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April 21, 2016

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The iAM (Downtown) MUSIC Walk will have eight pop-up venues with a variety of musicians playing sets between 30 and 60 minutes long. So if you’re not feelin’ the vibe at one place, just head over to the next locale!

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Get Smart on perspective After taking portraits of refugees in Idomeni, globe-trotting photographer Jacob Brooks had $28,000 worth of gear stolen from his rental car. His perspective on the value of material things and what’s important about making art have since changed.

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6 A sexy, cirque experience Led by adventurous local couple Hattie Miller (above) and Steve Ward, Friday’s Imaginario Circus production boasts a fire-thrower, aerial fabric routines, a pole dancer, a slackline walker, jugglers, breakdancers, Acroyoga and lyra (the hanging hoop).

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Texas country rocker Robert Earl Keen continues to reel in new fans because of upbeat shows backed by a kick-ass band, a guy with a backpack full of songs worthy of a drunken sing-a-long.

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The desert Love it

Barred from a brewpub I love, I wander aimlessly and wait

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K, Steamworks, enough already. You’ve made your point. And you’re right.

We concede and we’re sorry for taking you for granted. We need you. You’re wonderful. We can’t live without you. Is that good? Will you now just stop it with this whole “remodel” thing? Because seriously, you could have been closed for a week and your message would have been received.

I knew I had a pressing issue after realizing I had been walking up and down Main for four hours, shiftless and aimless with sunken-eyed disillusion, shout-mumbling about Steamworks being closed for the last three weeks for renovations – or has it been three years?

– but now I’m wondering if it never even existed, just this wonderland figment of my imagination that everyone else somehow seems to know about.

I exaggerate, but it’s funny how one establishment’s temporary monthlong closure can be seen and felt and heard around town, how these places become a part of our lives, how their familiarity brings order and comfort. And just as interesting, for as much as Steamworks is my place, for some people, close friends of mine, they never go there and never think of going there. Because they have their own places and circuits.

Asked where I’d like to go for my birthday lunch Monday, I said “Steamwo ...” before taking a knee, breaking down in tears and settling on El Moro.

A group of friends has a recurring gathering at Eno and we regularly hit Steamworks afterward. In April, we just go home. I see orphaned Steamworks bartenders filling shifts elsewhere and my heart twists a little.

I know I have a problem of not not going to Steamworks. Whenever I get a reward – a free dessert, say, or a free growler – from using my Steamworks card (which basically means one point for every dollar spent), all I can think is, “Have I really spent that much here already?!” I know I’m supposed to be happy for my “free” pizza, but I’m just

thinking, “Sheezus, I need to make better life choices ...”

I find how we build positive associations with businesses and brands fascinating. What about a store’s sign – the name, the design, the font – makes us want to check it out? What assessments do we make about a business, consciously and not, within moments of walking in for the first time – lighting, roominess, organization, the level of attention from the staff – that may determine if we ever return and how often?

My relationship with Steamworks began before I moved here, while I was in town interviewing with the Herald.

Eager to check out the town and try one of its 18.6 brewpubs, I was delighted to find one caddy-corner to my hotel, The Rochester. I’d been offered the job and was taking the night to make sure I wanted to say yes. It’s amazing how Steamworks worked its way – however small – into that decision.

(1) I serendipitously sat next to a former Herald city editor at the bar.

Fearing I’d hear a laundry-list of terribleness about the paper, he could really only say good things about his experience. (2) I mentioned to the bartender, Ryder, that I’d been offered a job in town and would likely be living here in a month. He said congratulations and gave me a Prescribed Burn on the house (I had been ridic in love with chili beers at the time and the mere fact that Steamworks had one overwhelmed me with goofy joy). Or (3) maybe it was the cavernousness and the high ceilings or the brewtanks on display and how Steamworks was the exact replica of what a small-town Colorado brewpub looked like in my East Coast imagination.

Whatever it was, I imprinted on Steamworks like a baby bird imprints on its mother. And now it’s my place.

Every day, I’ll continue tugging on the locked door and pounding on the glass.

I’ll continue to lie in a crumpled heap on the corner of East Second and Eighth, wailing and frightening families. Maybe that will speed things up.

Of all the landscapes and ecosystems, the desert has a holiness about it, an uncompromising harshness, an endearing desolation that draws me to it, like an old man, wise and short on words.

I love the desert because it requires effort. Plop anyone in the rainy, ferny forests of the Pacific Northwest, or the dogwoods and cypress in the sleepy South or the fertile grasslands of the Midwest and people could survive almost against their will. But not the desert.

In the desert, the sky is magnificently bigger, as is the unforgiving sun. Daytime can be unspeakably hot and night, unbearably cold. The desert palette is discreet and still. The plants are spiny and jagged, the animals thick-skinned and superbly adapted. The desert is no place for the fickle.

Once, spending time in Big Bend National Park in West Texas, we braved 105-degree temperatures on the desert floor and longed for our campsite in the Chisos Mountains, where it would be a balmy 96 degrees. Brochures instructed anyone venturing into the backcountry to register with the park service. Because people wander out and never come back.

Many people go to the desert for renewal, to find order and balance. Maybe it’s because in the desert you can see for miles and the ground is assuredly solid.

The desert has the power to swallow us whole.

But it offers us the chance to repent, and in its knowing, humbling harshness, a place to be forgiven.

— David Holub

Hate it Before moving from New York to Colorado, I hadn’t seen much of the U.S. Southwestern landscape. Now, I’m more familiar with Arizona, New Mexico and Utah – and while the desert is striking and otherworldly, I can’t say I love it. I certainly don’t find it beautiful.

Granted, I probably feel that way because it’s not what I’m used to. I grew up with cheerful flower beds, tall fields of grass and woods with damp mossy tree trunks. You know, trees – those things that bloom and produce oxygen and provide gentle shelter from an unrelenting sun. As a pale person with dark hair, I’ve spent a good deal of my life hiding from the sun.

I need some shade.

My first foray into Utah was Arches National Park, a place most people find spectacular. But it just didn’t feel like home to me. That scenery isn’t the Earth I know and have the deepest affection for; it gives the impression of another planet entirely, but one where humans don’t belong. The colors are monochromatic instead of vivid. Everything is dusty and red and brown or beige. The only trees are dried out lifeless things or those scratchy little scrubs that look like stubble on a man’s face. The Southwest seems eons from our time on Earth, better suited to the primitive savagery of the dinosaurs. The desert – at least as I’ve seen it here – is mostly miles of nothing: empty, windy, lonely corners of our country. Cool to visit, but, ultimately, inhospitable.

— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

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Cyle Talley | Get Smart

Perspective There are furries here, too Oh man! Was I ever surprised to see an article about furs in Durango! I have made fursuits for over 10 years. There are a dozen furs here in the 4C area (less than desired, more than expected) and they are SO happy about this article!

However, I will say the fandom is NOT as expensive and underground ritz as the Bay Area fur experience written about here. As a maker, my suits run from $500 to $2,000 depending on the work. The person written about in the article has a suit made with NTF (National Fiber Technology), four-way stretch fabric, which runs $100 per square foot(!), and that is NOT the normal.

Fetishes are welcome (and encouraged) in the fandom. In fact, I couldn’t imagine the fandom without them.

Pup-play (master/sub), in particular, is a strong tradition, hence the leather gear mentioned in the article.

I’ve been in the fandom since 2002, and by far, the (Bay Area) furs are the craziest. The Seattle furs party pretty damn hard, too!

I’m gay and I found the fandom as a fantastic alternative to the “gay lifestyle.” In fact, it’s the only place where I feel free to be me without pretension or judgement. Most furs will tell you the same.

I thank DGO for a good article on furs, as we usually don’t get very good press.

Maybe for 4/20 I’ll get high and wear a fursuit downtown, handing out this issue of DGO. =P Cheers!

— Voychael Durango

After visiting with and taking portraits of refugees camped in Idomeni earlier this month, globetrotting photographer Jacob Brooks (featured in this space Feb. 11) had $28,000 worth of gear stolen from his rental car while stopped over in Athens, Greece. His perspective on the value of material things and what’s important about making art have since changed.

What was it like when you realized you’d been robbed?

