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5 Lords of sammiches...and pop-ups

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A few months ago, Zach Williams and Colin Brunson of 2nd Deli and Spirits caught the pop-up bug, and we are stoked. These lords of sammiches are thinking outside the bun.

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»» News from DGO’s online perch you may have missed Hotel Taco Bell, a rhyme ... but not a joke Welcome to the Hotel Taco Bell. Such a lovely place. You can stuff your face. They livin’ it up at the Hotel Taco Bell. What a nice surprise, you’ll turn oversized.

OK fine, the DGO rendition of “Hotel California” isn’t that good, but Taco Bell is opening up a hotel Palm Springs, Calif. and we have a feeling you’ll be able to check out any time you like, but you can never leave. Because why would you?

The Bell, as the fast-food chain calls it, will open in August 2019, according to Forbes. You better hope you have some vacation time leftover by then cuz it’s only going to be open five days. Now, you’re probably asking the same questions we are. Can I sleep on a bed of lettuce? Will the pool be filled with Mountain Dew Baja Blast? Are the walls made of taco shells and can we eat them? The pressing stuff.

Taco Bell answers none of those questions, but they do answer a few others.

“The Bell stands to be the biggest expression of the Taco Bell lifestyle to date. It will be fun, colorful, flavorful and filled with more than what our fans might expect,” said Taco Bell’s Chief Global Brand Officer Marisa Thalberg, in a media statement. “Also, just like some of our most sought-after food innovation, this hotel brings something entirely new for lucky fans to experience and enjoy.”

According to Forbes, The Bell will include a gift shop, a salon that will give you the Taco Bell-inspired manicure of your dreams, a daily “happier hour,” and lotsa food.

Reservations are available in June (age 18+ only), but things like cost and how to book a room are still a secret.

The countdown has begun and this could be heaven or this could be hell (sorry, last reference). But we know that in all likelihood this is what heaven will be like.

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Definitely not aliens Even though they won’t say the A-word (ALIENS), members of the Navy publicly came forward via The New York Times about seeing some awfully weird shit in the sky.

Unfortunately, the article came out over Memorial Day weekend and most of the nation was too busy barbecuing to give it too much notice. BUT NOT US. NYT reporters interviewed five Navy pilots who all reported seeing some bizarre objects that moved at hyper speed while they were on duty. In one incident,

Lt. Ryan Graves described flying objects that looked like “a spinning top moving against the wind,” flying about on a nearly daily basis from the summer of 2014 until March 2015. The unidentified flying object did not appear to have an engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but, bafflingly, “could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.”

“These things would be out there all day,” Graves, a Navy veteran of 10 years, told NYT. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

During a particularly harrowing incident, one of Graves’ fellow pilots nearly hit one of the flying objects. As the pilot and his wingman were flying about 100 feet apart, something that looked “like a sphere encasing a cube” flew between their aircrafts.

It was this incident, which freaked the squadron out so much that they filed a safety report, that convinced them that the objects weren’t drones as they previously theorized them to be.

These incidents were reported to the Pentagon and Congress, and, while everyone else in this story is refusing to hypothesize that they’re visitors from another universe – “We’re here to do a job with excellence, not make up myths,” Lt. Danny Accoin told NYT – we’re gonna go ahead and say it here: ALIENS. —— Amanda Push

Opioid ass-kick In a decisive kick in the pants to opioids, last week, Gov. Jared Polis approved a bill allowing doctors to recommend medical marijuana for conditions that might have been prescribed with opioids otherwise.

According to the Denver Post, Senate Bill 13 will be effective as of Aug. 2. It’s a bipartisan move that many hope will reduce overdoses.

“Adding a condition for which a physician could recommend medical marijuana instead of an opioid is a safer pain management tool that will be useful for both our doctors and patients,” Ashley Weber, executive director of Colorado NORML, told The Denver Post.

In 2017, 578 people died from opioid overdoses in Colorado, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Other qualifying conditions for medical marijuana include PTSD, chronic disorders, cancer, and HIV/ AIDS. —— Amanda Push

NOT under his eye I will be driving to New Orleans from Toronto. It’s almost impossible to drive from Ontario to Louisiana without stopping for fuel/food/hotel in Ohio, Georgia, or Alabama. But I want to boycott Handmaid states during my trip. Even then, I feel I have to check the news every day to see what state is next. Do you have any practical advice for me? Or should I just stay home until your democratic systems and your courts are fixed and your Electoral College is abolished?

— CANADIAN AVOIDS NEARING TERRIBLE GEORGIA, OHIO… Why head south, CANTGO? Even if you’ve lived in Canada all your life, you couldn’t possibly have explored every corner of your beautiful country.

But if you absolutely, positively must board the Titanic – excuse me, if you must visit the United States – take a hard right after you cross the border and head west instead. Enjoy Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, check out some of those lakes they’re always talking about in Minnesota, speed through the Dakotas, Montana, and the skinniest part of Idaho, and pretty soon you’ll be in Washington State, where a woman’s right to choose is enshrined in the state constitution. The summers are lovely, we’ve got hiking trails that will take you to mountain lakes, and Democrats control both houses of the state legislature and the governor’s mansion, so you won’t have to check the news every day when you’re in Seattle.

CONFIDENTIAL TO EVERYONE: Anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-sex bills have been rammed through Republican-controlled state legislatures in Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Utah, Mississippi, and Alabama. “The new wave of anti-abortion laws suggests that a post-Roe America won’t look like the country did before 1973, when the court case was decided,” Michelle Goldberg wrote in the New York Times. “It will probably be worse.” If these bills are declared constitutional – a real possibility now – doctors will be jailed, women who have miscarriages will be prosecuted, and many forms of birth control will be banned. If you’re as pissed off as I am – and anyone who isn’t can piss right off – please make sure you and all your friends are registered to vote so you can vote out anti-choice state legislators and governors in 2020. To be clear: Right now, abortion remains legal in all 50 states. So you don’t have to wait until next November to send a “fuck you” to red-state Republicans pushing these laws. Make a donation to an organization that helps women obtain abortions in red states – like The Yellowhammer Fund in Alabama (yellowhammerfund.org), Gateway Women’s Access Fund in Missouri (gwaf.org), and Women Have Options in Ohio (womenhaveoptions.org).

—— Dan Savage

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POP-UP DINNERS

have arrived at 2nd Deli & Spirits Southern-style meal from Neal Drysdale, a talented chef well known for using local ingredients and making everything as from scratch as possible.

