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A ladies virtual happy hour, 101st Army Dixieland Band, Strangebyrds, and more to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do...

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Local Theater Company gears up for season 10 with a new virtual series and expanded programming

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Gentle humor and acute observations in ‘First Cow’

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Beer and barbecue at 8,228 feet

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A beleaguered food industry asks Congress for help, Blackbelly/Santo owners build momentum in search for cure, and more

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Danish Plan: Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems Letters: Signed, sealed, delivered... your views Home viewing: ‘The Lady Eve’ on Blu-ray and DVD Words: ‘War of the Hummingbirds’ by Kevin EM Rodgers Savage Love: Cucking dykes Food/Drink: Food news and what to try this week in Boulder County Astrology: by Rob Brezsny Cannabis Corner: Time’s up, stoners. Please hand in your petitions now.

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Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems

by Paul Danish

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” —Yogi Berra

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ack in 1984 or 1985, the late Jerry Pournelle, sci-fi writer, futurist, computer geek and American polymath extraordinaire, wrote a piece for InfoWorld on the perils of predicting the future.

Generally speaking, he said, predictions you make for five years in the future will be overly optimistic.

Predictions you make for 20 years in the future will be overly conservative.

Then he made a prediction for 20 years in the future: Thanks to exponentially increasing computer power, I

in 20 years, it will be possible for anyone on Earth to find the answer to any question, provided the answer exists.

It was a bold prediction for the time. In 1985 the internet was still being cobbled together. The world wide web wouldn’t be available to the general public until 1991. Google didn’t come into existence until 1998.

But as more powerful search engines began to appear in the midand late-1990s, I thought of a small way I could monitor how Pournelle’s prediction was playing out.

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couple times a year I would look for them.

The first was titled “The Little Red God,” by an unknown author, probably written in the 19th century.

I found it online in late 2004, 20 years give or take after Pournelle’s prediction, with a straightforward Google search on the title.

The second poem was more mysterious. It was a short work about the discovery of the early surgical anesthetic ether by Crawford Long and William Morton in the 1840s. I had forgotten both its title and the author’s name, but the opening stanzas were unforgettable.

I’d search for it a couple times a year, using a phrase from the first stanza, “whet your saws.” I finally found it last year — quite by accident in the online edition of a 1933 collecsee DANISH PLAN Page 6

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tion of poems titled A Book of Americans by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét.

Pournelle’s prediction that it would be possible to find any known answer to any known question by 2005 was overly optimistic. But thanks to the use of artificial intelligence and the digitization of whole libraries of text and graphical material, I predict the prediction will eventually become a reality. Say, maybe 20 years from now.

“The Little Red God” and the first two stanzas of the ether poem appear below:

knows she lies; Shovel dung in the city mart To earn a crust for his chosen art; Build where the builders all have failed, And sail the seas that no man has sailed; Run a tunnel or dam a stream, Or damn the men who finance the dream; Tell a pal what his work is worth, Though he lose his last, best friend on earth; Lend the critical monkey-elf A razor — hoping he’ll kill himself; Wear the garments he likes to wear, Never dreaming that people stare; The Little Red God Go to church if his conscience wills, Here’s a little red song to the god of Or find his own — in the far, blue guts, hills.

Who dwells in palHe is kind and aces, brothels, gentle, or harsh huts; and gruff; The little Red God He is tender as it with the craw of love — or he’s grit; rawhide tough; would be possible to find The god who A rough-necked any known answer to any never learned rider in spurs how to quit; and chaps, known question by 2005 He is neither a Or well-groomed was overly optimistic. But son of the town fool with a frozen smile, — perhaps; ... I predict the prediction Or sad old toad in And this is the will eventually become a cask of bile; little Red God I He can dance sing, reality. Say, maybe 20 with a shoe-nail in Who cares not a years from now. his heel wallop for anyAnd never a sign thing of his pain reveal; That walks or He can hold a mob with an empty gallops, that crawls or struts, gun No matter how clothed — if it hasn’t And turn a tragedy into fun; got guts.

Kill a man in a flash, a breath, — Unknown Or snatch a friend from the claws of death; Title unknown Swallow the pill of assured defeat “O, whet your saws and shine your And plan attack in his slow retreat; knives, Spin the wheel till the numbers dance Ye surgeons, tried and true!

And bit his thumb at the god of Were going for to operate Chance; In eighteen-forty-two!

Drink straight water with whiskysoaks, “And, if the patient starts to yell Or call for liquor with temperance And bounce about the floor, folks; Just tell him Pain is bound to be, Tearless stand at the graven stone, And give him one chop more!”

Yet weep in the silence of night, — by Crawford Long and William alone; Morton, from A Book of Americans, Worship a sweet, white virgin’s glove,

by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Or teach a courtesan how to love; Benét.

Dare the dullness of fireside bliss, Or stake his soul for a wanton’s kiss; This opinion column does not necesBlind his soul to a woman’s eyes sarily reflect the views of Boulder When she says she loves and he Weekly.

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On the fracking moratorium Our elected officers have an inherent duty to protect our quality of life. Water is life. On Tuesday, July 14 at 2:30 p.m., the Board of Boulder County Commissioners (BOCC) will hold a virtual public meeting. It is to consider the current “moratorium on oil and gas development applications and seismic testing in unincorporated Boulder County.” This moratorium is set to expire on July 31. There are clear environmental reasons why the BOCC should extend this moratorium, including the pollution of water by fracking fluid.

Our nation’s laws do not do enough to protect water. Ideally, the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA) was designed to wave stop signs and halt pollution from entering our nation’s waterways. Unfortunately, in 2005, the CWA was revised and fracking was given a yield sign to pollute. This yield sign is also known as the Halliburton Loophole. Our federal government has failed to protect its citizens from water pollution caused by fracking. We need to take local action. Will we?

The announcement for the July 14 meeting of the BOCC noted that “an oil and gas operator indicated an interest in applying for a drilling permit in Boulder County.” Why? There is currently a worldwide oil glut. If the BOCC lacks the legal authority to stop further fracking of our county, then we should rewrite the laws. We should govern ourselves under the assumption that we are a part of, I

not apart from, nature. We should recognize the Rights of Nature as have the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma.