It took me 10 seconds before I could register what was happening. I couldn’t believe it was possible. There was no way for me in that moment to deal with the extent of the loss. Emotionally more than monetarily. My first thought was about my hard drives, and all of the footage I’d just shot of the refugee camp. The shitty thing is that I had just moved my film from the bag I carry on me, into the big camera bag that I left in the car. If I’d had that on me, it wouldn’t have been as big a loss. I’ve never been physically brought to my knees by despair, but I dropped for a minute before I realized that we needed to move fast if we had any chance of figuring this out. I was running around, looking in dumpsters – sometimes people dump the stuff because they’re only after cash – I was looking for evidence, frantically asking people if they’d seen anything.

And the days following?

A family took us in, fed us, kept us as we scoured Athens.

At that point, I couldn’t afford a place to stay and I literally felt like I had nothing. So to have that family reach out helped me to remember that people are good and want to help. That night, I reached out on social media to tell people what was going on and I got this tidal wave of love and support from connections I’ve made all over the world.

I was getting emails and private messages, text messages and phone calls nonstop for a week.

Are you angry?

Anger isn’t what’s stuck around. Traveling the world extensively over the past three years, everyone in every nation has welcomed me, been hospitable and has kept me from danger. If this had been my first travel experience, it might be a different story, but having that vast array of experiences to paint my picture of humanity allowed me to keep my faith in it. To not feel the burden of anger, to not ask the question, “How could he do this to me?” The loss is still tragic – the loss of the film and the photographs – it’s still hard for me to take, but it’s not anger that I feel.

What do you feel for the man who stole your things?

I think he’s a coward, but mostly, I feel empathy for him. After experiencing the outpouring of love from my community, I realized that this guy doesn’t have that. That put things in perspective. I realized that he’s not benefiting from this. He has no community. He doesn’t have friends. How can he? He doesn’t trust people because he wouldn’t trust himself. How

Courtesy of Jacob Brooks, via Petros Poulopoulos

»» Jacob Brooks stands near the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in a shot taken by a local photographer days after the the theft.

could he make that connection with humanity? But I do. I’ve gotten to see how meaningful and necessary it is to have that connection and that faith. All of those connections are alive and real and intimate. I keep in touch with people who I love and who love me. This guy doesn’t have that meaning, that fundamental sense of purpose.

What now?

This is a pivotal point in my life. I don’t think that I fully understand to what extent, either. It’s been really hard to let go of the artwork and the hard work behind them. But even those don’t have meaning apart from the stories that those images represent. To realize that the time spent and the relationships I formed with those refugees hold value, apart from any physical evidence. That’s hard for a photographer to admit. Realizing that the stuff has no value to me. It’s just gear, just tools. All of the money and the things that were taken can be replaced. I feel more responsible to carry out good, to be proactive about it. Being a good person isn’t enough anymore. I want to be intentional about how I express the goodness of humanity. People are robbed all the time. People are having their lives fundamentally altered every day – and none of us know about it. Everyone’s going through hell. So to reach out, give love and support, feed people, trust them, that’s what’s become central to me. It’s become something of a burden almost. A pressing need. I haven’t felt that before.

Cyle Talley is damned impressed by people. If there’s something you’d like to Get Smart about, email him at: cyle@cyletalley.com

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Imaginario Circus promises aerials, burlesque and dancing »» Troupe to showcase athletic, sexy, sensorial Cirque-style experience for a good cause

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

GO! What: Imaginario Circus presents: Reflections, a Masquerade Style Dance Party & Burlesque Circus. In memory of Steve Ward’s son Sawyer, proceeds from the show will be donated to the Second Wind Fund of the Four Corners, a suicide prevention awareness group focusing on teenage suicides.

Friday’s Imaginario Circus production boasts a fire-thrower, aerial fabric routines, a pole dancer, a slackline walker, jugglers, breakdancers, Acroyoga and lyra (the hanging hoop). Adventurous local couple Hattie Miller and Steve Ward startWhen: 6:15 p.m. (18+) and 9:15 p.m. (21+) ed the troupe a couple years ago, training Friday, April 22 with Salt Fire Circus members (though Where: Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College that company has sadly disbanded since).

Dr. The Imaginario troupe members morph regularly, but this show’s cast is close to 15 Tickets: $20 pre-sale at www.brownpaperpeople (plus ‘ambience’ performers, who tickets.com and at Animas Trading Co. will throw fire and hand out raffle tickets; you can win a $150 gift card to Your Flesh Tattoo at the show). They typically put on circus pokes fun at the “ickiness” of sometwo big annual performances, in addition thing so apparently pure. “There’s dudes to a number of smaller shows throughout who just go to yoga to pick up chicks, and the year. In memory of Ward’s son Sawyer, there’s that whole ‘I’m so spiritual’ thing,” Imaginario will donate proceeds to the laughs Miller. The man, alternatively, goes Second Wind Fund of the Four Corners, to a strip club, which you would expect to which is a suicide prevention awareness be scummy; “but actually, the stripper is group focusing on teenage suicides. “This the person who guides him,” said Miller. puts our hearts in it, in the right place,” “Reflections” isn’t the kind of clownsaid Miller. happy, elephant-doing-tricks, tented circus Miller has been a trained dancer, gymyou can take your children to. There will nast and thespian since she was little; she’s be two showtimes on Friday: the earlier for actually in every single scene of this year’s ages 18+ and the latter for 21 and over. The Imaginario, titled “Reflections.” Miller and age restrictions exist because the show Ward got into aerial fabric routines when features very sensual burlesque elements. they went on a date to the Salt Fire Circus.

The 21+ showing will host a dance party “I was like, ‘I want to do that!’ and he was Courtesy of Imaginario Circus afterward, with DJ Niko spinning. like, ‘Me too!’” remembers Miller. »» Steve Ward and Hattie Miller perform at an Imaginario production in 2015.

“Reflections” has a set color scheme, Ward appreciates the strength-training but none of the performers wear matching and workout he gets from practicing aericostumes; everyone picked their own outfits, the only Cookie Saint Germaine. This al, while Miller feels its dance-y and creative enough rule being that they had to be sexy. Costumes of any year’s production is all about to suit her. Hanging from the ceiling of their shared sort are likewise required for audience members in the ego and the masks people home is almost 19 feet worth of fabric on which attendance (but they’ll still let you in if you refuse to wear; “the two main characthey rehearse (and occasionally do tricks to impress get dolled up). “Durango loves dressing up,” she said. ters go through a process of their friends). Ward has no dance background – he “We’ve seen other troupes get this huge following; seeking their true selves,” actually works as an engineer and builder. But he it’s almost like “Rocky Horror,” everyone will dress Miller explains. Jaime Becktel has taken to the acrobat lifestyle well. While Miller up and go see it. That’s what we’re trying to do.” One was cast as the main female and Ward share their lives, their careers are kept of Miller’s favorite things about Ward when they figure, and Taylor Mars, separate, aside from this collaboration. She admits Miller first met was his giant costume box. “I was like, ‘You a performer from Pagosa it’s probably harder to collaborate with someone are my dream man. You’re straight and you have a Springs’ Thingamajig Theatre, is the male protagoyou’re dating, if ultimately more effective. “When costume box!’” she said. Maybe in small towns like nist. “They start off as a married couple who just it’s not someone I’m this close with, I’m more sensiDurango, people feel more comfortable letting their dropped their kid off at college, and they’re sudtive about what I say, and I’m not as honest because I freak flags fly, hence everyone getting decked out in denly left alone (wearing masks) with each other,” don’t want to hurt their feelings,” said Miller. strange attire so often. “But that’s not true in Cortez said Miller. “They split, go on separate journeys to There aren’t many words in “Reflections,” alor Dolores; it’s not the same!” said Miller. “There’s try and find themselves. It’s not just a variety show though there is a clear narrative you can follow. The something about Durango. Maybe it’s all the uranium, circus, there is a story – which is different for us.” only speaking role was given to MC Tyler Frakes, I don’t know.”

In one scene, the girl goes to a yoga class, where the who will assume his drag persona for the show, aka

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Durango’s first music walk

»» Stroll eight venues downtown and hear a bit of everything

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

iAM Institute 2016 Instrument Drive The iAM MUSIC Institute will hold its inaugural instrument drive from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 23, at the studio (1315 Main Ave. #207). They are accepting donations of all musical instruments, especially guitars, basses, keyboards, drums, flutes, clarinets, trumpets, trombones, saxophones/violins of all sizes and sound gear. If you need, they can come pick up your instrument.

These instruments will go to various outreach programs, including Big Picture High School, Animas High School, Liberty School, St. Columba School and DeNier Youth Services Center. Excess instruments will help sustain the institute’s free instrument lending library.

For more info, contact Easton Stuard at iameaston@iammusic.us or (707) 499-1725.

