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uestion: What do you get when you combine ignorance, imperiousness and incompetence? Answer: Betsy DeVos. She’s Donald Trump’s multi-billionaire education secretary who hates public education and loves the plutocratic idea of corporate rule over democracy.

DeVos is so bad that she’s winning the contest for worst member of Trump’s cabinet (a little like winning the title of

ugliest toad in the swamp). She has been a shameless shill for one of the ugliest parts of the financial services industry — the Wall Street-backed network of for-profit colleges, rip-off lenders and ruthless collection

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Her latest favor for the industry was to assert unilaterally that her agency can pre-empt any state laws designed to

stop the blatant lies and abuses of this predatory network of corporate education. Her bureaucratic claim is that state efforts to protect student borrowers undermines “uniform administration” of student loans. In her shriveled world of laissez-fairyland values, you see, the uniform gouging of students trumps such basic human values as economic fairness and social justice.

Heavens to Betsy, what’s wrong with this lady? Our nation’s student loan debt has ballooned to $1.4 trillion, threatening to blow another big hole in our economy, yet she’s stupidly conspiring in her department’s back rooms with Wall Street’s fast-buck educational exploiters to enrich them at the expense of students, taxpayers and the public interest. DeVos is the one who needs an education — both in economics and ethics.

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danish plan Three ways City Council’s gun ban will make Boulder less safe by Paul Danish

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he common theme that ran through the testimony of the 30 people who spoke in favor of Boulder’s proposed assault rifle ban last week was fear.

Nearly all of them told the Council how afraid they and their kids were after the school shooting in Florida and how banning assault rifles in Boulder would make them feel safer.

Well, a city ordinance banning assault rifles might make them feel safer, but it won’t actually make them safer.

Passage will make them less safe — in at least three ways.

First, Boulder’s proposed assault rifle ban, and the broader movement for a national ban, is just another expression of prohibition, the poisonous and self-destructive impulse to ban some type of conduct or ban some thing in the name of protecting the health, safety, welfare and, above all, the morals of the community.

Prohibitionist solutions have been tried in the U.S. for as long as the country has existed — and they have always ended badly.

If you want to know what the City Council is about to sign Boulder up for, consider some of the “accomplishments” that more than 50 years of drug prohibition has produced: 1) Tens of millions of otherwise law-abiding Americans turned into criminals, 2) More than 50 million arrests since 1965, most for non-violent offenses, 3) The highest incarceration rate and largest prison population in the world, 4) More than $1 trillion poured down the drug war rat hole, 5) An eruption of gang violence fueled by the drug trade that has turned black and Hispanic communities in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore into North American Mogadishus, 6) The use of informants, surveillance, mandatory drug testing, no-knock searches, stop-and-frisk, drug offender re-education camps, and other tools and practices of the totalitarian state as normal parts of American life, and 7) Despite it all, a surge in drug over-dose deaths to more than 60,000 a year.

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will produce the same sort of defiance, violence, corruption and oppression, only worse.

Second, Boulder will be less safe if it passes the assault rifle ban for the same reason the Council gave for declaring Boulder a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. The Council argued that if the city had a policy of reporting illegal aliens to the feds, those people wouldn’t report crimes to the police out of fear of being exposed and deported.

During his testimony before the Council on Thursday, David Kopel, one of the country’s leading authorities on firearms law and the behavior of gun owners, made the point that gun owners, most of whom reject the idea of registering or giving up their guns outof-hand, would respond similarly if the ban is passed. That’s just common sense.

Third, the gun ban will make Boulder less safe because, as mentioned previously, it will turn several thousand otherwise honest citizens into criminals.

And while this always happens with prohibitionist schemes, it’s a particularly dangerous thing to do with gun owners, and not just because they’re armed.

Victims of sin-directed prohibition schemes — like drinkers, stoners, philanderers, etc. — generally don’t feel they have a constitutional right to wine, weed, sex and song, etc. Sometimes they even tacitly agree that the prohibitionists hold the moral high ground.

With gun owners, it’s different.

Most gun owners believe they have both a constitutional and natural right to keep and bear arms — and that those who are attempting to stamp it out are directly attacking their fundamental rights, liberty and values. They don’t think of gun-grabbers as wellintentioned do-gooders, but as personal enemies and as traitors to the Constitution.

That means that when faced with a demand to hand in their guns, defiance and civil disobedience become patriotic acts.

Boulder’s rationale for passing the ordinance reinforces this view.

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letters A humble suggestion

On April 5, I, and I’m sure many of you, watched the Boulder City Council host a public comment meeting in regards to the proposed assault weapon ban for the City of Boulder. While it was inspiring to hear the impassioned cry for more legislation, I want to offer guidance on how we can do even more.

Hearing the descriptions of horrifying shootings really got me thinking, and this might be hard for some people to consider, but is it time we ban murder?

Nobody wants to see more innocent people laid low for no reason, so I think the law needs to get involved here and say enough is enough. No more killing and no more murder, it clearly is just that easy. I want to see our very knowledgeable city attorney really put his nose to the grindstone here and get some laws in the books making murder illegal.

If you disagree, it’s clearly because you hate children and want to see them killed.

In fact, we can do even more than that. Do you know where 100 percent of school shootings have taken place?

That’s right, in schools. We need to ban school, it’s clearly a threat to the public wellbeing and a tool of tyranny. How many more students have to die before you pass common sense school control?

As pointed out by the crazy constitutionalists on Thursday night, blunt objects account for far more murders than guns do, and I think that needs to be addressed as well. I propose that all hammers from now on be made out of foam rubber. What, you think you’re a carpenter or something? Nobody should own a metal hammer, it’s 2018 and they just don’t serve a purpose. Trust me, I used to work in a mechanic shop, regu-

lar people don’t need metal hammers.

Have you ever seen what a Dead Blow assault hammer can do to a finger? I have, it’s not pretty.

Hands and feet are also extremely common to see as murder weapons, so it’s time to give them up, you crazies.

Go to your doctor right now and demand they amputate, unless you just want to see children die. It’s the 21st century, people, you don’t need appendages anymore. Siri can order food for you and you can get voice-to-text programs so you don’t have to type ever.

You Bible-thumping thumb-lovers are a relic of the past, and you might be compensating for something by insisting you need hands and feet at this point in history.

We have a long way to go, but I think these rational, common-sense measures are the only logical next step.

Whatever we do, always remember what our illustrious City Council is telling you: You are never and should never be expected to take responsibility for your own safety. That is the job of lawyers and police officers, they owe you absolute protection against anything that frightens you, to say otherwise is just right-wing paranoia.

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Mike Foote’s record protecting Boulder County makes him right for D.A.

This June, Boulder County voters will have a simple question to answer: which candidate for District Attorney has done more to protect Boulder County? Thankfully, the answer to that question is easy.

Mike Foote has spent the last 14 years fighting to protect this community as a Deputy District Attorney in the Boulder D.A.’s office. He’s taken on the tough cases, including juvenile justice cases, domestic violence and complex

economic crime. In each of those cases, Mike was asked to protect some of Boulder County’s most vulnerable citizens.

For the last six years, he has continued his work protecting Boulder County in the legislature. As the representative for eastern Boulder County in the statehouse, Mike has spent every single day fighting to keep us safe. In particular, I’ve been so impressed with the work he’s done to

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Beyond just fracking, Mike has been an advocate for progressive criminal justice reform. As District Attorney, he’ll fight for increased funding for human services so that drug offenders and the mentally ill can get the treatment they need instead of

unnecessary jail time. He’ll enact progressive bail reform measures, and he’ll never use the death penalty.

Mike Foote is a community leader whose record proves he’ll protect Boulder County. It’s no wonder he’s been endorsed by over 70 community leaders and elected officials including every Boulder County legislator and all three commissioners. I’m proud to support him and I hope you will too.

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and bear arms in both the U.S. and Colorado constitutions are explicit and emphatic (Colorado’s says the right “shall not be called in question”).

Several Colorado statutes also explicitly prohibit local governments from enacting gun bans.

Yet Boulder’s hearing on the assault rifle ban was kicked off by City Attorney Tom Carr arguing that neither the federal nor state constitutional rights, nor state laws, applied to Boulder, because Boulder is a home rule city — essentially asserting that the city’s home rule city status nullifies both the U.S. and Colorado constitutions in Boulder.

Carr then went on to demonstrate that his knowledge of firearms was, to put it kindly, imperfect.

Or to put it more plainly, he came across like a weasel with a law degree who was trying to twist the law and the common meaning of words to extinguish the rights of gun owners — and one who didn’t know shit from second base about guns at that.

And the nine members of the Boulder City Council were cool with that.

It was the sort of performance that gives lawyers and politicians a bad name and destroys the confidence of ordinary Americans in the rule of law.

It’s hard to think of anything that could make the city less safe.

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

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ere’s the good news: America, overall, is a much less violent place than it used to be. Our reported violent-crime rate is almost half what it was in 1991. But here’s the bad: Mass shootings haven’t decreased. In fact, they’ve become even deadlier.

In 2010, the World Health Organization found that the United States’ gun-homicide rates were more than 25 times higher than in any other high-income country.

And that was before Las Vegas.

And before Parkland, Florida. We’ve witnessed 19 of the 30 deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history during the past decade.

It isn’t just about murders. The suicide rate has been skyrocketing as well, reaching a 30-year high in 2016. More than half of those suicides were with firearms.

Today, high school and middle school students have risen up in protests and marches after the Parkland shooting, demanding that something must be done.

But what?

We looked at 20 ideas to reduce gun violence, weighing the results of academic research and the analysis of experts.

Some ideas are good. They have a decent shot at saving lives. Some are messy, with the potential benefits weighed down by potential costs. Some are ineffective, doing little to nothing to combat gun violence. And some are just plain ugly, likely to result in more death and injury, rather than less.

THE GOOD Proposals likely to reduce gun violence and save lives 1) PLUG HOLES IN THE BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM Gaps in the federal background check system (the National Instant Criminal Background Check System) allow domestic abusers, convicted felons and people with mental illness to purchase guns.

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GUN childless couples. Many states, including Oregon this year, have closed the so-called “Boyfriend Loophole.”

Strengthening the federal background check system is one of the most feasible and most effective measures to reduce gun violence, surveys and research show. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that states that require universal background checks have lower gun-death rates. Surveys show overwhelming public support.

3) TRACK GUNS — AND MANDATE REPORTING IF THEY’RE STOLEN One of the most effective parts of Australia’s gun-control strategy was simply creating a gun registry — and then enforcing it. In the United States, gun-rights activists fear registries are only the first step to confiscation — and research on their effectiveness in the U.S. is limited.

Yet, the potential benefits are clear, particularly when combined with a requirement that lost or stolen guns are reported: It’s a way to close the loophole of “straw purchasers” — where a person illegally buys a gun for somebody else ineligible to purchase one. It hands law enforcement officers the ability to actually identify which guns are stolen — cracking down on both illicit arms traders and allowing cops to get convictions for thieves. And it encourages gun owners to do a better job of safely securing their weapons.

A 2002 report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms concluded that about 85 percent of criminal gun owners weren’t the original purchaser of their gun. So if you’re worried about stopping a bad guy with a gun — make sure he doesn’t get that gun in the first place.