This one I definitely could not miss. Plus, I’m not sure I’ve had good Southern meal since Drysdale’s Fifth Street Eatery closed down. I practically ran down to 2nd Deli to buy my tickets. Although they had just posted the dinner, the tickets were almost sold out, so the running was completely justified.

Pop-up restaurants are (ahem) popping up all over the country, especially in big cities. Some chefs use them as a low cost way to try out a new menu concept and host the dinners for multiple days in a row to garner interest or attract investors. Others create companies that live entirely outside the brick-and-mortar, exclusively hosting weekend pop-up dinners or one-time events for special occasions. No matter the reason, a pop-up is a fun way to create a unique dining experience using an existing space to host a meal. You’ll find them in fancy homes, abandoned buildings, or located inside your favorite restaurants.

It was one best dinners I’ve had in a long time, and I can never have it again. Maybe that’s what made it so

A few months ago, Zach Williams and Colin Brunson of 2nd Deli and Spirits caught the pop-up bug, and I, for one, am stoked.

These lords of sammiches are thinking outside the bun and working with local chefs to give the people of Durango a one-time dining event. It’s really a win-win; we get a great meal complete with beverage pairings. The chef gets the opportunity to have some fun, cooking up new and exciting foods they may not be able to make on the regular at their restaurant. The first dinner featured John Fletcher from Dalton Ranch, who was serving up authentic Italian food with wine pairings. Next up was Ken Thers of Hot Tomatoes coursing out a Nordic-style meal.

good – I didn’t spend time inspecting the menu or wondering what to order. When the food came, there was no question whether I should have gotten the steak instead of the fish or if the grilled broccolini would have been a better side dish. The menu was what it was, and every bite was better than the last. Gulf shrimp fritters over grits, homemade hickory-smoked bologna with pimento cheese, sweet corn and crab salad, fried chicken and waffles with bourbon-infused maple syrup, and a buttermilk pie topped with a molasses-sweetened cream fluff. I almost never order dessert, but it came coursed with the meal and I’m glad it was forced upon me. That pie was so captivating, I’m still dreaming about it. By the end of the meal, I was stuffed and had a nice buzz going from the cocktail presented with each plate.

The food was amazing, but the experience was better. The vibe inside 2nd Deli was absolutely buzzing. Although they didn’t change the layout or move the tables at all, the event completely transformed the space. The collective excitement of everyone who showed up made a regular deli feel like an intimate dining space. We were all in it together, sharing an experience, and I felt welcomed as soon as I entered the room. I ran into old friends and met a few new ones gathered together at the community tables. It was really something special.

Sadly, I didn’t make it to either of these dinners. By the time I heard about the event, they were already sold out. The deli isn’t exactly huge, so seating is limited to about 30 seats.

That means these events get exclusive, fast. I was beginning to think I’d never sneak my way in. I watched Facebook like a hawk, hoping to be one of the first to know about dinner number three. There it was: a menu for a five-course

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QUEST FOR THE BEST GRILLED CHEESE IN DURANGO

In our May 23 issue, writer Lindsay Mattison took the hard-line stance that grilled cheese sandwiches are indeed dairy crack.

We still stand by that statement (so, fight us) but felt the claim warranted further investigation. We already know that homemade grilled cheese is, in the words of Kanye, “God’s vessel” (for clarity’s sake, he was actually talking about himself). Do those same standards apply to our local restaurants, though? Do the chefs of Durango take the art of making a grilled cheese as seriously as we do?

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We gotta say, we were most impressed with the chef from Gianni’s cheese and bread creation. Here, the name of the game is thicc. Thicc slabs of Texas Toast. Thicc chunks of bacon.

And a thicc amount of molten, stringy cheese. This ultimate comfort food sandwich at this hole-in-the-wall Main Avenue establishment was satisfying in a way that only Friday happy hours are. These delicious delicacies are only $5 a pop if you just want to go with the classic sandwich. If spicing things up is up your alley, for a mere $1.50, you can add bacon, ham, or tomato.

»» Gianni’s Oven and Grill grilled cheese

Durango Diner 957 Main Avenue, Durango, Colo.

The grilled cheese at Durango Diner is a testament to the simple, no-frills, no-drama deliciousness of this heavenly sandwich. When you take your seat at this downtown diner, you can pretty much expect to get this simple order served to you in about 10 minutes (when it’s not busy, anyway). The bread here comes on the thinner, crispier side, which may be good or bad depending on your take.

On one hand, if you’re all about bread that’s a neg. If you’re more focused on the cheese aspect, though, then less bread gives you the chance to savor the dairy a lot more. These sandwiches go for $6 a piece.

»» Kassidy’s Kitchen grilled cheese

College Drive Cafe 666 East College Drive, Durango, Colo.

College Drive Cafe hits the nail on the bread when it comes to cooking their carbs. A golden landscape of bread and perfectly

»» Gianni’s Oven and Grill grilled cheese

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us? Swing on over to this College Drive eatery and see these $6.50 sandwiches for yourself. For $1 more, you can add avocado or tomato.

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»» Durango Diner’s grilled cheese

»» College Drive Cafe grilled cheese

crisped edges pulls this sandwich together nicely, but the star of the show is definitely the dairy. College Drive goes all out when it comes to the cheese, and slaps cheddar, jack, swiss, and cotija between two pieces of whole wheat bread. Pulling the sandwich halves apart and watching the melted cheese drip down is indeed the equivalent of watching a very greasy food porn. Don’t believe

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Like Durango Diner, CJ’s Diner keeps things simple when it comes to grilled cheese. Looking at it and taking the first few bites were nostalgic, a blast from the past during that time in childhood when you’d sit at the dinner table and munch down on a cheesy sandwich next to a bowl of tomato soup. American cheese on white bread – this $6.50 sandwich doesn’t get more classic than that.

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»» CJ’s Diner grilled cheese

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Even 15 minutes before they close, Kassidy’s Kitchen is abuzz with patrons scraping their plates or ordering to-go meals before the restaurant closes its doors. Here at Kassidy’s, you can get a simple grilled cheese with four slices of “melty goodness” for $6.25 or switch it up with a grilled meat and cheese (bacon, ham, turkey, or roast beef) for $8.95.

As we are staunch pork fans, we went with bacon (the obvious choice) and cheddar on wheat. The cooks at Kassidy’s keep things crisp. Personally, we would have preferred a more cheese to bacon ratio, but the amount of meaty protein was a welcome switch up to the amount of cheese we’ve been consuming.

