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Reality TV hits the National Mall

By Joel Dyer

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’ll say this as delicately as I can: Anyone who thinks it’s patriotic to roll tanks down our National Mall on the Fourth of July to pleasure the unquenchable ego of a dangerously authoritarian president is... wrong... really, really, effing wrong.

It is the opposite of patriotism in this country.

Not since Harry Truman made an appearance at our nation’s Independence Day celebration in Washington D.C. 68 years ago has a sitting president of the United States dared to show his face at this event for fear of turning it into something political or worse, partisan.

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end all such sensibilities in a grand fashion, befitting a man who craps in a golden toilet, spends an average of $3.5 million of your money on every round of golf he plays all while torturing less fortunate people who have asked us for help at our southern border.

The only salute this Trump parade inspires in me involves but a single finger — two if I use both hands.

The wasteful military-style honoring of himself that Donald Trump has planned for this year’s festivities are an insult to the modern values of this nation.

But what should we have expected.

After all, Trump spent $12,000 on portraits of himself to hang in his resorts.

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(Actually he spent $12,000 that other people had donated to his fake charity to buy the portraits, but why quibble?) For this year’s July 4 venture in vanity, Trump is wasting no less than $17 million that you donated to the U.S. Treasury. And he’s taking it out of the National Park Service budget that has already been devastated, causing layoffs and badly diminishing the protections for our national parks and the endangered species that call them home.

If you want to turn your Fourth of July into another episode of Celebrity President — all while singing the praises of political gluttony, racism and authoritarianism — then watch away to your little, very little, heart’s content.

As for me, I’m going to skip this latest reality TV show, pop a cold one and think about ways to make America sane and not embarrassing again.

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Was America ever great?

You bet it was! And it still is.

by Paul Danish

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aybe Trump derangement syndrome made them do it. Or maybe they’re just part of the Democrats’ slime-America-first cau-

cus.

Whatever the cause, at least three prominent Democrats — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, and South Bend, Indiana mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg — have gone out of their way in the last few months to claim, as Cuomo did, that “America was never that great.” Or as Buttigieg did, that “America was never as great as advertised.” Or as Holder put it, “Exactly when did you think America was great?”

This week’s issue of the Boulder Weekly is dated July 4, so today is a good day to respond.

Exactly when was America great?

Glad you asked.

America was great on the day it was born, when its birth announcement, the Declaration of Independence, offered the world a compendium of some of the most revolutionary ideas in human history — starting with those found in the sentence that begins with the words I

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident...” That much should be selfevident even to political dwarfs with crabbed vision like Cuomo, Holder and Buttigieg.

America was also great from 1861 to 1865, when more than 360,000 men serving in the Union armies — most of them white and most of them racists by today’s standards — gave their lives to preserve the Union and end slavery.

America was great on July 2, 1862, when President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land Grant College Act, and six weeks prior on May 20, 1862, when he signed the first Homestead Act — arguably the two most important and far-reaching pieces of social legislation in the history of the American republic. The former revolutionized American agriculture and higher education and turned them into the envy of the world. The latter distributed more than 250,000 square miles of land to 1.6 million homesteaders and their families — ensuring that agriculture in the American West would be defined by individual farmers working their own land, see DANISH PLAN Page 7

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and not by plantations worked by slaves or sharecroppers.

America was great when Norman Borlaug, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, one of the more than 100 land grant universities launched by the Morrill Act, created the wheat strains that launched the Green Revolution in the 1960s — and prevented apocalyptic famine in the developing world that was widely predicted for the mid-1970s.

Borlaug’s 2012 obituaries credited him with saving a billion lives.

America was great on Oct. 16, 1846 when William T.G. Morton, a Boston dentist, demonstrated that ether could be used as a general anesthetic during surgery — arguably the single most important and farreaching American contribution to medicine to this day.

America was great in 1944 when Congress passed the G.I. Bill, which provided education benefits and home loans for returning World War II veterans. By 1956, 2.2 million vets had attended college and 5.6 million more had completed high school or received vocational training with G.I. Bill benefits — possibly the most concentrated investment in human capital in human history.

America was great on April 3, 1948, when President Truman signed the Marshall Plan into law.

It provided $17 billion (the equivalent of $198 billion in 2018 dollars) in economic and technical assistance to 16 European nations recovering from the devastation of World War II — including former enemies Germany, Italy and Austria. There aren’t many examples in history of the victors in a war offering aid to the vanquished. The usual practice was to loot them.

Here are a few more.

America was great when it transformed itself into an automotive civilization, which empowered ordinary people, including the poor, by increasing their freedom of movement, and thus their options of where to live and work by orders of magnitude.

America was great when it built the 47,000-mile-long Interstate Highway System and the 117,000-mile-long Federal Highway System before that. These projects transformed the American economy — and allowed Americans to get to BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

know each other in ways that were never before possible.

America was great when it invented both the airplane and aeronautical civilization, which allows ordinary people, including the poor, to fly — something humans have dreamed of doing since the first sapiens looked up and saw the birds.

And the stars.

America was great when American builders and developers, led by William Levitt, invented the American suburban subdivision, which provided ordinary Americans with an alternative to cramped apartments in fetid cities, and with safe spaces in which to raise their kids.

When home sales began in the original Levittown subdivision in March 1947, 1,400 homes were sold in the first three hours.

America was great on Aug. 28, 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said he wanted his daughters to be judged by the content of their characters instead of the color of their skins and in so doing defined American tolerance with a single sentence. America was not so great when the Democratic Party embraced inherently racist and sexist identity politics and betrayed Dr. King’s dream.

America was great when it opened its doors to immigration, which is why it is today the world’s third most populous country and its defining civilization. America stays great because it still welcomes — welcomes — more than a million lawful immigrants a year, not withstanding the lacerating debate over illegal immigration.

America was — and is — great when the transfer of political power consists of outgoing officials cleaning out their desks, incoming officials taking the oath of office, and then both going to the same reception.

America is not so great when those who lose an election declare themselves The Resistance instead of The Loyal Opposition.

All of which raises a question for Messieurs Cuomo, Holder and Buttigieg: Since you all think America is lacking in greatness, what would you do to make America great again? Just askin’.

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

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MIDNIGHT ON THE PRAIRIE

Is there still time for America to save this vital bird?

By Rico Moore

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ressed in feathers banded to disguise her among the shadows of prairie grass, a female lesser prairie chicken perches atop a dry plant stalk overlooking the southeastern Colorado plains, chortling to her potential cohort in a singular way reminiscent of an underwater coo. Her male counterpart struts beneath her on his lek (their mating ground) with head angled down and feathers from his head pointing toward the horizon. With breast puffed up, he reveals a brilliant orange air sac on his throat and bright yellow comb above his eyes as he dances for her, booming a sound that echoes across the prairie. But such is the rarest of sights these days.

The lesser prairie chicken, which depends on the prairie ecosystem, is in trouble. And an oil and gas industry-funded conservation program created to preclude the bird from being listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) — a protection that would have limited drilling in some areas — appears to be falling short in its claimed efforts to save the species.

Prior to the arrival of European immigrants, lesser prairie chickens were abundant in the grasslands of what is now called Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. But now, primarily due to large-scale loss and fragmentation of habitat, the lesser prairie chicken’s range distribution has been reduced by roughly 85 percent, according to the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service. And according to an assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) the remaining habitat of the bird is highly fragmented. So despite conservation efforts see PRAIRIE CHICKEN Page 10

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aimed at reversing this dangerous trend, another USGS report completed in 2017 found that prairie chicken populations are declining.

These denizens of the American prairie are in danger from long-term habitat destruction and modification due to ongoing and increasing oil and gas extraction, climate change, agricultural activities, and a host of other factors including wind turbines and power transmission lines. And the global climate crisis is expected to drive a fourfold increase in the number of 100-plus-degree days on the Southern Plains the lesser prairie chicken calls home.

For these reasons, the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and WildEarth Guardians have joined together to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Department of Interior that oversees it, for allegedly violating the ESA by failing to make a 12-month finding on a 2016 petition to list the lesser prairie chicken for full protection under the ESA filed by the conservation groups. According to the USFWS, the determination is now scheduled for 2021, a four-year delay the agency says is due to “numerous conservation plans in development with representatives from the agriculture, wind energy, and oil and gas energy sectors.”

According to the USFWS, one of these plans, administered by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) has resulted in some habitat conservation for the lesser prairie chicken. The USFWS is currently working with WAFWA on a comprehensive review of the plan, which was previously scheduled, it says, to “ensure there are viable conservation programs in place” for the bird.

Michael Robinson, senior conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, says the aforementioned 2017 USGS report modeled forward the extinction threat on the lesser prairie chicken by examining previous responses of the species to various heat events in the past. In light of the climate crisis, and assuming fossil fuel production increases, which it has been doing, Robinson says the study basically shows lesser prairie chickens will continue to decline, possibly to extinction.

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when they sit on their hands and don’t move to get the lesser prairie chicken under the protection of the Endangered Species Act,” Robinson says, adding his and other conservation groups believe the bird should be listed as endangered as conditions are worsening.

Despite the deteriorating conditions for the bird, it appears fossil fuel production will not only continue, but

mals and plants that are further imperiled by the climate crisis.

Making things worse, Bernhardt has proposed changes to the implementation of the Endangered Species Act that would allow economic factors to be a part of the listing decisions, potentially giving the oil and gas industry the political ammunition it would need to stop some needed listings.

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IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND how one government agency such as CPW can be working proactively to relocate endangered birds into the grasslands to increase its chances of survival while another agency like the BLM is simultaneously considering granting oil and gas leases, which will further endanger the same birds in roughly the same areas. increase. David Bernhardt, secretary of the Department of the Interior and former oil and gas lobbyist who is named as a defendant in the conservationists’ suit, is “expeditiously” processing oil and gas permits on public lands, according to a recent interview he did with The Colorado Independent.

Bernhardt has previously admitted he’s not overly concerned about climate change.

Oil and gas extraction is exerting a two-fold impact on the lesser prairie chicken; first, because the birds lose habitat in the short term when oil and gas exploration and associated infrastructure encroaches. And second, as oil and gas production increases, lesser prairie chickens are one among many thousands of aniJULY 4, 2019

FEDS SEEM DETERMINED TO DRIVE OFF THE CLIFF Even as the conservation groups’ lawsuit and the USFWS’ decision on listing the lesser prairie chicken play out, the Bureau of Land Management is simultaneously considering leasing still more public lands in the bird’s shrinking habitat for oil and gas extraction. The lands in question are located in southeastern Colorado, due west of the Sand Creek Massacre site.

In comments submitted by the conservation groups as part of the environmental assessment process for these BLM leases, they assert BLM must ensure its climate analysis complies with a recent March 19 court ruling in which U.S. District Court I

Judge Rudolph Contreras struck down nine BLM environmental analyses under the National Environmental Policy Act for oil and gas leases because the bureau had failed to account for “the cumulative impact of greenhouse gas emissions generated by past, present or reasonably foreseeable BLM lease sales in the region and nation” when it approved leases on some of its lands in Wyoming (see BW’s “To drill on Colorado public land, feds will need to assess fracking’s climate impacts, Jun. 13, 2019).

According to Brant Porter, BLM public liaison, since the ruling regarding the Wyoming lease sale, the Colorado BLM has bolstered its “strong analysis” of greenhouse gas emissions to ensure they comply with the Wyoming precedent. WildEarth Guardians, which questions whether Colorado could have so quickly done the required research, is considering challenging the state’s claims.

In opposition to the BLM’s lease offerings, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and Division of Parks and Wildlife are requesting BLM’s oil and gas leases in southeastern Colorado be deferred for the sake of the lesser prairie chicken.

Some of the parcels are in habitat where CPW and DNR requests voluntary mitigation, but DNR Director Dan Gibbs expressed concern in a letter to the BLM regarding their ability to enforce mitigation stipulations where surface ownership is private.

The State of Colorado listed the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species in 1973, and since the early 1990s, the bird has experienced further overall declines in the state.

