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During a visit to Petare — a slum in Caracas, Venezuela — Giselle Cesin (second from right) talks to community leaders about their water issues three days before the 2018 elections.

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What does it take to get good policies from ‘good’ public officials?

by Jim Hightower

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ometimes we forget that the progressive movement’s political goal is not just to elect “good” officials, but to enact good public policy.

From my eight-year experience as Texas agriculture commissioner, I can attest that the second goal does not necessarily follow the first. One major pledge of my campaign, for example, was to reduce pesticide poisonings of people and the environment. On taking office, though, I was swarmed by chemical lobbyists, governors, legislators and other intimidating forces of the ag-poison complex, demanding that I “move to the middle of the road.” This onslaught MARCH 7, 2019

was daunting, and my resolve wobbled... until farmworker advocates and environmentalists confronted me and a farmer friend scoffed, “Hell, Hightower, there’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”

That perked me up. We rallied, pushed ahead and delivered on my campaign promise.

I see three distinct steps for getting good policies from officials who mean well but might back away under pressure: 1) The movement itself must go inside with those we elect, providing aggressive public support to shore up the progressive agenda that lobbyists and big I

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donors will pressure our new officials to water down.

2) We must confront our electeds when they drift, prodding them privately and publicly to be as bold as their promises.

3) We must ride the momentum of our election victories to push — from inside and out — additional proposals for long-term structural changes to democratize America’s economic, social and political systems.

Election Day ends the process for choosing good officials, but the next day starts the democratic process for gaining progressive policies. To “win,” we must keep doing what brought us this far: Organizing, harmonizing and mobilizing at the grassroots level.

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

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Israel and the Democrats

By Dave Anderson

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srael Will Be the Great Foreign Policy Debate of the Democratic Primary” proclaimed a headline on BuzzFeed News in January.

Support for the Israeli government is no longer a bipartisan cause.

“I think every 2020 presidential contender will be asked how can they stand by Benjamin Netanyahu when he openly supports Trump’s border wall and compares it to his own Draconian policies,” said Walheed Shahid, communications director for the influential progressive group Justice Democrats.

IfNotNow, a progressive organization whose goal is “to end American Jewish support for the occupation,” is planning to pressure the Democratic Party. Yonah Lieberman, a founding member of the group, told BuzzFeed News, “For us, for young American Jews, we don’t see a distinction between supporting Palestinian freedom and supporting a Green New Deal. We don’t see a distinction between believing that the occupation is a moral crisis and believing that health care is a human right.”

IfNotNow is urging 2020 presidential hopefuls to boycott the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference later this month. AIPAC is a lobby which claims to speak for the American Jewish community, but it is more hawkish and supportive of Netanyahu than most American Jews are.

In 2016, while running for president, Bernie Sanders shocked some when he declined to speak at the AIPAC conference because he was busy campaigning. He instead spoke at a rally in Salt Lake City. He offered the speech as a telecast to AIPAC, an offer that was denied. In previous years, AIPAC had allowed Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney to address the conference remotely.

Unfortunately, few in the broadcast media covered Sanders’ speech.

He told his audience that he has always supported Israel’s security but insisted “peace also means security for every Palestinian. It means achieving self-determination, civil rights and economic well-being for the Palestinian people.”

Sanders also criticized the continBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

ued building of Jewish settlements on the West Bank and the economic blockade of Gaza. He condemned both Hamas’ rocket attacks into Israel and Israel’s bombing of hospitals, schools and refugee camps. He said that while Israel is a friend of the United States, “as friends, we are obligated to speak the truth as we see it.

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especially in difficult times.”

What does it mean to be “proIsrael”? In 2009, J Street, a “pro-Israel, pro-peace” advocacy group, was founded to challenge AIPAC. It is led

by Jeremy Ben-Ami, a former Clinton administration aide. It strongly backs a two-state solution and considers the Israeli occupation of Palestine to be a threat to democracy and Jewish values.

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uncomfortable with both Netanyahu’s policies and the conservatives’ flocking to AIPAC.” In a 2014 article on AIPAC in The New Yorker, Connie Bruck describes how AIPAC was in conflict with Israeli Labor Party prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak and Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

In September 1993, Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords, which began a formal peace process with the Palestine Liberation Organization. AIPAC officially supported the agreement. However, Keith Weissman, a former analyst for the lobby, told Bruck: “AIPAC couldn’t act like they were rejecting what the government of Israel did, but the outcry in the organization about Oslo was so great that they found ways to sabotage it.”

In 1995, AIPAC encouraged new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to support bipartisan legislation to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This created a dilemma for Rabin. He knew this would be popular with many Jews but also that such a move would enrage many Arabs and endanger the Oslo peace process. He told AIPAC leaders that he opposed the bill but they went ahead anyway. The bill passed overwhelmingly. Bill Clinton would invoke a national-security waiver to prevent its enactment. Bush Jr. and Obama did the same thing. But Trump decided to move the embassy.

Rabin would be assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish religious fanatic who was enraged by the peace process.

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people would yell “Assassin!” at his rallies because many felt that he had helped create a poisonous atmosphere with his vehement denunciations of Rabin and his peace policies.

Netanyahu didn’t get along with Clinton but his relations with Obama were much worse. He was allowed to denounce the Iran nuclear deal in an address before the U.S. Congress. He essentially campaigned against Obama’s re-election in 2012.

Now Netanyahu is running for reelection and is facing a massive corruption scandal. He claims he is the victim of a witch hunt and fake news by the media. He recently pushed three far-right parties to merge. One of them is Otzma Yehudit, which is the new name for the late Rabbi Meir Kahane’s old party, which was outlawed by the Israeli government as racist. The U.S. State Department listed the party as a terrorist organization.

A supporter murdered 29 Palestinians at prayer in their mosque and the party praised him. Current leaders advocate the expulsion of all non-Jews from Israel, and the criminalization of Jewish-Arab relationships. This is Israel’s equivalent of the KKK. The American Jewish Committee (AJC) released a statement condemning Otzma Yehudit. AIPAC tweeted that it supported the AJC’s condemnation. But neither the AJC or AIPAC condemned Netanyahu or even mentioned him. By the way, Netanyahu is scheduled to address AIPAC’s national conference March 24-26 in Washington D.C. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Anderson wrong on Latin America Glad to hear this opinion (Re: “Changes in Latin America,” The Anderson Files, Feb. 21, 2019) does not reflect that of the publication. I find the information above selective, of course reflecting the author’s opinion and political leanings, but unfortunately not inclusive of the “whole” truth. A reminder that: Bolsonaro was elected in free and democratic elections; that previous left-leaning leaders have presided over widespread corruption, uncontrolled crime and poverty, while making themselves ever wealthier with graft, money laundering — please Google “Lavajato” and “Odebrecht” for examples. Ex-president Lula da Silva (Workers Party) has just been indicted and is serving 13 years on various counts of corruption. Having lived in South America myself, for many years, I would also like to state that while there have certainly been despotic military regimes, military governments have not always had a negative effect on their countries... and in many instances, were involved in combating guerrilla warfare. Having been a general does not imply de-facto despotism. In fact, you need not look further than the United States, for an instance of benign military leadership, in which a general, Eisenhower, became president.

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Where’d the money go?

Some announced Democratic candidates for president and a few freshman Congresspersons have urged higher marginal tax rates on those who have the means to pay more — much more. These ideas have drawn a good deal of attention.

Conservatives can stop their handwringing and get over their apoplexy now by realizing how this can work.

Consider a $50 million asset portfolio growing by 3 percent annually (exclude the primary residence, naturally). At a 70-percent rate, the tax on that $1.5-million throw-off would be $1,050,000, leaving $450 grand of net new money. No retreat here; there’s still growth.

With similar brackets in effect during the late 1930s, we still won World War II. So why are the wealthy whining?

Excessive concentration of wealth leads to economic calamities. It hapBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

pened in the early 1870s and again in the 1930s. The 1 percent contains nearly all of its wealth; they don’t throw it around the (“ordinary”) economy. How many steak and lobster dinners can one person eat daily?

These folks invest the money; hence, it is in effect “frozen out” of circulation. And only money moving greases GDP. But does this investment “create jobs?” Anyone who has looked long and hard at that sees 1) the lion’s share of the jobs don’t last; and 2) the employment register, read through the lens of payroll, is significantly skewed. Say the top five executives pull down $3 million each, not counting stock options, and the other 30 people draw $40,000 to $100,000 each. Make the total for that group, say, a bit north of $2 million. That makes the money score 15-to-2.

Private schooling for Muffie and Skip may employ a couple of teachers, but who could say unequivocally these could not find employment elsewhere? Teachers may move for a number of reasons. The embarrassment of riches is a zero-sum game (Paul Krugman and Lester Thurow tell us), and don’t wish you can believe differently.

And don’t assume wealth automatically grants wisdom.

Gregory Iwan/Longmont

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An insider’s view of the Venezuelan crisis

by Giselle Cesin

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ong gone are the days when people in the United States would ask me where I’m from, and when I’d say Venezuela, they’d reply: Minnesota? Doing my best not to roll my eyes, I would take a deep breath, smile and say, “V-E-N-E-Z-U-E-L-A.” Nowadays, my country is making headlines across the American media landscape, and its future is at the top of the Trump administration’s agenda.

Now when I say I’m from Venezuela, people ask: “Do you still have family there? How are they?”

I do have family and friends back home, and I go back several times a year. I have witnessed, firsthand, how my country has plummeted into deep crisis. I have seen friends lose weight because they can no longer afford three meals a day. I have seen people dressed in executive-office clothes in the streets of Caracas, looking for food in the garbage. I have walked in slums where there hasn’t been running water in years. The list goes on. Because the U.S. is now deeply involved in my country, I feel the need to explain what is happening in Venezuela and how we got to this point.

Nicolás Maduro was elected president in 2013 after Hugo Chávez died from cancer. I was working as a reporter at Venevision at the time, and it was beyond hectic. In October 2012 Chávez had defeated Henrique Capriles Radonski — the opposition leader. With Chávez’ death, we only had six months to prepare for a new presidential election. We were caught off guard. We all knew President Chávez was sick, but he was adamant that he was cured and ready for another term. In six months we went from covering a presidential election to covering a funeral, to another presidential election. In April 2013, Maduro won a hotly contested victory by less than two percentage points over Capriles.

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started calling him “The illegitimate one,” claiming the margin of victory too small, the election biased and pointing out that Maduro’s campaign had many advantages compared to Capriles’. For example, Maduro had money from PDVSA, the national oil company, and the state, which he used to organize meetings and pay off voters.

Even as he took office, the weight of funding his predecessor’s popular social programs, “Misiones,” which include low-income free housing, subsidized food and nearly free medicine, quickly became a massive drain on the economy. Alongside widespread corruption and low oil prices, these social programs drove Venezuela into a spiral of hyperinflation, extreme poverty and food and medicine shortages.

In 2014, mass protests and sometimes dangerous street barricades, known as “guarimbas” sprang up all over the country. In 2015, an opposition unified party, known as MUD, won two-thirds of the parliament. But in 2017, Maduro found a way to diminish the opposition’s power by creating a new legislative body called the Constituent Assembly, taking all power from the rightful democratically elected National Assembly.

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lence that had gripped the country.

The creation of Maduro’s Constituent Assembly did not bring prosperity nor peace. As the days went by, the crisis deepened, consumer goods became more scarce, and millions of Venezuelans started fleeing the country, causing an unprecedented migration crisis in Latin America.

Amid the turmoil of this political, economic and humanitarian crisis, presidential elections were held in May 2018. They were completely different from the previous two I’d covered.

Driving all over Caracas, I noticed that there were no lines at the voting centers as there had been in the past. The lack of turnout was palpable. Maduro won, but the opposition and international observers alleged that the election results were illegitimate and that Maduro was simply giving a democratic façade to what was now his dictatorship.

The 2018 elections are the reason more than 60 countries today do not recognize Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela. Instead, they recognize Juan Guaidó, a 35-year-old politician who came out of nowhere and took

Venezuela and the world by surprise.

Guaidó started his political career mentored by the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who has been under arrest the last five years. As a member of Lopez’s Voluntad Popular party, Guaidó won a seat in the National Assembly in 2015. In January 2019, Guaió was sworn in as President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, just a few days before Maduro was sworn in for his second term.

