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White people, Republicans and class

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lass has been America’s dirty little secret. We have been told that we are a classless society. Tycoons and politicians regularly adopt an “everyman” persona — dress down, drink beer, wear trucker hats. We have been told that everybody thinks they are middle class. But surveys of “subjective class identification” depend upon the menu of options offered. A plurality will say they are middle class when social scientists ask people to categorize themselves as lower, middle or upper class. If you add the option of “working class,” you get quite different results.

If you determine someone’s class by their income or occupation, you are more accurate. Education is a less reliable measure. There is a lot of chatter about how the “white working class” elected Trump. This is based on defining “working class” people as those who don’t have a college degree. But those who voted for Trump had a higher median household income than Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters.

About 70% of white adults don’t have a college degree. Kim Moody in Jacobin notes that there are some 17 million small-business owners without a college degree:

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“As a 2016 survey by the National Small Business Association tells us, 86% of small-business owners are white, they are twice as likely to be Republicans as Democrats, almost two-thirds consider themselves conservative (78% on economic issues), and 92% say they regularly vote in national elections.

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a college degree. To this we could add insurance and real-estate brokers and agents, and so on.”

Recently in his New York Times column on demographics and income inequality, Thomas Edsall analyzed the increasing number of whites without college degrees who are voting for Republicans over the past 60 years. He cites a study by Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm, political scientists at Duke and Ohio State, who argue that the U.S. transition from an industrial to a knowledge economy has produced “tectonic shifts” leading to an “educationincome partisan realignment.”

Edsall says “the surge of whites into the Republican Party has been led by whites with relatively high incomes — in the top two quintiles of the income distribution — but without college degrees.”

Kitschelt and Rehm write: “Individuals in the low-education/high-income group tend to endorse authoritarian noneconomic policies and tend to oppose progressive economic policies. Small business owners and shopkeepers — particularly in construction, crafts, retail and personal services — as well as some of their salaried associates populate this group.”

In an email to Edsall, Kitschelt stressed: “Unlike much of the current debate, the ‘white working class’ — concentrated in the low-education/ low-income sector of the white population — is not the category that has most ardently realigned toward Republicans. It’s higher-income/loweducation whites who are currently still doing well, but fear that in the Knowledge Society their life chances are shrinking as high education becomes increasingly the ticket to economic and social success.”

Edsall says the Republican Party can’t fully rely on this group of lowincome whites without college I

degrees because “they frequently hold liberal economic views — that is, they support redistributionist measures from which they benefit.”

Kitschelt and Rehm say members of this group “tend to support progressive economic policies and tend to endorse authoritarian policies on the noneconomic dimension. In occupational terms, this group consists primarily of low-skill and intermediate routine blue-collar manufacturing or clerical administrative jobs (the ‘working class’).”

The authors point out that Trump’s constant assertions in the 2016 campaign that he would protect Medicare and Social Security was crucial to winning the support of the low-income whites. They assert that it was “noteworthy” that most voters perceived Trump “as substantially more moderate than his party, and as more moderate than most Republican presidential candidates since 1980.”

That was a con. Trump and his banana Republicans are targeting Medicare and Social Security while trying to shred the social safety net.

He is probably America’s most antiworker president. He has nominated Eugene Scalia to be the next Secretary of Labor. This man is a corporate lawyer who has spent his career defending big business interests over workers’ rights. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says, “This is a bit like nominating Typhoid Mary to be health secretary.”

Trump is determined to stir up a constant culture war over race and gender so we don’t notice how he is screwing all of us over. Democrats have to challenge his scorched-earth racism and sexism but also emphasize a positive alternative to this whirling circus of confusion and lies.

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

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[ Joel] Dyer: You are an intelligible writer, and your article, “The perils of forgotten history” (Re: Buzz, Aug. 29, 2019) contained a good amount of historical information that I found interesting, but if you have time, I’d like you to read what I have to say.

First, I am writing to you to beg that you just don’t write lies into the featured section of Boulder Weekly. President Trump did not call all brown migrants rapists and MS-13 gang members. You know that; writing hyperbolic slander carelessly in the first paragraph of your story ruins your credibly for the remaining sections of your article. Boulder Weekly is often in newspaper holders near bus stops in Boulder, you could have reached more people to empathize with what happened in 1974, starting out with lies is ineffective.

Secondly, I fear that your article is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now that we have an edifice dedicated to the “original stewards of the land”; are European Americans supposed to live in permanent guilt? Your article is an implicit condemnation of people who look at their arm and see white skin.

That is not a solution if your goal is to not repeat the past. I read your article feeling like I was being threatened in each paragraph, it was like you were asking me to

confess to a crime; which is the only way Los Seis can become relevant to the average Boulderite.

The Los Seis artifact is a result of the Chicano movement clashing with U.S. government sovereignty; that was the context back then, and that context has not changed.

Context matters when you think evil and good belong where you think they belong.

Remember Mr. Dyer, conservatives and the right never create or change anything, they just react to what they see and what they perceive. If someone wants racial harmony in their community, implicit demonetization of whites and writing an article commemorating a stone structure to make a horror story of the past relevant by the invocation that whites must atone again, and again, and again, is the same shaming mechanism that spurred Trump to election.

Your article is nothing but a fan to the flames. I hope you learn that there exists a thing called forgiveness and understanding through context.

Explicit condemnation of American sovereignty and implicit condemnation of European Americans, with sculptures like the Los Seis de Boulder, do nothing but point fingers.

If you don’t know how to help America, please don’t write about her. Thank you for reading.

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Supporters of a special Boulder library tax district say the City can’t meet the growing financial needs of its public library system

by Matt Cortina

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he Boulder Public Library system needs more money than the City can give it.

There is roughly a $2-million shortfall in the money needed to construct the North Boulder Library. At least $800,000 is needed every year, indefinitely, to minimally address a backlog in the maintenance of existing facilities. In fact about onequarter of all the City’s deferred maintenance is related to its libraries.

Without more funding, there won’t be a pocket library built in Gunbarrel, popular programs won’t continue and library staff will continue to be stretched thin.

That’s according to an analysis of the City’s budget by Boulder Library Champions (BLC), a grassroots group of citizens, former and current library commissioners and other supporters.

According to BLC, about $98 million is needed over the next five years to fully address the library’s needs, almost double what could be allocated by the City Council in its upcoming budgets.

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library district. If approved by voters in 2020, residents within the district’s boundaries would pay up to 4 mills — a tax of about $29 on every $100,000 of assessed home value — to fund the library’s operations, construction costs and staffing needs.

Joni Teter, a former Boulder Library Commissioner and member of BLC, says the piece of the budget pie allocated to the library in the City of Boulder has become less and less substantial as more people have accessed the system’s services.

Looking ahead to projected future budgets, Teter says the Library Commission first noticed several years ago that the library system would need to secure alternate funding.

“We started scoping the Master Plan about four years ago,” she says.

“After about [my] first year as commissioner, we realized the extent of the library’s financial problems and we said, ‘We really need to fix this this time. We don’t want another Library Commission to have to pick this up.’”

After leaving the Commission in April, Teter and the BLC picked up on SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

the Commission’s work and dove deep into the City budget and the library budget to determine exactly what needed to be funded, and how much the City was going to be able to allocate to the system. At first, BLC thought they could simply secure more funding through the normal budgeting process.

“We all started off thinking it was a matter of convincing City Council to make [the library] more of a priority and fund it. That was kind of naive. Libraries don’t compete well with political priorities that drive campaigns,” Teter says. “It’s a big reason behind the move of so many libraries to find a source of independent funding. In Colorado, more than half of libraries are [funded by] library districts.”

Long story short, Teter says, the deep dive on the City budget revealed the costs to “deliver [library] services are rising more quickly than growth of revenues.”

From 2006-2016, the amount of library cardholders went up 76 percent, materials were checked out 36 percent more often, and program I

attendance went up 64%. In that same time period, full-time staff dropped 5% and staff per 10,000 items circulated went down 26%.

And that’s even while more than 1,000 library volunteers contributed about 14 percent of the system’s workforce hours — about $600,000 worth of free work.

Boulder City Council had an opportunity last year to fully fund the library. The Library Commission, in its 2018 master plan, offered the City Council three levels of funding: 1) maintenance (the least amount of funding required to keep the system operating), 2) address community demand, and 3) service expansion, what Teter and BLC call “full funding.”

Council opted to fund the library at its maintenance level.

If the library continues to be funded at that baseline level, BLC found that there won’t be enough money to complete the North Boulder Library as initially envisioned and there won’t be enough money to staff it; branch hours will have to be cut across the system; no staff will be paid to expand youth BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

outreach programs; makerspace activities won’t be expanded; there will be no annual literacy programs; budgets to buy books and materials will stall, resulting in longer waitlists; the renovated Canyon Theater will continue to go relatively unused; there will be no new branch in Gunbarrel; the Reynolds branch in South Boulder won’t get a renovation; and other repairs on buildings throughout the system will be deferred.

Thus, the idea, and promise, of a library district.

“It’s time to finally do this,” Teter says.

Passing and forming a library district would inject $92 million into the library system over five years, and effectively scrape $9.7 million from the City’s budget, BLC found. A board of trustees, who are appointed

by City Council and the Board of County Commissioners, would independently govern it, and the board must operate within Colorado law for such districts.

A library district would also, in theory, expand the pool of people who pay into its services. For instance, the library is primarily funded via the City’s general fund, which gathers money from City sales and property taxes. But BLC found that about onethird of Boulder Public Library cardholders live outside City limits. Thus, the library district would be drawn to include Niwot, Gunbarrel and mountain areas from Jamestown in the north to the areas around Gross Reservoir in the south.

Teter says expanding the boundary outside of City limits would make funding the library “more equitable.”

For example, a library district that only encompasses City of Boulder residents would require $60 more per year per $850,000 household than if the boundary were expanded north, south and west.

BLC’s district initiative qualified for the 2019 ballot. But due to some bureaucratic tangling — time-intensive intergovernmental agreements would need to be forged if the district passed, in a year with potentially six new Boulder City Council memebers — the group withheld the measure until 2020 after being assured the signatures it had gathered would still be valid.

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of will. Are folks outside of Boulder City limits willing to add a new tax to their property? Are residents in the City eager to pay even more in taxes?

Teter says BLC has held several community meetings. “Folks in Niwot are very enthusiastic,” she says of the prospect of adding a nearby library and mobile services. The City ran a survey at BLC’s request that found funding the library was more valuable to people than even securing

open space.

“People have a high affinity for the library. The [pollster’s] sense was if you put a library district on, it would likely pass,” Teter says. “We think there’s support. People don’t realize there’s an issue.”

BLC also pointed out in a recent publication on the library’s funding woes that if and when a library district is formed, the existing .333 mills that are currently dedicated to the

library would be eliminated and that Council could choose to “further reduce City property taxes as part of the reallocation of funds” that are freed up when the special tax district funds the library.

Read the Library Commission’s master plan at boulderlibrary.org/ about/2018-library-master-plan, and view the BLC’s library and City budget documents at boulderlibrarychampions. org.