You may have heard of Durango’s Art Walk on the first Thursday of every month – but have you ever heard of a music walk? Well, you’re about to. The first local event of its kind, the iAM (Downtown) MUSIC Walk will be a cross between a mini music fest and an art walk (minus the art, emphasis on the tunes). At eight pop-up venues around town, a variety of musicians are playing sets between 30 and 60 minutes long. So if you’re not feelin’ the vibe at one place, just head over to the next locale!

“We wanted a blending of local businesses and musicians you might not otherwise hear or see,” said Ashley Edwards, co-founder of iAM MUSIC and guitarist and vocalist for local bands Hello, Dollface and Ace Revel.

Lots of people go out drinking with their friends to venues where live music is incidental; they’re mostly there to chat, drink or catch the football game on TV. The person playing their heart out in the corner of the bar becomes background noise, unable to compete with distractions. In response to this, iAM MUSIC is bringing the focus back on the music. “We’ll have alcohol in certain venues, and The Ore House is catering at some of them, but it’s not the forefront,” said Edwards.

Three of the participating musicians are touring from other parts of the country; but the majority are regional or local, somehow involved in the Durango scene already. A couple of artists plan to play at multiple venues, and every venue will have a marked pancake board out front, telling attendants exactly who is featured and sponsoring there. Cute chalk footprints can also lead you around the map of melodies. iAM MUSIC students are featured throughout the event; Edwards hopes allowing young or burgeoning musicians to participate might prove

GO! What: iAM (downtown) MUSIC Walk When: 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 22 Where: Multiple downtown Durango locations: iAM MUSIC Institute, Urban Market, The Steaming Bean, Surya, Maria’s Bookshop, Eno, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango Craft Spirits.

Cost: Free, all ages. For more info, visit www.iAMMUSIC.us

to them they can stay in Durango, play music here and make it work. “You make your own possibilities wherever you are,” said Edwards. “You don’t have to move to LA or Austin or New York – Colorado is very much on the cutting-edge as far as supporting and funding artists.”

Naturally, there are differences between the music scene here and in larger cities. There are improvements to be made. “In Durango, you don’t have the element of, say, downtown Austin, where you’ll see multiple talented artists in one night,” said Edwards. “Here we have the same circuit in the same venues, which can get stale. So this is putting a new spin on it. You’ll have direct access to these musicians’ best sets – because if you go play The Office, normally you’re playing four or five hour sets, which forces people to play covers. That’s the standard in town.

It burns the artist and the listener out – but this will keep everything fresh and moving.”

The event is a precursor/preview of the second annual iAM MUSIC Fest, scheduled for this August. The big festival will have a similar vibe to the music walk; although it takes place in warm summer weather, so there will be several outside venues plus hopefully a headlining band.

The festival plans to include comedians, dancers, poets, performing artists and visual artists – not just music.

The participating musicians at this Friday’s music walk include Holly Pyle, Sean Farley, Delaney Davis, Cyle Talley, Ace Revel, Better Knot Duo, Wolf Crossing, Alex Paul, Brother Clyde, Giovanina Bucci, Daniel Sagetree, Rebecca Favero, Jhan Doe, Sea to Shining Sea, Easton Stuard Trio, Afrobeatniks and the Six Dollar String Band.

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Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

Robert Earl Keen brings his legendary rowdy Texas country

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exas should be thanked for the singer-songwriter, arguably the state’s greatest export.

Forget Texas Toast, Shiner Bock, or The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. It’s the contributions of Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt and others that make Texas great.

There’s also Robert Earl Keen, the Houston native who continues to reel in new fans because of upbeat shows backed by a kickass band, a guy with a backpack full of songs worthy of a drunken sing-a-long.

Keen is a songwriter with a natural ability to make you, the listener, the main character in his songs.

You’re the one getting dumped, you’re the one going fishing and you’re the one on the road that goes on forever where the party never ends. Void of ambiguity and mystery, some of these tales put to song may be fiction and some may be the truth, but they’re all short stories that hit close to home.

“My friend and former bandmate was telling me that people want to know what I’m like,” said Keen in a recent phone interview. “He tells them to listen to the music and you’ll learn about Robert Earl Keen.

All of my songs are very personal.”

Keen’s last record was 2015’s “Happy Prisoner,” influenced by the bluegrass music he grew up around. It’s a genre that lies close to his sound, a blend of classic country and American rock ’n’ roll.

For this tour, his band will include Brian Beken and Kym Warner, from bluegrass bands Milk Drive and The Greencards, holdovers from the tour supporting his last album. It’s all part of his ongoing exploration of roots music, which owes as much to NRBQ and The Beatles as it does Doc Watson or Bill Monroe.

“We not only enhanced our world into the bluegrass realm, it enhanced my band as it exists, which has always been a country-garage band” Keen said. “It’s a really cool thing; I’m having the time of my life because I’ve got this great band.”

Bryant’s best Saturday: Indie-soul with Hello Dollface, 9 p.m. No cover. The Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave. upstairs. Information: 764-4083.

Tuesday: Country rock with Robert Earl Keen, 7:30 p.m. $30/$40. Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive. Information: 247-7657.

The highway of Americana is littered with many a troubadour armed with poems, pen and paper.

Songwriters have been discarded like broken bottles along a New

Mexico highway, often the victims of excess, success or bad luck. Keen wasn’t one to fret about his future with worry or gauging where his career would go. From the get-go he was comfortable in his sense of place and confident in his role, which has resulted in respect as a songwriter with a die-hard following while thousands of flavors of the month have come and gone.

“I didn’t know where I’d be regarded, but I knew I’d last this long,” Keen said. “You know that whole ‘young guns’ or ‘new turks’ or whatever they want to call you, I would look around and think ‘none of these people are going to be here in 10 years’ and they aren’t. I knew I was the guy who is still going to be here, I’ve always known that.”

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

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Thee Commons, “Loteria Tribal” Available: April 30 via Burger Records as a download, CD and a very limited run of cassette tapes directly from the band at theecommons.bandcamp.com/ album/loteria-tribal The manner that the avid and casual music fan digests music has changed. Drastically. The medium has changed, many have their entire “record” collections compressed beyond listenability. Many don’t own (or care) about the album format as a whole, but would rather own (read: nefariously co-opted, bit torrent-ed or downloaded) just a handful of tracks or singles.

However, sometimes you stumble onto your next favorite band thanks to these newfangled mediums, their tendrils, their tangents. Case in point: Thee Commons.

Colorado musician Chris Adolf (formerly of The Love Letter Band and Bad Weather California) has a 7” record forthcoming with his latest band, American Culture. Said 7” will be released on relatively new Denver based record label Heavy Dose. Heavy Dose is also releasing music

by Denver stalwarts Colfax Speed Queen, who just finished a run of Colorado dates with, that’s right, Thee Commons.

Self-described as “psychedelic cumbia-punk,” the East LA quartet has been churning out demos, cassettes and EPs since 2012, bridging the gap between their musical roots and their local punk/rock/garage scene. Brothers David and Rene Pacheco are at the core of the lineup and recently incorporated saxophone that lends to their expanding sound, dipping heavily into surf-laden cuts. The (cumbia) punk ethos is strong with these Angelinos, as evident by perhaps the first great record to soundtrack the forthcoming summer.

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»» Durango musician Alissa

Wolf picks the songs that best exemplify heartbreak

By Alissa Wolf special to DGO

“You & Me” by Sara Watkins Musically speaking, this song is profound. There are catchy melodies that bring to life the beauty and playfulness of love, while the words dive into a theme of deep remembrance and a place of the past.

This song will make you cry AND dance.

“Just the Right Moment”

by Anne and Pete Sibley I believe some of the best breakup songs are those with the lyrics that hurt the worst. They are the songs that break you down to a place where you surrender and have no choice but to get stronger from there. Anne and Pete are husband and wife, and speaking from experience, there is nothing more powerful than creating music with someone you love. Consequently, this duo has written and performed some of most emotional and relatable songs. The love that they share for each other is disseminated across the audience and each time you hear to them, they will give you strength in the pain you are feeling.

“You Put the Hurt on Me”

by The Steeldrivers This song epitomizes that intense range of emotions you experience when going through a hard breakup: “My mind tries to forget you, but my heart comes back for more.” The lyrics carry mind-piercing imagery from the very first verse. That, coupled with Chris Stapelton’s unique voice and the band’s superb musicianship, will resonate in your head. No matter what your story or favorite style of music, you’ll be singing your heart out. “The flames have turned to ashes, but there’s still some embers left …”

»» Durango musician Alissa Wolf.

