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Highroad Where does inequality come from? by Jim Hightower
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he vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon — it’s caused intentionally by policy decisions that corporate and political officials make. Every now and then, we commoners even get a glimpse of inequality-inthe-making, as we did recently when the GOP Boss of the House, Rep. Paul Ryan, rammed the awful Trumpcare
bill through that chamber. Without allowing any public testimony or even getting an analysis of its cost, Ryan browbeat and cajoled the Republican majority to hold their noses and pass this gob of plutocratic wretchedness. Their bill was so bad that a mere 17 percent of Americans support it. Trumpcare certainly deserves the public’s disgust, for it’s a monstrous inequality machine: It strips health coverage from at least 23 million Americans; it lets insurance corporations either refuse to cover people with pre-existing conditions or to gouge them with extreme price increases; and it lets states eliminate the requirement that insurance policies must at least cover such essential health needs as cancer treatment and maternity care. And, in a flagrant example of
directly widening inequality in America, the Republicans’ bill slashes $880 billion out of the Medicaid budget, which provides health care for the poor, the elderly and the disabled. That’s not just a cut in dollars, but in people — 14 million needy families would lose their access to healthcare. But that’s only the half of it. Ryan’s Trumpcare nastiness also gives a massive new tax cut to health care corporations and wealthy investors. How massive is the cut? Precisely $880 billion. By taking from the needy and giving to the rich, this one deliberate act by Congress would further widen economic disparity in our country by nearly $1.8 trillion. That is how inequality happens. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 1 , 2017 5
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Russia: How it got where it is and where it’s going by Dave Anderson
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ussia, Russia, Russia. Every day brings new stories of intrigue involving Russia and Trump. But there isn’t too much in the mainstream media about what is happening in Russia itself. In March, tens of thousands of Russians rallied in almost 100 cities to protest government corruption. This was the largest protest wave since the 2011-2012 demonstrations against election fraud. This time, people were angry about Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s alleged corruption. Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition figure, posted reports on social media about Medvedev’s mansions, yachts and vineyards (which he couldn’t conceivably afford on his government salary). The peaceful demonstrators defied bans on protests and were arrested by the hundreds. Navalny was also arrested, fined and jailed for 15 days for organizing the rallies. Roman Dobrokhotov, a Moscowbased journalist writing for Al Jazeera, says that the protesters included “an unusually high number of youth — not only university but also high school students. Photos from the protests showed the brawny bodies of policemen towering over 14 to15-year-olds. These children were born during the Putin era and despite their ‘patriotic upbringing’ actively enforced in schools and in the media, they came out wanting change.” Dobrokhotov argues that Navalny is “Russia’s Bernie Sanders... the hero of the internet generation. He could publish his numerous investigations into government corruption not on traditional media outlets, but on social media and his blog. He has almost two million followers on Twitter. He would win any internet vote on any topic.” He says the younger generation doesn’t watch TV “not necessarily for political reasons, but because it simply doesn’t find it interesting.” This is a problem since state-controlled TV is “the main support lever of Vladimir Putin’s power.” When Putin first became president, about 2 percent of the Russian population was using the internet regularly. But today, 70 percent of Russians use the internet. Dobrokhotov says the Kremlin “never managed to turn the internet into a propaganda machine because the Boulder Weekly
way the internet works is different from traditional media.” TV viewers passively consume information whereas internet users choose what to look at. During the demonstrations, there was
record traffic on independent news websites reporting on what was going on and some 150,000 watched a live internet broadcast of the protests simultaneously. Navalny is planning to run for president in the 2018 election. Much of his campaign emphasizes fighting inequality. Signs at his campaign office have slogans like “Hospitals and roads, not palaces for officials.” The first line of a campaign leaflet says: “A dignified life for everyone, and not wealth for the 0.1 percent.” Russia has the most unequal of all
the planet’s major economies, according to a recent report by Credit Suisse. The richest 10 percent of Russians own 87 percent of all the country’s wealth. Economist Joe Stiglitz says, “Russia’s GDP is now about 40 percent of Germany’s and just over 50 percent of France’s. Life expectancy at birth ranks 153rd in the world, just behind Honduras and Kazakhstan. “In terms of per capita income, Russia now ranks 73rd (in terms of purchasing power parity) — well below the Soviet Union’s former satellites in see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8
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letters An open letter from faith leaders in response to 2018 proposed budget
As faith leaders in Boulder County, we seek to move beyond partisan politics as we consider the ethical and moral implications of the proposed 2018 federal budget. We have pledged to use our voice to unify people around issues of human rights and increasing economic and racial justice. We hope to bring ethics and morality into the forefront of our political conversation. As a basic tenet of our faiths, a measure of our goodness is how we care for children, the sick, seniors, low-income families, those without homes and others who are typically considered most atrisk during difficult times. We believe that the proposed federal budget puts these vulnerable people further at risk, which not only places long-term economic burdens on our community, but is ethically and morally unacceptable for a country as wealthy as the United States. Some of the programs the federal budget proposes to eliminate include Meals on Wheels, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and HOME housing funds for low-income families. Programs that would see drastic reductions include the National Institutes of Health, Colorado Legal Services, Pell Grant student financial aid program and workforce training. Medicaid expansion and housing vouchers are also at risk. The money saved by cutting these programs would be diverted to defense spending. In 2015, Boulder County taxpayers sent $830 million to the Pentagon. The proposed budget increases that amount by $80 million.
This amount more than covers our share of the programs that are slated to be cut and, in addition, could fund local programs for the common good such as college scholarships, infrastructure improvements, public education, new housing for low income families, fire/ flood mitigation and sustainable energy. We are writing as faith leaders with diverse political and social perspectives, but we come together around the guiding principle that it is right to treat others the way you would like to be treated. We do not believe that the proposed budget aligns with this core ethic. Please add your voice to tell Senator Gardner, Senator Bennet, Representative Polis, Representative Buck and Representative Perlmutter to prioritize the moral implications of the federal budget. Faith Leaders of “Together Colorado” in Boulder County
State can’t be trusted on oil and gas development
A few points on “Warning: Oil and gas development may be hazardous to your health” [Re: News, May 18] 1) “With so many questions swirling about its methods and conclusions, many around the state are questioning whether they can trust the state health officials are doing their best to ensure public health and safety.” The answer to this point is: absolutely not. The reason being that in a fascist state, the focus is exclusively on the dollars for profit, not on the health and safety of the people. In the fascist state the corporation is the government and vice versa. Too bad for the citizen victims. 2) In horizontal well drilling and with the tremendous pressures that are
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Class-action suit casts light on Monsanto’s actions
I am writing in light of a classaction lawsuit cancer patients have filed against Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, which blames their illnesses on the product. I was shocked to read their claims that Monsanto is manipulating scientific studies, the EPA and the media itself. Even when the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, came to a conclusion in March 2015 that glyphosate is
“probably carcinogenic to humans,” Monsanto responded with a backlash. Monsanto kills weeds as well as its consumers. There seems to be overwhelming evidence but no innovation. Unsealed documents reveal that Monsanto tried to discredit the March 2015 report before it was even published rather than changing their product. While each side retaliates against each other, there are still people consuming carcinogens without knowing that they could suffer. The EPA is a part of the problem by bending its own regulations to benefit Monsanto. Sheppard deserves an apology, let alone a recall of all Roundup products to prevent Monsanto from stripping away another person’s life. In response to this negative publicity, Monsanto is not fixing its product — instead, Monsanto recently launched an ad that highlights family and food, ignoring that they’re poisoning families with contaminated food. This “family” ad campaign launched a year after the World Health Organization declared see LETTERS Page 9
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Central and Eastern Europe. The country has deindustrialized: the vast majority of its exports now come from natural resources.” The Cold War is over. As economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said: “Russia isn’t Communist, or even leftist; it’s just an authoritarian state, with a cult of personality around its strongman, that showers benefits on an immensely wealthy oligarchy while brutally suppressing opposition and criticism.” How did this happen? The transition from Communism was complicated. In the 1990s, the Russian
used to fracture the strata there is no controlling the direction of the fractures, or the distance the cracks can travel. Therefore, it seems logical that they can go right up to where the bedrock stops and the sand, gravel, dirt is located. The oil and gas vapors then have an easy access to the looser material and then to the atmosphere. Remember the terrible condition of the air in Pavillion, Wyoming, and how smoggy it got when they had started drilling? This may be the cause. Gary Beane/Longmont
Federation under Boris Yeltsin adopted rapid “shock therapy” free market economic reforms based on the “Washington Consensus” of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and U.S. Treasury Department. There was a severe drop in living standards. On Dec. 31, 1999, Yeltsin suddenly resigned six months early and appointed Vladimir Putin as acting president. The nation was in the middle of a vicious war with Chechen rebels, and Putin was able to be elected by presenting himself as a strong leader crushing the insurrection.
Putin would become quite popular. He benefitted from rising world oil prices and the devaluation of the ruble in 1998, which boosted demand for domestic goods. He presents himself as a populist but has continued the economic policies of Yeltsin, which embraced “neo-liberalism,” a form of capitalism pioneered by Reagan, Thatcher and Pinochet, which promotes privatization and the gutting of the social welfare state. Ilya Matveev, a sociologist based in St. Petersburg, writing on Open Democracy, says, “Putin is often present-
ed as an autocrat who smothers business. Yet big capital needed — and still needs — Putin as a figure.” Matveev notes that in his first term, Putin introduced “a new Labour Code, which was more profitable for employers, a flat-rate income tax, lower corporate taxes and a reformed pension system. (The latter reform was helped through by José Piñera, the architect of privatized pensions in Pinochet’s Chile.)” No wonder Trump admires Putin so much. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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that Roundup is a likely carcinogen. Suddenly, a staple company in the food business has to reassure their consumers — but it didn’t stop them from selling a probable carcinogen. Money is being thrown around to benefit everyone but the consumers themselves. Corruption lies within Monsanto, but the EPA is also to blame for allowing the use of these likely carcinogens. Don’t put your own self-interest before your consumers, Monsanto. Tara O’Gorman/University of Colorado student
American Health Care Act would imperil millions
On May 4, the U. S. House Republicans found the necessary votes to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act. While their vote does not make the American Health Care Act law, it does bring the act one step closer to becoming law by moving it to the Senate. In its present form, were it to become law, 14 million Americans who are now insured would be without insurance in the first year, and by 2026, 24 million Americans now insured would be without insurance. In the bad old days before the Affordable Care Act, 50 million Americans were uninsured and 45,000 Americans died every year because they lacked insurance. The Affordable Care Act had reduced the number of uninsured to around 28 million Americans, a number still unacceptably high, but the trend was heading in the right direction. By 2026, should this new “Trumpcare” become law, there may be a grand total of 52 million Americans uninsured and a death toll in that year that surpasses the pre-ACA death toll. So what does the Republican House do when it has just condemned thousands of Americans to a premature death? What do they do when they have brought back pre-existing conditions and skewed the system so that premiums rise astronomically for older American workers, putting people at increased risk for bankruptcy and financial ruin? They celebrate! They even send out for beer! Looking for a historically comparable event, I find myself going back to the Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned in the first century. How could a leader be so callous as to turn his back on the suffering of his fellow citizens and play his fiddle? History does report celebrations associated with conquests of “others,” but condemning our own citizens to such a fate should be no Boulder Weekly
cause for celebration. The Nero fiddling analogy may be apt in another way. Nero looked upon the burning of Rome as a form of urban renewal. He had to burn down Rome to make it “great again.” But in tearing down “Obamacare,” Republicans are not creating anything that will make health care “great again.” They are taking us down a dark road to the past, to a past in which people with pre-existing con-
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ditions (and that is a very high percentage of our population) will find insurance inadequate or unaffordable and where the minimal funding offered by this bill to establish “high risk pools” will leave those pools still out of reach of ordinary Americans. We will be taking a step into a past where free market insurance inserts itself once more between doctor and patient. The past will once more swallow us up by under-
funding Medicaid both throwing many Americans off of Medicaid coverage and shrinking the pool of physicians who will see Medicaid patients. Hospitals here in Colorado which have large numbers of Medicaid patients will find it increasingly difficult to keep the doors open. Richard Gingery, MD, The Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care/ Boulder
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Boulder isn’t the first to grapple with how to manage sex offenders
n a rainy evening in May, several hundred north Boulder residents gathered inside a middle school auditorium to discuss a new neighbor. Those in attendance were cautioned that children were still in the school so language should be checked, and that the parole officers, lawyers and police seated in a semicircle of folding chairs beside the podium would address every concern. Nonetheless, the emotions of the night were high, for the neighbor in question — Christopher Lawyer, a “sexually violent predator” (SVP) as determined by the State — was perceived by many in the room as a threat to the community. Lawyer’s crimes, outlined in a slide show, included raping a woman who was delivering newspapers in 2000 — a crime for which he received 16 years to life. He was also convicted of groping a teenage girl in public, arrested for indecent exposure, allegedly waved a gun at three women and separately broke into a college woman’s apartment. 10 June 1 , 2017
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by Matt Cortina After receiving parole in 2016, he violated the terms of his release by accessing parks and trails he was not allowed to, and possessing violent pornography. Lawyer was sent back to jail when he failed to show up for a drug test, but was released six months later, a few days before the community meeting. At the time of the meeting, Lawyer was in the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless two miles north. He tried living elsewhere. Jamestown was too far and had poor reception for his GPS ankle monitor. A stay at a Longmont hotel was blocked by the hotel’s owner, fearing Lawyer’s residency would hurt business. But he had to return to Boulder County because that’s where he committed his crimes, said Melissa Gallardo, parole manager with the Department of Corrections (DOC).
