harper’s Bazaar counted Barzini among the “100 Greatest Beauties of the World.” But modeling was not enough for her. Emboldened by the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, Barzini returned to her hometown of Milan, became a radical feminist, joined the Italian Communist Party and started teaching.

That was in the 1970s. Now, Barzini — also in her 70s — has built a legacy comprising body and mind. As an outspoken advocate, she has helped moved the needle forward, and as a model, she has challenged the idea of the great (i.e., young) beauty.

And, like most people nearing the end of their lives, feels frustrated that she didn’t do more — and that the world wouldn’t let her.

A large part of that frustration comes from her son, Beniamino Barrese — a documentarian obsessed with his mother. The Disappearance of My Mother is his love-letter to her. Or about her, it’s unclear even to him. At times, the movie’s obsession borders on unhealthy and uncomfortable. There seems to be no privacy Barrese allows Barzini. But his aim is earnest: He is trying to understand his mother and captures her image from every possible angle — something Barzini doesn’t exactly want. She has spent her life as the subject of images. She is now ready for those images to disappear.

The Disappearance of My Mother pushes back and forth between these two notions: Between seer and seen, truth and fabrication. Barrese splits the opposites via archival footage and his own photography. From Barzini on the runway to her arguing for equal rights on television. From Barzini preparing for a photo shoot as a young woman to Barzini preparing for a photo shoot as an old woman. For Barrese, each of these images tells the truth about his mother. For Barzini, they are nothing more than composed and manipulated lies.

The Disappearance of My Mother is a fascinating piece of work, though it is somewhat opaque in its presentation. A bit of historical context would improve the viewing experience, and spending a little time reading up on Barzini before or after watching the doc helps fill in the gaps.

But, to be fair, Barrese’s concern is one of impression. He isn’t trying to show the world what a great woman Barzini was/is, he is trying to understand her through images. Too bad Barzini wants nothing to do with images anymore. But such is the burden of the mother: They’re rarely understood the way they want to be.

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Sat., February 22th 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Sample Classes at 12:30 Nalanda Campus 6287 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, CO

For more information and to RSVP visit: Naropa.edu/Experience

On February 22th, Naropa University will throw open its doors to prospective graduate and undergraduate students from across the country and around the world at Experience Naropa—a whirlwind of activity designed to open minds, spark creativity, and begin to create the bonds of community.

Tour campus, attend sample classes, and meet students and faculty who are changing the world for the better. Come for the answers to your questions, and stick around for an engaging afternoon full of lively activities and passionate people.

For prospective students, family, and friends.

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CRISPY DUCK AT CHEZ THUY, $11.50.

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marvels at the kitchen’s efficiency and utility while perusing the expansive menu and seeing waiters deliver plates of seafood-stuffed tofu, game hen in black pepper sauce, shoft-shell crab, curries, stir-fries, noodle dishes and more throughout the dining room. Chez Thuy is surely no longer a local secret, but for all the folks moving into the units rapidly spawning in East Boulder… make this restaurant your first dining stop. We stopped in for crispy duck recently — caramelized tender duck leg, thigh and wing is plated with brown rice, sweet chili sauce and a punchy, and surprisingly irresistible, cabbage slaw. The balance of texture and flavor on the plate is Chez Thuy’s hallmark.

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Chef Daniel Asher of Boulder’s River and Woods will open Ash’Kara serving modern Israeli fare this spring at 1043 Pearl St., formerly Pepper the Noshery, Wild Standard and Juanita’s Mexican Food. … Larkburger will move down the strip mall into a spot vacated by Tokyo Joe’s with $3 burgers, door prizes and raffles on Feb. 8 from 4 p.m. to close. … Sweet Green will open in the former Aji site at 1601 Pearl St. in Boulder. …

Oskar Blues is closing CHUBurger restuarants in Longmont and Denver. —John Lehndorff BOULDER WEEKLY