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Bipartisan law to declassify drug possession to impact Colorado on many fronts

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saac Aragon was arrested in 1998 with a half-ounce of marijuana on him. He was 14 at the time, and cannabis hadn’t even been medicinally legalized yet in Colorado.

Aragon was charged with simple possession of a Schedule 1 drug — a felony offense that cost him years of his life.

Today, Aragon is a case worker for the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, a non-profit organization that seeks to reduce mass incarceration. He works with a lot of people who were in his same position; people who were charged with a felony for simple possession of a personal-use quantity of a Schedule 1 or 2 substance and who had to do hard time as a result.

“We see it all the time,” Aragon says.

It certainly isn’t uncommon: every 20 seconds in the U.S. someone is arrested for a drug law violation. That rate of incarceration equated to some 1.63 million arrests in 2017 — 85% of which were for non-violent drug possession, according to the FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Report.

Those are statistics that a new state law aims to address. The bipartisan legislation, ratified in May of this year, reclassifies quantities under 4 grams of nearly all Schedule 1 or 2 substances as a misdemeanor.

Effectively, it “defelonizes” possession of personal-use quantities of drugs, and reclassifies drug addiction as a public health crisis instead of a crime. It is a bill that stands to have an impact on the future of many individuals like Aragon, and families across Colorado. It’s also projected to save the state’s taxpayers millions of dollars in its first five years.

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In Colorado, a level 4 felony for drug possession (the lowest level felony) carries a minimum six-month prison sentence, costs a minimum of $1,000 in fines, and includes probation and/or diversion programs. And the consequences don’t end there: finding employment with a felony on record can be a colossal challenge, a person’s credit score plummets, they become ineligible for state and federal grant programs (meaning they are ineligible for higher education scholarships) and they lose the right to vote while incarcerated.

“Some companies still don’t like to hire me,” Aragon says. “Even though that charge is over two decades old.”

Between 2012 and 2017, Colorado saw a 106% increase in SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

drug felony case filings, like Aragon’s. “Three out of four” of those were for simple possession, according to a special report by the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition.

Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty has cases like this come across his desk frequently.

It’s why he says he wholeheartedly supports the defelonization law. He knows that punishing a public health issue like addiction doesn’t do much to treat it.

“The best way to treat drug addiction is not with a felony conviction but rather to connect the person with treatment,” Dougherty says. “I think it’s important that we try and recognize how we can help people get back on the right track and not just continue to have them cycle in and out of the justice system.”

Aragon echoes the sentiment. “If there were more treatment facilities than there were prison facilities, I think we’d see recidivism rates going way down,” he says.

Colorado’s recidivism rate is 50% (10 points higher than the national average), meaning that half of all 19,862 people who were sentenced to prison in this state in 2016 will go

back to prison for another crime after they’re released. It’s a vortex that’s hard to escape.

And the racial distribution within that vortex is not equal: nearly 60% of state prison populations are black or Latino, according to drugpolicy. org, meaning that this new defelonization law should have a significant impact on those minority communities.

“Almost inevitably you’ll find that drug arrests follow certain patterns with regard to race and class,” says Erich Goode, an American sociologist, retired professor and author of Drugs and American Society. “A depenalization law should have consequences for working-class people and persons of African descent in that it diverts them to a less vulnerable legal position.”

Which could have lasting effects on those demographics for generations to come, Goode says. It will relieve a threat and punitive burden from minority communities across the state; from families who might otherwise be struggling to pay bills while a father or mother or child is locked up in prison, to someone who couldn’t get a job because they have a felony for drug possession on their record.

Of course, minorities and poorer communities won’t be the only demographics that this defelonization law will touch. It gives everyone a second chance, says Rep. Herod. This law is intended to be an opportunity to seek treatment and heal.

The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services indicates that in 2017 there were 381 operating treatment facilities in Colorado and some 32,213 clients.

Overdose deaths in this state have been increasing steadily since 1999, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Currently, overdoses from opioids like heroin and fentanyl kill about 48 people in this state

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“We’re going to see hundreds of people each year who will no longer be put in federal corrections with a felony offense,” Herod says. “This will help move people towards getting the help that they need.”

Dougherty adds: “As long as we continue to move forward with an eye towards treatment, I think this is a trend that should continue for the people in our community. I think it’ll help everyone.”

However, the new law doesn’t work retroactively. Prior felony possession offenses will not be expunged from anyone’s record automatically, and people currently in prison for possession will not be released.

While the law technically isn’t effective until “on or after March 1, 2020,” Herod says that it is already influencing judges and their decisions.

“We’ve already seen some judges in different jurisdictions not applying the felony and getting folks into drug court or other treatment opportunities,” she says. “So while the [law] has not yet taken effect we know that it has already had a big impact on the way people are looking at sentencing for simple possession.”

Herod points out that Colorado was not the first to make this change.

This state was in fact the sixth to defelonize personal-use amounts of Schedule 1 and 2 substances — behind California, Utah, Connecticut, Alaska and Oklahoma respectively — since 2014, and indication that a growing number of Americans are beginning to view simple possession as a public health crisis, not a criminal justice opportunity.

That shifting perspective is hopeful, according to Aragon, Herod, Dougherty and Goode. It’s a trend that could have powerful implications for America’s failed war on drugs, and for the people of Colorado.

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“I think the legislature correctly identified [this issue] as a public health crisis,” Dougherty says. “But if we’re going to treat it as a public health crisis we need to provide treatment for that health crisis.”

That’s why Erich Goode believes that a state can never put enough money toward treatment programs.

“I think treatment and rehabilitation ought to be funded to the extent that the taxpayer will say, ‘This hurts,’” Goode says. “The country cannot arrest its way out of the drug problem.”

The law appropriates $1.8 million for the 2019-20 fiscal year for a rehab grant program. Herod admits she wishes that number was higher — but that doesn’t mean that progress isn’t being made, she says.

“Colorado has put in millions of dollars towards treatment over the past couple of years,” Herod says. “So the Colorado general assembly is definitely moving in that direction.”

Considering how much cheaper treatment programs are than the cost of incarceration, that seems like a wise approach. In Colorado it costs on average $39,303 per inmate per year, according to a national survey done

by Vera in 2015. Compare that to the average cost of outpatient treatment ($5,000-$10,000), or even to the cost of the most lavish, long-term private inpatient rehab treatment programs (which run in the $20,000-$25,000 range), and the state is still saving a good chunk of change.

According to a report by the Joint Budget Committee, this law could save between $8.6 and $13.7 million by relieving prisons of people incarcerated for simple drug possession over a five-year period.

That was one of the big selling points for Republican support, Herod says. Republican Representatives like Shane Sandridge of El Paso County worked closely with Herod to push this law through. As a former law enforcement officer, Rep. Sandridge understood the kind of time and resources that would be saved if police

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Understanding “Boulder’s Tree Crisis 2019”

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his story starts in Asia. The moving about half-a-mile a year, main character is a tiny metallic spread uncontrollably. Within three green insect, known to English years of landing in Boulder, ears as the Emerald Ash Borer Longmont reported EAB sightings.

(EAB). No one is exactly sure In 2018, Superior trees started showwhen, or how, this penny-sized insect ing telltale signs. The latest to join the made its way across the Atlantic club is Broomfield: Earlier this month, Ocean, over the Rocky Mountains and national and state experts confirmed onto the western shores of Lake Erie the city’s first EAB infestation. in southeast Michigan — MICHAEL HUNTER/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS but one day, sometime during the 1990s, a fleet of EABs did, and the insects decided to stay.

By the turn of the century, a mysterious die-off was underway in southeast Michigan’s deciduous forests. Ash trees (those neighborly looking giants with unruly bright-green fringe) were dying left and right. Brittle and weakened, they’d snap and crash down, tearing through power lines and residential structures, blocking roads After two decades of ash destrucand causing millions of dollars in tion in the U.S., experts are confident damages. there’s no stopping the spread of EAB larvae, it turns out, love to EABs. It’s only a matter of time dig tunnels and feed from the ashes’ before they move into the Denver inner bark, disrupting the upward flow metro area and infect the 1.45 million of nutrients and water, slowly starving ash trees there. As Kristen Anderson, and suffocating the trees. a horticulture expert from Colorado Over the next decade, EABs State University’s Boulder County spread their territory southward and Extension Program, puts it, “This is east. Around 2013, a few EABs hitch- essentially an [ash] extinction event.” hiked their way west, across the cenLosing 25% of Boulder’s foliage tral plains, to central Boulder. will have serious implications, includ“We don’t know who did it or ing rising city temperatures, worsening exactly when, but it would have had to air quality and other plant degradation. have been in firewood,” says Laura Thus, replacing ash trees has been the Pottorff, leader of the EAB response County’s primary focus and the main team at the Colorado Department of messaging of the recently launched Agriculture (CDA). “We assume that “Boulder’s Tree Crisis 2019” campaign. every ash tree in Boulder may have “We understand that we can’t [an EAB infestation] now.” eradicate [EABs],” says Pottorff. “But That’s approximately 70,000 trees, there are a lot of tools we have to help or about 25% of Boulder’s urban cano- us slow it down and manage.” py, according to the City’s Urban If property owners determine an Forest Strategic Plan. ash tree is growing on their property, Until August, Boulder County was they have a few options, following a the only known Colorado county to health assessment of the tree. contain EABs. The insects, however, Signs of EAB infestation include BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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thinning leaves in the upper tree canopy, eighth-inch D-shaped holes on the surface of the bark and winding S-shaped tunnels underneath. Any suspected EAB infestations should be reported to the CDA, where experts can help precisely determine the state of the tree’s health and advise property owners on best next steps.

If less than one-third of the tree is damaged, it may be treatable with pesticides, Pottorff says. But only if the property owner is particularly attached to the tree. “If your tree is worthy — meaning you can afford it, it’s valuable to your property and if the tree’s in good condition — then certainly insecticide application is an option.”

But, if your tree is “already past the point of no return” — which is highly possible in Boulder County — Anderson says it should be replaced.

Locally, between Sept. 15 and Oct. 31 is the best time to plant a new tree.

Over the course of fall 2019, Boulder County’s Ash Tree Removal Project plans to remove sickly trees in ten “project areas,” including most notably a cluster on Heatherwood Drive and almost 100 trees along Carter Trail in Gunbarrel.

Because tree replacement and insecticide treatments are both expensive, Boulder County has rolled out an ash tree adoption program to help treat, in perpetuity, “worthy” public trees for EAB infections. Folks can apply for tree adoption at bouldercountyeab.org, and learn more about personal tree treatment options.

Several people have already taken advantage of the adoption program, says Anderson. Some hope to keep privacy barriers or shade in their yards, others simply enjoy their aesthetic value. “People are really connected to trees, even if they’re not your actual property, they’re an asset to your life,” says Anderson.

More than anything, Anderson says, “Don’t wait to decide to either treat your tree or take it out. Ash trees are very brittle and when they fail, they fail.”

