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merica’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war. Not our country’s many military clashes with foreign nations — but our own unending war for democracy in the U.S. Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in trying to take wealth and power from the workaday majority and concentrate both in their own hands to establish a de facto American aristocracy. Every time, the people have rebelled in organized mass

struggles against the monopolists and financial royalists, literally battling for a little more economic fairness, social justice and equal opportunity. And now, the time of rebellion is upon us again, for We the People are suddenly in the grip of a brutish level of monopolistic power.

Corporate concentration of markets, profits, workplace decision-making, political influence and our nation’s total wealth is surpassing that of the infamous era of robber barons. Apple, which just became the first U.S. corporation to reach a stock value of $1 trillion, is now larger than Bank of America, Boeing, Disney, Ford, Volkswagen and 20 other brand-name giants combined. And the powerful tech industry is now controlled by just five superpowers — Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix — which raked in half of this year’s

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stock price gains by the 500 largest corporations. Indeed, the recent gold rush of corporate mergers has created megafirms, shriveling competition in most industries — airlines, banks, drug companies, food, hospitals, hotels, law firms, media, oil, etc.

The result of fewer and bigger corporations is that those few attain overwhelming power over the rest of us. They are able to control workers’ pay, crush unions, jack up prices, squeeze out smaller businesses, dominate elections, weaken environmental projections… and become even fewer, bigger and more powerful.

They are waging all-out corporate class war on the American people and on our democratic ideals — and they’re winning.

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ccording to the Daily Camera, the Boulder City Council last week “voted to move forward with a flood mitigation plan that ignored expert advice, objections from a key project partner, and preferences of the public and a city advisory board.”

Good for the Council.

It dared to think for itself. That’s the good news. The bad news was that the Council was making the best of a bad situation.

The flood mitigation plan the Council adopted was one of the options proposed for CU’s South Boulder Creek property. The plan, affectionately known as “Variant 1,” was selected over the equally evocatively named “Variant 2” plan.

While both plans involve building flood control detention ponds on the property, the Variant 2 calls for 100 acres of ponds while Variant 1 calls for 140 acres. The Variant 1 ponds would hold more water, but not a huge amount more — 1,100 acre-feet compared to 1,000 acre-feet.

(An acre-foot of water is the amount of water that it takes to cover one acre to a depth of a foot — 43,560 cubic feet.)

However, in order to store 1,000 acre-feet of water in the smaller Variant 2 pond, the pond will have to be made deeper, which will require the pond’s spillway under U.S. 36 to be more constricted and more likely to be plugged up with debris in a flood. If that happens, flood water will run over the road and into the residential neighborhoods north of U.S. 36. Variant 1 has a less constricted spillway and is somewhat less likely to plug up, and because the water in the Variant 1 ponds is spread over a wider area it would drain somewhat more slowly.

CU favors Variant 2. It hates Variant 1. That’s because the extra 40 acres of detention ponding will occupy some of the land CU wants to develop.

CU’s development plans for the property, which are somewhat fluid, so to speak, call for building 750 apartments, 375 townhouses — allegedly affordable housing for faculty and staff — and a 1.25-million-square-foot mixed use “academic village” on the western third of the property. Variant 1 looks like it would extend detention ponding into one-quarter to one-third of the land CU wants to develop.

The six Council members who voted for Variant 1 picked the better plan, but the truth is both plans suck.

Both variants have supposedly been designed to cope with a “500-year” flood, Boulder Weekly

Floods and the city, CU edition by Paul Danish

a flood that has a two-tenths of a percent chance of occurring in any given year. For South Boulder Creek, a 500-year flood would produce a flow of about 12,000 cubic feet per second (12,000 cfs) at the CU South property.

The trouble is much larger floods have an annoying habit of occurring a lot more frequently along the Front Range than once every 500 years.

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people were killed, Denver had more than an hour’s warning, but the flood did a billion dollars’ worth of damage. It led to the construction of Chatfield Dam south of Denver.

If the winds had been a little different, either one MAYBE of these storms could have flooded South Boulder Creek. Or Boulder Creek.

A Big Thompson-size storm on South Boulder Creek would fill the detention ponds in either the Variant 1 or Variant 2 flood control plans in less than half an hour.

The flow that caused the Platte River flood would fill them in about 5 minutes.

If floods of that magnitude took place on South Boulder Creek — and there is no reason why they couldn’t — the detention ponds would be useless.

Even if the spillways didn’t clog up, they couldn’t handle the flow. The water would top U.S. 36 and wreak havoc in the east Boulder neighborhoods north of the highway. It could also back up into CU’s planned housing and academic village.

Here’s an alternative flood plain management plan for South Boulder Creek: Don’t build anything in a freaking flood hazard area like CU South. Sooner or later it is going to get hit by a Big One — and probably a lot sooner than

500 years.

CU should never have bought the South Boulder Creek property in the first place. The most intelligent thing it could do is sell the land to the City of Boulder and Boulder County for IT’S open space. It could then take the money and use it to acquire land for housing and an academic village somewhere that isn’t in a flood hazard area.

But there’s no such place in Boulder, you say?

You’re probably right. So why not look to, say, Louisville, Superior, Lafayette, Longmont, Broomfield or Westminster?

A lot of students are living in those towns already.

CU is already building more and more of its housing and academic buildings away from the central campus — on the east campus and on the east end of Williams Village, for instance. So why not find a site a few miles further out and get a better, safer, cheaper project?

Or just junk the whole CU South idea and use the money for some other purpose — like doing some of the $452 million in deferred maintenance on its existing buildings. Maybe it’s time for CU to quit expanding in Boulder and start taking care of what it has.

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time for CU to stop expanding in Boulder and start taking care of what it has.

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The Hill Hotel is not a done deal.

City Council will make a determination whether this project will move forward on Sept. 4. I urge every citizen of Boulder who has an interest to contact the Council about this project before then.

There have been many ideas presented as to how to make the Hill a more desirable place, especially for the sake of businesses in the area. The most recent feedback can be found in the University Hill Reinvestment Strategy Survey results from January 2017.

Respondents’ largest concerns were parking and cleanliness — both reasonable concerns that should be addressed to fit Boulder’s plan to sustain small, local businesses. The path to accomplishing this doesn’t include destroying existing small businesses to make room for a hotel that caters exclusively to wealthy tourists.

This hotel would displace nearly 20 businesses, many run by long-time members of our community, including the only laundromat and one of the few small grocery stores remaining in the area. About one-third of these businesses would be replaced if the hotel is built. Rent on the new properties will likely be considerably higher, and favor businesses that cater primarily to hotel guests, not Boulder or Hill residents. I can think of few ideas that would be less beneficial to small business, despite the fact that Council has stated on several occasions that maintaining and supporting affordable small businesses is a priority.

While parking is a problem on the Hill, Boulder is supposed to be steering toward reducing traffic, congestion and emissions. Encouraging more people to drive to the Hill only compounds the issues we have. The cost incurred for the new spaces will be about $20 million in public money from the general fund (about $250,000 per new parking space) using certificates of participation, which don’t allow the public to participate in a vote for their use. It is a waste of valuable city resources to help a luxury hotel get parking spaces, especially during a tax shortfall.

The Hill needs revitalization, but Council needs a better plan. The plan should be for the benefit of Boulderites, and not at the cost of long-standing businesses that service our community.

Tell Council to find a better plan for the Hill on Sept. 4.

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Last week, Lafayette City Council passed a resolution referring a pollution tax to the voters. The proposed tax, paid by drillers not consumers, copies a pollution tax referendum proposed by the City of Boulder.

The sustainability “experts” at the city of Boulder set the tax using EPA’s estimate of the social costs of carbon and methane. Here’s the going rate for breathing benzene and other hydrocarbons and contributing to species and environmental extinction: up to $6.90 a barrel of oil and $.88 per thousand cubic feet of gas.

According to Lafayette’s city attorney, the tax won’t apply to oil and gas extracted from shale located in the City limits of Lafayette, only to oil and gas extracted from a well pad located in the City limits. So if Lafayette residents are counting on pollution tax revenue to help pay for their kids’ asthma or cancer treatments, none will be collected from Extraction Oil and Gas’s future wellpad in Erie’s Parkdale development.

Boulder experts also say the true social cost of the two fossil fuels is actually much, much higher — 40 and 480 percent of the sale price of oil and gas, respectively. But that rate is way too high [for the drillers to keep on drilling] so they proposed a scaling factor to reduce the tax. Thoughtful.

Here in Boulder County, we’re awash in market environmentalists including the Boulder Democrats, politicians, candidates and local City Councilors. Keep the indebted drillers drilling so they can pay off Wall Street while quelling any looming rebellion by hapless local residents.

Pollution taxes, carbon taxes, cap and trade, and 200 species are going extinct every day. Where’s the Invisible Hand when you need it? Or are we not sending the right “market signal”?

All these schemes put a price tag on global environmental destruction and let the pollution roll on. If you pay up, it’s OK to destroy our children’s future. The market über alles!

Real environmentalists have said all along: stop the bullshit and fight like our like our lives and children’s futures depend on it.

Merrily Mazza/Lafayette City Council member

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TOO MUCH TO RISK news Activists dig in against oil and gas development they claim threatens the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve and nearby water supplies

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he first time Anna Lee Vargas visited the Sand Dunes, she cried. She was in kindergarten, on an end-of-the-year field trip, and had somehow lost a

shoe.

“It was eaten by the creek, and I went back with only one shoe,” she remembers.

“It’s out there in the abyss of many other shoes eaten by Medano Creek.”

The sixth-generation San Luis Valley native has come back to the national park every summer since, to swim in the creek flowing west out of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and walk the sandy dunes, formed by the mountains that shield the wind and the water that carries the sand back to the valley floor.

She’s continued the tradition with her young daughter — a seventh-generation native — and last year, Vargas says, the creek was so deep they could jump off one of the ledges into its cool waters.

This year, however, Medano Creek didn’t flow to the valley floor. It “trickled down” to the parking area in May, according to the National Park Service (NPS). As of mid-June, “it had retreated back into the mountains” and has been dried up four miles above the dunes since July.

And instead of her annual family trip to the sand dunes, Vargas has been on a mission to prevent oil and gas development on the other side of the mountains near the east entrance of the National Park.

I’m walking with Vargas along a sandy

ridge, breathing heavily as our feet move slowly through the deep sand. We’re still relatively low, compared to some of the 750-foot-high dunes — the tallest in North America — that tower in front of us as the dramatic 14,000-foot peaks of the Sangre de Cristo mountains create a dramatic backdrop. It’s mid-July and at 9 a.m. already too hot to walk barefoot in the sand. Still, hundreds of people are hiking around us, setting up sun shades and sledding down the dunes, undeterred by both the heat and lack of water. A mixture of laughter and screams disrupts the otherwise serene landscape.

Vargas is the director of project management and community outreach at Conejos Clean Water, a grassroots nonprofit that focuses on environmental, social, economic and food justice issues in the San Luis Valley. The organization is part of a coalition of community and environmental groups working together to prevent the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from auctioning off 11 parcels, roughly 18,000 acres, for potential oil and gas development in neighboring Huerfano County. Ten of the 11 parcels are within eight miles of the Park’s eastern boundary, Vargas says, one parcel is less than a mile away.

“From our perspective it’s just too close to our dunes, it’s too close to not be concerned,” Vargas says.

On July 10, a few days before my visit, the BLM announced it was deferring these particular lease sales in order to consult Boulder Weekly

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with the Navajo Nation, which recently purchased a ranch that encompasses about 70 acres of the potential leases and expressed concerns over their ability to preserve sacredness of their ancestral land. Nearby Blanca Peak (Sisnaajini or the White Shell Mountain) is considered sacred by the tribe.

Vargas seems somewhat relieved by the announcement, but also knows it’s not the end of the threat.

“It’s a small victory; it gives us time to really strategize,” Vargas says.

“They could come back and say we talked to the Navajo Nation and we came to a consensus that there really are no concerns and the lease sale is back.”

• • • • Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve was created in 1999 as an expansion of an already existing national monument formed in 1932. The creation was a bipartisan effort to preserve not only the natural landscape but the deep aquifer underneath the surface. The complex hydrology system comprised of underground water reserves and above-ground wetlands keeps the dunes intact. If, according to NPS, the aquifer gets too low and mountain streams cease to flow, sand recycling would dramatically slow, or even stop altogether.

