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The Anderson Files: A new reality for Israelis, Palestinians and U.S. politics Guest Columns: The ‘poor door’ and the pattern of legalized segregation in Boulder; Make farm work humane Lab notes: Blasting the planet next door Astrology: by Rob Brezsny Film: ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ ushers in the summer movie season Savage Love: Tinglehole Try this: Sriracha Noodles @ Aloy Thai Drink: Local rosé options to consider with summer approaching

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“Out of sight, out of mind. Or so Israel seemed to hope.”

In a new development, thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel, numbering some 1.9 million people and often referred to as “Arab Israelis,” have taken to the streets to express solidarity for their fellow Palestinians.

They have their own specific grievances. Nadim Nashef, director of Aamleh (The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media) and an exponent of Palestinian civil society in Israel, told the Italian magazine Il Manifesto that it isn’t religious hatred that animates the protests, but “concrete factors” like “gentrification, unemployment, discrimination and the eviction of Arab families unable to pay higher and higher rents. All this combined with the penetration (in Arab neighborhoods) of activists from Jewish right-wing organizations.”

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians recently held a general strike, uniting Palestinians in Israel, the West

A new reality for Israelis, Palestinians and U.S. politics

By Dave Anderson

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he Israel-Palestine conflict is frequently portrayed as an eternal Hatfields versus McCoys dispute.

There is calm now after the fighting.

But Yousef Munayyer, a political analyst at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C., argues that this isn’t a real peace. Writing in the New York Times, he says: “For years, Israelis have made peace with the notion that they can manage, however brutally, their relationship with Palestinians instead of resolving it. This has been aided by a process of walling off the ugliness of their rule: Gaza, caged and besieged, might as well have been on a different planet; Israelis could drive throughout the West Bank practically uninterrupted by the sight of Palestinians; Palestinian citizens of Israel have largely been relegated to neglected, concentrated areas.

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Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

How did the unrest begin? You get different accounts. The Israeli police invaded the 8th century alAqsa mosque in East Jerusalem during Ramadan, teargassing and wounding over 300 congregants with stun grenades and rubber bullets. It is Islam’s third-holiest site. But the police claimed they were responding to rioting. Palestinians and sympathetic Jewish Israelis were protesting house demolitions and evictions.

Jewish settlers were actually squatting in their homes.

In a scathing editorial on April 25, the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz accused right-wing politicians of inciting hundreds of enraged Jewish teenagers who “rampaged through the city center, attacking passersby and journalists, throwing rocks and bottles at police officers and chanting ‘Death to Arabs’ and other racist slogans.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on trial for corruption and is trying to hold onto power by welcoming notorious far-right parties into his coalition. There’s Otzma Yehudit ( Jewish Power), a party formed in 2012 which is devoted to the ideals of Meir Kahane.

Kahane was a Brooklyn-born rabbi who founded the vigilante Jewish Defense League, which was considered to be a right-wing terrorist group by the FBI. Their targets included Soviet and Mexican diplomats in the U.S., a right-wing ArabAmerican congressman (apparently due to his ethnic heritage), Arab and Muslim activists, mosques, neoNazis, the ACLU and Jewish community leaders who weren’t “Jewish enough.”

In the 1970s, after Kahane was convicted of engaging in a bombmaking plot and given a suspended sentence, he immigrated to Israel and founded the Kach party, which promoted stripping Palestinian Israelis of their voting rights and then expelling all Arabs. Kach wanted to ban marriage, and all sexual contact,

between Jews and Arabs, punishable by prison sentences up to 50 years.

Kahane was banned from the Knesset in 1988 after one term on grounds of inciting racism. He was assassinated in New York two years later by an Egyptian militant.

In 1994, Kach politician Baruch Goldstein opened fire in a holy site in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, killing 29 Muslim worshippers and wounding over 100. That led both the Israeli and U.S. governments to label his Kach movement and an offshoot, Kahane Lives, as terrorist groups.

Writing in the national U.S. Jewish newspaper The Forward, Joshua Leifer says that it isn’t surprising that the very Trumpy Netanyahu would turn to the Kahanist party as well as other vile outfits so he could stay in power.

Leifer says of the far-right parties: “They said loudly what many on the Israeli right, at least in the past, preferred to whisper, and certainly never to say in English: that Israel would be a Jewish supremacist state, not a democracy; that the Palestinians would forever live subjugated under military occupation, confined to isolated Bantustans, or they would be expelled from the West Bank and into Jordan; that leftists and peaceniks were traitors, and that traitors would be dealt with accordingly.”

If America wants to be a symbol of democracy and human rights, we have to take a stand. For years, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) has been trying to put conditions on U.S. aid to Israel. She has introduced many bills to do that and hasn’t been successful. She says, “I don’t want $1 of U.S. aid to Israel paying for the military detention and abuse of Palestinian children, the demolition of Palestinian homes, or the annexation of Palestinian land.”

It is about time.

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symbol of democracy and human rights, we have to take a stand.

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any in the Gunbarrel community are concerned that the proposed development located on the Celestial Seasonings property will continue Boulder’s affordable housing history of classism and racism. As a result of the acceptance of the status quo, Boulder permits the “poor door,” a reference to separate entrances or income-segregated buildings. When a development segregates those in market-rate housing from those in affordable housing, the separate and unequal residences force isolation of families in the affordable housing program, effectively creating a poor door, a practice now banned in multiple cities.

As market prices for Boulder single-family housing soar, the City is scrambling to meet its goal of 15% for all housing units to be affordable for low-, moderate- and middle-income households. In the midst of it all, luxury apartment developers continue to be allowed to segregate affordable housing from market rate housing, and in the case of Diagonal Crossing, prevent lower income residents from using the same amenities provided for market rate residents.

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A resident of the recently constructed affordable housing units at Diagonal Crossing told us, “I live in this community and I was one of the first folks to move in. Not only do they not let us use the nice community center, they have never opened ours to us and they blame it on COVID. I guess the rich folks with the nice community center can’t spread COVID, just us poor folks.

The pool that they created for us is offensively small and they have never let us use it. I think the hot tub at their community center is bigger than our ‘pool.’ They could at least allow us community members to use the main community center for a small fee...” A call to the Diagonal Crossing leasing office confirms that the affordable housing pool has yet to open and that the market-rate pool is unavailable for use to affordable residents.

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draw developers and will not meet affordable housing goals.

3) Financials for affordable housing and market price need to be managed differently.

In Boulder, developers who build rental properties are required to allocate 25% to affordable housing.

Colorado law provides a twist to this affordable housing “charity” wherein developers can forgo the affordable housing piece onsite and instead pay cash-in-lieu of. This money is then allocated to purchasing affordable housing in other locations, often closer to the city center with better transit and amenities.

Boulder has developments in the area where affordable and market rate units are not segregated.

These issues can be handled, enabling a more socially just treatment of low- and moderate-income households.

DIAGONAL CROSSING & THE CELESTIAL SEASONINGS DEVELOPMENT Diagonal Crossing is one of the most recent developments that holds true to this kind of legalized segregation. Both Diagonal Crossing and Celestial Seasonings are projects designed by Andy Allison and Coburn, and both projects separate market price buildings from affordable ones.

To understand the full impact this is having on the individuals who live in these developments, we visited Diagonal Crossing and spoke with several of its residents on both the affordable housing and market pricing sides. Many of the affordable housing residents are people and families of color.

Market rate residents recognize the separation between the two sides, but gave the differences little thought. One resident said, “That complex over there [affordable housing] is its own thing.” This sense of separation points to a failure by the developers, who pitch that there will be permeability between both sides.

They portray both sides feeling connected as one community. However, in reality, this flow is nowhere to be found; rather, there was a sense of the poor door.

Residents of Diagonal Crossing’s affordable side also recognize their separation from the market rate side.

They repeatedly stated that the market rate pool and community center are guarded and off limits to the lower income residents.