They are also struggling with the effects of fracking.

Kristen Marshall/Boulder

Protect nature For too long, humans consciously disconnected from other species on this planet. Time is changing. More and more of us recognize the value of reconnecting with nature and caring for other species. Encountering a deer during a hike fills us with joy.

Watching a raptor soar high in the sky fills us with respect and awe. All these moments shared with wildlife are precious and delightful. They motivate more and more of us to stand up for our wildlife friends that are victims of our human created climate crisis. But what can we do? In Colorado, we can be grateful for Governor Polis’ executive order from August 2019 calling for more habitat connectivity in Colorado. Creating wildlife corridors allows wildlife to diversify its genetic pools, to move to new, healthy and welcoming territory, and to reduce fatal vehicle encounters. It is a perfect time for citizens and state legislators to take action to secure lasting and durable policies.

Christel Markevich/Nederland

What we know Here is what we know: We know that global warming is see LETTERS Page 7

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a pandemic we are in the midst of.

We know that fossil fuel use is the cause of global warming.

We know that it is technically and economically feasible for us as a community to run our homes, vehicles and businesses on high levels (95+%) of renewable energy (wind, solar and storage).

What is hindering us as Xcel customers in pursuit of 95+% renewable energy is the archaic system of state laws and regulations governing utilities in Colorado.

We know that home rule municipalities in Colorado, such as the City of Boulder, have the constitutional right to opt out of the state-regulated monopoly utility system to form and run their own utilities.

We know that the directors and executives of Xcel have for the last decade demonstrated their ability and willingness to exploit the legal system and the regulatory system at every turn in order slow to a crawl the City of Boulder’s exercise of our constitutional right.

We know we have to keep going.

We know we have to keep fighting for our rights.

We know we have to keep fighting for our planet.

Paul Culnan/Boulder

PRPA gathered feedback from member communities on how to transition to renewable energy (RE), then developed three concrete options to achieve its goals, comparing fuel and storage costs, emissions impacts and time frames.

Especially interesting is PRPA’s Option 2, which eliminates coal-fired generation, adds renewables and storage, keeps limited natural gas backup, and achieves 95% non-carbon generation by 2030, with only a small rate increase. This is historic.

Meanwhile, PRPA will reach 50% non-carbon electricity this year.

Boulder has a goal of 100% renewable electricity by 2030, and currently receives about 30% renewable electricity from Xcel Colorado.

Xcel has a stated goal of 80% renewable electricity by 2030, but has not shared a written plan to get there.

Boulder would like to achieve emissions reduction and clean energy goals, and harness economic benefits that will soon be available to our neighbors.

If PRPA can have a 95% carbon reduction plan for 2030, then Boulder should be able to have one too, with or without Xcel.

Julie Zahniser/Boulder

Better Colorado energy plan

If there was doubt it must be painfully clear just what we have in the White House. It’s more than a protégé — it’s Son of Vladimir Putin. By re-tweeting the “good Democrat” phrase in his pointed condemnation of looting in Minneapolis, the self-proclaimed emperor’s clothes have all fallen off.

The re-tweet showed no attribution that I know of; this guy is a national executive, so he gets attention... and feeds on it.

I’m a long-time independent voter. My hope is that somehow those of African-American (and Muslim and Hispanic) ethnicity can refuse to take the bait. Anything remotely resembling a “race war” by anyone’s definition would play into his hands too well. Discouragement and intimidation of voting on the part of these citizens is quite likely, so it might be up to just us white folks to summarily kick the spoiled obstreperous brat all the way to the Keys. Make up your own acronyms.

Greg Iwan/Longmont

Most Boulderites agree: we want low-cost clean electricity as soon as possible. Wouldn’t it be great if a Colorado utility had a plan for 95% carbon reduction by 2030?

Such a plan may be close to fruition.

The Longmont Times-Call reported that municipal utilities, Longmont, Loveland, Fort Collins and Estes Park, served by Platte River Power Authority (PRPA), announced a plan to reduce carbon emissions by 95% by reducing coal and natural gas and increasing renewable energy to generate electricity.

The plan is in response to customer demand.

According to BizWest, many northern Colorado business and community leaders expressed support for PRPA. “Moving swiftly to a clean energy economy is an essential step to strengthening local economic development and improving the quality of life in Northern Colorado for ... residents and businesses.”

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he 101-word fiction contest has become one of our favorite traditions here at Boulder Weekly.

It’s a chance for us to read the best flash fiction from writers in Boulder County and beyond. Maybe it’s because the pandemic shut writers inside their homes and kept them in front of their computer screens for weeks, but this crop of submissions were some of the best we’ve received in the six years BW has held this contest.

Here are the nuts and bolts of how we determined the top 20 entries: As in years prior, each writer was limited to five submissions — many of the writers who entered the contest submitted more than one piece this year.

There were four judges who assigned a score between one and five on each entry. It was a blind process, as the name of the writer was stripped from each entry before reading. We only learned of the winning identities after tallying the scores, which is why you’ll see some writers appear more than once in the list of winners.

We ended up with five winners, six honorable mentions and nine additional finalists, however, there were plenty more we wished we could have included. The top 20 finishers have been published here and online.

Thanks to all who participated in this contest. We hope you enjoy this year’s selections as much as we did. We’re already looking forward to the next batch in 2021.

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he sat on the beach. Waves washed around her feet.

She was dropped off here randomly. Mangroves and seagulls surrounded her. Rolled over on the sand and watched the sunrise. Odd start to the day. Odd start to a new life.

— Cyndy Van Sant

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oralee wheeled her chair down the hall. “I’m going home,” she said. At the door, an alarm sounded and a harried attendant took the handles of the chair. “Let’s go to the dining room,” he said. “It’s almost time for lunch.”

After her meal, Doralee sat by her window. She said to the nurse’s aide, “I’ll be leaving soon.”