On Jan. 23, Guaidó proclaimed himself the interim president of Venezuela asserting that Maduro’s election was fraudulent and had left the country without a legitimate president. Guaidó based his claim in Article 233 of the Constitution of Venezuela that states that if the president-elect is absent, the president of the National Assembly must take office until new elections are held.

The international media’s penchant for using the term “self-proclaimed” when describing Guaidó has brought a good deal of criticism from him and even his supporters as they all believe Guaidó is following the Constitution.

Right after his proclamation, the Trump administration backed Guaidó’s claim, recognizing him as the true president while imposing more sanctions on the Maduro regime and PDVSA. More than 60 countries followed the lead of the U.S., while Maduro scrambled to secure the support of Cuba, Bolivia, Iran, Mexico, Russia, Uruguay and China. While some other countries have remained “neutral” like Italy, they are still calling for new elections to end the crisis.

Many of my friends back home and Venezuelans around the world see President Trump, John Bolton, Mike Pence, Elliott Abrams, Mike Pompeo and Senator Marco Rubio as heroes — the only hope for solving the crisis. It’s not unusual when reading the comments of any of these U.S. politicos on social media posts about Venezuela, to see thousands of thank you messages and people begging for a U.S. military intervention.

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A DARKENED HALLWAY of the University Hospital of Caracas during a blackout. Water and electricity are only available a few days each week.

Emergency patients can only pray they come on the right day.

taking place in my country, it’s common to see people displaying banners in support of the Trump administration and wearing hats with the quote “Make Venezuela D’pinga again” emulating the well-known MAGA hats.

“D’pinga” is Venezuelan slang for “awesome.”

There is a joke about the next popular baby names that will be showing up in Venezuela. For years, many Venezuelans have named their children inspired by American pop-culture. For example, there is a Venezuelan woman named “Disneylandia.” There’s a “Maikel Jordan” and several “Usnavys” after a U.S Navy ship was seen at the coasts of Maracaibo City many years ago. So now, with the level of popularity of members of the Trump administration, the bets are that “Donaltrun,” “Maikepence,” “Marcorubio” and “Jonbolton” will be pretty popular in the near future.

Guaidó, with strong support from the international community and perhaps the vast majority of all Venezuelans, is insisting that the army let humanitarian aid enter the country to help ease the deadly crisis.

But his main political agenda has three specific demands, not counting accepting humanitarian aid. First, he’s demanding Maduro resign; second, he wants the installation of a transitional government led by him in accordance with the Constitution; and finally, he’s calling for free, democratic elections. Easier said than done.

For Guaidó’s plan to be successful, he needs Maduro to either voluntarily cede power or secure the support of the Venezuelan military. So far, the military is siding with Maduro, even though many members and some leaders have switched their allegiance to Guaidó. Still, there is always the option of foreign military intervention.

The Trump administration has repeatedly said that all options are on the table to solve the Venezuelan crisis.

After what happened on Saturday, Feb. 23, this intervention scenario seems increasingly more plausible.

As that Saturday approached, I could not sleep. I found myself checking the news constantly. Feb. 23 was billed as the day when the humanitarian aid sent by the nations supporting Guaidó was going to enter Venezuela, BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

GESELLE CESIN A YOUNG GIRL getting water in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. A slum where more than half a million people have No running water.

through the borders of Brazil and Colombia. Instead, it ended with trucks full of aid supplies on fire, riots, injuries and blood in the streets.

In the aftermath of Maduro’s forces refusing to allow the aid to enter, Marco Rubio tweeted a condemnation of the events and hinted at the possibility of a military response: “The whole world saw the regime use security forces and gangs to injure and kill unarmed civilians. The whole world saw them set fire to three trucks carrying food and other humanitarian aid.

They will soon realize just how badly they overplayed their hand today.”

Guaidó, speaking from Colombia in response to the violent events on the border, called for a meeting on Feb. 25 with the international community, because he felt “obligated” to keep “all options open to liberate the country,” he said.

Maduro supporters claimed that it was violent groups paid by the opposition who set aid trucks on fire and acted violently in an effort to give the U.S. military an excuse for intervention. According to Maduro, an intervention could spark a civil war in Venezuela.

Throughout February, the tension grew day by day. Guaidó and his supporters urged the military to let the aid inside the country. Maduro maintained his orders that the army continue to keep the border closed, claiming that the humanitarian aid was just an excuse and prelude to military interI

vention. The Maduro administration has gone so far as to claim Venezuela is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis, even though at the same time it is accepting medicines from Russia to ease the crisis that it says does not exist. In the past few months, Maduro has not asked for and has rejected offers of humanitarian relief by the Red Cross and the United Nations.

During the violent events of Feb. 23, friends and family group chats and social media exploded with messages of concern. It is getting worse every day. Venezuelans inside and outside the country are hooked to our phones, checking the social media profiles of key players on the crisis and journalists who are covering the events.

For many years, such social media has been the only way of getting accurate information inside the country, because the government severely censors broadcast and print media.

Points of view can get so polarized that taking a stand can alienate you from friends and family, despite being in the same “boat.” For instance, in my friends and family chat groups, it gets heated when someone says, “Oh I don’t trust Trump,” or, “I don’t want a military intervention.”

People in the U.S. who have strong anti-Trump feelings or socialist-left political views tend not to support any intervention in Venezuela’s internal issues and some even believe that the crisis is due to the U.S.-imposed sanctions. But then you have millions of Venezuelans applauding everything the Trump administration does.

There are many half-jokes on social media that Venezuelans will come build the wall for free if Trump manages to overthrow Maduro. After the border clashes, thousands of Venezuelans messaged Rubio and members of the Trump administration through social media asking for immediate intervention to overthrow Maduro.

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But despite all of these extreme differences of opinion, there is a reality that is simply the truth: Venezuela needs a change, the crisis needs to be addressed. People are dying. It has to stop, and this is why: Hyperinflation in Venezuela is just impossible to understand. The rate stands at 27,364 percent. The prices change so much every hour that even though I was born and raised there, on my most recent trip home last December, I could not keep up. I had to constantly ask how many American dollars any amount was. Also, credit cards cannot keep up with the hyperinflation. To pay for dinner in a fancy place you might need several cards with the maximum limit just to afford one meal.

Venezuelans who have access to American bank accounts are constantly exchanging dollars in the black market to fight hyperinflation. When my uncle died three months ago, my family went immediately to get a quote from the funeral home. They then asked me, living in the U.S. to exchange dollars to bolivars in order to pay the fee, but I was busy at the time and it took me about four hours do it. When they went to pay, the funeral home told them the price had already gone up by 15 percent in only four hours. So, I had to exchange the extra, quickly, because first, they wouldn’t take the body of my uncle without full payment even though it was literally lying right outside. And second, because the fee would just keep getting higher by the hour.

More than 80 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty. With the minimum wage in Venezuela, you would only be able to afford a beer in the U.S. once a month and nothing else. Venezuelans make $6.13 per month on average. With hyperinflation and the abrupt rise in prices, that’s nothing. When people back home go buy groceries, they can barely afford a dozen eggs.

Because of this, the government subsidizes food with a program called CLAP that gives people a small bag of food per month that has to be rationed to make it last. It takes many long hours in line to get a bag. The food shortage has caused more than 50 percent of Venezuelans to lose an aversee VENEZUELA Page 12

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age of 25 pounds, in what is now known as the “Maduro Diet.”

And hell, I have seen many of my acquaintances and friends just shed weight away.

On my last visit to Caracas — last Christmas — I saw a friend I hadn’t seen in a couple of years, and complemented her on how slim she was looking. She said, yes, “Maduro’s diet.” At first, I thought she was joking, but then I was hit with the reality that this middle-class professional woman could not afford three meals per day.

It has gotten so bad that tips are given in food. With the currency worth almost nothing, you have to literally wire money to give someone a meaningful tip: It’s more common now for people to go out with pieces of cake or bananas to give away as tips.

Living in such a depressing environment has made Venezuelans look for better, more creative ways to help feed the vast majority of the country.

People will cook whenever they can, as many as 50-60 meals, and drive around cities to give away plates of food.

Medicines are scarce. Venezuelans need to go to the black market or social media to look for medicines.

For example, not a day goes by that I don’t see friends looking for medicines in my social media feed. And the most outrageous thing is that people are swapping goods, like trading antibiotics for flour or toilet paper.

In hospitals, it is not only medicines that are missing, but water, electricity and essential services. A walk past any public hospital is a heartbreaking scene. It makes you feel like there is no hope in the world. My cousin is a surgeon at a public hospital, and they do surgeries Tuesdays and Thursdays because it is when they have water.

When emergencies come, they just have to improvise, sometimes even paying for bottled water out of their own pockets to help people.

Also, the elevator hasn’t worked at his hospital for a long time. So, to call it, he opens the doors and screams into the shaft which floor he wants. In order to get a “quick service,” he befriended the person who operates the elevator by giving him food. All of 12

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this while trying to save lives on a daily basis.

If you need surRight: The Venezuelan gery in Venezuela, version of a you are given a list MAGA hat. of things you have to bring to the hospital, including medicine and sometimes surgical instruments and other medical staples. And then, if you do manage to find everything, you have to pray there will be water and electricity.

The process of finding all the supplies is described by Venezuelans as if they are on an episode of the popular zombie show, The Walking Dead.

Many Venezuelans abroad, who can spare some money to help out — once they have helped their own families — will send money to foundations to address emergencies. I collaborate with one foundation, and one day I got an urgent message from them asking if I could help pay for exams and medicines for a newborn who was in really bad shape. I immediately said yes. To my surprise, his life was worth $23.

It is hard to come to terms with how someone can die for the cost of a lunch. But it is happening every day in Venezuela to the point that, according to the Secretary of the Organization of American States, newborns in Syria have a better chance to live than those born in Venezuela. And we are not even technically at war.

The reasons for the widespread lack of food and medicines have their roots in the Chávez era. Chávez used high oil prices as a way to subsidized food, housing and medicines. In other words, oil funded his “revolution” to create the so-called “21st century Socialism.”

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With massive amounts of oil money coming in, the government imported food and medicines and then sold it at greatly subsidized prices. At the same time, Chávez overrode the free-market system by increasing regulations on prices, production and agriculture. The government seized private lands and businesses and that deeply impacted the private production of goods. When oil prices came crashing down, so did the Venezuelan economy, and the current crisis was born.

As a result, more than 3 million Venezuelans have left the country and are now living in precarious conditions all over South America, North America and Europe. Mass emigration has Venezuelans with professional careers working hard labor jobs for as little as $6 per day.

Unfortunately, this migration has also spread xenophobia against Venezuelans.

In January, Venezuelans were persecuted and harassed in Ecuador, after an isolated violent crime committed by a Venezuelan migrant. This particularly hurt, because for many years we were the richest country of the region, and we always opened our borders to immigrants. It is difficult to find a Venezuelan who does not have at least one immigrant grandparent.

The stories of what Venezuelans are enduring as immigrants in other countries are heartbreaking. From women being sexually exploited to dozens of people living herded in insalubrious spaces. But leaving everything behind is the only option to feed their families. Leaving has become the only way for young people to have a future.

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of young Venezuelan migrants. Some have bicycled in terrible conditions for months to get to Peru, Chile or Ecuador so they can try to get a job.

Buying a bus or plane ticket would have been impossible. Imagine how desperate one can be to bike for months into the unknown with no money to go earn the equivalent of $10 a day.

And I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse. The United Nations estimates that there will be 5.3 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants by the end of 2019, and it’s noteworthy that this is the first time that the U.N. has set up a refugee response in Latin America, according to Human Rights Watch. This incredible figure represents 18 percent of the country’s entire population. Every single one of them deserves a home to go back to.

But without some kind of change, such a return is impossible.

Maduro’s policies since he took power in 2013 have done nothing to ease the crisis, which has been getting worse year by year. A cloud of inefficiency and corruption has tainted his regime alongside a turbulent political situation.

Though it’s hard for most people to imagine today, it wasn’t that long ago when Venezuelans didn’t leave Venezuela. Some of us would go and study abroad, but nearly all of us came back because we had the belief that our country was the best — we still do. We are living in exile not because we want to, but because we are forced to.

Venezuelans will go back when there are opportunities and progress. What do you do when you want to go back home, but the home you once knew no longer exists? I hope you never have to find that answer for yourself.

