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news: CU-Boulder scholar reflects on interviewing Steve Bannon, now indicted for fraud

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Street Wise Boulder set to feature the work of more than 30 artists for the second iteration of the mural festival

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Can decency beat depravity?

by Dave Anderson

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very 80 seconds, someone in America dies from COVID-19. Across the world, people are horrified by the American response to the pandemic. Beppe Severgnini, a columnist for Italy’s Corriere della Sera, remarked: “Trying to get into Donald Trump’s head is more difficult than finding a vaccine for coronavirus. First he decided on a lockdown and then he encouraged protests against the lockdown that he promoted. It’s like a Mel Brooks film.”

Recently, Vanity Fair published a shocking article by award-winning investigative journalist Katherine Eban about how Jared Kushner, top White House advisor and Trump son-in-law, was developing a large-scale national testing strategy that began by consulting bankers and billionaires more than public health officials. Then suddenly I

the plan disappeared.

Eban reports that this was after a member of Kushner’s team said, “that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. ‘The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,’ said the expert.”

This article provoked many to call for Kushner’s resignation. Matt Duss, foreign policy advisor for Bernie Sanders, tweeted: “Imagine the administration had intel on an imminent terrorist attack that would kill over 100,000 people, and chose to do nothing because it was politically easier.” I have to update Duss. As I write this, the death toll is about 176,000. About a thousand people in America die every day from COVID-19. At the very least. see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

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How depraved can Trump and his party get? Well, do you have a couple of hours? The depravity was well chronicled during the virtual Democratic National Convention.

You had climate chaos, gun violence, racial bigotry, little migrant kids in cages. In an unprecedented talk, Barack Obama warned that if Trump is reelected, democracy might die.

Commentators have frequently had to use the word “unprecedented” while talking about Trump. Not in a good way.

The convention offered a message of hope and compassion. It was an appeal to “the better angels of our nature” as Lincoln put it. Bernie Sanders said, “In Joe Biden, you have a human being who is empathetic, who is honest, who is decent. And at this particular moment in American history, my God, that is something that this country absolutely needs.”

In a “normal” time, Democratic and Republican conventions feature talk of bipartisanship with some speakers from the other party. The idea is to appeal to swing voters watching on TV. This year, it seems the Democrats promised a return to some sort of “normality” after all of the Trumpian noise. But there was also a promise of transformational change which was defined vaguely in order to accommodate the party’s various factions. There were more Republican speakers than usual, which made many of the more progressive Democrats nervous or angry.

The idea of bipartisanship sounds good in the abstract. The mainstream media tends to blame both parties for partisan polarization. That’s not true.

Back in 2012, Thomas Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute argued that: “The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evi-

dence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

They wrote that, “In the first two years of the Obama administration, nearly every presidential initiative met with vehement, rancorous and unanimous Republican opposition in the House and the Senate, followed by efforts to delegitimize the results and repeal the policies.” Things got worse.

The Republicans’ behavior resulted in “something closer to complete gridlock than we have ever seen in our time in Washington.”

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Adam Jentleson, who was deputy chief of staff to former Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada), argues that Trumpism is the GOP’s “natural state.” He notes that in the 2016 election campaign, Trump took a polling lead within a month of entering the primaries and maintained his popularity with Republican voters.

He cites the work of Mann and Ornstein and says more recent studies confirm their view. Pippa Norris of Harvard compared the Republican Party with major parties in other developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and discovered that the GOP is like “far-right European parties” that flirt with authoritarianism, like the Polish Law and Justice Party or the Turkish Justice and Development Party.

This is the most important election in modern American history. Joe Biden needs to win by a landslide and the Democrats need to win both the Senate and House. As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez puts it, “November is about stopping fascism in the United States.” After the election, we progressives will fight for our full agenda such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

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

This is the most

important election in modern American history.

Joe Biden needs to win by a landslide and the Democrats need to win both the House and the Senate.

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Stay the course on muni

The City of Boulder needs to get out of the PUC/Xcel system as soon as possible. Of course Boulder citizens would save money. Of course our municipal utility would be better for the environment.

However, the PUC/profit-making utilities system is counterproductive for non-stockholders. Xcel’s 10% profit on any capital investment encourages waste at the expense of the people of Boulder.

It is the system, not just Xcel, that encourages wasteful behavior. It does not matter what Xcel might promise the City that it might do.

The system promotes Xcel to work in other directions.

We need to get out from under the PUC/Xcel system as soon as we can. Please help us do that.

Michael Jones/Boulder

Kudos on union support

I am writing to say big ups for the editorial that was printed in the July 2 issue in support of unions (Re: “Black lives, the pandemic and unions,” The Anderson Files).

Collective bargaining, co-op workplaces and even things like credit unions are ways of making the economic system, one that’s based on exploitation by definition, fairer. For an excellent discussion of this, and an argument that greater equality makes everyone live better, I recently stumbled upon The Spirit I

Level by Wilkinson and Pickett, which I highly recommend.

But a book recommendation is not the point of this letter. I am writing my appreciation for your making the case that all the symbolism in the world, and I would add, even the kind so coolly done in Hamilton, don’t mean sh*& if the way people live is not improved.

Hope Wells/via internet

Return wolves to Colorado

I just returned from a trip to Yellowstone — a welcome break from pandemic hell. I was super fortunate to have seen several gray wolves during my visit, and I learned quite a bit about wolves from the ranger who was hanging out with the wolf watchers one day.

It sure seems like wolves have helped turn things around in the Northern Rockies since the government reintroduced them 25 years ago. Aspen and willow are growing healthy again because wolves keep the elk from browsing them down to nothing. With more trees and bushes, beavers are returning and creating more dams, which slows the streams, making them deeper and cooler.

Without a doubt, Colorado is a lesser place without her wolves. That is a wrong we can easily make right again.

Return the wolf, restore the balance.

Kieran Kuykendall/Boulder BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

EMMA ATHENA

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arly Tuesday morning, on Aug. 18, Camp FreeSpirit’s executive leadership team at Occupy Boulder smiled for a photo in front of their office: President Amos Washington Jr., Vice President Angela Labia, Governor Leslie Tutts, and Secretary Artist Dan Barnard.

A singular look of resolve stared back into the camera.

Click. It was going to be a big day.

“It’s the nastiness, the attitude toward the homeless, the attitude toward the poor in general. That particular thing needs to stop,” Dan says. “That’s the point we’re trying to get across.”

Their office — a four-person Ozark Trail tent, which Angela bought for $98 to share with Amos, her husband — functions as the camp headquarters, situated in the Municipal Building’s courtyard on the corner of Broadway and Canyon. Here, anyone can learn about the recently reinvigorated Occupy Boulder movement and its mission to make Boulder a better place.

“We want to turn this town around,” Amos says. “Our goal is to stop the camping ban, get the police to ease off and leave people alone.”

The police had been by the night before, with bright flashlights and loud calls for a specific person, but that was routine.

It was the police visit a few days back that was of particular concern: Camp Free-Spirit had been given a “notice to vacate” with instructions to remove all “items and individuals.” The eviction slip said the City of Boulder would come on Aug. 18 at 8 a.m. to clear and clean the courtyard — in other words, to conduct a “sweep.”

Such sweeps have become routine in Colorado and other states, as more and more homeless encampments are sprouting up in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. As recently as Aug. 25, Boulder Police were sweeping under the main public library. Local and national officials are pressured by

DOZENS OF COMMUNITY members, dressed in black, showed up on Aug. 18 to prevent a police sweep of a homeless encampment in front of the Municipal Building in downtown Boulder.

Despite that guidance, Boulder Police Department spokesperson Shannon Aulabaugh says, “Encampments represent a serious health and safety risk — for those staying within these sites, as well as the broader community. Earlier this year, Boulder City Council asked City staff to develop a humane way to remove these hazards from public locations.”

The week before Camp Free-Spirit was issued their notice, a different sweep cleared people and their posses-

sions from spots near Boulder Creek and the Glen Huntington bandshell. When news of more sweep-threats surfaced, dozens of community members mobilized to protect Camp Free-Spirit, donning black head-to-toe, covering their faces, calling themselves “comrades.”

As Dan stood near his tent, surveying the 50 or so people who’d arrived to help prevent the Aug. 18 sweep — some with gas masks and wooden shields, many with helmets and bikes and handmade “STOP THE SWEEPS” and “END POLICE BRUTALITY” signs — he said, “This is the first time I’ve felt cared about and taken care of.”

Camp Free-Spirit had coalesced the week before — as Amos puts it, “To give Boulder back to Boulder.” They plan to stay put and fight off sweeps until homelessness is decriminalized.

There aren’t enough resources for Boulder’s unhoused community, they argue. They need less-restrictive services and better access to things like clean water fountains, bathrooms, trash cans and showers. But no one is listening, they say. Each of them has fallen into what longtime Boulderite and Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (MDHI) multi-committee member Bill Sweeney calls the “mess underneath everything” in the regional homelessness-reduction strategy.

Homelessness, of course, is not a new experience in Boulder — not for the tens of thousands of unhoused individuals and families who have called this city home in the last half-century, nor for the housed people who walk the Boulder Creek Path and shop at

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An incomplete picture

As the City conducts homelessness sweeps and Occupy Boulder sets up camp, a look at the County’s strategy for housing the unhoused

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public demands for clean-ups and the health risks that encampments present, and it’s often argued there’s no choice but to clear them.

Sweeps, however, remain explicitly discouraged in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 guidelines, which state, “Clearing encampments can cause people to disperse throughout the community and break connections with service providers. This increases the potential for infectious disease spread.”

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Safeway and frequent the farmers’ market.

The coronavirus, however, has exacerbated many issues related to homelessness (unemployment spikes, tightened resources, reduced shelter space). In Boulder County, the pandemic has also coincided with a service-reduction phase in the regional plan to address homelessness. Certain areas of support are now noticeably thin, and many groups of people, from the unhoused themselves to Boulder’s Human Relations Commission (HRC) and various nonprofits, are increasingly frustrated. What Amos, Angela, Leslie and Dan will tell you: the City is trying, but its solutions aren’t working.

“Some of the things going on are counterproductive,” explains Lindsay Loberg, chair of HRC, which is responsible for cataloguing human rights concerns in Boulder. “The City says there aren’t the resources to house everybody [but] there are some policies that frankly don’t make sense to me.”

• • • • Boulder County’s relationship with homelessness changed drastically between 2015 and 2017. For a long time, Greg Harms, executive director of Boulder Shelter for the Homeless in North Boulder, recalls Boulder’s mission was simply getting people off the streets. “We just built more and more shelters, and more and more people filled up shelters, and they never really got out of homelessness,” he says.