— John LeMay

THIRD PLACE The Last Animal

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he last animal died on August 17, 2213. After years of debate, the WGO finally ruled the resources needed to maintain DeAnne the dolphin and her 9 square meter tank were no longer justifiable according to World Law. There was no formality to the euthanasia, yet it appeared ceremonious due to the massive media presence and 24-billion worldwide screen viewership. DeAnne’s body was immediately delivered to a local energy port and reutilized into the System. The site was deemed residentially viable, so construction on a 300-floor studio tower began that afternoon.

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ommute time 12.23 seconds. Dress code minimal. Service level outstanding. Price of lunch under $2. Interruptions slight. Background noise arcadian. Hair messy. Communications prompt. Window view mountains. Music selection eclectic. Chores list checked. Exercise frequently. Meal prep handy.

Overtime acceptable. Road rage nonexistent. Laptop never forgotten.

Soulmate nearby. Comfort zone adjustable. Stairs to climb none. Razor blades reduced. Happy hour flexible. Zoom meetings mutable. Shower optional. Warm sunshine. Cool breeze.

—BR Holland

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on’t know what my dad looks like. Mom just said that he was a friend of Richie Havens,” Ionia told Charlie.

She was standing in his art shop on Tinker Street and searching a photograph of the Woodstock Festival. The lilt in her voice reminded Charlie of his sister, when they were children. A bird singing at dawn.

“After it rained, the concert grounds were a big mud pie. My mom’s left shoe got sucked off. She never got it back.”

Charlie stared at her. There was a muddy shoe, from the 1969 festival, hidden in his closet.

—Kristen Marshall

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Can’t Stay

Roomies

Loveland

Rubberized

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awoke to the clangor of the doorbell frantically ringing and sprang bolt upright in the lounger, groggily trying to gather my wits. Stumbling to the front door, fighting dread and panic, I peered through the door’s peep hole. A flickering orange glow faintly illuminated the porch in contrast to the starless black sky.

Unlocking the dead bolt. I opened the door and cautiously peered out. The chilly air caressed my face. Looking down I discovered an amorphous object ablaze on the welcome mat. Instinctively, I flung the door open wide and stomped it out.

“CRAP!” I cried.

Literally.

—Craig Kupras

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leave my 94-year-old grandfather in a huff, angry about some silly chauvinistic remark. I drive around fuming, turn after furious turn, spending my anger clutching and shifting. Tears finally come. Fury dissipates. I remember I adore him. I forgive him his old-man ways.

Racing home, ruminating on his rapidly shrinking existence, I startle at the emergency vehicle parked curbside. My mind explodes with images of Gramps lying dead on a gurney.

Rushing into our living room, I see him sitting comfortably alone. He smiles his cherubic toothless smile.

“The broad next door’s got a gas leak,” he says. “Wanna beer?”

—Virginia Winnen

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he did not possess the strength of steel. No, indeed, more like the adaptability of rubber able to twist and conform to fill the spaces in the lives of her loved ones. As a younger person collegiality, understanding, swallowing her voice seemed the right choice. Everyone must be pleasantly satisfied; that is how conflict is managed. Or is it? After years of suppressing her own thoughts and beliefs, suddenly a cancerous root was growing. Sadness took hold. She was a conglomeration of all the non-spoken feelings all backed up in her soul.

Literally, she was rubberized — a gelatinous mess.

—Anne McWhite

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revor Boscoe stirred knowing that this life had ended yesterday and a new one would have to begin today. He rolled over and savored the break. When he finally decided he needed to leave the farm, he stood, and gathered what he could fit into the truck. As he lifted the last box the screen door slammed. He whistled for Roy to jump in front beside him, took one last look in the rear view mirror, then gazed out past his dog and across the vast, brown field. Answering Roy’s curious gaze he simply said, “Can’t stay. Dirt don’t bloom.”

—Pat Young

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e made it to the parking lot in a stumbling scrum of torn jeans, shallow gasps, and panic; a shaking pile of limbs that collapsed next to the car.

Jacob asked if he was dying and we all actually thought he might be. His skin went translucent, he shook like a weird Elvis and finally stopped breathing: a perfect rockabilly vampire. I stared over our wrecked pile of youth at the Taco John’s. All I could think was, “do we have to do this across the street from Taco fucking John’s?” I mean, none of us had ever eaten there.

—Shadrock Roberts

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mound of coastal tombs, sun burning stone markers red. Tree shadows broaden to take human form. 400 years before Christ. The Iron Age. Steel swords forged over open fires in forests of birch, trunks as white as bone. The Vikings? 1,000 years away. Bodies placed east to west in the extended position, eyes and mouths closed. Hands cross over chests. Heads on the side of the sunset. Listen. Hear whispers? Those below ground speak through the lichen clinging to the granite.

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his is the time each year when the black widow mates visit the mortician. I just came from the local resource center. Similarities? Just call me “transient” or “independent.” No bicycle, no grocery cart. You won’t see me holding a sign at the supermarket.

I don’t like rules. All I need is the bus routes. What’s important is, can I vote?

My ID shows where I lived two years back. My ZIP code now is 00000. “They” say I must live in “my” precinct twenty-two days to be eligible. Tough.

I’m on my way to my next flop. Where you goin’?

—Gregory Iwan

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followed him to this ghost town. Not the kind of ghost town found abandoned inside the belly of Colorado. Boulder is different. I call it a ghost town because you can see on the town’s facade the lingering dull gray shades of the past.

Memories that stubbornly cling to the ribs of everything new. Also, it is cursed, by Chief Niwot. Entranced by the beauty, you stay forever and in staying, undo the beauty. I will not deny it is a thriving American community that Jim had chosen.

But picked for its beauty, he too is missing.

—John Dungan

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took a break from yard work to watch an old man shuffle past my house. His steps were slow and deliberate, I assumed for fear of falling. He didn’t pause to talk to people or to admire Laura’s prize-winning roses. He just shuffled, looking straight ahead until he eventually reached the end of my block where he turned the corner and disappeared from view behind a hedge.

