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he Trumpeters are fully embracing the right-wing’s imperious disdain for poor people, blaming them for creating their own economic distress — a convenient ideological fabrication for a government intent on destroying our nation’s social safety net.

And who better to mouth this moral rationalization of a patently immoral policy than Trump’s Housing

Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson? Raised in poverty, he became a renowned and very wealthy surgeon, so other impoverished Americans should do likewise.

Carson recently spoke to this, explaining that poverty is just “a state of mind.” See, it’s simple — simplistically speaking.

Of course, poverty is actually a state of money (i.e. the lack thereof ). It’s also a state of joblessness... of miserly minimum wages... of being disabled... of limited education... of a prison record... and of many other hard-knock realities. Carson offers bootstrap babble about poor people having “the wrong mindset,” adding that America’s safety net has made poverty too “cozy” for the poor — all of which is a plutocratic fantasy to make Trump & Company feel righteous about trying to cut off the helping hand.

One cut whacks $6 billion out of Carson’s own agency, including a vital program helping 5 million very-lowincome Americans rent apartments.

Nine out of 10 of them are either elderly, people with disabilities, veterans or working poor people with children. Slamming the door in their faces condemns most of them to living on the streets. How does that “Make America Great”?

It’s time to say the obvious: The likes of Trump and Carson are incompetent ideologues, operating as if gutting government programs will magically make our country’s complex problems go “away.” They simply don’t know what they’re doing, don’t know how to govern a great democracy and they’re making a great mess.

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by Paul Danish

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he blood on London Bridge and the barroom floors in Borough Market was still drying when the world’s leaders started denouncing the Islamic terrorists who spilled it as “cowardly.”

That was the first lie.

Conducting a terror attack requires considerable personal bravery, especially if the terrorists know at the outset that the attack will end in their deaths, and everyone on the planet knows it — starting with their fellow Muslims.

That’s why jihadists who carry out these attacks are idolized throughout the Muslim world.

The whole point of terrorism is to attack innocents — in order to destroy a country’s confidence in its government and a society’s confidence in itself and its will to resist. That’s the essence of asymmetrical warfare and the object of the exercise.

The jihadists aren’t cowards anymore than, say, members of the Waffen SS were cowards. They’re evil. Evil people can be brave, just as good people can be cowards.

The “world leaders” who label terrorists “cowards” are engaging in selfserving name-calling or, worse, are underestimating the enemy. That’s a proven way to lose wars.

The real cowards are the so-called leaders who are too craven to call an existential enemy by its name — Salafist Islam — much less do what is necessary to eliminate the threat it poses: wage war on it until it submits or is destroyed.

To his lasting credit, London’s Muslim Mayor Sadiq Kahn did call the attackers “evil” as well as “cowardly.”

In a statement to the press he also said he was “angry and furious that these three men are seeking to justify their actions by using the faith I belong to, to justify their actions.

“The ideology they follow is perverse, and is poisonous, and it has no place in Islam. And I condemn this terrorist act and also this poisonous ideology these men and others follow,” he said.

Earlier he said, “There is no justification whatsoever for such barbaric acts.”

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lowing jihadist rampages.

Alas, it’s also untrue.

There most certainly is “justification” for such “barbaric acts.” It’s found in the Koran. As in these four passages: “Kill the idolaters wheresoever ye shall find them, and take them prisoners, and besiege them, and lay wait for them in every convenient place” (Sura 9:5).

“If they turn back from the faith, take them, and kill them wherever ye find them; and take no friend from among them, nor any helper” (Sura 4:89).

“Wherever they are found they shall be taken, and killed with a general slaughter,” (Sura 33:61).

“Kill them wherever ye find them,” (Sura 2:191).

And 145 more, according to at least one tabulation (politicalislam.com/tag/ violence-in-the-koran/).

Islam’s defenders maintain that many of these quotes are taken out of context or suffer from unsympathetic translation. They have a point there.

But the collective meaning of 149 quotes, even if they’re taken out of context, takes on a life of its own, and the glorification of jihad unmistakably comes shining through. The Salafists clearly see it that way — and Salafism is the most vital force and fastest growing movement in Islam today.

As for unsympathetic translations, as Nietzsche once remarked “Neither the best nor the worst of a work is untranslatable.”

Islam’s defenders also point out that the Bible is chock-full of violent passages. True. The difference is that Christians no longer use Scripture to justify waging war on unbelievers and killing heretics and blasphemers.

Salafist Islam self-evidently does.

After attacks such as the ones in London and Manchester, Western “leaders” routinely tell their citizens to “show defiance” by “getting on with their lives.” They also claim that the attack will result in the country being more united than ever in the face of terror.

Getting on with your life in the face of an existential threat isn’t “defiance.”

It’s denial.

The war against Islamic terror is see DANISH PLAN Page 7

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Our research showed that by the time the leak was plugged 112 days later, over 107,000 tons of methane and 8,000 tons of ethane had been released from the canyon. That is the same impact on global warming as 1,735,404 cars in a year. Aliso Canyon was the largest methane leak in our country’s history and had a larger climate impact than the BP oil spill. Now we are contracted by the state to continually test and monitor the leak to ensure that public safety and environmental impact are not at risk again.

Providing this service through general aviation prompted a faster response than would otherwise be possible and helps to prevent future risks.

My team also works with towns and cities across the Western U.S. who are trying to reduce emissions to meet EPA ozone standards. By utilizing our aircraft to help them pinpoint where emissions are coming from, we can help communities figure out how to use their resources most effectively. Trying to do the same tests from the ground would be inefficient, incredibly expensive and not give them the necessary threedimensional analysis of their environment. My team can fly almost anywhere in the country in hours and get the job done quickly and cost-effectively.

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ultimately a war of ideas, and most Western “leaders” are timid about expressing ours and terrified about attacking theirs.

Mayor Khan also said, “We will not be cowed.”

That too is a sentiment routinely expressed by Western leaders in the wake of terror attacks, and it too is a lie.

If “getting on with your life” means accepting eruptions of Islamic terrorism as the new normal, if “showing defiance” means going to a rock concert, if “national unity” requires people to refrain from speaking out against the pathologies of Islam as “good Germans” refrained from speaking out against the pathologies of Nazism, then as a country and as a civilization you have already been cowed.

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cue. But some of these efforts are at risk now. Large-scale commercial operators now want to remove air traffic control from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Congressional oversight and give it over to a private board controlled by those with commercial interests. They point to the Canadian system as their model, but our system is much more diverse. I know firsthand that for every

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Dr. Stephen Conley is the President, Owner and Chief Pilot of Scientific Aviation flying out of Boulder and Auburn, California. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California Davis and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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letters The oil and gas industry lies to people living near their operations — people forced by state law into risking their family’s health and safety and the value of their homes. But the industry tells the truth to investors — people voluntarily risking their money.

Compare companies’ slick assurances to local communities with what they tell potential investors in Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) 10k reports. 10k’s give a detailed picture of a company’s business, risks and operating and financial results for a fiscal year. Every 10k has a section entitled “risks” (essentially, what could go wrong) — events that could cause the company to miss financial targets and investors to lose money.

Extraction’s 2016 10k is particularly illustrative. Extraction, facing citizen backlash over its unique focus on heavily populated areas (Broomfield is the latest), plans to drill in unincorporated Boulder County. Extraction’s 10k risk section is a straightforward discussion of what, to the public and environment, can be catastrophes. Contrast the 10k’s dispassionate discussion with the propaganda these companies unload on city councils and neighborhoods.

Is drilling risky? “Drilling for and producing oil and natural gas are high risk activities with many uncertainties...” Some listed: “equipment failures or accidents, such as fires or blowouts; environmental hazards, such as oil and natural gas leaks, oil spills, pipeline and tank ruptures, encountering naturally occurring radioactive materials, and unauthorized discharges of brine, well stimulation and completion fluids, toxic gases or other pollutants into the surface and subsurface environment.”

These events could result in substantial loss and result in claims for: “injury or loss of life, damage to and destruction of property, natural resources, and equipment; pollution and other environmental damage. ...”

Does the driller have insurance for unforeseen events? “[Our] insurance is limited to activities at the well site and there can be no assurance that this insurance will continue to be commercially available or that this insurance will be available at premium levels that justify its purchase by us... Further, we have no coverage for gradual, longterm pollution events.” Makes sense.

The taxpayers cover those expenses via superfund cleanup. And in a later section: “...pollution and environmental risks generally are not fully insurable.”

Other discussions in the risk sec-

tion cover 2016’s Amendment 71 (a boon), Colorado’s forced pooling (ditto), Extraction’s short-time in business and limited experience (discomfiting); climate change; greenhouse gas targets; threats of bans like New York’s; and the risk of more federal, state or local regulation.

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Making America great

Things look bigly bad for Trump completing four years. As much as his basic character and his conduct as candidate and as president disgust me, I’ll be disappointed if he fails to stay on. I believe that we have the best chance of “making America great again” by fully experiencing the clown show that we so defiantly voted into office.

Under Trump’s corrupt, above-thelaw, imperial, shallow-minded presidency, even constrained by congressional and judicial actions, we will be able to proudly tout a strong, relatively leaderless military, hubris that will bring back the good old “ugly American” days, borders protecting us from a few thousand unproductive violent aliens and hundreds of thousands of productive nonviolent aliens, a Ferengi-like devotion to business-asreligion and “enrich the rich first” trickle down economics... and the list goes on. We’ll also become a country that is distrusted internationally, that will have increased economic polarization, expensive and broadly inadequate class-based health care, weaker protection of individual and minority rights, increased state-supported discrimination... and the list goes on.

What needs to emerge from this experience is a broad, level-headed, nonpartisan discussion about our country’s developments over the last 30 or 40 years that have produced such a bitterly partisan and polarized society. We need to figure out how to metamorphose into a tolerant, respected and productive society based on building a strong economic middle class rather than a super-elite 0.1 percent. We must recognize the dangers of fear-mongering and fringe politics. We must reinforce the opportunities our society offers, the rights it guarantees and the responsibilities it requires. If Trump disappears none of that will happen. In short, I hope that being forced to live through this self-inflicted debacle will prod us to build the great society we believe we once had.

Paul Atcheson/Longmont see LETTERS Page 9

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Making America last

Reaction to Trump’s astonishingly foolhardy withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate accords from world leaders has been swift and strong.

“He’s declaring war on the planet itself.” “Make our planet great again.”

“A major disappointment.”

Trump calls the accord a job killer.

However, lost coal jobs are mostly due to low natural gas prices. Millions of good-paying jobs in the sustainable energy fields are emerging every year.

Trump’s contention that he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris” not only demonstrates his narrow provincial outlook, but also his profound lack of understanding about ecology. Climate change is a global phenomenon requiring action by every country, including ours, the largest overall contributor to greenhouse gases over the years.

Evidence of the worldwide changes occurring because of human-produced warming cannot be ignored, despite the uniquely and tragically American denial that is personified by Trump.

I am heartened to know that many states, cities and counties around the nation are enacting meaningful policies, strategies and regulations to address climate change. We need to demonstrate our support for fighting climate change by electing intelligent, aware leaders, starting in 2018.

Huge governmental tax breaks and incentives given to the oil and gas industries need to be stringently reviewed and repealed. Meanwhile, hundreds of U.S. corporations have expressed support for the climate accords, both in word and action, and we can “vote with our dollars” by supporting sustainable products and services.

It’s about time the U.S. enacts a market-driven, revenue-neutral carbon fee and dividend, to level the playing field for sustainable energies.

Check out the Citizens’ Climate Lobby website for its great proposal.

As far as climate change mitigation goes, Trump has ceded American leadership to China and Europe. Trump’s legacy will be that he made America last!

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Living near oil and gas is medical concern

I am writing this letter as a father, homeowner and physician living in Boulder County. I read with interest the excellent article by Boulder Weekly, “Warning: Oil and gas development may be hazardous to your health” [Re: News, May 18].

I believe the evidence regarding the Boulder Weekly

letters harmful health effects of fracking, not to mention serious environmental effects, is undeniable.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), led by Dr. Larry Wolk, is failing to serve the health interests in Colorado. While the interests of our elected officials may be divided, there should be no question the primary responsibility of the CDPHE is to protect the public health.

For Dr. Wolk and his department to interpret the current data regarding the safety of living near a fracking site as low risk is unacceptable.

As physicians, we and other healthcare providers use the data we have available to make informed decisions to best serve the health of our patients.

Medicine, like science, involves a data set that constantly evolves. We make decisions to shield our patients from unnecessary harm while promoting health practices we believe to be in their best interest.

Many counties throughout the United States, as well as the states of Maryland and New York have banned fracking, as have entire other countries including France and Scotland.

A recent poll showed more than 70 percent of medical professionals oppose fracking. Numerous respected scientists, including those mentioned in the above article oppose it as well.

There are hundreds of studies in the past 12 months supporting the health effects of fracking. How much more data do we need before we act to prevent irreversible damage to our community’s health?

As a father and physician I would not allow my family to live within the 500-foot perimeter of a fracking site and would counsel my patients the same.

The health effects related to the fracking industry are being better understood every day. Now is not the time to stand by and expect our elected or appointed state officials to protect our health and the health of our families. I urge you to contact your elected officials, to write to Dr. Wolk (Larry. wolk@state.co.us) and to support the efforts of the excellent community groups working to stop this dangerous process in our communities.