CPW estimated there were only 161 lesser prairie chickens in Colorado in 2011, after finding just 148 birds in 2010, 75 birds in 2009, 116 in 2008 and just 74 between 2006-2007.

CPW states the lesser prairie chicken population was devastated by severe snowstorms, particularly in December 2006, followed by years of drought. But oil and gas extraction was likely also a factor. According to COGCC data, statewide oil and gas drilling permits reached their peak in 2008, with 8,000 filed permits. Other big years included 2006 and 2007, with 5,900 and 6,300 permits filed, respectively.

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Since the fall of 2016, CPW has been working to restore the bird to the grasslands of southeastern Colorado. In collaboration with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service and others including private landowners, CPW has translocated lesser prairie chickens from Kansas to Colorado’s Comanche National Grassland, and claims to be making modest progress in restoring the bird through these efforts. This will be the last year of translocations according to CPW, which will then assess its efforts and determine the best course for saving the bird going forward. The translocations — funded by a Competitive State Wildlife Grant, Wildlife cash, and Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) funds — cost approximately $300,000.

CPW claims it has invested over a million dollars in preserving the species in the last decade, primarily working “to secure or expand viable self-sustaining populations of lesser prairie chickens.” CPW has also concentrated on habitat restoration and conservation planning.

It is difficult to understand how one government agency such as CPW can be working proactively to relocate endangered birds into the grasslands to increase its chances of survival while another agency like the BLM is simultaneously considering granting oil and gas leases, which will further endanger the same birds in roughly the same areas.

The public comment period for the draft environmental assessment for the Colorado leases recently closed, and the parcels are set to go on sale in September. According to BLM’s Porter, the environmental assessment for the lands in question contains a stipulation for endangered, threatened and sensitive species on all Royal Gorge Field Office lands being weighed for inclusion in the sale. “Under that stipulation, the BLM may deny a proposed activity by a lessee that may negatively affect a listed, threatened or endangered species or their designated or proposed critical habitat,” Porter wrote in an email. But because of the bureaucratic delays already described above, the lesser prairie chicken isn’t technically listed as threatened or endangered by the feds. Being only a candidate for such protections creates a very large BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

loophole that the oil and gas industry can drive right through.

CPW says they hope the BLM will seriously consider their comments and position on the proposed leases, saying they have worked very hard on the conservation partnership.

Despite such possibilities, many critics of the BLM process of leasing public lands find it doubtful that the endangered bird will trump the desires of the powerful oil and gas industry.

The goal of this partnership was to come up with a range-wide conservation plan for the bird, but it was also to prevent the listing of the lesser prairie chicken on the Endangered Species List, an outcome that would have negatively impacted oil and gas extraction in the bird’s habitat.

By creating an industry-funded alternative plan to the ESA that, in theory, would protect the prairie chicken while still prioritizing opera-

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INFLUENCE OF THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY In 1995, the USFWS made the lesser prairie chicken a “candidate” for federal protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

While the USFWS found that such protection was warranted at that time, a listing was precluded due to what the Service considered other higher priority actions. The bird’s status did not change again until 2008 when the USFWS upgraded the prairie chicken’s priority ranking, reflecting an increase in threats it faced from oil and gas extraction and other factors.

Despite this heightened status, a proposed listing under the ESA was again precluded by still other higher priority ESA listing actions.

Finally, things were starting to look up for the bird in 2011. That’s when the USFWS began determining whether the lesser prairie chicken should become fully protected under the ESA. However, a new wrench found its way into the process. During the USFWS’ ESA determination process, WAFWA created a partnership — largely funded by the oil and gas industry — with the states wherein the lesser prairie chicken is native.

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tional continuity for the oil and gas industry, WAFWA and its partners gave the courts the excuse they needed to prevent ESA protection for the bird.

In April 2014, the USFWS finally listed the lesser prairie chicken as threatened under the ESA. However, its assessment included a special rule allowing “incidental take” of lesser prairie chickens by entities enrolled in, and in compliance with, WAFWA’s aforementioned rangewide plan — many of the largest oil and gas companies in the world.

Soon after the 2014 listing, however, the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, which earlier helped create the WAFWA plan, along with eastern rural counties in New Mexico containing oil and gas production, sued the USFWS over the “threatened” listing on ESA. The oil and gas association and New Mexico counties won and were able to overturn the lesser prairie chicken’s ESA listing on proceedural grounds in 2015.

WAFWA’s slide presentation claims its range-wide conservation plan was one of the primary reasons for the court’s decision.

As a result of this ruling, the USFWS removed ESA protections from the lesser prairie chicken in July JULY 4, 2019

2016. By then, state wildlife biologists in Colorado and Kansas counted just two male lesser prairie chickens on the Comanche National Grasslands in Colorado and just five males on the Cimarron National Grasslands in Kansas. The conservation groups again petitioned the USFWS to protect the lesser prairie chicken under the ESA and to grant emergency protections to the most imperiled and isolated populations in Colorado, western Kansas, and along the Texas-New Mexico Border.

According to the conservation groups, the USFWS was supposed to make its decision on listing the bird within 12 months. But so far, the USFWS has yet to act, and it doesn’t plan to do so until at least 2021.

That’s a long time for two birds to hold out on their own.

THE IMPACT OF THE ENERGYINDUSTRY-FUNDED PLAN So just how successful has WAFWA’s range-wide conservation plan been in conserving the lesser prairie chicken without the aid of federal protections?

According to WAFWA, the conservation plan entered its fifth year of implementation in 2018, and by the end of that year, oil and gas industry partners had committed more than $64 million in enrollment and mitigation fees to pay for conservation actions, and landowners across the bird’s range have agreed to conserve more than 150,000 acres of habitat through both 10-year and permanent conservation agreements.

“However, declining [oil and gas] industry enrollments are threatening the long-term viability of the industry mitigation framework part of the plan,” according to WAFWA. WAFWA’s plan created ways for the oil and gas industry to continue extraction while attempting to prevent the listing of the lesser prairie chicken. Although WAFWA claims modest success in terms of conserving land, it says the lesser prairie chicken is on a track to be federally listed and regulated under the ESA because of low oil and gas industry participation. Lesser prairie chicken populations are still declining despite WAFWA and the oil industry’s range-wide plan, and are further see PRAIRIE CHICKEN Page 12

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imperiled by oil and gas-driven climate change and other factors.

Perhaps the most instructive of the slides in the aforementioned WAFWA PowerPoint presentation shows that following 2014, as oil prices fell, so too did oil and gas industry enrollment in the conservation plan. And even as oil prices leveled and began increasing again beginning in 2016, oil and gas industry enrollment in the conservation plan continued to decline.

Oil and gas industry-mitigated projects dropped from 481 in 2014 to 72 in 2017, with a drop in costs from $9 million to $472,936 for the same years. And according to a 2018 WAFWA report, oil and gas industry enrollment continued to fall. Even now, as drilling is booming, companies are not enrolling new mitigation acquisitions where the extraction is occurring, according to WAFWA. The failure of the oil and gas industry to uphold its end of the conservation bargain — all enrollment targets since the court’s ruling have been missed — is putting the industry-friendly plan in jeopardy.

“If companies want the benefits of the [range-wide conservation plan] to avoid federal regulation, higher levels of participation are required,” reads another slide in WAFWA’s PowerPoint.

“The conservation of the [lesser prairie chicken] is dependent upon all of our partners, not just the oil and gas industry,” the USFWS stated, which adds it’s working with all of its partners to ensure there are durable conservation options in place for the bird moving forward. USFWS didn’t respond by deadline as to the accuracy of WAFWA’s claims regarding oil and gas industry enrollments. It also wouldn’t state whether or not the conservation plan has worked, noting only some habitat conservation has been achieved and highlighting the aforementioned pending review of the plan.

WAFWA leadership recently voted to likewise re-evaluate the status of the conservation plan and conduct an audit.

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could be spun as a success story.

THE IMPACT OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT As ESA rules stand now, if the lesser prairie chicken is listed as a threatened species it would have a significant impact, according to Michael Saul, senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.

Such a listing wouldn’t necessarily prohibit the BLM oil and gas parcels from being leased, Saul says, but under the Endangered Species Act, once a species is put on the list, it becomes illegal to kill, capture or harass the species, as well as requiring that all federal agencies, including the BLM, have to consult with the USFWS before taking any actions that could affect a listed species to ensure that those actions won’t jeopardize the continued survival of the species or cause adverse modification to its critical habitat.

But even if listed, the Trump administration and the Department of Interior under Secretary Bernhardt may still get the last word thanks to their previously mentioned efforts to make economic considerations a deciding factor in which species get protected under the ESA. In the case of the lesser prairie chicken, that would be a huge win for the oil and gas industry.

Until the lawsuits and these proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act play out, it will be up to the few remaining lesser prairie chickens to fight for their own survival on the prairie where they once numbered in the millions. It’s a tall order when up against the world’s most powerful and destructive industry and the Trump administration’s quest for “energy dominance.”

“For many thousands of years, lesser prairie chickens have lived on the prairie, in the grasslands, and gone through their mesmerizing dances and songs, enlivening the prairie,” says Robinson. “They’ve been greatly reduced by agriculture and development, and now we’re seeing some of their last homes get leased out for oil and gas. Climate change is crowding them out as well. They need the protection of the Endangered Species Act.” Hopefully, it’s not too late.

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And after visiting the Dairy Arts Center last year, Paradise pitched the idea, and the festival quickly found its home. On July 10, the Boulder community will have a chance to catch the first annual Boulder Environmental/Nature/ Outdoors Film Festival, or Boulder ENOFF for short.

“It is a long name for a festival,” Paradise ou can’t be an outdoor enthusiast and not be a admits with a smile, but it does convey the festival’s overarching themes: “Environmental issues and activlover of nature. Or someone who is concerned ism, appreciation of nature and the outdoors, and outdoor about the environment,” Richard Paradise tells adventure.

So a little bit of everything.”

Boulder Weekly. “It’s all sort of intertwined, and it’s “Though there [are] other film festivals in Boulder — all convergent upon each other.”

N O I G A Paradise knows what he’s talking about. He’s either traveling festivals or BIFF [Boulder PATA ESY International Film Festival, held every winter] spent the past 20 years with the Martha’s RT U O — there’s nothing that specifically focuses Vineyard Film Society in Massachusetts (as on the outdoors and on the environment founder and executive director), but that could really engage the community,” Paradise’s Boulder roots are deep, and the Paradise says, adding that he hopes the programmer has always wanted to come festival will sprout additional screenings, back to the city he loves and bring someactivities and events, “around the year but thing memorable. will culminate with the festival in July.”

His answer: A film festival.

Playing at the Dairy Arts Center’s In addition to its year-round programGordon Gamm Theater, Boulder ENOFF ming, the MV Film Society also produces a presents over a dozen features, documentaries and variety of film festivals — with governing themes shorts. that range from international cinema to LGBT — but the And with heavy-hitters like Woman at War (an festival Paradise knows is tailor-made for Boulder movieIcelandic eco-terrorist/comedy), Biggest Little Farm (a goers is the MV Environmental Film Festival, which celedocumentary about a Los Angeles company leaving the brated its fifth anniversary this May. city in search of a different way of life) and The River and “We both love the outdoors; both love the nature around us; both want to preserve and sustain our environ- see BOULDER ENOFF Page 16

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ON THE BILL: Boulder the Wall (a documentary about where the U.S.Environmental/Nature/ Mexico border meets Mother Nature), Paradise’s Outdoors Film Festival.

July 10-13, Dairy Arts inaugural festival will have no trouble educating Center, 2590 Walnut St., while entertaining.

Boulder. For full schedule “Film is a great start for dialogue, for discusand information visit boulderenoff.org sion,” Paradise says. “It’s a great way to see what else is going on around the country, in terms of solutions. Or around the world, for that matter.”

Each screening will be accompanied by a special guest speaker/commenter, who will help lead discussions with the audience. Watching is one thing, application is another, and Paradise hopes Boulder ENOFF will connect the two.

“The [Boulder] community is very supportive of issues revolving around the environment. Around clean energy, around sustainable energy,” Paradise says. “We’re going to try to tap into all of these organizations that are here already and try to bring them together.”