“I live here and the nicer community has heavy security. They have a guard that patrols around and a number of gates to get to the pool and community area that you need a special code and fob for.” (Again, confirmed by the leasing office.)

The developers received federal tax credits for the Diagonal Crossing

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build because of the 40% affordable housing requirement stipulated by the purchase. When federal dollars are involved, housing advocates like Sasha Harnden with the Western Center on Law and Poverty told NPR’s Morning Edition that builders may be violating federal fair housing laws “when a given action may have a disproportionate impact on a protected class, such as people of a certain race, elderly tenants, families with children.”

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The Fair Housing Act says, “It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin, including, (1) provide a person different housing services or facilities, and (2) limit privileges, services or facilities of a dwelling.” Both of these exist at Diagonal Crossing.

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segregated both pools and buildings at the proposed Celestial Seasonings build, but after the outcry from neighbors at the Planning Board meeting, they modified the plans to have one pool. Michelle Allen, Boulder’s Inclusionary Housing Program Manager, confirmed that because Diagonal Crossing utilized an old annexation agreement that did not specify anything about shared amenities, they could not require that outcome from Allison and Coburn. The Celestial Seasonings development will meet the minimum inclusionary housing requirement of equal access to amenities.

The segregated buildings of the proposed Celestial Seasonings development will have a different look and will use different materials, creating a very clear poor door. The development will already have a working-industrial feel. For example, on the north side of the property where the affordable housing will be located, semi-trucks thunder in and out of the developments a dozen times a day. With inadequate public transportation in both the short-and long-term, and a 35-minute walk to the nearest grocery store, the location is car dependent, a food desert and lacks the amenities to support another 650 people. This location is nowhere near being Boulder’s desired 15-minute neighborhood. To dismiss this reality compromises the quality of life for current and future residents of this Boulder neighborhood.

At the May 12 “Good Neighbor” meeting regarding the proposed development, Allison was specifically asked about the segregation of affordable and market price housing and he said, “We just completed a project, Diagonal Crossing, that has this same type of set up and it’s working great.” The Gunbarrel Community Alliance disagrees with his assessment, and the City of Boulder should too.

responsible for better conditions. We should stop congratulating developers who Boulder has permitted to become wealthy while meeting the bare minimum affordable housing requirement.

The Celestial Seasonings development will be a repeat of this same kind of unequal and unacceptable treatment of neighbors in our community. We encourage the Boulder Planning Board and City Council to review the housing conditions and experiences of Boulder residents in affordable housing while considering the highly controversial Celestial Seasonings proposed development.

We support the recommendations of City Council, the Planning Board and organizations including PLAN-Boulder who prioritize a subcommunity plan for Gunbarrel, particularly since the City allowed the previous Gunbarrel Community Center Plan to be cast aside for development.

CAN BOULDER BE BETTER? New York City banned the poor door in 2015 and a bill was introduced to the California legislature in 2020 to block developers from creating separate facilities for low-income and market-rate residents. Boulder is a unique and progressive city that needs to hold their developers

Gunbarrel Community Alliance Board of Directors include: Kit Fuller, Wanda Fuller, Julie Dye, April Lyons, Ardith Rietema, Rod Rietema, Mike Chiropolos, Counsel. www.gunbarrelcommunityalliance.org This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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NO MORE POOR DOOR. Boulder needs to recognize and ban poor door practices, effective immediately. Our community’s acute concern for social justice cannot turn a blind eye to fundamental abuses enabled by the status quo. This move would be supported by the emphasis on social equity throughout the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) and align with Boulder’s social justice efforts. The 2005 BVCP defined social equity as ensuring that “the needs of all members of the community, including those who are low income and marginalized, are considered and included in the planning and decisionmaking process.”

It’s time for Boulder to cease the practice of allowing segregated affordable housing that undermines equity and reinforces the stigma and unequal access that comes with segregating housing by income.

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am a farmer in Boulder County, and participated in the process. I am and I wholeheartedly support the sorry that Mr. Talbott was not one of agricultural worker’s rights bill, them, as white male farmers do expect SB21-087, that is being debated in that privilege, but he is also incorrect. the Colorado House of Finally, this bill is about basic Representatives. I have worked in human rights. All the issues Mr. agriculture for 8 years and I’ve learned Talbott has with this bill pale beside that agricultural workers are some of the difficult but unavoidable facts. the most essential people in our world, Agricultural workers are excluded and some of the most silenced and from many basic protections that most neglected. In of us would considresponse to Bruce er universal in the Talbott’s column on workplace: miniMay 20 (RE: Guest mum wage, safety are Column, and health policies, “Agricultural rights’ the right to orgaexcluded from many bill will harm worknize and so many ers it purports to basic protections that other rights the rest help”) I want to set of the work force a few things most of us would con- has been guaranstraight. teed for decades.

We do have a sider universal in the It’s disheartening to crisis in farming, me to hear farmers workplace. but it isn’t the crisis creating reasons to Talbott foresees as a ignore these basic result of this bill. The crisis is that the human rights protections. Ultimately, system does not value farmers nor this bill addresses racism and exploitafarm workers nor the products we tion, especially of immigrant workers produce. That young farmers are conin Colorado. I have worked closely cerned that they will not be able to with immigrant farm workers, and I afford their employees is not a probsupport this bill because they are the lem with the bill. It is a problem with glue and the backbone of so many a system in which for one industry, agricultural operations. Their knowlagriculture, it is acceptable and sancedge and skills are invaluable. It is tioned to not pay a living wage, not unfathomable and unconscionable that pay overtime and not take care of the they are not protected when they are health and safety of our workers. so important to our state.

We blame the consumers, who we This bill, SB21-087, isn’t about fear will not take on the “extra” cost of hurting farmers. It’s about protecting treating people like human beings. In vulnerable people who cannot speak fact, at least 10 other states have a up. If we cannot do this basic thing in minimum wage for agricultural workour industry, then we should find ers, and farmers in those states are sol- other work. We have no right to vent and selling their products to con- exploit vulnerable people and call it sumers who pay for them. essential work. This bill only puts into Mr. Talbott also complained about words the decent, baseline things we not having a say in the writing of the should already be doing for our workbill and claimed his exclusion. Yet I ers and our community. I challenge heard about the bill originally from my farming colleagues to stand up to the National Young Farmers the status quo and start to make farm Coalition, who have been working work an occupation that is humane, closely with farmers to care for farm fulfilling, noticed and valued. workers’ needs in the process of writHelen Skiba is the owner of Farmette ing the bill. They are joined by the Flowers in Longmont.

Mile High Farmers and many indiThis opinion column does not necesvidual farmers across the state who sarily reflect the views of Boulder have been consulted and have advised Weekly.

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A community’s response Reflections from the White Mountain Apache Tribe a year into the pandemic

story and photos by Alberto Mariani, Cronkite News

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he COVID-19 pandemic hit Native Americans especially hard. But as the spotlight turned to larger communities, including the Navajo Nation, the White Mountain Apache Tribe quietly battled to save its 15,000 members.

Now, more than a year since the first COVID-19 cases were recorded in the U.S., the tribe in eastern Arizona has slowed the spread of the disease and helped curb death rates through a combination of intense contact-tracing, surveillance of high-risk individuals and, finally, vaccinations.

Last year, the reservation was considered a hotspot. By Sept. 1, five months after the tribe’s first recorded COVID-19 case, it had 2,400 cases and had lost 39 people. Over the next six months, there were 1,500 new cases and just 10 additional deaths.

Systemic social and health inequities, along with multiple generations living under one roof, have put residents of rural towns like Whiteriver at greater risk of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Each day at 9 a.m., a team of medical professionals and tribal members gathers at the Whiteriver Indian Hospital to evaluate the spread of the virus. The morning session lasts about half an hour, then staff are assigned cases for follow up.

They separate into smaller teams and head out across the reservation, going door to door to check on those who are positive with COVID-19, to monitor vital signs of those at-risk and to vaccinate those who agree.

