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s a college writing teacher, my favorite assignment to give was called a media fast, where students were required to turn off all electronic devices for 24 hours – cellphones, computers, car stereos, iPads, everything. When announcing the assignment to my classes, semester after semester, the response was shock and horror, some classes erupting into near-riots: “Whaaaaat!? No way! No! I won’t! I can’t!” You’d think I’d just told them that they’d have to make out with a stray dog for 24 hours. During the fast, students kept a detailed journal, noting not only their activities, but their emotions and attitudes throughout the 24 hours. They then wrote a paper afterward reflecting on their experience. The results were astonishing. Many students spoke of their early fast hours as if they were drug addicts in detox, feeling anxious, nervous, vulnerable, feeling phantom vibrations in their pockets. Throughout the day, as reality set in, their anxiety continued as they wondered what hastily planned activities they might be missing, who might be trying to text them, who was posting what on Facebook. For many, the anxiety turned to boredom, being left to life’s empty moments, no cellphone to whip out while waiting for class to start or waiting for friends for dinner, or Internet to procrastinate with. The experiment ultimately made many of them turn inward, reflecting on their lives, helping them see the world in a different way. Not texting or listening to music as they walked to class, they noticed parts of the campus they hadn’t seen before, they heard birds sing and greeted people walking past. Some students hated every second of the fast, but many, by the end considered it transformative, finding the experience a respite from the cacophony of the everyday, the first step in establishing more balance into their lives.

As I write this, I’m on a weeklong artist residency at the enchanting Willowtail Springs just outside Mancos. Like many residencies, this one, offered through the Durango Arts Center, is designed to give artists space and time for their work. But there’s a bigger part of the experience, to me at least: It gives us a chance to disengage and turn off the world. When I arrived at Willowtail on Sunday afternoon, the world was screaming at me, as it usually does. Work was screaming about all I had to get done before leaving for a week. My wonderful friends were sending me texts. Facebook was screaming “Look what THIS cat did while its owner videoed.” The New York Times screamed, “You’ll never guess what Donald Trump said today!” Like a freight train at full speed, the raucous momentum took miles and miles to come to a halt, much of Sunday evening where I simply couldn’t peel away. Over the year especially, I’ve had scant time off from work. While enjoyable, my life has been a steady stream of external input – news, movies, books, ideas, friends – me constantly consuming. One major impetus for those who create art is a byproduct of all this consumption, their work a response to everything they take in, the things they read and hear, witness and experience. It’s the way they process the world and their lives, turning that external fuel into an internal fire. Most artists will say that they can’t not create. It’s something they have to do to survive, to exist, often finding nooks in their lives and opportunities and spaces to turn the world off, to turn inward, to say what they need to say. It’s something we should all try to find space for in our lives regularly. So I’m going to turn off the noise. My phone is powered off, I swore off Facebook and my alarming two-houra-day addiction of reading about the Republican primary will have to wait. I bet all of it will be there when I get home.

I wrote a piece about the dangers of celebrity culture for this very publication – so I do know the downsides. But I also recognize the positives. “Celebrity” need not refer to vapid Kardashian or Bieber types; the term also applies to celebrated authors (J.K. Rowling, Stephen King), scientists (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking) or even educated film and TV personalities; Matt Damon, Emma Watson, Stephen Colbert and Mark Ruffalo have advocated intelligently for women’s rights, raised awareness about global warming, or spoken out about our troubled political system. They use their power for good. Speaking of the Kardashians – they aren’t so bad, either. Maybe they don’t have “talent,” but their reality TV program promotes solid family values; the entire clan is very close, intimate and loyal to one another. They’ve brought both interracial dating (almost all their partners are African-American men) and unapologetically curvaceous body types into the mainstream culture. There’s been nary a modern American sex symbol with a butt as big as Kim’s. Plus, I admire the family’s willingness to expose humiliating, personal shit; despite their fame, they have no shame. Lots of stars shackle themselves in ivory towers and refuse to reveal details about their lives (perfectly understandable). But it makes normal people feel good to see Kardashians gaining weight, getting cheated on and transitioning between genders on TV. Celebrities – they’re just like us! There are always going to be celebs. People need someone to idolize and criticize. In olden days, there were kings or pharaohs or war generals. Now it’s the Kardashians. ——

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Hate it For the record, I don’t care that you like celebrities, that you follow their lives closer than those of your closest friends’. This isn’t a judgment about the things you do, your values or how you spend your time. Because I don’t care much about those things, mainly because it has no bearing on my life or my values or how I spend my time. In short, your celebrity obsession does not affect me. Which is basically the same reason I have zero interest in celebrity culture: because it doesn’t matter. It’s junk food and empty calories. Wipe away nearly any celebrity – especially those famous-for-beingfamous celebrities – and the world would continue spinning unaffected (Hey, remember Paris Hilton?). You might say the same thing about sports, but that’s another topic. OK, there is one sinister side of celebrity culture that actually has serious consequences having to do with our culture’s propensity to equate wealth and fame with more virtuous qualities. That’s how you get musicians and actors opining like imbeciles on topics far outside their area of expertise (Jenny McCarthy and vaccines, anyone?). And that’s how you get a megalomaniac demagogue uncomfortably close to becoming president of the effing United States, whose many supporters confuse charisma and wealth with intelligence and leadership, and who stays afloat because the news media can’t look away from such a trainwreck ratings bonanza. And in between, we obsess over a stranger’s pregnancy or breakup. It’s opium for the masses and manufactured consent. All that. —— David Holub

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Bluegrass & breaks April’s here, which means that it’s Meltdown time. Who better than the stalwart host of KSUT’s The Grass Is Bluer, Hugh Felt, to get you smart and set for pickin’ and grinnin’? What’s unique about the Meltdown? Well, it’s not a summer festival. It’s a literal Meltdown. Durango’s shaking off the winter and looking forward to summer and the Meltdown is sort of the start of that. It’s a chance to hear some really good players, to make and reconnect with some friends, and for those who play, to maybe learn a few things and work on their skills. It’s very social, it’s very low-pressure. It’s a festival that also fosters a lot of youngsters, which is great. A place where they can participate and learn from others, maybe find a good role model, even busk a little! Bluegrass has its origins in several folk traditions – old time, Celtic – what makes it unique as a genre? Well, Bill Monroe liked to sing very high leads and harmony parts, which is how the “high lonesome sound” came about. Jimmy Martin built upon that. Bluegrass honors traditions, but it also encourages players to stretch out a bit – you know, expressing themselves. There’s a diversity to it, it’s inclusive. People playing music together, really gathering around it. Gathering as in jamming? Will there be a lot of that at the Meltdown? Oh yes. Jamming is a very important part of the Meltdown. Players sharing knowledge, trading songs, helping one another to get better – you don’t get to be Bela Fleck overnight. But circling up and taking turns on the breaks – Breaks? You could also call them solos. If I wanted to sound like I knew what I was talking about what would I call them? Breaks. The notion is to feature all of the instruments that combine to make the sound. It wasn’t just Bill Monroe up

there! Each piece of a bluegrass band – you might also call them a string band – is vital to the overall sound. It’s a nice mix of timbres. Felt So the break is often just playing through the chorus or verse. The really good bands might split breaks between two musicians so that they trade phrases back and forth. It might even be each musician playing a quick line, each in turn, and then before you know it, they’re all playing together again. As I say, bluegrass honors the traditions but also encourages creativity and expression. Is that what separates the wheat from the chaff, so to speak? I’ve always liked harmony singing, and so I listen for that in particular. But yes, the dexterity necessary for the tempos bluegrass played is also an indicator of a solid band or musician. The Strater Hotel allows players to jam in the lobby and specified areas. What’s the etiquette of jamming? Yes, they’re very kind about that – especially for how late it can often go! If you’re looking to jam, it’s good to know the fundamental chords and shapes of whatever instrument you play. Know them well enough that you can pick up what others are doing by just looking. You don’t have to know everything up and down the neck, by any means. If you like to sing, there’s always plenty of opportunity there. Sing along. When breaks are being taken, quiet down a bit so that they can be heard. If you’re not ready to take a break yourself when your turn comes, don’t worry, you can pass it along and someone else will take

it. I think bluegrass really says, “Hey, come on in. Sit in the back row if you want, or come right in close.” You don’t have to say a word or sing, but playing in a jam circle can make you better. It’s a socially engaging kind of music. Learn what you can along the way. Be encouraged and encourage others. That’s another nice thing about the Meltdownpeople who are very adept and skilled at their instruments are often found helping those who are just beginning, offering them tips and suggestions. Which bands are you looking forward to seeing? Boy, there’s a number of them. Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley – I’m a big fan of Blue Highway, so it’s always nice to hear Rob. Foghorn Stringband will be a big draw. Really good stuff. Six Dollar String Band is an awful lot of fun. This year is more of an old-timey, sort of folky lineup, which should be very good. Cyle Talley highly recommends going to the Meltdown Barn Dance, which features local favorites Six Dollar String Band and Portland, Oregon, heroes Foghorn Stringband. If there’s anything 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

Sturgill Simpson,“A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” Available: Friday via Atlantic Records as a download, CD, LP and a run of limited edition sea blue vinyl . Some longtime Sturgill Simpson fans are about to be disappointed.