I didn’t wonder where the old man was going, but instead I wondered where he came from and who he was before he became an old man shuffling down my street.

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iabetes is god’s punishment for gobbling fudge at Martha’s Vineyard. Sugarlaced butter shriveled my kidneys and kishkes. I cringe catching my old man reflection in mirrors and storefront glass.

I ask Gabriel to fly me to the Land of Nod and lead me to Abel’s grave. I’ll hike west for the Tree of Knowledge, where Cain carved images of Adam and Eve in the trunk. I’m guessing that tree’s still alive. After all, it bore the divine fruit that spun man mortal. I’ll pull gold apples from its branches and hurl them into the sky.

—Kirby Wright

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here’s a unicorn in the garden again. She is eating the strawberries,” she announced during breakfast while gazing out the kitchen window.

“That can’t be,” he said, “unicorns only make wishes come true and I love strawberries.”

“OK. I will look again,” and this time she stood and craned her neck as far as she could to see as much of the garden as possible.

“Oh,” she said, “I think you are right. She is eating the beets.”

“That makes more sense,” he responded, “I only planted the beets because you insisted.”

“No matter, she is gone, for now,” she said.

—Pat Young

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y life fell apart on March 10th. I was a senior super star, a competitive race walker, a force to be reckoned with. Cartilage was my undoing. Now, climbing with a two-step approach, first left foot then right foot, and up I go one step at a time. Lost my flexible elastic connection; apparently used up my allotment. As is the case, in the process of living, there is no such thing as invincible. Age holds a deceptive grip. A tightly binding knee brace — my new fashion statement. I slowly join the ranks of those rickety seniors.

—Anne McWhite

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ook, Nannie.”

Nannie looked at her brother’s hand and saw the discarded skin of a garter snake.

“What are you going to do with it?”

“Save it.”

“That snake didn’t want to carry it anymore. Why should you?”

“I’m going to be a scientist.”

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The five archers

Boulder bluegrass outfit Bowregard send ‘Arrows’ out into the world

by Caitlin Rockett

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t’s hard to imagine putting out your first record in the middle of a global pandemic, but then again, it’s hard to imagine entering the Telluride Band Contest at the last minute and winning.

Boulder’s bluegrass quintet Bowregard has done both. And the band’s barely two years old.

The debut record, Arrows, is just another testament to Bowregard’s collective talent, funded by a Kickstarter campaign that well exceeded expectations. A collection of reimagined bluegrass classics mixed with original material, Arrows showcases the quintet’s virtuosity and eclectic musical tastes — the exact qualities that made them champs at Telluride last year.

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But if you want to make god laugh, tell him about your plans.

“As we were kind of realizing that [the pandemic] was shutting everything down, we didn’t think that it was appropriate to be releasing a Kickstarter campaign,” says guitarist and vocalist Max Kabat.

“People were worrying about their family members and their health, and we didn’t want to ask them for anything.”

When it became clear the virus had taken off its coat and planned to stay awhile, the band decided it was time to ask.

Turns out folks were eager to help, seeding the Kickstarter for Arrows with nearly $42,000, twice the amount the band hoped to receive.

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return,” Kabat says. “We just want people to hear our music and feel good, and that’s what it’s all about for us. We’re really proud of ourselves and happy that we were able to release this album in these really strange times, because I think it’s what we all need to be doing.

We all need to be giving and thinking about what we can do, what we can give to the collective, even if it is something really simple, like giving shit.”

Though it’s said with good humor, the sentiment is earnest; the members of Bowregard have taken this moment seriously, looking at the history of bluegrass music and taking time to honor its roots.

“We all feel this way in our group: It’s really important to remember the roots of the music that you’re involved in. All bluegrass music is basically derived from [the music of enslaved people in] Appalachia, and blues. I think it’s really important to trace everything back to its roots and understand where stuff came from, understand that the banjo is an African instrument, and respect that. There’s an entire industry of music that has been popularized based on the exploitation of black music.”

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a vessel that has often helped bridge divides that men create based on race.

Music is a salve that Bowregard hopes can heal wounds and launch conversations.

It would be hard to expect less from a group like Bowregard, who count among their ranks a Harvard-educated lawyer, a graphic designer, a public relations manager and a real estate agent. They are parents and partners working day jobs to make ends meet. They’re real people.

And maybe because the members of Bowregard are so very real, so down-toearth and yet so monumentally talented, the universe seemed determined to put the five together. “[Banjoist] James [Armington] sent me a message one day [several years ago] that said, ‘A lot of my friends have been telling me that we should play music together,’” Kabat says. “I thought that was great because what better way to [meet a bandmate] than to have it be brought forth by all of your friends?”

It wasn’t long until Kabat and Armington were jamming together at bluegrass picks like the one at the now defunct Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, where they discovered fiddler Colleen Heine and bassist Zachary Smith, who were both BOWREGARD from Page 13

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just visiting from their home in Savannah, Georgia.

“I remember this moment exactly,” Kabat says, “because somebody at the bluegrass pick leaned over to me and was like, ‘Somebody’s gonna swoop these guys up and start a really awesome bluegrass band.’ And I just remember thinking, oh yeah, that person is me.”

The final piece of the band was dobro player Justin Konrad, who Kabat and Armington had known for years, but who had always been busy with other projects.

“When we asked him, he was like, ‘Well, what took you so long? I’ve been waiting; I’ve been waiting for like four months,’” Kabat says. “So it was really cool to hear him say that.”

While the pandemic may have upended some plans for Bowregard, Kabat says the band is ready to turn to creative formats to share the new album.

They’ll be using some of the money from the Kickstarter campaign to purchase the

ON THE BILL: equipment they ‘Arrows,’ by need to produce Bowregard, is now high-quality vidavailable, bowregard. eos and conduct com socially distant performances.

As for missing Telluride this year, it’s a bummer, but there’s no looking back.

“We’re all trying to make light of the situation and stay in good spirits,” he says. “We’re going to have this opportunity next year. We’ve already spoken with Planet Bluegrass and we know we’ll be in the same slot at next year’s festival — as long as it happens. Every musical artist and production agency and booking agency is affected by this.