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y hand slipped from the hold. I peeled away from the rock and watched as my alpine draw engaged, unexpectedly extended and snapped away from my waist.

That’s not right, I thought as a surge of panic welled up inside me. You’re going to hit the ground now. I tumbled helplessly like a rag doll over boulders for 25 feet, screaming until my body finally came to a halt.

In an instant I watched my belayer, John (also my fiancé), fly up over a boulder, and I braced myself, preparing to get yanked by him over yet another cliff. But nothing happened. Dazed and confused I sat up, searching for pools of blood and bones sticking out of my body. Somehow I had managed to fall 25 feet and walk away with some bad scrapes and a few bruised bones.

Dumbstruck, I began to go into preservation mode as the adrenaline surged and nearby climbers poured over John and me like ants on a popsicle. I rubbed anti-septic wipes on my wounds while a fellow climber wrapped my ankle. It could hardly take much weight, and I fretted over the pain that would set in as the adrenalin wore off. A few climbers helped John and me hobble down the eroded climber’s trail to our vehicle. Shell-shocked but alive, we drove home.

Five years ago, I decided to start rock climbing. Even though most outings ended in tears and panic attacks, I continued to come back to the sport. There was something about pushing past my fear of heights that kept calling me

Metamorphosis

A climber takes a ground fall, and with it, a tough life lesson

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back. Eventually I worked through the panic and innate fear of hanging by a rope in high places. I became a multi-pitch trad climber and soared to new heights. I climbed in the alpine and swung leads on classic 600-plus-foot climbs around the country. One day I found that I not only felt like a confident climber, but that self-assurance had trickled into my everyday life as well.

After the fall, I saw all of that progress slip away, tumbling alongside me in that freak accident. I refused to accept that reality. The first thing I wanted to do after I fell was to jump right back on the route.

It was as if some type of protective instinct overcame me: I simply had to keep climbing.

Stubbornly, I tucked my emotions away and relegated the flashes of trauma from the incident to the far corners of my mind. I couldn’t let this accident undermine the countless years of mental work I had put in to get to where I was. This won’t happen to me; I repeated that mantra again and again as 11 hand-sized bruises and scabs kept me from sleeping at night.

After X-rays revealed that I hadn’t broken any bones, I made plans to get back out on the sharp end. Just five days after falling, I decided to head up to Eldorado Canyon and climb Rewritten, a 600foot classic, moderate trad climb that is highly exposed. The climb was right at my ability, and in my mind it represented grit.

As I stepped up onto the rock, my wounds felt fresher than I would’ve liked. The signature unstable sections of rock immediately gave me flashbacks. I gritted my teeth through the climb and focused on the close friend I was with. As I topped out, my nerves were frayed. I just couldn’t stomach being roped up, but I couldn’t admit that I was mentally suffering. This won’t happen to me I repeated, my palms slick with sweat.

Over the next few weeks I carried on with my objectives for the season, trying to scramble new routes in the alpine and climbing granite in California. I did so despite the nagging feeling that the outdoors had betrayed me. It terrified me.

As I struggled through each activity, I kept telling myself that nothing

traumatic had happened to me — both of us walked away, after all.

There have been many more serious accidents on the rock, many of which didn’t end as well as mine. Instead of feeling depressed, I should feel grateful. I just kept telling myself: This isn’t happening to me.

Most of my outings left me feeling raw. I frustratingly backed down from summits, moving much slower than years past. I couldn’t help but look down from an exposed ledge and picture each way my body could bounce toward the bottom.

Even climbing in the gym left my stomach knotted from the anxiety. I remember belaying my fiancé on a super-easy warm-up and picturing him falling off of the plastic holds to his death.

What had once been my source of strength left me feeling weak, vulnerable and incapable. Slowly, I felt myself slip away into a depression. The places that once left me feeling awe-struck and empowered were now sources of fear and trauma. Every moment I wasn’t outside I felt like I was missing out, but my motivation to climb waned to an all-time low.

I tried to remain open to the notion that the feelings from the fall were temporary, but I couldn’t accept that I was now afraid of the places I loved the most. The strength I had once found on the wall felt a million miles away, like a fleeting memory. Through it all, I never shed a single tear. I was unable to accept the trauma that came with falling.

The house of cards came crashing down a month after the fall. I turned around on a mountainside after a 16-foot strip of sloping; solid ice stopped me in my tracks.

Without proper ice climbing gear, the route wasn’t safe. I stood there frustrated and let down.

My fiancé turned to me and said, “I’m proud of you; you’re making safe decisions even when it isn’t easy.” I smiled weakly, knowing that he was right, but still fighting the gnawing depression and self-criticism. As the sun rose over the rock, I tried to focus on the moment instead of the climb. It was a temporary band-aid; I knew I couldn’t hold back the tsunami of emotions headed my way.

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like you did that day again,” John said. “One wrong step here and you would most certainly die, or wish for it when you stopped moving.” I nudged a loose piece of rock and watched it tumble down 800 feet of exposed, steep scree. I knew he was right. I looked at him as I fought back tears. It wasn’t quite time yet, so I refocused on the sunrise.

Back home, I finally let myself feel a month’s worth of pent up emotional pain. I wept. When I thought I was finished, I wept again.

I felt lonely. But instead of fighting through it like I’d made a habit of doing, I just let the emotions wash over me, again and again.

It was time to face the reality that even though I walked away with nothing but a few scars, I had stared death in the face while doing the activity that brings me the most strength. Climbing gives me a sense of place where I feel truly connected to my purest self. It’s just me, the rock and my thoughts — nothing else matters. After years of building up that trust, I had to admit that the trust was bent, maybe even broken for a little while.

I can’t say that there was an “ahha” moment where everything magically got better. In fact, I’m not even sure that I am doing better. But I am out on the rock, and that’s what matters.

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gained from climbing is changing.

Every day is different and I’m never certain what my mind will uncover.

The rock is a brutally honest friend. She’s the kind of friend that won’t let you hide behind a façade and doles out frank advice, plain and simple. If you choose to ignore it, she’ll scream until it’s the only thing you hear.

The sport of climbing is addictive. It becomes an all-consuming obsession and begins to feel like a drug. You need it, but you don’t always want it, thanks to the emotions it both masks and brings to the surface.

It’s hard to not get frustrated when things change in ways we didn’t expect. We can’t just bottle up the worst parts of our lives and stick them in a mental closet.

In order to move on and find ourselves again, we have to turn into the things that terrify us. Facing fear has always been at the heart of why I took up climbing, and now that fear is a little more complicated. Just as I began to grasp the concept of strength over fear, the fear changed, leaving me vulnerable.

If there’s anything I’ve learned from the accident, it’s that allowing yourself to be vulnerable is the ultimate form of strength. It is only through vulnerability that we can truly overcome fear. Through that vulnerability, we enable ourselves to grow in ways we never thought possible.

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ou work when ya’ can.”

Jimmy Herring isn’t one of those guys to sit back and recharge batteries. At least not yet. Widespread Panic rolls on with a dance card totaling about 40 gigs this year, but Herring found himself some open calendar landscape, put together a new band and filled those dates.

Hey, the work is out there, get after it.

We caught up to the guitarist at his home in Atlanta a day or two before he was headed up to Nashville to play a sold out three day stand at the Ryman Auditorium, including an all-acoustic night. Panic has evolved into a long weekend/multi-day gig outfit; three or four days at the end of the week, home on Monday, back on a plane Wednesday. It’s a luxury that bands of Panic’s stature can afford, graduation from the two- or threemonth continuous road toil that’s still the model for aspirant outfits toe-dipping new markets.

But September and stretches of October and November offered some daylight, and Herring wanted to do something different. It started from conversations that Herring had with bassist Kevin Scott, who played in Herring’s last band, Invisible Whip.

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Darren Stanley and guitarist/vocalist Ric 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Lollar]. Now Darren I knew — he’d been Sept. 14, Fox Theatre, in one of Bruce Hampton’s latter bands, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Tickets are $28. and I saw him playing with Bruce and just thought, man, this guy’s great. He’s got a really cool thing, listens real hard, and I got to know him a bit and said, ‘Let’s put something together.’

“And then there’s this guy Ric Lollar, a guitar player. He’s a great side man — real supportive, can sing back up, plays guitar.

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said, ‘Holy shit, I like this. I wanna work with Ric too.’ So that’s how it came about.”

Most of the characters in this circle, of course, came through one or another of Col. Bruce Hampton’s bands. Herring himself first gained recognition with the original Aquarium Rescue Unit in the early ’90s, which went on to be one of the standard bearers of the emerging jam scene. After a successful and exhausting run of a few years, Hampton essentially pulled the plug on the spotlight and cut way back on touring, in part due to health issues, while Herring went on to projects like Jazz is Dead, Phil and Friends, the Dead, the Ringers and, eventually, Widespread Panic.

Hampton remained an icon in the local scene in Atlanta, and his untimely, onstage death in 2017 hasn’t diminished the depth of his influence there.

“I just wanted to see how it felt, playing with local guys again, kind of returning to the Atlanta music scene, which I had been absent from for God knows how long. I started with Bruce in 1989, and there was a really cool thing happening in Atlanta at that time. And after that, I was never home.

“The idea is really simple. Those of us who played with Bruce, it’s almost like an extended family. Even though we didn’t all play with him at the same time. And that’s another thing I wanted — to play with younger guys who played with Bruce but not at the same time I did. And kinda see what they learned from him.”

Herring promises a mixed bag from The 5 of 7. A spin through King Baby’s long player may reveal some clues — the album is a solid, confident mixed plate of funk, Southern roadhouse, hints of blue-eyed soul and some calisthenics.

Some “instrumental madness” is probably on tap, Herring suggests, but also some straight-up vocal tunes of Lollar’s, and maybe a surprise or two.

We couldn’t resist the temptation to follow-up on our last chat with Herring from a couple of years ago; we connected shortly after he got the call to support John McLaughlin’s last U.S. tour.

Herring was unashamed at the time to concede some trepidation about trading Mahavishnu licks with The Maestro himself, in a two-bands-simultaneously setting, but says the experience was thrilling. And, yeah, a little scary.

“You know, you grow up idolizing someone, I guess you imagine how

they are as a person,” Herring says “I would never have known he was so easy to hang with. He was open to everyone’s ideas, he was very generous with solo space... it was musically challenging, but also the most fun I think I’ve ever had.”

Herring had to pause a moment.

“Well, it’s hard to say it was fun, because it was scary.”

Were you happy with how you played?

“Nah, I played nervous, man,” he says. “I can hear it. I can hear the nerves, I can hear the rushing. I mean, if you listen to the first Mahavishnu record, there’s a lot of rushing, so I don’t feel too terrible about it. John was wonderful, he was very complimentary and encouraging to us. But you always feel like you could have played better.”

(Check out a live version of “Meeting with the Spirits” from that tour on Abstract Logix, Herring deftly playing off and complimenting McLaughlin’s blistering runs and trademark twitchy micro-tonal gestures.)