»» Spring Fever musicians are Jake Simpson, fiddle; Keith Reed, banjo; Greg Blake, guitar/ vocals; KC Groves, bass; and Sam Steele, dobro. You can hear them play this weekend at the Bluegrass Meltdown.

By long time I am, of course, referring to the sizable contingent of relatively new fans rightly garnered after the critical success of Simpson’s second full-length player “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music.” “Metamodern” was arguably one of the best records of 2014, full of purist honky-tonk twang, classic country themes and a (meta?) modern lyrical approach.

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Greg Blake is back for Bluegrass Meltdown

ind a better bluegrass festival than Durango’s Bluegrass Meltdown. You can try, and many festivals come close, but this is the tops. It is an event that continues to pull in local and regional acts, while also drawing some of the best in the genre, from the up-and-comers to International Bluegrass Music Association award winners. The 22nd Annual Durango Bluegrass Meltdown will begin Friday and will run through the weekend, with music at the Durango Arts Center, The Wild Horse Saloon and Henry Strater Theatre. There also will be a free show Friday at the Powerhouse Science Center. Performers this year will include Wood & Wire, Chris Henry and Hardcore Grass, Foghorn Stringband, Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, Sideline, Mipso, Songs of the Fall and many local bands. Greg Blake, a multiyear performer, will be back; this year he’ll be playing with Spring Fever Bluegrass Band. Blake’s just released his solo debut, “Songs of Heart and Home,” featuring songs that will likely make their way into sets throughout the weekend. The guitar player and singer is as authentic of a bluegrass picker as they come. He’s not a fly-by-night hipster with a shiny copy of the “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” soundtrack in the CD player; rather, he is a man reared on classic country in rural West Virginia. The sounds of Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard were the gateway to bluegrass in its most traditional sense as he jumped into digging on a healthy dose of Bill Monroe and The Stanley Brothers. “I got my first guitar at 7 years old and grew up on the classic country artists,” Blake said in a recent

GO! 22nd Annual Durango Bluegrass Meltdown featuring music at the Henry Strater Theatre, Durango Arts Center, Wild Horse Saloon. Weekend pass $70, Saturday only $60, Sunday only $40. Information: www.durangomeltdown.com. phone interview. “But then I was introduced to bluegrass pretty early on, like 10 or 11 years of age, and got hooked on it and never left my fondness for classic country, I’ve kept that going as well, but definitely bluegrass is my love.” The Bluegrass Meltdown remains an interactive event, challenging even the remotest of bluegrass fans to come in and not have a good time. It’s impossible; there is music at every corner and every turn at every hour. Those on stage are likely to be the ones having just as much, if not more, fun than paying customers. It’s non-stop music; you’re just as likely to see some of the headliners picking at midnight in the Strater as you are when you watch one of their three to four sets through the weekend. “If I had the opportunity, I would reserve annually the Meltdown weekend, and make every effort that I could to be there. It’s one of my top five festivals to attend or perform at,” Blake said. “One of the things I love to do, when I’m at a festival I just don’t get on stage and go back to my room, I want to get every bit of the advantage of being at a festival, you’ll see my at some corner with somebody jamming between sets.” Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. liggett_b@fortlewis.edu.

It might have been easier, or more prudent, to stay the relative course and make a major label debut in line with his previous, straightforward country records. Instead, Simpson made a fantastic, soulful, experimental and horn-laden quasi-country album that may turn away some of those newly raving fans. Some might take issue with the lush string arrangements in the opener. Others may be confounded by the tremendous session horns courtesy of The Dap Kings. Perhaps waiting for a “true” country track until the listener is a third of the way into the album is too much to ask. Which would be a shame. Sturgill Simpson made another great record ... his first as his own executive producer ... so it is certainly the sort HE wanted to make. Recommended if you dig The Memphis Horns, Van Morrison, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats or JP Harris and The Tough Choices. —— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

New at Southwest Sound April 8 »»1. Sturgill Simpson, “Sailor’s Guide To Earth” »»2. PJ Harvey , “Hope Six Demolition Project” »»3. Santana, “Santana IV” »»4. Del McCoury, “Del And Woody” »»5. Graham Nash, “The PathTonight” Also don’t forget that Saturday is Record Store Day!

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Style Fetish | Heather Narwid

Ladies of all shapes: Rock the T and denim right There is no clothing combo more classic than a white T-shirt and jeans. Forever cool, these two pieces offer a stylish and effortless look. This simple and iconic outfit works best when each piece fits perfectly and compliments your figure. Many design variations are out there to choose from to keep this look uniquely individual. This week, Style Fetish identifies some common female body types and suggests a few of the most flattering and comfortable styles of tees and jeans for each of these unique and lovely lady shapes. This is about distributing volume to achieve a balanced silhouette, no matter the size. Hourglass The tee: A low, scoop-necked tee is a good choice for an average-sized bust; the scoop draws attention upward to the face. If you are small-busted, wear a higher-neckline crewneck tee. Hourglass ladies with large busts should try a bust-minimizing V-neck or scoop. Try a cropped-length tee that hits at the natural waist or a tight ’70s style with a scoop neck and cap sleeves to emphasize the narrowness of the waist. Pass on full tunic tops. The jeans: Higher-waisted jeans look good on the hourglass. Very low-rise waists here disturbs the proportion by making the torso look overly long and accentuating the hips too much. A straight or skinny leg opening is best for petites; try boot-cut leg if you are taller. Darker washes look best here.

Apple The tee: Avoid too-big or oversized tees to eliminate blockiness and minimize the volume on top; keep the shoulder seams right on top of the shoulders. The length of the tee should hit either at the top of the hip or be a well-fitting tunic-length tee that skims the torso and covers your butt. A V, scoop or asymmetric neckline will be more flattering than a higher crew neck and will draw attention upward to your face. Dolman- or kimono-sleeved tops have a flattering drape, narrow at the hips and look good on an “apple.” The jeans: Go for a mid-rise jean in a slightly wider leg cut to balance the midsection. It may seem counterintuitive, but let the waist of the jeans make that horizontal line over the tummy, without a belt, to visually create a waistline. Avoid very skinny jeans as they will make the middle look larger in comparison. Boot cut is good. Wear a uniform, darker wash unless you are tall.

Inverted triangle The tee: Try a dark color instead of white to visually narrow the shoulders and bust. Or

wear an old-school baseball ringer tee, or another design with dark-contrast shoulders. Avoid oversize tees – get one that fits exactly or is snug, especially in the shoulders. Elbow-length or 3/4-length sleeves are a good look on this body shape. Avoid tank tops because they accentuate the shoulders too much. The jeans: A pale wash or white jeans with a straight, boot cut or bell bottom look great on this body shape because they will accentuate the lower half while de-emphasizing the upper torso. Avoid skinny jeans in a dark wash; they will make the slim lower-half recede too much. If you must go skinny, wear white or a very pale wash and keep your top dark. Also try printed denim – floral, pinstripes or extra-distressed with contrast bleaching will all serve to add a bit of balancing volume to the lower half.

Bar/Rectangle The tee: Try a style with a wide boatneck or off-shoulder neckline that narrows at the waist, left untucked with a skinny belt on top to create a waistline. Or a tee in a fancier design like a surplice/ wrap/criss-cross shape at the waist. A cap-sleeve length sleeve (that length between shortsleeved and a sleeveless) will elongate and thin the upper arm if needed, and a sleeve that cuts across the bicep will add volume if your arms are thin. The jeans: Wear low rise,

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square-hipped boy-cut to highlight any curves in the hips and booty and create a narrowing at the waist. If there is a bit of tummy you’d like to de-emphasize, wear a higher-rise waist. Try a straight or wider leg with a boot cut or flare. If you have a small booty, wear jeans with flap pockets or embroidery to add some curves back there.