The park is known as one of the quietest in the country, and its lack of light pollution, plus dry air and high elevation, makes for some of the clearest night skies found anywhere. Bighorn sheep, elk and other wildlife migrate through the surrounding area, on either side of the mountains, both in and outside the park boundaries.

Vargas, and others, worry that energy development, even if it’s on the other side of the mountain peaks, threatens all of this — clear skies, air quality, wildlife migration and water.

“Right now 14 percent of our youth (in the San Luis Valley) have asthma; the rate of asthma in Colorado is 10 percent, so we have a higher rate of childhood asthma as it is. And then we have what is called dark night skies. A lot of people come here for the solace,” she says. “You see this beautiful mountain range? It’s not going to keep out everything.”

But the bottom line?

“Agua es vida,” Vargas says. “We strongly believe that. Water is our most precious resource, and we will defend it. We will fight for clean water.”

The BLM announced the lease sale earlier this spring, when it also released an environmental assessment (EA) that contends there would be no significant environmental impact from opening up the lands to energy development. In March, the agency received more than 4,000 comments during the 15-day winBoulder Weekly

dow citizens and stakeholders had to submit their concerns or support. This time frame was significantly shorter than those for previous lease sales.

The shortened comment period was implemented by the Trump administration as a national policy in early 2018, part of Department of the Interior Director Ryan Zinke’s leasing reforms. In his Instruction Memorandum, Zinke says the purpose of the policy is “to simplify and streamline the leasing process to alleviate unnecessary impediments and burdens, to expedite the offering of lands for lease, and to ensure quarterly oil and gas lease sales are consistently held.”

In April, Denver-based EPA officials wrote to the BLM, suggesting the lease sale be delayed until a decades-old resource management plan (RMP) could be updated. Since the plan was published in 1995, “the BLM has learned about oil and gas development and about how to protect environmental resources from undue impact,” the letter states. The EPA’s concerns include potential contamination of the Huerfano River downstream of the parcels, the impact of subsurface development on the complex hydrogeology of Huerfano County, and the lack of site-specific air quality analysis over the national park in the EA. The letter also informs the BLM of the Navajo Nation’s recent purchase of Wolf Springs Ranch and advises the agency to consult with the tribe, which, it appears from the EA, hadn’t yet been done.

“This land is sacred, and the Navajo Nation will always protect the beauty and sacredness of the land,” tribal President Russell Begaye told The Denver Post in May. Governor John Hickenlooper, who normally avoids interfering in federal oil and gas lease sales, also asked the BLM to consult with the tribe before proceeding with the sale.

By early July, the BLM announced it was deferring the 11 parcels from the Sept. 6 lease sale in order to formally consult with the tribe.

“We’ll engage in consultation with the Navajo Nation and we’ll determine what, if anything, to do going forward with these parcels. The process has been initiated,” says Steven Hall, BLM Colorado communications director. “It’s a somewhat formal

process and we’re probably not going to comment a whole lot about how long that’s going to take or what the nuances are of that process out of respect for the Navajo Nation.”

Still, there’s nothing to say the parcels won’t still be put up for auction at some point. And, according to a lease announcement, “in keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence,” the BLM is still offering up 20 other parcels — totaling 8,160 acres in Kiowa, Lincoln, Washington, Weld, Mesa and Garfield Counties — in its quarterly Sept. 6 oil Ana Lee Vargas is a sixth-generation San and gas lease sale. Hall Luis Vally resident who says she is fighting says it’s all part of the proposed oil and gas operations for the agency’s mission as dictatseventh generation, including her daughter. ed by Congress, and lease sales shouldn’t be a referendum on oil and gas development in general.

“If you’re opposed to oil and gas development there’s probably no way the BLM can do enough to address your concerns,” Hall says, insisting the agency is both transparent and environmentally conscious in its lease sale process. The real question is, “How much of a buffer are you going to have around Great Sand Dunes National Park? Is it going to be one mile, is it going to be 10 miles, is it going to be 50 miles?” he says. “And is that going to apply only to oil and gas? Right now you’re seeing a very spirited debate about that question.”

As we walk back across the dunes and the dry Medano Creek bed to the parking area, Vargas vows to keep fighting oil and gas development in the area, if not for her then for her daughter.

“I have a future generation,” she says. “We’re borrowing [the land] from our children and what are we going to give it back to them with? Are we borrowing this land and giving it back with water we can’t drink?

Air we can’t breathe?

“When I’m gone, what’s my daughter going to be left with? What are her children going to be left with?

Fracking oil and gas on the other side of the Sangres?

And influencing our air quality? I don’t think so.”

As humans, we have to learn how to cohabitate with nature, she implores, and balance our needs with those of the flora and fauna around us. Public health isn’t just about people, she says, it’s about the health of the entire ecosystem.

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“I feel like sometimes the emphasis on protecting the dunes overshadows the beauty of Huerfano County,” she adds.

• • • • The next morning we meet Briggs and Kim Seng, another CHC member, in the small town of La Veta. As the crow flies, it’s not very far from where we stood with Vargas the day before. In the car, it’s almost two hours away and we still have a few more to go to reach the lease parcels.

As we drive east along Highway 160, we smell the remnants of the recent Springs Fire that ripped through the area. Part of it still burns but the road is open now. It’s rained, so there isn’t smoke in the air. Still, the forest smells damp and smoldering, like the air after putting out a campfire with a bucket of water.

“It’s even more important for us to preserve our Huerfano River headlands, the National Park and Wilderness area.

We just lost 110,000 acres,” Briggs says, as we start our drive down dirt roads and around Sheep and Little Sheep mountains to get up to the eastern boundary of the National Park. “So if we have 110,000-acre fire and an 18,000-acre oil and gas lease that becomes active in the most beautiful parts of the rest of the county, it’s a ridiculous waste.”

Briggs has lived in the county since the early 1970s, working in fire mitigation in the southern portion of the state and New Mexico. The pristine landscape and solitude drew him to the area, as it did for Seng, who is a more recent transplant. She came to Huerfano County six or so years ago, in part to escape the fracking fight in the northeastern corner of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.

Around the turn of this decade, Citizens for Huerfano County formed as a community group dedicated to protecting local public health, safety, environment and wildlife from oil and gas drilling in the face of Shell Oil’s intent to develop the region. The corporation has since left the area, after drilling an exploratory well that proved not to be economical, Briggs says. Still the impact of Shell’s operations are felt, as we drive down a wide, steep, dirt hill carved out by the company to get water trucks and other heavy equipment into the area. The older road can be seen above us out the window, narrow switchbacks cutting across the hillside.

“Huerfano County is famous for not giving up its gold because it just doesn’t have that much gold,” Briggs says.

“They tried to uranium mine, that fell apart. Coal was deep-mined, and they got the coal out but now all the coal mines are dead.”

The only truly successful extraction operation in the area, Briggs says, is a carbon dioxide operation run by Occidental, up on the saddle between Sheep and Little Sheep. The gas is pressurized and sent back to the Permian Basin in Texas to reinvigorate old oil wells as a form of secondary recovery. Despite the industry’s promises of economic development that oil and gas drilling brings, Briggs says the

Jeff Briggs and Kim Seng of the grassroots organization Citizens for Huerfano County are among the BLM’s harshest critics.

costs far outweigh the (rather small) benefits.

“In terms of what it endangers, it’s the last place they should be drilling,” Briggs says. “We’re talking about the entire headwaters for the Huerfano River, the main water source for Huerfano County, being possibly contaminated if there’s any kind of spill whether it’s ground spill or migratory water.”

As we drive north towards Mosca Pass, vertical dykes jut out of the dramatic landscape — rolling hills with a backdrop of the jagged Sangre de Cristo peaks.

“It’s a complex geology,” Briggs says.

“Instead of sedimentary horizontal layers of geologic formations, there are vertical ones. So what that does is it fractures all those zones, all those horizontal sedimentary layers, and provides routes for water migration from surface, ground to deep.”

“They are very porous, and they are conduits for fluid,” Seng adds.

Water is a main concern for CHC. In this high drought year, many ranchers don’t have senior-enough water rights to irrigate crops, many people live off of wells on their property, and the Huerfano River is the main water source for the entire county. Not only does the potential for oil and gas development threaten the headwaters of the Huerfano River, you also have to conSee DUNES Page 14

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sider one of Huerfano River’s main tributaries, the Cucharas River, which now dries up eight miles uphill from La Veta, Seng says. Both rivers eventually flow into the Arkansas River as well.

Any leak or spill from oil and gas development could contaminate it all, Briggs and Seng say.

“I thought for sure this place would be gone,” Briggs says, as we drive along dirt roads recently closed for the fire.

Although the rain is a welcome relief, “it’s just a tease,” he says, a small amount of moisture after low snowfall all winter. For the area recovering from massive fire, the moisture is a good sign. But it also brings further destruction as the rain that comes quickly washes away hillsides once protected from sliding by trees and other plants.

Soon after we leave, mudslides cover some of the roads.

• • • • We start making our way up a narrow public road that winds through some of the lease parcels before running through national forest land and up to the National Park boundary.

In the fall of 2017, the Navajo bought the northern portion of the Wolf Springs Ranch, one of the largest in the area, as a way of taking back their ancestral lands. The southern portion was sold around the same time to a man by the name of David Watts, who calls his operation Aught 6. Briggs says Watts portrayed himself to the community as a conservationist, a man interested in building a dude ranch operation and preserving the historic character of the ranch. But soon after he bought the property, Briggs says, he ceded all of the mineral rights to Upland Exploration Inc., an oil and gas company, of which Watts is the president and only employee listed on its website.

“All the mineral rights of the Aught

The BLM scheduled nearly 18,000 acres of minerals for lease auction, some as close as one mile from the Park’s eastern boundary.

6 are either owned by the BLM or an active oil and gas exploration company.

Not by David Watts the dude rancher, but David Watts the president of Upland,” Briggs says. “He’s wearing two hats: Is one bigger than the other?”

While Watts owns most of the surface land and some mineral rights in the potential leasing area, the rest are “public minerals administered by the BLM,” Hall says.

“These would be oil and gas mineral rights, under private property, which the BLM has no control over. So even if the BLM decides not to offer those leases for sale, there’s nothing that would prevent someone from putting a condominium on it, which I think sometimes gets lost in the discussion,” he continues. “If we just block access to the public’s minerals, we’re going to maintain the area in a pristine state and that’s simply not the case.”

There is no indication at this time that Watts is planing to lease his minerals or otherwise develop his property.

According to Hall, there’s 19 other wells operating in the area as permitted by the resource management plans (RMP) some critics claim are outdated.

So in addition to fighting the lease sales, CHC is also petitioning Huerfano County Commissioners to insist on an update to the RMP. Additionally, CHC, Conejos Clean Water and several other environmental public lands conservation groups want further environmental analysis done before the parcels can go up for the Boulder Weekly

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news lease sale, including a full Environmental Impact Study (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). But the BLM’s Hall insists the area’s decades-old resource management plan and the EA are sufficient under the law to offer up the leases.

“They isolate each parcel and start talking about migratory wildlife from just that parcel instead of looking at the entire area,” Briggs says. “So they take it parcel by parcel, isolate them, and say that they find no significant impact for wildlife migration or there won’t be any problem with water. That’s just how they do things.”

Rather, Briggs says, they should be looking at the entire place as an integrated area, ignoring the man-made boundaries that separate national forest, from wilderness area, from national park and preserve. Even the ridgeline on top of the Sangre de Cristo mountains isn’t a sufficient boundary, he says. “[It] doesn’t mean that their hydro-geo systems stop at those boundaries,” he says. “It’s one piece. That’s why they enlarged the monument to become the National Park because they realized there was so much more country that gave creation to the sand dunes and its physical integrity. We’re arguing the big picture too. That’s why we want a hydro-geo study to be done not only on this side where the leases are but extended to the park.”

Looking out across the vast landscape, it’s difficult to imagine drill rigs crossing the rolling hills and gullies, cloud shadows further obscuring the depth of field. It remains unknown where actual oil and gas development, if any, could end up — while the parcels have been mapped out for leasing, there’s still a lot that needs to happen before any wells are drilled in a given area. Exploratory wells and geo-seismic testing are still needed to determine where the hydrocarbons are and in what quantity.

“Folks say, ‘BLM you really ought to say what development will look like before you offer a lease.’ It’s impossible for BLM to predict that,” Hall says. “I think that perspective comes from a place that we really shouldn’t allow energy development on public lands.

That’s not the mission that we’ve been given by Congress.”

