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Hunting for wooks, I wondered when mockery crosses the line

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was invited last weekend to join a Facebook group called Colorado Big Game Trophy Wook Hunters.

The page goes something like this: Hippie-ish people – often in festival garb, nearly always with long dreads – are photographed discreetly in public, at festivals, at restaurants, at shows, wherever, and then described in the posts as animals to be feared and hunted, with phrases like “tagged, bagged, and released into the wild.” The captions often reference the wook’s perceived drug use, hygiene, food and music preferences and new age spiritualism, essentially operating on hippie stereotypes.

I can’t lie, scrolling through this page, I found myself chuckling and scrolling and scrolling. And then that tinge of guilt began creeping in: Was this OK? Are we laughing with these folks or at them? Just how mean-spirited was this?

I became conflicted, my secret hippie insides quivering.

My questions were not if the page should exist. It absolutely has a right to, and I could easily leave the group and never return. My gut told me that at its base, it was mean-spirited. But I needed to understand why I felt that way.

To be fair to the participants of the group – and there are more than 18,000 who belong – they do come off as confusingly thoughtful and certainly witty, poking gentle fun while eschewing outright mockery, participating in humor not so much based on the actual people in the photos, but on caricature, undeniable hippie tropes, and, yes, stereotypes.

The page has strict rules, posted regularly, that are essentially this: Don’t be racist, sexist or homophobic. No photos of kids. Be creative and witty in your posts, as the site is meant to be fun and funny. But just because someone intends for something to be lighthearted and harmless doesn’t mean it is.

To me, the page is not so much poking fun at actual people, but at a lifestyle and belief system. Regardless, stereotypes at their base objectify, stratify and dehumanize. They act as shorthand to

place something or someone into a box that is identifiable and recognizable.

No matter what the intent, to see real people described as animals to be baited and hunted didn’t feel good.

At the same time, some of the attributes given to the wooks are undoubtedly true. Not all wooks are like they’re described, of course, and not everyone who falls into these tropes have dreads and wear loose-fitting gypsywear while wandering through k-holes.

Though sold as good-natured, there does seem to be some underlying animosity toward the targets of the wook page that might be used as justification by the contributors: that these people are not meaningful contributors to society.

They are dirty freeloaders looking for handouts, concert tickets, drugs, places to crash. These are people who have not subscribed to the mainstream like the rest of us and are getting away with it.

These are people who lack self-awareness with their far-out beliefs and woo-woo ethics, habits, standards and sensibilities.

These are people who do not live seriously and thus should not be taken seriously.

And there’s one huge thing that makes all this somewhat palatable and justifiable for those involved: Those being made fun of are white people. If these white people are poor, it’s because they’ve chosen to be. If they are dirty, it’s because they like being dirty. If they are moochers, it probably has to do with an entitled upbringing. The source of the mockery isn’t something these people were born with, like race or sexuality, but lifestyle choices made voluntarily.

Ultimately, I think we’re all ripe for mockery. Suburban helicopter parents, hipsters, country clubbers, magazine editors. We all fall into one stereotype or another. While stereotypes are rarely a source of goodness, thinking about them – whether we buy into them or refute them – can be useful in teasing out our own beliefs and in understanding who we are and how we are perceived by others, if for no other reason than being better prepared to enlighten someone’s perspective if given the chance.

Shoes Love it

At the height of my shoe obsession I had close to 50 pairs stacked neatly on shelves in the closet. I had a pair for every occasion, and it was the shoes that gave me the sense that I could be anyone I wanted.

As a man, I find shoes to be one of the few items of clothing that regularly exhibit personality and a flair for style. I love finishing off a moderately dressy outfit with my checkered Vans, which undoubtedly says “I’m classy, but I know how to party.” Who knew shoes could speak so eloquently?

My favorites are shoes that can do anything. They can pass as dressy if the rest of your outfit is dressy. They can be casual. You can wear them every day with anything if need be. You can wear them to a funeral and to a dance party. You could walk five miles in them. I’ve only owned a handful of these superhero shoes in my years, but when I have a pair, and I always have at least one, I worship them like they were the bacon-wrapped Baby King himself.

I love the sexiness shoes can exude: riding boots that accentuate the shape of a woman’s calves and direct the eye to the knees and then up and up, or the wingtips with fine orange stitching that unmistakably turn a dude into a gentleman, or the animal-print wedge heels that seem to purr and growl all on their own.

—— David Holub

Hate it When shoes are even a little bit the wrong size, you get blisters. Nothing hurts worse if you’re on a long hike or walk or saunter than a gnawing blister. It’s hard to find shoes if you have tiny feet (as I do). It’s discriminatory; average-sized feet fit everything, but stores never have cute shoes in extreme sizes. Shoes are also deceptive. You might try them on in the store, walk around, decide they’re comfortable. Then you buy them, wear them on a day out, and find yourself in sudden agony. I realize you’re supposed to “break in” shoes – but some pairs break me first.

You need so many different types of shoe for every occasion. It’s exhausting. Dress shoes, boots that are waterproof for winter, boots that are waterproof but less warm for spring, ballet flats, combat boots if you’re edgy, Converse if you’re casual, work boots for working, hiking boots for hiking, ski boots for skiing. It literally never ends.

Don’t get me started on high heels. Sure, they make your legs look sexy.

But if you carefully watch the majority of women who walk in them, it’s actually not that sexy. They look like newborn baby colts testing their wobbly legs. Heels hurt. They don’t support your feet. They slowly ruin the bone structure of your feet and cause lasting damage. Why do you need to be taller? Calm down or schedule yourself for one of those medieval stretching procedures.

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

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Cyle Talley | Get Smart

Gardening OK Portlandia, so you buy only organic, but do you grow organic, too? Let Sandhya Tillotson, executive director of local nonprofit The Garden Project, help you put your money where your mouth is.

Wanna get gardening?

What challenges does the first-time gardener face in our area?

»»Stop by the Garden Project of Southwest Colorado booth at the Durango Farmer’s Market, this Saturday, May 14.

It’s more challenging with our arid climate and short growing season. I built hoop houses with plastic sheets over the top for my garden. That helps warm up the soil this time of year so that I can plant a bit earlier and extend the season a little bit further into the fall. At our workshops with the community garden, we give all sorts of tips for what grows best in Southwest Colorado. CSU’s extension is also a great resource. They’re doing a Backyard Food series that starts in mid-May and goes throughout the summer growing season.

That’s a great way to learn about the best ways to irrigate, organic pest control, mending soil. Lots of resources in the community.

Speaking of soil ...

»»To volunteer, email: Volunteer@ TheGardenProjectSWColorado.org »»Weekly workdays at the Manna Soup Kitchen Garden, every Wednesday, 9 to 11 a.m., 1100 Avenida del Sol »»Ohana Kuleana Community Garden workday & potluck, May 14, 10 a.m. to noon, 564 E. 30th St. »»Find out about all of The Garden Project’s upcoming workshops, events and programs at: www.TheGardenProjectSWColorado.org

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»» Sandhya Tillotson, executive director of local nonprofit The Garden Project, at the Manna Soup Kitchen Garden on Monday.

Composting is huge, just to add more organic matter. We have a lot of clay [in Durango] that can get really compacted, so if you can start your own little backyard compost pile with your kitchen scraps, it can add so much to the life of your soil. I really focus on feeding the soil rather than feeding the plants. If you have worms and microbes and a living soil, you’ll have more living plants because they’ll have the nutrients they need, and those microbes and roots will be working in synergy.

What goes in to good compost?

Egg shells, coffee grounds, carrot tops, lettuce that’s gone a little funky, potato peelings – any kind of fruit or vegetable scraps. You want to avoid dairy, meat, things that you scrape off of your plate after a meal, because it’ll be fats and oils, things that are hard to break down.

What about for renters and people who don’t own the land they live on?

Make a container garden! Small pots with greens or tomatoes; herbs are easy to do. Microgreens are really fun. Put ’em on your windowsill and grow snap pea seeds, broccoli seeds, radish seeds. Let ’em grow several inches tall and you can just cut them and use them as a garnish for salads or sandwiches. They’re packed full of nutrients. Or join our community garden!

Let’s get even smaller: apartments, tiny houses ...

I would really like to see front yard gardens, rather than grass yards. Most yards [have] Kentucky Bluegrass that doesn’t belong here and is using water we don’t have, so let’s put vegetable gardens in front of people’s houses, or even in that little strip of land between the sidewalk and the street. In Palmer, Alaska, all of the downtown flower boxes are bursting with chard and kale and edible flowers. They have these signs that say, “Please pick what you need, and weed while you’re here.” They post pictures of common weeds and anyone can go by and use that food. It’s really cool. I would like to see gardens popping up wherever we have land or space.