As the conversation shifted in the 2010s to address chronic and growing rates of homelessness, many agreed it was time for a different approach. “We decided to focus limited resources on actually ending people’s homelessness by trying to get them into housing,” Harms says, “rather than building more Band-Aid, temporary solutions.”

He and others formed a working group in 2016, and by 2017 Boulder County had aligned itself with a national policy platform called Housing First, which prioritizes placing unhoused people in stable living situations before resolving other issues such as unemployment, behavioral health and/or substance abuse.

It’s a concept driven by data and backed by national research: People are more likely to remain stably housed long-term if first given housing and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

allowed to “call the shots in terms of what they need and what’s going to be most helpful for them,” explains Steve Berg, vice president of programs and policy at the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH).

Embracing this Housing First philosophy has had profound effects on many communities around the U.S. — Berg cites a 40% reduction of homelessness in Jacksonville, Florida, after six years of Housing First strategies, and similar success in Richmond, Virginia, and Houston, Texas, as well as other cities, big and small. After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans “wholeheartedly adopt[ed] a Housing First approach [and] now has very few homeless people for a city their size,” Berg says.

The implementation of Housing First looks a little different in each city.

In Boulder, developing a Housing First strategy gave the array of nonprofits sprinkled around the County — each providing disparate services and programming — an opportunity to restructure and build a cohesive, collaborative network. The cities of Boulder and Longmont, Boulder County, housing authorities, a variety of nonprofits and faith communities all joined in the formation of a centralized governing body, Homeless Solutions for Boulder County (HSBC). Now, with a complicated braid of national, state and local funding, HSBC coordinates and monitors all of the homelessness-reduction work in Boulder County.

Beginning in fall of 2017, services like shelter beds and other temporary aids took a backseat as HSBC shifted focus and funding to upgrade housingspecific initiatives like rental vouchers and rapid rehousing techniques.

Between January 2018 and June 2020, HSBC reports helping more than 1,000 people out of homelessness — this includes the reunification of people with families, securing spots in treatment or long-term care facilities, and placements in affordable or subsidized housing, according to Boulder County spokesperson Alice Kim. One example of success is found at 1175 Lee Hill, where 31 units were created to house chronically homeless individuals. In its first four years of

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ccurate rates of homelessness are notoriously difficult to attain.

“How do you keep track of the numbers of people out there? That’s my least favorite question because there’s no good answer,” says Vicki Ebner, homeless initiatives manager for the City of Boulder.

Counting unhoused people is time- and resource-intensive, and individuals experiencing homelessness are often transient and/or intentionally obscured. Once a year, the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (MDHI) conducts a “point in time” (PIT) count of individuals living without shelter.

“It’s a snapshot of one night, the last week in January,” Ebner explains.

“We’re all very quick to point out that it should never be used as a proxy for the number of people who were experiencing homelessness.”

The 2020 MDHI PIT count for Boulder County estimates 689 people are experiencing homeless, up from 592 in 2018. That includes 55 families and 47 unaccompanied youth.

Ebner says they also use data gathered from HSBC’s coordinated entry program to best understand the full scope of Boulder’s homelessness. The coordinated entry program, however, only tracks single adults and leaves out people who are choosing not to engage with HSBC services.

Family homelessness, she says, “is severely under-counted in any kind of PIT.” “Luckily, as we’ve found out, a vast majority of the people living unsheltered have interacted with our [coordinated entry] screening at some point, and we can crosswalk that with things like our Severe Weather Sheltering data and other programs out there,” Ebner says. “So we can try to get to a number, but it’s not a concrete number.”

On a country-wide level, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) estimates the U.S. homeless population increased 3.3% between 2014 and 2018. In Colorado, NAEF reports statewide changes are more dramatic, and more complicated: in the same time frame, Colorado saw a 36% increase in individuals experiencing homelessness, but a 27% decrease in families experiencing homelessness.

When NAEH zooms out to analyze longer-term homelessness trends, however, it reports an overall downward arc: Since 2007, when nation-wide data collection began, homelessness in the U.S. has decreased a total of 12%. But the pandemic threatens this progress, a recent NAEH report warns: “The current COVID-19 crisis has the potential to diminish or completely wipe out these modest gains.”

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operating, it maintained a 99% occupancy rate and retained 11 of the original tenants. No neighbor complaints or calls to the police have been recorded.

Since then, other housing partnership opportunities have formed, but Boulder’s affordable housing market remains notoriously restrictive. Occupy Boulder’s Secretary Dan has been on a waitlist for housing via HSBC’s partnership with Mental Health Partners.

But, “It’s just a waiting game,” he says — there’s simply not enough housing in Boulder to keep moving people off the streets and into homes.

Now almost three years in, many argue the positive effects of Housing First elsewhere aren’t as obvious in Boulder.

“We have lots to be proud of, but it doesn’t feel any different when you walk through our city,” admits Kurt Firnhaber, director of Boulder’s housing and human services department and a member of HSBC’s executive board.

“Those people that we’ve housed have been replaced by somebody else,” he says.

More than 4,000 people were processed through HSBC’s “coordinated entry” system during the same January 2018-June 2020 timeframe, according to City data.

Coordinated entry is designed to screen people, assess their needs and place them on an appropriate track for aid. Firnhaber notes people entering the HSBC system are increasingly arriving from places like Denver, or further cities and states. “It certainly reflects that [homelessness] is a national problem.”

And while HSBC has helped hundreds of individuals, Criminal Justice Committee Chair of the NAACP Boulder County branch, Darren O’Connor, says, “The majority are still homeless.”

The city estimates between 400 and 700 people are currently living unhoused in the County, but O’Connor and the mutual aid group Friends of the Forsaken estimate it’s closer to 1,000 people (See sidebar).

With only 120 shelter beds currently available (plus another 20 reserved for potential COVID-19 carriers and a handful of hotel rooms for those particularly vulnerable), hundreds of people have no choice but to sleep outside.

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“The majority of people who come through that system still need a stopgap,” O’Connor says. “And that’s where I have my fundamental frustration with the new status quo.”

Since 2020 began, 140 individuals in Boulder have been housed through HSBC, and another 54 in Longmont.

And while the full potential of Housing First continues to be challenged by Boulder County’s lack of affordable housing, it’s more recently been impacted by the pandemic.

A new, locally funded rental-assistance voucher program isn’t operating at maximum capacity, explains Karen

approach for a while.”

Some recent developments, however, have left her and other service leaders wary. For one, in January, HSBC implemented a new residency requirement restricting people living in Boulder less than six months to only one shelter opportunity: the Severe Weather Shelter. At the end of May, however, the Severe Weather Shelter, which Bridge House was operating on 30th Street with 50 beds, was permanently closed, leaving many people with literally nowhere to go.

“We’ve always supported [Housing First concepts], but where we have not been aligned with the HSBC choices is in how this gets done,” McDevitt explains. “To do it too drastically without a really solid implementation plan, it basically leaves a lot of people out of getting services, and unfortunately I think we’re seeing some of that now, especially because we have additional contributing factors of the pandemic.”

Firnhaber says “COVID made it so there was no choice” in closing the 30th Street shelter, due to the unexpected SECRETARY Kreutzberg, Boulder financial constraints. “But we DAN of Occupy Housing Partners’ federal were sort of moving in that Boulder at the encampment on policy director. As of July, direction anyways, so it wasn’t Aug. 18.

33 vouchers are being used totally COVID.” to house people, but 48 The pandemic has been total are available. “The tough for everyone to adjust to. current situation has greatly impacted With the realities of funding and staffour ability to connect with the houseing shortages, Harms says HSBC is holds and get them through the eligistaying committed to its long-term bility and lease up process,” she says. picture of Housing First. “There’s “It also takes time to work with the always a question of balance: Do we households and get them through the put more money into housing people, process and into housing.” or do we put more money into tempoNonetheless, the planned contracrary shelters, for example,” he says. “I tion of shelter and day services has think the evidence is really clear, [once gone unimpeded. If anything, homelessness] happens, getting people O’Connor says, services need to be back into housing as quickly as possiramped up. “You have all these people ble is the best thing for the people who have no access to bathrooms in a involved and also for the community. time where ... hand-washing is the “There’s always people who say most effective preventative action peo- we’re not doing enough,” Harms says, ple can take to prevent the spread of “and people who are saying we do too [COVID]. And yet we had no place much.” for them to go,” he says. “We had to • • • • fight a battle over even providing that “We are trying to make a safe minimal amount of service.” place,” Dan says. Camp Free-Spirit Isabel McDevitt, CEO of Bridge pitched their tents in front of the House and co-chair of MDHI’s Municipal Building the second week Coordinating Committee, recalls the of August. By banding together pubbeginning of Boulder’s Housing First licly, they’re trying to provide themstrategy had “a pretty balanced selves with survival tools they can’t get AUGUST 27, 2020

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elsewhere at the moment: a sense of community, the right to rest, a donation station and safety in numbers.

“It’s hard out here,” Amos says.

Two mutual aid organizations, Friends of the Forsaken and SAFE (Safe Access for Everybody, an extension of Boulder County’s chapter of Democratic Socialists of America), are currently providing support via donations and security guards. “A lot of us are about one paycheck from being away from being out here in this camp with everybody else,” one “comrade” explains. “There’s really very little difference between us and people without housing. Once you recognize that we’re all just people who are all looking for the same things, we have the same needs, you do everything you can to help people out who are in the most vulnerable positions.”

Housing First is a term familiar to most at camp, and no one feels it’s working right — positioning themselves so publicly downtown is the only way Occupy Boulder believes its message will reach City officials. They have two core demands: recognition and respect.

“We’re tired of the police telling us where we can and cannot be, what we can and cannot do, where we can and cannot live. And we’re sick of it. We’re sick of the sweeps. We’re sick of the disrespect. They demand respect but yet they don’t give it,” Dan says.

“I don’t think any one thing is going to be a permanent solution. I think it’s a combination of things that need to happen,” he adds. “As well as Housing First, open up more of a transitioning shelter, but don’t make people feel like they have to deserve housing.” And in the meantime, he says, there’s a desperate need for resources, specifically for marginalized and LGBTQ+ folks.

“We want to turn this town around,” Amos says.

But the lack of shelter space, the six-month residency requirement, and the camping ban, which criminalizes the use of blankets and tents, prevent people from taking care of themselves.

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because she needs her medical service dog, who isn’t allowed in the shelter.

Amos, a Navy vet, has spent more than a dozen years unhoused in Boulder. He shakes his head when he thinks about it, not surprised more help still isn’t available.

MDHI Committee Chair Sweeney says the six-month residency requirement eliminates an important segment of the unhoused population.

“We are selecting, overtly, for whiteness,” he explains. The population allowed access to the best services “is a whiter population than the other population which doesn’t meet that test.”