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Niwot-based Lucky’s Market has downsized dramatically with significant layoffs and store closures, but the original Lucky’s owners, Bo and Trish Sharon, have purchased seven of the markets. Lucky’s Market on North Broadway plus Lucky’s Cafe and Lucky’s Bakehouse will remain open. Wrote baker Jen Bush on Facebook: “We couldn’t be more grateful for our community, and how you all have shown up for us. It literally brings tears to my eyes.” —JL FEBRUARY 6, 2020

n LIBRARY SUPPER CLUB RETURNS

Chef Matt Collier and the Seeds Library Cafe have brought back their library dining series, the Library Supper Club, at the main branch of the Boulder Library. Its most recent dinner in January included local greens with pickled turnips, flowers and nasturtium vinaigrette; chili-rubbed lamb shoulder; and a plum and basil granita with chocolate streusel. Seeds works with local producers and the Boulder County Farmers Market to serve local, in-season food. Upcoming dates: Feb 28, March 20 and April 24. Email community@seedsboulder.com for reservations. —Matt Cortina I

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Then and now: Flagship beers 20 years on, Dale’s Pale Ale stays strong

MICHAEL J. CASEY

n DRINK OF THE WEEK MOUNTAIN SUN’S BOURBON BARREL-AGED CHOCOLATE THUNDER IMPERIAL MILK STOUT

by Michael J. Casey

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tepping into Lyons’ Oskar Blues Grill & Brew is like stepping into the past. Wood dominates; the décor is cluttered, cozy and a little dusty.

Stickers from other breweries cover surfaces like reward decals on a college football player’s

helmet.

Even the tap list is a tribute to the glory of yesteryear: One column of core beers, the other of seasonals and guest brews. And, should you visit during happy hour — or Rad Hour, as they call it — you can enjoy one of those core beers for $3.50. That’s a hard price to beat in this day and age.

But when Oskar Blues first opened in 1997, all of its beers were guests. It wasn’t until brewmaster Brian Lutz formulated Dale’s Pale Ale in ’98 that the restaurant got its signature ale.

Twenty-plus years later, Dale’s is still a “voluminously hopped mutha” of a pale: Crystal clear with a pile of foam, sweet, full-bodied malt with snappy, citrusy hops.

The beer is bitter (65 international bittering units) and cuts through just about anything you have on the table.

Dale’s is still OB’s flagship beer, but, as of January 2020, Dale’s has a new look. Gone are the Rocky Mountains and busy labels. Now, it’s a simple red, white and blue, the name of the beer and the brewery that makes it.

Dale’s has been, and probably always will be, the beer most drinkers associate Oskar Blues with. It was the first Colorado craft beer packaged in cans, and it was the first craft beer served on an airline (Frontier).

And as Dale’s traveled the country, the ale became more recognizable than the brewery. According to owner Dale Katechis, restaurants on the East Coast often listed other OB offerings, like Mama’s Little Yella

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But the whole notion of flagships has changed in the past decade. Breweries that were once defined by a signature beer (Arrogant Bastard, Boston Lager, Fat Tire, etc.) are pushing new brands and new beers.

Newer breweries aren’t even touting one particular style, choosing to stay flexible over recognizable.

Greeley’s WeldWerks Brewing Co. (established 2015) was first known for its Hefeweizen before Juicy Bits (a hazy/juicy IPA) came along. Now even that award winner gets overlooked for Medianoche (an imperial stout) and a constant rotation of brews — over 150 new beers a year.

If you were to open a brewery in 2020, chances are you wouldn’t settle on a flagship beer, but a never-ending rotation of experimentation and trend spotting. That makes the Dale’s of the market all the more valuable.

May they never fade away.

here are barrelaged beers, and then there’s Mountain Sun’s Bourbon Barrel-Aged Chocolate Thunder Imperial Stout: brewed with over nine malts, two hops, milk chocolate, dark chocolate and lactose, and aged for three to six months in Four Roses bourbon barrels.

“This beer has found its home in Four Roses,” explains John Fiorilli, Mountain Sun’s director of brewing operations. “It lives in Four Roses barrels, and the only way we won’t put it in Four Roses barrels is if they stop making Four Roses bourbon.”