Which plants do you recommend for beginners?

Grow things that you actually like to eat. You don’t need to plant zucchini. [laughs] Tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lettuces, kale – all pretty easy. Microgreens are really easy, as long as you keep them wet. Those are easy to do in a windowsill. Salad greens in a raised bed. You can also grow things that might be a little too expensive at the grocery store. Herbs, spices – those

things are like 4 or 5 dollars! You can buy a plant for that and get way more.

What’s your advice for the beginning gardener?

Start small, with something that you know you can manage. Be OK with some failures. I’ve never been able to successfully grow a carrot. Gardening is sort of like life.

You’re going to have some successes and some failures, and it’s going to be different next year, so don’t give up.

Having a green thumb or a black thumb does not exist.

Everyone can be a gardener. It’s inherent and intrinsic to the human experience to be growing our own sustenance. What’s the worst that could happen? You spend a couple bucks on seeds and some materials and you get to dig in the dirt! Maybe even with your kids! I’m amazed at how many kids don’t even want to get their hands dirty, or touch the soil, or hold a worm. You say farming and they think of an app! Be OK with experimenting and trying new things, with learning in a really experiential way. You’ll start to tune in, “Oh, maybe this plant doesn’t like to grow here,” or “Hmmm, it may need a little less light.” If you slow down, notice and observe, it’ll be more successful.

Cyle Talley once grew a zucchini as long as his arm, and then had a nightmare about it taking over the world. If there’s something you’d like to Get Smart about, email him at: cyle@cyletalley.com

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Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

»» Town Mountain performs at 7 p.m.

Friday at the Henry Strater Theatre.

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Town Mountain: Jump on board or get the hell outta the way

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ands don’t typically place a 59-second song as the opener on an album. Record executives and other suits in Nashville would also probably discourage it, and it may even scare off some fans. “St. Augustine” is a 59-second, fiddledriven blaze of a cut, a smackin-the-mouth of an introduction.

That’s Town Mountain, an honest, straight-to-the-point band that comes at you at an unapologetic full speed. It’s their personal invite for the listener to jump on board or get the hell out of the way.

Further listening reveals “Southern Crescent,” as a dissection of string music, a cross examination of the history of rural American music that has existed up and down the Eastern Seaboard and Appalachia, a mix of old time, country and early Cajun music all falling under the bluegrass umbrella of craft musician-

Bryant’s best Friday: Bluegrass with Town Mountain, 7 p.m. $20 advance, $25 day of show. Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. Information: 3757160.

Friday: Croce: 2 Generations of American Music, 7:30 p.m. $29/$39.

Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive. Information: 247-7657. ship and raw lyrical emotion.

The Asheville, North Carolina, band will be in town Friday touring in support of “Southern Crescent,” and helping local radio KSUT celebrate 40 years of broadcast at the Henry Strater Theatre.

The recording of “Southern Crescent” took the band to Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and into the studios of musician and producer Dirk Powell.

Powell was the perfect person to bring

out the influences of the band and fuse the rich music history of the area with their own rowdy sound.

“His idea of what music is and how it should be played is very similar to how we think in Town Mountain. We have a lot of friends in that neck of the woods, and we really respect a lot of that music; the Cajun stuff, the old time scene, the Louisiana country scene,” said banjo player Jesse Langlais in a recent interview. “That’s dance music, and Town Mountain tries to infuse as much of that into our music as possible. We want people to dance and interact with the music on that level. Too many times bluegrass music is for a sit-down audience, and we try to take away that idea. A lot of material we ended up recording has that Town Mountain signature boogie-woogie thing we do, some is straight-up honky-tonk music, and some of it’s bluegrass. It all made sense to take those tunes down to Dirk

to record.”

Town Mountain has always bucked some of the normal trends and conventions of bluegrass, and certainly has carried a looser vibe than some of the more conservative in the genre.

There’s an outlaw country ideology among a laid-back, rock ’n’ roll feel; it’s tough to pigeon-hole in a genre that has too many sub-genres made up by fans in need of some form of identification.

“This whole country sound is unique to us. Jimmy Martin had that.

The Osborne brother had some of it, they had that country aspect to their brand of bluegrass, and that certainly plays into what our sound is,” Langlais said. “Maybe it’s kind of hard to label Town Mountain, and I think that’s a great thing.”

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

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[sound] What’s new Eagulls,“Ullages” Available: May 13 via Partisan Records as a download, CD and an LP on black vinyl The sophomore release can be a tricky endeavor for bands. I mean this figuratively, because it might really be only “tricky” in the context of music criticism. Bands – and fans – have been led to believe the ceiling can come crashing down if a second record doesn’t live up to the first. To the mostly useless, musically-inept record reviewers, the ones who can’t actually play instruments but have been pegged/tapped for some insights to the nuance of actually creating an entire record, there is arbitrary weight lumped onto a band’s follow-up to its debut. Especially if that debut was well received critically.

The follow up, in this instance, is the anagramic Ullages from the Leeds-based quintet Eagulls. Perhaps without coincidence, ullage also refers to the amount by which contents fall short of filling a cask or bottle. Nothing falls short on this Craig Silvy-(Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode) produced album. The angular, post-punk guitars are still present, though perhaps refined and tempered with homage to some of their English forbearers (see below). Lead singer and lyricist George Mitchell’s vocal parts have been heavily tour-seasoned, complemented aside guitarists Liam Matthews’ and Mark Goldsworthy’s interplay. This album has gotten better with each subsequent listen.

Recommended for fans of Echo & the Bunnymen, Killing Joke or Disintegration-era The Cure and modern contemporaries DIIV or The Soft Moon.

— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

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[Sartorial over-enthusiasm with Heather of Sideshow]

Style Fetish | Heather Narwid

Legendary Harlem haberdasher sampled logos like rappers sampled beats

Dapper Dan, hip-hop style icon Let’s take a look at the fascinating story of the most influential tailor you’ve never heard of, Dapper Dan of Harlem.

In Dan’s 125th Street New York boutique, the designer and his team of Senegalese seamsters made ground-breaking clothing styles for rappers, athletes, drug dealers and assorted hustlers of the early ’80s.

Dapper Dan appropriated imagery exclusive to the luxury garment market and released it guerrilla-style onto the streets to make what he described in a 1989 “New York Magazine” article as a “macho type of ethnic ghetto clothing.”

variety of gangsters, musicians, athletes and hustlers, including Floyd Mayweather, Olympian Diane Dixon, Mike Tyson, L.L. Cool J, the Fat Boys, Salt n’ Pepa and others inside. Dapper Dan would make custom garments for celebrities but then would knock off his own design to make a similar piece for a regular guy or gangster wannabe, according to a 2013 “New Yorker” article.

But the luxury houses could not abide forever with this guerrilla appropriation of their imagery. The day of reckoning came when the people at Fendi spotted a newspaper photo of Dan wearing a coat with Fendi logos, What this means is that Dapper Dan ripped off the unmistakable logos that was, alas, not a Fendi (Mike Tyson was to blame!). A civil of couture fashion houses like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Versace and Fendi, action against the boutique started, ending with a physical raid and seizure/confiscation on Dapper Dan’s Boutique invented a proprietary leather screen-printing process and printed

by Fendi’s lawyers, including one Sonia Sotomayor material with these trademarked logos on it to use for his own clothing designs. “Dap” used the printed leathers along with exotic furs and (now-Supreme Court Justice). The raid sent Dan underground and his boutique closed soon afterwards. trims to make the deep, “snorkel”-hooded coats with hidden pockets, Nonetheless, the garments Dapper Dan dared to matching leather pants and jacket sets, women’s puffy-sleeved coats make heavily influenced hip-hop street culture, and more that were to become signature looks and silhouettes of its celebrities, anti-heroes and even the music early hip-hop, and of luxe ’80s fashion in general, too. itself. I place Dap in the pantheon of other In the late ’80s, logos were huge in fashion worldwide and were emblainfluential designers who blurred the lines bezoned across everything wearable. Dan’s cutting-edge (and slightly dutween music, fashion and art. Dap did for rap bious) idea was to bring the exclusive status-symbol logos of the luxury what designer Vivienne Westwood did in houses like Louis Vuitton to his own original designs – Dapper Dan calls the ’70s for the punk scene in her London his clothing “knockups” instead of “knockoffs.” The designer explained in boutique called SEX. a 2015 “NY Magazine” interview that wearing a logo appealed to people because “It signifies status, and money, which go hand in hand. The thing If you are into hip-hop, its history, street style or fashion in general, Style Fetish is, you can have the status but nobody will know you don’t have the urges you to learn more about the life money. So that’s what gives it such an impact in your look.” and work of this influential and interI abhor logos on clothing and am generally not OK with an artist’s or esting character. Read Kelefa Sanneh’s designer’s ideas and imagery being stolen BUT adore and can identify excellent article “Harlem Chic” in the with Dan’s twists on the situation: bringing his customers what they March 25, 2013, issue of the “New want by any means necessary, gray-area illegality, the siphoning of the Yorker.” In October 2013, Jay Z’s webearmarks of what WAS an exclusive culture from the “high class,” arsite lifeandtimes.com posted a video tistic appropriation of the pre-existing into an entirely new form AND interview with Dapper Dan as well. influencing an entire music genre!