2) LIFT THE BAN ON GUN-CONTROL RESEARCH From 2004-2014, gun violence killed about as many people as lifethreatening infections known as sepsis, but funding for gun violence research was only about 0.7 percent of the amount spent to study sepsis, according to a 2017 research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In fact, the researchers found that gun violence was the least researched cause of death, in relation to mortality rate, and only research into deaths by falling are funded less.

Part of what has stymied gun research in the U.S. is the 1996 “Dickey Amendment,” which prevents the

4) BAN HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINES To trained hands, reloading a weapon is second nature, like wiping your brow or cracking your knuckles. The rounds run out, the bolt slams forward, the magazine drops with a simple push of a finger and a new magazine is inserted. It only takes a few seconds.

But in a mass shooting, those seconds can buy people time to get to safety — or disarm the shooter. At Seattle Pacific University in 2014, an unarmed student used pepper spray to subdue a shooter while he was reloading.

And as advocates of high-capacity magazine bans point out, you wouldn’t

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by Mitch Ryals, Daniel Walters, Samantha Wohlfeil, Wilson Criscione and Quinn Welsch check. A 2013 survey of prisoners locked up for gun violence found that more than 96 percent of offenders, who were legally prohibited from owning guns, purchased them without a background check.

Experts point to three major holes: 1) In most states, gun buyers are able to purchase guns from unlicensed dealers who aren’t required to run a background check at all. Some states, including Washington, have closed this gap. After Missouri stopped requiring background checks for all firearm purchases, researchers found a 25 percent increase in firearm homicides.

2) If the FBI doesn’t complete a background check in three business days, licensed dealers are free to sell the gun anyway. This is how the man who killed nine parishioners inside a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, bought a gun.

FBI data indicates that authorities failed to meet the three-day deadline 1.1 million times between 2014 and 2017. However, it’s unclear how many firearms were actually sold because dealers have discretion to wait until the check is completed.

3) The federal definition of “domestic abuser” doesn’t include unmarried or

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from spending money on activities that “advocate or promote gun control.”

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5) MAKE FIREARM OWNERS LOCK ’EM UP An eighth-grade school shooter in Townville, South Carolina, the Washington Post reported, thought he’d be able to kill at least 50 of his classmates — 150 if he got lucky. But he couldn’t get into the gun safe where he thought his dad kept the powerful Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle.

Instead, he settled for a pistol he found in his dad’s dresser — a pistol that jammed after he shot several elementary school students. He didn’t notice that the rifle hadn’t actually been locked up either.

More than two-thirds of school shooters got their guns from their own homes or homes of relatives.

6) BAN BUMP STOCKS When a mass shooter fires into a crowd with a semi-automatic rifle, how fast he can pull the trigger becomes a life-or-death question. In the Las Vegas shooting last October, the gunman in the Mandalay Bay Hotel room was able to fire nine rounds per second. That’s all thanks to a rifle modification called a bump stock, which harnesses the recoil of a weapon to allow a shooter to fire at speeds comparable to alreadyillegal automatic weapons.

After Las Vegas, banning bump stocks has become a rare gun-control measure even Republicans in Congress say they support — though not, so far, enough to actually pass federal legislation to ban them.

But the impact would likely be small. While fewer people may have died in Las Vegas if bump stocks were banned, the devices have rarely, if ever, been used in prior shootings.

7) RAISE THE FIREARMPURCHASING AGE Check out this absurdity: You can’t buy a handgun from a licensed dealer if you’re under 21. But if you’re 18, you can still buy an AR-15.

While Republicans like Washington state’s Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers argue that those old enough to join the Army should be able to privately own semi-automatic rifles, after the Parkland shooting, even gun-rights-loving Florida passed a bill that hiked the age to 21.

The reform is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on mass shootings, however: Out of the 156 mass shootings since 2009, a Vox piece explained, Boulder Weekly

only one was committed by a gunman under age of 21 with a legally purchased semi-automatic rifle. So guncontrol advocates suggest going further: Raise the legal age for unlicensed dealers as well, barring informal gun-sellers — dealers at gun shows, for instance — and online stores from selling handguns and rifles. Heck, raise it to 25. Treat guns as seriously as rental cars. FBI data shows that more than half of firearm-homicide offenders from 2005 to 2015 were under 25.

8) ALERT THE COPS WHEN SOMEONE FAILS A GUN BACKGROUND CHECK Here’s a policy both Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and his counterpart Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson support: It requires federal officials to notify local authorities within 24 hours whenever someone tries to buy a gun, but fails the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

9) REQUIRE STATES TO SHARE MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS WITH THE FEDS Technically, federal law already prohibits people with a history of some mental health conditions from possessing guns. But the FBI’s federal background check system relies on states voluntarily reporting that information, and participation is spotty. A New York Times report in 2016 found that Pennsylvania had entered over 718,000 mental records into the federal background check system, for example, while Montana had entered in a grand total of four.

There are legitimate debates about which mental health conditions should exclude a person from gun ownership; the vast majority of people with mental health conditions, after all, are not violent. But as it stands, some states, failing to share their information or properly enforce the law, have allowed dangerous individuals like the Virginia Tech shooter to gain access to guns 10) REQUIRE A POLICE INTERVIEW TO GET A GUN In 1911, New York passed the Sullivan Act. Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, calls the act “possibly the most effective gun control law in the history of the country,” in an interview on Slate’s podcast, The Gist.

In New York, it generally takes about six months to get a gun after the applications, background check, safety training and an interview with a uni-

formed NYPD officer, Aborn says.

New York also requires safe storage and reporting if a gun is lost or stolen and bans large-capacity magazines and assault-style weapons.

“The goal is not to prevent lawabiding citizens from getting guns,” Aborn says on the podcast. “But rather to make sure criminals didn’t get a gun.

And guess what? It works!”

Firearm death rates in New York are consistently among the lowest in the entire country. In 2016, CDC data shows a rate of 4.2 firearm deaths per 100,000 people, compared to say, Alaska’s 23.3 or Idaho’s 14.6.

11) BAN ASSAULT-STYLE WEAPONS In 1994, the United States banned the manufacture and sale of certain semi-automatic weapons with militarystyle features and large-capacity magazines. The idea was to limit the number of crimes committed using weapons that could fire a large number of bullets rapidly.

In several of the highest-casualty mass shootings in modern U.S. history, the shooters used semi-automatic weapons.

The ban was lifted in 2004. A 2018 Quinnipiac poll found that 67 percent of Americans support the ban returning.

12) MAKE GUN BUYERS WAIT The idea is to require a gun buyer to wait some period of time between the purchase and when he or she actually takes possession of the gun.

Waiting periods would give authorities more time to complete background checks, advocates say. Research strongly suggests waiting periods can create a “cooling off ” period and reduce impulsive violence and suicides.

The American Medical Association has voiced support of waiting periods, and a Quinnipiac University poll found 79 percent of voters support such a mandate.

A 2017 study in the National Academy of Sciences journal using data on waiting period laws from 1970 to 2014 found that the laws are associated with a 17 percent reduction in gun homicides and a 7-11 percent reduction in gun-related suicides.

13) ADD MORE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING TO SCHOOLS Mental health counselors in schools can play a critical role in identifying atrisk students and referring them to appropriate treatment. That can prevent

students, including would-be school shooters, from harming themselves or others.

Nearly 87 percent of shooters leave behind evidence that they were victims of severe bullying that resulted in thoughts of suicide or revenge, studies have shown. Though most bullied children do not decide to open fire on fellow students as revenge, providing resources to these students could prevent harm. While schools typically lack the number of school psychologists recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists, school leadership has in recent years been more open to adding mental health resources and threat assessment teams in schools.

The drawbacks to this are minimal.

Even if the increased mental health counselors don’t prevent any school shootings, they’re sure to provide easy access to much-needed support for troubled students.

THE INEFFECTIVE Proposals unlikely to reduce gun violence 14) ELIMINATE GUN-FREE ZONES The argument against gun-free zones is that they are attractive targets for active shooters and leave their potential victims defenseless. Donald Trump even told voters he would end gun-free zones during the 2016 campaign.

But the evidence, championed by gun-rights activists, is thin. Active shooters don’t necessarily target gunfree zones. Rather, shooters target places they know, many of which happen to have that designation. Additionally, research shows that armed citizens rarely are able to stop a mass shootings or reduce the number of casualties.

15) HARDEN SCHOOLS Since the Columbine shooting in 1999, schools have worked to limit access points to buildings in order to prevent those who would do harm from entering. There are no good studies on the effect these measures have had on preventing mass shootings. Studies have suggested, however, it has little effect on preventing other violent or serious crimes in schools. And most school shooters are students or staff who would already have access to those schools — or else they find other ways in.

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Proposals where the potential benefits come coupled with downsides and risks 16 ) TRY TO REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT So why not simply ban all guns? Or why not require all guns be kept at an armory, instead of the home? Why not imitate Britain or Australia or Japan?

Because the Constitution, that’s why: An Antonin Scalia-penned Supreme Court decision in 2008 left plenty of room for gun regulation, but invalidated sweeping gun-control measures like an outright ban on handguns.

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The road to appealing an amendment is ridiculously steep, requiring either the vote of two-thirds of both houses of Congress or two-thirds of the state legislatures. But even if it can’t be done, it could at least shift the terms of the debate, supporters argue.

“Why can’t the NRA’s extremism be countered with equal extremism?” writes Vox’s German Lopez. “That seems like a potential way to get to the middle that the great majority of Americans agree with.”

Go for it, far-right conservatives say: Embed repealing one of the bedrock principles of the country into the Democratic Party platform. Watch what happens to your swing states and rural elected representatives. Watch as the donations to the NRA skyrocket and gun purchases soar as the fear that the government’s coming for your guns

17) PUT ARMED POLICE OFFICERS IN SCHOOLS In a vacuum, the idea of having more armed police officers in schools to prevent school shootings seems like a no-brainer. It avoids the complications of arming teachers — officers have more training for high-intensity situations — and there have been, in fact, several instances where armed guards stopped an active shooter from inflicting more damage. However, there have also been instances like the Parkland, Florida, shooting, when the armed deputy failed to act.

But it’s more complicated than that.

Mass school shootings remain relatively rare in the everyday life of students, and other than a few high-profile cases there is little research on whether the presence of armed officers prevents them. Meanwhile, on a day-to-day basis, the increase in recent years of resource officers in schools, according to a 2013 Congressional Research Service study, can also increase student arrests for nonviolent offenses — often on vague charges like “disorderly conduct” — and it disproportionately sends students of color into the criminal justice system. Student advocacy groups have pushed to instead focus on providing more counselors in schools instead of police.

THE UGLY Proposals likely to result in more injuries or deaths 18) ARM TEACHERS While this is an idea supported by 45 percent of adults, according to the

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Setting aside the question of what an armed teacher would do with a splitsecond decision in the face of a shooter carrying an AR-15, there are other questions to consider: Where would the teacher store a gun in a way that’s accessible in a tragic event but safe from students? Who would pay for the gun and the training? Would the presence of a gun escalate everyday interactions with students?

Right now, there’s simply no evidence that arming teachers would prevent mass school shootings. There’s little chance it will happen, since schools and teachers across the country have thus far strongly resisted the idea. And the potential for accidental gun violence further traumatizing kids is too high.