So it’s been really helpful for us to kind of put ourselves in that alignment and realize that we’re all kind of suffering right now.”

For now, these five archers have sent Arrows out into the world.

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Max Kabat’s Heavy Rotation JAKE BLOUNT

Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount is a scholar of ethnomusicology, specializing in the music of black and Native American communities in the southeastern United States. In 2016, Blount became the first black person to make the finals at the prestigious Appalachian String Band Music Festival, and the first to win in the traditional band category. Blount’s latest record, Spider Tales, gives voice to the black musicians whose art and voices have been co-opted and shunned from the American roots music industry. “When I listened to [Blount’s record] I was like, holy shit, this is good,” Kabat says.

BRYAN SUTTON

A flatpicking legend who first came into prominence as the lead guitarist for Ricky Skagg’s band Kentucky Thunder, Ryan Sutton has played with the (formerly known as Dixie) Chicks, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile, and currently Hot Rize. “He’s one of my favorite guitar players,” Kabat says.

“He’s probably been on 100 records.”

JOHN HARTFORD

Nobody knew Mississippi lore better than John Crawan Hartford, the singing/dancing/string-playing firecracker of an entertainer whose hit “Gentle On My Mind” went on to be covered by artists as disparate as Glen Campbell, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin. “You didn’t want to follow John,” Ricky Skaggs once said of Hartford. “If John was playing from 9 to 10, you could forget about playing after that because the crowd was his.” Kabat says band members Zach Smith and Colleen Heine gave their son the middle name Hartford after the late, great entertainer.

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conceived of ‘Agnes’ when the image of a woman with a

The Dog Lady of Mexico is based on the true story of Boulder resident Ali-

‘OTHER PEOPLE’S PETS,’ BY R.L. MAIZES save neglected cats and dogs in the through the character Rose, who learns there are endless obstacles to saving stray animals on the island, but The Dog Lady of Mexico is a heart-

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Louisville-based author Brian Duhon loves to teach his two sons how to create their own adventures. Duhon’s debut children’s book, The Adventure Friends Ski Day, follows four animal

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Local Theater Company gears up for season 10 with a new virtual series and expanded programming

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tive fire; sometimes it’s regenerative, like a wildfire clearing out debris on the forest floor.

life of daytime home burglaries and backroom-fence-

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It’s a fitting launch for season 10, as Lithgow helmed his one-man stage memoir, Stories by Heart, in 2011.

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So it goes in The Lady Eve, and such is the stuff of screwball comedy, a brief but brilliant subgenre of the romantic comedy that found its heyday in Depression-era America. The rich have always fascinated Americans, and screwballs like It Happened One Night, Bringing Up Baby and, the progenitor of the genre, My Man Godfrey, are all comedies of class and comedies with class. They show how ridiculous the wealthy are, how petty they can be, and take great pleasure in letting commoners get one over. They are farces, but as British critic David Cairns points out in a video essay accompanying The Criterion Collection’s new restoration of The Lady Eve, farces never sell in America. So, screwball it is.

Back to Pike: He’s played by Henry Fonda, Hollywood regality if ever there was such a thing. In 1939, Fonda played the Great Emancipator in Young Mister Lincoln. In 1940, he was struggling-everyman Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath.

If audiences wanted to idolize anyone, they needn’t look further than Fonda. That only added to the humor of Pike toppling over outstretched legs, slipping in mud puddles and crashing into oversized sofas. “That sofa’s been there for 15 years, and no one ever fell over it before,” Pike’s father says with suspicion.

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Since March, a community-sourced exhibit, featuring materials from around the county, including artwork from Boulder Community Health, photographs and showing the quiet streets of Boulder during the lockdown.

Archive 75, a deep dive into Boulder’s past using artifacts from the Museum’s extensive collection Playzeum, with its rainbow forest, cabinet of curiosities, and hands-on building activities, encourages younger visitors to imagine and experiment.

‘SCRAPTOPIA:’ Live Exhibit of Mixed Media Art by Kit Hernandez. Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, ArtPartsBoulder.org Kit Hernandez is a long-time Denver artist and Art Students League of Denver instructor whose art conveys a playful sense of experimentation. Her work combines her talents in drawing, sculpture and assemblage to produce art that is fearless, surprisingly varied and sometimes raw, often referencing social justice issues and her Chicano heritage. This is a free, live exhibit that children and adults will enjoy. Masks are required. Bricolage Gallery is open Monday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., and Wednesdays noon-7 p.m.

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is name is Figowitz, but everyone calls him “Cookie.” It fits him well. Not only is he the cook for this outfit of beaver trappers traipsing through 19th-century Oregon Territory, but “Cookie” also captures his sweet and gentle nature. When Cookie goes looking for food, he comes back mostly with nuts, berries and mushrooms. When he comes across a salamander wrong-side-up, he gently rights the creature, letting him go about his business. And when it comes time to milk a cow, Cookie does so gently, softly talking to her with a casual, conversational tone. When he asks her about her day, you half expect she’s going to answer back.

Her name is Evie, and she’s the first cow to find herself in the Oregon Territory.

The prized possession of Chief Factor (Toby Jones), a wealthy landowner in this soggy muck.

How Cookie (John Magaro) got here is anyone’s guess. He once was an indentured servant to a baker in Boston, which is how he learned his skill. That’s not a skill many in these parts have, and King Lu (Orion Lee) quickly finds a way to capitalize. How Lu ended up in these parts is another toss-up. Like the country they call home, origin stories are complicated and often unsavory. What matters most is the present and what you do with it. And what they do is sell: Oily cakes, hot and fresh biscuit/donuts that remind the trappers of grandma’s cooking. When Factor bites into one, he’s transported back to England. One bite is enough to know he’s got something special in his hands.