This appropriation is even more deviously brilliant in relation to hiphop because it is exactly what this brand new genre itself was heading toward musically with the ground-breaking, albeit controversial, use of sampling. Dan was sampling the imagery of other designers just like rappers sampled other musicians’ beats and made something new and influential.

Dan told “NY Magazine” in 2015 that still considered his designs original, even with the purloined logos, because he was designing cuttingedge garments that the luxury houses would never have thought of or made themselves. This comment also seems to be a logical defense of music sampling itself.

People loved Dapper Dan’s clothes. His boutique was open from 1982 till 1992, often 24 hours a day. He had a bodyguard out front and a

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. »» Dapper Dan in 2015.

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Apparently this is a thing:

Hair tinsel You’ve probably seen girls around town with strands of something sparkly in their hair. It’s barely noticeable at first; until their heads catch the light, and then it’s like looking at the colorful mane of a My Little Pony figurine. Well, get used to it. More and more women want a little (well-deserved) pizazz in their lives, and Durangoan Ashley Garcia has a growing demand for “hair bling” insertion. She’s put tinsel in the hair of most of her friends (“little tinsel fairies walking around,” as she calls them) – but Garcia is always looking for new customers. Celebs like Beyoncé and Ke$ha have also been spotted sporting the trend.

Garcia learned to do hair tinsel four years ago from a friend; now she can put in one strand of bling in less than a minute.

If you want 20, it will take her between 10 and 20 minutes – quicker Courtesy of Ashley Garcia than any hair »» Ashley Garcia and her hair tinsel. salon appointment. “They last anywhere from one day to one year, is the disclaimer I give,” said Garcia. “I isolate a single strand of hair, then tie the hair and tinsel into an overhand knot together; I have a tool I use that makes it quick and efficient. As long as that hair stays in your head, you’ll have the hair tinsel.” Even if you brush or wash your locks, it shouldn’t snag or get ripped out.

The tinsel is least noticeable in multicolored tresses, especially lighter ones like red or blonde. But Garcia thinks the colors can be pretty subtle, even in dark hair; “for darker hair, I use brown mocha tones, gold, copper-orange – they all blend in really well,” she said. “Also, blue looks so good in dark hair; that can be more bold, but if you’re in a darker room you wouldn’t even notice it.” Surprisingly, Garcia has put tinsel in the hair of several men, too. Even some beards.

So why are women loving this? “I’m a personal believer that we’re all descendants of the stars,” said Garcia.

“We’re essentially stardust on an atomic level, and I think all of us know how special we are. Sometimes you’ll have the opportunity to display your brilliance just by adding a little extra sparkle or flair. It’s enough for anyone to walk around and feel on top of the world. People will take the time out of their day to say ‘Hey, that looks great on you.’” If you’re interested in some shine, contact Garcia at JAshley.Garcia@gmail.com.

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

Got the beer doldrums? Try some of these ... if you can find them

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ome activities are destined for monotony: if you do that one thing, over and over again, for a while, the possibility for surprise goes away. Ride a roller coaster enough and you will certainly get bored. Eat the super spicy salsa and it will get bland. Drink the same beer over and over and your taste buds will tire. Trust me, I drink one or two beers every day, and yes, I get bored. I spend in the hundreds of dollars a month on different beers and I still get bored. Even when I drink as many different beers as I possibly can, I still end up getting tired of the same flavors, so it’s always a surprise when I taste a beer that shakes me out of my senses and makes me re-evaluate my assumptions.

If you’re like me, the phrases, “mobile canning,” “rural Indiana” and “dank-ass IPA” would never be uttered in the same sentence. In fact, I hate anything and everything from Indiana except 3 Floyds Brewing, Peyton Manning and Michael Jackson (this applies to the hole of the midwest, and no that’s not a typo, the midwest is a hole). So my expectations for the state and the region are super low, but a wonderful series of events led me to drink some awesome beers from rural Indiana.

The owner of Bare Hands Brewing in Granger, Indiana, was vacationing in Durango in early April and dropped off a few of his beers at Ska and took a little tour of our facility. I wasn’t there, but benefited from the exchange and was able to take one of each style of beer home. After reading the label, I was not expecting much from Indiana or “mobile canning” (a canning line moved from brewery to brewery in a truck or van). I drank a Decadent Imperial IPA first. When I cracked the first beer from Bare Hands, Westy IPA, I had a decent buzz and didn’t even pour it into a glass, but the aroma leapt from the can and the flavors were mind blowing even though my taste buds were numb from the high ABV. I also didn’t take notes, because I didn’t anticipate writing about the beer, I just drank and enjoyed the fresh and juicy hops.

Then I opened the next, Honey Badger Double IPA, and again I was blown away by how good it was! Like the Westy, the hops were fresh and juicy, and it was a beautiful beer. There was no time for reflection or savoring, but immediate gratification. I wish I had given it the proper respect, but in the moment it was such a pleasure I couldn’t resist. There was no going back, no way to repeat the

experience. The only Bare Hands beer on this side of the continental divide had been drank. To paraphrase the French Surrealist Stephane Mallarme: Dammit! The flesh is sad, and I drank all the beer!

Now, I hate to get your hopes up about a super awesome beer that you can’t try unless you go to Indiana, so I will say that there are other beers that you can get here in town, that are equally as surprising and possessing enough flavor to wake you from your beer doldrums. Carver Brewing has a new IPA, Main Ave IPA, that pours a gorgeous yellow-orange with a soft, long-lasting foam, and loaded with southern hemisphere hops that give the beer an intense aroma and flavor profile of wildflowers, fruits (you name the fruit and likely there will be a note or two in there), and pine. It makes me want to wax poetic about walking through a pine forest on the edge of an orchard with a high mountain meadow in full bloom. There’s also no balance to this beer: The malt is subtle and really lets the hops shine (Actually, wait, three days after writing this I have been informed that Carver’s has sold out of all the Main Ave IPA, so maybe this isn’t about surprises, but unattainable delights … Someone tell PJ and Cody get make a new batch, ASAP).

And I don’t really like to suggest beers by AB-InBev sellouts, but Elysian’s Dayglo IPA was a flavor explosion. I had it at pint night at The Ranch, and the first surprise was that it wasn’t the usually $3 pint night price ($8 a pint!), but the color, aroma and basically everything else about the beer made it stand out from all the other handles in The Ranch, so it was totally worth it.

And if you want to drink a beer out of a can, the new Briny Watermelon Gose from Anderson Valley Brewing is what I love to see in a Gose: not too salty and not too sour. It’s surprising because I really don’t like watermelon beers; the sweetness is usually too much, and I also hate watermelon with salt on it. Anderson Valley’s other entries in the Highway 128 series seem to have a flaw that the watermelon fixes: The regular Gose is too salty, the blood orange is too sour, but the watermelon is just right. It’s also in a can, so I’m definitely going to have a few on hand all summer.

Robert Alan Wendeborn puts the bubbles in the beer at Ska Brewing Company. 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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Talking climate change and rejection with author

Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi (BAH-cha-ga-loo-py) is a science fiction and fantasy author who writes books for adults, kids and young adults. He’s won both the Hugo and Nebula awards (big deal prizes in science fiction), and his debut novel “The Windup Girl” was a smash hit in 2009. His latest novel for adults, “The Water Knife,” is set in our very own southwestern United States. It’s about a not-too-distant, apocalyptic future where climate change and drought have forced citizens into a vicious battle over water rights. Paonia native Bacigalupi will be at Maria’s Bookshop for a signing on Tuesday, May 17.

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Your new book “The Water Knife” is about drought in the Southwest. Your other books have dealt with similar environmental topics. Are you personally active in engaging with climate change issues?