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Kacey Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, and Greensky Bluegrass among Telluride Bluegrass Festival performers Just when it seems like there’s a lull in local music festivals, you can road trip on up to Telluride for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to catch national acts like Kacey Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, Punch Brothers, and, well, the list goes on and on, folks. This is a bluegrass lover’s dream come true.

From June 20-23, music lovers visiting Telluride will be able to enjoy yet another round of bluegrass music. This year marks 46 years of the storied festival, which has a rich history of bringing in music legends of all kinds, such as Sam Bush, Robert Plant, Mumford & Sons, Norah Jones, Jason Mraz, Greensky Bluegrass, and Emmylou Harris. If you have any sense of good music or just wanna roll a joint, sip a beer, and listen to some bluegrass tunes, you should probably get yourself on over to this festival this summer.

This year, the following main stage acts will grace Telluride with their sweet tunes.

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»»Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce with Los Texmaniacs, 1:45-3 p.m.

»»Bonnie Paine & Friends, 10:30-11:45 p.m. »»Steve Poltz, noon-1 p.m.

»»Gregory Alan Isakov, 5:30-7 p.m.

»»The Jerry Douglas Band, 1:30-3 p.m.

»»Telluride House Band, 7:30-9:30 p.m. »»Jim James, 10-11:30 p.m.

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»»Lake Street Dive, 6:30-8 p.m.

»»Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, 10:45-11:45 a.m. »»Stephen Kellogg, noon-1 p.m. »»Molly Tuttle, 1:30-2:45 p.m. »»Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band, 3-4:15 p.m. »»The Time O’Brien Band, 4:45-6 p.m.

»»Béla Fleck & The Fleckstones, 8:30-10 p.m. »»Greensky Bluegrass, 10:30-midnight

p.m. »»Steep Canyon Rangers, 1:45-3 p.m. »»Yonder Mountain String Band, 3:30-5 p.m.

»»The First Ladies of Bluegrass: Alison Brown, Becky, Buller, Sierra Hull, Missy Raines, and Molly Tuttle, 3:30-4:45 p.m. »»Punch Brothers, 5:156:45 p.m. »»Kacey Musgraves, 7:158:45 p.m.

Saturday, June 22

»»Telluride Troubadour, 5:15-5:30 p.m.

»»Brandi Carlile, 9:15-10:45 p.m.

»»Wood Belly, 10:45-11:45 a.m.

»»Noam Pikelny, 5:45-6:15 p.m.

For the full lineup, visit bluegrass.com/telluride.

»»Sierra Hull, noon-1:15

»»Sam Bush Band, 7:45-10

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Summer seems to be upon us, with temperatures and tourist numbers in our corner of Colorado on a steady incline.

Group. Twenty-four artists, from around the world and spanning a multitude of musical genres, performing the music of the Elephant 6 Collective, including: Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, of Montreal, Circulatory System, Elf Power, Gerbils and Madeline.”

According to the solstice-ers and my trusty oversized calendar, the official start of summer is Friday, June 21, as per usual. June is the sixth month of the calendar year, and six months in marks the halfway point of 2019 new music releases, give or take a week or two. I’ve given biweekly record suggestions in this publication, but some records have come around unannounced and others have gotten lost in release heavy weeks.

“Dogrel,” Fontaines D.C., released April 12 by Partisan Records I already gave this record some coverage, but I am revisiting it here for good reason. I made the haul to Phoenix in late May (it was not nine hours, but a measly seven) and this band and headliner Idles delivered in spades. I have told just about anyone who would listen that this will likely go down as one of the best live shows I’ll ever see. Not this year, mind you, but ever. I have been incredibly fortunate in 30+ years to have seen some amazing bands perform unforgettable sets. This was one of them. I already loved this record, claiming it would likely be on my yearend look back at 2019, and their live show reinforced that.

There is no shortage of truly great new albums that have been released, and there’s another six months of music to come. Let’s take a glance at some of my favorite albums thus far, along with glimpses into a select few that show what is yet to come.

“Groove Denied,” Stephen Malkmus, released March 15 by Matador Records and Domino Records The former Pavement frontman released an album of primarily electronic music, but this isn’t a dance record in the way that’s often associated with the moniker. To be fair, I didn’t think I would love a (primarily) guitar-less record made by (what I consider to be) a modern stylistic guitar icon. I keep revisiting this record and have realized something embarrassingly and glaringly obvious: Malkmus’ approach to songs hits that pleasure center in my brain., even when it’s wrapped in minimalist electronic music, which as my friend put it, is “made for dads.” For the record, I’m not a dad.

“E6 Enthusiasts - An Enthusiast’s Fanfare for Elephant 6,” Various Artists, released February 21 on Bandcamp This is one of the records I didn’t know was coming and yet it has been in constant rotation since arriving.

Records I’m still excited for, coming soon: “Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest,” Bill Callahan This record will be released by Drag City on June 14.

“Desert Haze,” The Crags One of my favorite local acts, The Crags, will self-release their fourth album, “Desert Haze,” on July 12 with an accompanying CD release show at 11th Street Station on the same night.

“Heaven is Humming,” Goon This album is available July 19 thanks to the good people at Partisan Records.

To be fair, I am a fan of many bands associated with Elephant 6, which may play into my affinity for this record.

From the release bio: “The first fanmade tribute album to The Elephant 6 Collective, organized by members of the Elephant 6 Enthusiasts Facebook

“Beneath the Eyrie,” The Pixies One of the most influential bands for me and countless others, The Pixies, will release “Beneath the Eyrie” on September 13.

— Jon E. Lynch

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Durango author Blake Crouch reimagines memory in his latest book,“Recursion” Imagine a world where particular memories of yours are, without warning, missing. You no longer remember your parents, your entire college experience, or your first job.

Memories that play a vital role in molding you into the person you are today.

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The idea is frankly horrifying, and it is the brain child of Durango author Blake Crouch. “Recursion” is Crouch’s latest work, and is slated to hit the shelves June 11. The novel is a standalone from his previous works, including New York Times bestseller “Dark Matter,” the Wayward Pines trilogy, which has since been made into a FOX television series, and his Letty Dobesh novels that were adapted into the TNT show “Good Behavior,” which he co-created.