That’s where the Boulder audience comes in.

“Getting people aware and excited about these subjects is important,” Paradise continues, “but one of the reasons we’re doing this in Boulder is that [it’s] already part of the ethos of the community. It’s already important here.”

Paradise knows there is a danger with preaching to the choir, but he’s determined to make this festival special and cast a wide net.

“The specialness comes from the people who show up,” Paradise says, looking beyond the films and the speakers invited. “It’s the whole audience; it’s the whole group of people who show up. And what transpires in that room after the movie.

“I’ve been at screenings where I’ve had people weeping. I’ve had people be emotionally touched by the content. I’ve had people who were angry, you know, because of what was being portrayed in the film,” Paradise continues. “I think that’s what makes the communal experience of watching a film together so special. ... From night to night and film to film it could be totally different because you have different audiences coming in and out to see something.”

Paradise is banking on that audience to come out. He knows they will.

And not just for this July, but for future festivals as well.

“I go in thinking, ‘This is going to be going for forever,’” Paradise says.

“And beyond me. Beyond my connection.”

“I think film festivals in their own right are special if they’re done right,” he concludes. “And if they’re done with the community at heart.”

The first annual Boulder ENOFF kicks off Wednesday, July 10, with a green carpet opening night gala and screening of The River and the Wall with special guest at 7:30 p.m. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. with music from The Doscocos Jazz Trio and catering by Three Leaf Catering — a company committed to eco-conscious sustainable food service.

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ne of Trace Bundy’s latest YouTube videos isn’t actually a new live performance or the latest alchemic solo re-imagining of a beloved cover tune.

A longtime patron of McPherson Guitars, the highly esteemed Wisconsin-based luthier, Bundy sat down in a darkened studio to play “Joy and Sorrow,” a cut from his 2012 album Elephant King. Looping the chordal underlayment and percussion lines on one of his standard McPherson axes, Bundy puts it down and grabs a black, sinister-looking guitar to play the head and melodic statement. Common to McPherson guitars, the heart-shaped soundhole appears at the top of the body, but the guitar exudes an indifferent laminate sheen over a rigorously industrial honeycomb design, like something from a Ridley Scott fever dream.

Carbon fiber.

Guitarists, and especially those at the upper reaches of the food chain, tend to be almost irrationally picky about their woods and grains and laminates. Playability is one thing ­— you can get that in a $75 starter axe from the overstock corner at Guitar Center — but for an acoustic player, and especially one who traverses the fingerboard and mines even the most subtle tonal murmur from their instrument like Bundy, how the thing sounds and how the strings play against the instrument is everything. Whatever that thing is, it sounded glorious — sparkling highs, precise and well articulated lows.

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Then again, because it’s stronger, it may not.

“The other thing, especially for players like me, coming from Colorado which is such a dry climate, you don’t have to worry about it as much. [e.g., Extreme temperatures and humidity are hell on precisely crafted wood guitars.] So it’s not as sensitive to humidity and temperature... I literally keep it on my couch, with the kids climbing on it, sitting on it. I can just walk by, and, ‘Oh, a guitar, I got 10 minutes, let’s play.’ Where my wood guitars I keep locked up in their case in the closet.

“And here’s the other thing — I carry my nice wooden guitars on the plane with me when I travel. But I put the carbon fiber one in a soft, cloth case, and this is going to sound crazy, I check it. And I dunno if it’s smart, but my theory is that it’s so lightweight, so easy to handle, it’s not going to come crashing down if it gets dropped. I figure [the baggage guys] are going see BUNDY Page 20

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to pick it up, know it’s a guitar, hopefully not throw it, although they probably will anyway, and because it’s strong I don’t worry about it.”

After his July 6 Chautauqua gig with uke maestro Jake Shimabukuro, Bundy will play a few shows down in southwest Colorado, his old stomping grounds, before heading off for a five-day, fingerstyle guitar festival/competition in Arkansas, a six-stringpalooza that will feature elder statesman Don Ross, the probably extraterrestrial Kaki King and the ferocious Adrian Bellue (not a misspelling of the other Adrian Belew). We asked Bundy, who is first and foremost a solo artist, if he enjoyed these types of gigs.

“The last few have been overseas, like in China and Taiwan, but this Arkansas one should be really fun,” he says. “I’m looking forward to it. People will be camping out and stuff.”

The new solo acoustic instrumentalist genre is more like a loosely aggregated mutual appreciation society, almost a fraternity, where players, many of whom came to prominence through YouTube but like Bundy have solidified and deepened their repute by stool-’nspotlight gigging, have grown into learning and emulating and extending each others’ technique. This is hardly a competition for stage space. The audience for this music — comprised of guitarplaying aspirants to new agers to restless off-grid ’grass fans to café and date-night types — seems to grow and embrace the dizzying experimentation that the players continue to extract from the instrument.

So yeah, maybe there’s a competition involved with judges and prizes, but Bundy is pretty well past all that now, having solidified his repute through his unique merger of technique and thoughtful arrangement. The flying capos and shooting-star harmonics are great visual fare, but Bundy’s playing always stands on its own, based in musicality first.

Still, the technique part is fun. Is it a matter of watching the other cats and saying to yourself, “How does he do that?”

“I love that all the guitar players still have that reaction. Heh, maybe there’s some player out there that just says, ‘No, I know it all, I’ve got all the technique,’ but I don’t think so. I know, for me for sure, some of these young guitarists now that are just doing really cool stuff, I’m like, ‘Wait, I need to slow that down and pause it and replay it, because I’m not sure how he did that.’ I mean, I love that.”

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Bundy himself has been the object of that kind of rapturous awe — his callisthenic use of guitar body-slapping percussion, his use of creative capo placement, pinpoint harmonics and inverted melodies has been the stuff of YouTube legend ever since 2006 when he made the otherwise little known German composer Johann Pachelbel (d. 1706) an (almost) household name with his exquisitely latticed read of “Canon in D.” The video is still a gargantuan presence out there, and has inspired hundreds of players (including the Korean wunderkind Sungha Jung) to adopt Bundy’s technique and broaden it across multiple genres.

But if YouTube was Bundy’s entree into the arena 13 years ago, he’s focused more now on the stage.

“For me, the live show is the currency... YouTube is still relevant, but it’s become quite saturated, so it’s harder to get a viral video. But then, things like Pandora and Spotify — a lot of artists complain about those because they pay so little per play, like a fraction of a penny, but everybody uses them. I think I get like a million plays per month on Pandora — I don’t know if it’s someone there who likes my music or an algorithm, but they seem to work my songs into a lot of random playlists. So it can add up.”

And while it’s been seven years since Bundy’s last recorded output, technology creep hasn’t dimmed the lights. Maybe the merch table holds the key to the generational crease in take-home music.

“I had my first show ever, not too long ago, where I did not sell a single CD. And it was a college show. What college students are buying CDs? But guess what they bought? Vinyl. And then on this Midwest tour, outside of Madison, Wisconsin, it was a bit of an older audience, great crowd, and I sold so many CDs.” The music business is dying, dead, molding away in a casket carried to ground by MP3s and piracy and tin-eared buck chasers in Los Angeles. Right?

Except, guess what, it’s working for at least some artists.

“It’s weird. That’s why I hold this with such gratitude. I’ve been doing this for 14 years, and I’ll be honest, it has not slowed down for me. It’s just been a steady growth the whole way,” Bundy says.

“I keep thinking I’ll wake up one day, and it’ll be, ‘Well, that was fun, but I guess it’s over.’ But not yet.”

We made an error in last week’s Buzz, incorrectly naming the BMoCA show Pattern and Dimensions. We apologize.

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Erie. Their two-piece folk outfit Over the “For us, there were some sustainability decisions 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

Rhine just wrapped up a leg of their curthat happened early on in our career,” Detweiler offers.

Tickets are $38.50, rent tour in Massachusetts, and now they’re headed “We realized we had to own our own music to survive, etown.org. back home to their farm in Martinsville, Ohio. we couldn’t give away music to a record label for a They’ll head west in a couple of days for another temporary windfall. We tried to find a touring culture leg of the tour, but for now they’ll rest a spell. The that worked for us, as a married couple. I think we pretdream is to eventually bring folks to the farm — “to lure ty much succeed at figuring that out. Could involve people to us a little more,” Detweiler says. something as simple as one meal a day... with a good Understandable when you’ve been on the road for glass of wine.”

30 years.

Detweiler laughs, but it’s true.

Their latest release, this year’s achingly cathartic “[Tony Bennett] talks about coming to a point in life Love and Revelation, is the 15th album for the duo who where he realized that he was maybe playing fast and once jokingly (but kind of accurately) called their music loose with his ability to practice a vocation over the “post-nuclear, pseudo-alternative, folk-tinged art-pop.” course of an entire lifetime. When he had that epiphaLove and Revelation showcases a band still ny he made some significant lifestyle changes. Now expanding, still finding new breadth and depth in their he’s his 80s, still having a lot of fun as a singer, and a songcraft. With the help of engineer Ryan Freeland — heck of a career. Willie Nelson released three records who engineered Aimee Mann’s 2017 Grammy-winning in the last year, and he’s in his 80s. John Prine, triumph Mental Illness — Bergquist and Detweiler paint Leonard Cohen, made records late in life.” a vivid portrait of the many faces of grief.

“Emmylou Harris,” Bergquist chimes in from someIt wasn’t intentional, Detweiler says, this grief where else in the car. soaked album, but it seemed to present itself. It’s like “We’re looking around and realizing that for some the grief inside of Bergquist, who did most of the people it’s all about the work they’ve done in the past,” songwriting on this album, needed some fresh air, an Detweiler says. “Other people evolved and continued to audience maybe. They’ve lost loved ones, they’ve do pretty interesting work over the course of their lifewatched friends lose loved ones, and you can hear times. I guess we’re more curious about practicing our that kind of individual grief throughout. But there’s a writing and recording and all of that for the long haul.” different kind of grief in the background, something For the past four years, Detweiler and Bergquist collective and hard to name. have lured folks to their 19th century farmhouse for the An American grief, perhaps.

Nowhere Else Festival, a three-day boutique music and “I guess like a lot of people in the country, maybe arts festival. It’s part of that sustainability plan for the duo, we’ve been feeling kind of off-balance about what’s a way to keep making music and building community, but happening with the country politically,” Detweiler says. maybe sleeping in their own beds a little more often.

Who built it? It sparked something in me. There is so “We are grieving the fact that maybe we aren’t quite sure Friendships are part of that plan too. During their trip to much talk of walls these days. We think we need walls as who we are anymore as Americans. There’s a lot of anger Massachusetts, Bergquist and Detweiler spent some time self-imposed safe places. But are they? and shock at the news, but beneath that shock is grief.” with an old friend, artist Barry Moser, perhaps best known “We wrote in an earlier song, ‘As for your tender heart, This grief surfaces in unexpected places, like in the for his illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in this world’s gonna rip it wide open/It ain’t gonna be pretty, song “Given Road,” a real place near the couple’s home in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. but you’re not alone,’” Bergquist continued. “Maybe that’s Ohio.

The three friends share a love of “a good story and a the stretch of any Given Road that’s a gift: the part where “I often come to this intersection and there is that road we discover we are not meant to travel alone. Maybe we stiff martini,” Detweiler says. And Moser’s given them sign waiting: Given Road,” Bergquist told music website already have enough walls. Maybe we need to learn how to important lessons on how to live as artists and stay sane.

Cross Rhythms earlier this year. “There is an old curved “He tells us, ‘Just do the work. Let other people take care of each other.” stone wall there too, which always makes me curious. decide whether or not it’s art.’”

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eople are born and live their entire lives in Manhattan and never ride the ferry to the Statue of Liberty, visit the Empire State Building or take in a Broadway show.

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To which I say, “To each his own,” or perhaps in this context, “To thine own self be true.” Just because a monument, huge hole in the ground, theme park or pastime intrinsically linked to your state’s identity is world renowned doesn’t make it mandatory. Still though, people tend to regret the things they didn’t do more than the things they did, so whether you’re a “Native” bumper sticker-flashin’ Coloradan or are still unpacking your U-Haul, treat yourself to the second-longest-running Shakespeare festival in the country, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF).

