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Get Smart About Being A Creative With A Day Job Longing to create a masterpiece but the man is gettin’ you down? Let singer/songwriter, illustrator and KDUR DJ Nathan Schmidt tell you how he juggles his work at Vantiv Payment Systems as a copywriter with his creative pursuits.

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Public art ignites controversy, not to mention the economy

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y favorite part of my bike commute down Florida Road is the roundabout at Chapman Hill. Sure, it’s the one spot where my nimble bike and I can outrace any car, but it’s the sculpture in the center of the roundabout – “Endurance,” five 800-pound cyclists made of rusty steel bars – that get me every day, how when you move around them they seem to animate, set into motion by means of optical illusion.

I got thinking about public art this week after a story in The Durango Herald reminded me that the city of Durango has allocated $24,000 for three sculptures to be placed around town.

From 117 submissions, the pool has been pared to seven, and the city has invited the community to weigh in.

Of the seven sculptures, some are kinetic, some representational, some abstract, some 14-feet tall. And holy-hell, are some people pissed.

The arguments are typically these: (1) Don’t waste my tax dollars on something frivolous that you call art and I call a government-funded scrap heap. (2) Fix roads and sidewalks first, and then, from what’s left, I guess you could buy up some scrap heaps for the amusement of liberals. (3) Don’t make me look at that (s)crap. (4) Oh, and by the way, you artists need to get jobs, you teat-sucking slackers. (5) Hey, why not put up another cowboy sculpture?

Beyond the puzzling vitriol slung at art and artists for the perceived lack of value and contributions, I think these arguments are short-sighted and fail to consider the benefits of public art, many that cannot be quantified monetarily.

First, no one will agree on how every dollar of the city’s budget is allocated (a budget of roughly $70 million, btw, meaning that for every $1,000 spent, 34 cents will go to public sculptures.

The horror). However, there are major long-term economic indicator studies like the ongoing Arts & Economic Prosperity study by Americans for the Arts that show how the arts and art-friendly

Weigh in Go to dgomag.com to view the seven sculptures being considered by the city. You can submit feedback through April 11 at www.durangogov.org/virtualcityhall. communities reap huge economic benefits in areas like tourism and nightlife while attracting new, dynamic businesses and young, educated workers.

Second, not everyone is going to agree on the aesthetic value of a piece public art no matter what it is. And to me, that is exactly the point. We shouldn’t agree.

When everyone agrees on something – art especially – that usually means it’s safe, and safe usually means boring, and boring means indifference, which is the worst thing an artist can encounter.

Further, art in public spaces can inspire, it can create conversation – positive and negative. Public art should challenge us and force us to look around and consider our surroundings. It interacts with our sense of space and aesthetic. Or it can, at least, if you approach it openly, setting aside preconceptions and judgment.

Beyond all that, public art simply makes this a nice place to live. I applaud whoever wrote that $24,000 into the budget for having foresight to build a community that values beauty and imagination in the face of the austerity-minded. Much of the effects of public art are intangible.

Function isn’t everything, and not everything can earn its keep on a spreadsheet.

When I ride through that roundabout on Florida, I don’t think about who made the almost 4-year-old sculpture, how much it cost, where the money came from to purchase it or how much anyone else “likes” it or considers it “art.” I only know that for a moment I forget how irked I am that the city hasn’t street-sweeped the gravel-filled bike lanes or repainted the lane markers in a while. I give the rusty bikers a knowing nod, maybe a short smile. I get a little boost of optimism and beauty from that sculpture, a shot of inspiration that slingshots me through the roundabout and on my way about town.

Before 7-11 had to ruin everything with 1,100-ounce breadloaf-sized to-go soda containers prompting outright municipal bans, before soft drink companies started pumping the HFCS and using unpronounceable ingredients (I’d list a few but it would seriously eat away at my character count), before soda seemingly single-handedly established the U.S. as the world’s leader in fat-assery, before soda got this snobby stigma as nothing more than a teeth-rotting ticket on the obesity train, before all that, soda was the best thing going in the world. And I say it still is.

As a kid, I essentially revolved my life around soda. The main reason I played baseball was for the single post-game soda (To the parents who skimped and got the clearly-inferior store-brand grape soda: Shame on you). Through high school, I could definitely rank my friends based on the soda situation at their houses. As a young sports reporter, I’d cover college football and chain-drink cups of Pepsi the entire game in the press box, and with every gulp I’d bellow in my head, “Ahhhh, how refreshing.”

Today, soda for me is a treat. Soda is fun: The tingly, belch-inducing carbonation, the delightfully peculiar flavors we get in no other area of food and beverage like cola and root beer. Or I’ll get one of those cute little 8-ounce bottles of Coke and imagine it’s regular-sized and I’m just a giant (try it, please).

These days, I always have a few bottles of Zuberfizz on hand, mainly for feel-good mixers. But occasionally I like to crack one open on its own and savor each special cane-sugary sip.

— David Holub

Hate it Soda is delicious. But it’s a sugary demon, lying in wait.

With no nutritional value whatsoever, there are zero health benefits to consuming the stuff. Sadly, many Americans drink soda in large quantities anyway, instead of water (or other healthier beverage alternatives). Go to Walmart and you’ll see shopping carts packed with apocalypse-worthy quantities of canned pop.

Soft drinks have been linked definitively to obesity.

Plus it’s bad for your teeth, causing plaque buildup, leading to cavities and gum disease. No one’s gonna like you if your teeth are rotting out.

Soft drink companies are the largest user of sugar in the country. A single can of soda contains 10 teaspoons – holy shit. That’s just one can. Over time, ingesting that much sugar can lead to diabetes or insulin resistance, in addition to weight gain.

It’s addictive. I’ve known several people who claim total dependence on Diet Coke. People assume calorie-free soda is better for them; but aspartame is one of the biggest health culprits in diet soda, and it’s one of the key ingredients associated with addiction.

I only drink soda every once in a while, but I still crave it randomly. A lot of soft drinks contain caffeine, which is also addictive; so if you’re addicted to the caffeine in soda, you have two bad habits rolled into one delightful double whammy. Maybe you should check yourself before you wreck yourself.

— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

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Cyle Talley | Get Smart

Being a creative with a day job Longing to create a masterpiece but the man is gettin’ you down? Let singer/songwriter, illustrator and KDUR DJ Nathan Schmidt tell you how he juggles his work at Vantiv Payment Systems as a copywriter with his creative pursuits.

What does the average day look like?

If you’re in it for notoriety or to impress people, then yeah, you might have to find some extra motivation. Not to say that there aren’t parts of it that I hate doing. You get something worked out and then you spill ink across it, you know?

I try to get up early, do a little reading. I’ve found that working out a schedule where I’m up early and being productive from the get-go before I have to show up to work feeds the things that I enjoy doing. I work till 5 and then have the rest of the evening to do what I want.

What’s more exciting to you?

Beginning a project or finishing one?

So tell us about the schedule. Is it hour-by-hour?

Every day’s a little different. It may be picking up the guitar and humming a new melody, or picking up the pen and ink to see what comes out. I find that just making the effort to put pen to paper or picking up that instrument – something’s going to come out. I think that’s really a roadblock for people. The expectation is that if they set aside the time to do these things, than they have to have a finished song or some kind of masterpiece at the end of it.

I think that’s totally the wrong perspective.

Just to do it is enough. If you’re not having fun with it, you should probably find some other hobby.

Does the creativity feed your work life, or do you get through the work day to make stuff?

Well, if you finish one, then you can put it in the mail to your mom or grandma and she can hang it on the fridge. There’s your gallery space! Looking at a blank piece of paper is scary but it’s also freedom. You can make anything. That’s liberating.

What percentage of the day do your creative pursuits take up?

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»» According to Nathan Schmidt, one issue of being a creative with a day job is that sometimes the dishes don’t get done until you’re pouring cereal into a Tupperware container.

The steady job provides me the freedom to have an apartment and put groceries in the fridge. I don’t think there’s anything romantic about starving, and I don’t think panic helps the creative process at all. I think having that section of my life taken care of, having that sense of security, allows me to experiment and take chances in another section of it. The ideal is a Frank Lloyd Wright. You know, to get your interests aligned with a profitable career that pays the bills – that’s just a win-win. But for the majority of people, that’s not going to be the case.

How do you keep work at work?

Amnesia? I’m lucky enough to have a job that is pretty compartmentalized. It’s not like being a teacher where so much has to be done outside of work. I’m lucky. I enjoy working. I like my day job.

I’m not one of those guys who goes to work, comes home and sits around. I think that’s a waste. Hopefully, you have a job that doesn’t drain you of life.

If that’s the case, find a new job. Even if you don’t

want to create art – find that job that doesn’t drain you.

I heard once that artists don’t eat fivecourse meals. They eat PB & J sandwiches to make more time for art.