O’Connor has witnessed the same racial discrimination over the years.

“Black people are represented in our homeless community at 12 times the rate that they are in the general population,” he says. About 1% of housed people in Boulder are black, but make up roughly 12% of unhoused people.

“And then they’re being criminalized at a much more disproportionate rate [via tickets from camping ban].”

Most homeless advocates want to see the camping ban dismantled.

O’Connor points to the 2018 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that judged the punishment of unhoused people is unconstitutional if there aren’t enough shelter beds available.

“This camping ban is not constitutional,” Dan adds. “We’re here to help and to make a stand.”

There’s no data that indicates enforcing a camping ban reduces homelessness, Berg from NAEH says.

In fact, the camping ban is potentially a sign of Housing First failures.

Communities that have implemented successful Housing First strategies have everyone — the unhoused community, the police, city officials, nonprofits — on the same page. “If one of those groups is regularly arresting one of the other groups, like the police are regularly arresting homeless people for being homeless, then it’s just not going to work,” he says. Firnhaber, however, asserts the camping ban, instituted in the wake of the first Occupy movement in 2011 and ’12, is an integral component of HSBC’s plan. “Our whole homeless strategy can’t work if we don’t enforce the camping ban,” Firnhaber says. Without the pressure it adds to get people off the streets, he argues they’ll refuse to engage with available services.

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But Berg disagrees. “Part of the Housing First approach is really designing a system that’s based on what people who are homeless want,” he says. “And if the programs are there and people don’t want to use them, that’s probably a sign that you haven’t taken them really seriously.”

This echoes a primary frustration of HRC Chair Loberg and other advocates. “One thing that’s missing [in Boulder’s Housing First approach] is a variety of input into this conversation,” Loberg says. As it stands, the HSBC Executive Board is “an incomplete picture of the service providers [and community members] that actually exist in the area and ought to be represented.”

Sweeney recalls two people with lived homeless experience were included in 2016’s Housing First working group, but “they were so disgusted [with the outcomes] they asked that their names be removed from the final report,” he says. “Since then, there’s not been any concerted effort to have input from the community of the homeless who are supposedly served. And that’s because pretty routinely the served community says, ‘We don’t like the system,’ and nobody wants to hear that.”

Loberg points to the Occupy Boulder movement: “Clearly [they’re] able to say what they want and organize themselves and contribute to this conversation.”

Firnhaber declined to comment on Occupy Boulder. He adds that while it may seem logical to build according to the community’s needs, it doesn’t work. Building more services, he argues, will attract more homeless individuals to Boulder. “If we just open up our city, it’s going to be overrun.”

Not everyone agrees with this assessment. Chris Nelson, CEO of Attention Homes, the Boulder County nonprofit assisting unhoused youth, says of the thousands he’s interacted with over the years, “I have never, ever, ever heard of or met a young person who said they came to Boulder because there were services here.”

While Nelson applauds the philosophy of Housing First and the opportunities it affords Attention Homes, he says Boulder’s implementation strategy must incorporate direct BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

feedback from those seeking services.

“How do we solve this problem? We start by better listening to the people who have been historically marginalized. And we really, really listen and we believe it. And we take action based on what we’ve heard.”

For now, a primary focus of HSBC is educating the unhoused community about the region’s limited services. “[We need to be] honest with them about what their options are [and] say, ‘We’ll have 180 beds in our community this winter [so] you’re likely not going to have a place to stay,’” Firnhaber says. “For those who are service defiant, we know that every year in our City, there is a migration to warmer areas.”

Still, he advises everyone to engage with HSBC to try and find options for exiting homelessness.

Harms and Firnhaber also cite plans to create another Severe Weather Shelter before winter hits, and as social distancing potentially abates, the number of shelter beds will surpass 180. Also, a new mentalhealth-focused outreach program, designed to help improve community relationships, is set to begin work in September. This will supplement the Boulder Police Department’s Homeless Outreach Team. “We’re actually in a pretty good place,” Firnhaber says.

• • • • By 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, there was no sign of police. The dozens of Boulderites that’d arrived to protect Camp Free-Spirit huddled and collectively decided to capitalize on the public demonstration of support. They formed a plan: March down Walnut and disrupt Rep. Joe Neguse’s #SaveThePostOffice press conference, where news cameras were guaranteed.

Some stayed back to guard camp while the rest marched into the intersection of Broadway and Canyon. For almost 10 minutes, traffic stopped.

Horns blared. Then a black truck revved its engine, pointed south on Broadway, and drove straight through the chain of people. No one was injured.

“Nobody cares about us,” someone shouted. Leslie, now dressed in a reflective vest, guided the group from her bike.

At the post office, a podium had been set up. Leslie walked straight to it and began to speak: “The reason BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

why we come here today is for the simple fact that we, as homeless individuals that reside at the Municipal Building in tents, we are tired of the police department telling us where we can live. We should have the right to find out where to live.”

After an applause, she continued: “The cops say there’s no rest for the weary. ... It’s like being in jail, they tell you when to eat, they tell you when to crap, they tell you when to sleep. You go to sleep, they turn the lights on.

The lights never go off. We go out here. We are fighting for our right to survive.”

Unhoused community members and the “comrades” cheered. More spoke. “There are people out here suffering,” Amos said. “People out here need some type of love. We’re all people. All us breathe the same air, we bleed the same blood.”

After the speeches, the march stopped by Gov. Polis’ residence on Walnut and 17th, then looped down Pearl Street before returning to the Municipal Building. There, everyone huddled again, this time to determine long-term protection and aid strategies.

Camp Free-Spirit still stands, now more than a week later, but a different homeless encampment has been swept by the police. On Tuesday, Aug. 25, law enforcement officers spent hours forcibly clearing people and their possessions from the concrete patio underneath the main library, despite efforts by “comrades” to stop them.

Inadvertently, this pushed many unhoused people to the Municipal Building’s patio. Since then, Camp Free-Spirit has almost doubled in size.

Boulder Police Department’s Aulabaugh says 100 sweeps have been conducted since February, with a concerted effort to do more in the last two weeks. More are coming, she says.

“We started this with three tents and a dream, literally,” Dan says. “And now look at this, we have all these beautiful people helping us out, protests, all the donations, showing people we’re not going nowhere, that this is happening and they need to start listening.”

Though the police continue to visit Camp Free-Spirit, as of press time, no sweep has been conducted there. Everyone is on edge, not sure when or if anything will happen.

“We’re not just doing this for Occupy Boulder,” Dan says, “we’re doing it for all the homeless.”

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t was January 2019, and Benjamin Teitelbaum was sitting in the basement of Steve Bannon’s townhome behind the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. One of Bannon’s fixers, Andy Badolato, got Teitelbaum a drink and told him to “sit tight” while he waited to interview the famed political operative. Badolato, meanwhile, made some phone calls, one of which, Teitelbaum says, sounded like a business pitch trying to lure in an investor.

“He’s trying to get this person to build a wall,” Teitelbaum recalls. “And I was thinking to myself what do you mean build a wall? Why would you raise money for a government initiative like this?”

At the time Teitelbaum says it was just another “strange” detail in a series of encounters he had with Bannon and associates while researching his recent book War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers.

Although the CU-Boulder professor and radical right scholar included the scene in the book, he did not suspect foul play and had no idea it could eventually bring Bannon down.

On Aug. 20, Bannon, Badolato and two others were indicted for their involvement with “We The People Will Fund The Wall” campaign, an initiative that raised more than $25.6 million and led to the construction of less than a mile of border wall in New Mexico. Federal prosecutors in New York allege the men siphoned hundreds and thousands of dollars of donations to their own coffers instead of directly financing a wall at the southern border as promised. Each is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering and could serve up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

We recently caught up with Teitelbaum to talk about his reaction to the indictment, his interactions with Bannon and his research about Traditionalism, an obscure 20th century ideology rooted in its attacks of modernity to which he says Bannon ascribes.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Boulder Weekly: Were you surprised by the indictment?

Benjamin Teitelbaum: I was. It BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

GAGE SKIDMORE

America Great Again is a bizarrely succinct (I think, accidentally succinct) expression of it.

It’s not all smoke and mirrors

CU-Boulder scholar reflects on interviewing Steve Bannon, now indicted for fraud

by Angela K. Evans wouldn’t have surprised me that Bannon ends up in some kind of legal trouble, just because of the amount of projects and the amount of money and the amount of shady characters floating around. But this was clumsy, and it was deliberate at the same time. It was just a little weird that something like this would be his first indictment. I mean, this is the guy in Trump’s inner circle who got through the Mueller investigation without an indictment and everything else surrounding that campaign.

And he knows money laundering.

He’s worked at high-level business deals for decades.

BW: After your first interview with Bannon in the book, you write: “Bannon was well-read and quickthinking. Brilliant, even.” Does that still hold up under this indictment?

BT: Yes. It’s a different kind of brilliance though. I work in the university world, so I see a lot of people who are brilliant minds and thinkers and have delightful curiosities, but who are practical train wrecks. And it’s more in that sense. The brilliance of Bannon is the energy of his intellectual mind. I think a lot of people attach the term brilliance to moral integrity and practical good behavior.

I don’t connect those concepts.

BW: The quote from your book concludes: “And yet our conversation also left me curious and unnerved.”

Has that changed?

BT: This (the indictment) doesn’t make me scared of him anymore, I

let’s say. Some of our conversations made me scared of him and in new ways. People talk about, ‘Oh, he’s a white nationalist,’ and I don’t say that about him. But he’s something else that is also very scary in its own way, and in some ways it’s more scary because it’s so off the map. This latest thing, though, he just seems like a common fraudster. There’s nothing scary about that.

BW: What does scare you about Bannon?

BT: The deep particulars of this way of thinking that I explored with him and that I eventually traced him using as a basis for political activity.

One of its core concepts is the notion of cyclical time. It seems kind of benign, but it’s the belief that progress is really just an illusion and that the greatest virtues available to us are those that have already been, not those that we are going to someday create. And that ostensible progress is really something else. So everything we read in history, every movement that we see as having, let’s say, emancipated a group of people or created a more just society, all of those by definition are targets for him. It’s not just a secular dry political analysis, there’s a religious, spiritual mandate too. Embedded in all of this also is the notion that conflict, destruction, breakdown are all virtues to get us to a better place — to return us to a virtue that used to be there. It’s a nostalgia in hyperdrive.

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BW: How does the “We the People Will Fund the Wall” fall under this Traditionalism?

