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5 THE HIGHROAD: Will you enlist in ‘Trump’s War’?

6 GUEST COLUMNS: We condemn the pardon of Joe Arpaio; Crisis of leadership; Charlottesville violence 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 14 NEWS: Not just a number; What’s in a name?

28 OVERTONES: Jason Isbell would rather talk beliefs; A most delicate anguish 35 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 43 POETRY: by Rebecca Macijeski FILM: Monthly Brakhage Film Series returns THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in Boulder County this week DRINK: Tour de Brew: Sanitas Brewing Co. ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny SAVAGE LOVE: Everybody hurts WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: It takes a big person to think small CANNABIS CORNER: The return of three-dot journalism ICUMI: An irreverent and not always accurate view of the world

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Highroad Will you enlist in ‘Trump’s War’?

by Jim Hightower

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resident Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and is constantly firing off militant tweets at anyone he perceives to be an enemy (which seems to include everyone who dares to disagree with him).

Meanwhile, he and his White-House-full-of-militarycommanders are pondering the launch of a real shooting war, a military offensive that would be known as “Trump’s War.” Actually, he would be attempting to achieve battlefield glory by picking up and extending what at first was Bush’s War, then Obama’s War. The place is Afghanistan, and the strategy is to shove another 5,000 or so American soldiers (none of whom will be named Trump) into that brutish hell hole.

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

Yes, that mess is still boiling, despite President Obama’s 2012 pledge to end U.S. involvement. After 16 years (the longest war in our history), after more than 2,000 Americans killed and 20,000 others maimed, after more than $800 billion spent on it — 8,400 of our troops are still there, the killing continues, and we taxpayers keep pumping $3 billion a month into the insanity. For all of that, the Taliban forces we’ve been trying to defeat are stronger than ever, and the Afghan government we’re supporting is as corrupt, inept and despised as ever.

Nonetheless, Trump is violating a basic rule of civilian control of the military: Never ask the generals if they need more resources. This president has surrounded himself with generals and surrendered crucial decision-making authority to them.

We weren’t able to win in Afghanistan when 100,000 of our troops were there — so what do we “win” by putting 5,000 more soldiers in harm’s way, other than more U.S. casualties? If Trump can’t tell us that, we should tell him “No!” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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guest column We condemn the pardon of Joe Arpaio

by UnidosUS, previously known as NCLR (National Council of La Raza) UnidosUS, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, condemns — in the strongest possible terms — President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of criminal contempt by a U.S. District Court Judge in Arizona less than a month ago. UnidosUS joins its Arizona Affiliates to denounce the president’s decision.

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t is hard to imagine anyone less worthy of a pardon or of mercy of any kind than Joe Arpaio. He repeatedly flouted the law by engaging in the highly publicized and self-serving harassment and abuse of millions of his constituents at the expense of actual law enforcement and public safety. He thumbed his nose at the Department of Justice, the court system and every other legal attempt to get him to cease and desist his unconstitutional racial profiling of citizens and noncitizens alike. He has yet to serve a day in jail or pay any other legal price for his crimes. And he has demonstrated not one ounce of remorse or repentance, or made any amends to the people he terrorized for more than a decade,” states UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguía.

“By pardoning someone who has done nothing to earn it, President Trump has further cemented his upending of both presidential norms and common decency. And it is obscene for the president to pardon someone who has been a gleeful and unrepentant bigot and a scourge of all communities of color in his state just days after he defended White supremacists, neo-Nazis and their despicable acts in Charlottesville.

And that this is his very first use of this presidential privilege tells you all you need to know about which Americans matter to him and which don’t.

“Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the instigator of racial profiling and made official a policy of harassment and 6 August 31 , 2017

abuse based on the color of one’s skin in Maricopa County. SB1070 codified those policies in the state.

President Trump gave the blessing of his administration to pursue those disgraceful and unlawful policies in every state and locality in the land.

Every person of color in this nation has been put in harm’s way because of this action and that is unconscionable,” Murguía concludes.

“President Trump claims he supports ‘law-and-order,’ but now [has pardoned] a convicted criminal, exSheriff Joe Arpaio,” says Promise Arizona Executive Director Petra Falcon. “This would be a shameful injustice and a slap in the face to all of the people, including so many immigrant families, that Arpaio victimized during his time in office. We the people are here to let the White House know this will not stand.”

“Valle del Sol stands firmly opposed to the pardoning of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

It is a grave injustice to pardon a man who has created tension and divisiveness of the worst kind, pitting entire communities against one another in the name of ‘justice.’ We continue to stand with our Latino brothers and sisters and remain vigilant in our advocacy for all Arizonans,” states Kurt Sheppard, president and CEO of Valle Del Sol. “This year, our justice system functioned as it was intended and convicted Sheriff Joe Arpaio of criminal contempt. For more than a decade, Sheriff Arpaio created a tenuous environment in Arizona for Latinos through aggressive profiling, which harmed citizens and non-citizens alike. President Trump’s willingness to downplay this abuse by pardoning Arpaio does not repair the damage he caused countless Arizonans nor erase the stain on Arizona’s reputation,” says President and CEO of Chicanos Por La Causa David Adame.

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

guest column Crisis of leadership

by Western Environmental Law Center

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e acknowledge our responsibility to stand in solidarity with all people and communities of good conscience who oppose hatred and discrimination.

Heather Heyer’s murder at the hands of a white nationalist in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month was an unacceptable and avoidable tragedy. Silence on the issue of racial and religious hate groups contributes to the growing problem of organized hate and discrimination in America. As an organization that fights for justice, we feel compelled to make a statement unequivocally condemning these white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups, as well as our political leaders who lack the courage to do the same.

In his remarks about Heyer’s murder and the broader events in Charlottesville, President Trump equated advocates of genocide with advocates of equality. Aside from the preposterous false equivalency, President Trump’s failure to forcefully denounce these hate groups and their rally echoes racist and bigoted comments he repeatedly made before and during his campaign and actions that he has taken as president. Trump’s failures, words and actions collectively create a culture of acceptance for an abhorrent ideology that 405,399 American soldiers died to eradicate in World War II and an ideology that underlies many of the darkest legacies of our own country’s history.

Our elected leaders’ failure to meet this issue head-on has allowed this racist poison to spread. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell lacked the courage to directly name the president in their responses to his statements on Charlottesville, let alone take meaningful action to protect the people of Charlottesville and other communities from the danger these hate groups present. Our elected leaders must represent the principles and values of the American people and our constitution.

While the rise of organized racism and anti-Semitism is thorny and difficult to address, the decision to aggressively condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacist hate groups, and to stand up to a president who provides them aid and comfort, should be the easiest political decision our members of Congress ever make. Unfortunately, that is not what is happening.

The president may never be willing to stand up to neo-Nazis and white supremacists, but we expect our members of Congress to act as a check on his influence in our government and on our national discourse. Critically, our members of Congress must not only condemn President Trump by name in the strongest of terms for his statements when necessary, but also take meaningful action to prevent harm to any American or our society from odious hate and violence.

Members of Congress: You swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” If you can’t execute that duty, make way for someone who can.

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

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guest column Charlottesville violence

by Claire Levy, executive director of Colorado Center on Law and Policy

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he motivating animus behind the ugly display of violence in Charlottesville was plain. It was an assertion of white supremacy and a claim that the identity of the United States of America belongs to people of European descent.

Colorado Center on Law and Policy rejects that assertion and rejects the view of this country that underlies it.

What’s more, we believe the strength, beauty and uniqueness of the U.S. rises from embracing diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness.

For nearly 20 years, CCLP has labored on behalf of people who have faced enormous challenges just to survive — people with disabilities fighting for health care and the ability to live independently with dignity; people who weren’t born into opportunity and advantage but who strive daily to provide for themselves and their loved ones; people whose opportunities have been diminished by decades of systemic and institutional racism; and people who encountered bumps and hurdles and are trying mightily to regain their footing.

Our work is based on recognition that for many the gap between the life they want and the life they have comes not from individual failing but from obstacles erected by cultural and economic systems put in place to serve people who already have much. While we work to forge pathways from poverty for all Coloradans, data consistently shows that poverty disproportionately and historically affects people of color.

The United States of America was founded on a beautiful ideal — that people who did not have religious freedom, privilege or title could prosper by their own labor. That ideal is part of our story of origin and is mythologized in songs and fables. It is an ideal that we may yet live up to.

But first, we need to acknowledge that the roots of this country began with an invasion of land that had long been civilized by native people and that the wealth of this country was built by enslaved people.

Institutional racism has been with us from the beginning. Despite decades of civil rights legislation, it is clear that institutional racism is still with us. It starves some communities of education resources and showers Boulder Weekly

riches upon others; it deprives some communities of health care and healthy places while others live with abundance; it subjects some to the

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degrading experience of hunger in this land of plenty while others delight in fresh food. Institutional racism has created two countries. And political opportunism has capitalized on that to turn people against one another.

The notion of white supremacy must be vanquished. It must be named explicitly and it must be condemned unequivocally. Likewise, racism in fact and in law must be named and con-

demned. We who call ourselves Americans must dedicate ourselves to the eradication of racism. We must acknowledge that that aspiration may take generations, but we cannot give up out of fatigue. CCLP stands with those who have been oppressed and raises its voice against those who sow division and hatred. Join with us.

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Walk for peace

I read with interest the many comments in response to “National dialogue on Charlottesville and where we go from here” [Re: News, Aug. 24, 2017] after the Charlottesville racist and anti-Semitic demonstration. One of the suggestions was to “foster love and compassion” as individuals.

On Sept. 17, a Sunday, the Lemon Tree Group is sponsoring its fourth annual September Walk for Unity. All in the community are invited to walk with us. Last year about 300 children and adults participated.

For further information, visit our website, lemontreepeacewalk.com The walk begins at 4:30 p.m. at Congregation Har HaShem, located at 3950 Baseline Road, at the rear annex. Parking is available. We will be greeted by several religious leaders whose congregations are sponsors of the walk. We will continue to the nearby Atonement Lutheran Church at 4:50 p.m. and then proceed to the Islamic Center of Boulder at approximately 5:20 p.m. at 5495 Baseline.

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I recently moved back to Boulder after being away for many years. I confess I wasn’t a regular reader of Boulder Weekly when I did live here, and now that I’m older (50) I didn’t think there was much to the Weekly which would pique my interest, certainly not after leafing through and 8 August 31 , 2017

seeing the proliferation of pot ads, etc. … But your reporting on Trump, Putin and Russia, has been eye-opening. Wonderful, in-depth coverage, extremely comprehensive, and knowledgeable. As an avid reader of mostly New York publications, I thought I was informed, but your reporting shows my educational gaps. I appreciate the coverage, and will now be a regular reader of the Weekly, and specifically, of Joel Dyer’s pieces.

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(Letter printed as it was received) So, I guess for you left wing fucking nut jobs it’s ok to go and put a SAWSTIKA on the Statue Of Liberty [Re: Cover, Aug. 17]. Now, had a republican paper have done that, all you pussies would have been crying in your teddy bear rooms coping with “our” racial attacks. Did you know Hillary Clinton clearly stated her mentor was a known KKK senator? Did you know Hillary and Bill Clinton have both had legal suits against them in the state of Arkansas for racial discrimination? You democrats are so hypocritical it’s ridiculous.

This goes beyond the 1st amendment, that’s freedom of speech with which I’m sure you commie bastards are against. You defaced a National Monument. In the name of what? So you can cry and bitch for two pages because you’ve never had a real job besides hiding behind a computer.

Go work in the oilfield, like I do! I make money and provide to our society just like I would have done if Hillary Clinton would have won. I would have contributed to society not fight society. I’m sure in those videos of the Charlottesville rally you saw the blacks, yes they are called blacks, with weapons?

I saw them! Against protestors with a city approved permit to demonstrate against idiots like you and your paper. If you don’t respond I’ll assume it’s because your a pussy like most dems or liberals who won’t actually acknowledge facts. But if you should respond I expect nothing but the same tone in which I have written you. Your scum, your a disgrace as a American Citizen and if you don’t like America move to Russia or Venezuela where your leftist ideology has failed time and time again.

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Above: Brooks Fickett in his workshop with the scaled and foldable X-Pod model.

Below: A trueto-size model of the X-Pod frame.

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The X-Pod: An

idea that came before its time

by Paul Danish

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rooks Fickett called at 9:23 p.m. on Friday — about the time Hurricane Harvey was making landfall on the Texas coast.

“Here are my hurricane predictions,” he said. “1.5 to 2.8 million people are going to be without homes. Eighty-five percent of homes will be uninhabitable.”

That was a pretty radical prediction, and I told him so.

“It’s based on the physics of the storm and the number of people and structures in its path,” he said. “The storm is 500 miles across.

It has the potential to come in as a Category 4 [hurricane], hang around for days, and then go back out into the gulf, strengthen and pick up more water, and then come back in...”

By late Monday, Brooks’ predictions were looking plausible.

Forecasters were saying the flooding could be the worst in the history of the country.

On Sunday evening, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott said in passing that hundreds of thousands of homes could be lost.

On Monday, Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock Long said he expected 450,000 to apply for federal assistance and that “the state of Texas is about to undergo one of the largest housing recovery missions the nation has ever seen.”

Brooks didn’t just call me out of the blue. For the last couple of weeks I had been working on a story about a breakthrough invention that he and his brother Richard had come up with that could revolutionize the way emergency housing could be provided following disasters like the one that was coming down in Texas.

It’s transformative, a game changer, a disruptive technology. Pick your cliché; they all apply.

They call their invention the X-Pod. What they’ve done is re-invent the tent, the log cabin, and the Quanset hut in one fell swoop. They’ve come up with a structural concept that may be as revolutionary as the geodesic dome — and a lot more practical.