I’m a terrible cook. Ham and beans, fried eggs. I’m trying to eat better. Some grilled salmon and asparagus. [laughs] I have the advantage of not having kids, not being married. I don’t have pets. I have a few thriving houseplants, but apart from that – look, there’s a lot more to being an artist than they show on Instagram.

If you want to make and do things in your life, you have to make sacrifices. Sometimes you say no to your friends. Sometimes it’s a PB & J. What motivates you to discipline yourself and make those sacrifices?

Hopefully, it’s fun, something you enjoy and that you can lose yourself in. If you’re happy and having fun, what other motivation does there need to be?

Work is a third, sleeping is a third – maybe sleeping’s half. [laughs] I’m not good at math. For me, every day is different. Some weekends, you go out to the desert and camp all weekend and you don’t do a single thing, and that’s OK to take those breaks.

To make it a routine is important. Decide how to prioritize your time. Perfect example: my work space is neat and tidy, everything in its place. The dishes? Those don’t get done until I’m pouring cereal into a Tupperware container.

What about for those of us who are terrible with time management?

I’m awful at time management. As square as it sounds, keep a calendar, keep a schedule. Tack it up on your wall. Give yourself deadlines. It sounds counterartistic. The stereotype is, “When the muse hits me, I’m gonna write this song” and that’s bullshit. Or at least, you’re going to have way less songs if you’re waiting for inspiration to strike. Like I said, even if you’re dragging yourself to sit down at the desk or piano or whatever, keep your pen moving. Even if it’s just stream-of-conscious. Something’s gonna come out. Just make sure you’re there in the chair or at the easel when it does. Put yourself in the position to make something.

Cyle Talley is delighted that baseball is back. Go Cubs.

If there’s something you’d like to Get Smart about, email him at: cyle@cyletalley.com

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[sound] What’s new Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

Kevin Morby,“Singing Saw” Available: April 15 via Dead Oceans as a download, CD, LP and in limited edition forest green vinyl while supplies last.

In late 2014, I was floored and momentarily obsessed with Kevin Morby’s first proper solo record, “Still Life,” released on the Woodsist record label. I was already familiar with his work in the low-fi indie pop outfit The Babies, which he co-founded with Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls while playing bass with Woods.

The Babies began as a side project with the expressed intent of fleshing out song ideas for their respective solo careers. Seems as though the time was more than productive and well spent.

Must Own Albums, Part 2: Early punk

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xploring early punk rock is a worthy musical study guaranteed to better a record collection. Start with albums from the late ’70s and don’t stop until 10 years later and, if you haven’t already, you’ll uncover a wealth of important and timeless records.

The years 1979, 1980 and 1981 saw three debuts that still sit high on best-records lists, a one-two-three punch of rock ’n’ roll that continue to be necessarily influential. The three encompass standard content that’s been explored musically since the dawn of rock: politics, relationships, boredom and nonsense.

“Inflammable Material,” Stiff Little Fingers In 1979, The Sex Pistols were gone while The Clash was well established. SLF came on the scene as a smart, politically-active and aggressive quartet; if any of the first-wave punk bands had a political ax to grind, it was the band from Belfast formed at the height of “The Troubles,” the decades-long Northern Ireland conflict. While the world was coming off the 1970s and the musical explorations of bands like Yes, Stiff Little Fingers was bringing forth intelligence along with teen angst from a wartorn city. It’s not only the straight-ahead sounds of punk, but dropping in some of the dub the Clash dabbled in along with the art rock found in their contemporaries like Pop Group and Gang of Four.

“Los Angeles,” X This 1980 debut sits high atop the punk canon, a record that came from a rockabilly-influenced guitar player, a jazz-trained percussionist and a couple of wannabe poets. They came together after looking for ads in the classified and quickly put the musical simplicity of punk to work underneath Bukowskiinspired lyrics. Doors keyboard player Ray Manza-

Bryant’s best Thursday: Bluegrass with Running out of Road, 5 p.m. No cover. Ska Brewing, 225 Girard Street in Bodo Park. Information 247-5792.

Friday: Liver Down the River CD Release party. 9 p.m. $10 pre-sale/$15 at door. Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. Information 799-2281. rek, taking an interest in a nationally growing punk scene, came on as producer, aiding in eliminating a certain rawness prevalent in more DIY releases.

That takes nothing away from its aggression and straight-ahead rock sound, which fit perfectly under the near-perfect duet of Exene Cervenka and John Doe. It’s a punk record that owes as much to the influence of Gene Vincent as it does The Clash and Ramones.

“Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash,”The Replacements The rowdiest of The Replacements catalog, their 1981 debut boils over with frantic energy. While punk bands of this era were rallying against something, the “Mats” were rallying against everything without making it a point to take a stand in unison with anything. It’s a bratty record played by a bunch of bored kids with more talent than they knew, lyrically exploring sex, drugs and degenerate behavior while exploring all those things themselves. Every song goes from 0 to 60, and somewhere in each one is a perfect Bob Stinson guitar solo. Don’t take it too seriously, but seriously ingest a straight-forward punk rock record.

All of these releases have been reissued with demos, bonus material and extensive liner notes.

Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. liggett_b@fortlewis.edu.

On his debut for the Dead Oceans record label (Marlon Williams, The Donkeys, Califone, Strand of Oaks, etc), Morby found his stride.

Sometimes morose but often poignant and reflective, his lyrics are layered onto compositions that began as minimalist piano sketches.

The fullness of the album is rounded out with acoustic guitar, backup vocal harmonies, dense string arrangements, multiple percussionists and on a couple tracks, a singing saw. Add in production and additional instrumentation from Sam Cohen (“The Complete Last Waltz,” “Apollo Sunshine,” “Yellow Birds”), and you’ve got an album that will likely appear on many Best of 2016 lists.

Are you fan of Father John Misty, Timber Timbre, James Jackson Toth, Wooden Wand or Destroyer? If so, this album might be for you.

— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

New at Southwest Sound April 8 »»1. Dandy Warhols, “Distortland” »»2. Lumineers, “Cleopatra” »»3. Deftones, “Gore” »»4. M83, “Junk” »»5. Parquet Courts, “Human Performance” »»6. Zakk Wylde, “Book of Shadows II”

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[Sartorial over-enthusiasm with Heather of Sideshow]

Style Fetish | Heather Narwid

What’s the deal with comedy and clothing?

Allow me to improv, as Style Fetish considers just a few of my favorite ways from the past that TV and sketch comedians have used fashion and how certain pieces have become iconic comic-wear. back in the day and still can’t shake the implication ...

Comedy and fashion both hit my radar in the ’70s. Nowadays, I still love the recent past for its now-vintage clothing and styles. Millennials, I am of a certain age and many of my references are old in an O.G. way – there is not much anymore that is truly new. These shows and comedians may be people you have never heard of but maybe should. They were pioneers of modern comedy and what they did with humor and style is still relevant today.

The tux tee.

I stock these when I can at Sideshow; they’re satisfying. The whole garment is a campy joke about fashion, formalwear and comfort and at this point in time translate as retro ’70s/’80s. The tux tee comes off as almost elegant next to the tacky tees emblazoned with an eye-rolling quasi-joke or pithy phrase (looking scornfully at you, awful “What On Earth” catalog, have some dignity!)

Glam comediennes These ladies were brave and went for the laugh when sultry sexiness was more expected. They forsook beauty and sex appeal for humor and goofiness and changed the perspective of why women were on TV.

Suspenders

When Carol Burnett spoofed “Gone With the Wind,” she wore designer Bob Mackie’s gorgeous but wacky version of Scarlett’s drapery dress, complete with curtain rod. What brave and delicious comedic tension was pioneered back in the ’70s by Burnett. Her fabulous wardrobe helped. How fun and freeing for a fancy fashion designer like Mackie to design a satirical costume gown based on a iconic, recycled fabric dress. Seeing Burnett’s goofy, elastic face deliver hilarious monologues and impressions while in sequins, chiffon and ostrich feather gowns showed a young me that glamour and humor weren’t mutually exclusive, and the ability to be wacky gave a rarer sort of beauty and style.

The rainbow suspenders with doo-dads and flair that Robin Williams wore as Mork are now iconic, long after his last “Na-Noo.” I owned a pair and rocked them hard in grade school and I am as excited now when a pair shows up at Sideshow.

In the era of shag carpeting and remoteless TVs, suspenders were a thing, very much a general accessory trend.

But in my mind, every comedian still wears a pair of suspenders.

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»» Carol Burnett showed a young Heather Narwid that glamour and humor weren’t mutually exclusive.