To see drilling locations in or near your community go to drillingmaps. com. For a summary of the peer reviewed studies and other data regarding fracking effects on health and the environment, go to psr.org/environment-and-health/hydraulic-fracturing. html Ray Howe, MD/ Physicians for Social Responsibility

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here were two major items the Boulder City Council needed to discuss at their meeting on May 16 — how to implement a tax on sugary drinks, and how Boulder was going to solve homelessness.

By the time three hours of discussion about the soda tax was complete, there was only enough time, about 45 minutes, to breeze through a presentation of the Homelessness Working Group, which was tasked with coming up with a plan to revamp the city’s homeless services.

The Council had to vote on the sugar tax and merely discuss the homeless strategy, but stripped of this context, the scene was still an apt metaphor for how a lot of homeless people, and those who serve them, view Boulder’s approach to homelessness and its new plan: A well-intentioned afterthought.

Boulder is in the process of implementing a major shift in its homeless services. On May 1, it limited walk-up sheltering as an option for the roughly 1,800 homeless people that enter the city every year, and will effectively remove it by October, and now plans to shift to a system that either puts them in long-term housing or provides short-term support, such as rental assistance or reunification with friends and family.

While Boulder charges ahead with its plan, many people experiencing homelessness and their advocates are concerned these changes will not provide an adequate menu of services for the community, which will have immediate consequences.

It was out of an expressed desire to find long-term solutions for day and night shelters that the City devised the Homelessness Working Group, which began meeting in fall 2016. Comprised of service providers and representatives — from Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, Bridge House, Attention Homes and more — and officials from the city and county Human Services departments, the Working Group met about a dozen times, eventually bringing in two formerly homeless people as members.

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Boulder’s homeless services have heretofore been fractured between service providers, faith-based groups, food pantries and law enforcement. The impetus for the changes recommended by the Working Group were born out of the desire to streamline those services, and offer people effective solutions, instead of simply offering a bed through a lottery system.

Isabel McDevitt, executive director of Bridge House and a Working Group member, says the lottery system approach is “not best practice because it reinforces a lot of friction and trauma for people experiencing homelessness.”

And by making homeless people go to different facilities for different services, “we’ve created more barriers than solutions because there’s so much friction just going around town to get your needs met,” she says.

Heather Pollock, executive director at the nonprofit food pantry Harvest of Hope, agrees. People hang out, eat and drink coffee during the two hours Harvest of Hope is open each afternoon for “people without kitchens.” They access WiFi, charge their phones and receive mail, in addition to shopping in the market.

And since the resource center closed, outreach workers from Bridge House come to the pantry three days a week to meet clients, an “unforeseen benefit” Pollocks says.

The plan, as presented to Council, seeks to aggregate services like that on a broader scale. It first calls for a coordinated system of entry for people who look to use homeless services in the city. At the point of entry, which could be a single location, or one of several throughout the city or county, people will be asked for basic information and given an assessment.

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homeless services were terminated. Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow (BOHO) shutdown, taking away its 40-bed residence facility along with its emergency overflow operation that found shelter for the homeless in rotating churches and synagogues. In addition, a downtown resource center provided by Bridge House also closed. The closings marked the beginning of the Working Group’s intended shift from emergency, walk-up shelters to a program-based solution with more targeted outcomes.

But for many experiencing homelessness, the shift in services was disorienting, even stressful. People weren’t sure where to go to meet case managers and service providers, access meal services, or where to sleep at night given the City of Boulder’s camping ordinance, which prohibits people from sleeping on the streets. For many, there was no longer a space to just be.

“It cost a lot of people a lot of resources,” says David, a Nederland native who has been homeless in Boulder since 2008. “Let’s put it this way: I’ve stopped eating.”

To be sure, there are nuts and bolts issues to still hammer out with the Working Group Plan. But within the homeless and service provider communities, the switch of services has done little to assuage broader concerns about the way the plan was developed, and

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McDevitt says her organization’s intake system is “not so far off ” from what the Working Group Plan could entail.

“We do a welcome meeting, a face-to-face conversation, coupled with a 55-question intake, which is all self-reported,” she says.

After that, the intake manager will separate homeless people into two groups — those with high needs better suited for long-term program help, and those whose issues are short-term and can be resolved through what’s being called diversion. The latter group represents at least 80 percent of the homeless population in Boulder, according to the Working Group, consisting of people who need sheltering eight nights in a row or less.

Diversion seeks to offer shortterm rental assistance to people, transportation to friends or family who could house them, or even mediation of relationships to alleviate the reason someone is homeless.

To accommodate the high-needs group, the plan increases the amount of long-term housing at the Shelter to 160 beds, a move that will eliminate most walk-up services this October. After some controversy following BOHO’s closing, Bridge House offered to provide 50 walk-up beds just for this summer, and shelter during emergency weather conditions will still be available.

That all looks good, says Working Group member Mike Homner, but there are major issues with how the plan was developed and what it involves.

Homner was homeless for five years in Boulder before he was able to get a house through the city in 2013. He served on the BOHO board for three years. Naturally, he thought himself a logical fit for the Working Group. So after requesting a seat at the table, the City put him and another formerly homeless person on the group. But when Homner attended his first meeting, he found the group had “very quietly ... pre-determined what was going to be done, line by line.”

Working Group members were asked to attend different meetings, and some received presentations while others did not, Homner says. Not once could he recall the group ever voting on something.

“It was all pre-determined,” Homner says. “Ron [Eslinger, the other homeless member] and I were tokens to make them look good. ... We didn’t have enough meetings and/or time to really do something.”

Rabbi Fred Greene of Congregation Har’Hashem, says his organization and many of the other faith organizations that worked with BOHO to provide rotating shelter locations didn’t know the organization was closing, and were only notified of the Working Group Plan two weeks before it was presented to Council.

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plan to replace it.

“The city’s leadership, not just Council, but the business leaders, civic leaders, religious leaders, have all depended on that overflow for way too long,” he says, noting that the organization’s programs saved lives during the winter. “It [was] not a solution, it was just a band-aid. So the fact that BOHO won’t be here to provide that band-aid is challenging.”

There’s been a steady increase of clients at Harvest of Hope each afternoon since the services changed, Pollock says, and since many people experiencing homelessness operate day by day, the questions left unanswered by the long-term plan have left them feeling uneasy.

“Unfortunately, some of our clients expressed that this was sending a message that they’re not welcome here (in Boulder),” Pollock says. “I know that was not the intent, but that was the perception.”

Karen Rahn, Boulder’s director of human services, argues that although the Working Group did work quickly, they operated from a base of knowledge built on years of research.

“We knew it would be a tight timeline but conversations about coordinated entry and intake for homeless individuals had been happening for several years and most agencies and organizations were supportive of the new system of services and recognized we needed to change the system of services to be more effective,” Rahn says in an email.

McDevitt, of Bridge House, says “it was very clear” from the Working Group’s first meeting that the day shelter and BOHO programs were going to end this year. However, closing those services before a Working Group Plan was finalized did concern her.

“Some of us thought that the Working Group was going to address that and efforts to bring that up were not really entertained,” she says.

Sarah Huntley, deputy communications director for the City of Boulder, says without BOHO or a plan in place until fall, sheltering and implementing the new plan “will be a system of trial and error.”

The main aspect of the new plan — an entry system where homeless people are assessed and either entered into a longterm program or diverted to a short-term solution — is rife with potential pitfalls.

First, there’s the issue of who is going to be deciding which people get sent in which direction. McDevitt says hiring “psychiatrists and licensed social workers” to run intake stations would require far too great an investment from the public. So the goal would be to use collective experience along with industry standard guidelines to supply intake workers with best practices.

Rahn says “implementation teams” of City and County staff and service providers are currently being formed to deterOfficer Jenny Paddock talks mine these standards. with David, who If a person is determined to has been homeless since have short-term needs and is 2008. chosen for diversion, the Plan assumes a certain level of selfresolution; that is, with some assistance, the majority of homeless people can find a housing solution.

But diversion will sometimes require mediating potentially volatile relationships, which could pose a liability — what if the city’s homeless services send people back into unsafe situations? Or what if they send an unstable person on a bus to another facility and an incident occurs?

“Because we’re not employing licensed people and homeless service providers aren’t typically licensed, I don’t think liability is a concern,” McDevitt says when asked specifically whether intake personnel are responsible for what happens once a homeless person is diverted. “I think we’re just doing the best with what we have, but the reality is if there’s a public safety concern about somebody, the worst place to be is on the streets.”

Regardless, Rabbi Greene says the City has put too much emphasis on diversion. “[Diversion] should be perhaps part of the toolkit, but I don’t think that [it] should be the primary funding allocation so that we can just ship people out of Boulder,” he says. “That doesn’t seem compassionate, and it has lots of risk.”

Critics of the prospective plan furthermore question whether and how many homeless people will even be willing to utilize the services when they come with an invasive intake procedure and a system perceived as complicated.

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But Bridge House’s McDevitt says “there has to be a practical reality,” and asking a few questions protects the homeless person being asked and the people beside whom he or she would be sleeping.

Nonetheless, many people will choose not to use the services because of the restrictions, Homner says. It will “absolutely” result in continued deaths of homeless people, he concludes, which means the City will have to implement the program proactively with members of the homeless community if it wants to get everyone off the streets.

“We already have a diversion program,” Homner says. “It’s called the police.”

Challenges in enforcing the plan In the past, the City of Boulder has put in place several policies that ban camping and smoking in certain areas, and which many advocates say target the homeless community. The ACLU and others have criticized these policies, especially after several reports in 2016 revealed that roughly 85 percent of camping ban violations were given to people experiencing homelessness. It also left law enforcement with few options to offer people when encountering someone sleeping on the streets.

In response, last year the Boulder Police Department (BPD) formed a two-officer Homelessness Outreach Team (HOT) to engage with people experiencing homelessness in a serviceoriented way. Officers Abel Ramos and Jenny Paddock, both 20-plus-year veterans of BPD, spend four days a week walking the Pearl Street mall, City Park and other places the homeless hang out, talking with people, connecting them to services and following up with people with whom they’ve previously interacted.

“We’re not enforcement-oriented; in that respect, we don’t write tickets or take people to jail,” Officer Paddock says. “There’s a lot more freedom to spend time with people and address problems.”

While it took a little time, Ramos says there’s a level of trust that allows people to approach the officers and ask for help.

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Mark Silverstein, the legal director for the Colorado ACLU, also sees potential issues at the crossroads of shifting services and police enforcement.

“If people are prosecuted for something that they can’t help doing and if people are prosecuted for sleeping outside when there is no shelter space available, then that known in the homeless commuThe proposed sets up the question nity as far as what we do and Attention Homes about whether the what we can help with, they call apartment building will house previously criminal penalties us,” Ramos says. “The phones, homeless youth. must be considered at times, they just don’t stop cruel and unusual ringing.” punishment,” he When BW did a walk-along says. His argument with Paddock and Ramos on 15th Street one morning, several people is backed by a Justice Department letter of interest in a Boise court case chalapproached the officers. Some just lenging that city’s camping ban, which wanted to chat, others had questions invoked the Eighth Amendment, which about services. One woman asked for deals with cruel and unusual punishhelp in order to confirm her court ment. appearance that afternoon, and Officer “If they continue to prosecute peoRamos made a few calls. Several of ple who don’t have any choice and don’t them affirm that they do in fact trust have anywhere else to sleep, then I the officers. think Boulder is probably setting itself “I hate dealing with them, but I’ll up for another court challenge,” talk to them,” says Crispy, who has Silverstein concludes. lived “roofless” in Boulder for the past In the City’s defense, Huntley says, two years. “Dealing with them and talking with them are two different things.” this is exactly why they enlisted the help of Bridge House to offer minimal When Crispy approached Officer summer shelter beds this summer.

Paddock to say hello, Paddock asked, “There was a feeling that we needed “Have you talked to your mom lately?” to have some sort of short-term option Later, Paddock explained that the for people because it is really difficult HOT team is often in contact with for police officers to encounter someone people’s families, and the conversations sleeping in a park and their option is to we heard revealed that the officers are issue them a ticket, and there’s no place invested in some of these people’s lives. else to give them to go,” she says.

Still, Paddock says, there are times when they have to tell people to move Examples of success exist along. They may not have options to offer them, but they do say, “you’ve There are models, based on a “conworn out your welcome here.” tinuum of care,” that the City can repliMeanwhile, other police officers, not on cate in order to mitigate legal risks, HOT, remain enforcement-oriented, as while providing services necessary to the department recently announced it the homeless community. would add overtime patrols in areas Attention Homes, for example, has with high populations of people experibuilt a system for homeless youth (up to encing homelessness. the age of 24) that involves street outIt will be a difficult line to toe if the reach, drop-in services, an emergency shelter and transitional housing, with City doesn’t provide a walk-up shelter, plans to build a 40-unit apartment requires entry into a system for longbuilding on the corner of Pine and term shelter and continues to outlaw 15th. camping.

“For the City, a lot of those services “As a community, we have to balhave not been well-aligned,” says Chris ance a lot of different interests,” McDevitt says. “It’s OK to say you can’t Nelson, deputy director for Attention use this public space as a campground.

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While Attention Homes serves a significantly smaller population than the adult service providers, it is a case in point of the Working Group’s goals.