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hen an Oakland warehouse-turnedartists-collective known as the Ghost Ship exploded in flames in December 2016, it took the lives of 36 people, drawing both public scrutiny and criminal charges against its organizers. But for Randy Shaw, longtime housing advocate and director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which provides permanent housing for homeless single adults in San Francisco, the Ghost Ship tragedy turned the spotlight on what he sees as a national housing crisis.

“How can it be that Oakland, which was always the affordable alternative to San Francisco, how can it be that now artists and bohemians can’t even get safe housing in Oakland?” he asks.

The questions that started in Oakland led Shaw around the country to cities — some large and some relatively small — facing similar issues. Skyrocketing rents and rising home values, compounded by systemic racial and economic inequality, is pricing many people out of cities. And it’s not only happening in places like New York and San Francisco, which have historically high costs of living.

From Seattle and Portland to Austin, Cambridge, Denver and Boulder, Shaw observes a mostly generational divide between homeowners and renters, baby boomers and millennials, as more and more middle- to low-income people are forced farther and farther away from services, jobs and city centers. In his new book Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, Shaw focuses on so-called progressive cities, challenging his own boomer generation of Democrats to consider the needs of millennial liberals in urban landscapes.

“Boulder personifies it as strong as any place in the country, I would say,” Shaw says. “Boulder has been so insistent on stopping height and density

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that they have not provided opportunities for affordability.”

Around the country, Shaw ran into similar issues: city leaders and policy makers talking about prioritizing inclusivity and diversity while not addressing affordability, which Shaw sees as the heart of the problem. For him, what leaders are saying does not match up with land-use policies that would create the kinds of cities where these diverse communities can flourish. At the same time, economic policies are drawing more and more businesses, creating the jobs millenials want while not providing the necessary infrastructure they need to live where they work.

“The supervisors and elected officials who oppose infill housing, they’re not opposing jobs,” he says. “They’re not saying, ‘Wait a minute, we have to stop jobs.’”

Take Boulder for example. In December 2018, employment reached an all-time high, with 196,000 jobs according to the Current Employment Statistics Survey at the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. This far exceeds the population of the city, which according to the latest estimates is about 107,000, while in all of Boulder County there are only 136,000 housing units, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s a trend Shaw observes around the country: longer and longer commute times, mostly in places with-

out sufficient public transit, which can undermine other progressive policies like environmentalism and fighting climate change.

“You have people in places like Boulder and Berkeley who really pride themselves on being environmentalists. They drive a Prius, they recycle their household waste. They may have solar panels, but then they don’t realize that by not allowing housing in most of the city, they’re requiring people to commute by car, which undermines all the benefits of what they’re doing in their own personal life,” Shaw says. “I think we have an older generation that had a different catalog of issues that they called environmental. They want to save the mountains, they want to save the lakes, they want to save the natural surroundings, but they weren’t really on top of the infill and urban kind of environmentalism, and I think the millennials are more attuned to that.”

Shaw not only lays out the current problems in his book, he also includes a list of 10 solutions he thinks could help move current trends toward affordability. No. 1 is to simply build more housing as population grows.

In order to meet this demand in Boulder, and elsewhere, Shaw argues the need for “significantly more housing of all types in all neighborhoods” — unrestrained building with increased density, larger projects and expedited development without prohibitive policies like exclusionary zoning laws. He encourages the use of public land for affordable housing, strong tenant protections like rent-control and just-cause eviction laws, while preserving rental properties from redevelopment. More than anything, Shaw concludes, the only way to accomplish any of this is to “organize, educate and get political.”

Where he’s discouraged by neighborhood alliances of homeowners that often push back on development, he sees hope in a younger generation of housing advocates who are becoming increasingly vocal in shaping the kinds of cities they need.

“I do think that progress is being made,” he says. “It’s not going at the pace maybe many of us would like, but I think we’re seeing positive change... we’re seeing more people trying to do the right thing.”

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s projections call for continued population growth in Colorado — adding the equivalent of another Denver by 2050 — current residents bear witness to additional multi-family complexes, big-box single-family homes and an ever-rising skyline.

Many of these developments, which utilize traditional designs, continue to expand in Boulder County and along the Front Range, while municipalities, farmers and industries haggle to procure and transport water resources to distant projects, traffic congestion continues to pile up for even short commutes, and food costs may depend as much on local weather as international politics.

Residents can take some solace, however, as some forward-thinking designers, gardeners, teachers and developers are laying the foundation for what could be a more sustainable blueprint for how we develop into the future.

Ecological designer and Boulder permaculture instructor Avery Ellis recently explained to a group at the Longmont Library how the principles of permaculture have evolved to meet the challenges of a changing world. Permaculture, which began as an attempt to establish a “permanent agriculture,” is an ecological design science which attempts to observe and apply patterns found in nature, Ellis told the group sponsored by the Longmont Coalition for People and Pollinators.

“Agriculture was where it started,” he said. “Food is the foundation. People around the world started applying patterns to everything that we do.” What began with agriculture now includes culture, food

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On one private property in Boulder, Ellis placed swales and berms in the creation of an apple orchard. While the berms and swales help with water retention to support the trees, under plantings of umbels such as dill, carrots and anise help attract a predatory moth, which kills the codling moths, which often ruin apple crops. On this 3-acre orchard, Ellis says, he is focusing on utilizing as many patterns of nature as possible while putting in the least amount of work. “How can we make elements of ecology support each other?” he asks. “It’s working.”

It is these synergistic relationships found in nature that permaculture tries to recreate. For instance, pesticide-free perennial polycultures consisting of large swaths or clumps of annuals and perennials, shrubs and fruits, which create habitat throughout the season, are best for supporting pollinators, Ellis says.

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by John Loughran and economy, he said.

“If humanity is to survive, we need to create a permanent culture. We need to have common values,” Ellis tells Boulder Weekly. Polarized discussions are not indicative of community, he adds.

“You have to get to the root of any issue — values and ethics. ‘Earthcare,’ ‘peoplecare’ and ‘fair share’ serve as the ethical foundations of permaculture, and today some might also add ‘future care,’” Ellis explains. “We mostly agree that caring for Earth is a good thing — and sharing abundance.”

Ellis, who holds degrees in biology and environmental design as well as several permaculture certificates and diplomas, is applying some of those principles and values as a consultant around Boulder

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Ellis also incorporated permaculture concepts into the design and orientation of the Bohn Farm co-housing project, set to break ground in Longmont next spring. The mixed-use development will also have a two-acre community garden on the property, which Ellis is helping to plan.

“There are many stakeholders in any project.

There are many values that have to be met,” he says.

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AVERY ELLIS uses his background in biology and environmental design as a permaculture consultant around Boulder County.

ern orientation on the south-facing slope would open home windows up to more passive solar heat gains in winter while reducing summer cooling needs due to hot late afternoon sun.

“I was looking at wind direction, water flow, architecture, stud placement and sunlight,” he says. “That’s what permaculture offers — a holistic approach.”

Ellis also organized a community permaculture workshop for future residents who are already involved with the Bohn Farm project, in the hopes of creating a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that will ideally produce enough for both residents and the neighboring community.

Each household will receive a CSA share in exchange for five hours of work on a project of a resident’s choosing. “You can’t just tell a person, ‘I want you to do this.’ Social systems are much more dynamic,” Ellis says.

Unlike traditional gardens that need replanting each year, this site will create a food forest that will consist of approximately 60 percent perennial and 40 percent annual crops in addition to the fruit trees. In 2017, participants ordered 40 bare root fruit trees, which were then potted with soil and compost and are now staged behind the existing barn. “All those trees should be, two years from now, mature and ready to plant on location,” says Peter Spaulding, developer of the project.

Ellis was also instrumental in helping the community apply for a Colorado Water Conservation Board grant, which could provide matching funds to help educate the public about

some of the water-saving features on the site. One aspect incorporated into the water plan is a German concept called hugelkulture, where crops are grown on mounds of compost and debris, which helps hold moisture and build fertility while also serving as a natural carbon sequestration mechanism. Spaulding says they plan to create the mounds by utilizing some of the debris from the previous farmsite, such as old fences and tree chippings, which will be buried with the new trees being planted on top.

“This allows us to use the land as a carbon sink,” he says. “We’re looking at educational programs into the future.” The public “will get to see what a low-impact development looks like,” Spaulding says.

Ellis compares the network of classes he and other permaculturists and farmers teach at Boulder Permaculture to an interdependent plant guild, such as corn, beans and squash, in which the sum of the parts is stronger than the individual.

The courses, which begin April 13, are offered at a dozen different locations throughout the year such as Thorne Environmental Center, the Lyons Farmette and 63rd Street Farm. “We collaborate with these different sites. Through education, we’re integrating the farms with the community,” he says. “We get stronger by being in a relationship together.”

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hen George Dirth was in elementary school, his mother, Lisa, picked him up early from school on Friday afternoons. They’d head to the tiny ski hill near their New Hampshire home, where George would take a lesson and, if he had his way, snowboard until the lifts stopped running.

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life changed irrevocably when George died in an avalanche on Colorado’s Parkview Mountain on New Year’s Eve in 2013.

“It’s been five years,” she explains tearfully, “but it doesn’t get any easier.”

There’s no such thing as an avalanche fatality that isn’t sad. Every victim leaves behind family, friends, a community. George’s story is no exception: He was young, bright, dating a woman he told his mother was the real deal. He worked remotely as a programmer from his home in Fraser, near Winter Park, where he snowboarded as much as possible.

Never one to do things halfway, George took an avalanche training course and, according to Lisa, carried the necessary rescue equipment (an avalanche transceiver, a probe to check for buried victims and a shovel to dig them out) whenever he went into the backcountry. And he was good in a crisis — earlier in 2013, he helped rescue a woman who had narI

rowly avoided being buried in an avalanche on Berthoud Pass, then became stuck on a rock ledge. (She made it out safely.)

When he died, George was signed up to take an AIARE Level 2 avalanche class the following month. He made sure to travel with friends who knew the drill, too — everyone in the group he toured with on the day of his death had avalanche training. After he was caught, carried and buried, his companions instantly went into rescue mode, picking up a signal from his transceiver in under a minute.

According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) investigation, they dug him out less than 10 minutes after the slide.

But 10 minutes was all it took.

When an avalanche is running downhill, it moves like a river; the raging torrent looks more like water than like the delicate flakes we associate with falling snow. When it slows and comes to a stop, avalanche debris sets up like concrete almost instantly. Generally speaking, it’s impossible to move or even breathe, let alone dig oneself out. By the time George’s friends located his signal and unburied him, he had died of asphyxiation.

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BELOW: GEORGE DIRTH died in an avalanche in 2013. Now his mom, Linda Dirth, works to help educate others users about the risks of backcountry skiing. Photo courtesy of Linda Dirth

Ten minutes doesn’t sound like a lot of time. And it’s not, compared to the aftermath of an accident like this.

His mother knows that as well as anyone. Lisa pauses frequently to collect herself, often fighting back tears, as she recounts stories of George’s childhood, his college rowing years, his success as an adult. She sounds every bit the grieving mother who, five years later, still can’t believe that it’s all past-tense. It’s a feeling, she says, that she wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Lisa wanted to carry on George’s legacy of caring for others in the mountains, and she decided the best way to do that was to make sure people had access to avalanche education. The year after George died, she teamed up with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE), the preeminent purveyor of avalanche education in the United States, to offer a scholarship in George’s name for backcountry see AVALANCHE Page 20

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users to take an awareness course.

She attends some classes herself to give an awareness talk before things kick off.

“I go and I cry and I talk about what it’s like to be left behind,” she says.

“I tell them they need to be safe. Even if they don’t care about their own lives, if they’re so driven to get their line, there are other people that care about them, and they’ll be hurt forever if they’re killed in an avalanche.”

Stories like the Dirth family’s are all too common. Just in the past few weeks there have been two avalanche fatalities in Colorado, making a total of six so far this winter. But there’s a hopeful trend, too. According to data compiled by the CAIC, despite greater-than-ever numbers of backcountry users, avalanche deaths across the West have remained stable, even dropping in some states. Colorado is one of them.

“Nationwide, the trend is essentially flat. In Colorado, we’re seeing a slight decrease,” explains Spencer Logan, lead avalanche specialist for the CAIC. “It’s a statistically significant trend, but we’re talking about [an average of ] just over six fatalities a year to just over five a year.”