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Interest in this agricultural practice is blossoming According to the report, compost has, by far, the throughout the U.S. and many local farmers, land greatest carbon sequestration potential of the differowners and land managers are already using carbon farming techniques. In places like Marin County, ent practices examined. It diverts organic waste from California, large-scale projects are already underway landfills, improves soil fertility, increases soil carbon to amplify carbon sequestration among rangelands, stocks, and allows for farmers to use less synthetic farmlands and forests by assembling a consortium of fertilizer (reducing greenhouse gas emissions generatindependent agricultural institutions. ed by the production of those fertilizers). Utilizing Not wanting to be left behind the environmental windbreaks also offered significant carbon sequestracurve, Boulder County and the City commissioned tion potential for agriculturalists, as did planting the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) of cover crops, using slow release fertilizers and reducing Colorado State University to conduct a feasibility farmland tillage. study. They wanted to assess the potential for a large“It’s important to note, that none of [the recomscale carbon farming project in Boulder, similar to mended practices] have negative effects on crop the Marin Carbon Project. yields,” Easter said.

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t’s a Tuesday night at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café’s weekly open poetry reading.

“Writer’s Block,” a poet at the mic says.

“Outside the box,” a poet from the audience shouts back.

“All dayyy!” half the audience responds.

I roll my eyes.

Writer’s Block is a local poetry community that came on the Boulder scene last spring. It’s a collective of mainly younger poets who hit up the local open mics, most notably the Tuesday night one, infecting it with their abundant energy, and swelling its sign-up sheet to an incredible 40 readers some weeks.

Their home base is the Block 1750 dance studio (in the strip mall just north of Best Buy on 30th), where they have a writing workshop at 9 p.m. every Boulder Weekly

Wednesday, and every couple of months they hold their own open mic, which mixes poetry with freestyle dance performances (the next one is scheduled for April 25).

They have their own paper and staples publication called Spit Poet Zine with a third volume due in May. And they have an official call-back: “All dayyy.”

As I watched them emerge this past year, I could only call to mind the ancient arts concept known as Itzbindunn.

I’ve been involved in the Boulder poetry scene for 15 years, which in local poetry years may convert to 150. Not that I’d be considered old, per se, but it means, with exceptions like Tom Peters’ So You’re a Poet series’ 30-year run (which itself has now transitioned from The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse to the Wesley Chapel on Mondays), that I’ve seen a lot of see WRITER’S BLOCK Page 16

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poets come (like Whitmanian exclama- Gods. Even when the moment inevitation points!) and go (on a never-ending bly passes, it doesn’t matter; it only line break). matters that you experienced IT when It’s become a Sisyphean task to keep you could. up with this town, where there’s always IT is the goal of every arts commusomeone young and energetic starting nity. the new thing while someone older and The Writer’s Block participants tired is ending the last new thing. have similar ideas on why IT might be But Writer’s Block has become an happening there. undeniable force in the scene, even Spit Poet Zine editor Caito Foster sucking some older, respected poets calls Writer’s Block a “cool community into their orbit, like Ira Liss, who invit- of (mainly) asshole 20-somethings who ed me to “The Block” one Wednesday want to learn how to write and are when he was hosting their workshop. teaching each other. ... Having a comFor most writing workshop groups munity of people to flow with... can be you’d expect to see a handful of close really helpful to open up.” friends quietly discussMany bring up the ing their work, but the idea of safety.

ON THE BILL: Writer’s count was at least 25 For writer/musician Block. 9 p.m. that night, all gathered Phoebe Nix, “It’s a place Wednesday, April 25, in the community space to go to share.

Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder. next to the dance studio.

Sometimes it can be a Surrounded by photos of little scary and more Bruce Lee and slogans than I was prepared for, like “Come as you are” and “Only the but every time it’s been a safe place.” different make a difference,” they sat on It seems to be tied into the commucouches, beanbags, stools and easy nity’s inclusiveness. chairs, eating from a plate of brownies “It doesn’t matter who you are, what fresh-baked from an in-house oven, background,” poet Zoe Plait says, “you while nostalgic dance hits from the can host there.” likes of House of Pain and Lauryn Hill Many appreciate how there doesn’t blared from the next room. feel like any kind of obvious hierarchy They seemed undistracted by (or or leadership, although perhaps the maybe even inspired by) the noise, as leadership is just more subtle.

Liss gave them writing prompts. Some “Changa brings that energy whereven excused themselves in the middle ever he goes, and we all come along,” to take a dance break.

Griff Wendland, another core Writer’s Unlike a typical workshop, it Block member, says. seemed more about giving people the Bard/toymaker K-Bo Cuts adds, opportunity to write together, rather “The only reason Changa’s our leader is than any kind of lesson or critique. ’cause he’s like the least leader person.”

When it was time to share, Changa Changa Hernandez is a floppyHernandez, one of the core forces haired, whispy-mustache, tan-skinned behind Writer’s Block, urged them on, guy in his 20s, often seen wearing an saying, “Alright, who’s hungry?”

Adidas tracksuit and hugging everyone The eccentric-looking group, ranghe meets. Every week he’s an audience ing from teenage to retired age, with favorite at the open mic, killing it with their dyed teal hair, man-buns, Russian freestyle rhymes in his charmingly thick hats and mermaid leggings, all volunaccent. teered to read vulnerable pieces about His background is in dance, getting involved for the past eight years with love, social justice, mental health, fear the crew that eventually initiated Block and a world that generally lets you 1750 a little over three years ago. down, but with hope that all might “A space for community” it says on change.

The themes were typical but no less the homepage of their website. Their profound. As they went around the cir- mission statement reads, “Block 1750 is a nonprofit community space dedicated cle, the audience was fully engaged, to supporting youth growth through responding to the better lines and moments of honesty with snapping fin- various movement and arts-based communities in Colorado.” gers and exclamations of “dope!” and It was just a little over a year ago “fire!” Everyone seemed equally supthat Hernandez started branching out ported and heard. to the poetry open mics and brought Watching them it was clear — they this spirit with him. have IT. “I saw that the poetry thing in IT is another ancient arts term for Boulder was incredible,” he says, “and I the feeling when something is so wanted to give something.” aligned with the energy of a moment, What he gave it was a space. At has so much rightness and momentum first, it was just a few poets coming to and destiny behind it that it could’ve hang out and “train,” as Hernandez been dictated by nothing else but The 16 April 12 , 2018

puts it. Then they wanted everyone to be a part of it. Once he gave it the name “Writer’s Block,” it started to take on a life of its own.

“I think it might just be the magic of the space,” Hernandez says. “This place has a history of a lot of dancers opening up in the craziest of ways. ... It gives people a space where they’re comfortable and where we get to chill.”

Hernandez suggests there’s no real leader behind Writer’s Block. “Getting together and saying this is our space is one of the things that make it comfortable, so fuck leaders,” he says with a laugh.

But clearly it wouldn’t be happening without him, or co-organizer Lili Scathorn.

Hernandez confesses he’s “unreliable and disorganized,” but “Lili is dedicated as hell.”

She helps schedule workshop hosts, posts on social media and sends out emails. She’s also the one who came up with the call-back, which has helped brand the community.

“I was against the idea of having a call-back,” Hernandez says, “but people were doing it and were happy about it... now I fucking love it.”

In addition to future workshops and open mics, they have plans to start their own regular slam, possibly at Innisfree, although that can be an uphill climb in Boulder’s poetry culture, where free-spirited poets often seem more interested in seeking support rather than competing for scores. But perhaps with their energy, something might catch on this time.

Otherwise, “We’re playing it by ear, honestly,” Hernandez says. “Our goal is to bring poets together.”

Hernandez is humble about the mysterious IT Writer’s Block possesses.

“It’s crazy to think I started anything...

I just think after the mic we chill and it seems like, of course that’s what we do.”

It’s clear he never envisioned this; he was being himself and it just happened, and that’s probably why it happened.

Another Tuesday night rolls around at Innisfree and the crew is back.

“Writer’s Block,” a poet at the mic says.

“Outside the box,” another poet shouts from the audience.

“All dayyy!” half the audience shouts.

“What is that?” open mic host Emily Black asks them.

“That’s our call-back,” a poet says.

“Why do you have that?” she asks.

“Cuz we’re a ball-ah community,” another poet answers.

This time I have to nod.

Jonathan Montgomery is the editor of the local lit news website Boulder Poetry Tribe.

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The Dixie Dregs, the great underdog fusion band of virtuosos, returns

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e asked Steve Morse — indisputably one of the planet’s most accomplished guitarists — if there were still parts of his own technique that bedeviled him.

“Picking up on the D string, and down on the G string. I work on that... constantly.”

Not that he goes out of his way to send a message to pedestrian players like us, Morse nonetheless provides a simple gift of wisdom from the heights of guitar mastery.

Practice.

There’s an ethic behind this tiny bit of self-evaluation that speaks to the enduring appeal of Morse’s original band, the Dixie Dregs. Birthed in the mid-1970s from the collaborative restlessness of several University of Miami School of Music students, the Dregs were exactly the right band at the wrong time, cranking complex, genre-hopping and airplayaverse instrumental compositions at a time when the great fusion wave was already starting to recede from industry execs’ business plans, and FM-formatted arena rock was stomping its way across the heartland. Singerless and lacking the jazz-cred big names their fusion predecessors sported, they hung on long enough to gain a deal with Capricorn, with some help from Allman Brothers worthies like Twiggs Lyndon and Chuck Leavell.

The band’s highoctane live shows and rock solid fanbase kept them alive during several record label abandonments, including Capricorns’s own demise in 1979. Lineup changes and brief tours kept the band from dissolving completely, but outside musical pursuits kept the Dixie Dregs (renamed The Dregs for a while in the 1980s) from steady visibility. Morse went on to replace Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple, touring and recording with them for two decades. Original violinist Allen Sloane pursued a career in medicine, and drummer Rod Morgenstein spent years with Kip Winger.

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West — who was, we’re not kidding, riding in the car with Morse as we spoke — says that the vibe came back more or less effortlessly.

“The idea was just to get together and see how it sounded. Amazingly enough, everyone’s personality was exactly intact.”

The early shows on this reunion tour have brought their rewards, both in terms of fan appreciation and a gentle aging of the material itself.

“It’s harder than it used to be,” says Morse, laughing a little.

Notes West, “And we all have the same sense of some of this stuff that...

We actually enjoy playing it a little bit slower, the notes are more easily distinguishable, it’s less about being super edgy energy and more about the melodies coming out.”

“When we were stressed out 20-yearolds,” Morse says, “we didn’t realize we were going to grow up to be stressed out 60-year-olds. We played everything too fast.”

Little reported, Morse actually had a guitar stolen several weeks ago, and a few days before our interview, he got an email from an old friend — John McLaughlin — offering to lend him one of his.

McLaughlin, of course, set the standard for fusion players and remains the maestro for players who followed in his footsteps, mining disparate musical disciplines and cultural sonorities, overlaying them with dazzlingly, Coltrane-esque technical liberation.

We reminded Morse of a night almost 35 years ago at the Rainbow Music Hall in Denver, when Morse opened with a solo acoustic set for McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia and Al DiMeola. They brought Morse out to

join them for the encore, trading solos over a mid-tempo Latin figure. As Morse took his own solo, McLaughlin literally stopped and audibly exclaimed as he leaned over to watch Morse, “Wow.” “Yes, I remember that tour,” Morse says. “That was a huge part of my life, getting that gig. That made my life right there.”