Early on, the medical team used pulse oximeters to assess patients’ vital signs more accurately and spot positive cases before more pronounced symptoms developed.

This outreach effort helped the team form a stronger bond

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JUSTIN TAFOYA, a with tribal members, which medical registered nurse serving workers say allowed them to get better as a public information information about who might have been Altaha about his health exposed to the virus and respond quickly to any deteriorating cases.

Altaha’s vital signs at This familiarity with the community is partly attributed to health outreach programs that were in place before the COVID-19 outbreak last spring, and the inclusion of tribal members among the contact-tracing team.

Now that vaccinations are underway, that bond has been a valuable tool to deter skepticism about whether the shots are safe.

Kristen Parker, outreach director for Public Health Service, notes that everyone in the community has been touched by tragedy during the pandemic. But now that she’s able to deliver vaccines, she says, “It feels amazing to be part of the solution.”

Once vaccines became available, health care workers went directly to homes to administer them because not everyone can easily get to mass vaccination events. Often, more than one member of a household is vaccinated during a single visit.

Bonnie Lewis gets her second shot — completing her vaccinations series — and urges others to do the same. “Go ahead and get it, because a lot of my family members have got COVID-19 and a lot of us have ended up in the hospital. That’s what happens if you don’t,” she says.

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ASSISTANT explains the vacAlthough he cination procedure remains wary of to a member of the potential vaccine White Mountain Apache Tribe at a side effects, he says vaccination event. he’s relieved to get protected. He got COVID-19 but experienced only mild symptoms. His wife was hospitalized last year.

Even though some skepticism about the vaccine persists among the White Mountain Apache, medical officers say they’re confident they’ll be able to vaccinate most tribal members.

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JUSTIN TAFOYA TAFOYA, left, and Kristen Parker visit the home of a White Mountain Apache who’s scheduled for a COVID-19 vaccination in Whiteriver on Feb. 17. Parker is a pharmacist and outreach director at Whiteriver Indian Hospital.

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Blasting the planet next door

By Travis Metcalfe

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n September 1859, the most powerful explosion in recorded history burst from the surface of the sun, releasing more energy than a billion of the largest nuclear bombs that have ever been in the U.S. arsenal. When the magnetic eruption reached the Earth, it induced currents in telegraph wires across the globe, shooting sparks out of pylons and delivering an electrical shock to some operators. Last month, researchers at the University of Colorado announced unprecedented observations of an even more powerful event that came from the nearest star to the solar system, Proxima Centauri.

Sun-like stars are born with strong magnetic fields, which gradually decay throughout their lifetimes. In their youth, turbulent motions near the surface of a star frequently twist up their magnetic fields and produce violent eruptions that send harmful radiation and charged particles bursting into space. By the time stars reach middle-age like our sun, these stellar flares become much less frequent and typically release less energy. The most powerful explosions on the sun occur about once in a century, while more feeble events are happening all the time.

Stars are formed in a variety of sizes, and the smallest of them age more slowly than the largest.

The lifetime of a star is determined by the amount of fuel around the nuclear-fusion-powered core, and by how quickly they burn through that fuel. Like automobiles, tiny Prius-like stars are more efficient than their bloated SUV-like cousins. The sun is about halfway through its 10-billion-year lifetime, while smaller red dwarf stars like Proxima Centauri can live a thousand times longer. Since the universe has only existed for less than 14 billion years, even the oldest red dwarf stars are still in their infancy and display the magnetic exuberance that is typical of youth.

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orbit each other every 80 years while distant Proxima swings around the pair every half-million years. Two planets have been discovered around Proxima, one of which has a size similar to the Earth and orbits in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could theoretically exist.

However, this zone is snuggled quite close to faintly

shining Proxima compared to our solar system, making the frequent and energetic flares from the young red dwarf even more problematic.

“It is hard to imagine that lifeforms like we have on Earth would be able to survive,” says Meredith MacGregor, an assistant professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at CU Boulder. “Any life would have had to evolve to be able to handle continual large doses of ultraviolet radiation.”

MacGregor is a Boulder native, and she was an eager participant in science fair competitions starting in elementary school. As a high school junior, she won a top award at Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair for a novel physics experiment she conducted in the basement of her family home.

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faculty at CU a few months ahead of the pandemic.

Two years ago, MacGregor coordinated an intense campaign to monitor the brightness of Proxima over several months using nine different telescopes, measuring light from the ultraviolet to high-energy radio waves. The idea was to capture the wide spectrum of radiation produced by the freNASA quent stellar flares on Proxima to better understand the physics that drives these energetic events. During the campaign, Proxima released a flare that was roughly 100 times more powerful than the 1859 event on the sun.

“The star went from normal to 14,000 times brighter when seen in the ultraviolet over the span of a few seconds,” explains MacGregor.

“Proxima Centauri’s planets are getting hit by something like this not just once in a century, but at least once a day if not several times a day.”

Although the observations are a bad sign for the prospects of life on Proxima’s planets, humanity may get a chance to see for themselves later this century. In 2016, venture capitalist Yuri Milner announced an initiative to send a fleet of microchipsized space probes to fly past Proxima Centauri. Each “starchip” would weigh about as much as a penny, attached to a reflective “light sail” measuring 15 feet across. Once in orbit with their light sails unfurled, high-powered lasers on Earth would accelerate the tiny spacecraft to 15-20% of the speed of light, allowing them to make the journey to the nearest star in 20-30 years.

The project is estimated to cost up to $10 billion, with the first launch anticipated in 2036. Considering the duration of the mission, and the additional four years to return data from that distance, future astronomers could release the first images of the crispy planet next-door sometime in the 2060s. Yes friends, there’s a lot of space between the stars.

Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder. The Lab Notes series is made possible in part by a research grant from the National Science Foundation.

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n 2005, Michelle Vanek disappeared while hiking Mount of the Holy Cross, her first attempt to summit one of Colorado’s infamous fourteeners. Only three hours or so from Boulder, with a trail all the way to the top, it’s considered relatively easy compared to some. But Vanek and her hiking partner made several critical missteps that day, easier to recognize now than in the moment.

They followed the wrong trail out of the parking lot.

They didn’t have proper navigational equipment, instead using an illustrative map out of a guidebook. They forgot their water filter and most of their food in the car. Instead of turning back, they followed a much-less trafficked, more difficult and longer trail toward the summit. When Vanek ran out of water just shy of 14,000 feet, the two split up, agreeing to meet at a lower elevation after her hiking partner bagged the peak.

It would be the last time anyone ever saw her. Her body still hasn’t been found.

Growing up on the Front Range, it all felt eerily close for Emma Walker. How could someone just vanish into thin air in somewhat familiar terrain, easily conjured in her mind’s eye? Her parents watched a steady stream of media coverage of Vanek’s disappearance. Walker remembers video footage and photos of Vanek, her family, her kids, who had just lost their mom. And she remembers feeling deep empathy for the friend Vanek was with that day, wondering how he was coping with the presumable guilt of being the last one to see her.

“From our comfortable living rooms, it’s easy to read the facts about the events leading to Michelle Vanek’s disappearance and wax poetic about all the things we’d have done differently,” Walker writes in her new book Dead Reckoning: Learning from Accidents in the Outdoors, out June 1 from Falcon Guides. “But the truth is, I’ve made almost all the mistakes Vanek and her partner made that day.”

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derness areas like the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota. There’s also an entire chapter on bears, both in Colorado and Alaska, as well as one about unfamiliar terrain, using her experience in the tropical climate of the big island of Hawaii, which is prone to flash flooding. And she ends each chapter with a palatable and accessible bulleted “Lessons Learned” list.

In the chapter on fourteeners, Walker writes about her own first attempt on Grays and Torreys Peak as a 20-year-old studying at CU Boulder. Although it felt like the crack of dawn to college students, Walker and her friend didn’t start hiking until 7:30 a.m., late by most hikers’ standards, as Colorado is notorious for its almost predictable summer afternoon thunderstorms. Walker carried her school bookbag with a few snacks and only a half liter of water packed inside.