Logan has also maintained the CAIC’s accident database since 2007 and has co-authored two volumes (one published in 2017, the other forthcoming) of The Snowy Torrents, a collection of avalanche accident narratives and analysis.

“It could be a lot of factors,” Logan says of the downward trend in avalanche fatalities. “It would be nice to

think public messaging and avalanche education are having a big impact. It seems to be the case, but we don’t have any way of measuring that.

Certainly avy-education is becoming much more common, and that could be a benefit.”

This trend is made more remarkable by the fact that backcountry gear sales are on the rise and trailheads are more crowded than ever. But forecasters’ jobs are more complex now for more reasons than just because more people are skiing. They’re also complicated by the fact that climate change is rewriting the rules. As global warming continues to affect the planet, the methods used to forecast avalanches will need to adapt — and so will backcountry users.

“Making the connection between climate change and avalanche accidents is tricky,” Logan says. Long-term climate changes take many seasons to become obvious, he explains.

Different regions’ snowpacks (maritime, intermountain, continental) have wildly different characteristics, and conditions can vary within those from season to season.

The CAIC documents something like 3,000 to 4,000 avalanches per season, both naturally occurring and human-triggered. Avalanches that caused injury or death are a tiny fraction of those, Logan says, and then, when they try to factor in a climate signal or weather, plus myriad other

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“Talk to some of the folks who are ending their careers after spending 30-odd years at the same ski area or forecast center,” he says. “The rules they’ve used based on 20 years of experience might not be as useful anymore.

All the historic data we have, the patterns we used to see, may not be as reliable as forecasting tools.”

That means long-held conventional wisdom — that avalanche conditions are largely safer in the springtime, for example — might not be so reliable anymore.

“We’re seeing more late-season avalanches,” Logan says. “We’re seeing more wet snow avalanches at higher elevations. Those may not be directly causing accidents, but they are changing what we’re doing as forecasters.”

It may change what we’re doing as backcountry skiers, splitboarders, snowshoers and snowmobilers, too. In that same spring snowpack example, Logan points out that the snow’s surface changes rapidly on longer, warmer days, but the underlying weak layers — the ones that cause avalanches — change very slowly.

“So it can seem like we’re going through a spring cycle, and people feel like they’re skiing corn,” he cautions, “but they’re forgetting about what’s three or four feet beneath the surface.”

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Despite the fact he’s investigated and reported on hundreds of avalanche accidents, if not more, Logan immediately remembers George Dirth and the slide that killed him. When an accident occurs, Logan ends up at the CAIC office, where he starts pulling together information from friends, family, witnesses and search-and-rescue. It sticks with him.

“I think we’re starting to see people recognizing the impact,” he says.

“Both the emotional toll it takes on the communities, as well as on the close friends and family.”

That’s important to Lisa Dirth. “I wanted to start this so nobody else’s mother would have to belong to this club,” she explains. To her, it’s crucial that recipients of George’s scholarship make concrete plans to give back to their communities in some way. One recipient, a med student, wanted to add an evacuation component to avalanche curriculum; another, who was deaf, plans to expand avalanche awareness to the deaf community.

One of the best ways to care for the community, of course, is to stay alive and continue to be part of it. To that end, Logan says, there are a few things you can do. Everyone in your group should carry rescue equipment and check the forecast for the area where you’re headed. He also agrees with Lisa: “Taking an avalanche class is always a good idea.”

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“I’m interested in all the philosophy and the things that go behind these stories. I use them as a guide and way to tell my own story,” she says. “Every person who inherits the story changes it. So you end up with very different stories than when you began, but you still maintain something about the worldview that remains the same. I feel like I’m a storyteller in a way, but maybe not exactly the same.”

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In the exhibit, Buffalohead digs into her Ponca heritage. Each of the paintings is based on the clans inside her tribe, including Hisada (the Straight Leg clan) and Ma Kan (the Medicine clan). Her work features symbols, patterns and animals associated with the different clans, but while they serve as inspiration, the paintings are only loose interpretations.

“This exhibition, it’s not a direct one-to-one correlation like, ‘Oh, this clan believes this thing or that,’” says the show’s curator, John Lukavic. “It’s Julie’s exploration of the learning process, about exploring that side of who she is and kind of navigating the waters of how she, as a feminist, fits within these structures.

There are corollaries that she raises an eyebrow at.”

Buffalohead grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but she visited her Ponca relatives every summer in Oklahoma. She was never too far away from her culture, though. Her parents were both involved in the Native American studies department at the University of Minnesota, and surrounded by her parents’ students, Buffalohead grew up around members of multiple tribes.

When Buffalohead started as an artist, she set out to capture the human experience. As time went on, her work became more personal, focusing on her own experience. Many of the works exhibited at DAM stem directly from her memories of growing up.

Buffalohead’s paintings feature animals used in Native American storytelling, including foxes, owls, bears and rabbits. When she represents herself in the work, Buffalohead frequently uses a deer figure. She also likes to use a coyote figure, which is commonly known as a trickster in mythology.

When she uses the trickster archetype to represent herself, she says, it gives her freedom because tricksters can do or be whatever they want. Moreover, for Buffalohead, the character represents the mosaic of human nature.

“I’ve always been attracted to trickster characters in Native belief systems because they’re so opposite to Judeo-Christian values. Judeo-Christian tends to be about good and evil, and it talks a lot about how you do this and it’s good, or you do that and it’s bad,” she says. “And what [animals like] coyotes and rabbits, who represent tricksters, do is really in the gray. It’s about doing both those things. It’s about having characteristics that make up good and evil, and it’s OK to be a blend of both.

“So I’ve always thought [it represents] what it means to be a human being,” she continues. “That idea is always attractive to me because you don’t have be perfect in life. It’s not always about achieving or doing the right thing or becoming the right person. You’re going to screw up in life, and it’s OK to be in that gray area in life.”

This complexity translates through Buffalohead’s art. Her paintings encapsulate a story in a single frame, and they feature a cast of characters, each with a different motive. In “Straight Legs,” a coyote lounges on a bed locking eyes with a deer, and an owl perches on the deer and stares straight at the audience. There’s much to unpack with the animals’ symbolism, expressions and perceived motives. There’s I

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Another example can be seen between Buffalohead’s use of the deer and the coyote. She’s a member of the Deer sub clan, but she views the coyote as a personal symbol.

This notion is explored in her paintings, says curator Lukavic. She considers her role as an individual and as a member of the tribe.

“When you’re talking about societies like this and structures like this, individualism is not a foundation of those societies and belief systems or protocols,” he says.

“It very much is about the group projecting the rules to the people within it. And that’s different than the way society is moving today in the larger world around her.

She’s just sharing with us this inner dialogue she’s having.”

This questioning continues throughout Buffalohead’s paintings, and it can be seen in her analysis of gender roles and what it means to be a woman. In “A Little Medicine and Magic,” a coyote dons a ’50s-style pink dress while a group of skunks play with her lipstick and purse. “[Buffalohead is] wondering, ‘What does it mean to be an indigenous feminist?’”

Lukavic says. “Because you can be a feminist in larger mainstream society, but what does it mean to be an indigenous feminist within your own community? There is no answer necessarily, other than whatever you individually decide to do.”

Buffalohead puts her inquiry on the canvas. While she works in the context of her own culture, her questions supersede boundaries, making her work relatable to anyone who’s felt societal pressure or struggled with identity issues. Should one push against society or bend to its will?

“What I struggle a lot with as a woman is there’s this expectation that you have to be this sort of sexualized being, but you don’t always feel like you want to be that,” she says. “Or you get disgusted by the fact that we make this such a huge issue that women alter their bodies and do disfiguring things to be something important. I go through that too. I spent my whole life doubting who I was and questioning all these issues.”

Whatever the topic, the main objective, for Buffalohead, is authenticity. It’s visible in her choice to not offer definitive answers.

“I’m not sure if I’ve worked that out for myself — what I think,” Buffalohead says.

“Maybe I haven’t really answered the questions. I’m just posing them in some way.”

Just like those who came before her, Buffalohead is passing down stories, leaving her impression on each. She may not have answers, but she’s keeping the conversation going for the next generation.

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Dave Mason’s journey is a curious one. A songwriter and singer of solid repute, and a guitarist fluent in the American blues-via-Britain vein, Mason’s deepest footprints come by way of a patchwork of songs a little sideways to his substance as an artist. Most commonly associated as a founding member of Traffic, he left the band (twice) before it had fully morphed into a vehicle for Steve Winwood’s heady folk and keys-driven constructions, although he penned a few of their earliest hits that, truth be told, probably first put them on the map. He’s also recalled as Jimi Hendrix’s rhythm guitarist on the iconic “All Along the Watchtower,” although he neither sang the tune nor

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’70s — that’s perfectly OK. Their fans aren’t buying many records, the songs maintain durability on classic rock radio and elsewhere, and the ones who are healthy enough still take live performance seriously. And even the ones who don’t need to work still do, and thankfully, most of them still mean it.

penned it. Later in the ’70s, he scored a hit with the soft-rock lamentation “We Just Disagree,” although he didn’t pen that one either (that was written by his longtime guitarist partner Jim Krueger).

And the song that most people associate with Mason, “Feelin’ Alright?,” although originally cut by Traffic on their second LP in 1968, was swooped up by Joe Cocker, who made it a hit. Twice.

One of that era’s classics, if the term has any meaning, Mason wrote while chilling in Greece as a wanderlust lateteen trying to sun-bleach a woman off his mind. And if it’s commonly recognized as a Cocker hit, arguably his biggest, it is, for better or worse, Mason’s calling card.

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that when Traffic was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the finale was a rendition of that tune, with Mason, Winwood and Traffic drummer and old pal Jim Capaldi sharing an absurdly overcrowded stage with Tom Petty, Keith Richards, Jackson Browne, ZZ Top and (!) The Temptations.

“Yeah,” he chuckles, remembering that night in a brief interview with BW. “That was Paul Shaffer’s idea. He said everybody wanted to jam at the end, get everybody on stage, and he said he wanted to do ‘Feelin’ Alright ?’ I said, ‘Yeah, fine, let’s do it.’”

The song has been good to Mason.

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Gave,” another cut from that Mason left Traffic in late 1968, havalbum, on a satellite feed not long ago, ing increasingly found himself at odds taking us quite by surprise, sandwiched with the musical direction that Winwood as it was between thumpy teen soul-hop and the rest of the band were pursuing. numbers. (“I didn’t really leave Traffic, I was put in “Yeah, we do that one, too,” Mason position where I had no choice. The says. other three didn’t like what I did musiMason has recorded intermittently cally... even though I wrote the hits.”) since those early days — notably, 26 He took himself to California, where he Letters, 12 Notes from 2008. Striking a recorded his first solo album Alone keen and concise posture between songTogether, one of the early ’70s’ most writer and bluesman, Mason’s singing underappreciated LPs. The album and playing are both letter perfect. sports a who’s who of some of the top “That was a great album,” Mason players of the day, including Carl Radle observes, “and if radio was doing the and Jim Gordon, with whom Mason job it should be doing, it would have a briefly jammed as a second guitarist in sold few records. But of course, radio Derek and the Dominoes, John Simon, isn’t. It’s still very powerful, but Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge and John there’s nobody home.”

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Mason’s other passion has been veterans’ support. He and longtime friend Ted Knapp founded Rock Our Vets, providing assistance to homeless and struggling veterans finding their way back into the postservice world.

“We support all uniform services, mostly the vets but also law enforcement, fire. If the government took better care of them, we wouldn’t exist. We try to do what we can.

“Actually, what we’re really proud of, we got picked to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior this year. We’re a small charity, so everything we get goes where it’s supposed to. We don’t just look for money; they need things. Clothes, computers... a car you want to donate. They need things. “ Mason says he’s been back to England “maybe twice” since 1969, having long since lost his West Midlands accent, and he and his band are 100-show-a-year road warriors now, primarily stateside. At 72, his playing and singing is as good as ever (“My knees aren’t too good, but the hands are fine.”) and he carries his history proudly, if not altogether boisterously. He’s also been mixing up his dates lately with iconic Stax guitarist/producer Steve Cropper.