Spoon The tee: A fancier tee designed with some fullness in the bust and/ or decoration on the shoulders is a good choice. Horizontal stripes, a print or metallic or reflective bling would be perfect, too, to volumize that upper body. Or a draped style that gathers at the waist – anything to add volume to the torso will de-emphasize the hips and thighs. Avoid tees that cut across the hips and butt. The jeans: Avoid any whiskering or bleaching at the waist and thighs. Stick to a uniform wash in a dark or medium tone. Keep the back pockets plain, or try a design without any at all. Wear a medium rise to elongate the lower body and avoid the love handles that are easy to get from low-rise jeans. Keep the leg in a straight or slightly wider cut that drops straight down from the hip and keep the leg opening boot cut or smaller – no bell bottoms because these will emphasize the thighs. A very stretchy denim will help rectify the fit between thighs and a proportionally smaller waist. Heather Narwid owns Sideshow, a vintage and modern clothing store for men and women established in Dolores in 2007. Sideshow is now located in Durango at 208 County Road 250 in the fabulous commerce corridor between Florida Road and 32nd Street. Sideshow is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m.

Common body shapes These are general shapes for ladies who are attenuate through zaftig, and tall, regular or petite height. It is about the proportions of the figure, not the weight. We can see plus or slim versions of all these shapes and sometimes a combination of two shapes. Hourglass This shape has shoulders and hips the same width. The waist is the smallest part (real waist at the belly button). Apple This shape is fullest in the midsection at the waist and tummy. Legs and thighs tend to be thinner. Inverted triangle This shape is widest at the shoulders and bust, and tapers to slim hips and slim legs. Bar or Rectangle A straight figure where shoulders, waist and hips are the same width – bar for slims and rectangle for fuller figures. Spoon Slim and narrow at shoulders, bust and rib cage, widest at hips and thighs.

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

Want to have your own brewery? Hang on for a wild ride.

ntil very recently, I’ve never really wanted to own my own business, especially a brewery. I’m fine making other people’s beer, using their ingredients and tools, and then I still get to hand someone a beer and say “I made this” (I also have a terrible fear of failure, but that’s unrelated, maybe). Despite personal qualms, I still see people opening breweries, and half the time I think, “how the [bleep] is that guy going to open a brewery? He’s not even a good homebrewer, how is he going to run a brewery?” And, yeah, half the time the product is half-good and enthusiasm is half-there. I guess it’s hard watching the growing pains of any new business, especially one rooted in history, tradition and microbiology. I mean, it’s one thing if you have a hobby of, say, leatherwork and you open an Etsy shop; it’s another thing entirely to turn your weekend hobby and homebrew recipes into a brewpub. I don’t think a lot of people understand how much and how dirty the work is. Most of the time, you’re in a super humid environment, around hot liquids, lifting bags of grain, dragging hoses and scrubbing every possible thing that can be scrubbed in the meantime. Being sprayed with yeast or beer and getting powdered with hop or grain dust is a regular occurrence. It’s not glamorous. You regularly leave work tired and sore, dirty and smelly. Romantic, right? The image of the brewery as a spotless environment and the brewer standing with a paddle stirring the mash with a smile, is a rarity and a lot of work to maintain, which doesn’t get photographed or written about. It’s also requires a lot of learning and a lot of reliance on the trials, failures and successes of others. One of the things that I love about the industry is that every person you work with (unless they are absolutely an FNG – [Bleeping] New Guy) has something to teach. A person starting

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»» Steve Lowe, a cellarman for Ska Brewing, carries bags of grain into the Mill Room at the microbrewer’s headquarters in Bodo Park. their own brewery from scratch has to figure out their brewhouse on their own, has to learn to scale their recipes for their system, and if they have only homebrewing experience, has to learn all the other important parts of producing drinkable beer at full-scalebatch size. Durango is pretty lucky that, so far, all of our breweries are in the hands of experienced professionals with decades of cumulative knowledge and experience working in their brewhouses. The amount of learning from and reliance on the experience of others that goes into a successful brewery of any size blows me away. Dealing with the usual learning curve is pretty easy in a brewery filled with consummate professionals. Dealing with problems and failures seems

impossible, especially for the inexperienced, because brewers, even the most knowledgeable, well-seasoned brewers make many of mistakes. Machines fail constantly. Ingredients and circumstances change from batch to batch, and the yeast does whatever it wants sometimes. Every brewer I’ve talked to has made some major mistake – filtered the wrong beer, cleaned the wrong tank, opened the wrong valve, forgot some important task or another. Hopefully, you never have to dump beer down the drain, get or cause an injury or break a vital piece of equipment. Some mistakes you will make only once, like going on salary or drinking too much the night before an early shift, but other mistakes, failures or issues are best avoided and pre-

vented. That comes from experience or having that experience for when the inevitable shit does hit the fan. That fear of inevitable failure, whether it’s a bad batch, or a mechanical fix that’s out of my reach, the inability to handle a weird fermentation problem, or shitty customer reviews on Yelp (oh, yeah, [bleep]ing forgot about the critics …), those fears are, for the moment, what keeps me from going out on my own. That, and loads and loads of student loan debt. 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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[movies] The Jungle Book Playing at Stadium 9 (Also available in 3-D with surcharge) Rating: PG Genre: Action &

adventure, kids & family Directed by: Jon Favreau Written by: Justin Marks Runtime: 1 hr. 51 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 100% Synopsis: An all-new live-action epic

adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves.

Criminal Playing at Stadium 9 Rating: R Genre: Drama,

action & adventure, mystery & suspense Directed by:

Ariel Vromen Written by: Douglas S. Cook, David

Weisberg Runtime: 1 hr. 53 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 14% Synopsis: The memories and skills of

a CIA agent are implanted into the brain of a dangerous criminal in order to stop an international terrorist.

Demolition Playing at the Gaslight Rating: R Genre: Drama,

comedy Directed by:

Jean-Marc Vallée Written by:

Bryan Sipe Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 50% Synopsis: Davis Mitchell struggles

after losing his wife in a car crash. Despite pressure from his father-inlaw to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel.

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»» Cedric The Entertainer, from left, Nicki Minaj and Ice Cube take care of business in “Barbershop: The Next Cut.”

‘Barbershop’ brings the comedy, drama By Richard Roeper The Chicago Sun-Times

You don’t expect a comedy to give you the chills, but the opening scene in “Barbershop: The Next Cut” did exactly that to me. It’s been a decade and a half since we’ve seen Ice Cube’s Calvin Palmer, proprietor of the South Side barbershop where there’s as much conversation as cutting on any given day. The neighborhood has fallen on hard times. Crime is up. Gunshots and sirens are the soundtrack of the day. We see real-life news footage of recent tragedies and protests that have put Chicago in the national spotlight. Says Calvin to his beloved hometown: “Chicago, we need to talk.” Maybe it’s because I’m from the south suburbs and I’ve lived in the city for 25 years but when Calvin talked about how the violence has him rethinking his love affair with the city, it hit home, hard. Not only is “Barbershop: The Next Cut” one of the funniest movies in recent years, it’s a poignant and

Barbershop: The Next Cut Playing at Stadium 9 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Comedy Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee Written by: Kenya Barris, Tracy

Oliver Runtime: 1 hr. 52 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: Not available

timely drama about the dilemma facing many parents in certain Chicago neighborhoods where crime is a fact of life: As much as you want to live where your family has lived for generations, as much as you don’t want to be pushed out of your home, is it better for your children if you move the family elsewhere? Calvin and his wife, Jennifer (Jazsmin Lewis), have done everything they can to make sure their son, Jalen (Michael Rainey Jr.), concentrates on his studies and his basketball game while avoiding the gang influences lurking around every corner and even in the high school

hallways. But when a model student from the neighborhood gets caught in the crossfire of another senseless exchange of gunfire, Calvin contemplates selling the barbershop and moving his family and the business to the North Side. Out of economic necessity, Calvin’s barbershop is now sharing space with the beauty shop run by Angie (Regina Hall), so the stage is set every morning for gender (and generational) verbal warfare. At times “The Next Cut” is almost too ambitious in its attempt to cover myriad bases. In addition to the plot lines about Calvin’s family, violence in Chicago, Eddie’s claim he once cut the hair of a young Barack Obama and Anthony Anderson’s J.D. operating a food truck, there’s a romantic triangle of sorts involving Rashad (Common) and his wife, Terri (Eve), and Draya, who has designs on Rashad. It’s the least interesting and least effective story thread in the film. Just about everything else clicks, thanks in no small part to the wonderful performances from the deep cast.