Guitarists can be a little obsessive about their equipment, and we thought we’d indulge in a little axe-geek bantor.

We’d just run across dueling meme-bait photos of Joe Bonamassa and Slash dwarfed by their nearly absurd collection of axes and amps (both heavy on the Gibson/Marshall paradigm), and we ask if Herring had that axe-hoarding bug.

“Yeah,” he laughs. “You gotta be rich — or single — to have a collection like that. And probably an addition to your house. I like Stratocasters and Telecasters, and I have a few. I do have my ’67 Strat, and my ’63 Strat that Phil Lesh gave me as a gift. And those I cherish.

“As far as new guitars, I don’t usually seek them out. But Paul [Reed] Smith is still building some the best instruments I’ve ever played, and I mean he’s just an amazing person. He’s one of those people who’s just always trying to make a better wheel. He never rests, he’s constantly innovating.

But the Strat thing — the mystical resonance of Hendrix, maybe — runs deep.

“I still love Strats,” Herring admits. “I have one badass Strat that I bought from Wildwood Guitars out in Boulder (Louisville, actually). It’s a Wildwood Ten, ’57 replica. I had it refretted with taller fretwire that I like, but other than that it’s bone stock.

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AMANDA TIPTON PHOTOGRAPHY be Dvořák’s String Quartet in he University of Colorado’s Takács F major op. 96, composed in String Quartet, one of Spillville, Iowa, in 1893 and Boulder’s musical known as the “American” treasures, will play a Quartet. “There’s just incrediprogram of music by Mozart, ble tunes in that piece,” Bartók and Dvořák Sunday Dusinberre says. Reflecting its and Monday, Sept. 7 and 8. origin on the American prairie, A second program featurhe says, “although we’re pering Bartók again, plus forming it in a concert hall, it Beethoven and Mendelssohn, should sound as if it’s in the will be performed Oct. 27–28. open air.”

The two fall concerts are part The October program of five Sunday–Monday pairs comprises early works that are that the Takács will play on generally lighter and more ON THE BILL: Takács Quartet, 2019 Fall Concerts: campus during the year. amiable than the first program.

4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9 Programs have not yet been Beethoven’s String Quartet in D Mozart: String Quartet No. in C Major, K465 (“Dissonance”) Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 announced for the three spring major, op. 18 no. 3, is actually the Dvořák: String Quartet F Major, Op. 96 (“American”) concerts. first quartet that he wrote. “It’s a 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28 Tickets are available for a delightful piece,” Dusinberre says.

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The programming of movement, [and] the lyricism of Bartók — Quartet No. 4 in September, great at it. She’s able to respect the tradi- Mozart in the first. and the earlier Quartet No. 2 in October tion and also ask, ‘Why do you do that?’

“It’s magical that you can hear the — reflects the quartet’s plans to play the “It’s a process of distillation, that the influence of the people he imitated, and full cycle of six Bartók quartets on tour. interpretation becomes clearer.” his own genius.”

The Takács has not played Bartók recentIn its structure, harmonies, rhythms Bartók wrote his Second Quartet right ly, and the choice to play the full cycle and folk-influenced melodies, the Fourth after collecting eastern European folk comes at an interesting time in the Quartet has all the hallmarks of Bartók’s music, and that activity was reflected in group’s history. mature style. “It’s got everything in it,” the music. “It can be dramatic but there’s Founded in 1975 by four Hungarian Dusinberre says. “What I particularly love a tremendous energy and vitality to it,” musicians — violinists Gábor Takácsis the way, like a play, the characters Dusinberre says. “That’s the thing about Nagy and Károly Schranz, violist Gábor evolve from the first movement to the last.” Bartók studying folk music — he got a Omai and cellist András Fejér — the The same material appears in the tremendous inspiration in his own work, Takács Quartet was known for its perforfirst and last movements, and the second but it’s more than that. He’s celebrating mances of music by the Hungarian and fourth. This creates the “arch” form the way of life.

Bartók. But the membership has with the third movement as the keystone.

“Going into villages, recording singers, going to festivals, weddings — that changed, and with the addition last year “For me the fun is that the arch form was almost a greater passion for him of second violinist Harumi Rhodes, only allows one to feel the transformation of than composing.”

Fejér remains of the original members, the material from first note to the last,” Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2, alongside first violinist Edward Dusinberre Dusinberre says. written when the composer was 18, will and violist Geraldine Walther.

Sharing the September program is You might expect that the gradual Mozart’s String Quartet in C major, K465, close the program. “He wrote it the year transformation from an all-Hungarian known as the “Dissonance” Quartet for its that Beethoven died, and it’s a memorial,” Dusinberre says. It includes little snippets ensemble would change the interpretaunusual harmonies in the introduction. from late Beethoven string quartets, tion, but Dusinberre says that’s not what “We haven’t played it for a while, [and] which Dusinberre says is “like someone happened. “From inside the group, that’s when you go back — I’m just amazed by at a memorial service showing their favornot how it feels,” he says. it,” Dusinberre says. “The more I play ite photos.”

“When someone really good joins, Mozart, the more I’m interested by what In playing the quartet, he says, “to be there’s a clarifying process. Naturally lurks beneath a surface that is very over time you get used to the way of refined — the darker moments that come aware of the emotion behind it is very touching, the way this young man pays playing certain things. It’s a delicate balup throughout the piece.” ance with someone new, and Harumi’s Finishing the September program will homage to Beethoven.”

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Rebel with a cause

With the 18th Soul Rebel Festival approaching, Robert Oyugi still believes music will set us free

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n Swahili, the word ujamaa means “familyhood.” Some translate it as “extended family” or “brotherhood,” but for Tanzanian natives like Robert Oyugi, it’s a concept, a symbol of unity and freedom from the early 1960s after the East African nation gained independence from Britain.

“It’s a philosophy,” Oyugi tells me as we sip drinks outside of Thrive. “If we all come together and work, we can create and develop a strong nation, strong businesses.”

Oyugi is the founder of Boulder’s nearly two-decade-old Soul Rebel Festival, a one-day music and arts fete centering on reggae, Afro-pop, world music and Americana. For 18 years, Oyugi has organized the festival on his own, moving it around the county over the years, though it seems to have found a forever home at Sunshine Acres at Vali Soul Sanctuary in Longmont. Soul Rebel is a labor of love for Oyugi and a physical manifestation of the creative ideals of Ujama News (that’s not a misspelling; there’s only one A), his long-running magazine highlighting African culture, innovation and movements.

Which brings us back to the political concept of ujamaa, with two A’s.

Ujamaa of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s was a form of African socialism, based on a rural, agricultural way of life. In Tanzania it prioritized the African identity, encouraged cooperation between neighbors, gave women a voice and educated more children. The infant mortality rate dropped, women lived longer and literacy soared.

Yet in a world driven by profits, ujamaa ultimately failed as an economic structure in Tanzania. But the concept imprinted itself on successive generations, particularly on rappers and hip-hop artists in the early ’90s, their songs packed end-to-end with messages promoting unity, equality and family.

The word stuck with Oyugi as well. Ujama News is his personal vision of ujamaa: a world brought together by the culture, art and work flowing from Mother Africa.

Soul Rebel, by extension, celebrates not only the music of the African diaspora, but the utopian ideals that birthed the ujamaa movement in East Africa 60 years ago.

Born in Tanzania and raised in Kenya, Oyugi moved to Rye, New York, in the early ’70s when he was in junior high. He was an arty kid, enamored with drafting, mechanical drawing and graphic design — and music. Reggae had just begun to make a global name for itself, and Oyugi, far from home, saw himself in its political messages and syncopated sounds.

“A lot of African countries had just been 10 years into independence from the yoke of colonialism [when reggae became popular,]” he says. “Reggae music — with the rise of Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Culture — was really the voice of independence. Apartheid was going strong in South Africa, Nelson Mandela was incarcerated still. And so as the world began economic embargoes against the government in South Africa, reggae was kind of the voice for the oppressed, a BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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ON THE BILL: The He studied architecture for a 18th Annual Soul Rebel Festival — with time in college, but found himPato Banton, Mono self unfulfilled. By the late Verde, Selassie, 1980s, Oyugi made his way to John McKay Band and Colorado, where he found a job more. 2 p.m. Sunshine Acres, 6717 Valmont with Jim Morris Environmental Road, Boulder.

T-Shirt Company, heading up the company’s receiving department and eventually taking on the role of buyer. He learned how to manage a hefty budget, maintain large inventories and work with multiple suppliers; marketable skills no matter the business.

His passion for music and art never waned. He took on graphic design projects when possible (Ujama Designs), and by the mid-’90s he got the chance to start managing and booking North American tours for reggae vocal harmony group The Meditations.

Through the ’90s and into the present, Oyugi has managed and booked a who’s who of reggae artists: The Melodians, The Mighty Diamonds, The Wailing Souls, Bunny Wailer, Cocoa Tea, Half Pint, Black Uhuru, Tanya Stevens... the list goes on and on.

He launched a couple of long-running reggae nights in downtown Boulder that served as a sort of development stage for what would become the Soul Rebel Festival.

In 2001, Oyugi presented the first Soul Rebel Festival at the Boulder Bandshell. Since then he hasn’t stopped. The idea has remained the same: keep the festival small, family-friendly, peace-loving and self-sufficient.

“It’s very empowering when you can be self-sufficient,” Oyugi says. “And this goes back to growing up in Africa and learning the whole pan-Africanist ideology, why a lot of African countries have to break the yoke of colonialism to develop selfsufficiency, to develop ourselves. When you stop to look at it, it’s the same thing people call the American dream.”

I wonder aloud if Oyugi feels frustrated by middle-class, white Americans making reggae music, but he reminds me that’s not the way ujamaa works — not his ujama, at least.

“If they heard the music and felt the heart of the music, grew dreadlocks and put it upon themselves to really live the life and get out there and spread the word of peace and love, and fight down oppression and injustice, so let it be. We need more people like that in the world.”

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In the Mayan tradition, the sacred fire opens multidimensional portals between the heart of the heavens and the heart of the Earth. These elemental forces infuse participants with healing energies. During this ceremony, you’re invited to celebrate life, love and light with dancing and drumming around the sacred fire. The Mayan Fire Ceremony will take place at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the gate. If you’d like to learn more about the ceremony, initiated Mayan priestess AumRak will present a workshop at 4 p.m. on how to prepare for a fire ceremony and working with fire elementals. Tickets for the workshop are $30 in advance and $35 at the gate. There will be a potluck at 6 p.m. Early admission tickets include entrance to the fire ceremony. Tickets at MayanFireInstruction.Eventbrite.com

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‘Eyes On: Erika Harrsch,’ Hamilton Building, through Nov. 17; ‘Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz,’ through Nov. 17; ‘The Incubation Effect,’ through Sept. 9; ‘Phantom Canyon: A Digital Circuit,’ through Oct. 16; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

‘Working Artist Project,’ through Oct. 6. Artist duo Lyndsey Webster and Cory McKague invite anyone to join them as a working artist. They provide the supplies, you do the work. Be part of the culminating exhibit.

Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden.

‘Amuse Yeux: A Small Delight For The Eyes,’ through Sept. 15.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5, 2020.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

The museum has numerous permanent and temporary exhibits.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

‘Wild: Buffalo in Boulder,’ through Jan. 12; ‘Boulder Through The Decades,’ through Sept. 31; Google Garage, ongoing with changing activities; ‘PACK-IT-UP,’ through Sept. 23.

National Fine Art Show — Louisville Art Association. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville. Through Sept. 8.

Naropa University Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

‘Fine Evident’ — by Cathy Ellis, Cube Gallery, through Sept. 29.

NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

‘Photography by Mark Shegda’ and ‘Pastel Paintings by Teri Hoyer,’ through Oct. 26.

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Object: Color,’ through September; ‘Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams,’ through Nov. 2.

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder.

‘Feathers and Flora,’ opened Sept. 4; ‘Genomics: Observing Evolution,’ opening Sept.

9; ‘Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez,’ Anthropology Hall, through Sept. 8; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Music Boulder Drum Circle. 7 p.m. The Root Kava Bar, 1641 28th St., Boulder, 707-599-1908.

Boyfriend. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Dahlby & Nadine, Finn O’Sullivan. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Don’t Get Broke Party Tour starring Priceless Da Roc. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. eTown at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — with The Wood Brothers, Fruition, Steep Canyon Rangers. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, 720-865-2494.

Orquesta Romantica Milonguera. 7:30 p.m.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Rock Choir Colorado. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Seventh Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 720-561-5968.

STS9. 9 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Tyler Thompson. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Events BWB Presents Open Mic Night. 6 p.m.

Barbed Wire Books, 504 Main St., Longmont.

Conversations in English Thursdays. 10:30 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

An Evening with Hazel Miller Band. 7:30 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Craft Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100.

Lisa Bell Album Release — with Mark Oblinger. 7 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Dance for Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568.

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Q&A. 5 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 5 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Mark Normand. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Sept. 8.

Musical Storytime. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tinker, Make, Create: Buttons & Shrinky Dink Keychains. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Toddler Dance Party. 9:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Music The Aggrolites. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

words CONVERSATIONS ABOUT climate change at the science-policy level and in our lives have been stuck for some time. ‘Creative (Climate) Communications’ integrates lessons from the social sciences and humanities to better engage everyday citizens on the policies and issues they care about most. Maxwell Boykoff will speak about and sign his new book at Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

MONDAY, SEPT. 9 Claudia Mills — Nixie Ness, Cooking Star.

6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

The Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting — Deaf Republic. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 10 Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11 THURSDAY, SEPT. 5

2199 California St., Denver.

C.S. Sunshine — Sync’d. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 8

FRIDAY, SEPT. 6

Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

LIVE MUSIC! The CBD’s The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, September 6 7–10 PM Medicinal Music - good for what ails ya!

The CBD’s will relieve your pain, but your body will want to dance!

1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tunupboulder.com

Maxwell Boykoff — Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Society. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe,

‘Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth.’ 8:30 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

The CBDs. 7:15 p.m. The Tune Up, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

Choir! Choir! Choir! 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Colorado Gypsy Jazz Festival featuring Joscho Stephan and Harmonious Wail.

8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Dark Star Orchestra. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Second show on Saturday, Sept. 7.

Dizzy With A Dame. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Espresso! Gypsy Jazz & Swing. 5:30 p.m.

Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont, 303-875-7514.

Expeditions Plus One featuring Wendy Fopeano. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Gonzalo Teppa Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

KGNU’s Annual Record and CD Sale. 5 p.m.

KGNU Community Radio, 700 Kalamath St., Denver, 303-825-5468.

Lawn Concert: Dressy Bessy. 5:30 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880.

Live DJ FiskEDM: Homemade Spaceship.

10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

Los Cheesies. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

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Marcus Rezaks’ Shred is Dead — with Allen Aucoin (The Disco Biscuits). 6 p.m.

Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

Pollinator Appreciation: First Friday Food Lab: Honey. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Mikah Meyer: Concert and Show. 7 p.m.

First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

Spanish Modern Literature Club/ Club de Literatura Moderna en Espanol. 4 p.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

NoBo Art District’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. 5 p.m. NoBo Arts District, Broadway between Violet Avenue & Highway 36, Boulder, 303-523-1117.

Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Ricky Retro. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

When the Stars Align: Painting and Physics. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Music

Smokin. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The 18th Annual Soul Rebel Festival. 2 p.m. Sunshine Acres, Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder.

Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Abear. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Walker Shellist Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Bobby McFerrin — with the Colorado Symphony Chorus. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Wild Faith. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night.

7:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Comedian Erik Myers. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. Through Sept. 8.

Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CU on Friday: Roast the Corn (Huskers).

3 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Boulder, 303-492-6161.

Haunting History & Mystery Tour. 6 p.m.

Downtown, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-453-4733.

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Hazel Miller Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Larry Keel Album Release Party. 9 p.m.

The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Littleton Youth Ballet presents ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ 6 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-794-6694.

Live Swing at the St. Julien Hotel. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder.

The Max Mackey Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. see EVENTS Page 32

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5 7:00 PM

INCOMING! 8:30 PM

LIQUID SKY DAVID BOWIE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6 7:00 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 8:30 PM

BELLA GAIA - BEAUTIFUL EARTH 10:00 PM

LIVE DJ FISKEDM: HOMEMADE SPACESHIP SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7 8:30 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 10:00 PM

LIQUID SKY: PRETTY LIGHTS 11:30 PM

LASER FLOYD: THE WALL SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8 12:00 PM

WE ARE STARS & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 1:30 PM

STARS AND MOONS 3:00 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 4:30 PM

DREAM TO FLY

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder)

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Native American Arts Celebration — with special guest Redbone. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

Neighbors Through The Wall. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Old’s Cool Rock. 10 a.m. Longmont Farmers Market, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-910-2236.

Oliver Jacobson. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Study Break featuring Austin Ashtin. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Veronique Van Pelt presents: the Deep Cuts Showcase no. 9. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

WIBtoberfest: Cheers four years of LagerLove — with DeadPhish Orchestra. 11 a.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

Events Chili Fest/Boulder Valley Beer Fest. 2 p.m.

Superior Community Park, 1350 Coalton Road, Superior.

College Essay Workshop @ MAIN. 1:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

theater All My Sons — presented by Upstart Crow Theater Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Sept. 14.

IN ‘ALL MY SONS,’ Arthur Miller creates a post-war American family in a tragic downfall of lies, greed, love and loss, and demands the audience examine their own social responsibilities to all the sons of American wars.

Beauty and the Beast. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 21.

Emma Bombeck: At Wit’s End. DCPA Broadway, Garner Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver.

Through Sept. 22.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 17.

Indecent. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Oct. 6.

Les Miserables (school edition). Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Through Sept. 15.

Nunsense. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees, through Sept. 29.

Three Tall Women — presented

by Firehouse Theater Company.

John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Sept. 28.

Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

Through Sept. 7.

Three Tall Women.

The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Sept.

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Suicide Lies — presented by The SOURCE Theatre Company. Su

First Saturday Yoga: Pollinators. 11 a.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Nate Bargatze. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,.

Nia 52 Basic Moves Class. 11 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Perspective Exchange. 7:30 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, 119 Park Avenue West., Denver, 303-295-1759.

RISE Festival Fundraiser — with FACE. Noon. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Seed Extravaganza: Native Plants, Vegetables, and Flowers. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303441-4250.

Dream Variant. 6 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

Mountjoy House Concert. 6:30 p.m. The Mountjoy House, 1868 Kalel Lane, Louisville.

Music Al Di Meola & Band: The Music of Di Meola, Piazzoll, and The New 2nd Beatles Tribute Recording. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Delta Sonics Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

staff pick

Glenn Roth, Kyle Ward, Lily DeTaeye. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Music & Me Class (Pre-k to K). 2 p.m.

Adventure Judaism, 825 S. Broadway, Boulder.

ROCK the Boat Benefit Concert. 3 p.m.

Union Reservoir, 461 Co Road 26, Longmont, 720-233-8969.

Takács Quartet: Mozart, Bartók, Dvořák. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

COURTESY OF OUT BOULDER

BOULDER PRIDEFEST 2019. 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-499-5777.

Jewelry, art, photo booths, give-aways, food, music, a parade, a youth and family area… head to downtown Boulder to celebrate diversity at Boulder Pridefest.

Double Feature: ‘We Are Stars’/’Laser Galactic Odyssey.’ Noon. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

King Crimson. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,.

Rainbow Run/Walk 5K. 10:30 a.m. 11th & Pearl streets, Boulder, 303-499-5777.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Music Honor Reading Choir: Fall 2019. 7:30 p.m.

Macky Auditorium, 0285, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. see EVENTS Page 34

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A Human Named David, Matt Walker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

FILMS

Pick Up a Guitar. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5968.

Sara Emmitt. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Takács Quartet: Mozart, Bartók, Dvořák.

7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 6 p.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Line Dancing for Everyone: Beginner and Beyond. 6:30 p.m. Manhattan School of the Arts, 290 Manhattan Drive, Boulder, 720-561-5968.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Your Life, Your Legacy. 5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Music The Australian Pink Floyd Show. 8 p.m.

Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Faculty Tuesdays: Cleveland Orchestra guests. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Hausparty featuring Disco Lines, Pardi, Sneak, Leblanc, and Pedze. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Mad Hallelujah Tribe. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group.

10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

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Thursday, Sept. 5 ‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.’ 1:30 and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

‘Mike Wallace is Here.’ 4:30 p.m.

Boedecker.

Friday, Sept. 6 Film Night. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787.

‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.’ 3:30 p.m.

Boedecker Theater.

‘Mike Wallace is Here.’ 1:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater.

‘The Mountain.’ 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater.

Saturday, Sept. 7 19th Annual HWNA Outdoor Cinemas.

6:30 p.m. Thompson Park, Longmont, 720-280-7228.

‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.’ 2:30 p.m. and 7:30

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 12:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group - Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

Totally Taryn: One Woman Comedy Show.

7 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Music Adam and the Conundrum, Too Much Love, Greg Kavna. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Bourbon & Blues — with Johnny & The Mongrels. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Night Moves. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

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‘Mike Wallace is Here.’ 5:30 p.m.

Boedecker Theater.

Sunday, Sept. 8 ‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.’ 4:30 p.m.

Boedecker Theater.

‘Small Island’ National Theater Live Encore. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater.

Monday, Sept. 9 ‘Black Girl.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater.

‘Small Island’ NT Live Encore. 3:30 and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater.

Wednesday, Sept. 11 ‘Eileen Gray: Designer and Architect.’

7 p.m. Boedecker Theater.

‘Phoenix, Oregon.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater.

‘Small Island’ NT Live Encore. 1 p.m.

Boedecker Theater.

Pre-Conference Two-day Sacred Drum Making Workshop With Adhi Two Owls. 10 a.m. Peaceful Meadow Retreat, 7075 Valmont Road, Boulder.