Luckily — and it really was a matter of luck — the sky stayed clear all day and no storms rolled in. Plus, they were in pretty good EMMA WALKER rapthe sometimes-catastrophic misadventures of shape as college students and pelling off the back of others, Walker creates a manual for how to presummitted Grays despite the the First Flatiron. pare and stay safe in the outdoors. In it, she lack of water and food. At that Inset: Walker with her makes accident narratives accessible to everyone, point, they decided to turn friend at the summit of not just experts and rescuers, with the intent of back toward the car, exhausted, Grays Peak, her firsthelping others avoid similar situations. It’s about hungry and fresh out of water. ever fourteener, in 2010. awareness of the dangers of recreating in wild Years later, Walker says they places and heading out the door prepared. It’s for were lucky not to end up on novice and expert adventurers alike — anyone the front page. who could unintentionally find themselves in risky “It’s so alluring in Colorado. Everybody wants situations. to hike a fourteener, but it’s not Disneyland,” she “I want people to be able to read this book and says. “Even the easiest fourteeners are not just a then apply it to whatever they’re going out and walk up, like, you could get into some trouble.” doing,” Walker says. “Being able to read about close So, what is dead reckoning? calls or accidents and pick out where things started Used much more before the advent of GPS, to go wrong and then to be thoughtful yourself as and even more before topographic maps, dead you’re getting involved in whatever activity it is.” reckoning is a navigational technique that can help Walker covers a range of activities with chapyou resituate yourself in the outdoors by determinters on avalanches, mountaineering, deserts, whiteing a rough location based on estimations of speed, water sports, sea kayaking in places like Alaska’s Prince William Sound and remote big-water wilsee DEAD RECKONING Page 18

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direction and course you’ve already traveled, relative to your last known position. It requires you to be aware of your surroundings and have a general sense of where you are. It means understanding about how fast you move, and how that differs based on the conditions around you.

“It can be super badass, right?” Walker says. “It’s like there was a whiteout and they found their way back to the trailhead by dead reckoning. But it’s also a really simple skill and if you’re prepared, it could totally save your life.”

Although the concept may be mentioned at an introduction navigation course at a local gear shop, it’s not something that is usually taught in depth, given navigation technology now available to us.

“When those things fail and you know, your battery dies or you drop your phone in the lake, having that skill to rely on, to fall back on, is really nice,” Walker says.

Thankfully, she says, she’s only had to use the technique herself a few times, and never in a survival situation.

But in her book, dead reckoning is also about understanding what has happened to other people while adventuring in the outdoors and learning from it in the hopes of avoiding it yourself.

“Having this kind of knowledge and being prepared in this way is another skill in your wilderness tool belt,” she says. “Just as you would need to know how to navigate and know some basic first aid and be able to identify edible plants or what aren’t edible plants. … And I think that being prepared by knowing what could happen and how to avoid those accidents is yet another skill.”

There may be objective hazards in the wilderness, but there are plenty of subjective ones too.

“When you bring humans into the mix, it gets a whole lot more complicated,” she says. “There are mistakes that we make because we’re people and we don’t want to be embarrassed or we don’t want our friends to have a bad time or we really want to get this picture to post on Instagram or whatever.”

Throughout her career in the outdoor industry, Walker says she’s read, written and edited hundreds, maybe even thousands, of accident reports.

So many, in fact, that she recognizes certain patterns, with almost all accidents boiling down to a handful of recognizable factors, no matter what the activity is.

“I think a really big one that I see, almost constantly, is a lack of communication within groups,” she says. “So whether that’s not communicating beforehand or not having everybody be on the same page about the goal or abilities or whatever it is. I think that tends to get people in over their heads.”

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“There’s also sort of what I would call a confidence-competence gap,” she says, where someone’s confidence exceeds their competence, with sometimes disastrous consequences.

“So that gets them in over their heads,” she says. “I see that a lot with things you can’t really back out of, like in the winter back country — once you’re out there and the avalanche starts,

But as a competent climber, she says, a day of sport climbing with known partners who are careful and diligent, she knows a fall, while high risk, has a fairly low probability of happening. Or seeing a mountain lion on a popular hiking trail at Chautauqua is not very likely, given the sheer number of people who use the trails every day. But, if she did run into one by herself, it could be catastrophic. So, she considers the time of day (mountain lions are known to prowl between dusk and dawn) and researches how to respond if she were to encounter one.

The goal isn’t to avoid outdoor activities all together, it’s to know what you’re getting yourself into.

“If you know what’s out there, COURTESY OF EMMA WALKER it’s easier to stay alive,” Walker writes in the book’s introduction.

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that luck favors the prepared.”

As a Colorado native who now adventures out of her home base of Boise, Idaho, Walker knows what it’s like to become increasingly frustrated as trailheads are more and more crowded. She has been known to get annoyed at folks just starting out on a fourteener in the middle of a storm as she’s almost back to the car.

“But they’re not trying to be idiots. They’re trying to have a good time,” she says. “Everybody has the right to enjoy the same kinds of things we do. But I hope that they can be a little bit more EMMA WALKER headthat’s it, you don’t have a chance to walk it prepared when they do it.” ing into the Ruby back.”

And for readers who may have Horsethief section of the Colorado River, just a little more experience, Walker Or it happens a lot in river sports, where outside Fruita. people read a rating, like class III or class IV hopes they not only learn somerapids, and assume they can handle it, even thing they hadn’t necessarily though each river is different and every day’s thought of before, but also come conditions are different. away with a little more empathy for “The balance for me is between how newcomers. likely something is to happen and how bad the “I hope that it’s something that makes our consequences of that thing happening are,” Walker community feel more inclusive for people,” she says. “It’s more art than science. And it’s really per- says. sonal and really subjective.”

There is a certain morbidity to the book, One summer Walker was training to be a Walker admits, but it’s not at the expense of the whitewater rafting guide on Clear Creek in victim. Similar to the current obsession with true Golden when a 10-year-old fifth grader was crime podcasts and stories, she says, understanding thrown out of his boat on the Arkansas River and the sometimes gory details of an incident can leave died. The first time she had been rafting was on the reader feeling more empowered and prepared the Arkansas River at 10 years old. Plus, she’d to deal with something similar. Learning from spent the whole summer purposefully getting these stories will, hopefully, lead people not to thrown out of boats and trying to swim to shore as repeat the same mistakes. part of her training. That accident, in particular, “I certainly don’t relish anybody’s suffering or rattled her. So much so that she abandoned her the bad days that they had that made it possible for quest to become a rafting guide after getting certithis book to exist. But I do hope that their legacy fied and assisting on multiple trips. can be that other folks learn from those mistakes “I wasn’t able to accept the risk that I could be and don’t suffer the same fate,” she says. “I try to be responsible for a fifth grader dying,” she says. “That really careful and cautious, but if something like was too much.” that happens to me, tell my story.”

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SROs and racism

A visual report Comic by Will Betke-Brunswick, intro by Caitlin Rockett

ill Betke-Brunswick makes comics that blend the do-ityourself aesthetic of a zine with the punchy-one-liner vibe of a New Yorker comic.

“I like to make comics and zines about things that are emotionally charged or complicated,” says the nonbinary artist, who uses they/them pronouns. “[I make comics about] subjects that people have a lot of feelings about because [comics] can make it more accessible.”

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officers, in public schools around the country, including here in Boulder County. Betke-Brunswick created the panels as a participant of the pilot TRENDS Reporting Fellowship program, a partnership between the Community Foundation and KGNU Radio. Betke-Brunswick joined 10 other fellows for the fall-to-spring program, which placed a focus on bringing diverse voices into journalism, and gave participants the chance to learn new reporting techniques and produce stories around pressing community issues.