But the underlying message behind the Dregs’ return may well be, at the risk of oversimplifying, that playing may not be the lost art some suggest it is. It’s a little unfair, maybe, to compare the breathless virtuosity of a Dixie Dregs performance to, say, the highly crafted and tactically produced poise of a Taylor Swift single.

At the same time, you’ve got aging icons like Eric Clapton who recently lamented that perhaps the electric guitar has surrendered its role as the preeminent voice of popular music. One of the two great American manufacturers of electric guitars, Gibson, is on financial death watch. Many of the biggest festivals are now headed by producers with mixing boards and Ableton consoles.

Is the electric guitar dead? Or dying?

Unsurprisingly, Morse disagrees.

“Guitar has an element of risk,” Morse notes. “When you see a guy behind a wall of keyboards, and grimacing a little, that’s not the same as looking and seeing the guy’s hands; you can see him miss a note or a note got away from him. But when he hits that note, with just the right tone, you can see that too.

There’s that little bit of being involved and seeing the whole thing laid out in front of you.”

Morse says he still practices every day. That’s the ethic. Chasing the ultimate conquest of a simple, six-stringed instrument.

“You’ve got a lifetime of work. If you think you’re going to master it, get back to me when you’re 70 and let me know how you did.”

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That is what composer Jeffrey Nytch thought when he heard about Sandor Feher, a violinist who died on the cruise ship Costa Concordia while retrieving his violin from his cabin when the ship sank off the coast of Italy in 2012. “I heard this story, and I was just incredibly moved by it,” Nytch says. “I felt that I had to respond to it in a musical way.”

The world premiere of Nytch’s musical response, his Violin Concerto: Costa Concordia, will be presented by violinist Edward Dusinberre with the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra and conductor Cynthia Katsarelis. Performances will be Friday (April 13) in Cherry Hills Village and Saturday (April 14) in Boulder.

Pro Musica will also perform Bartók’s Divertimento for Strings both nights.

Katsarelis named the two-part program “The Heart of Hungary.”

“Nytch is HungarianAmerican,” she says. “And Feher was Hungarian. He helped save a lot of passengers, especially children, then made the decision to go back to his cabin to get his violin — his artistic voice — and he drowned in that effort.”

When he was inspired by Feher’s story, Nytch did not start writing music right away. “I spent a lot of time thinking about what I want the music to Boulder Weekly

LADIES NIGHT WITH THE ARISTOCATS accomplish, what about this story is worth telling,” he says. “What emerged was the idea of telling this story from the standpoint of the violin. I just kept picturing the scene after Feher has perished, of the violin there in the depths calling out for its master.”

Nevertheless, the piece is not literally “programmatic.” You will not hear the collision of the Costa Concordia with a rock, or Feher’s dive into this cabin. Nor is the violin soloist “playing” the role of Feher. “Not really, no,” Nytch says. “It’s about their relationship, and the player is giving voice to Feher’s violin.”

The relationship between the player and instrument continues to the end, although it is transformed. “There’s a dissolution of the connection, and transcending into a new kind of unity,” Nytch explains.

As the first performer of the piece, Dusinberre feels emotionally what Nytch describes in abstract terms. At the beginning, he says, “there is kind of an earthy relationship when I’m playing. It feels very physical, and the violinist is very much alive. I’m doing the driving and there’s a lot of difficult things that have to be executed well.

“At the end, there’s an extraordinary disembodied quality to it, and at that point it’s almost like the violin starts playing me, and then it’s a question of not getting in the way.”

The first part clearly refers to Feher as the ship’s violinist. “You can almost imagine this player, who was an entertainer, who clearly had to show off,” Dusinberre says.

At the same time, Nytch was careful to avoid anything that might sound like a literal recreation of Feher’s performances, or to quote Hungarian tunes he might have played. “I tried to thread

this very thin needle of looking toward the Hungarian gypsy medium that he would have played, but at the same time wanting to make sure it doesn’t sound like I’m imitating the Czardas, which I did not want to do.”

Katsarelis is thrilled with the concerto. “There are a lot of really beautiful layered textures that [create] a sense of the deep blue sea upon which the Costa Concordia was sailing,” she says. “It has lovely yearning melodies and terrific gypsy flourishes that are part of the story. It’s compelling and will pull everybody into the story of sacrifice and love.”

After the performance, Katsarelis, Dusinberre and Pro Musica will make a demo recording of Costa Concordia to try enticing a label into making an album.

Bartók’s Divertimento is another piece that Katsarelis feels strongly attracted to. Drawing on her Greek heritage and love of Baltic folk music, she responds to Bartók’s use of Hungarian folk idioms. “It’s a connection to our Eastern European roots,” she says. “Hungarian has its own accent, but Greek folk music also has mixed meter folk melodies and quirky accents.”

The characteristics of Hungarian folk music are evident in the Divertimento, but they are mixed with other influences to create a fascinating blend of styles. Katsarelis says the score “exemplifies Bartok’s Hungarian writing, where some of it is informed by folk music, but other parts (are) influenced by Debussy and Stravinsky.

There’s a wide range of colors and expression in these melodies and harmonies that can seem exotic, and they’re just really beautiful.

As she says, “It’s delightful music, but it’s great music.”

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ith a pen and a blank page, an animator has the ability to create whatever his imagination can concoct — maybe a flying carpet or a larger-than-life genie in a bottle.

When a cartoon gets translated into a stage production, however, theater crews are bound by the unfortunate constraints of reality. But with some imagination and illusion, the stage provides ample ability to bring the endless possibilities of the 2-dimensional into our 3-dimensional world.

Aladdin, the musical, is now playing at Denver’s Center for the Performing Arts through April 28.

Based on the 1992 animated Disney film, the Broadway production of Aladdin opened in 2011. It then went on to secure five Tony nominations, taking home a win for best featured actor in a musical for James Monroe Iglehart as Genie.

For those unfamiliar, the show follows the street savvy Aladdin as he steals to make a living. By a chance encounter, he meets Princess Jasmine, who is sick of the slew of suitors waiting to marry her. Upon finding a magic lamp with a surprise inside, Aladdin gets a chance to court the princess. Meanwhile the evil Jafar plots to take over the kingdom and overthrow Jasmine and her father, the sultan.

Backed by the powerhouse that is Disney, the stage production of Aladdin could be phoned in and still guaranteed a modicum of success.

Thankfully, its creators deliver a show full of fun and creativity. From start to finish, the show is a delight to watch, stacked with moments small and large that wow the audience.

One of the most invigorating attributes of the show is its cartoon-feel.

Using quick changes, slights of hand and clever staging elements, Aladdin’s stage production skillfully mimics the

slapstick, playful quality of its source material.

Aladdin’s creators utilize each theatrical element to its maximum potential. Costumes, makeup, sets, staging and choreography elevate the show individually, but it’s their work in tandem that creates the real magic. This is exemplified in songs like “One Step Ahead,” where Aladdin runs through a crowded marketplace, and the audience

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The couple is perfectly countered by villain Jafar (played by Jonathan Weir) and his non-parrot sidekick, Iago ( Jay Paranda). The duo elicit great laughs each time they are on stage. The leads are supported by a Deen Van Meer wonderful chorus and a handful of colorful background characters, including Aladdin’s three friends, Babkak (Zach Bencal), Omar (Philippe Arroyo) and Kassim (Mike Longo).

But the star performance of the show undoubtedly goes to Michael James Scott, who brings to life the awe-inspirON THE BILL: Aladdin. Denver ing Genie. Bursting with Center for the energy, Scott delivers the Performing Arts, Buell night’s biggest laughs and Theatre, 1345 Champa St., Denver. infuses the show with nonThrough April 28. stop spirit. He’s the vehicle for the show-stopping number “Friend Like Me” — a number so packed with frivolous amusement, by its end you feel winded from such a barrage of joy. That scene alone should be an example to all future musithe original film. Aladdin’s ballad cals on how to adapt a cartoon.

“Proud of Your Boy” gives more depth Aladdin, the story, is no doubt a and motivation to the character, and crowd pleaser. But this production the hilarious “High Adventure” propushes beyond the story’s established vides an engine that drives a hijinksreputation to create something special heavy scene for Aladdin’s friends. Yet in its own right. Be it a Disney fanatic songs like Jasmine’s “These Palace or a theater snob, there’s something for Walls” and the Aladdin/Genie duet everyone in the show. As Aladdin and “Somebody’s Got Your Back” feel superfluous. All in all, the unsuccessful Jasmine sing, it’s “a wondrous place, for you and me.” new additions aren’t too distracting,

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The stage show breathes new life into classic moments from the film. “A Whole New World” serves as one of the most stunning scenes in the show, with Aladdin and Jasmin riding a flying carpet through a sea of stars. For just a moment the adult brain might be tempted to ponder how the trick is done, but rest assured, it’s best to submit to the power of childlike wonder and simply enjoy the beauty and magic of the scene.

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BOULDER CONVERSATIONS — WITH ADAM BRADLEY.

RÉSONANCES BORÉALES RETURNS — WITH PIANIST ROMAN ZAVADA.

5:30 P.M. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, MUSEUM OF BOULDER, 2205 BROADWAY, BOULDER.

7 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, FISKE PLANETARIUM, 2414 REGENT DRIVE, BOULDER.

Leland Chapin Believe it or not, this year marks the eighth season of the Museum of Boulder’s popular series, Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People. This monthly series runs from September through April and presents the innovative people who make Boulder the remarkable community it is today. April’s speaker is Adam Bradley, professor of English at CU and director of the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture. His most recent book, Poetry of Pop, unlocks the mysteries of word, image and sound in popular music across genres, featuring the music of Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and more. Enjoy wine and light appetizers at 5:30 p.m. before the show begins at 5:45 p.m. Tickets are $10-$15.

Montréalbased pianist Roman Zavada returns to Fiske Planetarium for the third time to perform live on stage under imagery and video of the Aurora Borealis in Northern Canada. From the rock of the Canadian Shield to sitting on the edge of the taiga, Zavada pushed his creative boundaries by getting inspiration from one of the most majestic and grand phenomena on our planet — the northern lights. It’s a colorful, immersive show featuring piano, resonating strings and auroras filmed in real time and 360 degrees. Dive into the heart of the boreal forest, under the polar lights, for an incomparable and unique experience. Tickets are $20 at colorado.edu/fiske.

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LONGMONT ALL STAR JAZZ BAND. 7 P.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, NISSI’S, 2675 NORTHPARK DRIVE, LAFAYETTE. It’s a special treat to see the Longmont All Star Jazz Band. The group is comprised of the best student-musicians from the Longmont area high schools. Students must audition to be in the All Stars and only the top students on each instrument are selected. The All Stars rehearse twice a month and perform about 15 times per year.

Head to Nissi’s and you might just get a sneak peek at the next Grover Washington. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

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Thursday, April 12 Music

LIVE MUSIC FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS

8:00pm NO COVER 4/13 STYLE 4/14 JOE COOL BAND

Back to Back Karaoke. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Boulder Conversations — with Adam Bradley. 5:30 p.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder, 304-376-1452.