Rachael Yamagata. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Tycho. 8 p.m. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver.

WU Wednesday — with Eternal of WuTang Killa Beez. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Events Boulder Computer Science Education (CSED) Advisory Meeting. 12:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 12:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

STEAM Storytime: Flower Power. 4 p.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Teen Open Study. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100; 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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Friday September 13

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Friday September 27

eminenCe enSemble

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Sunday September 29

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thurSday oCtober 3

blueGraSS GeneralS

Feat ChriS pandolFi & andy hall (the inFamouS StrinGduSterS), drew emmitt (leFtover Salmon), adam aiJala (ymSb) & andrew altman (railroad earth) w/ piCkin’ on the dead, meadow mountain, winter wonder women & banShee tree

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Sunday September 22

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Sunday oCtober 13

Steel pulSe

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Friday oCtober 18

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Saturday oCtober 26

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Saturday november 16

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This Small Skull Once Belonged

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Joe hertler & the rainbox SeekerS

I have never felt connected to anything, not even my own body. I am trying to remember the last time I felt I did not have to try, a time I was living in a moment & not dwelling on another.

I am a chapel with no function. I am having difficulty with the calendar.

Everything tender was long ago sealed & spouted & redirected to a narrative I constructed in lieu of closure. I am reacting to things as they occur, only later seeing the pattern & the constant that I am: a shadow of death flickering through a valley, feeding on fear.

I am starving myself to feed myself, eclipsing any rush of feeling with picture-in-picture analysis, folding in on myself until I am right back at the beginning of my problem.

I might as well be my mother yelling, knocking doors off their hinges with the power of my void. I need to learn to avoid the impulses carved into me like the poem carved into the skull of Descartes: This small skull once belonged to the great Cartesius, as if it no longer does, as if he is no longer the skull, as if he is no longer the separated body, as if he is not both, the mind & the body separate but whole.

He lives inside his name. He does not need his name across his forehead like he is the property of himself, or like he is his own mark of the beast.

Imagine carving into my soul, This small soul once belonged to the great __________, as if you were not attempting to break me & dissociate me like so many more before you.

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THIS YEAR’S TELLURIDE Film Festival was dedicated to the iconic French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died in March at age 90.

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or some, equality is a game of mathematics: Clinical, sterile and dull. But, high up in the Rocky Mountains at the Telluride Film Festival, equality breathes and moves. Here, women dream film, think film, make film and talk film.

And while a great deal of this parity can be attributed to Julie Huntsinger — Telluride’s guiding light and festival co-director — it’s a simple fact: Exclude female filmmakers, and you’ll miss half the picture.

This was no more evident than the movie that kicked off the 46th Telluride Film Festival, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Directed by one of cinema’s tireless soldiers, Mark Cousins (of The Story of Film fame), Women Make Film is a 14-hour documentary discussing and exhibiting the work of over 180 female directors around the globe. Work that rarely appears in top ten lists, highlight reels and film history books.

“The canon is the canon,” Cousins told the audience following the screening. “It’s robust. It’s resistant to change. It’s impervious to truth.”

But Women Make Film is more than a correction to the cinematic canon; it’s an exuberant exploration of the innovation, techniques and aesthetics female filmmakers bring to the cinematic arts. For years men dominated cinema’s POV. They sucked the oxygen out of the room and left no space for contrasting or contradictory perspectives. Many just assumed there wasn’t one.

That’s beginning to change, but with every beginning comes an end.

One of the cinema’s greatest poet’s, Agnès Varda, died earlier this year at the age of 90, and this year’s festival was fittingly dedicated to her. And Varda’s spirit filled Telluride’s box canyon once more with the screening of her final work, Varda by Agnès: part master class, part filmed autobiography, all Varda.

As with any Varda film, there are diversions, digressions and tangents, moments where the movie liberates itself from the weight of reality, floating freely around the room like a butterfly. It’s beautiful, humble and humane, a tonic for the bombastic violence found weekly at the multiplex.

Like Women Make Film, Varda by Agnès, pays special attention to perspective and how we see the world. Ditto for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a spectacular French period piece about an artist and her subject, and the suppressed passion between them.

Directed by Céline Sciamma and starring Noémie Merlant as a young painter and Adèle Haenel as her subject, Portrait is simply breathtaking, particularly the movie’s final shot — a bravura work of image, performance and music ­— which elicits every possible emotion from despair to joy.

All movies exist in the present tense, but their true power lies in perspective: Illuminating the past and informing the future. The above three — along with a myriad of movies screened over the holiday weekend — are rebuttals to homogeneity and dullness. Anyone can make a movie; how deflating so many want to make the same movie from the same point of view.

As the Telluride Film Festival shows, that doesn’t have to be the case. With the right people pointing the way, there’s no trouble knowing where to look.

Experience the entourage effect.

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he cider revolution is in full force. No longer a saccharine side show, craft cider is everything from herbal to citrusy to super dry to hoppy, and everything in between. If there’s one avenue cideries have yet to crowd, it’s pear cider, but Erie’s The Old Mine puts out a really good one. Made from 100% pear juice, it tastes ripe, just sweet enough and, overall, refreshing. Try The Old Mine’s other, apple-based varieties, available in cans throughout Boulder County. Prices vary.

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But perhaps our favorite part of the shop is the walk-up deli with its rotating menu of Euro-style sandwiches. We had the Giro on a recent visit (name inspired by the Giro d’Italia bike race, not the gyro lamb sandwich). It’s got prosciutto di Parma, the crown jewel of Italian cured meats, along with fresh mozzarella cheese, peppery arugula and healthy drizzles of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. The baguette on which it’s served is crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside, making it a perfect vessel for all the goodness. $11.98.

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oulder’s Brooklyn Pizza does its namesake borough proud with its menu of New York-style pies.

We opted for the Italian sausage and rabe pizza on a recent visit. Chunks of sausage burst with fennel, and the broccoli rabe is deeply (and pleasantly) earthy and savory. It makes for a great flavor combination. But where Brooklyn Pizza really shines is in the pizza’s crust. Crispy and charred on the bottom, very thin but exceptionally chewy on the inside, it’s one of the best crusts in Boulder County. Simple, bright tomato sauce and well-apportioned mozzarella cheese help round out the pie. $16-$20.

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Tomato Speed Dating SUSAN FRANCE

Propagation draws local tomato geeks to annual tasting ritual

By JOHN LEHNDORFF

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nyway, like I was sayin’, you can grill a tomato, bake it and saute it and put it in salsa, gazpacho, and in salads with basil and olive oil. There’s fresh tomato sandwiches and savory tomato pie, tomato toast and tomato pasta salad, and cherry tomato Cheddar cobbler and fried tomato eggs Benedicts.

With a nod to Forrest Gump, we’re so busy adding window dressing to them that we don’t always stop to actually taste the fresh tomatoes in their diverse varieties.

True tomato fans talk about varietals as if they were wines, about the ripened-in-the-sun complexity, sweet-tart balance, fruitiness and musky aromas of the Black Cherry, the Mortgage Lifter and the Kellogg Breakfast.

Tomato geeks are as much a support group as a social group because anyone who attempts to grow tomatoes in Boulder County will eventually openly weep and piteously moan as quarter-sized hail turns Black Krims to salsa on the vine and slugs have Beefsteaks for breakfast. This has been an especially difficult summer for gardeners because of the season’s cold rain and snow.

Still, when everything goes well with hot, sunny, dry days and cool nights and you have sacrificed your first born to a deity, you may be allowed to harvest one of this planet’s most exceptional foods.

There is still plenty of time to enjoy this year’s crop from local farmers, but if you want to grow your own, it’s time to think about what kind of tomatoes you want to taste in August 2020.

This urge to propagate properly is the impetus behind Harlequin’s Gardens annual Taste of Tomato at 10 a.m. Sept. 7 in the Growing Gardens barn at 1630 Hawthorn Ave. Last year there were 64 varieties cut up for tasting, with Aunt Ruby’s German Green winning the popular vote as the best-tasting tomato.

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ing up with their prized fruit which of hundreds of homegrown heirloom varieties, from Extra Eros to Brad’s Atomic Grape, you’ll be tasting. The event illustrates that many tomatoes are not red, but rather ripe green, striped, pink, burgundy and canary yellow, with a wide range of flavors.

The seemingly pleasant ritual serves as a gateway experience, as casual tomato lovers get sucked into the alternate tomato gardening lifestyle. They taste an heirloom variety that rings their chimes, that seems like the perfect tomato and they wonder: Why can’t I have this tomato again? That’s when they go looking for seeds, advice and sympathy. At the Taste of Tomato they can learn seedsaving from elder geeks and maybe even score some heirloom Lycopersicon esculentum and discover which varieties really thrive in Boulder County’s diverse miniclimates.

If you bring three (or more) medium to large tomatoes (or 10-plus small or cherry tomatoes) to donate, you get into the event free. However, they must come from a named variety to be used in the tasting of cherry tomatoes, beefsteaks, slicers and paste tomatoes. Otherwise, it’s a bargain $5 entry.

degrees. Ideally, set bacon strips atop wire racks on baking sheets with sides. If not, cover baking sheets with foil or parchment paper and set strips on top without touching. At about 12 minutes, rotate the sheet so the strips all cook evenly. The thin ones will cook faster. If necessary, remove fully cooked strips to continue baking the others. Bacon should be done at about the 20-minute mark, but check frequently. Save the bacon grease to use in cooking potatoes or in warm dressings for spinach salads.

LOCAL FOOD NEWS Boulder’s Osaka’s is bringing its Japanese-American okonomiyaki (cabbage bun) burgers to a new fast-casual location in Guangzhou, China.

Meanwhile, the arrival of Costco in Shanghai is expected to boost U.S.China relations as Chinese citizens wander the bargain-filled aisles and forget about Trump’s tariffs. … Adelia’s Street Legal Pizza (3060 Pearl Parkway), 1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria (1310 College Ave.) and PizzaRev (1650 28th St.) have closed. … Cow-A-Bunga Ice Cream has opened at 1455 Coal Creek Drive in Lafayette scooping Glacier Ice Cream. … Plan ahead: Chile & Frijoles Festival, Sept. 20-22, Pueblo, pueblochamber.org; Flatirons Food Film Festival, Oct. 10-13, Boulder, flatironsfoodfilmfest.org; First Bite: Boulder County Restaurant Week, Nov. 8-16. firstbiteboulder.com.

HOW TO BAKE BACON Songwriter Guy Clark once opined: “Ain’t nothin’ in the world that I like better, than bacon and lettuce and home grown tomatoes.”

While lots of folks love BLT sandwiches, many home cooks apparently lack the skill to cook bacon from scratch. For instance, Vermont’s Black River Meats offers the following instructions on its packages: “Every American should know how to cook bacon. If you really don’t know how to cook bacon, please contact our elected officials and complain about our education system.”

This snark prompted some social media backlash including the criticism that, for instance, American Jews, Muslims, Seventh-day Adventists and vegans have no need of bacon-cooking know-how.