Assembled, the X-Pod is an eight-sided, 20-foot-long tube eight feet in diameter. Each Pod consists of three modules: 5-foot-long kitchen and bathroom modules attached to a 10-foot-long sleeper/dayroom module. The modules come completely wired and plumbed, with sinks, stoves, showers and johns already installed. They have storage tanks for water and sewage as well as a water filter. Each module will weigh about 600 to 800 pounds, a fully assembled Pod only a little more than a ton.

The basic Pod can sleep four, and larger versions could also be produced.

The Pods are formed with box-shaped extruded tube aluminum (which resembles a hollow two-by-four) and, depending on the use, sided with anything from playground plas-

produced on an assembly line at the rate of 200 to 2,000 units per day.

As a replacement for the tent, the Pods would revolutionize the accommodation of disaster victims, refugees and soldiers. At about a ton apiece, a single flight by a 747- or C-17– sized transport plane could fly dozens of them into a disaster area or combat zone. A single ship could deliver thousands.

The X-Pod would be of obvious value in responding to the flooding in Houston and along the Texas coast, where emergency shelter is going to be needed for hundreds of thousands of people.

Too bad it was never put into production.

Here’s the thing. Brooks and Richard came up with the idea for the X-Pod in the year 2000. They have spent the last 17 years Susan France trying to get enough funding to build fully functioning prototypes that would allow them to put it into production, or at least license it to companies that could.

During that time they have talked to multiple venture capitalists, corporations, government agencies and politicians. The result is always the same: an initial display of interest, and even enthusiasm, followed by ultimate rejection.

What’s more, the X-Pod isn’t the only breakthrough invention the Fickett brothers have come up with that has had this sort of reception. They also developed a tool that revolutionizes the instaltic to Kevlar plates. Brooks says they should lation of light-gauge steel studs that are last for decades. increasingly used as substitutes for two-byPerhaps most important, each module will fours in construction. The “Tool,” as they call fold up into a shipping pallet no more than 2-feet high. Assembly will consist of unfolding it, eliminates the need for screws and can cut the amount of time needed to do framing jobs the modules and “snapping” them together by 70 percent. with the use of a single tool. Assembly should Currently, the X-Pod is little more than a take no more than 15 minutes.

They can then plug into an existing electric paper product. Brooks has built a metal, nonfolding mock up of the framing (see photo) line if one is available, or be hooked up to an emergency generator. Or they can be pre-fitted and several examples of the folding elements.

They also have machined a working fold-up with solar panels. scale model of a module, the sort of thing that Multiple pods with different interior conthe Patent Office used to require inventors to figurations could be assembled as hospitals, submit (but no longer does). schools and stores.

Throughout the years, Brooks and Richard Brooks says the Pods are designed to be Boulder Weekly

have sunk whatever assets they could scrape together into keeping their projects alive. Brooks says he has gone homeless three times, sleeping in his car, “in order to make this work.”

“There’s no more real research in the world than going homeless in order to study it,” he says.

Who are these guys?

Carpenters and self-trained inventors, it turns out.

Brooks and Richard grew up in Boulder.

As they tell it, they had a magical childhood. They were raised by their father, a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST). When the boys weren’t rampaging around town on their bikes, they seem to have had the run of the labs. The Bureau (as we called it back in the day) did a lot of research on cryogenic engineering, and as a result they had the engine from the Saturn 5 moon rocket on the premises. The boys used it as their jungle gym.

“Our father’s colleagues were some of the top government physicists,” Richard says. “Whether we were fourwheeling around the back side of Arches National Park with dad and his colleagues or we were following him through the hallways at NIST, we were shaped by men who saw the world defined by the laws of science and physics. We grew up looking at the real world that surrounds us with a scientist’s eye.”

They grew up playing with tools too.

Brooks says that when he was six his grandparents came home early from a shopping trip and to their horror discovered him playing with grandfather’s Skill saw. A couple years later his grand-dad gave it to him, with strict instructions not to tell anyone.

Like a lot of kids, the boys liked to build forts. Brooks says he built nine of them — including one in the back yard of his mother’s home in Vermont that was so substantial that it was added to her property tax bill.

The up-shot was that as they came of age they opted for carpentry over college.

And so they became contractors.

In 1995 Brooks landed a contract to frame out a restaurant on Walnut Street (now T/ACO an Urban Taqueria). The design included a round room that’s still there.

The complexity and the amount of time required for the job, as well as “the exorbitant number of screws” needed for the internal framing of the building, “made us feel that the screw system used to install light-gauge steel studs needed to change,” Richard says.

“Our thinking was ‘We’re contractors, how hard can it be to invent something?”

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Their solution to the framing problem was the invention of the “Tool.” It’s a pneumatic punch that can bond a metal stud and track together by forming a small curl of metal around the punched hole.

The X-Pod grew out of a discussion Brooks and Richard had with a couple of friends in North Boulder about “economical ways to build housing using unconventional means.”

“We considered Buckminster Fuller’s philosophy and his work with the Dymaxion house, along with other ideas,” Richard says. Then the conversa-

tion turned to the most recent earthquake disasters and to how to get relief to people in the affected areas.

“We asked one another, how could we help with circumstances such as these?” he says.

Before long they formed a company, Enigma Development, which was intended to serve as an R and D company whose focus would be on mechanical invention.

Their initial project was the Tool.

“The idea was that we could sell the Tool idea to fund the research and development of the emergency housing

project,” Richard says.

With the help of Boulder engineer/ machinist Warren Schmelzer, a friend of Brooks who built fighting robots and who Brooks credits as co-inventor, and with the help of master Boulder machinist J.D. Ellington, they produced two prototypes for demonstration to major tool companies. They are still using those prototypes today.

The first company they tried to sell the Tool to was Porter Cable/Pentair.

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the door, so Brooks called up the company and pretending to be a student working on a report and asked to talk to the head engineer. It worked, and while the guy was at first confused, he quickly understood the potential of the product and set up a meeting at the company’s headquarters in Jacksonville, Tennessee.

In May 1999, they met with the engineer and other members of Porter Cable’s upper management.

“We gave our presentation, ran through our numbers that demonstrated the effect the Tool would have on the industry, and then asked for what we considered a fair price — $100 million for full buyout,” says Richard. “Suddenly, the management representatives started to turn funny colors.”

“We had set our price by breaking down how much Porter Cable made in one year on their pneumatic wood framing nail gun, and the marketing representative at the meeting confirmed that we were spot on in naming the price,” he says.

The meeting ended with the company reps expressing “tremendous interest” and Brooks and Richard getting a tour of the plant. They thought they had made sale, and expected to hear from the company in a week or two.

They didn’t. A week stretched into a month, and it became clear that while the engineer liked the product, senior management wasn’t ready to buy it.

The head engineer left the company later that year, in part, according to the brothers, over its decision not to buy the tool.

In 2007, Brooks and Richard found an angel investor and tried again, this time with Robert BOSCH Tool Corporation of Mt. Prospect, Illinois.

One of the meetings they had with BOSCH reps, again including the lead engineer, took place in a company building that was undergoing some remodeling work. The lead engineer asked some of the workers who were installing steel stud to watch the demonstration.

“They used the tool and were immediately impressed,” Richard says. “The meeting went on for a few hours, ending with the lead engineer saying he thought BOSCH would be most interested in the invention. For the next month and a half we waited expectantly for a response. Unfortunately, a message came back from another point in the company

that they weren’t interested.”

Eventually they learned that BOSCH had a multi-million dollar deal with China “to purchase millions of screws that our Tool would remove from the industry,” he says.

And again, according to the pair, the engineer they had been talking to left the company as a result of its decision not to buy the Tool.

In July 2008, they tried to set up a meeting with a third company, but it fell through due to the start of the recession.

While this was going on, they tried to generate enough interest and funding to build a working prototype of the X-Pod. Their timing wasn’t always the best.

The first meeting they were to have was with the Army Corps of Engineers. It was scheduled for September 11, 2001.

It didn’t happen.

Other attempts to raise the needed capital haven’t panned out either for a variety of reasons.

In October 2003, Brooks found a person interested in having a green house built in the shape of the X-Pod. “We had been using steel studs to build full-scale ribs in our front yard to test our dimensions, and she had stopped by to see what we were up to,” syas Richard. “She requested three tenfoot sections, which we built in our front yard and set up in the street. The City of Boulder had a small problem with us having a thirty-foot greenhouse sitting in the street and suggested that we put it on wheels and get a license plate.

“It turned out we were building tiny houses long before the idea was to take hold of mainstream imagination,” he added.

While they couldn’t raise the capital to build a prototype, in 2006, again with the help of J.D. Ellington, they built a small scale model of the X-Pod frame that demonstrated how it would fold up.

The model took three months to build.

They applied for their first X-Pod patent in March 2006.

In 2010 Brooks ran into Jared Polis while he was running for Congress for the first time. Polis asked Brooks what he could do for him if he got elected. “If I call you, answer,” Brooks told him.

And when Brooks called, he did.

Polis helped get Brooks in touch with FEMA, and this prompted Brooks

to go through the process necessary to become a purveyor to FEMA. Trouble was he didn’t have a product to sell to it.

So just how hard would it be to mass produce an X-Pod? J.D. Ellington has passed away, but his sons are still running the machine shop, JDECM, and I asked them.

“Not difficult at all,” says Shane Ellington. “There’s been a lot of thought put into this thing. For a production shop this would not be difficult.”

“I think it’s gonna be something that really changes disaster relief.”

“It is shocking how long it has taken,” he added. “To have it sit there is a shame.”

Brooks and Richard are now aged 46 and 50 respectively. They have yet to quit their day jobs, but they have the optimism and the tenacity of the kid digging in a pile of horse shit, certain that there has to be a pony down there somewhere.

They’re considering trying the crowd-funding route. For once their timing might be right. Hurricane Harvey is making it abundantly clear that the old ways of providing emergency shelter are ludicrously inadequate — especially when disasters hit urban areas with populations in the millions. And the post-storm reconstruction is also going to highlight the need for the Tool.

Tens of thousands of homes are going to have to be gutted and reframed — fast.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, the saying goes — and there is nothing more infuriatingly frustrating than an idea that comes before its time.

After years of frustration in trying to get their inventions into production, Richard and Brooks joke that maybe they ought to stand in front of Whole Foods with a cardboard sign reading “will work for $5 million” (what they think it would take to build some working X-Pod prototypes). They may have something there.

There’s a lot of money in Boulder, and who knows, maybe Jeff Bezos will spot them with one of his drones.

Anyway, if you have a spare few hundred K and want to help two of the most decent guys in Boulder change the world, or just need a house framed, e-mail them at thex.pod.home@gmail. com.”

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Below: The exhibition includes a virtual reality dome, which allows visitors a closer look at the realities of displacement.

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ast summer, the U.N. High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) estimated there were 65.3 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.

One in every 113 people has been forced to flee their home.

At the time, it was the highest number on record. Now the global agency estimates the number has reached 65.6 million worldwide.

While the number may seem inconceivably large, a traveling interactive exhibit by Doctors without Borders/Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF), seeks to humanize the migration crisis in a tangible way for people in the U.S. Coming to the Pearl Street Mall Sept. 4-10, Forced From Home leads visitors through different stages of a migrant’s journey and features a variety of materials gathered from refugee camps, sea rescue missions and emergency medical projects from around the world.

“One of the organization’s core principles is to bear witness, speak out against abuses and neglect, and amplify the voices of our patients,” says Rachel Milkovich, media coordinator

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with MSF. “This exhibition is a key component of MSF’s broader efforts to advocate for concrete policy changes to meet the urgent needs of people on the move.”

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by Angela K. Evans but still living in their home countries.

As visitors enter the exhibit, they receive an identification card from Afghanistan, Burundi, Honduras, South Sudan or Syria. Although MSF has projects in 71 countries, these five regions demonstrate the truly global scope of the migration crisis. In groups of about 10, visitors are then taken through a series of interactive stations, led by an MSF aid worker who can personally attest to and discuss the medical and humanitarian consequences of fleeing one’s home.

As a guide for the exhibit’s East Coast tour last year, Dr. Ahmed Abdalrazag says the Forced From Home exhibit brings the visitors “close to the experience by telling them that these people are human like you,” Abdalrazag says. “They have passion like you, dreams like you. They are artists, they are dancers, they are doctors, some of them are astronauts.”

Abdalrazag grew up in Iraq and first fled his home during the 1991 Gulf War as government forces searched his neigh-

borhood for insurgents. “[We were] trying to survive so we left,” Abdalrazag says.

“We just walked in the middle of the night. We grabbed a few blankets and then we just kept walking for days.”

Eventually, Abdalrazag and his family returned home, but only briefly. In 1998, his family fled to Libya, where he attended medical school. But then during the unrest of the Arab Spring in 2011, Abdalrazag and his family had to leave again, this time traveling to Tunisia, where they were granted refugee status with the UNHCR. While he waited for his placement application to process, he worked in a nearby MSF clinic. Now, he lives in Michigan and is working to get his U.S. medical license.

“No one wants to leave their home. Nobody wants to be a refugee. Nobody wants to run away,” says Karen Stewart, another tour guide from last year’s exhibit. “It’s not by choice. ... The majority of people who are on the move right now are being forced.”

Stewart, from Denver, has worked with MSF since 2004 as

a mental health officer in such places as Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She’s seen the growing migration crisis first-hand, working at MSF clinics in a variety of conflict sites around the world.

“There are more people on the move but there also seems to be more reasons,” Stewart says.

“It’s not just violence and political strife. It’s food insecurity or no healthcare.”