For the uninitiated, the CSF takes place every summer on the University of Colorado’s bucolic campus here in Boulder. Don’t let that fool you into thinking it’s a student production, because it most certainly isn’t — not that there’s anything wrong with those. The CSF features professional, sometimes even famous (at least regionally) actors, directors and crew members.

This 62nd CSF season presents two of the Bard’s comedies, As You Like It and Twelfth Night, one of his most famous tragedies, Romeo and Juliet, and a “future history” inspired by and in the style of Shakespeare, King Charles III, which was written by Mike Bartlett and has already been adapted into a well-regarded, madefor-TV movie. Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet play in the beautiful and unique Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre. Emphasis on “outdoor,” because there’s nothing like seeing Shakespeare under the open sky. The

far, in love with Rosalind (Emily Van Fleet) believes her to still be at court. Little does he realize that Rosalind has been exiled by the mean ol’ Duke Frederick (John Hutton) and is similarly a temporary resident of the Forest of Arden.

Orlando suffers so from lovesickness that he goes all First Blogger Ever and literally posts love poems to Rosalind on trees.

Rosalind and her cousin, Celia (Shunté Lofton), happen upon some of Orlando’s missives and, in a nutshell, decide to mess with him. In an effort to protect herself in the dangerous woods, Rosalind is dressed and acting like a man named Ganymede, and it is in that disguise that she encounters Orlando and proceeds to convince him to fake woo Ganymede in order to distract him from his longing for Rosalind.

And that’s all just in the first act! Director Carolyn Howarth’s gambit of having eight actors (Van Fleet, Lofton, Dhonau, Hutton, Leslie O’Carroll, Jihad Milhelm, Josh Innerst and Sean Michael Cummings) play all 19 parts is as successful as it is bold. It results, among other things, in the rare pleasure of seeing local theater legend Hutton play both the hiss-worthy villain Duke Frederick and a tumbleweed, Iggy Pop version of his heroic opposite number, Duke Senior, (not to mention some time spent in drag as country girl Audrey). Similarly, there’s no such thing as too much Leslie O’Carroll, so a double dose of the thespian, as the courtier Le Beau and one of Duke Senior’s men, Jaques, he of the famed, “All the world’s a stage,” soliloquy, is a true boon.

Howarth’s only slightly less risky gamble of including copious musical numbers pays off as well. The songs themselves are enjoyable, and watching this talented group of actors pull double duty as musicians and singers gives As You Like It a wonderfully novel twist.

Summer in Boulder just wouldn’t be the same without the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

You Like It. Through August 10, Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the University of Colorado Boulder, tickets $18 and up, www.cupresents.org.

other two productions appear in the indoor University Theatre, which is a perfectly respectable venue in its own right.

As You Like It is Shakespeare at his romanticcomedy-of-mistaken-identities-culminating-in-multiplemarriages best. By various means and for various reasons, various characters end up wandering around the Forest of Arden. Orlando (Seth Dhonau) is forced into the forest to escape his brother, who has murder on his mind. Orlando, who is deeply, if only briefly thus

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Puccini, Britten and two sacred works

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ON THE BILL: Central City Opera Summer 2019. Central City Opera House, 124 Eureka St., Central City, Tickets and full schedule at centralcityopera.org.

Through Aug. 6.

‘The roof is going to come off’ says Central City Opera general director

by Peter Alexander

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entral City Opera (CCO) opens its 2019 festival season Saturday (July 6) with one of opera’s most loved works, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

Other works on the schedule are less familiar: Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten, which has an all-male cast; and a double bill of two short works for all women, Debussy’s Blessed Damozel and Francis Poulenc’s Litanies to the Black Virgin.

Puccini and Britten will be presented in the Central City Opera House, and the shorter works in St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, at 135 Pine St. in Central City.

The season came together around the choice of Billy Budd for one of the mainstage productions. Pelham Pearce, the general/artistic director of CCO, is a fan of Britten’s music and aims to eventually do all of his operas at CCO. So far they have done six, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Turn of the Screw.

“Britten is a creature of the theater,” Pearce says.

Still, Billy Budd, with its large all-

male cast and setting on a British manof-war, is a challenge for any opera company, much less a small house like Central City. “Billy Budd is, at this point, the biggest show we will ever have done inside the theater,” Pearce says. “There are so many people it’s just crazy, but it’s such a glorious work, I swear the roof is going to come off.”

The opera is based on a short story

by Herman Melville, about a naive young sailor on a British ship during the Napoleonic Wars. Budd is framed for mutiny by a jealous and evil sergeant-atarms, whom Budd kills in a moment of shock. Even knowing that Budd is innocent of the charges against him, the ship’s captain allows him to be condemned to death.

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“How [Britten] creates the sense of isolation and water on a boat in the music that he wrote for Billy Budd is just amazing to me,” Pearce says.

Recreating a man-of-war ship on the tiny CCO stage seems like a huge challenge, but Pearce notes that the space onboard the ship was actually cramped. Besides, he says, “We have some really great people that look forward to the challenge of creating work in this little theater.”

Performances of Madama Butterfly will bring back a production that was first presented in 2010, but with a new director, Alison Moritz. It will not be a recreation of what was done before, Pearce says. “I gave her free rein.

“She wants to flesh the characters out more. She wants them to be real to the audience, because that will create a story that people can connect to, rather than observe, is how she described it.”

The two smaller works both originated as sacred music. Both are for exclusively female voices, which fills a gap left by Billy Budd’s all-male cast. “I had to have [works for] women,” Pearce says. There are women in the Butterfly chorus, and “other than that

they’ve got nothing to do.

“I was aware of The Blessed Damozel. It’s a gorgeous piece of music that’s been sitting in the back of my head for decades. I went looking for something else to fill out the time and I ran across the Poulenc.”

Debussy’s Blessed Damozel is a story of sorts, about a woman who has died and is pining for her lover left behind. In contrast, Poulenc’s music was written as a liturgical litany, full of text repetition, but the real story is how he came to write it. His very first in a large catalogue of sacred pieces, the Litanies to the Black Virgin was written after a pilgrimage Poulenc undertook after the death of a close friend. “[These two works] were not composed to be staged, but they tell a story,” Pearce says. “I left it to (stage director) Alessandro Talevi, who’s always up for a challenge, to stage these pieces inside the church. We’ve got costumes for everybody — the whole thing is going to be staged.”

While you may be looking forward to the performances, Pearce is more excited right now, during the production process. “I enjoy the process more than I enjoy the performances,” he says. “It’s getting to that point that’s always the fun for me, because that’s where the real creativity happens.”

“Getting to that point” where it all comes together in an opera house — sets, costumes, lighting, direction, singers and orchestra — is one of the most complex jobs in the world. “It is,” Pearce says. “There’s too many moving parts, too many opportunities for problems.

“It’s a miracle when it happens.”

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Tierro & Bridget Law: SummerFest Concert.

6:30 p.m. Friday, July 5, Double Rainbow Ranch, 6541 N. 63rd St., Boulder, 303-516-1004.

Guitarist Tierro Lee (member of Kan’Nal and producer of ARISE Music Festival) has been composing instrumental music for two decades. Using Arabian and Latin scales, the Tierro Band creates compositions with world music flare. Accompanied by Bridget Law (member of Elephant Revival) on fiddle and vocals, Charlie Parker Mertens on bass and Jonny Jyemo on drums, this supergroup stokes the energetic fire and offers a transcendent experience.

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events FELLOW PYNINS — HOUSE CONCERT.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, Sunflower Ranch, 4035 Moorhead Ave., Boulder, 413-336-3419.

15TH ANNUAL BOULDER JUGGLING FESTIVAL.

9 a.m. July 5-7 Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 720-515-0538; Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.

The 15th iteration of this three-day festival offers juggling workshops for beginners, intermediates and pros alike. Portland-based juggler and performer Josie Mae will lead two culturally focused workshops addressing feminist theory in the juggling and flow arts communities and on using circus arts for social change. There’ll be a show at the Circus Center featuring world-class performers on Saturday night. $25 for a full-weekend ticket. More on the workshops at bit.ly/ BoulderfestWorkshops2019.

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Dani Aubert and Ian BEEHIVE PRODUCTIONS Van Ornum, otherwise known as Fellow Pynins (pronounced PIE-nins), are a contemporary folk duo.

The duo — based in Minneapolis — traveled far and wide for years as part of a seven-piece folk orchestra called Patchy Sanders. When Patchy Sanders folded, Aubert and Van Ornum decided to take a bare bones approach to songwriting and performing, using their acoustic instruments and voices to write the material for their first album, ‘Hunter & the Hunted.’ The collection of beguiling material quickly received accolades from the likes of BBC, ‘fRoots Magazine’ and ‘Country Music People.’ Tickets are $15/$12 students.

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WILLIE SUGARCAPPS.

7 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

MCE PHOTOGRAPHY Birthed from a series of casual Southern Alabama songwriter-in-the-round jam sessions, Willie Sugarcapps is an organic outgrowth of the chemistry between five distinct musicians. Within these sessions, a connection formed between Will Kimbrough, Anthony Crawford, Savana Lee, Grayson Capps and Corky Hughes.

Individually, these musicians have written, recorded and toured throughout the U.S. with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, Dwight Yoakam and Steve Winwood.

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THURSDAY, JULY 4 Music

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Boulder Concert Band. 11 a.m. and noon.

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

Boulder Concert Band. 7:15 p.m. Coal Creek Golf Course, 585 W. Dillon Road, Louisville.

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

KGNU’s Youth Radio Workshop for Teens.

10 a.m. KGNU Community Radio, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-4885. More at kgnu.org Nappy Roots at Mile High Spirits. 5 p.m.

Mile High Spirits Distillery and Tasting Bar, 2201 Lawrence St., Denver, 303-296-2226.

Peak2Peak. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Shakedown Street and Nick Gerlach. 10 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

The Waterloo, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-522-6162.

Events Bear Cubs Camp. 10:30 a.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Garden Work Hour. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

SET IN THE FICTIONAL town of Crystal, Colorado, ‘The Gifted School’ observes the drama within a community of friends and parents when a school for gifted children opens in the community. The novel explores the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Bruce Holsinger will speak about and sign his new book, ‘The Gifted School,’ on Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Boulder Book Store.

FRIDAY, JULY 5

TUESDAY, JULY 9

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

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

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

SATURDAY, JULY 6 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

SUNDAY, JULY 7 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m.

Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

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

Fleet Maull — Radical Responsibility.

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

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 Mob Duo. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Bruce Holsinger — The Gifted School. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Longmont Half & 5K. 6 a.m. Sandstone Ranch Park, 3001 Colorado Highway 119, Longmont.

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

Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont, 303-875-7514; 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-875-7514.

Shanea EP Release Show. 7:30 p.m. Seventh Circle Music Collective, 2935 W Seventh Ave., Denver.

Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Expeditions Plus One. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Winterland. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Classes — with Grace. 7 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Ghost Light — Dead & Co. After Party.

11:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Music

It’s Always Sunny in Tijuana. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Alliance Francaise presents: New Origin Trio. 7 p.m. Dazzle at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5100.

Kitchen Dwellers Pickin’ On The Band — Dead & Co. After Party. 11 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

FRIDAY, JULY 5

The Amazing Acro-cats. 7 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303-477-9984.

Through July 14.

B-Side Music Fridays — with Justin R Bank + Brianna Straut. 5 p.m. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

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

The Bright Light Social Hour — with Walker Lukens. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

Creature Canopy, House With A Yard. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Dead & Company. 6:30 p.m. Folsom Field, Stadium Drive, Boulder.

Espresso! Gypsy Jazz & Swing. 5:30 p.m.

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

Marcia Ball. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Pictureplane. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Poor Moxi. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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

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

Ryan Chrys & the Roughcuts. 6 p.m.

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

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

Comedian Jerry Rocha. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. Through July 7, denver.improv.com.