So as an alternative to living on the street, where his ankle monitor couldn’t be charged, the State agreed to pay the Shelter a couple hundred dollars a week to house Lawyer in a “parole bed,” or a bed reserved for parolees. Shelter Executive Director Greg Harms said there’s anywhere from zero to four parole beds filled on any given night, and sex offenders have stayed at the Shelter before. Nonetheless, the community expressed fear and resentment at authorities for not coming up with a more suitable plan. After all, SVPs pose a higher risk to reoffend in their first year of release than other types of sex offenders. “This was not a decision that was up to us,” said Boulder Mayor Suzanne Jones. “I don’t want to see the women of this community be guinea pigs to see if this man has been rehabilitated.” So an online petition was circulated to force the Shelter to ban SVPs from residing there. Then about a week later, police notified north Boulder residents that another SVP, Michael David Smith, was moving Boulder Weekly
BECAUSE THE [PAROLE] BOARD DOESN’T HAVE TO DETERMINE [PAROLE] DETAILS, COMMUNITIES ARE SOMETIMES LEFT SCRAMBLING TO DEVELOP ADEQUATE MONITORING PLANS FOR SEX OFFENDERS.
in — he’d be homeless, but residing on Broadway near the Shelter. There’s one more SVP living in Boulder, and 122 more registered sex offenders in the city. Statewide, 18,504 people are registered sex offenders, and the number of sex offender parolees has increased sevenfold since 2011. Yet it’s hard to find anyone that’s content with the state’s Sex Offender Treatment and Management Program (or, the Sex Offender Program). Thousands of offenders eligible for treatment in jail are being denied access due to a lack of resources. Municipalities feel hamstrung to accommodate sex offenders, particularly SVPs. Neighborhoods are left with the burden of living in fear of those who have committed sex crimes. And sex offenders, who have served their time, are faced with severe restrictions on day-to-day life after release. There are no easy answers, yet looking at the array of approaches taken in Colorado and around the globe to manage sex offenders reveals a fascinating test lab where best practices have yet to be determined. If the Sex Offender Program were running smoothly, inmates would indicate a willingness to undergo treatment and enter therapy within four years of their parole date. They’d receive cognitive-behavioral and group therapy, and eventually go before a court or the Parole Board to show how they’ve been rehabilitated. But the Program isn’t running smoothly, due to a lack of resources and organization, according to reports. About 83 percent of inmates eligible for the Sex Offender Program were unable to access it in 2013, according to an independent report. The situation hasn’t gotten much better — 2,000 inmates were actively awaiting enrollment in January 2016, according to a recent state audit. There has been a funding shortfall — so, last year, about $10 million was allocated to the program, a modest increase from 2015. But that’s still not enough money to hire all the in-jail clinicians needed to administer the program to everyone required to take it as a provision of their release. And this ongoing funding shortfall creates its own wasted dollars — the cost of keeping inmates who can’t get treatment, and who are thus denied parole, amounts to about $40,000 per year, per inmate. Securing more funding from the State may be a hard sell, too, given that the audit found the DOC had failed to meet key goals: progress reports had not been kept for about half of those who actually made it into the program, and 13 percent had never even been given a baseline assessment. The audit blamed inadequate monitoring and internal policies. In 2016, about half of those in a “lower risk” portion of the Sex Offender Program were either paroled, discharged or transferred before completing the Program. Lastly, the audit found that the program placed too much emphasis on polygraph tests. Though a federal appeals court ruled in 2016 that convicted sex offenders do not have to take polygraphs as a condition of their release, the state still encourages it — willingness to submit to a polygraph, for instance, is seen as acceptance of one’s crime. According to the Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB), which creates guidelines for the State’s treatment of sex offenders, the polygraph can take several forms — from the prototypical polygraph machine, to plethysmography, which judges sexual arousal by hooking up a machine to a sex offender’s genitals and seeing if there’s any stimulation in response to certain prompts. The test can and has been administered on juveniles in Colorado. However, the DSM-IV, a standard catalog of mental disorders, indicates the reliability of plethysmography is still unproven. There’s also the Abel screen, which shows offenders the images of men and women of various ages in non-sexual situations and judges deviant interest based on how long the person looks at the image. The state spent a quarter of a million dollars on polygraph testing in 2016. Any one of the 258 evaluators in the state approved by SOMB can administer See SEX OFFENDERS Page 12
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these tests. When it comes to designating SVPs, the evaluator will complete a broader four-part assessment and submit it to a court or the Parole Board. The assessment includes determining whether the sex offender knew their victim, how they score on a sex offender risk scale and if they have any mental abnormalities. If determined to be an SVP (like Lawyer), offenders are required to be under an intensive watch program, which cost taxpayers a total of about $2.5 million last year for all SVPs. The program requires daily contact with a probation officer, GPS tracking, drug and alcohol screening and sex offensespecific treatment based in part on polygraph testing. The state’s agencies don’t work as efficiently as one would hope when it comes to granting parole either. Specifically, the Parole Board and the DOC’s Parole Division, “are not connected,” the latter’s Gallardo said. The Board, which is comprised of members appointed by the governor, grants or denies parole. The Parole Division dictates parole plans and placement. Though the Parole Board does assess “the adequacy of the offender’s parole plan,” there is no guarantee that parolees will get housing that’s safe for the community and themselves. Because the Board doesn’t have to determine the details, communities are sometimes left scrambling to develop adequate monitoring plans. So considering the DOC under-funds its Sex Offender Program and isn’t able to work efficiently with the Parole Board, it might be time to consider common alternatives to managing sex offenders. Pornography is often banned for paroled sex offenders. Many argue that watching violent porn begets violent behavior. But conversely, there are researchers who claim that watching porn might limit one’s capacity to commit sexual violence, and could thus be a useful tool in treating sex offenders. The theory is if you allow sex offenders to watch porn, they’ll feel less repressed and less likely to act on violent sexual urges. In 2006, Anthony D’Amato, a law professor at Northwestern who served on Richard Nixon’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, looked at internet access and rape rates from 1980 to 2000 in the U.S. He found that the four states with the lowest internet access experienced a 53 percent increase in rape; while those states with the highest internet access saw a decrease in rape by 27 percent. However, D’Amato is careful to say correlation does not equal causation. Indeed, another study of that time period found sales of print porn magazines were the highest in those low-internet access, high-rape states. “Short answer is that, although this is certainly an area of debate, there’s no real evidence to link porn use to sexual violence,” said Christopher Ferguson, Ph.D., whose research at Stetson University concerns, in part, violence in video games. Ferguson said there haven’t been enough studies to predict porn’s effect on sex crimes. 12 June 1 , 2017
However, one oft-found correlation is that frequent porn use is an indicator for sexual violence among those who already exhibit other risk factors. “Chemical castration,” meanwhile, sounds medieval, but is more common in 2017 than you might think. In the U.S., nine states allow some form of physical or chemical castration (or, taking pills that limit sex drive) for sex offenders. In California, the use of Depo Provera, a birth control pill, is required for men who are convicted twice of child molestation. Iowa, Florida and Louisiana have similar laws, and all four states offer voluntary surgical castration. Several countries require castration for certain crimes, including South Korea, Poland, Indonesia and Russia — the cost, for reference, in South Korea is $4,650 per castration. But does it work? Research from studies and self-reporting indicate that it does, but also aligns with the national recidivism rate of 5.3 percent for all sex offenders. It’s also been suggested that SVPs and other sex offenders should simply be denied parole. In some ways, that system is already playing out. As a result of Colorado’s 1998 Lifetime Supervision Act, sex offenders started to receive ranges of years as prison sentences, often with “life” on one end, instead of fixed terms. Given the backlog of sex offenders requiring therapy before leaving prison, many inmates are currently kept indefinitely in the state’s prisons. This is similar to what happens in other states, like Utah, while others, like Illinois, actively put such stringent regulations on where sex offenders can live that they are forced to stay in jail by default. Which brings us back to Boulder. On June 6, City Council is scheduled to consider a consent item that will direct staff to look at local ordinances that prevent where sex offenders are allowed to live and visit. Mayor Suzanne Jones said the ordinance could include buffers around schools, playgrounds, parks and trails. The city of Englewood enacted a law in 2006 that required a 2,000-foot buffer between sex offender homes and parks and schools. This resulted in several lawsuits, which claimed that it was too restrictive (Englewood recently cut its buffer requirement to 1,000 feet). Still, an ordinance seems to be redundant of the parole system. “We have the ability to draw exclusion and inclusion zones,” Gallardo said, adding that Lawyer, in this instance, will be able to move throughout the community while avoiding schools and parks. Too, a one-size-fits-all approach may not work for all sex offenders. JJ Prescott of the University of Michigan Law School wrote that exposing identities of child sex offenders, who often work in online networks as opposed to committing physical attacks, might actually proliferate child pornography. That’s just another example of the win-lose nature of managing sex offenders in a community — for every idea, there’s a rebuttal. Boulder Weekly
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oon after the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) approved two predator control plans on Dec. 14, 2016, it was revealed that CPW has been routinely relocating “nuisance” black bears into the Piceance Basin, which is one of the two predator control areas where the state plans to start killing black bears and mountain lions. CPW claims the killing of these predators is necessary because the areas in question have seen increased predation on mule deer fawns. Despite its own research that has found oil and gas operations and habitat loss due to human encroachment are the primary drivers of declines in the mule deer population, CPW is presently killing, and plans to continue killing for the next three years, up to 25 black bears and 15 mountain lions per year from May to June in the Piceance. The realization that black bears are being released into an area where black bears are slated to be killed raises important questions. First, is CPW killing the bears for a predation problem it has effectively authored byway of bear relocation? Or second, is CPW relocating bears from areas with higher human populations where there would surely be public backlash associated with their destruction only to kill them in a place with less press coverage and therefore, less public outrage? The relocations were first confirmed to BW by Chuck Anderson, CPW Piceance Basin predator control plan principal investigator in a Jan. 9 interview. Anderson stated he had only recently learned of the relocations, indicating they may not have been accounted for in the predator control plan as it was approved by the CPW Commission or in the required environmental assessment prepared by Wildlife Services (WS). As much as 75 percent of the project’s cost is funded by grants approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that relied on what now appears to be an insufficient environmental assessment that failed to consider the relocated bears’ impact on the area. CPW and WS public information officials did not respond to BW’s Boulder Weekly
attempts to contact them as of press time, and USFWS officials declined to comment citing pending litigation, which has been filed by two environmental groups attempting to stop the predator killings. It’s difficult to say exactly how many black bears relocated to the Piceance Basin area have moved through the specific area marked for predator destruction, but BW has obtained documents from CPW through an open records request detailing the release of bears and mountain lions. According to the documents, between 2012 and 2016 — the same relative time period CPW was monitoring black bear and mountain lion predation on fawns in the Piceance — CPW relocated 27 bears into the area. The documents show no mountain lions being relocated into the Basin. Of the 27 bears relocated, nine were released in May and June, the very time of year when bears are coming out of hibernation and are most likely to feed on mule deer fawns due to the overall lack of forage. As part of the Piceance Basin predator control plan documents CPW provided in its proposal for federal funding, there appear to be 23 sites (see map above) within the area where bears are suspected of having killed mule deer fawns. When the bear relocation information is added to the map, it shows that the location of each fawn killed is clustered approximately within