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Durango’s most controversial doctor »» As “Trapped,” a documentary

about abortion screens at the Animas City Theatre this week, we spoke to Dr. Richard Grossman about performing abortions in Durango and the hostility his profession provokes. By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

hen I went to interview Dr. Richard Grossman at Planned Parenthood Durango, there were two anti-abortion picketers strolling back and forth across the parking lot entrance. There also was a truck parked next to the lot decorated with signs reading, “We will help, not judge” or displaying the large image of a fetus, clearly intended to arouse distress. A Planned Parenthood “escort” walks women from their cars to the center, in case protesters yell things or get rowdy. Imagine enduring verbal abuse walking into a doctor’s office for a checkup. Now imagine how the women who walk in for abortions feel. You have to be buzzed into the center. My bag was checked, too, “because of the incident in Colorado Springs,” the security guard told me. He’s referring, of course, to the Colorado gunman who shot and killed three people inside a Planned Parenthood last November. The organization has been the target of long-standing threats and violence, owing to its role in providing health care and abortions, in addition to lobbying for women’s reproductive rights. The nerve. Richard Grossman will lead a panel discussion at the Animas City Theatre on Monday after a screening of “Trapped,” a documentary about abortion and women’s health care directed by Dawn Porter. The film follows the trials and tribulations of clinic workers and lawyers who are locked in an ongoing battle, fighting to keep abortion safe and legal for American women (many of them poor and uninsured). Since 2010, hundreds of laws regulating abortion

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[movies] clinics have been passed by conservative state legislatures, especially in the south. These restrictions are known as TRAP laws (or Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers), hence this doc’s title. As both the costs of reproductive health care and the vehemence of anti-abortion protestors increase, “Trapped” tracks the conflict all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Grossman has lived in La Plata County for 40 years, and he writes an opinion page column for The Durango Herald titled “Population Matters!” the column discusses how best to prevent overpopulation. “The reason I went into medicine with OB-GYN specialty was concern about population issues,” Grossman said. He retired from office practice in 2014 but still works at Planned Parenthood. There’s only one other doctor in Durango who performs abortions, and two who live in New Mexico but commute here to practice. What’s impressive about Grossman isn’t that he performs abortions. It’s the human decency he exudes, the calm tolerance with which he regards people who rally against him and his life’s work. “I can see the standpoint of people on the other side,” he said. “But I think the reality is, even if abortion were illegal in the United States, like before Roe v. Wade, women would still get them.” A newly established state law has made it increasingly difficult and expensive for Texas women to obtain the procedure; as a result, Grossman recently had a patient come all the way from Austin (a 14-hour drive) because the wait was too long and the cost too high in her home state. Most women cannot wait to have this done because time is of the essence. “I grew up in the era when abortion was illegal, and women still found ways,” Grossman said. “And they suffered. Psychological abuse, physical abuse, infections afterwards, problems with heavy bleeding and hemorrhaging. Some of them died. That was an era I hope we never return to. But abortion may become available only to rich people again.” Grossman was raised a Quaker and remains a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Quakers don’t have a creed; some are pro-choice, some anti-abortion. “Nobody tells us what to believe,” said Grossman. He has come to certain conclusions from prodigious research over the years: “Very few people recognize

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»» Clinic escorts gather to pray at Reproductive Health Services in Montgomery, Ala., in a scene from “Trapped,” a film about medical professionals who work at clinics that perform abortions and are subject to TRAP laws.

how many of the problems we face are caused by the increasing number of humans,” he said. “Fifty percent of all pregnancies in our country are conceived by mistake. So many are unwanted. That’s part of the reason for our high abortion rates as compared to other rich countries.” Many people additionally fail to realize how often children who aren’t wanted end up the products of neglect or abuse. Their parents weren’t prepared to have them or just didn’t want to. These kids might never receive the love or financial security they deserve. “I certainly believe in adoption – but there are so many kids who need to be adopted already,” Grossman said. You might think doing a public service that requires knowledge, training and people skills would incur praise – but Grossman has experienced more significant opposition. One particularly vocal local resident sat outside his house and called out, “Your husband is a baby killer!” when Grossman’s wife returned home. “But I reported that to a friend of mine who is anti-abortion, and he interceded on our behalf,” Grossman said. In fact, he said that although nationwide there has been an increase in anti-abortion sentiment, here in Durango people are pretty polite. He

Go! Event: Documentary “Trapped” with panel discussion led by Dr. Richard Grossman When: 7 p.m. Monday, April 18 Where: Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. “Trapped” will also play without the panel at 2:15 p.m. April 19 and 5:15 p.m. April 20 and 21

maintains a peaceful and diplomatic relationship with those neighbors who disagree with him, fostering friendships with anti-abortionists and delivering their babies (OB-GYNs do a lot of that, too). “I believe in religious freedom,” Grossman said, “and at the beginning of my own peculiar religion, people were killed and imprisoned because of their beliefs. I remember that history.” It sounds strange, but Grossman feels protected by the picketers he’s familiar with, and he doesn’t believe any of them would harm him. It’s more likely to be someone outside the community, like the loner in Colorado Springs. The leader of a Durango antiabortion group once sent Grossman an email explaining why he shouldn’t perform the medical acts he performs,

and he wrote back, asking whether he might accompany her to church in an attempt to better understand her religious beliefs. They went to Mass at St. Ignatius Church together, but she never asked Grossman to tell her more about Quakerism. “This is a statistic I had to read several times to believe: One of the most carefully done global studies on abortion states that it’s actually more common in countries where it’s illegal,” Grossman said. Similarly, in countries where citizens receive human sexuality education from a young age, abortion happens less – because unwanted pregnancies are far fewer. In the U.S., women’s reproductive health can seem like a catch-22; many politicians don’t want women having easy access to contraception, abortions or welfare checks to feed the kids they can’t afford but are forced to keep. What options does that leave? “Contraception is one of the most amazing public-health interventions,” Grossman said. “It saves money, allows people to continue their education and empowers women in many different ways.” Let’s hope human beings like Dr. Grossman continue to encourage such empowerment.

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Furever yours

»» Getting in touch with their inner [insert favorite fuzzy animal here] is a way to party for some, a religion for others – and it always makes a good story By David Holub DGO editor

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ou gotta understand something, man. This is not what you think it is. This isn’t low-level stuff. This is people who have a lot of money, and a lot of power, and this is what we like to do and nobody needs to know about it.” That was told to Durango artist Wu Wallace outside a bar in San Francisco in October 2014, by the CEO of a Silicon Valley tech company who happened to be wearing a concealing, full-fledged tiger costume. Wu and the tiger CEO had just left what is known as a furry party, full of other people, some in anthropomorphic animal costumes, some not. This particular furry party had explicit sexual overtones as you’ll see in Wu’s story. It’s important to know that this particular party is a bit of an outlier. Most furry gatherings are more mainstream, taking place at large convention centers like those of many other fandoms and hobbies. And the informal furry parties they throw are like any other party: People talking and laughing about the thing they have in common, playing cards, above-board hanging out. So what is a furry? They’re people interested in anthropomorphized animals and the subculture that began developing in the late 1980s as an offshoot of the sci fi/fantasy fandoms. Think Bugs Bunny or Tony the Tiger or Smokey Bear or almost any cartoon starring bipedal, humanized animals. Furry fandom isn’t only people who dress and interact in sophisticated animal costumes, and in fact, most don’t. Some assume furry personas and avatars (fursonas) only for interacting online. Some create original furry artwork or stories, as humans have been doing for thousands of years. As a subculture, the interest is in exploring and interpreting the human condition, life experiences and human psychology and socialization through anthropomorphized expression. Most furries consider their pursuits in the realm of a hobby or subculture, a chance to hang with the likeminded. The term “fetish” can be off-putting or downright inaccurate. However, like many subcultures, there can be an edgier, more subversive, underground component to furrydom, which Wu’s story explores. This is just one furry story, as told by Wu Wallace, who was living in Santa Cruz at the time. It’s about one crazy San Francisco night that ended at a scene many of us only read about or see in movies.