BT: What Traditionalism has done for Bannon in his thinking is that it has taught him that this age that we live in right now is an age of decadence, it’s an age of darkness and depravity, and one of the hallmarks of that is borderlessness in a very encompassing sense — not just a lack of national borders, but also differences in identity, differences between cultures. In this age that we’re living in right now, he sees borders as having disintegrated as a whole and thus also that reestablishing borders in one domain will support the reestablishment of borders in another. So creating a world that is more segmented where we all are in our little silos is a way to bring back a more virtuous society in his mind.

BW: You were at the 2019 “We the People Will Fund the Wall” event in New Mexico to interview Bannon as part of your research.

What was it like?

BT: They were giddy. For all of the failures, the unmaterialized, unrealized agendas that Bannon had, here was something tangible — massive steel pillars and actual concrete.

They were proud of themselves. So that was the spirit, if I can kind of characterize it.

BW: Is there anything else from your interactions and knowledge of Bannon that plays into this?

BT: There’s the man himself, and then there’s the discourse around him — about him being a fraud, not just having committed an act of fraud, that it’s all smoke and mirrors and there’s no substance in this person. He’s far more complicated than that. His person, his being is more chaotic than for him to just be a simple fraud. I’m somewhat leery of that being the conclusion if for no other reason than I don’t want to underestimate him or people like him in the future.

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Takin’ it to the streets

ON THE BILL: Street Wise Boulder.

Street Wise Boulder set to feature the work of more than 30 artists for the second iteration of the mural festival

by Caitlin Rockett

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treet Wise Boulder is back, Sept. 7-13, for its second year, bringing muralists (and 3D artists) from around Colorado and as far away as New York to paint engaging works in public spaces around the city.

With a bit of help, Leah Brenner Clark, executive director of Street Wise, had the unenviable challenge of choosing 35 artists from the more than 250 who applied. For some, this will

be their first commissioned street art project.

For others, their hundredth. But each artist comes with a desire to unite communities, facilitate difficult conversations and give voice to forgotten (or untold) narratives. We thought it best to let the artists speak for themselves.

Below are Q&As with only a handful of participating artists. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. More can be found online at boulderweekly.com.

n ALLY GRIMM (AKA A.L. GRIME) How did you get into large-scale mural work?

Last summer, I took a road trip with my friend Anna Charney to California. On that trip I got to watch her paint a wall for the Container Yard, and then the rest of that summer she let me hop in and help her on a project so I could adjust to painting large. Anna, if you’re reading this, I wouldn’t be here without you, girl! Thanks for the lessons, the dance parties and the continued support on this journey!

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

My goal with public artwork is to inspire the artists of tomorrow. My main mission as an artist is to empower young women by setting an example of success through diligence and hard work. I touch on issues of women’s empowerment, rape culture, the power of the people and equality because I feel these are the biggest issues we are facing today. I hope that we can use street art to normalize empathy and encourage more people to act with love.

What do you think public art does for a community?

Public art allows us to bring art to the people. While I appreciate the gallery world, this framework only reaches a privileged audience. Art is for everyone. Art should be everywhere. When we are able to paint the streets, we are able to inspire and bring joy to all people regardless of their age, background, education and income level.

n GRACE GUTIERREZ

How did you get into large-scale mural work?

The first mural experience I had was from a college class creating collaborative community murals. It was an amazing experience because the murals we did were for organizations that really support their communities. Street Wise is the first time I will be painting a mural by myself. I am excited and grateful to begin a journey into more large-scale mural work.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

As a Colorado native I have seen so much change in this state. I have witnessed the displacement of Chicanx/ Latinx/Indigenous families and businesses. I hope my work will emphasize our presence and make a statement

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n DANIELLE DEROBERTS (AKA ONERARY)

How did you get into large-scale mural work?

My first outdoor/public mural was during my travels in India in 2006. It was organic, engaging and transformative within the moment. It wasn’t until last year that I finally rediscovered myself and my capabilities and the connection outside galleries and into everyday communities, which reminded me of that time in India. I was given the opportunity to revisit this full creative expression when I was accepted into the Fort Collins Mural Project last summer. It was life-changing, and a way back to myself, what and who I want to reach through public art.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

To invoke emotion, to include not exclude. To bring healing visual messages to all. Raising awareness to create transformative change within ourselves, each other, the planet and humanity.

What do you think public art does for a community?

I believe public art brings expressive messages and unity to communities, for anyone to be exposed to. A space that welcomes the stimulation of dialogue open to all, and encourages the long-term prosperity of the social and natural environments in which we live. As Street Wise states, Art heals...

What artists do you have your eye on right now?

I truly love collaborations between different artists working and creating together. The recent Babe Walls mural festival in Westminster was innovating and amazing to see. Collaborations are extremely powerful, and this one proved so.

that we are here to stay while also celebrating the influence we have had on local communities. By referencing my Chicana identity and pride for my Chicanx heritage, I want to normalize public and communal pride for my culture and show the beauty of our stories and traditions.

Specifically with this mural for Street Wise, I am exploring animal and feminine connection to the earth and preservation.

What do you think public art does for a community?

Public art has a special way of creating conversations and connections between members of a community.

Sometimes it can be difficult to have conversations about racism, gentrification, cultural identity and social rights issues, but public art allows its viewers to contemplate

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Sept. 7-13. RSVP for workshops and panel discussions, and to take a self-guided walking or biking tour of the murals, with QR codes available to learn more about the artists and stories behind the art. Please respect social distancing and wear a mask while touring artist installations. RSVPs are donation-based — give what you can. streetwiseboulder.com Sept. 4 — Soft opening First Friday art at the Bus Stop Gallery in NoBo Sept. 9 — Virtual Live Art and Activism panel hosted by Museum of Boulder Sept. 7 and 12 — Womxn’s Spray Painting workshop with Grow Love (ages 13 and up) Sept. 12 — Artist Reception and Exhibition at the NoBo Bus Stop Gallery

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these things. Murals have messages tucked away in them and when people see something daily, those messages slowly reveal themselves. Their importance to the community slowly reveals itself as well.

What artists do you have your eye on right now?

Locally, I really love the work of Danielle DeRoberts, one of the other artists participating in Street Wise Boulder. Her linework and metallic embellishments make for truly unique artworks, and everything is so expressive and full life. I feel honored to be included in a lineup with her! I also love the work of Eva Bracamontes, a Mexican artist exploring cultural identity. Her work has all of my favorite things: references to folklore, animals, bright colors and the celebration of feminine power.

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How did you get into large-scale mural work?

I loved going to school for architecture, but after graduation, I came to realize that office work was not a good fit for me. I tried to mix things up by organizing office volunteer projects.

One of the times we worked on prepping some shipping containers for an artist to paint murals on and it turned out that I knew the muralist, Bobby Magee Lopez. We had met through friends of friends several years earlier and not too long after our reconnection, Bobby brought me under his wing and taught me how to do murals. Soon after that, in 2012, I left architecture to pursue art full-time. Bobby and I have been working together on mural projects ever since.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

I am an artist and a permaculturist. My mission is to cultivate joy and vitality by connecting people to each other and to the land where we live, work and play. Ultimately, though my pieces are generally bright and cheerful, I am angry and sad that we are causing mass extinctions. I want people to wake up to the fact that there is a choice that must be made: as humans we are blessed and cursed with the decision to either be a creator and protector of life, or a destroyer and that not making a conscious choice, by default, makes us a destroyer.

What do you think public art does for a community?

Public art brings light, life, color, wonder and new perspectives to a community. It can be a nice addition to an area that is already pleasant, but it also has the power to transform spaces and lives.

What artists do you have your eye on right now?

Some artists I love for their message, like Mona Caron with her murals of urban weeds, and some I love simply for their bright and geometric aesthetic, like Okuda San Miguel and Jessie & Katey.

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How did you get into large-scale mural work?

I had a really dope mentor, Hamilton Glass, when I was in art school. He showed me the hard work and discipline you have to have to be a mural painter. I worked under him for about three years and it was a blast. I knew I wanted to do it on my own.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

Simply put, to spark joy and evoke conversation.

What do you think public art does for a community?

Public art allows artists to express themselves and reflect the current history. It brings beauty and personality to a neighborhood and makes the space feel more pleasant and welcoming.

What artists do you have your eye on right now?

I’m loving Lauren Pearce of LadyNoelDesigns. She is a Black painter based in Ohio. Beautiful colors and shapes fill her work and she highlights the black figure so well. She has been putting up murals on the East Coast and I can’t wait to see one in person.

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How did you get into large-scale mural work?

In college I studied architecture. My first job out of college was with Urban Outfitters as a visual display artist. There, I was entrusted with the task of painting the break room. Because I had so much creative freedom with this, I felt compelled to do something spectacular. This was my first mural opportunity and I was inspired by the nature of Colorado and the Denver skyline.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

I am a firm believer that all art has the potential to be harnessed and observed in therapeutic ways. I strive to provoke feelings of joy and positivity.

I aim to kindle the imagination and add vibrancy to the ordinary.

What do you think public art does for a community?

Public art has the ability to improve the quality of life for the communities where it resides. It often increases community togetherness. It gives a sense of place and identity. It has the potential to express messages and even encourage activism. It supports creative outlets for citizens and youth — and allows space to amplify the personality of the city, town or neighborhood where it is displayed.

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How did you get into large-scale mural work?

I started as a youth painting graffiti but was also exposed to Mexican muralists like Diego, Orozco, Siqueiros. My connection to my Mexican roots and culture combined with my exposure to graffiti is a major reason why I paint now.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

I want to inspire people. Most importantly I want to inspire people who question identity and self-worth.

I’m a Mexican-born artist who grew up in the U.S. and have seen what colonization has done to Black and Latin people. With my work I want to remind everyone how beautiful and important our culture, heritage and physical appearance is with a decolonized eye. I believe public art can empower and bring communities together.

What do you think public art does for a community?

It gives community pride. It also inspires future generations to express themselves. It creates a space and moment that did not exist before. A blank wall in a parking lot all of a sudden becomes a space for social gathering and activation because now there’s a major work of art that sets the tone and creates the energy and atmosphere that wasn’t there before.

What artists do you have your eye on right now?

My 10-year-old daughter Luna and 16-year-old Reina. They truly inspire me to be more creative and free. They are very thoughtful and expressive with the artwork they create and don’t take it too seriously. see STREET WISE Page 20

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How did you get into largescale mural work?

I got interested in murals in art school as a response to learning how exclusive the art world was.

While exploring transportable murals, I saw how public work could reach people in a way that art in galleries and museums often couldn’t. Artists make things to communicate a message or provide an opinion on a subject that’s important to them. I love the idea of bringing that to people where they’re at; to have the space to consider the work in a non-pressure situation or over time is unique.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

I’ve made a lot of pieces that can serve as something for people to feel ownership over, almost like how we attach ourselves to songs and call them ours. But recently I’ve been exploring themes of “place” in my studio work, and have started incorporating that into my murals. These pieces intend for the audience to consider the history of each place — who existed there, what they created there, what the place meant to them, and, unfortunately in many moments in our history, how they were forced out of that place.