It’s interesting territory when you want to talk about the future. One of the things you look at with books about the future is the question of, ‘Where are we going?’ I write science fiction, so I look at what’s going on and ask, ‘If this goes on, what will the world look like?’ It seems like one of those narratives which is both ever-present and often ignored. Just because yesterday was a certain way, we expect tomorrow will be a certain way. We’re so locked into that narrative; even as data accumulates, we kind of miss the big picture. So what’s most interesting to me about climate change is this huge component of our reality that we somehow can’t quite engage with.

How does “The Water Knife” detail this issue in a regionally specific way, with climate change/drought affecting the American Southwest?

When you want to talk about a big, pervasive but also intangible problem like climate change, you have to get down to a specific and local level. So I looked at the Colorado River and the states that depend upon it. We already know it was an oversubscribed river, and that its total volume has been falling for quite a while. Climate change data says that’s only going to get worse. The region is going to get more waterscarce over time. It’s about how we’ve set up water rights in the western U.S.: Whoever got here first gets it all; whoever came here second is screwed. That’s a regional peculiarity. We exist through irrigation, we’re not a region that depends on “god water” as they say, as it is back east. In terms of the specificity of this region, we’re vulnerable, we live an engineered water existence already, and on top of that we have a zero sum attitude toward water where the winners take all. In a novel, that’s all good for conflict.

What: Author Paolo Bacigalupi reads from and signs his latest book “The Water Knife” When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 Where: Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.

Courtesy of JT Thomas Photography

Right now I have a great deal of rope I can hang myself with, because my books have sold well. The issue where you’re bumping up most against the industry’s needs versus your own is TIME. They would love you to write one book per year, like 1, 2, 3, GO! Be creative! That’s hard. Sometimes I’ve written a book in six weeks and it astounds me. Then the next book takes me two years.

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Any advice for young people who are trying to become novelists?

indicate about our coming century. I do take honest liberties with reality, but I stay within the lane of accuracy.

I’ve talked to a lot of writers about their careers and the process they went through trying to break in.

And I think what a lot of people don’t understand is how much effort it takes. When I first started, I had this idea that I’d write my first novel, it was going to be brilliant and I’d be a 25-year-old wunderkind.

Four novels later, all of them having been rejected by everyone, you’re thinking ‘Maybe I didn’t quite get a handle on this thing.’ Nobody bought or would even look at those four novels. They ended up in a trunk before my fifth novel finally took off. You don’t see all the failures. So what I tell people is, you have to have a lot of stomach for the idea of trying something, failing at it, learning from it, and coming back and trying something slightly different. Then doing that again and again and again. Try, fail, learn. If you have the tenacity to go through that process enough times, good things tend to happen. Every author I talk to has this story of tenacity and relentlessness. You need enough ego to believe that you deserve to be published. It’s an act of hubris to say, ‘Look at what I wrote!’ Like, who the [bleep] are you? But you also have to have enough humility to look at your own work and say, ‘Oh, I can do it better.’ It’s not quite as mysterious as I once thought it was; it takes certain behavioral traits to make it happen as a writer.

Any thoughts as to why young adult literature has seen a huge spike in popularity among adult readers?

When you’re writing science fiction, do you think doing extensive research and making the story as realistic as possible is more effective?

I think broadly, young adult literature focuses more heavily on plot and story than some adult literature does. So it’s a certain kind of pleasure reading. If the writer is smart, there’s plenty for an adult to connect to.

It’s hard to create a blanket statement, because YA is just as varied as every other kind of literature. There’s a vast difference between MT Anderson’s “Feed” and Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight.” And I say that without scorn, there’s no judgment. But “young adult” has just become a marketing category, which you could slice again into “romance” or “sci-fi” or “fantasy.” It can get very erudite and complex. I think the thing about the cross-over readers is that it doesn’t happen for every author. The number of readers I have that read both my adult and young adult books is very small, but Stephenie Meyer and Margaret Stohl have great cross-over adult and YA readership. I feel like “Drowned Cities” is one of my most well-written books; I left a lot of blood on the page – but so few of my adult readers ever discover it. A lot of it has to do the different prejudices that people have. Some YA is dumb, yeah – but so is some adult literature.

If you want absolute truth, you go to a journalist. That person reports facts. But my job is to extrapolate from the facts, to make guesses and to build outwards, to create a visceral experience about what those facts might

Do you find there’s a difficulty in balancing your publisher’s or editor’s needs with what you really want to write?

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

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Durango Farmer’s Market:

What you’ll find We spoke to Cody Reinheimer, Market Manager at the Durango Farmer’s Market, about what to expect at this year’s delicious smorgasbord, which opens Saturday.

What is the best time of year to buy what?

Available in spring months of May and June: Cool season crops such as asparagus, carrots, bok choy, kohlrabi, cauliflower, broccoli, peas, beets, radishes, parsley and an assortment of herbs and leeks. Also lots of greens such as head lettuce, loose leaf lettuce, salad mix, spinach, kale, rainbow chard, sprouted greens and arugula.

Available in summer months of July, August and September: Much of the same cool season crops and greens, in addition to the warm season crops of tomatoes, peppers, onions, eggplant, melons, zucchini, strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, basil, cilantro, beans, corn, pears, apples, apricots, cherries, edamame, table grapes, cucumbers, squash and roasted green chiles.

Available in October: Much of what the summer and spring season has to offer, along with the additions of pumpkins, potatoes, garlic, turnips, parsnips and winter squashes.

Available all year long: A variety of protein products such as eggs, cheese, mushrooms, chicken, beef, lamb, goat and pork.

Also available at the market in all seasons: Ready-to-eat meals made with local ingredients, coffee, juice, granola, honey, jams and an assortment of artisan goods such as cutting boards, clothes, art, soaps and lotions.

How many vendors this year? Any new vendors?

Sixty-four total. This year there will be a fulltime honey vendor (starting in July) named Bee-Orn Apiaries. They started in our Ag. Incubator program last year and are now going full-time. Telluride Mushroom Company is also joining (from Mancos).

GO! What: Durango Farmer’s Market When: 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday mornings from May 14 to Oct. 29 (9 a.m. to noon in October) Where: First National Bank Parking Lot, Camino del Rio and Eighth street (across from the Transit Center) Other new farms include Brown’s Country Store, Summit Roots Farm, Razzmatazz (specializing in all things raspberries), the Cory Schmitt Farm and the Pitts Family Ranch.

What else can people expect?

Every market features a massage tent, a licensed acupuncturist, a henna stain artist and a knife-sharpener booth.

There is also live music every week from local and traveling musicians; this year’s lineup includes Hello, Dollface, Magi Nation, Carute Roma, The Chava People, The Assortment and more.

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By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

One man’s take on

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in Durango Local musician Jhan Doe talks about what he thinks needs to change with our music scene

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verybody sound the same, commercialize the game // Reminiscing when it wasn’t all business // It forgot where it started // So we all gather here for the dearly departed” — Nas, from “Hip Hop is Dead” After playing music and mentoring young adults in our community for many years, Meiko Gilliam has become increasingly disgruntled with the hip hop scene in Durango. In his six years living here, the hip hop artist (stage name: Jhan Doe) has come to believe that venues in town are not amenable to hosting hip hop, that artists like himself are not paid enough to make it here and that many musicians have left to make careers elsewhere as a result. He is also disappointed with the mainstream hip hop music being lauded by impressionable audiences.

Gilliam is no novice. Originally from St. Louis, he tours around the world playing shows. He’s made 13 records total, with two of them distributed internationally and a third forthcoming. In our interview, Gilliam assesses the local hip hop scene, discusses his upcoming Cancer Benefit at the DAC (this Friday), gives impassioned advice to aspiring musicians and suggests what we might do to improve hip hop’s trajectory.

On why hip hop isn’t thriving here We don’t have a community that’s truly embracing of that culture. I’ve gone into high schools, done stuff at the college.

But in terms of making a living wage, I do that outside of Durango; Japan, Canada, Vegas, Philly, California. You need a group of people to band together to make this work, but it’s hard to do that when you’re expected to do it for nickels, and when everyone brought into the Animas City [Theatre] is foreign. Who is going to accept that, if you’re doing something you’re passionate about and that you’ve given your heart to?

I’ve seen the same sort of artists flow through the Animas City; and that’s nice if you’re trying to get your start and get your feet wet. But if you’ve got your foot down and your shovel in the ground already, it’s time to move on.

I’m worth my weight. All my shows at Abbey Theatre were packed at 300-plus. That speaks to my credibility. But there’s always a gatekeeper. And if the door isn’t open, people who are ignorant of the art form are going to stay ignorant. The effort isn’t being made to open up that door here.

The question is: what do we want for our community? How do we cultivate it? If and when I leave, what does that leave us with? I’m not saying I cover everything, but I know who’s here. I remember when we used to have stages at Durango Joe’s on College, people would go in and do music. Now you have people restricted to Main on the Balcony.