“Recursion” kicks off with Detective Barry Sutton called to the scene of a woman preparing to jump off the rooftop of a Manhattan building. Her last words to him before she plunges to her death are, “My son has been erased.” Sutton investigates her death and finds that the woman, along with others across the country, was a victim of False Memory Syndrome, a disease that plants false memories in people’s brains. What unfolds is a harrowing tale that’s part science fiction, suspense, and thriller.

What, pray tell, inspired such an horrific plot line, we asked Crouch over the phone.

“I wanted to write something after “Dark Matter” that was on an even larger scale,” Crouch said. “I tried thinking, what is the most fundamental element to our existence? It’s memory. If you start messing with memory, our reality starts falling away. I came across this study that these gentlemen at MIT did where they were planting false memories in the brains of mice and I thought maybe if I could put this on a bigger scale.”

Many of the memories that characters bring up in “Recursion” come from Crouch’s own life. One in particular was a memory of him sitting in a dentist’s office watching the 1986 Space Shuttle

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Challenger launch, which exploded 73 seconds later, killing all seven of its occupants.

“That was a really powerful memory for me,” Crouch said.

The author’s current work is a far cry from his earlier pieces, which are focused on horror.

“My first books were definitely horror thrillers with high body counts,” Crouch said. “I was very much into Thomas Harris, who wrote “The Silence of the Lambs.” As I got older I realized you can alienate the audience if you focus too much on horror. It narrows the audience.

I have kids and wanted to tackle fundamental questions of existence. You don’t need horror to do that. I spent more time reading scientific articles. ... I discovered there was a larger audience for me and I was enjoying writing more of the sci-fi.”

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The last five years have been busy for Crouch, as he’s hit mainstream success and is working on not only his books, but on the television sets of his shows.

Recently, he’s chosen to focus more on his novels, so when he’s not promoting “Recursion,” he’ll work on his next book.

“It’s very surreal to see a story taken from one medium to another. I was fortunate enough to be write on these shows and be involved,” Crouch said. “It was a wild ride and it was completely engrossing. It’s hard to do anything else creatively though, which is why I’ve been trying to step back and why I’ve chosen to not be involved in adaptation of ‘Recursion.’”

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FIGHTS IN PARKING LOTS, GRAFFITI, AND ABANDONED TOILET PAPER »» Park staff and digital vigilantes are trying

to protect outdoor tourism destinations in the Southwest from Instagram influencers

By Amanda Push DGO STAFF WRITER

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t’s a little after 7 a.m. at Horseshoe Bend, and even from a distance down the road, visitors can see that the parking lot of the Arizona tourist destination is getting full. Tour buses are piling up and there’s already a line at the entrance.

After paying $10 to get in, an entry fee the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and City of Page implemented in April after Horseshoe Bend exploded in popularity, the admission staff wave vehicle after vehicle into the busy parking lot. Visitors in personal cars hurry to beat the giant buses unloading dozens of tourists, but it’s an exercise in futility. Already the space is filled with people from across the country and globe, sunglasses on and phones in hand.

The trail to the Horseshoe Bend view is littered with people (and even some litter). Groups of tourists stop to take photos and clog the pathway.

A few hikers mumble complaints about having to sidestep a pile of dog waste that was left on the trail.

When visitors arrive at the landmark, they are met with a breathtaking view of the Colorado River. It’s enough to keep one grounded in the moment as they take in how lucky they are to be there – that is, until, like everyone else there, they try to take a photo. There are people in the way and they have to wait their turn in an unofficial line to get a shot of the view. The trip feels more like a photo shoot than a breath of fresh air.

Summer has arrived in the Southwest, and so have the crowds.

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FOMO The chaos is just part of the deal if you want to visit Instagram-famous destinations like Horseshoe Bend.

Once a local favorite for picnics and relaxing views, the site is now one of the most Instagrammed outdoor sites in the country. Nearly 2 million people visited Horseshoe Bend last year, and about 2,800 tourists visit the site every day, according to the National Park Service.

While there hasn’t been a study directly linking the rise of social media platforms like Instagram to the steady rise of visitors to public lands, one can draw inferences. Instagram launched in 2010, and since then visits to national parks have increased 37 percent across NPS’s intermountain region that covers eight states in the time since, according to NPR. While each social media platform serves its own unique purpose, Instagram, in particular, focuses on optics.

Scrolling through an Instagram feed, it’s easy to find plenty of snapshots of picture-perfect vacations, delicious food, and impossibly flawless influencers (established social media users with large followings, usually with a weight loss shake in hand that they’re advertising for). It seems the perfect recipe to inspire serious cases of FOMO – fear of missing out – in its users. After all, who doesn’t want to be that hot model, legs dangling over the cliff, with a jaw-dropping view before them.

It’s normal, and perhaps even good, for people to be inspired by influencers to visit our nation’s beautiful public lands, but the problem more so lies in that people are now using those sites as a backdrop for their vanity (and even to sell products) while disrespecting the space. They’re walking off the designated trails and trampling flora and fauna to pose for photos. They’re messing with, feeding, and touching wildlife. They’re climbing, touching, and standing on things they shouldn’t.

A particular level of danger to the protected land stems from influencers with massive followings like musician and actor Miley Cyrus who, with a current following of 94.2 million people, posted photos of herself sitting in a Joshua tree, a delicate tree with shallow roots that is easily uprooted and destroyed when climbed, sat on, or used as a prop. Joshua trees are

protected in Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve.

“Joshua trees are a unique part of our natural heritage and they don’t grow anywhere else on Earth,” Madena Asbell, Mojave Desert Land Trust Director of Plant Conservation Programs, told the Desert Sun newspaper.

“They are part of the rich, yet fragile, biological diversity of our desert and they’re an important part of the ecosystem. They are also one of the reasons people come here from all over the country and the world. They deserve our respect and they need our protection.”

After a roar of public outcry over the photos, the comments were disabled and then, days later, the photos were deleted.

Still, one could argue the damage was already done.

In less than 24 hours, Cyrus’s two posts received 1.6 million likes. More than a million people gave their stamp of validation, and likely many of them »» A screenshot from the Publiclandshateyou Instagram. were inspired to someday get their own Joshua tree “monkey bizzzzznassssss” visit the lake, and their first impression pics, as one of Cyrus’s captions read. was stress and chaos, Mayville said.

Vanity is the name of the game and Instagram is merely the conduit of our sin. In exchange, our public lands are paying the price.

Keeping up with the Krowds From about 2012 to 2015, the scene at Hanging Lake was grim.