“The Attention Homes project ... is the absolute best fit for the kind of housing all the people on the Working Group have agreed to,” McDevitt says. “We want permanent solutions, we want housing, we want people to not be homeless anymore and camp by the creek. But yet, there’s so much pushback to actually get it done. They’ve raised a lot of money, they’ve leveraged outside investment, they have a site and they’re ready to go, and yet it’s still a challenge.”

Despite neighborhood concerns on a variety of issues from density to parking to safety, the proposed building at 1440 Pine St. underwent a rigorous Planning Board process and was approved May 30. And although City Council held a public hearing at the June 6 meeting, they deferred to the Planning Board decision and did not vote on the project.

It is modeled after several similar and successful projects already functioning around the country which give young people who’ve been on the streets the chance to have their own apartment while also providing in-building services to help them adjust to independent living.

On-site case managers will help residents with a variety of things, from turning on utilities and budgeting for rent to navigating public transportation and advocating for themselves at jobs or in school. There will also be mental health and substance abuse services for those who need it.

The expectation is that young people will gain the life skills they need to move out of the building within about two years, although there will be no specific requirement to do so. Attention Homes administrative offices will also be on the ground floor, along with a grab-and-go cafe, most likely operated by Blackbelly Market, that will also employ some of the residents.

“This in and of itself is going to help 40 people at a time, it’s not going to change the world or solve the problem,” Nelson says. “But if you look at 60 years of that, let’s say 25 people a year on average, that’s a significant number of people in our community that won’t be homeless.”

Plus, chronic homelessness often starts as early as 15 years of age, he says.

“For every homeless youth that becomes financially self-sufficient, taxpayers save almost $250,000 dollars in social service cost,” adds Claire Clurman, executive director of Attention Homes and a Working Group member.

Similar statistics from the U.S. Department of Housing and Human Services reveal that housing chronically homeless adults saves between $30,000 and $50,000 per person per year. This “housing first” philosophy — offering permanent housing before supportive services — has been proven to reduce homelessness around the country and is the basis for the proposed Working Group plan.

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In coming up with approaches to solve homelessness, the City and County have many examples across the country to pull from. Representatives from the Working Group took a trip to Portland and Eugene, Oregon, last year to observe how those cities are managing homelessness. Homner, who was on the trip, says he saw innovative solutions, like a tiny home village, but he is unsure if the lessons of that trip had a real impact on city officials.

“When we went out there, I think the bubble was burst,” he says. “They saw real commitment to homeless issues. When they came back, they did absolutely nothing.”

Rabbi Greene, who moved to Boulder from an Atlanta suburb two years ago, says his former city offered a better continuum of care than Boulder does — an all-in-one resource center and emergency services complemented long-term approaches and collaboration with the community. That, he says, can be achieved in Boulder, but it’s still shocking the City hasn’t developed a plan like this yet.

“Boulder has enough wealth, enough smarts and enough people with an entrepreneurial spirit and gifts to share that there could be leading models of ending homelessness in a city of our size, and I don’t hear anybody talking about that,” Greene says.

Cooperation needed for success Whether Boulder and the region have the resources to meet the goals laid out by the Working Group Plan likely depends on political will, community support and the funding commitment to see it through. Still, Clurman, Pollock and others say it’s a move in the right direction despite the challenges left unresolved.

“There’s no question that it’s not going to be easy,” Clurman adds. “Everything looks good on paper, right? But then you have to put it into reality.”

And it depends in large part on more affordable and permanent housing solutions for people coming out of homelessness, which as both the investment and timeline for the Attention Homes project indicates, is still several years away.

“We simply do not have enough resources to accommodate the number of people even if we do screen them appropriately,” McDevitt says.

Homner suggests the Working Group purposely underestimated the number of homeless people who would use the services this year and into the future. He says the city hired a consultant who produced an estimate of the number of affordable homes needed to accommodate the program in the next 3-5 years.

“When they came out with [an estimate], everybody gasped,” he says.

Homner says the initial report found that 1,800 people needed to be accommodated, but the Working Group segmented the population down to achieve a goal of 30 new housing units per year. Rahn says the 1,800 includes “light touch users of the current system who may only need short-term assistance.”

Still, the issue remains: Where will these units be located?

Building housing for members of the long-term program will likely not be in Boulder, where securing it is “too expensive and too hard,” says Greg Harms, executive director of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless and a Working Group member. There was a project planned in Louisville, he says, but it fell through because of a failed federal grant request.

“The goal is not to build more stuff,” Harms continues. “The goal is not to build a new place for diversion beds or a new place for intake; we want to use the existing resources that we have as best we can.

“I don’t think the city is going to spend less money on the homeless in the future. In fact, they’re probably going to spend more. It’s a question of where?”

McDevitt says Bridge House currently spends about $60,000 per year on clients’ needs from refilling prescriptions to paying for bus tickets. That money, which is mostly privately raised (as it is with the Shelter), will be diverted into the new program. But the Plan will most assuredly cost more.

“I think it’s hard to say how much new money would be required until we know where we’re going to land in terms of implementation,” she says.

And about that political will? “I really think we don’t have political leadership in our city, they don’t have the guts to say, ‘We’re gonna do this. This needs to be done,’” Homner says.

Ultimately, the Boulder City Council has the final say over the direction of the program and will consider the Working Group Plan on June 20. Assuming they adopt the plan, there’s a lot left to do before it can be executed by October 1, and it depends on service providers and the City and County working together to make it happen, a point of particular concern among many advocates.

“My perception is that folks aren’t working well together and that it’s siloed,” Rabbi Greene says. “I hope that this is an opportunity for leadership, not just the directors [of service providers] but their boards, the folks that are in the trenches that know this population the best ... that they’re going to come together and say, ‘This is how we end this.’”

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have completed the “Triple Crown” of hiking, the cumulative mileage of all three of the U.S.’s premiere long-distance trails: the Appalachian Trail (AT), the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) and the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Liz “Snorkel” Thomas is one of the 296 dedicated souls to walk each of the 7,970 collective miles.

If that isn’t impressive enough, she didn’t stop there. Over the past eight years, Thomas, 31, has hiked more than 15,000 miles — essentially marching from Pearl Street in Boulder to Buenos Aires and back.

This, plus the fact that she once crushed the unsupported woman’s speed record on the AT by a full week, has made Thomas an expert of sorts in the world of long-distance hiking. But when she started, she says she knew close to nothing about the preparation needed for a multi-month backpacking trip, let alone how to physically do one.

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first coming to understand her newfound love for hikAbove: Thomas hikes ing, there wasn’t much Feather Pass, part of the organized information out Pacific Crest Trail.

Below: Thomas on the there that catered to her Continental Divide in needs as a never-beenMontana. backpacking-before kind of woman. Thomas, who grew up in California but lived in Colorado from 2011 until just this past fall when she moved back to the sunny coast, didn’t come from an uber-outdoorsy home.

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Thomas says she wishes she could have just picked up a book that would’ve helped answer her many questions.

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trace” and walking thousands of miles in a row. All of Liz Thomas has not this, and much more, she had to learn on her own. only achieved the Weeks before she left for her first major thru-hike “Triple Crown” of hiking, she also once in 2008 (she chose to take the AT’s 2,181 miles from held the woman’s Georgia to Maine), she started sewing the sleeping unsupported speed record on the Apbag that would keep her warm in Virginia’s rain and palachian Trail.

New Hampshire’s below-freezing nights. But the night before she caught her red-eye across the country, the final stitches were far from sewn.

She left anyway, snagged the plastic-wrapped blanket from her flight and rolled that up in her pack instead. She lasted three nights before ducking into a gear shop a few miles off-trail to buy a real down sleeping bag, and hopped back on the dirt path. After a few days, she almost ditched the sleeping bag and went back to the thin cotton blanket, though, because she kept waking from a claustrophobiainducing wetness surrounding her head.

After asking another gear shop to phoot Courtesy of Liz Thomas help troubleshoot the issue, they told her it was likely the condensation from her breathing dampening the down. She’d been sleeping with her head tucked in.

“Growing up in the West, the air is so dry,” she says today with a laugh. “I didn’t know.”

Situations like this — blunders on the trail — often have a way of giving birth to a new identity for new thru-hikers. These are the moments when other hikers give that most coveted of gifts: the trail name.

And so Thomas became “Snorkel,” as they poked fun at her need for the underwater instrument to breathe while sleeping. It’s stuck ever since.

Thomas hiked the 3,100-mile CDT in 2010, the last notch on her Triple Crown belt. The trail starts at the New Mexico-Mexico border, winds through five states up to the Montana-Canada border, hits two of Colorado’s fourteeners and never dips below 4,000 feet. It was on this trail that she decided she’d try breaking the AT speed record. She fine-tuned her gear assortment, packing order, planning routine, hiking attitude and mental fortitude — all of which she has made available as advice to other hiking-hopefuls in her recently released book Long Trails: mastering the art of the thru-hike.

She firmly believes that anyone, especially those like herself, a solo woman starting with zero experience, is capable of completing any assortment of mammoth-sized hiking projects.

“One of the things that is great about hiking is that it doesn’t require speed or super muscle or other things like other outdoor sports,” she says. “It’s not super technical, so it’s much more accessible than other activities. I want people to feel thru, section and long hiking is something they can do.”

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“I wanted to put together a book that shares the Thomas shares her ideas of community and welcomeness and humor of experiences and tips on thru-hiking our tribe,” she says. “I’m not just telling my story of in her recently rethru-hiking, but also telling the stories of people’s leased book, Long Trails. backgrounds that I meet on the trail, all different ages and from different parts of country.”

The age, economic and personality diversity on the trails was something Thomas sought to capture and celebrate.

“People come at long hikes in different ways, even though we end up doing some things similarly,” she says. “On trail, we think of not having just one right way [to do the hike], but many wrong ways. So I really wanted the book to be not about my experiences, but this collection of tips and tricks from all different kinds of people.”

Whitney “Allgood” La Ruffa, president of the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West (ALDHA-W), says to be a good distance hiker, “You need to genuinely like being outdoors... and you have to have a certain amount of a masochistic personality.

“You beat up your feet and your body, and plenty of time the weather is bad,” La Ruffa says. “You need a real adventure spirit, and if you can’t appreciate all of that…” he trails off, implying these mammoth feats are not for the light hearted.

LaRuffa would know; he too has logged his fair share of trail miles over the years, including many alongside Thomas, whom he describes as a “billy goat on rocky scrambles.” Together they pioneered the Chinook Trail, a 300-mile traverse of the Columbia River Gorge in Washington and Oregon.

“We had to piece together a combination of roads and trails to make a continuous route... the worst part was scouring for water. We were unsure of everything because no one had ever done it before,” LaRuffa says. “Liz is a great hiking partner. She’s fun no matter the situation. She’s kind too, like she’ll adjust her pace for those she’s with. She reads weather well and is a great navigator.”

These skills also translate to what Thomas calls her “urban thru-hikes,” or her “training in the off season.” This past March, Thomas finished an eight-day, 88-mile trek across Denver, visiting 60 different breweries along the way — making sure to stay hydrated and portioning her tester flights. She’s walked her way across Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and Portland, and doesn’t plan to stop any time soon.

“I know few people as passionate about long distance hiking as Liz,” LaRuffa says. “The backbone of her passion lies in her advocacy for public lands and a desire to help educate other hikers and members of our community.”

As vice president of the ALDHA-W, Thomas regularly gives presentations and talks about Leave No Trace policies and general education to help hikers not only enjoy, but stay responsible on the trail. Encouraging people of all ages, athletic ability and socioeconomic status to embrace the outdoors is paramount to her mission as a hiking ambassador.

“It’s really important to get out and appreciate our public lands,” she says. “Since I’ve started [long distance hiking], it’s really awesome to see how many more women are embracing hiking and women going solo. I’ve started seeing more communities of women and those of color being forthright about their experiences, too.”

Thomas says she used to feel like she stuck out on the trail, “Now there’s a bunch of us just doing our thing.”

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Boulder-based artist chooses new name through art exhibit

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H

er name is Amber Jensdotter. But her last name hasn’t always been Jensdotter. And in the In the exhibit, next few weeks, it will be something completely Amber collects different. her DNA (above) and shares her As the title suggests, the Dairy Art Center’s journal (below). new exhibit Tran-‘zi-sh(e)n & ‘Chanj focuses on different artistic interpretations of transition and change. For Amber, the theme deals with her identity, more specifically embracing a new name and shedding the old. In her series, called Say Goodbye to Jensdotter, Amber blends the line between art and her personal life by inviting the audience into her journey to find a new name.

The installation features a photo of Courtesy of Amber Jensdotter Amber collecting her DNA to delve into the biological roots of who she is, a suggestion box for new names and an iPad for social media input. It also includes a sampling of her journal.

“What I’m about to do, I’ve been told, is career suicide. After a year of thinking about it, I’ve realized I’ll do it regardless,” she writes. “Changing my name is the most feminist action I can take in understanding my value and grounding my autonomy.”

Amber’s been an artist all her life, and she says she frequently explores identity in her work.

“I would say I’ve struggled with it,” she says. “One of the reasons is growing up in southern Oklahoma, culturally it was a little suppressive. You perform for men in your life, and you adapt to whatever that is, or at least I did. And I was also one of seven kids.”

Nevertheless, she pushed against what was expected of her.