Briggs decries this public lands philosophy that he says is not new to the Trump administration, but an ongoing tenet of people like the Bundys and the Republican Party. It’s the philosophy, “that public lands should be made available to the people who can exploit them for oil and gas exploration, for mineral Boulder Weekly

exploitation, for ranching. That they shouldn’t be set aside for the public, for us, the common citizen,” he says. “If you have a use which precludes all other uses, that’s what happens with oil and gas, the ‘no trespassing’ signs come up, the trucks, the roads have to be widened for truck traffic, the lights, the pollution, all of it. It precludes people from hiking, using it as a recreational use.”

Hall says there’s very little public surface area land that would be part of the lease sale. He notes that it’s mostly federally owned minerals underneath private land. Still, Briggs, Seng, Vargas and others says it doesn’t matter. If oil and gas development nearby affects other public lands and resources in the area, like the Huerfano River headwaters and the Grand Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, it’s all the same.

• • • • It’s raining as we pass the sign marking the boundary of the National Park on top of Mosca Pass. A few hundred yards away I see the covered info board with a trail map detailing the trail down to the sand dunes. Now on national forest land, we drive around the corner to an overlook of the Huerfano Valley, many of the lease parcels in clear view. Briggs points out Blanca Peak, peaking out of the clouds to the south.

“If you read the Navajo and their concerns, it sounds like to me, the Navajo are deciding it’s a bad deal.

They can’t guarantee the pristine nature of Blanca and their connection to Blanca via the Wolf Springs Ranch,” Briggs says. “Native Americans are very careful about protecting their turf, they’ve had too much experience getting it ripped out from underneath them. They don’t trust anyone. You’ve got to prove your trust.”

And it’s true. Try as I might, I’m unable to talk to anyone from the Navajo Nation, not even the communications person, before press time. Still, I hesitate to let anyone else speak for them, be it Vargas, Briggs or the BLM. For now everything hinges on the tribe’s consultation with the BLM. In the meantime, Vargas, Briggs and their respective partner organizations aren’t sitting idle. They still conduct regular conference calls to make sure everyone is up-to-date, enlisting geologists and other experts to talk about the potential impacts oil and gas development could bring to the area. They’re busy educating the community and younger generations about the importance of local empowerment and stewardship of public lands. It’s all in an effort to be ready if, or more likely when, these 18,000 acres are put up for auction.

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irst thing every morning, Ryan Votta walks across the Durango Fish Hatchery campus and over to the isolation unit. Before stepping inside, he disinfects from his hands down to his shoes. “Biosecurity is a big issue,” he explains. “We can’t risk the chance of bringing in any kind of disease.”

Votta, the hatchery’s assistant manager, is checking in on a vulnerable Colorado-native cutthroat trout species the hatchery is protecting. They have about 50 juveniles and 100 eggs in their facility at the moment — all of which were rescued earlier this summer from the 416 Fire that ravaged Colorado’s southwest San Juan mountains. There, biologists have been able to trace the fish’s genetic lineage back thousands of years.

“Our fear was that fire would compromise [the native cutthroat trout],” Votta says. The 416 Fire, which burned over 55,000 acres in the San Juan National Forest throughout June and July, is now recorded as the sixth-largest fire in state history. Not only did its flames warm streams to temperatures fatal for the cold-water-loving trout, but its ash and subsequent debris polluted the water, making it impossible for fish to breathe.

Within days of the fire’s emergence, Jim White, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) aquatic biologist in Durango, knew he had to get into the burning forest and salvage what native San Juan fish he could — if only to collect and preserve a sampling of the unique subspecies. Trout specialize in their habitats, and populations in different streams across the state have evolved slight hereditary differences. “Trying to preserve genetic diversity across landscape is a priority for these fish,” White explains.

Besides, less than a decade ago, biologists once thought the San Juan native cutthroat trout subspecies was extinct, and White wasn’t going to let that happen for real on his watch.

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As for the rest of the fish in the area that the team couldn’t rescue, they’re likely now all dead.

On July 18, not long after the rescue missions, Joe Lewandowski, CPW’s southwest public information officer, stood on the banks of the Animas River, which flows out from San Juan National Forest and through Durango. Thousands of fish, he says, were lying there, dead, along the river bank.

“We picked them up and looked at them. Instead of a bright red like they usually are, they were brown because of all the dirt they were ingesting,” he recalls. “We can’t say for sure, but it was close to 100-percent fish kill [near the rescue area, a tributary of the Animas].”

The cutthroat trout is an iconic one for Colorado, being the state fish and a beloved subject of recreationalists across the West. But, according to White, the fish today only occupies 14 to 15 percent of its historic range in the Colorado River Basin. After the 416 Fire, their range is now further compromised.

“It’s not easy on fish,” White says of global warming and climate change. Going in to retrieve the native trout “were fairly dangerous missions, with the fire burning actively, yet this is a really cool conservation story to tell.”

The story of helping Colorado’s native cutthroat trout goes back a long way, White starts to explain as he gazes from his office window out to the Animas River, which still runs a slight chocolatey brown. “Back in the 1880s and ’90s a lot of our cold-water fish stocks were wiped out, by either mining or timber or hunting [interests] that just changed the habitat forever.”

As a result, non-native trout like brook trout, rainbow trout and brown trout were widely stocked across the state. As more aggressive fish, they dominated native habitats and species like the greenback cutthroat trout, Rio Grande cutthroat trout or the yellowfin cutthroat trout. Hybridization also occurred, further diminishing native populations, and for a long time it was difficult for scientists to differentiate between the multiple subspecies of trout that now roam the state’s waters.

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Researchers collected tissue samples from two 150-year-old Coloradan fish preserved in at the Smithsonian Museum, and compared them to different fish of today’s generations.

“That was really exciting,” White says. “We finally had this knowledge and a better understanding of which cutthroat were native to which basin.”

It was from these tests, that researchers determined the San Juan native cutthroat trout were extinct.

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It was only about five years ago that researchers realized the software they were using “was masking the fact that these fish had a different genetic map to them,” White says, and San Juan native cutthroat trout reemerged in the spotlight. “So, yes, cutthroat trout that are aboriginal or native to the San Juans are alive. But the populations that have lasted are tiny and very vulnerable.”

Their habitat, for one, has been increasingly threatened as Colorado’s climate changes and grows warmer, even without the direct contact of forest fires. Low flows and warmer water translate to less oxygen available, which stresses fish all over the state. This led CPW to issue numerous voluntary fishing bans in rivers over the course of the summer.

“Our flows [on the Animas] are down 30 percent from 10 years ago,” Lewandowski says, for example. “It’s bad. It’s way down. Looks like today (Aug. 24) it’s running at about 161 cubic feet per second (cfs), and the average is 520 cfs this time of year.”

Lewandowski points at the year’s low snowpack for an explanation. “We had less than half of average snowfall [this past winter], and that’s the most significant factor. ... Now that can change season to season, but overall we’ve had less snow in the last 10 years in the high country and that translates to less water. And when you have less water for fish, you have less habitat.”

On July 17, around the time of White’s and the hatchery’s second rescue mission, the Animas measured 300 cfs. It’s average flow that time of year should have been closer to 1,000 cfs, according to CPW. Due to low flows, water temperatures have risen. Trout thrive around 60 degrees or lower, yet CPW reported Animas River temperatures above 70

degrees on sevGlobal warmeral afternoons ing is deteriorating healthy this summer. conditions for “Water temperaColorado’s native cutthroat ture that high trout. can cause fish to die. ... Historical records for the river show that in midsummer the Animas River averages 58 degrees,” a July 17 press release states.

Lewandowski adds, “Once you get above 65 degrees, you have less oxygen in the water. ... It’d be like me and you if we only had 60 percent of the oxygen in the room. It can really cause die-offs.”

The implications of dying fish in Colorado is multifaceted. Animals like heron, mink and otters, for example, supplement their diet with trout; anglers and outdoor recreationists pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into the economy. Losing all the fish, “could throw everything out of balance up there,” Votta says.

“But one of the things that cutthroat trout represent to me,” says White, “is cold, clean water. As we lose these fish, as water becomes warmer and dirty from ash or debris, it’s yet another signal that water, which is a precious resource, is being impacted.”

Colorado’s native cutthroat trout are indicators of Colorado’s environmental health. “A river is nothing more than a reflection of its watershed condition,” White says. “And clearly, yeah, it’s frustrating. It would be nice to sustain these habitats. ... Some rivers are just never coming back.”

As for how the native cutthroats are doing in quarantine at the Durango Hatchery? “Really well,” White says.

It’ll be years before their offspring are released back into the wild, as it takes time for the river to recover from the debris pollution and the shoreline ecosystem to bounce back from the burn.

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THREE STRIKES Or, third time’s the charm at Ride YOU’RE OUT the Rockies by Ilyse Steiner

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n 2015, on the fifth day of Ride the Rockies (RtR) — an epic multi-day, 465mile supported bicycle tour of Colorado — I was supposed to reach Cottonwood Pass, which tops out at 12,100 feet, about 35 miles northwest of Salida. My skin felt clammy as we climbed up the pass’s sloping forested, gravel road. It was clear why this snaking path is closed during winter months and why most sensible motorists avoid it even in the warmest of temperatures.

At each rest stop, I drank beet juice, which was supposed to boost my blood oxygen level.

The plan was to complete the 103-mile day.

Yet, as I grinded up and up, I imagined myself swerving off the mountain, tumbling into the infinite forest or perhaps flying airborne on my bike like Elliot in E.T., either of which were preferable to the pain of thinking about my mother.

My mom’s caregiver had called me the previous night and caught me off guard. It’d been six months since my mom passed away, and my emotions were festering like a wound that Boulder Weekly

might ooze at any given moment. I had just returned to my room in Crested Butte after dinner and was reveling in the “rest day” (only 37 miles) when my phone rang. I didn’t want to hear how she missed my mom, and I couldn’t soothe her. No one could comfort me or fill the void she’d left in my life, either.

Somehow I needed to figure out how to live without my mom, and what I’d realized was this: The only time I was distracted from my mom’s cancer and the grief of her loss was while participating in something physically grueling. Hence my feet pushing the pedals, over and over and over again across the Rocky Mountain skyline.

I was three miles from the top of Cottonwood Pass, at a rest stop, when I leaned over giggling to a friend who was riding with me. I felt drunk, I admitted.

“Ilyse — I’m getting a medic,” she instructed me in her sternest third-grade teacher voice.

“Your eyes look like spinning cartoon pinwheels.”

Within minutes I was in the back of an

ambulance asking myself why I repeatedly signed up for this event. This wasn’t my first RtR, and during my first two trips, I’d found ample success, but also ample failure. Did I truly believe “Third time’s the charm?” Maybe it was more like “Three strikes, you’re out,” I started to think.

I’m not from Colorado — 12,000 feet of elevation is significant for me. Training at home, amid gray Midwestern skies, what motivated me all winter as I logged hours on a bike trainer was daydreaming about Colorado’s sunshine, exploring its diverse ecological systems and cavorting in cowboy towns with my husband and friends after each day’s ride. I expected to complete most of the seven-day journey based on my winter training, although there was no real way to prepare for mountains when Chicago’s elevation is only 600 feet above sea level. As a result, some years I was more prepared than others.

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rights. I imagined returning from the ride like an Olympic champion, speeding past the men in my cycling club because I would still possess the “super altitude powers” Colorado cyclists seem to have. It was hard enough, being one of the few women in the club, and I hoped returning with Colorado altitude powers would allow me to maintain high speeds if only for a weekend ride.

Six months before that first ride, I began my rigorous indoor training regimen and once it was three months away, I transferred outdoors to accumulate miles in the saddle.

Come June, I was in Colorado, but within hours of starting the seven-day event, I took refuge in a souvenir shop restroom. Chunks of hail were pelting our helmets, and I shivered in line to dry my socks under the hand-dryer.

Eventually, the hail subsided, and all I had to do to finish the day was a descent from the Colorado National Monument to Grand Junction.

Honestly, I would’ve been content to flag a rescue vehicle for a ride to the end of the route, but it was the first day, and I knew that if I called it quits early, it would set an unwelcome precedent for the rest of the week. I persisted. For this first RtR, my husband and I had raised several thousand dollars for the Livestrong Foundation and I felt moti-

vated to continue.

I clung to the shoulder of the road and allowed riders to stream past me on the slick pavement while I coasted, lightly braking on every switchback.

My thoughts veered from acknowledging the splendor of the Rocky Mountains, to gratitude in having the ability (both financial and physical) to participate in a weeklong tour. But ultimately I kept coming back to a sense of guilt in leaving my kids in order to pursue my own adventure.