Plus, she says, natural disasters are now a factor — like the recent massive mud slide in Sierra Leone that has claimed more than 1,000 lives.

Thousands more people have been evacuated due to flooding.

But it was her time in the DRC in 2010 that was perhaps the most difficult mission for Stewart. She provided mental health support to local counselors at a sexual and domestic violence clinic, which averaged about 20 rape victims a day.

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are internally displaced. In 2016 alone, the U.S. resettled cial camp, like the thousands of people more than 16,000 refugees from the DRC, the largest who inhabited a make-shift camp known Karen Stewart population from any one country. It is a crisis not often as “the Jungle” in the French port city of guides a group mentioned in international media, but one Stewart uses Calais up until last October when French through the Forced From as she walks people through Forced From Home. authorities closed it down. Regardless, Home exhibit in After visitors receive their identification cards, the people often spend years in these condiNew York in 2016. exhibit starts with a 360-degree dome, where visitors tions waiting to either return home or be are surrounded by images of the migrant crisis as an settled somewhere officially. introduction.

“At the end, this puts faces on these One of the most powerful stations, Stewart says, stories and humanizes them,” Abdalrazag discusses push factors, reasons why people flee. concludes. “We’re talking about 65 milVisitors are given about one minute to grab five essen- lion people that no one talks about. We tial items depicted on a wall of plastic cards to take are trying to raise awareness and make with them on the journey. Do you grab your passport this more than just a number.” or water? Medications or cell phone?

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Araceli Velasquez sits with her twoyear-old son Christopher in Park Hill United Methodist where she claimed sanctuary on Aug. 9.

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raceli Velasquez fled El Salvador by herself in 2010 when she was 19 years old. She left to escape the grip of an ex-boyfriend whom she says, through an interpreter, was threatening to kill her. She traveled for 15 days on buses all the way to Mexico.

“I was at one point so hungry,” she says, choked by emotion. “I went a whole week without eating any food, just water.”

She’s hesitant to share much detail about her life in El Salvador or the journey to the U.S. border, repeatedly saying it’s difficult to talk about, her eyes tearing up ever so slightly.

“The road in Mexico is really difficult,” she says. “Just like you find so many good people who help you, there are also a lot of not-so-great people along the way.”

She paid a smuggler to help her cross into the U.S., but was caught by Border Patrol and taken to a detention center in Houston where she spent about six weeks.

“At first I was asking them to deport me as quickly as possible because I was just so desperate in detention,” she says. “But at the same time I was afraid for my life that if I was deported to El Salvador, the conditions would be worse. This person would find me again or even worse, I’d be killed.”

In talking with volunteer lawyers and people from different faith communities who visited her in detention, Araceli learned she might be a candidate for asylum.

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an option. You were just fleeing for your life and you hoped you’d make it over the border. You had no idea that you could claim asylum.”

After filling out the application and passing her credible fear interview, the first step in the asylum process, Araceli was released on bond into the U.S. while her application was reviewed.

She called cousins in Colorado and moved to Denver while she waited for news from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). At first, Araceli spent time watching her cousins’ kids so their parents could work, unable to find a job herself without work authorization.

A year or so later, she met her husband, Jorge, at a party in Denver. She lights up talking about their meeting, unable to hide her smile.

“When I arrived in the U.S. and was released from detention it was like being reborn. I was finally able to live again,” Araceli says. “Then even more so when I met Jorge, the father of my children. Almost from when I met we went everywhere together. We shared life, a life that the two of us were building together.”

The couple has three boys, ages 4and-a-half, 2 and 11 months. Jorge is also from El Salvador, lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years and was granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in 2001.

TPS is given to immigrants from specific countries experiencing natural disasters, wars, gang and domestic vio-

lence or other humanitarian crises, and grants work authorization until people are able to return home. For El Salvador, the protections have been renewed every 18 months since 2001, but are set to expire again in March 2018.

Regardless, Jorge’s protected status doesn’t do anything to help Araceli with her immigration case. In the midst of establishing their life together in Denver, Araceli was repeatedly called back to immigration court and the couple spent thousands in legal fees.

Araceli says she never missed a checkin with ICE or a court date and filled in all the paperwork the lawyer asked her to. But, she says, the lawyer never prepared her for her court appearance

and she was caught off guard by the in-depth questions the other lawyers and judge asked her. “For me, speaking about my life in El Salvador is very difficult because whenever I speak about it, it is like reliving it.”

In 2013, when she was pregnant with her first son, her petition for asylum was denied.

She appealed the decision but lost. She then appealed to the district court but lost that as well, and was given final orders for deportation. But fearing for her life, she didn’t comply. She missed a scheduled check-in with ICE in January 2016, having discovered she was newly pregnant with her third son.

When immigration came to her house in July of that year, she was eight months pregnant and so was granted a one-year stay of deportation, which expired last month. Although she applied for another stay, she was denied.

So when it came time for another ICE check-in on Aug. 9, Araceli instead claimed sanctuary.

Araceli is now living at Park Hill United Methodist and Temple Micah.

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In Denver, Piper says AFSC is currently working with four families from Central America, like Araceli, who fear deportation under the Trump administration’s shifting policies.

“To be honest, I was a little bit scared and nervous to come here,” Araceli says of the church. “I wasn’t sure how the people from the faith community would see me or treat me. I never imagined that they would accept me to the level that they have and make me feel so welcome and so part of things here.”

The area she now occupies with her young sons wasn’t ready when she moved in, so the family spent the first week on beds set up in the basement youth room, replete with a large TV, couches and a large, lime green rug.

She has since moved to a small area in another part of the basement, where the host congregation is constructing a kitchenette and remodeling the bathroom. The family sleeps in a small room resembling a large closet. Tall cabinets create a barrier between a living area and what looks like storage. There are no windows. But Araceli seems relieved to know she and her boys are safe.

“When there’s the kind of need that we have, or I have,” Araceli says, “you go wherever you can.”

Araceli says she is getting more comfortable living in the church, although the first few weeks have been difficult. The boys live with her during the week, but return to the family apartment with Jorge over the weekend. When it comes time for the family’s traditional Sunday lunch outing, she stays behind.

“It’s difficult because I don’t have the words to explain to a 4-year-old or a 2-year-old why I can’t be outside with them, why I can’t go to our house,” she says.

Plus, her oldest, named Jorge after his father, started preschool this week and Araceli wasn’t able to take him.

“I have been dreaming for years the day that Jorge would first go to school,” she says. “That’s a memory that I won’t get back.”

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She hasn’t really spoken to her family since she left the country and knows virtually no one still there.

“When I left I had to cut off contact with my parents because of the threats against me,” she says. “Every once in a while I might speak to someone from my family but it’s very secretive and most people don’t know where I am, that I’m in Colorado.”

Plus, the situation in El Salvador has grown worse since she left more than seven years ago. El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the world in 2015, while its violent murder rate spiked by 70 percent. Some 60-70,000 Salvadorans belong to gangs, authorities estimate, with 500,000 more financially dependent on them.

Violence against women is also increasing, as more than half of Salvadoran women say they’ve experienced violence in their lives; a quarter say they’ve experienced sexual or physical abuse. At the same time, Amnesty International reports rampant use of excessive force and extrajudicial killings by both the police and military. It’s unimaginable for Araceli to go back, let alone bring her young sons with her.

“Nobody where I’m from sends their sons to school anymore because they are immediately recruited by one gang or another gang,” Araceli says. “A lot of the people have left in order to be able to support their kids. If gangs find out their parents are in the U.S. then they will kidnap their kids, assuming that they have all this money here when really most of us are just getting by.”

The need for sanctuary space is likely to increase in the coming months as the national immigration debate appears to be heating up once again. President Trump is widely expected to end DACA, the Obama-era program that protects immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation, soon after the Labor Day holiday. Ten states are threatening to block the program in district court on Sept. 5 if he doesn’t act.

This pending decision by the Trump administration comes on the heels of an Aug. 16 directive by acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke to terminate the Central American Minors program, which allowed youth from Central America to apply for the opportunity to join parents already living in the U.S. Driven by increasing gang violence, the highest homicide rates in the world and widespread political instability, migration from Central America, particularly the countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, has increased tenfold since 1980. It also remains unclear if the administration will extend TPS for these Central American migrants as it is set to expire early next year.

And these critical changes in policy are in addition to the continued threat to crack down on undocumented immigrants all across the U.S. It seems only one thing is certain: more and more people like Araceli and her family will be needing a place to seek sanctuary soon.

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WEG also argues when voters passed the amendment, they intended to ban activities like the trapping, snaring, and killing that will occur under CPW’s predator plans.

In addition, WEG says the ban made illegal what CPW is presently attempting to do — intentionally killing wild animals they’ve snared or trapped — arguing the scientific research exemption, which is part of a larger group of other exemptions, are uniformly non-lethal. And by using the words “non-lethal” in the amendment’s nonlethal methods exemption clause and nowhere else, WEG argues, “voters and the Legislature made clear that wildlife are not to be taken by snares under these exemptions for the purpose of killing them.”

WEG also claims the CPW commission never determined whether CPW’s plans met the regulatory definition of scientific research before approving them.

According to WEG, the plans don’t meet the definition of “bona fide scientific research” because they are being carried out for the purpose of wildlife management and not for the acquisition of new and relevant knowledge. They note that the plans’ designs and their capability to provide strong scientific inferences that would pass peer review and meet the requirements for publication in a peerreviewed scientific journal simply don’t exist. The WEG lawsuit also claims the killing of bears and lions will not be implemented in a humane fashion by qualified personnel, aka the USDA’s Wildlife Services (WS).

WEG says the true purpose of CPW’s plans are clear from the way they reference them, presenting them to the public as “predator management plans” and to the CPW commission as “predator control plans.” WEG argues these titles indicate a fatal flaw in CPW’s claims and reveal the agency’s true motivation, which is to conduct trapping, snaring, and killing as part of their predator control/management efforts, and not as a method to further scientific research.

This idea that the true intent of the plans is being conveyed by the title appears to be confirmed in an e-mail correspondence obtained by BW between a CPW public information specialist and CPW leadership. The email exchange shows Bob Broscheid, CPW director — in an apparent reference to Denver Post Environmental Reporter Bruce Finley’s use of the term “predator control” in an article reporting on the plans — stating, “We need to get them to change the name to a research project that includes predator removal!”

Broscheid’s request appears to expose CPW leader-

Lawsuit challenges state’s predator plans ‘scientific research’ credentials

by Rico Moore Editors note: Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s two predator management plans have been ensnared in contention and doubt regarding their scientific legitimacy and underlying purpose since being unanimously approved by CPW Commissioners in December 2016 (see Boulder Weekly’s Off Target: Parts 1 to 7). The two plans in question are the Upper Arkansas River and Piceance Basin predator control plans.

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he Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) predator plans call for the killing of Colorado’s iconic mountain lions and black bears in what is alleged to be an attempt to more rapidly increase mule deer populations in areas where they’re already steadily increasing.

Critics of the plans assert that cumulative impacts from oil and gas extracRico Moore tion are far more likely the reason for the mule deer’s struggles than predation. As a result of these disparate opinions, two lawsuits challenging the plans have been filed.

On Aug. 14, Stuart Wilcox, staff attorney for WildEarth Guardians (WEG), filed the group’s opening brief in its lawsuit challenging CPW’s Piceance Basin and Upper Arkansas River predator control plans, asking the Court to declare the plans illegal and vacate their Dec. 14 approval by the CPW Commission.

Wilcox told Boulder Weekly that any deference given to CPW because of their agency status would be wrong because the predator plans violate Colorado’s trapping ban/Amendment 14, which was passed by voters in 1996.

When asked for its position on the suit, CPW representatives told BW the agency isn’t commenting, citing the ongoing litigation.

WEG alleges CPW’s plans violate the 1996 trapping ban and its implementing legislation because the structure of the amendment indicates snaring wildlife for the purpose of killing it later is not covered by the amendment’s scientific research exemption to killing that CPW claims justifies its actions. CPW intends to snare and trap the bears and mountain lions and is claiming this is a non-lethal activity allowed under the law. But the agency intends to subsequently kill the animals it has caught. CPW is acting on the assumption that this two-step process somehow fulfills the voter’s intentions behind Colorado’s trapping ban/ Boulder Weekly

ship’s belief that the legal implementation of the predator plans may hinge as much on what they are called as how they are actually carried out.

In his reporting in the Post, Finley wrote that CPW didn’t oppose 15,000 new oil and gas wells in the Piceance, despite CPW’s own research showing the oil and gas industry’s destructive impacts to deer and other wildlife in the area in question. And in the internal CPW correspondence, Jerry Neal, CPW public information manager, suggests CPW make it known through the Denver Post that CPW has no regulatory authority over oil and gas extraction, but can only suggest mitigation. And while this is technically true, Neal’s assertion appears an attempt to publicly free CPW of any responsibility regarding oil and gas impacts to deer and their habitats, and thereby work to legitimize CPW’s predator control plans.

The emails also show Neal questioning the veracity of Finley’s reporting, accusing him of only using quotes that fit his “narrative/agenda.” And in his response to Neal, Broscheid agrees.

When asked for comment by BW, Finley said that the three articles he wrote about CPW’s predator control plans stand, adding that CPW never challenged the fairness or accuracy of the Post’s reporting.

And finally in its brief, WEG states CPW’s current deer population goals are based on historical herd potentials from the 1980s and not the habitat’s current, depleted capacity to support mule deer populations, which CPW has previously stated have declined due to oil and gas operations. In making its point, the brief cites correspondence in which CPW Wildlife Researcher Eric Bergman states, “I don’t know of any biological evidence that supports the use of our historical herd objectives as a surrogate for carrying capacity.”

