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Highroad The gaping hole in Trump’s border wall

by Jim Hightower

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ow much of your money does Donald Trump want to pour into his xenophobic fantasy of erecting an impenetrable wall on our Mexican border?

The big-businessman-turned-president insists he doesn’t care about costs, just build it! That seems to be a very un-businesslike approach — but, then, it’s not his money, is it? For those of you who do care, one measure of what the total tab might be is that he’s now demanding $1.6 billion from Congress to start construction. How much wall will that buy? Seventy-four miles. Now, how long is that U.S.-Mexican border he wants to seal off? One thousand, nine-hundred miles long. So, $1.6 billion down — and only 1,826 miles to go!

And let’s not even get into the cost overruns, fraudulent

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billings, shoddy materials, and other scams that the army of corporate contractors will add to the sticker price of Donald’s boondoggle on the border.

All of this for a 1,900-mile divider of both physical and symbolic ugliness that only an extremist minority of Americans support. Besides being wildly expensive, this Trumpian folly is not needed, won’t work, stifles the border economy, tramples on property rights, destroys sensitive environments, autocratically separates millions of families and communities — and is an insult not only to the people of Mexico, but also to our own people’s democratic values.

As for the assertion by die-hard Trumpateers that a massive, 30-foot-high, six-foot-deep, steel-and-concrete barricade will stop illegal immigration from Mexico, here is a fact Congress should ponder before taxing us with this harebrained structure: Two-thirds of undocumented migrants in our country entered with legal, temporary visas, then just stayed here after their visas expired. How does Trump’s goldplated wall stop people who’ll simply walk through or fly over it?

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

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hortly after the Boulder County Commissioners voted to ban GMO crops from Boulder County Open Space (in March 2016), it occurred to them that it might be a good idea to do some research on the organic agricultural practices they expected to see used after the ban kicked in.

And to ensure that the research didn’t unearth any inconvenient truths or unpleasant surprises that might undermine the ban, the Commissioners — or more to the point Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner — decided they would get the pro-organic Rodale Institute to do the research.

Jones and Gardner spent the summer romancing the Rodale Institute, which enthusiastically returned their advances.

For example, On July 8, 2016 Annie Brown, the Rodale Institute’s development director, sent an ebullient memo to Elise Jones which made it sound like a Rodale-Boulder County deal was all but done.

In the memo Brown 1) suggested that the research institute could be called the “Boulder County and Rodale Institute’s Resource Center for Regenerative Agriculture,” 2) attached an “initial Regional Resource Center brochure created by Rodale Institute,” and 3) revealed that “we have already received initial funding from a local individual who is vested in the regener-

ative/organic agriculture movement in the county, and we are confident that we will very quickly be able to raise additional funds from other local entities.”

(The last point should have raised red flags. In other words, the putative institute was getting funding from an anonymous third party who had “vested” interests in local organic agriculture. Just what is the nature and extent of those “vested” interests?)

The memo ended with Brown saying Rodale needed to know when it can expect Boulder County “to green light this initiative and what that formal commitment looks like” and “what type of financial commitment we can expect from the county.”

By September, the resource center concept had evolved to include Colorado State University partnering with Rodale to run the center. At a Sept. 20 county commissioner candidate forum (at which I was a participant as a candidate) Jones and Gardner raised the idea, calling for “bringing in additional expertise from CSU” and repeatedly saying they wanted to partner with both CSU and Rodale.

I wondered at the time if they were planning to award a contract to Rodale and CSU without going through a competitive bidding process as required

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structure of the forum didn’t provide an opportunity to raise the point before we moved on.

Since both Jones and Gardner were incumbent Commissioners, it’s hard to believe they weren’t aware of the competitive bid requirement.

Evidently they didn’t figure out that ignoring it would cause the shit to hit the fan until a few days before a Nov. 30, 2016 meeting where they were to adopt a “Draft Transition Plan” for eliminating GMO crops from County land. The draft plan explicitly spoke to Boulder County partnering with Rodale and CSU. Two days before the meeting, Jones sent an e-mail to Dr. Eugene Kelly, deputy director of CSU’s Agricultural Experimental Station, informing him that while she was “really excited about partnering with you and CSU on sustainable ag research,” Boulder County’s “good government processes” would require it “to do an RFP [request for proposal] on sustainable ag research partners...” — or more plainly, start the process of putting the institute project up for competitive bid.

At the Wednesday hearing (Nov. 30, 2016) the Commissioners authorized the preparation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the research center.

But that didn’t keep Jones from stating several more times during the meeting that she looked forward to partnering with CSU and Rodale.

So an RFP was duly written, and the CSU-Rodale partnership submitted a proposal. But then there was a snag: A second bidder, Mountain High Research of Fort Collins, also submitted a proposal. Which in the opinion of County staffers, blew the doors off of the Rodale-CSU proposal.

So rather than accept the Mountain High Research bid, the Commissioners rejected both and told staff to prepare a second RFP. The second RFP looked a lot like the first RFP with minor changes.

This time CSU bid without listing Rodale as a partner. Mountain High Research didn’t bid. But a different second bidder showed up; Western Sugar Cooperative of Fort Morgan, whose members include Boulder County sugar beet growers, who stand to get the boot from Boulder County open space because all sugar beets grown in the U.S. are GMO varieties.

But now a second, even more serious snag emerged. It turned out that the first RFP, and by extension the core parts of the second one, had been written by Adrian Card, the agriculBoulder Weekly

tural extension agent for Boulder County. CSU runs the Boulder County Agricultural Extension, and Card is an employee of CSU. Which means that a CSU employee was involved in writing the RFP that CSU was bidding on. And that, whether by accident or design, is a conflict of interest.

All of this became public because Ted Bendelow, an attorney for the farmers Jones and Gardner are trying

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to screw and a former Democratic state legislator, filed a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) action to obtain the relevant Jones, Gardner and County staff e-mails — which paint a vivid picture of collusion.

Bendelow recently wrote to Boulder County demanding that CSU be disqualified as a bidder for the research institute and that Jones be required to recuse herself from the decision.

He should have gone farther and demanded a special counsel to investigate the conduct of Jones and Gardner going back to their original decision to ban GMOs from County open space.

Both their e-mails and the public record is shot through with evidence of a pattern of collusion. The TrumpRussia investigation was started over less.

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t’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately, thanks to the Trump administration’s war on immigrants. It was bad enough during the campaign when Trump’s racism was limited to his really big, best words ever, but now that his hateful discriminatory rhetoric is being turned into actual policies, it’s far worse.

None of us should be able to sleep at night. Unfortunately, the polls tell us that 38 percent of us can.

I’ve lost track of how many local families we’ve covered as their worlds have been torn apart by seeing a mom or dad or brother or sister or child deported. I should point out that most of this cruelty was dispensed at the hand of Barack Obama and his band of Democratic Party hypocrites, but there can be no doubt that the current situation under Trump has intensified the pain for millions of our neighbors.

With one wave of his tiny hand, Emperor Trump recently disrupted the lives of 800,000 of our nation’s best and brightest, aka the dreamers. And yes, I did mean to say “our nation’s” because the U.S. is basically the only home the dreamers have ever known and, it is the place where they hope to contribute with their many talents.

When Trump killed DACA for no reason other than appeasing his base of racist supporters, he sent a wave of fear washing over the lives of millions of people who make our country better by their presence. And that is only his most recent assault on immigrants.

Under the guise of going after the “bad hombres” (sorry, I can’t write those words without stopping to point out what a complete jackass Trump is) the president is intentionally terrifying 11 million of our neighbors. His aggressive policies and full-throated support for allowing law enforcement of every ilk to check the documentation of every brown person they stumble across is wrong and dangerous.

So back to the original question: What would you do? What would you do if you were one of the 11 million people who have had a war of racism declared on them and their families?

Would you sit idly by and watch your mom be sent back to a country where she may not know anyone, doesn’t have a roof over her head or a way to support herself? Would you be willing to raise your kids without their

father just because Donald Trump and a bunch of scared, under-educated white people said you had to? Could you look on quietly as you watch your children’s hard-earned dreams of a college education and a good career be transformed into the daily fear of deportation and a lifetime of underpaid labor? Could you?

I didn’t think so.

Then why should we expect anyone who loves his or her family the same way we do to go quietly down that path? They won’t, and I don’t think they should.

I had a long conversation with a leader of the Brown Berets earlier this year concerning this very topic. I asked him, “When will enough be enough?” I feel like now is the appropriate time to share his answer.

He had recently attended a large gathering of Brown Berets in California where the main topic of conversation was what to do if Donald Trump actually starts conducting the mass deportation of Latinos. He told me, “We won’t let that happen. We all committed to protecting our people at all cost.”

Let that last part soak in, “at all cost.”

Once again, the old Harry Truman quote seems appropriate here: “The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.”

For many of us, the last time the Chicano Movement grabbed our attention was in the 1960s and ’70s. By 1974 the nightly news was filled with images of Cesar Chavez, farm worker strikes and protests and the aftermath of bombings. That is the history we seem to have forgotten or never even knew.

Imagine that in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, six bombs exploded in just the first five months of 1974. Schools, the campus police station and the courthouse were all targeted. The last two bombings claimed the lives of six young Chicano activists. To this day Los Seis de Boulder are considered martyrs of the movement and the answer to who is responsible for their deaths remains a mystery. The Brown Berets were also part of that movement and more of the history we don’t know.

Here’s another news flash: The Chicano movement never went away. It see DYERTIMES Page 9

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I enjoy reading Boulder Weekly at my local Louisville pub. In the latest issue [Sept. 7-13], I liked the article about CBDs [Re: Weed Between the Lines]; I think that’s useful info for states considering passing marijuana laws. I took an extra copy to mail to a friend in Minnesota. I also am investigating a recipe for schnecken [Re: Tasting Menu] as I make cinnamon caramel rolls for my family and had a similar idea.

I am, however, disappointed that your editorials and political cartoons are so hate-filled. I am concerned that this country is headed for civil war, and I wonder if someday you’ll look back and think you might have toned it down a little and given Trump a chance.

I know: he has a grotesque personality. Even Ann Coulter said so. But he represents a lot of voters such as myself who are angry with politics as usual and think the Republican Party should be disbanded or fail completely. I would have never voted for the alternative but that’s not my point. I am not a Nazi, or a Klansman, or a fascist. I’m a retired engineer. There is no such thing as “violence for a good cause.” I don’t want to see American History X played out on the streets of this country.

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All sides need to step up

I’m a 48-year-old, half white, half black (identified black), American male raised in a white community (Boulder) by a white mother and grandmother from Germany.

People have always said I’m a great listener. And, I’ve heard it all: from blacks telling me I talk and act too white; to whites saying my hair and

skin disgust them.

I’ve lived in Kansas and Los Angeles (five years in each), and after traveling coast to coast 25 weekends a year for five years, decided to call Boulder home because of family, a few friends, the mountains and 300 days of sunshine a year.

I have a B.A. in elementary education, an MFA in writing, taken additional graduate courses and studied and written enough about prejudice, language and perception to have two Ph.Ds. I understand Trump’s point over Charlottesville too well: violence, hate and exclusion are the real enemies — things both conservatives and liberals do.

Conservatives and liberals in the Boulder Valley School District have determined my lifelong dreams, experience, skills, education and work ethic wouldn’t benefit BVSD as a teacher, so I’m driving buses.

But, Trump’s rhetoric also echoes conservatives and liberals in Boulder in 1993, who shrugged off a KKK leader saying he’d like to live in Boulder, and have done virtually nothing to change awareness and demographics since.

I don’t envy Trump — stereotypes and assumptions make communicating complicated. Still, he’s doing a poor job.

For those who think otherwise please consider: Racists are celebrating! Why single out strong responses from only liberals?

Why can’t Trump speak about white supremacists and Nazis without a teleprompter?

The sight of hundreds of men carrying torches, clubs, automatic weapons and Nazi flags scares the hell out of me.

About as much as a president who can’t instantaneously and passionately call terror by its’ many names.

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simply evolved. By the late ’70s it had been so successful that much of its early militancy was no longer needed. Its leaders were being elected to political office and its demands for equal education for Latinos had at least been heard and acted upon if not realized completely.

So again I ask what you would do under the current circumstances if it were your family being threatened?

What would you do if you saw 50 years worth of hard-won political gains — gains paid for in blood and imprisonment — being rolled back by an ignorant, white supremacist president and his anti-immigrant followers?

Would you choose to live out the rest of your life watching in fear as your family gets picked off one at a time by racial profiling? Could you live with Boulder Weekly

knowing you could lose your livelihood or a loved one at any moment just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or would you fight back? And what exactly does fighting back mean?

We should all hope we learn the lessons of history so we never again have to relearn the answers to those questions.

The bomb is once again ticking, but there is still time to defuse it.

There is still time for Congress to address immigration reform in a serious way. There is still time to create a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people who live as our neighbors and who make America great every day by their hard work and cultural contributions.

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THE NEW GOLD RUSH: PART 1 As Colorado River water supplies dwindle, plans for desalination litter the West

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A desalination facility in Carlsbad, California, is brand new, but already experiences major issues.

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As climate change, infrastructure projects and politics continue to imperil future access to water in the West, Boulder Weekly will be examining the landscape of water rights, markets and infrastructure in Colorado and beyond over the next several months.

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here is less than 60 miles of coastline between Huntington Beach and Carlsbad, California. In that space, there exists one desalination plant, and plans for two more, which have been in the works for years.