I empathize with the brothers who have left. I can’t make a decent buck here. The majority of artists are regional and local, that’s music business, and if you can’t do your task in the place you live, you’re going to leave. The music culture is going to die. Sure, we have

music festivals during the summer. But I’ve seen a drastic departure from hip hop altogether. You don’t see those guys out there performing now. Where do you see me? Not here.

I do some stuff here, but it’s under the radar. The culture in Durango is flat-lined. Although if you’re sensitive enough, you can hear a paint pulse of people still in the background, still trying to do it, still trying to push it.

On local establishment and personnel changes I’ve been doing hip hop here for a long time. It was different when Chuck Kuehn owned the Abbey Theatre, which is now the Animas City Theatre. No diss or shade on Michele [Redding, the current owner]. But ultimately, when Eugene [Salaz, former venue manager] took over ... Chuck used to pay me cash, he paid me a certain amount, and Eugene undercut me by half of that. You can’t pay people nickels and expect them to give you something great. [When reached for comment, Redding said ACT will be making some changes in the future; focusing on the pursuit of local artists and doing more in-house booking rather than outside promoting.

When asked about Doe’s accusations, Salaz didn’t deny the price-cut claims, though he did explain some of the challenges he’s faced. Former owner Kuehn was able to collect door and liquor sales to pay his artists, while Salaz, as promoter, has a restrictive budget. He pays to rent the theater, and doesn’t receive a bar percentage or any financial assistance from the venue for additional costs (sound, lighting, security). Salaz says it’s thus difficult for him to hire local artists who cannot guarantee ticket sales].

At the same time, we’ve had a lot of hip hop guys branching out and moving on to other places. The community of artists I had here thinned out, when it was basically demanded that we do shows for free. You have artists doing stuff at the Durango Arts Center, and there’s nothing wrong with that – but it takes a tremendous amount of energy! I know, I have a Cancer Benefit coming up there May 13. I had to bring all my artists up from Albuquerque.

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Another take on the hip hop scene The co-founders of Durango Hip Hop are Anthony Nocella, a professor at FLC, and Josh Jones, former FLC student and local musician.

Durango Hip Hop is a project of Save the Kids, a national volunteer grass-roots group grounded in hip hop activism and transformative justice. We spoke to Nocella and Jones about common misconceptions surrounding the genre and what Durango can do to make this music more prevalent.

How would you define “hip hop”? Is it a lifestyle, a culture, a genre of music?

Jones: All of those. You can’t encompass it into one thing. It’s expression, release of emotions, creativity, culture and lifestyle. It’s beats, lyrics, breakdancing, graffiti.

What’s the Durango hip hop scene like?

Nocella

Nocella: I’ve been in Durango a year, and I think there’s potential here. I connected with Josh and we created Durango Hip Hop on social media, put on a show, did a number of events, movie night, and started conversations around hip hop culture. Now we’re doing a hip hop show several times a semester.

Anyone can be part of it, and we’ve gotten some people from Cortez and Pagosa, too.

On our Facebook page, a lot of artists are posting their Soundclouds. It’s really taken off. Pongas, Moe’s and Balcony Backstage have been very supportive of us.

How are you trying to educate people?

Nocella: I’m teaching a class at the college. And in September, Josh and I will be part of the Second Annual Hip Hop Conference, with a committee of people from around the world. People from Uganda, England, Germany, Jamaica, South Africa and South America are all going to be converging in Fort Lewis around hip hop. We’ll be talking about issues like homophobia, sexism, youth, race, police brutality. That’s going to put us on the map globally.

Racially, Durango is not very mixed. Do you think that makes a difference in hip hop flourishing here?

Nocella: I would say it’s hard, because there’s a resistance to it. The community thinks if you bring hip hop, you’ll bring gangs and violence. Hip hop was merged out

On educating young people I’ve been mentoring kids for the better part of 10 years. I’ve been volunteering time at the Robert E. DeNier Youth Service Center for the past four years.

Young people need an outlet. iAM MUSIC is great, but to my knowledge I’m the only hip hop artist who has

If you think of Lil Wayne, Jay Z and Biggie, all of them were former drug dealers. And they gave back to the community and got a job out of hip hop. You want to know what will end drugs and gangs and robbing people? Hip hop. It’s proven. In one generation, someone that was poor, in N.Y., selling drugs, becomes Biggie or Jay Z, multimillion dollar individuals. Hip hop gets you OUT of drugs.

You’re too busy. You can’t be all high when you’re trying to perform. You have to be there at a certain time, soundcheck, make sure everything is organized. After that you have to sell records, sell your shirts, network, do interviews. It’s a business. Maybe they smoke some weed, but they’re still hustling 24/7.

Jones

Jones: Some shows here will be completely packed, but smaller shows with smaller acts might not get much coverage. That’s what we’re trying to work on: building that scene and educating people about hip hop, so they can see how much of an art form it really is.

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of New York in the ’70s, around issues of police brutality and racism. Black youth started scratching, rapping, b-boying, b-girling, graffiti-ing. It comes out of a space of racial justice and poverty and doing something about it. There are people here interested in those things. And hip hop is a global phenomenon – it’s poetry with a beat. But it’s also free expression with no limits. If you’re down for allowing someone to be who they are, you support hip hop. The problem with that is, adults don’t like punk or hip hop because it allows youth to do what they want. Hip hop is against control, authority, any domination whatsoever. You want to breakdance on a corner with a cardboard box, go for it. You want to graffiti on the side of the wall and beautify your ghetto in the Bronx or North Philly that you grew up in? Go for it.

Who are the hip hop artists people should check out if they’re new to the genre?

Nocella: Nas is really good; poetic, articulate. If people want to know what’s going on with Black Lives Matter, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar are really the mouthpiece. If you want to have something fun that’s like ’90s or whatever, you can go back to DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith and Lil’ Kim and MC Lyte. There’s N.W.A., Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Ice-T. Also indigenous music like Young Native and Defy or Tall Paul. Native Lives Matter was started in

taught there. Young folks are hungry, but they don’t have a lot of knowledge about hip hop. In terms of their own creativity, the skeleton and baseline is lacking.

For me, it’s about trying to cultivate something in the subculture that allows young people to see beyond their circumstance, allow them to see they can make it out of wherever they’re from. A lot of them never leave their city block. They live their entire

North Dakota by hip hop artists.

Jones: Rhymesayer got me into hip hop. Also check out Crushkill Records, Sadistic, CunninLynguists.

What about women in hip hop?

Jones: It’s not extremely common, but they’re some of my favorites. Lily Fangz from Denver, Dessa from Doomtree, Lanna Shea.

Nocella: I think there’s sexism in all music: country, heavy metal, opera. When people say ‘hip hop is sexist,’ I tell them all society is sexist and patriarchal. Hip hop is just a microcosm of larger society, and people like to point the finger at hip hop because it’s primarily black and Latino people running it. We can jab those people a lot easier. But there are women in hip hop, like the B-girls, and there’s a lot of books about the music coming out from amazing women scholars, like Martha Diaz, Priya Palmer and Patricia Hill Collins.

What can we do to improve the Durango music scene?

Nocella: Folk music and bluegrass is dominating. It’s safe, white, wholesome music for a bunch of liberals. But we’ve got to change what events we promote and organize. We can diversify the economy. We need to give people more to do. This town closes early – we have to open things up past 9 o’clock. Restaurants other than Denny’s and Domino’s.

There’s a lot of FLC students who want to stay after they graduate, but there’s no living wage and no affordable housing, so they leave. Right now we have festivals every so often, but not a really diverse economy. Most people with very nice houses live in Texas and come here in the summer; so they’re not part of the economy. Durango, don’t close at 9 o’clock for a bunch of young kids! We need more for them to do, other than drink alcohol and get high. At night, you’re done with hiking, running and kayaking. Plus we don’t have any free spaces to put on events here, to educate the public.

It’s unlike many other cities. So we’re putting ourselves in a predicament. But my perspective is: If you’re not happy about something, do something to change it.

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

Interview has been lightly edited for space and clarity.

lives in one small area.

On how hip hop has declined in recent years In my opinion, modern day hip hop is garbage, in Continued on Page 15

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terms of what’s on the radio. Aside from Kendrick Lamar and NF. You got kids screaming out names like 2 Chainz and Drake, who I don’t feel have much depth. When I go back to hip hop, where it came from, having fun and uplifting your neighborhood – that was primarily a regional sound, coming from the lifestyle rather than popularity.