Bergman’s statement appears to undermine the very foundation of CPW’s plans, which are based on the agency’s claims that predator control might boost deer populations if those populations existed in habitats that could carry more deer. But if those lands can’t support such populations as they did in the 1980s, which was before the massive impacts to wildlife habitat as a result of oil and gas and residential development, CPW’s killing of lions and bears appears to be a needless and destructive act.

The brief also quotes Bergman saying, “It seems rather tenuous to use a sociopolitical objective as difference between these two numbers,” appearing to assert CPW’s plans are attempting to trump biological reality for the sake of appeasing a narrow constituency.

In the end, WEG’s brief argues that CPW refuses to acknowledge deer population declines in the predator control plan areas were actually caused by degraded habitat conditions primarily as the result of oil, gas and residential development. WEG alleges CPW is attempting to distance itself from its past admissions that this degraded habitat argument is the truth and is instead choosing to scapegoat lions and bears. Among other things, the brief concludes, “Superficial references to science cannot remedy this fundamental shortcoming.”

CPW’s response is due to the court on Sept. 11, approximately three months before the Upper Arkansas River predator control plan is set to begin in January 2018.

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The film opens with Wednesday Sept. 6, Muenzinger Auditorium Richard Vevers, a former University of Colorado London ad-man who grew Boulder, internationalfilmseries.com. Also available tired of selling toilet paper on Netflix. and decided to turn his attention to the ocean.

Vevers’ out-of-the-box approach led him to partner with The Ocean Agency to create a massive survey of corals around the world and a Google Street View for coral reefs in the process.

While mapping, Vevers noticed some of the coral were turning bright white. The phenomenon is known as “bleaching” and is symptomatic of rising ocean temperatures — essentially the last gasp before the coral dies.

Bleaching is a by-product of global warming, but since it occurs below the surface, it is, as Vevers says, “an out of sight, out of tional story. mind” problem. Ever the ad-man, Vevers realized “It is our belief that if you hook people with a that to bring awareness to the problem he would really compelling story [it will be] seen more widely need photographic proof. Enter Jeff Orlowski and and be more impactful than if we were just trying to company. club you over the head with an environmental mesStanford graduate Orlowski made his name with sage.”

Chasing Ice, a film about glacier photographer James Orlowski describes both Chasing Ice and Chasing Balog and his journey to document disappearing glaCoral as “adventure stories,” which goes a long way to ciers. Orlowski followed Balog from the Arctic to explain why these two movies are easily the most Boulder, where he settled and founded Exposure compelling documentaries about climate change.

Labs, a company that maximizes the impact of the “[Chasing Coral] is a team’s firsthand experience of documentary by combining powerful storytelling with what we’ve seen,” Orlowski says. a clear and urgent message. It worked, and Chasing Ice Divided into three acts, Chasing Coral hooks viewwent on to receive an Emmy for outstanding nature ers with Richard Vevers’ discovery about coral bleachprogramming. ing. The second act provides all the necessary infor“Sometimes it’s hard to watch climate change mation viewers need to understand what they are seefilms,” Orlowski says. “They feel like homework. ing.

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Coral bleaching, a by-product of global warming, has been an “out of sight, out of mind” problem. With ‘Chasing Coral,’ filmmaker Jeff Orlowski hopes to change that.

and filters it neatly through Chasing Coral team member and coral nerd Zach Rago, a Coloradan who’s devoted his life to the study of coral.

“He’s the one who gave me a very different perspective of the issue,” Orlowski says. “Through Zach’s care and passion for the coral, you get a sense of what this means to him and hopefully that rubs off a little bit.”

That hook is the documentation of something we’ve lost and are continuing to lose. “There’s a lot of confusion about climate change in this country,” Orlowski says. “This is an incredibly urgent issue and there’s a huge imbalance between what the scientists think about this issue and what the general public think about this issue.

“We’re hoping this film can be a tool for people to understand.”

Similar to what Orlowski did with Chasing Ice and Exposure Labs he hopes to do with Chasing Coral. He is currently working on a campaign to get as many people as possible to see the film. “The more unexpected the messenger is on this issue, the more impact we can have in shifting mindsets across the country,” Orlowski says.

The success of that shifting mindset will begin with each individual viewer. Boulder audiences are lucky enough to be able to see Chasing Coral, for free, at the University of Colorado’s International Film Series. Orlowski and special guests will present the movie and try to motivate the audience into action.

“And maybe [the audience is] motivated in a different way to care about this incredibly beautiful and delicate ecosystem that is facing really rapid changes,” Orlowski says. “If you know nothing about the ocean and nothing about coral reefs, hopefully, you’ll see this film and be moved.”

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Dasha Shishkin drawing is by no means straightforward. A picture can show multiple scenes, dozens of characters — some big, some small, some with green skin, some with long, pointy noses. Even her simpler drawings can feature solitary figures with eyes on their bottoms or noses on their nipples.

Now showing at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art through Sept. 10, Tram Pam Pam exhibits Shishkin’s work. Hailing from Moscow, Shishkin has lived in the U.S. since the early ’90s, working as an artist for the past 15 years. For Tram Pam Pam, Shishkin worked with curators to combine both new and old works.

The large-scale drawings are packed with content. Her pieces depict a world where everything is permissible, and from that she creates meandering narratives.

“They are always concentrating around people and circumstances that are ‘what if?’ They’re not exactly happening next door, but at the same time, there’s this idea that they could potentially be happening next door,” she says. “It’s very interesting to me, these implausible but very possible scenarios.”

While certain situations are clear — a woman giving birth, a character ordering food at a counter — Shishkin never wants to be prescriptive about what’s going on in her work.

“They’re figurative works, so if I say this is a male figure or a female figure, it somehow begins to be that, and I wouldn’t want to do that,” she says.

She doesn’t like to dwell on creating a specific storyline.

“Sometimes they’re not really scenarios, they’re more of happenstances where you have to enter an image somehow, and so you start with an element

Cheshire Cat where she should go. The Cat asks her where she’d like to go, and when Alice says it doesn’t matter to her, the Cat says then it doesn’t matter which way she goes because she’ll arrive once she gets there.

“It’s the same thing. I don’t know where I want to go with composition or sometimes the whole image,” Shishkin says. “I just know when to stop, because I feel like where I arrived was interesting.”

She stays loose when creating. Some pieces start with an idea, but others start as simple drawings that continue to grow out.

“In some ways, they are very much glorified doodles,” she says, “but in the most respectful way!”

Most of her pieces lack a clear focus. Because of that, Shishkin allows the viewer to choose what piece of the picture and that grows legs and begins to develop,” stands out most to them, instead she says. “The ‘what if?’ element comes of dictating what they see.

Above: “untitled,” by Dasha Shishkin; sometimes when the image is half finished “A lot of the pictures have a and you suddenly realize the dog is making lot of focal points. There’s not omelets or something. You allow for that necessarily a single structure or ‘why not?’ situation to take place.” composition with a protagonist Throughout the show, there are clear lines of style or sensical development,” she says. “In the realm of that emerge. A whimsical surrealism comes across that, I like to have multiple entrances and exits through cooler colors and character distortion. But through these multi-figurative pictures, where every Shishkin is not keen on labeling her style. character could be the protagonist. I like to let people “My present living condition makes me a ‘congravitate to one element or another.” temporary artist,’” she says with a laugh. “I don’t feel She encourages the audience to go even deeper there’s an aesthetic that I am connected to or that I and deconstruct each image to just a combination of have devised for myself.” lines on sheets of paper. Let your eyes go out of focus Her work stems from emotion and intuition. and look beyond the frame to enter Shishkin’s curi“Some get colored in and others don’t, simply ous world. because some look like they need it and others don’t,” Even though some of her drawings do appear she says. almost alien-like, Shishkin confirms that she is drawShe likens her process to a scene in Alice In Wonderland. When Alice is lost, she asks the see SHISHKIN Page 26

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ing our world.

“These aren’t necessarily fantastical [scenarios]. This is Above: “i don’t want not Battlestar Galactica,” she says with a laugh. “But there any problems, are a lot of moments where they’re fantastical people doing none what so ever,” Below: strange things. “fire beats “Each work, it’s not like it’s nonsensical,” she continues. roses, again”

by Dasha “But at the same time, some are rhetorical questions and Shishkin. others are more absurdist poems. It takes patience to deal with, but on some other level there’s this aesthetic pleasure that can be derived from the work. There are all these layers that are presented.”

The compositions are open-ended, but each possesses a greater meaning. Her works deal with sexuality, repressed violence, class issues and gender.

“For example, most of the pictures are female, but are they really?

What is a male? What is a woman?” she asks. “Not only gender ambiguity but this sort of notion of Shakespearean theater where a man can play a woman. It’s like a Twelfth Night reference, where the clothes can lead you astray.”

Interpreting Shishkin’s work is an individual exercise based on personal perspective. Shishkin says she’s encountered some viewers who think her work is feminist, while others think it’s misogynistic.

She’s had certain viewers see influences of Russian art, which Shishkin doesn’t intend but finds interesting.

“Just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you can look at something and, depending on your own rotten personality, you’ll interpret it as such — whether you find it profane or funny,” she says. “Basically, whatever you imprint on the situation, it’s about you more than what’s in front of you.”

Blending the heavy social issues with Shishkin’s cartoony aesthetic creates an eerie sensibility. There’s an underlying darkness in the work that leaves the viewer unstable, aware that something isn’t right.

“When you don’t know what it is, it’s sort of the pebble in your shoe,” she says. “You stop, you shake the pebble, and you continue on walking, but it’s still there.

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The distortion in Shishkin’s work is another way she abstracts reality to question it. She says she’s drawn to the exaggerated body because it can provide more insight than more realistic forms.

“The moment the body has potential to be rendered, it becomes a portrait and not a caricature,” Shishkin says. “And I think caricature can be very useful, especially to ask a question that’s more ambiguous or even more poignant.”

One way Shishkin achieves this is by her use of eyes.

Some figures have multiple eyes covering their bodies, others lie on blankets made of eyes.

“That’s very much this idea of you can’t look anywhere because everything looks at you,” she says. “Nobody can look at your back because your back has eyes. It’s this moment of mutual shame: You’re embarrassed to look up, but everyone’s also embarrassed to look at you as well because everything is looking back at them.”

She got the inspiration from a story she heard as a child about the Angel of Death, who is covered in eyes. When a person knows they’re going to die, the angel gives the person an extra eye, which provides a heightened sense of awareness.

“For a while there I was obsessed with that idea, and I think it started from that theological and scary place.

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went into that territory of being so aware of your body, the self-consciousness of oneself. Not only your face, but your elbows are hideous too,” she says.

As with her work and her process, Shishkin is more concerned with the journey than the destination.

“They were visually stimulating for me, and there was this curiousness of how many eyes can I fit if a person is looking this way, or if they’re laying down,” she says.

“Can you see this eye? Can you see those eyes?”

The final product is an image loaded with endless potential interpretations; every time you look at it, it can be something else.

“The possibility that an image can have multiple interpretations is always the goal to some extent, and especially within one individual as well,” she says.

“If an image stays with a person for several instances, it’s like a book that you read again and again.”

She likes to think of her work as full of life, a cornucopia of offerings to the audience.

“I think of myself as a benevolent creator,” she says. “I always have this notion of like, ‘OK kids, go!’”

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f you’ve ever heard any of Jason tell my own story and try and give peonow wife, Amanda Shires. The two Isbell’s songs, chances are you know ple the view from my perspective,” Isbell tour with his band, the 400 Unit, and what he believes. The acclaimed says. “I don’t have any sort of illusions have a young daughter together. singer-songwriter is known for “Being a father has certainly motivated that I’m changing a lot of people’s being direct, for calling it like he me to work harder and to be more honest minds, but I just want to be able to feel sees it. in the music,” he says. “It’s a good remindlike I’ve done my part, which is just to Take, for example, “White Man’s er of everything we had to go through to tell people what I believe.”

World” off of his latest album, The become fully formed adults. That’s a great Which, for Isbell, goes far beyond Nashville Sound. The title alone makes a politics. thing for somebody whose job it is to statement. notice all the details.”

“They use the word politics to “I do believe that being white Danny Clinch and being male opens a lot of doors for me from the start that weren’t open for other people,” the Alabama native says. “And for me to be able to enjoy my life I have to feel like I’m trying to attempt to level the playing field for minorities and for women and for people of different genders.”

Backed by bluesy guitar riffs and a steady drum beat, Isbell, looking through the lens of his wife and young daughter, wrestles through gender It’s with this consciousness that inequality. He also describe the things that you believe, but Isbell’s heartbreakingly honest lyrics acknowledges the privithat’s to weaken them, to make them help explain the world, not only to fans, lege of being a white permore manageable,” Isbell says. “I would son in a country that perrather discuss people’s beliefs, what they but to himself as well.

“You get to a point [as a songwriter] petuated both Native hold dear, and people’s actions and where it becomes necessary to look outAmerican genocide and whether or not they are right or side yourself and write about things the cotton fields of slavwrong.” that are going on around you,” he says. ery. It’s an apt message in Isbell began his career with the rock “And it’s a hard transition because you the wake of the rising tide of white band Drive-By Truckers, filling in for have to do it without supremacy and neo-Nazism on display a missing guitar player being vague. And it’s most recently in Charlottesville, one fateful night in 2001.