The Grawlix. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through July 7, comedyworks.com.

Jello Biafra’s Incredibly Strange Dance Party — 4th Of July Edition! 9 p.m. Lion’s Lair Lounge, 2022 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-320-9200.

Josh Blue. 7:15 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through July 6, comedyworks.com.

True West Productions Barrels Jackpot. 4 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

SATURDAY, JULY 6 Music August Burns Red: 10 Years of Constellations Tour. 6 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482.

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arts A·MAZE·D. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 1.

Amuse Yeux: A Small Delight For The Eyes.

Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden.

Through Sept. 15.

Breaking Ground — Alice Stone Collins, Saxon Martinez, and Pam Rogers. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Opens July 10. Through July 28.

Cara a Cara (Face to Face). The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 14.

Clark Richert: Pattern and Dimensions. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 15.

Climate Ribbon. Boulder Public Library, Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Through Aug. 28.

Discarded Jewels: Found Object Art by Susie Biehl. Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Through July 6.

Elements — The Boulder Potters’ Guild: 50 years and counting. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Through. Aug. 4.

Evan Cantor, New Work (oil paintings). Seeds Cafe (Boulder Public Library), 1001 Arapaho Ave., Boulder. Through July 31.

Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.

Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.

Fiber Art by Dianna VanderDoes. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Sept. 6.

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontol-

DIANNA VANDERDOES is a fiber artist working in cotton and silk fabric. She combines surface design techniques such as dyeing, painting, image transfer and applique in layers that she stitches together to create complex images. VanderDoes’ work is primarily an investigation of her relationship with the natural world. Her interest is not as much in creating a realistic replica of what she sees in nature as it is in portraying the sense of mystery that is part of that relationship.

ogy Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.

Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.

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

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

Through Aug. 18.

The Light Show. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 2020.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

The museum has numerous permanent and temporary exhibits.

Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom. Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 23.

Alex McLeod: NPC Hell. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 28.

COURTESY OF NCAR COMMUNITY ART PROGRAM

LC’s Latin Jazz Band The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, July 5 7–10 PM Happy Hour till 7pm every Friday!

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

Through Sept. 1.

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

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

Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture.

Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America.

Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 25.

Some Men Lie About Other Things. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through July 6.

Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020.

Watercolor by Anne Gifford. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Sept. 6.

PACK-IT-UP. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 23.

WED. JULY 10 12:30 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & OUR MOON AND YOU 2:30 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & CRATEROLOGY

THUR. JULY 11 12:30 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & CRATEROLOGY 2:30 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & OUR MOON AND YOU 7:00 PM LIVE TALK: A NEW VIEW OF THE MOON FROM NASA’S ONGOING LUNAR EXPLORATION 8:30 PM LASER SHOW: PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

FRI. JULY 12

A Bear. 2:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Dead & Company — Second Night. 6:30 p.m. Folsom Field, Stadium Drive, Boulder.

Benny Bassett: Red, White, and Booze.

4 p.m. Parkwood Amphitheater, 6051 E. Dartmouth Ave., Denver.

Food Truck & Live Music: Sally and George. 5 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

Brassaholics Sextet. 6:30 p.m. Crystal Springs Brewing Company, 604 Main St., Louisville, 303-665-8888.

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

Chase Atlantic. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Jake Shimabukuro & Trace Bundy. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Christopher Ryan: Obscuracana Folk Rock. 7:30 p.m. Burns Family Artisan Ales, 2505 W. Second Ave., Unit 13, Denver, 720-693-9099.

The Marcus King Band — Dead & Co. After Party. 11:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Compound Sound Refugee Party featuring DrFameus, Schema Things, Kaleid, Mammoth Water, A-Mac. 4 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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

Cosmic Charlie Brunch — with music by Peak2Peak. 9 a.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-7399.

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

Cycles + Flash Mountain Flood — Dead & Co. After Party. 10:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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

Summer Courtyard Concert Series. 7 p.m. / pôr/ wine house, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville.

Taylor Shae Duo. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont,

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Testify — A Tribute to Rage Against The Machine. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Veronique Van Pelt presents: the Deep Cuts Showcase no. 7. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Winterland — A Grateful Dead Tribute.

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

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

Drop In Tech Help. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Gold Panning. Noon. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N. Bridge St., Nederland, 303-258-7332.

7:00 PM LIVE TALK: OUR FUTURE IN SPACE: THE MOON & BEYOND 8:30 PM CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY PREMIERE 10:00 PM LIQUID SKY: THE AGE OF AQUARIUS

SAT. JULY 13 1:00 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 2:30 PM CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 10:00 PM LIQUID SKY: KID CUDI MAN ON THE MOON

SUN. JULY 14 1:00 PM MAX GOES TO THE MOON & OUR MOON AND YOU 2:30 PM CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 4:00 PM LIVE TALK: NUESTRA LUNA ESPECIAL

Pool Party. 6 p.m. Sunset Pool, 1900 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free see EVENTS Page 30

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Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Summer of Discovery: Harry and the Potters at the Bandshell. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

GABE KOSKINEN

AFTER FLEEING HOME to escape political persecution, Rosalind finds herself hiding in the countryside among a boisterous cast of characters, making unexpected acquaintances and experiencing the restorative power of love along the way. ‘As You Like It’ is now showing at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival through Aug. 10.

Summer of Discovery: Live Raptors! By Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. Noon.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; 3 p.m.

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

SUNDAY, JULY 7

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location FRIDAY JULY 5

RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS 8PM SATURDAY JULY 6

VERONIQUE VAN PELT PRESENTS: THE DEEP CUTS SHOWCASE NO. 7 8PM SUNDAY JULY 7

HARPER & LEE 8PM TYLER ADAMS & CATON SOLLENBERGER 9PM MONDAY JULY 8

LAUREN.NAPIER & VIC RUGGIERO 8PM TUESDAY JULY 9

STEVE AYERS 8PM ABBY BROWN 9PM WEDNESDAY JULY 10

RABBLEFISH 8PM THURSDAY JULY 11

PAPER MOONSHINE 8PM FRIDAY JULY 12

MAHADEV OK 8PM CHRISTINA VANE 9PM MIGHTY BROTHER 10PM SATURDAY JULY 13

SHANNA IN A DRESS 8PM THE MAILBOXES 9PM ETHAN MINDLIN JONES 10PM

Music The Artisanals. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m.

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

Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-875-2292.

Brazilian Samba Workshop. 2:30 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007.

City Park Jazz 2019. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 720-402-5033.

Family Concert: ‘Peter and the Wolf.’

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

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

Live eTown Radio Show Taping with Over the Rhine and special guests. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Beauty and the Beast. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 21.

Well — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through July 20.

Cinderella and Her Barely Godmother.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Saturdays and Sundays only through Aug. 5 Crowns. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 4.

Nirvamlet — presented by Band of Toughs.

Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Aug. 3.

720-201-3731.

The Mavericks and Los Lobos. 6:30 p.m.

Denver Botanic Gardens — York Street, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500.

New Ben Franklins. 3 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Melissa Etheridge. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Tyler Adams & Caton Sollenberger. 9 p.m.

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

So You Think You Can Dance Camp. 8:30 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

Villalobos Brothers — with El Javi. 5 p.m.

Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

Events

Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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

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

Sonder. 4 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver, 303-295-1759.

The Wizard of Oz. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through July 7.

Tarzan The Musical. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Through Aug. 25.

Twelfth Night. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Boulder. Through Aug. 11.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival Classics 101: ‘King Charles III.’ 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dream Tank. 9 a.m. Peregrine Crypto Cafe & Co-work + Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 917-699-8351, dreamtank.co.

Martinis & Movies. 7 p.m. Halcyon, a hotel in Cherry Creek, 245 Columbine St., Denver, 720-772-5000.

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

The Democracy Jazz Quintet. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Matt Woods and the Natural Disasters.

8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Nikki Lane. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Open Mic. 3 p.m. Vic’s Espresso, 1055 Courtesy Road, Louisville, 303-440-8209.

Open Mic — Andy Eppler. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

So You Think You Can Dance Camp — Longmont & Frederick. 8:30 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

Sound Beginnings Sample Class. 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Music

Prince & Princess Camp. 3:45 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

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

Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

Quiet Writing and Sack Lunch Social. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. East Boulder Rec Center, Boulder.

Summer of Discovery: Sticky Fingers Cooking. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tyler Ramsey and Carl Broemel West Coast Duo Quest Tour. 7 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

MONDAY, JULY 8

Happy Hour 4-8 Every Day THELAUGHINGGOAT.COM

Lauren Napier & Vic Ruggiero. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder,

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Romeo and Juliet. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado. Through Aug. 10.

Grant and Tone. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Head Room Sessions No. 35: Dollhouse Thieves and Wellington Bullings. 7 p.m.

ReCreative Denver, 765 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

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As You Like It. University Theater, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 10.

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TUESDAY, JULY 9 Music Abby Brown. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movesee EVENTS Page 32

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FILMS THURSDAY JUlY 11

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w/ giAnT wAlking RoBoTS, ReD SAge, BlooDPReSHAH, DJ imeH & DA TeACHA

Roni Size & CASUAl CommAnDeR

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SUnDAY JUlY 28

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SATURDAY AUgUST 24

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THURSDAY & FRiDAY SePTemBeR 12-13

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w/ THe DeeR, CHe APAlACHe (ARgenTinA – PATio SeT) & HigH CoUnTRY HUSTle (PATio SeT)

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w/ THe wookS, lAiD BACk CoUnTRY PiCkeR & CHelSeA nolAn

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Sunday, July 7 Doris’ Sunday Matinee ‘This Island Earth.’ 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Tuesday, July 9 Kids Films: ‘Cinderella.’ 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

2 SeTS: TRAveRS BRoTHeRSHiP eATS A PeACH & oRiginAl SeT w/ keSSel RUn & Big Time RASCAlS (PATio SeT)

FRiDAY, SATURDAY & SUnDAY AUgUST 2-4 @ SUnRiSe RAnCH in lovelAnD

(SUBlime TRiBUTe) w/ lil’ ween (ween TRiBUTe) PeRFoRming “THe mollUSk” & XoA

Other locations Friday, July 5 Film Night. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787.

Friday Family Film: ‘Cars’ (G) 117 minutes. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

FRiDAY JUlY 12

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Boulder Environmental/Nature/ Outdoors Film Festival. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through July 13.

July 10: ‘The River and the Wall’ — Opening Night Reception July 11: ‘Blue’ July 11: ‘Into the Canyon’ July 11: Clean and Renewable Enery Film + Forum — ‘Current Revolution’ July 12: ‘Artifishal’ July 12: ‘This Mountain Life’ July 13: Inspiring Eco/Outdoors Shorts

July 13: ‘The Biggest Little Farm’ July 13: ‘Women at War’ — with panel + closing night party

TRAveRS BRoTHeRSHiP

DoBRe BRoTHeRS live (eARlY SHow)

At the Boe (Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder) ‘Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché’ July 10-13 ‘The Bikes of Wrath’ July 3-6 ‘Klimt and Schiele: Eros and Psyche’ July 7-10 ($15) ‘Ramen Shop’ July 10-13 ‘Storm Boy’ July 3-9

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ment, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; 12:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dairy Arts Center Presents Adam CaytonHolland: Happy Place. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Festival Plaza Storytime. 10 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Flatirons Food Film Festival. 6 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Hot! Hot! Hot!: Sizzling Food, Film, and Fun. 6 p.m. The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-5928.

KGNU Summer of Love Fund Drive. 7 a.m.

KGNU Community Radio, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-422-5012.

LongsPeak Net Meeting. 8:30 a.m.

LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Hwy, Longmont.

Nature Detectives in the Field: Moon Mysteries. 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Classes with Grace. 7 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Bourbon & Blues — with the Jack Hadley Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns

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

Let’s Play Music Sample Class. 5 p.m.