*************** So, I have this real good friend Meghan, who’s this amazing artist. She calls me up and says, “We gotta get out of town. I gotta get out of here; I’m losing it. Come up to San Francisco with me for the night.” So I say sure. She says, “We might be going to an interesting party afterwards. Bring a costume.” Pretty much my only costume was this bigfoot costume that I wear around everywhere. So I bring it along with me, I get up to San Francisco and I get to my friend’s house and I drop it in a puddle of bum piss. And I didn’t even know it. I pick it up and I was like, “Oh shoot, I dropped it in some water.” I smelled pee and I’m like, “Nooooo! I ruined my bigfoot cos-

tume! I’m not going to be able to wow the party.” Before we go to the interesting party, we decide to go to this club. It’s an art club. The whole point of it – and it’s not like a club like ‘we’re going to go dance’ club. It’s like a country club. And it is posh. I’ve never been to a place like this before. You have to pay this crazy membership just to be a part of it, then you can bring a guest in. So I was kind of a plus-one to it. The whole point of this club is to link people who have a lot of money with artists so they can buy fine art from the artist. So it’s just a schmoozefest. You’re seeing businessmen walking

around with beautiful women and they’re chatting up with scummy artists. And there’s all these different-themed rooms. One of them, you pull a book on a shelf and this door opens up and you go into this reading area. We were in that book nook and we’re sitting down with a bunch of other artists kind of chatting, shooting the shit. We’re with this guy who owns the [prominent business] in San Francisco and we’re with this other guy who’s an international projection artist – big names. So we’re like, let’s go to this other party. P.S.: It’s a furry party. And I’m like, “YES! THIS IS BADASS!” She’s telling me, “Dude, this place is the real deal. It’s off the hook. We gotta

go there.” And the guy who owns the [business] and the projection artist were like [in a sophisticated accent], “Ohh, we want to go to a furry party. Why don’t we take you there in our convertible?” And I’m like, “YEAH! Let’s go to the furry party in the convertible!” So we’re walking down the street and Continued on Page 14

Want to hear a recording of Wu Wallance’s story? Visti www.DGO.com

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this guy’s like [sophisticated accent], “Would you like a beer? Would you like more food?” Everywhere we go he’s stopping us, buying us shit. So we get into their old vintage convertible. He’s like, “Hop in.” He starts it up, like this old baby blue Corvair, and it’s like, “WOM! WOM! WOM!” And he turns on some ’90s goth-rock. I don’t remember the band, but it was super sad music. He starts up his car and peels out, clearly drunk. Super drunk. And I’m like, “Oh [bleep]; this is going to be a wild ride.” I had no idea what we were getting into. I’m not joking: He’s doing 60 miles an hour down San Francisco, midnight, weaving in and out of cars and he’s blowing every stoplight, just pedal to the metal. It gets crazier. His buddy, the guy who owns the [business], is sitting next to us, he’s like, “Oh no no no. Pull down [this] street right here” and the guy’s like, [sound effect of squealing tires]. He is doing slide-turns down alleyways. I’m not kidding: People are jumping Out. Of. The road. To get out of the way! And the whole time he’s like, whatever, listening to music and this other dude’s like, [sophisticated accent] “Ah yes, right here, this is where we had our orgies. We would all meet here and have our group sex until the city banned it from this street – OK turn down here.” He’s telling us all these wild stories and I’m like, “We’re all going to [beep]ing die. We’re going to die.” I look over at my friend Meghan and she’s like, [gasping], having seizures next to me, crying. She’s holding on to me. We finally pull up to this bar. Meghan can’t even walk. I’m helping her into the bar. We get in and it’s pounding music: BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Furry party. I didn’t get told a lot about this furry party. Meghan said, “You got to see it to believe it, but the last time I was there, I watched a seal getting a blow job from a fox ON the bar.” So, envision that, for this party. It’s a bunch of people dressed up in animal costumes – like real big animal costumes and they’re all kind of dancing. But there’s a second group of people, and they’re dressed in leather. Like, leather straps and stuff. There’s a weird dynamic between the two. The animals are kind of [bleep]ing around with each other and they’re slinking into this back room for a while, coming

back out, slinking in. And then these people who’re wearing the leather, they have leashes and so they’ll go up to a furry animal that they like and clip this leash onto them and bring them over and dance with them a little bit. It sounds creepy, but it wasn’t creepy at all. It was totally consensual. Nobody was out of hand. People were definitely into it and there for a reason. But they would all ask for permission before they start touching each other and groping on each other. We’d be dancing there and an animal would come up and start grinding on you. It was fine. It wasn’t perverted. It didn’t feel gross. I don’t have a weird thing. I don’t want to [bleep] an animal or anything. I think that the reason it works is they’re not overly creepy. You could be dancing at a gay club (in San Francisco) and have a great time and guys will come on to you and it comes on really heavy. You don’t want it, but they’re just coming at you with a different vibe. It’s not that [the furries] want to [bleep] you and it’s not that they want to make it sexual but if you want to have a good time, you can take it there. But there’s kind of this unspoken respect that goes back and forth. People in the leather weren’t interested in other people. They were only interested in the animals. So the party ends and everyone moves outside. They’re all just hanging out and talking. And I’m hitting people up, like “I love what you’re doing. This is so cool. I really like the scene here. It’s not what I was expecting.” But I sit down and I get talking to this one guy. And they all have different names, weird names, like Tasty Eagle and Pup Leo. And I’m like, “How much does one of these costumes cost and he says, “No. You gotta understand something right now. These costumes are more money than you can possibly fathom. Not an average person could afford this.” He says, “What you need to know is that the people in these costumes are like executives.” He says he’s the CEO of a tech company in the

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“It’s not that [the furries] want to [bleep] you and it’s not that they want to make it sexual but if you want to have a good time, you can take it there.” Wu Wallace

Silicon Valley. “I can’t expose myself. I can’t show my face, but this is what I love to do and I can afford it.” He was in this weird tiger costume. The cool thing was, we’re talking and people – they always do this little paw thing on each other and then he’ll start purring and lean into it and paw back. He’s like, “You gotta understand something, man. This is not what you think it is. This isn’t low-level stuff. This is people who have a lot of money and a lot of power, and this is what we like to do, and nobody needs to know about it.” I’m like, “NO WAY!” But it was a sweaty-ass dance party and I asked that guy, “Dude, I’m sweating my balls off right now; you have to be losing it.” And he’s like, “I have fans in (this costume) and stuff.” You talk to these people and it’s not just a fur costume. Guaranteed they’re sweating those things out, but they got the mechanics in there to make it happen. And they are GOOD costumes. You wear something like that and you are gonna get laid. Nothing insane happened in front of my eyes. I didn’t get to see anything wild. But they’re obviously [bleep]ing around with each other in the background and there’s definitely a sexual vibe, to it but it’s totally consensual. It’s totally happy. It is honestly one of the most friendly ...

I really thought it was going to be more perverted, more leather-party or more of a power exchange thing where there’s this weird edge to it where you’re kind of vulnerable, maybe a victim in some cases where people are getting off on that. This was – everyone was one the same level; everybody’s making sure everybody’s cool with everything. I can only say positive things about my experience with it. I would definitely go back to one of the parties. I am not into it by any means. I would not dress up in an animal costume ... it’s not my thing. If I put a bigfoot costume on it’s because I’m going to go make people laugh and I want them to know it’s me. I’m not going to put it on to go get into that scene but I totally respect that scene. Because it is their own little world. It’s like the theater kids, man. Total theater kids; they’re total band kids, like band camp. They all knew each other. While I’m not into it, I totally respect it and I would party with those guys any day. Because they’re fun. But if some seal was like, “Hop up on the bar, big boy,” I’d be like, “Um, you know ... probably gonna keep dancing if that’s cool.”

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

Maria’s bestsellers

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid

April 3-9

There is so much fear in the world today. So much fear, and not enough empathy. Terrible things have happened in the past several years. Terrible civil wars, acts of terrorism, people fleeing their home because it is the last chance they have. All of this amid posturing and stereotyping, all on a world scale.

»»1. Remixology: Classic Cocktails, Reconsidered and Reimagined, by Julia Hastings-Black (Hardcover)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the story that a man named Changez tells to a jumpy American in a cafe in Lahore, and his love affair with an American woman in the days immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the events that lead him to quit America and to return to his homeland.