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the seventh feature ON THE BILL: from writer/director ‘First Cow’ is Kelly Reichardt, and available On her fifth collaboration Demand starting July 10. with writer Jonathan Raymond. Working from Raymond’s novel, The Half-Life, Reichardt and Raymond spin something as delicate and delicious as Cookie’s oily cakes. And those oily cakes don’t even show up until 30-plus minutes in. But when they do, you realize the story Reichardt and Raymond are telling.

And it’s a funny one at that: From acquiring raw materials to the market of supply and demand, from the tyranny of growth to the promise of wealth. It’s the rise and fall of American capitalism, all contained in one little oily cake.

Marago and Lee excel in their roles — you believe their friendship from start to finish. Same with this world: Christopher Blauvelt’s camera remains low to the ground, constantly shrouded by foliage and fauna. The square Academy framing further keeps the movie from looking overly cinematic and presents each character as a figure eternally out of place. And they should, none of them belong. Even the Native Americans Factor entertains or keeps as servants are dressed in Western wear.

There’s good fun in First Cow even if, in the end, it’s still tragic. Despite Cookie’s skills and Lu’s business acumen, First Cow is a cutting reminder that though free enterprise appears open to all, only a few get to play the game. No matter how good the indentured servant and the Chinese refugee’s oily cakes are.

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tease his husband about a sexy new coworker of his that he knew his husband had a crush on. They would use insertion toys and pretend they were other guys’ dicks and only gradually did they introduce some humiliating dirty talk into their cuckold role-play talk, and then only as Thomas’s husband became more comfortable with the idea of humiliating him. “Making use of cam sites is also a great way to explore if you’re comfortable with that level of monogamish,” said Thomas. “If you’re a cuck like me, watching your partner perform for someone else is incredibly erotic.”

A more monogamous way to explore cuckolding without opening the relationship — not even a crack — is simply to ask your partner to tell you about her past sexual encounters. Listening to your partner talk about hot experiences she had with other women while you masturbate or while you two fuck is a great way to explore cuckolding without actually opening up your relationship.

You’ll be bringing people up, CUCKGIRL, not bringing them in.

“But just as a gay cuckold couple’s fantasies aren’t identical to a straight couple’s cuckold fantasies, a lesbian couple’s fantasies aren’t going to be the same either,” said Thomas. “CUCKGIRL and her partner just have to find their own way. But the most important thing is to keep communicating. Always communicate! If a particular form of role-play isn’t working, tell your partner. And give each other veto powers and go easy on yourself. Cuckolding is a fantasy that plays with your fears around monogamy and infidelity — it can be very hot but it can be scary too. So take it slow.”

Like a lot of sex bloggers who were kicked off Tumblr, Thomas migrated over to Twitter, where he currently has more than 13,000 followers. His handle on Twitter is @gaycuckoldhubby.

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1 Drink this: Busey Brews’ Tropical Staycation Juicy IPA A) You’re not going anywhere this summer. B) Beerin’ just ain’t what it used to be. Every brewery in Boulder County is trying to stay afloat, and some are doing it better than others. Busey Brews in Nederland is doing it better than most. Their food menu is as robust as ever, and their beer selection is fresh and delicious. Their latest addition, Tropical Staycation Juicy IPA, is a beauty: Hazy yellow in the glass, fresh fruit on the nose and loads of stone fruit in the mouth. The bitterness is subdued, but there’s plenty of malt to hold up to whatever’s on the table. It’s a summer void of vacations, but Busey’s brews make life a little brighter. See page 25 for more.

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Tour de brew: Busey Brews Beer and barbecue at 8,228 feet

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ederland’s newest brewery isn’t even a year old, and it’s already a winner. At least that’s what Boulder Weekly Best Of voters think: The brewpub with a barbecue emphasis was the top write-in vote-getter for Best Nederland Restaurant — which is nothing to sneeze at considering it’s only been open for 10 months, two of them in a pandemic.

Frankly, it’s a surprise Busey Brews didn’t also get writein acclaim for Best Wings or Best Mac ‘N’ Cheese. Well, the latter isn’t a category (yet), but they should have netted both.

The wings are plump and juicy, smoked with a good bit of char, and then sluiced in your choice of sauce — the buffalo reigns supreme, but the Nashville hot is no slouch, and the mac ‘n’ cheese sports oversized elbow macaroni drenched in gooey, life-affirming cheese. Wash it all down with a slug of Tropical Staycation Juicy IPA (see page 23), and the summer of social distancing just got a lot more tolerable.

Enough of the food, we’re here to discuss beer and Busey’s brews shine bright like a diamond. They offer five (and a house-brewed kombucha) and are one of the few breweries around still doing flights, which is the way to go if this is your first rodeo.

Follow Busey’s suggestion and start with Mango Kölsch-al Distancing. Hailing from Cologne, Germany, Kölsches are similar to Bavarian lagers except that they are fermented with ale yeast, which produces delightful and fruity aromas. Busey kicks it up with mango, giving

the beer a tropicality without overrunning the base malt, which is what you want when you reach for a Kölsch.

It’s wonderfully bright, has enough alcohol (6.1% ABV) to stand up to heavier meats and cheeses, and plenty of sweet malt to coat and cool the tongue if you’ve got a heavy hand when it comes to the hot sauce bottle.

If Looks Could Pilz is a traditional take on a Pilsner: light and lean with peppery hops. Hambone IPA is a welcome approach to a West Coast India pale ale: Amber in color, dank on the nose with loads of citrus and fleshy fruit, and well balanced in the mouth. If I Had a Midnight Lager is dark in the glass, semi-sweet chocolate chips in the mouth, with a refreshing finish.

What’s more, all of Busey’s brews are fresh and vibrant, which is not something you’re guaranteed at every restaurant and brewery these days. Practically everyone in the food service business runs on thin margins, and many of them couldn’t afford to dump their beer, even if waiting out the shutdown pushed them past their prime.

Not the case here; all of Busey’s brews are smallbatch — as of this writing, they’ve brewed 2,654 gallons, or a little over 63 barrels — and each beer is numbered accordingly (Tropical Staycation appears to be the most recent at BB-22). On deck, they have a barrel-aged stout, a Mexican lager, a Berliner weisse, a saison and a double IPA. With a lineup like that, they’re sure to make future noise in Boulder Weekly’s Best Of in the Beer category as well.