What do you think public art does for a community?

I think public art can help a community feel pride and ownership over their space.

However, I think as artists we have to be careful and thoughtful about how we create, where we create and what messages we put out there. We have to consider what the community wants and needs, and how we can add something without our work being a contributing factor to displacement.

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How did you get into large-scale mural work?

I’ve actually never done any large-scale mural work — other than a little patio fence mural at a bar in Milwaukee called D.I.X. — so this will be my first (actual?) mural. Most of my work is rather small scale, so I am equal parts ecstatic and terrified about the opportunity.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

A lot of my work, in its most basic and very boiled down sense, is about creating representation and recontextualizing the everyday. Oftentimes I’m using the visual language of wildlife art to communicate queer narratives. Queerness is, oftentimes, absent from our understanding of nature.

Something I love about birds is, while they are inevitably flamboyant, they also are known to engage in homosexual/queer relations, and I’m excited to share an alternative understanding of this incredible, natural world we live in. Hope y’all like magpies, but if you don’t, maybe you will.

What do you think public art does for a community?

I can’t imagine feeling comfortable in a world without it. You ever see a mural on the side of an old brick building and think, “That’s not doing it for me,” but you still feel so incredibly comfortable because it’s there? It’s sharing, it’s storytelling, it’s history, it’s color... only good things.

What artists do you have your eye on right now?

My favorite artists are almost always contemporary sculptors. Check out Zachary Betts (we went to the same undergrad!) and Jes Fan. Also, I will never be able to stop thinking about Doron Langberg paintings and TM Davy’s pastel works.

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How did you get into large-scale mural work?

I am one of the oddities among street artists... I don’t do murals! I do smaller scale fiber sculpture installations instead of the large murals most people associate with “street art.” I have been a practicing fiber and mixed media artist for 20 years, and was exploring three-dimensional fiber for some time. I figured out a way to make small fabric mushrooms using wire as support and thought it would be interesting to play with the concept of growth and decay using “natural” elements in urban settings. And so began the “Life Cycles” project. Now, I am creating colonial life-forms that spring up in the city; along the base of buildings, on telephone poles, cracks in the pavement, bridges and overpasses, etc.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

First and foremost, I want to challenge what people perceive as “street art,” both in medium and scale. Secondly, I want people to think about the cyclical nature of the world around them, both on a smaller scale, like weeds growing in cracks in the pavement, setting seed then dying, as well as on a larger scale, such as cities and even societies growing, flourishing and (inevitably) collapsing. Finally, I am also exploring concepts of colonialism and gentrification with the colony structures.

What do you think public art does for a community?

I love how public art exposes people to the arts in general in a way that does not involve a third party (i.e., galleries, art dealers, etc). Just by walking the streets of your hometown, you can discover different styles, different mediums and different “messages” from artists. It is truly a way to get everyone involved in the arts!

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How did you get into largescale mural work?

I grew up in Ixelles, which is the central urban commune/ neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium. The streets there have always been littered in street art and graffiti. Artists like Créons, Bonhomme, BART and many others provided the backdrop of my childhood as I walked back and forth to school each day. Coming into the street scene, from a mostly fine-art based practice, I found that the possibility and reality of scale allowed for an experience that could not be replicated in a museum or gallery-context for the viewers. In the streets you’re able to interact with entire communities, on a daily basis, unhindered of the red-velvet rope or classist institutions that oversee the art world as we know it.

What’s your goal with your public artwork?

My goal with public art is to add color to the world and to stimulate dialogue around pertinent social issues and causes.

What do you think public art does for a community?

I think that it creates a sense of identity for residents, making their environments more interesting not only for them — but for tourists and visitors to the area. I think that public art has a huge economic impact, as it gives people more reasons to visit, and prolongs visits which in turn means more resources spread throughout the community.

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

A WEEKEND CARNE ASADA OUTDOOR BARBECUE — PRESENTED BY CAFFÈSOLE.

6-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28 and 29, Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder. Reservations required (limited to 50 people): caffesole.com/reservations. Tickets are $20.

Stay safe while enjoying delicious food with live music at Caffè Sole’s carne asada outdoor barbecue, Aug. 28 and 29.

Dinner — prepared by Chef Leonard Muñoz-Corona — will be served traditional family style per table, with a choice between a mixed grilled meat platter (arrachera steak, pollo adobado, chorizo) or a vegetarian grilled platter (marinated portobello mushrooms, nopales, red bell peppers). Sides, substitutions, dessert (crème brûlée, chocoflan, fruit galettes) and beverages are not included in the $20 dinner ticket. Music for Friday evening’s feast will be provided by Victor Mestas, Bill Kopper and Raoul Rossiter. Saturday night features the music of Bill McCrossen, Eric Gunnison and Raoul Rossiter.

Reservations are required at caffesole.com/reservations.

QUEENS OF SONG — PRESENTED BY BDT.

6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28 and 29, BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, bdtstage.com. Tickets are $35.

Bring a blanket or some camping chairs and enjoy two of Denver’s most powerful divas performing an outdoor concert at BDT Stage.

Sheryl Renee and Anna High, accompanied by pianist Eric Weinstein, will bring their incredible vocal prowess to BDT’s outdoor stage for two exclusive shows.

And of course, since it’s BDT Stage, dinner is included with the price of the show. Appetizers, upgraded entrees and a cookie will be served with the “picnic” meal.

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OPERA IN THE PARK — PRESENTED BY BOULDER OPERA COMPANY.

7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, boulderoperacompany.com Admission is free, but registration is required.

Join Boulder Opera Company for a night of opera’s greatest tunes and stories under the stars, featuring Boulder’s very own rising stars singing hits by Rossini, Englebert Humperdinck and more — true fun for the whole family. The concert will feature local singers such as Phoenix Gayles, Ekaterina Kotcherguina, Daniela Guzman, Jennifer Burks, Kelly Riordan, Armando Contreras, Dianela Acosta, Oliver Poveda and Santiago Gutierrez. This event has a capped attendance with mandatory registration. All parties must maintain a minimum of 6 feet of distance at all times and wear a face covering. Those feeling unwell and those vulnerable to COVID are asked to stay home.

300 DAYS — PRESENTED BY BACKPORCH SERIES.

5:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, Dairy Arts Center Parking Lot, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, thedairy.org. Tickets are $20.

The Dairy has a safe way for you to enjoy live music during the pandemic: the Backporch Series.

With The Dairy’s loading dock as a stage, and its shaded parking lot providing a safely distanced and masked audience area, you can enjoy a real live concert. On Aug. 30 catch 300 Days, a bluegrass band with a catalog of fiery original tunes.

The powerful vocals and acrobatic fiddle playing of Melissa McGinley, finely honed songwriting by mandolinist and guitarist Nick Dunbar, and tight rhythms of jazz-trained Dave “Pump” Solzberg on upright bass have been electrifying audiences across Colorado. Concessions including beer and wine will be available for purchase (credit card only).

COVID STORY GATHERING.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder, museumofboulder.org.

Share your COVID-era story with one of the Museum of Boulder curators.

Stop by the Museum between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sept. 2 to have your story video recorded and to share photographs and artifacts from your life over the past few months. Stories about experiences with or caused by the coronavirus are welcome, but curators would love to hear about what has been most important for you, or what has had the greatest impact on your life “since March.” (If you are unable to visit the museum and would like to share your story, you can fill out a survey online, accessible at museumofboulder.org.)

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HOMEVIEWING Women Make Film

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unning 14 hours and featuring the work of 183 directors, 700 clips and seven narrators, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema might be writer/director Mark Cousins’ most ambitious project to date.

“Many films about cinema feature only male directors, so this one is a repost,” Cousins said in a press release. “It is a film school, where all the teachers are female.”

“There are the great [female] writers, producers, actors, of course, too — but there is much ignorance and blindness about women directing film,” Cousins continues. “Our film will boldly challenge this blindness.”

When Women Make Film made its Colorado premiere at 2019’s Telluride Film Festival, Cousins introduced the documentary by holding up a stack of photos, each one a picture of a director featured in Women Make Film: Kinuyo Tanaka, a Japanese actress who worked with the great filmmakers of Japan before stepping behind the camera herself; Binka Zhelyazkova, a Cold War-era Bulgarian filmmaker whose 1961 We Were Young masterpiece sold over 2 million tickets in Bulgaria, but was forgotten elsewhere; Ukrainian Kira Muratova; French Sarah Maldoror; Belgian Agnès Varda.

“Some of those people you’ve heard of, and a lot of them, I’m guessing you haven’t heard of, even the movie lovers,” Cousins said. “The reason for this film is to change that.”

And change it will, thanks to TCM: Every Tuesday from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, the channel will dedicate its prime time lineup to Women Make Film, one episode per week, 14 in all.

Women Make Film is not a chronological history, but a road trip through cinema’s forgotten past. The destination is the source of cinema’s Nile with Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton and Debra Winger as traveling companions through 40 themes of cinema discourse. What’s more, many of these themes focus on cinematic technique, proving that the female gaze is not limited to what we see but how we see it.

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Malone and Jacqueline Stewart, who will also present a handful of movies in conjunction with that week’s episode.

Some of these films are featured in the documentary; some are not, but fit each evening’s theme. If Women Make Film is a 14-week film course, then

TCM stacks the syllabus with extra credit.

Week one (Sept. 1) focuses on Openings and Tone and include two not to miss: Olivia, a French melodrama set in a girl’s boarding house so delightfully rococo you’ll want to bathe in Chantilly after seeing it, and Je tu il elle, a spare and seductive tale from Chantal Akerman, one of cinema’s true talents. Both movies present a lesbian lens of desire, but their execution and aesthetics couldn’t be more disparate.

TCM will also screen 1932’s Merrily We Go to Hell from Dorothy Arzner (the first woman admitted into the Directors

Guild of America), the Mozambique-set Sleepwalking Land from Teresa Prata, Lina Wertmüller’s searing 1975 holocaust drama, Seven Beauties (for which she became the first woman nominated for a directing Academy Award), the Weimar-set Mädchen in Uniform from Leontine Sagan, and Lucrecia Martel’s debut about the rich going to pot, La Ciénaga.

Fasten your seat belts; it’s going to be one hell of a ride. Check womenmakefilm.tcm.com for information and schedules. see EVENTS Page 24

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BRICOLAGE GALLERY, ART PARTS CREATIVE REUSE CENTER, 2860 BLUFF ST., BOULDER, ARTPARTSBOULDER.ORG:

Judith Bergquist and Gigia Kolouch: ‘Flora and Fauna.’ Aug. 28-Oct. 3.