And with good reason: One whiff of the opaque brew tickles the nose with high-octane bourbon and then softens the tongue with the first sip. Then comes a cascade of sweet chocolate amid a sea of rich dark malt. There’s a touch of bitterness on the finish to clean things up and get you ready for another. It’s a soft and velvety digestif, drink with or for dessert, and you’ll go home happy. —MJC

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On using heirloom grains… with Moxie Bread Co.’s Andy Clark

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ndy Clark, the two-time James Beard Award semifinalist and head baker and owner of Moxie Bread Co., is scraping and molding a viscous, bespeckled dough on his work station one Thursday morning. On top of the flattened, wet heirloom wheat dough, Clark layers reddish-purple Bloody Butcher corn polenta made with garlic, cumin and butter. He sprinkles over hominy that has been nixtamilized (an Aztec technique of soaking and cooking food in an alkaline solution), and then adds a final layer of sage, toasted pine nuts and white cheddar.

As he combines the dough, he admits he doesn’t know exactly what the concoction will turn into, but that he was inspired to fiddle with the ingredients after a recent trip to the Grain School at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, at which the conversation between the participants (bakers, farmers, grain enthusiasts, historians and more) turned toward the future: How can food producers make using more sustainably grown food realistic for people?

The answer to solving the problems of the future: Look to the past.

“Here we are in the Southwest with all of these cultures, whether it’s indigenous, Hopi or Mexican or whatever,” Clark says. “And so we did some baking down there with some corn. We taught people that this year’s crop versus last year’s crop could be quite a bit different and maybe you add a ton more water, maybe a little less, maybe you bake it longer or shorter, but you pay attention to it. You don’t just throw it together and walk away. And we also worked with a bunch of corn and perennial wheat to demonstrate that in the future, maybe it doesn’t have to be all [conventional] wheats, maybe Aspen Moon Farm is growing corn and lentil beans… well, let’s make that into food, let’s include all of that.”

In order to help be the change Clark wants to see

in the grain economy, he’s opening The Mill Site in North Boulder this Spring.

In the back, there will be a nonprofit wholesale granary for local farmers to process their crops — one traditional obstacle in the grain revival is the high cost and specialized equipment in milling heritage grains, beans, corn and other crops. In the front, there will be what Clark calls “the sweetest bulk department you’ve ever seen,” with locally grown and milled grains available by the scoop and a well-curated selection of responsibly grown culinary knickknacks from Utah pink salt to molassasey Costa Rican sugar that Moxie uses in its cookies.

There will be a library of recipe and reference books, and Clark envisions everyone from restaurant owners and chefs to home cooks coming in to pick the staff’s brain, try out recipes and fill in the gap between wanting to switch to local grain and actually making the investment to do it.

And Clark believes the time is right to encourage people to make the switch. Clark helped launch a “quasi-national” campaign to get more organic heirloom grain in Whole Foods 10 year ago, but the effort flopped. Since, awareness about the health, social and environmental benefits of local grain has risen.

Clark is hoping The Mill Site removes every obstacle to those interested in implementing local grains.

“I think now we’re in a really great spot to add the educational base, so it’s not just like, ‘Oh here’s some grain, good luck.’ It’s like, ‘OK, you’re opening up a taco truck and you’re wanting to know what the best native corn is. Well, geez, we know a nixtamilizer, we know a grower, we’ll invite him over, we’ll have a meeting and then you can actually talk to them about how to make your tortillas.’ We’ll grind the grain, but

there’ll be so much more added to that process and I think that will be the game-changing part.”

USE CLARK’S Switching from conventional SOURDOUGH STARTER to boost all-purpose flour to local heirloom flavor and nutrition wheat is not difficult. Clark recomin heirloom grain mends making a one-for-one baked goods. switch in pancakes, waffles and quick breads, and if you’re a savvy home cook or baker, you’ll easily be able to tell if any adjustments need to be made to your recipe. You’ll also notice a robust, pleasant fragrance emanate from your doughs that translates into flavor.