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

Midday Music Meditation. Noon. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Mozart Under Moonlight @ Dillon Amphitheater. 6 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

The Night Queens. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

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

RE:Search featuring Roni Size and Casual Commander — with Jordan Polovina, Buck Whylin and special guests. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Rose Hill Drive plays Zeppelin. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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

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

So You Think You Can Dance Camp. 8:30 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

Studio 775: Create a Tactile-Accessible Book (Register). 1 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Willie Sugarcapps. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

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FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS BOULDER Boulder Concert Band on the Green. 11 a.m. Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road.

An iconic Independence Day concert, featuring special guest conductor Colonel Thomas H. Palmatier, who has prepared a rousing Fourth of July program.

Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast. 8 p.m. (doors open at 7:45 p.m.; fireworks begin at dark, usually around 9:30 p.m.)

An annual tradition since 1941. Locals flock to the University of Colorado’s football stadium, Folsom Field, to take part in a stadium-wide sing-along, listen to live music, see Ralphie — the real buffalo that is CU’s mascot — and of course, watch the live fireworks show. Entertainment begins at 8:30 p.m.

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LOUISVILLE July 4th Fireworks and Celebration. 6 p.m. Coal Creek Golf Course, 585 Dillion Road, Louisville.

This free annual community celebration includes: live patriotic music performed by the Boulder Concert Band; food trucks from around the region; bouncy houses and inflatable fun; free face painting; free balloon twisting; fireworks beginning at dark (approximately 9:30 p.m.)

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LONGMONT Longmont Symphony’s July 4th Concert in the Park. 11:30 a.m. Thompson Park, Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Complete with patriotic music, a picnic contest and prizes, kids conducting the orchestra, and cannons for the ‘1812 Overture,’ this performance can’t be missed.

City of Longmont Fireworks Display. 9:30 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

For the best view of the fireworks, park and either walk to the fenced area in front of the Jack Murphy arena or watch from anywhere within a one mile radius of the fairgrounds. KGUD 90.7 FM will sync their music on air to the fireworks display.

Events Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film Festival. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 774-392-2972. Through July 5.

Cake Pop Workshop (Teens Grades 6-12).

2:30 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

The Colfax Comedy Fest Bad Apples Show.

8 p.m. Kinga’s Lounge, 1509 North Marion St., Denver.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m.

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

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m.

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

Midday Music Meditation. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Prince & Princess Camp. 3:45 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

Summer of Discovery: Henna Design Workshop. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Summer of Discovery: My Art Canvas Painting. 6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Summer of Discovery: Reality Garage Virtual Reality Demo. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Walking Dogs in an Illinoisan Fall

by David Rawson

We used to walk local shelter dogs in the fall.

One of them had to stop every few yards to pee.

We didn’t mind, & neither did the other dogs.

We were all in this together, six weeks before the frost. We grew tired of collecting, of eating ramen, of presences we felt in our alone moments.

We knew that despite the smell of the paper factory from an adjacent town, despite how many people had been shot under the world’s largest ketchup bottle, Southern Illinoisan fall felt so right, & we knew we had the best leaves. Then we had the best exits.

Flutter & surge are cousins. Our steps felt so permanent. We could see in front of us.

Looking back, we could see all the way to the trains. I don’t want to remember famous battles. I don’t want to name the parts of a crossroad flower. I want to memorize the sound of every train, to know it miles before it knows I’m waiting.

I want to howl, but only once the dogs begin to howl.

David Rawson is the fiction editor for South Broadway Ghost Society and is the author of Proximity and A Jellyfish for Every Name (ELJ Editions).

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ON THE BILL: ‘Midsommar’ opens in wide release on July 3.

ani (Florence Pugh) is hurting. A family tragedy has left her alone and shattered her sense of security. When she’s not lying despondent, Dani seeks the comfort of Christian (Jack Reynor), her boyfriend who was thinking of ending their rocky relationship before the tragedy. Now, he’s been backed into a corner and looking for a way out — maybe in Sweden.

Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), one of Christian’s roommates, has extended an invitation to his mates — Christian, Josh (William Jackson Harper), an anthropology doctoral candidate, and Mark (Will Poulter) — to visit his family’s commune in Sweden for the nineday midsummer festival. Not wanting to be left behind, Dani invites herself, and the unsuspecting quartet heads off into the Swedish countryside.

At this point in the movie, Midsommar is firmly rooted in reality. But the worst is yet to come, and writer/director Ari Aster makes this clear through ominous images from cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski and a droning score from The Haxan Cloak — the stage name of British musician Bobby Krlic. Additionally, Aster slows his movie greatly with long, teasing takes and creeping camera movements: He is in no hurry to get where he is going. Aster toys with the audience, eliciting their urgency to get to the good stuff and then punishing them when he does.

Midsommar is a movie consumed by death; first by smoke, finally by fire. So it’s not much of a surprise when Dani and company learn that all is not what it seems in the Swedish countryside. Yes, the sun is high and bright, the fields are lush and green, and maidens frolic around in white dresses with blue trim, but this is no idyllic orgy as Mark might’ve hope, no awakening for Christian and certainly no solace for Dani. Only Josh, who is excitedly working on his dissertation, seems pleased.

Running 140 minutes, Midsommar can be divided into three sections: dread, horror and absurdity. The first two are the movie’s strongest, tackling the pain felt by those left behind. It also manages to turn a moment of graphic horror into a philosophical appreciation for the cycle of life. But then Aster discards all that and starts swinging for the fences, laying one bizarre image on top of another. Some are fascinating — powerful hallucinogens play tricks on the audience as they do the characters — most are just plain silly.

When person-of-the-moment Keanu Reeves was recently on The Late Show to promote John Wick 3, host Stephen Colbert asked the actor a beautiful and surprising question: “What do you think happens when we die?” Reeves took a deep breath and replied: “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.”

The first two-thirds of Midsommar agrees. The final third couldn’t care less.

If I can’t have all of you, then I don’t want any of you Breaking up is hard to do in ‘Midsommer’

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he Longmont outpost of Anthony’s Pizza and Pasta is a good place to get a slice, or a whole pie, a few local beers and watch the game or chat with the family. The pizza — your choice of Neapolitan, white or Sicilian slices/pies with a wide selection of toppings — is straightforward and delicious. We opted for a pizzeria classic: Neapolitan with pepperoni. The crust is thin and crispy, the sauce is flavorful and the cheese is well-apportioned — it’s got the right blend of cheeses and isn’t heaped on. The pepperoni is vibrant and spicy. Altogether, it’s a good pie. $12.50-$16.75.

Kung Pao Chicken Lunch Hao Way Chinese Cafe 1678 30th St., Boulder, haowaychinesecafe.com

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ao Way Chinese Cafe is housed in an unassuming storefront off of 30th street, but that doesn’t mean the classic Chinese dishes it serves are plain. The Kung Pao Chicken is bursting with classic Chinese flavors. The marinade is slightly sweet with a kick from spicy peppers. The succulent and tender white chicken breast is juxtaposed with a crunch from water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and peanuts. Served with a fried egg roll, fried cheese wonton and a choice of white or fried rice as well as wonton, egg drop or hot and sour soup, the lunch variety warms the belly and soul. $6.10.

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Don’t lie to kids and craft real Ranch dressing

by John Lehndorff

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ow stupid do they think our children are?

Apparently, Kraft thinks that our little ones are idiots based on the food conglomerate’s newest product: Kraft Salad Frosting.

“Ranch dressing is the most popular dressing in the United States, and kids will eat anything with frosting, right? It’s a match made for dinnertime bliss. Now, convincing children to eat salad, broccoli and carrots may be a whole lot easier. Just add Kraft Salad Frosting,” Kraft claimed in a press release.

No, it’s not a joke.

So, your kid opens the “Salad Frosting” in its deceptive squeezable pouch like it is Christmas morning and out pours…

Kraft Ranch Dressing.

Here is how Kraft rationalizes their fake news: “Innocent lies parents tell their kids help alleviate the pressures of everyday parenting, and if it gets kids to eat their greens, so be it.”

So be it? Really?

Let’s count together all the ways this white lie is a horrible idea for both kids and parents. First, either your kid knows you were lying all along or realizes that they are the butt of an adult joke. The sensitive ones will have trust issues the next time you ask them to taste something. Some may develop a dysfunctional relationship with everything from arugula to cardoons, not to mention their parents.

Besides, a squeezable pouch just encourages kids to eat too much dressing, but that is not the important issue. If your kids do not see you making and enjoying salads and vegetables without a blanket of goop, chances are that they won’t either.

Besides genes, we pass along taste.

You would almost be better off letting your kid eat an equal amount of Betty Crocker vanilla frosting. Two tablespoons of BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

real frosting is only 30 more calories than Kraft’s Ranch, and is actually lower in fat and sodium — Kraft Ranch Dressing delivers 110 calories, 11 grams of fat and 290 milligrams of sodium and monosodium glutamate, xanthan gum, phosphoric acid, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, potassium sorbate and just a hint of calcium disodium EDTA. I helped raise a son. I know the games parents play to get kids to eat vegetables and generally eat healthier. My deal was that he could always get Noodles & Company mac and cheese if it included chicken and broccoli. I’ve got no objection with hiding carrots in meatloaf, cauliflower in pizza crust and zucchini in brownies, but flat-out deception is distasteful.

WE DON’T NEED TO TRICK kids, like Elizabeth Ulrich, with marketing gimmicks to get them to enjoy vegetables.

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At the very least, get that processed crap out of your salad bowl and make ranch dressing from scratch. It’s easy, if more expensive, especially if you use organic ingredients. If you want to make it thick like frosting, substitute mascarpone cheese for sour cream.

Ranch Dressing 1/2 cup sour cream (or plain Greek yogurt or mayo) 1/2 cup buttermilk 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons each: minced fresh Italian parsley, chives, dill 1/8 teaspoon sea salt 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper Optional: 1/8 teaspoon each: onion powder, dry mustard Mix ingredients well, chill at least 4 hours, preferably overnight. Taste and tweak the seasonings to your kid’s taste.

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IN PRAISE OF FRESH DOUGHNUTS Boulder’s got a lot going for it foodwise, but it is a doughnut desert. There are some doughnut chains, and a few bakeries and supermarkets fry dough.

There are some good independent doughnut shops in the vicinity, but zero in Boulder. Now, there is hope just a stone’s-throw from Google in an Airstream trailer. Erik Hotaling’s Motorrad Cafe is set in the dirt parking lot of House of Motorrad, which offers dirt bike sales, rentals and tours. He dishes great breakfast burritos featuring Tender Belly Bacon and eggs from New Moon Farms, as well as pancakes and Cuban lunch bowls, but the star attractions are scratch-made, yeast-raised doughnuts. Dusted with powdered sugar or glazed in various ways, these lightly sweet puffs have a dense, moist middle and great homemade taste. Ponder a Conscious Coffee espresso with a chocolate doughnut at a picnic table while the morning freight train rumbles by.

LOCAL FOOD NEWS A cycling-themed Italian eatery, Strade Bianche Café, has opened at 1739 Pearl St., former location of L’Atelier (and long ago, Attusso’s of Brooklyn).

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Fabio Flagiello formerly created cuisine at Bacaro and Pastavino. Flagiello will fit right in. Next door is Full Cycle, a bicycle shop and espresso-wine bar. Across the street is Frasca, where hospitality guru Bobby Stuckey runs marathons and chef Lachlan McKinnon-Patterson loves to bike. Nearby is Cured, owned by former Tour de France rider Will Frischkorn. With so many fit Boulderarea chefs who are rock climbers, trail runners and yoga teachers, there should be a Boulder triathlon — cooking, mixology and athletic competition — for restaurant people.

FINDING FRESH Wherever you are driving this summer in Colorado, chances are you are speeding past a lot of great local food.

To put it on your map, get the free 2019 Colorado Farm Fresh Directory which lists farmers’ markets, roadside stands, u-picks, CSAs and wineries including stops in Longmont (Aspen Moon Farm), Boulder (Munson Farms), Lafayette (Cottonwood Farm) and Niwot (Kilt Farm). Download app at coloradoproud.org.