“Many people have been credited with the old saying, ‘I wish I had time to write a shorter letter,’” says Chris Barge, vice president of communications and engagement for the Community Foundation. “I think what Will pulls off in four frames in a panel is that shorter letter. I think that the medium (comics) lends itself well to editorial opinion. What they do is really inhabit the same space with their graphic illustration that a columnist would at a metropolitan newspaper. It is opinionated and reported out. In their case it’s also drawn out.”

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Events

‘SEGUIMOS / WE CONTINUE,’ A PROGRAM HONORING THE COMMUNITY-GENERATED SCULPTURE ‘EL MOVIMIENTO SIGUE.’

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5 p.m. Thursday, May 27, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

BMoCA and the Office of Arts and Culture invite the community to gather together outside to celebrate El movimiento sigue and honor Los Seis de Boulder. The program will feature music and remarks from artist Jasmine Baetz and others about the sculpture. It will offer attendees an opportunity to come together to discuss and reflect on the themes of El movimiento sigue and the current state of equal opportunity in our community. It will also mark the release of an essay by Juan Espinosa, a photographer and journalist who was a University of Colorado Boulder student and one of the original students who advocated with Los Seis de Boulder for continued funding and growth for the university’s Educational Opportunity Programs in the early 1970s.

If your organization is planning an event of any kind, please email Caitlin at crockett@boulderweekly.com.

EAST WINDOW SCREENS GREGG DEAL’S FILM ‘THE LAST AMERICAN INDIAN ON EARTH.’

7-8 p.m. Friday, May 28, east window, 4949 Broadway, Unit 102-B, Boulder. Free.

Gregg Deal’s film (runtime: 22 minutes) documents what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of a stereotype, one that for most is the only authentic expression of what it means to be an Indigenous person of the American continent. This piece is a window into the funny, sarcastic, truthful and even emotional journey of an artist using himself as an instrument of awareness, exploring questions of Indigenous identity and America’s problematic and often inept relationship with its nation’s First Peoples.

This is an outdoor event. Bring something to sit on and please wear a mask.

PASSWORD COMEDY SHOW.

8 p.m. Thursday, May 27, The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont.

Presented by Sidesplitting Entertainment, a free-admission show guaranteed to make you laugh.

BOULDER BOOK STORE PRESENTS DANIEL BARBARISI — ‘CHASING THE THRILL.’

6 p.m. Wednesday, June 2. Free. Virtual Event URL: boulderbookstore.net When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure’s secret location.

But he didn’t die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune.

Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn’s hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn’s hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself.

SMITHKLEIN GALLERY PRESENTS A MINI EXPO WITH WORKS BY GERARD MORTIER.

1-4 p.m. Friday, May 28, SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder. Free.

Traversing the northern region of France with his easel, Gerard Mortier paints as the light of the moment inspires him. The soft mauves and blues of the skies and the luminescent immaculate white facades, blue shutters and brilliant orange rooftops of the region’s houses are typical of Mortier’s work. The show will run through June 18.

BOOKS & BIKES SCHOOL DRIVE FOR WOUNDED KNEE.

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and before 1 p.m. on Sundays through June 15, Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder.

Unity of Boulder is sponsoring a books, bikes and school supplies drive for our friends in the Lakota Community of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, to help families who are having difficulty providing the proper tools for their children to succeed in school. A complete list of supplies needed can be found here: unityofboulder.com/events/books-bikes-school-supply-drive. Cash donations can be made here: eventbrite.com/e/152143480245.

Please drop off items at Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center. Questions? Call 303-442-1411 or email info@unityofboulder.com The last day to drop off items will be June 15. Items will be delivered to Wounded Knee on June 20.

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BOLDER ON THE RUN 10K.

All Memorial Day weekend, May 29–May 31, bb10K.bolderboulder.com Choose your 10K experience. Join the BOLDER on the RUN in person. Choose from six marked, measured and timed courses. Each offers amazing views and a different type of challenge. Choose your time: 6:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Reserve your two-hour block as soon as you can.

Spots are limited to stay below safety guidelines. Note that you can start anytime during your two-hour time block.

LOBSTER POT PATIO POP-UP AT HOTEL BOULDERADO.

4-9 p.m.

Saturday, May 29, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder.

Feast on Maine lobster, crab legs, lobster rolls and more on the hotel’s Pine Street Patio.

Every Wed-Sat. For patio seating reservations or curbside pick-up, call 303-442-4880.

SPRING 2021 COLORADO MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL.

11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30, Westminster City Park, 10455 N. Sheridan Blvd., Westminster. Price: $12.

Major concerts. 100 professional visual artists.

Classic cars. Hot food. Cold beer. $10. Come have a blast with your friends and neighbors!

BOULDER CREEK FESTIVAL SUMMER SUNDAYS.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, May 30, Central Park, Boulder.

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THIRD ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY ‘MURPH’ TRIBUTE EVENT.

8:30 a.m. Monday, May 31, Training For Warriors Longmont, 950 Boston Ave., Longmont.

Free.

Test your physical and mental fitness in TFW’s annual Memorial Day tribute event. As an individual or team, you will complete: 1-mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 pushups, 300 air squats, 1-mile run... with weighted vest optional. Participants may elect to complete in the traditional format or variations including shorter sets, partner/ team sets or with modifications. This event is free and open to the public. Please contact TFW Longmont to register and receive a start time.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN BRASSWORKS MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT.

11 a.m. Monday, May 31, Broomfield Commons Park, 13200 Sheridan Blvd., Broomfield. Free.

Join a rousing concert fitting for the holiday and our return to life after a long COVID break. Rocky Mountain Brassworks will play a bit of everything, from zesty marches to movie themes, British sea songs and more. The band will be smaller due to COVID considerations, but they’ll still bring their signature sound and musicianship.

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THE COLORADO VETERANS PROJECT MEMORIAL DAY RUN AND MARCH.

6:30 a.m. Saturday, May 29, UCHealth Park, 4385 Tutt Blvd., Colorado Springs, memorialdaymarch.com The Colorado Veterans Project will host its first physical event in over a year with its Memorial Day Run and March. In its seventh year, and for the first time being held in Colorado Springs, the annual run and march raises funds and collects food donations for veterans across the state experiencing homelessness. A virtual participation option is also available for supporters around the world. Civilians and military personnel are invited to participate in a 5K, 10K or 30K run. For an added challenge, participants are encouraged to bring a 25-pound rucksack with nonperishable food items to race with and donate following the run. All participants are invited to bring nonperishable food to be donated to Care & Share Food Bank to help feed local veterans in need.

BEN HARPER.

7 p.m. Monday, May 31, Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.

Catch Ben Harper’s eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock this Memorial Day at Red Rocks.

MEMORIAL DAY BLUEGRASS FEST FEATURING: ARKANSAUCE.

1–6 p.m. Monday, May 31, Buffalo Rose, 1119 Washington Ave., Golden.

Arkansauce is a genre-hopping, four-piece string band from northwest Arkansas, bending the rules and blurring the lines between bluegrass, newgrass, folk, Americana, with notes of country, blues, and funk.

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DAVIES, GINGER KNOWLTON AND PAM SICA.

June 1-30. First Friday reception: 6-9 p.m. June 4, The Gallery @ the Bus Stop Apartments, 4895 Broadway, Boulder.

Three artists have come together to present bodies of work that connect us to one another and to document our inner spaces in an outward way. Our intention is to witness and pay homage to our unique art practices as sources of healing and release, and to showcase them as inspiration for others to process their emotions from the past year. Bring your masks, your picnic baskets, and be ready to stroll the galleries and studios and take in art and live music.

BOULDER BOOK STORE PRESENTS NORMAN FISCHER — ‘WHEN YOU GREET ME I BOW,’ WITH CYNTHIA SCHRAGER.

5 p.m. Thursday, May 27.

Tickets are $5. Virtual Event URL: boulderbookstore.net Norman Fischer will speak about his new book, When You Greet Me I Bow, in conversation with Cynthia Schrager for this special event. Fischer is a Zen priest, poet and translator. When You Greet Me I Bow spans the entirety of Fischer’s career and is the first collection of his writings on Buddhist philosophy and practice.