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Isbell shies away and those aren’t actual freedoms that we South, Isbell found a from metaphors in his have. Hate is the one thing that crosses niche setting narrative to lyrics, choosing rather the line,” Isbell says. “I don’t think music in some of the to employ a frankness that cuts deep. there’s two sides to that.” band’s most popular songs, like 2003’s In “White Man’s World” his directIsbell stops short of offering solu“Decoration Day.” ness almost stings, bringing with it a tions, however, cognizant of his role as But in 2007, bogged down by alcocall to action. “There’s no such thing “just a songwriter.” hol and drug use, Isbell was kicked out as someone else’s war/ Your creature Still, he explains, “the more we of the band as his first marriage to comforts aren’t the only things worth communicate with each other, the betbassist Shonna Tucker crumbled. It fighting for/ If you’re still breathing, ter off we’ll be.” would be another five years before he it’s not too late/ We’re all carrying “I think we all have a long way to went to rehab and sobered up with the one big burden, sharing one fate.” go, and the best that I can do is just to help of fellow singer-songwriter, and Boulder Weekly

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It began with an invitation from Wes Anderson to cover several of Bowie’s songs for the 2004 movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; he did so with a simple reverence, sweetly, as if his renditions were always in tribute to the man who made them.

Jorge is now on his second international tour playing his versions of Bowie’s songs, and the relationship between the two men seems anything but accidental.

Jorge’s translation of the songs into Brazilian rhythms and Portuguese words carries the thread of vulnerability that always made Bowie dangerous and true.

In his softened interpretations, Jorge guides us away from phorical musical funeral. After the 1980 release of Scary the chaos of rock and the annals of Western intellect, sugMonsters, an album devoid of the frenetic energy of glam gesting we trade in the struggles of thought for the struggles rock, critics and audiences alike struggled to embrace his of life. To pull this off, he needn’t depend on newly naked emotional depths. his skill or talent, but on his ability to yield.

In 2002, he released Heathen, a slow burning album that Jorge and his music embody the concept of by name and substance was an anthem of a rockstar who still generous art — a creative offering freed of the didn’t feel like he belonged because he lived in a world that heavy hands of ego and reason in favor of a was like a religion, always demanding something in return for darker beauty that, if true, is also haunting. their audience, be it the virtue of cool or the virtue of the While there’s no shortage of anguished God. But for Bowie, even if paradise did exist, it was never music in the Western European canon, there is the goal. Reality was. a certain hesitation in allowing them to ring The opening track to the album, “Sunday,” is a hymnal, a the bells of the heart’s interminable loneliness. giant crescendo of Bowie’s pastoral voice lifted by the boyish We leave it to youth countercultures to truly chimes of a choir and grounded in the low spectrum sounds listen and embrace the torment in our saddest of Gregorian chant. The song triumphs in its final measures, songs. But to hear Bowie through Jorge’s native breaking to a brief and sincere moment of glam rock, an tongue makes a teenager of us all. He is a mas- unconstructed surge rising organically from the soles of ter of saudade, a word only the Portuguese lanBowie’s feet. All he needs to do is all he does, opening his guage was compelled to draw into existence. mouth to proclaim: “All my trials, Lord/ Will be rememThe word comes from the post-classical bered/ Wverything has changed.”

Latin word solitatem, “solitude,” Meanwhile, in 2002, 32 year-old Jorge issued his first international but is influenced by the ON THE BILL: The Life release, Carolina, a rousing samba funk Portuguese word sardar, “to Aquatic David Bowie Tribute album. Modern and bright in its prosalute.” The resulting word is a with Seu Jorge. 7:30 p.m. duction, it also seamlessly harkens back signification of our most Friday, Sept. 8, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline refined, tender and ardent to the traditional sounds of 1970s Road, Boulder. desires for something or somesamba funk. Its beats are repetitive and one that is absent and so it is fast-paced but the various declaratory accompanied with an anxious verses seem to slow the songs, or at regard. If a person says “tenho saudades,” it is least quicken the mind enough to make understood to mean, “I am under the most delicate anguish the music seem slow. for the absence of my love; or from being absent from my The first song and title track, “Carolina,” is a love song home.” about a woman Jorge just can’t shake the idea of. It’s a fun, It was easy, for example, to love the glitter of Bowie in danceable tune, but one that rests not on the joys of love, but the 1970s when his genius seemed free, like a countercultural on its desperations, peppered as it is with lines that say “I triumph. But underneath the shiny veneer of his poppy tunes need you,” “I must tell you I love you,” “I’m feeling lonely.” hid darker thematics — a wild and wide open embrace of Here, love is not issued as a proclamation or an aspiraearthly melancholies. tion, but as an excruciating expression of saudade, the inesLooking back at the fallen star, it’s impossible to sepacapable loneliness of this human life and of the inevitable rate saudade from his music, but 15 years before Bowie’s and wistful nostalgia for a companionship we cannot ever bodily departure, critics were lining up to attend his metaknow.

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Sweetly agitating, persistently upending

Joanna Rotkin finds an all-out love affair with Dog Dance

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he first thing Joanna Rotkin learned in college was that she didn’t have a ballet body.

For a young woman who had dedicated her childhood to the delicate and demanding art form, spending years studying with Barbara Demaree in her studio above Tom’s Tavern on Pearl Street, the news was crushing.

“There was so much emphasis on what your body looked like and they didn’t want you to be embarrassed, so they’d get you out of [ballet],” Rotkin says. “They really tried to get me out of being a dancer.”

Instead, Rotkin picked up and moved to New York City to see how the Big Apple welcomed her not-a-ballet body, and it was there she learned there’s just no such thing.

“That’s a very old-school idea; it just blew my mind,” she says. “I finally saw all these bodies doing all this incredibly athletic, graceful, gorgeous, fierce movement.”

And so, unbeknownst to Rotkin, the concept of Dog Dance was born. But it would be years — decades — before she would find the idea buried deep in her subconscious.

It took coming back home.

In 2003, Rotkin made her way back to Boulder and began teaching fairly “structured” dance classes, prompting students to engage in specific movements, coaching them through solo, duet and group pieces.

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The flood of 2013 helped Rotkin, strangely enough, develop her current dance company, Joanna and the Agitators. While her home in Jamestown survived the crush of water, washed out roads isolated the whole town. Amid the chaos and loss, destroyed homes and torrents running down the mountain sides, Rotkin and her partner took a walk through downtown Jamestown.

“Somebody in town started hanging flower pots around and my partner said, ‘That’s a really nice way to sweetly agitate.’”

Rotkin took the concept of “sweetly” agitating and carried it into her dance work.

By 2015, Rotkin started to notice her teaching was moving in a new direction; she was spending more time letting her students “tune in and feel their breath and body and the space around us.” And then Experimental Dance Theatre. She startJoanna Rotkin reshe ran into dancer and visual artist ed to do work in “alternative spaces,” hearses for a perforAndrew Marcus. like the inside of her Subaru. Once she mance of Dog Dance, given once a month Rotkin had known Marcus in rolled herself up in a strip of sod and at Floorspace Studio New York City, but their encounters performed with a piece of raw steak. in Boulder. were fleeting. In Boulder, the two With friend and fellow dancer Laura formed a friendship. It was Marcus Ann Samuelson, Rotkin performed who gave Rotkin the shovel she needed to unearth another show, Goodnight, Courtney Love, in the the concept of Dog Dance.

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“The biggest [help] was [Marcus] gave me per“It was really wild and loud and absurd,” Rotkin mission to follow whatever was unfolding,” Rotkin says of those productions. “We were always looking for alternative ways to present and it was always very says, “and then helping me to language and frame it.”

What was unfolding was “an exchange with the theatrical, so there was talking, there was singing, audience,” Rotkin says. Something free-flowing but there were piles of dirt, tiny parasols, there was food duct-taped to tables. It was really about getting peo- not without form, something emotional. At the root of Dog Dance is essential movement. ple’s senses alive. It was very much about illogical “It started because I really wanted to work on a things, things that shouldn’t be in the same place being in the same place was what I was really intersee DOG DANCE Page 32

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solo where I was finding the most urgent movement, and I feel like animals don’t have time to do extra movement,” Rotkin says. “They’re only doing what’s necessary. They are present every single moment.”

Rotkin says everything she learned about dance is “totally being demolished.” Yet at the same time Dog Dance represents the very essence of dance, kind of the alpha and omega of dance.

“It’s very particular. It’s very quiet.

It’s not loud and absurd and illogical like my work before,” she explains. “It’s not funny. I’m not relying on those strategies that I constructed for myself.

I kind of smashed them all. It’s just my body in space and my relationship with the audience.”

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“What happens a lot when you go to see dance or theater, the value is on the person on stage,” Rotkin explains. “With Dog Dance, that’s not the case at all. So their eyes may be on me, but there’s a huge garage door window so they may be focused on what’s happening outside. Or their eyes may be on the audience. [The performance is] part of a larger landscape, so we’re looking at disrupting that contract.”

While the performance is a solo work, Rotkin says she needs other people in the room to “create the loop,” to connect with themselves and each other. The point is to breathe together, to investigate emotions, to explore feelings of unraveling and rebuilding.

Of course, Rotkin says, the quiet, improvised nature of the dance doesn’t work for everyone. mances, the classes build on one “If [an audience member has] this another, with students slowly building expectation that ‘I need to be enterrelationships with each other the same tained,’ then we’re not going to find way Rotkin does with her audience that [connection]. It’s just about being each month. Rotkin watches particiin the moment, feeling all of it: borepants learn to explore movement in dom, disappointment, calmness, antici- more subtle ways, to experience the pation — all of it’s welcome. We’re not sensation of flying while barely movtrying to block out certain experiences. ing. Focus is on the breath, on the way It’s an ongoing relationship I’m buildthe body feels as it is held by the earth, ing with my audience rather than a on the way one movement can lead to one-time shazam.” another, and on the way that humans The performances have led to Dog become connected, synchronized even, Dance classes at the Boulder Circus without realizing it. After warm-ups Center, The Anatomy of led by Rotkin, students are on their Improvisation. Much like the perforown, at first without music — the way 32 August 31 , 2017

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As the years have passed, Rotkin now sees students beginning to work with each other during class, building relationships with one another and creating new dances all on their own.

“We all have bodies. That’s the beauty of it,” Rotkin says. “It’s stunning just because it’s honest. It’s not that it’s cool or graceful or clever or strong or athletic, it’s just that they’re being honest in that moment, and so tender.”

As Rotkin says, it’s all about sweetly agitating, persistently upending.

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Ilene Meyers “Floral Arrangement” The National Fine Art and Photography exhibit features works from artists around the country, all of which are available for purchase. Art works include paintings, sculptures, mixed media and photographs curated

by Jane Jones. The event coincides with the Fall Festival of Louisville; Labor Day morning kicks off with a parade through the streets of downtown Louisville and then a day full of activities like a bocce ball tournament, children’s pet parade, a homemade pie contest and more. The opening reception for the National Fine Art Show is on Saturday, Sept. 2 from 6-9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit louisvilleart.org.

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Albert Schmitz — Remnants of the Ancients.

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Kate Russo (author, psychologist and eclipse chaser). 7 p.m.

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

Anita Sanchez — The Four Sacred Gifts. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

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

Join the UN Association of Boulder County for an informative and informal conversation with representatives from local refugee communities. Proceeds from the cafe’s drink and food purchases will go toward the association’s AdoptA-Future campaign to support schooling of refugee children in Kenya.

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Music Blecha’s Bday Bash. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Dallas Thornton. 7:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Drezo. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver.

Franklin & Friends. 9:30 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.

Grigsby. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

GRiZ Live Band. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder.

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Keith Oxman Quartet. 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Nate Hancock. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Phish Dick’s Pre-Party featuring Digital Beat Down & Moves at Midnight. 9 p.m.

Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 7 p.m.

Pôr Wine House, 836 Main St., Louisville.

Signal Test. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.

Slander. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

The WatchHill. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Wovenhand — with Emma Ruth Rundle, Jaye Jayle. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Events Burlesque Roadshow: The Van Ella Bordella. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Celebrating Life in Recovery. 7 p.m. Twin Peaks Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 9696

César Lozano presenta “Actitudes Positivas ante la Adversidad.”

7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Dr. Lozano will provide techniques and strategies for self-control with the aim to live a positive life in the face of dayto-day adversities. This lecture will be delivered in Spanish only and is open to everyone.

General: $38.50; Preferente: $58.50; VIP: $73.50

Public Lecture: Dispossession, Racism and the Environment

A Is For Atom, piKziL. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

OverUnder. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

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Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Jim Packer, president of Worldwide TV and Digital Distribution, Lionsgate.

The Independent Music Mash Up with BMG. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m.

Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder.

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Guest Master Class: Art Lande.

1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Grammy-nominated Art Lande is considered one of the premier improvisational jazz pianists today. This event is free and open to the public.

6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, Eaton Humanities, Room 150, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Contact David Boonin at david. boonin@colorado.edu.

Paige West, the Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, will speak.

This lecture is sponsored by the CU Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program.

Bumblebees of Boulder County.

7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, CU Museum (Henderson Building), 1030 Broadway, Boulder.

Join CU researchers Carol Ann Kearns and Diana Oliveras as they discuss the life history of bumblebees, their role as pollinators and their conservation status in Colorado. This event is free and open to the public.

Paschal Drive, Louisville.

Doug Stanhope. 7 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver.

Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Highlands Comedy Show. 7:30 p.m. Sushi Hai, 3600 W. 32nd Ave., Denver.

Faculty Tuesdays: The Quest.

7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

5, Imig Music 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Baritone Andrew Garland’s Faculty Tuesday debut, “The Quest: Don Quixote and Other Wanderers,” features songs

by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Franz Schubert, Gabriela Frank, Maurice Ravel, Steven Mark Kohn and Mitch Leigh.

Physics Colloquium.

4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

6, Duane Physical Laboratories Complex, G1B31.