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ere’s the price-tag to bail out the U.S. food industry following the massive disruption caused by the pandemic: $120 billion.

To start, at least.

On July 2, the newly formed Independent Restaurant Coalition (IRC), comprised of more than 215 restaurateurs, farmers, brewers, distributors and other pieces of the food supply chain, asked Congress to pass the RESTAURANTS Act, which would provide $120 billion to “small food and beverage establishments facing devastating financial setbacks.”

The bill was introduced on June 18 and has bipartisan support, including from Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner.

The IRC laid out the toll the pandemic has taken on the food industry

in its July 2 letter: $1 billion of perishable goods were wasted within a week of dining rooms closing; wine sales dropped 67%; spirit sales dropped 75%; seafood sales dropped 80%; and meat processors were forced to euthanize animals.

The data shows how the closure of thousands of small restaurants affects every foodrelated industry up the supply chain; it’s why the IRC has the support of small business owners (like Bobby Stuckey), food celebs (like José Andrés and Andrew Zimmern) and food and beverage heavy hitters like Bacardi and Niman Ranch.

You can support the cause by sending a letter to Congress via a form on the IRC site: saverestaurants.com/take-action.

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Since, they’ve launched the nonprofit Sophie’s Neighborhood to raise funds to find a cure or treatment. In just the last couple of months, they’ve raised $250,000 of their $2 million goal, which will fund the research needed to find a cure.

So, on July 19 (National Ice Cream Day), stop by Lucky’s Bakehouse & Creamery, Blackbelly, Santo, Gelato Boy or Fresh Thymes in Boulder and purchase a designated Sophie’s Ice Cream Social item, and some proceeds will go to Sophie’s Neighborhood.

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All the details on both events can be found at sophiesneighborhood.org/fundraise.

And, most importantly, the fundraising so far has enabled the Rosenbergs to make progress on finding a cure — they’ll soon begin a research project with the scientist who discovered the gene that causes MCTO; and after connecting with MCTO patients around the globe, they’re building a patient registry and history study, which is critical to developing treatment.

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erthoud’s City Star Brewing has joined nearly 1,000 breweries around the world in brewing beer to support the Black is Beautiful Initiative, an effort to highlight issues of racial injustice and use the brewing industry to raise funds and awareness to effect change.

Each brewery in the initiative is asked to “brew a unique stout, commit to the long-term work of equality and choose their own local organizations to donate to that support equality and inclusion.” City Star recently released a blackberry chocolate stout (donning the Black is Beautiful name) on tap and in 16-ounce cans.

Twenty percent of the sales of City Star’s Black is Beautiful will be donated to NAACP Denver.

Says City Star co-owner Whitney Way of the decision to join in, “We lack diversity. Our community lacks diversity. It’s no secret the craft beer industry lacks diversity. Berthoud is a predominantly white community, where we are often blind to racial injustice and the challenges that people of color face daily. Because of our location we feel even more compelled to brew this beer in support of justice and equality for people of color.”

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “As beautiful as simplic-

ity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration,” said singer Laura Nyro. This is practical advice for you to heed in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, you’re scheduled to enjoy an extended engagement with rich, fertile complexity. The best teachings won’t be reducible to a few basic lessons; rather, they’ll be rife with soulful nuances. The same is true about the splendid dilemmas that bring you stimulating amusements: They can’t and shouldn’t be forced into pigeonholes. As a general rule, anything that seems easy and smooth and straightforward will probably not be useful. Your power will come from what’s crooked, dense and labyrinthine.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: You may think that playing

heavy metal music and knitting with yarn don’t have much in common. And yet there is an annual contest in Joensuu, Finland, where people with expertise in needlework join heavy metal musicians on stage, plying their craft in rhythm to the beat. The next Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship will be July 15-16, 2021.

This year’s event was canceled due to the pandemic. If it had been staged, I bet multiple Tauruses would have been among the top ten competitors. Why? Because you Bulls are at the peak of your ability to combine things that aren’t often combined. You have the potential to excel at making unexpected connections, linking influences that haven’t been linked before, and being successful at comparing apples and oranges.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In 1848, Danish King Frederick VII

agreed, under pressure from liberal agitators, to relinquish some of his absolute power. Thereafter, he shared his decision-making with a newly formed parliament. He was pleased with this big change because it lightened his workload. “That was nice,” he remarked after signing the new constitution. “Now I can sleep in every morning.” I recommend him to you as an inspirational role model in the coming weeks.

What so-called advantages in your life are more boring or burdensome than fun and interesting? Consider the possibility of shedding dubious “privileges” and status symbols.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian author Mary McCarthy

provides you with a challenge you’ll be wise to relish during the rest of 2020. She writes, “Everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older is that you really must make the self.” McCarthy implies that this epic reorientation isn’t likely until you’ve been on earth for at least four decades. But judging from the astrological omens, I think you’re ready for it now — no matter what your age is. To drive home the point, I’ll say it in different words. Your task isn’t to find yourself, but rather to create yourself. Don’t wait around passively for life to show you who you are. Show life who you are.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Some night soon, I predict you’ll have

an agitated dream while you’re asleep: a nightmare that symbolizes an unresolved conflict you’re wrestling with in your waking life. Here’s a possible example: A repulsive politician you dislike may threaten to break a toy you loved when you were a kid. But surprise! There’ll be a happy ending. A good monster will appear in your dream and fix the problem; in my example, the benevolent beast will scare away the politician who’s about to break your beloved toy. Now here’s the great news: In the days after your dream, you’ll solve the conflict you’ve been wrestling with in your waking life.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Love is the best school, but

the tuition is high and the homework can be painful,” writes author Diane Ackerman. I’m guessing that in recent months, her description has been partially true

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for you Virgos. From what I can tell, love has indeed been a rigorous school. And the tuition has been rather high. But on the other hand, the homework has been at least as pleasurable as it has been painful.