Some wonder whether it’s worth it to cook real bacon versus buying precooked strips. Would you buy your burgers precooked and shrink-wrapped? First, start with great locally smoked bacon from Tender Belly, Elevation Meats or River Bear Meats. Next, cook the bacon in the oven, not in a pan, to avoid spatter and get crisper bacon. Preheat oven to 400

John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, kgnu.org). Comments: nibbles@boulderweekly.com.

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FIXING DINNER IN A BLACKSMITH’S SHOP Restored buildings, land and food at Black Cat’s new farm dining space

by Matt Cortina

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nce or twice a week, Eric and Jill Skokan welcome two dozen diners to their latest farmland acquisition — 40 acres just north of Nelson Road, with wheat and crop fields and an almost 150-year-old blackmith’s shop, now turned into a rustic dining space.

It’s not polished yet. The kitchen needs to be built out, irrigation lines need to be buried. But early patrons of Black Cat’s farm dining space in Longmont are privy to a remarkable transformation of the land and buildings that reside on the property. Just seven years ago the land was condemned by the County.

“We’ve been working really hard on the place,” Eric Skokan says from the patio, looking over a field of freshly harvested wheat and summer leafy greens.

“When we bought it, seven years ago, after, you know, 40 years of neglect and disrepair, it didn’t have, at the time, an adjudicated well. It had a historic well but no legal paperwork for it. It didn’t have a septic field; it had a pit, literally a cesspit up on the hill over there and go figure, you know, County Health didn’t like that.

“It was just like a crazy number of things like, the circuit breaker panel to operate the whole property was, you know, this big,” Skokan says, holding his hands to frame an imaginary circuit breaker panel the size of a sheet of paper. “Due to a feat of I

excellent planning and engineering, when the circuit breaker would pop you had to stand in the bathtub in order to [fix it]. So whenever you’re taking a shower, it’s not like lots of water would pour on the circuit breaker panel... but that was pretty crazy.”

After “seven full seasons of This Old House” repair on the property, the fields are growing food, much of it served to guests in the restored blacksmith shop at the southern end of the property.

Standing inside the space, you can see where the weather from the north beat down the wood paneling over the decades. Maybe you’re sitting on a knotted, dark wooden bench by the new entry doorway, the old workbench of the blacksmith. And you’ll see where, when Skokan’s team opened an area of the wall to provide access to the kitchen, they found newspaper from Oct. 9, 1883, likely used as 19th century insulation.

The Skokans looked for two years for a spot to host farm dinners before adding these 40 acres, bringing their total farm acreage to 400, much of it just a quarter-mile south off Oxford Road. They wanted a spot free of neighbors — there’s one way off in the distance — so as not to disturb anyone with the clamor see BLACK CAT Page 46

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of excited dinner guests or the occasional wedding party. They wanted a spot that had a view — and the view of rolling hills with the foothills behind it and a creek that snakes through the valley below is unparalleled. They wanted a property with farm infrastructure — there are coops and a millhouse for grain grown onsite, though this winter they’ll bury an irrigation system four feet below the fields, as they’ve done on the six other properties they own or lease from the County.

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As it turned out, the land has unique benefits to the Black Cat growing operation. An offshoot of Left Hand Creek winds through a low part of the property, making nighttime cooler down there by as much as 10 degrees and allowing Skokan to grow crops that can’t handle the summer heat on flat land.

“It’s crazy,” Skokan says. “As a consequence, we can grow lettuces or regular things that don’t like the heat even when it’s, you know, it’s been in the 90s every single day for pretty much a month.”

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And the field below was once used to grow wheat. Today, Skokan grows enough grain on that same land to meet the needs of his restaurants and the farm dinner location. And there’s enough extra to send back to a heritage grain seed bank as well as to experiment with new varieties (including one he’s told is used for baguettes in France). Black Cat even sells bags of flour at the local farmers market.

It’s all processed in a millhouse at the southeastern edge of the property, complete with an antique (but fully functional)

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seed cleaner and industrial flour mill, with Skokan’s combine parked outside. In large bags in the millhouse are cleaned seeds for Swiss rye from 1457 and the 1,200-year-old parent of durum wheat, alongside bins of trial Persian grains.

You get a sense of all that history just standing on the property — even the dogs that patrol the area are a unique breed (Akbash) that’s snuffed coyotes and foraging animals out of farmland in the Caucasus for millenia. But you also appreciate the attention Skokan and Black Cat have put into every little detail from the farm to the dining space to the food on the plate. It’s a recipe that’s allowed Black Cat to expand this far.

Until the kitchen becomes fully operational, Black Cat chefs prepare meals for farm dinners in their Pearl Street kitchen, which is becoming more like a “submarine galley” with each new project added into the operation, Skokan says. Menus change based on what’s working in the fields, with substitutions coming until the last minute before dinner service to ensure freshness.

“One day, maybe I’ll be a good enough farmer and chef to be able to predict a day ahead, but right now I have to leave it,” Skokan says. “I don’t see every single thing every day, right? And so I’m relying on my memory of what the arugula was like four days ago. And then we harvest it and we’re like, ‘This won’t work.’ And so then instead of like regular arugula then it’s arugula pesto. That ends up being the change.”

It’s familiar footing, or lack thereof, for Black Cat chefs, who have built dinner menus daily based on last-minute information from the fields.

“Our chefs and sous chefs in the kitchen have been working inside this system for years,” Skokan says. “At this point, they’re more confident with flexibility than having everything written in stone. … Imagine if every day you did, you know, the Top Chef mystery basket challenge, and if that was your world, eventually it would be normal.”

It’s not likely the culmination of Skokan’s work, but it feels like a fitting aggregation of his talents and passions, this restoration of food, property and industry. But the chef turned farmer turned contractor is just happy there’s an audience here to share all the work with.

“You know, the food is from this field or the field that’s a quarter-mile away.

Obviously it’s ridiculously fresh, and the view here is spectacular, and the space works really well and feels good. And then we have this old, historic barn that we get to work on,” Skokan says. “I feel pretty lucky.”

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New in brew: Suds flowing down the Front Range

The Rayback has a new brewery of the month, and Colorado has a new fest by Michael J. Casey

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wo University of Colorado grads are coming back to Boulder, beerwise that is. Sharing a passion for punk rock, Jason zumBrunnen and Scott Kaplan became fast friends at CU before co-founding Ratio Beerworks in 2015 in Denver’s River North district. Since, Ratio has established a sizeable community and following with beers like Dear You, a delightfully bright and bready French saison, and Genius Wizard — a spectacular Russian Imperial Stout with a supreme representation of roasted malts.

And as of August, Ratio Beerworks is now distributed around Boulder and will be the featured brewery at Rayback Collective for September. All month long there will be special tappings, so drop by for a pour of King of Carrot Flowers: a Belgian-style saison brewed with carrot juice and elderflowers.

Suave Fest (Raices Brewing Company, 2060 W. Colfax Ave., Denver) Sat., Sept. 14, 12 p.m. Diversity and inclusion are signs of a healthy and robust industry. The craft brewing world has made strides, but with only 0.6% of U.S. breweries Latinx-owned, there is still a long way to go. Thankfully, Suave Fest — the first Latino craft beer festival in the country — is getting the ball rolling.

Ten breweries will be pouring — including Dos Luches Brewing, a glutenfree brewery located in Denver — and the spirit of the festival will be lively with focuses on family and community. If you’re starting to feel like craft beer is getting too corporate, let Suave Fest be your salve.

Gravity Brewing’s Seventh Anniversary Party (1150 Pine St., Louisville) Sat., Sept. 14, 12-11 p.m. If you’ve never been to Gravity Brewing, it’s time to change that. The seating is copious, the pizza served at Gastronauts is excellent, the beer garden out back is a delightful place to have a conversation, and the beer is some of the best in the county. They’ll have seven new brews on tap for their seventh anniversary, and between the Mexican Bock (a strong version of their Mexican lager) and the Peanut Butter & Coffee Brown Porter, options abound.

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Sept. 28 12-5 p.m. Named after their immensely drinkable Western pilsner, Howdy Fest is beer, food and spirited rodeo games galore. Tickets are $15 and get you entrance and Howdy Pilsner.

Need more? The other four Lafayette breweries (Odd13, Liquid Mechanics,

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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: John Muir (1838-1914) was

skilled at creating and using machinery. In his twenties, he diligently expressed those aptitudes. But at age 27, while working in a carriage parts factory, he suffered an accident that blinded him. For several months, he lay in bed, hoping to recuperate. During that time, Muir decided that if his sight returned, he would thereafter devote it to exploring the beauty of the natural world. The miracle came to pass, and for the rest of his life he traveled and explored the wilds of North America, becoming an influential naturalist, author, and early environmentalist. I’d love to see you respond to one of your smaller setbacks — much less dramatic than Muir’s! — with comparable panache, Aries.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Of all the children on the planet, 3%

live in the U.S. And yet American children are in possession of 40% of the world’s toys. In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby invite you to be like an extravagant American child in the coming weeks. You have cosmic permission to seek maximum fun and treat yourself to zesty entertainment and lose yourself in uninhibited laughter and wow yourself with beguiling games and delightful gizmos. It’s playtime!

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: The ama are Japanese women whose job

it is to dive to the sea bottom and fetch oysters bearing pearls. The water is usually cold, and the workers use no breathing apparatus, depending instead on specialized techniques to hold their breath. I propose we make them your inspirational role models. The next few weeks will be a favorable time, metaphorically speaking, for you to descend into the depths in quest of valuables and inspirations.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Renowned Cancerian neu-

rologist Oliver Sacks believed that music and gardens could be vital curative agents, as therapeutic as pharmaceuticals. My personal view is that walking in nature can be as medicinal as working and lolling in a garden. As for music, I would extend his prescription to include singing and dancing as well as listening. I’m also surprised that Sacks didn’t give equal recognition to the healing power of touch, which can be wondrously rejuvenating, either in its erotic or non-erotic forms. I bring these thoughts to your attention because I suspect the coming weeks will be a Golden Age of nonpharmaceutical healing for you. I’m not suggesting that you stop taking the drugs you need to stay healthy; I simply mean that music, nature and touch will have an extra-sublime impact on your well-being.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: If you visualize what ancient Rome looked

like, it’s possible you draw on memories of scenes you’ve seen portrayed in movies. The blockbuster film Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott, may be one of those templates. The weird thing is that Gladiator, as well as many other such movies, were inspired by the grandiose paintings of the ancient world done by Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (18361912). And in many ways, his depictions were not at all factual. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will prod you to question the accuracy and authenticity of your mental pictures. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get fuzzy and incorrect memories into closer alignment with the truth, and to shed any illusions that might be distorting your understanding of reality.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: I don’t know if the coming weeks will be an Anais Nin phase for you. But they could be if you want them to. It’s up to you whether you’ll dare to be as lyrical, sensual, deep, expressive and emotionally rich as she was. In case you decide that YES, you will, here are quotes from Nin that might serve you well. 1. It is

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easy to love and there are so many ways to do it. 2. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. 3. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 4. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. 5. It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “When you’re nailing a custard pie to the

wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn’t do any good to hammer in more nails.” So advised novelist Wallace Stegner.