“At age 18, I bought a house and remodeled it,” she says. “It definitely wasn’t something see NAME Page 28

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that a young person necessarily does, especially a female. And even when I would go to the hardware Amber invites patrons store, I was asked, ‘What did he send you after?’ and to give her advice on social media or in a it’s like, ‘What? No!’” suggestion box.

She was also the first in her family to go to college, for painting and drawing, then on to graduate school for the same.

In October 2014, Amber and her boyfriend, Andrew Williams, changed their names as part of an art performance. Both starting their careers as artists, the mutual last name was an admiration of each other’s work and also a decision to combine their lives. Not a marriage, Amber says, but a celebration of their relationship, nonetheless.

“It was something we were going to do together — cut ties, start over, but start over together,” she says.

They chose Jensdotter togethLance Reed er, looking at both their heritages and finding the name in the Scandinavian roots on Williams’ mother’s side.

“We thought it was an interesting name because it was given to females as a temporary name until they got married,” she says.

But even though the choice was made with good intentions, when the time came, Amber was nervous.

“Ironically, moments before the performance it became this other thing. I felt violence in the performance,” she says. “I don’t think I even said anything the whole time, which was really bizarre and weird. I felt awkward, but then I felt like I was supposed to be happy, but then I wasn’t happy. ... I felt like the equality and whole purpose of the project, to reclaim something and feel empowered, was lost completely ” She was hesitant to express her doubts at the time and continued on with the performance. But when the relationship ended a year and a half ago, Amber was uncomfortable keeping Jensdotter.

“It’s hindering me from moving forward,” she says.

As the first name change was done as a public art piece, Amber chose to do so again with her Dairy exhibit. By inviting the audience in, she hopes to have a bigger conversation about the process of changing a name.

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While the struggle is hardly unique, it’s not an easy switch. For three years, Amber’s used the name to open a business, speak at art galleries, teach and have shows.

“I felt like everything I was doing or working for was going to get lost,” Amber says. “I think that’s definitely part of the piece.”

We live in a culture where it’s common for a woman to take the man’s last name when she gets married. And when a union fails, Amber says, many women are faced with a double-edged sword.

“Either keep the name used to build career and community and remain associated with the person and past or change the name for emotional and social freedom,” she writes in her journal. “If the second option is chosen the woman is faced with another choice, choose a new name or revert back to the maiden name, which is generally their father’s and has possible dissonance.”

With many of her friends getting engaged, Amber’s noticing the pressure and expectation women face to change who they are. “[My friends and I] are having a lot of conversations about names right now,” she says. “It’s like, ‘If I don’t take my husband’s name, his family is questioning me and wanting to know if I love him and if I don’t see the marriage as permanent.’ And my friends are just like, ‘I want to keep my name, is that so bad? Why do I have to change that?’”

In doing the show, Amber is able to question the practice. She’s received a lot of feedback from the audience — ranging from people who think she’s brave to some who think she’s crazy.

She’s also heard stories about naming children and from those who’ve changed their own names for various reasons, like a woman who’s last name was “Gay” and was sick of the social stigma.

“I just started the project and there’s been so many people who’ve come talk to me,” Amber says. “So how many other women are dealing with this same issue?”

It’s an unconventional choice to pick a name out of thin air, and Amber is not taking the task lightly. She’s doing research in the psychology of certain names, reading studies, looking at her bloodlines and considering the visual aesthetic of various options. She’s staying away from generic names and striving for a name people will remember.

Through the process, she’s had realizations from her own personal life. “[A name] is a symbol of love and Boulder Weekly

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Part of shedding Jensdotter, she Despite not going back to her birth says, is to acknowledge the past rela-

tionship failure and to start a new chapter, which she hopes will be bring empowerment and freedom.

“You don’t have to live in the past,” she says. “We’re always changing and adapting and growing, and this is being able to choose and to say, ‘This is where I’m going.’”

Amber’s not sure when she’ll choose a new name. She’s hoping to find one before her exhibit closes, but she’s not rushing the process and will settle on whatever feels right.

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by Dave Kirby While the ravishes of time have recently silenced many of the genre’s great voices, including a few of his own friends, the seminal fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is still ripping, teasing and lofting the genre’s most melodic voice at 74. Ponty talks with Boulder Weekly about keeping his joints healthy, circling back with old friends, redeeming his youthful promise and why he got along so well with Bud Powell. ear the end of a wide-ranging interview with Ponty, I find myself apologizing a little for talking so much about the storied violinist’s career. Many artists can be frustrated when asked about their

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past triumphs, either because it can inadvertently suggest that their best years are behind them, or because writers are simply trying to pepper their copy with anecdotes about greater or better-known players.

Ponty, though, seems delighted by it.

“No, no,” he effuses in effortless, French-accented English, “I like it. It’s fun. I like to think of so many of these great memories myself.”

Still, Ponty finds himself touring the states this spring in an enterprise built around that very thing: the old days.

While he maintains and still tours with his acoustic European trio — Biréli

Lagrène on guitar, Kyle Eastwood (son of Clint) on bass — the French master is taking a plugged-in swing through the colonies as part of The Atlantic Years tour, a live retrospective of the string of albums he released between the late ’70s and the late ’80s, including such landmark releases as Enigmatic Ocean and Imaginary Voyage, with largely the same band.

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“What happened is there was renewed interest that first started in South America, where I toured pretty regularly — Brazil, Argentina, Chile. Since I toured there so much, I kept coming with different projects, new projects... but in the end, the fans were really craving to hear the music from my beginnings, the American albums. So I brought my band from 1988 down there... that was in 2011.

“And then strangely that same year — and there was no link — Warner France, which releases the Atlantic catalogs of my albums from that period, released a whole re-mastered four-CD compilation called The Atlantic Years. And they asked me to collaborate, to shape the sound and re-mastering and all that.

“I don’t really listen much to my own albums,” he says, “except once in awhile, like looking at old photos as memories, but that’s it.

“But working on that project made me listen attentively to all these early recordings, and I saw the value ... because, after all these years, the tunes and the sounds are all still fresh. That’s what encouraged me to do it.”

• • • • Somewhere in the murky shadows of fusion musicology, there are a few obsessives who will insist that King Kong, Ponty’s 1969 album, composed by Frank Zappa, is the first real fusion album. I’m not sure about that, and it’s a little late in the game to start an argument in favor of Tony Williams or Larry Coryell or Barry Miles. What’s probably inarguable though, is that Ponty, through sheer force of will and clarity of voice, made the violin an all but essential component of the fusion movement. A lesser player, or for that matter a great player with a shallower compositional well, would have left little more than an asterisk on the genre, a curiosity, an answer to an unasked trivia question.

Ponty, unsurprisingly, comes from a classical background, having won highest honors from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at age 18, then spending three years playing in a symphony orchestra, a pleasing turn for his violin-teacher father and classical-piano-instructor mother. Somewhere along the line, his father made the tactically dubious choice to teach the young Jean-Luc some jazz clarinet, which prompted the youngster to start lurking in Paris jazz clubs, at that time (early 1960s) brimming with some of the best of the American ex-pat jazz cats.

Clarinet wasn’t Jean-Luc’s forte, however, and he gradually felt compelled to bring his violin along and sit in on jams. One such jam was with the estimable American pianist Bud Powell. “[He] was living in Paris at the time, and he was playing at a club called the Blue Note (which is not related to the Blue Note in New York), and I don’t know how I had the guts to go and jam with him, but I did. And he was very nice; he liked me, in part because of the way I was playing, but also he told me because he had started on violin, before piano.”

Ponty sighs and says, “Yes, that’s going way back in my youth.”

From that and other sources of encouragement, Ponty came to a point where he had to choose between a safe career in classical and a chancy career in jazz.

He chose the latter, to the furrowed skepticism of his parents.

“Especially my father — he did not understand the kind of jazz I liked, it was foreign to my father’s ears. He was used to really old swing style jazz; for him, that was jazz. When he heard me play modern jazz — bebop and all that — he couldn’t understand it. I had fulfilled my duty of being a good boy, going to conservatory and getting my diploma, and was hired right after to play in symphony orchestra in Paris. They were relieved; all had gone well, according to plan.”

And then Coltrane screwed everything up.

“Exactly,” he says with a laugh.

“But what’s interesting is I got invited a few times to play on French television, and they were a bit proud. ‘Maybe he was right, after all.’ In fact, my daughter told me that later, when I started recording my own albums in Los Angeles in 1975, which of course had a strong influence from classical, she would tell me that my father would listen to my music at home when she was visiting my parents in France.”

• • • • It was after a two-album and tour cycle with a re-constituted Mahavishnu Orchestra, replacing Jerry Goodman, that Ponty, now firmly established in the U.S. as a jazz fusion violinist without peer and a highly sought–after collaborator, decidBoulder Weekly

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“With Chick and Stanley, we met and became friends in the ’70s, as they had just started Return to Forever. I had just joined Mahavishnu, and I met them in New York.

And they asked me, later after I had left Mahavishnu and started my own band, if I wanted to join Return to Forever. I had just started my own band and it was a difficult decision because they were such great musicians and the band was at the peak of their glory. It was tempting in many aspects.

“But I had put so much into my own project, for months. Starting the band, rehearsing, recording two albums for Atlantic, and finally I said, ‘Nah, if I have a shot at doing it without my own group, it’s now or never.’

“And it was funny. My third album, Imaginary Voyage, had just come out. And four months after we talked about my joining, Imaginary Voyage was number one on the jazz charts and in the top 40 on the rock charts. And Chick told me, ‘Well, you made the right decision.’”

And the wheel turned, as Corea re-approached Ponty to join a reconstituted RTF for a world tour in 2011 — 35 years later. The second later reincarnation of Return to Forever, with Frank Gambale replacing Al DiMeola and Ponty assuming a shockingly natural place at center stage, was a looser, more relaxed, in some ways a more deeply humanized version of the revived RTF experience. One of the highlights of that band, and easily the most satisfying cut on the live album spawned from that 2011 tour, was a lengthy and sublime read of Ponty’s “Renaissance” (from his 1976 release Aurora), limber and spirited, a distant cousin of the driving electric RTF material that constituted the band’s 2008 set.

That one piece, the marriage of Ponty’s gently laced melodic romanticism and RTF’s seldom-appreciated facility for acoustic understatement, neatly and elegantly paying homage to two great musical forces of 40 years ago, closed a circle and gifted fusion fans with a fleeting promise finally fulfilled.

• • • • Time pities no one, and Ponty has seen, in only the last year or so, the loss of several of his old collaborators. Allan Zavod, the highly esteemed Australian pianist/composer, passed last November. Larry Coryell, who was Ponty’s longtime friend and whose band (with Philip Catherine) opened for Ponty on tour in the mid-’70s, passed in February. And Alan Holdsworth, whose jarringly virtuosic guitar graced several of Ponty’s early Atlantic recordings, passed only days after my chat with Ponty in April. And old mentors like George Duke and Zappa have been gone for years.

Just being here is a gift.

For a violinist deeply invested in fiendish compositions and quicksilver phrasing, 74 should be a challenging age. Few instruments, with the exception of perhaps the drum kit, demand as much sustained physicality as playing a jazz violin.

Neck and back bent, tight and precise left finger placement, unnatural arm positions — what’s the key? Exercises?

“I did not [do any], until recently. I’ve been very lucky. Sometimes I read the weekly musicians union newspaper, even young players dealing with pain.

“But I must say, I started practicing yoga soon after I moved to California, when I was about 30 years old. I did feel a little bit of pain sometimes, even then, in my back, my shoulder, my neck. Yoga helped me.

“It was incredible; to be conscious, to feel your muscles while you play. So I learned to relax my muscles, and that saved me until recently, when I had a bit of pain in my left arm. I went to see a physical therapist, and he gave me some exercises, and it went away. Gone. I just played two shows in Poland, and one in London with Nigel Kennedy, and it was great, no problem.

“Y’know, playing is a pleasure for me, and also to communicate with the fans, to play for people. It feels great.

“Eh, I know it won’t last forever. This might be one of my last tours, maybe the last big one with my band. You never know.

“But, I just feel blessed, to be able to still do it.”

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Like many a second-generation hippie, my childhood was filled with whimsical tales of burning bras and free love, psychedelic rock providing the soundtrack. Like the music it inspired, the identity of ’60s and ’70s counterculture depended on the culture it opposed. Without the experience of that time and place, I wondered what to do with my second-hand hippie inclination.

For years, I wore my hippiness like a pair of hand-me-down jeans and, like every kid wearing someone else’s pants, it felt more like my identity as a hippie wore me than the other way around.

I wasn’t sure if I actually liked the music of the Dead, but that never mattered. Instead I became endlessly curious about how the songs became beloved, a line of questioning that became fundamental to my relationship with music at large. I didn’t analyze music, rather I would wonder about the people who make it, the culture it begets and the extent of its influence.

When it comes to the Grateful Dead, this is a daunting task. The band is arguably one of the most dearly beloved in the world, not just by sheer number of fans, but by the depth of their dedication. And yet, for the uninitiated, the magnetism of the Grateful Dead is almost unintelligible — people are keenly aware of the music’s hokey optimism, cult-like fervor and sometimes grating missteps in its quest for harmony.