Up the coast, a desalination plant in Santa Barbara was recently reactivated. Down the coast, in Rosarito, Mexico, plans are in place to construct the Western Hemisphere’s largest desalination plant. Treated seawater from that plant will likely be pumped back across the border to thirsty communities in California, Nevada and Arizona. And in Yuma, Arizona, a desalting plant capable of producing potable water from a brackish underground reservoir is going back online.

There are currently 16 proposals for desalination plants in California alone, with more planned in Mexico and the inland U.S. Southwest. The technology has long been talked about as a solution to water shortages in the West caused by drought, population increases and the dwindling resources of the Colorado River, which are expected to be reduced by an additional 30 percent by 2050. That’s according to a recent study from the University of Arizona and Colorado State University. In addition, the advancement of projects in Colorado, including the Gross Dam expansion and Windy Gap, could remove up to an additional 100,000 cumulative acre-feet of water from the Colorado and Poudre Rivers. All this seems to indicate a get-it-while-you-can attitude among water authorities and corporations.

Still, desalination is far from a perfect system.

Although nearly everyone agrees that it can be a valuable tool in solving water issues in the future, it must be acknowledged that it is a monumentally costly, energyintensive process prone to myriad environmental hazards.

And with so many plants in the planning phase today being controlled at the local level, there exists little state or national oversight that could prevent a negative chain reaction within the environment, the type that could occur as the result of having so many desalina-

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tion plants along one coastline.

Put simply, desalination takes saltwater, often from the ocean, and separates the salt from the water via reverse osmosis. The salty discharge, or brine, is disposed of, while the treated water is delivered for a variety of uses.

Desalination requires immense amounts of pressure to force saltwater through membranes. That means desalination plants use up to 10 times more energy than regular water treatment facilities. Richard Stover, director at the International Desalination Association, says there’s not much else that can be done to reduce energy consumption.

“One of the things I’m constantly working on is improving reverse osmosis processes, and energy consumption,” Stover says. “I think there are opportunities for improvement, but at this point there’s not much left in terms of fat that can be cut off. We’re approaching what is known as the thermodynamic limit, so we’re getting as close as possible to using as little energy as possible.”

Because it requires so much energy to produce the potable water, it makes the product expensive. Purchasers of desalinated water also often have to defray construction and operation costs. At the facility in Carlsbad, California, water costs on average about twice as much as water from traditional sources.

“There’s a darn good reason you don’t see desalination up and down the coast [already], and that’s because it costs a fortune,” says Ray Hiemstra, associate director of programs for the environmental group OC Coastkeeper.

The cost does come with benefits, industry folks say. San Diego County Water Authority, which operates the Carlsbad plant, touts that it provides reliable, “locally controlled, drought-resilient supplies” of water. But a recent investigation by Voice of San Diego found that the plant did not deliver almost one-fifth of the water it said it would and didn’t deliver any water on 46 days in the last year — mind you the facility, finished in December 2015, has the latest technology.

Too, there’s also the issue of environmental hazards. The biggest issue is that either through the intake of water, discharge of chemicals or release of salty brine, the wildlife near desalination plants will be harmed. Brine, which can be twice as salty as seawater, can significantly affect areas where it is discharged into the ocean, creating “dead zones” of ultra-salty water.

Brine, however, won’t affect the overall salinity of the ocean, according to Stover, who says it’s “not in any 1,000year scenario.” Best practice is to place water intake and output pipes in areas where current is strong, but that doesn’t prevent dead zones, nor is it feasible for areas (such as parts of the Middle East) where the only areas for desalination Boulder Weekly

facilities are in stagnant waters.

Several years Projects like the Gross Dam of drought have expansion limit undoubtedly water availability in the West. caused Western water authorities to think about water security and desalination in recent years, but the technology has been around for a while. There are more than 100 smaller plants in Florida, and in regions where water is scarce, like the Middle East and See WATER Page 12

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North Africa, there are thousands of plants in operation. Given that some plants in the West have been in the planning stages for several years, one has to wonder what’s changed, given that the same challenges that have always existed for desalination — cost, environmental concerns, etc. — still exist.

These things “pop up for political reasons,” says Save the Colorado Executive Director Gary Wockner. “You have a company trying to sell a product, [so they] get governments to agree to pay for their water. You end with these convoluted strategies.”

Take for example the plant in Huntington Beach, which is proposed by Poseidon, the same company that co-runs the Carlsbad plant. The Matt Cortina Huntington Beach proposal, according to OC Coastkeeper’s Hiemstra, would produce 10 times as much water as is needed in that district, which happens to be in violation of California law.

“Poseidon is being proposed by a corporation whose job is to make money,” Hiemstra says. “[But] you’d be hard-pressed to find more political support than the Poseidon project in Huntington. They give lots of campaign donations. I’ve seen it work at that level.

“The reason there’s is a desalination plant in San Diego [the Carlsbad facility] is politics.”

The estimated cost of that Huntington Beach plant? One billion dollars, not to mention the opportunity to control the product (water), from source to consumer. nation. There’s been other spins on There do exist models for desalination that environmenit, folks from Nevada willing to From top: The talists, for now, seem willing to live with. In Dana Point, fund the construction of seawater Colorado River flows.

Sight of a planned California, a plan to build a desalination plant at Doheny plants in Southern California.” project in Dana State Beach has earned initial acclaim for its relatively small Cullom says CAP will also conPoint. Desalination equipment. size and use of slant wells, which undercut the shoreline and sider operating desalination plants emanate far offshore in an effort to mitigate the risk to sensifor brackish water (or briny water tive coastal wildlife. that may exist in aquifers) within And given the very real need to secure water for inland the state. Both CAP and the Southern Nevada Water communities in Arizona and Nevada, desalination poses one Authority (SNWA) are exploring the increased use of such a of the only remaining viable options. Looming shortages in facility in the Yuma Desalting Plant. SNWA, too, is considerLake Mead could force the “lower basin” Colorado River ing working with the Rosarito plant to obtain water. And, a research center in New Mexico recently celebrated 10 years of states of California, Nevada and Arizona into mandatory studying brackish water desalination. It is water usage cutbacks. Alternatives are James Grellier/Wikimedia Commons the only facility of its kind in the country. actively being sought.

But there are other options, Wockner says.

Arizona is allotted 2.6 million acre-feet The Metropolitan Water District of Southern per year from the Colorado River, and the California reduced water use by 80,000 acreCentral Arizona Project (CAP) manages half feet in one year by getting users to switch of it. Chuck Cullom, the Colorado River lawns to drought-tolerant landscapes via a program manager at CAP, says the Colorado rebate program. A similar program in Las River system suffers a “persistent imbalance Vegas resulted in 10 percent of the state’s between the amount of water and the Colorado River allocation being saved in one demand” for it. year. Communities in Arizona, similarly offer Cullom says CAP is actively interested in rebate programs. And Denver Water reports a working with either California or Mexican 22 percent drop in usage since 2002 despite a producers to purchase desalinated water, per10 percent increase in population in its service haps in exchange for the agency releasing area. some of its rights to Colorado River water.

There’s little indication that federal Cullom says CAP is willing to work “cooperand state agencies and local water authoriatively to develop [a water distribution] conties will consider the successes of consercept that benefits both countries,” when and vation when it comes to their decisions on building new if the large Rosarito plant goes online.

That intergovernmental collaboration is not without prec- desalination plants. This may turn out to be a major oversight considering there’s little research about the environedent, says Stover of the International Desalination mental impacts that could be caused by having dozens or Association.

“You see a lot of cross-border water arrangements,” Stover even hundreds of plants in close proximity to one another.

So for now, it would seem that California, Mexico, and the says. “Singapore famously was supplied water from Malaysia until fairly recently when they’ve been able to establish desali- interior West are the new testing ground.

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n September 2015, when former Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel announced that sweeping collaborative conservation management plans would save the greater sage-grouse from an endangered species listing, Western governors, landowners and local governments declared it a “wildlife win.” Conservation groups and others, however, argued the management plans didn’t go nearly far enough to protect the bird, a sensitive species whose vitality indicates the overall health of the Western sagebrush habitat spanning 11 states, including Colorado.

Now, under the Trump administration, the Department of the Interior (DOI) is reviewing the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans and announced in early August its intention to revise them based on recommendations provided by Courtesy of BLM.org the hand-picked Sage Grouse Task Force. But critics argue the review process has not been adequately open to the public, and the proposed changes cater to the oil and gas industry to the exclusion of other important stakeholders.

“All of this is being done behind closed doors,” says Jayson O’Neill, deputy director at Western Values Project, an advocacy organization based in Montana that promotes a balanced approach to energy development and public lands conservation. The group has been critical of Trump’s Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (from Montana) and others at DOI from the beginning of the Trump administration.

“You can say into a mic that you’re going to have open public process, but really your actions speak louder than words,” O’Neill says.

He’s concerned by the apparent influence the oil and gas industry had over the Task Force’s recommendations. When Western Values Project analyzed Zinke’s Aug. 7 directive, most of the recommendations more or less mimic the points laid out by the Western Energy Alliance, an industry organization representing more than 300 oil and gas companies.

In a July 19 letter, Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Alliance, points out the current federal management plans limit oil and gas development in the West, contrary to Trump’s executive order, “Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth.” She also outlines how the sage-grouse management plans limit energy development with “overly burdensome” regulations, such as large noise and mating buffers, density and disturbance caps, as well as “overly broad” definitions of priority habitat areas and conservation gains.

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plans are currently being implemented, but more importantly those plans themselves need to be amended,” Sgamma says in an email statement. “It will take many months if not years to amend the plans, and the sooner the Interior Department recognizes the need to do so and gets on with it will those plans effectively protect sage-grouse without needlessly killing jobs and economic opportunities.”

But for O’Neill, these recommendations tip the balance in the industry’s favor to the detriment of other stakeholders who contribute to the Western economy.

“To throw those (collaborative plans) out the window just for one industry, one economic sector in the rural West is short-sighted,” O’Neill says. “It risks, really, these rural economies and what little diversity they have left, and having their ranch and ag communities and recreation be part of our public lands portfolio.”

“A lot of people are concerned that they didn’t have a seat at the table,” says John Swartout, rural policy and outreach director for Gov. Hickenlooper.

“Our local governments that are in the range in Colorado feel the same way.”

During the long planning process that led to the unwarranted listing decision from the DOI in 2015, the Hickenlooper administration worked with the BLM, state agencies, local governments and other interest groups in developing the Colorado Plan to protect the sage-grouse. A BW investigation at the time (See “Oil and grouse,” July 16, 2015) found the language in the plan vague and likely to allow continued oil and gas development in the sagebrush habitat.

And while Hickenlooper initially objected to Zinke’s review of the plans, in the end Swartout says the DOI “did include the states in the review” before the recommendations came out, and the state will work to make sure all stakeholders are included in the process moving forward. Furthermore, he says, it’s still unclear exactly what direction the DOI will go in amending the management plans given the “full range of options included in this review.”

“If there are things that can be modified in our plan to make that stronger, we’re open to that,” Swartout says. “But what we’re not open to is weakening these plans so that their purpose and conservation intent is somehow deluded and not as effective.”

But others see the review process differently.

“The previous plans had loopholes that you could drive a truck through. And they’re taking advantage of that to create loopholes that you can fly airplanes through,” says Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director at WildEarth Guardians, one of several conservation organizations currently challenging the 2015 management plans in federal court. They argue the plans fail in their conservation approach to properly save the sage-grouse, as populations continue to dwindle. That’s to say nothing of the Trump administration’s potential changes to the plans, which lend credence to conservationists’ critique of the collaborative plans and those who prevented the bird from being listed.

“They thought it would be the most politically expedient way to solve the problem and what they did is they threw the grouse under the bus and now we’re left with Donald Trump.”

Western Values Project has filed an open records request asking for emails between DOI officials and industry representatives from a variety of groups such as the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Western Energy Alliance and others to see who influenced the review process, since many other stakeholders do not feel represented.

“We’re trying to figure out really what other meetings took place and whether they took or had other input from other industry organizations, oil and gas lobbyists,” O’Neill says. As of this Sep. 13, Western Values Project hasn’t received a response from the DOI, although the agency did acknowledge it received the request.

“We’re hopeful that the Department of the Interior understands that the public and the stakeholders involved in this have a right to see the public documents and how these decisions were made,” O’Neill says.

If they don’t get a response within the time line set forth by the Freedom of Information Act, O’Neill says Western Values Project will file suit against the DOI. By preventing an endangered species listing, the intent of the original management plans may have been to balance conservation of the bird with economic development, but the plans also left plenty of room for future administrations to allow wholesale energy development in the species’ most critical habitat. And while the state, under Gov. Hickenlooper, waits to see how this all plays out, the sage-grouse continues to be threatened, jeopordizing the West as we know it.

“Here it was, the great compromise, and that’s not withstanding the pro-fossil fuel push from [the Trump] administration,” Nichols says. “For a lot of folks who think taking the middle road is a key to success, our hope is that it’s a wake up call for them.

There’s no middle of the road with this administration. They want it all and they’re going to take it all unless we stand up to them.”

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he woman cups her face with one hand, two kids with disheveled hair hang on her shoulders, rags lay in her lap. She stares out, almost despondent, apparent worry wrinkling her brow. Titled “Migrant Mother,” Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph became the image of the Great Depression as the Dust Bowl swept through the American prairie and forced tens of thousands of people to abandon family farms and flee to the coast in search of work in the 1930s.