Hip hop was based on taking from other genres. Now it’s just a track beat, a whole lot of stop-and-go, everybody saying the same thing. I don’t think we should plug the holes; we gotta let the ship capsize and build something new. I look forward to seeing how the landscape of the craft and the sound changes. It needs a transformation in a way that makes sense to our community. We have a Durango Rec Center, where people can go to get physically fit. We have schools where you can go into a classroom to learn. But beyond a few greats who go get honorary degrees teaching hip hop in classrooms ... where do you see that? You don’t.

You have a culture that’s all about images. And people don’t know how to properly tie those images to our reality. Hip hop has always been about reality. Then in the Master P era, people started renting Lamborghinis and expensive mansions, owning none of it, putting it into the music, and it turned people’s minds away from their own culture. There’s a power in a regional message. People can turn their money to the community in a way that’s helpful. We have a lot of well-to-do people in Durango, and what it’s gonna take is people opening up their pocketbooks, investing in the community.

On race in hip hop People make hip hop a race thing.

But hip hop is so powerful, it has ultimately taken in people of all races.

When I go to Japan, I got Japanese brothers saying, “Rap for me!” and they can barely speak English. Race is garbage. Yes, there are still racial tensions in American and anyplace else.

But what I’m trying to do is edify.

A lot of parenting nowadays is, ‘Here’s a device, let that be your parent.’ Then you have revisionist history, where they take out native struggles, the Holocaust, slavery. So you have white kids running around talking about ‘nigga this’ and ‘nigga that.’ You don’t know the history. You can’t just take this stuff and act like

you know the culture, the slang, the origins. I’m not talking about a race: I’m talking about an entire group of people that’s just ignorant.

On his Cancer Benefit at the DAC I have 12-plus artists coming into Durango. I don’t know if anybody has ever brought that many artists in one night. It’s a $30 ticket and all the proceeds go to a local cancer patient Marla Phillips, for her chemo bills.

I’m hoping the community will support it. We’re having an after party at the Steaming Bean, where people can freestyle, do open mic poetry, that type of thing. We’re gonna cycle through these artists, hit ’em and quit ’em.

No one will be singing five songs in a row. And I’m not taking home any of the funds. I’m proud to have Durango Joe’s sponsoring, and KDUR at FLC. I have relationships with those people.

Advice for young people getting into music Start now. Get yourself $3,000, a nice computer, an audio interface and a mic, a pencil and pad and start developing. When I was in college, I took half my scholarship and tuition money and put it into audio equipment. The cheapest stuff possible. Only thing stopping you is fear. Start hustling.

The proof is in the authenticity – that’s the hook, not anything else. If you are genuinely YOU, even if nobody in the world likes it ... It’s better to have 500 people locally love it than five people abroad. So make yourself a local staple. And give yourself a chance to transcend your pig pen. St. Louis will always be my home, I love it; but I won’t go back there to live because I know that’s my culture, everybody will come to show me love. And I want to expand the boundaries, allow people to get out of their comfort zone. My interest is in changing the culture of young people and changing their lives. Music is a tool I use to help. Don’t lose sight of who you are and where you come from, but don’t get stuck there. Take stake in where you wanna go. Once you just start trying to please people, you lose your voice. Ultimately, culture isn’t something you write down, define, and bracket. You take it, you build it, you release it and set it free.

This interview has been lightly edited for space and clarity.

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[movies]

‘Money Monster’ a break-even proposition

By Ann Hornaday © 2016, The Washington Post

George Clooney mugs, dances and pretty much looks like he’s having the time of his life in “Money Monster,” in which he plays a financial cable show host with the aggression of Jim Cramer and showboating glee of a modern-day Music Man. With his on-air gimmicks, quippy catchphrases and a showgirl on each arm, Clooney’s Lee Gates is a cocky, self-impressed avatar of post-2008 arrogance and self-regard, a one-man booster for Wall Street players who treat him like a peer (“I haven’t eaten dinner alone since the ’90s,” he boasts at one point) but secretly see him as a useful idiot.

Gates’ dawning awareness that he’s been a pawn in a rigged game is one of the most interesting undercurrents of “Money Monster,” in which the fun and games come to an abrupt end when a disgruntled investor – a young working stiff named Kyle, played by Jack O’Connell – invades Gates’ set with a gun and forces the host to put on a vest outfitted with a bomb.

Kyle doesn’t want his money back, he insists, he just wants to know where it went. Transpiring virtually in real time, “Money Monster” chronicles the efforts of Gates – and his director, played by Julia Roberts – to placate Kyle, find the answers to his questions and keep everyone, plebes and plutocrats alike, from going kablooey.

Efficiently directed by Jodie Foster, “Money Monster” gets off to a promising start, not only with Clooney’s amusing high jinks as a shallow roue, but also thanks to his easy, bantering relationship with Roberts, whose constant voice in his ear recalls Emily Mortimer and Jeff Daniels’ dynamic in the HBO series “Newsroom” – all the more impressive for the fact that Clooney and Roberts filmed their scenes separately, said Foster. Written by Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore and Jim Kouf, the film has a taut, nervous energy that infuses what is essentially a chamber piece with three people into a substantive, of-

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the-moment thriller.

Propelled by the same populist rage as films like last year’s “The Big Short” and this year’s most talked-about political campaigns, “Money Monster” is nothing if not timely, which makes it all the more disappointing when the plot takes increasingly outlandish, even naive turns, and what could have been a modern-day classic on a par with “Dog Day Afternoon” or “Network” instead becomes “Speed” with more high-frequency trading and arcane algorithms.

Actually, the film “Money Monster” most closely resembles is “Mad City,” a misbegotten parable about media and violence that came out 20 years ago and was almost immediately forgotten. In that case, too, the

film’s relevance was made moot by overworked, ultimately unbelievable plotting.

It bears noting that Kouf is the writer behind “Rush Hour” and the “National Treasure” movies: “Money Monster,” which is at its best when it’s at its most crisply realistic and timely, suffers from the kind of onlyin-Hollywood plot twists and eyerolling exaggeration that results in smarter than average pulp, but pulp nonetheless.

Still, for most of its swift running time, “Money Monster” is admittedly entertaining, especially when Gates hits on the idea of persuading his fans to invest in the errant stock in order to bring Kyle back into the black: His speech to viewers, in which he calls upon them to behave like humans and not computers, is delivered with every ounce of the sincerity Clooney’s character in “Hail, Caesar!” brought to his climactic oration at Christ’s crucifixion.

With all its talk of glitches, blips and black swans, “Money Monster” turns out to be a bit of a black swan itself: not quite the sophisticated drama the era deserves, but not the usual adrenaline-addled genre exercise, either. Even with the fundamentals in place to yield a big payday, it remains a break-even proposition.

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[ poetry ]

Ornate Feelings

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By Dan Groth

About “Ornate Feelings,” a new DGO feature

For a video of Dan Groth reading his poems and discussing their origins, go to dgomag.com

I was never much of a poet growing up, outside of weird scrawl I’d put in sketchbooks.

However, in my mid-20s I began to toy around with the idea of creating ridiculous, pompous poetry. In July 2002, shortly after moving back to Durango for the third time, I got invited to a “Bad Poetry” party at my soon-to-be good friend David Eckenrode’s house. I eagerly sharpied some silly verse and read it like a self-important ham. It was a hit and I became rather productive with this particular genre of writing in the coming months, even going so far as to create a zine with odd, incongruous pen-andink drawings.

—— Dan Groth Dan Groth first moved to Durango in 1998, but bounced around a bunch before moving to Portland in 2004. He has been back since 2011.

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

An ode to green: Now is the time to love on everything verde

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’m going to have to respectfully disagree with Kermit the Frog.

“It’s not easy being green”?

Ridiculous. I can think of nothing easier, more relaxing or more beautiful than being green.

It’s springtime, DGO, time to shake off the sadness of the sun’s yearly decision to abandon us for more southerly climes and to reacquaint ourselves with La Vida Verdant.

Green!!! Kelly green, hunter green, money green, emerald, turquoise, jade, chartreuse, Midori, absinthe, moss, myrtle, fern, the forest, the swamp, the field, broccoli, asparagus, beans, lettuce, kale, cabbage, avocado, lime, your heart chakra, the verdigris patina of aged copper, the olive drab of uniforms, flecked with gold and brown in a friend’s eyes, the Celtics, the Spartans, the Rams ... Green!!!

ROY G. BIV’s middle name; it falls on the color spectrum between yellow and blue; takes its name from the Old English “grene” – the color of living things; it feeds and sustains us; it enlivens and inspires us; through its chlorophyllic magic, it converts the air we breathe from poison to life.