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At the show, I realized that as the Over the 30-year lifespan of the second generation looks for emergent original Grateful Dead, the band cretruth, the legions of Deadheads who’d ated a vast catalog of songs and come before grapple with what it played at more than a thousand shows means to continue loving something to the most dedicated fanbase the in the face of death. world had yet seen. In playing the When Jerry Garcia died on Aug. 9, songs over and over again, there was 1995, the Grateful Dead’s legacy and nothing rote in their performance but future were cast in shadows of uncerrather an enduring insistence on ingetainty. The hard and scary truth was nuity. Their legacy became not the Boulder Weekly

songs or the music, but the artistic ethic that fueled them, lying somewhere between the spontaneity of jazz and the eroticism of rock — one that proved persistent beyond the band that birthed it.

After the dismantling of the Dead in 1995, the members went on to pursue their various solo projects, hesitant and careful with plans to play together again. The three reunion tours they did play, between 1998 and 2015, each showcased a different character of the original music, but somehow felt more like a tribute rather than an enduring artistic expression.

But, in flirting with nostalgia enough to keep the music alive, they served an important function. On stage, new and younger musicians were brought into the Dead’s musical family. Off stage, a second generation of hippies got a chance to experience the legendary music for themselves.

If this year’s shows are anything like last year’s, the days leading up to the Dead & Company concerts will transform Boulder into the fabled hippie town of 50 years ago. VW vans will rumble down the roads, while tiedyed Deadheads walking the paths along Boulder Creek and the streets of the Hill will create a zone of convergence between yesterday and today.

And like so many of the second generation hippies around me, I won’t just marvel in the spectacle but participate in it — one among the thousands of smiling and twirling fans, hugging strangers and singing along, loudly and badly — finally laughing along with the inside jokes my parents used to tell.

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Go, go, go, Joseph

BDT Stage celebrates 40 years with ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’

by Amanda Moutinho

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ne disadvantage of being a theater lover in Colorado is the lack of access to shows. To expand a personal repertoire of live performances, you’re at the mercy of touring productions and community theater.

Luckily, Colorado is blessed with a thriving local theater scene. Still, inevitable and sometimes-egregious blind spots emerge in a musical lover’s back catalog of seen productions.

So I was a happy to hear BDT Stage was producing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a musical theater staple long missing Glenn Ross Photography from my collection.

Now playing at the BDT Stage through Aug. 19, the show tells the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors from the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Gifted with prophetic dreams, Joseph is singled out by his jealous brothers who see him as the favorite son. Sold into slavery by his brothers, Joseph is taken to Egypt where a series of adventures eventually make him one of the most powerful men in the land.

Featuring the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the lyrics of Tim Rice, Joseph first started as a concept album 1969, and it became the first of the duo’s collaborations to hit the public stage a year later. With multiple preceeding iterations, Joseph landed on the West End in 1973, then eventually Broadway in 1982, where it received six Tony nominations.

With little expectation going in, I was surprised to find Joseph is hodgepodge of styles and one hell of a good time.

Throughout the show, I often found myself joyfully confused. One second Joseph is in a dreary prison, then the whole cast appears on stage dancing around him in matching white outfits encouraging him to, “Go, go, go!” In one number, cowboys do a hoedown, in another guys in bowling shirts sing doowop. I was always amused when the show took an unexpectedly playful turn.

The show’s consistent chaos makes it exciting and entertaining. Joseph keeps the joy levels high even when dealing with heavy topics like slavery,

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adultery or famine. There’s never a dull moment, and I consistently had a smile on my face. Joseph is an example of good ol’ fashioned, family friendly fun, which is so welcome in a time where the world can be so bleak.

This production holds extra significance for BDT Stage as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, as Joseph is the first show the company staged in 1977. With four decades under its belt, it’s not surprising the theater company brought the show to life (again) with energy and pizazz.

The show features BDT mainstays like Wayne Kennedy, Brian Burron and Alicia K. Meyers, who co-choreographed the show. Joseph also holds significance for Artistic Director Michael J. Duran, who started his acting career in the lead role in BDT Stage’s inaugural production.

The narrator is played by the always-fabulous Tracy Warren.

She’s a welcome sight every time she strolls onto stage to drop wisdom and a catchy song. With her small stature and booming voice, she carries the show with sparkle and grace. She is perfectly paired with Jack Barton who gives the title character a vibrant personality and stunning vocals.

The two leads are supported by a talented chorus that infuses each scene with humor and stellar dancing. The production is topped off with a colorful set and glitzy costumes that range the gamut from Elvis to Mafia Boss to Michael Jackson. Not forgetting the real star of the show, the dreamcoat shines bright in red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach... you get it.

The show ends with an explosive final number where every character gets their chance at the spotlight again and the audience claps and sings along. I left the theater a little lighter, with an itch to listen to the soundtrack a few dozen more times — the mark of a good musical.

The lasting quality of a show depends on its allure to audiences new and old. And with the fun timelessness of Joseph, it’s no wonder it’s a classic.

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Performing an original live score to Buster Keaton’s The Scarecrow. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., 303-443-8696. Tickets are $22.

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Danse Etoile Ballet

LSO Guild 40th Annual Garden Tour

7:30 p.m. June 9; 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m., June 10, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

9 a.m. June 9-10, Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Head over to the Dairy Arts Center this weekend for two days of Russian ballet. In these reimaginings of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird and Petrushka, Danse Etoile Ballet brings a modern spin on two classical pieces.

Featuring new costumes, choreography and projections, expect to be taken away into a mythical world of music, dance and performance. With Executive Artistic Director Marie-Jose Payannet at the helm, Stravinsky’s stories of fantasy are ready for the Boulder weekend. Tickets $15-20.

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The Longmont Symphony Guild presents a traditional garden tour in Longmont.

In this 40th installment of the tour, the event aims to showcase a number of local gardeners and their creations during the weekend. The gardens are spread throughout the city and will be open for viewing as part of the tour. For more information on garden locations and tickets, like Longmont Symphony Guild on Facebook or visit longmontsymphony.org.

—Alvaro Sanchez

BoomBox: A Dead & Company Late Night After-Party 10:30 p.m. June 10, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St, Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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If you find yourself looking to keep grooving even after attending both of the Dead & Company shows at Folsom Field, look no further than the Boulder Theater. Zion Godchaux, son of former Grateful Dead member Donna Jean Godchaux, and the newly added DJ Harry, grace the stage as the disco house duo BoomBox. After losing founding member Ross Randolph last year, Harry and Godchaux are on a mission to revamp the BoomBox sound. Look to put an exclamation point on the end of your night with grooves and rhythms.

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Thursday, June 8 Music Bass Rising featuring Noisia — with Dubloads, Fury, Detrage, T.O.C. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Beginning Flamenco. 6:30 p.m. Kay Carol Gallery & Priscila Working Art Studio, 364 Main St., Longmont, 303-956-0703.

The Black Excellence Tour featuring Metasota — with Greg Grease, The Lioness. 8 p.m.

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

Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Boulder Swing Collective. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 South Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Brit Floyd: The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Children’s SRP: “Music Around the World.”

2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821.

Circles Around The Sun — with Tyler Grant Trio. 8 p.m., The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Easy Star All-Stars performing hits from Radiohead, Dub Side of the Moon, Lonely Hearts Dub Band and more — with The Late Ones, The Elovaters. 8 p.m. The Gothic Theater, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-789-9206.

Gang of Youths — with The Solid Ocean, Anthony Ruptak & Midnight Friends. 8 p.m.

Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Grass and Not the Arrow. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

Harmony and Brand. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

Hazel Miller and Friends. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Music

Philip Fernbach — The Knowledge Illusion. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Banshee Tree. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Big Band Swing Dance Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Sunday, June 11 Summer Sundays on the Hill — Poetry reading and guided meditation by Boulder Writers Warehouse. 8 a.m. In front of Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., thehillboulder.com Monday, June 12 Local Author Open House. 7 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 13 Jack McNary. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303495-3303.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Dan Millman — The Hidden School. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder,

ette, 1290 S. Public Road, Lafayette.

Little Equestrians Summer Camp. 10 p.m.

Acres of Opportunity Ranch, 4338 N. 109th St., Lafayette, 720-232-6421.

Music & Magic on the West Patio. 10 a.m.

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

The Pussy Talks ­­— an illuminating documentary, plus talk with director with Mukee

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Philip Fernbach stops by Boulder Book Store to talk about his new book The Knowledge Illusion, which examines how humans survive in complex societies despite understanding very little about how many everyday things work.

303-447-2074.

Wednesday, June 14 Kirsten Shockey — Fiery Ferments. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Okan. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 720-212-5001.

Summer Dance Classes. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719.

Synergy Dance Collective (Participatory). 7 p.m. Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Ave., Boulder, 303-257-8924.

Trivia & Comedy. 7 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar,

Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder, 262-719-8795.

BoomBox, Nahko and Medicine for the People — with The Hip Abduction. 6:30 p.m.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Catfish John. 11 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Chon — with Tera Melos, covet, Little Tybee.

6:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Circles Around The Sun. 11 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Cocktails for Crossroads: ’80s Dance Party! 7 p.m. Jack & Ginny Kellys’ Barn, 13504 Vermillion Trail, Longmont, 303-709-9881.

Coldplay Guitar Tour. 6 p.m. The Barrel, 29th Street Mall, Center Court, 1710 29th St., Suite 1048, Boulder, 720-635-6563.

Covenhoven. 5:30 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880.

Downtown Longmont Summer Concerts. 6 p.m. Fourth Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont, 303-651-8482.

The Dustbowl Revival 2017 Album Release Show with the Screaming J’s. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

An Evening of Songwriters. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Courtesy of BDT Stage/Glenn Ross Photography.

The Marcus King Band + Tom Hamilton’s American Babies: Pre-Dead Party. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Khabu Young, Art Lande & Bruce Williamson.

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

Lewis Del Mar — with Anna Wise. 9 p.m.

Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-337-1666.

Miss May I — with Upon a Burning Body, Kubai Khan, Currents, Grey Days. 6 p.m.

Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Live Music. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 303-652-0199.

Morbid Angel — with Suffocation, Revocation, Withered. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-337-1666.

Melvin Seals and JGB Pre-Dead & Co., David Gans, Clusterpluck. 2:30 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Nahko And Medicine For The People. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Message In A Bottle & Loving The Alien. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 573-569-0370.

Events

Cabaret. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 25.

Cult Classics & Cocktails: Pulp Fiction. 7 p.m.

Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239.

Through June 18.

Happy Hour Bingo! 6 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

DragOn. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239.

Through June 25.

Hero Central VBS. 5:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399.

Ignite Denver. 7 p.m. The Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Lafayette Farmers Market. 4 p.m. City of LafayBoulder Weekly

Hair. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154.

Through June 14.

BDT tackles Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat through Aug. 19. Read BW’s review on page 37.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 19.

The Taming of the Shrew. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008.

Muriel and the Deanos in Longmont. 6 p.m.

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

Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Nuns Will Shudder — with Son Survivor, The Murder Protocol, Awaiting Eternity, Frequency Drive, Image Of. 6 p.m. Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

OK Go. 9 p.m. The Gothic Theater, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-789-9206.

Particle Parade featuring Venus Crus (DJ set), Hexagon Cloud, Nic Jay. 7:30 p.m. The see EVENTS Page 40

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Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

The Party People — with FunkStatik, Unfold, Phloethik, Shuj Roswell. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Boogie Mammoth — with Good Touch, Bourgeois Mystics. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., 303-297-1772.

Roomful Of Blues. 5 p.m. Louisville Street Faire, 824 Front St., Louisville.

Brewgrass South Pearl Street Music Festival — with Head for the Hills. 1 p.m. 1200 S. Pearl St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Shanna in a Dress. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

BoomBox. 11 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Summer Concert and SVVSD High Schools Reunion. 6 p.m. Longmont Downtown Development Authority, 528 Main St., Longmont.

A Chance at Normal! 12 p.m. Twisted Pine

Tavern Shakedown. 11:30 a.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Tim Ostdiek Band. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Today’s Paraount (album release) — with Berrik, Grammar School, Nevayda Gunn. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

White Denim: A PostDead Late Night Party.

11:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Courtesy of the Dairy

Zeta June. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

The Zydecoasters. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

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Dance Nia. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

The Fremonts — Boulder Album Release Party. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Ginga — Brazilian Samba. 7 p.m. Element Bistro, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder, 303-530-5400.

The Goat Hill Massacre — with Rise As Legends, Endlight, When Darkness Falls, River Run. 7 p.m. Moon Room at Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. 303-487-0111.

Jennifer Pettus: Plot Twist. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Through June 25.

Ancient Skies Ancient Clay. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Through June 12.

Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through June 24.

In the Dairy’s exhibit Tran-‘zi-sh(e)n & ‘Chanj, artists explore the concept of transition. Read more about one artist’s take on page 27.

Third Annual Lyons International Film Festival. 6 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons, 646-391-0876.

Dasha Shishkin: Tram Pam Pam. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-4432122. Through Sept. 10.

Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Through Aug. 27.

Jenny Morgan: SKINDEEP. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 27.

Mauro Giaconi: Cae a plomo/falls to lead.

Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 10.

Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 22.

Paper on Paper: The Art of Chine-Collé. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 20.

Paper.Works. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 20.

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 20.

Stan Meyer: Poetic Presence. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through Aug. 6.

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.

Family Films. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

Enhanced Photography by Marc Bernardi.

Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 29.

The Firebird/Petrushka. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-938-3030.

Home: American photography at the CU Art Museum. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 15.

Walk the Distance and Slow Down: Selections from the Collection of JoAnne Gonzalez Hickey. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 10.