But the photograph wasn’t captured by accident. Lange was part of a dozen or so photographers hired to document poverty in the heartland by the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a New Deal federal agency charged with rural rehabilitation. Headed up by economist Roy Stryker, the FSA photo project produced more than 77,000 images with the intent to show the rest of the country what life was like for the rural poor. And Stryker made sure the often gritty photographs were made readily available to the national press.

“That was the point of all this, to show people, at the coast mostly, what rural America looked like because they had no idea of the suffering that was going on [during] the Depression and the Dust Bowl,” says Lyons photographer Kenneth Wajda. “It’s the most ordinary life stuff. They’re not just all the most amazing photography, they’re all about great truth and story.”

In the spirit of Stryker, Wajda launched a national film photography project in early July titled “Introducing America to 16 September 14, 2017

Americans.” He put out a call for submissions on film photography forums and social media pages and built a website in hopes of creating an archive of life in the 2010s. Like the FSA project, he’s primarily looking for ordinary people “engaged in their life,” showing an array of emotions, an array of activities.

“What does a worker look like in Iowa today or in Pennsylvania?

Or what does a birthday look like?” Wajda says. “Is there really some great divide between us in the country or if we saw each other would we say we aren’t that different from each other?”

Sharing these candid, routine aspects of life around the country, Wajda believes could be a way to unite us, even at a time when we may feel most divided.

“It could be beneficial for us [to see] ourselves as not all that different,” he says. “Maybe we don’t need to be as divided as the politics makes it seem like we are.”

As the project curator, Wajda is looking for photos that employ the art of storytelling, a skill he learned from his photojournalism days. Before moving to Colorado, he worked for the Times of Trenton in New Jersey for 13 years as a staff photographer. He enjoyed telling a story through his work, not just snapping posed pictures that could be easily disposable.

“I was a photojournalist who didn’t like to shoot perfect things and people would try to line everyone up. I’d tell them, ‘No, I like mine a little sloppy, I like mine a little real.’”

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Kenneth Wajda

Top: A couple of women watch the solar eclipse outside the Lyons Redstone Museum.

Bottom: Laurie Allen is a supervisor at a 7-11 in Hampton, Virginia. She helps customers with their lunch orders.

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While the intent is to recruit participants from all 50 states, the project currently has photographers submitting work from seven states: California, New York, Kentucky, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

“They’re not necessarily all clever photographs or amazing moments,” Wajda says. “I’m looking for real truthful kinds of ordinariness that tell you a little bit about people.”

Laurie Allen stands behind the hot dog warmer at a 7-11 in Hampton, Virginia. Wearing a polo shirt and short bob, she helps customers with their lunch order; Big Gulp and cotton candy machines are blurry behind her. Photographer David O. Garcia captures her mid-sentence it seems.

Like Wajda, Garcia also has a photojournalism background, as do several other photographers in the exhibit. But experience isn’t a prerequisite for submission, Wadja says.

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Jesse Keats from Pennsylvania is only 20-years-old, drawn to the project by the ability to use film and follow in the footsteps of photographers he learned about in school, photographers like Dorothea Lange.

“I’m looking for people doing their everyday thing,” Keats says.

“The little things in life that we may all take for granted, but it’s something that people years from now may find interesting.”

A man walks into a bar named Franklin’s on a cold winter evening in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, just outside Scranton. The ice on the sidewalks paired with the man’s long peacoat make the frigid air almost tangible. It reminds Wajda of a scene from the 1940s.

“That could be my father,” he laughs. “But that’s what I’m looking for.

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Top: A man walks into Franklin’s bar The project is accepting both black and white and in Wilkes-Barre, color, although Wadja has only received black and white Pennsylvania.

Bottom: Boys play submissions so far, perhaps because of the specific instruments on parameters Wajda has laid out.

42nd Street just outside of Bryant Photographers must shoot film and submit not only Park, New York. a scan of the photograph, but also a picture of the negative. Film is more genuine Wajda says, the “aesthetic is real.” And photographers can’t rely on the editing process to doctor up their work.

Plus, negatives can be archived by the Library of Congress. Although “Introducing America to Americans” currently only exists at roystryker.com, Wajda hopes to gather enough photos from around the country to both publish a book and collate the negatives to submit to the Library of Congress, much like the FSA collection.

As these new FSA-inspired photographers capture specific moments in time, together they are telling the story of the U.S. here and now, and archiving these images will help tell that story to future generations. At the same time, there is a value to absorbing the photographs in the present, allowing the different stories they convey to shape how we see the country as a whole.

“We would have them as an archive of something that existed in 2017 during difficult political times and a changing environment,” Wajda says. “It almost feels like in the 1930s things were in great turmoil and it kind of feels like that now. It might be good to have America be seen by Americans again.”

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n Aug. 17, two dozen people — some sporting dresses and white sneakers, others cowboy hats and leather boots — lumbered into an open-top wagon fixed behind a white pickup truck. Hunter Lovins, a woman of the kind in a hat and boots, sat on the wagon’s wooden bench, arms draped in a “T” along its shoulder-high railings.

“This here is the future,” she says, nodding towards the golden-green grassland that rolls behind the truck to the horizon. The “this here” is the West Bijou — a 7,613-acre prairie owned by the Savory Institute, a Boulder-based nonprofit. The land is located 31 miles east of Denver and is sprinkled with bison and legendary fossils and minerals. On this day, it’s being commemorated as the country’s newest National Natural Landmark (NNL), number 599 to date.

National Natural Landmarks are selected as “best examples” of a region’s natural biological or geological features. While the Secretary of the Interior designates sites around the country, landowners (30 percent of NNLs are privately owned) are instrumental in securing the

designation and continue working closely with National Park Service (NPS) to promote conservation and protection of a given site even after gaining NNL status. Most such landmarks are relatively small and not necessarily frequented by the public, but they help ensure the preservation of the nation’s natural heritage.

Last November, former Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell designated the West Bijou site as an NNL to recognize the land’s “incomparable contribution to the Earth’s geologic history through its unique features, including pollen records and vertebrate fossils,” according to a statement by the NPS. Perhaps most significantly, the West Bijou contains world-class geologic evidence of the asteroid scientists believe hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

The truck pulls the wagon along the West Bijou’s dirt roads, bucking everyone into the air with each rut. It finally comes to a stop at a grassy overlook. White sneakers and boots clamber out and congregate. Down below, a handful of the land’s 400 bison graze alongside a wooded creek. To the east, a thin dark band of crumbling soil slices a line across the nearest

hillside.

The 7,613-acre Ian Miller, a paleWest Bijou ontologist at the property houses world-class Denver Museum of evidence of the Nature and Science, asteroid that wiped out the steps up to speak about dinosaurs. what makes this site of “exceptional value.” He points to the crumbling dark band of soil.

“That is what is known as the K-T boundary.

[That band] marks the point of dinosaurs going extinct.”

The K-T boundary (known formally as the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary) tells the geologic story of one of the most important episodes in Earth’s history. The deposits found in this 1.18-inch-thick band of crumbly dirt are like bookmarks in the soil that explain the asteroid that caused the most recent of the Earth’s five mass extinctions, extinguishing the dinosaurs and eventually paving the way for the age of mammals. “[Scientists from the museum] have been coming here to collect research for 20 years,” Miller says. There are 20 criteria that help sciSee WEST BIJOU Page 24

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ence teams identify K-T boundary sites. “This is the The K-T boundary, shown above, is only place we know of [in the world] that exhibits all a 1.18-inch-thick 20.” band of fossilized soil.

Below the boundary line, Miller and his team have uncovered parts of triceratops fossils, old trees immortalized in stone and deposits of particular metals and minerals. Above the line, only mammal bones exist, alongside ferns, some of the first greenery to resurface after the asteroid.

As Gov. John Hickenlooper noted last year, after news of the site’s designation: “These natural lands preserve our past, but also ensure that future generations can experience a bit of Colorado culture that can only happen when we work to protect them.”

On the grassy knoll, Jeff Orlowski, NNL regional coordinator, steps up to say, “Each [NNL] site is a page in the book of our national history. [We’re] pleased to partner with landmark owners, such as the Savory Institute, in support of their voluntary conservation of these important areas.”

He passes Daniela Ibarra-Howell, CEO and co-founder of the Savory Institute, a golden plaque honoring the West Bijou’s NNL status. It reads: “This site possesses exceptional value as an illustration of the nation’s natural heritage and contributes to a better understanding of the environment.”

The Savory Institute acquired the West Bijou earlier this year from the Aurorabased Plains Conservation Center, with whom they’ve worked closely for the past few years to secure the NNL designation.

Allan Savory, the Institute’s co-founder and namesake, first developed the organization’s holistic management practices in the 1960s. His vision has guided land and livestock managers around the world to optimize environmental, economic and social returns by honoring symbiotic relationships in an ecosystem. According to the Institute, Savory has influenced the management of over 18.5 million acres of earth.

While the K-T boundary’s geologic importance is readily recognized, Lovins — who is involved in researching the effects of holistic land management on the West Bijou, and who has numerous awards for her writing, teaching and consulting in the world of sustainable agriculture under her belt — makes clear the celebration this day is as much about the West Bijou’s future as it is about its past.

She says the Savory Institute’s land management practices on the West Bijou, which include a rotating fleet of bison and an emphasis on natural and sustainable agriculture, is not only marking a tremendous step forward in holistic land management and conservation, but also setting an example around the globe. Pairing respect for the land’s past with a healthy, innovative future epitomizes the Savory Institute’s holistic endeavour. “You see, this can be an example, a good example, of what we can do [around the world].”

The hundreds of bison trample, graze and fertilize the grassland. They’re shuffled around the land strategically, turning over the soil with their hooves, curating the short-grass prairie and distributing nutritious dumps as they go. Managing large herds of buffalo on these kinds of prairies can be one of the most effective ways to revitalize the natural landscape, the Savory Institute has found.

Before the boots and white sneakers pick their way down the slope to look at the K-T boundary up close, Ibarra-Howell closes out the ceremony: “We are thrilled to take on this stewardship of Colorado’s newest national landmark and believe that, through holistic management, the land, the people, and all native species including the bison, will thrive.”

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Photographer Fazal Sheikh hopes to deepen the conversation with ‘Common Ground’

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Fazal Sheikh

Above: Alima Hassan Abdullai and her brother Mahmoud, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1993, from the series A Camel for the Son. Right: Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women’s Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya, 2000, from the series A Camel for the Son.

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ach person in Fazal Sheikh’s photography has a story of survival.

The men, women and children have persevered through wars, refugee camps, abuse, social stigmas and more. They look directly into the camera, asking the viewer to see them and hear their story.

“They’re engaging me, I’m engaging them,” Sheikh says. “And by extension then they’re also engaging the viewer, implicating the viewer in a kind of relationship.”

Now showing at the Denver Art Museum through Nov. 12, Common Ground covers Sheikh’s work from the past three decades. His portfolio includes photos from refugee camps and feeding centers, exploring topics like human trafficking, death and domestic violence. The images come from around the world; from townships in South Africa, to asylum centers in Amsterdam, to the holy city of Vrindavan in India, where widows ostracized from society seek sanctuary.

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Malikh, from the series Ladli, documenting women in India.

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Sheikh initially started his journey in Kenya.

His father was from Nairobi, and Sheikh was interested in learning more about his heritage.

While there, his aesthetic began to emerge.

“I had never worked in photojournalism,” Sheikh says. “I realized that struck a chord with my own sensibilities, those political/social issues and the aesthetic.

“It’s interesting to insist upon the idea that all of these areas of interest — the realm of art, the realm of politics, social issues, documentary — have kind of [crossed] over,” he continues.

“That was always somehow a priority for me.”

Sheikh received a Fulbright fellowship to spend a year in Kenya, during which, half a million refugees flooded the country. A camp was located in a remote desert region near the border of Sudan, housing 25,000 of those refugees, half of whom were unaccompanied minors.

“It was my first experience [in a refugee camp], and I was fairly overwhelmed about the sheer magnitude of the problems and the number of the people there,” he says. “But I soon realized the way forward was to maybe ask members of the community to collaborate with me and help me document the essence of what they were experiencing.”

This became the foundation of Sheikh’s work. Never wanting to impose or trespass, Sheikh spends long periods of time in communities, getting to know the people he photographs.

And even though he’s been doing this for decades, Sheikh enters every project with an open mind. He never assumes he understands the problems other people face, so he lets the individuals help shape his work.

“That’s the kind of mode I’ve carried on with most of my projects, this idea of arriving at a place with not a very clear sense of what one wishes to produce,” he says. “But [I go] with a kind of openness for listening to what priorities

the community has at hand. Then I somehow slowly begin to etch out a kind of voice that is a mingling of that which is my own and that of which is born of the perspective of the community.”

Sheikh gives the people in his photos control of the image. He doesn’t attempt to craft a particular idea, but instead lets the person choose how they want to be presented. It results in a collaboration that produces rich, organic photos.

Sheikh captures an intimacy in his portraits, even in works where there is no eye contact.

Behind the many expressionless faces are lives filled with tragedy, and through connecting with the photo, the viewer can gain some understanding of what it’s like to live in embattled communities.

As with most of Sheikh’s work, Common Ground presents photos in black and white.

“Early on I felt I saw in black and white,” he says. “It reduces things, to a much more centered and considered realm; it removes the immediate seduction of color. It reduces the formal aspects of the gaze and precision to, I think, a more contemplative zone.”