Joan Rivers’ modus operandi was roast-y public improv, putting red carpet celebrities on the spot for years. Holding this position was somewhat unique, mocking beloved celebrities to their faces, unscripted and on-camera while they wore very expensive formalwear, all preceding the now too-common and wimpy anonymous Internet snark-athons. I am so glad yet still amazed that someone let her do this, as Joan was obnoxiously funny and pissed everyone off. Among all that designer couture, the world’s most beautifully designed gowns on gorgeous people, Joan knew and

brayed loudly that there was something ridiculous about it. This felt revolutionary at the time; celebrities had yet to humiliate themselves on Twitter and reality television. But would we have expected any less from a woman who co-wrote and starred in a play about the mother of Lenny Bruce?! (Sorry, Millennials, yet another thing to Google. Good thing you have a phone for a hand.)

The uniform of Funny A few iconic pieces that got stereotyped for comedy

Gallagher in his high-waisted jeans, suspenders and striped tee, smashing watermelons (this and much more was considered funny before the Web made us jaded). I saw a woman dressed exactly in this outfit a few years ago, she had no idea who Gallagher was (probably best she didn’t) but it looked amazing on her.

Two dudes (not one) in black suits

Akroyd and Belushi took the duo-inblack-suits away from Mormon missionaries forever and into the land of the iconic comedy outfit (although the Blues Brothers were also on a mission from God). Their double suits, fedoras and Wayfarer shades mean hilarious hijinx and the added bonus of good Chicago blues music.

Heather Narwid owns Sideshow, a vintage and modern clothing store in Durango. Sideshow re-opens Thursday at a new location at 208 County Road 250, where they will be for next 1,000 years.

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Women Outside features badass female athletes and creatives Do you like inspirational chicks? Are you a lover of the natural world? Women Outside is a three-day forum featuring American climber Beth Rodden, mountaineers Dawn Glanc and Angela Hawse, and Outside Magazine correspondent and Durangoan Kate Siber. The event kicks off Tuesday with a chat between Siber and Margaret Hedderman at the Bookcase & the Barber; we spoke to Siber about her dynamic career as a travel writer and how her gender has influenced her career.

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At your upcoming event, you’re speaking about the rewards and challenges of being a creative in the outdoor industry. Is being a writer AND an outdoors person a difficult discrepancy?

I think there’s an inherent inspiration that comes from being outside.

For me, it can be a very introspective experience. So many writers, poets, painters – even if they’re not getting after it on skis or a bike – are inspired by nature. I did a story about how art has helped get the Park Service going, over the last 130 or so years. The first National Park idea came from an artist, Carleton Watkins. Ansel Adams had a major impact on making that idea a uniquely American thing. In the 1800s, people would go to Europe to see the treasures there – and didn’t think there were cool things to see here, too, until the National Parks helped define that.

Do you have any favorite travel pieces you’ve written?

I loved my Texas road trip story because it was so personal. I did a story on the Great Bear Rainforest this past fall, on the British Columbia coast. The story was about this proposal to create a pipeline from the Tar Sands in Alberta to the BC coast. I wrote about how tourism is a more sustainable alternative to some of these boom-and-bust, extractive industries. I love wild, open, remote places like that. I also loved going to Bhutan and to South Georgia Island, which is not far from Antarctica.

Are you able to make a living as a freelance writer?

Yes, it’s been my full-time job for 11 years now. I write about travel, outdoor stuff, science and the environment. I love branching out; it’s not like a regular job, where you’re pigeonholed by what the organization needs.

Sometimes there’s this perception that I’m ALWAYS traveling and doing fun things, but I also work hard and spend

Women Outside, three-day forum Event: Margaret Hedderman and Kate Siber speak about the rewards and challenges of being a Creative within the Outdoor Industry.

When: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday April 12 Where: The Bookcase and the Barber Event: Dawn Glanc and Angela Hawse speak about ice climbing in Iceland, and leading an all-women’s ascent of Ama Dablam.

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»» Durango writer Kate Siber works on a sailboat on the northern coast of British Columbia, near the Great Bear Rainforest.

a lot of time in my office.

in the outdoors?

Any advice for young hopefuls who might aspire to be travel writers one day?

When I’m camping by myself, I mostly stay in campgrounds. When I first moved out here, I was freaked out by bears or mountain lions. Now I’m more worried about creepy people. Animals are predictable; they have circumscribed sets of behavior, so typically you know how they’re going to react in a certain situation. I’ve felt progressively comfortable over the years.

They’re just animals in their environment, doing the best they can.

Sometimes I think people are interested in what I do in a theoretical way. But if you want to get into this, figure out whether it’s a lifestyle you’d actually enjoy. If you do well on a routine, like getting a paycheck every two weeks, want to have some reasonable security in your life, this is not a job that would fit you. If you’re someone who thrives on the hustle ... It’s a great profession for people who are self-motivated and passionate about both writing and travel. It’s not enough to be motivated by travel – there’s more lucrative professions you could do if that’s what you want. And you can’t take rejection too personally. Otherwise you won’t last long; it’ll be too emotionally taxing.

It’s only human to be disappointed, but then you move on to the next thing.

You seem relatively unafraid to spend time out in the world alone. Do you feel safe

As a young-looking woman, have you ever felt you weren’t taken seriously in your profession?

In my 20s I definitely did. Joan Didion is a small woman, and she’s talked about how people didn’t take her seriously, but gave her access she might not have gotten otherwise. People don’t see women as a threat. Just being a human being, whatever type of body, skin color or sexual orientation you have, because of those appearances and identities, you’re going to be

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judged. But you can relate to people on a level that transcends those identities.

The outdoor industry can be a little bit of a boy’s club, and journalism, too.

Still, you can work within those boundaries. I’ve found people tend to be nice and almost protective when you’re traveling solo as a woman. The best antidote to sexism is confidence and not letting it land. It lands when we have doubts about ourselves, and it’s hard not to. But the more you realize your own worth, the less that stings you.

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

Bitter fruit: Winners and losers in the latest IPA craze

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Carolina Panthers jersey: you’re not going to blame them for their choice of team (everyone wants to be associated with a winner), but you both know they don’t own any Panthers gear older than Cam Newton’s contract with the team, and there’s probably a Seahawks jersey underneath it. This beer should be a winner: delicious and trendy hops (Citra), tangerines and a brewery that knows how to brew delicious beer. But there’s nothing that screams at you. No amazing trait that stands out. It’s balanced to the point of boredom. It’s not synergy of flavors; it’s wearing tone-on-tone clothes: you look like a 6-year-old who’d been put in charge of matching their shirt and pants. This is a shame to me because New Belgium brews some great beer, especially sours, and I love Slow Ride and Ranger IPA. But Citradelic seems like a bandwagon beer.

beer I love to drink and love to make, is Ska’s Modus Mandarina, an IPA brewed with orange peels and dry-hopped with Mandarina Bavaria hops. It’s got all the bitterness of a traditional IPA, but with smoothness and approachability provided by the orange additions. The refreshment it provides is well worth all the pains of its crafting. There are dozens of other breweries doing IPAs with fruit additions as well.

Some are amazing, others are lackluster, but Modus Mandarina is definitely in the upper echelon to me. Ska might not have invented the IPA + Fruit craze, but we’re not riding on anybody’s coattails, either. So what are some of the standouts and some of the duds in this craze?

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Grapefruit Sculpin/Ballast Point

To start out, let’s be real honest: There’s not a damn thing to do with Belgian ale yeast but appreciate it for the dingy gym sock that it is, grin and bear it or cover it up with sour fermentation or hops or barrel aging or fruit or something. No matter what you do, it’ll still be Belgian.

No one will ever say that they like their romantic interest like they like their Belgian Ale: old with the spicy aroma of a basement-dwelling swamp monster and a little more funk on the backend. But! What I really liked about this Belgian fruit IPA is that it doesn’t attempt to tame or cover up the Belgian funk, but balance it. I know that the word “balance” gets thrown around a lot and is really either a cliché or code word for “doesn’t really stand out,” but Tropical Bitch really doesn’t muzzle the yeast with fruit or hops, nor does it let it run free, either.

Tropical Bitch doesn’t fit in with the other beers in this category very well because it’s Belgian. The fact that it’s definitely a Belgian in the aroma and in the flavor, yet still crushable and refreshing, is a small miracle of brewery magic. Also, I like the name, Tropical Bitch, because I get to say bitch as many times as I feel the need to mention the name of the beer.

The originator. The dominator. The champ.

THE FRUIT IPA. Grapefruit Sculpin IPA from Ballast Point is what a fruit IPA is supposed to be and all others seem to be modeled after. The fruit is evident without being obvious. The hops are present without being pushy. And the whole experience is pleasant and refreshing without feeling gimmicky or trendy, but a natural progression of flavor. Grapefruit Sculpin is so popular that Ballast Point has even expanded the line to include a pineapple version and a habanero version of its Sculpin IPA, as well as a watermelon version of its Double IPA. Now I can say that the pineapple isn’t bad, but the fruitiness tends to come off as sweetness instead of a symbiotic flavor relationship like the grapefruit version (I’m not going to even try the habanero version because chile+beer is not good unless there’s (1) sweetness (2) sourness).