a 12-mile radius of where three separate bears were relocated in May, June and July. The documents also show that 15 of these predation sites were within a 6.5 mile radius of where those same three bears were released, and nine were within two miles. In addition to the nine bears CPW released in May and June, they also released five bears to the area in July, eight in August, three in September and two in October. The 24 bears released outside of the predator control plan boundary were set loose in locations ranging from nine to 25 miles from the boundary’s western edge. All 27 bear relocation sites are within 30 miles of CPW’s predator control plan area, and according to CPW, black bears have a range of 10 to 250 square miles, making all 27 black bears released in the Piceance Basin a possible suspect in feeding on mule deer fawns. While it seems clear that these relocated bears may have impacted CPW’s mule deer monitoring during its study period, this relocation data was never specifically addressed in WS’ environmental assessment. It seems a significant omission considering the assessment is required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Further complicating the matter is the fact that much of the land where
CPW chose to relocate the bears doesn’t appear to have suitable forage — something CPW seems to admit in a 2012 environmental assessment prepared for a land exchange with ExxonMobil. According to that assessment, the parcels CPW was exchanging with Shell were impacted by drought and increased energy development activities in the surrounding areas, and as a result, “now exhibit reduced wildlife habitat values and resultant smaller big game populations.” And it’s not just researchers who have been questioning the CPW’s actions. Longtime resident and outdoorsman of the Piceance, Alan Dwire, has his concerns about the way CPW has handled the bear issue. In a recent interview, he recalled how CPW — then the Department of Wildlife (DOW) — was relocating bears to the same area in the late 1980s as well. “I worked on what they call the Roan Cliffs,” Dwire says. “They [DOW/CPW] were dumping them problem bears up there, and it’s not really bear country. There’s not that much for a bear to eat, and they were just dumping bears. They were eartagged, and they just created a problem. “It’s kind of ridiculous to dump bears into an area where there’s nothing for them to eat,” he says. Dwire also notes that because there was nothing for these bears to eat, they’d end up in livestock conflicts, which usually resulted in their deaths. It is also plausible the bears CPW relocated to the area, because of lack of forage, could have turned to killing, or at least scavenging on, mule deer fawns to survive where they might not have otherwise. And it’s also certain that any dead fawns in the area would be more easily located due to the lack of vegetative cover, another problem associated with the impacts of oil and gas development that may well have skewed the study’s findings. As for now, CPW, USFWS and WS are not commenting. Yet, despite the fact that these agencies failed to study the impact of relocating bears on the mule deer populations in question, the snares are already in the field and Colorado’s mountain lions and bears are in the crosshairs. June 1, 2017 15
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or my 22nd birthday, my college roommate gifted me a jar of gourmet kimchi. This was after I’d decorated our fireplace mantel with eight jars of fermenting kombucha, had stunk up our fridge with my own failed kimchi project, and regularly blended raw eggs in my smoothies. By the world’s standards, I’m not that original. Roughly a third of the food eaten around the globe is fermented. Between alcohol, bread, cheese, sauerkraut, yogurt, kimchi, hot sauce and kombucha, it’s easy to see why: The transformation that food undergoes when left to party with certain bacteria often results in unique and defining cultural delicacies. But when I decided to convert my new 550-square-foot apartment’s kitchen into a fermentation lab, I was grateful my new roommate Jordan, my boyfriend of nearly three years, was on board. We talked to John Wilson, Jordan’s old chemistry lab partner, who coauthors the blog “Fermentation on the Fringe” from his home near Fort Collins. He recommended to us The Art of Fermentation, by Sandor Katz, an internationally acclaimed “fermentation revivalist.” Katz put our new hobby in simple terms: “Fermentation is the transformation of food by various bacteria, fungi and the enzymes they produce.” Our first project was kombucha, the bubbly, vinegar-like fermented tea. To start a batch, we needed a starter
culture — what’s called a “scoby,” an acronym for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. I got one from my friend in Colorado Springs, who got her’s in exchange for attending a circus class taught by a man she’d met at a coffee shop. The fleshy, beige scoby basically acts as a house for a variety of bacteria and yeasts to hang out and procreate. We brewed a strong, pure black tea, dissolved sugar (to feed the bacteria), and then added the culture. The scoby grew to fill the tea’s entire surface area, providing a seal to protect the coppercolored liquid down below from rogue, undesirable bacterias in the air. Next we
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foods can be an extremely healthy habit. For Katz, fermenting your own food is taking a The fleshy, beige scoby that covers kombucha stand against the over-processed food economy. acts as a barrier to air “Reclaiming our food and our participation in culand a home for bacterial growth. tivation,” he writes, “is a means of cultural revival, taking action to break out of the confining and infantilizing dependency of the role of the consumer, and taking back our dignity and power by becoming producers and creators.” Katz’s attention to the “art” of fermentation is a tribute to the cultural backbone that fermentation provides for many cuisines around the world. He implies it’s no coincidence that we call the starters used to initiate fermentation “cultures,” the same word for human communities. Katz writes, “Fermentation is more dynamic and variable than cooking, for we are collaborating with other living beings.” From the North Pole, all the way down to the equator, people thousands of years ago learned how to manipulate the fermentation processes that they noticed occurring in the wild in order to selectively preserve their food finds. In tropical climates, fermentation allows people to keep foods like fish for weeks, despite spoiling heat. At more northern latitudes with harsh winters, fermented foods like sauerkraut will carry nutrients to the community throughout the winter when fresh food is in short supply. Because fermentation is often a multi-step, multi-day process, it tends to draw people together in the making. “Food is the only thing that is truly universal in humanity. Even psychopaths have to eat,” Wilson says. “Fermentation is making human connections. It’s an intimate thing. You’re working with your hands, directly touching the food. And when you share fermented foods, particularly something that’s never been eaten before, you need trust — that it’s not going to make you sick or kill you.” The surge in gut health research over the past decade has contributed to fermented products “going more mainstream recently,” Weir says. “This isn’t new, necessarily. Science is just finally catching up and supporting what people have known for a long time through folk medicine.” She remembers drinking kombucha as a kid, “but it was something the neighbors gave you — not something you bought at the store.” Our sugary tea and scoby mix sat under the dining table for 10 days. I watched as a film slowly developed across the surface, thickening a bit each day. The scoby was growing, doing its job. According to Katz, it’s safe to drink after at least a week. But we wanted to be sure. Instead of rebottling and letting it sit longer in the fridge, allowing the bacteria to feast on a second helping of sugar and carbonate the drink, we decided to leave it in its original state and share it with friends later that night. As it grew dark outside, our friends piled in, sitting cross-legged on our hardwood floor. I siphoned off the gurgling amber liquid, pouring a few inches in each glass, praying it would be drinkable. I tried not to imagine my friends passing out from some perverted strain of bacteria. The kombucha made its rounds — vinegary, almost apple-cider-like — as we all sipped and laughed. In my head, I heard Wilson say: “Fermented products are a leap of faith in the community that you’re in.” I’m relieved we stayed alive long enough to enjoy three bottles of fermented grapes, too. Boulder Weekly
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Misery in slow motion A too-short visit to refugee camps in Greece photos and story by Angela K. Evans
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met Mannan on my last day in Athens. He was sitting with his mom and a friend at a plastic table in a nondescript room at Humanitarian Initiative Bridges, one of the organizations helping refugees. He sat with his hands in his lap, palms faced up, burn scars forcing his fingers into permanent fists. The skin around his mouth and eyes was bright pink and stretched, the left side of his head more burned than his right, but only slightly. It was rainy and cold outside, and the rest of his burns were covered by pants and a zip-up fleece to his neck. His eyes pierced me with their pain, the skin drooping particularly around the left one. But he held my gaze, as if challenging me to turn away. When I smiled, he looked down at the table, grabbed his cup of water between his two wrists and took a drink. Mannan is from Aleppo, Syria, and 10 years old. He traveled to Greece via Turkey with his mom and sister. Their goal was to get to Mannan’s father, who had already established himself with asylum in Germany. On a freezing night in late October 2016, at the Oreokastro refugee camp near Thessaloniki, Greece, the family’s tent caught fire, eventually igniting the young boy’s sleeping bag. While it’s still unclear exactly what caused the fire, a cooking hot plate left on during the night for warmth against the freezing temperatures is the principal suspect. In the aftermath of the fire, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) helped get Mannan to a hospital, where doctors were able to stabilize him; third-degree burns covered 85 per-
and she carried the pain of her son in her countenance. She described her own anxiety and breakdown in the hospital, watching her son writhe in pain. The subsequent stress of trying to get help has caused her to lose sleep and her own health is deteriorating rapidly. “He thinks he’s a monster,” she said. • • • • There are 62,000 refugees caught in limbo in Greece according to official estimates, although those working on the ground put the number closer to 45,000. Most of these people were destined for other European countries but were caught off guard, mid-journey, when Europe closed its borders to migrants in March 2016. Now there’s only a trickle of people leaving Greece, either legally or illegally, continuing on the journey many of them began months before. The urgency of the situation may have somewhat dissipated to the outside world, but the desperation has not. Migrants still languish in an unknown state, unsure of their status and cent of his body. their options. Roughly 3,000 His mom Amina refugees entered the country In October 2016, Mantold us he didn’t receive in the first few months of nan’s sleeping bag caught fire after the surgery or really any 2017. family left a hot plate pain medication. I didn’t go to Greece as a on for warmth in freezing temperatures. Without health insurjournalist, I went as a volunteer because I was no longer ance or money to pay for able to stay home only readmedical expenses, Mannan left the hospital, his skin still raw. ing about the migrant crisis. Despite my best intentions, I left feeling unfulfilled, The family traveled to Athens with help more like a tourist than I could have imagfrom the UNHCR where they’ve tried to ined. Instead of hiking up to tour the get more medical help, only to find out it Acropolis or discovering other ancient could take years to get him the help he ruins, I spent eight days traveling around needs through the public hospitals. The the city visiting official refugee camps, doctor Mannan and his mother had seen make-shift squats and offices of organizathe previous day told her they couldn’t tions seeking to help this often-hidden operate until 2019, long after the burns population. would leave irreparable damage. It’d be easy to visit Greece and not even As Amina spoke, the burden of her journey from Syria weighed heavily on her, know the refugee crisis was still going on, Boulder Weekly
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or that this economically struggling country was still caught right in the middle of it. We hired Ubers to Above: At the get to more than one camp, often wandering around Elliniko camp in an abandoned outlying and sometimes deserted neighborhoods, our airport, refugees drivers stopping to ask for directions without getting dry clothes. Below: The abandoned many answers in return. Hotel City Plaza At the old abandoned airport on the southern now houses 400 refugees. outskirts of the city, we wandered around Elliniko refugee camp looking to help at a nearby storage warehouse, sorting clothes destined for other camps. The buildings still boast signage from the 2004 Olympics, mixed with colorful graffiti. Two young girls in headscarves played in the old bus stop, sitting on a swing made of tied-up clothes. Other garments hung on the chain-linked fence, drying in the sun. Weeds grew out of the concrete, and a few boys followed us on their bikes. One in red rainboots continuously tried to run into our legs and asked in English if I would put my foot out so he could run over it. At another community center, we spent the morning trying to disinfect the tubs full of donated toys. Only a few kids came in that day with their parents due to a metro strike. The train was the easiest way to get from the desolate airport camp to the center, which had warm showers, laundry and internet services. One little girl from Afghanistan wanted to color, but when I set out the paper in front of her she made one scribble, swatted it off the table, threw the colored pencil and hit another boy in the head on her way out of the room. About half of the estimated refugee population in Greece is made up of Syrians who receive the majority of the help being offered by governments and foreign aid groups. But there are many other nationalities within the migrant population in Greece. A refugee squat in the middle of Athens houses people from a variety of countries including Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Ghana and Palestine, in addition to Syria and Afghanistan. A mixed-group of anarchists, refugees and supporters took over the abandoned City Plaza hotel in April 2016 and have been living there ever since. The building is around the corner from Victoria Square, one of the most important meeting places for migrants in recent years and in the heart of the neighborhood that also houses the headquarters of Golden Dawn, the country’s most notorious white supremacist organization. “We wanted to prove that it would be possible to house refugees in the city center with privacy, safety, shelter, electricity, all the things which are part of dignity, part of what a human deserves,” Helene, a volunteer from Germany and spokes-