The portraits in the exhibit are complemented by Sheikh’s landscape work. They give context to the people in the show, illustrating the backdrops of these people’s lives, be it a refugee camp or a war-torn village. Landscapes, he says, also can function as a sort of portrait.

“There can be something intimate in the rendering of a landscape,” Sheikh says. “The landscape holds beneath the surface something that is similar to what a sitter in a portrait holds behind the landscape of their face or alluded to on the surface but that we can’t immediately access.”

After his early work in Africa, Sheikh continued exploring his heritage. He went to visit his grandfather’s birthplace in what was then India but has been Pakistan since 1947. Sheikh never met his grandfather but grew up hearing stories of his legacy as an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

While learning more about his roots, Sheikh also met with Afghan refugees, who were exiled from their homeland during the Afghan-Soviet war. For his subsequent work, titled The Victor Weeps, Sheikh blended his own narratives with those of the refugees, who told stories of loss and enduring hope.

“Going from that onward, I wasn’t always looking directly at the notion of heritage, but I was looking at things that seem to resonate with me. That seemed in some instances to be regions that my family might have emigrated,” he says.

“And more broadly I was interested in challenging the idea of moving beyond racial boundaries, see COMMON GROUND Page 28

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gender boundaries, religious boundaries and the possibility of making work that isn’t about segregation but is about collaboration and communication.”

For instance, in Common Ground, Sheikh tells the story of a Muslim woman and a Hindu woman who had lost daughters to dowry violence but banded together Fazal Sheikh and created a shelter for victims of domestic abuse.

Despite the time he devotes to meeting the communities he photographs, Sheikh struggles with how to properly represent the people in his photos.

He strives to respect their individual voices and stories to avoid casting them solely as victims of their situation.

“In the Somali context, there was this idea that for many of the Somali women, if they’ve been assaulted they’re completely ostracized within that society,” he says. “So the aspect of having their testimony taken formed a kind of new catharsis, but also a realization that they were resisting and not being confined to that one traumatic thing in their life.

“Those kinds of things are particu-

larly difficult,” he continues. “[I try] to represent trauma in a way that isn’t sensationalized, which honors the voice, and which you hope makes people think differently not only about those women but also what they’ve been through.”

Sheikh’s overall goal with his work is to start a dialogue. He wants his work to add more to the discourse to give people greater awareness.

“Often I’m interested in spaces and issues that have not been rendered in a way that I feel is broad and allencompassing,” he says. “I hope that by making these projects we can broaden our vocabulary about certain issues.”

Sheikh doesn’t necessarily consider his work an act of social justice. He prefers not to confine the work to that label, but instead to let it function on multiple levels. He just hopes it strikes a chord with the viewer, whether it be a humanitarian or an art lover.

With his photos, Sheikh focuses on documentation, not necessarily fixing the problem.

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they’re going to change the world with The stotheir pictures. I don’t particularly ries in Abdul Manam believe in that,” Sheikh says. “What Common from the series we can take solace in is the notion that Ground vary, The Victor Weeps. by working and offering a conversabut similarition, that furthers the discussion. ties emerge.

That’s the thing I hold on to.”

We all strive Sheikh says starting a dialogue is to meet our basic needs for food, shelparticularly important now in regards to ter and safety; we hope to raise our the current political climate, which he families and make the best of the cards says demonizes immigrants. He says it’s we are dealt. Common Ground tells the vital to stay open-minded and be recep- stories of survival and perseverance, tive to what immigrant and refugee and it reminds the viewer that we’re communities have to offer. not all so different.

“Look at what’s hap“It’s important to me pening in our country that we have the sense ON THE BILL: right now and our that any of us, given the Common Ground: inability to think generwrong circumstances, Photographs By Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013. ously and openly about could find ourselves in Denver Art Museum, other religions and other exactly that position,” Hamilton Building, 100 nations,” he says.

Sheikh says.

W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. By stirring a sense of “People fled under 12. understanding through extreme duress seeking his work, Sheikh hopes sanctuary and are willing he can pave the way for a and able to dedicate better future. themselves to working for their new “Much of the work in that exhibit country. I think we’re losing a sense was made 20 years ago. Some of of value that is offered to us by these groups that come. those issues have been resolved and “[We need] not to reduce them to people have returned home,” he says. this xenophobic idea that people “And maybe there’s some sort of benfrom certain countries are terrorists efit into looking back and attending or a threat to our people, our nation, to history in a way that might chalour values,” he continues. “I find that lenge the way we look at our present so deeply unsettling and so ungraand instruct the way we think about cious.” our future.”

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overtones The many lives of a young Vagabon Indie rock finds Leaticia Tamko

by Caitlin Rockett

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’m talking to you like you’re my therapist,” Leaticia Tamko says toward the end of our sprawling phone conversation. She’s open, yes, but it’s less like psychotherapy and more like two good friends talking in the wee hours, laughing at the high jinks of a night out on the town before the conversation inevitably (as it does with good friends) attempts to unravel the mysteries of the mortal coil only to find more knots in the thread. It’s a conversation that Tobias Gruber is vulnerable and comfortable and loving.

Truth is, there’s little doubt Tamko makes everyone feel this way, without artifice.

Her sincere kindness and accessibility lends itself to a gentle type of determination, a drive that pushes Tamko to be the best without the conceit, indifference and bitterness that are sometimes served alongside brilliance and resolve.

At 13 she moved from her native Cameroon to Harlem so her mother could attend law school. Fluent in English and French, Tamko also came stateside rocking a buzz cut that, while common among women in Cameroon, garnered some strange looks from American high schoolers. The family soon moved to Brooklyn, where Tamko graduated high school at 17 (she skipped the fifth grade). During her senior year she received her first guitar — an event you’d want to write in all caps, highlight and underline on a time line of her life — and she set about teaching herself with an instructional DVD. Without missing a beat, after graduation she headed to City College of New York to double major in engineering and computer code, a choice based on her aptitude for math and the fact that she comes from an “academic” family (and because her parents didn’t see “musician” as a stable career choice). Characteristically indomitable through the demands of engineering school, Tamko kept on playing her guitar and writing songs that never made their way even onto a sheet of paper until a friend convinced her to get a few of them out of her head and onto Bandcamp.

Then the fire began to spread.

By her final year of college, Tamko was finishing classes, working a full-time engineering job and laying down her first full-length LP under the moniker Vagabon, an alias chosen to avoid constant mispronunciation of her name (it’s lah-teecee-uh).

“It does feel like I’ve already lived three lives,” the 24-year-old says after we plow through the string of events that brought her to this moment, to these interviews with Pitchfork and Spin and W Magazine, to the cover of the New York Times Arts & Leisure section, to her first headlining Boulder Weekly

tour through Europe and North America.

It was only this past March that Tamko quit her engineering job to pursue music full-time. It’s all happened quickly, but Tamko has always been at the helm, steering the ship in the direction she wants at the pace she wants.

With eight tracks clocking in at just under 30 minutes, Infinite Worlds is a microcosm of Tamko’s life, a portrait of unflinching vulnerability delivered via fuzzed-out guitars and wistful synths as the backdrop for her charming and powerful tenor. Always eager to learn and quick to excel, Tamko took the time to learn and lay down the tracks for each instrument on the record. The process took nine months.

“I am a new artist. I wanted to be sure that I can have my name — a female name — written ON THE BILL: all over the credVagabon — with Nnamdi its,” Tamko says.

Ogbonnaya, Nina De Freitas. 8 p.m. Thursday, The album Sept. 21, Larimer Lounge, sweetly and 2721 Larimer St., Denver. thoughtfully Tickets are $10-$12. examines growing pains and love lost and being awkward, but it also speaks to marginalization, something that Tamko, as a black woman who entered into the whitewashed worlds of STEM and indie rock, really understands.

Infinite Worlds is, by Tamko’s admission and by the standards of most art, documenting her process as both an artist and a young black woman.

“It’s very convoluted and it’s very tricky, and I think that my identity is something that I’ve started to protect because I don’t think I thought about how it can be used until it started being used,” she says.

“I can never shy away form my blackness. There is no ambiguity here. There’s nothing that, even if I was never as proud as I am and even if I didn’t feel as beautiful or worthy or special as I do, there’s no way that I can operate without [that identity]. Even if I choose not to, other people will.

“I believe everything is inherently political.”

Even so, the goal now is to figure out how much of her personality to share and how much to keep for herself, how to champion for people of color without boxing herself in.

“I don’t want to be a bookmark for some sort of movement,” she says. “What is changing and what needs to be nurtured is the artistry of people of color so that we don’t turn artists into activists but that they can be artists and activists if they chose to. I don’t want to be pushed into that because there are people who do [activism] very seriously and I can’t hang.”

She laughs, but there’s little doubt that Tamko can hang.

She’ll just do it on her terms.

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Here’s to the next 20 years

Curious Theatre: bringing the guts and story for two decades

by Gary Zeidner

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ON THE BILL: Appropriate. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, www.curioustheatre.org. Through Oct. 14.

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he Curious Theatre Company in Denver is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Having had the privilege and pleasure of reviewing Curious’ shows for the bulk of its existence, I can say without equivocation that I’ve never seen a bad Curious production. The few shows that have failed to fully impress have suffered not from Curious’ presentation but solely from issues with the scripts themselves.

Staying true to its slogan, “No guts, no story,” Curious opens its 20172018 season with playwright Branden JacobsJenkins’ Appropriate.

Jacobs-Jenkins, part wunderkind part enfant terrible, is a much-vaunted darling of today’s theater scene.

He’s a self-described potstirrer whose plays aim to provoke and incite thought and conversations about issues of racial inequality.

Though it features an allwhite cast, Appropriate continues Jacobs-Jenkins’ ruminative explication of what it is to be African American in today’s United States.

Thanks to the set work done by scenic designer Markas Henry, lighting designer Richard Devin and props designer Kristian MacFarlane, before Appropriate even begins, the stage establishes itself as the play’s essential ninth character. The first floor of a dilapidated Arkansas plantation home springs to life.

Floor-to-ceiling floral wallpaper mold-

ers. Some half-full and some overflowing boxes, the former homes of apples, office paper and the like, attest to the hoarder nature of the recently deceased owner of the house and former patriarch of the family. The set establishes the scene so well that you can almost feel the oppressive heat and humidity of an un-air-conditioned Arkansas summer.

The adult siblings of the dead man have arrived to clean out the house so that it may be sold at auction. The eldest, Toni (Dee Covington), and her troubled son, Rhys (Alec Sarche), have been at the task for a week, to little apparent effect.

Franz (Sean Scrutchins), the youngest child, shows up unexpectedly with his fiancée, River (Rhianna DeVries), in tow.

Soon after, middle child, Bo (Erik Sandvold), and his family — wife Rachel (Mare Trevathan), daughter Cassidy (Audrey Graves) and son Ainsely (Harrison Lyles-Smith) — roll in from their home in New York City.

Faster than you can say “family feud,” Toni, Franz and Bo begin attacking one another in the intimately savage ways only siblings can. On the surface, they are as different as people can be. After their mother died when Franz was just a boy, Toni took over as the family’s matriarch, and she was the only one who provided hands-on care for their father in his final years. The most cosmopolitan of the three, Bo appears to be living the American dream and footed the bill for their father through his decline and death.

Franz, the bohemian of the bunch, has been incommunicado for the past decade, leading to speculation from both Toni and Bo about why he has suddenly resurfaced just as the family home is to be sold.

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Despite the differences in their lifestyles, Toni, Franz and Bo all suffer from the same victim complex, and much of Appropriate’s runtime is consumed by each shrieking at the other two about why he or she is, in fact, the biggest martyr. Even the discovery of various items that seem clearly to confirm that their dead father was a dyed-in-the-wool racist — something none of the children had the slightest inkling of — can’t derail the carnival of dysfunction.

Director Jamil Jude exhibits a strong hand and solid directorial instincts with Jacob-Jenkins’ beautifully rendered character study, and it is as a character study that Appropriate

excels. As a commentary on the insidious nature of racism, particularly white racism against African Americans, Appropriate feels somewhat undercut by its own ambiguity. As an example, when the siblings stumble upon some morally questionable photographs, their first instinct is to destroy them.

That instinct eventually gives way to the idea of preserving and selling the photos because they could be worth a large sum of money.

It seems clear that Jacobs-Jenkins is using this plotline to portray his characters as at least implicitly, if not overtly, racist, but by not specifying who the buyer might be, he pulls his punch. Selling the photos to a group of neo-Nazis to pass around for laughs paints a different picture than selling them to an African American artist who intends to use them in a multimedia assault on racism itself.

With Appropriate, Curious achieves its goal of bringing timely theater to the Front Range. Appropriate is a mere few lines of dialogue about the desirability of tearing down all Confederate monuments and a George Santayana quote away from truly being “ripped from the headlines.”

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Join Lemon Tree Group’s fourth annual Walk for Unity and help create a community of understanding, awareness and acceptance of each other. The walk begins at 4:30 p.m. at Congregation Har HaShem, then continues to Atonement Lutheran Church, Islamic Center of Boulder, Second Baptist Church of Boulder and finishes back at Congregation Har HaShem. There’s food and music along the way at this family-friendly event.