I’ve heard little whispers here and there that we’ve hit “peak IPA” or the IPA bubble has popped, but as long as breweries keep tweaking the traditional IPA and giving drinkers something new and something exciting, I think we can count on IPA being the top seller for years still.

Citradelic/New Belgium Seeing and drinking Citradelic, a new offering by New Belgium, is like seeing someone in a

Illustration by David Holub/DGO

»» The reigning champion of fruit IPAs, Grapefruit Sculpin from Ballast Point.

Robert Alan Wendeborn puts the bubbles in the beer at Ska Brewing Co. His first book of poetry, The Blank Target, was published this past spring by The Lettered Streets Press and is available at Maria’s Bookshop. robbie@skabrewing.com

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Everything you always wanted to know about tattooing Tom Kipp is a self-taught tattoo artist who’s been at it for 17 years. He is the proprietor and sole custom artist at Durango’s Conductor Tattoo (170 E 12th St, # 3). We asked Kipp some of the questions we’ve always had about getting inked.

Is there any place on the human body you won’t tattoo? What’s the most difficult body part you’ve ever had to work on?

»» Selections from Tom Kipp’s (right) portfolio.

There are places the ink won’t take well, such as inside the fingers and near the bottoms of the feet. I suggest people do not get these areas tattooed at all. I will also not tattoo the hands or neck of someone who is not already pretty heavily tattooed. The most difficult place I’ve ever had to work with is probably the head/face; it’s very nervewracking to permanently change someone’s outward appearance.

Courtesy of Tom Kipp

Do you ever try to talk people out of getting a bad tat, or one that’s grammatically incorrect?

If someone is making what I feel is a bad choice, I won’t do it. I will try to talk them into something else. That’s not to say they won’t find someone to do it for them, but I’m fine declaring that I’m not the man for the job.

There are times when my opinion may be something like, “Are you SURE you want to do this?” In all honesty, though, a lot of what I think is a questionable tattoo turns out to have a good story behind it. As far as grammar, I got good grades in English class, and if something is grammatically incorrect, I will correct it. I’ll point out to the customer what I changed, and they’re usually OK with it. If the original, incorrect way is the way they want it to remain, then I change it back and let them do the explaining later on.

What are some of the most common designs people ask for?

There will always be trendy tattoos and timeless tattoos.

Roses, skulls, birds, flowers, etc., never go out of fashion, and I love tattooing the traditional imagery. It’s fun to take that timeless image and tweak it just a little bit, to where the old aesthetic is still there, but the tattoo is customized for the individual. Trendy tattoos come and go, and sometimes they can actually be fun. The amount of repetition in trendy tattoos gets old, but I’m not here to judge. There’s not a whole lot I can really do to improve on a bunch of bird silhouettes coming out of an anchor inside of an infinity sign dream catcher; but at that point, I try to challenge myself to do the cleanest and most technically perfect tattoo I can.

Have you noticed any Durango-specific tattoo trends?

I’ve done a lot of Colorado pride tattoos. Mountains, rivers, columbines, snowflakes, aspen leaves, the Colorado flag. I did one piece that focused on several buildings in Durango including The Strater, the gazebo and a few others. That was fun.

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What’s the tattoo removal process like these days? Is it a lot more painful/expensive to get a tattoo taken off than put on?

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It’s definitely a lot more painful to have them removed. Some tattoos are easy to remove, and others will take several sessions to notice a difference. To the best of my knowledge, it all depends on how well the tattoo was put in to begin with, as well as the quality of the laser and the skill level of the person doing the removing.

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A lot of people are scared of getting a tattoo because it’s painful. How would you describe the pain?

All tattoos hurt. Period.

It’s hard to describe the way it feels, but it’s akin to an insect sting or cat scratch. It feels sharp and hot. Again, it’s a case-bycase basis; some tattoos take only a few minutes to do, others take several sessions of multiple hours.

I’ve had clients who were surprised by how easy it was, and others who have to keep digging deeper into their own pain cave to try and find their comfortable spot (which might not be there). Obviously, so many people are continuing to get tattoos that it can’t be THAT bad. If one truly wants the tattoo, they make the sacrifice to sit through the process. It does hurt more on the torso than on the limbs, but you should never let the way a tattoo feels dictate where you get it. The fact is, the tattoo is only going to hurt during the application process. Once it heals, it no longer hurts, and it’s going to stay where you chose to get it. It’s better to get it where you want to see it for the rest of your life.

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By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

“G

od wished women to be smooth ... but has adorned man, like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him, as an attribute of manhood, with a shaggy chest – a sign of strength and rule,” wrote Clement of Alexandria, a Christian theologian regarded as a Church Father and venerated as a saint. Things have changed since the 2nd Century when Clement was alive – but not too much. Beards are still heralded as proud symbols of masculinity and potency. They transform milquetoast, baby-faced boys into strapping young gentlemen and can conceal facial imperfections like weak chins or acne.

Modern men have even begun adorning their facial hair; stringing Christmas ornaments and threading flowers through their tresses, or coating them with festive glitter for special occasions.

Why have a beard?

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»» Brendan Vlass, manager of Hair Fusion, shows off his beard on Tuesday.

The good,

the beard and the ugly

We investigate the beard trend and evolving definitions of masculinity

“Depending on who you are or what you do, there are practical reasons to have or not have a beard,” said Brendan Vlass, expert barber at Durango’s Hair Fusion. “Men like myself who don’t have a chin – well, we still want a jaw, because it’s a good, strong masculine trait – so we emulate one with our beards.” At their disposal, women have a seemingly infinite array of image-improving tools (makeup, heels, push-up bras). But men have their whiskers. Historically, reasons for growing or shaving a beard were even more sensible. “Alexander the Great required all his soldiers to be shaved because while they were fighting the Huns and whoever else, their beards would get grabbed,” said Vlass. “You could pull on a man’s beard, and chop off their head.”

Much of the grooming in Durango is chiefly practical. You might asMartin sume men in mountain towns would have furrier faces, but that isn’t necessarily the case. “I was expecting more beards when I moved here – they keep your face nice and warm, they protect it from the sun and wind,” said Vlass. “But the men here are more into what they can do than how they can look.” Durango dudes might not realize they needn’t sacrifice their looks for boisterous pursuits. “A lot of guys here do go unshaven, since this is a very active town and they’re too busy playing out in the woods,” said Vlass. “But they don’t like it too long because it gets ice crystals on it when they’re snowboarding, or it gets in the way.” There’s no need to fret over your appearance when bundled in a ski mask, but sprucing up once you’re off the slopes isn’t a bad idea. “I like the laid-back atmosphere, but people could look better,” said Vlass.

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Beard grooming: What you need to know Taking proper care of your beard is a nuanced, ongoing process.

Brendan Vlass at Hair Fusion knows just the right techniques – and he’s willing to share.

Shaving “They say ‘a well-lathered man is half-shaved,’ so preparation is key,” said Vlass. Some men have tough skin and can get away with scraping a blade over their face without any preparation or priming, but Vlass doesn’t recommend that – it’s too hard on your skin.

“When a barber does a shave, we use two or three hot towels and a lot of lather all over the face, plus a cleanser to take the extra buildup off,” said Vlass. If you have to shave every morning, shower every morning to get your face hot and moist. Use moisturizer.

“I don’t recommend big blade razors, Mach 5 and all that,” said Vlass. “You’ll be more prone to ingrowns.”

He also warns against electric razors for the same reason. “For the guy at home, I’d suggest the doubleedged safety razors. But don’t trim your own beard! It’s hard, and will oftentimes be uneven. You try to even it out, and it just keeps getting lower and lower ... next thing you know, you have a chin strap.”

Products As your beard grows longer, it will need treatment and help to flourish. You should use oil or conditioner, drink plenty of water, take your vitamins and have a good diet. Vlass particularly recommends a beard oil, which is “designed to nourish your beard and the skin underneath – I make my own, using fractionated coconut oil. A lot of people use grape seed oil, apricot kernel, carrot seed ... there’s all sorts.

It doesn’t really matter. Then you doll that up with essential oils for a nice scent.” Beard oil works like a leave-in conditioner (so don’t wash it out). The best time to apply the product is promptly after a shower, when your beard follicles are nice and open.

Brushing Think you only need to brush the hair on your head? Think again. Brushing and combing your beard is important, too.

Vlass proposes the use of a sawcut comb, or a good bristle brush like Boar’s Hair. “If you spend a little more money on a good brush, you’ll have it a long time – and it makes a huge difference.”

Hair-loss prevention “The other good thing about brushing and combing the hair on your head or face is the stimulation of blood, which promotes growth,” said Vlass. Most people don’t realize how well blood flow assists with hair growth! “That’s the best thing a man can do to prevent baldness – all day long I recommend that,” said Vlass. You can’t get hair back once it’s gone, but you CAN make what you do have a little fuller.