POLLINATOR-SAFE PLANT EXCHANGE.

9 a.m.-noon. Saturday, May 29, Unitarian Universalist Church, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Free.

Free and organic plants. If you don’t have any plants to give, come take some anyway. Or bring a can of food — it’ll be given to a local food bank. Face masks required.

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WRENN & IAN (WITH DALTON).

6 p.m. Friday, May 28, Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

A dynamic singer/songwriter duo from Lafayette.

DREW ZAREMBA TRIO.

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We’re here so you can Live and Die Your Values.

7 p.m. Friday, May 28, Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.

Drew Zaremba enjoys an international reputation as an award-winning writer, a passionate conductor and fiery performer, playing Hammond organ in the trio setting.

AN EVENING WITH BOWREGARD.

8 p.m. Friday, May 28, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Winners of both the 2019 Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest and the 2018 Ullrgrass Bluegrass Band Contest.

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REX PEOPLES & XFACTR BAND.

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Straight up blues.

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7 p.m. Saturday, May 29, The Louisville Underground, 640 Main St., Louisville.

A combination of a funk-filled heart and deep-bayou soul.

DAWN CLEMENT AND MONIQUE BROOKS-ROBERTS.

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Saturday, May 29, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Energetic, funky, jam, acoustic, classic rock playing your favorite covers and originals.

BACK PORCH SERIES AT THE DAIRY: LEY LINE.

5 p.m. Sunday, May 30, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Price: $25.

Raised on the North American traditions of blues, folk and soul, and inspired by their world travels, Ley Line creates a global soundscape, blending rhythms and influences from Brazil, Latin America and West Africa.

DEVYN RAE TRIO.

JOHNNY & THE MONGRELS.

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ESPRESSO!

7 p.m. Saturday, May 29, Trident Cafe & Booksellers, 940 Pearl St., Boulder.

Espresso! merges two musical traditions with red-hot interpretations of American swing and Gypsy jazz.

AN EVENING WITH ACOUSTIC AMBUSH.

4 p.m. Saturday, May 29, Last Stand Tavern, 32138 Highway 72, Golden.

Traditional honky tonk with a touch of modern country music.

Seth

Boulder Road, Lafayette.

Pianist/vocalist/composer Dawn Clement joins forces with violinist Monique Brooks-Roberts.

7 p.m. Sunday, May 30, Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.

A contemporary mix of jazz, singer-songwriter and soul.

TVBOO WITH PASHMONIX.

8 p.m. Thursday, June 3, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Pronounced “taboo,” TVBOO is quickly becoming one of the rising stars in the drum and bass scene.

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a sleeping lion inside you, Virgo, I expect it to wake up soon. And if your inner lion is already wide awake and you have a decent relationship with it, I suspect it may soon begin to come into its fuller glory.

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “Open your mouth only if what you are

going to say is more beautiful than silence,” declares an Arab proverb. That’s a high standard to aspire to.

Even at our very best, when we’re soaring with articulate vitality, it’s hard to be more beautiful than silence for more than, say, 50% of the time. But here’s a nice surprise: You could exceed that benchmark during the next three weeks. You’re primed to be extra expressive and interesting. When you speak, you could be more beautiful than silence as much as 80% of the time.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Here’s the definition of an emotional support animal: “a companion animal that provides therapeutic benefit to a person with a mental or psychiatric disability.” I don’t mean to be flippant, but I think every one of us has at least one mental or psychiatric disability that would benefit from the company of an emotional support animal. If you were ever going to acquire such an ally, the coming weeks would be prime time to do so. I encourage you to also seek out other kinds of help and guidance and stimulation that you’d benefit from having. It’s the resource-gathering phase of your cycle. (P.S.: Cesar Chavez said: “You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.”)

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MAY 21-JUNE 20: A blogger named Valentine Cassius

reports, “A tiny old woman came into the deli where I work and ordered a ‘wonderful turkey sandwich.’ When asked what she wanted on the sandwich other than turkey, she said ‘all of your most wonderful toppings.’”

Here’s my response to that: The tiny old woman’s approach usually isn’t very effective. It’s almost always preferable to be very specific in knowing what you want and asking for it. But given the current astrological omens, I’ll make an exception for you in the next three weeks. I think you should be like the tiny old woman: Ask life, fate, people, spirits and gods to bring you all of their most wonderful toppings.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: “I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held,” testifies Cancerian novelist Erin Morgenstern. “Tired of trying to control what cannot be controlled.” Here’s good news for her and all Cancerians. You have cosmic permission to surrender — to no longer try to hold things together that can’t be held or try to control what can’t be controlled. Maybe in a few weeks you will have gained so much relaxed new wisdom that you’ll be inspired to make fresh attempts at holding together and controlling. But that’s not for you to worry and wonder about right now. Your assignment is to nurture your psychological and spiritual health by letting go.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Philosopher Georges Bataille wrote, “The

lesson of Wuthering Heights, of Greek tragedy and, ultimately, of all religions, is that there is an instinctive tendency towards divine intoxication which the rational world of calculation cannot bear. This tendency is the opposite of Good. Good is based on common interest, which entails consideration of the future.” I’m going to dissent from Bataille’s view. I agree that we all have an instinctive longing for divine intoxication, but I believe that the rational world needs us to periodically fulfill our longing for divine intoxication. In fact, the rational world grows stale and begins to decay without these interludes. So the truth is that divine intoxication is crucial for the common good. I’m telling you this, Leo, because I think the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to claim a healthy dose of divine intoxication.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Virgo actor Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) won the most prestigious awards possible for her work in films, TV and theater: Oscars, Emmys and a Tony.

She was intelligent, talented and beautiful. Life was a challenge when she was growing up, though. She testified, “I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up.” If you have

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Libran author Antonio Tabucchi described

the frame of mind I recommend for you in the coming days. I hope you’ll be eager to embrace his farreaching empathy. Like him, I trust you will expand your capacity to regard the whole world as your home.

Here’s Tabucchi’s declaration: “Like a blazing comet, I’ve traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I’ve been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I’ve been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I’ve been the serene Buddha of the East. I’ve been the sun and the moon.”

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Author James Frey writes, “I used to think I was tough, but then I realized I wasn’t. I was fragile and I wore thick armor. And I hurt people so they couldn’t hurt me. And I thought that was what being tough was, but it isn’t.” I agree with Frey. The behavior he describes has nothing to do with being tough. So what does? That’s important for you to think about, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to be tough in the best senses of the word. Here are my definitions: Being tough means never letting people disrespect you or abuse you, even as you cultivate empathy for how wounded everyone is. Being tough means loving yourself with such unconditional grace that you never act unkind out of a neurotic need to over-defend yourself. Being tough means being a compassionate truth-teller.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Fragile intensity or intense fragility?

Ferocious gentleness or gentle ferocity? Vulnerable strength or strong vulnerability? I suspect these will be some of the paradoxical themes with which you’ll be delicately wrestling in the coming days. Other possibilities: sensitive audacity or audacious sensitivity; fluidic fire or fiery fluidity; crazy wisdom or wise craziness; penetrating softness or soft penetration; shaky poise or poised shakiness. My advice is to regard rich complexities like these as blessings, not confusions or inconveniences.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Birds that live in cities have come up with an ingenious adaptation. They use humans’ abandoned cigarette butts to build their nests. Somehow they discovered that nicotine is an insectide that dispels pests like fleas, lice and mites. Given your current astrological aspects, I’m guessing you could make metaphorically comparable adjustments in your own life. Are there ways you could use scraps and discards to your benefit?

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AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: A blogger named Raven testifies, “My

heart is a toddler throwing a tantrum in a store and my brain is the parent who continues to shop.” I’m pleased to inform you, Aquarius, that your heart will not act like that toddler in the coming weeks. In fact, I believe your heart will be like a sage elder with growing wisdom in the arts of intimacy and tenderness. In my vision of your life, your heart will guide you better than maybe it ever has. Now here’s a message to your brain: Listen to your heart!