Presented by Juliet Gopinath, CU department of electrical engineering. Coffee, tea and cookies will be available in DUAN G1B31 beginning at 3:45 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

Film Screening: Chasing Coral.

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, Muenzinger Psychology & Biopsychology, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

A free showing of Chasing Coral from director Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice, 2012), who will be attending the event. The documentary shows a team of divers, photographers and scientists on a thrilling adventure to document the disappearance of the world’s coral reefs. See page 23 for more.

Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Caribou Ranch, Nederland.

International Week. 5 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder.

Liz Miller Artist Talk & Reception. 6 p.m.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

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Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver.

NCAR Explorer Film Screening: Chasing Coral. 6 p.m. National Center for Atmospheric Research-Mesa Lab, 1850 Table Mesa Road, Boulder.

Friday, September 1 Music Abrams. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Adam Stigall Band, Jeremy Parker. 8 p.m.

Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.

versary. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

A Phish Dick’s After-party feat. Cycles.

12 a.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 8 p.m. CHUBurger (RiNo), 3490 Larimer St., Denver.

Russell Malone Quartet. 9 p.m. Dazzle@ Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Sin Bandera. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver.

Swing Dance Session. 7 p.m. Stephenson

Vera, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette.

ver Cherry Creek, 150 Clayton Lane, Denver.

Trevor Hall. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Film Night feat. Stacey Steers. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Tyto Alba. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

First Friday Pub Run. 6:30 p.m. Black Shirt Brewery, 3719 Walnut St., Denver.

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Fun on the Farm: Adventures for Little Farmers. 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont.

Annual Senior Dinner. 5 p.m. Memory Square Park, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville.

Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont.

Family Film Series. 7 p.m. JW Marriott Den-

International Week. 5 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder. see EVENTS Page 38

Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder.

Argentine Tango GroundSchool Classes.

7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder.

Artwalk Late Night. 9 p.m. Mandala Infusion, 4479 Broadway, Boulder.

Axiom, DJ Phil Minnick, Jessica Peacock.

6 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Block Party 2017. 4 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder.

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

Citizen Dan — Steely Dan Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

The Corner Girls. 7:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Dotsero. 9:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.

Electric Guest with Nine Pound Shadow. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Eric Gebhardt with Sam Clayton — AKoustic: Songs from Alaska’s Golden Heart.

7:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

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

Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont.

First Fridays. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Friday Night Social — with Dave Devine Trio. 10:15 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

The Goonies (’80s Tribute). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Guilty Pleasures. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

The Hacks. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Happy Hour — with The Rendition Band.

5:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.

Hit and Run: Musical Improv. 9 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Intuit. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder.

Ja Rule and Ashanti. 7 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 20, Boulder.

Live Patio Music — Summerland Sun. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Milo. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

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Makeshift Shakespeare. 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Music 033. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

9Electric — Life is Beautiful Summer Tour 2017. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Austin Young Band. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@ Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

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3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch, and Live Comedy.

9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S. Downing St., Denver.

The Agency: “Bits and Pieces.” 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Brockhampton. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Cryptic Wisdom. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Dana Stokes. 7 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.

Downtown Brunch — with The Adam Bodine Trio. 9:30 a.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

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Anything Goes. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 1.

Appropriate. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524.

Begins Sept. 2. Through Oct. 14.

Courage My Love. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

August: Osage County — presented

by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Begins Sept. 1.

Through Oct. 15.

The Creme De La Creme: Rocky Mountain High Edition featuring Lil Flip & Michael “5000” Watts. 9 p.m.

The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Dada. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

The Delta Sonics. 10:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Dinner. The Edge Theater Company, 1560 Teller Street, Lakewood. Through Sept. 17.

On Golden Pond is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer. He is a retired professor, nearing 80.

Ethel, ten years younger, delights in all the small things that continue to enrich their long life together. As they take care of grandson Billy, they find out they have as much to learn as they do to teach in this heartwarming and poignant drama.

Footloose: The Musical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Through Sept. 3.

Frozen. Buell Theater, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver.

Through Oct. 1.

Rock of Ages. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 11.

Foreign Roots. & Friends. 9 p.m.

Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Glass Top Bar. 5 p.m. Galleria at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver.

The Growlers. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Wool Eye. 12 a.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.

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

Brunch with El Javi. 10:30 a.m.

Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Elena Camerin Young. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder.

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Saturday, September 2

Ben Hammond. 10 a.m. Union Station Farmers Market, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver.

Thawind Mills. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

The Guestlist Album Release. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

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

The Heartstring Hunters, Dollhouse Thieves, Native Station. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Live Music: Deborah Stafford Jazz Quartet.

7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

A Live One — Phish Tribute (Phish Dicks After-party). 12 a.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

Matt Rouch & The Noise. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Mir Fontane + Future Heroes. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Pink Hawks. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Rapper Chali 2na. 7 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver.

Sawyer Fredericks. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

The Soul Rebels featuring Big Freedia — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Best Worst Cantina Presents. 11 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Blush: A Burlesque Fantasy. 8 p.m. The Clocktower, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Fab Feb Comedy Kickoff! 8 p.m. Jakes Sports & Spirits, 3800 Walnut St., Denver.

Hard Rock Mining Tour. 9:30 a.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N. Bridge St., Nederland.

Louisville Farmers Market. 9 a.m. Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville.

Noah Gardenswartz. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Pints in the Park. 12 p.m. Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville.

Red Rock Ramblers Lyons Square Dance.

7:30 p.m. Lyons Elementary School Gymnasium, 338 High St., Lyons.

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

Skyline Beer Garden. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, Arapahoe Street between 16th and 17th Streets, Denver.

Spiritual Support Group for Mental Illness.

7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder.

Sunday, September 3 Music Blues and BBQ — with Bill McKay. 2 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder.

Indigo Girls. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Jacquees — with Special Guests. 7 p.m.

Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Josephine Foster. 7:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

La Luz. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Mad Wallace. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

MC Lars. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Ned Jazz Trio (Free Appetizer Buffet). 2:30 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.

Old’s Cool Rock. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette.

Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

Perry from Ashes of Folly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Tallgrass. 6 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.

Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. see EVENTS Page 40

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arts 75 — A Celebration of New Works in Fiber. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 22.

Sahand Rafii Tabatabai

Art Inspired by the Land. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 10.

Through The Light Of The Stars, My Ancestors Gaze At Me is an exhibition of paintings by IranianAmerican artist Sahand Rafii Tabatabai.

There will be three receptions on three evenings beginning on Friday, Sept. 1 from 5-9 p.m.; a second reception on Saturday, Sept. 2 from 3-9 p.m.; and the third on Sunday, Sept. 3 from 3-9 p.m.

Common Ground. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 12.

Dasha Shishkin: Tram Pam Pam. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Sept. 10.

Full Concert

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Fork, Gun, Cake — by The Corrugated Collective. White Cube Gallery, Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Oct. 6.

Sam Clayton of Little Feat

Mauro Giaconi: Cae a plomo/falls to lead. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Sept. 10.

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Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Oct. 22.

SOLO — works by Masha Sha. Nalanda Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Oct. 6.

Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 31.

Through The Light Of The Stars, My Ancestors Gaze At Me. Gallery 505, 4479 N. Broadway, Suite B, Boulder. Through Sept. 3.

Variance. Abend Gallery, 1412 Wazee St., Denver. Through Sept. 9.

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Vinyl Sundays with the Denver Kush Club.

12 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver.

Events A Taste of Colorado. 10:30 a.m. Civic Center Park, 101 W. 14th Ave., Denver.

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Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder.

Loopr Mobile Cannabis Lounge Routes. 2 p.m. 1-Up Colfax, 717 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Nan Desu Kan 2017 Anime Convention. 9 a.m. Sheraton Denver Downtown, 1550 Court Place, Denver.

Noah Gardenswartz. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Skyline Beer Garden. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, Arapahoe Street between 16th and 17th Streets, Denver.

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Sunday Spiritual Service. 10 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder.

Monday, September 4 Music 303 Magazine and Four Seasons Pool Event. 4 p.m. Four Seasons Hotel Denver, 1111 14th St., Denver.

Block Party 2017. 4 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder.

Capsize. 6 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Clown Vomit. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Fall Of Troy. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Free Beginner Argentine Tango Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, 1770 13th St., Boulder.

Labor Day. 10 a.m. Lola Coastal Mexican, 1575 Boulder St., Denver.

Labor Day. 12 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette.

Conner Youngblood. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Labor Day Cajun Cookout & Concert. 12 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder.

Lil Yachty. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Noches de Verano: Tango at the Teahouse.

6 p.m. Courtyard beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder.

Prospect Sound Bites presents FACE. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont.

Weedeater. 8:15 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Live Music: David Booker. 6:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder.

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

SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.

Events

Sleeping with Sirens — Gossip Tour. 7 p.m.

The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

82nd Annual Labor Day Parade. 10 a.m. City Hall, 749 Main St., Louisville.

Southern Avenue. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Black & Blu — Comedy/Variety Show.

7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver, 303-455-4269.

Tuesday Tapping and Live Music. 6 p.m.

Upslope Brewing Company, 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder.

Children’s Pet Parade. 9 a.m. Main Street, 749 Main St., Louisville.

Wilsen. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Doug Benson. 4:20 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Wycliffe Gordon. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Fall Festival. 9 a.m. Memory Square Park, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville.

Events

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.

Skyline Beer Garden. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, Arapahoe Street between 16th and 17th Streets, Denver.

The Sustainability Forum. 5:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Bar and Grill, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Suite 380, Boulder.

A Taste of Colorado. 10:30 a.m. Civic Center Park, 101 W. 14th Ave., Denver.

Tuesday, September 5 Music Boulder Phishin. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder.

Doppelgängers! Improv Showcase. 8 p.m.

Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Real Boy Film Screening. 7 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Skyline Beer Garden. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, Arapahoe Street between 16th and 17th Streets, Denver.

Spicy Lounge Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. see EVENTS Page 42

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EVENTS from Page 40

Wednesday, September 6 Music Acoustic Open Mic Hosted by Captain Flashback. 4 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.

AJJ. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Al!ce — with Faces Under The Mirror, White Dwarf. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Shejay Bella Scratch. 8 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.

Ben Hammond. 11 a.m. Civic Center Eats, 101 14th Ave., Denver.

Boulder In-The-Round. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

Denver — with The Hotelier, Thick Business & Overslept. 7 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

GoGo Penguin. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Jazz Dinner — with Alex Heffron Trio. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Kengo Nagaoka — Jazz. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver.

Kristin Diable. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Mary J. Blige. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver.

Matt Costa. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

The Octopus Project. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Plini. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder.

Trae Tha Truth — with performances by RicoLaw, Scotty ATL, A-Meazy, DNA, DJ

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K-Tone. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Events Chad Calek’s Sir Noface Lives Tour is coming. 6 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.

San Francisco Giants vs. Colorado Rockies. 6:40 p.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver.

Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Happy Hour Bingo! Win Tickets to: The Church, War on Drugs (10/14), Boris, Chelsea Wolfe and More! 6 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Facets LGBTQIA+ Youth Talent Show. 6 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder.

Lies Wide Open: An International Night of Magic. 8 p.m. Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver.

Skyline Beer Garden. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, Arapahoe Street between 16th and 17th Streets, Denver.

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by Rebecca Macijeski

My mother and I sit on the back porch, bare feet in summer grass as we take the upright down to pieces, breeze humming through its strings.

I extract each melodic tooth and sort them in octaves for rinsing, tidy enclosure in boxes, remembering in each how my young fingers rioted over them searching for sound and the way it grows like its own unruly animal. The old piano lies open to Sunday morning sun, swallowing blossoms that drift over like stars from the apple tree I climbed as a girl.

My mother and I sit here in a quiet usually reserved for churches, hands moving slowly over what we gather —piles of soft hammers, odd coils of wire.

We take up wet rags and wash each wooden key down its surface, wet music pooling onto our skin.

Just as I prefer to read good travel writing more than I like to travel, I look to poems to offer me experiences I’m quite likely never to have. Here’s a poem by Rebecca Macijeski, a native New Englander, about just such an experience, and a poignant one, too. I’ll never disassemble a piano, but I’ve experienced doing it, here. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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ear University of Colorado students: ON THE BILL: If I could offer you one word of Celebrating Stan. 7:30 advice — no, it’s not sunscreen — it p.m., Sunday: Sept. 3, would be this: Resources. Find them, Oct. 1, Nov. 5, Dec. 3, University of Colorado use them, embrace them, stake your Boulder, ATLAS 100. Free college career on them and you will find yourself a and open to the public. better, more rounded person. Sure, advisors, professors, counselors (mental and career) are necessary for navigating university, but there are many resources at your fingertips: libraries to plunder, theater and dance performances to experience, more concerts than you can shake a stick at and, of course, movies.

For those studying the cinematic arts, CU’s International Film Series is an essential way to navigate the world of cinema past and present. It’ll whet your appetite for something beyond the multiplex and there’s no reason to stop there; thanks to Norlin Library’s extensive collection of DVDs and Blu-rays, you’ll find an endless array of images to expand your range.

There’s no better place to start in this abundance than with a collection from a filmmaker who called these hallowed halls home: Stan Brakhage. Put together by the good folks at the Criterion Collection, By Brakhage features hours of vibrant images and abstract paintings from the godfather of experimental film. And when watching Brakhage on your laptop isn’t enough, head over to ATLAS 100 on the first Sunday of every month, where Professor Suranjan Ganguly hosts Celebrating Stan, a screening of Brakhage films from the university’s private collection, all presented on 8mm, 16mm and 35mm. Resources: You gotta love ‘em.