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Defenders of Wildlife will exhibit an exclusive screening of a short documentary called Canis Lupus: Colorado. The film explores Colorado’s efforts to revive the state’s extinct native wolf population featuring Mike Philips, a wolf restoration expert. After the 20-minute film, a panel of experts will discuss how wolf and livestock coexist, one of the major concerns driving policies that enable excessive hunting of wolves. Defenders of Wildlife is a non-profit organization that works to help increase and re-introduce gray wolf populations in states like Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.

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Michael Hoerman. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

R. M. Romero — The Dollmaker of Krakow. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Friday, September 15 R.L. Stine and Marc Brown — Mary McScary. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Well-researched and based on information that remained classified for 20 years, Heavy Green is the tale of men who volunteered for a covert mission in a secret war, and the daring raid that intended to bring it down.

Tuesday, September 19 Dr. Rav Ivker — Cannabis for Chronic Pain. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

Wednesday, September 20 Sam Lightner, Jr. — Heavy Green.

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Thursday, September 14 Music Benjamin Booker — with She Keeps Bees.

8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

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

Thursday, September 14 La Poésie Féminine Engagée — A talk by Flora Aurima Devatine

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Emmet Cohen Trio. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, Room 125, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Face - All Vocal Rock Band. 7 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Flora Aurima Devatine Denver.

Frances Luke Accord. 7:30 p.m.

Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.

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Urban Elevation DJ Series: Lea Luna. 6 p.m. 54thirty Rooftop, 1475 California St., Denver.

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Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder.

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Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder.

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Other Brothers (Allman Brothers Tribute). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Poet, orator and scholar Flora Aurima Devatine, who writes in both French and her native Tahitian, is one of the leading figures of contemporary Tahitian literature and has long defended the place of oral literature within collective imaginings of a Tahitian consciousness.

The event is free and open to the public.

Friday, September 15 CU @ The Dairy: The Yellow Ticket 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Sales. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA

Theory professor Yonatan Malin and other members of the College of Music faculty host this multimedia event along with klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and jazz pianist Marilyn Lerner.

The Yellow Ticket features a rare 1918 silent film about a young Jewish woman studying medicine in Tsarist Russia. Svigals and Lerner perform the original score live, and Malin leads a discussion about the film and cultural awareness. Tickets start at $10.

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

Sunday, September 17

Thao (of Get Down Stay Down). 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

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Doctoral Student Recital: William Combs, trombone

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

2 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

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Project 432. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

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Albatross (Film Screening) with Artist/Director Chris Jordan. 7 p.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder.

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Dead Beat Walking Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver.

Doctoral student William Combs performs a recital exploring the repertoire of trombone music throughout the 20th century. In this period, the growth of the trombone as a solo instrument spanned all nations and formal structures. This recital is a focused look at some of the works that have become staples of the solo trombone canon.

This TED-like event will explore the theme of “Climate & Change” with world-class speakers that will challenge your ideas and inspire your next moves. Tickets start at $25. More information at tedxboulder.com.

Monday, September 18 Guest Recital: Andrew Campbell, piano, and Katherine McLin, violin 3 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Guests Katherine McLin and Andrew Campbell present a program of music for violin and piano. McLin is professor of violin at Arizona State University. Campbell is also on the faculty at ASU as an associate professor and the director of the Collaborative Piano Program. This event is free and open to the public.

Thompson Jazz Combos 7:30 p.m. Old Main, Chapel Room, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder.

The Thompson Jazz Studies Combos explore the rich repertoire of jazz, including traditional, swing, bebop and fusion, along with tunes by new artists and original student compositions.

Tuesday, September 19 Mini Law School 2017: Lifelong Learning Lecture Series for NonLawyers Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder.

Mini Law School provides participants with a better understanding of important legal principles in key areas of the law. Taught by members of the CU Boulder law school faculty, the seven-week series provides a look into some of the hottest legal topics of our time.

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events Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder.

An Evening with Ari Friedlaender, Ecologist and National Geographic Explorer. 6:30 p.m.

Ocean First, 3015 Bluff St., Boulder.

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 6 p.m.

Upslope Brerwery, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite N20, Boulder.

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Shine Gathering Space — The Last Hurrah. 7 p.m. Shine Restuarant, 2027 13th St., Boulder.

Dog Dance. 7 p.m. Floorspace, 1510 Zamia Ave., Suite 101, Boulder.

Fate of The Comedy Show & Bottomless Margaritas. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Everyday is Halloween — A Burlesque Showcase. 8 p.m. C Squared Ciders, 2875 Blake St., Denver.

Tracksuit Wedding (Album Release) — with Rob Drabkin. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Jim Breuer. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

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

Matchstick Productions’ Drop Everything Movie (World Premiere). 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.

The Yellow Ticket: Alicia Svigals, klezmer violin; Marilyn Lerner, piano. 8 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Show.

8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Hannah Kahn Dance Company in “There & Back Again.” 12 p.m. Untion Station, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver.

Pre-School Summer Camps at Reverence. 10 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette.

Angevine Orchestra Yard Sale. 9 a.m. Angevine Middle School, 1150 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette. Ásgeir. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Axtell (Argentine Folk/Soul Duet). 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Brian Hornbuckle Band. 9 p.m. Lincoln’s Roadhouse, 1201 S. Pearl St., Denver.

Cloud Catcher. 9:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. see EVENTS Page 38

Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Friday, September 15 Music Baja Under the Stars. 5:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 909 York St., Denver.

Banks. 8:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Bass Invasion (Night One). 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Blue Moon After Party on the Bridge. 6 p.m.

Historic 19th Street Bridge, 2300 19th St., Denver.

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

Carbon Leaf. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Caribou Mountain Collective. 9 p.m. Gold HIll Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill.

Cherry Glazerr. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Colorado Symphony: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.

The Elegant Plums, The Clientele, Lavender Juicebox. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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

Urban Elevation DJ Series: Adam Consigli. 6 p.m. 54thirty Rooftop, 1475 California St., Denver.

Home Brood Band. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

Johnny and the Mongrels. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

LaRissa Vienna and the Strange Album Release Party. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Leon & The Revival. 7:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Lich King. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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

Live Patio Music - Nancy Just Band. 5:30 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Najee. 7 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

Opening Night: Meet Conductor Brett Mitchell and Mason Bates after Beethoven’s Fifth. 10 p.m. The Nickel, 1100 14th St., Denver.

Potluck Fiesta Rock & Roll de los ’50s. 6 p.m.

Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

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Exile 6 Fetish Ball. 9 p.m. EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th St., Denver.

Flamenco Denver presents RAICES 3. 7:30 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Theater, 119 W. Park Ave., Denver.

Flamenco Underground & El Javi: Traditional Flamenco and Flamenco Rock. 7:30 p.m.

Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. 6 p.m. Embassy Suites, 1420 Stout St., Denver.

Eric and Shaye. 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 4255 W. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

The Underground Standup Comedy Showcase. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

Sunday, September 17 Music Afton Showcase featuring Full Circle Blues Band, ALLan’s ALLey, Spy Lady, Cracked Pot Potters and Guests. 6:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Bren Lukens and Jess Sands (Modern Baseball/ Lurleen Bren Acoustic). 7 p.m. Moon

Flo Rida. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver.

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Urban Elevation DJ Series: Lea Luna. 6 p.m.

54thirty Rooftop, 1475 California St., Denver.

From Peru to Mexico. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Chamber, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

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

Historic Callahan House Open House & Tours.

4 p.m. Callahan House, 312 Terry St., Longmont.

Michael Ensminger

Appropriate. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 14.

Isobar: Doomsday. 9 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont.

The Little Dog Laughed — presented by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 22.

Kublai Khan — with No Zodiac, Left Behind, I Am. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

The Marvelous Wonderettes — presented by Performance Now Theatre Company. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway.

Through Sept. 24.

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

Mr. Steak, MM8TR, Mike Massé. 6:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

NoteSpeak Free Jazz Concert at ZEE JLF at Boulder. 7:30 p.m.

Canyon Theater of the Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapaho Ave., Boulder.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — presented

by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden.

Begins Sept. 16. Through Oct. 28.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses — presented by Miners Alley. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 15.

Judy Niemack Quintet. 7 p.m.

Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame — presented

by The Evergreen Chorale. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through Oct. 8.

The Music Man. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 5 When the Lafayettes descend upon a crumbling Arkansan plantation to liquidate their dead patriarch’s estate, three adult children collide over clutter, debt and a contentious family history. Appropriate is a challenging play on race and family, and asks if it’s possible for history to ever stay in the past.

Piranha Solution. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Poor Man’s Whisky. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder.

The Puscie Jones Review. 8 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 6:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Rex Peoples and Xfactr. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver.

August: Osage County — presented by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 15.

My Brilliant Divorce. Avenue Theater Group, 417 E. 17th Ave, Denver. Through Oct. 14.

The Mystery of Love and Sex — presented

by Firehouse Theater Company. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Oct. 7.

The Outgoing Tide. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 24.

A Chorus Line. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through Oct. 1.

The Revolutionists — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Grace Gamm Theater, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Begins Sept. 15. Through Oct. 8.

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

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

Frozen. Buell Theater, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Oct. 1.

Rock the House. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Steve Winwood. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver.

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

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

Wake Up! 10 a.m. St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 1303 S. Bross Lane, Longmont.

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The Well Intentioned. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont.

Events 3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch and Live Comedy. 9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S. Downing St., Denver.

Jefferson Park Farm & Flea Market. 10 a.m.

25th and Federal Boulevard, 2914 W. 25th Ave., Denver.

Kitten and Lou: The World’s Showbusiest Couple. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Lott Of Laughs Drag Show. 8 p.m. Mile High Hamburger Mary’s, 1336 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

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

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

Tony Hinchcliffe. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.

Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

The California Honeydrops. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Chili Bowl. 10 a.m. Boulder Chamber, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder.

Doctoral Student Recital: William Combs, trombone. 2 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder.

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

An Evening with The Derailers. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. 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.

Fazal Sheikh

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

Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 19892013, features more than 170 portraits and landscapes chronicling individuals living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world, many times as the result of war, exploitation and poverty. Read more about the exhibit on page 26.

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

Front Range Contemporary Quilters. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Oct. 27.

Liz Miller. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Through Oct. 8.

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

Through Oct. 22.

The Seasons: Ulrich Gleiter Solo Exhibition. Gallery 1261, 1412 Wazee St., Denver. Begins Sept. 15. Through Oct. 9.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16

MAYA BENNETT 8PM AXTELL 9PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17

DAVID COILE 8PM SHAWN NELSON 9PM CHARLIE WHITE 10PM MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18 8PM “SO YOU’RE A POET” PRESENTS

60TH ANNIVERSARY OF ON THE ROAD MARATHON READING TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19

KELLY HARTHAN 8PM WONDER 9PM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 8PM

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BRAZIL NIGHT 8PM PAPER MOONSHINE 9PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22 8PM

I S K A N D A R — by Alina Gallo. Lounge Gallery, Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Oct. 6.

EVENTS from Page 38

Installation of Associate Minister Pedro S. Silva II. 3 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder.

Mapleton Hill PorchFest. 12:30 p.m. Mapleton Hill Historic District, 2211 Pine St., Boulder.

The Nut House Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

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

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

Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Vinyl Sundays with the Denver Kush Club. 12 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver.

Events Americas Latino EcoFestival 5. 9 a.m.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver.

Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.

Chili Bowl 2017. 12 p.m. Boulder Pottery Lab, 1010 Aurora Ave., Boulder.

Denver Coliseum Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show. 10 a.m. Denver Coliseum, 4600 Humboldt St., Denver.

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

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

My Brilliant Divorce. 4 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

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Romeo and Juliet by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Happy Hour 4-8 Every Day

ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

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Vintage At The Hangar. 10 a.m. Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, 7711 E. Academy Blvd., Denver.

Monday, September 18 Music Free Argentine Tango Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, 1770 13th St., Boulder.

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

Movment Mondays — Freeform/Ecstatic Dance Gathering. 7:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder.

Ben Folds. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Boulder Phishin. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder.

Cigarettes After Sex. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder.

Faculty Tuesdays: American Music. 7:30 p.m.

University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder.

Froggy Fresh. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados.

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

7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados is a documentary film about a 21-year-old University of Colorado undergraduate who was killed, along with two other Chicano activists, in a car bomb in May of 1974 at the Colorado Chautauqua.

Just two days later, another car bomb killed three more Chicano activists elsewhere in Boulder. The events of these two nights forever altered the Chicano rights movement.

Kelly Harthan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Live Music: David Booker. 6:30 p.m.

Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

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

Tom Jones. 8 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver.

Tuesday Bluegrass Open Jam at Bootstrap Brewing in Longmont.

6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Director Nicole Esquibel will give an introduction as well as participate in a panel discussion after the screening. Tickets are $12.

Events Before The Flood. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

Tuesday Tapping and Live Music at Upslope. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder.

Widowspeak. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Events

Film Screening: Documented. 6:30 p.m. Ed & Ruth Lehman YMCA, 940 Lashley St., Longmont.

Anime Club. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville.

Oktoberfest at Samples World Bistro. 4 p.m.

Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont.

Doppelgängers! Improv Showcase. 8 p.m.

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

Tuesday, September 19 Music Baur’s Night. 5 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Inside You (Indie Comedy Movie Screening Plus Q&A). 7 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. see EVENTS Page 42

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Jaipur Literature Festival.

September 15-17, Main Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

The third annual Jaipur Literature Festival will bring more than 70 authors from around the world to explore today’s hot topics while engaging the community in dialogue over 40 sessions throughout three days. Sessions are designed to appeal to a wide audience of ages and interests. A host of family friendly events will also take place, appropriate for children and their parents, including henna history and design, Osissi dance and puppet theater.