“You have children!” I imagined my mom thinking about this endurance endeavor, how I left my kids to fly down mountains at speeds one associates with cars rather than bikes. “What are you thinking?”

The sixth day of that first trip featured an ascent over Wolf Creek Pass, which crosses the Continental Divide.

The day began with a teasing sense of invincibility: 30 miles of rolling hills.

But soon speed turned into a faded memory and the 7-percent grade announced its presence. My legs grew heavy churning sludge at six miles per hour in the easiest gear. I dismounted the bike. Other tired riders followed suit, and we chatted as our cycling shoes clicked the pavement. The “Support and Gear” van appeared, and I waved it down. Once in the van, which Boulder Weekly

ADVENTURE typically transports cyclists to the next rest point and will drive anyone to the day’s finish if they so choose, we passed a jackknifed 18-wheeler hanging off the mountain. I knew I had made the right decision. Some mountains are meant to be feared, and this was one of them. I later learned a semi-professional cyclist was severely injured descending, and I felt no shame in calling it quits that day.

In 2010, I admit the mountain won.

Back home, I was exhausted and burnt out and didn’t zoom past any of the men in my club. The normal reaction to the post-ride exhaustion would have been to make a pledge never to try RtR again. But as time passed, the memory of the camaraderie and fun I’d had with my group and the stunning beauty of Colorado overtook my fading recollection of tired legs and frustrated riding effort. My mind tricked me into recalling the trip more fondly than it actually was, and before long I vowed to return.

Wolf Creek Pass and I reunited three years later, in 2013, for my second RtR. I’d spent the prior winter grinding a spin bike in the hardest gear. My mom had recently been diagnosed with cancer, and my husband and I dedicated this trip to her by raising money for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Once again, my mom never quite understood why I found this particular type of “vacation” enjoyable.

Nevertheless, my mom watched my kids while she was in treatment. The moment she became a grandma, there were no conditions or tentative arrangements, there were no last-minute cancellations when it came to spending time with my children. Even when facing a horrible disease, she remained steady, reliable, loving and unconditional. For her sake, I wasn’t going to give myself the luxury of quitting the Wolf Creek Pass ascent this time. “I’m your biggest advocate and your toughest critic,” she used to say, and when I pedaled, her words echoed in my brain. As I approached the crest, bystanders clapped and rang cowbells. I responded, “I couldn’t do this in 2010!”

I cared for my mom for two years as she battled cancer, and she passed away over Thanksgiving weekend in 2014. I found myself at the beginning of a new year with an open schedule and no commitments. I’d stopped working after she was diagnosed but had no desire to return to freelancing graphic design.

That winter, cleaning out my childhood home was emotionally exhausting; I needed a long-term goal to fill my days as I was unraveled by my loss.

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At my first cycling training class after her funeral, I’d forgotten my bike shoes. The instructor found a pair for me to borrow, and as I sat paralyzed on the bike, he put his hand on my arm and said, “You have to put one foot in front of the other.”

Not long after, I committed to my third RtR, and I realized the ride and I had become “frenemies.” While each trip contained successful moments, there were also frustrating and tearful ones.

RtR was like a friend whose company you enjoy but in limited doses; all the “good riding” feelings could disappear on the next hairpin turn and RtR would laugh and maybe roll its eyes at me.

Back in the ambulance in 2015, my friend told the medics about my cartoon eyes, and I was offered the choice to lay on a gurney with an IV in my arm or chug three bottles of Gatorade.

I chugged. I was done for the day, and my goal of finishing 102 miles?

Obliterated. The next day, I walked the mile of a gravel descent to the Royal Gorge Bridge. I didn’t have the luxury of injuring myself just to say, “I completed it.” I have children who depend on me and couldn’t justify risking a hair-raising descent on a broken gravel backroad only to see if I could manage it without wiping out.

“Do I need to return physically bruised as well as mentally?” I asked myself. Once again, I opted to experience the scenic path as a pedestrian. I didn’t feel bad about it either.

As a girl, my mom used to say I had “big eyes” when ordering in restaurants, meaning what I wanted to try was more than what I could possibly eat. RtR was a menu of delicious adventure, and I wanted to consume it completely because it kept me focused and on track. If I could dive headfirst into an insurmountable goal, I figured, perhaps it could somehow distract me from my abysmal loss. Life without my mom made more sense while training and working toward a goal. But having big eyes, I simply could not swallow the entirety of what lay before me: the rest of my life with my husband, my kids, and more Colorado adventures to come, just minus my mom.

Looking out from the bridge, I realized that was OK. Maybe it was better to savor the smaller bites of triumph on the bike, and in life, and allow myself to let the full course of grief marinate until it became less unwieldy. I would never be finished with Colorado and the abundance of adventure, but I was done with Ride the Rockies.

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Across the country, programs are cropping up that teach people how to become end-of-life doulas, holistic caregivers who support those in the process of dying (and their loved ones) with a variety of services, from practical tasks like creating a plan for the final days of a client’s life, to the psychological work of internal and external forgiveness and acceptance.

This is not hospice care, but something supplemental; while hospice care keeps patients comfortable with medication, provides relief through treatments and assesses ethical medical issues with the family, death doulas are more like traveling companions, there to walk with clients and families toward something wholly unknown.

An end-of-life doula can help with cleaning or cooking, run errands or just be physically present for a client to talk to about things loved ones just aren’t ready to hear — like the reality that the end is coming.

Boulder is home to one such end-of-life doula program. Tarron Estes founded the Conscious Dying Institute after a career working as a transformational learning consultant in health care systems showed her what it looks like to die in the United States.

“When I realized [health care systems] really weren’t talking about [death], I had a very strong vision: You will change the way people are cared for in senior communities,” Estes says. “It made sense to me that if I wanted to change how death is happening in America I would do what I do best, which is work with individuals and help them experience personal transformation that also gives them a career in

They decided to hire an end-of-life doula — a death doula or death midwife — to help them through the process.

“I’ll admit neither of us was incredibly familiar with the idea of an end-of-life doula,” Kuester says.

“We didn’t have any kids so we had no familiarity with doulas as far as midwives go.”

The term doula is often associated with birth, a Greek term that loosely translates to a woman helping another woman. Birth doulas are trained professionals who provide mothers with emotional, physical and informational support before, during and just after birth.

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end-of-life care and healing.”

Through the Conscious Dying Institute, students can complete several end-of-life education programs, including a two-phase, eight-day onsite Sacred Passage Doula Certificate Program.

Nicole Matarazzo was one such student. She went on to become a doula for Kirsten Farnsworth in her last months.

Matarazzo had spent most of her professional life working directly with death; after college as a child life specialist in pediatrics working with children who were born HIV positive, then with patients receiving bone marrow transplants.

She went on to teach kindergarten and become a massage therapist, then eventually, after having children, went to work in health care at elementary schools in Boulder, where she says her role was as much about providing emotional support to kids as it was about caring for illness and injury.

About four years ago, a friend of Matarazzo’s was diagnosed with cancer for the second time, and she asked Matarazzo to care for her in her remaining days.

For a year, Matarazzo walked through the last phase of her friend’s life with her. Without question, it was emotionally the hardest work Matarazzo had ever done.

“A few hours after we had called hospice to come and be with us, [a hospice worker] asked me, ‘Where did you get your training?’” Matarazzo says. “It prompted me to wonder: ‘Why did you ask me that?

How are people dying in this town?’”

The answer from the hospice worker: “Often alone and scared.”

“I heard that as a message loud and clear,” Matarazzo says. “I knew at some point I would figure out how I was going to be a player in that arena, see DEATH DOULAS Page 26

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so that there are less people dying afraid and alone.”

Trends in American lifestyles have raised the risk of dying alone: the divorce rate for 55- to 64-year-olds doubled from 1990 to 2015, according to the National Center for Family & Marriage Research, and once divorced, people are remarrying less often. One study found that nearly 7 percent of U.S. adults 55 and older had no spouse or biological children, and that number is predicted to surge over the next 50 years.

Perhaps, then, it’s no coincidence the death doula movement is flourishing.

“I think it’s been slowly beginning, quietly, kind of a grassroots movement,” says Jeri Glatter, vice president of the nonprofit International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) based in New York City.

“I think a big part of [the rise of the deal doula movement] is the people who said in the ’80s that they did not want to give birth a certain way — that they didn’t want to be put in a white hospital and have a white male say, ‘You’ll go to sleep, and you’ll wake up, and I’ll hand you a baby’ — I think those same people are turning 70 and 80 now, and there’s an awareness that they don’t want to die the same way; they don’t want to be disconnected from what’s happening.”

Glatter, like Matarazzo, came to her work after caring for a loved one at the end of their life. The experience, somewhat counter-intuitively, filled Glatter with a “sense of joy and enlightenment.”

A friend said she should consider becoming a death doula.

“I Googled the term, as per my friend’s direction, and I found the Open Center in New York City,” Glatter says.

“It was the only thing listed; one Google response to ‘death doula’ [at that time].”

At the Open Center’s Art of Dying Institute program, Glatter met Henry Fersko-Weiss, a clinical social worker who created the first end-of-life doula program in the U.S. at a hospice center in New York City in 2003. FerskoWeiss had studied the work of birth doulas, not because he was interested in becoming one, but because he saw the parallels between supporting people at the beginning of life and supporting them at the end of life. After more than a decade of moving from hospital to hospital teaching his volunteer-based end-of-life doula program, FerskoWeiss dedicated himself fully to the cause and opened INELDA in 2015.

“Our training and our model of care has always been based in this volunteer, being-of-service format,” Glatter says.

While INELDA teaches courses on business development for those who want to professionally practice end-oflife doula work, Glatter says these courses always focus first on providing ways to make care accessible to those who need it, through sliding scale fees, pro bono work and other forms of payment that may be available to people, like trading services.

“We focus first on what brought [a student] to this work and the meaning behind the work, [their] intentions with this work,” Glatter says. “The term ‘calling’ is probably the most common term we hear from people who take training and business development courses through INELDA. We try to keep that in the forefront of the conversation.

After that there is the understanding that if you are approving a service and someone is in a position and wants that support through a higher practitioner, there’s nothing wrong with being paid for that.”

In early 2017, Fersko-Weiss told USA Today that trained and certified non-volunteer end-of-life doulas typically cost between $40 and $100 per hour, with flat rates often applied during a patient’s final days so that roundthe-clock care can be provided. Endstage doula services, he said, range from $1,200 to $4,000.

Glatters says that she, Fersko-Weiss and INELDA president Janie Rakow have never charged for their work.

Some doula training organizations are focused solely on training volunteers, like the nonprofit Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort in New York, which has been operating since 2001. Each year the program accepts between 13 and 15 volunteers from an application pool of 300 or so. These volunteers go into hospitals and meet with patients at least once a week through their dying phase.

To executive director Amy Levine, end-of-life doula work is about “lending our humanity.”

“We can do this for each other as human beings,” she says. “Even just 15 minutes together every week. It changes both lives.”

Nicole Matarazzo says determining appropriate payment for her services is an ongoing learning process, and she works to provide as much pro bono work as she can.

“My biggest challenge as a death doula is the exchange of money because this work to me is so sacred,” she says.

“Having the conversation around what I do makes me nervous because there’s integrity and accountability around what I do.”

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pricey as well. The End of Life Doula Certificate offered at the Conscious Dying Institute costs $2,995 and provides nurses with 66 Continuing Education for Nurses (CNE) credits. At INELDA, it costs $750 to attend a twoday training, $100 for a current membership in INELDA, $35 to request a certification packet, and a $75 application fee, bringing the total to $960.

Currently there is no regulatory body that standardizes practices around end-of-life doula work, but most programs offer similar courses structured around providing emotional and spiritual support, assisting with unfinished business, creating visualizations, deciding how the space will look and feel at the time of death, designing rituals, developing a vigil plan and any other nonmedical gaps in care. There’s no regulatory agency for birth doulas, and most end-of-life doulas feel such an agency might limit access.

“As soon as hospice became a Medicare benefit it got whittled down year after year until it became so hard for people to get what they need,” says Tarron Estes of Boulder’s Conscious Dying Institute. “What I hope is that my work goes more and more into health care systems so that people who are on the front line can have this kind of training, so that they are supported to be who they are and they can stand for wonderful, beautiful deaths. I want CNAs to have end-of-life certifications.

I want systems like Kaiser to work with me to figure out how to do a training for their employees so ... more of this work can get in the minds, bodies and hearts of people that are called to do this work.”