Brasstracks. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

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

David Booker. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Djeff Under Covers. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

I’m With Her: Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Karaoke and Free Texas Hold’em. 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Breakers Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839.

Live Music: Paul Soderman & the Boulder Blues Club. 7 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

4/20 Dear John & The Whale Riders 4/21 Steve Thomas Band

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THURSDAY, APRIL 12 Carol Boyce Davies: Dis/locations and Caribbean Transnationality.

4:30 p.m. Norlin Library, M549 Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

A look at how people, ideas and movements have circulated across space and time through the Americas and globally.

Emerging Artist Open Studios.

5:30 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Join the Department of Art and Art History as students open their studios to the public in the Visual Arts Complex for one night only.

Silicon Flatirons Crash Course: Perception and Narrative: What’s Coming in Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-4093.

5:30 p.m. Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

Events Adultology: Kitchen Skills and Safety. 6 p.m.

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

Back to Burgundy. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Dr. Kathleen Kennedy of Penn State Brandywine will be giving her talk, “Imperial History As Told in Coconuts.”

5:30 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 186, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

Using an interactive Black Hole Flight Simulator, professor Andrew Hamilton will fly you around and inside a black hole, and initiate you into some of the unsolved mysteries of black holes.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

8:15 p.m. Wolf Law, Room 301, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.

Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017.

The 2018 Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Constitutional Law Conference will explore a broad range of issues related to listeners’ constitutional interests and rights.

CWA @ BPL: Panel Discussion: Festivals as Catalysts. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Free Bee Green Workshop: DIY earthfriendly food wrappers!

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4:30 p.m. Norlin Library, M549 Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

The Science of Stephen Hawking.

Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130.

Genealogy: Seeking the Emerald Isle. 12:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dr. Kathleen Kennedy Talk.

Dr. Milena Benovska-Sabkova, “Dead Bodies, Martyrs, and Heroes: Politics of Memory and Religious Revival in Post-Soviet Russia.”

Rothgerber Constitutional Law Conference: Listeners and the First Amendment.

Extract & Infuse: Bring Your Creativity To The Surface. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

MONDAY, APRIL 16

Following the program, there will be a networking reception sponsored by Silicon Legal Strategy.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. 4:30 p.m.

Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Exhibition Tour — with Dr. Katy Barnhart. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

CWA @ BPL: Screening of Wasted! The Story of Food Waste. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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2 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), BioLounge, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.

Drop in and create a reusable food wrap from fabric and melted beeswax.

SATURDAY, APRIL 14 African Drum Ensemble.

Milena Benovska-Sabkova is Professor of Social Anthropology at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and New Bulgarian University in Sofia, and one of Bulgaria’s most eminent ethnographers.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 CU Favorite Poem Project.

4:30 p.m. Norlin Library, M549 Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

CU Boulder celebrates National Poetry Month with an evening of Poetry. Students, staff and faculty will share some of their favorite poems and why they feel poetry is as relevant and crucial as ever.

A Charlottesville in Historical Perspective Series Forum — “Holocaust: What Does it Mean Today?”

6:30 p.m. Hale Science, 270, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

What do the events surrounding Charlottesville signal about the resurgence of hatred and the far right? This panel of distinguished Holocaust scholars will explore these and related questions in a wide-ranging discussion of our relationship to the Holocaust — past and present.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Performing high energy, tightly knit traditional, neo-traditional and highlife dance music from Ghana, CU’s African Music Ensemble is the first university ensemble in the U.S. to perform highlife music.

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Under Pressure Performance — Women and Women of Color.

5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Monday, April 16 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Tuesday, April 17

Naughty A. Mouse. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Cara Judea Alhadeff — Zazu Dreams. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Saturday, April 14 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Sunday, April 15 David Wiesner — I Got It! 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Spilled Ink — Open Mic for Youth. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading.

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

Rennie Davis — The New Humanity. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Scott & Jenny Jurek — North. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Wednesday, April 18 CU MFA Showcase — Jessica Lawson. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Gavin Ehringer — Leaving the Wild. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

The little-examined, yet omnipresent act of breeding lies at the core of Gavin Ehringer’s eye-opening book, Leaving the Wild.

You’ll meet cows cloned from steaks, a quarter horse stallion valued at $7.5 million, Chinese dogs that glow in the dark, and visit a Denver cat show featuring naked cats and other cuddly mutants. Is this what the animals bargained for when they first joined us by the fire? See Ehringer speak at Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.

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The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Partner Pattern Line Dancing. 6:30 p.m. Manhattan School of the Arts, 290 Manhattan Drive, Boulder, 720-561-5968.

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Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m.

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

Friday, April 13 Music Altius Quartet Gala Event. 7:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 214-597-8554.

AudioMedz. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Banshee Tree. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Béla Fleck: Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra No. 3. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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

Brian Payne. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Dan Blakeslee. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

David Burchfield and Emily Barnes. 6:30 p.m.

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

Dixie Dregs: Dawn of the Dregs Tour. 7 p.m.

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

Aladdin. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1345 Champa St., Denver.

Through April 28.

Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden.

Through April 29.

Always... Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through May 20.

Anastasia. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through May 5.

Annie. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens April 13. Through July 8.

Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through May 27.

The Diary of Anne Frank. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through April 28.

The Electric Baby. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 4.

Aladdin’s journey sweeps audiences into an exotic world of daring adventure, classic comedy and timeless romance. This new production, now showing at the Denver Center for Performing Arts, features a full score, including the five cherished songs from the Academy Award-winning soundtrack and more written especially for the stage.

See BW’s review on page 23.

Going to a Place Where You Already Are — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through May 6.

HAIR: The Musical. University Theatre, University Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Opens April 13. Through April 22.

The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through April 15.

Kiss Me, Kate. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through April 15.

A Picasso — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through April 29.

Sense and Sensibility. Arvada Center for Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through May 6.

Eef Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The English Beat. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Eric Lane. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Fusion Dance Party. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

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

John McEuen & Friends. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill

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Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

feehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

Peter & Will Anderson play Gershwin. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Midnight Train. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Music of India Singing Class. 12 p.m. Hamsa Arts, 1919 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-449-5030.

Musk N’ Boots. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Cof-

The Red Petals and J.W. Schuller: Record Release Show. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. see EVENTS Page 30

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A Vulnerable Paradigm of Wonder highlights sculptor Crystal Morey’s delicate and exacting sculptures alongside Nine Francois’ graphic, soulful and modern portraits of animals, exhibiting April 6 to May 5 at Visions West Contemporary, Denver.

Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

Through Aug. 15.

Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13.

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Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

Through May 27.

Crystal Morey, Entangled Wonder- Reclining Mule Deer with New Mollusk Growth, 2017, hand built porcelain, 12.5 x 13 x 7

Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through May 20.

Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13.

Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22.

Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018.

Auditorium (foyer), 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Through May 6.

100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.

Large Format Fine Art Prints From Paper Collage — by Kimberly Mcclintock. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28.

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (homage to Gene R.) — photography by Vandy Vandervort. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28.

Member’s Show. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 22.

Embracing Mistakes. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15.

Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21.

Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through July 8.

Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.

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

Through October.

Objects in Perspective. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15.

Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Macky

Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum,

Stampede: Animals in Art. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 19.

Through Their Eyes. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15.

A Vulnerable Paradigm of Wonder. Vision West Contemporary, 2605 Walnut St., Denver. Through May 5.

Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.

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Snowbound Hounds. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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

Uncorked AFTERGLO. 9 p.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-913-0030.

Events 14er Film Fest 2.0. 5:30 p.m. 14er Brewing Company, 2801 Walnut St., Denver, 720-773-1437.

2nd Friday Kids Creative Art Club. 6:30 a.m.

Creation Station, 519 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8404.

2nd Friday Reception: Blurring the Boundaries. Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

3rd Law Dance/Theater Presents An Un-Still Life. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-641-7165.

Aerial Day Off Camp. 9 a.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272.

Boulder’s Got Talent. 5:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Colorado Mineral and Fossil Show. 10 a.m.

Crowne Plaza Dia, 15500 E. 40th Ave., Denver, 303-371-9494.

Confluence Open House Celebration. 4 p.m.

Confluence Building, 75 Waneka Parkway, Lafayette, 720-484-6095.

Home School Art Classes. 10 a.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Honorable Disorder. 8 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Studio, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver, 303-295-1759.

Kids’ Night Out. 6 p.m. CENTRALongmont Presbyterian Church, 402 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-776-6833.

Marrowbone. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Opening Reception: Chris Blume. 6 p.m.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Zing for Zonta: Boulder’s Got Talent. 5:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-352-5697.

Saturday, April 14 Music Béla Fleck: Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra No. 3. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Consider the Source, The Jauntee. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Dean Himes — with Mark Kaczorowski and Lonesome Rolan. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-877-5251.

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

Dixie Dregs: Dawn of the Dregs Tour. 7 p.m.

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

The Heart of Hungary — with Violinist Edward Dusinberre. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 720-443-0565.

Joe Kuclka and Irons in the Fire. 8:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Lloyd Morris, Danae Shanti & Friends Unplugged. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Mile Twelve — with Special Guest Flatt Five. 8 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons, highstreetconcerts.com.

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

Ponnie Payne, Enion Pelta-Tiller. 7:30 p.m. The Starhouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 720-224-2090.

Ravin’wolf Acoustic Jam Rock. 5:30 p.m.

UTurn BBQ, 599 Crossing Drive, Lafayette, 720606-1734.

SCORE: An Interactive Fundraiser for Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras. 5 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 720-891-2259.

Events 3rd Law Dance/Theater Presents An Un-Still Life. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-641-7165.

Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Beginning Stone Carving For Adults. 10 a.m.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Denver’s Independent Comics & Art Expo.

McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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events Edwina the Great and Her Amazing Traveling Flea Circus. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120.

Nature’s Educators Presents: Colorado Natives. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Rattlesnake Hike. 10 a.m. Ron Stewart Preserve, Rabbit Mountain, Boulder.

Western Views Book Club. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Yoga Class: Spirits & Shri. 11 a.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017.

Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4845.

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

Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. 1st St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Dash & Dine 5K Run Series. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, 303-441-3461.

World Cannabis Week. 11 a.m. Cluster Studios, 3881 Steele St., Denver, 855-694-2086. More events at worldcannabisweek.com.

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

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The Breeders. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Dairy Presents: Angels & Devils. 7:30 p.m.

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

Kitchen Dwellers. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Mmmwhah!’s Music and Movement Meditation! 7 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

Pam Houston: Some Kind of Calling. 7 p.m.

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

Events BeeChicas: Make Space for Bugs! 4 p.m.

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

Flatirons Mineral Club. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Yoga for Kids. 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Sunday, April 15 Music Ando’s Songwriter Showcase. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

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

John Mieras. 4 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

Live Brazilian Music: Pagode Na Pedra. 2:30 p.m. Centro Mexican Kitchen, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771.

Longmont Symphony: Mozart & Beethoven. 4 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Shamwari Tamba!, Takapenga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events CiderFlow Yoga — with Kevin Flynn. 10 a.m.

St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

Yarn-fiti Knit-in. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, April 16 Music Ben Hanna & Pete Lewis. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Events An Evening with Shunsaku Hayashi. 7 p.m.

University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder.