Aaron Mayville, district ranger for White River National Forest, described traffic jams that extended all the way out to the interstate, fights between visitors over parking spaces, and graffiti at the Glenwood Canyon destination in Colorado’s White River National Forest.

Hanging Lake, a designated National Natural Landmark, was once a hidden western Colorado gem with a beautiful lake, gorgeous views, and a waterfall.

Once the site began to spike in popularity, though, more people began to

And it isn’t any wonder.

Visitation to the popular hiking spot catapulted from 99,000 people in 2014 to 150,000 in 2016.

The problems got so bad, in fact, that in 2017, after a particularly bad graffiti incident, officials considered temporarily closing the park until patrols were set in place.

Starting May 1 of this year, the agency implemented an entry fee and shuttle system for those visiting during the area’s busiest time. During the peak season, from May 1 to October 31, personal vehicles aren’t allowed at the trailhead and visitors must pay $12 a person, which covers the reservation service, shuttle operations, visitor information, and conservation services.

“The Hanging Lake permit and shuttle system is in place to protect the fragile ecosystem and provide visitors with high-quality experiences through

education and interpretation,” the Glenwood Springs website states.

Until recently, Hanging Lake was receiving about 1,200 visitors a day during its busy season. The new shuttle and permit system will slice that number in half, limiting the number of visitors to 600 a day.

If you search the location of Hanging Lake on Instagram, there are mostly photos of people enjoying the site respectfully, but it doesn’t take long to come across photos of visitors violating the camp’s rules, and doing things like touching the water, feeding wildlife, and walking on a log that extends across the lake.

“It’s a fragile log,” Mayville said. “One day that log is going to break off from the shoreline and we don’t want that to happen.”

Each person’s actions when visiting public land has an impact. A singular person’s actions are never isolated unto themselves. The effects ripple,

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pretty hard. The vertical of it is just amazing and coming back can really take a toll on you.”

People want to get photos with Gunnison’s infamous chain in particular, which hikers hang on to in order to get down from steep parts of the trail. The more people who come to use the chain, the more wear and tear there will be.

“Our bigger message to people is that if you’re below the rim, you’re in the wilderness,” said Snell-Dobert. “Leave no trace is important. We have people bring stuff and then don’t want to take it back with them so our rangers have to pack a lot of stuff out. We see people come and not be prepared, like not bringing enough water. We see a lot of toilet paper strung about.”

Fighting back

and they’re never the only person to climb that tree, touch the water, or feed that chipmunk. Mayville explained, using the example of people throwing rocks into the lake, that “one rock might not impact it, but over time 1,000 rocks will.”

The amount of abuse the lake has suffered is also creating a biological impact.

“Algae has bloomed at the lake,” Mayville said. “We haven’t exactly put our finger on why yet, but we think it might be oils from human skin that might be causing it.”

At Black Canyon in the Gunnison National Park, staff is dealing with similar issues.

“We’re concerned about backcountry visitors in particular,” Sandra Snell-Dobert – chief of interpretation, education, and technology, and the public information officer for the park – said of the many new visitors to the park. “It (the hike) is harder than it looks and it looks

For all its pitfalls, social media as a collective is fighting back. In their own brand of vigilante justice, accounts like Public Lands Hate You and You Did Not Sleep There are trying to hold Instagram users accountable for posting photos of themselves mistreating public lands, accidentally or not.

In one post, Public Lands Hate You shared a photo from a disgruntled Instagram user who found human tracks in the snow leading onto a log at Hanging Lake. In full view of the damning footprints is a sign bluntly stating, “Please keep off the log.”

The caption of the angry account, tc_photo, reads, “You had one job! It’s a little more obvious with the snow tracks in the winter when people ignore signs. That’s why this place is starting to change.”

The anonymous user who runs Public Lands Hate You went into detail in a post as to why behavior like this is so damaging.

“Unsurprisingly many people visiting the lake disregard the rules and do whatever it takes to get a perfect photo. ... With more and more people

visiting our public lands, the importance of knowing and following the rules cannot be understated. Hanging Lake is a perfect example of what can happen when people ignore the rules and abuse a beautiful location. Going off trail, ignoring posted signs, vandalism, and graffiti were all issues that led to the newly restricted access at Hanging Lake,” the post stated. “A number of people have said that I’m making people feel bad by calling them out.

Good. They should feel bad for jeopardizing these incredible places. And they should do what it takes to make it right, be it removing the post, apologizing, educating others about their mistake, or donating time/money to their local public land management agencies. It’s ok to make mistakes, but it’s not ok to be purposefully ignorant about the impacts of your actions.”

While public shaming of Instagram influencers by accounts like Public Lands Hate You and the former Joshua Trees Hate You have been criticized as being unnecessarily vicious (to be fair, these accounts tend to publicly shame influencers who do not heed their initial pleas via comments to take down their offending posts), the movement to protect public lands and hold influencers accountable seems to have picked up.

Public Lands Hate You now has a following of 53.5K followers and carries clout when calling out influencers. According to an article by The Guardian, in a post that appears to be no longer up, Public Lands Hate You published a screenshot of messages from companies that partner with social media influencers to sell their wares, including perfume company Skylar, footwear brand Blundstone, and phone case creator Hitcase.

“We do not condone that behavior,” a message apparently from the Skylar account stated. “We are very disappointed and will not be partnering with her on any campaigns in the future.”

As for those who run the public parks and recreation areas, they leave the shaming to social media. Instead, they rely on connecting with and educating visitors while coming up with plans to better manage the ever-growing crowds. And, to their credit, in some areas, it seems to be working.

“There’s a new era of management at Hanging Lake,” Mayville said. “Hanging Lake will be here for generations to come. I couldn’t say that as confidently five years ago.”

U.S. Forest Service - White River National Forest

»» Some of the vandalism at Hanging Lake.

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BUBBA X PHISHHEAD

Smoking led to an epic pizza and laughter coma Something great came out of smoking the flower that The Green House sent over for this week’s review. Somewhere between lighting up a bowl of Bubba x Phishhead and smoking said bowl came the phrase, “That’s how you know it’s good, when you get a little bit of a disease from it.” That phrase was followed by a cacophony of laughter. Let me explain.

So somewhere between the last issue of DGO and this one I discovered a long lost Grav Labs bubbler that had been tucked in an ice chest for the last year or so. I’m not sure how it got into the ice chest, but that is not the point. It surfaced now that the weather is finally getting tolerable enough to drag an ice chest outside – a couple weeks ago you didn’t even need one. You could just stick your dumb beer on the ground and it would stay frosty, my friends. We’d been planning to pack the ice chest with beer and, well, ice, so I popped it open and SURPRISE! There was my bubbler.