The interest in improving end-of-life care is even beginning to infiltrate medical schools, where students are required to attend a birth, but not a death. Atul Gawande, a surgeon in Massachusetts, is leading the charge to improve education about end-of-life care at Massachusetts’ four medical schools: Harvard University, Boston University, Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

One thing seems certain: the need is there.

When Kirsten Farnsworth passed on May 30 of this year, her husband Dan Kuester helped his mother-in-law wash Kirsten’s body with essential oils, an ancient ritual that Nicole Matarazzo, as their doula, suggested. Kuester said that of all the planning Matarazzo helped with — visualizations, planning for the vigil and emotional support — washing the body gave him the most peace, the closest thing he can describe as “closure” on an experience that never Boulder Weekly

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“Nicole, I think partly by virtue of the fact she could come in and not be responsible for Kirsten’s physical health, it made it easier to trust her in an advisory role,” Kuester says. “She also brought a mindful and compassionate and extremely calming presence. I think both Kirsten and I felt much calmer on days when we would have meetings with Nicole, being able to plainly state what it’s like, some of these things that

were in front of us that we weren’t completely sure of how it was going to go. She did a great job of showing us how it was, how these experiences were going to go and what options we have to impact the ways the experience goes.”

Death, reminds Tarron Estes, is not a medical event.

“It’s just sad because we don’t know how to be with death anymore,” she says. “Thank God we’re all beginning to

think about how to do this better because none of us, myself included, people who have had the benefit of transformational work and sustainable energy and sustainable lifestyles and all the bells and whistles that a Boulder person and people who are conscious have had all their life, even most of us don’t think about it and don’t know what else there is to do. Believe me though, we’re going to be wanting to know about it.”

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ON THE BILL: Hanson: String Theory — with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m.

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n a way, Hanson has been laying the foundation for their upcoming orchestrally driven album, String Theory, since the “MMMBop” days.

That was 21 years ago, by the way — but who’s counting?

Well, Hanson, for one.

The three brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma — Isaac, Taylor and Zac — just celebrated their 25th anniversary as a band last year with a world tour and a greatest hits album. But the real pièce de résistance was yet to come: the trio had already begun working with Academy Award-winning composer David Campbell to reimagine some of the band’s back catalog of music, as well as some new tracks, into a symphonic narrative they planned to take back out on the road and package as an album.

Guitarist and elder Hanson, Isaac, calls String Theory a “bucket list thing.”

“David was always the first person on the list for us,” he says. “At first we weren’t even sure he’d want to do it — it’s a lot of work. Our relationship with him had been very positive but relatively limited.”

Campbell — whose orchestration can be heard on albums by Adele, Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson, not to mention countless feature films — composed the string arrangements for several tracks on Hanson’s 1997 major label debut, Middle of Nowhere, a record that spawned five consecutive Top 40 singles on the Billboard charts. He worked with the trio again on their 2000 release, This Time Around.

Nearly 20 years after their last collaboration, Hanson called Campbell up and pitched him their idea for String Theory.

“It’s basically an aspirational story of a character going from a child to an adult, from optimism and youthful enthusiasm to the struggle that inevitably happens as we grow, the conversion from ‘do I give up or fight for the dream,’” Isaac says.

Campbell was sold. Now, after two

perennially mis-heard, revolve around the everchanging relationships that come and go throughout the seasons of a person’s life.

It’s fairly mature subject matter for a trio of, at the time, basically prepubescent boys. Add to that the fact that they wrote and played their own music during the hey-day of pop powerhouses like Britney Spears, N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys who had teams of writers behind their songs, which were then taken to arenas where they were performed alongside indepth choreographed stage shows.

The Hanson brothers — along with their four younger siblings — grew up listening to music from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and the influence is unmistakable in the concise blends of pop, gospel, rock and soul found on each of their six studio albums.

They never left Tulsa for greener musical pastures in Los Angeles, preferring to go home after tours to the friends they grew up with and the town that raised them. They survived the capsizing of the record industry by creating their own imprint in 2003, 3CG Records, which they still run and release through today. They’ve led philanthropic missions to raise awareness around poverty and AIDS across Africa, developed their own craft beer (MMMHops) and founded a successful music and beer festival in Tulsa.

Today, all three are happily married with 12 children between them.

Everything with Hanson, from their family lives to their careers, has been about the long-term strategy.

“Here’s the thing: fame is not the goal,” Isaac says. “There’s always this balance, this push and pull of fame and artistic integrity you’re trying to balance.

“I like being able to live a relatively normal existence but I also really appreciate and respect how hard it is and how lucky it is to have fans who are as enthusiastic as our fans have been for the last 25 years.”

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years of planning and work, the band launched the String Theory tour in early August. On Sept. 8, they’ll join members of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra for a show at Bottecher Concert Hall in Denver.

“We want to make this as much as possible about the orchestra,” Isaac says.

“We’re going to make many, many moments throughout the show where the orchestra is up front and center. If we’re gonna do this, what’s the point in playing with 45, 50, 60, 90 people and not letting them do their jobs?”

Like their catalog of music as a whole, String Theory, Isaac says, is based on optimism in the face of adversity.

“I actually think in many ways our music is more pessimistic than people think it is,” he says. “When you think of a song like ‘MMMBop,’ people think sunshine and rainbows. That song comes from a deep personal realization that the joy you’re pursuing comes with sacrifice. Even though it’s a pop song it has this clear thread in it, at least lyrically speaking. What’s fun about [the String Theory] show is it draws out some of the melancholy in ‘MMMBop’ without betraying what that song is, which is really important.”

The band isn’t self-conscious about their breakthrough hit, a classically saccharine-sounding pop song that fully embodies the term “ear worm.” The lyrics,

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the tortured artist, a fact that doesn’t escape Cayton-Holland.

He’s no different, someone who loves Van Gogh and Elliott Smith precisely because they towed the razor’s edge of mental illness. Their pain was so visible in their art, their art so rich because of the pain.

But things look different now.

“We think that artists tap into some sort of truth that also taps into this dark black hole that sucks them away from us,” he says, “but that’s just an appreciation of art. We’re kind of wired that way to romanticize and fetishize.

Myself, my sisters — Lydia and Anna — are no different. Once you go through it you realize what a privileged place that is to appreciate the tortured artist.”

The narrative of the tragic comedian runs deep. Cayton-Holland says that prior to Lydia’s death, a journalist once asked him how, as a middle class white man from a loving family, could he be so funny.

“I feel like good humor, good art, comes from sensitivity, just a wallflower quality where you observe people and notice things,” he says. “Whether you achieve that because you were trying to stick it to your dad who left when you were 4 or you achieved that because you were an awkward kid in middle school who didn’t fit in, it doesn’t make one person’s jokes funnier than the others — not really. So I don’t necessarily believe tragedy plus time equals comedy. I think comedy comes from a lot of different places. I think it’s important to take tragic things and try to make light of them so we can all just laugh it off and then talk about it.”

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n 2012, Adam Cayton-Holland was hitting his stride. After eight years of work building up cred on the comedy circuit, the Denver native got accepted into the New Faces showcase at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, the world’s largest gathering of the who’s who of comedy.

He was chitchatting with agents, partying until dawn in hotel lobbies with some of his favorite comics and, in his words, thoroughly soaking up the “schmoozy LA bullshitery.”

Finally, after a summer of recordbreaking heat, rampant wildfires and a mass shooting, something good was happening.

Then it was over.

His little sister Lydia — his best friend and biggest fan — killed herself.

She was 28.

“As soon as this happened, I was obviously devastated,” Cayton-Holland says. “I’m a comic and I didn’t feel funny, nor did I feel the desire to be funny. Life was not fun.

“But my livelihood was tied to this; I don’t have other skills,” he says with a laugh. “So I was like, shit, this is what I’m doing.”

Like they say, time marches on.

Today, Cayton-Holland is about to start production on season three of his TruTV show Those Who Can’t, a slightly dark, absurdist sitcom about three highly dysfunctional high school teachers.

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who Cayton-Holland calls a friend now. He’s got three comedy albums and a slew of late-night show credits, including one with his hero, Conan O’Brien.

On Aug. 21, he released his first book, Tragedy + Time, a tender memoir about his beautiful, smart, productive, neurotic family and their journey to acceptance in the wake of Lydia’s death.

The three Cayton-Holland children — Anna, Adam and Lydia — were sensitive children, raised by “politically active hippies,” their father a civil rights lawyer, their mother an investigative journalist. They were sensitive people, Cayton-Holland says of his parents, and they “begat even more sensitive children.”

The Cayton-Holland children attacked the world’s problems in their own ways: Anna became a lawyer, Adam a writer and comic, but Lydia — charming, lovely and brilliant — struggled to find her place.

“I don’t know what to tell people about coping because the hurt is never gone,” Cayton-Holland writes in the book. “I never tell them there’s hope or a timeline for overcoming such deep sorrow. I tell them matter-of-factly that it sucks, and it will always suck, and that the sooner you recognize that as the new reality, the sooner you’ll adapt to it, whatever that looks like for you.

Whatever defeated new landscape your life takes on. It’s all very Russian.”

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The inaugural Locale Summer Fest gathers together artists, brewers, designers, engineers, distillers and culinary experts from East Pearl Street to share everything that makes this neighborhood in Boulder so special. More than 10 live bands will keep your feet moving with rock, folk, funk, swing, reggae, hip-hop and ska. SoundDown Party will host Boulder’s first silent disco on Saturday evening, while local favorites like DV8 Distillery, Vision Quest Brewing, J. Wells Brewery and Upslope will be there to quench your thirst with $5 drinks. Food trucks, face painting, magicians, raffles and plenty of other entertainment make this an event that’s fun for the whole family. Single day pass: $20; Two-day pass: $30.

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GOODING — WITH ME LIKE BEES AND CARTER HULSEY. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, etown.org When people talk about the Kevin Deems hardest-working people in the music biz, they’re talking about GOODING, who claim to have played 2,000 shows in every state in the lower 48. This four-piece comes to Boulder by way of their home base in Nashville, TN, but they were born and bred in Kansas. GOODING presents a confident, high-energy live show that showcases their passionate, soul-stirring blend of indie rock, driven by soaring vocals and blazing guitars. In recent years, the band has made it a point to give back: They created Funding the Future LIVE, a nonprofit charitable organization that teaches kids the importance of financial literacy and discusses predatory lending. Tickets are $15-$40.

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‘Art in Action: The Process of Design’ was curated by students in the program in Environmental Design at CU Boulder. Prints from the CU Art Museum are paired with interpretive designs by students to demonstrate how art can be a creative catalyst and a tool for learning. Prints by Josef Albers, Fayga Ostrower and Chryssa (pictured) served as inspiration for student designs for a prospective building intended to serve as a center of interdisciplinary design education.

Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21.

Nature Photography by Kirk Fry. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Aug. 31.

New Paintings by Sue Hammond West. Naropa University Nalanda Campus, White Cube Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Through Oct. 12.

Art in Action: The Process of Design. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through September.

Fuzzy Logic — by Jordan Vinyard. Firehouse Art Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Sept. 1.

New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Sept. 16.

Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17.

Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.

Paintings by Vivienne Douglas. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.

Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 15th St. and Broadway, Boulder. Through Dec. 1.

Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16.

Elements of Peace — by Marlene Siff. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7.

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

Fragments of Places — by Yuge Zhou. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Aug. 24. Through Oct. 7.

A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo.

Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.

Lori Hight Pop-Up Shop and Showette.

Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder. Through Sept. 9.

A collection of early newspapers, restored cameras, artifacts and old-time commerce.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

Small Wood Sculptures by Charles Counter.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

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Terry Maker’s Magic Marks. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Sept. 23.

What’s Wrong With Our Country? — by Deborah Nehmad. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan & Hand-Rudy Galleries, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Aug. 24. Through Oct. 7.

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Thursday, August 30 Music Anavrin’s Day. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Avenged Sevenfold. 5:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Block Party 2018. 5 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-618-9778.

Film: Engineering Earth: Exposing the Climate Engineering Assault. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Ian Bagg. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

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

Karaoke Night. 9:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303530-7423.

Leah Mosier and Allie Chipkin — with Andrew Sturtz and Courtlyn Carpenter. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

The Peacemaker. 4:30 p.m. Diary Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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The Magpie Salute. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

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

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

Rockin Robin’s Glow Party. 6 p.m. Rockin’ Robin’s Retro & Resale, 233 Main St., Longmont, 303-652-4144.