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person for the project, told me. “We wanted to show an example of how you can do it. We wanted to show our critics a practical thing to see that it could work.” Roughly 400 people live in the sevenstory building, each family with their own room, bathroom and key, a vast difference from the official refugee camps scattered throughout the country that house people in tents, stadiums, shipping containers, etc. The hotel had been closed for seven years before the group cut the chains, scrubbed the place clean and invited refugees to stay. It’s a commune of sorts, with daily shifts to cook meals, a cleaning schedule and bimonthly House Assemblies to discuss any issues that may arise. The project is supported by donations brought in from around the world and doesn’t get any government funds; It costs 9-12 euros a month to feed each person, a stark contrast to the 5-10 euros per day it costs the official camps, Helene said. It’s one of roughly 12 squats that have popped up around the city, most less organized than City Plaza. But still, the waiting list is more than 1,500 people long and growing everyday, as few people have the option to leave Greece. “That’s the worst job, to explain that we don’t have any rooms, that every room is occupied by a family,” Helene said. “We don’t see ourselves in the position to solve the whole problem,” she continued. Rather, the group wants to be an example, to show the authorities that providing safe and stable housing for refugees doesn’t have to be expensive or strenuous. We spend a few days at the hotel, helping out however we can, but mainly talking with residents and international volunteers. The cafe is full of people playing backgammon, smoking and drinking coffee. There’s a large bulletin board with shift sign-ups, class schedules for both kids and adults, and community announcements. At a volunteer meeting one afternoon, we were interrupted by someone collecting donations for a resident family. An older refugee woman, one of the first people to inhabit a room at The Plaza, had passed away and the group was gathering donations to send
their journey began. We did our best to redirect their attention to the plastic bowling set and making paper airplanes, and some soon joined us. Others grabbed their weapons and ran out of the room. • • • • Much of my last day was spent talking with aid workers trying to figure out how to get Mannan more help. We stood in a circle around him, occasionally looking down at the young boy, seated in a chair, his hands face up on his lap, his feet swinging because they couldn’t reach the ground. Every now and again he tapped his mom and she’d start rubbing his arms. “He itches everywhere,” she explained. We talked about setting up a medical fund to get him help from a private doctor, the problems with Greece’s overburdened public health system, and the bureaucratic roadblocks Amina and her husband were facing as they tried to reunite. While other volunteers handed out blankets and diapers downstairs, we sat in the office talking in circles. In the end, we got the process started and a volunteer who came after us helped set up a crowdfunding account to fund the multiher body back to a town near the ple surgeries Mannan still needs. Turkish border where the family In the spring of 2016, volunteers cut the Unfortunately, progress has been slow and could conduct a proper Muslim chains on the abanboth government and hospital bureaucraburial. There are no cemeteries that doned City Plaza hotel and turned it into living cies have only made the situation worse. do Muslim burials in Athens, the space for refugees. I left Greece less than 24 hours after I volunteer collecting the money This art commemorates the one-year met Mannan. I thought of him as I flashed explained. I watched as people anniversary. my passport to board the plane home, disfrom all over the world pulled out oriented by the ease of my travel experi10, 20, 50 euro notes and dropped ence after hearing contrasting stories of them in the cardboard box, like desperation all week. I recalled my conversations with passing the offering basket across the pews at a Nassim, one of the main organizers at City Plaza, church. about the refugee solidarity struggle, his inability to After the meeting, we spent time playing with a group of young boys running around the building. We watch what was happening in Athens and not respond grabbed a large sack of Lego-like blocks and the boys in a tangible way regardless of potential consequences. immediately built machine guns and grenades. They “I think there is personal responsibility of each person ran around playing war, pretending to shoot each to be aware of the situation, to take a position in the other, sometimes point blank in the head. I couldn’t crisis, to make clear which side you are on,” he told help wonder if they were just “boys being boys” or if me. “In a way, you have to be a part of reality and they were acting out scenes they’d seen at home before reality is this.”
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“My friends, welcome to Lesbos — now you are going to Moria.”
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he blue bus with irongrates on its windows sits perched on a patch of dirt next to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staging area for newly landed refugees. The view of the clear sea, white-brick village and palm fronds would be akin to paradise given different circumstances. But now, as a group of sleepy volunteers from the few NGOs left on the island watch on in the early morning sun, refugees from Africa and the Middle East are loaded onto the bus with the few possessions they still have — most still sopping wet — to be taken to the permanent holding camp on the island. The tumult is over at this point. The boat has been guided safely to shore, the medical cases have been treated — sometimes only a hurt wrist, sometimes gangrene or frostbite; the variation in urgency can be extreme. Tea has been distributed, and those soaked through have been, hopefully, given a change of clothes. The long wait has started. After a treacherous 4-mile crossing from Izmir or Avylik to Skala Sikimineas, these people escaping war and terror are about to spend months in the process to gain asylum. Moria is situated an hour away from the north shore and 7 kilometers from the main port of Mytilene. The road is bumpy and mountainous, passing through scrub-brush and goat pastures, over hills as old as civilization. Brick edifices covered by moss hang around the cliff sides without the sterile plaques of museums to classify their age, leaving you wondering who built them and how long they have been standing. This is only seen, of course, by the ones who survived the crossing. A UNHCR report states that the refugees crossing the sea have dropped by 99 percent since the EU-Turkey deal in March 2016, but the rate of deaths has gone up to one in 393 people. The camp that greets the refugees is stark, surrounded by heavy chain-link fences and covered in barbed wire that looks more like a prison or a World War II internment camp than a home. Up until Boulder Weekly
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February 2017, when four people died from the storms that hit in the winter, the men and women were living in tents, sometimes four or five men to a space. Now they are living in ISO-boxes, semi-permanent structures made out of plastic siding. Only a few tents still dot the hillside next to the road. In order to move on from the camp situated next to the small island village, first a refugee must process their asylum paperwork, and then the EU has to deem their story credible enough to warrant refuge. People wait months before they can even think about moving on to Athens. A hazy future awaits them in their next port of call. Athens is still grappling with unemployment, a figure reported at 23 percent, and a massive debt that has led to equally massive austerity measures by the European Union. The lucky ones integrate into squats, and get the chance to thrive in a new community. The rest are relegated to different camps or forced to survive on the streets. Some family members are separated for an interminable period of time. Ameer, a tall, slender Syrian man that used to operate a food cart outside of the camp, told me he had waited six months for his paperwork to be processed, to get the OK before moving
onto Athens. But when he found his brother in the Above: A volunteer camp he decided to stay walks through the lifeguard graveyard longer and wait so they at Lesbos. Below: could travel together. They People wander around the Moria had been apart for over camp, December two years after his brother 2016. was caught by ISIS, and he had feared his brother had died. When they met again in the mud-streaked camp by accident, they cried tears of joy. Moria is one of the last standing camps on Lesbos, and, like the ruins of brick that dot the hillside, it is but a remnant of a more chaotic time. The newspapers, and the numbers, tell us that the refugee crisis is over. The hundreds of thousands that had crossed in the previous year has been reduced to a sparse tens of thousands. The screaming women and children washing ashore no longer dominate headlines. In a few years, tourism will return to the island. Rich pensioners and young college kids will now share the hotels housing the last of the men and women who survived the major refugee surge in 2015. They will never know each other’s names, or the names and the faces of those who landed next to the bronze hills of Eftalou, or climbed the craggy rocks near Tsonia and Klio looking for warmth and safety. The tracers are disappearing. Lighthouse Relief ’s eco-project has done a fine job removing the unsightly black rubber from the busted dinghies off the shoreline, and the fiber glass vessels that once housed a hundred souls blend in with the innumerable fishing boats of the natives. But the men and women that crossed the sea, the children who lost friends, brothers, mothers and neighbors will not forget. Their eyes will speak of the tragedy they have survived, how they were received and what has been done to them. June 1 , 2017 27
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here’s a quote that floats around the interwebs and bumper stickers that’s been attributed to the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe and, probably most correctly, to historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: “Wellbehaved women rarely make history.” Whoever said the quote, its truth reigns supreme. There is a fascination with women who don’t “play by the rules” — whatever those socially constructed rules might be. It’s those misbehaving women who are at the center of the University of Colorado Art Museum’s exhibit Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women, showing through June 24. The show explores a variety of English caricatures that span roughly 1780 to 1810. Their content varies from mocking famous individuals to broad social comments, analyzing how women should conduct themselves — the amount of education they should or shouldn’t have, how they should or shouldn’t look. Affairs, divorce, fashion, aging, class — it’s all up for grabs. The idea for Bawdy Bodies started a few years ago when CU curator Hope Saska was working with caricature of the 18th century and started noticing a pattern. “We were seeing things like grotesque humor that was being applied to women who maybe were not politically active and not really shaping the way the government was moving but were socially visible,” Saska says. “And [the caricatures were] a way of policing their activities and intellectual pursuits by critiquing their bodies in this sort of physical and grotesque way.” In one caricature, James Gillray goes for the royal family. Gillray pulls imagery from John Milton’s Paradise Lost to illustrate the conflict between Prime Minister William Pitt, Lord Thurlow and Queen
their faces are aggressively filled out. They have big strong jaws, and furrowed eyebrows,” Saska says. “They’re given these masculine features that I liken to the Incredible Hulk when he’s angry, and they’re attacking one another.” The pieces also mock ambitious women. In “An Actress at her Toilet, or Miss Brazen Just Breecht,” artist John Collet depicts Margaret Kennedy, an actress who frequently took on male roles. In the image, Kennedy stands in her dressing room in a pair of masculine breeches, while the tops of her breasts are exposed, and the text on a nearby playbill reads, “To be seen a most surprising hermaphrodite.” To give context for the time period, Saska also included some books from CU’s archives. Erasmus Darwin’s book A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools is opened to the table of contents with chapter titles like “Fortitude,” “Temperance,” “Exercise with Dumbbells,” “Care of the Shape,” “Dress,” “Earrings,” “Powder,” “Stammering,” and “Squinting.” “These are all sort of behaviors that you should educate yourself to correct,” Saska says. “This, in a way, is going toward this ideal woman who is reticent — smart but not so smart that she eclipses the intelligence of those around her, including the men in her life, modest in all manners of dress and behavior. That’s the ideal.” But as the satires point out, many women defied these restrictions, like the Duchess of Devonshire, who shows up in multiple prints in the exhibit. She was educated, writing music, poetry and books. She was also a trendsetter who popularized fashions like feathered headdresses. While she was critiqued for all that, her real faux pas was an interest in politics.