In fact, Clark likens the difference between heirloom and conventional flour to bison and beef: If you’re making burgers at a cookout and someone brings the former instead of the latter, you might cook it less because it’s leaner, but in the end, you still have a burger — and a healthier and tastier one at that — with little additional effort.

“In talking to really skilled food-makers, they say, ‘Gosh, I’m interested in using some of these local grains or doing more whole or heritage grain, but it just sounds really hard. What do you do?’ And I look at these people who are otherwise dialed in, I’m like, ‘Believe it or not, it’s a very minor adjustment.’”

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RECIPE Sourdough Starter (Fred) From Moxie Bread Co.’s Andy Clark n DAY 1

Mix all ingredients in a one-quart mason jar and leave at room temperature for 24 hours.

60 grams (about 1/4 cup) water (80 degrees Fahrenheit) 1 heaping tbsp heirloom whole wheat flour 1 heaping tbsp heirloom white flour 11 raisins

Add these ingredients to yesterday’s mixture and leave at room temperature for 24 hours.

60 g water 1 heaping tbps heirloom wheat flour 1 heaping tbsp heirloom white flour

Add these ingredients to yesterday’s mixture and leave at room temperature for 24 hours.

120 g water 2 heaping tbsp heirloom wheat flour 2 heaping tbps heirloom white flour

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Strain out the raisins and discard them.

Discard all the existing starter except 100 grams. At this point, we only need a small amount of this starter, which should be bubbling by now.

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100 g water 100 g yesterday’s starter (discard the rest of the starter) 50 g heirloom wheat flour 50 g heirloom white flour

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(Final recipe): This is the recipe you will use from here on out. Mix this on the morning of your bake day, and use water at a temperature sufficient to achieve a 75-degree end temperature. Likely you’ll use 80-degree water.

78 g water 90 g yesterday’s starter (discard the rest of the starter).

50 g heirloom wheat flour 50 g heirloom white flour Let this ferment at room temperature for 4-6 hours before using in your favorite bread recipe.

Use your favorite bread book (we like the Tartine book), or email us for a recipe at moxielox@gmail.com.

YOU SHOULD NOW have a bubbling and pleasantly acidic-smelling active sourdough culture. Lots of people like to name their new babies. Let’s call ours Fred. You must promise to keep Fred alive and protect him from harm. He is fine to take long naps in the refrigerator when you don’t plan on making bread, just put him away in his mason jar with a well-sealed lid. On the morning that you wish to make bread with Fred, just take him out of the fridge and feed him using the final recipe. You’ll have to use very warm water with Fred since he’ll be so cold from the refrigerator in order to end up with a 75-degree end temperature. — Andy Clark I

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ometimes you need to put aside the recipes and cook with the food you have on hand. Such was the case when I found myself with a pile of red onions on the kitchen counter.

First, I was not in the mood to eat onions and these were not attractive vegetables. They would never star in those Whole Foods Market ads. Some of the onions were small, some oddly shaped and others with soft brown spots and growing green shoots through layers of papery skin.

I got the ugly onions because they were inexpensive — incredibly cheap, and I wasn’t willing to let them go to waste.

Another cook might have banished them to the compost bin, but that’s just a guilt reducer for wasting still-edible food.

I started peeling and trimming without knowing what I was going to do with the onions. The ends and peels and such went in a pot with some water to make broth.

I could have chopped and frozen the red onions for stirfries, curries and spaghetti sauce or batter-fried pieces in coconut oil as fritters.

I could have pickled rings in vinegar with spices or bottled onion marmalade as a future sandwich topping.

The onions could have been hickory-smoked a bit on my grill and then sautéed in EVOO to top burgers and such.

Normally, I might have made soupe a l’oignon gratinee, but my current diet doesn’t include thick, butter-soaked toast blanketed with broiled gruyère cheese. It’s also a pain to make with lots of prep and cooking time.

Maybe I was tired of standing in the kitchen, but on this cold January afternoon I took the recipe path of least resistance. The thought came to put peeled red onion in the blender with broth to get the work over with fast.