“My outlook on life is that I’m just passin’ through. Passin’ through, and trying to leave things in a better place than I found them.”

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“Opening and closing films have to be feel-good,” she says. “And they have to be substantive.”

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“Excellence and quality,” she says, “that’s where equality always comes in.

“When you’re looking for quality, you’re looking for a diversity of voices,” Bernheimer continues. “The arts are a wonderful model for celebrating diversity.”

And not just diversity of race and gender, but also in the types of movies Bernheimer shows.

“It’s not just that [BJFF] shows these off-Hollywood films,” Bernheimer explains, “it’s also people within mainstream cinema who are telling personal stories that connect.”

Take To Dust (March 11, 12, 14), a small drama starring Matthew Broderick as a high school science teacher and Géza Röhrig as a grieving widower. Trying to understand what is happening to his wife’s physical remains, Röhrig recruits Broderick in a bizarre, not entirely legal, science experiment to cope with his loss. The results are not only humorous and human, they are, most importantly, understandable.

It would be fascinating to know what famed New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael would have made of To Dust, but since the prolific writer died in 2001, that question will have to be left to speculation. But Kael’s other

‘What cinema is capable of, at all ends of the spectrum’ Breaking down the seventh annual Boulder Jewish Film Festival

by Michael J. Casey

THE 7TH ANNUAL

She Said and Love, Gilda are docs on the lighter side while The Waldheim Waltz (March 15) and Who Will Write Our History (March 11) tackle much darker subject matter. It’s a balancing act of tone and story, one Bernheimer has mastered through several years of programming.

“Some [movies] are going to be more introspective,” she says. “Some are going to be provocative. Disturbing, even.

“But what I always talk about with the films, and the question I always pose, particularly in my talkbacks is: Why do you think this filmmaker, in this country, is making this movie, right now?”

It’s a central question Bernheimer wants her audience to consider. But, as she is quick to point out, these talkbacks are not always about providing answers.

“People want to talk about what’s relevant, what’s urgent, what’s bubbling up through the zeitgeist,” Bernheimer says.

“They look to the arts [for guidance on] asking the right questions.”

And if preliminary sales are any indication, Bernheimer has built up a sizeable following of moviegoers curious about those questions and hungry for those stories.

“We’re really trying to build community,” Bernheimer says of each BJFF screening. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for sharing and for expressing and hearing opinions.

And we provide a safe environment for important and meaningful conversation.”

But before there can be a conversation, before there is even community, Bernheimer has to make sure her program can speak to all who come to it. There is equality in her quality and the BJFF has “a wide variety of impact and really reveals what cinema is capable of,” she says, “at all ends of the spectrum.”

ON THE BILL: Boulder Jewish Film Festival.

March 7-17. Opening night and reception at Boulder Jewish Community Center; all others at The Dairy Arts Center. Tickets at thedairy.org

opinions, popular or not, on 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Band of Outsiders and Last Tango in Paris, are on full display in the documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (March 8, 13, 16).

For those who remember Kael, What She Said is an extensive look at the massive ripples her criticism caused throughout the movie world. Those new to Kael might be surprised to find out how important film criticism once was, and that Kael dominated its center for so long.

Documentarian Rob Garver doesn’t focus too much on Kael’s Jewishness or gender, choosing instead to keep the conversation on her work. Director Lisa D’Apolito uses a similar approach with her documentary Love, Gilda (March 12, 14, 17) about the famed Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner.

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RADIO SHOW TAPING — WITH JONATHAN WILSON & special guests. 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 9, eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

From producing artists like Father John Misty and Glen Campbell to touring with artists like Roger Waters, Eryka Badhu and Graham Nash, Jonathan Wilson is in high demand. On his most recent solo album, ‘Rare Birds,’ Wilson’s dreamlike blend of psychedelic folk channels the ambition and scope of artists like Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon ­— not hard to see why Wilson is so sought-after.

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events ARTIST TALK AND DEMONSTRATION OF JOMON POTTERY. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Join Japanese artists Ifurai and Genya Murakami as they discuss and provide a demonstration of Jomon pottery. The Jomon culture, originating in 11,000 BCE, is believed to have existed in Japan for about 10,000 years. Ifurai, followed by his son, Genya, leads the revival of the oldest expression of Japanese art into contemporary culture. Tickets are $8 for members, $12 for nonmembers. Drop by BMoCA between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., March 8-10, to see the master potters working, free with museum admission.

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IN THE WINGS PRESENTS ‘DIVINE: A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN.’

A VERY BOULDER MARDI GRAS – BOULDER CONCERT CHORALE.

7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

4 p.m. Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10, First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-554-7692.

In the Wings fuses traditional aerial arts with technical dance. On March 8, International Women’s Day, In the Wings will present its debut production, ‘Divine: A Celebration of Women.’

Over the course of 12 unique performances, In the Wings dancers will cover themes of empowerment, passion, pain, pleasure and more, all while staying true to the theme of the show. Alice Glamoure will be the host for the evening. Suggested donations of $20 in advance or $25 at the door, eventbrite.com.

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Keep your Fat Tuesday groove going with the Boulder Concert Chorale, a jazz trio and the hottest brass band in the mountain states, Guerrilla Fanfare Brass Band. Featuring the music of Dr. John, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis and Bob Chilcott’s ‘A Little Jazz Mass,’ you’ll have no trouble partying those winter blues away. Bring the whole family to celebrate the excitement and diversity that is the music of New Orleans. Tickets are $20, $17 for seniors/military, $5 for youth 6-21 and free for children under 6.

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words THURSDAY, MARCH 7 Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Mark Synnott — The Impossible Climb.

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 Adam Makos — Spearhead. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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

Laura Cesarco Eglin. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

‘GENERATION PRICED OUT’ is a call to action on one of the most talkedabout issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Author Randy Shaw will speak about his book at Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. See page 14 for an interview with Shaw.

Mary Hicks. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

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

Bruce Berger with James Anderson — A Desert Harvest. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

Randy Shaw — Generation Priced Out. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 Ashton Applewhite — This Chair Rocks. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Tania Katan — Creative Tresspassing. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SUNDAY, MARCH 10 BAFS Second Sundays Poetry Workshop. 2 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

MONDAY, MARCH 11 Mesa de Português. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Book-

store & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Patti McKinnel — One School, Many Paths to Success. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, MARCH 12 Active Minds Lecture: Cuba: Past, Present & Future. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 MFA Showcase — Elena Friedland. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Jerry Herships — Rogue Saints. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

David Treuer — The Heartbeat at Wounded Knee. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 7 Music African Songs of Life. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303219-3005.

Battle of Women Comedians. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868.

Below Radar and Liminal present Rhadoo [a:rpia:r]. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Boulder Drum Circle. 7 p.m. The Root Kava Bar, 1641 28th St., Boulder, 707-599-1908.

Call Me Karizma. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

The Final Mike Stud Tour. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Funk You. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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

The Grass Is Dead — with Kind Country.

7:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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

Logan Thomas, Matt Campbell. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.

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

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Events Adobe Character Animator Studio HandsOn Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Andy Mann: Summits to Seas. 7:30 p.m.

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

Boulder Jewish Film Festival Opening Night Gala. 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531. BJFF runs through March 17. See page 26 for more on the festival.

Comfort Soup: Welcome. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Dance Classes at Reverence. 4 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. More classes at reverenceacademyofdance.com.

Lil Rel. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More performances at comedyworks.com.

Student Voice and Digital Innovation. 4:30 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Views & Brews American Landscape Film Series: ‘There Will Be Blood.’ 7 p.m.

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

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

The Waterloo, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-5226162.

Music

Taylor Maxwell & the Changing Tide. 8 p.m.

Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-2961003.

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

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And The Kids. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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

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Felonius Smith Trio. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Boulder Taproom, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 720645-1749.

Frozen Dead Guy Days 2019. 4 p.m. In several locations throughout town, 151 East St., Nederland, 303-506-1048. Through March 10, frozendeadguydays.org.

International Woman’s Day! 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.

J. R. Richards (DISHWALLA). 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-7775840.

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

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

Low. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Music and Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303335-4821.

Petty Fools: Colorado’s Tom Petty Tribute Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Roots & Rhythm Duo. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-1562.

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

Events Comedian Tony Rock. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-3071777. see EVENTS Page 36

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LIVE MUSIC!

theater Alice in Wonderland. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Through March 9.

Overt Defiance Friday, March 15 6:30-9:30 PM Jack Brown (age 13), Kai Hagen, Henry McDowell, and Tannish Jagtap, from Fairview High, play rock, blues and funk.

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

PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Basque Things in Life. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through April 14.

Blessed Assurance. Coal Creek Theater, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville.

Through March 9.

The Diary of Anne Frank. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17.

Disenchanted!. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 31.

Every Brilliant Thing. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Opens March 8. Through April 14.

Flight 232 — presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 9.

STEVE FORBERT + ELLIS PAUL

BASED ON THE CLASSIC story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from Grammy- and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn and double-Oscar- and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, ‘Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical’ has mesmerized audiences the world over. Now showing at Jesters Dinner Theatre in Longmont through April 14.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

Vintage Theater, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through

The Moors. Arvada Center, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 18.

The Play That Goes Wrong.

Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through March 17.

Poltergeist. University of Colorado Boulder, Theatre and Dance, Room C240, Boulder. Through March 10.

The Rembrandt Room. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Through March 9.

March 24.

Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through April 14.

Rock of Aging — presented by Firehouse Theater.

The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through March 16.

I Love a Mystery — presented by Stories on Stage. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder.

The Whistleblower. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through March 10.

Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Shows the first Wednesday of the month from February-June.

Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver.

Through March 31.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

Face Vocal Band — with the Colorado Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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Free Legal Clinic. 3 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303665-5200.

Sat 03.09 8pm $26 advance

ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL W/ HALDEN WOFFORD & THE HI*BEAMS @ The Oriental Theater

‘The Human Element.’ 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

‘The Interpreter.’ 3:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

Movies @ Meadows: ‘Dreamer.’ 4 p.m.

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

Sat 03.16 8pm $34 advance

LAURA VEIRS W/ SYDNEY CLAPP

‘Scaffolding.’ 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. More show times at thedairy.org.

‘What She Said – The Art of Pauline Kael.’

10:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7 LGBTQ-Friendly Employer + Student Mixer.

5:30 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Aspen Room, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder Latin American and Latinx Film Series — Gender Trouble — ‘El Remolino’ (2016). 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Sat 03.30 8pm $27 advance

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 Spring 2019 Environmental Engineering Seminars: Sybil Sharvelle on Graywater Reuse. 12:30 p.m. Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC), Room N124, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder.

MONDAY, MARCH 11

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

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness: Upside Down Flowers Tour. 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Blues, Funk & Soul — with The Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Boulder Concert Band All American Symphony. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

A Celtic Evening with Andrew Forbes. 6 p.m.

Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Deborah Stafford & The State of Affairs Blues. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Family Day — with Opera Colorado and Hansel and Gretel. 11 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Francis and the Wolf. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

FY5. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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

Marshmellow Headband. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

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

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Finding Geospatial Data. 10 a.m. Norlin Library, E206 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Monday Workshop; Why/How Students (Don’t)

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Learn. 2 p.m. Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), E351, Boulder.

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Fundamentals of HPC: Profiling and Scaling code on HPC. 3 p.m.

Norlin Library, E206, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

Biophysics Supergroup — with Schwartz & Betterton Labs. 4 p.m.

Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, A104, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

TUESDAY, MARCH 12 Tuesday Talks. 9 a.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Room 415, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

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Professor Andrei Faraon: CUbit Quantum Seminar. 3 p.m.

Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), CASE Auditorium, Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 Geospatial Statistics in R. 4 p.m. Norlin Library, E206, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

New Venture Challenge: Social Impact Prize Finals. 9 p.m. Village Center Dining and Community Commons, Startup Hub, Room 108, 500 30th St., Boulder.

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LAST MEN ON EARTH “Arena Rock” Wednesday March 13

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MY BLUE SKY “Allman Brothers Tribute”

Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

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Amanda Wachob: Tattoo This. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

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Andrew Jensdotter: Flak. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

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EYES ON: JULIE BUFFALOHEAD features new work by the Minnesotabased artist, who is a citizen of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma. Buffalohead uses metaphors, iconography and storytelling narratives in her artwork to describe emotional and subversive American Indian cultural experiences, and often analyzes the commercialization of American Indian cultures. Now showing at the Denver Art Museum through April 21. See page 23 for more on the exhibit.

Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26.

Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, Second floor southwest, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through March 16.

Creativity in Action — by Kongtrul Jigme Namgyel. Nalanda and Cube galleries, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 15.

Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.,Boulder.

Through May 27.

Dinosaurs: Land Of Fire and Ice. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 12.

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

Through March 17.

‘BLOOD AND A SINGLE TREE,’ BY JULIE BUFFALOHEAD

Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through April 21.

Living with Wolves.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

Through May 20.

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies.

CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.

Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Through April 21.

Everyday Magic: Mixed Media Paintings by Arthur Secunda. Bricolage Gallery, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Through April 6.

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

The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9.

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Aug. 18.

Matthew Pevear: Mastering the Art of French Cooking. BMoCA at Macky, Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Unit 104, Boulder. Through May 5.

Month of Photography: Noah Mclaurine and Leah Schretenthaler. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 7.

Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through Sept. 1.

Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8.

Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020.

Water Flow: Under the Colorado River. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26.

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Nice Work — with Heidi Schmidt (Album Pre-Release Show). 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Saturday March 16

6–MILLION DOLLAR BAND “80s Dance Party” Sunday March 17

ST. PATRICK’S DAY WITH THE LILT COLLECTIVE

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Blues Duo. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 US Highway 287, Lafayette, 720-606-1734.

“Gaelic Fun” CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE SPECIAL

Steve Forbert and Ellis Paul. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Thursday March 21

Yheti — with NastyNasty, sfam. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

DUELING PIANOS “Have fun, Be Loud & Party” Friday & Saturday March 22 &23

ELTON DAN & THE ROCKET BAND “The Elton John Tribute”

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

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

Canadian Music Tribute. 1 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Coco Montoya and Tinsley Ellis. 7 p.m.

Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

The Dave Mason VIP Experience. 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Felonius Smith Trio. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Events

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

Boulder County 4-H Carnival. 11 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6238.

Peter and the Wolf featuring Magic Circle Mime Co. 2:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Just Friends Presents: Sketch Comedy And Stuff. 8 p.m. Grafenberg Theater, 1223 21st St., Denver, 303-803-8894.

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Blues Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel at Oskar Blues, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 720-606-1734.

‘Outdoors.’ 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

Rutter’s ‘Mass of the Children’ and Other Songs of Childhood. 3 p.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-651-7664.

Tour de Force. 2 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-837-8888.

SUNDAY, MARCH 10 Music A Very Boulder Mardi Gras — Boulder Concert Chorale. 4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-554-7692.

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Events Beer Mile & World’s Shortest Parade. 11 a.m. Boulder Beer Co, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

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

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

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‘A Prayer for Compassion’ Movie Screening. 4 p.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax, Denver, 720-381-0813.

Reynolds Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Meeting. 2:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

‘Sustainable Nation.’ 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

MONDAY, MARCH 11 Music Dance Monkey Dance. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

DU Lamont Steel Drum Ensemble. 7:30 p.m.

Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-6499.

Head Room Sessions No. 31 — with Lady Gang and Felix Fast4ward. 6 p.m. ReCreative Denver, 765 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

Jay Critch. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Within Temptation. 6 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Events Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m.

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

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

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Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

Events

‘Mekonen.’ 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. More show times at thedairy.org.

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

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

‘When the Smoke Clears.’ 1:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

‘Who Will Write Our History.’ 6:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

TUESDAY, MARCH 12 Music Blooming Method. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Central City Opera. 12 p.m. Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver, 303-831-7115.

‘93 Queen.’ 6:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. More show times at thedairy.org.

BeeChicas: How to bee a guerilla gardener.

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

Conversations in English Wednesdays.

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

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m.

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

Indigenous Film Series. 6 p.m. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-370-6000.

Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

No Man’s Land Film Festival. 6 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 303-903-8584.

Open Movement Collective. 6 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Parents Involved in Education/ Padres Involucrados. 5:30 p.m. Rocky Mountain Elementary, 800 E. Fifth Ave., Longmont, 303-728-4757.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

‘What She Said — The Art of Pauline Kael.’

3:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

William Briggs: How America Got Its Guns.

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

Celebrating 15 Years in Boulder!

Denver Reggae Social Club featuring members of John Brown’s Body, The Motet, Odesza, Analog Son, Jyemo. 7:15 p.m.

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

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

Punketry! 7 p.m. Mutiny Information Cafe, 2 S. Broadway, Denver, 201-873-6728.

Events 10th Annual Trash The Runway. 7 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

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All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

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

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

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group.

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

‘The Interpreter.’ 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

Lafayette Sustainable Film Series: ‘Who Owns Water?’. 6:30 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127.

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

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 Music CBDB. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Grey Havens Group: Think and Drink Discussion. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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

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

Open Mic hosted by Silent Bear. 7 p.m. Tandoori South Side Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.

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by Michael J. Casey

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n object is not without context, and a perspective is not without a point of view.

For British philosopher Alan Watts, this was a question of magnification. For example, take a photograph: look at it close up, and you see the pixels, the small dots that comprise the picture. Now look at it farther back, and those pixels work together to form a face, a lamp, a street, whatever. Pull back farther still, and you’ll see what that face is doing, where that lamp is in the room and where that street goes.

“Which level of magnification is the correct one?” Watts asks. His answer: “They’re all correct. They’re just different points of view.”

Few artists understood this principle quite like experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, the 16mm poet with the paintbrush and former CU-Boulder professor.

Following Brakhage’s death in 2003, colleague Suranjan Ganguly founded the Brakhage Center, an archive tasked with documenting and preserving the legacy of experimental film and media arts. Covering a wide range of disciplines, the Brakhage Center features talks, seminars, screenings and the yearly centerpiece: the Brakhage Center Symposium, March 9–10.

The lineup for this year’s symposium — billed as “The Contemporary Body Reconfigured” — does not disappoint. Bringing together works from Laida Lertxundi, Nazlı ON THE BILL: 15th Brakhage Dinçel, Cauleen Smith and two programs of Arab Center Symposium. March 9–10, CU Boulder, ATLAS 100. experimental cinema curated by Rachael Rakes, Free. the 2019 Brakhage Center Symposium shows life colorado.edu/brakhagecenter/ in all levels of magnitude, each one as correct as about/fifteenth-brakhage-centhe last. ter-symposium-2019 As it has in previous symposiums, the 15th Brakhage Center Symposium sets the stage with “Celebrating Stan,” a collection of Brakhage shorts handpicked by Ganguly. Next up, six films from Lertxundi, a Spanish filmmaker who resides and works in Southern California. Using the vast network of cities and nature that comprise America’s dream factory, Lertxundi photographs the endless number of nooks and crannies connecting those spaces. “[She] makes the most photographed city in the world seem strange, almost uncanny,” R. Emmet Sweeny aptly wrote in his 2017 Film Comment piece.

What Lertxundi does for space, Turkish-American filmmaker Dinçel does for the body — specifically, sexual acts and the conversations they provide. In her Solitary Acts cycle, Dinçel breaks these familiar acts in two and then, literally, stitches them back together with fishing line.

Like the other works featured at the symposium, Dinçel’s films are first-person cinema writ large. For Smith, the eight works selected for her program take the first-person approach and magnify it. Starting with the everyday and weaving in science fiction, Afrofuturism and a recurring theme of generosity, Smith explores the African-American female identity, past and present, by way of collage.

Similar to how Smith reinterprets familiar faces and images, curator Rakes will present a full day of works from the far-flung corners of cinema that rarely make it to the Centennial State, “Refiguration: Contemporary Experiments from the Middle East and North Africa,” on March 10.

Much like the films screened on March 9, this collection of eight works will be the only chance Boulderites will have to see gems of world cinema often overlooked. It’s an opportunity no true cinephile can pass up.

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ost of us have warm memories of grandma’s cooking: hearty elk stew for winter dinners, potato salad on a summer day, fried green tomatoes in the South or a freshly baked pecan pie. For the folks at Ruthies Boardwalk Social, it’s grilled cheese.

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uddha Cafe, or Buddha Thai as its colloquially known, is a hidden Boulder gem.

Their menu of Thai specialties, curries, noodle dishes and more are expertly prepared, always fresh and deeply satisfying. Take the drunken noodles — pan-fried wide rice noodles with eggs, bell peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, basil, carrots and chili sauce. The veggies are slightly charred and caramelized, the chili sauce is irresistible and the egg gives the whole dish a warm, umami quality. $10.95.

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Local thin loaves made for grabbing a bite to eat

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here is something soul-satisfying about grabbing bites of food with pieces of flatbread, whether it is using a warm corn tortilla to snag carnitas, a chunk of naan to get some saag paneer, or a piece of injera to sponge up doro wat.

Flatbread is the best invention since sliced bread, or at least the best rediscovery, since flatbreads came first. Sociable, utensil-free flatbread dining speaks to our tribal roots eating communally around the fire.

Some say the family of flatbreads includes everything from moo shu crepes and Indian dosas to Vietnamese rice paper. My rule is if you can’t use it to grab or scoop

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food with it, it’s not a flatbread. If it is crispy, crunchy and non-bendable like matzo, papadum or a tostada, it’s a cracker, not a flatbread.

Yes, pizza is a flatbread — cue John Travolta’s slicefolding opening scene in Saturday Night Fever — pizza with toppings is an entrée, not a bread unit. The legal exception is using a slice of cold cheese pizza to eat another food, say chicken tikka masala or scrambled eggs.

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UPGRADE YOUR TORTILLAS Skip the yuckier, pastier, name-brand flour tortillas on your grocer’s shelf. Luckily, there are a lot of great tortillas available locally. My favorites baked fresh at Tortilleria Frontera in Longmont are soft, pliable and flaky/layered, and they simply taste better than most. I also like the Boulder-baked Stacey’s Organic Tortillas — GMO-free, kosher and vegan and free from hydrogenated oils — available in 39 states now. There are quite decent local flour tortilla brands available at most supermarkets including those from Tortillas Mexico and Raquelitas Tortillas. see NIBBLES Page 46

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Boulder Tortillas’ blue corn tortillas are nifty because they are sold partially cooked. To serve, you finish them in a hot pan and serve warm for tacos. The aroma is captivating. In general, tortillas and other flatbreads taste better when they are warmed slightly before serving, but never in a microwave.

PITA: THIN POCKETS OR THICKER? The best-tasting pita breads are baked-to-order at local restaurants including the Garbanzo Mediterranean fastcasual chain and at two new Denver eateries: Safta and Ash’Kara. The Mediterranean Market in Boulder carries the best, locally packaged pita, the super-thin pocket version from Denver’s Haji Baba Bakery. Boulder’s venerable Falafel King bakes good white and wheat pita pockets for its two eateries, also sold at supermarkets along with pita (try the sesame) from Denver’s Soloman Baking Company.

There is a second, thicker pocketless pita type typically used for gyros and other Greek/Middle Eastern sandwich wraps. Restaurants sometimes use these pitas and naan interchangeably.

NAAN, NAAN, NAAN, NAAN The Middle East boasts great flatbreads but no region beats India and Pakistan for sheer abundance and variety.

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INJERA FOR YOUR DORO WAT In the Ethiopian style of dining, flatbread is everything. The spongy sourdough injera bread lines the communal platter from which everyone around the

lavosh dries out it becomes a matzo-like cracker. Few local eateries serve lavosh, but Boulder’s Caspian Deli & Grocery offers diverse frozen pita, lavosh, chapatti and sangak, a tasty rectangular Iranian whole wheat flatbread. Bar none, Aurora’s Arash International Market has the best selection of flatbreads in Colorado.

TASTE OF THE WEEK My mom would occasionally make a great macaroni and bean soup her Sicilian mom taught her called “pasta fazool,” actually “pasta e fagioli.” I love the Himalayan equivalent dished at Golden’s Nepal House. Sherpa Stew is a big bowl of broth loaded with thick, udon-like noodles, beans and fresh veggies with enough chile to melt the chill and naan to eat it with. I went with chicken over yak. By the way, the latter does not taste like chicken.

bles: Frasca Food and Wine for Outstanding Service, Andy Clark of Louisville’s Moxie Bread Co. for Outstanding Baker, and Basta’s Kelly Whitaker for Best Chef; Southwest for The Wolf’s Tailor eatery in Denver, along with Caroline Glover of Annette in Aurora.