Now is the time to get out in it: take a walk, climb a tree, mow the lawn, trim the hedge, turn the soil to make way for the bounty to come, do anything along these lines, but make sure to make time to do it. Now is the time for the gardeners among us to plant our seeds, water our plots and tend our sprouts.

Few places in nature or in the works of mankind rival the magnificence of the shades of green you can find in a cannabis garden. There, you’ll soak in the sheen of an Amazonian parrot, the slow-breathing

skin of a lizard lounging in the sun, the gleam of stained glass in our most magnificent cathedrals, synagogues and mosques, the perfect finish of a brand new car; greens that evoke jewels and the sea and places you long to visit or, having visited them, you count the days until you have the opportunity to return.

Green is a state of mind. It’s what makes us earthlings. The rest of space as we know it is dark, punctured by points of light, with a few bits of rusty red – Mercury, Venus, Mars, the stripes of Jupiter, the icy blues of the outer planets – but only here is green. “Going green,” doing things to preserve our home, is a recognition of our bond to this planet, the place that grew us along with all those beautiful plants outside your window.

Green is a state of mind, a state of mind associated with our favorite lady, Mary Jane. Even Urban Dictionary knows: Within its definitions of “green,” roughly three quarters of the material references “the marijuana [aka] God’s gift.” Get yourself into that green mind state; soon enough, you’ll find yourself out of doors, wandering around,the grass between your toes, a canopy of leaves above your head, your cares washing away, your heart rising, the corners of your mouth curling into a smile. It’s spring, y’all. Get green.

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[review]

[Netflix and chill — 420 edition]

Agent Orange

‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’

What is it?

Agent Orange is a very nice hybrid created by Subcool and TGA Genetics that crosses their Jack the Ripper and Orange Velvet. The well-known breeder Subcool is famous for creating high terpene-profile strains, and this one is no exception. Even though it’s genetically close to 50/50, the example I have leans a bit sativa.

The effects This is definitely a connoisseur strain for those who enjoy the full experience. It doesn’t follow the ridiculously high THC trend, but still comes in at a very respectable 16.2 percent. What it does offer is a very focused and calming high that should be appreciated for its euphoria.

Grown right here in Durango by Kinfolk Farms, this seemed to reflect the personality of Durango perfectly by giving the smoker a very pleasant experience.

The “Wild West” has always existed as a romantic piece of mythology, but the advent of civilization makes it impossible for outlaws and bandits to get away with what they used to. Smoking weed would’ve been fine in the West’s glory days, but in modern times you’ll get busted pretty quickly (unless you live in a legalized state). Director George Roy Hill knew the West was on its way out, and turned the loss into comedy in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969).

Before Harold and Kumar or Cheech and Chong, there was Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and his partner Sundance (Robert Redford), leaders of the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang. They’re like two overgrown boys pretending to be tough. Sundance is the stoic, accomplished shooter and Butch is the smooth-talking brains of the operation. These men barely know anything about each other, but get along splendidly. A third character enters in every now and then, a girl named Etta (Katharine Ross); she’s the Sundance Kid’s lover, though sometimes she wonders what might have happened if she met Butch first. Thankfully, Etta never threatens to derail the bromance.

Westerns aren’t typically very funny, and this script (written by William Goldman of “The Princess Bride”) is

filled with one-liners that might have hedged on banality if not for the actors’ talent (Newman couldn’t be cliché if he tried). Butch and Sundance are the most charming criminals you’ll ever meet. They don’t even want the money so much as they crave the thrill of escaping from authority in the nick of time. Any careless stoner will recognize that feeling. And if you’re a toker who is attracted to men, well – you won’t find two better looking ones anywhere.

The film’s most unconventional plot point comes at the end, when the pair flees to Bolivia. They can’t outrun the law, so they simply switch countries. John Wayne would never run away from a foe – he’d stay behind and put up a fight. But while Butch and Sundance are brave, they certainly aren’t ready to die. The fugitives end up trapped at a restaurant in some sleepy town, outnumbered and surrounded. They discuss running away to Australia during their last moments together (“They speak English there,” Butch reassures Sundance, “so we wouldn’t be foreigners.”) It’s hard to tell whether they know they’ve been defeated, even as they plot their Australian getaway. They probably don’t want to admit it, if they do know. In one of the most joyful death scenes of all time, Butch and Sundance go out with guns blazing.

— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

The smell This is where this strain shines. It smells exactly like a freshly peeled orange with just a hint of earthiness.

The look Large, bright-green buds with thick, neon-orange hairs.

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Very smooth with a sweet citrus orange finish.

The final verdict If you’re looking for a beautiful, daytime, relaxed high that mellows you out while keeping you focused, Agent Orange is for you. In a time of jaw-clenching extreme THC strains, this is a refreshingly easy strain to smoke. Besides the incredible taste, the high is perfect for just about any time of day. It would be amazing for anyone with social anxiety, depression or PTSD because it puts you at ease while elevating your mood. This strain really brings me back to the days when I started smoking marijuana and realized just how pleasurable it was.

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[love and sex]

Three kids, a long-term marriage and a sex life that sucks Savage Love | Dan Savage

Straight male, 48, married 14 years, three kids under age 10. Needless to say, life is busy at our house. My wife and I have stopped having sex. It was my decision.

I get the obligation vibe combined with a vanilla sex life, and it just turns me off. We’ve had many conversations about it and we want to find a balance. But it always defaults back to infrequent and dull, making me frustrated and cranky.

For the past two months, I’ve tried to just push sex out of my mind.

We live mostly as parenting roommates. We used to be pretty kinky – dirty talk, foursomes, toys, porn, etc. – but all those things wear her out now, and her interest has disappeared.

My guess is that she was just playing along with my kinks to keep me happy and is now over it. Is this just life as a 48-year-old married father of three?

Am I being selfish for wanting more in my sex life than my wife is willing to offer?

Hard Up Husband Is sex wearing your wife out, HUH, or is raising three kids wearing your wife out? I suspect it’s the latter.

But in answer to your question: Infrequent and underwhelming sex, sometimes with an obligatory vibe, is not only the sex life a 48-yearold married father of three can expect, it’s the sex life he signed up for. There’s nothing selfish about wanting more sex or wanting it to be more like it was. Kids, however, are a logistical impediment – but a temporary one, provided you don’t go nuclear. A couple’s sex life can come roaring back so long as they don’t succumb to bitterness, recrimination and sexlessness. To avoid all three, HUH, it might help to ask yourself which is the likelier scenario: for years your wife faked an interest in dirty talk, foursomes, toys, porn, etc., in order to trap you, or your wife

is currently too exhausted to take an interest in dirty talk, foursomes, toys, porn, etc.? Again, I suspect it’s the latter.

My advice: masturbate more, masturbate together more, lower your expectations so you’ll be pleasantly surprised when a joint masturbation session blows up into something bigger and better, carve out enough time for quality sex (weekends away, if possible, with pot and wine and Viagra), discuss other accommodations/contingencies as needed and take turns reminding each other that small kids aren’t small forever.

I’m one of those bi guys. I had trouble dating girls in high school and at 18 found guys so much darn easier. And as sexual promiscuity in the gay world goes, I got around there easily. Fast-forward a few years. I’m in college now and desiring women and stability more. But women find me weird and awkward – I admit I am – something I was never judged for in the gay world. This has been going on for a few years now, and it just gets worse when I’m supposed to be parading around presenting as a horny straight guy. I’d love to find a bisexual woman to start a family with who is up for mutually agreed upon swing-and-fun sessions with others. But from what I’ve experienced with girls so far – always on the watch for a “player,” zero understanding of male bisexuality – that seems far from possible.

Lately, I’ve just been sitting on my hands in social situations, afraid to even interact with women. Is this therapy worthy?

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Therapists (aasect.org), and you’re likelier to find a good/sex-positive one.

As for why your “weird and awkward” first impression seemed to be less of an impediment when you were sleeping with men: Men aren’t subjected to male sexual violence at the same rates that women are.

Women have a lot more to fear than men do, UPITT, and a weirdand-awkward first impression is far likelier to turn off a woman into dudes than it is to turn off a man into dudes. The man you flirt with at a party might think, “Dude’s weird and awkward but he’s hot,” and jump into bed with you. But the woman you flirt with at a party is likely to think, “Dude’s weird and awkward and he’s hot, but he’s just too weird to risk it.”

Something else that couldn’t hurt: getting on a site like OkCupid and approaching bisexual women there.

You may have better luck with women if your initial interactions are over email.

And finally, UPITT, there are gay and bi men out there who desire stability, too – and stability and “promiscuity” aren’t mutually exclusive.