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Charlotte. In the drawing, Pitt is represented as Death, Thurlow as the Devil and the queen as Sin. With Medusa-like hair and shriveled breasts, the queen kneels between the men, placing her hand on the groin of the naked prime minister. Another picture calls out the Bluestocking Club, a group of women who met for discussion at Lady Elizabeth Montagu’s salons. The term “bluestocking” went on to encapsulate intellectual and literary women of the time. In “Breaking up of the Bluestocking Club,” one artist imagines what goes on at these meetings: a brawl of catfight proportions. “If you look closer you can see that these women have these bulging arms. They are very brawny, and
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“She extended herself into the world of politics and campaigned,” Saska says. “In so many ways she Above: A woman ticks the boxes of proper female education, but her disguises her age with decoration. fault was going on beyond that and stepping a toe Below: Queen into a male-dominated world.” Charlotte’s political conflict gets In the prints, the duchess is seen ignoring social depicted with scorn. structures, canoodling with the lower class and neglecting her motherly duties all in favor of the campaign trail. While the focus of the exhibit is how women were treated, Saska says a majority of the satires at the time revolved around men. But appearing in a satire highlighted a double standard of the time. “For men, the visibility in a satirical image would increase your social cache and make you more interesting,” she Courtesy Yale University/James Gillray “Sin, Death and the Devil” says. “If you were a woman depicted in one of these images, you didn’t have a lot of recourse. There wasn’t much you could say. You just have to live an exemplary life, that would be your best defense.” It’s clear to notice the parallels between today and yesteryear. From Kim Kardashian to Hillary Clinton, women from across the spectrum are critiqued for doing too much or too little of this or of that. Societal norms continue to dictate how women should carry themselves, and while there’s clearly more freedom today, the similarities seem far too familiar. “A lot of the way that we interface with contemporary society would have been somewhat understandable to the 18th century,” Saska says with a laugh. “Certainly with politics and celebrity and clothing. We haven’t really discovered anything in terms of culture. We’re sort of reliving a lot of things that were set into play at [that] time.” While the pieces in Bawdy Bodies were meant to degrade, there’s a sense of empowerment in these women who dared to challenge the status quo in spite of being deemed unruly. The satires are critiquing the women but are in turn just showing women claiming space at the table. “This is one area where I think satire is often seen as speaking the truth to power,” Saska says. “It’s actually being used for very social conservative reasons, but what it does show is these people were having these conversations, and the women were sort of exploring boundaries of their social roles. In ways that didn’t stop, women kept on pushing, despite all of this negative press they were getting.” Walking through the exhibit, there’s a haunting feeling that 250 years ago isn’t so long ago. These small steps may seem far less radical today, but they serve as a touchstone for how far women have come — whether you focus on the achievements or the journey still ahead. 30 June 1 , 2017
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ast fall, Nahko Bear carved time out of his schedule as farmer, a psychonaut, an outspoken activist for climate change, the frontman of Medicine for the People to visit the education and conservation. Standing Rock Reservation during the height of the These are Nahko’s stories — his songs, hid life. Taking a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. note from artists like Michael Franti and Manu Chao, Nahko It had been around nine years since Nahko met his and Medicine for the People are a multi-cultural outfit binding birth mother and grandmother and learned he was of Apache hip-hop, folk rock and world music to deliver messages of social (and Puerto Rican and Filipino) ancestry. He’d spent some justice, healing and forgiveness. years after that trying to find his place in the greater Native Just last year, the band went out on the “Call to Action” Indian community, showing up at reservations during the sumtour. The election was coming up and Standing Rock was going mers in his van with a guitar, looking to play a song or two at strong, so Nahko’s show took time out in the middle to ask local schools, “to be validated and find my identity in that com- white allies specifically to recognize the meaning of standing in munity.” solidarity with a minority movement. Of course, it wasn’t that easy for a kid who grew up in “It was intense,” Nahko says. Oregon, adopted and homeEducation is a job minorities Courtesy of Jamie Coletta/SideOneDummy Records schooled by white, conservative take on every day without conBaptist parents, trained in classent or pay — white people often sical piano since he was 6. look to minorities for permission Looking back, the 29-yearto use certain words, or for clariold knows how naïve he was, fication about misconceptions. but it was a part of his journey, It’s a struggle, Nahko admits, nonetheless. He learned shared but worth the effort. blood is not a substitute for “You have to take it like the shared experiences, and being Sacred Stone camp [at Standing aware of oppression doesn’t Rock] side of the world, that has mean you understand it. grace and compassion for white So when Nahko made his communities that don’t underway to Standing Rock late in stand and are willing to teach 2016, it was no surprise to find them and have patience,” he says. young folks learning this lesson “And then you have the Red in real time. Warrior side [that] struggle, they “I was approached by some don’t want to take time and softwhite kids who wanted help en in that way.” because they got kicked out of While the “Call to Action” a certain camp. It was a straight tour is over, Nahko says it’s “one Star Wars moment; ‘You’re our of those things that rolls over into only hope,’” Nahko says. “It put forever.” He says he’s taking a me in an awkward position. I step back from being “so in the was just there as an indigenous face of politics and social conperson who cares about what structs” to just lay down some was being asked of the oil comgood vibes on a tour aptly called panies. “Good Vibes.” “It’s tricky because we need everybody, everybody’s bod“I think people need a respite from the politics,” he says. ies and prayers, but it’s a hard thing for passionate young “With World War III being on the back burner ... what you see white kids that struggle to understand protocol and the deli- at home and on the news every day, it’s intense.” cacy and the sensitivity of native relations. It’s also on the Despite claims that he’s taking a step back, Nahko’s as side of our native people: we can be very abrasive. I’m a politically involved as ever. This month he’ll award a Native futurist looking at big pictures. The allyships we’re looking American youth with the Nahko Scholarship to help them to create, the only way people are going to learn is if we tell access indigenous education enrichment summer programs. them.” He’ll also premier his first documentary in June, Salmon Will In his music, Nahko isn’t afraid to talk to people. And while Run, a film about the Winnemem Wintu tribe’s salmon restothere are messages of social and political change woven ration project. In July, he’ll join Honor the Earth in their horsethroughout his work with Medicine for the People, the real back ride to oppose the expansion of tar sands and fracking power of Nahko’s music — the way it encourages people to imports. become better allies in a world starved for unity — comes from Later this year, he’ll release his first solo album, and odds his unrestricted honesty about his own life. say there will be a little social commentary in the mix. Nahko is a product of rape, a child of a 14-year-old girl sold “I feel we recognize in the activist community the heart into sex work by her own mother, a carrier of intergenerational can be missing, we’re too focused on front-line tactics,” Nahko says. “That’s where the magic of the music comes in. trauma, a brown boy raised in a white conservative home, a That’s the heart.” handsome guy who struggles with his ego from time to time, a Boulder Weekly
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wo things are true at the start of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. 1) Christopher John Francis Boone always tells the truth. 2) Christopher did not kill Mrs. Shear’s dog, Wellington. But when the dog turns up stabbed by a pitchfork in Mrs. Shear’s lawn with Christopher kneeling beside it, all fingers point to the boy. So, Christopher embarks on a mission to find the real culprit, and along the way, his orderly world begins to unravel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is based off the 2003 critically acclaimed book by Mark Haddon. The stage version debuted in London in 2012, and it came to Broadway two years later, winning five Tonys, including best play. The story revolves around 15-year-old Christopher, who lives in Swindon, England. He’s good at math, he has a rat named Toby and he lands somewhere on the autism spectrum. But Curious Incident never dwells on this diagnosis. Instead, it goes for a lofty goal: putting the audience inside Christopher’s head. In the boy’s world, day-to-day interactions and tasks can be rigorous acts of will. He doesn’t like to be touched and often crawls into the fetal position and screams when he’s overwhelmed. He struggles to understand common figures of speech and doesn’t like talking to strangers. In an effort to illuminate the workings of his mind, Curious Incident shows the audience what it feels like to be Christopher by illustrating the inner workings of a brain, where memories flow into thoughts into tangents then back into the present moment. Christopher’s mind is constantly turning, dissecting, analyzing, questioning and reasoning. Capturing this process is what makes Curious Incident a Boulder Weekly
dynamic piece of theater. The set becomes like another character on stage. The three grid-paper walls serve as a tapestry for Christopher’s mind, whether solving a problem, reading a map, analyzing a clue or floating through space in a daydream. Within each wall is a series of compartments and doors, and just as a brain can recall whatever information necessary, Christopher can open a slot and pull out anything he needs. Curious Incident manipulates time and space by utilizing a chorus of characters to help illustrate Christopher’s thoughts and feelings. These characters are almost constantly in motion, moving alongside Christopher in intricate cho-
ON THE BILL: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through June 18.
lems while reserving any judgement. The show is brought to life by a brilliant cast, notably Christopher’s parents Gene Gillette (playing Ed Boone) and Felicity Jones Latta ( Judy Boone). Both Gillette and Latta bring depth to their characters, playing them with subtext and delivering subtle, yet powerful performances. Curious Incident also boasts an impressive ensemble that is just as important as any main character on stage. Constantly cycling through characters and functions, each member of the ensemble helps the story unfold. But not surprisingly, the standout performance goes to Adam Langdon, who plays Christopher. It is one of those special roles that allows an actor to play a Courtesy of DCPA/Joan Marcus
reography. While not quite dancing, the characters help to bring the brain to life by personifying its functions through motion. The play also features an electronic soundtrack that orchestrates a mind that works like a computer. While the first act introduces you to this world, the second act dives deeper into its reality. In doing so, we see Christopher’s struggles — how disorienting a train station can be or the confusing nature of simple directions. More so, we get insight into his family life, seeing his parents try to cope with his sensitive and unique mind. But the play transcends this particular family situation, making it relatable to any audience member. Christopher is an adolescent boy in a world that tells him to mind his own business, with a mother who doubts her ability and a father who constantly faces tough decisions in an attempt to protect his son. Each character is doing the best they can, and Curious Incident gives them space to grapple with prob-
multi-dimensional character who rarely gets to be the center of the story. The character is funny, smart and challenging, and the audience never pities him. Langdon is captivating to watch and dazzles the audience with every fact he offers, math problem he solves or question he asks. Curious Incident delivers theater magic in a non-gimmicky way, without compromising the fundamentals of an interesting story. It’s an exemplary piece of theater that combines clever writing, solid acting, flamboyant technical elements and a story that, at it’s core, is about family and understanding. Christopher is a character searching for security and truth in a world that doesn’t always make sense. It’s the same challenge his parents face, and it’s the same ambition we all have. While each of our brains work in unique ways, we are often more similar than we realize. As Christopher’s dad says to his son, “We’re not that different me and you.” June 1 , 2017 39
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COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ON PIPELINES With Josh Joswick of the Oil and Gas Accountability Project — hosted by League of Oil and Gas Impacted Coloradans. 6 p.m. Monday, June 5, Lafayette Public Library, 775 Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.
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7 p.m. June 7-8, Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
9 a.m. Saturday June 3, Bohn Park, 201 Second Ave., Lyons.
8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Mukee Okan wants Courtesy of The Pussy Talks to talk about sex. More specifically she wants to talk about the female anonymity, and she does just that in her latest documentary short The Pussy Talks. In the film, women from across the spectrum, aged 28 to 70, talk about their sexuality in an effort to bring understanding to a topic that is human by nature, and which Okan strives to make more comfortable for discussion. Stop by Shine to watch the film and hear more from the director. Tickets $20-25.
If you’re ready to kick the summer off right then stop by Lyons for the annual Oskar Blues Burning Can Fest. Start the day with goat yoga, then enjoy kayaking, BMX and mountain biking. Choose from a selection of beers from 65 breweries. Cap the night with some tunes from local bands and Rubblebucket. And don’t forget the goal of the festival is to raise funds for the town of Lyons and the CAN’d Aid Foundation, Oskar Blue’s charity dedicated to doing good deeds throughout the community.
Reggae staples Easy Star All-Stars stop by the Fox Theatre to make heads bob and booties shake. The band has been around for close to 15 years and has provided a reggae spin to various popular music hits. They’ve remixed Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Radiohead. Along with their own music, Easy Star All-Stars has proved themselves as mainstays in the genre and the band plans to head into the studio later this year. Catch them now for a chance to hear some classics and maybe even a peak at the new stuff.
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Thursday, June 1 Music Alternative Acts: Singing For Real and Why It Matters. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ars Nova Singers Gala Concert and Fundraiser. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-499-3165.
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Peter Anderson — Heading Home: Field Notes. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, June 6
Open Mic Night Hosted by Brian Rezac. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Part & Parcel. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Jon Bassoff — The Blade this Time. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, June 5
Hot Rize. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 573-569-0370.
Thursday, June 1
TMULE. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Stopping by the Boulder Book Store on June 7, Finn Murphy will talk about life on the road in his new book The Long Haul.
The Prairie Scholars & Native Station. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Events Bateria Alegria. 5 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Boulder Swing Collective. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Glue Talk and “Not So Newlywed Game” with Dr. Stan Tatkin. 7:30 p.m. etown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Adult Ukulele & Songwriting Bootcamp. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. The Art of the Video Interview. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Beginning Flamenco. 6:30 p.m. Kay Carol Gallery & Priscila Working Art Studio, Longmont, 303-956-0703.