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

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Changing beards over the years The beard trend has always fluctuated. During the ’40s and ’50s in the U.S., men were exceedingly wellgroomed. But in the ’60s, the reactionary counter-culture sprouted plenty of facial hair (and hippies). It became a political statement to be LESS tidylooking. Surprisingly, Vlass thinks beards are slowly going out of style again. “There was some article about how dirty everything is, and it was framed around beards,” he said. “Apparently it scared a lot of guys. Even online and on Instagram, I’m seeing less beards now than I was two years ago.”

Michael Martin, chairman and associate professor of history at Fort Lewis College, agrees with Vlass: “I haven’t seen a lot of beards on campus,” said Martin. “And I don’t think the boys are necessarily worried about their masculinity.” Martin suggests beards are no longer clear indicators of virility; in part because millennial guys aren’t too concerned with proving their breadwinning worth. “If they still live at home, they can go out and be boys. They have the extra income – they’re like, ‘I don’t have to be a man. I don’t have to grow up.’ There’s this in-between between boyhood and manhood now. Starting a family right away isn’t as important as it used to be.”

What is masculinity?

Beards don’t have to make a statement. Sometimes they are innocuous, merely an accessory for men to enjoy.

“Gender is fluid, so it’s more about how you perceive what masculinity is,” said Martin, who recently presented a lecture on the history and evolution of masculinity. “If a beard means that to you, grow one. For me, NOT having a beard is my masculine identity. People want to put it into boxes – but you should define it however you like. I want to open that conversation up here.”

The ancient Egyptians used false beards, and it wasn’t necessarily a symbol of manhood. “If you held the office of Pharaoh, you had to shave your hair for hygiene,” said Martin.

“But they still wanted to wear hair, so they wore false beards. Hatshepsut, the first female pharaoh, wore a beard; not to fool people into thinking Continued on Page 15

9 famous beards

By David Holub

Ernest Hemingway

Jesus

Colonel Sanders

The quintessential male American writer whose sparse language, landmark books, pipe and adventurous spirit shaped every writer who came after.

The Son of Man sure had one perfect beard. No beard oil required!

Not since he who brought us 11 herbs and spices and the family bucket has anyone rocked the Van Dyke so well (named after 17thcentury painter Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck).

Fidel Castro

Abraham Lincoln

Vincent Van Gogh

In the company of other famous communist beards (Karl Marx, Che Guevara, et. al.), coupled with the short-brim military hat, Castro’s beard has inspired millions of American hipsters.

When you’re the Great Emancipator, no mustache required. If not the best U.S. president ever outright, Honest Abe is far and away the best-bearded.

If his beard weren’t vibrant flaming orange already, he probably would have made it so for the sake of his paintings. He may have cut his ear off, but thankfully he left the beard alone.

Ambrose Burnside

Charlton Heston as Moses

Frederick Douglass

Meet the Union army general whose greatest gift to man is the popularization of the sideburn.

The hair on his face may have been compensation for the lack of it on his head.

He parted the Red Sea, freed the Israelites, fiddled with the 10 Commandments, hung out with a burning bush ... and yet Charlton Heston is still the most famous Moses.

Dude escaped slavery, consulted with presidents and was perhaps the most influential person in the 19th century in the fight for abolition and equal rights for AfricanAmericans. And, his salt-and-pepper hair and beard is for the ages.

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she was a man, but because it was a symbol of her office.” Egyptian men also wore eyeliner and a variety of other cosmetic products to protect them from the unforgiving sun.

The definition of maleness is rapidly evolving, anyway. In 2016, men are proudly growing their hair long enough to rock the “man bun.” They’re even wearing eyeliner (“guyliner”). Often these trends owe their allegiance to pop culture. In 2003’s “Pirates of the Caribbean,” Johnny Depp single-handedly proved how alluring a man can look with his eyes rimmed in Kohl. Bravo’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” is no longer on the air, but it made a quite a splash in the 2000s, starring gay men who give straight men advice on fashion, grooming and lifestyle choices. It’s more acceptable now than ever for a “real man” to exhibit sensitivity; former wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is generally known as a “nice guy,” exuding a goofiness that undermines his 260-pound bulk and doing a lot of charity work with sick kids. Similar in girth and bald-headed virulence, Vin Diesel showed his softer side by grieving publicly following the death of his close friend and “Fast and Furious” co-star, Paul Walker. Even sports studs put on a form of face paint. “Football players wear black under their eyes, yet no one calls it makeup,” said Martin. “But why can’t we?

Why is that suddenly unmanly?

Sometimes they do it in a style, because they want it to look good at the same time.”

Self-improvement and fulfillment Durango men might not be impeccably dressed or groomed – but Vlass sees a conscious desire to be better. “We’re starting to see men care more; I’m hoping to bring more of that to the table,” said Vlass. “With the Bookcase & the Barber and Rey Lynn’s popping up, and cool old vintage clothing stores like Colorado Vintage, I think there’s an increased demand. I want to get men used to coming in for quick haircuts and beard trims.” And if you’re trying to woo a gal, be wary of the unkempt beard; it might convey a carelessness you don’t want to broadcast. “A man with a nice beard obviously cares about taking care of it; which might lend itself to other things he’s willing to take care of,” said Vlass. “That’s an attractive quality.”

Sure, you want to look good.

But genuine contentment with your own style is probably most rewarding. There’s no need for society, family, pop culture or anyone else to dictate the elusive metaphors generated by your facial hair. “It’s got to start with you,” said Martin. “If someone else sees your beard as standing for something, that’s fine – so long as they don’t say that’s how YOU have to perceive it.”

»» Brendan Vlass, the manager of Hair Fusion shows off his beard on Tuesday.

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nothing. Mainly because you’ve just been brought back from the dead by your wife. She tells you that your name is Henry. Minutes later, you are being shot at, your wife has been kidnapped and you should probably go get her back. Who’s got her? His name’s Akan; he’s a warlord with an army of mercenaries, and a plan for world domination. You’re also in an unfamiliar city of Moscow, and everyone wants you dead. Everyone except for a mysterious British fellow called Jimmy. He may be on your side, but you aren’t sure. If you can survive the insanity and solve the mystery, you might just discover your purpose and the truth behind your identity. Good luck, Henry. You’re going to need it.

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»» Melissa McCarthy, left, and Kristen Bell star in “The Boss.”

‘The Boss’ is dreadful

By Richard Roeper The Chicago Sun-Times

It’s just early April, but I have a contender for the most loathsome, ill-advised, horribly executed, spectacularly unfunny movie scene of the year.

The setup: Melissa McCarthy’s paroled business mogul, Michelle Darnell, has recruited a group of schoolgirls to abandon their cookieselling troop to join her nascent brownie-selling enterprise.

Michelle and her girls are selling brownies on a quiet Chicago street when they encounter the cookie troop and some of their moms.

R-rated insults are exchanged.

And then, I kid you not, the moms and the daughters and Michelle the convicted business mogul engage in a full-on brawl, complete with slowmo acts of violence, chops to the Adam’s apple, adults throwing children to the ground, a car set on fire and Michelle taking a batch of cookies and jamming it into the pants of the woman leading the cookie group.

And I’m holding back with that description.

Maybe this is supposed to be some kind of junior high girl-power statement, but like just about every scene in “The Boss,” it comes across as ugly, mean-spirited and tone deaf.

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Melissa McCarthy, Steve Mallory Runtime: 1 hr. 39 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 15%

In earlier scenes, McCarthy’s character insults one young girl by calling her “he,” and disses another by saying she’s destined to become a lesbian when she grows up. Hilarious.

I’m such a fan of so many of the principals in this movie, starting with McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, who co-wrote and directed, but this was a dreadful viewing experience, from the awkward and unconvincing setup to the desperate performances to the depressingly unfunny slapstick scenes to the conflicts and resolutions you can see a mile away.

The prologue tells us McCarthy’s Michelle was a lonely, unloved child who was returned to an orphanage every five years or so.

Cut to present day. Michelle is now the 47th wealthiest woman in Amer-

ica, and she’s such a dynamic presence she can fill the United Center with one of her get-rich seminars.

Peter Dinklage, who can be great in the right role but terrible when he overdoes it in comedies, gives maybe the worst performance of his career as Renault, a business tycoon obsessed with taking down Michelle.

Renault provides the feds with evidence Michelle has engaged in insider trading, and Michelle is sent to prison and stripped of all her wealth.

Because this is one of those movies where the main characters have no siblings, parents or close friends, when Michelle is released from prison she looks up her former assistant Claire (Kristen Bell), a single mother now working in a dead-end job.

Claire has a Movie Daughter named Rachel (Ella Anderson). Michelle becomes something of a mentor to Rachel (that’s how we get to that street fight scene), and she starts to think of Claire and Rachel as family – until we get to the inevitable and arbitrary parting of the ways.