I strained the onion broth but didn’t have enough volume so I added cubes of roasted turkey broth I’d frozen in November.

Into the blender went the combined broth and some onions until I had a bunch of thick, oniony liquid. It was so easy I openly wept. I took some of this liquid and used it, instead of water, to make a batch of basmati rice. I also saved a little to season a batch of marinara later.

In a saucepan I heated the onion broth with chopped fresh garlic, garlic powder, chopped dried onion and a couple of cayenne chilies I’d grown. The perfume infused every

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I’m not sure I would have ended up with this deliciousness if I’d known what I was doing when I started.

Legendary food writer Mimi Sheraton may have put it best: “Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?”

FRENCH ONION SOUP is a great way to utilize ugly onions that would otherwise be thrown in the trash.

UPCOMING FOOD EVENTS Plan ahead: The best place to sign up for a local farm CSA for the coming season is the seventh annual CSA Fair. Feb. 24 at Sanitas Brewing Co. … The biggest U.S. mead (a fermented honey drink) event of year, The Mazer Cup, happens March 21-22 in Broomfield. … Attend the free Fruit Tree Care Workshop Feb. 16 at a local apple orchard, courtesy of Boulder’s Community Fruit Rescue. fruitrescue.org ELVIS DENVER SANDWICH FLASHBACK On Feb. 1, 1976, Elvis Presley flew his friends on his private jet from Memphis to Denver to sample the Fool’s Gold sandwich served at the Colorado Mine Company restaurant. It was a hollowed-out bread loaf filled with a pound of bacon, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of grape jelly. The sandwiches cost $49.95 each 44 years ago and were delivered to a hangar at the now-closed Stapleton International Airport.

WORDS TO CHEW ON “The rise of veganism is a question less of personal taste than of generational upheaval. … Ultimately, the vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.” – From “Why do people hate vegans?” by George Reynolds in The Guardian.

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May he inspire you to produce rigorous work that’s useful to many. May he also empower you to be a candid purveyor of freedom.

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: You now have the power to make con-

nections that have not previously been possible. You can tap into an enhanced capacity to forge new alliances and strengthen your support system. I urge you to be on the lookout for a dynamic group effort you could join or a higher purpose you might align yourself with.

If you’re sufficiently alert, you may even find an opportunity to weave your fortunes together with a dynamic group effort that’s in service to a higher purpose.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: “Victory won’t come to me unless I go to

it,” wrote the poet Marianne Moore. In other words, you must track down each victory you’re interested in. You must study its unique nature. And then you must adjust yourself to its specifications. You can’t remain just the way you are, but must transform yourself so as to be in alignment with the responsibilities it demands of you.

Can you pass these tests, Taurus? I believe you can.

It’s time to prove it.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: While at the peak of his powers as

an author, Gemini-born Nobel Prize-winner Jean-Paul Sartre consumed an array of mood-shifters every day. He quaffed at least a quart of alcohol, smoked two packs of cigarettes, and drank copious amounts of coffee and tea. His intake of pills included 200 milligrams of amphetamines, 15 grams of aspirin, and a handful of barbiturates. I propose that we make Sartre your anti-role model during the next four weeks, dear Gemini. According to my analysis of your astrological indicators, your ability to discover, attract and benefit from wonders and marvels will thrive to the degree that you forswear drugs and alcohol and artificial enhancements. And I’m pleased to inform you that there could be a flood of wonders and marvels.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: I don’t think I’m boring. How could I be? I have an abundant curiosity and I love to learn new things. I’ve worked at many different jobs, have read widely, and enjoy interacting with a broad range of humans. Yet now and then I’ve had temporary relationships with people who regarded me as uninteresting.