Judith Bergquist is a former theatre artisan and landscape architect who creates exquisite dimensional paper art that is expressive, meticulously detailed and vividly hued.

Gigia Kolough uses solar dyes, fabric and plants to create breathtaking encaustic art that highlights the natural world.

This exhibit at Bricolage Gallery offers up the sizable talents of these two unique female artists whose work will heighten your perceptions of nature.

BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 1750 13TH ST., BOULDER, BMOCA.ORG:

John Torreano: ‘The Big Picture — Painting from the Universe.’ Sept. 3-Jan. 17.

John Torreano’s abstract paintings and drawings are accentuated by plastic gems, wooden balls, paint and plywood in an effort to capture the cosmos. With the universe as muse, Torreano has created works that pull the viewer into the mysteries and wonders of the cosmos, aided by images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

(Photo credit: John Torreano, Universe [detail], 1973, acrylic and watercolor on paper, 28 x 41”. Courtesy of Jenny Gorman.)

Nyeema Morgan: ‘THE STEM. THE FLOWER. THE ROOT. THE SEED.’ Sept. 3-Jan. 17.

In her solo-exhibition THE STEM. THE FLOWER. THE ROOT. THE SEED., Chicago-based artist Nyeema Morgan poetically reflects on 21st-century dichotomies of gender and power: objectivity and subjectivity, agency and powerlessness, offense and defense. Through sculpture, drawing and other media, Morgan traces femininity as a complex process of categorization and identification — constantly affected by sexual, cultural and political pressures.

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MUSEUM OF BOULDER, 2205 BROADWAY, BOULDER, MUSEUMOFBOULDER.ORG: Angie Eng: ‘Right on!’ Sept. 1-Nov. 3, creativecatalyzers.org.

In Right on, artist Angie Eng responds to the current social crisis on systemic racism with a series of painted plaques with dates and QR codes. Each of the 15 plaques, to be displayed on the exterior of the Museum of Boulder, Sept. 1 through early November, are painted different skin-toned colors. Each date corresponds to a civil rights case or event in American history from the 1860s to 2020. When the viewer scans the QR code with a smart phone, an internet page reveals a one-sentence description of the historical event or court case with a link to the source for more details. The form is an homage to the conceptual artist On Kawara’s ‘Today’ series.

The plaques are on sale as part of a fundraiser for the cultural non-profit Creative Catalyzers, with 25% of proceeds going to the ACLU. For more information: creativecatalyzers.org/cultural-projects/right-on/fundraiser.

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Studios — recordThe first jump was when the couple — a former urban ing and rehearsal planner and accountant, respectively — bought Dog space. Visit doghousemusic.com House Music Studios in spring 2019, saving it from demolition. or email info@ The second jump came immediately after when they retrofitted doghousemusicstuthe studio with modern engineering, production and videogradios.com phy services.

When the pandemic shut Colorado down in mid-March, the upgrades meant Dog House was already prepared to pivot to the livestreaming model that has become the lifeline of live music in our socially distant world.

“The day we got the stay-at-home order was the first day that we even tried to do a livestream with Dog House,” Kenny Vasko says. Front Range EDM artist Dirt Monkey had asked if the Lafayette studio and recording space could help him stage a livestream since all his tour gigs had been canceled.

Liz and Kenny and their sound engineer, John Remington, were happy to oblige.

“Five thousand people tuned in,” Vasko says. “That was a great proof of concept for us. We spent the next six weeks formulating, if we had to turn this into a business, what are we missing?

What do we need to make this a better experience than people who are doing this in their basement or garages can have? For us, it came down to feeling like some sort of VIP experience, with real stage lighting, a real backline, having your own monitor mix in front of you, and engineers making sure the stream is optimized for phones or Airpods as opposed to huge PA speakers. Creating that VIP experience for the fans and creating that elevated experience for the artist is something that we’ve been able to pride ourselves in.”

These days, Dog House is a one-stop shop for livestreaming shows, logging more than 70 hours of live streaming since May 15 with around 30 different artists, from death metal bands to School of Rock students.

With COVID here to stay and the return of concerts as we knew them still too far away to see, Vasko hopes to continue to connect musicians with their audience.

“Our real claim to fame is plug and play,” he says. “We want [musicians] to be able to come into the studio, do sound check, and we’ll take care of the audio, camera, lighting — all you have to do is play.”

For fans looking to support local music, there’s Underdogs, a $5-a-month subscription plan where patrons can access all of the videos that Dog House has streamed live since the beginning of the pandemic, and any future streams. Donations help keep Dog House “kicking,” as Vasko puts it.

“In our complex we have 80 artists and residents, and they are the lifeblood of the underground music scene,” he says. “There aren’t too many rehearsal studios out there in the Denver metro area ... where bands can be as loud as they want because we have a full backline. It’s very important that these spaces stay alive for the music scene because eventually your neighbors are gonna call the cops and you’ll need a place to play.” see EVENTS Page 26

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ROTATION Three new tracks for your ears

by Caitlin Rockett n “DARK HORSE,” L.A. WITCH

For their second album, Play With Fire, L.A. Witch preach a gospel of anti-apathy across nine tracks, asking us (and themselves) to give a damn when it’s hard (“I Wanna Lose”), listen to the kids (“Gen Z”) and remember our self-worth (“Sexorexia”). “Dark Horse” is a high point on the album, delivering what you might expect from a band called L.A. Witch: an acid trip in the desert, lead singer Sade Sanchez’s vocals draped in black velvet. The song channels the energy of 1960s Los Angeles, where anything is possible, and some of it is downright debauched.

n “DESERT STORM,” AMAARA

“When the sun set over the desert / Was it me that you tried to forget?” Kaelen Ohm wonders in “Desert Storm,” her question familiar to anyone who’s dared to love... and then lost. “It was something that I thought I could fight / But no words could have changed your mind / Another river stone for the fire / Another woman who just wanted your time.” The sole mind behind AMAARA weathered a divorce that informed the songs on her sophomore solo album, Heartspeak. An ambient drone builds a foundation for Ohm’s gossamer vocals, slow chords from a piano punctuating the realizations she’s come to in the days since her spouse left: “I guess it felt right,” she says, resigned. “Lie after lie after life / Was it really that hard / To say goodbye?” But Ohm isn’t stuck: She gently shifts the song into a higher gear, picking up enough BPMs to dance through the tears. “And you gave it all away,” she chants, and you can tell she knows she’s better off.

n “WATER ME DOWN,” VAGABON (PAMCY REMIX)

As the one-woman project Vagabon, Laeticia Tamko’s rich voice and relatable lyrics have been a favorite of indie music tastemakers since her debut album, Infinite Worlds. No wonder Fillipino producer Pamsy (Pamela Fernandez) decided to remix “Water Me Down” from Vagabon’s eponymously titled sophomore album. Already a catchy bop in its original form, Fernandez beefs up the track’s reserved fouron-the-floor beat and adds a dash of tropical warmth. “You know me better than that / You know I hate it like that / It really waters me down,” Tamko sings of a frustrating relationship. While Tamko finds comfort in expressing her needs in the original track, Fernandez’s touch strengthens Tamko’s resolve, helping her deliver the ultimate kiss-off.

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If I Could Fight

by Patrick McGuire Dear diary, I felt something new today after weeks on end of nothing but fatigue; it was hatred for the human race It’s getting worse again after coming so close don’t shine that light here it’s grown used to the dark

Schedule an appointment with yourself today

No one knows in the clear still water; a reflection No one sees on the shimmering horizon; a mirage For those I love I would shatter the earth and snuff out the stars but that is not something I am capable of doing So instead I will hold on by the whites of my knuckles until my fingers break counting my breaths facing the world head on If I could fight I would fight but the enemy is inside the gates so instead I’ll smile for you through this desolation for hopes of a better future because you deserve to see it Patrick McGuire is a writer of poetry living in Estes Park. More poetry can be found on Instagram @pattycakkkes777.

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n 1850, Charles Dickens published his eighth novel, an autobiography of sorts, and his proclaimed favorite: The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was shortened to David Copperfield. Even the greats could stand a cut or two.

That’s one of the thrills of filmmaker Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield: He takes Dickens’ 620-plus pages and distills it down to 120 minutes of tight, joyous storytelling.

Dev Patel stars as Copperfield. His name is a gift from his late father, a gift snatched from him by Edward Murdstone (Darren Boyd), a man Copperfield remembers as two eyebrows. Not that Mr. Murdstone doesn’t have eyes, it’s that the eyebrows are more important.

Personal History is littered with Copperfield’s illustrative phrases, the kind that makes magic the mundane: A boathouse — not a place to house boats or a boat with a house on it, but an overturned boat fashioned into a house. It’s where the lobster people live.

Iannucci retains the best, but gleeful kicks Dickens’ “whoms” to the curb. When a young Copperfield (Jairaj Varsani) tells the factory foreman he’s going to live with a man, “Whom I have yet to meet.” The kids rightfully ridicule him. “Whom?” One asks.

“Where were you raised? Windsor Castle?”

Dickens used “whom” 120 times in his book. That’s 100 more occurrences than the word “donkey,” which looks as funny on the page as it sounds when Betsey Trotwood (Tilda Swinton) screeches it in frustration.

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live in the land of roaming donkeys.

The majority of Personal History takes place in London, a city in the state of becoming. The rise of industry has provided the rich with cheap labor, but it’s also offered the poor a chance to become something — as long as they catch a couple of breaks. Copperfield does, and he rises high: High enough to make the memories of poverty and squalor a distant memory. Maybe even a fabrication. Could he ever have been that hungry? Were Mr. Micawbre’s creditors so ruthless that they really pulled the rug out through the bottom crack of the front door? Maybe Copperfield is embellishing too much.

Maybe, but Iannucci shows how poverty is always around the corner — ready to take root and choke out all life and joy.

Iannucci reveals these moments in dribs and drabs, never out of frame, but always on the edge. But once they come to the forefront, the world doesn’t feel as playful. It becomes, like one of the story’s more memorable characters, a woman who so hardened herself to the world, “She was now all edge.”

Fantasy is the artist’s weapon against that edge, even if that means massaging the truth. Dickens did that with his characters, and Iannucci does that with his casting — they resemble the racial makeup of today’s London much more than Dickens’ London.

But isn’t that why we tell stories in the first place? To put right all the things the world got wrong? “You could have made me younger and taller,” Mr. Peggotty (Paul Whitehouse) says to Copperfield. Would that it were so simple.