Support the Girls. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. More show times at thedairy.org.

Friday, August 31 Music A.J. Fullerton. 8 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-622-5021.

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

The Aaron Walker Gypsy Jazz Trio. 7 p.m.

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

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

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

Ben Hanna and Fast Heart Mart. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

The CBDs. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 303 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Phish Dick’s After Party — with Transportation Provided by Bus To Show. 11 p.m.

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

Dear Jon & the Whale Riders. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Don Gallardo Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

Harmonica Band. 10 a.m. 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-772-2094.

Inspector, El Javi (Free Concert Series). 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

Kenny Lattimore. 7 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Larry June. 7:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Masontown. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Miguel Espinoza Flamenco Fusion. 7 p.m.

Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Nirvamlet. 7:30 p.m. Galvanize, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, 810-569-1908. see EVENTS Page 36

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chelsea wolFe & russian circles sunday sePTemBer 30

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Vietgone. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Ricketson Theatre, 1400 Curtis St., Denver.

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The Producers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 30.

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Heisenberg — presented by Drala Productions.

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Reverend Hylton. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

Events Erik Myers. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777.

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

Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Saturday, September 1 Music Bad Bunny. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000.

Big Business. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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

Kitten (Free Concert Series). 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

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

Marchfourth. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Matt Skinner — with Halden Wofford, Hi*Beam.

7 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

REO Speedwagon. 4 p.m. Taste of Colorado, Civic Center Park, 101 E. 14th Ave., Denver.

Robert Johnson and the Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Swingin’ Utters. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-861-9103.

Veronique Van Pelt presents: bellhoss, Michael Howard and Miles Wilder. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Vista Village BBQ & Concert: Songs from Around the World. 1 p.m. Vista Village Mobile Home, 5000 Butte St., Boulder, 303-443-3002.

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Cloud Palace. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

Collapsing Stars. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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

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

Dixie Leadfoot. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

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

Hillbilly Hellcats. 7 p.m. Boulder Creek Hometown Festival, Downtown Boulder Bandshell, Boulder.

Honky Tonk BBQ. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Jackson Cloud Band. 6:30 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Erik Myers. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777.

First Saturday Yoga: Lizards as Pollinators.

11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Ian Bagg. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Locale Summer Fest. 4 p.m. DV8 Distillery Parking Lot (Olde Town Pearl), 2480 49th St., Boulder. see EVENTS Page 37

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Monday, Sept. 3

Marcia Douglas — The Marvellous Equations of the Dread. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

Friday, Aug. 31 Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

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

Saturday, Sept. 1 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

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Tuesday, Sept. 4 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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

Mallory Bales — Courageous Love. 6 p.m.

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

John Larison — Whiskey When We’re Dry. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Ave., Denver.

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

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Sunday, Sept. 2

Summer Bookclub Night. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Tattered Cover Film Series — Rembrandt.

1 p.m. Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Fiction Readings — with Kate Moretti and Gwen Florio. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Linda Keir — The Swing of Things. 7 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Outdoor Cinemas. 7 p.m. Thompson Park, 420 Bross St., Longmont, 720-280-7228.

Panning for Gold. 12 p.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N. Bridge St., Nederland, 303-2587332.

Pints in the Park. 12 p.m. Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-666-5747.

Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7 p.m.

Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St. (in back of School), Lyons, 303-823-5925.

Rocky Mountain Forgotten Gold — Denver $10k Treasure Hunt. 12 a.m. Denver, Colorado, Depends, Denver, 720-772-7306.

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

Saturday Sing-Along: Era of Jazz. 3 p.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Tween Time. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Sunday, September 2 Music August Burns Red. 6 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band in Longmont.

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

David Nail. 11 a.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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

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

Kim Waters. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Labor Day Weekend Bash featuring Catch Me Catatonic, Walking With Bikes, Theoretic, Sky Pond, Past Of Ashes, BabyBaby, Paradox.

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

Many Mountains. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099. see EVENTS Page 38

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Merrick 25th Anniversary Party debuting Rocket Dust. 6 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

GOODING — with special guests Me Like Bees and Carter Hulsey. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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

Senior Center Singers. 1 p.m. 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, The Devil Wears Prada, Polaris. 6 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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Events RiNo Sunday Urban Market. 12 p.m. Infinite Monkey Theorem, 3200 Larimer St., Denver, 303-736-8376.

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Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

Temple Tantrum Block Party. 1 p.m. Temple Arts Center, 2400 Curtis, Denver, 970-309-0917.

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m.

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

Erik Myers. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777.

GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Doris’ Sunday Matinee: North by Northwest.

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

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Locale Summer Fest. 4 p.m. DV8 Distillery Parking Lot (Olde Town Pearl), 2480 49th St., Boulder.

Mitch Fatel’s Naughty and Nice Showcase.

7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 2 p.m.

Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St., (in back of School), Lyons, 303-823-5925.

Monday, September 3 Music Abstract, Ryan Oakes and Dylan Reese — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

The Black Mariah Theater. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Everclear. 7 p.m. A Taste of Colorado, Civic Center Park, 101 E. 14th Ave., Denver.

Hazel Miller. Noon. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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

Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 East South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Swingin’ Seniors Rhythm Band. 1 p.m. 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-0960.

YES featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman. 7 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 480-839-9474.

Events 83rd Annual Labor Day Parade. 10 a.m.

Historic Downtown Louisville, Main St., Louisville, 303-335-4581.

Locale Summer Fest. 4 p.m. DV8 Distillery Parking Lot (Olde Town Pearl), 2480 49th St., Boulder.

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

Open Mic/Jam — with Tom Kendrot, Jam and Jiggatones. 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont, 720-378-3292.

Rocky Mountain Beer Festival. 1 p.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

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All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

To a More Perfect Union: U.S. vs. Windsor. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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

Wednesday, September 5 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Ross Malcolm Boyd and Jamie Feinberg. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Scott “Shack” Hackler. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Smashing Pumpkins — with Metric. 7 p.m.

Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m.

Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

Yoga of the Voice — with Ashlynn Manning.

6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

Events Community Night. 9 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079.

Conversations in English Wednesdays includes Beginner Group! 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Film Festival Volunteer Meeting. 6 p.m. The Experience CoWork Space, 475 Main Street and 5th Avenue, Longmont, 912-308-7957.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Magic @ Main. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Mountain. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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

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

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

Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363.

Teen Game Night. 6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

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ell, we’ve got to hand it to Boulder’s newest culinary addition, Flower Child. Their vegan poke actually tastes like poke, and it’s actually really good. The “fish” in this instance is marinated beet, which is cut into small cubes. It resembles fish more in texture and color (ahi tuna) than it does in flavor, but the rest of the bowl takes care of that. Avocado, pickled mushroom, cucumber, radish, wasabi pea, smoked dulse, brown rice and spicy ponzu create a palate similar to a fish-based poke bowl. On its own though, as a beet bowl, it’s fresh, bright, light and still wholly satisfying. $9.

Vital Root 3915 Tennyson St., Denver, vitalrootdenver.com ital Root is a vegetarian’s paradise. It helps that in addition to its meatless menu, it’s also 98 percent grain-free, 99 percent vegan and 100 percent gluten-free. But that doesn’t mean it skimps on taste or creativity. While we enjoyed everything we tried, the caprese salad really stood out.

Ample fresh, sliced peaches and heirloom tomatoes filled the plate, along with small balls of bufala mozzarella and dollops of rhubarb basil jam. Smoked, crushed almonds were sprinkled atop to add just a bit of crunch to the otherwise juicy dish. Served in a fast casual atmosphere, but with the culinary expertise behind other esteemed establishments like Root Down and Linger, Vital Root is worth the trip. $11.

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oodgrain Bagels has quickly established itself as one of Boulder’s go-to breakfast and lunch spots. Its Montreal-style bagels are the thing on which the restaurant and bakery is based, but their menu of sandwiches and plates have gained their own following. Take their other Canadian export — poutine. Available in three choices, we opted for the classic in order to get our bearings. It’s a well-done take on the dish of fries, cheese curds and gravy. The fries are fried to order, and made of thick-but-not-too-thick potato slices. The beef gravy is rich with chives, mushroom and curds. Poutine can sometimes be overwhelming in scent and flavor; this, however, was perfectly seasoned and apportioned. $9.

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illennials are supposed to be the “foodiest generation.” Nutritionally savvy, they were raised on sushi and sustainability, thanks to their baby boomer and Generation X parents. They view more cooking shows per capita than any other demographic entity. Instagram is all about food-porn shots of their plates of restaurant food.

Could it be that they actually don’t know how to cook or are we just picking on millennials?

A new study commissioned by Porch.com found that just over half of millennials surveyed were able to identify a garlic press or a salad spinner from photos. More troubling, only 41 percent can make a vinaigrette dressing from scratch and 91 percent say they have trouble following recipes.

Barely 50 percent of these millennials say they know how to roast a whole

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chicken and nearly twothirds of the generation can’t make a chicken salad sandwich. However, that may just be the vegetarian/ vegan factor combined with the mayo factor.

According to Philadelphia Magazine, millennials are also to blame for the decline and fall of mayonnaise as a popular food, replaced by tastier condiments such as chimichurri and gochujang. Apparently, avocado toast is the new chicken salad sandwich.

Other statistics tend to support the Porch.com survey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture found that millennials spend nearly an hour less per day in the kitchen than Generation Xers and buy fewer raw, whole ingredients.

Millennials are being credited with the demise of the first-date dinner.

Online dating has meant a geometric increase in the number of first dates.

It’s too expensive and time-consuming to go out to dinner on all those dates.

Today’s 30-year-olds spend almost 10 percent less on food and a lot more on education debt and health care than baby boomers did at 30, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Just how competent in the kitchen is the next generation?

They are also killing the cork.

According to Nielsen, pinot noir-loving millennials are insisting on wine bottles with twist-off caps and wine in cans.

Millennials are being partially credited with Nabisco’s redesign of its century-old Barnum’s Animals crackers box to show animals free of the cages they occupied in the recently shuttered Ringling Brothers and Barnum and see NIBBLES Page 44

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The Pew Research Center defines millennials as anyone born between 1981 and 1996 — about 22 to 37 years old in 2018.

Members of Generation Z arrived between 1996 and 2010. Other sources quibble with the dates but the significant age difference means these young adults may have less in common than the stats suggest when it comes to food.

For reference, see the divide between the Elvis boomers and the Beatles boomers.

Technology may be partially responsible for millennials’ lack of cooking proficiency. Even when they acquire a skill, the knowledge isn’t necessarily retained because of acute “cognitive offloading.” They don’t learn recipes or techniques by heart because they know they can find them again on YouTube, Google or Pinterest. A Google study found about 60 percent of millennials cook with smartphone in hand.

(Transparency requires me to confess that I find recipes on the Internet, not in my hundreds of cookbooks.)

A recent Better Homes and Gardens survey showed that 93 percent of millennial women try new recipes each month and eat dinner at home at least four times a week. Meanwhile, a University of Minnesota public health study found that only one-third of young adults read nutrition labels, with women more likely to read them than men.

It is well to remember that members of

Generation Z will represent more than 40 percent of all U.S. grocery shoppers within about two years. They will be in charge eventually. America’s least hip eatery chain, Cracker Barrel, has bowed to demographic reality and launched the fastcasual Holler & Dash chain to woo millennials and Gen Z kids. Will the kids buy in?

For many millennials, sustainability and transparency are key factors in deciding what to buy. As a result, companies are competing to see which product can present the purest GMO-free, organic, free trade, gluten-free and packaging-free foods. These kids grew up with packages on the kitchen table made here with the “Boulder” imprimatur of goodness on the label next to the bar code.

In my experience these generational generalizations are necessarily wrong at least half the time. You should have heard the crap hurled at us baby boomers by our parents’ Greatest Generation between the 1960s to 1980s.

If you are a millennial or younger, do the survey results above reflect the reality of your food life and your generation? Send your comments to: nibbles@ boulderweekly.com. Let me know if I can excerpt and share your comments, with or without your name, in an upcoming Nibbles column.

Local food news

Wapos Mexican Cocina has opened a second location at 1389 Forest Park Circle in Lafayette. ...

Boardgames, Beer and Bites (or B Cubed) will open this fall at 2027 Broadway in Boulder stocked with 600 board games and waiters who are game geeks. ...

Plan ahead: Flatirons Food Film Festival, Oct. 11-14 in Boulder will include eight short films, 26 speakers and seven feature films including Brewmaster, Cuban Food Stories, Babette’s Feast, Eating Animals and The Cakemaker. flatironsfoodfilmfest.org ... Add another national cuisine to the metro area’s restaurant roster.