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

»»2. The Best Durango Hikes, by San Juan Group of the Colorado Mountains (Paperback) »»4. The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, by Michael Punke (Paperback) »»5. A Hiking Guide to Cedar Mesa: Southeast Utah, by Peter Francis Tassoni (Paperback)

This book was an incredible commentary on globalization, racism, espionage and the mixing of cultures in a world where people seldom agree with one another. It was fantastic. Beautifully written, it was a wonderful examination on the nature of being a stranger in a foreign country, particularly a stranger whose foreignness is viewed negatively by the native populace, and the strange way the global politics is conducted.

»»6. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, by JanPhilipp Sendker (Paperback) »»7. The Emerald Mile, by Kevin Fedarko (Paperback) »»8. We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride (Paperback)

“I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away as American,” Hamid writes.

»»9. The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Paperback)

The thing I liked the most about this book was how it examined how far the effects of America’s actions go, and how the average American seldom knows these effects.

»»10. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo (Hardcover)

Everyone should read this book. — Jaime Cary

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4/20: Mythology and fact There’s a lot of mystery and mythology surrounding this number. Sure, you see “420-friendly” on a roommate listing and know exactly what it means – (it means you want to move in ASAP) – but do you know WHY it means that? Here, we’ll dispel some common misconceptions and get to the truth of the matter.

4/20 references in pop culture

Myth: It’s Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Truth: Yeah, Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. But that’s hardly the reason stoners rejoice. Stoners don’t approve of Hitler. (We hope). It’s also not the birthday of any other famous smokers, like Bob Marley or Willie Nelson.

»»After the 420-mile marker on the Interstate 70 in Colorado was repeatedly stolen, officials replaced it with a 419.99-mile sign.

»»All of the clocks and timepieces in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” are set to 4:20.

Myth: 420 refers to the number of chemical compounds in cannabis. Truth: Nope. There are apparently 315 chemicals in cannabis.

»»The score on the football scoreboard in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” is 42-0.

»»Snoop Dogg (Snoop Lion these days) said in 2009: “Me and Willie Nelson recorded [a] song in Amsterdam on 4/20. It was a beautiful day, it was a roomful of smoke. It was historic.” This song was “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.”

Myth: 420 is a police radio code for marijuana. Truth: Wrong. Although 420 is the code for homicide at the Las Vegas Police Department. Myth: Is there a Grateful Dead connection? Truth: Actually, yes. Devoted tokers that they were, the Grateful Dead helped spread the code (although they didn’t invent it). So what’s the whole truth? Can you HANDLE the truth? (OK you probably can). The real 420-origin story dates back to 1970s California (where else?). Among a group of high school students in San Rafael, 4:20 p.m. became the intended hour of cannabis consumption. They used “420” as a whispered covert phrase in the hallways, as well as for the general time said activities would commence. The group often met in front of the statue of 19th century French scientist Louis Pasteur. San Rafael and Marin County also happened to be the central hub for all things Grateful Dead from the ’70s through the ’90s. So the markedly marijuana-friendly musical group and their “Deadheads” (fans) soon picked up on the trend; once they started using it on tour, the whole thing spread like wildfire. Within a decade, 420 had become a universal signifier, and April 20 was a national day of blazing merriment. —— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

Several Durango dispensaries are having holiday specials! Durango Greenery: Celebrating early on Saturday, 4/16 with specials, drawings and free pizza.

Illustration David Holub/ DGO; images via Shutterstock

Highdeas: What should you do on 4/20? We asked dispensary employees what they’d recommend on the celebratory date: “It should be a social event. Because of the illegality, it could never be social before. Now it’s about people coming together, being outdoors … you should definitely go out in nature. And do something you love! 4/20 is like a celebration of legalization.” —— Pat Dalton, Durango Rec Room

“Enjoy nature. It’s spring, we live in a beautiful place. So, nature and friends.” —— Sam Redman, Durango Greenery

“I always end up working on 4/20, unfortunately. It’s normally our busiest day of the year!” —— Anonymous, Durango Organics

“Don’t be stressed. I use cannabis as medicine, and have for years. It helps me to be less stressed.” —— Beth Caldwell, Sante Durango

“Hopefully it’s a nice sunny day. Nothing better than a hike, chilling by the river and smoking a joint.” —— Nick Thompson, Colorado Grow Co.

“Be safe, enjoy recreational cannabis. To be honest, 4/20 was a lot more important to me when I was younger. But consume responsibly.” —— Anonymous, Rocky Mountain High

“Blunts, blunts and more blunts!” —— Vanessa Brown, Animas Herbal

Sante Durango: On 4/20, the shop has a spinning wheel with prizes (you could win a gift basket, vaporizer, T-shirts or discount toward your purchases). Also giving away free T-shirts. Colorado Grow Co.: On 4/20 all buds are special pricing; $12 for a gram, $40 for an eighth, $75 for a quarter. Rocky Mountain High: On 4/20, specials include four prerolled joints for $20 (all strains), $25 eighths (select strains), $25 grams of hash, 10 percent off all edibles and $125 ounces (select strains). Animas Herbal: $10 off eighths, $15 off if you have a valid medical card. Gold (best quality) $25 an eighth and $10 a gram, Platinum $30 1/8 $12G, Fire $35 1/8 14G. Plus more deals on wax/ shatter and medical.

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

The 1960s come around again, and Leary’s advice is relevant

Out” (a phrase he popularized merican culture but did not actually coin – that cycles and recredit goes to Canadian media cycles; musical theorist Marshall McLuhan), a sensibilities, trends clarion call encouraging sepain clothes, cars and even ration from the predominant haircuts all have their time “straight” social culture by on the popular stage – all the means of the deconstructive rage one season, anathema powers of psychedelic chemithe next, but, hold on to your cals became the tagline of the stuff; the time will come Summer of Love. The Beatles when you (or maybe your wrote “Come Together” in kids, someday) will discover support of his 1969 campaign. things anew and that sparkle Richard Nixon referred to him will again become apparent. as “the most dangerous man Viewed through a certain in America.” The appeal of lens, our current day takes his 1966 marijuana arrest was on a tint of the 1960s – the responsible for the Supreme remnants of the Grateful Court decision that deemed Dead are back on the road the Marihuana Taxation Act selling out stadiums from of 1937 unconstitutional. His coast to coast in conjunction admonition to pay attention to with a vibrant international “(mind)set and setting” from music festival scene taking Associated Press file photo his days a clinician have become place every weekend during »» Timothy Leary, the former LSD experimenter-turned-computerized hallucination designer, is photothe best advice imaginable for good weather, attended by graphed in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home in July 1992 with video images from his show projected over him. the responsible exploration of free spirits in day-glo colors the realms of consciousness available mostly based on his depiction in Tom re-enacting scenes reminiscent as spring weather in the shadow of a during psychedelic exploration, parWolfe’s Electric Kool Aid Acid Trip (if of Woodstock; a political mindset mountain range. ticularly for novices. you haven’t read this book, get it … has landed upon the young people There are intellectuals who ally I must say, he lived a life most of us today) and his Ivy League roots, I beof this nation in the form of the themselves with and lead elements of will only read about (have some fun lieved him to be a bit sterile and elitist. Sanders presidential bid, replacing these antiestablishment trends, but reading about it here in the book writI’m more of a Deadhead with a love decades of indifferent inaction, and none as iconic as Timothy Leary, who ten by the guy who turned him on: for their sound engineer and financial dozens of podcasts, YouTube videos, lived through permutations as Harhttp://bit.ly/1pXOSok ), both here on backer Owsley and his home lab tactics websites, blogs, and Facebook pages vard professor, clinical psychologist, Planet Earth and in the realms of conthat he used to flood the hippie scene discuss esoteric knowledge categopolitical activist, drug advocate, intersciousness exploration and advancewith something of the order of 10 milrized under the banner of “spirit national fugitive who was housed in 29 ment. So, DGO, let’s spark one this lion hits of LSD after it was outlawed science.” prisons, writer, philosopher, performer, week for Timothy Leary. in California in 1966. After doing extenCalifornia gubernatorial candidate Much of the territory is charted sive research on Leary, it turns out I in opposition to Ronald Reagan and this time around, but there is still the was wrong; he was kind of a badass. spokesman for and darling of a moverealm of the mind, seemingly as resisChristopher Gallagher lives with his wife Leary’s admonition to the 30,000 ment that inexorably changed this tant to rigorous cartography as ever, and their four dogs and two horses. Life is attendees of the 1967 Human Be-In country and the world. the quirks and foibles of individual pretty darn good. Contact him at chrstevent to “Tune In, Turn On, Drop I was never much of a “Leary guy,” experience remaining as unpredictable phrgallagher@gmail.com

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[review]

[Netflix and chill — 420 edition]

Tincture Belle Chronic Dreamz What is it? It’s 100mg of THC infused in smooth white chocolate with crunchy cookie pieces mixed in. The candy bar-style edible is sectioned off in ten 10mg doses, and contained in a childproof plastic bottle. Each bar is made with high quality Ghirardelli chocolate and has the feeling of being handcrafted. The Effects Like most solid-form edibles, the full effect wasn’t felt until about an hour after consumption. The high feels centered in your body at first, and then you realize the mood-elevating warmth as the feeling moves into your head. The high was pretty balanced, and lasted for at least three hours. There was no noticeable come down, just a calmness as the high wears off. The Smell Open the top and you’ll smell only white chocolate. The Look It looks just like a store bought cookies and cream bar. The Taste I love the taste. I’m already a fan of Ghirardelli white chocolate, so if you add some THC, it just makes it that much better.