The Personal History of David Copperfield is available on Video On Demand starting Aug. 28.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I’m a 39-year-old gay man living in Chicago. Recently a good friend of mine got engaged to a wonderful man from Gambia in West Africa. She’s planning a ceremony there next summer and has invited me to attend. After doing a little research I found out that being LGBT is a crime in that country and the punishment is execution. Should I go to the wedding and stay in the closet the whole time? In general, what do you think about gays traveling to countries that murder our LGBT brothers and sisters?

—Intensely Nervous Venturing Into This Event Dear INVITE: I wouldn’t go, INVITE, and if I were a straight girl, I wouldn’t expect my gay friends to risk their lives in order to attend my wedding. While a quick search didn’t bring up news about any gay Westerners being executed in Gambia in recent history, gay tourists have been arrested, imprisoned and fined. So instead of attending your friend’s wedding next summer — which may not even happen, due to the pandemic — make a donation in her name to Initiative Sankofa D’Afrique de l’Ouest (www.ISDAO.org), an organization working to improve the lives and legal position of LGBT people in Gambia and other West African nations.

Dear Dan: I’m a 35-year-old woman in a long-term cohabitating relationship with a man. We opened our relationship about six months ago, and it’s going very well and we both have FWBs. My primary partner and I are going to be getting engaged soon, and I’m wondering what my responsibility is to my FWB of five months. Do I make a special effort to tell him about the engagement — on the phone or in person, like I plan to tell family members and close friends? Or is it OK if he finds out via social media like other people I’ve known for only five months or less would? My getting engaged (or married) won’t prevent me from remaining his FWB. —Wanna Be Ethical Dear WBE: Golden rule this shit, WBE: If your FWB got engaged, would you want to find out via social media or would you want him to tell you personally? I’m guessing you’d rather hear it from him. You’ve known your FWB for only five months, it’s true, and other five-monthsor-less friends don’t rate hearing it from you personally. But you aren’t fucking BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

your other five-months-orless friends. A little more consideration for your feelings is — or should be — one of the benefits.

Dear Dan: I’m a longtime reader who’s never had a question that your archives couldn’t answer. But there is something I wanted to share with you and your readers! My wife and I have incorporated virtual reality (VR) goggles into our sex life with great success, Dan, and they could be the answer to a range of questions that you get at the column.

They’re so useful, in fact, that your failure to mention them is starting to look like a glaring omission! Because let’s say someone writes in who wants to open their relationship or explore a cuckold fantasy (like one of last week’s letter writers!) but they’re worried about the emotions involved, potential STIs or COVID19? VR goggles! While the offerings for female POV VR porn is pretty paltry I’ve never seen my wife come harder than she did with me inside her and a pair of goggles on her face giving her the perspective of a man getting fucked by a beautiful trans woman. I love the idea that this turns her on and I actually think she looks hot with goggles on! Besides the cost of a subscription to a VR porn site, the financial barrier is really pretty low — most people can use their smartphone and a $20 headset to get started, which is much cheaper than seeing a sex worker and much less time consuming than engineering a consenting affair.

And there’s no risk of STIs or COVID-19!

Just wanted you to consider VR as a possibly overlooked tool for your otherwise always-outstanding advice in the future!

—Very Recent Purchase Optimizes Reality Nicely Dear VRPORN: Thank you for writing in, VRPORN, and you’re right: VR porn sounds like a great way for an adventurous monogamous couple to have a little virtual variety — whether that couple is monogamous by choice or monogamous for the duration of this stupid pandemic.

In addition to the technology, of course, you’ll need a partner who not only knows you fantasize about other people (like they do, like everybody does), but who’s also excited about helping you explore those fantasies. Thanks again for sharing, VRPORN! On this week’s Savage Lovecast, all about cuckolding. savagelovecast.com.

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

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Starting Aug. 28, Denver’s Seedstock Brewery will have a real treat on hand: Horner beer, made with 100% oats, Saaz hops and a little bit of cream of tartar. And, as far as Seedstock knows, it’s the only U.S. brewery with a Horner beer on the tap list.

Hailing from Horn, Austria, Horner beer’s halcyon days span 1750 to 1850. But then the beer virtually vanished. And when Seedstock brewer Jason Abbott and Matthew Peetz of Propagate Lab started researching the brew, they could only discern two musts: oats and cream of tartar. The latter provides a lovely hint of citric acid, while the oats (handmilled) are mild and give the yellow-greenish-hued brew a grainy nose and a flavor of granola. It’s strongly carbonated, and thanks to the Saaz hops and Früh (Kölsch) yeast, the beverage is aromatic, crisp and refreshing. It’s also light: 3% ABV. Abbott describes it as a cross between a Belgian table beer and a SMaSH (single malt, single hop) beer with cream of tartar. Back in his day, Mozart declared it the drink of summer. They’re both correct.

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n Rare whiskey release from Lyons’ Spirit Hound How about whiskey from a barrel that survived the 2013 floods? That’s what Lyons’ Spirit Hound Distillers will release on Sept.

12 and 13 (with preordering of 750-ml bottles starting Sept. 7) — the anniversary of the historic flood. “We can still see the mud on this barrel from the disastrous flood that nearly literally wiped us off the map,” Craig Engelhorn, head distiller and co-owner of Spirit Hound, said in a press release. Barrel #1 is a straight malt whiskey aged seven and a half years, and the distillers believe it is at its peak flavor moment right now; thus, why they’re selling it. Reserve your bottle through Spirit Hound’s online store, accessed via spirithounds.com.

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SMaSH Brew

If you can cook, you can homebrew

Story and photos by Ray Ricky Rivera

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aking beer at home doesn’t have to be a daunting task.

If you’ve ever made a pot of soup, chances are you already have some of the equipment needed to make your very own small batch of beer.

An easy way to get started is to brew a small batch SMaSH recipe. “SMaSH” is an acronym that means single malt and single hop. It’s the old adage of keeping it simple. You literally use one type of base malt and one hop variety. It’s a great method to introduce your palate to the aromas, flavors and bitterness featured in the malt and hop used.

Get a stockpot that can fit at least two gallons of water. Then, dig through that kitchen drawer and find the longest spoon you have, preferably a non-wooden one — stainless steel and silicone clean up easier. Grab a measuring cup (one quart or larger) for collecting water. To keep it simple and economical, you can reuse plastic soda bottles (they hold the equivalent of nine 12-oz. bottles) when it’s time to bottle. Be sure to save the caps. Also, a small digital scale will be helpful when weighing out malt and hops.

You’ll need to get a fermenter (onegallon glass carboy or plastic food grade bucket with lid), an airlock, mini auto-siphon, food-grade vinyl tubing,

bottle filler, carbonation tablets and some sanitizer (use Star San). Don’t worry; your local homebrew shop will have all this and more. Ask questions.

SMASH BLONDE ALE RECIPE 1.2 lb. of Light DME (dried malt extract) 1 packet of SafAle US-05 American Ale dry yeast 1 oz. of Galena hops

Collect and heat 1.75 gallons of water in your stockpot. If your tap water tastes good, use it. If not, buy some spring water. Before water reaches boiling temp, add the DME and dissolve by stirring with your

long spoon. This is your wort (unfermented beer).

As the water begins to boil, toss in .25 oz of hops.

At 30 minutes, toss in another .25 oz of hops.

After 60 minutes of boiling, chill your wort with an ice bath (literally, place your stock pot in ice water) in the kitchen sink. You need to chill the wort for safe transfer to the fermenter before you can pitch the yeast.

Be sure to sanitize any equipment the wort will touch post-boil (this is where the Star San comes in). Then, once the wort is chilled, use the auto-siphon to transfer the wort into the fermenter.

Next, pitch the yeast (use half of the packet). Stick on the airlock and place the fermenter in a cool place out of direct light for two weeks. A kitchen cupboard works.

After that, you’re ready to bottle. First, sanitize the bottles and caps you plan to fill, then use the bottle filler to fill soda bottles leaving at least an inch of headspace. Add carbonation tablets per instructions on the package, and store bottles at room temperature, away from direct light.

Allow two weeks to carbonate. When carbonated, chill bottles in the fridge.

Now it’s ready to drink. Cheers!

Ray Ricky Rivera is the co-founder and president of the SoCal Cerveceros homebrew club. He hosts the weekly online radio show, Beer Bands Business.

The perks of small-batch brewing

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mall-batch brewing is any homebrew recipe measuring less than five gallons in volume. It’s typical for first-time brewers to start with five-gallon recipes, and never look back. Before you know it, you’re sourcing chest freezers, converting them into fermentation chambers, buying carbon dioxide tanks, oxygen tanks, propane jet burners and haggling keg prices from brewers with screen names like, “Cerveza Stalone” on OfferUp. Space can quickly become an issue.

The beauty of small batches is that you can brew, ferment and bottle condition in the comfort of your kitchen. Right on your stove.

Minimal space is required as the equipment is much smaller than a typical setup. A one-gallon small batch will yield just over a six-pack of 12-oz. bottles. That’s great for a solo brewer who has no one to share with at home.

That’s a perk in itself, right?

Small-batch brewing is also a more economical way to get into the hobby. Fewer ingredients mean less money spent, which allows you to experiment and use malt or hops that might cost too much when used in a bigger batch. And hey, if that chocolate cucumber stout doesn’t quite drink like the gold medal winner you imagined, dumping one gallon of beer down the kitchen sink isn’t a problem.

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Time for tomatoes

by Matt cortina

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t’s almost September, which means tomatoes are turning red. All the heat in June and July did wonders for the tomato plants in my garden this year — they’re about 10 feet high, with abundant fruit.

As was the case, surely, for Boulder County farmers: We’re already seeing a variety of tomatoes on farm stands, in CSA boxes and at the Boulder County Farmers Markets (BCFM).

The good news is there’s plenty to do with all these tomatoes. Heirloom and Beefsteak tomatoes are great raw, sliced and slipped onto burgers; cherry and grape

Colorado, with one big harvest in the books and green and budding tomatoes poised to keep fruit coming through September.

You’ll also find San Marzanos at BCFM stalls this year, too. Pick deep red tomatoes that give just a little with light hand pressure. To prepare: Score an X on the bottom with a knife and boil and for 10 minutes. This will loosen the skin, so you can peel it off when cooled.

From here, I tend to go with one of two sauce preparations, which I’ll shorthand as quick and slow (though, of course, you can go hundreds of ways and you likely have a family recipe you adhere to. You do you). For the quick sauce, chop a half-inch off the tomatoes (where the stem was), macerate with MATT CORTINA a potato smasher or food processor.

Finely chop some garlic and a sweet onion or shallot, heat a liberal pour of olive oil over medium heat in a sauce pan and combine. When aromatic, add in the tomato purée over the garlic and onion and let simmer for about five minutes. Add salt (and sugar, if you’d like) to taste. I’ll use the quick sauce for stuffed pastas (ravioli, manicotti) or as pizza sauce.