As was the case with “Tammy,” McCarthy has taken a character she created years ago for the improv troupe The Groundlings and developed her into a full-fledged movie character. I would respectfully suggest she not return to that comedic well for a third outing.

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[pages] This week’s Maria’s staff pick

Maria’s bestsellers

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit

March 27 to April 2

I sometimes feel overwhelmed, that things are far from what they should be. With issues like women’s rights, health care, living wages, affordable housing, war and climate change, at times it seems that no matter how hard we fight, we will never get to the place that we should. Things sometimes feel desperate, like we’ve barely made a step forward, only to be forced two or three steps back.

»»2. Cortez the Gnome, by Amadee Ricketts (Paperback)

»»1. Euphoria, by Lily King (Paperback)

»»3. The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George (Paperback) »»4. Words Like Love, by Tanaya Winder (Paperback)

In Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit addresses the question of why we should hope, especially when the problems we need to solve seem insurmountable.

With an extensive history of activism and a depth of knowledge in environmental, cultural and political history, Solnit discusses why hope is valuable and necessary – especially when problems seem to be at their worst – and reminds us that things are never as dark as they seem. Often, things are better than they were yesterday, and change is often extremely slow.

»»5. Remixology: Classic Cocktails, Reconsidered and Reinvented, by Julia Hastings-Black (Hardcover) »»6. Mother Rabbit, by Tekla Dennison Miller (Paperback) »»7. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting

She also talks about many of the important and underreported movements lead by activists around the world and examines why they are often successful, even when they did not “win” the day, and why they aren’t talked about much in the United States.

Solnit, who also wrote Men Explain Things to Me, A Field Guide to Getting Lost and The Faraway Nearby, among others, does all of this with masterful prose and beautiful composition. Her language pulls the reader through the book, covering a multitude of subjects (with occasional footnotes for the necessary backstory), and ties the book together extremely well.

This book is a must read for everyone. It shows us that our actions will always make a difference, even when the world is too dark to wade through, and sometimes, acting when there is no light at the end of the tunnel is the bravest thing we can do.

Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, by Jen Sincero (Paperback)

»»8. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (Paperback) »»9. A Hiking Guide to Cedar Mesa: Southeast Utah, by Peter Francis Tassoni (Paperback) »»10. The Life-Changing magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, by Marie Kondo (Hardcover)

— Jaime Cary

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

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Advice from on high Ladystoner, tone down your obvious red-eye by lining your inner lower eyelid with a light green or light blue eyeliner.

Altered states and consciousness: We’ve been doing it forever

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onsciousness: the reason Descartes climbed in the oven; from the Latin scire, meaning “to know,” Webster’s medical dictionary defines it as “the totality in psychology of sensations, perceptions, ideas, attitudes, and feelings of which an individual or a group is aware at any given time or within a given time span.” Consciousness has been one of the primary foci of the modern philosophical mind back to the Enlightenment and ol’ Rene D’s exclamation upon climbing out of said oven (how dirty must he have been?) that he thought, therefore he was. He and his contemporaries, notably Locke, composed exhausted examinations of the subject from many angles, ushering in the modern era of thought on the topic.

Consciousnesses has turned out to be damn nigh impossible to measure. Those Enlightenment thinkers sought to locate its physical seat within our bodies and settled on the pineal gland, an esoteric little organ in the forehead associated with the “third eye,” the legendary “seat of the soul.” Today’s leading minds haven’t gone much further despite their attempts, guided by the scientific method and modern technology, in a quest to find its specific placement beyond identifying some of the chemicals that make up the reactionary and alterable soup within our brains.

I suppose my consciousness begins with my earliest memories. The first is just a series of snippets, really, but they have coalesced in my mind in such a fashion that I believe it took place in one day – some sort of get together my parents had when I was 4 years old or less. I can close my eyes and see images of their friends, there was beer, there were joints being rolled. Beyond that, I don’t have much of a plot. The timeline of my consciousness kicks in in the summer of 1976 and the Bicentennial celebration: I remember my gramma’s basset hound Maggie hiding under the bed trembling while fireworks boomed outside; the Montreal Olympics: We watched on a tiny black-and-white in the back bedroom, enthralled by Nadia Comaneci and her perfect 10s and the U.S. boxing team with its five gold medal winners. From there, I was on to nursery school and the rest is imbedded in my personal history.

Consciousness is unavoidable. It’s the thing that keeps us up at night, the change of perception when a friend walks into the room, the surge when you slam on the brakes to narrowly avoid a crash. And it’s alterable. We can adjust it with chemicals, with activities, with a selection of sensory input. And we modern humans love our altered states – alcohol, nicotine, prescription drugs, yoga, float tanks, Transcendental Meditation, music, movies, food – there are nearly unlimited ways to go about changing the angle of your mind state.

The patron saint of modern consciousness alteration is the 19th century French poet Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, whose legendary career in letters ended around the age of 20 and

whose regimen in pursuit of truth relied heavily on hashish, absinthe and many of the basic elements of a dissolute lifestyle. But his dissolution had a purpose, Truth: “The Poet makes himself into a seer by a long, involved and logical derangement of all the senses. Every kind of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself; he exhausts every possible poison so that only one essence remains.”

That essence became the goal of those individuals of the latter half of the 20th century who sought to go beyond the norms of society, especially here in America – the beats, the hippies, the rebels, the seekers. They were aided by an explosive expansion of pharmacological options: the plant teachers (mescaline, marijuana, psilocybin), the synthetics (LSD, DMT, MDMA), the half dozen permutations of “speed” (Dexedrine, Benzedrine, ephedrine, etc), along with the longtime standbys (alcohol, tobacco, adrenaline). Everything changed.

Now, we sit on the back end of that chapter in history, watching as things settle out, with Miss Mary Jane finally getting her due as the gentlest and most versatile of the bunch. But she hasn’t traveled alone. Her story necessarily includes Albert Hoffman, Timothy Leary and Ram Dass, the McKenna brothers, Cassidy, Kesey and Kid Charlemagne himself, Augustus Owsley Stanley – the heroes of Counterculture. It’s been a wild ride and it’s still picking up speed.

Can you feel the buzz?

Christopher Gallagher lives with his wife and their four dogs and two horses. Life is pretty darn good. Contact him at chrstphrgallagher@gmail.com

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[review]

[Netflix and chill — 420 edition]

What to consider when watching high

Ectocooler What is it?

It’s definitely not the Ghostbustersinspired fluorescent green Hi-C drink from the ’80s. Our Ectocooler is a wonderfully relaxing 27.6 percent THC indica-dominant variety that’s the result of crossing a male Gorilla Biscuit strain with a female Ae77 California Orange strain. It has all the potent lime terpenes from its amazing father and the trichome-rich buds and incredible potency of its Calio mother.

The effects Just like Ghozer from the original “Ghostbusters,” this strain is a creeper.

It’ll take several minutes to kick in, but when it does, your world will be just perfect. The warm wave increases in intensity until about the 30-minute mark, where the experience peaks and you’re blissed out. It’s very euphoric, and with a full body-and-mind sense of wellness, you’ll immediately feel at your core.

The smell Imagine peeling an orange and finding a sour lime inside.

The looks

more surprising. Lots of smokers become singularly focused while blazed, too; the eerie level of mindfulness allows their penetrating eye to detect minute details.

Music, costumes, dialogue, whatever – your mind zooms in and produces startling analysis. You’re plunged into the atmosphere onscreen so powerfully, it feels real. Film plots are more convoluted and laced with complexities and connections.

You come to understand philosophies, motives, or behaviors you never would otherwise. (Example: one time I watched the Super Bowl high, knowing nothing about football, and comprehended the entire thing perfectly).

Some movies pair well with weed, while others suck regardless of how high you are. Comedies, in particular, seem uniquely suited to marijuana consumption; the good ones are funny sober, but even better high. The bad ones are slightly cleverer after you’ve imbibed. And the “stoner comedy” is the industry’s sole cannabis-specific genre, featuring classics like “Half Baked,” “Dazed and Confused” and “Grandma’s Boy.” All of these are excellent to survey post-bong-rip.

The perennial “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” also belongs in this genre, but it’s not just a stoner-com; it’s a profound meditation on the simple joys of a young toker’s life. It’s additionally the rare Hollywood-bred buddy-film between two non-white characters (Harold is Korean, Kumar is Indian). The stoner bromance is a category with more than one good model, actually; “Pineapple Express” stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, and dramatically exemplifies how weed can bring people together. (Favorite scene: when the pair of stoners frolic through woods, trying to get a caterpillar high, swordfighting with sticks, and playing leapfrog like gleeful schoolchildren).