My very, very dirty bubbler. A bubbler so filthy that I was embarrassed to even be pulling it out of the ice chest with no one around. Not embarrassed enough, though, to pull it out IN FRONT OF PEOPLE after a couple of beers after happy hour at Steamworks and load it with a hefty amount of Bubba x Phishhead. I hadn’t bothered to clean it because I wasn’t planning on using it, but there I was, grinder and canister of Bubba x Phishhead in hand, hastily filling the bowl. I then, in my slightly inebriated state, offered it to my friends. They didn’t pass it up because who in their right mind passes up Green House’s weed, but they probably should have, given the state of that bubbler.

It made nary a difference, though, because somehow the flower we were testing out, which is a kush heavy indica hybrid, was badass enough to both entice them AND cover up any gross tasting residue left in the pipe. I am ashamed even now. Luckily, that phrase above broke the awkward silence, and shortly after that, we were too stoned to care.

You won’t be surprised by this, but Bubba x Phishhead, like all of Green House’s strains, is effing strong, and all it took was a couple of bowls to get three of us very high. VERY high. We became

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It will kick your ass hard enough that you won’t care about smoking out of a bubbler that hasn’t been cleaned in over a year, even when you have plenty of other clean tools to use. You won’t care that you ingested 406 pieces of J. Bo’s pizza or that somehow three of you went through two extra large pizzas from that place, which serves the biggest gotdamn pizzas I’ve ever seen. You’ll be hungry, amused, and perfectly willing to smoke out of a (probably) disease-ridden bubbler. That is what Bubba x Phishhead will do to you.

In other words, it will do very good stuff to you and then you will pass out on the couch in a pizza, beer, and weed-induced coma until you wake up the next morning in a panic because you’re a.) still starving and b.) super late for a trip to a national park you never wanted to go on. This is by far one of the most giggly strains we’ve reviewed in a minute, and it will be one I replenish on the regular.

If it was strong enough that it made my friends ignore that filthy pipe, well, that should tell you something.

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[weed] NEWT BROTHERS’ SOUR CHERRY SHATTER

The fuel you need for everything but sleep I have company in town, and one of the things I like to do when I have company in town – provided they are folks who imbibe – is get their unbiased opinion on what we’re reviewing that week.

It’s always nice to have someone other than me weigh in. I do this stuff on the reg and it’s nice to have a well-rounded review. My company was lucky this time around, because they got to help out with my review of Sour Cherry Diesel Shatter from Newt Brothers. It’s a sativa hybrid shatter made from a mix of Prohibition Herb’s killer Cherry Diesel strain, along with some of their sour strains, like Super Sour Lemon and East Coast Sour Diesel (the literal bomb).

Good shatter that’s the right consistency, to me, is one of the easiest concentrates to work with, especially if you have a dab pen that you can just stick right in there. No sticky dabber tool to work with or coils to avoid. And this Sour Cherry, my friends, was good ass shatter. It looked like golden-colored rock candy, and smelled even better than that sugary junk of childhood. We couldn’t wait to try it out.

Yet we did, friends. We did wait to try it out, for reasons not worth explaining, and we didn’t end up sticking our faces into the Sour Cherry shatter until about 11:30 p.m. on a Thursday night. The first response from everyone taking part was the same across the board: this stuff tastes phenomenal and is so smooth.

Because it was so smooth and tasty, though, we just kept on inhaling hit after hit, which may I reiterate was happening at an hour close to midnight. No choking from anyone; just long, deep draws of some seriously good concentrate. After burning through a large chunk of the shatter, we all went our separate ways to get some rest.

Well, to TRY and get some rest. Apparently this shatter is a sativa in every sense of the word, and I was awake as hell at an hour past midnight, my brain jumping from thought to thought with “brilliant” weed-inspired ideas that will probably make me millions one day. Useful thoughts like how I want to figure out how to start a cult and how I still know all the words to MXPX’s “Bremerton,” even though I haven’t heard it in years. The time ticked away

Details Where to find Sour Cherry Shatter: Prohibition Herb, 1185 Camino del Rio, www. prohibitionherb.com Price: $25 a gram THC: 72.74 percent as I sat there, wide awake, with bursts of genius popping into my brain at will.

I probably should not have smoked so much of that shatter at midnight.

And my friends shouldn’t have either, cause they were apparently up doing the same thing in another room. First thing they said to me the next morning was, “Hey. Were you uh, super awake after smoking that shatter? Cause I was up for hours with some 21 Pilots song stuck in my head. So ... thanks for that.”

Turns out we should have ALL thought twice about smoking it at midnight, cause sativas gon’ sativa, I guess.

Just because we shouldn’t have smoked it at midnight doesn’t mean YOU shouldn’t smoke it, though, especially at a decent hour. This stuff is rad as shit and a big kick in the motivation station, even at hours when you should be completely depleted of interest in, well, anything. It even helped crush the sleep deprivation we should have been feeling the next day from the MXPX-induced lack of rest.

So learn a lesson and be smart, friends.

Grab you some of this shatter and then hide it from yourself after 10 p.m. so you don’t turn into a stoned gremlin. Smoke it the rest of the day instead. That will be a choice you won’t regret.

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[movies]

WILDE’S BOOKSMART:

A coming of age tale we’ve heard many times before

Wilde’s directorial debut has been getting what appears to be intentional comparisons to “Superbad” thanks to its marketing and the line: “From the people who brought you Superbad.”

But hold up! Instead of two boys, it’s two girls. Just like how “Now and Then” (1995) was “Stand by Me” (1986) with tween girls instead of boys. Or is it?

“Booksmart” sure has a lot of the gimmicks and plot devices I’ve already seen in other teen films. This time, though, we get two girls, and one is overweight (Molly played by Beanie Feldstein) while the other one is a lesbian (Amy played by Kaitlyn Dever).

Another “Superbad” connection is that Feldstein is the younger sister of actor Jonah Hill, who, of course, is familiar because she broke through with the earlier teen flick a decade ago.