TASTE OF THE WEEK All solutions to food waste should be as tasty as the chicken chicharrones at The Post Brewing Co. in Lafayette. The eatery is known for its chicken, meaning there is a fair amount of excess chicken skin. That skin could go in the stock pot to make gravy, but it’s so much tastier this way. Pork chicharrones are a thick and puffy snacks. The chicken equivalent are craveable triangles of chicken skin fried until crisp brown and served as thin chips for dipping in hummus.

WORDS TO CHEW ON “American food is polyglot and problematic, multi-varied, confused, stained with a thousand national sins. But it is our own. And we should be proud of it. ...

Food may yet be the truest expression of who we are, and why we, as a country, matter.” — Josh Ozersky John Lehndorff is celebrating July 4 by talking with Colorado wine expert Doug Caskey on KGNU at 8:25 a.m. and judging crusts and fillings at Jamestown’s July pie contest in the afternoon.

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New in brew: Hard kombucha Further adventures in fermentation

by Michael J. Casey

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olorado drinkers are awash with options. That’s quite a shift considering 10 years ago Colorado’s Blue Law kept liquor stores closed on Sunday. Now you can buy booze any day of the week, snag a six-pack at the grocery store and enjoy a cocktail at the movie theater. Not too mention, almost every event, charity function or group activity either has an alcohol sponsor or is at least anchored by a trip to the local watering hole.

With all these options of where to drink comes an overwhelming array of what to drink: beer, cider, wine, hard seltzers and more flavor profiles than you can shake a stick at. On top of that, drinkers are becoming more health-conscious and seeking lowcalorie alternatives to their favorite beverages. Some brewers are trending toward lighter styles, while others are incorporating lines of hard seltzer.

Following in a similar suit — albeit with much more flavor — are hard kombuchas, fermented tea with any number of roots COURTESY OF KYLA HARD KOMBUCHA and fruits added in the production process. Fermented with SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) as opposed to beer’s typical use of Saccharomyces strains, kombuchas produce vibrant esters, sour aromas and a distinct flavor of vinegar. Looking to drink lighter but craving more flavor than light lagers and hard seltzers have to offer?

Think kombucha next time you drink.

Before you dive in headfirst, give the New Image Brewing lineup a look. In addition to hop-saturated hazies, New Image produces a line of kombuchainspired sour ales, Dyad, with fruit variants changing every now and then: Blackberries & Cream; Passion fruit, Orange and Guava, even Cran-Cherry Crumble. You can find them in cans around town, or visit the taproom in Old Town Arvada — the folks there will prep you for the flavor profile of a true hard kombucha.

Ready to try the real thing? Look for GT’s Living Food Kombucha, easily found at most Whole Foods, or KYLA Hard Kombucha at your local Lucky’s Market and area liquor stores.

GT’s Living Foods offers a half-dozen or so kombuchas with elevated levels of alcohol — anywhere between .05 and 4.3 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) — but its Heavenly Hops is the one that hews closest to an ale. Using a dual fermentation, Heavenly Hops clocks in at 3 percent ABV, which does provide alcohol’s warming and relaxing sensation without any unwanted impairment. The nose is loaded with bright lemons and fresh ginger; the mouth is tart and acidic up front but blossoms about halfway down. It’s kind of like drinking a sour ale mixed with a dry-hopped India pale ale and a dollop of apple cider vinegar. It hits all the registers.

KYLA’s Hard Kombucha is smoother and somewhat sweeter — despite no additional sugars. If the vinegar of GT’s Kombucha isn’t your thing, give one of KYLA’s three variants a quaff — Ginger Tangerine, Hibiscus Lime and Pink Grapefruit. It’ll help you recover from a hard workout or accompany a workday lunch without the dreaded 1 p.m. nap.

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ong Pan remembers the first time she had a cup of really good tea.

“I have a very vivid memory. I grew up drinking tea but back in that time, 1980s or something, China was pretty poor. So good high-end teas, usually each family saved for guests. We drank not-so-great teas… older leaves, bitter,” Pan says.

“My first cup of good tea, that was Dragon Well, one of the top 10 Chinese green teas. I was in high school. My brother had graduated from college, and he started to work and make money. He treated me to a glass of Dragon Well.

It still sticks in my memory.”

Today, Dragon Well sits on the shelves at Ku Cha House of Tea, which Pan runs with her husband, Qin Liu. Nearby is a tea from Pan’s home province of Jiangsu. It reminds her of home, that’s why it has a spot, but it’s not the finest tea in the shop, she admits.

Pan pours hot water over a small, clay Yixing tea pot, filled with Ti Guan Yin oolong tea. The water overflows out the top and spout and down onto a wooden kombu tray. Pan pours some tea around the table. It’s floral and light, a little sweet. The cups empty and Pan pours another round, the flavor slightly intensified.

“We visited a guy a couple years ago in Fujian,” Liu says between sips. “That’s where oolong tea originated. He had almost 40 years experience making tea, so he still uses very traditional ways. Oolong tea has to bake for a long time. Normally today a lot

A spot of tea, with more to come

Ku Cha House of Tea is expanding, but owners Rong Pan and Qin Liu want you to slow down

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of places are using electric machines to set temperature to roast the leaves, because electrical machines are easier to control temperature-wise. But the electrical machine doesn’t really give you that smoky flavor to the leaf because it’s a machine. The traditional way is to use coal to bake them. So they have to build the ash a certain height to control the temperature. When they start baking, it’s almost two weeks non-stop. They have a group of people to measure the thickness of the ash to make sure the temperature is controlled.”

It’s one of those stories that grows ears on your taste buds — when you know what went into making it, things suddenly taste better. But Pan and Liu are tea shop owners, connoisseurs, fanatics, lifelong consumers. Tea is elemental in their lives, and has been since they were raised on opposite sides of China four decades ago.

“Tea is part of China’s everyday life. We have seven essentials to life: coal, rice, cooking oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and the last one is tea. It’s always part of Chinese peoples’ lives,” Pan says.

So of course they can taste the difference between oolong smoked atop hand-tended coals and oolong tea grown just down the road smoked atop electrical burners. But could the average American, who’s tea-curious but middling around with name-branded teabags, tell the difference between the two oolongs?

“If you have a chance to drink them side by side, you will notice immediately,” Liu says.

That’s what’s missing from the tea experience in America — the ability to become immersed in tea so that we can develop our palates and test for ourselves its (cancer-fighting, metabolism-boosting, homeostasis-maintaining) health benefits. Right now, you could walk down the tea and coffee aisle of any Boulder County grocery store and find a product that says “green tea.” But that’s like walking into I

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a liquor store and buying “red wine.”

Why? “In China, we have 6,000 different green teas from 1,000 producing counties in 19 provinces,” Pan explains.

So much of the work Pan and Liu do at Ku Cha is to expose curious consumers to try as much tea as possible. The breadth of flavor and quality is so vast, vaster than wine maybe, when one considers the varieties of tea, the number of producers, the regions producing those teas, the predilections of the tea master, the equipment with which tea leaves were prepared, its freshness, the time of year the leaves were picked, how securely they were packed, the temperature at which the tea was steeped, how long it was steeped, how you were feeling the day you drank it, on and on and on.

And it can be hard to find hard-andfast rules for quality. For instance, good green teas, Pan says, taste nutty and milky, bad ones taste grassy… unless of course it’s a certain Japanese green, which can taste grassy depending on the variety. Good sencha is imbued with umami you can smell without steeping, but it’s not necessarily a quality specific to green tea. Black tea raises body temperature, green tea lowers it, so if you drink black tea in the afternoon, it might make you feel hotter than you’d like.

Fermented tea like pu-erh aids digestion, so it’s good after meals, but if you’re on an empty stomach, it might make you hungry.

“It’s very hard to generalize,” Pan says, appropriately.

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RONG PAN AND QIN ings. You can LIU run Ku Cha House also create of Tea in Boulder. They your own blend have already expanded into Fort Collins and to take home at Cherry Creek. They a self-serve hope to become “the loose-leaf bar. number one brand in the specialty tea marBut you can ket.” also just ask, Pan says, to find out why, say, leaves picked in spring are more expensive (they’re better quality and picked before bugs come, reducing the use of pesticides).

And if you already know tea, then you know there are few places like Ku Cha. Teavana, as corporatized as it has become, exposed Americans to finer tea, and now Pan and Liu want to serve as the next wave of tea ambassadors.

They’ve already expanded to Fort Collins and Cherry Creek, and they’re setting their sights on broad expansion — Liu says they “want to become the number one brand in the specialty tea market.”

That expansion might bring more than just fine tea from around the world to the American masses. It might bring a greater willingness to set aside time, gather and talk. In fact, at some point in our conversation, Liu says the teabag was invented in America, to make brewing tea easier, faster and quicker, more suitable for our harried lives. Even as Teavana and specialty teabag brands brought quality tea stateside, the culture that Liu and Pan espouse at Ku Cha hasn’t yet settled in — therein lies the opportunity.

“This method of drinking loose-leaf tea,” Liu says, waving his hand over the table, “is meant to actually slow it down, to take a little more time to prepare it and to get relaxed. That’s the part that’s been missing.”

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All of those were created by nuclear reactions blazing on the insides of stars that later died. So it’s literally true to say that much of your flesh and blood and bones and nerves originated at the hearts of stars. I invite you to meditate on that amazing fact. It’s a favorable time to muse on your origins and your ancestry; to ruminate about all the events that led to you being here today — including more recent decades, as well as the past 13.8 billion years.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Most American women couldn’t vote until a hundred years ago. Women in Japan, France and Italy couldn’t vote until the 1940s. Universal suffrage has been a fundamental change in how society is structured. Similarly, same-sex marriage was opposed by vast majorities in most countries until 15 years ago, but has since become widely accepted. African American slavery lasted for hundreds of years before being delegitimized all over the Western world in the nineteenth century. Brazil, which hosted forty percent of all kidnapped Africans, didn’t free its slaves until 1888. What would be the equivalent of such revolutionary transformations in your own personal life?

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the power to make that happen during the next twelve months.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Gemini musician Paul Weller is famous in the UK, though not so much elsewhere. According to the BBC, he is one of Britain’s “most revered music writers and performers.”

To which I say: revered, maybe, but mentally healthy? Not so much. He bragged that he broke up his marriage with his wife Dee C. Lee because “things were going too well, we were too happy, too comfortable, everything seemed too nice.” He was afraid that “as a writer and an artist I might lose my edge.” Don’t you dare allow yourself to get infected with that perverse way of thinking, my dear Gemini. Please capitalize on your current comfort and happiness. Use them to build your strength and resilience for the months and years to come.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian voice actor Tom Kenny has played the roles of over 1,500 cartoon characters, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Spyro the Dragon, Jake Spidermonkey, Commander Peepers and Doctor Octopus.

I propose that we make him your role model in the coming weeks. It will be a favorable time for you to show your versatility; to demonstrate how multifaceted you can be; to express various sides of your soulful personality.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Leo author Donald Miller reminds us that fear can have two very different purposes. On the one hand, it may be “a guide to keep us safe,” alerting us to situations that could be dangerous or abusive. On the other hand, fear may work as “a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.” After studying your astrological indicators for the coming weeks, Leo, I have come to the conclusion that fear may serve both of those functions for you. Your challenge will be to discern between them; to know which situations are genuinely risky and which situations are daunting but promising. Here’s a hint that might help: trust your gut feelings more than your swirling fantasies.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Why do flocks of geese fly in a V-formation?

Because to do so enhances the collective efficiency of their travel.

Each bird generates a current that supports the bird behind it.

Let’s make this phenomenon one of your power metaphors for the coming weeks. What would be the equivalent strategy for you and your tribe or group as you seek to make your collaborative efforts more dynamic and productive? Unforeseen help will augment any actions you take in this regard.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue,” mused Libra author Truman Capote. “That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” That cynical formulation has more than a few grains of truth in it, I must admit. But I’m pleased to tell you that I suspect your experience in the coming weeks will be an exception to Capote’s rule. I think you have the potential to embark on a virtual binge of rich discussion and intriguing interplay with people who stimulate and educate and entertain you. Rise to the challenge!