Garden Planting and Community Workday — with Urban Farm Colorado. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

Tuesday, April 17 Music 3rd Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series: Victor Mestas Perez & Friends. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Campus Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

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

The Rightly So. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events Anime Club. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951

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n the history of cinema, there are few feature debuts as mysterious, haunting and assured as ON THE BILL: Knife in the Water, followed by a Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water. Yes, that talkback with entertainRoman Polanski: Poland’s most famous filmment writer Matthew maker and one of cinema’s most infamous Klickstein. 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 15, The fiends. If you were to type his name into Boedecker Theater, Dairy Wikipedia’s search bar, his picture would pop up Arts Center, 2590 Walnut with this description: Polish-French film director, St., Boulder, thedairy.org producer, writer, actor and rapist.

Polanski’s misdeeds are relatively well known: in 1977, a California grand jury charged the 43-year-old director with five counts of sexual assault against a 13-year-old girl.

Polanski plea-bargained his way down to a statutory rape charge but fled the country before a trial could be held. He has remained in Europe ever since.

And so we come to one of the toughest questions facing cinematic appreciation and study: How to approach historical works from a contemporary perspective?

The modern-day fervor seems to suggest that not only should the perpetrators be condemned (this seems only fair) but that their works be stricken from the books as well (this seems more harmful than helpful). Is there a happy medium to be found in all this discourse?

Watching cinema, much like writing about it, is a voluntary act. Take this column for instance: Could these 500 words be better used if they discussed another film? Maybe.

But it’s not the aim of this column to throw the baby out with the bathwater. On Sunday, April 15, Knife in the Water will screen in the Boedecker Theater’s Essential Cinema series, and, as far as this writer is concerned, Knife in the Water is indeed an essential work both historically and formally. From the film’s indictment of domineering alpha males to its depiction of bourgeois indifference; from Jerzy Lipman’s enchanting black and white photography to Krzysztof Komeda’s evocative jazz score. And let’s not forget Jolanta Umecka’s enigmatic performance as the kept wife who might be pulling more strings than the two men think. Yes, Roman Polanski may be worthy of a boycott, but there were 24 other artists at work on Knife in the Water. It would be a pity to see their work evaporate.

Interestingly, the film courted controversy from day one. Released in 1962 and set aboard a small sailing vessel, Knife traps a married couple and a hitchhiker in a cat and mouse game of sexual politics and class discrepancies. For this, it drew ire from the Communist Party because they thought the film championed the wealthy married couple. They would have most likely buried Knife if it were not for an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film — the first for a Polish film — ensuring that Knife in the Water would be screened outside the Iron Curtain.

8½ took home Mr. Oscar that year — an essential among essentials — but Knife in the Water helped bring international attention to the Polish Film School, easily one of the greatest collections of cinematic talent in the world.

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Sweet Potato Gnocchi

El Jefe 2450 W. 44th Ave., Denver, eljefedenver.com

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f there’s one thing you wouldn’t expect to find on the menu of a Mexican restaurant, it’d be gnocchi. But that hasn’t stopped the relatively new farm-to-table El Jefe restaurant in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood. The folks here take the traditionally Italian dish and give it a Mexican flare. Sweet potato dumplings are served in a bowl of black bean puree and verde brown butter sauce. Cotija cheese crumbles add to the creaminess of the dish, while pepitas provide just the right amount of crunch. Served as part of El Jefe’s shared plates menu, this dish was so good on a recent snowy night, our party of three ordered two. $10.

Vero 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, eatvero.com

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ndrea Frizzi grew up in Milan working in his family’s salumeria. His dad hoped he’d take over the family business, but the younger Frizzi needed to venture out to finetune his culinary skills. Lucky for us he landed in Denver, where he dishes out classic Northern Italian fare at the posh Il Posto and its more casual sister restaurant, Vero. Now Boulder gets in on the action with our very own Vero, located in the former location of Pizzeria Du Lupo.The Boulder location focuses on appetizers and wood-fired pizzas, keeping the menu small and the quality high.

Order one of Vero’s generous pours of wine and nosh on an appetizer of burrata while you wait for your pie. Topped simply with cracked black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil, the chilled cheese — made in-house — relents effortlessly to a knife. Be prepared to scoop up the creamy inner cheese with a piece of crostini and a sliver of roasted red pepper and a ribbon of basil. You can even get the burrata on a pizza with San Marzano tomatoes and kalamata olives. Vero also offers an artisan Italian dry goods market, where you can get culinary delights straight from Italy. $15.

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Glorious Morning Smoothie

Red Frog Coffee 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit 200, Longmont, redfrogcoffee.com

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f you’re heading out to I-25 or spending time in East Longmont, Red Frog Coffee is a comfortable place to grab a drink or light bite. Their fresh smoothies are worth seeking out, though, both for their no-frills construction and reasonably low prices. Their glorious morning smoothie is chock-full of strawberries, but bananas add structure, orange juice brings acid and milk binds it all together. Also try their unique coffee creations if caffeine’s your need. $4.65.

Prosciutto Pizza

Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House 637 Front St., Louisville; 7916 Niwot Road, Niwot, luckypiepizza.com

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ucky Pie’s Neapolitan pies are only outdone, maybe, by the restaurants’ atmospheres. The Louisville spot is a renowned family hang, while the Niwot nook is cozy and inviting. Yet, pizza’s in the name of the place and it’s put on a pedestal at Lukcy Pie. Their selection of white and red pizzas spans various styles, but their prosciutto pie rises to the top. Olive oil, sea salt, arugula, grana padano Parmesan cheese, fresh mozzarella and cherry tomatoes comprise the foundation for salty and rich prosciutto ham. The arugula is fresh and peppery, and the olive oil brings everything together. It’s a chewier crust than most, which is fine by us. $17.

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BY JOHN LEHNDORFF

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spied some fake food news recently as I walked down the frozen food aisle, progressively triggering the motion detectors and illuminating the products inside the glass cases. The headline on the front of a Banquet Turkey Pot Pie caught my eye, bragging about a “flaky crust made from SCRATCH.” “From scratch” is such a conveniently nebulous term now. At some level, everything is made from scratch, including me. “From scratch” originated as an 18th-century sports term for a line scratched on the ground that all competitors had to stay behind so none had an advantage.

Cooking from

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scratch is supposed to mean food prepared using no mixes, pre-made crusts, kits or packets of prepared ingredients named “Helper.”

It is true that Banquet Turkey Pot Pie starts out with scratch ingredients. These include hydrolyzed soy protein, cooked chicken powder, sodium tripolyphosphate, mechanically separated turkey, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sugar and dextrose. This crust is made in 100-pound blobs and machined into shape. As a bona fide pie crust expert and avid pot pie consumer, I can tell you this crust is not remotely flaky when it emerges from the microwave.

It is false advertising, but what can one expect for 88 cents?

“Scratch” harkens back to a mythical time when grandmothers, not factories, pro-

duced baked goods. Lately, writers have been lamenting the average millennial’s lack of cooking savvy, but that cry is nothing new. A 1946 New York Times story bemoaned the fact that “the oldfashioned style of cooking — from scratch, as it were, without frozen or canned products — is on the wane.”

Generally speaking, the people nostalgic for those good old days were not the ones getting up at 5 a.m. to bake the bread or wash the pots. If you talk to women from earlier generations, they cooked from scratch because there wasn’t an alternative. When prepared foods started appearing, many of them said “Hallelujah!” Convenience foods meant less daily drudgery of food production and more time to pursue education or a job.

At the supermarket, “from scratch” now seems reserved for baked goods. Conagra’s Marie see NIBBLES Page 38

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Callender’s Cherry Crunch Pie has an “extra flaky crust made from scratch,” while her Chicken Pot Pie has a “golden flaky crust made from scratch.”

(Personally, I think it’s the same crust.)

Other products avoid the label even when they could brag about it. Delallo Sesame Breadsticks are “made in Italy” but not “made from scratch.” Calhoun Bend Mill Peach Cobbler Mix is “made in the U.S.A”, “home style,” “premium,” “like Mom’s cooking!” and “easy to bake.” It is closer to “from scratch” because you still have to add fruit, milk and butter.

Despite all the culinary shortcuts available in 2018, I’m more optimistic about home cooking than I have been for years. It’s cyclical.

Every generation eventually comes home to the kitchen. The younger generations are demanding to know how their food is grown and are realizing that cooking from scratch is food transparency in action. Scratch cooking also scratches that maker itch.

If you learn to cook, you learn to feed yourself and know exactly what’s in your food. You learn how to shop for ingredients, read labels, slow down and share food, and save a ton of money on groceries. For some, cooking can be a focused discipline that brings balance to a harried life. I even like Blue Apron delivered meal kits because they are a decent introduction to the joys of scratch cooking.

I cook from scratch at home but certain foods just aren’t worth the effort, such as tomato puree, hot dogs, fresh mozzarella and filo pastry.

While looking for foods marketed as “made from scratch” I encountered a plague of bites. I spied frozen cream cheese-filled bagel bites, Velveeta Cheesy Bites, Brazi Bites and TGI Friday’s Honey BBQ Boneless Chicken Bites. Bites apparently weren’t small enough for Entenmann’s. The bakery sells Fudge Brownie Little Bites. Oreo’s Thin Mint knockoff is fudge-dipped, mint crème Thins Bites. Simple Truth Quinoa & Red Pepper Omelet Bites “microwave in 1 minute,” but they aren’t “from scratch.” All of this verbiage is designed to fool you into thinking you are eating lighter and healthier. Of

course, nobody just has one bite.

Local food news

Edwin Zoe has opened Chimera at 2014 10th St. (in the former Sushi Tora space) next door to his Zoe Ma Ma Chinese street food spot. ... Andrea Frizzi’s Vero Italian eatery has opened in the former Pizzeria Da Lupo space at 2525 Arapahoe Ave. ... Cured West has closed at 2019 10th St. The original Pearl Street Cured location remains open. ... The Colorado Natural Wine Grand Showcase April 18 at Denver’s Space Gallery features tastings of organic, biodynamic, sustainable and natural wines from all over the planet. conaturalwineweek.org. ...

The Colorado Jewish Food Fest (April 15) at the Boulder Jewish Community Center features tons of family activities plus a vegetarian menu that includes avocado toast with fresh mozzarella (Woodgrain Bagels), organic cotton candy (River and Woods), rugelach (Sweet Pea Cuisine) and a chickpea miso bowl (Zeal), plus latkes and kombucha. coloradojewishfoodfest.com. ... Boulder County’s inaugural Food Waste Awareness Week is April 16-22, with programs to teach food waste reduction and save food, money and water. bouldercounty.org/ environment/sustainability/food-waste.

Taste of the week

Sometimes a great, warm sub sandwich is the only dish that fills the bill. I found a satisfying example recently at the inconspicuous D’Angelo’s Deli next to Safeway in North Boulder. Just describing it makes my mouth happy.

The bacon and garlic cheese steak is a chewy loaf layered with beef, grilled onions, roasted red peppers, spinach, roasted garlic mayo and provolone.

Words to chew on

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it... If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

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The opening of Treat Snack House last week Treat Snack House is wranrepresented an achievegling the snack ment for the greater category in its Longmont Longmont restaurant restaurant with scene. And for Boulder drinks, sweets and savory County in general. That items. we can now not only incubate but support the opening of a restaurant dedicated solely to the humble snack is evidence of a food-savvy customer base willing to go where bold restaurateurs take them.