The plot of “Booksmart” goes something like this: Molly and Amy are best friends on the last day of high school

While the previous “day in the life” teen features were either set in the past (“American Graffiti” and “Dazed and Confused”) or used retro music cues for direction (“Superbad” and parts of “Sixteen Candles”), “Booksmart” is as contemporary as it can get. The soundtrack is an earworm of catchy EDM and trip-hop, with a score by Dan the Automator, but the biggest contemporary component of this film is the LGBQT and racial representation among the cast, to the point where it almost felt fairytale-ish to me.

Granted, I haven’t been in high school for over a decade, but I found it hard to believe that this academic, progressive utopia didn’t have at least one ignorant bully or jerk in class. Then again, realism has always been fittingly lacking in teen movies without much struggle to disbelieve. What’s interesting is that the new coming-of-age picture tries to be both crude and inoffensive, unlike past R-rated teen romps, where they’re as subversively racy as possible, and ultimately ended up effecting how well the movies have aged.

Wilde was smart to have her directorial debut be a formula that will likely work, because in doing so she gave herself more freedom to focus on her filming technique and work with the actors and characters. One has to wonder, though, why a movie with such a standard plot line had so many writers – four, in fact – on board. Most of the story elements in “Booksmart” were too familiar for me to completely enjoy, but it was still intriguing to see Wilde attempt to update a familiar tale for modern teenagers.

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As someone who spent middle school, high school, and even college obsessed with teen movies, I know the formulas. There are traditionally two types of teen comedies. First, there are the ones loosely based on classic literature: “Clueless” (1995), “She’s All That” (1999), “10 Things I Hate About You” (1999), “Cruel Intentions” (1999), “A Cinderella Story” (2004), “She’s the Man” (2006), and so on. We also have the typical “day in the life” setting, where we get teen adventures through a brief 12- to 48-hour period, which usually occurs on a special day like a birthday or graduation. This trope is most famously featured in “American Graffiti” (1973), “Sixteen Candles” (1984), “Dazed and Confused” (1993), “Superbad” (2007), and now “Booksmart.”

before they have to separate for college and summer travels abroad. But before the final bell of the day, Molly gets the revelation that they need to party hard once together before officially leaving home. The rest of the movie is centered on the girls’ hijinks in search of the hottest house party. Billie Lourd plays the bizarre but charming rich girl on campus, and the adults in the film are comedy vets like Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow, who both play roles as Amy’s parents, and Wilde’s real-life husband Jason Sudeikis, who plays the school principal.

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United Artists’ “Booksmart” is the latest raunchy R-rated teen comedy to hit theaters. For the past couple of weeks, the movie’s been received with overwhelmingly positive reviews across the board. The director is former starlet Olivia Wilde, who currently fancies herself a filmmaker. Fortunately for her (and her film’s viewers), she’s not bad. She has potential with the way she stages, frames, and styles sequences, and she excels at letting her cast deliver naturally. But how is the script?

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Upcoming video game releases we’re ready to press start on Revive. Respawn.

Repeat.

It’s hard to imagine a time without the internet and its infinite entertainment.

With the swipe of a finger, you can seamlessly scroll through photos of a stranger’s vacation and binge makeup tutorials.

What a time to be alive.

The video game industry alone is entertaining more than 2.5 billion people on the reg, according to WePC. What’s so enticing about mashing buttons and farming XP? It is a combination of conquering challenges and creative control.

Though first computer game was created for a doctoral dissertation – how dreadfully boring – by the late 1970s, arcade-style video games like Pong and Space Invaders kickstarted a revolution in entertainment. Activision, the first third party game developer, launched in 1979, and Pac-Man was released in the early ’80s.

Nintendo created Donkey Kong, which introduced the world’s most famous Italian plumber, Mario. And Microsoft developed its first flight simulator.

Shortly after, more companies began creating consoles for people to play games on their television at home. As you might imagine, making video games more accessible increased demand. As computers were introduced to households, so were more adventure and strategy games. Giving players objectives while creating obstacles and providing rewards proved profitable.

Games like The Sims introduced the ability to create, destroy, and modify environments, leading to more creative control for players.

Today, video games are a billion dollar industry. People who pur-

chase games feel like they provide more bang for their buck in regard to entertainment, according to the Entertainment Software Association.

And video games aren’t just for raging neckbeards and trash-talking 12-yearolds anymore. In fact, 70 percent of all gamers are over 18 years old. The average gamer is 34 years old, and women represent 33 percent of the gaming community. So, I am dedicating this column to a growing industry – video games.

Read about industry trends and the latest releases here every other week. I’m personally looking forward to the largest annual gaming event, E3, in June.

At E3, more than 200 game developers and publishers will showcase new equipment and game releases that players can expect to see in the next one to two years. It’s an exciting time for us gamers, and I’m ready to press start.

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[love and sex]

Let’s talk about sex, baby »» Teaching consent, respect, and communication like math or chemistry Do you remember your first sexual experience? There was likely some fumbling in the dark; awkward, slobbery kisses; rushing and finishing; and then wondering what all the fuss is about.

What if you had knowledge about how to have good sex or even great sex?

What if someone had taught you to talk with your sexual partners to learn what they like and don’t like? What if you understood that sex has negative consequences AND positive consequences?

Imagine learning about sex like we learn about math or chemistry – matter-of-factly and without judgment. A class that teaches us about anatomy including the clitoris, penis, perineum, g-spot, prostate, etc. Creating class projects that map out the largest sex organs – the brain and skin, and participating in groups that practiced communication, consent, and respect.

That first time having sex would look significantly different. The people

involved would know to ask their partners what areas of the body to touch, kiss, lick, or spank. The goal would be bigger than orgasm; it would be about pleasure. The owners of each body would know how their body is built and they would have language to describe what they want and how they want it.

Now, I understand that the US of A is a prudish society or pretends to be, and the idea of teaching about sex at any age is – *gasp* – horrifying. Sex is a secret best taught through R-rated movies, porn, or the writing on a bathroom stall instead. These being such inclusive mediums for healthy sex. (You can’t see but I’m rolling my eyes.)

Listen up, folks. Sex happens.

Why? SEX feels gooooooood.

Unfortunately, it very often doesn’t lead to orgasm or we settle for just OK sex, because most of us don’t receive comprehensive, inclusive, and positive education about sex.

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Unless you are asexual, chances are you are engaging in sex. Masturbation is sex, for all those InCels (involuntary celibates) out there who are yelling at me right now. Kissing might be sex for some, and for others, only sex leading to procreation counts.

the rectum. If you are interested or just getting started with anal play, please do some research first because a lot of damage can be caused to the body by rushing this activity. Finally, don’t forget the perineum, the spot between the scrotum and anus. Stroke it!