‘Half Baked’ When Thurgood meets a cute girl named Mary Jane (ha), she warns him that marijuana is a gateway drug, which everybody knows leads to harder stuff. “Yeah … mostly junk food,” Thurgood responds quizzically. “Half Baked” proves not all stoners end up dangerous degenerates who also enjoy cocaine and heroin. In fact, that stuff freaks these guys out. The film is full of celebrity cameos. Bob Saget stands up in a rehab meeting and cries, “Marijuana is not an addiction! I used to suck dick for coke.You ever suck dick for marijuana?” Snoop Dogg plays a “scavenger smoker,” the type who never has weed of his own but always wants to take a hit as soon as you light up. Jon Stewart is an “enhancement smoker” who thinks pot makes every activity exponentially better. “Have you ever seen the back of a twenty-dollar bill ... on WEED?” he asks incredulously. Willie Nelson, Janeane Garofalo and Stephen Baldwin also make sly appearances.

“Half Baked” is the quintessential stoner comedy, the king of kings – so it seems only noble and natural to recommend it for 4/20 next week. The story begins with four best buds (pun intended) who begin smoking at a young age. When they mature into adults, not much has changed: they’re roommates inhabiting a colorful, trippy pad and regularly getting blazed. The trouble begins one night when sweet-tempered kindergarten teacher Kenny (Harland Williams), on a “munchie” run to the corner bodega, accidentally commits a crime. A stoner with only the best intentions, Kenny sees a police horse tied up outside the store and feeds it all his junk food. But the beast is diabetic – and drops dead. “Officer down!” his NYPD rider cries, sobbing on the sidewalk before arresting Kenny as a cop killer. With Kenny in jail, his deadbeat roommates must find a way to raise $100,000 bail. Their solution? Become drug dealers. Thurgood (Dave Chappelle) has access to a government research lab from his job as a janitor, so they steal and sell pounds of medical marijuana. “Half Baked” serves to proclaim the relative innocence of weed smokers; the characters are decent, peaceful men.

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The Final Verdict If you like edibles you’ll definitely love the Tincture Belle Cookies and Cream candy bar. It’s smooth and creamy with just a hint of plant matter taste mixed in. The effect is great, and gives you that evenly balanced high feeling that you’re familiar with when you ingest edibles. I really like that Tincture Belle uses high-quality ingredients, and its products feel like they’re made with care. Your challenge, if you choose to accept, is defying your desire to eat more of this amazing chocolate than you really should. Good luck!

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[love and sex]

Is it illegal to buy a hot guy’s used underwear, sweaty tanks? Savage Love | Dan Savage

I’m a 49-year-old gay man. I’ve become friends with a 21-yearold straight guy. He’s really hot. He’s had to drop out of college and return home. I know he needs money, as he hasn’t found a job yet and has resorted to selling off old music equipment. I would love to have some sweaty clothes of his, namely his underwear, but I’d settle for a sweaty tank top. Is it legal to buy someone’s underwear? He’s a sweet guy, and I don’t want to freak him out by asking something so personal. How do I broach the subject? Lustfully Obsessed Stink Seeker It’s perfectly legal to buy and sell used underwear, LOSS, so there’s no legal risk. But you risk losing this guy as a friend if you broach the subject. You can approach it indirectly by saying something like “So sorry to hear you’re selling off your music equipment. You’re young and hot – you could probably make more money selling used underwear or sweaty tanks.” Then follow his lead: If he’s disgusted by the suggestion, drop it. If he’s into the idea, offer to be his first customer. I’m a 52-year-old straight guy from Australia, 29 years married. About eight years ago, I met a lady through work and we became friends, with our friendship continuing after she moved on to a different job. We meet up for coffee occasionally, and we share a love of cycling and kayaking, which we also do together on occasion. Both of us are in long-term, committed monogamous relationships. Our friendship is strictly platonic, sharing our love of riding and paddling. Neither of our partners shares our interest in these outdoor pursuits. My friend does not feel safe doing these activities alone, so often depends on my company for safety

as well. The problem is that my wife gets jealous of the time we spend together and wants me to cut off contact with my friend. My wife does not trust my friend not to “take advantage” of our friendship. My relationship with my wife is the most important one in my life, so I am prepared to say goodbye to my friend. How do I say goodbye in a respectful, caring and loving way? If she asks why we cannot be friends, I don’t want to tell her, “Because my wife doesn’t trust you not to try to get inside my pants (or cycling shorts),” as that would be hurtful. I don’t want to lie, but telling the truth would be damaging to my friend. Paddling And Riding Terminates Your friend is going to waste a lot of time wondering what she did wrong, PART, if you don’t tell her the real reason you can’t hang out with her anymore. And guess what? This not knowing will cause her more hurt than the truth could. So tell your friend the real reason she’s out of your life: You’re terminating your friendship because your wife is an insecure bag of slop who regards her as a threat. Your friend has a right to know she’s as blameless as you are spineless. Forgive me for being harsh, PART, but I think standing up to your wife, not dropping your friend, is the best approach to this situation. Before I got married, I asked husband repeatedly about fantasies and kinks, so that we had full disclosure going in. It led to some fun stuff in the bedroom, but we’re both pretty low-grade kinksters. Now I realize that I do something that I have never told him about: It’s the way that I masturbate. I started when I was 5 or 6, because it felt good. Got chided by parents and teachers for doing it in public

and learned to keep it hidden. And so ever since, it’s been my secret thing. I think it has helped me orgasm in that I knew how early on, but it has also made it more difficult to come in positions that don’t mimic the masturbating position. Husband likes the idea of me coming in different positions, and I’ve managed now and again, but he doesn’t know why I’m set in my ways. We’ve been together for 10 years, but I have never shared this. Should I tell him? Part of me is afraid that he will think I’m weird. But more than likely, he’ll just want to watch me do it. Still, it’s kind of nice having this one thing that belongs only to me. Secret Masturbator Obligated Over Spanking Hotness? You could hold this back, SMOOSH, and keep it all for yourself. But I don’t see why you would want to. As sexy secrets go, “There’s one particular position I like to masturbate in” is pretty boring. Unless you need to be positioned on top of a cadaver or under your dad or beside a life-size Ted Cruz sex doll to get off when you masturbate, there’s really no reason to keep this secret. I am totally with your German friend, who wouldn’t do Nazi roleplay “in 6 million years.” I’ve been in a similar position – not quite Holocaust level, but not far off. I’m a white British guy. A while back, while living in the UK, I was dating a woman from Bangalore. She revealed – after her face lit up when I dressed in a way that made me “look like a colonialist” (her words) – that her deepest fantasy was to be an Indian slave girl raped by an English imperialist. And then, living in the U.S. a few years later, I was dating a black woman. We got to talking about the kinks of exes. I told her about this one, and she revealed that her own fantasy was to be the slave on a 19th-century plantation, raped by her white owner. How about some advice for the human fetish objects in these

scenarios, Dan? I didn’t want to stigmatize these women for their sexual desires, and I wanted to be GGG, but it was, frankly, hard (or not, as it were). Being asked to act out roles I feel guilty about, and to use the kind of racial epithets I make every effort to avoid, the guilt is a boner-killer. Any tips on how a GGG partner can get past this kind of mental block and at least act the role enthusiastically enough to fulfill the fantasy? Or was a subsequent girlfriend’s outrage about my willingness to indulge such socially regressive fantasies justified? I Might Play Every Role I’m Asked Less IdeologicallyScrupulous Motives Actors play Nazis in hit movies, British colonialists for prestigious BBC miniseries and serial killers on long-running television shows. I don’t see why playing monsters in entertainments devised for millions wins Oscars (Christoph Waltz for playing a Nazi in “Inglourious Basterds”), BAFTAs (Tim Pigott-Smith for playing a brutal colonialist in “The Jewel in the Crown”) and Golden Globes (Michael C. Hall for playing a sociopathic serial killer in “Dexter”), but playing a monster for an audience of one should outrage “subsequent girlfriends” or anyone else. My advice for people asked to play monsters in the bedroom mirrors my advice to a gay guy attracted to degrading “antigay” gay porn: “A person can safely explore degrading fantasies – even fantasies rooted in ‘hate ideologies’ – so long as he/she is capable of compartmentalizing this stuff. Basically, you have to build a fire wall between your fantasies and your self-esteem. (And between your fantasies and your politics.)” If you can build a fire wall between their fantasies and your politics and beliefs, IMPERIALISM, go for it. If you can’t, don’t. 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 Tim Sullivan, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Ben Gibson, 6-10 p.m., Lady Falconburgh’s,