“Windshield” by Greensky Bluegrass You will feel the honest frustration and pain ringing throughout this song. You’re “trying to see, but cannot.” You feel “heartache in an empty home, forced to take the sleepless nights alone.” There are “stories of our parents falling apart, took a lifetime to protect us and keep from breaking our hearts.” This song hits the raw truth of love and speaks for itself. If you are going through a breakup, I highly recommend you take a drive and turn this song up as loud as you can. (And then listen to the rest of the Greensky “If Sorrows Swim” tracks, too, for soul-healing purposes.)

Alissa Wolf is a Durango musician, violin/fiddle instructor and executive director at the iAM Music Institute.

She performs regularly with local trio The Cannondolls.

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

Brewery disasters highlight the dangerous side of beer

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ne of my favorite songs to listen to in the brewery is “Swimming Pools,” by Kendrick Lamar. The hook of the song goes: Why you babysittin only two or three shots?

I’mma show you how to turn it up a notch First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in Pool full of liquor, then you dive in I wave a few bottles, then I watch em all flock All the girls wanna play Baywatch I got a swimming pool full of liquor and they dive in Pool full of liquor I’mma dive in I just imagine myself throwing open the doors to a fermenter or brite beer tank open and then swimming in beer and foam. Well, that’s pretty much what happened in London, in the fall of 1814, but it wasn’t so joyous or jovial. A 5,000 barrel beer vessel, massive even by today’s scale, burst and the resulting waterfall of beer toppled the other vessels in the brewery, creating a 12,500 barrel flood of beer. The river of beer, approximately 25,000 kegs worth, rushed through the surrounding neighborhood, killing eight, destroying the brewery and making a mess of the streets.

This may be the worst disaster in the history of a brewery, but every brewer I know has either seen firsthand or heard about brewery disasters big and small. Some have seen old janky tanks get so full that they leak like the inside of a Russian submarine. Some have seen the bone-headed mistakes of new brewers who leave a tank closed up during fermentation, warehouse workers smashing a stack of beer while jacking around on a forklift or forgetting to close the doors to their truck while making deliveries (The Great Durango PBR Spill of 2014). Sometimes it’s as simple as a hilarious and delicious beer shower, sometimes it’s a sad tragedy like losing a fellow worker, but these stories

BCI Media file photo

»» On the scene of the Great Durango PBR Spill of 2014, near Sawyer Drive on South Camino del Rio. are known and shared in the brewing community as warnings and as a form of camaraderie.

There are three basic no-nos for working in a brewery (and this is kind of my mantra): don’t hurt yourself or others; don’t break anything; don’t break the beer. The London Beer Flood is a prime example of all three, but there are a lot of ways to do all of them even in a small brewery.

The most common of the three is breaking the beer. Live mice usually have a hard time getting into the beer (a la, “Strange Brew”), but lots of things end up in beer that shouldn’t: Foreign bacteria, cleaning chemicals, the wrong yeast, other beer, and it’s through QC/QA that this kind of mistake is caught.

But the most common way the beer gets broken is by accidentally dumping it out. Almost every brewer I’ve talked to has been at a brewery where lots of beer is dumped out of the bottom port of a brite beer tank or fermenter (usually this happens because the valve on the bottom of a tank is removed, thus removing the ability

to quickly close the tank and end the spill). This type of disaster is almost always operator error, but rarely leads to other disasters, just a bunch of sticky brewers. And just like the London Beer Flood, the cleanup often involves pitchers of beer (No joke. At least one of the fatalities of the flood was because of excessive drunkenness).

Equipment can also lead to casualties in the brewery. In the case of the London Beer Flood, the metal bands that held the vessel together failed.

I’ve found that this is 50-50. Machines and equipment fail and can be catastrophic. The key to this is regular maintenance, using the right tool for the right job, and observant and well-trained operators. The mistakes of this nature that I’ve made or seen were because someone wasn’t paying attention, or someone was operating a machine they weren’t supposed to, or some aspect of the machine’s operation changed and that info wasn’t passed on to workers. This type of mistake or failure is either a nearmiss or leads to an injury or death.

Yeah, death. Brewing is a danger-

ous job. I take that aspect very seriously. I always make sure I get as much sleep as possible and keep my head as clear as possible, because death is a possibility in this industry.

A worker at Stone was killed because of a forklift accident (the most common source of injury in production brewing). A worker at Redhook was killed because a plastic keg exploded (breweries are now quickly phasing out reusable plastic kegs). Seven brewery workers were killed in a Corona brewery in Mexico, likely because of an ammonia leak (ammonia is still used as a coolant for brewing vessels, though mostly at older brewing facilities).

So yeah, brewers are risking their lives for our beer. Is it worth it? I think so.

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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Style Fetish | Heather Narwid

The role of the boot in popular music I love boots. And music. And lyrics. This week, Style Fetish highlights some musical boots – the right and wrong a pair of boots can do and who is wearing them. The boot stands firm in music: Concepts of personal identity, strength and the idea of moving on can all be clearly conveyed in this sartorial symbol.

“Fairies Wear Boots,” by Black Sabbath

the Devils in his head, them go-go boots are underneath the bed”: Even a preacher who “packs a big-ass church” can be led far astray by the power of the boot. There are actually quite a few songs with lyrics about “boots under the bed” and the unsavory implications thereof.

Cheaters beware: Unfamiliar, under-bed boots get you busted!

Ozzy swears this is true, you gotta believe him.

Rumors have it that Ozzy and Tommy Iommi wrote this song either after getting stoned in a park or after the band got attacked by skinheads. I’m going with the first explanation and only want to know what kind of boots fairies wore in 1970, while dancing with dwarves. A funny little early-metal ditty, practically a nursery rhyme compared to other Sabbath songs.

“Sex is in the Heel,”

by Cyndi Lauper This song is a show tune from the 2013 musical “Kinky Boots,” based on a fascinating true story of a British boot maker (it was a movie, too). All of the music and lyrics were written by an old favorite of mine, Cyndi Lauper. She reminds us that “Sex is in the heel, even if you break it ... sex is in the heel, just embrace it”.

“These Boots Are Made for Walkin,’”

by Nancy Sinatra Classic ’60s empowerment ditty sung by Frank’s daughter, Nancy Junior and written by Nancy’s partner in music, Lee Hazlewood. A song of threat and revenge, the boots in “Boots” give Nancy the power to discern “lyin’” from “truthin’.” In the original video, the matching boots worn by Nancy and her backup dancers are calf-high, shiny, spike-heeled and 1980s-prescient.

“Eleanor Put Your Boots On,” by Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand encouraged Eleanor to don her boots and run (in her elegant way) and take giant leaps through Brooklyn, sweetly promising to be there when she lands. This song is thought to refer to Eleanor Friedberger, a most excellent songwriter and musician blessed with the nerdiest name in rock.

“Boots of Chinese Plastic,” by The Pretenders

Chrissy Hynde sings to Jesus, Buddha, Krishna AND Allah, recognizing their spiritual philosophies and lamenting our human heartaches while “by the way,” snidely complimenting your cheap, crappy footwear. I hear it as a plea for understanding and enlightenment amid inane conversations. This song recognizes that small gap between profundity and superficiality in human interactions.

“Go-Go Boots,” by Drive-By Truckers Another boot song with spiritual undertones! DriveBy Truckers warn that hypocrisy and murder are the slippery slope located directly adjacent to the toes of a pair of go-go boots. “His wife’s in the ground,

I mourn my own broken, unwearable pair of vintage 1960s burgundy leather platform go-go boots, extra-beloved and impossible to give up as they were supposedly worn to a Velvet Underground show. Maybe I should assuage my grief by writing a song about them because it sure seems like a boot in general is the sexiest, toughest and most rocking clothing item to sing about as you dance, walk and run through life.

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.

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Got: What keeps us watching Digging deeper into the violence, feminism and global appeal of ‘Game of Thrones’

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

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t’s easier now than ever before to disconnect from reality. We have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and HBO (where season 6 of “Game of Thrones” premieres next Sunday) – the list of potential virtual escape routes goes on and on. In a sense, this ceaseless array of media at our disposal brings people together, giving them a common subject to discuss. The Internet is chock-full of forums wherein anonymous souls gather to debate the minutiae of “Game of Thrones;” and even if you don’t like swords, dragons or boobs, there’s so much other media to devour.