Other semifinalists: Best New Restaurant: Q House, Denver; Outstanding Pastry Chef: Jeb Breakell, The Wolf’s Tailor, Denver; Outstanding Wine Program: Element 47, Little Nell, Aspen; and Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Producer: Todd and Scott Leopold, Leopold Bros., Denver.

Here’s what three of the James Beard semifinalists told me recently: Carolyn Glover, Annette: “I’m a glutton for simple sautéed greens with salt, extra virgin olive oil and a little lemon juice for acidity. Not everyone is into salad in the morning but I am.”

Andy Clark, Moxie Bread Co: “Everything we do here is a pain in the ass. I want to know the wheat farmer just like I know the farmers who grow the vegetables. People think I’m nuts for using heirloom wheat and doing a long, slow fermentation.”

Bobby Stuckey, Frasca: “Hospitality is looking outside yourself to see how you can make someone else feel better.

Everyone thinks it is this switch you turn on. My ethos is that you treat everyone well from the driver dropping off your vegetables to the dishwasher.”

WORDS TO CHEW ON The 2019 James Beard Awards semifinalists list again features many local nota-

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LEFSE: LET’S SEE If you haven’t tried lefse, you don’t know flatbread. The potato-based Scandinavian bread, halfway between JAN CHIPCHASE/FLICKR a tortilla and a crepe, can be sweet and spread with jam, Nutella or cream cheese, or savory with sliced meats, cheese and condiments. Did you know lefse are baked locally at Kings Norsk Products in Wheat Ridge? Their motto: “Lefse rolled so thin it only has one side.”

table eats. Pieces of tart injera are used to grab bites of vegetable and meat stews.

They soak up sauces without falling apart.

Taste fresh injera at Ras Kassa’s in Lafayette and at other Ethiopian restaurants. Buy sheets of fresh injera at Sudan Cafe & Khairat Injera Bakery in Aurora.

LAVOSH: BREAD AS TABLECLOTH Lavosh are paper-thin flatbreads eaten in Western Asia, Iran, Turkey and elsewhere. Sold folded up, some lavosh can be as large as a tablecloth. When

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Food for thought

Diet and nutrition dramatically impact how we age. A Boulder County panel wants to share that information with seniors.

by Matt Cortina ON THE BILL: ‘You’re Brain on Good Food’ panel. Wednesday, March 13, 9 a.m.-noon.

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or as much talk as there is about eating healthy, and the benefits that come to our bodies, minds and lives when we do so, we certainly don’t talk enough about ensuring people continue to have access to good food as they grow older.

It’s a shame, too, because as we age, our dietary needs change, but there isn’t that much information readily available to seniors explaining their new needs. And that’s important because there are specific dietary choices people can make later in life that have been proven to help limit the effects of certain diseases and prevent others.

It’s because of this void that Boulder County is hosting a panel on March 13 with local food researchers, nutritionists and medical professionals. The goal is to share some basic tips, but also to inform seniors of all the food assistance options they have in Boulder County, and to reduce the stigma of asking for help.

“One of the major challenges is that older adults and caregivers may not be aware of the variety of resources that can help them stay healthier and independent,” says Teresa DeAnni, the Healthy Aging Programs manager for the Boulder County Area Agency on Aging. “It’s important for older adults and caregivers to be aware of what is available in Boulder County.”

DeAnni points to “an array of services, food banks, Meals on Wheels, community meal sites and other” options for seniors to get fresh, nutritious food, including Community Food Share (a full list is available at boulderI

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HOW WE EAT as we countyhelp.org). DeAnni age has a large impact on says many seniors qualify our cognitive function for food assistance through and our ability to stave the Supplemental Nutrition off disease and mood disorders. A Boulder Assistance Program County panel wants to (SNAP), though “there is a help seniors make the stigma about getting food right diet choices. assistance.”

Indeed, getting healthy food to seniors, let alone providing information about where to access that food, has a lot to do with volition, says Donna Feldman, a registered dietition/nutritionist, who will speak on the County’s panel.

“Boulder County seniors come in all varieties. Most are living independently, making their own decisions about food. I’m not sure the County can impact that,” Feldman says. “If anything, we’re pretty uniquely health-focused here. The main obstacle for some might be the perceived cost of healthy food, but truly you don’t have to shop at Whole Foods or other specialty food stores to find decent, healthful food. ... It’s making the right choices that’s the issue.”

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somewhat of an ongoing debate in the world of senior nutrition. Tom LaRocca, a CU integrative physiologist who will speak on the panel, says science can’t definitively say why some people live longer than others, but there is reason to think diet plays a part.

“There is evidence that longevity may be inherited, but in longevity hot spots — places where many people live long and well — there is no clear genetic reason,” LaRocca says. “Instead, it seems that most people who live long and well in those places have some common behavioral patterns, one of which is eating a diet high in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, with limited amounts of meat and processed foods or sweets. But this isn’t proof — just an interesting observation.”

Feldman adds that a reasonably healthy lifestyle combined with a mostly plant-based diet will lower risk for many chronic diseases — from type 2 diabetes to hypertension to several common cancers — while a sedentary lifestyle coupled with a poor diet increases the risk of getting those diseases. But, Feldman says, there are no guarantees in life.

“The converse of the 102-year-old smoking, drinking person is the 60-yearold who ate a pristine diet and exercised faithfully and got cancer anyway,” Feldman says. “The genetic component of life span is significant, but poorly understood. We can only do the best we know how to do, but no guarantees. I think sometimes diet is promoted as a path to longevity, and if someone unexpectedly has a severe medical problem, they’re blamed for failing to eat a sufficient pure diet.”

“Nutritional needs change a bit with aging, and many health problems that arise as we get older are made worse by poor nutrition,” LaRocca adds, “so a healthy diet is extra important as we age.”

Feldman says even though fate plays a part in our health as we age, it’s best to focus on eating a healthy diet and being I

active younger in life so we don’t let “those disease processes get out of hand.” She adds that there are many “exciting possibilities” being researched at the moment that might determine how changing nutrient intake at various stages of life can affect, specifically, brain function for seniors.

Indeed, research is much clearer that poor dietary habits and brain/cognitive disorders go hand-in-hand. And there is a growing list of diets as a result. The MIND Diet, for instance, a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH (for high blood pressure) diets, is specifically designed to reduce the risk of dementia and decline in brain health. (The diet is high in green, leafy vegetables, berries, nuts, olive oil, whole grains, fish and features one glass of wine daily.)

Thus, DeAnni says one large focus of the panel will be on diet’s effect on depression and cognition. Just like eating certain foods will address someone’s high blood pressure, and other diets will address diabetes, proper nutrition can help improve seniors’ moods, keep their brains sharp, and allow them to “be healthier and better able to stay as independent as possible.”

“I hope the audience walks away knowing some things they can do to help them feel better,” DeAnni says.

“Depression is not a normal part of aging, and there are ways to address it.”

Though the County and area nonprofits are working to bring good food and good information to seniors, Feldman says one way younger generations can help is by eating healthy, too. In fact, that may be the most effective way to ensure older folks are making the best choices for their diets.

“Convincing people to improve diet?

Good luck,” Feldman says. “It has to come from within. ... But I would say that if you personally know someone who should improve — friends, family — setting a good example and structuring your interactions with that person to focus on healthy food is a very good strategy.”

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New in brew: Picks for Collaboration Fest

Beers from trees, space and pre-Prohibition America

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n March 16, Two Parts and the Colorado Brewers Guild will host the Collaboration Beer Festival down in Denver’s Hyatt Regency. With an aim to increase the collaborative community of craft beer, Collab Fest brings together 200-plus breweries to brew more than 100 unique, one-off beers. Creativity is the name of the game, and Colorado brewers are bringing their A-games.

Kicking things off is the beer that will likely win the longest-distance-traveled-award despite being a collaboration between Boulder’s Sanitas Brewing Co., BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse and Red Rocks Community College. The trio’s SMaSH (single malt, single hop) Brut Ale is fermented with space-traveled yeast.

As Sanitas co-founder, Michael Memsic, explains: RRCC gets a Colorado space grant every year from NASA for their balloon project, which they use to send an assortment of materials roughly 100,000 feet up, where the balloon pops and sends the materials back down. The goal of the project is to study how space travel affects the materials sent, and this year, the students sent up a half-gallon of ale yeast in honor of their homebrewing professor.

RRCC then contacted Sanitas and BJ’s to see what kind of beer they would make with it, and the two settled on a dry, zero-gravity SMaSH ale made with pilsner malt and galaxy hops so drinkers can differentiate between the malt, hops and yeast in the beer.

Back on Earth, Denver’s Mockery Brewing (one of the most creative brewing teams around) and Washington’s Hidden Mother Brewery got together to make a sahti (traditional Finnish farm ale) lautered through a freshly cut spruce tree.

Thanks to a friend who lives near Morrison, the two brew crews dropped the spruce, hollowed out a trough in the trunk, packed it full of needles and ran fresh wort through the tree several times — picking up oils, flavors and aroma — before fermenting the beer. If the smell created on brew day is any indication, Hidden/Mockery’s tree sahti will provide the best smelling corner in Hyatt’s ballroom.

As it is with Collab Fest tradition, each participating brewer is allowed two collaborations: one in state and one out of state. The exception is the brewery that invites the media to brew a third beer, and this year’s media collab fell to Golden’s Cannonball Creek Brewery, where Brian Hutchinson and Jonathan Lee invited the media to help them whip up a seven-barrel batch of Pre-Prohibition Pilsner. Made with two-row barley, a touch of flaked corn (in keeping with the pre-Prohibition tradition) and a ton of German hops (paying tribute to the ancestry of the brewers who helped build the American brewing scene), the beer will have a light body, a touch of sweetness and a huge hop profile.

Much like Hidden/Mockery’s tree-lautered sahti, Cannonball’s Pre-Prohibition Pilsner is a traditional beer with a forward-thinking spirit. Besides, it’s the only beer at the festival for which this writer toiled over a boiling kettle to drop in some hops.

Tickets and more info at www.collaborationfest.com.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Genius inventor Thomas Edison rebelled against sleep, which he regarded as wasteful. He tried to limit his time in bed to four hours per night so he would have more time to work during his waking hours. Genius scientist Albert Einstein had a different approach. He preferred ten hours of sleep per night, and liked to steal naps during the day, too. In my astrological opinion, Aries, you’re in a phase when it makes more sense to imitate Einstein than Edison.

Important learning and transformation are happening in your dreams. Give your nightly adventures maximum opportunity to work their magic in your behalf.

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APRIL 20-MAY 20: The Danish flag has a red background emblazoned with an asymmetrical white cross.

It was a national symbol of power as early as the 14th century, and may have first emerged during a critical military struggle that established the Danish empire in 1219. No other country in the world has a flag with such an ancient origin. But if Denmark’s Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who’s a Taurus, came to me and asked me for advice, I would urge him to break with custom and design a new — maybe something with a spiral rainbow or a psychedelic tree. I’ll suggest an even more expansive idea to you, Taurus: create fresh traditions in every area of your life!

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: On June 7, 1988, Gemini musician

Bob Dylan launched what has come to be known as the Never Ending Tour. It’s still going. In the past 30-plus years, he has performed almost 3,000 shows on every continent except Antarctica. In 2018 alone, at the age of 77, he did 84 gigs. He’s living proof that not every Gemini is flaky and averse to commitment. Even if you yourself have flirted with flightiness in the past, I doubt you will do so in the next five weeks. On the contrary. I expect you’ll be a paragon of persistence, doggedness, and stamina.