Stan Brakhage was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1933, moved to Denver at the age of 7 and made his first film at the age of 19. Over the next 52 years, he would go on to make almost 350 films varying in length from a few seconds to four-and-a-half hours. Works like Window Water Baby Moving (1959), Dog Star Man (1961–64), Mothlight (1963), The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971), The Dante Quartet (1987) and Brakhage’s final film, Chinese Series (2003) aren’t just challenging works of experimentation; they are deeply personal charges to see the world differently.

One of the many ways Brakhage achieved this was by painting on the film stock itself, producing hypnotic colors and movement. At first glance, this might seem too abstract, too intellectual to connect with; give it time, and Brakhage’s aim — to capture what cannot be photographed — comes through like a thunderbolt.

That simple yet difficult concept has inspired filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to Derek Cianfrance (a CU alum and Brakhage student). That does not mean Brakhage is only for film students; Brakhage is for everyone. No doubt dancers, painters, composers, writers, engineers and MBAs can all benefit from an hour in the dark with Brakhage. It doesn’t matter what you are studying, Brakhage can help you see the world in a new way, solve a problem in a new manner and understand something you might never have considered. It’s a resource you can’t afford to miss.

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The joke on the street is that prices have been slashed from $4 a banana to $3.50 a banana. But the truth is value can be had at Whole Foods, as before, if you just keep your eyes peeled. That’s been the case for the Beyond Burger since a stall in the dining court dedicated to it popped up last year. The Beyond Burger is made mostly of pea protein and dyed with beet juice so that it “bleeds” when you cook it, and looks like ground beef. What it tastes like — with a chewy bun, crisp lettuce, tomato and pickle, faux cheddar and mustard — is a pretty great, lean burger. The thing’s vegan, soy and gluten-free, too, so it’s hard to have any complaints about the Beyond Burger becoming a trend, unless you or your loved one are peas. $9.

astronauts may be Boulder County’s best kept dining secret. Sharing a space with Gravity Brewing, which shares a space with an American Legion outpost, which is located down a side street, over the tracks from Louisville’s downtown, Gastronauts is worth finding.

Unique, elevated bar staples rotate through the menu alongside a steady supply of excellent New York-style pizza, wings, salads and daily specials. The crispy broccoli with Sriracha aioli showcases how Gastronauts makes the simple sublime.

The baked broccoli, sapped of water, is airy and crispy, while its earthy flavor is concentrated. The aioli is spicy and sweet, and adds necessary lubrication to the broccoli.

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A LOT OF US LIVE in Tofu Town

and its surrounding communities. Boulder is the epicenter of the natural foods industry. National press journalists contact me yearly for predictions about food trends like avocado toast, natto and cricket flour because Boulder’s vibrant food scene and savvy consumers are legendary. Vegans thrive here.

decades: Who buys all that SPAM and what do they do with it?

I watch when I shop. I look in other people’s baskets. Maybe it’s my timing but I have never observed even one shopper buy (or even touch) a can of SPAM. I’ve never seen it in any Boulder home. It must be furtively purchased and then hidden from view. Is it the result of SPAM shaming? The only places you see it served in public are Hawaiian eateries as musubi: grilled SPAM and sticky rice wrapped in dried seaweed.

Inexorable demographic changes and increased nutritional awareness should have doomed the salty canned pork product to the back shelf of culinary history by now. “Spam” is a highly negative word in the digital age.

Instead, SPAM is celebrating its 80th birthday and is as popular as ever in the U.S. and around the world. More than 7 million cans are consumed each year in Hawaii alone and SPAM-

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An 80-year-old canned meat secretly thrives in America’s healthiest foodie town

And yet I see enormous displays of canned meats — SPAM, canned chicken, corned beef and more SPAM — in Boulder’s chain supermarkets, big box stores, convenience and drug stores, and even ethnic markets. I’ve wondered for Boulder Weekly

themed eateries are open in the Philippines, where the canned meat is served in the morning with lots of garlic rice and eggs.

You can purchase a sampler online of 12 12-ounce cans of bacon, black pepper, cheese, chorizo, garlic, hickory smoked, hot and spicy, jalapeno, regular, teriyaki, tocino and turkey SPAM for about $70 plus shipping. Consider it for a tasting at your next neighborhood gathering.

For a good time, don’t tell them what it is until afterwards.

You may not like the taste — especially that icky SPAM-gelatin atop each loaf. You may be opposed on nutritional grounds. You may abhor Hormel and its business practices, but SPAM is simply pork shoulder, ham, salt, water, potato starch, sugar and sodium nitrite. It’s not snouts, skin or internal organs. Better to worry about such things as potted meat food product, tiny canned Vienna sausages, chicken nuggets and most of the hot dogs eaten in America. see NIBBLES Page 50

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People ask me what sort of fabulous diet I consumed as a child that led to my career as a food-trend watcher, cooking teacher, columnist, restaurant critic and food judge. Mom was a good home cook but there was always a can of SPAM in the pantry. It was there for Dad. Every once in a while on a weekend morning he would make what he called a breakfast mess, a frittata of fried SPAM, eggs, sliced canned potatoes and American cheese. For him it was deeply nostalgic.

Hormel introduced SPAM — short for “spiced ham” — in 1937 and supplied more than 15 million cans a week to feed U.S. soldiers during World War II including my father, a doctor who served in the South Pacific. That’s one reason why I never consign America’s SPAM eaters to the basket of dietary deplorables. Everyone has a secret food they are embarrassed to love. Besides, SPAM consumption may be a form of silent rebellion against all those beets and flax seeds.

In honor of the 80th anniversary, I once again tasted SPAM in the form of a SPAM Single. It’s a single slice so it’s not really a lot of SPAM. It’s still the same vaguely pork-y, ham-y and salty, rubbery stuff it always was. It will probably be 5 or 10 years until I feel the need to taste it again.

According to legend, “spam” acquired its bad e-mail connotation when scripts of the classic Monty Python sketch kept getting dumped into early chat rooms, including this song: “Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-aa-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam.

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It may sound shocking but you may be tired of pie. As local tree-fruit season peaks, change it up by making a peach or plum cobbler. It’s essentially a pie without a bottom crust that also goes by colorful aliases including slump, grunt and pandowdy. A peach crumble or crunch replaces the pie dough with a layer of sweet crumbs. A peach crisp is like a crumble except typically topped with a granola mix of oat, nuts and

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Coming attractions on the dining scene this fall: Hosea Rosenberg of Blackbelly will open Santo, an eatery focused on the food of Taos, New Mexico, at 1265 Alpine Ave. The space next to Ideal market was home to Radda, Masa Grill and other eateries. … The former Sushi Tora space at 2014 10th St. will be filled by Chimera, a new Asian restaurant from Zoe Ma Ma owner Edwin Zoe. … OAK at fourteenth’s Bryan Dayton will open Corrida, a Basque and Mediterranean bistro, at 1023 Walnut St.

Taste of the Week

Forget about all the gross pumpkin spice products filling the shelves and get into artisan pumpkin seeds. You, like me, may have thought that all pumpkin seeds were pretty much the same, a vehicle for salt with a husk you needed to spit out. Then I tasted Farmer’s Porch Heirloom Pumpkin Seeds. The company sources organically grown Styrian pumpkin seeds that are amazingly creamy and nutty tasting. They are dry roasted in Boulder in three flavors. The turmeric lime, cacao cinnamon and ghost pepper varieties are nicely spiced but not overpowering, and certainly addictive. They are available at farmers markets, at Cured and Blackbelly in Boulder, and at Lafayette’s Isabelle Farm store. For more information, go to thefarmersporch.com.

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“Love was in short supply, but pies were obedient to her command of their pastry, crisp holding the sweetness within.”

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Flagstaff House’s Chris Royster on rapid career success, the virtues of fine dining and artisanal spoons

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ow did Chris Royster go from dropping out of high school at 16 to being the chef de cuisine at Flagstaff House, a Chopped champion and a Zagat 30 under 30 recipient in just about a decade? Hard work, passion and discipline, sure. But also spoons.

“I’m a little crazy about my spoons,” the 27-yearold Royster says. “I have so many different spoons to plate with. It’s kind of like a painter’s palette, where they have all their mixings on there or they’ve got their bundle of brushes and each one does something different — that’s exactly the way I feel about a spoon. [I have] really, really tiny spoon tips. I have wide ones, I have square-facing ones, I’ve got slotted spoons, big spoons, basting spoons, whatever, there’s so many just because it allows me to create different things on the plate based on the spoon.”

Some chefs revere above all else their knives, or their technique, or their ingredients, but the kingmaking of spoons is unusual. No doubt, Royster values all those other things, and more, but his affinity for the round utensil is but one of the things that makes him unique.

Royster is three years into his tenure at Flagstaff House, where he rose quickly from sous chef to chef de cuisine. It’s typical of how his life in the restaurant industry has gone so far — entering his first kitchen as a dishwasher at age 14, he made executive chef at Boulder Weekly

by Matt Cortina that restaurant, The Twist, in New York, before he turned 18.

If that amount of progress for a minor seems incredible to you, you’re not alone. When Royster relocated to Boulder, he says restaurateurs thought he had fabricated his experience.

“I feel like a lot of people just shunned me away, like, ‘That’s not true,’” Royster says. “So it was a month of me trying to get a job and I couldn’t even get an interview. So I dumbed my resume down and then I started getting interviews. It was funny.”

Royster finally got a job as a sauté cook at Louisville’s Zucca Italian Ristorante. True to form, Royster was the executive chef at sister restaurant The Huckleberry within three years. All that success made waves in the national food media — it caused Zagat to list Royster on their 2014 30 under 30 “Rock Stars Redefining the Industry” list and appealed to produces at the Food Network when a co-worker nominated Royster for the cooking competition show Chopped, which he won. (On the show, contestants are allowed to bring seven knives; Royster asked if he could bring two knives and five spoons. His request was denied.)

If all that attention has spoiled Royster, he doesn’t show it. If it’s packed expectations onto him, his

shoulders don’t appear to bear them. What drives his success, he says, comes from within.

“I think I beat myself up more than anybody has beat me up in my life,” Royster says. “After Chopped, we had so many people say, ‘Oh, we want to meet the Chopped champion,’ but, there’s like 33 or 34 seasons of Chopped now; there’s so many champions, right? ... But those people are elated, they’re just already excited to be here. It’s easy to please people who are already happy.”

Royster’s is a casual persona that belies the gravitas with which diners often view Flagstaff House. Pressed linen tablecloths, robustly attentive service, minicourses between actual courses, an entrée list whose items hover around $50, its location literally looking down on Boulder — all of it effects an air of exclusivity. But that perception is wrong, Royster says, pointing out that prices are comparable to the fine dining establishments on Pearl Street. Those splurges of service — the intermezzo courses, the valet parking, the delicate, spoon-crafted quenelles — that’s just fine dining, and it need not be apologized for, Royster says. The commitment to the details, if anything, is see ROYSTER Page 54

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what sets Flagstaff House apart, he says.

“We want to make sure everything is as perfect to our capability,” Royster says. “I drill [into our chefs to] strive for perfection.

Nobody’s perfect, we’ll never reach perfection, but we should constantly be trying to achieve that on a daily basis [because] that translates into the guest’s experience.”

Current trends in the restaurant scene have de-emphasized the fine dining experience from coast to coast. For many chefs and restaurateurs, in the stead of a pursuit for Michelin stars is the pursuit of a casual space

that serves fine dining-quality food. By doing so, the trend removes some price and access barriers to high cuisine, but also forgoes the staples of service that had defined the experience of getting that food. Some like it, some don’t.

Royster says that’s fine — the casual places are where he eats — but his goal is still classic fine dining.

“I do want to own my own restaurant, maybe restaurants,” Royster says. “I’ve always had this desire since I was 15, 16, reading about The French Laundry, Thomas Keller, three Michelin stars, right? I still have this passion for absolute perfection on the plate where it looks like a painting. I think it’d be an ultimate achievement.

Whether it happens or not, I don’t know.”

The spoons’ll help. So will a lifetime of making it work. The reason Royster was able to start his career so young was because he dropped out of high school and moved out of his parents’ house when he was 16. That forced Royster to grow up fast.

“Yeah it was weird, I’m going to be honest,” Royster says. “I went to the gas station 100 feet down the road and that’s where I used to get most of my food. I got home from work and I’d go down and get a box of Hot Pockets and I’d be good. So it was interesting... kind of an uprooting and bam! I had to change from being a kid into being an adult immediately, which I think was good. It worked out just fine.

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of one context and put it into another so that it takes on new meanings.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy could and should be your specialty in the coming weeks. “The first person to look at an oyster and think food had this ability,” says von Oech. “So did the first person to look at sheep intestines and think guitar strings. And so did the first person to look at a perfume vaporizer and think gasoline carburetor.” Be on the lookout, Cancerian, for inventive substitutions and ingenious replacements.

ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “We are continually faced by great

opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems,” said businessman Lee Iacocca. You are currently wrestling with an example of this phenomenon, Aries. The camouflage is well-rendered. To expose the opportunity hidden beneath the apparent dilemma, you may have to be more strategic and less straightforward than you usually are -cagier and not as blunt. Can you manage that? I think so.

Once you crack the riddle, taking advantage of the opportunity should be interesting.

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most fertile sadness you have felt in a long time. At least potentially, it has tremendous motivating power. You could respond to it by mobilizing changes that would dramatically diminish the sadness you feel in the coming years, and also make it less likely that sadness-provoking events will come your way. So I invite you to express gratitude for your current sadness. That’s the crucial first step if you want to harness it to work wonders.

improbable,” said Oscar Wilde. That’s advice I wouldn’t normally give a Capricorn. You thrive on being grounded and straightforward. But I’m making an exception now.