Something for everyone. “With all these different formats and platforms and ways of engaging with narrative, we can personalize our media consumption,” said Michele Malach, media scholar and Associate Professor of English at Fort Lewis College. “You watch what you want to watch, when you want to watch it. Plus the proliferation of platforms has forced producers to think about different audiences, so now we have access to even MORE stories. We can learn about ourselves through our understanding of all those characters.”

So what’s the problem? Withdrawal from the real world, for one thing. It’s easier to connect with characters on TV than real people. On TV, you’re privy to everyone’s intentions, fears and flaws. But in real life most of these qualities remain hidden, hence sympathizing with the actions of other people can seem maddening – even impossible. TV also offers the opportunity for characters to develop over long periods of time: You get 10 hours per year with the “GoT” players. No wonder we get so attached! Following the notorious Red Wedding episode, a viral video collage of viewers reacting circulated online.

The psychological term for forming emotional connections with fictional beings is “parasocial interaction;” these relationships create the illusion of intimacy, but are technically one-sided. “We’re always worried about the effect this level of media consumption will have on us – like, what’s it going to do to our children?!” said Malach. “But we’re not going to

»» Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister, Emilia Clark as Daenerys Targaryen, and Kit Harington as Jon Snow from HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Images via HBO

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know for quite a while.”

Why do we binge watch?

Binge watching is a relatively new phenomenon, but in 2016 it’s common to hear people moan, “I finished the series last night! Now what do I do with myself ?” It’s kind of an addiction; when you’re finished consuming one thing, you’re at a loss and crave more.

“What’s the next universe I can dive into to take me out of my everyday life for a while?” Malach puts it. Before the glory days of Netflix, we only got to know characters incrementally. “You had big gaps of time to process, think about it and move on,” said Malach. “Yet when you binge watch, that getting-to-know-you Malach period is condensed. There’s an intense emotional experience, then a crash.” It’s almost like finding someone you’re attracted to and moving in with them straight away.

The course of intimacy is sped up, so any breakup is subsequently devastating.

“Game of Thrones” is the most pirated TV show in the world, according to data from piracy tracking site TorrentFreak. . The content is simultaneously high fantasy and topical in its narrative reliance on the dirty business of politics. “One of the things people like about this kind of fantasy is the stakes are so high,” said Malach. “For most of us, the stakes in our lives are not that high – but to these characters, everything is a matter of life and death.” Human history Continued on Page 14

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»» Maisie Williams as Arya Stark and Nikolaj CosterWaldau as Jaime Lannister.

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has produced plenty of ambitious stories about gods and kings, and a thrill accompanies our interactions with them; it’s exciting when a character’s small action holds monumental importance. For us poor shmucks scraping by in the real world, the things we accomplish can feel depressingly inconsequential.

Controversial feminism “Game of Thrones” gets a lot of flak for its contentious treatment of women, but it’s one of the most female-centric narratives on TV – probably THE most, if you consider the sheer quantity of richlydrawn female characters. There are heaps of men running around too, but they aren’t given spotlight to the exclusion of the women. “I just have a problem with the female nudity and lack of male nudity,” laughed Malach. “I think everybody should be naked! But some of it has to do with the conventions of narrative film and TV. This is a big-budget, mainstream show. I don’t think the producers’ intentions are to be unfair.”

The show’s sexual violence is deeply disturbing; we see women raped, beaten, ignored, shamed and forced to marry terrible people. However, the series’ brutality is equally gendered: We’ve likewise watched men have their manhood detached, hands cut off, tongues cut out, heads chopped off and faces burned to the point of disfigurement. The violence is never flippant, and rarely do cruel characters not get their comeuppance.

“GoT” aims to construct a comprehensive world in which women are repressed, brutalized and treated like second-class citizens. For this to work, it’s necessary to see these brutalizations happening in both major and minor instances. The galling inequality of such a universe is precisely what

makes watching these women fighting back and gaining the upper hand so powerful. “You can call it exploitative and sensationalistic – and it is,” said Malach. “But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

This is an epic, these are big stories with extremely high stakes. So the violence is extreme as well.

Think about what happened to Theon with Ramsay Bolton.” She is referring, of course, to what is arguably the most savage act on the show thus far: After being tortured for days, Theon has his penis chopped off.

“I haven’t been personally troubled by the violence or messages about gender,” said Malach.

“They’re trying to set up a universe that’s a world apart from ours. We have to understand the full range of cultural elements in that world. What would you have them do differently? How would you develop these characters, show them becoming who they are? Think of Sansa’s story: Of all the horrible things that happened to her, none of it was treated as insignificant. We saw it so we would understand the character better, relate to her more deeply. This is what she has to go through to become the person she has to become.” Unlike many of the series’ lady figures, Sansa isn’t a warrior type. She is essential because of her dissimilarities; to observe a meek and gentle damsel survive and evolve in a bitter world, without compromising her values, sends a positive message. “Sansa started off a whiny teenage girl – but they’ve developed the hell out of her,” said Malach.

The show features an admirable assortment of female anti-heroes (a rare breed in mainstream media). “GoT” isn’t afraid to admit chicks can be despicable, just like guys. These interwoven storylines brim with complex women who are neither bad nor good, not simply mothers or whores; quite often the mothers love sex, and the whores aren’t bimbos. The

girls are not pawns in the hands of masculine characters – they are masters of their own fates, pushing fierce (and ferocious) personal agendas.

Cersei is a prime example. “She’s a woman in a culture that doesn’t give women any power, so she uses what she has to get what she wants,” Malach said. “That ends up being either familial or sexual power. When male characters do it, we don’t mind; when female characters do it, we find them unsympathetic or nasty and manipulative. That’s inherent sexism.” Daenerys is another case in point: She’s brutally raped in the series’ first season by her new husband, Khal Drogo, who doesn’t know any better.

His Dothraki tribe lives an animalistic, hedonistic existence – but Dany quickly teaches him that sex should be consensual and pleasurable for her, too.

She is not a victim, though she starts out a slave. She eventually rises to queen of a formidable army, and her femininity is her strength; no mere man could be a “mother of dragons,” but Dany’s maternal instincts stir three beasts from their stone age and provoke them to hatch. Her followers love her because she won’t endorse violence unless it’s desperate or deserved.

What’s with all the violence?

Audiences seem more outraged by the violence on “GoT” than by the violence on ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘The Wire’ or in any Quentin Tarantino film. Obviously all forms of savagery are upsetting; and frankly, the angrier people get about the mistreatment of women, the better. But why pinpoint this show?

“Many of Tarantino’s movies, “The Wire” and “The Sopranos” deal much more with male characters,” suggests Malach. “The women aren’t necessarily insignificant, but definitely more incidental.” It seems Continued on Page 15

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people are more gravely bothered by violence enacted toward women, possibly because they’re less used to it. “Those other shows are set in contemporary, realistic worlds,” adds Malach. “It’s violence we recognize and we’re familiar with. They use guns.” You could argue that guns are quick and impersonal weapons; a character can slaughter 20 innocents without seeing their faces, whereas what happens on “Game of Thrones” with swords and arrows is both more graphic and more personal. “Since the female characters in ‘GoT’ are foregrounded and important, we’re more attached to them,” said Malach.

Shouldn’t we be praising the show for that?

Maybe what rendered viewers particularly uneasy about Jaime’s sex scene with Cersei (at Joffrey’s casket) was the attachment they felt to him as a “changed man.” We saw Jaime open up to Brienne in the bathtub, risk his life to save hers, grow to love her.

But people are complex. The JaimeCersei rape scene was about control, power and the twins’ kinky sexual dynamic – but more than anything, it showed rape isn’t always easy to define. We might prefer a clear-cut character development for Jaime, but once he’s back in the context of his family it makes sense that he regress.

“It’s like going away to college and

visiting home again; you’re still the person you were to your family, and your range of behavior is limited to the relationships with the people around you,” said Malach. “Jaime goes back, he’s clearly in love with his sister, and that’s the only way he knows how to behave with and relate to her.” Remember: In that bathtub scene, it’s also revealed that Cersei is the only woman Jaime’s ever been with.

Audience response to violence is largely about context. “People are reacting to what’s happening to these characters as if they were happening NOW, in our time and culture,” said Malach. “But I think sometimes viewers don’t realize it’s not about having more positive representations of marginalized communities – it’s about having more COMPLEX representations. And having more.” There are so many straight, white male depictions in film and on TV, audiences are desensitized to seeing them suffer. Should you point out how this show’s violence is strictly accurate to medieval history, you’ll receive irritated feedback; “That’s no excuse!”