Turkish cuisine is on the menu at the tiny Bosphorus Restaurant, 3493 S. Downing St., Englewood. ... We raise a toast to the recently passed Manny Salzman, a Denver doctor who helped elevate Colorado to the pinnacle of the fungi world. With his wife, Joanne, and Gary Lincof, he founded a quintessentially Colorado gathering in 1981, the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival. Salzman also helped lead mushroom-hunting tours to 23 countries during his 99 years.

Taste of the week

Quaffing a cold one takes on a different buzz when it is Prop’d-N-Hop’d, the new nitro cold brew canned coffee with hops from Erie Coffee Roasters.

The coffee flavor is strong but balanced with nitro’s creaminess and the hops adding essentially a lemoncitrus accent — like Italian espresso with lemon peel.

The coffee is available at Alfalfa’s Market, Lucky’s Market and other local stores.

Words to chew on

“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.” — Nora Ephron John Lehndorff has been writing Nibbles almost every week since 1985. Listen to Radio Nibbles podcasts at: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles

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oulder County’s best-kept food secret is not hiding in a strip mall. It’s not hiding on the bottom floor of a Boulder apartment complex nor at a niche craft food manufacturer in some industrial zone. It’s not hiding on a well-curated deli rack, a bakery shelf, a small wine store. Nor, in fact, is it hiding anywhere at any of the County’s restaurants, breweries, bars, farms, food trucks, stores or pop-up dinners.

No, it’s hiding in a grassy lot beside an orthodox church in rural northeast Boulder. And it’s hiding on the calendar; it only appears for three days every year.

On the surface, A Taste of Orthodoxy (Sept. 7-9) at Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church off Jay Road is like any other Greek festival: stop by on a whim, nosh on some baklava and a gyro, listen to someone pick trance-inducing melodies on a sixstring bouzouki, and call it a day.

But stick around the church grounds, and down a few glasses of retsina (white wine flavored with pine resin), and the wingspan of Boulder’s quote-unquote “Greek” festival will emerge.

“I was born and raised in New Jersey. Our church was in Piscataway; 98 percent of the people there were Greek,” says Nick Karis, a church parishioner, and one of the festi-

val’s culinary guides. “One of the things I love about Above: Loukoumades Saints Peter and Paul is being prepared at a prior Taste of Orthodoxy you have more ethnicities festival. involved than just Greek.

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Everybody is orthodox, but we have a large number of Greeks, Arabs, Romanians, Syrians, Ukrainians and Russians.

I think that makes our food more interesting.”

What binds these people of different backgrounds is, foremost, their orthodox faith, what Karis paraphrases as the “original Christian religion.” But they also bond over a shared connection to food.

“I think we all have a food background, and as a culture, everything happens around the kitchen table,” he says.

Karis is no exception. His father owned several diners in New York and New Jersey, and Karis astutely points out that when it comes to choosing between the Northeast’s many diners, “You want to go to a Greek diner because the food’s going to be the best there.”

Now when it comes to creating a community at Saints Peter and Paul, there are more wrinkles to iron out in the food preparation than there are with cultural, ethnic or religious differences.

“I’ve been making hummus for 20 years, for most of my life,” Karis says. “One of the guys from Palestine makes hummus. It’s ten times better than mine, so I say, ‘What do you differently?’ I come to find out there’s an old family Boulder Weekly

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secret that he puts in. They use a certain tahini. Then there’s a lady there at the festival who makes falafel, it’s the best falafel I’ve ever had. She refuses to give anybody the recipe.”

What the diversity of the congregation creates is a mélange of mostly Middle Eastern and Eastern European culinary traditions, with a healthy dose of family secrets mixed in. What we’ll taste at A Taste of Orthodoxy is just a hint of the congregation’s culinary mixing.

“It’s a blend. Everybody brings from their background, what their family has done. Everyone in the Middle East makes baklava, but some do it with walnuts, some with pistachios, some do their honey a little bit differently,” Karis says.

So how do they navigate those differences? How do the members of the church decide which family recipe, which culture, has the best take on a certain dish?

“A lot of it’s going to depend on who you ask,” Karis says. “You ask me, you’re going to get the Greek spin, (ask someone else), you’re going to get the Russian spin. But it’s all Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, European, and that’s all blended together.”

Karis recalls last Easter going to a local farm with an Arabic parishioner to pick up a whole lamb to barbecue all day.

The two traded ideas for seasoning and created something wholly unique, but still within the realm of what we’d call Middle Eastern or Mediterranean lamb.

“It’s always evolving,” Karis says of their list of food creations. “It’s all in such the same ballpark that there’s really no big huge debate about it. ‘You throw on a little more lemon, well I don’t.’ One time the lamb was marinated in wine, and we thought it was way too much wine, so we didn’t do that the next year.

It’s just a different flavor for each individual, but it’s all in this narrow ballpark of Greek, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Arab blends.”

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ple the chance to taste some of Even the fence those blends in is welcoming to guests at Saints mostly familiar Peter and Paul dishes — loukGreek Orthodox Church. oumades (doughnuts with honey, cinnamon and walnut), gyro (lamb meat with yogurt sauce), Greek salad, calamari, saganaki (fried cheese) and more. But there are plenty of bold flavors to try, including the aforementioned retsina, the anise-flavored liqueur ouzo (also available as an ouzo cake), Greek/ Turkish coffee and guraybeh (an Arab butter cookie made with ghee).

Karis says these flavors are usually well-received by patrons even if they haven’t tasted those flavors in a while, or ever.

“The fact that they’re there proves that they have an open mind and that’s half the battle,” Karis says, adding that he understands why Greek flavors might seem exotic to some: “It’s hard to find Greek restaurants because Greeks don’t go to restaurants because we can do it better at home.”

Part of what makes the food taste so good at A Taste of Orthodoxy is the setting. Karis likens the open field and view of the mountains at the church as something out of the Greek isles. And with traditional dance and music from all of the cultures represented by the congregation, it’s easy to feel transported (again, easier with abundant ouzo and retsina).

But it all comes back to the food.

And what makes this festival special is that the food we’ll be eating comes from the hands and histories of people who care about preserving Mediterranean/ Middle Eastern/Greek food and make and eat it regularly.

“I would say that you go to any of the households (of our parishioners) and you’re going to be eating similar food,” Karis says. “That’s what we were all raised for.”

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arlier this month, Fate Brewing Company announced that Denise Jones — formerly of Moylan’s Brewing and Distilling Company and Third Street Aleworks, both located in California, and Wyermann Specialty Malts in Germany — would be joining as Fate’s director of brewing and distilling operations. Yes, you read that right: distilling.

“If you’re going to make whiskey, you need a mash tun, you need to basically make a hop-less beer before you put it in the still,” Jones says. “The equipment, the basic equipment, to get the first part [of the distillation process] is sitting right there at the brewery.”

For Jones, it makes perfect Sage Swink/Courtesy Fate Brewing Company sense to have a brewery and distillery in the same facility — should the law permit — and for anyone paying attention to national drinking trends, it makes perfect sense for a brewery to get into the spirits business. Much ink has been spilled in the past few years about millennial drinking habits and the uptick in spirit sales and the decrease in beer volume sales. Jones sees this as drinkers choosing quality over quantity — two good beers over three mediocre beers — and “more bang for your buck.”

“They are looking for value, they’re looking for homegrown,” Jones says. “As odd as it sounds, in this culture where they have a cell phone — and they don’t want to talk to anybody and it’s constantly in their face all the time — they want to go to the pub, and they want to have something tactile that’s local and feels like it’s homemade.”

And with a 25-year career in the brewing and distilling business, across three states and two nations, Jones is no stranger to shifting trends. Growing up in her parents’ restaurant business, Jones learned the value of talking to the customer across the bar and table.

“It affords me the opportunity to actually talk to my customers and understand what types of beers they actually like,” Jones says.

Though Jones’ familial roots are in the restaurant business, she wasn’t keen on the culinary academy’s hours, so she decided to give a brewing education a shot.

“I was the first female graduate of the American Brewers’ Guild under the direction of Dr. Michael Lewis from UC-Davis,” Jones recounts.

That led to an apprenticeship at Great Basin Brewing in Sparks, Nevada, which turned into employment before Jones headed off to Tahoe, Utah, for a head brewer position at Blue Water Brewing. Then, an eight-year stint as Third Street Aleworks’ head brewer, followed by six-and-half-years as Moylan’s brewmaster before relocating to Weyermann in Bramberg, Germany, for three years.

“Everything I do seems to be fun,” Jones says.

And now Jones joins Fate full-time in December. First up: “Get the wheels going on a distillation program and diversification of beverage program.”

And more than anything else, Jones is looking forward to “having a rapport with the people who drink my beer.”

“That is where the future lies.”

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have more. Home in on the phenomena that in your mind embody the glory of creation.

ARIES

CANCER

Wonderland, our heroine encounters a talking caterpillar as he smokes a hookah on top of a tall mushroom.

“Who are you?” he asks her. Alice is honest: “I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” She says this with uneasiness. In the last few hours, she has twice been shrunken down to a tiny size and twice grown as big as a giant. All these transformations have unnerved her. In contrast to Alice, I’m hoping you’ll have a positive attitude about your upcoming shifts and mutations, Aries. From what I can tell, your journey through the Season of Metamorphosis should be mostly fun and educational.

Potential new allies are seeking entrance to your domain. Existing allies LIBRA aspire to be closer to you.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: I I’m worried you may be Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES foresee the withering of a and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio a bit overwhelmed; that hope or the disappearance horoscopes are also available by phone at you might not exercise of a prop or the loss of 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. sufficient discrimination. I leverage. This ending may therefore urge you to ask initially make you feel yourself these questions melancholy, but I bet it will ultimately prove beneficent about each candidate. 1. Does this person understand what — and maybe lead you to resources that were previously it means to respect your boundaries? 2. What are his or unavailable. Here are rituals you could perform that may her motivations for wanting contact with you? 3. Do you help you catalyze the specific kind of relief and release you truly value and need the gifts each person has to give you? need: 1. Wander around a graveyard and sing songs you 4. Everyone in the world has a dark side. Can you intuit love. 2. Tie one end of a string around your ankle and the the nature of each person’s dark side? Is it tolerable? Is it other end around an object that symbolizes an influence interesting? you want to banish from your life. Then cut the string and bury the object. 3. Say this ten times: “The end makes the LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: While a young man, the future beginning possible.”

Roman leader Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Sicilian SCORPIO pirates. They proposed a ransom of 620 kilograms of silver.

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “If a man treats a life artistically, his Caesar was incensed at the small size of the ransom — he brain is his heart,” wrote Oscar Wilde. I’ll translate that believed he was worth more — and demanded that his into a more complete version: “If a person of any gender captors raise the sum to 1,550 kilograms. I’d love to see treats life artistically, their brain is their heart.” This truth you unleash that kind of bravado in the coming weeks, Leo will be especially applicable for you in the coming weeks.

— preferably without getting yourself kidnapped. In my You’ll be wise to treat your life artistically. You’ll thrive by opinion, it’s crucial that you know how valuable you are, and using your heart as your brain. So I advise you to wield make sure everyone else knows, as well. your intelligence with love. Understand that your most incisive insights will come when you’re feeling empathy VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Romanian philosopher Emil and seeking intimacy. As you crystallize clear visions about the future, make sure they are generously suffused Cioran loved the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. with ideas about how you and your people can enhance “Without Bach, God would be a complete secondyour joie de vivre. rate figure,” he testified, adding, “Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe SAGITTARIUS cannot be regarded as a complete failure.” I invite you NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “My tastes are simple,” testified to emulate Cioran’s passionate clarity, Virgo. From an Sagittarian politician Winston Churchill. “I am easily astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to satisfied with the best.” I propose that we make that identify people and things that consistently invigorate your motto for now. While it may not be a sound idea your excitement about your destiny. Maybe you have to demand only the finest of everything all the time, I just one shining exemplar, like Cioran, or maybe you

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In Alice’s Adventures in

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Juan Villarino has hitchhiked over

2,350 times in 90 countries. His free rides have carried him over 100,000 miles. He has kept detailed records, so he’s able to say with confidence that Iraq is the best place to catch a lift. Average wait time there is seven minutes. Jordan and Romania are good, too, with nine- and 12-minute waits, respectively. In telling you about his success, I don’t mean to suggest that now is a favorable time to hitchhike. But I do want you to know that the coming weeks will be prime time to solicit favors, garner gifts and make yourself available for metaphorical equivalents of free rides. You’re extra magnetic and attractive. How could anyone could resist providing you with the blessings you need and deserve?