I hope I’m delivering his counsel in time to dissuade you from even trying to nail a custard pie to the wall — or an omelet or potato chip or taco, for that matter. What might be a better use of your energy? You could use the nails to build something that will actually be useful to you.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them,” wrote author Amy Tan. My Scorpio friend Audrey once made a similar confession: “I buried my secrets so completely from the prying curiosity of other people that I lost track of them myself.” If either of those descriptions apply to you, Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to secure a remedy. You’ll have extra power and luck if you commune with and celebrate your hidden feelings and buried secrets.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “No Eden valid without serpent.” Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote that pithy riff. I think it’s a good motto for you to use in the immediate future. How do you interpret it? Here’s what I think. As you nourish your robust vision of paradise-on-earth, and as you carry out the practical actions that enable you to manifest that vision, it’s wise to have some creative irritant in the midst of it. That bug, that question, that tantalizing mystery is the key to keeping you honest and discerning. It gives credibility and gravitas to your idealistic striving.

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CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The coco de mer is a palm tree that grows

in the Seychelles. Its seed is huge, weighing as much as forty pounds and having a diameter of 19 inches. The seed takes seven years to grow into its mature form, then takes an additional two years to germinate.

Everything I just said about the coco de mer seed reminds me of you, Capricorn. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’ve been working on ripening an awesome seed for a long time, and are now in the final phase before it sprouts. The Majestic Budding may not fully kick in until 2020, but I bet you’re already feeling the enjoyable, mysterious pressure.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: If you throw a pool ball or a bronze

Buddha statue at a window, the glass will break. In fact, the speed at which it fractures could reach 3,000 miles per hour. Metaphorically speaking, your mental blocks and emotional obstacles are typically not as crackable.

You may smack them with your angry probes and bash them with your desperate pleas, yet have little or no effect. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, you’ll have much more power than usual to shatter those vexations. So I hereby invite you to hurl your strongest blasts at your mental blocks and emotional obstacles.

Don’t be surprised if they collapse at unexpectedly rapid speeds.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In the 13th century, the Italian city of

Bologna was serious about guarding the integrity of its cuisine. In 1250, the cheese guild issued a decree proclaiming, “If you make fake mortadella... your body will be stretched on the rack three times, you will be fined 200 gold coins, and all the food you make will be destroyed.” I appreciate such devotion to purity and authenticity and factualness. And I recommend that in the coming weeks, you commit to comparable standards in your own sphere. Don’t let your own offerings be compromised or corrupted. The same with the offerings you receive from other people. Be impeccable.

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Dear Dan: I’m a 28-year-old straight guy with one kink: I want to be collared and on a leash. That’s it. In private.

Basically, I just want to curl up at my a boyfriend on a leash. The request girlfriend’s feet with the leash in her conjures up a mental image that conhand. Just me on the floor next to the flicts with a person’s self-conception — couch while she watches television, or they never thought of themselves as me on the floor next to the bed while the peeing-on-other-people or keepingshe reads. I’ve had three serious girlfriends, and all three laughed in my face the-boyfriend-on-a-leash type — and nervous laughter is a when I told them about common response to that ROMAN ROBINSON this. I’m dating a girl now particular brand of cognithat I like a lot, and she tive dissonance. It would actually asked me if I had be better if people didn’t any kinks, and I couldn’t have this reaction, of bring myself to tell her. I’m course, but you should worried about her laughbrace yourself for it, ing in my face, too. laugh/shrug it off, and Laughter Erases All then proceed to explain Sexual Hopes why this is such a turn-on for you and what’s in it for Dear LEASH: People her. (It sounds like a pretoften have knee-jerk, ty easy way for her to sex-negative reactions to crank you up when she’s kinky requests not because they necfeeling horny.) essarily think peeing on someone or If the reactions of the last three leashing someone is hopelessly pergirlfriends left you scared and scarred, verted or disqualifying, LEASH, but LEASH, tell your current girlfriend via because they’ve never imagined themtext. (“Hey, remember when you asked selves peeing on someone or keeping if I had a kink? I do: being on a

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leash.”) Then, if her first reaction is to laugh, you won’t be there to hear it. You might get a “LOL, what?” in response, but don’t let it shut you down. Keep texting, keep it light and playful, show her that you have a sense of humor about it… and you could finally end up on that leash.

Dear Dan: I’m a 43-year-old woman who has been enjoying the company of a much younger man (he’s 24). His energy, enthusiasm and straight-up bravery in the face of the current horrors of the world are giving me a renewed sense of purpose. Plus, the sex is phenomenal. What’s giving me pause is that my generally sexpositive friends are deeply creeped out by this relationship due to our age difference. He lives on his own, he has a degree and a career, and he supports himself — so this isn’t a “sugar mama” situation. I have no authority over him in any capacity. I also have no delusions of this lasting forever. Am I really so wrong for enjoying this while I can?

My friend circle includes all manner of kinky and queer folks, so their reaction

is really throwing me for a loop.

This Older Woman Needs Youth Dear TOWNY: My hunch is that your sex-positive friends have made two assumptions. First, they’ve assumed you have more power in this relationship because you’re older (as if youth and maleness don’t confer their own powers!). And, second, they seem to have assumed you have to be abusing your power somehow. It’s a legitimate concern — power is so often abused, and we should all be thoughtful about it. But “often abused” does not equal “always abused,” TOWNY, and in no way are you abusing this grown-ass 24-year-old man. If your sex-positive friends give you any more grief about the age difference, give them grief about their ageism and misogyny.

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Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3

by Seymour

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xperiences with edibles can vary wildly, even when following instructions on the box.

Sure, some strains are headier than others, but researchers in Oakland, California, say it could be because the potency of THC has been

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miscalculated in some treats.

A team from CW Analytical, an independent cannabis-testing laboratory, found that components in chocolate — a common ingredient for edibles — might be preventing accurate analysts

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when testing treats for potency.

Here’s why: When several ingredients are mixed together to make a food product — whether that’s in your kitchen or in an industrial bakehouse churning out edibles for sale at dispensaries — it creates a “matrix,” the composite of the food product.

Basically, food is chemistry in action, in your mouth, with various ingredients interacting differently with one another. The combination can affect digestion and absorption of nutrients; a “matrix effect” that can skew testing results.

The CW Analytical team believes that something in chocolate suppresses the delta-9-THC signal scientists are looking for.

“When we had less cannabis-infused chocolate in the sample vial, say 1 gram, we got higher THC potencies and more precise values than when we had 2 grams of the same infused chocolate in the vial,” principle investigator David Dawson said in a press release. “This goes against what I

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would consider basic statistical representation of samples, where one would assume that the more sample you have, the more representative it is of the whole.

“Simply changing how much sample is in the vial could determine whether a sample passes or fails, which could have a huge impact on the producer of the chocolate bars, as well as the customer who might be under- or overdosing because of this weird quirk of matrix effects,” he said.

The next step for the team is to determine which ingredient in chocolate is the culprit. According to Dawson in the press release, “Our best lead right now is that it has something to do with the fats, which makes sense considering that delta-9THC is fat-soluble.”

Dawson hopes to study how other cannabinoids interact, specifically CBD, as it is cropping up in foods around the country.

It’s important research as the push for nationwide legalization marches forward — with better understanding of how THC interacts with foods, businesses can ensure that they are providing the best product to their consumers. Accurate potency testing means better medicine and better adult-use products.

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The Opium Wars and the revenge of the Middle Kingdom

By Paul Danish

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ile this under: “What goes around comes around on the great One Belt, One Road of life.”

From a Sept. 2 Reuters story: “U.S. officials say China is the main source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances that are trafficked into the United States, much of it through international mail. China denies that most of the illicit fentanyl entering the United States originates in China.”

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The story added that China called Trump’s assertion that Chinese President Xi Jinping had failed to follow through on his promises to crack down on the Chinese fentanyl flow, “blatant slander.”

In the same story, Reuters claims, Liu Yuejin, vice commissioner of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, told a news conference that while China and the U.S. counter-narcotics agencies have maintained a good cooperative relationship, “cooperation on investigating and prosecuting fentanyl-related substances is extremely limited.”

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How limited?

Since 2012, the U.S. has reported to China only six “clues” (leads) on fentanyl-related smuggling cases to China, with only three of these cases successfully cracked, according to China’s state TV. Liu may have found it hard to make it through the Monday, Sept. 2 presser with a straight face.

That’s because Wednesday, Sept. 4 was the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Kowloon, a skirmish between British and Chinese warships that took place in 1839 wherein the first shots were fired in what would come to be known as the “Opium Wars.”

Most Americans know little or nothing about the Opium Wars, but in modern China, they are a big deal. Like a defining-moment big deal.

The causes of the Opium Wars stretch back to the 18th century, when the British East India Company discovered there was fabulous wealth to be had from selling opium to the Chinese.

Make that by smuggling opium into China; the Chinese government (the Qing Dynasty at the time) made repeated attempts to stop the trade, issuing decrees and edicts in 1729, 1799, 1814 and 1831, which the East India Company circumvented or ignored.

Over the years, the company propped up a network of opium producers in what is modern-day Bangladesh, and by 1838, it was selling about 1,400 tons of opium a year in China.

According to the 2004 book, The Opium Wars

by William Hanes and Frank Sanello, the British opium trade resulted in 10 to 12 million Chinese addicts.

The East India Company may have pioneered the business practices and the morals later adopted by Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, but it had the support of the British government. That’s because the opium trade was so lucrative that it reversed an

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unfavorable balance of trade Britain had with China. Silver had been flowing out of Britain to pay for Chinese imports like silk, porcelain and tea.

Opium sales turned the silver flow around.

In 1839, the Chinese government launched a crack-down, confiscating all supplies of opium in Canton, the only Chinese port open to European traders, and seizing any opium found on foreign ships in the area.

While the first shots were fired on Sept. 4, 1839, the Brits didn’t get around to passing a formal declaration of war until 1840. The Royal Navy then spent the next two years bombarding Chinese ports and thrashing the technologically outclassed Chinese military. The 1842 treaty that ended the war provided, among other things, that four additional Chinese ports would be open to European traders, that Hong Kong island would be ceded to Britain — and that the East India Company would be compensated for the opium the Chinese had seized and burned in 1839.

The Second Opium War was a lot like the first, only this time it was the French, and to a minor extent, the Americans backed by the Brits. It ended with 10 more ports being opened to European traders — and with the opium trade being legalized by China under duress.

So here we are, 180 years later. The opioid trade is alive and well, only this time the Chinese are the leading producers and smugglers, and Westerners are the leading consumers.

According to The National Institute of Drug Abuse, in 2017, 1.7 million people in the U.S. “suffered from substance use disorders related to opioids,” and 130 people a day died from opioid overdoses.

From the Opium Wars to the fentanyl question — what goes around comes around. With a vengeance.

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