In truth, there weren’t too many repercussions for rape in medieval Europe, nor masses of outraged opinion pieces written about it online. This is a favorable example of our society’s progression. The show depicts atrocious primitivism – but if anything, it also proves how far we’ve come.

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The Huntsman: Winter’s War Playing at Stadium 9 and the Gaslight Rating: PG-13 Genre: Drama,

action & adventure, science fiction & fantasy Directed by:

Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

»» Shere Khan the tiger is voiced by Idris Elba in “The Jungle Book.”

Written by: Craig Mazin, Evan

Spiliotopoulos Runtime: 2 hr. 3 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 16% Synopsis: Freya the Ice Queen (Em-

ily Blunt) brings her sister Ravenna (Charlize Theron) back to life, and the powerful evil siblings plan to conquer the Enchanted Forest. Only the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) and his secret lover Sara (Jessica Chastain) can stop them in this sequel continuing the inventive twist on the Snow White fable.

Eye in the Sky Playing at Animas City Theatre Rating: R Genre: Mys-

tery & suspense, drama Directed by:

Gavin Hood Written by: Guy Hibbert Runtime: 1 hr. 42 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 94% Synopsis: Helen Mirren is Colonel

Katherine Powell, a U.K.-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya.

Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.”

But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a 9-year-old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of U.S. and British government, over the moral, political and personal implications of modern warfare.

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Could it be Oscar for ‘The Jungle Book’?

By Michael Cavna © 2016, The Washington Post

Come the next Oscars submission season, Disney will be flush with top animation options for consideration.

There will be “Zootopia,” of course, and the forthcoming sequel “Finding Dory.” And then there will be ... “The Jungle Book”?

The smash hit new film from Jon Favreau is being characterized as Disney’s latest “live-action remake” of one of its many animated classics – a wave of recent releases that includes “Alice in Wonderland,” “Maleficent” and “Cinderella.” But the new “Jungle Book” has a distinction apart from all such recent kin: Despite the live-action moniker, it’s actually mostly animated.

Sure, the film has a human actor (Neel Sethi) front and center in the role of Mowgli, and Favreau has said that viewers need that human connection to relate to his film’s emotional palette. But it’s the visual palette here that renders this film so particularly fascinating. As Favreau has illuminated in interviews, for every dozen feet or so that Mowgli walks, the animators must create a dozen feet of jungle out of digital thin air.

In other words: The technology at work isn’t simply motion-capture (or performance capture), by which livemotion recording of performers is

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: 94%

used to model the animation upon.

Instead, this film is true “key-frame” animation, in which certain “key” frames are rendered to determine beginning and end points in each transition.

Put more simply, “The Jungle Book” feels like perhaps the most animated “live-action” feature film ever, especially given that “Avatar” obviously had more live actors. (It’s worth noting that effects master Rob Legato worked on both films.)

This isn’t just about blurring the line between live-action and animation, which Hollywood has deftly been doing for many years. This is the effect of obliterating that line as a false division.

Even film nomenclature hasn’t caught up with the collision of technology. “The Jungle Book,” as one digital hybrid of a cinematic cub,

is literally an achievement beyond words. (“Manimation”? “Live MoCap-Key”? I’m open to suggestions.)

This milestone may not matter so much to the happy viewer, but it could matter soon to film-awards judges. Because what’s to keep “Jungle Book” from becoming a King Louis-sized heavyweight in animation races, short of a backlash that results in quickly cobbled together eligibility tweaks?

Although most viewers may not harbor such prejudices between styles, the Academy certainly does.

Just recently, Disney/Pixar’s animated “Inside Out” – clearly one of the best eight films of 2015 – did not receive a best picture Oscar nomination. Yet a film like 2013’s “Gravity,” which relied heavily on digital previsualization and animation, did receive a best picture nod.

As the line grows ever blurrier for those charged with drawing such categorical demarcations, one thing is clear: “The Jungle Book” looks to meet all the Academy’s eligibility requirements for competing as an animated feature – from permitted technology to a majority of key characters bring animated.

It’s unclear whether Disney wants to test those waters. But when “Jungle Book” animators can digitally paint water that looks more realistic than actual water itself, then nothing seems beyond the bounds of the studio’s imagination.

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[pages] This week’s Maria’s staff pick Custer’s Trials, by T. J. Stiles It’s not too often you get to write up a review of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. T. J. Stile’s fascinating new work, Custer’s Trials, was just announced this week as the prize-winner for history. It seems like a daunting task, but I’ll give it my best shot.

Regardless of how much you perceive you know about George Armstrong Custer, it’s a pretty good bet that the massacre at the Little Big Horn occupies a great percentage of that knowledge. Books abound with histories and fictions about his famous “Last Stand.” The accounts of that event and the events leading to it have been documented and picked apart so many times that I doubt anything significantly new has been said for decades.

Custer’s Trials does not exist in the realm of those previous books.

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Stiles has done a masterful job fleshing out Custer’s pre-Little Big Horn life. From his poor upbringing to his years at West Point, from his meteoric rise to young general in the Civil War to his subsequent army postings before his last, Stiles paints a vivid picture of a brash and self-involved individual forced to reinvent himself at several junctures in his career. Circumstances shape his actions, focus and beliefs at every turn. I imagine that the constant reinvention of oneself was common among most who ventured westward in the 19th century, putting much of Custer’s life of constant adjustment on par with many others of the time, regardless of social stature.

Like or despise him, in Custer’s Trials you are reading the story of a man making his way through the quickly developing America from the mid-1800s through his final progression toward the Little Big Horn. Stiles is adept at making you realize how a man makes his way through time and circumstance to becoming either hero or goat to millions of Americans who came after. This is definitely a part of the story that has never been told fully. A thoroughly enjoyable read for anyone interested in Custer, or those who are interested in examining the ebbs and flows of the human condition in history.

—— Roger Cottingham

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

Navigating the spider webs of life, sober and not

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s I travelled around the World Wide Web recently, I got caught up in some metaphorical spider webs.

They’re old webs built by spiders dosed on various psychoactive chemicals. I remember seeing the pictures of them back in my days, early sophomore year, in a magazine I’d collected for my work-study library job. It was a good job because when I came across something that caught my interest, I could post up in a corner and read to my heart’s content.

I was often high at work; it was a pretty mindless job and most days I was scheduled for a couple hours before my classes began. I didn’t get my usual amount of work done that particular morning: These spiders really grabbed my attention. There was a lot going on in my life at the time. I was dealing with undiagnosed depression, things at home were rocky and communication was rare; I was in a relationship that may have been the inspiration for the phrase “It’s Complicated,” and friends were few because I wasn’t that much fun to be around most of the time.

The results of these spider web experiments, begun in the early 1950s by Swiss pharmacologist Peter Witt, webs in various states of “normal” based on the chemicals given to the arachnids, really got me thinking about myself and the relationship different chemicals had on my mind. I’d been smoking weed for several years at that point and knew pretty well when and where it was going to work well for me. My use was primarily recreational but had begun to creep toward being a crutch as I navigated through the first time of crisis of my adult life. Drinking was out – I come from a family chock-full of Irish alcoholism on both sides, and I’d known since I was 15 that a night boozing usually meant a morning full of headaches and questions. I was lucky enough to be in places where opiates and stimulants were very rarely encountered. I’d discovered LSD the previous summer, and while the results of individual trips were mind-blowing and, in retrospect, probably played a huge part in my ability

to unify the vast and fast-moving themes running through my mind, it was also incredibly emotionally draining and difficult to integrate with the very conservative environment that surrounded me. It was as if the facade of a “normal” life that rang false for me had begun to crack and there was a light piercing through them but it was faint and far away and I didn’t understand its source.

I was treading water and I knew I needed to figure out a way to get right with myself and the swirl around me. I was at a Catholic school but I’d abandoned religion long before; the only grace it held for me was an occasional rest in the grotto on campus late at night or in the chapel, where the stained glass reminded me of my childhood. I’d borrowed a book on meditation from my girlfriend’s father, but it would be years before any of the techniques it detailed would be any help.

What I did was probably a mistake at the time. My

coursework was all but abandoned, tuition money went down the drain and the friends I had remaining couldn’t understand it at all. But I put my trust in two metaphorical girls, Lucy (LSD) and Mary Jane. I barely left my room except to work and grab food; when I got back, I would smoke until the noise in my head receded, and whenever I came across it, I’d buy some more acid.