They didn’t see much of value in me. I tend to believe it was mostly their fault — they couldn’t see me for who I really am — but it may have also been the case that I lived down to their expectations. Their inclination to see me as unimportant influenced me to be dull. I bring this up, my fellow Cancerian, because now is an excellent time to remove yourself from situations where you have trouble being and feeling your true self.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Soprano Helen Traubel and tenor Lauritz

Melchior performed together in many productions of Wagnerian operas, often at the Metropolitan in New York City. Friends and colleagues but not lovers, they had a playful relationship with each other. A favorite pastime was figuring out tricks they could try that would cause the other to break into inappropriate laughter while performing. According to my quirky reading of the astrological omens, Leo, the coming weeks will be a propitious time for you to engage in similar hijinx with your allies. You have a poetic license and a spiritual mandate to enjoy amusing collaborative experiments, playful intimate escapades, and adventures in buoyant togetherness.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Eighteenth-century author Samuel Johnson singlehandedly compiled the influential A Dictionary of the English Language, which remained the definitive British dictionary for 170 years. We shouldn’t be surprised that it was a Virgo who accomplished such an intricate and exhaustive feat. As a high-minded Virgo, Johnson also had a talent for exposing hypocrisy. In commenting on the Americans’ War of Independence against his country, he noted that some of the “loudest yelps for liberty” came from

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Once, while visiting a gallery showing of art made by children, he said, “When I was their age I could draw like Raphael [the great Renaissance artist]. But it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like they do.” In accordance with your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you seek inspiration from Picasso’s aspiration.

Set an intention to develop expertise in seeing your world and your work through a child’s eyes.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: I know a Sagittarius man who has seen the film Avengers: Endgame 17 times. Another Sagittarian acquaintance estimates she has listened all the way through to Billie Eilish’s album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 135 times.

And then there’s my scholarly Sagittarian friend who has read the ancient Greek epic poem The Iliad 37 times. I have no problem with this behavior. I admire your tribe’s ability to keep finding new inspiration in sources you already know well. But in my astrological opinion, you shouldn’t do much of this kind of thing in the coming weeks. It’s high time for you to experiment with experiences you know little about. Be fresh, innocent, and curious.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Athens was one of the great cities

of the ancient world. Its vigorous art, theater, philosophy, architecture and experiments in democracy are today regarded as foundational to Western culture.

And yet at its height, Athens’ population was a mere 275,000 — equal to modern Fort Wayne, Indiana or Windsor, Ontario. How could such a relatively small source breed such intensity and potency? That’s a long story. In any case, I foresee you having the potential to be like Athens yourself in the coming weeks and months, Capricorn: a highly concentrated fount of value. For best results, focus on doing what you do best.

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PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Physicist Niels Bohr won a Nobel Prize

for his insights about quantum mechanics. But he was humble about the complexity of the subject. “If you think you understand it, that only shows you don’t know the first thing about it,” he mused. I’m tempted to make a similar statement about the mysteries and riddles that are making your life so interesting. If you think you understand those mysteries and riddles, you probably don’t. But if you’re willing to acknowledge how perplexing they are, and you can accept the fact that your comprehension of them is partial and fuzzy, then you might enjoy a glimmer of the truth that’s worth building on.

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my phone. She broke up with her boyfriend and is insisting that our relationship is closed now. I love my wife, but I feel violated in so many different ways and I’m unsure what to do.

—Married A Dictator

Dear Dan: I am a heterosexual male.

My wife has been dating other men for the past year. When she started dating her first boyfriend, she told me she wasn’t ready for me to date other people but would process through it and then we could open up the relationship for me, Dear MAD: Your wife should’ve martoo. After about six months, ried a cuckold — a man ROMAN ROBINSON her first relationship ended who wants to remain faithand we both started looking ful to a woman who fucks for other partners. She around on him and dates found another guy pretty other men — and you much right away and it took should’ve married a a few months before I startwoman who isn’t a controled dating. I had a couple ling, manipulative, dates with this woman and unhinged hypocrite. Luckily then kissed her at the end for you both, MAD, a of our second date. When I divorce that would allow told my wife what hapeach of you to find a new pened, she got jealous and partner — a cuck for her, a angry. A day later, my wife sane person for you — is stole my phone and sent a still an option. message to the woman I’d been dating ending our relationship, and then she Dear Dan: I’m a straight, 45-year-old blocked the woman from my social media man.