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: The Voyager 1 space probe, launched

by NASA in 1977, is now more than 14 billion miles from Earth. In contrast, the farthest humans have ever penetrated into the ground is 7.62 miles. It’s the Kola Superdeep Borehole in northwest Russia.

Metaphorically speaking, these facts provide an evocative metaphor for the following truth: Most humans feel more confident and expansive about exploring the outer world than their inner realms. But I hope that in the coming weeks you will buck that trend, as you break all previous records for curious and luxurious exploration into your deepest psychic depths.

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by Michael J. Casey A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man. —Robert Warshow

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ike a lot of you, I spent 2020 at home. And, as you probably know, that meant

a volume started but abandoned, 2020 was it.

That’s how I came to pluck a book of Roger Ebert’s reviews off the shelf. What better way to pass the time than to get his thoughts on Critters 2? Verdict: He was not a fan.

Yet what struck me most about his reviews were not the movies themselves but the act of going to the movies. Ebert started writing for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967 — back when moviegoing was the thing — and many of his reviews from the ’60s, ’70s and even into the ’80s include reports on the audience: The length of the line to get in, the demographics present, if they responded to the movie and how. What was on screen was as important as how it worked with the audience. It all meant something to him. It was all a part of the PARAMOUNT PICTURES experience.

That something is what makes A Quiet Place Part II work. After a year of postponements and an industrywide pivot to streaming, Part II opens the theatrical summer movie season this Memorial Day weekend. If that’s not some good news, I don’t know what is.

As for what’s on the screen, Part II is standard forward, keeping what’s left of the Abbott family center stage: mother Evelyn (Emily Blunt), daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds), son Marcus (Noah Jupe) and an infant they must carry around in a soundproof bassinet, so the monsters don’t hear him. Not even Moses had it so good.

The focus on the family, the everyman hero, the long tracking/crane shots — KraWar of the Worlds design. Not to mention a defect so debilitating you wonder if the aliens did any research on the material composition of Earth before landing. appears they plan to hunt down and kill every last human individually. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine.

But the aliens can be dispatched, and that’s where Evelyn and Regan excel.

They’re not alone: A surprising number of characters appear capable — until the script asks them to do something stupid. Regan walks for miles on bloody, bare feet, past thousands of corpses without checking to see if one might have a similar shoe size.

Why bare feet? So she makes less noise when she walks, which is also why everyone moves very, very slow. The movie runs 97 minutes, but I bet the script is much shorter considering many scenes could be notated as, “So-and-so moves slowly as not to be heard by the monster, which screeches endlessly at nothing.”

These and a great many other thoughts raced through my head — including “Why didn’t Djimon Hounsou and Scoot McNairy ask for better parts?” — but they all evaporated the second my gaze drifted up and saw a band of light beaming over the audience and onto a screen 10 times the size of my TV. A few people applauded when the movie was over, and the rest seemed pleased. They were happy to be back. Summer is here. See you at the movies.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I would like you to be the referee in a disagreement. I am going out with a lady who insists that tinglehole is two words, as in tingle hole. I, on the other hand, believe it is one word. Like an adjective describing a condition: tinglehole.

Since this is your word, Dan, what do you say? Thank you in advance.

—Words With Friends With Benefits P.S. There is some seriously freaky GGG shit riding on your answer.

Dear WWFWB: A few years back you couldn’t watch 30 minutes of basic cable without seeing three ads marketing “tingling” lubes to straight couples. These lubes were touted like they were a revolutionary new way, as one KY ad put it, “to turn up the heat” on your sex life.

Yeah, no.

First of all, I remember seeing bottles of “hot lube” in sex shops and on the nightstands of my first boyfriends back when I came out in the 1980s. And the effect was, well, let’s just say that most bottles of hot lube were disposed nearly full. Because while hot lubes do make your hole tingle, it’s true, it’s not like they do the work. A lousy lay with hot lube on his dick is still a lousy lay. And getting hot lube all over your hole doesn’t “enhance the experience,” per KY, it only makes it more it difficult to move on from it; it’s impossible to fall asleep after sex — be it good or bad — when you’ve got a bad case of tinglehole.

P.S. It’s my word, I invented it and I say it’s one word. Enjoy your freaky shit!

Dear Dan: Longtime reader, first-time writer, love your column. Your question

from reader VIBEQ (Re: Savage Love, “Shafted,” May 20) struck a chord with me because I (hetero, cis, basically vanilla, male-shaped person) had the same phobia about my female partners using vibrators. But I overcame it! And doing so was 100% to my benefit!

I was a cripplingly shy, dorky, awkward teen and I had a lot of hang ups around sex — especially the irrational fear that no woman would ever find me satisfying compared to a vibrator. It really was a big hang up even after I became sexually active.

But one day in college, my girlfriend asked me to use her vibrator on her while we were fooling around. My internal monologue went basically like this: “Oh no, I’m doing it wrong and now she wants the vibrator... hmm, this is almost like having a second cock... hey, my second cock is also basically a robot...”

And then the bass line from the movie Terminator kicked in. I went to town and I’ve never looked back. It was very empowering. Another benefit of losing my vibratorphobia was that it gives me a way to be intimate with my partner even when I’m stressed out and not feeling up for intercourse — in the middle of a pandemic, for instance. And I owe this all to a former partner having the guts to make the big ask. If VIBEQ takes the plunge he may find it more than worthwhile!

—Good Vibes Dear GV: Thanks for sharing, GV! Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage, and visit savagelovecast.com.

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IT WON’T BE LONG NOW before it’s time to pick up some fresh Palisade and Western Slope peaches at the farmers’ market or grocery store. Every year, there seems to be something that impacts the growing season out there, whether it’s a freeze, hail or disease. Last year, an unseasonably late freeze on the Western Slope impacted up to 90% of peach trees. As a result, Palisade farmers will lose out on harvesting millions of pounds of peaches this season. Yikes. The good news: There will still be some peaches, they’ll just be available a little later than usual. Look for them in late June (as opposed to early June) through August.

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Local rosé options to consider with summer approaching

by Matt Cortina

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op in a wine store this Memorial Day weekend, or after, and you’re liable to see entire racks and sections transformed into rosé sections. Practically synonymous with summer, rosé has a wide flavor profile, from dry to sweet, fruity to floral. It’s made either solely from red wine grapes via various methods or by blending red and white varietals.

Boulder County winemakers offer several rosé options; here are a few favorites.

Dry Rosé - Silver Vines Winery

Silver Vines Winery, which opened a decade ago in Arvada, is currently building out its staff for a Boulder location. You can still order a bottle online or find Silver Vines wine in select liquor stores, and if rosé is what you’re after, the winery has a dry version worth seeking out. Aged in French oak barrels, this rosé carries some of that subtle wood flavor to the palate, along with a touch of vanilla. Floral aromas and dark berry flavors round out each sip.

2017 Rosato - Settembre Cellars

Boulder’s excellent Settembre Cellars harvests 100% Colorado-grown cabernet Franc grapes (the red grape does exceptionally well here) from a single vineyard with the express purpose of producing rosé. Winemakers then hand-sort, crush and press the grapes after brief contact with the skins, giving it its pinkish hue. What results is a light, dry and aromatic rosé that serves as an excellent expression of the style.

2020 Rosé - Bookcliff Vineyards

Bright and fruity, Bookcliff’s blended rosé has a touch of acid, an aroma of wild strawberries and the flavor of stone fruit. All the grapes blended into this rosé are grown out in Palisade. It’s a fine sipper by itself, but pairing it with a rich goat cheese is optimal. Bookcliff also has, pending availability, the Touch of Red rosé, a sweeter, fruit-forward blend that winemakers liken to Jolly Ranchers or sangria.

SCARPETTA

Frico Rosato - Scarpetta

The wine titans at Frasca launched a wine label, Scarpetta, several years ago — and you can find its line of Frico red, white and rosé wines in many local liquor stores. Like the red and white varieties, the Rosato is a bang for your buck.