Free Legal Clinic. 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

I’ll Fly Away — Ashley Hope Carlisle. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 11.

The Western: An Epic in Art and Film. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 10.

Integral Steps Presents Music & Movement.

1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Little Equestrians Summer Camp. 10 p.m.

Acres of Opportunity Ranch, 4338 N. 109th St., Lafayette, 720-232-6421.

Opening Reception: Summer Exhibitions 2017. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Street Faire. 5 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville.

Saturday, June 10 Music _____, An Opera. 7:30 p.m. The Singing House, 507 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 720-236-7715.

After Dead “Extra Dose” Show — with Melvin Seals, JGB, Catfish John (night three).

1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Dopapod — Dead After Party. 11:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Illustration, Design, Art & Photraphy by Michael Hamers. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 29.

Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-5186420.

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

Colors Presents: R&B Only — with DJ Printz and Jabari. 9 p.m. The Gothic Theater, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-789-9206.

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

Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 5 p.m.

Bistrot Des Artistes, 103 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-9599.

DeadSet Colorado. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Dinosaur Discoveries Free Family Day. 1:30 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Lexi Weege with Sophie Kloor. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

The Ned Trio. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphouse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. see EVENTS Page 42

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Shakedown Street on The Hill. 12 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Shatterproof — with The Coast is Ours, Never Let This Go, Overslept. 7 p.m. Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Tavern Shakedown. 11:30 a.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

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

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Tim Kliphuis. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Marshmellow — with Jai Wolf. 5 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

The Outer Vibe — with The Dirty Circuits, Andy Babb and the Big Beautiful Band. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Summer Sundays on The Hill. 8 a.m. The Hill Boulder, 1325 Broadway Suite 214, Boulder.

Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.

The Delta Saint — with Dayton Stone and The Undertones, We’re Us. 7 p.m. Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

GONNA — Wadaiko x Marimba. 6:30 p.m.

Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

In Her Own Words/Northbound. 7 p.m. Moon Room at Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. 303-487-0111.

Taiko Worskhop by Taiko Masters. 10 a.m. CU Recreation Center, 1835 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Longmont Chorale Fourth of July Rehearsal.

7 p.m. Faith Community Lutheran Church, 9775 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8771.

Tilia Americana. 3 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Vader — with Internal Bleeding, Sacrificial Slaughter, Voices of Ruin, Micawber. 8 p.m.

Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-337-1666.

Unamused Dave — with False Report, In My Room, Gone Full Heathen. 7 p.m. Moon Room at Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

303-487-0111.

Prospect Sound Bites presents Dotsero. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-249-4492.

Events

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Third Annual Lyons International Film Festival. 6 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons, 646-391-0876.

Third Annual Lyons International Film Festival. 6 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons, 646-391-0876.

Tokyo Rodeo — with Fast Eddy, Throttlebomb. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

The Firebird/Petrushka. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-9383030.

IronFan Saturday. 11 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-1822.

Louisville Farmers Market. 9 a.m.

Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville, 303-902-2451.

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

Teen Takeover Saturdays. 6 p.m.

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

Sunday, June 11 Music

Punch Brothers with Gaby Moreno. 7:30 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Spend The Night With Alice Cooper. 8 p.m.

Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Steve Glotzer — Solo Guitar. 5 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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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.

Afton Showcase featuring Hugh Manatee, Rob Spears Trio, Brad Schlagel, SkyLink, Humble N Cool, Caveat Way and Guests. 6:30 p.m.

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

1940s Ball Swing Dance Bootcamp. 12:30 p.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-5353.

Cuentos y Cantos con Santiago. 2 p.m.

Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Anime Club. 3 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

Crackpots at Shoes & Brews. 3 p.m. Crackpots Pottery Studio, 505 Main St., Longmont, 303-776-2211.

Dance Nia. 11 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

Dopp Kit Class. 1:30 p.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245.

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

Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514.

Music

Hudson with Dandu. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Jake Schepps & Round Window: Live Score The Scarecrow. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Langhorne Slim & The Law — with Skyway Man. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-337-1666.

Film on the Rocks presents Bridesmaids — with Edison. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Happy Hour with Reed. 4 p.m.

Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

Day N’ Daze — with Crow Cavalier, Chatterbox and the Latter Day Satanists, Ludlow.

7 p.m. Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

FEED: Simple. 6 p.m. Lone Hawk Farm, 10790 N. 49th St., Longmont, 720-468-0487.

Children’s SRP: “Build a Better YOU! A Comedy, Magic & Juggling Show.” 11 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821.

Monday, June 12 Bandshell Boogie. 7:30 p.m. Central Park, 1739 Broadway, Boulder.

Black Stone Cherry — with Citizen Zero, Letters From the Fire. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-337-1666.

Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

Summer Ballet Camps & Classes. 10 a.m.

Longmont Dance Theatre Academy, 1422 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-1335.

Summer Dance Camps. 9 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719.

Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 303-444-7888.

Video Marketing: Creating Professional Videos on Your Smartphone. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Young Artists at Work Summer Camp: Tales of the Trees. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Tuesday, June 13 Music Chicago, The Doobie Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot — with Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene. 7:30 p.m.

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

David Williams & Ellie Brown Dual CD Release Concert. 7:30 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290

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Farmstand Storytime/¡Cuentos y Cultivos!

5 p.m. Ollin Farms, 8627 N. 95th St., Longmont, info@ollinfarms.com.

Kasey Chambers — with Garrett Kato. 8 p.m.

Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-337-1666.

Fat Tuesdays with Struttin’ featuring the music of The Meters, Allen Toussaint and more! 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Phish Phour.O. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 South Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Islander — with Funeral Portrait, Skinlab.

7 p.m. Moon Room at Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. 303-487-0111.

Jean Luc Ponty Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Punch Brothers — with Gaby Moreno. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500.

Tigers Jaw — with Saintseneca, Smidley. 7 p.m. Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

303-499-6363.

Downhill From Here Alpine Valley. 7 p.m. The Lounge at The Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Kids Film Series: Good Dinosaur. 10 a.m.

Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-771-4940.

Events

Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m.

SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Children’s Folk Dancing. 6 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder,

StarWater and Shine present DANCE MEDICINE with Porangui and Totem. 7 p.m. Shine

Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Summer Ballet Camps & Classes. 10 a.m.

Longmont Dance Theatre Academy, 1422 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-1335.

Wednesday, June 14 Music Bad Suns — with Hunny. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Band Camino — with The Wldlfe. 7 p.m.

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

Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130.

DJ Premier and the Badder Band Present — with DJ Chonz, Brady Watt, C1 Of Foodchain, Cavem Moetavation. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-337-1666.

Duo Vis-À-Vis presents Reminiscence. 7:30 p.m. St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, 7520 S. Boulder Road, Boulder, 262-492-9420.

The Gay Boys — with The Milk Blossoms, westOasis. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

HillBilly Hoe Down. 6 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

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

Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

MoJazz Duo. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Norah Jones — with The Candles. 7:30 p.m.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108.

RE: Search — See-I featuring members of Thievery Corporation and Dubskin with Mikey Thunder, Jubee and Special Guests.

8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

SayWeCanFly — with Call me Karizma, Marina City, Little Car. 7 p.m. Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Tallgrass. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 720-865-0800.

Events Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130.

Martha Russo: coalescere Catalogue Signing and Celebration. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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Summer Ballet Camps & Classes. 10 a.m.

Longmont Dance Theatre Academy, 1422 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-1335.

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.

Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 303-444-7888.

Video Marketing: Creating Professional Videos on Your Smartphone. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

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Sunday Flying

by Patricia Hooper

Sometimes after the flight show when my father flew in formation with the other pilots, diving and somersaulting in his Cessna, he took us up. The crowd was driving off, the windsocks disappeared. We flew above the empty air strip, past the silver hangar, the ballpark, then the bridge, beyond the school; and then, if there was fuel enough, we flew to Hidden Lake where, just below us, Grandpa was fishing in his rowboat, looking up, waving his hat, and Grandma hurried out, wearing her yellow apron. Oh, if only we could go down and fish for perch with Grandpa!

But it was nearly sunset, and we flew back over woods and highways toward the town, and finally there we were above our block, our house, my Kool-Aid stand, my brother’s blue two-wheeler in the drive. How small it was— how strange it seemed to look down on your life from somewhere else. And suddenly I was sick with loneliness. But we were all together: my brother with my father up in front, Mother beside me in the back. And yet we must be small from there: our empty yard, the Thompsons on their porch, the Barton’s Airedale trying to climb the fence, and Mother’s clothesline, my sweater hung to dry. Just then, if I had seen myself on the swing set, I would not have been surprised.

American Life in Poetry: Column 634: During the 12 years we’ve been doing this weekly column, today’s poem will be the first time I’ve offered you a plane ride. It’s just one of a number of fine poems from Patricia Hooper’s book, Separate Flights, from the University of Tampa Press. Hooper lives in North Carolina. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Poem copyright ©2016 by Patricia Hooper, “Sunday Flying,” from Separate Flights, (University of Tampa Press,2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Patricia Hooper and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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n the first hour of the first massively-budgeted movie centered on a female superhero, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) brags about his dick as Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) ogles it before he takes her to buy dowdy clothes because her outfit is too “distracting” to men. She also doesn’t know what snow is and concludes her movie in a Sex and the City riff, typing an email to Batman while opining “it’s not what you deserve, it’s what you believe.” Yes, Wonder Woman’s motto is a nonsensical series of words, taught to her by a dude, that may as well be “thinking is not doing, because purple is still a color.”

Written at a fourth-grade reading level by Allan Heinberg, who actually did write for Sex and the City, the script for Wonder Woman is a singular abomination.

The entirety of the plot is as follows: Steve is a World War I spy who washes up on the magically concealed isle of the Amazons. Wonder Woman travels with him back to England in order to fulfill her duty by killing Ares, the god of war, who she thinks is behind the global conflict. Along the way, she joins forces with Steve’s squadron of Wonder Woman could have been so much, but alas. stereotypes, including a Native American who goes by “The Chief ” (Eugene Brave Rock), and once squeals, “Ooh, a baby!”

The script is that special kind of stupid where everyone at an evil German gala, which only exists as a plot point to put Wonder Woman in a pretty dress, speaks in English with a German accent. It’s the kind of idiotic where Steve’s decision at the climax is predicated on him having forgotten that oceans are a thing. The writing is so faux-feminist that the heroine is allowed to beat up dudes while other dudes marvel at the sight, but she never gets to tell them to stop sexualizing her and focus on the goddamn World War they’re trying to stop.

Remember the oft-mocked scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens when Rey swats Finn’s hand away as they’re running? In Wonder Woman, the titular goddess tries to hold Steve’s hand because she’s so naïve she doesn’t understand that’s a sign of affection. Her entire persona is “born sexy yesterday,” a horrifying and common sci-fi/fantasy theme, labeled by the Pop Culture Detective, wherein a beautiful (often super powerful) woman is naïve, infantilized and led around by a dude who gets to feel like a big strong man because at least he knows how the world works.

In her own movie, Wonder Woman has less lines of dialogue than her “supporting” love interest, expresses no personality and doesn’t even really save the day; she was trying to kill Ares to end all war and — non-spoiler alert — there’s another World War after World War I! Gadot, Pine and, especially, director Patty Jenkins do their level best with a catastrophic screenplay content in its achievement of simply not being Batman v Superman. The genre is capable of so much more than this for women, for fans of escapist and optimistic comic book goodness and for audiences seeking more than simplistic platitudes in Amazonian armor.

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hough the name Emily Dickinson may be well known — most can identify her as one of the greatest American poets — not many can recite the Belle of Amherst, a play about her life, line-by-line. That same disparity can be found in the oeuvre of the criminally underseen British filmmaker Terence Davies, whose Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes are often cited as two of the greatest films of the last 30 years.

Greatness does not always equal popularity. Thankfully, A Quiet Passion is here to change all that and bring these somewhat reclusive artists from out of their rooms and into the light of the present tense.

Written and directed by Davies, A Quiet Passion is a bio-pic about Emily Dickinson; from her rebellious years as a young woman (played by Emma Bell) eschewing the church’s overreaching possession to a life of prolific creation but disappointing romance. As an adult, Dickinson is played by Cynthia Nixon, and few actors suit their role better. Davies wrote Passion specifically for Nixon and the combination of actor, filmmaker and subject have rarely mixed better Not that this is a relationship of saccharine admiration. Davies refrains from either lionizing or sterilizing Dickinson in the slightest.

Instead, Davies and Nixon work to present Dickinson, warts and all. They don’t soften her sharp tongue nor smooth out her acerbic personality, all of which informed her uncompromising vision for her poetry. Few constructed and punctuated their verse quite like Terence Davies’s A Quiet Dickinson, and in one scene she argues with Passion depicts the life of Emily Dickinson, warts and her publisher over a few minor changes. all.

Changes, the publisher assures, he made only to clarify. Dickinson rebuffs the assumption that she needs anyone to interpret or clarify her work. Davies films this interchange evenly, siding partly with his artist and her integrity, but also with the publisher, who has a job to do. Dickinson only managed to publish a dozen or so of her 1,800 poems during her lifetime. Had she compromised, would she have seen more fame and fortune while still living?

