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Get Smart about being in a band Don’t deny it. You’ve thought to yourself, “Self, we could rock.” Let Lawn Chair Kings and Farmington Hill songwriter/guitarist/bandleader Erik Nordstrom tell you all about power chords, big amps, and ... being in touch with your communicative side.

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Despite my fear of clowns, I had the mime of my life

“D

o you have five minutes?” my boss’ boss asked me late in the workday Monday.

“Actually, I don’t. I’ve got a mime getting ready in the bathroom, and he’ll be out any minute,” I replied, straight-faced.

It might have been the most absurd statement I’ve ever uttered to a superior. And it was entirely true. As Durango mime and man-about-clown Ben Dukeminier told me, any day that you encounter a mime is going to be one to remember. Mimes are always anti-monotony.

I had the pleasure to welcome Ben to DGO Headquarters this week, first for an interview as himself (see Page 10) and then for a video interview of Ben as Jacque, his mime alter-ego (go to www.dgomag.com).

I’ve known Ben since January and recently performed alongside him – or Jacque, rather – with the Imaginario Circus. In that time, I’ve discovered a peculiar thing: While I am legitimately and absurdly afraid of clowns, I kinda like mimes. In my experience and in my imagination, clowns are so aggressive in everything they do: aggressively happy, aggressively eager for everyone to have a good time and aggressively loud with their horns and various honking accoutrements.

Their movements and behaviors are unpredictable and exaggerated. It’s all rather unpleasant.

Perhaps it’s because I know Ben with makeup and without, but mimes – well, this mime at least – seem so harmless. I like Ben, and when Jacque gets to come out and play, it’s always a treat. He’s like a toy where any question you ask it, you’re going to get a little performance.

Not all in the office shared my mime-enthusiasm. After the interview, Ben as Jacque hung out in the office for a bit, clowning around. The next day I overheard an affable, mildmannered colleague discussing how

viscerally upset Jacque’s physical proximity had made him. My colleague said that if Jacque had come any farther into his personal space he didn’t know what would have happened. I theorized that the discomfort stemmed from the fact that the office is like a station wagon and we’re all on a long road trip. And suddenly there’s a mime riding with us and getting out of the car is not an immediate option. Understandably, some people need a clear escape route when it comes to mimes.

Just as my colleague was surprised and taken aback by his response to Jacque (“It says more about me than it does about him,” my co-worker said), I’ve been equally surprised by my comfort around Jacque, given the whole clown thing. Ben helped me understand it, citing a range of clownmime distinctions, most coming down to clowns being more active, instigating protagonists, while mimes are more passive and reactive to their audience.

“I feel with clowns, the participant is the butt of the joke,” Ben said.

“With a mime, there is no joke. The mime is the joke. And I just want you to play. I’m not making fun of you or anything. I’m just trying to have a silly time and make you have a silly time.”

Ben explained his method acting approach to Jacque. When in costume, Ben IS Jacque. And he’s so good at it that it’s so easy to believe, easy to forget the actual person underneath it all.

As I escorted Jacque out of the building, I realized he’d been walking behind me for a bit. I looked back and saw him laboring to carry the gym bag full of Ben’s clothes, dragging it along as if it weighed a hundred pounds.

“Even if nobody’s watching, I’m still doing something,” Ben had said earlier.

I actually had the real impulse to walk back to help with the bag. That, of course, would have been absurd.

Audiobooks Love it There are few activities that allow me to get completely out of my head, where I forget about everything swirling between my ears and reach a state of near-meditation. An open highway with a compelling audiobook is one of them.

While I can be a bit snobby and highbrow about the physical books I read, when it comes to audiobooks and road trips, best-selling pop-fiction pageturners are my bread and butter. John Grisham, James Patterson and Stephen King are all go-to’s, with their command of plot and surprising reversals.

Another favorite audio-genre is comedic memoir read by the author. Bill Bryson, Jay Leno and Steve Martin give great performances with their memoirs, but no one beats David Sedaris with his high-pitched Southern squawk, giving his essays audible life like only he could.

But there’s something peculiar that happens for me with audiobooks.

Inexplicably, I can retain information 100 times better than when reading.

Even years later, I can recall specific facts and ideas, particular plot points and phrases and sometimes the precise location I was when I heard it.

Perhaps it’s that meditative state audiobooks put me into, where there are no worries and no words to read. Just a story to lose myself in and a road to get lost on.

— David Holub

Hate it I am a very fast reader. It’s probably because I grew up preinternet and read nonstop as a kid. But this means I also have very little patience for hearing someone else read a book aloud. Whenever the teacher chose one hapless student to read from a text in grade school, I felt tortured. They always recited slowly, painfully, with the complete wrong intonation and pronunciation. You learned how few of your classmates actually had vocabularies appropriate for their age bracket. It was disheartening.

Audiobooks provide a similar wretchedness. When do people have time to listen to a full book read aloud, anyway? I’m a skimmer. It goes along with being a speedy reader. I realize this isn’t always a good thing – we skimmers miss a lot. But if you’re reading, say, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, skimming is a necessary method of self-preservation. You’d never finish if you didn’t skip blithely over the pages and pages of description. I guess people listen to audiobooks in their cars, but in the car I want to hear music.

Someone else’s voice is a distraction. When you are reading directly from a page, your own voice dictates the story, but you don’t really hear your voice.

It’s more of an elusive, disembodied mind who reads and understands. It’s easier to imagine how the characters might sound without the disturbance of narration. A popular thing now is celebs releasing audiobook recordings, but can you really focus on Moby Dick when you recognize the dulcet tones of Samuel L. Jackson, Anne Hathaway or Meg Ryan? I couldn’t.