The bold restaurateur in this case is Susan Nowlin. A longtime resident of Longmont, she’s seen the transformation the city’s food scene has undergone in just the last decade. Could a snackfocused restaurant have survived in Longmont 10 years ago?

“Maybe not,” Nowlin says. “But I think anywhere it might have been more difficult. And I think with food establishments coming more alive in Longmont, I think that lets the organic interest in there.”

Despite its growth, Nowlin believes Longmont has been able to retain its hometown feel, which appealed to her when deciding where to open the shop. That sense of communtiy extends to a collaborative and supportive restaurant industry.

“Everyone is really pulling for you and really just kind of cheering you on,” she says. “I don’t know if you find that anywhere else. It’s very unique, I think.” see SNACKS Page 42

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So what exactly is everyone pulling for in Treat Snack House? Nowlin says the concept has been in the works for several years, and the idea is to provide a place for people to meet throughout the day, for a variety of functions, with a variety of food options available to them.

That sounds broad, but so is the category of snacking. Nowlin says the development of the menu has been an ongoing process, trying to find the right balance of sweet, savory and salty with regards to flavor, and a spectrum of substance, from light to heavy.

The opening day menu doesnt look like other menus. It’s takes a minute to calibrate — plenty of drinks from coffee to mocktails to hot cocoas, and large sections of snacks and sweets. Snacks include basics like parfaits and veggie platters, and prepared dishes like quiche, muffins and salads. The sweets include cakes, brownies and cobblers.

If it seems like there’s too much distance between those items, you can order a snack flight and build a mini-meal.

Part of the challenge in opening Treat was reigning in something as broad as people’s collective notion of what constiSusan France tutes a snack, Nowlin says.

“In researching this, there were so many articles about a treat versus a snack. If it was a treat, it was an indulgent, sweet thing you weren’t supposed to have. If it was a snack it was healthy; fruit and veggies and that’s it,” Nowlin says. “To me, they can be married together. So you can have something healthy but it can be indulgent or energizing. At the same time you can have something indulgent but that’s made with things that are better for you, organic cane sugar, foods that are unprocessed, foods made down the road, where it’s a special indulgence.”

Some might call Treat a boutique or niche shop, but it has precedence.

As a space to hold meetings, meet friends, have a quick bite or a light lunch, it mimics a bistro. It provides a destination for people just looking to get out in Longmont or take a break while perusing Main Street. Nowlin says she took business trips to New York and Chicago before opening to see other restaurants that share the concept, but found more often than not, those places targeted certain categories: drinks, desserts or savory small bites.

But Nowlin says that the research she studied indicates there is a desire for healthier treats available in a cafe setting. As part of her preparation for opening the shop, she got a catering license to see first-hand what small bites people were craving and how they could be turned into a business.

Nowlin also took a barista training course with Ozo Coffee Co. to learn the coffee brewing ropes, leaving the experience “with a newfound respect for baristas.” But coffee (brewed from Conscious Coffee beans) is one item that will draw people into Treat, where they can get a better sense for the shop’s concept.

To ensure the food was solid, though, Nowlin hired a chef and the two have gone back and forth developing the menu. Instead of viewing the need to source a variety of ingredients for a variety of dishes as an issue, Nowlin views it as an opportunity to source locally grown, seasonal food. It keeps the menu fresh, supports other Longmont food producers and ensures Treat’s offerings are on the healthier side.

Certainly Treat could work in Boulder; it’s not too hard to imagine it packed on Pearl Street on any given Saturday. But like many artisans and entrepreneurs, it’s Longmont that is providing fertile ground for those looking to provide new, interesting food operations. Many will be on display during Longmont Restaurant Week, April 20-29, where restaurants will sell specials and prix fixe menus for $18.71. Treat is offering a couple options for those who stop by, including a three-course “snack for 2” meal with chips and jalapeno popper dip, sweet potato and goat cheese empanadas and a mini bundt cake with chocolate ganache.

It’s a pedestal for Longmont restaurants, and Nowlin, new to the scene, is happy to be a part of it — both the celebration and the burgeoning culinary community.

“I think we wanted to be part of that growth, ride the wave,” Nowlin says. “It’s been fun because I love seeing new businesses come in and to be one of those is pretty exciting.”

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here are over 6,300 breweries in America as of 2017, according to the Brewers ON THE BILL: Association. And though we would like Samples. 370 Main St., Longmont, to stop in and try a pint at every single 303-327-9318 one, that’s just not possible. Plus, it sampleslongmont.com would mean missing out on one of life’s greatest pastimes: barhopping (as opposed to brewery hopping).

For April, hop on over to Samples in Longmont. For two years running, craftbeer.com readers have chosen Samples as Colorado’s Great American Beer Bar. And, honestly, once you spend a little time in Samples, it’s easy to see why.

The neon sign in the window demands you “EAT MORE BEER” as you enter the large, yet surprisingly, quiet space. Community tables line the front, Susan France which is well-lit by large windows overlooking Longmont’s Old Town Main Street. Head to the back, and you’ll find a handful of booths and a half-dozen tables and chairs arranged spaciously next to Samples’ long bar top.

Behind the bar, a giant TV projection screen sits above 28 taps.

Surrounding the screen, large, wooden palettes called “beerquators” hang, but more on those later. For now, let your eyes drift to the kitchen where the usual swinging doors have been nixed in favor of an entrance portal cut into the shape of a conic pint glass. Behind the portal, a false back wall painted lager yellow with a thick white head of foam.

They eat more beer at Samples, and they see it, too.

We’d be remiss if we spent more than two or three pints at Samples without something to nosh. The food here is good, higher-end gastropub fare, but not too fancyschmancy. Instead, owners Mark and Carmen Sample stick to the type of comfort food that beer drinkers need after a session at the bar. Their signature: the poutine burger — fries and fried cheese curds piled precariously atop a hamburger patty and smothered in brown gravy. Ideal for soaking up anything you pour down.

And you’ll need it with their extensive beer menu. Pouring roughly 60 offerings — arranged according to flavor profile, from clean/crisp to herbal/spicy — Samples features much more than a slew of Colorado brews. Here you’ll find heavy hitters from Oregon (Ninkasi), Pennsylvania (Victory), New York (Ommegang) and, be still my beating heart, Belgium. They offer many Belgians by the bottle, but when you see Duchesse de Bourgogne — a magnificent chocolate brown sour from Vichte — on tap, you don’t look before you leap. And when she comes to the table in her signature chalice, you know you’ve chosen wisely.

There’s no reason to stop with the Duchesse when Crooked Stave, Grimm Brothers and Wibby are all on tap, as well. That’s why Samples offers the beerquators, those wood palettes hanging by the TV. Feeling adventurous? Plunk down $40, and they’ll load one up with 20 different samples. If you can identify all 20 beers, you’ll walk away with $500. More than enough to cover the meal, the Uber ride home and all the aspirin you’ll need for the morning after.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Aries statesman Thomas

Jefferson was the third President of the United States.

He wrote one of history’s most famous documents, the Declaration of Independence. He was an architect, violinist, inventor and linguist who spoke numerous languages, as well as a philosopher who was knowledgeable about mathematics, surveying and horticulture. But his most laudable success came in 1789, when he procured the French recipe for macaroni and cheese while living in France, and thereafter introduced the dish into American cuisine. JUST KIDDING! I’m making this little joke in the hope that it will encourage you to keep people focused on your most important qualities, and not get distracted by less essential parts of you.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: In the early 1990s, Australian

electrical engineer John O’Sullivan toiled on a research project with a team of radio astronomers. Their goal was to find exploding mini-black holes in the distant voids of outer space. The quest failed. But in the process of doing their experiments, they developed technology that became a key component now used in Wi-Fi. Your digital devices work so well in part because his frustrating misadventure led to a happy accident. According to my reading of your astrological omens, Taurus, we may soon be able to make a comparable conclusion about events in your life.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In the fictional world created by DC

Comics, the superhero Superman has a secret identity as a modest journalist named Clark Kent. Or is it the other way around? Does the modest journalist Clark Kent have a secret identity as the superhero Superman? Only a few people realize the two of them are the same. I suspect there is an equally small number of allies who know who you really are beneath your “disguises,” Gemini. But upcoming astrological omens suggest that could change.

Are you ready to reveal more about your true selves?

Would you consider expanding the circle that is allowed to see and appreciate your full range and depth?

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Playwright Tennessee Williams

once spent an evening trying to coax a depressed friend

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out of his depression. It but in the coming weeks inspired him to write a they will be even more poem that began like this: so. I suspect they will be “I want to infect you with your salvation, your delivthe tremendous exciteerance, and your treasure. ment of living, because I So why not treat them Go to RealAstrology.com to check out believe that you have the like angels or celebrities Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO strength to bear it.” Now or celebrity angels? Buy HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE I address you with the them ice cream and conHOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes same message, Cancerian. cert tickets and fun surare also available by phone at Judging from the astrologprises. Tell them secrets 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. ical omens, I’m convinced about their beauty that you currently have more no one has ever expressed strength than ever before before. Listen to them in to bear the tremendous excitement of living. I hope this ways that will awaken their dormant potentials. I bet that news will encourage you to potentize your ability to welwhat you receive in return will inspire you to be a better come and embrace the interesting puzzles that will come ally to yourself. your way in the weeks ahead.

stumbling upon a modest beginning that eventually yields breakthrough results.

LEO

AQUARIUS

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Are you finished dealing with spa-

cious places and vast vistas and expansive longings? I hope not. I hope you will continue to explore big bold blooming schemes and wild free booming dreams until at least April 25. In my astrological opinion, you have a sacred duty to keep outstripping your previous efforts. You have a mandate to go further, deeper and braver as you break out of shrunken expectations and push beyond comfortable limitations. The unknown is still more inviting and fertile than you can imagine.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Between December 5 and 9, 1952, London was beset with heavy fog blended with thick smog. Visibility was low. Traffic slowed and events were postponed. In a few places, people couldn’t see their own feet. According to some reports, blind people, who had a facility for moving around without the aid of sight, assisted pedestrians in making their way through the streets. I suspect that a metaphorically comparable phenomenon may soon arise in your sphere, Virgo. Qualities that might customarily be regarded as liabilities could at least temporarily become assets.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Your allies are always important,

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In the coming weeks, I suspect

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: In 20 B.C., Rome’s most famous

poet was Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known to us today as Horace. He prided himself on his meticulous craftsmanship, and advised other writers to be equally scrupulous.

Once you compose a poem, he declared, you should put it aside for nine years before deciding whether to publish it.

That’s the best way to get proper perspective on its worth.

Personally, I think that’s too demanding, although I appreciate the power that can come from marshalling so much conscientiousness. And that brings me to a meditation on your current state, Capricorn. From what I can tell, you may be at risk of being too risk-averse; you could be on the verge of waiting too long and being too cautious. Please consider naming a not-too-distant release date.

you will be able to find what you need in places that are seemingly devoid of what you need. You can locate the possible in the midst of what’s apparently impossible.

I further surmise that you will summon a rebellious resourcefulness akin to that of Scorpio writer Albert Camus, who said, “In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.”