Virginia DeJohn Anderson — The Martyr and the Traitor. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Wednesday, June 7 Finn Murphy — The Long Haul. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Longmont, 303-258-6910. Jay Roemer Band ft. Dave Carroll (Trampled By Turtles). 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Kickin’ Rocks. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Michael Morrow and The Culprits. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Nice Work Jazz Combo with Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Pink Talking Fish Pink Floyd Box Set Befor/ After Roger Waters. 9 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Through June 4. Soul School. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Surf and Turf — 2017 FOD. 6 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. TajMo: The Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band with Black Pacific. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, see EVENTS Page 44
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Cult Classics & Cocktails: Office Space. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Jeff and Paige. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Mountain Kids Storytime. 12 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Smokes & Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Trivia & Comedy. 7 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130. Friday, June 2 Music The Blue Canyon Boys. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder, 303-443-6461. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder, 262-719-8795. The CBDs-Trio. 5:30 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-1829. Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 5 p.m. Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-9599.
Cabaret. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through June 18. DragOn. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through June 25.
The popular novel comes to life in this Tony-award winning play; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time plays DCPA through June 18. Read BW’s review on page 39.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 19.
Grazzhopper. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Tap Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Jason Kelly. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Boulder Weekly
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900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Three Legged Dog. 10 p.m. No Name Bar, 1325 Broadway Ave., Boulder. World Famous Johnsons. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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Events Ladies Night. 5 p.m. A View of the World Gallery, 1930 Central Ave., Boulder, 303-442-5911.
First Friday Films: February Edition. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
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Home: American photography at the CU Art Museum. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 15. Jenny Morgan: SKINDEEP. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.
Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 22.
Dance Nia. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800. Family Films. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.
Denver, 303-298-7554.
I’ll Fly Away — Ashley Hope Carlisle. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 11.
Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Plot Twist — Jennifer Pettus. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787. Through June 25. Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 20. CU’s show Bawdy Bodies highlights women portrayed in caricatures of the 18th and 19th century. Read more about the exhibit on page 29.
Get Growing Garden Program. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
LIQUID SKY: BEATLES: SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Ancient Skies Ancient Clay. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 12.
Courtesy of Yale University/ Thomas Rowlandson, British “Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club”
Fun on the Farm: This Little Piggy. 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8688.
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Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through June 24. Colorado Mosaic Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through June 2. Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St.,
Shade. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 16. Then, Now, Next. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. Tran-‘zi-sh(e)n & ‘Chanj. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 18. The Western: An Epic in Art and Film Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 10.
Music An Opera. 7:30 p.m. The Singing House, 507 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 720-236-7715. Ben Hanna CD Release with Special Guest Paul Kimbiris. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Broken Land. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 720-569-0205. Burning Can After Party with Rose Hill Drive. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Dexter Payne Quintet. 7:30 p.m. The Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Electric Red. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. GetUrGoat. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Give Me That Old Time Music. 5 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder, 303-776-8848.
S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Second Acts. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Seth Phillips Trio — Live Music. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Wildflower School Concert. 3 p.m. Caffè Sole,
Firehouse Art Gala. 5 p.m. Odd Fellows Lodge, 434 Main St., Longmont, 303-776-4588. La Sportiva Trail Run Relay. 10 a.m. La Sportiva Trail Run Relay, 199 Second Ave., Lyons. Junior Ranger Outdoor Adventures Kickoff. 11 a.m. Betasso Preserve, 337 Betasso Road, Boulder, 303-678-6200. Ladies Night Out Improv. 7:30 p.m. Sport Stable Community Room, 1 Superior Drive, Superior, 303-817-5279.
101-Word Fiction
Longmont Youth Symphony Auditions. 9 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-351-1452.
Boulder Weekly is now accepting submissions for our third annual 101-word fiction contest. Five entries maximum per person with no more than 101 words each. Winning entries will be published in late June. Please submit entries by June 15 to editorial@boulderweekly.com and include “101 contest” in the subject line.
Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.
Playback Theatre West. 8 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Wildflower Hike. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, 2 Miles North of Nederland on County Road 126, Nederland, 303-678-6214. Sunday, June 4
Howl: A Ginsberg Birthday Party Featuring Anne Waldman. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Marina. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Adobe Premiere Pro Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Michele Castro and Victor Mestas. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Airborne Dance Spring Recital 2017. 12 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.
Michelle Roderick Duo. 8:30 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.
Blind Tiger — A Speakeasy Event. 8 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Prairie Scholars Trio. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900
Louisville Farmer’s Market. 9 a.m. Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville, 303-902-2451.
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Music Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Early Summer Mélange — 2017 FOD. 6:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514. Janis Kelly’s Summer of Love Tribute Show! see EVENTS Page 46
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7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 916-873-4856. Old’s Cool Rock. 11 a.m. 29th Street Mall, 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. OSTEVETTO Jazz Trio. 5 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder, 303-443-6461. Sound Circle: Widening Circles. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-245-8452.
Longmont Youth Symphony Auditions. 1 p.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-351-1452. Monday, June 5 Music Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.
Events
Prospect Sound Bites — Surprise Band. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-249-4492.
Art Underground Dance Concert. 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette.
Sound Circle: Widening Circles. 7 p.m. The Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette.
Dance Nia. 11 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.
Summer Camp: Strum and Hum with Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 9 a.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural
Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Events Conversations for Good. 7 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Hero Central VBS. 5:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399.
Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 303-444-7888. Tuesday, June 6 Music Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Grateful Dead Listening Party. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Movie Mondays! 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-771-4940.
Summer Dance Camps. 9 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719.
Open Mic with the Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Phish Phour.O. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Events Festival Plaza Story Time. 10 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Folk Dancing. 7 p.m. Plaza Beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. Hike at Sunset. 6:30 p.m. Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain, Boulder, 15140 N 55th St., 303-678-6200. Introduction to DSLR Video. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Smokes & Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Snark Attack. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Summer Dance Classes. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. Wednesday, June 7 Music Ben Hammond. 6:30 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234. David Coile. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Drop-In Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Great Food, Great Fun, Great Fashion — 2017 FOD. 11:30 a.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Hucci. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-499-1709. Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Events Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130. Exploration Universe Science Program. 3:30 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
UPCOMING SHOWS Sun, June 4 – 1:25pm, Boulder Jewish Festival, Pearl Street Mall – FREE Thurs, June 8 – 5:00pm, Wilderness Pub, Boulder Beer Company – FREE CALL NOW to book the band for a Rockin’ Party! 303-819-8182 • www.hindsightclassicrock.com 46 June 1 , 2017
I Spy Bones. 10 a.m. Betasso Preserve, 337 Betasso Road, Boulder, 303-678-6200. Jump into Summer Fun Fair. 12 p.m. Flatirons Family Pharmacy, 603 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-709-2067. Swing Dance Lessons. 6:30 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Swing Dancing. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
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s a milky-white gross-beast skitters its way around a wheat field, getting murder-death all over gun-toting space colonists, the only question becomes whether Alien: Covenant deserves a place near director Ridley Scott’s original Alien in the pantheon of perfect sci-fi horror. Oh, calm your toothy tongues, it doesn’t. But it is a violently entertaining, pathologically great bit of tension rife with room for philosophical-religious and modern social interpretation. Also, you only pay for one Michael Fassbender, but you get two Fassbendii. That’s a quality return on investment. Picking up after the unreasonably nit-picked and unfairly maligned Prometheus, Covenant follows a ship filled with interstellar colonizers, ready to spread our filthy humanity across the stars. A solar flare results in unexpected casualties and leaves “mildly incompetent guy from accounts payable who wants you to join his bible study,” Oram (Billy Crudup), in charge of the mission. He promptly decides to follow a signal to an unexplored planet, a decision that has never once ended well. Despite objections from Oram’s second-in-command, the Ripley-analog Daniels (Katherine Waterston), a planetary excursion discovers David (Fassbender), the android from Prometheus, who has gone full robo-bonkers. David immediately barfs his crazy all over fellow robot and Fassbender, Walter. As the secrets of David’s decade on the planet emerge, so too does the chest-bursting, bowel-displaying xenomorph body Picking up where Prometheus left off, this Alien prequel count. follows a wayward group of colonists who come upon Detractors have called a planet inhabited by the android from the previous Covenant boring, which is film. as perplexingly unsupportable as a GOP vote in the upcoming midterm elections. After the obligatory first hour of ratcheting “uh oh,” the second hour is nonstop bloody bedlam. What’s more, the new mythology of the Alien franchise deepens, creating a perverse cycle of creation begetting destruction begetting creation begetting destruction. The film even finds time to offer fodder for those rightfully appalled by real-life masculine discussions of women’s bodies as mere “hosts” for breeding purposes, and slyly makes the artwork of Alien creature designer, H.R. Giger, a part of the narrative’s canon. Covenant has two flaws: a “no duh” attempt at a surprise twist ending and the unneeded (and counter-to-its-feminist-core) inclusion of the series’ first nude ladybits. But considering the legion of complaints lodged against Prometheus before this and the groundswell of griping facing Covenant so far, let’s make this defense a little more full-throated. Not only does the film contain a legitimate “holy [your favorite expletive here]” sequence recounting David’s arrival to the planet, it also hits all the Alien staples while advancing into deliriously insane new territory. The guy who gave us Blade Runner wrestles deeper with the metaphysical underpinnings of artificial intelligence while fearlessly including intentionally awkward beats of horror comedy, tossing out body horror from every orifice and hinting at a grander question about the danger humanity poses to all of existence. It’s a slam-bang sci-fi thriller littered with a bizarre assortment of great moments filled with grand weirdness. Covenant is goofy, scary, ballsy and thoroughly satisfying, and if that’s not what you consider a “true Alien movie,” your definition needs revision and reflection. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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couple of months ago, Boulder Weekly’s John Lehndorff used his Nibbles column to note Lafayette’s burgeoning food scene. Heeding the sage food writer’s words, I’ve been getting acquainted with some of the new kids on Lafayette’s culinary block. I’m happy to report that the boom looks like it’s worth some hype. Joining the mix of new eats in Lafayette is DeliCious Z’s, a breakfast and lunch joint situated right next to Ras Kassa’s new digs on South Public Road. Though the restaurant just got started this spring, it doesn’t feel like Deli-Cious Z’s has many — if any — kinks to work out. The order-atthe-counter eatery offers a menu of tried and true breakfast and lunch favorites, not to mention that case full of fresh pastries, doughnuts, muffins and cookies. Grab a number, pour yourself a fresh cup of Kona coffee and have a seat. The easterly facing dining room is drenched in sunlight throughout business hours (6 a.m.-3 p.m., seven days a week), so prepare to eat in luminous bliss. Z’s menu homes in on classic American dishes for both breakfast and lunch, but it was the comfort of a luscious breakfast at the close of a long and delightful weekend that begat this maiden voyage to Z’s.
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Deli-Cious Z’s conquers the Benedict Z’s covers the bases on breakfast fare: omelets, French toast, steak and eggs, chicken and waffles, bagel sandwiches, burritos and — the undisputed world champ in hangover relief — eggs Benedict. The café offers up two versions of the classic: the Sunrise Benedict (poached eggs atop a halved English muffin, with fresh grilled turkey, cheddar cheese and avocado, all appropriately slathered in hollandaise sauce), or the Mountain Benedict, the more traditional style, replacing grilled turkey with Canadian and American bacon, hold the cheddar and avocado, ample Hollandaise.