The original Jaipur Literature Festival in India is the world’s largest free literature festival.

A symbol of hope for free speech around the world, the festival has inspired more than 200 other literature festivals, both in India and other countries. Boulder was selected as the only U.S. location for the festival in 2015. Festival organizers expect more than 10,000 people to attend the Boulder festival this year.

Some highlights on the Boulder program include: • Undercover in North Korea: Facts and Fictions: Author Suki Kim speaks about her six months spent undercover within North Korea.

• Spotlight: Journalist Michael Rezendes speaks with Mukun Padmanbhan, editor-inchief of The Hindu, about values, veracity and the dedication required for investigative journalism and the changing definitions of news in the current media landscape.

• The Girl From Aleppo: Author Christina Lamb (The Africa House and I Am Malala) will speak with journalist Ishaan Tharoor about her time reporting on conflict zones.

There is no admission fee for general registration, but attendees must register.

EVENTS from Page 40

Oktoberfest at Samples World Bistro. 4 p.m.

Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont.

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.

Spicy Lounge Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m.

Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder.

Wednesday, September 20 Music Al Hood and the H2 Jazztet presents “Jazz Muses.” 7:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Apocalyptica Plays Metallica By Four Cellos Tour. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.

Ben Hammond. 9 a.m. Cherry Creek Fresh Market, E. First Avenue and University Boulevard, Denver.

Candyrat Guitar Night featuring Antoine Dufour, Ian Ethan Case, Grayson Erhard. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

An Evening with Buckethead with Brain & Brewer at Fox Theatre. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

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

Holly Arrowsmith. 7 p.m. Fitch House, 1645 Washington Ave., Louisville.

HuMPday Dance Party —with Ron Ivory Band. 8 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.

Intro to Guitar. 6:30 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Joshua James Hunt. 7 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Leroy Sanchez Elevated World Tour 2017. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

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Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

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

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

Tove Lo. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Women in Classical Music featuring Multiple Women Artists. 2 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Events 2017 Colorado Business Summit. 8 a.m. Lionsgate Event Center: The Dove House & Gatehouse, 1055 S. 112th St., Lafayette.

Free Introductory Night: Watch It, Try It, Eat Chili, Make Friends. 7 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.

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

Hix ‘n’ Chix Square Dance Lessons. 6:30 p.m.

Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

There & Back Again: Traveling Dance Shows Culminating in Stage Performances. 12 p.m.

Republic Plaza, 370 17th St., Denver.

Purple Squirrel. 10 p.m. Appaloosa Grill, 535 16th St., Suite 11, Denver.

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The Guardians

by Jill Bialosky

All day we packed boxes.

We read birth and death certificates.

The yellowed telegrams that announced our births, the cards of congratulations and condolences, the deeds and debts, love letters, valentines with a heart ripped out, the obituaries.

We opened the divorce decree, a terrible document of division and subtraction.

We leafed through scrapbooks: corsages, matchbooks, programs to the ballet, racetrack, theatre—joy and frivolity parceled in one volume— painstakingly arranged, preserved and pasted with crusted glue.

We sat in the room in which the beloved had departed. We remembered her yellow hair and her mind free of paradox.

We sat together side by side on the empty floor and did not speak.

There were no words between us other than the essence of the words from the correspondences, our inheritance—plain speak, bereft of poetry.

Jill Bialosky is a New Yorker, an editor at W. W. Norton, and a daughter grieving the loss of loved ones. It’s unusual for us to print two poems by one poet, in sequence, but this one and the one I selected for next week go very well together. They’re from her new book The Players, from Knopf. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Poem copyright ©2015 by Jill Bialosky, “The Guardians,” from The Players, (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Jill Bialosky and the publisher.

Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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screen Scary? Shh! ‘It’…

Fun with kids, clowns and carnage

by Ryan Syrek

W

hen figuring out how to word-hump all the “amazing details” from a five-bazillion-page Stephen King novel into a movie’s screenplay, maybe filmmakers can start next time by omitting whatever weird, sexually grotesque nonsense the “master of horror” has sleazed into that particular tome. The girl in the movie It — yes “the” girl, singular — is mocked for being “slutty,” protests that she’s actually super-duper virginal, semi-seduces a clerk who is quadruple her age and gets molested by her father. Although King fanatics will undoubtedly protest that all this garbage is deftly written and central to her character in the book, screenwriters Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman could have ixnayed the inkykay from ingKay, and allowed the main characters to actually have personalities that extend beyond simplistic adjectives like “the new kid,” “the Jewish one” and “stutter boy.”

Both the beloved 1990 miniseries and the current adaptation from director Andy Muschietti reinforce that It is actually nowhere near as dense as everyone involved believes It to be. In this version, a group of bullied 13-year-olds in 1988 live in a small town where people get murdered a lot. Specifically, every 27 years, a whole bunch of kids in Derry, Maine, get super dead. This current crop of kids figure out that it has to do with an evil creature who lives in the sewer and torments them with significantly not-OK hellish nonsense. So they go to the creature’s underground nightmarea-torium in order to stop it.

Here’s the thing: Aside from the wholly unneeded perverted bullshit This adaptation of (King’s fault), the overly simplistic narrative (King the beloved Stephen again) and the razor-thin characters (that’s a King King novel gets the murder-clown right, trifecta), It is actually borderline great. Pennywise the silly-meets-scary the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård), which is his tone correct and the spectacular visuals full legal name, has been given a gleefully delirious perfect. makeover; Muschietti oversees a tone that awesomely embraces jarring shifts from silly to scary to adventurous; and the bigger visual moments are insanely well-constructed. In fact, there’s a moment toward the end where the scene is a perfect blend of horrifically vile and hauntingly pretty.

Skarsgård wisely ignores Tim Curry’s sacred performance from the TV version and crafts a menacing and awkward space all for himself. The kids are mostly fine, save for clunky moments that are almost certainly not their fault. And best of all, It doesn’t drown the audience in 1980s nostalgia; It does, however, admirably nail key authentic elements of childhood, like the stilted use of the F word among friends still practicing its use and the assumption that no adult would ever believe them about any of the supernatural shenanigans they discover.

Had the filmmakers felt free to condense characters (the six boys could easily have been reduced to three), eliminate elements (aka, ditched the pervy crap) or expanded on moments of youthful exuberance (as in, let “kids fight a demonic clown monster” be as much fun as that sounds), It would have probably cheesed off King (currently a vocal advocate) but become something transcendent. As It stands, It is a very fine, scary-adjacent endeavor that has earned its inevitable sequel. May they heed the above advice the next time around.

This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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Cult actor Bruce Campbell to visit Alamo Drafthouse

by Michael J. Casey

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e may not command the salary of ON THE BILL: Tattered Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio, Cover Book Store Presents: An Evening but for a large percentage of moviegowith Bruce Campbell. ers, he is just as essential to the histoThursday, Sept. 21, ry of cinema. He is Bruce Campbell, Alamo Drafthouse – Sloans Lake. 4255 W. the self-proclaimed B-movie and TV actor with Colfax Ave., Denver, 720more than one hundred IMDB credits, and he is 577-4720. this generation’s Robert Mitchum: tall, physically imposing and professional; only Campbell does slapstick a hell of a lot better than Mitchum ever could.

Known primarily for his turn as Ash — the hapless Michigander who recited a passage from the Necronomicon and awoke the evil dead — Campbell has found a wide variety of success in film (Bubba Ho-Tep and The Man With the Screaming Brain) and television (Hercules, Xena: Warrior Princess and Burn Notice); as an author (his current book, Hail to the Chin, debuted at number eight on The New York Times best-sellers list) and now as the game show host of Last Fan Standing. “[There’s] what I call ‘The Big Five of Entertainment’,” Campbell says. “Back in the day, 50 years ago or more, you could do vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television and movies. And guys like Bob Hope did all five. Guys like that inspire me.”

That desire to tackle the “Big Five” like Hope is evident in Hail to the Chin, Campbell’s follow-up to his 2001 memoir, If Chins Could Kill.

The new book picks up Campbell at the turn of the century: he and his wife have left Los Angeles for the hills of Oregon and Campbell tries to put the character of Ash behind him and move into a more diverse and creative role in his career. Along the way there is a near-fatal car crash, projects that never see funding, a seven-year stint on a popular cable TV show, Burn Notice, a visit to wounded veterans in Iraq, three Spider-Man movies and the inevitable return to his most famous role for Ash vs. Evil Dead. As Campbell succinctly puts it, Hail to the Chin “shows a little different side of the business.”

However, the most significant change during the years covered in Hail was not Campbell’s doing, but society’s. With the sudden marketability and proliferation of superhero movies, sci-fi and fantasy, B-movies suddenly got A-billing.

“I’m vindicated,” Campbell says with a laugh. “If you dress up like a bat, it’s a B-movie. ... If you get bitten by a radioactive spider, that’s not only a B-movie, that’s a 1950s B-movie.”

That tongue-in-cheek approach not only makes Campbell’s various characters memorable, it makes his books exciting to read and his game show fun to watch.

“Our show won’t have any history or geography questions,” Campbell says. “It will be: How much does Thor’s hammer weigh?”

Presented by the Tattered Cover Book Store, Campbell visits the Alamo Drafthouse – Sloans Lake on Sept. 21 with signed copies of Hail to the Chin, a live episode of Last Fan Standing and a special screening of Evil Dead II. The VIP tickets are already sold out, so act fast.

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Seeing as our daily average temps are still lingering in the 80s, now’s a good time to get your fill of the skewered treat at Dagabi Cucina. The tapa comes with chorizo, pepper and onion, char-grilled to blackened perfection. The chorizo is spicy hot, and also robustly flavored with red and black spices. Its texture is fatty, tender and crispy on the edges. The vegetables add the necessary crunch to each bite, while the grill brings out the concentrated brightness and fruitiness of the peppers and onions. $7.

ashville Hot Chicken took over the world last year. It’s a surprise it took so long, given our collective appetite for fried stuff and chicken, and the dish’s long-standing popularity and abundance in the South. Nevertheless, we’re glad it went national, and The Post, which is opening a Boulder outpost downtown to complement its Longmont and Lafayette locations (there’s one in Denver too), does the style well. Extra crispy (and gluten-free) fried chicken is bathed in a spicy vinegar sauce and served alongside some sopping and spicy pickles. The meat on the inside is, like the original Post chicken, tender and delicious. But the combination of a well-browned crust and electric sauce is dynamite on the tongue. $15.

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he Food Marketing Institute reminded me recently that September is the third annual National Family Meals Month. Apparently we need an official commemoration to get us to eat together around a table with our devices turned off.

Supermarkets obviously want you to spend more, especially on higher-profit, semi-prepared “family meal solutions” and kits, instead of getting restaurant take-out or delivery.

However, the food industry is spot-on in touting the profound benefits of bonding with kids over a meal. Eating family meals regularly does seem to improve academic performance and reduce early use of cigarettes, cannabis and alcohol and other high-risk behaviors in teens. Kids learn communication skills, manners and how to be an adult. I think of dinner as family super glue.

I grew up in the classical period for the American 6 p.m. family dinner, 1955 to 1965. The TV was always off. Personal electronic devices hadn’t been invented yet.

We didn’t answer the wall-tethered phone unless Dad was on-call. We ate pasta, roast chicken and overcooked pot roast and everybody got a chance to talk, or at least that’s the way I remember it.

Reality indicates that Lehndorff dinners didn’t always work as mythologized.

By the time I was a sullen teen, dining together en masse happened less, although Sunday supper was sacred. We started watching and talking about the news of the Vietnam War, assassinations and protests in front of the tube, sometimes eating Swanson’s frozen turkey TV dinners.

When I became a parent, I was committed to shopping, cooking and dining with my son. His mom and I gloried in that time and introduced him to new tastes and words. I asked Hans, now a 23-year-old adult, what he remembers about family dinner. His conscious memory begins when Hans’ mom and I were both commuting to work at the Rocky Mountain News. There were some nights when I was out reviewing restaurants, so dinner was with whomever was home. see NIBBLES Page 50

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“Cooking in general was always a big deal. I don’t remember eating at the dinner table that much except for big occasions,” Hans said. “We ate in front of the TV but it was usually the news or Frontline,” he said. He really enjoyed the discussion and debate about provocative topics. “For me that’s still true,” he said.

We agreed that sometimes the best chats happen when you are cooking and not trying too hard to have a meaningful dinner discussion. “It’s just nice to have that time together,” he said.

Those meals at restaurants became precious during his Boulder High years as a busy three-sport athlete with lots of academic pressure, but we persisted and found occasions to eat pasta or a stir fry around the big wooden table, at times insisting that Hans do the cooking.

Hans now lives in Portland, Oregon, doing something with big data analysis for energy utilities. He and his wonderful girlfriend, Becca, cook often together at home, have spirited political dialogues and dine at interesting ethnic spots. Sometimes there is a device on and sometimes not, he says. When he and I talk,we hit all the usual fatherson talking points: work, how to pansauce salmon, and the state of the Broncos and Rockies.

I’m optimistic about the future of family dinner now that the idealized myth has been shattered. The definition of “family” has happily expanded beyond the Mom-Dad-kids artifice to embrace grandparents raising grandchildren, single parents, step-parents, same-gender and divorced parents, blended families, adopted siblings along with better-than-family friends and neighbors.