Arguably, watching something under the influence lets you take the stage as the world’s best movie critic; poorly-made films usually crumble into artifice. You can somehow see right through it all – especially when the actors are strained and unconvincing. You know they are reciting lines. The script reveals itself to be shamefully corny, even more so if its a bombastic action flick or a weepy rom-com. But take heart!

To avoid these side effects, simply watch good movies. Stay tuned for more suitable recommendations here.

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[love and sex]

Expat needs to make kinky proposal to boyfriend ASAP Savage Love | Dan Savage

I am a 20-something, straight, cisfemale expat. How long do I have to wait to ask my German lover, who is übersensitive about the Holocaust, to indulge me in my greatest – and, until now, unrealized – fantasy: Nazi role-play? He is very delicate around me because I am a secular Jew and the descendant of Holocaust survivors. (Even though I’ve instructed him to watch “The Believer,” starring Ryan Gosling as a Jewish neo-Nazi, to get a better grasp on my relationship with Judaism. To be clear, I am not actually a neo-Nazi – just your garden-variety self-hating Jew.) This persists even though we’ve spoken about my anti-Zionist politics.

Evidently he was indoctrinated from a young age with a hyper-apologetic history curriculum. I appreciate that he thinks it was wrong for the SS to slaughter my family, but it’s not like he did it himself. I know it sounds really [bleep]ed up, but I promise this isn’t coming from a place of deepseated self-loathing. Even if it were, it’s not like we’d be hurting anybody.

We’re both in good psychological working condition, and neither of us is an actual bigot. I would try to get to know him better, but we are so different (there’s a big age difference) and I don’t really see our relationship being much more than ze sex.

National Socialist Pretend Party “Sex writers get all the really good religion questions,” said Mark Oppenheimer. “Can we trade mailboxes sometime soon? I’m tired of dealing with all the questions about why evangelicals support a thrice-married misogynist reality-TV star who never goes to church.”

Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for the New York Times and is cohost of Unorthodox, an “irreverent podcast about Jews and other people” (tabletmag.com/unorthodox).

I invited Oppenheimer to weigh in

because I am, sadly, not Jewish myself.

(Jewishness is conferred through matrilineal descent, your mom – or, if you’re Reform, either parent – has to be Jewish for you to be Jewish, so all those blowjobs I gave to my first Jewish boyfriend were for nothing. No birthright trip for me.)

“First off, I think that Die Fraulein should make her kinky proposal ASAP,” said Oppenheimer. “Given the ‘hyper-apologetic’ curriculum that her Teutonic stud has absorbed, he is probably going to freak out no matter when she asks him to incinerate – er, tie her up and [bleep] her.

On the other hand, if he’s open and kink-positive, he’ll probably be down for whatever. But it’s all or nothing in a case like this. She can’t win him over by persuading him that she’s not one of those uptight, unforgiving Jewesses who is still hung up on the destruction of European Jewry.”

While your kink didn’t really faze Oppenheimer (it’s not exactly unheard of), NSPP, your discomfort with your own Judaism did.

“In her letter, she assures us that she is ‘secular,’ ‘anti-Zionist’ and ‘gardenvariety self-hating’ – then jokingly compares herself to the Jewish white supremacist (played by Ryan Gosling in that movie) who in real life killed himself after the New York Times outed him as a Jew,” said Oppenheimer.

“Now, all of us (especially homos and Yids) know something about selfloathing, and I think Jews are entitled to any and all views on Israel, and – again – I am not troubled by her kink.

That said, I do think she needs to get to a happier place about her own heritage. Just as it’s not good for black people to be uncomfortable with being black, or for queer people to wish they weren’t queer, it’s not healthy, or attractive, for Jews or Jewesses (we are taking back the term) to have such obvious discomfort with their Jewish heritage.”

And finally, NSPP, I shared your letter with a German friend of mine, just to

see how it might play with someone who benefited from a hyper-apologetic history curriculum. Would he do something like this?

“Not in 6 million years.”

I am fresh out of a gay relationship, which started monogamous, opened up, dabbled with polyamory but ran out of steam. I’m heartbroken, and I need you to weigh in on a disagreement we had about polyamory, which is one of the things that led to our expiration. I believe polyamory to be a small group of people all in love with each other, all sleeping together. He believes polyamory to be different pairings, where a relationship between two people would be lived and enjoyed separately from that couple’s pairings with other people. He thinks my definition would be impossible to find and sustain. I think his definition sounds like child custody in a divorce dispute. Who is right?

Re-examining Relationship Remnants “They’re both right,” said Allena Gabosch, a poly activist, educator and podcaster (The Relationship Anarchy Show). “What the letter writer describes – a small group of people who love each other and all sleep together – is sometimes called ‘polyfidelity.’

It’s less common, and yet I’ve seen it work. His ex’s definition is more common: a primary couple with secondary and sometimes even tertiary partners.

There is no ‘one true way’ to do poly, no matter what anyone says.”

I’ve been in a fantastic monogamous relationship for almost eight years, but I used to be like a lot of your other readers. I had what I would consider an adventurous sex life, with lots of partners who were GGG, and I enjoyed continually pushing my sexual boundaries as long as everything was consensual and honest. Fast-forward to my current life: I’m now married to a wonderful vanilla woman. The transition to monogamous and vanilla was difficult at first, and I had fears about not being sexually content.

As it turns out, it was a great move, and I’m a better man for it. My desire to have every kind of sex under the sun has settled down considerably, and the benefit is that I have much more energy and mental focus for other areas of my life. I want your readers to know that the answer to their happiness may not be the pursuit of more outlandish sex – for some, it just might be less.

Monogamous In Montana Your letter reminded me of Saint Augustine’s prayer as a young man: “Lord, make me pure – but not yet!”

You’re pure now, MIM, but first, like Augustine of Hippo (354–430), you had yourself some impure fun.

Perhaps you would be just as satisfied, happy and smug if you’d been in a monogamous/vanilla relationship all along. But it’s possible you wouldn’t be satisfied and happy now if it weren’t for the adventures and experiences you had then. To paraphrase St. Agnes Gooch of Mame (1966): You lived! You lived! You lived! You see all that living as time wasted, MIM, but it’s possible – it may even rise to the level of probable – that the perspective and self-awareness you gained during the [bleep]-anything-thatmoves stage of your life made you the man you are today, i.e., a guy who was ready to make a monogamous commitment and capable (so far) of honoring it.

Finally, monogamous/vanilla types routinely cross over into the ranks of the sexually adventurous/nonmonogamous and vice versa. (And monogamous/vanilla and sexually adventurous aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive categories.) Instead of disparaging the choices others make – or disparaging the choices we once made – we’re better off encouraging people to make the choices that are right for them.

And choices that are right for someone now may not be right for them always – and that goes for you too, MIM, even now.

Dan Savage is a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist writing for The Stranger in Seattle. Contact him at mail@savagelove.net or @fakedansavage on Twitter and listen to his podcast every week at savagelovecast.com

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[happening] Thursday 22nd Annual Creativity Festivity opening reception, 4-6 p.m., Barbara

Conrad Gallery, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org.

Opening reception:Wildlife in Wild Places: Paintings by Edward Aldrich,

5-7 p.m., Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave., 2473555.

First Thursdays Art Walk, 5-7 p.m., par-

ticipating galleries, http://durangoarts.org.

Tim Sullivan, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Kirk James, blues, 5:30-7 p.m., Durango Craft Spirits, 1120 Main Ave., No. 2.

Alex Paul, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Fort Lewis College Percussion Department performance, 7 p.m., $5/$1,

Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.

“Trojan Women: A Love Story,”Fort

Lewis College Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10/$12, MainStage Theatre, FLC, www.fortlewis.edu/ theatre, 247-7089.

Beer Bingo, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.,

259-9018.

Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9 p.m.,

Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 3752568.

Karaoke, 9 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East

Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Friday Andy Janowsky, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

St. Mark’s Recital Series: Soprano Gemma Kavanagh performs concert of Celtic music, 7 p.m., $20/$5. St. Mark’s,

910 East Third Ave., durangorecitals.com.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., DAC Ap-

plause!, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., http://durangoarts.org/schoolhouse-rock.

Dustin Burley, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

“Trojan Women: A Love Story,” Fort

Lewis College Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10/$12, MainStage Theatre, FLC, www.fortlewis.edu/ theatre, 247-7089.

The Lindells, 7:30 p.m., $15/$12, Sunflower

Theatre, 8 E. Main St., Cortez, sunflowertheatre. org.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East

Courtesy of Jazz is Phish

»» Check out Jazz is Phish’s cool instrumental tribute to the band Phish this weekend at the Animas City Theatre.

Jazz is Phish takes the stage at ACT Fans of Phish and jazz unite! Check out Jazz is Phish on Sunday night at the Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive.

jam music collide.