Both come, gloriously, with home-style potatoes. Hollandaise sauce has a reputation for being difficult to make, but it’s perhaps better described as delicate. It takes a little patience (and practice) to get the kind of silkysmooth, lemon-tart sauce you get at Z’s. (Keep an ice cube nearby as you’re heating the egg yolks over simmering water: if the yolks begin to separate, whisk the cube in to save the sauce. Also, don’t breath heavily over the sauce or let it smell your fear — rookie mistakes!) Poached eggs can be kind of tricky sometimes, too. You’ve got to remember to put some vinegar in the water before you bring it to just below boiling. Somehow, none of your spoons ever feel appropriate for the job of fishing
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a fundamentalist belief in hospitality. “Hospitality is looking outside yourself to see how you can make someone else feel better. Everyone thinks it is this switch you turn on,” Stuckey says. “My ethos is that you treat everyone well from the driver dropping off your vegetables to the dishwasher. That goes from the owners down and back up. Too often you find restaurant people being hospitable to the guest, but not to anyone else. It’s inauthentic.” We sat down to talk around midday as the kitchen staff was meeting nearby. It would be hours until he donned the suit and opened the doors. He offered me chilled still or sparkling water. Because of the buildup that Frasca gets and the
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cost of dining (food, wine, 20-plus percent tip), the expectations are nerve-rackingly sky high when guests sit down at Frasca for the first time... and every time. Stuckey freely admits he did not emerge from the womb ready to be of service. “I have worked in restaurants all my life but I didn’t understand hospitality until I worked for Eric Calderon at the Little Nell in Aspen. It made me who I am. The staff there cared about going above and beyond what was expected from guests,” Stuckey says. “I learned that you can’t expect praise. You can’t keep score. It’s never ‘What about me?’” see NIBBLES Page 54
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What about customers that behave poorly, make unreasonable demands and generally show humanity Stuckey says hosin a less than holy light? pitality is a mindset, “There are never guests that are a problem. They and waiters often work a year before could be having a tough time. You always give them ever serving a table. the benefit of the doubt,” Stuckey says. “That’s where you have to be great. You have a two-hour window to positively affect someone.” It doesn’t always work out, even at Frasca. “Hospitality is easy when everything goes well. Sometimes you have a really tough night where things don’t go well despite everything you did,” he says. There are no general rules of hospitality, Stuckey says. “Every night is different and you have to respond to each guest. Some might be nervous and on a first date. At the next table they might be celebrating a corporate success,” he says. “You have to feel them out and see what they need. We had a longtime customer come in for the first time since her husband passed away.” Stuckey suggests that diner complaints about service at “good” restaurants date back more than a decade ago. “The trend was chef-driven restaurants where we thought it was OK to give up on hospitality. It was all about the food, and we lost a lot in terms of diner experience,” Stuckey says, relating a story about a meal he ate at a famous restaurant where he didn’t feel entirely welcomed. “The menu stated that there would be no substitutions even for dietary issues. The food would come out whenever it was ready without regard to where the guest was in the meal or which wine they were having. It’s not hospitable when you train the staff to say, ‘No,’” he says. At Frasca, servers are hired who enjoy saying, “Yes,” not those who have the best resume. “For the front of house, our hiring process tends to filter out people with a lot of experience. Everybody here starts out as a glass polisher. It takes about a year to become a waiter and that’s a hard pill to swallow for some people,” Stuckey says. “We hire people according to their spirit. What’s important are essential charsee NIBBLES Page 56
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acteristics and qualities: to be positive, to be kind, empathetic and intelligent. The other stuff you can learn,” he says. If it all sounds a little Mr. Rogers-meets-fine dining, consider how successful the various Frasca enterprises have been. They’ve earned a parade of national nominations and awards, and foodies visit Boulder specifically to eat at Frasca and discover the burgeoning chef and artisan food community here. The duo has branched out with the Pizzeria Locale pizza chain and their Scarpetta Wines imported from Italy. Beyond the servers, sommeliers, managers and chefs, there is Danette Stuckey, an integral part of the service at Frasca and often among the first people diners meet. “I’m her husband and I think she’s awesome but it makes people feel good to be around her,” he says. “People don’t know this but Danette is really an introvert but she cares so much about their experience.” There is one thing Bobby Stuckey wishes restaurant-goers always did. “I don’t think people realize what they are doing when they don’t show up for a reservation. It hurts economically but it also means fish and poultry are being killed for you and may go to waste. Please just call and let us know.”
Will it be Lidl?
In the end, Boulder beat Wal-Mart by ignoring it, not by protesting it. The 4-year-old Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, 2972 Iris Ave., is closing June 16. Wal-Mart couldn’t compete in a city blanketed with 17 or more supermarkets. Whole Foods closed its Baseline store in February, but still has its flagship Pearl Street Store as well as one at Ideal Market. What will fill these empty food stores? Will it be Costco? Probably not. Maybe Wegman’s? Or perhaps the buzz-worthy German discount supermarket Lidl (pronounced lee-dil)?
Reader mail: ‘Child-free or non-?’
A reader commented on a recent Nibbles column headlined “Ban the brats:” “Now that we’re no longer asked ‘smoking or non-,’ we wish restaurants would ask ‘child-free or non-.’ Shrieking and misbehavior — especially at non-familyfriendly, adult-atmosphere restaurants — is annoying and distracting. We wonder why some parents of babies insist on bringing them everywhere whether appropriate or not.” (Comments: nibbles@boulderweekly.com.)
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“If New York is the Jewish grandma of great American food cities, and San Francisco is the grandpa who came out late in life, then Denver-Boulder is their grandson — a precocious adolescent going through a major growth spurt and smoking a lot of weed. But in all seriousness, Denver is a millennial town poised to make a major impact as it rapidly matures and owns its potential.” — Sean Kenniff, Starchefs.com John Lehndorff is a former pantry boy at the Greenbriar Inn. He hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU. Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles. Boulder Weekly
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reserved, buttoned-up sort with a distinct grapefruit taste. Oddly enough, hoppy ales aren’t the only thing that owner and operator Jamie Wells offers. He also courts the other side of the spectrum with a British bitterinspired session ale, Defiance (4.1 percent). Compared to the Hop Haze, Defiance is a much lighter brew, a nice balance of malt and hops that highlights the ale’s caramel characteristics. It’s served both on CO2 tap and through the English hand-pull system.
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Headed north to the Dakota Ridge section of Boulder, Cellar West Artisan Ales is located off Broadway, and offers something completely different. That’s evident once you enter Cellar West’s digs and lay your eyes on barrels beyond barrels. Brewer Zach Nichols prefers to ferment his beers in oak with wild yeast strains, and the results are a one-way street to Funkytown. Because of Nichols’s approach, these brews might please the average wine drinker before a stoutie or hop head finds what they are looking for. Start with Westfield (6.2 percent), a barrel-fermented, bottle-conditioned saison that sports a cracked pepper flavor on top of bready yeast, funky hops and stone fruit. Nichols fermented the Westfield in Chardonnay barrels, which give this beer a Chablis sensibility, including a mineral quality that would pair nicely with oysters. In addition to the Westfield, Cellar West offers five brews out of the barrels and three from their “Steelie” Series, all of them in line with Nichols’ overarching theme. The beauty of visiting Cellar West isn’t just the beers, it’s the ability to talk with Nichols and get the story of what’s in your glass first-hand. Nichols was behind the counter pouring when I paid him a visit, as was Jamie Wells when we stopped by J Wells. It gave us the opportunity to talk to the people who are so passionate about their craft that they are willing to do it all. That’s something both adventurous drinkers and homebrewers looking to make the next step can’t pass up. Boulder Weekly
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ARIES
MARCH 21-APRIL 19:
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TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Your body is holy and magic and
precious. I advise you not to sell it or rent it or compromise it in any way — especially now, when you have an opening to upgrade your relationship with it. Yes, Taurus, it’s time to attend to your sweet flesh and blood with consummate care. Find out exactly what your amazing organism needs to feel its best. Lavish it with pleasure and healing. Treat it as you would a beloved child or animal. I also hope you will have intimate conversations with the cells that compose your body. Let them know you love and appreciate them. Tell them you’re ready to collaborate on a higher level.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: “The most intense moments the
universe has ever known are the next 15 seconds,” said philosopher Terence McKenna. He was naming a central principle of reality: that every new NOW is a harvest of everything that has ever happened; every fresh moment is a blast of novelty that arises in response to the sum total of all history’s adventures. This is always true, of course. But I suspect the phenomenon will be especially pronounced for you in the near future. More than usual, you may find that every day is packed with interesting feelings and poignant fun and epic realizations. This could be pleasurable, but also overwhelming. Luckily, you have the personal power necessary to make good use of the intensity.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: Nobody likes to be scrutinized or
critiqued or judged. But we Crabs (yes, I’m one of you) are probably touchier about that treatment than any other sign of the zodiac. (Hypersensitivity is a trait that many astrologers ascribe to Cancerians.) However, many of us do allow one particular faultfinder to deride us: the nagging voice in the back of our heads. Sometimes we even give free rein to its barbs. But I would like to propose a transformation of this situation. Maybe we could scold ourselves less, and be a bit more open to constructive feedback coming from other people. Starting now.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: The lion’s potency, boldness and
majesty are qualities you have a mandate to cultivate in the next three weeks. To get in the righteous mood, I suggest you gaze upon images and videos of lions. Come up with your own version of a lion’s roar — I mean actually make that sound — and unleash it regularly. You might also want to try the yoga posture known as the lion pose. If you’re unfamiliar with it, go here for tips: tinyurl.com/lionpose. What else might help you invoke and express the unfettered leonine spirit?
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “What does it matter how many
lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan posed that question. I invite you to put it at the top of your list of hot topics to meditate on. In doing so, I trust you won’t use it as an excuse to disparage your companions for their inadequacies. Rather, I hope it will mobilize you to supercharge your intimate alliances; to deepen your awareness of the synergistic beauty you could create together; to heighten your ability to be given the universe by those whose fates are interwoven with yours.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:
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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “On some hill of despair,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell, “the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky — though it’s true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in.” You may not exactly feel despair, Scorpio. But I suspect you are in the throes of an acute questioning that makes you feel close to the edge of forever. Please consider the possibility that it’s a favorable time to find out just how much light and heat are hidden inside you. Your ache for primal fun and your longing to accelerate your soul’s education are converging with your quest to summon a deeper, wilder brilliance.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You’re in a phase when you have the power to find answers to questions that have stumped you for a while. Why? Because you’re more open-minded and curious than usual. You’re also ready to be brazenly honest with yourself. Congrats! In light of the fact that you’ll be lucky at solving riddles, I’ve got three good ones for you to wrestle with. 1. Which of your anxieties may actually be cover-ups for a lazy refusal to change a bad habit? 2. What resource will you use more efficiently when you stop trying to make it do things it ’s not designed to do? 3. What blessing will you receive as soon as you give a clear signal that you are ready for it?
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: A typical Capricorn cultivates
fervent passions, even to the point of obsession. Almost no one knows their magnitude, though, because the members of your tribe often pursue their fulfillment with methodical, business-like focus. But I wonder if maybe it’s a good time to reveal more of the raw force of this driving energy than you usually do. It might humanize you in the eyes of potential helpers who see you as too strong to need help. And it could motivate your allies to provide the extra support and understanding you’ll need in the coming weeks.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In accordance with the astrological
omens, I invite you to carry out a flashy flirtation with the color red. I dare you to wear red clothes and red jewelry. Buy yourself red roses. Sip red wine and savor strawberries under red lights. Sing Elvis Costello’s “The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes” and Prince’s “Little Red Corvette.” Tell everyone why 2017 is a redletter year for you. For extra credit, murmur the following motto whenever a splash of red teases and pleases your imagination: “My red-hot passion is my version of high fashion.”
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “If you want a puppy, start by
asking for a pony,” read the bumper sticker on the Lexus SUV I saw. That confused me. Would the owner of a Lexus SUV be the type of person who didn’t expect to get what she really wanted? In any case, Pisces, I’m conveying a version of this bumper-sticker wisdom to you. If you want your domestic scene to thrive even more than it already does, ask for a feng shui master to redesign your environment so it has a perfect flow of energy. If you want a community that activates the best in you, ask for a utopian village full of emotionally intelligent activists. If you want to be animated by a focused goal that motivates you to wake up excited each morning, ask for a glorious assignment that will help save the world.
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Dear Dan: I’m a middle-aged homo trying to figure out Grindr. Is it impolite to go on Grindr if you’re not looking for an immediate hookup? My preferred form of sexual relationship is the friend-with-benefits situation. I go on Grindr looking to make friends who could, at least potentially, be sex partners, but I like to do the friend thing before the sex. I’ve had guys call me an asshole because I exchanged messages with them for 20 minutes and then didn’t come right over and fuck them. Do they have a point? Does logging into a hookup app like Grindr imply openness to an immediate sexual encounter? — Talking Online Repulses Some Others
you’re going to get a different experience based on where you’re using it. Some neighborhoods seem to be filled with messy guys looking for chemsex, bless their hearts. In others, you’ll find unwoke twinks who are on Grindr to swap (highly problematic) GIFs of black women pulling faces. And if you’re in a rural area, it’s likely you’ll message your full cast of Grindr torsos within a few days. Think of Grindr as a giant gay bar — most guys are there to hook up, a few just want to hang out and chat, some dudes are really messed up (avoid them), and no one is at their best around closing time.