For the slow preparation, you’re going need more time but not much more effort — some people call this is a Sunday sauce because, well, it takes a day to make. You’ll want to brown some meat in a crock pot — I like meatballs (of ground beef, pork and veal) and hot Italian sausages, but feel free to throw in any meat that benefits from a slow braise. It’ll all taste great.

Remove the browned meat, deglaze with a cup of red wine, add a liberal pour of olive oil and sauté one or two diced yellow onions, several garlic cloves and two carrots diced. tomatoes (also great raw) are elevated when Add the skinned San Marzano tomatoes and broiled with garlic and olive oil; Romas are break them up roughly with a fork until the pot ideal for dicing and mixing into salsas and gets saucy. Add back in the meat. Throw in a bruschetta toppings; and low-acid Camparis Parmesan rind if you have it. Add a pinch of are made for caprese salads (mozzarella, basil sugar and a healthy pour of salt (you’ll add and Balsamic vinegar). more to taste later) and let that sucker cook for But it’s San Marzanos that get me the most up to 10 hours. Serve the meat and sauce with excited for tomato season. Balanced, flavorful pasta or polenta, fresh Parmesan and a few and nearly seedless, San Marzanos are prized basil sprigs. for their role in tomato sauces. Even though If you can’t get your hands on San you can get great quality from canned, importMarzanos, Romas make good sauces too, ed San Marzanos, I planted two plants this and the preparation is identical to what’s year to taste them fresh. They’ve done well in listed above.

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Tomato Risotto

FROM FRASCA/TAVERNETTA CHEF IAN WORTHAM, COURTESY OF BOULDER COUNTY FARMERS MARKETS • 1 cup Vialone Nano rice (arborio works too if you can’t get your hands on the good stuff) • 1 medium onion, minced • 1 cup white wine plus 1 tablespoon • 1/3 cup fennel fronds, minced • 1 medium heirloom tomato, milled • 15 cherry tomatoes, halved • 1 tbsp tomato vinegar • Parmigiano-Reggiano grated • 8.5-12.5 cups chicken stock

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The rice should look somewhat tacky. The grains will have some bite, and if you prefer you can cook it longer. Let the rice rest for about six minutes; after the rest, add the milled tomatoes and stir in.

Put the rice back on the heat, add the olive oil and stir to emulsify and create a creamy texture and appearance. It may need a little chicken broth to achieve this. Finish the dish with the tomato vinegar, halved cherry tomatoes, fennel and salt to taste.

Serve on warmed plates with a light grating of Parmigiano-Reggiano.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Libran poet Wallace

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Aries author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

writes, “Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be.

Deciding which is which is part of maturing.” I offer this meditation as your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries. You are in a phase when you’ll be wise to make various corrections and adjustments. But you should keep in mind that you don’t have unlimited time and energy to do so. And that’s OK, because some glitches can’t be repaired and others aren’t fully worthy of your passionate intensity. You really should choose to focus on the few specific acts of mending and healing that will serve you best in the long run.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: “There are all kinds of love in the

world, but never the same love twice,” wrote author F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is true even between the same two people in an intimate alliance with each other.

The love that you and your spouse or friend or close relative or collaborator exchanged a month ago isn’t the same as it is now. It can’t be identical, because then it wouldn’t be vibrant, robust love, which needs to ceaselessly transform in order to be vibrant and robust. This is always true, of course, but will be an especially potent meditation for you during the next four weeks.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: As a professional writer, novelist

Thomas Wolfe trained himself to have keen perceptions that enabled him to penetrate below surface appearances. And yet he wrote, “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” In other words, it was hard even for him, a highly trained observer, to get a deep and accurate read of what was going on. It required a long time and many attempts — and rarely occurred for him on the first look. Even if you’re not a writer, Gemini, I recommend his approach for you in the coming weeks. You will attune yourself to current cosmic rhythms — and thus be more likely to receive their full help and blessings — if you deepen and refine the way you use your senses.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: It’s sometimes tempting for you

to seek stability and safety by remaining just the way you are. When life pushes you to jump in and enjoy its wild ride, you may imagine it’s wise to refrain — to retreat to your sanctuary and cultivate the strength that comes from being staunch and steadfast and solid. Sometimes that approach does indeed work for you. I’m not implying it’s wrong or bad. But in the coming weeks, I think your strategy should be different. The advice I’ll offer you comes from Cancerian author and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “To be successful, the first thing to do

is fall in love with your work,” says author Sister Mary Lauretta. Have you been making progress in accomplishing that goal, Leo? According to my astrological analysis, fate has been offering and will continue to offer you the chance to either find work that you’ll love better than the work you’re doing, or else discover how to feel more love and excitement for your existing work. Why not intensify your efforts to cooperate with fate?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Self-love is also remembering

to let others love you. Come out of hiding.” Poet Irisa Yardenah wrote that advice, and now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for a phase when you will benefit from it most. I mean, it’s always good counsel for you to Virgos to heed. But it will be especially crucial in the coming weeks, when you’ll have extra potential to bloom in response to love. And one of the best ways to ensure this extra potential is fulfilled is to make yourself thoroughly available to be appreciated, understood and cared for.

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Stevens wrote that if you want to be original, you must “have the courage to be an amateur.” I agree! And that’s an important theme for you right now, since you’re entering a phase when your original ideas will be crucial to your growth. So listen up, Libra: If you want to stimulate your creatively to the max, adopt the fresh-eyed attitude of a rookie or a novice. Forget what you think you know about everything. Make yourself as innocently curious and eager as possible.

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “As idiotic as optimism can

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: At age 22, future pioneer of sci-

ence Isaac Newton got his college degree just as the Great Plague peaked in 1665. As a safety precaution, he proceeded to quarantine himself for many months. During that time of being sealed away, he made spectacular discoveries about optics, gravity and calculus — in dramatic contrast to his years as a student, when his work had been relatively undistinguished. I’m not predicting that your experience of the 2020 pandemic will prove to be as fruitful as those of your fellow Capricorn, Isaac Newton. But of all the signs in the zodiac, I do think your output could be most Newton-like. And the coming weeks will be a good time for you to redouble your efforts to generate redemption amidst the chaos.

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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: The rapper named Viper has

released over 1,000 albums. In 2014 alone, he created 347. His most popular work is You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack, which has received over three million views on Youtube. According to The Chicago Reader, one of Viper’s most appealing features is his “blatant disregard for grammar.” I should also mention that he regards himself as the second Christ, and uses the nickname “Black Jesus.” So what does any of this have to do with you? Well, I’m recommending that you be as prolific, in your own field, as he is in his. I’m also inviting you to experiment with having a fun-loving disregard for grammar and other noncritical rules. And I would love to see you temporarily adopt some of his over-the-top braggadocio.

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That’s the bad news. The good news is that I expect you will finally formulate the right questions very soon.

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Medically validating pot: Canada’s first medical cannabis clinical trial by Will Brendza

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cross the U.S., thousands of medical patients use cannabis to treat their anxiety, chronic pain, sleeplessness, arthritis and even epilepsy every day, as medical marijuana is legal in 24 states.

But because of its federal status as a Schedule 1 substance, medicinal cannabis has not been standardized like other pharmaceutical drugs in this country. It’s stuck in a catch-22: by definition, a Schedule 1 substance has no medicinal value.

But its Schedule 1 classification also largely prevents research to prove the medicinal value of cannabis.

Canada legalized cannabis at a national level in 2018, though, so studying and doing legal research on the drug is much easier north of the U.S. border. There, medical professionals like Dr. Hance Clarke are eager to start standardizing medicinal cannabis for patients and physicians everywhere.

The medicinal variability between brands of products and even batches from the same brand makes it challenging for patients and doctors to know exactly what they’re getting or prescribing in an edible, a tincture, a strain of flower, hash or oil, Clarke says. But that’s something he hopes to change.

“Recreational products have a variation of anywhere from 10-22%,” Clarke says. “That’s cool if it’s in the rec-

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reational zone. It’s not good if you have a complex medical condition that you’re looking to treat and you want the medication to have the same effect on your symptoms every time you consume it.”

He adds that 10-22% variability is not acceptable in any other type of pharmaceutical product.

Clarke is the director of pain services at Toronto General hospital and a recognized leader in opioid abuse education in Canada. Now, he’s working to validate and standardize cannabis as a medicine in Canada’s medical world.

In a clinical trial, called Medical Cannabis RealWorld Evidence (MC-RWE), researchers aim to first test the reliability and repeatability of Canadian cannabis products, and then to create a national repository of cannabis product data for physicians and patients. With the help of 2,000 Canadian trial subjects, they’re going to test products from 12 of Canada’s leading cannabis producers.

“We’ve got to convince [physicians] that what they order or prescribe, they can get the next time, if they see a benefit,” Clarke says. “The real game-changer is going to be that you can search for and find exactly the product that’s going to treat your symptom, without being beholden to the variability of the industry.”

To participate in the study, patients must experience depression, chronic pain, sleeplessness or anxiety. Once

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accepted, those patients will go to an online portal created by California blockchain company True Trace (MCRWE.ca), and select from products that have been genetically tested and monitored from seed to sale.

Patients will closely track their own symptoms over the course of six months, answering three detailed medical questionnaires on the True Trace portal. Researchers will monitor the patients’ progress through the trial, but won’t interfere in the observational study.

So far, Clarke says the trial only has about 50 out of the 2,000 testers researchers hope to sign up, and they’re accepting applications from any Canadian who would like to participate.

When the six-month trial is over, Clarke’s hope is to have a comprehensive national repository of cannabis products and associated data that physicians and patients can consult. They’ll be able to see exactly what symptoms each product works to relieve and how consistent the relief is. They’ll be able to search for a product by the symptom it relieves, see which top five cannabinoids are present in it, and what people said about the terpene profile.

“If I’m a physician, what products do I want my patients to be taking? Something that I know is validated, something that I know is replicable,” says Clarke.

“So as a licensed producer, if you want that type of medical credibility, you’re going to certainly want to consider being part of the platform as well.”

And the more the merrier, as far as Clarke is concerned. The broader the scope of producers, the more researchers will learn about these products and the more useful Clarke’s online repository becomes for patients and physicians.

It’s a service that will undoubtedly help a lot of Canadian patients suffering from different ailments find exactly the cannabis medicine that’s right for them. And it’s a service that will help Canadian physicians get their patients the most reliable, effective and least health adverse medicines.

It’s a service that the U.S. could greatly benefit from. But one which won’t be possible, until the substance itself finds its way off that federal list of Schedule 1 drugs.

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