I wouldn’t necessarily recommend my path to anyone. It was desperate, and I’m probably lucky that I didn’t end up in worse situations than I did, but it somehow got me through. Almost every day, I thought about those spiders. I knew where the magazine was shelved, and I’d pull it out every so often and stare at the webs, feeling like one of those spiders, dosed not by a scientist but by life and the world around me, unfolding beyond my power and way beyond my comprehension.

Contemplating those webs, while high or tripping, eventually led me to the idea that maybe what I needed to do was to be the control spider, to forgo chemicals entirely and relearn how to build my life webs clean and sober, with myself as my only influence. So, I did. When I returned to chemical use a few years later, my relationship to it had changed and I could see more clearly what worked for me and what didn’t. It was as if I’d flown to a faraway land and then had to walk back. The journey there was one thing and the journey back was another thing entirely; and I learned an immeasurable amount from each.

That was my trip DGO, and I wish you well on yours. Be careful as you travel and always, always, always check your intentions as you decide to open a new door. Consciousness travels in strange ways, often far beyond the boundaries of the levels of comprehension that we possess, only to be understood in retrospect.

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]

‘Finding Nemo’ Louis XIII What is it?

Like most of the California Ocean Grown strains, Louis XIII has heavilyrumored origins. The truth is she’s an OG Kush phenotype, and most likely back-crossed and stabilized with her close cousins. Unlike the sativa-feeling OG Kush we’re all familiar with, the Louis leans far to the indica side. The example I have is around 26 percent THC, and has a decent amount of CBD and terpenes.

The effects Because of its lineage, I expected the immediate head rush that comes with the first hit of OG Kush, but after a few minutes, I was pleasantly surprised when that warm, relaxing wave ran through my body instead. The feeling was almost narcotic as the euphoria started in my torso and ended up in my brain. After only four hits I was warped to the point of wondering just how incredibly high I was. As time went by, the unbelievable calming effect settled in, and I comfortably drifted off to dreamland.

There is no possible way you can have a bad time watching Pixar movies high. Visually, they are colorful and vibrant.

Emotionally, they are sincere and profound. Narratively, they are surprisingly complex and funny. Plus, they’re ultimately intended for both adults and children to enjoy (and watch together), so you’ll feel cozy and child-like again, almost as though safe in your mother’s embrace. Nothing threatening or strenuous.

“Finding Nemo” is my favorite Pixar flick. In actuality, the ocean is a vast, dark, craggy mass of water filled with godknows-what terrifying creatures, plenty of shipwrecks and decaying bodies. But Pixar paints the ocean as a dynamic universe teeming with life much like ours; there are families, bullies, stoners and single fathers struggling to get by.

“Nemo” centers on a fussy clownfish named Marlin who loses his wife; once a widower, he is forced to raise his son Nemo alone, and does a pretty good job until Nemo gets abducted by scuba divers. Poor Marlin, already grossly overprotective, is frantic. So, along with a jolly blue tang fish named Dory (who suffers from extreme short-term memory loss and is voiced with hilarity by Ellen Degeneres), he travels across the sea in search of his offspring.

Nemo gets forced into a tank at a dentist’s office, then nearly killed by a braces-wearing villainess (the dentist’s niece, Darla), who murdered her last fish by shaking its bag too much. But he escapes in the end. Marlin is almost devoured by sharks (who are in a rehabilitation program, trying to become

vegetarians) and he’s accidentally eaten by a blue whale. But he escapes, too.

The lesson of “Nemo” is bittersweet and true: If you love something, set it free. While separated, both father and son learn how to survive on their own. Nemo must figure out how to appreciate his father’s overbearing tenderness and simultaneously begin to navigate the wide world without his dad’s help. And Marlin, in turn, has to let him go.

“I promised I’d never let anything happen to him,” Marlin says tearfully to Dory when he loses his son. “That’s a funny thing to promise,” she replies. “You can’t never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!”

Stoner bonus: Marlin and Dory meet a gang of sea turtles who are clearly stand-ins for burn-out surfer dudes. They’re totally chill and 100 percent high. Crush (the head turtle) has a great relationship with his son Squirt, largely because he supports and encourages him, but doesn’t helicopter-parent.

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

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[love and sex]

Is going out to fulfill vomit kink considered cheating?

Savage Love | Dan Savage

I’ve been aware of my emetophilia since a very young age and have always kept it private. No need to tell me about the health risks, I’m aware, and I’ve only ever indulged this kink through videos online. The actual substance doesn’t turn me on – I have no desire to be puked on. For me, the fantasy involves being with someone as they begin to feel sick, and then taking care of them as they puke. It has something to do with the buildup and release.

Who knows?

I’m married, and I told my husband about my kink exactly once, a few years ago. He wasn’t judgmental, but he never brought it up again.

We have a great sex life otherwise, and I’ve always assumed I’d have satisfying, normal sex with my husband and masturbate to this kink in private.

But recently, on a whim, I posted a message on a kink site. A few weeks later, a guy reached out to say the description exactly mirrored his own kink. We’ve been texting for a few weeks. He makes me feel like less of a freak, it’s been super hot, and we’ve talked about meeting up and role-playing for each other. It makes me go crazy just to think about this.

In light of the health risks – and the fact that I’m married – this would be a one-time thing. Do I have to tell my husband? I don’t want to have sex with this person; I just want to live out my fantasy for one night, which doesn’t necessarily involve getting naked. But obviously we will both get off, so there’s a definite sexual element.

My husband and I have had threesomes, so he’s not a “strictly monogamous” guy, but it is new for me to strike out on my own. But more than that, I’m mortified at the thought of him knowing about the kind of night I’m having, asking me about it later, etc. I would just rather him not know. But is that cheating?

A Lady Emetophile Meets Her Match The answer to your last question – is that cheating? – is obvious. If that wasn’t cheating, ALEMHM, or if you thought your husband wouldn’t regard it as cheating, you would be asking him for permission to meet up with your vomit buddy. So let’s just run with the assumption that getting together with your VB would constitute infidelity, if the low-grade, nonpenetrative, not-for-everyone kind.

So do you have to tell your husband?

You could tell your husband – and lots of people will insist you must tell your husband – but I’m sitting here, in this Starbucks on Lex and 78th, wondering if your husband would rather not be told.

You shared your kink with your husband once, and he never brought it up again. We can reasonably assume that your husband isn’t interested in discussing, much less indulging, this very particular sexual interest of yours.

Another reasonable assumption: Your kink may not be something your husband wants to think about.

The awareness of your kink, to use Emily “Dear Prudence Emeritus” Yoffe’s phrase, could be a libido killer for him. If your husband worked at stuffing your disclosure down the memory hole, because it interferes with his ability to connect with you sexually, asking permission to spend an evening with your VB could come as an unwelcome reminder.

So you could make – as I’ve just made – an argument for sparing your husband the reminder, and sparing yourself the discomfort, by not telling and/or asking him, and then discreetly meeting up with your VB just this once. (The counterargument is also easily made: He never brought it up again because he picked up on your shame, he didn’t want to distress you, etc.) But if you

decide to meet your VB, ALEMHM, weigh the risks (what happens if you get caught?) against the rewards (scratching this off your kidney dish list!), meet up with your VB in public first, and let someone know where you are and who you’re with on the big night.

I find myself in the most boring of straight white girl pickles: My boyfriend is dragging his feet on proposing. I’m 29, and he’s 31. We’ve been dating for three years.

Things are great. We talk about our future a lot – buying a house, vacations, blah blah blah. Lack of proposal aside, we’re solid. But I would hate to waste another year in this city for this guy when I could have been working toward tenure somewhere else. (I’m in academia.)

I’ve tried bringing this up to him several times with no concrete results.

Really Into Not Going Solo Propose to him, RINGS. Don’t informally propose a formal proposal – don’t ask him to ask you to marry him – but go get a ring (for him) and ask him to marry you (for [bleep]’s sake). You have the power to pop the question and call it at the same time. Good luck, I hope he says yes.

I met a man two and a half years ago on Tinder. Our relationship was built on lies from the start. I lied to him about having a child so I could put a wedge between us. I came clean after we slept together a few times – the most mind-blowing sex I’ve ever had – because I was afraid he might want to meet my made-up child. I caught feelings. But Tinder man is married and lives in France.

I see him only three times a year.

Fast-forward to now. He pursues other people. Women throw themselves at him. We were at the mall, and he picked up a girl while I was getting my hair done. He’s not my boyfriend. He hurts me. I am terrified of losing him.

Here comes the tricky part: My doctor found a tumor on my lymph nodes. I go in for tests on Friday.