Dear TORSO: Always be up front about your intentions, TORSO. The best way to do that is by creating a profile — on Grindr or elsewhere — that clearly describes what you want and what you’re up for. Because good partners (sexual or otherwise) communicate their wants clearly. Adding something like this to your profile should do it: “My preferred form of sexual relationship is the friend-with-benefits situation. I go on Grindr looking to make friends who could, at least potentially, be sex partners, but I like to do the friend thing before the sex.” Grindr is an app designed and marketed to facilitate hookups, but some people have found friends, lovers and husbands on the app (usually after hooking up first). So being on a hookup app doesn’t automatically mean you’re looking for “right now,” and it certainly doesn’t obligate you to fuck every guy you swap messages with. But if you’re not clear in your profile or very first message about what you’re doing there, TORSO, guys looking for a hookup on that hookup app will be rightly annoyed with you. (The time and energy he sunk into you could have been sunk into someone looking for right now.) If you are clear, guys seeking instacock have only themselves to blame for wasting their time on you. Your timing could also have something to do with guys calling you an asshole. Are you exchanging messages at two in the morning for 20 minutes? Because most guys on Grindr at that hour are seeking immediate sexual encounters. If you’re just chatting in the middle of the night, then you’re probably wasting someone’s time — if, again, you’re not being absolutely clear about what you’re doing there. Also, TORSO, Grindr is location-based, which means
Dear Dan: I’m a married woman whose hot, hung husband is into “beautiful women and pretty boys” (his words — and he means boyish men of legal age, of course). It took a dozen years to get that out of him. I’d watched him drool over pretty male baristas and waiters, but it wasn’t until I found twink porn on his computer that he came out about his “narrow slice of bisexuality.” (Again, his words.) Now that it’s out — now that he’s out — he’s anxious to have a three-way with me and a femme guy. I’m up for it, but the pretty boys we’re finding online who are into my husband aren’t into me. My husband says he would feel too guilty doing it without me, which means he may not be able to do it at all. I want him to do it. It turns me on to think about. I don’t have to be there. — Hubby’s Underlying Bi Biological Yearnings
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How the original war on drugs went down in Boulder
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he uncertainty of the legal landscape of marijuana is dizzying. Especially lately, as the war-on-drugs rhetoric ramps up in Washington under the guidance of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the growing legal cannabis industry prepares for battle. This scene has played out before, beginning in 1970 with the passing of the Controlled Substances Act and Nixon’s later declaration that drugs are America’s “public enemy number one.” Below is a timeline of drug-related events occurring in Boulder Sarah Haas between 1965 and 1975 as reported by the Daily Camera, offered in hopes of providing a moment of reflection. 1965: Twelve people are arrested for “dope” in Boulder County. 1967: Police estimate there are 500 drug users in the City of Boulder. In August, an article titled “Boulder, a Home for Drug Users and Displaced Hippies?” opens with: “Boulder, once a sleepy little town where a Saturday night hayride was the ‘cat’s meow,’ is fast becoming a home for displaced hippies and a crossroads of the nation’s drug traffic, according to Boulder’s police.” 1969: More than 400 people are arrested for “dope” in Boulder County. On Sept. 29, Boulder County District Attorney Stanley Johnson says at a U.S. Senate hearing in Denver that drug activity is the single biggest criminal problem in Boulder. On Nov. 2, it is reported that Boulder has become the main heroin, cocaine and dope supplier for three
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major U.S. cities: St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago. But as illegal activity rises, citizens rally to call for alternative approaches to criminalization. 1970: On Feb. 25, more than 200 people gather in the Boulder Public Library for a panel discussion on drugs. The event, sponsored by Boulder Human Relations as an effort to create dialogue between “hip” and “straight” communities, showcases spokespeople arguing both for and against prohibition. Notably, the conversation is rife with the lexicon of the war on drugs even though it is still six months before the campaign officially launches. Speaking on behalf of criminalization, District Attorney Johnson, says: “We can debate all night whether marijuana is evil or good and still not be sure. I’m not interested in creating a crime record for anyone, but when I took this job I said I’d uphold the law and I know the majority of the people in this County expect me to do it,” adding, “the police department doesn’t make the laws, it enforces them.” Against the issue is “guru” John Link, among others, who says: “I am not interested in talking about whether or not marijuana is harmful, there’s enough literature available to prove that it isn’t.” After his remarks, the room erupts into cheers before entering into a two-and-a-half-hour “freewheeling discussion” during which both a Kiwani and an “old woman” say they’d like to try pot. On Nov. 13, an article about heroin use quotes Gordon Black as saying, “Smack (heroin) is a destroyer and killer, and dealers of smack are not brothers.
These people are killers, and their drugs kill and turn people into vegetables. Dealing smack is human exploitation.” In response, Dr. Robert McFarland, who ran the city’s methadone clinic, says: “I don’t believe prison helps anyone,” and suggests abuse could be better understood as a psychological sickness. 1971: There are 817 narcotics arrests in the City of Boulder. In January, the Camera runs a series exploring Boulder’s drug problem, including the following articles: “Courts Overburdened with Huge Increase in Cases,” “Officials Cite Various Causes, Cures for Drug Scene,” and “City Officials Cite Action Program to Control Problem.” Solutions offered by the “action plan” includes the establishment of a runaway home and treatment centers, plans to increase the trust between police and citizens, newfangled drug education in public schools and legislative amendments to “oppressive” drug laws. Local law enforcement and judicial officials show alignment with hardline federal drug policies as indicated by articles like: “DA Opposed to Reducing ‘Pot’ Possession Charges” and “Judge Scott Advocates Firm View on Drug Sales, Sentences Youth.” 1971 - 1973: Until 1970, articles about drugs are few and far between and usually reserved for pressing political coverage or breaking news. Between 1971 and 1973, coverage becomes frequent, almost a daily occurrence, and a significant portion is dedicated to police blotter-style articles, while bigger headlines are reserved for big money and smuggling busts. 1974: In January, Boulder officials and concerned citizens begin looking into reformatory sentences as an alternative to mandatory sentences. 1975: Boulder’s rising drug arrest rates are found to fit a national pattern, revealing that what was experienced as a local problem is, in fact, a national one. Boulder police find that teen drug use is declining. Colorado State Legislature works to “liberalize ‘grass’ laws,” enacting legislation that removes jail terms from small marijuana possession charges.
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by Paul Danish
A rainy day with Alice B. Toklas
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e’ve been having a lot of rain lately, them to contribute some of their faves. so this is a great time to review the The contributors included lords, ladies and a tale of Alice B. Toklas hashish fudge, princess — and one Brion Gysin, variously described and the recipe, of course, “which any- as a “writer and avant-garde artist” and a “wiseacre one could whip up on a rainy day,” painter,” who was living in Morocco at the time. according to Alice. Gysin contributed the recipe for Public Domain/Carl Van Vechten Here are five things you need Moroccan “Hashish Fudge.” to know about Alice B. Toklas Hashish Fudge is a nut, date hashish fudge (sometimes called and fig ball that looks somewhat Alice B. Toklas hashish brownlike real hashish but is an edible. ies): 1) It’s not fudge or brownies And it’s wonderful. I made it a as we know them (no chocolate couple of times following the involved); 2) It’s not made with original recipe that appears hashish (although it could be); 3) below, with two exceptions: I The recipe isn’t Alice’s; 4) She substituted pistachios for the probably never made it herself; peanuts, and I used canna-butter and 5) She may not have even instead of sprinkling pulverized pot into it. And I used a coffee known what cannabis was, and grinder and a food processor to that “Hashish Fudge’ was what’s do the pulverizing. Store the now called an “edible.” balls in a sealed box in the fridge; However, the recipe did they’ll keep for a month or more. appear in The Alice B. Toklas Here’s the recipe: Cookbook, which was published in 1954. Here’s how it got there. “HASHISH FUDGE (which Alice B. Toklas was the lifeanyone could whip up on a rainy long companion of the poet day) Gertrude Stein, who she met on “This is the food of paradise her first day in Paris in 1919. The two were — of Baudelaire’s Artificial companions until Stein’s death in 1946, and Paradises: it might provide an Alice B. Toklas didn’t actually their Paris apartment was a gathering place for entertaining refreshment for a create the Hashish post-World War I writers, artists and ex-pats of Ladies’ Bridge Club or a chapter Fudge recipe, but it does appear in all descriptions. meeting of the DAR. In Morocco her cookbook. In 1952, Harper & Brothers press struck a it is thought to be good for warddeal with Alice to write a cookbook cum meming off the common cold in damp oir of her life with Stein. Although she was winter weather and is, indeed, battling hepatitis at the time, she managed to more effective if taken with large write the book in three months, but as the publisher’s quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant deadline approached, she needed some additional storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of recipes to finish it. So she wrote her friends asking one’s personality on several simultaneous planes are to
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be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by ‘un évanouissement reveillé.’ “Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverised in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of Cannabis sativa can be pulverised. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient. “Obtaining the Cannabis may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as Cannabis sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognised, everywhere in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called Cannabis indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.” The recipe was cut out of the first American edition of the cookbook, but appeared in the European edition and in subsequent American ones. It was quickly discovered by hippies, and in 1968, a film starring the late Peter Sellers, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, featured brownies made with pot, not the faux hash fudge from the cookbook. Don’t get me wrong. Brownie mixes prepared with canna-butter or pot are great, but the original is awesome. Happily, in the state of Colorado “certain difficulties” are no longer encountered in obtaining cannabis. And rain’s in the forecast for next week. Just sayin’.
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WHAT IS REAL ANYMORE? We live in a crazy world. This week saw the director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) support leaving the Paris climate agreement, while the Secretary of State, and former ExxonMobil CEO, asked to stay in. We also saw the president tweet out a word — “covfefe” — in the dark of the night, with no explana-
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ordering pizza from Papa John’s, which we know was made up because no one eats Papa John’s pizza. Hamburgers are hot dogs, up is down, Droxies are better than Oreos. What is real anymore?
In times like these, it’s good to have a beacon of truth. How about motel billionaire Robert Bigelow, who told 60 Minutes that aliens are here and they already live on earth? That sort of explains everything. Trump’s an alien, Scott Pruitt’s an alien, Papa John is an alien, and they’re all trying to bring us down and confuse us with pseudo-science, misspelled words and 47 Peyton Manning commercials in a row.
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It’s just the inspiration you need. HAVE IT YOUR WAY, BELGIUM As President Trump returns from his international vaycay, Americans cringe waiting to know the fallout. Who did Agent Orange piss off this time, and when can we expect to start WWIII? Shockingly, it was another American institution that rocked the European boat this week and took us one step closer to nuclear war: Burger King. In an effort to market its first Belgium location, the fast food chain launched a campaign asking the Belgian people: Who do you like better — the good ol’ American corporation that produces mediocre food or the actual monarch of your country, King Phillippe? Wow, Burger King, that is a cold, if not genius, way to upset a leader with low approval rating. (We can’t lie. If a European company — maybe a French bakery called President Pastry — came to the U.S. and tried the same marketing tactic, we’d vote cream puffs every time.) No word yet whether Belgium intends to campaign on behalf of its king. So far representatives have stated that he is “not amused.” Now that’s no way to get votes for your cause, Phillippe. We’re not sure what happens if BK actually wins the poll, maybe its spokesperson in the creepy king face mask will challenge Phillippe to a duel. Maybe BK will bring in Ronald McDonald and Wendy to join his cause. One thing’s for sure, the world will never look the same. Boulder Weekly
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Drift scours the state for the finest flower from Colorado’s six hundred growers. We partner with nearly a dozen artisans to bring you a rich assortment of strains — from the classics to exotic new cuts and everything in between. What distinguishes these craft growers is the astounding number of awards they capture. Pank, the source of Don Shula and Pineapple, has won awards in two states and Amsterdam. Rare Dankness (Ghost Train Haze, Lee Roy OG ad Tangerine Kush) requires a trophy case to house all of its hardware. And Chemmy Jones, produced by In the Flow, seems to set new potency records with each test — regularly surpassing 40%.
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