The astrological omens compel me. So what does it mean, exactly? How might you be “improbable”? Here are suggestions to get you started. 1. Be on the lookout for inspiring ways to surprise yourself. 2. Elude any warped expectations that people have of you. 3. Be willing to change your mind.

Open yourself up to evidence that contradicts your theories and beliefs. 4. Use telepathy to contact Oscar Wilde in your dreams, and ask him to help you stir up some benevolent mischief or compassionate trouble.

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When famous socialite OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Nan Kempner was young, “Don’t hoot with the owls her mother took her at night if you want to Go to RealAstrology.com to check out shopping at Yves Saint crow with the rooster in Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO Laurent’s salon. Nan got the morning,” advised HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE fixated on a certain white Miss Georgia during the HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes satin suit, but her mean Miss Teen USA Pageant. are also available by phone at old mother refused to buy Although that’s usually 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. it for her. “You’ve already good counsel, it may not spent too much of your apply to you in the commonthly allowance,” mom ing weeks. Why? Because said. But the resourceful girl came up with a successful your capacity for revelry will be at an all-time high, as gambit. She broke into sobs, and continued to cry nonstop will your ability to be energized rather than drained by until the store’s clerks lowered the price to an amount she your revelry. It seems you have a special temporary supercould afford. You know me, Leo: I don’t usually recommend power that enables you both to have maximum fun and resorting to such extreme measures to get what you want. get a lot of work done.

But now is one time when I am giving you a go-ahead to do just that.

and a beloved ally get lost in an enchanted forest, discover a mysterious treasure, and find your way back to civilization just before dark. Now visualize this: You give a dear companion a photo of your face taken on every one of your birthdays, and the two of you spend hours talking about your evolution. Picture this: You and an exciting accomplice luxuriate in a sun-lit sanctuary surrounded by gourmet snacks as you listen to ecstatic music and bestow compliments on each other. These are examples of the kinds of experiments I invite you to try in the coming weeks. Dream up some more! Here’s a keynote to inspire you: sacred fun.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: On its album Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty, Jefferson Starship plays a song I co-wrote, “In a Crisis.” On its album Deeper Space/Virgin Sky, the band covers another tune I co-wrote, “Dark Ages.” Have I received a share of the record sales? Not a penny. Am I upset? Not at all. I’m glad the songs are being heard and enjoyed. I’m gratified that a world-famous, multi-platinum band chose to record them.

I’m pleased my musical creations are appreciated. Now here’s my question for you, Gemini: Has some good thing of yours been “borrowed”? Have you wielded a benevolent influence that hasn’t been fully acknowledged? I suggest you consider adopting an approach like mine. It’s prime time to adjust your thinking about how your gifts and talents have been used, applied, or translated.

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: The computer scientist Tim Berners-

Lee invented the miraculous communication system that we know as the World Wide Web. When asked if he had any regrets about his pioneering work, he named just one. There was no need for him to have inserted the double slash — “//” — after the “http:” in web addresses. He’s sorry that Internet users have had to type those irrelevant extra characters so many billions of times. Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Virgo. As you create innovations in the coming weeks, be mindful of how you shape the basic features. The details you include in the beginning may endure.

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Author Roger von Oech tells us that creativity often involves “the ability to take something out

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: A modern Israeli woman named

Shoshana Hadad got into trouble because of an event that occurred long before she was born. In 580 B.C., one of her male ancestors married a divorced woman, which at that time was regarded as a sin. Religious authorities decreed that as punishment, none of his descendants could ever wed a member of the Cohen tribe. But Hadad did just that, which prompted rabbis to declare her union with Masoud Cohen illegal. I bring this tale to your attention as a way to illustrate the possibility that you, too, may soon have to deal with the consequences of past events.

But now that I have forewarned you, I expect you will act wisely, not rashly. You will pass a tricky test and resolve the old matter for good.

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cycle, it makes sense to express more leadership. If you’re already a pretty good guide or role model, you will have the power to boost your benevolent influence to an even higher level. For inspiration, listen to educator Peter Drucker: “Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people.’ That is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising a person’s performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

as boring as possible. That’s the conclusion of longevity researchers, as reported by the Weekly World News. To ensure a maximum life span, you should do nothing that excites you. You should cultivate a neutral, blah personality, and never travel far from home. JUST KIDDING! I lied. The is in fact a famous purveyor of fake news.

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Dear Dan: My ex-boyfriend and I were together for a year and a half. He is a silver fox who is significantly older than me. I was 23 when we met and he was 58.

It was supposed to be a fling, but it evolved into a beautiful romance. But after much consideration (he has a vasectomy and already has four kids and will be retiring soon), we ended it three months ago. It was heartbreaking, but we made a conscious decision to be close friends and talk every day. Out of the blue last week, he asked me if I had a boyfriend. I don’t, © Rachel Robinson but I was coincidentally about to go on my first date since the breakup. He proceeded to tell me he “kinda” has a new girlfriend, a woman closer to his age.

This was not something I wanted to hear, which he could tell from the silence that met this disclosure. This conversation ruined my weekend. I have been unable to eat or sleep. The guy I went on a date with was sexy — not a love connection, but a bangtown prospect — but I was too emotionally fucked to do anything with him. Do I explain these thoughts to my ex? Let time do the healing? Why did my ex feel the need to tell me about his new girlfriend?

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—Heartbroken Over New Ex’s Yummy Dear HONEY: Your ex told you about his new girlfriend because you two are close friends, right?

And close friends typically confide in each other about their love lives, don’t they? And that’s what you wanted, isn’t it?

Backing up: It’s always inspiring when two people manage to salvage a friendship after their romantic relationship ends. But it’s not possible — it’s certainly not on anyone’s list of breakup best practices — to go in an instant from lovers to besties who talk on the phone every day. You got your heart broken, HONEY, and only time can cauterize that particular wound.

Your reaction to the news that your ex has a new girlfriend proves your post-

breakup friendship wasn’t a “conscious decision” but an ill-advised rush. And while the physical aspect of your relationship with Mr. Silver Fox ended three months ago, you never got out of each other’s pants emotionally. (A bruised ego might also be contributing to your inability to eat or sleep — he got over you faster than you got over him.)

I don’t think you should explain anything to your ex right now, HONEY, because I don’t think you should talk to your ex for the next six months or so. You need to get on with your life — and getting on that new guy is a good place to start.

Dear Dan: I’m a 26-year-old heterosexual female, and I was recently dumped by my boyfriend. He was my first love and the person I lost my virginity to. We’d been seeing each other for a little over a year. I had sex with someone else while I was seeing my ex (it was a more casual relationship in the beginning). I wanted more, and I’m not 100 percent sure but think that’s what scared him off. I went into a depression and

started seeing a therapist. This all happened a little more than a month ago. Friends tell me that the “best way to get over someone is to get under someone else,” but I’m not sure what to do. I’m pretty sure I’m doing the thing I shouldn’t be doing: holding out hope my ex will decide he made a horrible decision and want to be with me again. I know it is idiotic to have this hope. Can you give me some direction?

—Don’t Underestimate My Pain Dear DUMP: This may not be helpful in the short term, DUMP, but it’s not idiotic to hold out hope your ex will take you back. It could happen — indeed, it has happened for lots of folks. I have two friends who are married to men who dumped them, regretted it, and begged to be taken back. The trick, however, is to assume it won’t happen and make a conscious effort to get on with your life.

(And, if necessary, a conscious effort to get under someone else.) Your boyfriend/ first love/first fuck dumped you a little more than a month ago — you’re allowed, one month and change later, to live in hope of a reconciliation. Odds are good, though, that it’s a false hope, DUMP, so don’t pass on any solid offers and keep seeing that therapist.

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dly standing at the end of a row of people mixing hempcrete, a building material made of hemp fiber, cement and clay, I started to form a chunk of it into a ball in my hand.

By the looks of it, I expected the concoction to be slimy and viscous, but it was surprisingly dry. I was shocked at how cohesive my little sphere was, not to mention how delightful it smelled, full of the tanginess of a muddy forest.

My mind begins to wander. Perhaps because my idea of a home is so distant from a forest that I think of suburbia.

In crept a familiar sadness.

Whether walking in my ’70s-style neighborhood or passing through more modern developments, I’ve always felt an emptiness in America’s suburban designs. There’s a sense of disconnectedness and emptiness, perhaps intentional so that it can be cathartically filled with modern comforts. It was as if by being in my hand the hempcrete had seeped through my skin and into the very makeup of my thoughts to fracture my understanding of home.

“It takes a big person to think small,” John Patterson said. I looked up to see him, the leader of our workshop crew, standing at the helm with the mixer ready to pour another load of slurry onto a fresh pile of hemp fiber. Naively, I thought I was there to learn about the material applications of hempcrete, but looking at him I began to get the sense the material was, in its essence, defiant to those very applications.

“Hemp offers a way to re-understand the barebones, which is to say the chemistry, of our built environment,” Patterson said. “For years I worked as a carpenter and built what amounts to hermetically sealed homes. It wasn’t until I attended a green building workshop that I began to see that those buildings weren’t just inefficient, but unhealthy.

“You have to think of homes as being alive, just like our bodies. A healthy home is a well-function-

Robin and Mike White are using hempcrete, a building material made of hemp fiber, cement and clay, to build an earthship greenhouse.

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ing system that intakes energy and outputs waste, but more than that it has to be able to regenerate and breathe.”

The hempcrete greenhouse we were building is one such living project. Homeowners Robin and Mike White, (aka hip hop artist Mike Wird) designed the greenhouse as an earthship, a passive structure made of up-cycled and indigenous materials that someone with little or no construction skills can build. That means the building is affordable, both to build and maintain, and helps to explain how it is that half a dozen people like me — newbies to construction and earthships alike — came to be entrusted with the project.

Robin explains it is Patterson who helped to open the couple’s eyes to how hempcrete could best be integrated into their already established interests in earthships and permaculture. They attended one of his workshops and wanted to get involved in hosting similar events that provide education by way

of hands-on experience in regenerative design. She shrugs at how small and simple the greenhouse project is, but still she appears undeniably excited by all that it represents.

Her husband chimes in: “The point of the building is the same as the point of our lifestyle — to realign with the forces of nature. Before we could design it we had to make some basic observations about our environment. How does the sun behave as it moves across the sky? How high does it get in the summer solstice and how low in the horizon does it dip in the winter? Where does the rain naturally pool? It’s only then that we can design something that will keep plants cool in the summer, warm in the winter and well watered all year round.”

For the past five years, the couple has been busy spearheading an effort to create a much larger earthship in Denver. “After all,” Mike reminds me, “urban areas put the most strain on the ecosystem so it only makes sense that we place an example of how to soften our encounters in the middle of a city.”

The center they envision will not just be an example, though. According to the Whites, it’ll be a place that can host workshops, educate guests and inspire ideas about right living.

“If we can learn how to see it differently, we can reinvent the state of the world,” Mike says.

“Reimagining our built spaces as something alive, something we are tasked with taking care of, gives you more control in your life. By making you selfreliant, it empowers you, but by teaching you your place in the ecosystem, it humbles you.”

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nd you thought only they all have something in common Republican pols were — they all voted for Trump... In marijuana prohibitionMichigan, the Coalition to Regulate ists... When it comes to Marijuana Like Alcohol has already legalizing recreational collected more than 200,000 of the marijuana, two-term Minnesota 252,523 signatures it needs by Governor Mark Dayton, a Wikimedia Commons/Jonathunder Democrat, is channeling twoterm Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie; he says it ain’t gonna happen on his watch... Responding to an audience question during an appearance at the Minnesota state fair, he said legalizing pot would send a bad signal... “If somebody wants to use marijuana, go visit California or Colorado,” he says, “but don’t bring it back here. I don’t see it improving the quality of life in those societies...”

Maybe that’s because he hasn’t been paying attention. In July, the unemployment rate in Colorado was 2.4 percent; Minnesota’s was 3.7 percent.

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• • • A coming Colorado marijuana glut?... According to a story in Marijuana Business Daily, Colorado may be looking at a marijuana glut in the next few weeks as the big outdoor grows in Pueblo County harvest this year’s crop, but it might not cause a price collapse for flower... It turns out most of the outdoor crop has already been contracted as trim to marijuana-infused product companies and won’t affect the wholesale flower market... However it could affect the price of edibles if the bumper crop creates a glut of the extracts used to infuse pot cookies, candy, etc.

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by the storms were inundated with phone calls. Extorting victims goes back as far as the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius, when Pompeiian’s were charged double for leeches, wine and other old remedies.

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When perusing the news this week (the odd news headlines, to be clear), we couldn’t help but notice the high number of traffic incidents involving wildlife this week. And one in a pool.

For those of us here in Colorado, encountering a deer on the highway (or a badger at a university campus) might not seem so rare. But for the big-city folk who witnessed these events, it was a sign that even the animals are discombobulated in these uncertain times.

On Monday, cowboys with lassos helped corral a wayward bull on a busy interstate near Trenton, New Jersey.

Neither the bull nor any people were injured.

A young doe took California Highway Patrol officers by surprise early Tuesday when it walked in front of their car on the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge. After snapping a photo and making some dad jokes on Twitter, the officers watched as the deer strode back into the woods on Treasure Island.

A woman traveling with two goats in Vermont fell asleep at the wheel, drifting into the median and getting stuck on the guardrail. Luckily neither she nor the goats were harmed. It remains unclear why the goats were in the car.

Although not involving traffic, authorities also found an alligator in a motel pool on the Jersey Shore while conducting a raid looking for armed robbers. It turns out the alligator was featured in a rap video being filmed at the motel. Now, it’s safe in a nearby zoo.

If only we could confine President Trump and his administration so easily.

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