I expect these trends to continue for the foreseeable future. What teachings about intimacy, communion, tenderness and compassion would you like to study next?

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “A single feat of daring can alter

the whole conception of what is possible,” wrote Libran novelist Graham Greene. His words can serve as a stirring motto for you in the coming weeks. I sense you’re close to summoning a burst of courage — a bigger supply of audacity than you’ve had access to in a while. I hope you’ll harness this raw power to fuel a daring feat that will expand your conception of what is possible.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “It’s not always easy to tell

the difference between thinking and looking out of the window,” wrote poet Wallace Stevens. That’s a problem you won’t have to worry about anytime soon.

The coming weeks will be a favorable phase for you to both think and gaze out the window — as well as to explore all the states in-between. In other words, you’ll have the right and the need to indulge in a leisurely series of dreamy ruminations and meandering fantasies and playful explorations of your deepest depths and your highest heights. Don’t rush the process. Allow yourself to linger in the gray areas and the vast stretches of inner wildness.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to undertake a transformative vision quest, even if the exigencies of the pandemic require your quest to unfold primarily in your inner realms. The near future will also bring you good fortune if you focus on creating more sacredness in your rhythm and if you make a focused effort to seek out songs, texts, inspirations, natural places, and teachers that infuse you with a reverence for life. I’m trying to help you to see, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase when you can attract healing synchronicities into your world by deepening your sense of awe and communing with experiences that galvanize you to feel worshipful.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “To love well is the task in all mean-

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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “One-half of knowing what you

want is knowing what you must give up before you get it,” wrote author Sidney Howard. Now would be a perfect time to act on that excellent advice. Is there any obstacle standing in the way of your ability to achieve a beloved dream? Is there a pretty good thing that’s distracting you from devoting yourself wholeheartedly to a really great thing? I invite you to be a bit ruthless as you clear the way to pursue your heart’s desire.

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“The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.” I think she’s correct in her assessment. But I also suspect that you’re in a prime position to be an exception to the rule. In the coming weeks, you will have exceptional power to transform the way you feel — especially if those feelings have previously been based on a misunderstanding of reality and especially if those feelings have been detrimental to your mental and physical health.

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Time’s up, stoners. Please hand in your petitions now.

By Paul Danish

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or months, marijuana activists have been circulating petitions to put recreational and medical marijuana initiatives on various states’ ballots.

Deadlines for handing in initiative petitions tend to fall in June and July, and as a result, activists in Arizona, Nebraska and Montana submitted their petitions recently. Here’s how they made out: Arizona. In 2016, Arizona voters defeated a recreational marijuana ballot initiative, in part because of disagreements between rival pro-legalization factions. This year, supporters united behind Smart & Safe Arizona’s proposal, which needed 237,645 valid signatures to make it onto the ballot. Last week (on July 1), they turned in that many plus an additional 182,000, which works out to a total of more than — wait for it — 420,000. Sounds like they were trying to say, “We came to play.”

The initiative would legalize recreational pot for those 21 and older. They could possess up to an ounce of marijuana at a time and cultivate up to six plants. Marijuana sales would be taxed at 16%. People with prior pot convictions could petition the courts to have them expunged.

A poll taken in early June found that 66% of those surveyed either definitely or probably intended to vote for the initiative.

Fun fact: If the initiative passes, Arizona would be the first state with legal recreational marijuana to share a common border with Colorado. Well after a fashion, anyway. The northeast tip of Arizona and the southwest tip of Colorado touch (along with the southeast tip of Utah and the northwest tip of New Mexico)

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at Four Corners. Think of the Arizona-Colorado “line” as Colorado’s shortest state border.

Nebraska. Nebraska activists circulating a medical marijuana initiative petition needed 121,669 valid signatures to get on the November ballot, including 5% of the voters in a minimum of 38 counties. On July 2, they handed in petitions containing more than 182,000 names.

“We are confident that we’ve met the requirements for ballot qualification, and after seeing the outpouring of support for our petition, we’re even more confident that Nebraska voters will approve this initiative in November,” said State Senator Anna Wishart (D), co-chair of the Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana campaign committee in a press release.

If passed, the initiative would allow doctors to recommend marijuana to patients with debilitating conditions. Those patients would be allowed to possess, buy and “discreetly” cultivate marijuana for personal use.

The signature-gathering campaign involved a lot of drama. For a while it was suspended due to the pandemic, but was re-launched in May with social distancing protocols, and one-use pens, in place. While most of the signatures were collected by paid canvassers, 33,000 were gotten by volunteers, included 14,000 in the last two and a half weeks of the drive.

The campaign also registered more than 5,000 new voters.

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and the second a constitutional amendment stating that one had to be 21 or older to participate in a legal marijuana business. (Currently the state constitution would allow 18-year-olds to participate.)

The statutory initiative needed roughly 25,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot. Supporters handed in roughly 52,000 names. The constitutional amendment needed about 51,000 signatures. It got about 80,000.

“We’ve overcome a global pandemic, wildfires, floods, hail, snow and hurricane force winds,” said Pepper Petersen, a spokesperson for New Approach Montana. “Our campaign implemented strict health protocols and worked around the clock so that Montana voters could sign our petitions safely and qualify these popular initiatives for the November ballot.”

Toward the end of the petition drive, the campaign snagged the endorsement of the Montana Democratic Party.

Given the number of signatures collected in all three states, odds are good that voters in Arizona, Nebraska and Montana will be voting on marijuana legalization initiatives this fall.

So will voters in South Dakota, where separate recreational and medical marijuana legalization initiatives were successfully petitioned onto the state ballot earlier this year.

Mississippi activists also succeeded in getting a medical marijuana initiative onto that state’s ballot months ago.

And New Jersey voters will cast their ballots for a recreational marijuana question that was put on the ballot by the state’s legislature.

Supporters of all the initiatives should keep in mind that getting on the ballot is the easy part. The hard part is getting the voters to approve the measures, especially if there’s organized opposition.

Getting on the ballot is like winning the right to get in the ring with a 500-pound gorilla. Still, it’s a big step in the right direction.

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