Honestly, how you define sex is up to you with the ever important caveat: sex should always include consent of all parties involved.

If your partner has female genitals, the glans or head of the clitoris has a lot of nerve endings but so do the legs and bulbs of the clitoris. What?! The clitoris has legs? The legs of the clitoris are behind the labia, extending down. The vulva consists of the inner and outer labia, the clitoral hood, and the glans of the clitoris - this whole area wants attention. The legs of the clitoris swell during arousal, making the labia sensitive to touching, licking, vibrating, and so on. The vagina is the internal part of the female genitals and it is a muscle, expanding to fit around anything entering or exiting. The majority of nerve endings in the vagina are located near the entrance and the g-spot is located on the front wall of the vagina.

Stimulating the g-spot can be done with fingers or a toy, curved towards the front of the body. Again, visit the perineum between the vagina and anus.

Since this is our first time together, I am going to walk you through some positive sex education with the goal of possibly elevating your sex life.

Besides the brain, the largest sex organ is the skin, and our skin is full of nerve endings. There are so many ways to interact with skin that feel good, and I encourage you to spend some time getting to know them. Heat, cold, firm, soft, stroke, peck, lick, kiss, nibble, caress, spank ... where is my thesaurus?

The brain is busy dumping chemicals and hormones into our bodies that intensify our senses and reward us for our lust and attraction. Don’t let the fog of anticipation distract you from communicating – use your brain to pay attention to your partner’s body language and ask questions so you are clear about needs, wants, and desires. Speak up for yourself as well, and be clear about your needs, wants, and desires.

There is a good chance that you may not know what you want or desire. Say hello to masturbation ... again! If you don’t know what feels good for your body, why would you expect a partner to know?

You are not alone in this expectation, and when most people don’t know how their bodies are built, it is not surprising that orgasms are elusive or sex is a chore.

If your partner has male genitals, the glans or head of the penis is where the majority of nerve endings reside. If the penis is uncircumsized, the foreskin can be used in the stroking of the penis.

The scrotum is holding the testicles and likes to be held and caressed. Ask your partner how much pressure to use because the testicles are fragile and folks have different pressures they may like. The prostate, when stimulated, can intensify an orgasm or just feel really, really good. Accessing the prostate requires inserting a finger or appropriate toy and lots of lube into

Everyone is built differently, and although I used the binary of male and female, genitals include a spectrum of differences including Intersex. Genitals come in all colors, shapes, and sizes with an infinite number of ways to stimulate them. If you don’t know what to do with a partner’s genitals – ask them.

Is it beginning to make sense as to why communication is so important?

Ask yourself and your partners what feels good, what turns you on, what works, and what doesn’t.

Approach your next sexual engagement with awe and wonder. Become an explorer of the body, a thoughtful student of pleasure with nothing but time to learn and sink into sensations.

Challenge your expectations, biases, judgments, and misconceptions. Make each encounter with pleasure your first.

Erin Brandt (she/her/hers) has been a sexologist for 15 years. When she’s not spreading sexual knowledge, Erin can be found learning from her child, hiking with her partner, cuddling with her pitbull, knitting with her cat, dancing with friends, and searching for the nearest hammock and ocean breeze.

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Horoscope This is a busy, fast-paced time for you. Accept the fact that short trips, increased reading and writing, plus talking to everyone, is accelerating your daily schedule.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your focus this week is on money, earnings and cash flow. Make sure you sort out what you want to achieve and what you’re willing to let go.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a powerful time for you because the Sun is in your sign. This means that people are inclined to agree with you, and you attract favorable situations.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) It’s appropriate for you to choose to work alone or behind the scenes because it feels better. In a few weeks,

Park it A rise in recreation Visitors to national parks in the United States logged more than 1.44 billion recreation hours in 2017, which was a MASSIVE increase of 19 million hours over 2016. Were some of those hours courtesy of the influencers who were hanging hammocks from protected Joshua Trees? Probably, yes. But we’re hopeful that the rest of those hours were people doing things like hiking or uh, anything other than trampling flowers and other protected national treasures.

when the Sun enters your sign, you’ll be out there flying your colors!

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Enjoy increased popularity with others.

Some of you might be nominated to a committee or a board of an organization.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Go after what you want now because you look good in the eyes of bosses, parents and VIPs. (Chalk it up to great lighting!) Grab the baton and run with it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Grab every chance to travel or get further education and training because this is what you want to do now. Explore your options!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Life is taking on an intense energy for

No-ab Moab Back in 2017, three national parks clocked in more than 10 million recreation visits: Blue Ridge Parkway, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We’re surprised not to see Arches National Park on here, but maybe it just FEELS like there are 10 million visitors in Moab every time we attempt to go. Who knows.

Hotter than the devil’s lair You know how it feels hotter ‘n hell in most of the national parks in Arizona and New Mexico? Well, they ain’t got nothin’ on a little national park in Nevada, where one of the hottest temperatures on earth was recorded in 1913. And that park,

you. You feel this in your interactions with others, and you also feel this in your most intimate relationships. (Oh yeah.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You need more sleep this week (and next). Respect your need for more rest.

Meanwhile, this is an excellent time for you to observe how you deal with those who are closest to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Act on your urge to get better organized. Write some lists. Think about how you can better manage your life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is a playful, upbeat week for you!

Enjoy sports events, barbecues, family outings, social getaways, the arts and

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PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You might be involved more than usual with a parent because your focus on home, family and your private life is strong this week. You have to go with what’s happening.

BORN THIS WEEK You are curious, passionate and interested in everything. Many of you are multitalented. This year you are wrapping up many things you began nine years ago. It’s time to leave behind heavy burdens and move to something new and lighter! Start to identify what is no longer relevant in your life. You are lightening your load to get ready for new beginnings. © 2019 King Features Syndicate Inc.

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dear friends, is Death Valley National Park, where it once registered a whopping 134 degrees outside. That was an actual temperature of the weather. It hurts just thinking about it.

Around the Utah-n world in one day There are five national parks in Utah, and all of them are within easy driving distance of each other. You know what that means? It means you can cross off five national parks from your bucket list on just one trip and never go back to Utah again. We kid. You’ll probably need to go to Utah again for ... something, some day. But while we don’t know what that something is, per se, we do know it won’t be booze.

Ain’t nothin’ more challenging than trying to buy booze in Utah. NOTHING.

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