640 Main Ave. Women Outside – An Adventure Forum: Presentation by professional climber Beth Rodden and screening of the film “Nobody’s River”, 6-8 p.m.,

Boiler Room, Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio, margaret@bcexp.com. Alex Paul, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Glenn Miller Orchestra, 7:30 p.m.,

$34/$24, Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, www.durangoconcerts.com. 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 Happy Hour Music with Patrick Crossing, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub,

900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com. Cannon Dolls, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Fort Lewis College Concert and Jazz bands, 7 p.m., $5/$1, Community Concert Hall

at FLC, www.fortlewis.edu/music/upcomingconcertsrecitals.aspx. Andy Janowsky, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium,

699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Open mic, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, down-

stairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com. Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. Not Quite Dry, 8 p.m., $3, Mancos Valley Distillery, 116 N. Main St., Mancos. DJ Icite, 9 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-

9018.

Saturday The Met: Live in HD featuring Roberto Devereux, 10:55 a.m., $23/$21, Vallecito

Courtesy of CNN

»» There will be a screening and discussion of the movie “The Hunting Ground” on Monday night at Fort Lewis College.

When the place you should feel safest doesn’t anymore Sexual assault is an issue that touches virtually everyone – you yourself may have been a victim. Or maybe your sister or best friend. Even worse is when it happens in a place where you’re supposed to feel safe – on your college campus. And when it happens and no one believes you, or nothing is done about it ... The film “The Hunting Ground” will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Fort Lewis College. “The Hunting Ground” is a 2015

documentary that met the issue of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses head-on – exploring everything from the institutionalized cover-ups – where administrators don’t (or won’t) believe a victim’s story – and the tolls exacted on victims and their families to the stories of how victims are trying to rebuild their lives and moved on after an attack and the aftermath.

District Attorney Christian Champagne will be on hand for the discussion with participants after the screening.

Sexual Assault Services Organization Executive Director Maura Doherty Demko and 6th Judicial Assistant

For more information, email Molly Wieser, Title IX coordinator, at wieser_m@fortlewis.edu.

The screening and discussion will start at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Vallecito Room in the Student Union at FLC. This is a free event, and the public is invited. Light refreshments will be served.

Room, Fort Lewis College Student Union, www. metopera.org/Season/2015-16-Season.

shong Recital Hall, Fort Lewis College.

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

est.org.

Robby Overfield, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

Informal tango practice and instruction, 5-7 p.m., donation suggested,

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org.

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

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

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

Groove U Durango, 26369 U.S. Highway 160, www.tangodruango.info, 533-7231.

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

Tim Sullivan, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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

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

The Johnny Clegg Band, 7:30 p.m.,

Mountain Top Pocket Pikers, 7 p.m.,

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

Rob Webster, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699

$45/$34, Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, www.durangoconcerts.com.

Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

Main Ave., 247-4431.

Blue Moon Ramblers, 7-10 p.m., Dia-

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

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

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

Spoken Word, 7-9 p.m., Steaming Bean,

Ave., 259-9018.

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. DJ Noonz, 9 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-

Joel Racheff, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

downstairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub. com.

Wednesday

9018.

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

Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Kirtan, 6-8 p.m., $10, Studio 10, Smiley Build-

ing, 1309 East Third Ave. Greg Ryder, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699

Main Ave., 247-4431.

Sunday

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Tuesday

Latin music night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937

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

Main Ave., 259-9018.

Terry Rickard, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

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

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

Monday

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

Beethoven Festival, 3 p.m., Ro-

680 Grand Ave., Mancos, www.schoolofthew-

Greg Ryder, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Ace Revel, 6-8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar and Cock-

tail Lounge, 723 East Second Ave., 385-0105. Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Irish Embassy

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La La Bones to release first album

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DGO tonight?

With the Bluegrass Meltdown going on this weekend, there’s going to be live music in Durango as far as the eye can see. There’s also going to be a cause for celebration as local fivepiece bluegrass band La La Bones releases their first album, “La La Bones.” Join the band Friday night at the Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., for their CD release Courtesy of La La Bones » » Durango bluegrass band La La Bones will celebrate party. the release of their first album Friday night at the Balcony Band members TomBackstage. my Frederico on banjo; Jimi Giles on bass; Kathy Hilimire on fiddle; Deb Moses on dobro; Scott Roberts on mandolin; and Kyle Siesser on guitar will also be performing throughout the weekend at the Meltdown – Friday at the Henry Strater Theatre and Saturday at the Durango Arts Center. Friday night’s show begins at 9:30. For more information, call 422-8008. From Page 21

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

Pub quiz, 6:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200.

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

Two-step and cha-cha dance lessons, 6:30-7:30 p.m., $10, Wild Horse Saloon,

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

601 East Second Ave., 799-8832.

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Terry Rickard, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Ping pong and poker 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. Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9 p.m.,

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

Ongoing “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,

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is an excellent day for business and commerce. Look for ways to boost your income or to improve your job because you have the edge! TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Mercury is in your sign today, dancing with lucky, moneybags Jupiter. This is a great day for business and financial conversations because you believe in yourself! GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your confidence is strong today, which is why you are willing to explore new ideas and listen to what others have to say. Behind-the-scenes news might benefit your home scene. CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

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This is a wonderful day to schmooze with others! It’s also an excellent day

for classes, meetings and conferences. Everybody wants to talk and get into the act! LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a great day to make plans for the future, especially by creating organizational systems. Business and commercial activities are favored. Ask the boss for what you want! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You will enjoy the study of philosophy, law and medicine today because you are hungry to expand your mind. This is also a great day to make travel plans for the future. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You couldn’t pick a better day for discussions about inheritances, taxes, debt and shared property. All parties involved will be fair-minded and generous to each other.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You will enjoy sitting down with a partner or close friend to discuss practically anything today because you are in such a positive frame of mind. This is a great day to deal with groups. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Co-workers are supportive today. In fact, you will enjoy almost anything that you do at work today because you feel happy and hopeful. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Social diversions, the arts, movies, sports events and playful activities with children are wonderful choices for you today. You feel happy, upbeat and ready to enjoy life! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Family discussions will go well today.

In particular, this is a good day to tackle big projects that entail repairs and improvements to where you live. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You understand the Power of Attraction. You also understand that thoughts manifest into reality. Today, your positive frame of mind makes you happy. BORN TODAY You love history, tradition and pageantry. You believe it’s important to find your place in society. Something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish now to make room for something new this year. Although this will be a year of service, it is also a great year to travel. Get ready for a fresh new cycle waiting in your future! © 2016 King Features Syndicate Inc.

[gold from the blotter] March 28 3:55 p.m. People took a car for a test drive and had not returned after four hours from 4X4 Auto Sales, 21698 U.S. Highway 160. 8:58 p.m. A driver was spinning doughnuts in his vehicle in the Mercury Village parking lot, 150 Mercury Village Drive. March 29 7:16 p.m. A box full of marijuana was dropped off at United Parcel Service, 116 Girard St. 10:14 p.m. The driver of a white Ford Explorer drove up on a curb and became high-centered near Applebee’s restaurant. The driver was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. April 4 12:24 p.m. A woman needed help with a credit card that was stuck in a parking meter in the east 100 block of Seventh Street. April 6 7:18 p.m. A man with a skeleton mask was walking around the property at Needham Elementary, 2425 West Third Ave.

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