Melville’s Moby Dick, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote are among the most boring masterpieces ever written. But most experts agree that they’re still valuable to read. In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to commune with other dull but meaningful things. Seek out low-key but rich offerings. Be aware that unexciting people and situations may offer clues and catalysts that you need.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Many of you Scorpios regard secrecy as a skill worth cultivating. It serves your urge to gather and manage power. You’re aware that information is a valuable commodity, so you guard it carefully and share it sparingly. This predilection sometimes makes you seem understated, even shy. Your hesitancy to express too much of your knowledge and feelings may influence people to underestimate the intensity that seethes within you. Having said all that, I’ll now predict that you’ll show the world who you are with more dazzle and flamboyance in the coming weeks. It’ll be interesting to see how you do that as you also try to heed your rule that information is power.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Sagittarian actress and producer DeborraLee Furness has been married to megastar actor Hugh Jackman for 23 years. Their wedding rings are inscribed with a motto that blends Sanskrit and English, “Om paramar to the mainamar.” Hugh and DeborahLee say it means “we dedicate our union to a greater source.” In resonance with current astrological omens, I invite you to engage in a similar gesture with an important person in your life. Now is a marvelous time to deepen and sanctify your relationship by pledging yourselves to a higher purpose or beautiful collaboration or sublime mutual quest.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: In 1997, a supercomputer named Deep

JUNE 21-JULY 22: The otters at a marine park in Miura City, Japan are friendly to human visitors. There are holes in the glass walls of their enclosures through which they reach out to shake people’s hands with their webbed paws. I think you need experiences akin to that in the coming weeks. Your mental and spiritual health will thrive to the degree that you seek closer contact with animals. It’s a favorable time to nurture your instinctual intelligence and absorb influences from the natural world. For extra credit, tune in to and celebrate your own animal qualities.

Blue won six chess matches against Chess Grand Master Gary Kasparov. In 2016, an Artificial Intelligence called AlphaGo squared off against human champion Lee Sodol in a best-of-five series of the Chinese board game Go. AlphaGo crushed Sodol, four games to one.

But there is at least one cerebral game in which human intelligence still reigns supreme: the card game known as bridge. No AI has as yet beat the best bridge players. I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I am sure that in the coming weeks, no AI could outthink and out-strategize you as you navigate your way through life’s tests and challenges. You’ll be smarter than ever. P.S.: I’m guessing your acumen will be extra soulful, as well.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22: Between 1977 and 1992, civil war raged in Mozambique. Combatants planted thousands of land mines that have remained dangerous long after the conflict ended. In recent years, a new ally has emerged in the quest to address the problem: rats that are trained to find the hidden explosives so that human colleagues can defuse them. The expert sniffers don’t weigh enough to detonate the mines, so they’re ideal to play the role of saviors. I foresee a metaphorically comparable development in your future, Leo. You’ll get help and support from a surprising or seemingly unlikely source.

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as you ascend, you realize that at the top is not a door or a hallway, but a wall. I suspect that lately you may have been dealing with a metaphorical version of an anomaly like this. But I also predict that in the coming weeks some magic will transpire that will change everything. It’s like you’ll find a button on the wall that when pushed opens a previously imperceptible door.

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Between blasts, they’d place their dirty clothes in Old Faithful’s aperture. When the scalding flare erupted, it provided all the necessary cleansing. I’d love to see you attempt a metaphorically similar feat, Aquarius: harness a natural force for a practical purpose, or a primal power for an earthy task.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: Let’s say my kink is edging and I edge myself for a few days leading up to a date. Is it my responsibility to tell my potential partner? There are a few variables here that are important to note. This is a first/Tinder date, and it’s just a coffee date, BUT she and I have talked about our expectations and there will likely be a physical aspect in whatever potential relationship may ensue. I understand that it’s never cool to involve someone in your kink without their consent, but what are the rules here? On one hand, if © LaRae Lobdell I don’t divulge this information, I could see how my production of an unexpectedly large amount of ejaculate could be upsetting, depending on the circumstances/activity. But on the other hand, at least some amount of come is expected, right? If I randomly had massive loads every single time through no effort of my own, would I be responsible for letting a partner know? Perhaps it would be the polite thing to do. I guess I’d feel comfortable saying, “Hey, by the way, I produce very large loads,” if sex was imminent. But when you add the kink factor into the mix, I think something like that should be talked about before sex is “imminent.” So what responsibility do I have to divulge this information? And if I do have a responsibility to divulge this, when would be the appropriate time to bring it up? I feel like it could be sexy to be so open about a taboo, given that we’ve already discussed the desire for a physical aspect to the relationship. But at what point between sex being “not off-limits” and “my parts are going to be interacting with your parts as soon as our clothes are off” is the right moment to disclose my kink?

—What Ought One Do? Dear WOOD: Let’s say… you blow that load. I can’t imagine your new friend will be shocked. Blowing loads, after all, is what men do* with their penises**, WOOD, and most people who are attracted to men are aware of this fact. And anyone who’s slept with two or more men is aware that some men blow bigger loads than others. Volume varies. Volumes vary between men, and the volume of an individual man’s loads can vary naturally or as the direct result of an intentional intervention, like edging.

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bringing yourself or being brought to the edge of coming over and over again. It’s about getting yourself or someone else as close as you can to the “point of orgasmic inevitability” without going over. Draw out the buildup to a single orgasm for hours or days — by edging yourself or being edged by someone else — and the resulting load will be larger than normal for the edged individual. But even so, an edged dude’s load can still be smaller than the load of a guy who just naturally produces more ejaculate.

And in answer to your question, WOOD, no, I don’t think there’s a pressing need to disclose your kink to your date. If it gets sexual, she’s going to expect you to produce ejaculate at some point.

And even if the load you wind up blowing is enormous, you’re not going to drown her or wash out her IUD. Frankly, WOOD, your letter reads like you got baked out of your mind and sat up half the night trying to come up with an excuse to tell this woman about your not-that-kinky kink and “I should tell her as a courtesy” was the best you could do.

If you want to tell her, go ahead and tell her. But since there’s no need to tell her that you sometimes like to stroke for a bit without climaxing, there’s a strong chance she’ll react negatively to your “courtesy” disclosure. Even if she’s made it clear there could be “a physical aspect in whatever potential relationship may ensue” — even if that’s not just dickful thinking on your part — she’s going to be scrutinizing you for signs that you aren’t someone she wants to get naked with. She’ll be looking for red flags at your first face-to-face meeting, and if you come across like a creep with piss-poor judgment — and a needless conversation about how much ejaculate you produce and why you produce so much ejaculate will definitely come across as creepy — then she may decide not to ensue with you. * Not all men have penises, not all penises have men, not all men blow loads, not all loads are blown by men, etc. ** Not the only thing men do with their penises, some men don’t do that thing with their penises, some penis-havers don’t do that thing as men, etc.

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artha Stewart is the definition of a true boss. Long before the days of Instagram, she was the OG lifestyle influencer who built an entire brand around her dinner party aesthetic. Now, she’s announced she’ll be joining Canopy Growth, one of Canada’s WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/NRKBETA

biggest weed corporations. Through her parent company Sequential Brands, Stewart will come on in an advisory role to help develop a new line of hemp-derived CBD products.

According to a press release announcing the partnership, she will “assist with developing and positioning a broad new line of product offerings across multiple categories.”

“I am delighted to establish this partnership

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with Canopy Growth and share with them the knowledge I have gained after years of experience in the subject of living,” Stewart said. “I’m especially looking forward to our first collaboration together, which will offer sensible products for people’s beloved pets.”

It makes sense that Stewart is working on CBD products for pets.

Not only has she been an outspoken animal rights advocate in the past, but she’s also a mom to her two beloved Persian cats, Empress Tang and Princess Peony, and her two chow chows, Empress Qin and Emperor Han. (Side note, based on the distinction of the names alone, I genuinely hope to be reborn as one of Stewart’s pets in my next life as it’s probably the closest I’ll ever come to royalty.)

I’m excited about this for a number of reasons. First of all, if you haven’t been riding the Martha train lately, let me just remind you that this woman is #goals. She went from teaching a few people how to cook in her own kitchen to a celebrated entrepreneur who literally built an empire around living a flawless lifestyle. After she got super rich, published all the cooking books and won a bunch of awards, she went to jail for rich people things and ran shit there. After she was released, she became best friends with Snoop Dogg. On the surface, it may seem like they have nothing in

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common (except incarceration), but they met in 2008 when Snoop made mashed potatoes on Stewart’s cooking show. He reappeared on her show again a few years later for an ahead-of-its-time weed brownie episode. The duo eventually went on to host their own TV show called Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party. This has never been confirmed, but I like to think the idea came to them during their first smoke sesh. The concept is to bring celebrity chefs and rappers together for a cook-off. The show is as amazing as it sounds and their unlikely friendship is both beautiful and inspiring.

Canopy Growth was the first cannabis company to enter the New York Stock Exchange and supplies one-third of Canada’s 250,000 medical cannabis patients. Snoop has had a business relationship with Canopy for years, and in 2016, he launched three cannabis varieties with Tweed, a subsidiary of Canopy that makes recreational cannabis products, under the brand name “Leafs by Snoop.”

In January 2019, Canopy Growth developed diverse product offerings specific to hemp-derived CBD and the company looks forward to working closely with Martha Stewart as it further develops and introduces these products to market in the future.

Canopy Growth previously reported that it will invest between $100 and $150 million in a hemp industrial park in New York state with an intended purpose of being the company’s first hemp facility in the United States.

Martha’s partnership with Canopy Growth is in the developmental stage. A release date has not been scheduled to debut her CBD products just yet.

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Dem presidential candidates get on the legalization bandwagon

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f you want a seat on the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential bandwagon, you better be in favor of legalizing marijuana at the federal level.

That, anyway, is the obvious take-away from the reintroduction of New Jersey Senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker’s sweeping Marijuana Justice Act in the U.S. Senate.

The bill, which among other things would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and automatically expunge past federal convictions for pot possession and use, was cosponsored by four other Democratic senators running for president and one other expected to join the race.

The cosponsors are Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, California Senator Kamala Harris and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Colorado Senator Michael Bennett, who many expect to jump into the race, also cosponsored the bill.

(Other cosponsors include Oregon Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, who aren’t running for president.)

“The War on Drugs has not been a war on drugs,” Booker said in a press release, “it’s been a war on people, and disproportionately people of color and low-income individuals.”

“But it’s not enough to simply decriminalize marijuana,” he went on. “We must also repair the damage caused, by reinvesting in those communities that have been most harmed by the War on Drugs.

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And we must expunge the records of those who have served their time. The end we seek is not just legalization. It’s justice.”

Other sponsors of the bill issued similar statements.

In addition to expunging possession and use convictions, Booker’s bill sets up

an investment fund to funnel federal dollars to communities hit hardest by the drug war, most (but not all) of which are predominantly black or Hispanic. It also would withhold some federal funding from states that disproportionately enforce marijuana criminalization laws against members of minority groups and low-income individuals.

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Democratic presidential candidate, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, as well as former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who is widely expected to announce a presidential run, are on record favoring marijuana legalization at the federal level. O’Rourke has been particularly outspoken on the issue.

Notably missing from the list of Democratic senators running for president cosponsoring the bill was Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who nonetheless has announced she supports marijuana legalization.

Last year she signed on as a cosponsor to the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act, originally sponsored by Colorado Senator Cory Gardner and Warren, which would have exempted states that have legalized cannabis from the anti-marijuana provisions of the Controlled Substances Act, while leaving those provisions in place.

Both Booker’s and Gardner’s bills died in the Senate last year without ever reaching the floor.

Gardner has yet to reintroduce the STATES Act. If and when he does, it will be interesting to see if Warren joins him as a cosponsor again, since she has signed onto Booker’s Marijuana Justice Act. While the STATES Act and Marijuana Justice Act aren’t contradictory, Booker’s bill goes much further, by actually removing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act.

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Given the number of Democratic presidential candidates who are actively running for the party’s nomination on marijuana legalization, it seems likely that legalization will be a major issue in the 2020 campaign — and that the Democrats intend to use it to drive voter turnout among the young and among black and Hispanic voters.

If Democrats are planning to use marijuana legalization as a wedge issue in 2020, candidates like Warren might be reluctant to sign on to more modest reform measures like the STATES Act. On the other hand, candidates like Klobuchar, who are trying to position themselves as more centrist, might be more comfortable with the STATES Act, which has a better chance of attracting Republican support in the Senate.

The latest candidate to announce their Democratic nomination is none other than former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who made his candidacy public on March 4.

Although Gov. Hick has signed a slew of marijuana reform bills over the years — in the course of implementing Colorado voters’ 2012 decision to legalize pot — he has the distinction at the moment of being the only declared Democratic presidential candidate who hasn’t explicitly endorsed ending marijuana prohibition at the federal level.

Whether he’ll continue with that stance now that he’s an active candidate remains to be seen. His kick-off event is today, and chances are the press will pop the pot question.

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