I’m ready to pick out my coffin at this point. I contacted my lover’s ex-wife and asked why they divorced, and she said because he cheated all the time. I know what he’s capable of. I don’t want to change him. I love him. I go insane when we don’t talk. He told me he doesn’t respect me any more than he respects his current wife.

I’m so scared.

Help Me Please Um ... you won’t find the help you need wedged between escort ads at the back of a weekly newspaper, HMP, or on a website underneath pop-up ads for vaporizers. You need a therapist, someone who can help you work through legitimate-butpossibly-premature fears for your health (let’s wait for those test results to come back before we pick out your coffin, OK?) and your emotional dependence on a man who isn’t your boyfriend, isn’t your husband, isn’t around much and has told you he doesn’t respect you. He’s not the kind of guy who’s going to come through for you during a health crisis – that guy couldn’t come through for you during a haircut.

Don’t get me wrong: I sleep with men, I understand the sexual appeal of a man who treats you like shit, I’m a huge Peggy Lee fan (youtube.com/ watch?v=QBsEH9q63Uk). But you can’t depend on a guy like that at a time like this. If it turns out you’re seriously ill, HMP, you need to lean on family and friends, join a support group, buy one of those vaporizers and concentrate on getting healthy.

And take comfort: If/when your health is restored, there are plenty of shitty, selfish, sadistic guys on the planet who’ll treat you badly, cheat on you flagrantly and – not coincidentally – get you off spectacularly.

I’m sorry you may be ill, HMP, and I’m sorry you’re scared. Best wishes for a speedy physical, emotional and sexual recovery.

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.

Kirk James, blues, 5:30-7 p.m., Durango

Craft Spirits, 1120 Main Ave., No. 2.

Just Eat It A Food Waste Story, docu-

mentary screening, 6-8:30 p.m., Miller Middle School Auditorium, 2608 Junction St., foodwastemovie.com.

Ben Gibson, 6-10 p.m., Lady Falconburgh’s,

Main Ave., 247-4431.

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

DJ Noonz, 9 p.m., Moe’s, 937

Main Ave., 259-9018.

Live music with Dave Mensch, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., $15,

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

640 Main Ave.

Sunday

LIMITLESS: a vocal workshop with Holly Pyle, 6-7 p.m., $32.64, WhereiAM

Irish music jam session,

Music, 1315 Main Ave., No. 207, www.eventbrite.com/e/iam-music-limitless-vocal-workshop-with-holly-pyle-guest-vocal-workshoptickets-24630682033 Robby Overfield, 7 p.m., Office Spirito-

rium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Music of the People, Fort Lewis College

Choirs Concert, 7 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.

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

259-9018.

Laugh Therapy, open mic stand-up com-

edy, 8-10 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, theirishembassypub.com.

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 Opening reception: Under Pressure,

print-making exhibit curated by Maureen May, 5-7 p.m., Barbara Conrad Gallery, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org.

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

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

Mike Testa, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. iAM Downtown Music Walk, 7-9 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave., 247-1438.

Open mic, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, lo-

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

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Alex Blocker, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.,

259-9018.

Kirk James Blues Band, 8:30 p.m., Billy

Goat Saloon, 39848 U.S. Highway 160, Gem Village.

DJ Icite, 10 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-

9018.

12:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Latin music night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937

Main Ave., 259-9018.

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

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Auditions for “Fool for Love,” 11 a.m.-1

Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 247-7657, www.durangoconcerts.com.

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

UFC 197, Jones vs. Saint Preux, 6-10 p.m.,

$15, Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 4031200, theirishembassypub.com.

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

Jennifer Weiner

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

699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Donny Johnson, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

There’s nothing like spending a Saturday night at a good oldfashioned hoedown. And, if you’re in the mood this weekend, you’re in luck.

And it’s for a good cause.

The fourth annual Spring Hoedown benefiting Montezuma School to Farm Project will be held from 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Mancos Opera House, 136 W. Grand Ave., featuring live music from Free the Honey, Six Dollar String Band and Carute Roma Gypsy Band.

Sweetwater Gypsy will be serving a local food taco bar, Dolores River Brewery and Carvers have donated beer, so your food and drinks are totally covered. And there will be both a silent and live auction.

Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Kids 17 and younger get in free. Get your tickets at Zuma Natural Foods in Mancos, Dolores Food Market, fb organics in Cortez and Maria’s Bookshop in Durango.

And don’t forget to wear your best Western clothes!

Monday

Saturday p.m., Durango Arts Center Theatre, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org/theatre, 2592606, ext. 17.

There’s gonna be a hoedown in Mancos

Robert Earl Keen, 7:30 p.m., $30/$40,

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

Ave., 259-9018.

Wednesday Greg Ryder, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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Join Studio & for a night of art, wine

Where should we

DGO tonight?

Supporting and promoting local art in Durango ain’t cheap, and now it’s your turn to help a space that in the course of its six years has helped so many in the arts community.

From 6-9 p.m. Saturday night, Studio & is hosting an evening of art, wine, local food and music at its 10x10 event. For a $100 ticket, you not only have a cool way to spend a night downtown, you’ll also be leaving the studio with a piece of original art created by a local artist.

Tickets are available online at http://anddurango.com and at Studio &, 1027 Main Ave. Only 30 tickets will be sold, so it’s probably not a good idea to wait until the last minute.

For more information, call (908) 403-9975.

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Solo exhibition of paintings by Patrice DeLorenzo, through May 28, Olio,

Ace Revel, 6-8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar and

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

Cocktail Lounge, 723 East Second Ave., 3850105.

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

Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, theirishembassypub.com.

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

Main Ave., 403-1200.

Two-step dance lessons, 6:30-7:30

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

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

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

Pingpong and poker night, 8 p.m.,

Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

Geeks Who Drink trivia, 8:30 p.m.,

“Earthly Presence,” May 6 through May, Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. “Ink & Wax: Intimate Surface Directions,” Karen Riley, through Tuesday, 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

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

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.

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

to the DGO calendar with

rango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.

BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 W. College Drive, 259-5959.

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

+ Add an Event

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

Fort Lewis College Art Gallery.

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

802 East Second Ave.

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Today’s Full Moon very likely will bring financial issues to a head. Now you will have to decide whether it’s time to hold or time to fold.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Today, the only Full Moon opposite your sign all year is taking place.

That’s why you might feel increased tension with partners and close friends. Patience is your best ally today.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) The Full Moon today might create tension with co-workers. Look beyond today’s tension and demonstrate grace under pressure.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

Bizarro

Of course, you feel the tension of today’s Full Moon because the Moon is

your ruler. Just go with the flow. This heightened emotional quality will be gone in 48 hours.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Today you feel the classic tug-of-war between trying to keep home and family happy versus trying to keep your job and career happy. You can’t do both. (This time, you can’t ignore your job.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Be careful because this is an accidentprone day because of the heightened Full Moon energy. Pay attention to everything you say and do.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Financial matters might come to a head because of the Full Moon today.

Fortunately, after the Full Moon peaks, things will resolve themselves.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Today, the only Full Moon in your sign all year is taking place. Do what you can to stay mellow. Be patient with close friends and partners.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You have lots of energy with fiery Mars in your sign! Be careful because today’s Full Moon can create problems with others. Keep smiling, and be patient.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Issues with a group or perhaps with a personal friend might come to a head today. After the Full Moon peaks, you likely will bring things to a happy agreement.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Even though there are external de-

mands on you today, you cannot ignore the demands of home and family. This feeling of being caught in a tug-of-war is because of the Full Moon today.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Do what you can to avoid accidents today because the Full Moon energy is distracting. Stay focused and mindful of everything you say and do.

BORN TODAY You are a caring person, with your finger on the pulse of the public. You appreciate beauty and harmony in your daily world. This year, you have something valuable to learn. Fear not – it might not be apparent in the first half of the year, but soon, your efforts of the past six years will manifest results!

Expect your well-earned rewards soon. © 2016 King Features Syndicate Inc.

[overread on durango yik yak] “I’m far more scared of Cruz than Trump. I’d rather have an idiot baby than a raging Machiavellian theologian. Don’t be fooled, people!”

“I was wondering why they didn’t have a 4/20 for alcohol. Then I remembered it’s called Saturday.”

“The best thing about having a penis is sharing it with people who don’t.”

“I know I love her because I still want to cuddle her when she smells bad.”

“To the guy who is having the discussion about lighters and stoners: You are completely right. The consistent stoner usually doesn’t have a lighter on hand. They grow legs/arms and disappear.”

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