What’s cool about this tribute to Phish is that it’s instrumental – inspired by “Jazz is Dead,” a Grateful Dead tribute. Founded in 2015 by Adam Chase and Matthew Chase, Jazz is Phish uses the musical framework of the original band to explore what happens when jazz and

This is an 18 and older performance.

Blue Moon Ramblers, 7-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

“Trojan Women: A Love Story,” Fort

Joel Racheff, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699

Lewis College Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10/$12, MainStage Theatre, FLC, www.fortlewis.edu/ theatre, 247-7089.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East

Monday

Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

DJ Noonz, 9 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-

9018.

Sunday Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www. theirishembassypub.com.

Saturday Jack Ellis, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Sa-

loon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Kirk James, blues, 6 p.m., Holiday Inn Express, 21636 U.S. Highway 160.

Greg Ryder, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699

Main Ave., 247-4431.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., DAC Ap-

plause!, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East

Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Latin music night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main

Million Dollar Highway, 8:30 p.m.-12:30

9018.

Main Ave., 247-4431.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East

Amber Cross, 7:30 p.m., $15/$12, Sunflower Theatre, 8 E. Main St., Cortez, sunflowertheatre. org.

Irish music jam session, 12:30 p.m., Irish

DJ Icite, 9 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-

Tickets are $20 for 18+ general admission; $25 for 21+ VIP, which includes balcony viewing, drink specials and coat check. Get yours at Southwest Sound in Durango or online at http://www.durangomassive.com.

Second Ave., http://durangoarts.org/schoolhouse-rock.

Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

a.m., Billy Goat Saloon, 39848 U.S. Highway 160, Gem Village.

Doors for the show open at 7:30 p.m. Sunday with the showing starting at 8:30.

Rocky Mountain Ukefest: Spring workshop and concert with Victor and Penny, workshop, 2-4 p.m.; concert, 7

Ave., 259-9018.

Four Corners Arts Forum, 9 a.m., KDUR

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org.

Pianist Jocelyn Swigger offers Master Class, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Roshong Recital Hall,

Fort Lewis College.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., DAC Ap-

plause!, 4:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., http://durangoarts.org/ schoolhouse-rock.

Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Ska

Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., yoga and a pint of beer for $10, www.skabrewing.com.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., DAC Ap-

plause!, 4:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., http://durangoarts.org/ schoolhouse-rock.

Terry Rickard, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

So You Want to Write with Suzanne Strazza, 6-7:30 p.m., Mt. Lookout Grange, 680

Grand Ave., Mancos, www.schoolofthewest.org.

Women Outside – An Adventure Forum: Creative within the Outdoor Industry presentation by Erinn Morgan, founder of WomensMovement.com and

Kate Siber, correspondent for Outside Magazine, 6-8 p.m., The Bookcase & The Barber, 601 East Second Ave., Suite B, margaret@bcexp.com.

Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m., free,

Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792.

Tim Sullivan, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699

Main Ave., 247-4431.

Tango Milonga, 7-9 p.m., Four Leaves

p.m., $55/$45/$20, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., http://rockymountainukefest. com.

Joel Racheff, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle

Pianist Jocelyn Swigger performs the complete études by Frédéric Chopin, 3 p.m., Rochong Recital Hall at Fort

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main

Luke Mehall book release celebration, 6:30 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main

Ave., 259-9018.

Winery, 528 Main Ave., tangodruango.info, 5337231.

Lewis College, www.jocelynswigger.com.

Ave., 247-1438.

Wednesday

Jazz church (experienced musician drop-in session), 6 p.m., Derailed Pour

Ace Revel, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Greg Ryder, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle

House, 725 Main Ave., 247-5440, www.derailedpourhouse.com.

Tuesday

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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[happening] Help Liver Down the River celebrate album release Durango six-piece psychedelic jamgrass band Liver Down the River is throwing a party to celebrate the release of its new full-length album, “Life You Love” on Friday night at the Animas City Theatre, and you’re invited.

Where should we

DGO tonight?

Made up of members Tyler Rice on banjo and vocals; Emily Winter on fiddle and vocals; Dylan Ruckel on guitar and vocals; Patrick Storen on Mandolin; Derek Abt on bass and vocals; and Carter Colia on drums and washboard, Liver Down the River weaves elements of funk, rock, Irish and Cajun into their music that ensures you won’t be spending the night sitting down.

Special guest Hog MaGundy will be on hand as well.

Doors open at 8:30, show starts at 9:15. This is an 18 and older show. Cost is 10 bucks in advance, $15 the day of

From Page 21 Ace Revel, 6-8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar and Cock-

tail Lounge, 723 East Second Ave., 385-0105.

Women Outside – An Adventure Forum: Dawn Glanc and Angela Hawse will speak about ice climbing in Iceland and leading an ascent of Ama Dablam, 6-8 p.m., eno, 723 East Sec-

ond Ave., margaret@bcexp.com.

Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub,

900 Main Ave. Pub quiz, 6:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900

Main Ave., 403-1200.

Open studio figure drawing, 6:30-8:30

p.m., $15/$10, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., www.durangoarts.org.

Two-step and swing dance lessons,

Your #1 source for what’s going on around Durango dgomag.com/calendar

6:30-7:30 p.m., $10, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 799-8832.

Julie Hastings-Black Remixology event, 6:30 p.m., $40, Bookcase & Barber, 601

East Second Ave., Suite B, 247-1438.

Terry Rickard, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Annual High School Poetry Slam, 7-9 p.m., Durango Arts Center Theater, 802 East Second Ave. Poker and ping pong tournaments, 8

p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

Geeks Who Drink trivia, 8:30 p.m., BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 W. College Drive, 259-5959.

+ Add an Event

to the DGO calendar with

Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9 p.m., Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 3752568.

Ongoing

the show. Grab a ticket at Southwest Sound or online at http://holdmyticket. com/event/237997.

For more information, call 799-2281.

“Graduating Senior Art & Design Majors Exhibition,” through April 29, Fort

Lewis College Art Gallery.

Ink & Wax : Intimate Surface Dimensions, through April 26, Durango Arts Center,

802 East Third Ave. Solo exhibition of paintings by Patrice DeLorenzo, through May 28, Olio, 114

West Grand Ave., Mancos, www.oliomnacos. com.

The 4th Annual People’s Choice – a unique art exhibit opening, through

Friday, Three Rivers Art Center, 123 West Main, Farmington.

National Art Honor Society students art work exhibit, through May 21, Durango

Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. “Earthly Presence,” May 6 through May,

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. “Ink & Wax: Intimate Surface Directions,” Karen Riley, through April 26, Art

Library at the Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org.

“The Handmade Photograph,”

through May 11, Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., openshuttergallery.com.

Submissions To submit listings for publication in DGO and dgomag.com, go to www.swscene.com and click “Add Your Event,” fill out the form with all your event info and submit. Listings at swscene.com will appear both at dgomag.com and in our weekly print edition.

Posting events at swscene.com is free and takes about one business day to process.

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Today, the only New Moon in your sign all year is taking place. That’s why this is the best day to take a realistic look in the mirror to see how you can improve your image.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) A hidden epiphany or a sudden idea likely will occur to you today. Listen to what it is because it might help you.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is the only New Moon all year regarding friendships for you. Are you happy with your friendships? Do your friends care about your welfare?

Think about this.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

Bizarro

This is perhaps the best day of the year to think about your life direc-

tion. Are you headed in the direction you want to go? Are your goals really your goals?

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) What further training can you get to improve your job? What further travel and education might enrich your life?

Think about this today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Today’s New Moon urges you to study your debt and anything that has to do with shared property. Figure out what you owe and what you own because information is power.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Today is the only New Moon that is opposite your sign all year. This means it’s the best day of the year to think how you can improve your partnerships and close friendships.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Today’s New Moon is an opportunity to think about how you can be more efficient at work. It’s also the perfect time to think about how you can improve your health.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) How well do you balance play and work in your life? It’s crazy to work so hard that you never enjoy life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) The New Moon today is your chance to make resolutions about how to improve your home, as well as how to improve your relationship with family members.

Ideas?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Communication with others is impor-

tant because we are social creatures.

Do you listen as well as speak? How can you be a better communicator?

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Today’s New Moon encourages you to think about how you handle your money and your possessions. What kind of report card would you give yourself?

BORN TODAY You bring enthusiasm and energy to whatever you do. You do something big and flashy, and then settle down to a more conventional existence.

This year, others will benefit and help you, which is why your success lies with interacting with other people.

Make friends. Join clubs and organizations. If you help others, you also will be helping yourself. © 2016 King Features Syndicate Inc.

[we need a word for this] When you hug somebody and their fragrance stays with you for the rest of the day.

When you try to sneeze and something catches you or distracts you and you can’t.

When you’re talking to someone and start yawning and try to stifle and hide it because don’t want to appear bored.

When you have to stop the conversation and change your posture until you catch the bartender’s attention (without signaling or snapping your fingers or other overt and bartender-despised gestures).

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