About your answer to WHAT, the lady whose boyfriend “accidentally” ass-[bleep]ed her. I am a queer lady with a number of men in my sexual history, and I have many straight women friends who get around. “I didn’t mean to stick my dick in your ass” is a lie that men tell – men who are embarrassed to ask for anal, men who want it so bad they’re prepared to hurt their partner or men who think their partner will say no if asked and just don’t care. In all cases, these are men who do not even begin to understand how anal sex works. As you say, it’s not an accident. But what you don’t say is that these men are telling lies in order to get out of taking responsibility for their desires and the fact that they’ve hurt their partners. Men who want to have anal sex need to talk that through with their partners and then either figure out how to do it safely and pleasurably, accept that it’s not happening or break up if it’s a deal

breaker. I have had way too many conversations with women friends about the pain and anger and sometimes shame that they’ve felt when male partners have just stuck it in abruptly, unlubricated and without permission. It makes me really angry that this is something that men can describe as an “accident” without any pushback, and honestly it was kind of gross and disappointing when your answer was just jokes about butt plugs.

Whatever Acronym Strongly Stresses Underlying Point I’m with you, WASSUP. I don’t think anal happens by accident. Anal has always, in my vast experience, required lube, focus, precision and deep breathing. But on the two occasions when I’ve urged straight female callers on the Savage Lovecast to dump boyfriends who “accidentally” penetrated them anally – the pushback from male and female listeners was overwhelming. Scores of people called in to insist that anal can and does happen by accident.

WHAT’s boyfriend has accidentally penetrated her anally four times in a year. That raises a red flag. But WHAT was convinced it was an accident (all four times) and seemed to think her boyfriend felt genuinely terrible about it (all four times), and I deferred to a reader’s POV (just one time). And here’s a detail that was cut from WHAT’s letter for space: “People have suggested going slow, but I like it a little rough.” Perhaps I should’ve come down harder on WHAT’s boyfriend – OK, I should’ve come down harder – but it seemed possible, at least in WHAT’s case, that anal might’ve been an accident (all four times?!?).

I still believe “accidental anal” is much more likely to be “intentional, nonconsensual anal,” aka not an accident at all.

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 The Ben Gibson Band, 5-9 p.m., The Bal-

cony, 600 Main Ave., 422-8008.

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

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Gallery talk by photographer Nine Francois, 6 p.m., Open Shutter Gallery, 735

Main Ave. Black Velvet duo, 6-8 p.m., Dalton Ranch Golf Club, 589 County Road 252.

“Shattered Constellations,” presented

by DHS Troupe 1096, 7 p.m., $10/$5, Durango High School Auditorium, 2390 Main Ave., 2591630, ext. 2141 or visit www.dhstroupe1096. com.

Jack Ellis, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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 Durango Gallery Association’s annual Spring Gallery Walk, 5-9 p.m.,

participating downtown galleries.

Opening reception for “Animalia” exhibit, by Nine Francois, 5-9 p.m., Open

Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave. Opening reception for “Earthly Presence” exhibit, by Laura Bruzzese and

Carol Salomon, 5-9 p.m., Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave., 247-3555.

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This year’s Taste will be held on Sunday, and is a great way to kick off the summer.

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

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

The Assortment, 5:30 p.m., Macho’s North,

1485 Florida Road, 422-8540.

“Shattered Constellations,” presented

by DHS Troupe 1096, 7 p.m., $10/$5, Durango High School Auditorium, 2390 Main Ave., 2591630, ext. 2141 or visit www.dhstroupe1096. com.

Program by quilt artist Susan Madden, Artist in Residence, 7 p.m., Chapin Mesa

Archaeological Museum auditorium, Mesa Verde National Park, www.nps.gov/meve/getinvolved/artists_in_residence.

Caitlin Cannon, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Croce: Two Generations of American Music, 7:30 p.m., $39/$29, Community

Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, www.durangoconcerts.com.

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.

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

9018.

Saturday World Belly Dance Day, Durango Shim-

my Mob performances, 11 a.m., Durango Farmers Market; 1 p.m., Ska Brewing, Shelley Millsap at 589-9882 or https://www.gofundme.com/ durangoshimmymob.

The Assortment, 2-5 p.m., Fox Fire Farms,

Time for Taste of Durango You don’t have to live in Durango long to realize that we love our food. And drinks. And socializing.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Durango, courtesy of the Durango chapter of the Colorado Restaurant Association, mixes all three together in the annual Taste Of Durango, held downtown. Head down and kick off the summer season right with local craft brews, cocktails and samples from the best Durango’s eateries 5513 County Road 321, 563-4675.

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

have to offer. And it wouldn’t be a Durango event without live music from Elder Grown.

It’s not just a day of leisurely gluttony – Taste of Durango is a benefit for Manna Soup Kitchen, so you’ll be doing good while have a great time.

Buy your tokens early instead of having to wait in line; Maria’s Bookshop is selling them in $10 bundles.

For more information, call 946-2408.

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

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

9018.

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

Monday

by DHS Troupe 1096, 7 p.m., $10/$5, Durango High School Auditorium, 2390 Main Ave., 2591630, ext. 2141 or visit www.dhstroupe1096. com.

The Assortment, 2-5 p.m., Fox Fire Farms,

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

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

Main Ave., 247-4431.

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

Black Velvet trio, 8 p.m., Derailed Pour

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

“Shattered Constellations,” presented

5513 County Road 321, 563-4675.

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org.

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

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.

House, 725 Main Ave., 247-5440.

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

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

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

Rob Webster, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Main Ave., 247-4431.

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

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

9018.

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

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On Friday, it also means swinging by our local galleries and art spaces and checking out what artists have been up to during the Durango Art Gallery Association’s Spring Gallery Walk.

Thirteen galleries will throw open their doors to showcase the artists Courtesy of Diane West who live right here to those from around the country. Participating galleries include: Azul; Diane West Jewelry and Art; Durango Arts Center; Earthen Vessel Gallery; Karyn Gabaldon Arts; Mesteño Gallery; Nature Revealed Gallery; Open Shutter Gallery; Scenic Aperture; Sendero Gallery; Sorrel Sky Gallery; Studio & and Toh-Atin Gallery.

The walk will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and is free and open to the public.

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

Tuesday

Where should we

DGO tonight?

Durango Friends of the Arts meeting, 10 a.m. social, 10:30 a.m. meeting, Fort

Lewis College Theater, email kaischkmd@ gmail.com.

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

Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m.,

free, Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 2475792.

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

699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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.

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

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

to the DGO calendar with

Cocktail Lounge, 723 East Second Ave., 3850105.

Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, theirishembassypub.com.

Open studio figure drawing, 6:308:30 p.m., $15/$10, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., www.durangoarts.org.

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

loon, 601 East Second Ave., 799-8832.

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

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

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

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

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

Pingpong and poker tournament, 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., 375-2568.

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

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

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

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

Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. Art exhibit, by Cheryl Berglund and Au-

tumn Cameron, through May 31, Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.

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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.

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You might see new uses for something that you own this week because you’re in a resourceful frame of mind. You might act on an old idea you had for making money.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Take a realistic look in the mirror this week to see how you can improve your appearance. What you see might be something you have been thinking about doing for a while.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is an excellent week for research because you will apply yourself diligently to whatever it is you are looking for. Yes, you’ll be like a dog with a bone.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

Bizarro

You might attract someone very powerful to you this week. This person

might say something that actually causes you to modify your goals for the future.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Conversations with bosses, parents and VIPs will be memorable this week.

Quite likely, they will ask you about old business. Perhaps they want you to account for something.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) If you discuss politics, religion or racial issues this week, you will get serious.

Likewise, this is a good week to study thoughtful subjects.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You might see a new way to tackle problems about inheritances or shared property. Old disputes might be solved now because of a new way of thinking.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)

Discussions with others are powerful this week. This might be because you are coming on strong or because others are coming on strong. Whatever happens, listen carefully.

ments at home probably are solid.

Talk to a family member to get agreement with someone. Then it will be all systems go.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)

You have penetrating insights into whatever you think about or talk about this week because your mind is like a laser. You see the reasons behind things, the subtext.

Look for ways to introduce improvements and reforms at work, because you will see them this week. Likewise, you might see ways to improve your own health.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You might have a romantic obsession this week. Be careful because this kind of fantasy can overtake your sense of perspective and reality. Try to see things as they really are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Your ideas about how to make improve-

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20)

BORN TODAY You are clearheaded, intelligent and witty. People enjoy hearing you speak or reading your words. Great news! You are now heading into one of the most powerful years of your life – a time of accumulation. This is a good year to buy and sell. Whatever you have done in the past will now ripen because it’s your time of fruition. At last! © 2016 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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