Made from sangiovese, canaiolo and ciliegiolo grapes — varietals indigenous to Tuscany — the result is a light-boded rosé with high acidity and a refreshing crispness.

Venus de Vino Rosé - Augustina’s Winery

2017 Brut Rosé - Vinnie Fera Wine

Nederland-based Augustina’s Winery produces unique wine, like the Venus de Vino Rosé. This semi-sweet blend of Colorado-grown grapes is fruitforward, and taking a trip up into the mountains (check hours, given the pandemic) to sample it is a treat in and of itself.

The winemakers at Boulder’s Vinnie Fera Wine add a little sparkle to their rosé by fermenting it in the bottle and aging it for a year. It’s made of a pinot noir and chardonnay blend, with grapes sourced from Western vineyards. A touch of oak comes through in the wine, making this a unique rosé that ought to be on your tasting list.

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Plants, elevated

New vegan culinary academy in Boulder seeks to train chefs for a new dining landscape

by Matt Cortina

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Strawberry Rose Granita

Recipe Courtesy of Mark Reinfeld An original Italian ice, this dish takes just additional time for freezing and scraping. With these ratios, use a 1/2 hotel pan. If you use a larger or smaller pan, it may take a shorter/ longer time to freeze. This is a template for a

Think about using versions of this as an intermezzo and palate cleanser between courses.

Yields 1 1/2 cups granita.

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hen in Paris, I had the chance to dine at Chef Alain Passard’s L’Arpege, an internationally renowned restaurant that at the time (2015) was seen as cutting edge for its rooftop garden and transition to a plant-based menu. Passard picked veggies, herbs, fruits and more from the garden in the morning, and he and his team of chefs prepared them for a multi-course plantforward menu in the evening. In that dinner service, I tasted things I’ve never tasted before, and haven’t since. A stinging nettle soup — spicy, herbaceous and cut with a dollop of sour cream (it wasn’t vegan) — still reigns in But it all still was, truly, new and bold to focus on the plant, and not construct every dish around a hulking piece of meat. Since, of course, restaurants and chefs have caught up to the changing dietary preferences of diners. The esteemed Eleven Madison Park, in New York, recently announced it would switch to a meatless menu.

So if the world’s best restaurants are switching away from planet-harming meat, are there chefs ready to work in those kitchens and usher in a new, healthier, more

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Enter the Vegan Fusion Culinary Academy, which opened in March right here in Boulder.

Co-founded by Chef Mark Reinfeld, the Academy offers the Aspiring Chef professional career training program as well as classes for home cooks. Everything’s focused on getting people to cook vegan cuisine, using the latest skills, techniques and equipment (in concert with traditional cooking methods) to create the next wave of vegan food.

Participants of the Aspiring Chef program (which is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education) complete four months of in-person professional chef training and leave with a diploma in Vegan Culinary Arts — and the knowledge of how to turn plants into elevated culinary offerings.

The curriculum hits on culinary skills, business insights, integration of food as medicine and vegan philosophy.

The Academy is launching its summer home cook classes in June, including courses that introduce students to vegan cuisine, culinary fusions and desserts.

All of this takes place in a brand new facility under the direction of Reinfeld — an award-winning author, chef and inductee into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame — and his team of chef-instructors.

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1/2 pound fresh organic strawberries, chopped, or whole frozen strawberries (1 1/2 cups) 1/3 cup water 1/4 cup organic sugar 1/2 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 teaspoon rose water mint leaves Instructions 1) Place all the ingredients, except the mint leaves, in a strong blender and blend well.

2) Transfer to a 1/2 hotel pan and place in the freezer. Freeze for 30 minutes and scrape the sides with a fork. Return to the freezer.

Scrape the entire granita every 30 minutes and return to the freezer for up to 3 hours.

3) Garnish with mint leaves before serving.

Variations • Replace the strawberries with an equal amount of other fruit, such as blueberries, peaches or nectarines. Adjust the sweetener to taste, depending upon the sweetness of the fruit.

• Watermelon Mint Granita: Replace the strawberries with seeded watermelon and replace the lemon juice with lime juice. Add 1 teaspoon of mint extract.

• Mocha Granita: Omit the lemon juice and rose water. Replace the fruit and water with 1 1/2 cups of coffee and 1/8 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder. Add sweetener to taste.

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here are a lot of elements involved with choosing the right bud when you’re perusing a dispensary. There’s the classic sativa versus indica dilemma; then there’s the state of the strain’s trichomes, how good the flower smells, its color and, of course, the THC percentage listed on the label.

ABV ... content, and the effects are going to be way more profound,” says Shea, the grow manager at Veritas Fine Cannabis. “But that’s not exactly right with cannabis.”

High THC content doesn’t necessarily make for the best high, Shea says. Instead, “It’s all about the terpenes.”

“Those are what gives a strain its flavor, the smell profiles and its potency,” Plunkett, the marketing director at Veritas, adds.

However, in most cases, shopping by terpenes is easier said than done. Most dispensaries and producers don’t include that information on their menus, COURTESY VERITAS FINE CANNABIS cannabis containers or websites.

Most dispensaries only list the THC and sometimes CBD percentages.

Veritas is trying to change that, though, Shea and Plunkett say. Not just by describing each individual strain’s effects, with words like “tranquil,” “unwinding,” and “dreamy” on their labels; and by listing what each strain pairs well with, like “getting lost” or “stargazing.” But Veritas is also detailing each strain’s specific terpene profile on every label. All with the hope of changing the way people shop for their bud.

“It’s actually really uncommon in this industry right now to advertise [terpene profiles],” says All of those are important factors in select- Plunkett. “We list the top three terpenes within ing a cannabis strain to take home. But, each strain. So when a customer sees those according to Jordan Plunkett and Conor Shea three terpenes, they know that this strain is for with Veritas Fine Cannabis, many of their cus- them, or not for them.” tomers and cannabis consumers in legal Generally defined: terpenes are oils, states around the country put too much secreted by a strain’s trichomes — those emphasis on that last factor: THC percentage. sticky, crystalline glands on the cannabis flowWhen, actually, they should be looking for terer. They give each strain its distinct flavor, pene profiles. smell and, importantly, its unique effect on “It’s like buying beer: people think higher individual users. Because everyone’s natural

All about the terpenes

Veritas Fine Cannabis is changing the way people shop for bud by including terpene profiles on every label

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cannabinoid receptors are different, different combinations of terpenes and cannabinoids produce different effects for different people.

They work in tandem with one another — something known as the “entourage effect.”

There are over 100 different terpenes that cannabis strains exhibit. But there are a handful that are more common than others: there’s Myrcene, which has an herbal smell and flavor, often found in hops, mango and lemongrass; there’s Pinene, which is found in pine needles, rosemary, basil and dill; Caryophyllene, found in black pepper, cloves and cinnamon; Limonene, a citrusy terpene found in fruit rinds, juniper and peppermint; and Terpinolene, which is in nutmeg, tea tree, cumin and lilacs.

Those botanical compounds, in combination with a strain’s unique concentrations of THC, CBD and hundreds of other cannabinoids, all interact synergistically. This changes the behavior of other compounds already within the body to provide more profound energizing effects, more powerful relaxing effects or more relief from pain.

Terpenes increase potency as well, Shea explains. A strain with 15% THC and 5% terpenes can feel a lot more potent than one with 40% THC and .5% terpenes. That’s the entourage effect at work, he says.

And it’s why Veritas’ small-batch, handgrown craft cannabis lists the top three terpenes on every label. That way, Veritas customers can choose their bud accordingly, which is a much more informed way of choosing between different kinds of bud, Plunkett and Shea say. In a market that is becoming increasingly connoisseur, it’s a more accurate way for users to find the bud that they’ll enjoy most.

Veritas is also pushing terpene education and information through its social media platforms and website.

“We really want to make sure our customers are educated and know what they’re getting, and why they like it,” Plunkett says.

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