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Luckily, you have an inventive mind and an aptitude for experimentation. These will be key assets as you dream up creative ways to do the hard work ahead of you. Your labors may not come naturally, but I bet you’ll be surprised at how engaging they’ll become and how useful the rewards will be. Here’s a tip on how to ensure you will cultivate the best possible attitude: Assume that you now have the power to change stale patterns that have previously been resistant to change.

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lesson in holy gluttony from a Taurus? Or perhaps pick up some pointers in enlightened self-interest from a Scorpio? New potential resources are available, but you haven’t reeled them in with sufficient alacrity. Why? Why oh why oh why?! Maybe you should ask yourself whether you’re asking enough. Maybe you should give yourself permission to beam with majestic selfconfidence. Picture this: Your posture is regal, your voice is authoritative, your sovereignty is radiant. You have identified precisely what it is you need and want, and you have formulated a pragmatic plan to get it.

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: In 1936, Herbert C. Brown graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in science. His girlfriend Sarah Baylen rewarded him with the gift of a two-dollar book about the elements boron and silicon. Both he and she were quite poor; she couldn’t afford a more expensive gift. Brown didn’t read the book for a while, but once he did, he decided to make its subject the core of his own research project. Many years later, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries about the role of boron in organic chemistry. And it all began with that two-dollar book. I bring this story to your attention, Sagittarius, because I foresee you, too,

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Dear Dan: I’m a 36-year-old straight woman. I was sexually and physically abused as a kid, and raped in my early 20s. I have been seeing a great therapist for the last five years, and I am processing things and feeling better than I ever have. I was in a long-term relationship that ended about two years ago.

I started dating this past year, but I’m not really clicking with anyone. I’ve had a lot of first dates, but nothing beyond that. My problem is that I’d really love to get laid. The idea of casual sex and one-night stands sounds great — but in reality, moving that quickly with someone I don’t know or trust freaks me out, causes me to shut down and prevents me from enjoying anything. Even thinking about going home with someone causes me to panic. When I was in a relationship, the sex was great. But now that I’m single, it seems like this big, scary thing. Is it possible to get laid without feeling freaked out?

—Sexual Comfort And Reassurance Eludes Dame Dear SCARED: It is possible for you to get laid without feeling freaked out.

The answer — how you go home with someone without panicking — is so obvious, SCARED, that I’m guessing your therapist has already suggested it: Have sex with someone you know and trust. You didn’t have any issues having sex with your ex because you knew and

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trusted him. For your own emotional safety, and to avoid recovery setbacks, you’re going to have to find someone willing to get to know you — someone willing to make an emotional investment in you — before you can have sex again.

You’ve probably thought to yourself, “But everyone else is just jumping into bed with strangers and having amazing sexual experiences!” And while it is true that many people are capable of doing just that, at least as many or more are incapable of having impulsive one-night stands because they too have a history of trauma, or because they have other psychological, physical or logistical issues that make one-night stands impossible.

(Some folks, of course, have no interest in one-night stands.) Your trauma left you with this added burden, SCARED, and I don’t want to minimize your legitimate frustration or your anger. It sucks, and I fucking hate the people who victimized you. But it may help you feel a little better about having to make an investment in someone before becoming intimate — which really isn’t the worst thing in the

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world — if you can remind yourself that you aren’t alone. Demisexuals, other victims of trauma, people with body-image issues, people whose sexual interests are so stigmatized they don’t feel comfortable disclosing them to people they’ve just met — lots of people face the same challenge you do.

Something else to bear in mind: It’s not unheard of for someone reentering the dating scene to have some difficulty making new connections at first. The trick is to keep going on dates until you finally click with someone. In other words, SCARED, give yourself a break and take your time. Also, don’t hesitate to tell the men you date that you need to get to know a person before jumping into bed with him.

That will scare some guys off, but only those guys who weren’t willing to get to know you — and those aren’t guys you would have felt safe fucking anyway, right? So be open and honest, keep going on those first dates, and eventually you’ll find yourself on a fifth date with a guy you can think about

taking home without feeling panicked.

Good luck.

Dear Dan: This is about a girl, of course. Pros: She cannot hide her true feelings.

Cons: Criminal, irascible, grandiose sense of self, racist, abstemious, self-centered, anxious, moralist, monogamous, biased, denial as a defense mechanism, manipulative, liar, envious and ungrateful. She is also anthropologically and historically allocated in another temporal space continuum. And last but not least: She runs less quickly than me despite eight years age difference and her having the lungs of a 26-year-old nonsmoker. Thoughts?

Desperate Erotic Situation Dear DES: If someone is criminal, racist and dishonest — to say nothing of being allocated in another temporal space continuum (whatever the fuck that means) — I don’t see how “cannot hide her true feelings” lands on the “pro” side of the pro/con ledger. You shouldn’t want to be with a dishonest, moralizing bigot, DES, so the fact that this particular dishonest, moralizing bigot is incapable of hiding her truly repulsive feelings isn’t a reason to consider seeing her. Not being able to mask hateful feelings isn’t a redeeming quality — it’s the opposite.

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Can weed help you lose weight?

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ummer is right around the corner, which means it’s officially time to get your ass in gear and shed the extra pounds you’ve been hiding under your Patagonia puffy all winter. While all the boring overachievers have been cutting alcohol, eating clean and sweating in the gym

since January, some of us have been busy drinking carbs, taking depression naps and rewatching every episode of The Office for the 43rd time. Now that you’re bloated and full of regret, it’s tempting to go on some gross lemon and cayenne pepper cleanse until Memorial Day ­— but don’t be a drama queen about it. If I’ve learned anything from all the rich, conventionally attractive 23-year-old fitness bloggers on Instagram, it’s that “becoming healthy is a lifestyle change,” aka “eat less, move more, stay sober and pretend that’s who you are as a per-

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son.” Honestly, that sounds like a personal attack because, for the millennials of Boulder, that lifestyle includes being uninhibited at as many Red Rock shows as we can possibly afford. After all, what’s the point in getting hot if you can’t show it off by getting lit in a crop top at Odesza?

Luckily for us, some scientists believe that smoking weed could help promote weight loss.

According to a study published in 2015, regular THC intake reduced weight gain, fat gain and energy intake in obese mice. Researchers at the University of Calgary gave daily doses of THC to obese mice and mice at a regular weight.

While it did not have any effect on the regular mice, it caused the obese mice to lose weight. They attributed this to changes in the gut microbiome, which helps regulate weight and digestion, and found that THC changed the ratio of weight-promoting microbes in the digestive tract to a healthier balance after being fed a high-fat diet. The study and its findings have been replicated by scientists who have found that this association holds true even after controlling for other variables, such as age and gender.

But when I smoke weed, I have an insatiable appetite and the uncontrollable urge to stuff my face with every processed food in sight... is what you’re probably thinking right about now. It’s true, many people report getting the munchies to some degree and believe it’s part of the experience. By that logic, chronic stoners should all

be fat, right? Not necessarily — a 2013 study revealed that habitual marijuana users have a 16 percent lower fasting insulin level as well as lower levels of insulin resistance compared to those who are not current users. The study, which involved over 13,000 adults, also found that people who smoke on a regular basis have consistently lower BMIs, smaller waist circumferences and are less likely to develop metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, than non-users.

Many lifestyle factors come into play during these observational studies. People tend to overeat and make poor nutrition decisions when they’re stressed out and sleep deprived. Weed is proven to reduce stress and support sleep, which supports weight loss. Additionally, marijuana has an anti-inflammatory effect and the chemical compounds that come from weed might mimic the body’s natural endorphins, which could help increase our pain threshold and make it easier to push through a tough workout, similar to a natural runner’s high. Any strain that is high in either THCV or CBD could potentially be helpful for weight loss, as well as balancing blood sugar, reducing inflammation and improving insulin sensitivity. Some strains known to be high in these particular cannabinoids include: Charlotte’s Web, Black Beauty, Durban Poison and Cannatonic.

Does this mean that simply smoking weed is the secret to reaching your sending weight?

No, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. There’s never a simple solution when it comes to getting lean. Redefining your body requires discipline, consistency and time. Obviously a balanced diet, exercise, plenty of rest and reducing stress all play a role. Still, cannabis enthusiasts can rest assured knowing that it’s not marijuana making them fat.

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by Paul Danish

They do things differently in Mexico...

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hey do things differently in Mexico.

Especially when it comes to human rights and legalizing pot.

Back in 2015, four members of the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Consumption (the Spanish acronym is SMART) sued in the Mexican Supreme Court for the right to grow, use and transport marijuana.

They argued that the prohibition of marijuana violates a person’s fundamental human right to the “free development of personality.”

OK, if someone were to come into an American court and argue that U.S. antimarijuana laws violated his right to “the free development of personality,” chances are the judge would react about the same way George III did when he got to the line in the Declaration of Independence that said “all men are created equal.”

But in Mexico they do things differently.

According to a piece at the blog Herb.CO

by Michelle Janikian, the right to the “free development of personality” is found in the

Mexican constitution. It’s also found in the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights.

“Basically, it means that individuals have the right to decide what’s best for their lives and bodies, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the rights of others,” Janikian writes.

“Therefore, every adult has the right to decide if they want to use cannabis or not, so long as it’s not affecting anyone else.

“Many compare the argument to eating junk food,” she adds. “It’s not good for you, but the state doesn’t have the right to stop you.”

(Boulder’s soda-pop-taxing nanny-statists may have trouble with the concept. But we digress.)

Anyway, darned if the SMART Four didn’t win. A panel of the Mexican Supremes ruled in their favor by a 4-1 vote.

So why aren’t Mexicans lighting up from the Rio Grande to the Rio Usumacinta?

Well that’s because they do things differently in Mexico. Unlike the U.S., where the Supreme Court only has to rule once to determine the constitutionality of a law, in Mexico the Supreme Court has to issue the same ruling five times before it sticks.

After the Court has ruled the same way five times, it issues a general ruling called a jurisprudential thesis. It’s only then that the rulings become the supreme law of the land.

Until the jurisprudential thesis comes out, the rulings in the individual cases apply only to the plaintiffs in those cases.

Which means that as things stand now, the SMART Four have the right to smoke marijuana in Mexico, but until the Court

rules the same way in four more cases, the other 112 million people in the country don’t.

According to Janikian, this procedure is the way the Mexican Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015. After ruling against gay marriage bans five times, the Court issues a jurisprudential thesis stating that laws “restricting marriage to heterosexual couples were discriminatory and unconstitutional.”

Initial consideration of the second case is due to start this year. It’s being brought by a lawyer named Ulrich Richter. As in the first case, he’s arguing that the prohibition of marijuana violates a person’s right to the “free development of personality.”

This raises an interesting question: The U.S. Constitution doesn’t contain an explicit right to the free development of personality.

But could the Supremes conceivably discover one in there, the same way the court discovered a right to privacy and by extension a right to abortion in the early ’70s?

If you stop to think about it, while the right to the free development of personality may not be in the Bill of Rights, the concept isn’t all that different from one of the rights Mr. Jefferson put into the Declaration of Independence. It’s called “the pursuit of happiness.” (He was incensed when it was left out of the Constitution.)

It doesn’t take a legal genius to see that if it had been included in the Constitution, chances are we would be a much freer, and probably more tolerant, country than we are today.

Like I said, they do things differently in Mexico. And maybe they could teach the Colossus del Nord a thing or two about human rights and the rule of law.

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