The timing of “dinner” has evaporated. Given the reality of family schedules, “dinner” may now be breakfast, lunch or a midnight snack. It doesn’t matter whether it’s at home or at a cafeteria but attitude does.

Certain parental behaviors are guaranteed to cause indigestion and elicit one-word answers. Don’t use dinner to air family grievances. Don’t be a control freak and force kids to eat their spinach, and never discuss weight control.

Family cooks need to chill and give up on making perfect food and admit that family dinner won’t happen every night. Cook kids’ favorite foods (within reason) but also introduce new dishes that you like. Serve pizza, but buy ready-to-stretch dough and let everyone personalize it to their own peculiar dietary needs. Bake brownies or another dessert so the house smells great.

Memories and families are made of this.

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Taste of the Week Old friends treated me to dinner at the recently opened Lafayette location of Ras Kassa’s Ethiopian Restaurant where I got to hug another old friend, owner Tsehay Hailu. We started with spicy lentil-filled crisp sambussa and grabbed bites of doro wot (spicy chicken stew), yebeg alecha (lamb stew), keiy wot (simmered beef ) and zesty carrot salad with endless rolls of injera bread.

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Words to Chew On “Vital is a family atmosphere in which parents treat each other and their children with respect, affection and smiles. The best forum for this is still the dinner table. When teenagers first give excuses why they can’t make it to a meal, parents should say very positively: ‘We like to have the whole family get together.’” —Dr. Benjamin Spock John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU, 88.5 FM. Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/category/ radio-nibbles.

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‘Do we evolve?’

How the ups and downs of Bradford Heap’s life prepared him to take on an unsustainable food industry

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hef Bradford Heap has a reputation of being hard to work for.

That’s according to him at least.

“I’m more of an alienator and more of that old-school hard-ass,” he says. “I’m so intense and so driven, and I want to be successful. I’m such an aggro, type-A freak.

“There’s nothing wrong with me being a driving hard-ass,” he continues, “until it doesn’t work anymore.”

Self-awareness is a virtue Heap has cultivated over time. In conversation, it helps hedge the blunt claims he makes about his role as a leader in Boulder’s food scene and in the national push toward sustainability. In about an hour and a half on the patio of his Niwot restaurant, Colterra (he also runs Boulder’s SALT and Wild Standard), Heap describes himself with words like iconoclast and visionary, and compares his sustainability efforts to Gandhi and Thoreau’s civil disobedience — seconds before or after acknowledging he can sound myopic, egotistical and self-infatuated.

In literally one breath, he’ll say, “I think people are stupid. I don’t think people are informed at all. If they were, my restaurants would be on a wait for seven years.” And in the next, he’ll say, “I just try to have compassion to let people be where they are and not judge them, because the more judgment I have for the outside world, the more judgment I put on myself, and I can’t bear that self-judgment.”

“God, I’m full of shit, aren’t I?” he asks at one point.

For all the talk, it’s undeniable that Heap practices what he preaches. His restaurants are largely GMO-free (for some items like bacon and dairy, costs for non-GMO varieties are still prohibitively high), seasonal, local and increasingly plant-based. Heap, who sees plant-based, organic diets as the only solution to combat climate change longterm, says chefs play an outsized role in leading that food shift.

“I’m not a fucking scientist, I don’t know this shit,” he says. “But guess who’s in charge of trying to steer the ethical and moral boat in America as far as the food system goes? It’s the chefs. I don’t see anybody else doing it.

Everybody else is, ‘Can you stuff a few more hundred dollar bills up my butt?

I’m not quite full yet.’”

Boulder presents an opportunity to provide a case study for the rest of the country to emulate, Heap says. If meat and produce can be raised responsibly and locally and bought on such a large scale that prices become reasonable at farms, markets and restaurants, then the model can sustain itself. Heap, as a leader in the local food scene, thus sees himself as a shepherd for the national movement.

“I’m a rich, white dude from Boulder, Colorado, I get it,” Heap says. “It’s much different for a lot of other people. They can’t pay attention to it, but somebody’s got to pay attention to it and maybe the intellectual class in Boulder is going to be the first class that can show that this can be done and the benefits of doing it this way, and then it’s got to change for everybody.

Then there will be enough people, hopefully, supporting this way of being and boycotting Monsanto and saying, ‘We want healthy food, we deserve healthy food, and fuck you, we’re not going to do what you tell us, motherfucker.’”

That requires responsibility not just for chefs, Heap says, but for consumers. Grass-fed beef might taste gamey, produce may look weird, foods won’t be available year-round, and yes, some things will be out of your price range.

“Is it a socioeconomic luxury? Yeah. And if you can’t afford grass-finished beef and you can’t afford the good shit, buy more vegetables. Go plant-based.

There’s no excuse,” he says.

After sharing an analogy that compares forcing terminally-ill people in America to suffer without assisted suicide to the life of animals on factory farms, which are forced to live in cages their entire lives, Heap says, “people get very uncomfortable talking to me about” where their food comes from. “I do this with everybody. It’s not a marketing strategy,” he adds.

No doubt Heap’s passion is authentic. The question, though, is why. So often the conversation around sustainability is about eating well and supporting local farmers. There’s a rah-rah atmosphere that surrounds most discus-

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sions. With Heap, though, there’s urgency, a feeling that he’s grabbing you with two hands on either side of your face and shaking, as if you were a good friend in a bad relationship.

“I was born for a reason,” he says. “My whole life has made me tough enough to do what I’m trying to do.”

At 16, Heap dropped out of high school in Boulder and moved to Aspen, where he lived in a van.

“I couldn’t take my dad yelling at me at 3 in the morning saying I was the problem and I was running wild,” Heap says. “Pinning him

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underneath the piano was a low point for me in my life because he wouldn’t leave me alone.”

Heap says his father was an alcoholic and his mother was “checked out.” His brothers, he says, were abusive.

“The only thing I learned in my childhood was if I wanted to be safe that I needed to be scarier than anybody else in the house,” Heap says. “My brothers would be fucking with me long enough to where I just couldn’t take it anymore and I had to fly off the handle and chase them around with a golf club, throw darts at them, whatever. ... Putting a steak knife to ’em, saying, ‘I’m gonna fucking kill you,’ and I’m 10. Or, I don’t know how old I was. It was kind of a blur.”

Heap’s father, about a decade after moving out, paid for him to attend the Culinary Institute of America. Heap says his childhood also prepared him to go to France, where he didn’t know the language (or anyone), to work in a kitchen and be yelled at. All of it, he says, childhood to culinary school to trial by kitchen fire, prepared him to fight for sustainability with passion.

“The whole thing prepared me ... to fight a bigger monster; the bigger monster being our food system,” Heap says.

“I didn’t know that’s what I was being prepared for. I know I sound like a total Boulder hippie, but ... I’ve totally given up on the hope and thought that my path should be anything different than what it is.

“It’s hard to bridge the gap from how you were raised to how you know it should be, and to stay there. Because I kind of revert back like muscle memory.”

Even if the pressures cause him or his emotions to stray, Heap is aware of his path, baring plainly and unapologetically, even cheerfully, his (and others’) faults and successes. Spiritual work has helped him recognize that path. As did the recent passing of his father-in-law, a three-star Air Force general whom Heap called “one of my best friends,” and who, at the funeral, Heap heard described as someone who “brought people in and built them up.”

For the self-proclaimed hard-ass chef with a rough childhood, that was an epiphany.

“I need to build people up,” he says.

“Everybody’s so hard on themselves, including me. And everybody’s scared.

And everybody’s doing the best they can.”

It’s those personal lessons, and the intimate way in which they were learned, that drives Heap toward sustainability.

Having kids personalized the effort and put a face on the generation that will ultimately reap the rewards, or failures, of the movement. In that generation, Heap says, there is hope. But it’ll come down to choices.

“Do we continue to do what we were taught,” Heap asks, “or do we evolve to do better?”

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rie’s first brewery is a family affair. Founded in 2013, the Industrial Revolution Brewing Company is helmed by the father-son duo of Tim Suttman and Nate Cervantes. Suttman’s wife helps out with the books, and Cervantes’s sister tends the bar from time to time. It’s fitting considering that IRBC (as the locals call it) is located a few blocks from Erie’s downtown, smack dab in the neighborhood. Singlefamily houses dot the landscape, parents push strollers up and down the quiet streets, and on IRBC’s patio, which Cervantes built, families gather, parents drink while watching football on the big screen, kids play cornhole and dogs excitedly sniff and explore. It’s like a Norman Rockwell painting with ON TAP: beer.

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Originated in the town of Cottbus, Germany — about an hour south of Berlin — the kottbusser is a sweet and smooth altbier that uses adjuncts like oats, honey and molasses in the brew (as opposed to the barley, hops and water that the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law, mandates).

You’d have to look high and low to find a better kottbusser in the Centennial State, as IRBC’s version is light with plenty of lemon citrus. It’s a perfect patio brew to bid adieu to summer.

Kottbusser isn’t the only IRBC beer to use adjuncts. El Gringo is a light Mexican lager brewed with just enough corn to give this tropical brew a hint of sweetness that pairs perfectly with the lime garnish.

Moving into heavier territory, IRBC features three nitro taps: Blonde Stout (6.1 percent alcohol by volume), Hot Iron Orange Cream Ale (5 percent) and High Pressure Vanilla Porter (6 percent). As one might expect from nitro beers, all three are smooth with thick, foamy heads and rounded corners. The

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nently on Australia’s coat of arms: the kangaroo and the large flightless bird known as the emu. One of the reasons they were chosen is that both creatures rarely walk backward. They move forward or not at all. Australia’s founders wanted this to symbolize the nation’s pledge to never look back, to remain focused on advancing toward the future.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make a similar commitment, Aries. Is there a new symbol you might adopt to inspire your intention?

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: The Simpsons is an animated sitcom

that will soon begin its 29th consecutive year on TV. During its run, it has told over 600 stories. The creators of another animated sitcom, South Park, once did an episode entitled “Simpsons Already Did It,” which referenced their feelings that it was hard to come up with new tales because their rival had already used so many good ones. I bring this up, Taurus, because I suspect your life story will soon be spinning out novel plots that have never before been seen, not even on The Simpsons or South Park. You could and should be the Best Storyteller of the Month.

GEMINI

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ing weeks, but there should be some good deals. And I’m not referring to risky black-market stuff obtained in back alleys, either. I mean straightforward liaisons and intriguing intimacy at a reasonable cost. So if you’re comfortably mated, I suggest you invest in a campaign to bring more comedy and adventure into your collaborative efforts. If you’re single, wipe that love-starved look off your face and do some exuberant window-shopping. If you’re neither comfortably mated nor single, money may temporarily be able to buy you a bit more happiness.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: The current state of your fate reminds

me of the sweet confusion alluded to in Octavio Paz’s poem “Between Going and Staying”: “All is visible and elusive, all is near and can’t be touched.” For another clue to the raw truth of your life right now, I’ll quote the poet William Wordsworth. He spoke of “fleeting moods of shadowy exultation.” Is the aura described by Paz and Wordsworth a problem that you should try to fix? Is it detrimental to your heroic quest? I don’t think so. Just the opposite, really: I hope you can hang out for a while in this pregnant mystery — between the yes and the no, between the dark and the light, between the dream and the reality. It will help you learn what you’ve been too restless to tune in to in the past.

LEO

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able time for refurbished models and revived originals. They are likely to be more fun and interesting the second time around. I suspect that this will also be an auspicious phase for substitutes and alternatives. They may even turn out to be better than the so-called real things they replace. So be artful in formulating Plan B and Plan C, Leo. Switching over to backups may ultimately bring out more of the best in you and whisk you toward your ultimate goal in unexpected ways.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In the coming weeks, you might want

to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you take what I just said as a useful metaphor to apply in other areas. In general, it might be wise to surmise the probable outcomes of games, adventures and experiments before you get totally involved. Try this fun exercise: Imagine you are a psychic prophet as you evaluate the long-range prospects of any influences that are vying to play a role in your future.

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and confusion if I could get a tangible sense of the future happiness that my pain and confusion are preparing me for. Can you offer me any free advice? —Lost Libra.” Dear Libra: The pain and confusion come from the dying of the old ways. They need to die a bit more before the new direction will reveal itself clearly. I predict that will happen soon ­— no later than October 1.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Welcome to “Compose Your Own Oracle,” a special edition of Free Will Astrology.

Departing from tradition, I’m temporarily stepping aside so you can have the freedom to write the exact horoscope you want. Normally, you might be in danger of falling victim to presumptuous arrogance if you imagined you could wield complete control over how your destiny unfolds.

But in the days ahead, that rule won’t be as unyielding, because cosmic forces will be giving you more slack than usual. Fate and karma, which frequently impel you to act according to patterns that were set in place long ago, are giving you at least a partial respite. To get the maximum benefit out of “Compose Your Own Oracle,” identify three plot developments you’d like to weave into a self-fulfilling prophecy for your immediate future. Then start weaving.

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CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The coming weeks will an excellent time for you to raise funds in support of political prisoners, or to volunteer at a soup kitchen or to donate blood at a blood bank. In fact, any charitable service you perform for people you don’t know will be excellent for your physical and mental health. You can also generate vivid blessings for yourself by being extra thoughtful, kind and generous toward people you care for. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when unselfish acts will yield maximum selfish benefits.