Good-looking. Three college accounts and deleted her number from degrees and one criminal conviction.

him. Rejection sucks, I know, but allowing yourself to succumb to bitterness only guarantees more rejection. And first things first: Keep working on your depression with your mental-health team and please consider giving up alcohol.

(I’m sure you’ve already considered it.

Reconsider it.) No one is looking for perfection in a partner — and no one can offer perfection — but if dating you is likely to make someone’s life harder, SHORT, they aren’t going to want to date you. So get yourself into good working order and then start looking for a partner.

And since you know you have better luck when you meet people face-to-face, don’t spend all your time on dating apps.

Instead, find things you like to do and go do them. Maybe you can pick a presidential candidate you like — one who supports coverage for mental-health care? — and volunteer on their campaign.

On the Lovecast — Talking to boys about sex with Peggy Orenstein: savagelovecast.com. Send questions to mail@ savagelove.net, follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage, and visit ITMFA.org.

Twice divorced. I’ve had some intense relationships with women I met by chance — one knocked on my door looking to borrow an egg — so I know I can impress women. But online dating doesn’t work for me because I’m only 5-foot-7. Most women online filter me out based on height. The other problem is that I’m extremely depressed. I’m trying to work on the depression (seeing a psychiatrist and a psychologist), but the medications don’t seem to do much for me. This is probably due to my alcoholism. I’d love to start my online profile by boldly proclaiming my height and my disdain for shallow women who disregard me for it, but that would come across as bitter, right?

—Serious Heartbreak Over Relationship Travails Dear SHORT: There are plenty of 5-foot-tall women out there, SHORT, women you’d tower over. But there are very few women who would respond positively — or at all — to a man whose online dating profile dripped with contempt for women who don’t want to fuck

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’m no scientist, but it seems like studying cannabis is kind of like studying the depths of the ocean: the deeper you go the more mind-blowing stuff you discover.

In 2019, a team of Italian researchers found a new compound in cannabis that could be 30 times as potent as THC.

Sounds pretty intense, right? Sure, but as always, there’s a lot we still don’t know.

According to the research published in the journal Scientific Reports, the new compound, dubbed tetrahydrocannabiphorol (THCP), reacts with the CB1 receptor, same as good ol’ THC. The difference comes in the side chain of atoms each compound has that allows it to connect with cannabinoid receptors.

These alkyl side chains (if you want more chemistry, you’re gonna have to look it up yourself, sorry) must have at least three carbon rings in order to plug into the CB1 receptor. THC typically has five carbon rings. But science has long posited that eight carbon rings would provide the best fit for the receptor and elicit the strongest biological response.

THCP has — wait for it — seven carbon rings.

Because it has a closer fit with CB1, THCP binds more reliably to the receptor than THC, like, 30 times more reliably, which is why scientists think it may be 30 times more potent.

This theory was supported by giving THCP to lab mice, who acted just like they would if they were given THC: their movements slowed, temperatures decreased and their reactions to painful stimuli diminished. The researchers found it would take about twice as much THC to induce the same effects in mice.

Problem is, they still don’t know how THCP will react in humans. Like many of the compounds found in cannabis, THCP appears to be present only in small amounts, though researchers were using low-THC cannabis for the study. Still, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to develop larger

amounts of THCP in the lab, we just don’t know yet. And just because THCP binds to the CB1 receptor more reliably than THC, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will produce the same high as THC. Nor does it mean it will produce the same sought-after medicinal effects (appetite stimulation, and pain and nausea relief).