Neither Davies nor Nixon deigns to answer such speculation. Instead, they celebrate the work that was and is. Dickinson’s poems are presented as music, beautifully recited by Nixon throughout the film while Davies’ camera peers deeply into the souls of his subjects, including Dickinson’s father (Keith Carradine), brother (Duncan Duff ), sister ( Jennifer Ehle) and closest friend, Vryling Buffum (Catherine Bailey).

Davies, one of the great formalists of contemporary cinema, directs and photographs this story with a rigor and courteousness that meshes wonderfully with Dickinson’s wealthy Massachusetts’ elite of the 19th century. And, like Dickinson, Davies knows when it is time to remain a polite and respectable distance and when to move in for the kill. Like Dickinson’s well-honed tongue, Davies moves his camera to reveal these characters’ secrets, their desires, their shortcomings and, in one marvelous movement of subtle trickery, their very mortality.

A Quiet Passion is like a martini made from the finest gin and vermouth around, shaken so vigorously that the two ingredients are inseparable and served ice cold. An absolute delight.

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ear with me through a very abbreviated history of Lebanon.

Situated in a region the Hebrew Bible calls Canaan — the land just west of what we now call the Cradle of Civilization — Lebanon understandably has a rich history.

Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Crusader and Ottoman ruins are scattered throughout the diverse geography of the country. The lush Bekaa Valley splits Lebanon’s mostly mountainous terrain between east and west, with its westernmost boarder overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Those ruins tell a story about Lebanese cuisine as well. The country’s food culture has roots thousands of years deep, tracing back to Roman and Phoenician rule. When the Ottoman’s took control of Lebanon from the early 16th to the early 20th century, they left their culinary mark, introducing contemporary staples in the Lebanese diet such as lamb, grape leaves and filo desserts.

France took control of Lebanon after World War I and brought its rich cuisine to the Levant country, making flan and croissants common foods.

Today, Lebanese food is classified as Mediterranean cuisine, which is a pretty broad categorization including several countries in Northern Africa, other Levant

It’s helpful, because while it’s not an overwhelmingly large menu (see: The Appropriately Sized Menu Rule), there are plenty of options, some of which you may not be familiar with.

Well, I wasn’t, anyway.

One such treat is the kibbeh, a Levantine dish of seasoned ground beef (in this case, but it’s often made with lamb or camel meat) mixed with pine nuts and onion, and covered in a crispy shell of cracked bulgar wheat.

The result is a savory, football-shaped fritter. For optimal results, dip generously in cucumber sauce.

The seasoning in kibbeh can, as with most dishes, differ from region to region, country to country.

At Mumtaz, the kibbeh offered strong Middle Eastern flavors, with hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and allspice. For a Westerner, the flavor is just vaguely holiday-like in nature.

Nothing on the menu at Mumtaz is to be missed: Enjoy falafel, hummus, baba ghanoush, gyro, dolmas and spanakopita, but save room for a slice of baklava (a genuine treat with its sweetness well balanced against the bitterness of the walnuts).

For the record, the word mumtaz means “the distinguished,” “the best” or “excellent” in Arabic.

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This is all pertinent to a discussion about the fare at Mumtaz Mediterranean Food in Lafayette, since owner (and longtime Boulder County restaurateur) Hiam Jamell hails from the mountains of Lebanon.

Mumtaz is an inconspicuous eatery just off 287, tucked between a carpet store and an insurance agency, so you already know it’s good (See: The Shopping Center Rule). Inside the atmosphere is welcoming, with lots of natural light and warm hues of yellow and orange. Orders are placed at the counter, and it’s more than likely that whoever is working the register will kindly and expertly give you a rundown of the menu.

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With its crown of whipped cream, a waffle always seemed like dessert masquerading as breakfast — not that there’s anything wrong with that.

My attitude started to change when I got a small waffle iron for Christmas. As some gifts do, it sat around because using it seemed like too much trouble. A recent visit from my son finally got me to clean the waffle plates and turn it on.

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duced very soft, lightly colored rectangles remarkably similar to the boxed frozen waffles. Quite boring. At eight and even 10 minutes the waffles came out crisper, caramelized and more able to sponge up Grade B maple syrup and butter.

The non-stick waffle plates can be treated with nonstick spray, but other fats work and add flavor, including butter, toasted sesame seed oil, olive oil and lard.

Making waffles is ridiculous- Lehndorff hn ly easy. We played a game Jo I’ll call “Will It Waffle?” inspired by David Letterman and founding father Thomas Jefferson, who is credited with bringing the first longhandled waffle iron to the U.S. in about 1789.

We tried one waffle with rff sesame seeds sprinkled on top. Lehndo n h It was tasty, but we should Jo have put them on the bottom under the batter. The primitive heating element is only under the bottom half of the waffle maker so the bottom surface gets hotter. Adding chopped cooked bacon was a no-brainer.

Our coupe de grâce was siracha and cheddar cheese waffles served under fresh spinach-basted eggs.

Since then my experiments have expanded. I tried Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix with egg, milk and vegetable oil. I thinned it out with extra milk to the consistency of waffle batter. Let the batter sit out in the bowl for 45 minutes before using. Butter the waffle plates, fill with a cup or less of batter and then leave it in there an extra five minutes. They emerge crisply toasted and sweet. For one of these waffles I added a tablespoon of cherry preserves before closing the lid. Very nice.

Waffled avocado was wonderful, although it required cleaning the waffle maker. Falafel mix batter thinned a bit with water was another hit. Again,

leave it in the Above: Waffles sesame oil with fresh fruit from brushed waffle South Side Walnut Cafe. Below: maker for a Waffles can also be few extra minmade on a stove top. Don’t be afraid utes and serve to add additional with tahini items for flavor, such as bacon. sauce.

Other variations were, charitably put, bad ideas. Eggs burned and were hellishly hard to clean off the waffle iron. Raw onions and potatoes took too long to cook, but I made a waffle latke using shredded boiled red potatoes mixed with egg and spices.

Shredded cooked meats can be waffled but raw ground meat is a fire danger if the fat leaks down on the heating element. This explains how the George Forman Grill, which has a tilted surface and a grease trap, was invented.

While leftover homemade waffles sound like an oxymoron, they can be made ahead and tossed in the toaster oven to heat and re-crisp.

They can even be frozen for later use in a serious upgrade to boxed waffles.

In the future, I’m thinking about waffling macaroni and cheese and possibly Greek halloumi cheese which can be griddled without melting. Dessert waffles made with cocoa powder and 70 percent dark chocolate are on the list. I also think that bread stuffing would work for day-after-Thanksgiving turkey and waffles.

One day soon I’ll start messing around with the Holy Grail of waffledom: raised waffles using a bread-like yeasted batter.

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The Moe’s Broadway Bagels empire has expanded to six shops in Boulder and Denver with a new location in the Table Mesa Shopping Center. ... Boulder’s Organic Sandwich Company — famous for its bacon jam — will open a second shop this summer at 459 S. McCaslin Blvd., formerly the location of Louisville’s Blue Box Doughnuts. ... In a recent Nibbles column I noted the rise of double businesses, such as bike shops that have bars. Another example: Marble Distilling Co. in Carbondale has opened a fiveroom hotel called the Distillery Inn above the area where whiskey is made and aged.

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U.S. 287, in a lot where you can also get your teeth cleaned and rescue a stray animal, Liquid Mechanics is smack dab in the Lafayette suburbs and loving it — there is even a footpath connecting the adjacent neighborhood to Liquid Mechanics’ parking lot. Hell, the food truck parked outside the night we paid them a visit was Suburban Wiener, whose logo is a giant knackwurst behind a white picket fence. They are consistent, to say the least.

Ten years ago, craft beer drinkers would have scoffed at the idea of suburban breweries. But times have changed, and the hip literati have vacated the city centers in search of affordable real estate to raise their families. For these well-traveled drinkers, neighborhood Applebee’s and Chili’s simply won’t do. They want something more than giant novelty glasses of Bud Light while staring down heaping plates of chicken parmesan, shrimp wonton stir fry and baby back ribs, all surrounding a bottomless serving of chips and salsa. These places offer something for everyone — and nothing for anyone — and those of us who call the ’burbs home aren’t going to take it anymore.

For us, we have Liquid Mechanics. With plenty of parking, a large patio, loads of indoors seating for weekly bouts of Geeks Who Drink trivia and a room in the back for private parties, Liquid Mechanics has the savvy suburban drinker covered. The beer’s pretty good too.

Started by Seth Townsend, Eric Briggs and Davin Helden — all former biotech/ pharmaceutical professionals — Liquid Mechanics is a 10-barrel brewing system that focuses primarily on American, German and Belgian ales, with a couple of wild cards thrown in. They are most recognized for their Amber Altbier (5.4 percent alcohol by volume) and their Kölsch (5.3 percent). Both are award winners and both are bonafide thirst-quenchers, easy and clean with no detractions. A good friend of mine loves to drink good beer but hates to be told what in the beer makes it good. For him, Liquid Mechanic’s Altbier and Kölsch will suffice. For me, the hazy, juicy New England Hop Nectar (5.3 percent) sets the pins up and the onion-y (in a good way) Belgian Double IPA (8.5 percent) knocks them down.

Like every other brewery around town, Liquid Mechanics has the usual rotators, but unlike everyone else, Liquid Mechanics has a Peanut Butter Porter (8.6 percent) that smells exactly like the filling in everybody’s favorite peanut butter cup. The taste doesn’t quite match, but how could it? Have you ever looked at the wrapper and read what’s in it? I don’t want that nonsense anywhere near my glass. Sure, I’ll sit on the couch, watch basketball and shovel those little beauties into my mouth without batting an eye. But drinking? That’s a sacred act and should be treated with respect. And with the Peanut Butter Porter, the guys at Liquid Mechanics do just that.

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days when I’ve stayed in bed from morning to nightfall, confessing my fears to my imaginary friends and eating an entire cheesecake. As an astrologer, I’ve noticed that these blue patches seem more likely to occur during the weeks before my birthday each year. If you go through a similar blip any time soon, here’s what I recommend: Don’t feel guilty about it. Don’t resist it. Instead, embrace it fully. If you feel lazy and depressed, get REALLY lazy and depressed. Literally hide under the covers with your headphones on and feel sorry for yourself for as many hours as it takes to exhaust the gloom and emerge renewed.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

Do you have your visa for the wild side? Have you packed your bag of tricks? I hope you’ll bring gifts to dispense, just in case you’ll need to procure favors in the outlying areas where the rules are a bit loose. It might also be a good idea to take along a skeleton key and a snake-bite kit. You won’t necessarily need them. But I suspect you’ll be offered magic cookies and secret shortcuts, and it would be a shame to have to turn them down simply because you’re unprepared for the unexpected.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: You’re like a prince or princess who has been turned into a frog by the spell of a fairy tale villain. This situation has gone on for a while. In the early going, you retained a vivid awareness that you had been transformed. But the memory of your origins has faded, and you’re no longer working so diligently to find a way to change back into your royal form. Frankly, I’m concerned. This horoscope is meant to remind you of your mission. Don’t give up! Don’t lose hope! And take extra good care of your frog-self, please.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: People might have ideas about you that are at odds with how you understand yourself. For example, someone might imagine that you have been talking trash about them — even though you haven’t been. Someone else may describe a memory they have about you, and you know it’s a distorted version of what actually happened. Don’t be surprised if you hear even more outlandish tales, too, like how you’re stalking Taylor Swift or conspiring with the One World Government to force all citizens to eat kale every day.

I’m here to advise you to firmly reject all of these skewed projections. For the immediate future, it’s crucial to stand up for your right to define yourself — to be the final authority on what’s true about you.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “God doesn’t play dice with the uni-

verse,” said Albert Einstein. In response, another Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Niels Bohr, said to Einstein, “Stop giving instructions to God.” I urge you to be more like Bohr than Einstein in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

As much as possible, avoid giving instructions to anyone, including God, and resist the temptation to offer advice.

In fact, I recommend that you abstain from passing judgment, demanding perfection, and trying to compel the world to adapt itself to your definitions. Instead, love and accept everything and everyone exactly as they are right now.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Lysistrata is a satire by ancient

“sticky” was a term applied to websites that were good at drawing readers back again and again. To possess this quality, a content provider had to have a knack for offering text and images that web surfers felt an instinctive yearning to bond with. I’m reanimating this term so I can use it to describe you. Even if you don’t have a website, you now have a soulful adhesiveness that arouses people’s urge to merge. Be discerning how you use this stuff. You may be stickier than you realize!

Greek playwright Aristophanes. It takes place during the war between Athens and Sparta. The heroine convinces a contingent of women to withhold sexual privileges from the soldiers until they stop fighting.

“I will wear my most seductive dresses to inflame my husband’s ardor,” says one. “But I will never yield to his desires. I won’t raise my legs towards the ceiling. I will not take up the position of the Lioness on a Cheese Grater.” Regardless of your gender, Aquarius, your next assignment is twofold: 1. Don’t be like the women in the play. Give your favors with discerning generosity.

2. Experiment with colorful approaches to pleasure like the Lioness with a Cheese Grater, the Butterfly Riding the Lizard, the Fox Romancing the River, and any others you can dream up.

VIRGO

PISCES

magnolia and vanilla to prepare exotic chocolate drinks from cacao beans. The beverage was sacred and prestigious to them. It was a centerpiece of cultural identity and an accessory in religious rituals. In some locales, people were rewarded for producing delectable chocolate with just the right kind and amount of froth. I suspect, Virgo, that you will soon be asked to do the equivalent of demonstrating your personal power by whipping up the best possible chocolate froth. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, the chances are good you’ll succeed.