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PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: You know that “patch of bother-

some weeds” growing right in the middle of your life? Is it really a patch of bothersome weeds? Or is it perhaps a plot of cultivated blooms that once pleased you but has now turned into a puzzling irrelevancy? Or how about this possibility: Is it a chunk of languishing beauty that might flourish and please you again if it were cared for better? Those are excellent questions for you to pose in the coming days, Pisces.

According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to decide on the future of this quizzical presence.

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Dear Dan: My husband and I are currently separated on a trial basis. He took all our condoms when he moved out, and I want to ask him if he plans on having sex with other women. I don’t have any intention of sleeping with other people while separated, but I think he may be interested in doing so, in part since we have been sexually active only with each other and he is trying to “find himself.” If either of us were to have extramarital sex without the consent of the other, I would consider that cheating. We’ve also been having sex with each other throughout our separation. But my husband refuses to discuss this aspect of our separation. He will discuss only co-parenting or financial issues. I would be okay with him having casual sex but not a roman- © Rachel Robinson tic sexual relationship.

— Wondering If Fidelity Enforceable Dear WIFE: Taking the condoms + refusing to discuss the sexual terms of your separation = your husband is almost certainly fucking other women.

He probably figures it’ll be easier to get your forgiveness after the fact than to get your permission in advance — and if you don’t get back together, WIFE, he won’t even have to ask for forgiveness.

If your husband refuses to have a dialogue about the sexual aspect of your separation, then you’ll have to make him listen to a monologue. Tell him you assume he’s having sex with other people and, if that’s not the case, he’ll have to use his words to persuade you otherwise. If he sits there in silence, or his words are unpersuasive, tell him you now feel free to have sex with other people, too. And while you can ask him not to enter into a romantic sexual relationship with anyone else, WIFE, you ultimately can’t control how he feels about who he’s fucking while he’s out there finding himself. If you aren’t comfortable fucking your husband while he’s fucking other women — and he almost certainly is fucking other women — let him know that and cut him off.

Dear Dan: I’m a 32-year-old straight male. Back in April, I met this girl. She seemed interested, but before we went out, she told me that she is a demisexual. (I had to google it.) After a few dates, she had me over to her place, we watched a movie and Boulder Weekly

started making out. But when I started to put my hand between her legs, she calmly said, “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” No problem, I told her, I wasn’t trying to rush her. Fast-forward a couple months. We’re still going on dates, we hug and kiss, we hold hands, we cuddle on the couch and watch movies — but still no sex. Is demisexuality real? Should I keep pursuing her?

— Is She Interested Totally Or Not? Dear ISITON: Demisexuals are real people who “do not experience sexual attraction unless they form a strong emotional bond,” according to the definition at Asexuality.org. We used to call people who needed to feel a strong emotional bond before wanting to fuck someone people who, you know, needed to feel a strong emotional bond before wanting to fuck someone. But a seven-syllable, clinical-sounding term that prospective partners need to google — demisexuality — is obviously far superior to a short, explanatory sentence that doesn’t require internet access to understand.

You’ve shown respect for this woman’s sexual orientation, ISITON, now it’s her turn to show some respect for yours. I don’t mean by putting out if she’s not ready or not interested, but by offering you some clarity about when or whether she’ll ever be interested. You’re seeking a romantic relationship that includes sex — which is not unreasonable — and you’ve demonstrated a willingness to make an emotional investment before a relationship becomes sexual. You don’t (or shouldn’t) want her to consent to sex under duress — you don’t (or shouldn’t) want her to have sex just to keep you coming over for cuddles — but if she doesn’t see you as a prospective romantic and sexual partner, ISITON, she should tell you that. If this relationship isn’t on track to become sexual, tell her you’re open to being friends — truly intimate friends — but you’ll have to direct your romantic attentions (and more of your time) elsewhere.

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e are a nation in pain. The exact numbers are a matter of (contentious) debate, but somewhere between 11 and 30 percent of us are in chronic pain. Our backs hurt and our joints ache, we have irritable bowel syndrome and we get migraines on the regular.

From his Boulder office at Fully Alive Medical Center, Dr. Rav Ivker has watched more than 600 people come through his doors looking for a treatment to this pain or that. Most of them, he says, have previously been prescribed opioids to deal with their pain.

On the surface level, opioids appear to work, but

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CANNABIS AND CHRONIC PAIN really they are a physiological distraction from our pain. These drugs operate by binding to opioid receptors in the brain, spinal cord and across the body to reduce the pain messages delivered. But Dr. Rav warns they don’t reduce the pain itself, nor do they treat it. The efficacy of opioids relies on giving the patient what they want — a break from the pain. It may be illusory, but it’s a welcome reprieve.

Over time the drug becomes less effective, the side effects intensify and sometimes the user finds themselves in the grips of addiction. So they come to Dr. Rav for an alternative treatment — cannabis. But, as a holistically minded practitioner, he doesn’t merely switch them from one drug to another and call it a day. (To do so, he says, would be just as inane as prescribing opioids in the first place). No, he’s interested in cannabis as a part of a fundamentally different approach to pain management.

“Conventional medicine is great and wonderful for life-threatening and acute illnesses,” Dr. Rav says. “If I get into an accident, take me to the closest emergency room, that’s the best chance I’ve got at making it through. But for these chronic conditions, conven-

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tional medicine really fails miserably. It puts BandAids on symptoms and completely neglects the underlying causes. The opioid epidemic is exposing this crack in our medical framework and raising fundamental questions about how we diagnose and treat disease.”

In his new book, Cannabis for Chronic Pain, Dr. Rav explains the difference between conventional and holistic medicine in terms of the thinkers and philosophies credited with generating them. Conventional medicine stems from 17th-century theories of Descartes (“the father of modern medicine”) who understands the human being as a machine with two separate parts — body and mind — and from Newtonian physics that teaches that we live in a material universe.

by Sarah Haas

Conversely, holistic medicine stems from Albert Einstein’s theory that we live in an energy universe and that that energy is the sole governing agency of the material world. Dr. Rav explains the efficacy of cannabis in its ability to work on both spectra, physical and energetic, saying: “Cannabis works to provide the relief of pain, and it works on reducing seizure disorders and epilepsy and glaucoma. Which is to say there are myriad physical therapeutic benefits, but what most people are not aware of is the way in which it opens your mind and your heart. As a holistic practitioner, my practice is built on the belief that unconditional love is life’s most powerful healer and its corollary, the perceived loss of love, is our greatest health risk.”

Dr. Rav believes the conventional medical model is about to shift. The way he sees it, the energetic aspects of our lives can no longer be kept separate from our ideation of health and well-being — a change being forced upon us by the failure of opioids and the successes of marijuana.

Dr. Rav wrote his book to help establish the standard of care for integrating cannabis into a holistic medical program and offers 10 chapters with specific programs for treatment of our most common chronic conditions. But specifics aside, his book can be boiled down to three lessons we can learn from cannabis in transforming our approach to health and well-being.

First, Dr. Rav posits that just like health is not the absence of disease, eradication of pain is not the goal.

“After all,” he says, “pain can be a blessing and a tool — it is a messenger that gets our attention like nothing else can.”

Secondly, Dr. Rav shifts the onus of medical treatment away from the doctor in her shiny white coat and puts it squarely in the hands of you, the patient.

Dr. Rav says cannabis opens a window between you and your soul and that through it you can listen to your higher self, learn who you really are, why you are here and learn what your pain is all about.

Really though, it’s just two words that matter, Dr. Rav says with a chuckle, as if to say his book could have been a whole lot shorter: “Love heals.”

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by Paul Danish

A marijuana use trend to worry about (or not)

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arlier this week, the Washington Post carried a story with the ominous headline “Here’s one marijuana trend you should actually be worried about.” We’ll get to why maybe you shouldn’t in a moment, but first the details.

The piece, which appeared in the Post’s “Wonkblog,” was written by Christopher Ingraham, who writes about “politics, drug policy, and all things data.”

It concerned trends of increasing marijuana use over the last 14 years as revealed by the latest federal marijuana survey data.

The data showed that while teen (12-17 year olds) marijuana use continues to decline in the era of legal pot — monthly use among teens dropped to 6.5 percent last year, a 20-year low — adult use is rising. The number of people over age 18 who smoked marijuana at least once last year rose from 10.4 percent in 2002 to 14.1 percent in 2016.

“In other words, 46 million people got high last year,” Ingraham wrote.

That, however, isn’t the trend Ingraham finds troubling.

“If more adults are smoking marijuana once or twice a year — even once or twice a month — it’s not a huge concern,” he says.

“More concerning, though, is the number of people who are getting high all the time — heavy users who smoke on a daily or near-daily basis. The federal data shows that those numbers are increasing precipitously.

“In 2016, nearly 19 percent of people who used marijuana that year used it at least 300 days out of the year. That figure’s up by roughly 50 percent from 2002, when 12 percent of marijuana users consumed the drug daily or near-daily.

“Again, this on its own is not necessarily cause for concern,” Ingraham says. “It’s possible to smoke marijuana moderately on a daily basis — half a joint to wind down after a day of work, akin to the ubiquitous glass of wine with dinner for instance.”

“But the comparison with alcohol is instructive here,” he continues. “According to the federal survey

data, marijuana users are far more likely to use daily than drinkers are to drink daily.”

The federal survey data found that while the percentage of pot users who smoke daily (300 days a year) increased from 12.2 percent in 2002 to 18.6 percent in 2016, the percentage of tipplers who drink alcohol at least 300 days a year increased only from 6.2 percent in 2002 to 6.6 percent in 2016.

“In a given year, lots of people drink — but relatively few of them drink every day,” Ingraham says.

“That’s not true for marijuana. Marijuana users are nearly three times as likely as drinkers to consume their drug of choice daily.”

So should we be concerned?

A little, but not too much.

That’s because focusing on daily use of alcohol compared with daily use of marijuana probably understates alcohol abuse and overstates marijuana abuse.

A great deal of alcohol abuse takes the form of binge drinking — five or more drinks in two hours is one definition — which can cause violence and other bad behavior even if it occurs, say, once or twice a month. Chances are there are far more binge drinkers than daily alcohol drinkers.

Daily alcohol use is also more likely to turn into addiction than daily marijuana use. The percentage of American drinkers who are said to be full-blown alcoholics is currently given as 6 percent, which is consistent with the daily alcohol use percentage.

It’s well known that it’s much easier for most heavy pot users to quit smoking than it is for heavy alcohol users to quit drinking, which is why daily pot use by 19 percent of users doesn’t remotely indicate a 19 percent addiction rate.

Most marijuana legalization campaigns have made the point that, compared to alcohol, marijuana is by almost every metric the safer drug — and those who have first-hand experience with both drugs know it. That may at least partially explain why the percentage of daily marijuana users has been going up as marijuana becomes more available, while the percentage of daily alcohol users hasn’t changed much. Surprisingly, Ingraham, who is an experienced drug policy journalist, doesn’t seem to have considered this possibility.

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The iPhone 9, which will be released to a select few (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) An irreverent sometime next year, will do far not always accurate view of the world more than just give us an iPhone for each of our 10 fingers or toes by filling the ronment even as you opened up more recently created gap between iPhone 8a, shale oil plays around the world than iPhone 8b and iPhone X. The iPhone 9 anyone else in history. will be spectacular. It will allow you to Yes, you are smarter and less scary turn on your phone with a power or than Trump. You would have kept home button so you won’t have to supthings going just like they had been, ply your fingerprints or facial recognibut that is exactly why you didn’t tion information to all the governments and corporations of the world. The iPhone 9 will also reportedly have little 420 holes in the unit’s bottom that will actually allow you to plug it into a charger in your home or car. There are even rumors you will be able to hook it directly to another device by way of a thin little wire. And best of all, the iPhone 9 has been designed to never let the 1,000 photos you have on your phone automatically dump onto your other Apple devices just because you walked into the same room with your laptop. We aren’t sure what it will cost just yet, but we’re sure it will be well worth the money.

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Hillary Clinton’s new book and book tour are another perfect example of why the out-of-touch politician isn’t and never should have been president.

She actually told Today host Matt Lauer that FBI director Comey should have been disciplined or fired for the way he handled her email scandal. In other words, she agrees with and is giving cover to the exact excuse Trump used for firing Comey. Thanks, Hillary.

And by the way, did it ever occur to you that if you hadn’t been trying to hide your emails from a potential public records request there wouldn’t have been a scandal for Comey to mishandle? And then you tell us Bernie Sanders caused you to lose because he kept taking your positions and then one-upping you. What BS; you were right-of-center ’til Bernie forced you left and made you at least talk about free college, community control over fracking, universal healthcare and the like. You lost because you have been a flip-flopping politician who traded your values for a pollster 40 years ago. You lost because you are the status quo this country is trying desperately to get rid of. You took tens of millions of dollars from Wall Street and then had the audacity to claim they would get nothing for their money even as you refused to release the transcripts of what you told those same bankers in private. You told us that you cared about the enviBoulder Weekly

deserve to win. You are out of touch with the majority of Americans who no longer want and party politics and who no longer belong to either of the two major parties. And until you understand that, you won’t even have the capacity to understand that what you are doing now with your book is the very definition of selfish. Even today you are still willing to split the voters who oppose President Trump in

order to create a false narrative as to why you lost in order to preserve your legacy among your establishment Dem friends. And just so you know, the 85 percent of people under age 35 who supported Bernie instead of you didn’t do so because that was where the cute boys were. It may just be possible that gazillionaire status quo politicians like you who put your friends and the party above your country will never understand how you all got thrown out of power. But that doesn’t matter because we understand.

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