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: One of the big stories of 2018

concerns your effort to escape from a star-crossed trick of fate — to fix a long-running tweak that has subtly undermined your lust for life. How successful will you be in this heroic quest? That will hinge in part on your faith in the new power you’ve been developing. Another factor that will determine the outcome is your ability to identify and gain access to a resource that is virtually magical even though it appears nondescript. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that a key plot twist in this story will soon unfold.

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JUNE

21-JULY 22:

think it will be wise for you to do so during the next three weeks. You will have a mandate to resist trifles and insist on excellence. Luckily, this should motivate you to raise your own standards and expect the very best from yourself.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Russian playwright Anton Chekhov

articulated a principle he felt was essential to telling a good story: If you say early in your tale that there’s a rifle hanging on the wall, that rifle must eventually be used. “If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there,” declared Chekhov. We might wish that real life unfolded with such clear dramatic purpose. To have our future so well-foreshadowed would make it easier to plan our actions. But that’s not often the case. Many elements pop up in our personal stories that ultimately serve no purpose. Except now, that is, for you Capricorns. I suspect that in the next six weeks, plot twists will be telegraphed in advance.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Would it be fun to roast marshmal-

lows on long sticks over scorching volcanic vents? I suppose.

Would it be safe? No! Aside from the possibility that you could get burned, the sulfuric acid in the vapors would make the cooked marshmallows taste terrible and might cause them to explode. So I advise you to refrain from adventures like that. On the other hand, I will love it if you cultivate a playful spirit as you contemplate serious decisions. I’m in favor of you keeping a blithe attitude as you navigate your way through tricky maneuvers. I hope you’ll be jaunty in the midst of rumbling commotions.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: People will be thinking about you

more than usual, and with greater intensity. Allies and acquaintances will be revising their opinions and understandings about you, mostly in favorable ways, although not always. Loved ones and not-so-loved ones will also be reworking their images of you, coming to altered conclusions about what you mean to them and what your purpose is. Given these developments, I suggest that you be proactive about expressing your best intentions and displaying your finest attributes.

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LYONS

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Dear Dan: This woman has gone down on me (I’m a man) more than half a dozen times in the last three months. Each time seems to be better than the previous!

She does not want reciprocation. She has also turned down all my offers for intercourse. As far as I know, she is heterosexual just like me. What’s with that? I am getting a bit frustrated. Also, without going all the way, am I considered a friend with benefits?

—Just Chilling Dear JC: You’re benefiting here — think of all those blowjobs — and if she’s a friend, you can certainly regard yourself as a friend with benefits. As for why she won’t allow you to eat her pussy or put your dick in her pussy, JC, well, a few things spring to mind. She could be one of those women who love to give head and that’s all she wants from a casual partner. Or she could have body-image issues. Or she could have a sexually transmitted infection, and she’d rather blow than disclose. Or she might be unwilling to risk pregnancy. Or she could be intersex or trans and not ready to open up. If you enjoy those blowjobs — if you’re enjoying the benefits — focus on what you are getting instead of what you’re not.

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SAVAGE

by Dan Savage

Dear Dan: My husband and I occasionally go to swingers clubs. I don’t want to inadvertently fuck any Trump supporters, but I hate the idea of bringing up politics and killing everyone’s collective boner.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

—Occasionally Swinging Dear OS: At the risk of killing your boner forever, OS, the organized swinging scene “leans right,” as pollster Charlie Cook would put it if Charlie Cook polled swingers. Easily half of the couples I met at a big swingers convention I attended in Las Vegas told me they were Republicans. One man — a swinger from Texas — told me he was a “traditional values” type of guy and that’s why he opposed same-sex marriage. Fun fact: His wife was off fucking someone else’s husband while we were chitchatting in the hotel bar. Good times.

Dear Dan: I’m a happily married 35-year-old mom. I have a loving and devoted husband. Recently, I started a job

Love

to get out of the house more and interact with more people. Well, it turns out my new boss is a real hottie. I have a crush on him and often find myself fantasizing about him. While I know these feelings can be normal, I tend to fixate/obsess. I’m basically looking for advice on how to move past this crush or maybe find a more productive outlet.

—Newbie Fantasizing Dear NF: Here’s a more productive outlet: Turn out the lights, climb on top of your husband, get him hard, then sink your pussy down on his cock and ride him while you fantasize about your boss. (Perhaps this is better described as a more productive inlet?) Bonus points if you and your husband are both secure enough in your marriage and cognizant enough of reality to regard crushes on others as normal and, so long as they remain crushes, not a threat to your marriage or commitment. Because then you can talk dirty with your husband about your boss — he can even pretend

to be your boss — while you ride your husband’s cock.

Dear Dan: The other night while my wife and I were watching porn and masturbating together, I suggested we masturbate in front of DirtyRoulette. I briefly explained what the site is about. She asked me if that’s what I do — if I get on DR when I masturbate. I replied yes, sometimes — and she was so taken aback, she ended our masturbation session to process it. We’re fine now, but do you think this is “cheating?”

—Dirty Rouletting Dear DR: I don’t think it’s cheating, DR, but you aren’t married to me.

In other words, if your wife regards you masturbating with strangers on the internet as cheating, then it’s cheating.

There are, of course, some people out there who regard too many things as cheating — fantasizing about others, looking at porn, even non-webcam-orporn-enhanced masturbation. People who think this way usually regard cheating as unforgivable and, consequently, their relationships are doomed to failure.

Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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by Sidni West

Savor summer one last time this Labor Day weekend

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t pains me to say this, but summer is coming to an end. All the college students are back in town, pumpkin spice lattes are available at Starbucks again and Labor Day is here.

Every year, all I think about is why we came up with such a sadistic holiday that convinces us summer is over three weeks before it actually ends and what that even has to do with wearing white pants past September.

The origins of Labor Day aren’t as heralded as those of other federal holidays, but honestly, it doesn’t matter because knowing the origin story doesn’t make this weekend any less emotionally complicated to navigate.

PROS: There are no costumes, decorations, fireworks, gifts, family members guilting you for not coming home or any other traditions that make most holidays insufferable.

It’s mostly just a three-day weekend that revolves around eating potato salad, day-drinking next to a body of water and scoping out those discounted prices at Mattress Warehouse.

CONS: It’s a dreadful reminder that summer is ending and soon we’ll be forced to start wearing fleece and pretending to care about football. No matter how old you are or where you’re at in life, Labor Day makes us feel like fun time is over and it’s all back-to-school anxiety from here on out.

I’m sure most of us have mixed feelings about this time of year and change in general, but you need to repress that shit along with the rest of your trauma because now is not the time for emotions. If you’re at a loss for how to behave, don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with these do’s and don’ts for the upcoming weekend.

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something to do with those numbers, considering they play their annual three-day show at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park during this time every year. No matter what your plans are, try to stock up on all your party favors beforehand.

DON’T: Wait to buy your weed.

Labor Day is one of the biggest weekends of the year for retail cannabis, so going to the dispensary this weekend is like heading to the grocery store on Thanksgiving morning: you have no clue what’s left in stock, but you’ll definitely be stressed by the crowd of other people who waited until the last minute and also don’t want to be there. According to BDS Analytics, Colorado dispensary sales between Friday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend in 2016 reached $17.3 million, making it the highest-selling weekend of the year. While the official stoner holiday 4/20 means more product deals and higher sales volume for dispensaries, those don’t necessarily translate into more money. High sales are indicative of tourists enjoying their final adventures of the summer before the weather gets colder and Red Rocks Amphitheatre closes. I’m sure Phish also has

DON’T: Worry about arbitrary fashion rules.

It’s already bad enough that we have a holiday to celebrate labor, but now we have to retire all of our white clothing and open-toed shoes in its honor? Sorry, but I own a pair of white jeans that my ass looks great in year-round and I think Chacos are acceptable footwear up until the Front Range sees its first snow. The weather in Colorado is indecisive most of the year, so you can put your summer clothes away when your local climate and social schedule call for it. If it still looks like summer, and feels like summer, it’s summer. Having 80-degree days in October is pretty common and there’s no sense hiding your white clothes if the UV index is still going strong. However, this is probably the final days for crop tops, sun dresses and any swimwear you’re trying to pass as street clothes. Pretty soon we’re not going to be able to leave the house without a jacket, so live it up in your denim cutoffs and enjoy not worrying about someone stealing your Patagonia puffy from the bar.

DO: Reflect on your summer.

Take at least two seconds to reflect on how amazing your summer was before remembering how not-excited you are to go back to school or back to pretending to work. Life goes by fast and you’ll only be able to experience the summer of 2018 once, so it’s important to reflect from a place of intention and gratitude.

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cannabis corner

by Paul Danish

Three dots in a cloud of purple haze

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toner nation: According to the results of a survey published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, one in seven Americans over the age of 18 (14.6 percent of the adult population) used marijuana in 2017. Since there are about 250 million adults in the U.S., that works out to 36.5 million users... And 8.7 percent of the adult population used pot in the past month. That works out to 21.75 million users... Unsurprisingly there was a higher percentage of users in states where recreational marijuana was legal than in states where it wasn’t. Twenty percent reported inhaling (or ingesting) in states where they could do so legally, versus 12 percent in states where ganja was taboo...

The study surveyed 16,280 adults.

• • • And the polling keeps rolling: A Quinnipiac University survey found that 59 percent of voters in Connecticut support legalizing marijuana. Only 36 percent oppose... There is majority support from Democrats, Republicans, independents, both sexes and all races. Only geezers (voters over 65) oppose…

Connecticut doesn’t allow citizen ballot initiatives, but in this year’s gubernatorial election, Democrat Ned Lamont, who favors legalization, leads Republican Bob Stefanowski, who doesn’t, 53 to 37 percent... A Quinnipiac survey of New Jersey voters found they support marijuana legalization by a 62 to 33 percent margin, also with all major demographics except people over 65 weighing in in favor... and a staggering 90 percent of New Jersey millenials and Gen Zs (voters between ages 18 and 35) say yea pot...

And the New Jersey legislature may be getting the message. New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (a Democrat) says there are enough votes in the legislature to pass a legalization bill by the end of September... Sixty-one percent of Wisconsin voters favor pot legalization, according to a poll by Marquette University Law School; only 36 percent oppose... unlike Connecticut and New Jersey, Wisconsin Republicans and Democrats differ sharply

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on legalization, with 76 percent of Democrats in favor and 62 percent of Republicans against... Wisconsin does allow ballot initiatives, but there won’t be one on the ballot this November, though advisory legalization questions will be on the ballots in a number of Wisconsin counties.

• • • • The Empire (State) is going to pot: Cynthia Nixon seems to have started something. The Sex in the City actress’s campaign for governor (the primary is Sept. 13) has caused a lot of the state’s nanny state opponents to marijuana legalization to rethink their opposition... starting with her opponent, incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo, who used to call marijuana a gateway drug but is suddenly making pro-legal-

ization moves... Cuomo ordered the New York State Health Department to study the impact of marijuana legalization, and after the Department found that the “positive effects” of legalized pot “outweigh the potential negative impacts,” the Gov. formed a committee to “implement the report’s recommendations through legislation”... and earlier this week the chairmen of four New York Assembly committees issued a joint press release saying they will hold hearings on marijuana legalization-related issues later this year. The hearings will cover economic regulations, criminal justice policy, public health issues and diversity in the pot industry...

Meanwhile in New York City, the Manhattan district attorney has ordered prosecutors in the borough to suspend all marijuana possession cases... If Nixon succeeds in knocking off Cuomo, it would be the political upset of the year, but even if she loses she may have catalyzed the end of marijuana prohibition in New York.

• • • • Stupid politician tricks: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren may be one of the strongest supporters of marijuana legalization in the Senate, but she seems to have been caught speaking with forked tongue about her support of her state’s successful legalization initiative in 2016... The senator told a reporter for Rolling Stone that she had endorsed the initiative before the election. Numerous sources, including the initiative’s sponsors, said she hadn’t... However, the senator didn’t oppose the initiative and said she was “open” to marijuana legalization; most of the state’s elected officials opposed the initiative, and the sponsors said they were grateful for Warren’s non-support support... And she says she did vote for the initiative... Warren is co-sponsor of a bill in the Senate, along with Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, to let states legalize marijuana without federal interference... It’s been a long, strange trip.

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