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In accordance with astrological rhythms, you are authorized to make the following declarations in the next two weeks: 1. “I refuse to participate further in this situation on the grounds that it might impinge on the expansiveness of my imagination.” 2. “I abstain from dealing with your skepticism on the grounds that doing so might discourage the flights of my imagination.” 3. “I reject these ideas, theories, and beliefs on the grounds that they might pinch, squash, or deflate my imagination.” What I’m trying to tell you, Scorpio, is that it’s crucial for you to emancipate your imagination and authorize it to play uninhibitedly in the frontiers of possibilities.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Dear Sagittarius: I invite you to make a copy of the testimonial below and give it to anyone who is in a position to support your Noble Experiment. “To Whom It May Concern: I endorse this Soulful Sagittarius for the roles of monster-tamer, fun-locator, boredom-transcender, elation-inciter, and mountaintop visionary. This adroit explorer is endowed with charming zeal, disarming candor, and abundant generosity. If you need help in sparking your enthusiasm or galvanizing your drive to see the big picture, call on the expansive skills of this jaunty puzzle-solver.”

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Life will conspire to bring you a surge of love in the coming weeks — if you can handle it. Can you? Will you be able to deal adeptly with rumbling love and icy hot love and mostly sweet but also a bit sour love? Do you possess the resourcefulness and curiosity necessary to have fun with funny spiritual love and running-through-the-labyrinth love and unexpectedly catalytic love? Are you open-minded and openhearted enough to make the most of brilliant shadowy love and unruly sensitive love and toughly graceful love?

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According to my assessment, the coming weeks will bring one such opening for you. To help you cultivate the proper spirit, keep in mind the teaching of Aquarian theologian and author Henri Nouwen. He said that life’s gifts may be “hidden in the places that hurt most.”

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: The Japanese word “wabi-sabi” refers to an interesting or evocative imperfection in a work of art that makes it more beautiful than if it were merely perfect.

“Duende” is a Spanish word referring to a work of art that gives its viewers the chills because it’s so emotionally rich and unpredictably soulful. In the coming weeks, I think that you yourself will be a work of art with an abundance of these qualities. Your wabi-sabi will give you the power to free yourself from the oppressive pressures of seeking too much precision and purity. Your duende can give you the courage you need to go further than you’ve ever dared in your quest for the love you really want.

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Dear Dan: I’m a man from a very liberal background. Recently, a girl I started dating — a girl from a similar background — mentioned that she has “a thing for black guys.” She also met my childhood had ever checked herself for possible prejbest friend, a man of Korean descent, and udice where her sexual desires are concommented to me that she found him cerned, and she shut the conversation handsome despite not typically being down by accusing me of trying to control attracted to Asian guys. The position that her. I reassured her that I wasn’t trying to I’ve always held is that we’re attracted to control her, but it is possible I was projectindividuals, not types, and it’s wrong to ing the insecurity her comments stirred have expectations of people based on into the conversation. I’m trying to balance race — especially when it two components: my own ROMAN ROBINSON comes to sexualizing/ insecurity and the possibility fetishizing people. I think we that she’s holding a legitishould date and have sex mately prejudiced opinion with whomever we want that makes me uncomfortand not carry prejudiced able. Any advice? expectations into our rela—Seeking To tionships. I am worried she Interrogate Newish sees black men as stereoGirlfriend’s Statements types of athleticism, confidence and the other compliDear STINGS: It’s a big cated constructions we’ve leap from “I have a thing for made about the black body, black guys” to “white guys like black men having bigaren’t masculine or wellger dicks. I also worry that she might see endowed,” STINGS, and you made that me as less masculine and less wellleap on your own. So in addition to conendowed because of my race. I eventually fronting your new girlfriend about her attiasked her about these issues, and we had tudes and assumptions… you might want a tense conversation. I tried to ask if she to give some thought to your own?

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That said, the things your girlfriend has said about Black and Asian men are legit problematic. When someone describes their attraction to a certain group, racial or otherwise, as “a thing,” that usually means they see members of that group as things — and in a society that dehumanizes Black people, white people can easily come to see Black people as objects.

As for her comment about your Korean friend: Prevailing beauty standards shape our ideas about attractiveness, and those standards are shaped by our rabidly racist culture. A person socialized to only recognize the beauty of men or women of European descent may not even consider — they may not even be able to perceive — the attractiveness of people who aren’t white. And then when someone of a different race does manage to make a blip on their sex radar, it comes as a surprise. But instead of reconsidering their ideas about attractiveness, a dumb fucking white person — even one from a liberal background — is likelier to say something stupid like “I don’t usually find Asian guys hot, but your Korean friend is attractive,” rather than

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rethinking their assumptions about their desires. Declaring one Asian guy an exception allows someone like your girlfriend to have her racist cake (“I don’t find Asian guys hot”) and eat it too (“But this Asian guy is hot”).

It’s a shame your girlfriend reacted defensively when you tried to bring all this up, STINGS, but sometimes people react defensively in the moment and then keep thinking about it. My advice: Keep bringing it up — but it would help if you owned your own shit during these conversations (and you have some shit of your own) rather than just self-righteously going after your girlfriend for her shit. I have to say, though, I disagree with you on one thing: People do have types, and there’s nothing wrong with having types.

It’s a good idea to ask ourselves whether our “types” are actually ours and not just assigned to us by conventional standards of beauty (white, slim, young) or a thoughtless/fetishizing reaction to those standards (a desire to transgress with nonwhite, larger, or older folks).

On the Lovecast, it’s the one-minutewonder show: savagelovecast.com. Send questions and comments to mail@savagelove.net, follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage and visit ITMFA.org

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NA testing has revolutionized criminal justice and personalized Western medicine over the past decade, and a breed of new companies thinks it can do the same for cannabis.

Weed-centric DNA tests started to crop up last summer, using your specific genetic information to highlight traits like metabolic function and risk for anxiety, with the ultimate promise of recommending a strain of cannabis that best matches your needs.

There are a handful of companies doing this work — MediCann, Strain Genie, CannabisDNA — but bioscience research company EndoCanna Health seems to be at the forefront, garnering attention from Rolling Stone and Forbes in the last five months.

“While 99.9 percent of your DNA is identical to everyone else, it is that 0.1 percent that makes your experience with Cannabis Personal (sic),” the company’s website cinematically reads. “Our team of world-renowned scientists have developed a DNA test that will analyze your genetics to learn how your DNA may influence your experience.”

“Think of us as a scientific matchmaker,” Len May, CEO of EndoCanna Health, told Rolling Stone in the July edition.

Last year, EndoCanna Health introduced its Cannabinoid DNA Variant Test, an at-home kit that helps the company provide you with a “personalized ratio of cannabinoids and terpenes,” May told Rolling Stone.

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of strains like AK-47.) So if you struggle with anxiety or weight loss or insomnia or cognitive function or depression or pain, there’s a strain for that, and DNA testing companies like EndoCanna want to shepherd you into a new era of scientifically driven weed consumption.

Just like other at-home genetics test kits, EndoCanna Health uses a DNA sample (even one you’ve already provided to one of three companies: 23andMe, Ancestry DNA or Family Tree DNA) to screen for mutations known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced snips). These genetic variations influence our risk for cancer or our propensity for obesity or how we respond to drugs and nutritional supplements.

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Thus, scientists at companies like EndoCanna believe they can tell us a lot about how we individually respond to different strains of cannabis.

But DNA testing is pretty hip right now, and when things are hip, they tend to get oversold.

Right now there are companies ready to use your genetic information to connect you with the perfect wine (Vinome), diet (DNAfit, GenoPalete, DNA Diet… you can see how much science preys on our fear of obesity) and even roommates (a partnership between U.K. housing website SpareRoom and Swiss DNA testing company Karmagenes). Seriously, there’s a company called Soccer Genomics that delivers personalized reports to help “unlock the player within you.” There are hundreds of these niche direct-to-consumer DNA tests that offer insight into various aspects of your life.

But droves of geneticists are voicing concern about the value and credibility of tests like these.

“The data has no basis,” Eric Topol, a heart doctor and geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute, told MIT Technology Review in October 2017. “It’s pseudoscience — complete, utter nothing.”

Topol told MIT he fears the field of genetics could be overrun by “misapprehensions, bias and privacy violations.” While many of these companies make it clear in their privacy statements that they don’t sell your DNA info to third parties, what happens down the line when 23andMe starts to tank and Facebook has the money to snatch it up?

“It’s a jungle,” Topol told MIT. “It’s the mix of things that are proven and unproven that is really irresponsible, in my view. How is the consumer to know?”

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K, I’ve smoked a lot of pot over the years (I inhaled for the first time in 1965) but there is nothing wrong with my long-term memory.

And I recall that back in 2012 then-Governor John Hickenlooper got his shorts in a knot over the prospect of Colorado voters legalizing recreational marijuana by passing Amendment 64 and went out of his way to urge a no vote.

Colorado voters weren’t impressed (Amendment 64 Gage Skidmore

got 55 percent of the vote), leaving Gov. Hick kinda dazed and confused on election night.

But Hickenlooper was a good enough politician that (as we used to say back in the ’60s) he didn’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind was blowing.

So he spent the balance of his time in office working to implement a legal, regulated recreational marijuana market in Colorado — for which he deserves full credit.

But, on June 27, during the Democratic presidential debate, now-presidential candidate Hickenlooper engaged in some political lily-gilding over his pot politics in 2012.

In his closing statement at last Thursday’s debate, Hick presented a laundry list of his accomplishments as

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“We were the first state to legalize marijuana and we transformed our justice system in the process,” he said. “You don’t need big government to do big things,” he continued. “I know that because I’m the one person up here who’s actually done the big, progressive things everyone else is talking about.”

Marijuana activists were not amused.

“Hickenlooper deserves zero credit for legalization in Colorado and his attempts to claim otherwise are politically craven and amount to outright lies,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri told the Marijuana Moment website.

“The only ones who deserve credit are the citizens of Colorado who took the bold and sensible step towards legalization, despite the utter lack of leadership from their governor.”

Added Mason Tvert, who co-directed the Amendment 64 drive, “It’s a little strange that Hickenlooper is seemingly taking credit for legalization in Colorado, and it’s upsetting that he tried to use it as a way to distinguish himself from the rest of the field.

As a mayor and then as governor, he repeatedly opposed efforts to roll back marijuana prohibition, including the state’s historic legalization initiative in 2012.”

“While he deserves credit for implementing that law and finally coming around on the issue,” Tvert said, “he has no business holding it over the heads of other candidates who support legalization — especially since several of them never fought it like he did. If Hickenlooper wants to use marijuana policy as a campaign issue, he should avoid misrepresenting what he did in the past and focus on what he would do in the future.”

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Good advice. Hick should quit trying to gloss over his past opposition to legalization and say the three magic words: “I was wrong.” Then he can more credibly take credit for what he subsequently did right. And his campaign promises concerning what he would do if he were elected president (admittedly a long-shot) would carry a lot more weight as well.

He now says he favors 1) removing marijuana entirely from the drugs regulated under the dederal Controlled Substances Act, where it’s now treated like heroin; 2) allowing the Food and Drug Administration to study marijuana; 3) providing banking access to marijuana businesses; and 4) expunging the records of individuals with prior “low-level, non-violent marijuana convictions.”

All of which is pretty mainstream for Democratic presidential candidates these days. Give Hickenlooper credit for that much. But when it comes to marijuana reform, a leader he wasn’t and he shouldn’t claim to be.

It’s more like he stumbles forward when he’s pushed.

• • • • Two governors who are leaders on marijuana reform are J. B. Prizker of Illinois and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, both Democrats.

On June 25, Prizker, who campaigned on marijuana reform last year, signed legislation making Illinois the 11th state to have legalized recreational marijuana.

(Signing the bill earned Prizker a shout-out from Mick Jagger at a Rolling Stones concert in Chicago a few hours later, which drew a roar of approval from the crowd.)

On June 28, Grisham announced she will place recreational marijuana legalization on the governor’s call for next year’s short session of the legislature, which will begin January. The 30-day session is mostly limited to considering items on the governor’s call. A New Mexico marijuana legalization bill passed the State House earlier this year, but died in a State Senate committee.

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