The research team found another compound they dubbed cannabidiphorol, CBDP, which looks like, you guessed it, CBD but with a seven-carbon alkyl ring. But, just like CBD, CBDP doesn’t bind strongly to either CB1 or CB2. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have functionality. In their findings, the researchers said they will remain “focused on testing [CBDP’s] anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-epileptic activity, which are typical of CBD.” At this point, nearly 150 phytocannabinoids have been found in the cannabis plant, but the majority still haven’t been isolated or characterized. We’re going to be seeing more research diving into these compounds, like THCP. “In our opinion,” the team wrote in their findings, “this compound should be included in the list of the main phytocannabinoids to be determined for a correct evaluation of the pharmacological effect of the cannabis extracts administered to patients. In fact, we believe that the discovery of an extremely potent THC-like phytocannabinoid may shed light on several pharmacological effects not ascribable solely to [THC].”

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Mayor Bloomberg and dumb and dumber

by Paul Danish

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ile under “dumb” and “dumber.” This item via Tom Angell at Marijuana Moment: On Feb. 1, Michael Bloomberg told a reporter for KUSA TV in Denver that putting people in jail for marijuana is “really dumb.”

That’s really interesting, because last year the multi-billionaire who is currently trying to buy the Democrats’ presidential nomination opined that legalizing marijuana is “perhaps the stupidest thing any-

body has ever done.”

That comment prompted the KUSA reporter to ask the former New York mayor: “Are the people of Colorado stupid for legalizing it?”

Which caused Michael the B to choke out a, uh, nuanced answer: “Colorado has a right to do what they want to do,” he said generously. “I would advise going slowly to any other state because it’s not clear, doctors aren’t sure whether or not it’s doing damage. But if a state wants to do it, and Colorado and Washington were the first two that did it, that’s up to the state. But what I really object to is putting people in jail for mari-

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juana. That’s really dumb.”

My, my, how Brother Bloomberg’s views on putting people in jail for marijuana possession have “evolved” since he was mayor of New York.

Back then, Hizzoner was a cheerleader for “stopand-frisk” policing, under which cops stopped people for looking at them cock-eyed and made them empty their pockets. The result was tens of thousands of arrests for pot possession, with a spectacularly disproportionate number of the arrestees being black or Hispanic.

But supporting the war on marijuana is tough when you’re running for the presidential nomination of a political party where 76% of the members favor legalizing marijuana (according to a Gallup poll taken last October).

So Mayor Mike’s views have “evolved,” or mutated, as the case may be. In December 2019, he told the Wall Street Journal that he now “believes in decriminalization and doesn’t believe the federal government should interfere with states that have already legalized.”

That’s his story, and he’s stickin’ to it.

For now. I said it before and I’ll say it again (and again) (and again): Throwing people in jail for pot is dumb. Voting for people who made a career out of throwing people in jail for pot and who now act like it wasn’t a big deal, is really dumber.

• • • • Meanwhile Bernie Sanders does not think legalizing marijuana is really dumb. In fact he thinks keeping marijuana illegal is dumb — so dumb that he recently promised to legalize weed in all 50 states on the first day of a Sanders presidency.

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Could he really do that?

Nope, but he could come reasonably close.

The Controlled Substances Act — the law which currently defines marijuana as a Schedule I Controlled Substance (the same as heroin) — also sets up a process by which marijuana or any other drug can be rescheduled or removed from the aegis of the act entirely without another act of Congress.

Presumably that authority is what Senator Sanders was thinking of when he promised first-day legalization.

Here’s how it works: The rescheduling process can be initiated by a petition from a citizens’ group or initiated by the attorney general himself (and presumably by the president ordering the attorney general to get moving). If the latter course, the attorney general asks the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for “a scientific and medical evaluation, and his recommendations, as to whether such a drug or other substance should be so controlled or removed as a controlled substance.” The HHS secretary’s findings on scientific and medical issues are binding on the attorney general, and if the secretary unilaterally finds the drug should not be controlled, that finding is also binding on the attorney general.

This rescheduling process could not be done on day one of a Sanders presidency. For one thing, both the attorney general and the HHS secretary would have to be confirmed by Congress, a process that can drag on for weeks after the inauguration. And a “scientific and medical evaluation,” even a perfunctory one, would take additional time.

Earlier Sanders promised to legalize marijuana within the first 100 days of taking office.

That’s a more realistic time-line. And one that by government standards still passes for warp speed.

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