Take your seasick pills. The waves will sometimes be higher than your boat. Although I don’t think you’ll capsize, the ride may be wobbly. And unless you have waterproof clothes, it’s probably best to just get naked.

You WILL get drenched. By the way, don’t even fantasize about heading back to shore prematurely. You have good reasons to be sailing through the rough waters. There’s a special “fish” out there that you need to catch. If you snag it, it will feed you for months — maybe longer.

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Dear Dan: I’m 28 years old and have been with my boyfriend (also 28) for three years. Our relationship is monogamous and vanilla. I’m a pretty sexual person: I’ve been to bondage clubs and burlesque shows, and I’ve had my fair share of sexual encounters with men and women. I like to dominate and be dominated. However, my boyfriend is non-aggressive, non-dominating, and non-initiating. I ALWAYS have to initiate and I’m ALWAYS in the driver’s seat. I’m tired of this. I enjoy strong masculine energy! I’m a feminist, but sometimes in the bedroom it can be incredibly hot to feel like a sex object. We’ve talked and talked, and tried some light bondage (he didn’t like it), and talked about a threesome (he’s opposed). He says sex just isn’t something he “thinks about a lot.”

How do I get him to show some sexual aggression?

— Wants Him Aggressive More Dear WHAM: Keep reading, WHAM. Dear Dan: My husband of 17 years has never been into sex — which I always knew was a problem, but the other stuff was good. He’s into pornography, though, and I’ve busted him many times. To say I am resentful is an understatement. He uses

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corn oil for masturbating, and I’ve been reduced to marking the bottle and boobytrapping it to see if he’s been up to his tricks. We have two children, so that’s what keeps me from “pulling the trigger.”

— Gagging In Chicago Dear GIC: You have three options.

1. Pull the trigger.

2. Redefine your marriage as companionate — it’s about child-rearing and family life, not about sex. If your husband is free to find fulfillment in the bottle (of corn oil), and you’re free to find fulfillment in the bedroom (of another man/men), maybe you can make it work.

3. Continue with what you’re doing now — your husband sneaking off to have a wank, and you monitoring (and booby-trapping?!?) every bottle of corn oil that comes into the house.

WHAM: Your boyfriend isn’t going to become someone else — he’s not going to suddenly become more interested in sex or more sexually aggressive

— so if you don’t want to be sending me a letter like GIC’s in 14 years, end this relationship. People who want healthy, functional, monogamous LTRs — free from booby traps and busts — need to prioritize sexual compatibility at the start. That doesn’t mean things can’t go off the rails later (see the first letter), but they’re less likely to.

Dear Dan: I desperately wanted to be GGG in my past relationship. My partner chronically complained that I wasn’t giving him enough sex. I felt so guilty that I put up with some very coercive situations. I became an orgasm dispenser for a dumbass whose beard prickled my clit painfully, who complained my G-spot moved around, and who fell asleep fingering me. I put up with his shit for far too long. It would have been helpful to be told that GGG needs to be MUTUAL and feel good for both parties.

—Sassy Unconquered Babe Dear SUB: GGG — good in bed, giving of pleasure and game for any-

thing within reason — is what we should be for our partners and our partners should be for us. So it absolutely needs to be mutual, SUB, and there are definitely limits.

“Being GGG means considering a partner’s reasonable sexual requests,” I responded to a reader who asked for a GGG clarification back when we had a brand-new and completely sane president. “Not all sexual requests can be fulfilled, and not all needs can be met. But two people who want to make their relationship work need to carve out a mutually satisfying repertoire that doesn’t leave anyone feeling frustrated or used. Does everyone get everything they want? Of course not.

But each of us has a right to ask for our needs to be met (without being abusive or coercive) and the responsibility to indulge our partner’s reasonable requests if we can (without being abused or coerced). We should also recognize when the gulf is too great and end the relationship rather than engaging in sex acts that leave us feeling diminished and dehumanized.”

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by Sarah Haas

Cannabis rises to assuage the crimson wave in New York

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here is no just description of uterine pain, women need medication to treat menstrual pain (this no words that can adequately express its being the most commonly understood definition of fury, although something like a star coldysmenorrhea). For 25 percent, the cramps hurt so lapsing into a black hole in the center of badly as to result in absenteeism from work. In New your lower abdomen (and taking your York, this means approximately 2 million women emotional stability along with it) might come close. could qualify for medical cannabis.

Even so, I have and will always love cramps. They are But Rosenthal argues the bill is also an important a part of the bond of sisterhood, a part of the pain of step forward in an oft-overlooked women’s medical being a woman that we wear with maternal pride. rights issue. Maybe it’s because we’re so used to From a young age, women find synchronicity with cramps as a society, or because women are so good at their female friends, undulating masking the pain, but menstrual flickr.com/photos/rbmay/2964588928 in moon cycles with the group rights in America frequently of women they gather with seem less pressing than, say, most. Whether it’s with family, closing the pay gap or ensuring teammates, coworkers or access to birth control. But findfriends, we seem to have made a ing ways to keep women feeling biological promise to go good and going to work is not through this together. We’ll just of medical value but ecoalways lend a stranger a tampon, nomic and cultural value, esperefill our friend’s hot water botcially when it comes to closing the pay gap or creating equal tle or, in the case of New York opportunity in the workplace Assemblymember Linda B. (and beyond).

Rosenthal, fight to add dysmenThe bill couldn’t have sprung orrhea — the medical name for from a more fitting champion — menstrual cramps — to the list Rosenthal is a heralded advocate of conditions that qualify someof women’s issues. In January the one for a medical marijuana Assemblymember led busloads prescription. of women from her district in On Tuesday, June 6, her bill, Assembly Bill 582, was the Upper West Side to protest approved in a 21-2 vote by the at the Women’s March on Health Committee and is headWashington. In May she ed to the Assembly floor next unveiled a trio of bills to increase week, after which it would still access to feminine hygiene prodneed to be passed by the New ucts for vulnerable women across York Senate and signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York.

If it is successful, the bill would dramatically increase She talks about AB 582 as an important part of the number of potential medical marijuana patients in her legislative portfolio, saying in an interview with New York.

Newsweek, “I thought this was a great opportunity to According to a 2012 study performed at the create an impact ... and help women access something Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico in Italy, new that can help relieve what cripples some of them cramps affect 84 percent of women, and 55 percent of during that time of the month.”

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In a more political justification for the bill, she writes: “Not only will [adding dysmenorrhea to the list of conditions for which a doctor may authorize medical marijuana use] improve women’s wellness and productivity during menstruation, but it will also advance New York State in one of the country’s fastest-growing industries.”

If Rosenthal is successful in adding menstrual cramps to the list (currently limited to the treatment of chronic and life-threatening conditions like cancer, HIV infection or epilepsy, for example) it would be the first inclusion of the condition on such a list anywhere in the country. Other states, like California and Colorado, provide access to uterine-specific medicines through vague clauses that make room for “other sorts of conditions” but don’t specifically address cramps.

Like many conditions, dysmenorrhea is excluded either by oversight or there is a lack of scientific evidence to support the efficacy of cannabis in treating the condition. In some ways this is a valid concern: Marijuana has not been shown to aid in restoring normal hormone levels, the most often hypothesized cause of premenstrual symptoms.

Nonetheless, it may treat some of the symptoms and is well-known to relieve associated conditions, such as headaches and anxiety. And, in a 2003 article in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation, pain relief associated with both THC and CBD was significantly superior to placebo in treating menstruation-associated conditions like bladder control, muscle spasms and spasticity.

Whether or not science says marijuana works, I, along with most of those with a menstrual cycle, will testify that it does, untying the physical and mental knots we find in the pit of our stomachs and souls each and every month. Not that we don’t appreciate the glory that is shedding a uterine lining and the womanness it defines, but if there’s something out there that can help make it a little less painful for 84 percent of us, then it’s probably something worth fighting for.

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Chemo with cannabinoids (in that order) zap cancer cells

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ver the past 40 years, evidence has been accumulating that both THC and CBD, the two most common active ingredients in marijuana, have anti-cancer properties.

The first study showing this was a study done on mice in 1975. Most of the studies since then have been done on cancer cells grown in labs or animal studies, but in 2006 there was a trial using human subjects performed in Spain.

A team of Spanish scientists led by Manuel Guzman administered pure THC via a catheter into the tumors of nine patients with glioblastoma (the most aggressive form of brain cancer) who had failed to respond to standard brain-cancer therapies. There was significant reduction of tumor cell proliferation in all nine test subjects.

Now a new study done at the University of London suggests that combining THC and CBD with existing chemotherapy drugs could be more effective than using cannabinoids or chemotherapy drugs alone. But the study produced an interesting twist: The synergistic effect showed up only if the cannabinoids were administered after cancer cells were blasted with conventional chemo.

“We have shown for the first time that the order in which cannabinoids and chemotherapy are used

is crucial in determining overall effectiveness of this treatment,” said Dr. Wai Liu, who led the University of London study.

“These extracts [of THC and CBD] are highly concentrated and purified, so smoking marijuana will not have a similar effect,” he said. “But cannabinoids are a very exciting prospect in oncology, and studies such as ours serve to establish the best ways that they should be used to maximize a therapeutic effect.”

The London study was an in vitro cell study that used leukemia (blood cancer) cell lines. The cannabinoids were tested with two anti-leukemia drugs: cytarabine and vincristine.

Administering the cannabinoids after the cells were zapped with the chemo drugs resulted in greater cancer cell death (apoptosis) than chemo alone or cannabinoids alone, but the reverse was true if the cannabinoids were administered first.

“Our results suggest that when certain cannabinoids are paired together, the resulting product can be combined synergistically with common anti-leukaemia drugs allowing the dose of cytotoxic agents (chemo drugs) to be dramatically reduced yet still remain efficacious,” the researchers concluded.

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The combining of cannabinoids with conventional chemotherapy is a new approach to treating cancer, and one that could be a real game-changer.

An obvious question is can the approach be used with chemotherapy agents used to treat other cancers, including glioblastoma, which Guzman showed responded to cannabinoids 10 years ago.

Another obvious question is why is marijuana still a Schedule I controlled substance in light of 41 years of research pointing to its potential as a cure for cancer?

And the answer to that question is equally obvious: It’s because American politicians prefer to continue the drug war instead of allowing marijuana’s medicinal properties to be systematically explored.

Medical marijuana became available in 28 states only because the American people began legalizing it state-by-state through the initiative process.

Elected officials, both at the state and the local level almost always opposed it and had to be dragged along kicking and screaming. The same is true of the American medical establishment.

There are currently a number of bills in Congress to reschedule marijuana’s status under the controlled substance act or delist it all together. It’s widely assumed that none of them will pass.

If they don’t, it’s time for pro-legalization groups to start targeting drug war dead-enders in Congress in the 2018 elections, as well as pushing legalization initiatives. This will involve recruiting candidates and raising money, but the message can be kept brutally simple: “Marijuana may cure cancer — but it won’t if you keep voting for your Congressman.”

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(Clue: We know it’s probably “nicest” but dare we point out it could also be “narcissist” or “nastiest”?) Or maybe you’ve seen some clever ones that made you chuckle like “LCNSPL8” or “CU

THE STUPID APPLE DON’T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE

Eric Trump, the 33-year-old son of temporary U.S. President Donald Trump, is exactly as stupid as the moron whose tainted sperm spawned him. On a recent edition of a Fox News program that was at best sporting a combined IQ of 90, Eric told Sean Hannity (make that a combined IQ of 60) that the Democrats who were pushing the investigation of links between his daddy and Russia “weren’t even human.” Little Eric also said that the Democratic Party was imploding, DNC head Tom Perez was “a total whack job” (hey, even a 45 IQ can get some things right) and that — you’ll love this one — “It’s so, so sad. I mean, morality’s just gone. Morals have flown out the window.

We deserve so much better than this as a country.”

Hannity’s 45 points of the show’s combined IQ then pulled his head out of the president’s son’s rear long enough to say he agreed.

Morals have flown out the window because Comrade Trump’s connections to Russia are being investigated? Right.

The misunderstanding likely stems from Eric’s lacking vocabulary. He couldn’t possibly mean “morals.” Could he?

Surely, he is aware of how often President Daddy Trump told Howard Stern what a great ass his own daughter had and how if she weren’t his daughter he’d want to “date” her. Surely, he has seen and heard the recording of his dad describing how he loved to sexually assault women. Or how he would pay surprise visits backstage to his beauty pageants in order to surprise contestants who were naked. Has he not heard about all the lawsuits his daddy settled for cheating people? Hell, the whole world has access to photos of the first lady posing nude.

And this poop-eating ginger son of Satan has the audacity to claim that those of us who are worried about our democracy because his dad is obviously beholden to Vladimir Putin’s cartel are the ones who are immoral?

The only thing we can be sure of is that Sean Hannity agrees, which I’m sure he’ll confirm as soon as he comes up for air.

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While at least one American is obsessed with what he can say in 140 characters, others are whittling it down to eight. Now we can’t be sure if these are Trumpsters or Dem trolls or maybe that person who just “lucked out.”

Maybe these are the few people who know what the nonsensical word means.

Whoever you are, don’t be surprised if you get the occasional middle finger or random jeer... no one wants to be reminded of our president’s incompetence while sitting in traffic.

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