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Cyle Talley | Get Smart

On being in a band Don’t deny it. You’ve thought to yourself, “Self, we could rock.” Let Lawn Chair Kings and Farmington Hill songwriter/guitarist/ bandleader Erik Nordstrom tell you all about power chords, big amps, and ... being in touch with your communicative side.

What bands made you want to start one?

feedback without it becoming a personal issue.

There certainly can be a lot of egos involved – we’re all human – so that’s a delicate balance itself to be able to decide your own feelings and try to listen to other people and try to negotiate and cooperate. With [Lawn Chair Kings bass player] Dan [Leek], we’re able to communicate to each other without our feelings getting hurt.

If we don’t like a certain part of a song, we’re able to speak up about that and the other person will listen. Often, it’s almost more important how well you get along with people than their actual musical talent. Not to say that it’s not important to be able to play your instrument, but those human qualities are more of the “make or break” deals.

The Beatles, Hendrix, Rolling Stones. Uncle Tupelo was certainly big as far as my country punk leanings, and a lot of the alternative music that I grew up as the ’80s became the ’90s. Pavement was huge to me.

What’s so great about being in a band?

If you were to break down the amount of money you make per hour, it certainly doesn’t seem to pay off when you consider the amount of time it takes to song-write, practice, figure out arrangements, load up all of the gear, get to the venue.

And sometimes the venue is great and sometimes it’s not and sometimes the audience is receptive and sometimes they’re not. But what makes it for me is to have those moments where everything seems to be coming together and the music is fun and the audience – or maybe just a couple of people – are connecting and you have that sense, in some way, that you were able to connect with other people through all of this crazy hard work that it takes to play music.

Do songs change when you bring them to the band?

Absolutely, all the time. Often I’ll write a song and play it with the band and it just doesn’t sound good so I’ll shelve it for a while. Other times it’s pretty straightforward from how I wrote it and it sounds decent so we keep playing it. But many times there’s some other twist that I didn’t predict that it becomes a life of its own, and I think those moments are some of the most rewarding as far as being in a band. You’ve kind of set the ship in motion as the songwriter and then the band takes over and you end up in this totally bizarre destination and it’s kind of neat that way.

Advice to a first-timer trying to put a band together?

The very first thing is to practice some instrument and to learn more about the music you love. The natural thing that comes out of that is the discovery that most music comes from somewhere else, and my bias is to learn more about roots music ... that allows you to be more versatile as a musician. As you’re starting to work with other people, being able to compromise and work with other people while at the same time trying to be very specific about what your vision for the band is so that everyone’s on the same page.

How do you name a band?

on Friday, June 24.

What do you look for in a bandmate?

Somebody that appreciates at least some similar musical influences, somebody with some talent who can play and somebody who has some people skills to communicate and work together as a collective unit.

After that, it’s are they able to dedicate themselves to the project, put in the practice time, and commit to the shows so that it can actually work.

What won’t you stand for in a bandmate?

[Laughs] If you think of an idea, write it down.

Sometimes, inspiration is sudden and quick and it just works, and other times, I’ve been in bands where it’s just been painful. The strange tension is not to worry about it too much because if you’re up for days and weeks on end, then you’re probably trying too hard. The more ideas you have, the better in a sense, but if the band name comes to you naturally, then great – that’s the ideal. Farmington Hill came from Bryant Liggett, who said, “You guys should call yourself a local name like Farmington Hill,” and that was it.

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We’re human, we all get angry ... but it’s how you handle it that’s important. Certainly for me, I try to avoid working with anybody who’s going to yell or threaten or handle things in a Donald Trump-type fashion. You need to be mature and to be able to work through things. And then the other thing is to follow through on a commitment. If you’ve got a bandmate that doesn’t show up to practice all the time or is cancelling gigs, that can be frustrating after all the promo and scheduling work.

What does it take to stay in a band?

Well, I think you need to be able to give and receive

Cyle Talley once got to rock the Durango Cyclery with Erik. Tales of that fabled eve are still told in hushed and reverent whispers. If there’s anything you’d like to Get Smart about, email him at: cyle@cyletalley.com

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Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

Cale Tyson: Taking classic honky-tonk over Nashville glitz

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t’s been said before: There is good country music with a born on date of “now” and an expiration date of “never.” This despite Nashville’s alteration of the country music landscape. However, it does remain difficult to convince people that it’s worthy to dig for the good stuff and that there really is good stuff.

Musicians who still carry a torch for classic honky-tonk are still out there, breathing life into a genre that Garth Brooks shit on.

Maybe it’s best that Merle Haggard and Guy Clark died before having to sit through Pitbull singing at a Country Music Awards show earlier this month.

Country music has plenty of young guns doing the genre right, artists influenced by the genre’s originators and innovators who also managed to ignore the wreckage brought by the Shania Twains and Lady Antebellums of the world. Those artists include Cale Tyson, performing Thursday, June 30 at Buckley Park as part of the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College’s summer series of free shows. His backing band is Casey James Prestwood and The Burning Angels, Denver’s answer to the Flying Burrito Brothers, coming together as Ty-

Bryant’s best Thursday: Honky-tonk and country with Cale Tyson, 5:30 p.m. No cover. Buckley Park, 12th St. and Main Avenue, downtown Durango. Information: 247-7657.

Friday: Rock music with Void Where Prohibited, 6 p.m. No cover. The Balcony, 600 Main Ave., upstairs. Information: 4228008.

son’s band for two shows in Colorado.

Tyson is a Texas native who was subject to his parents musical tastes as a young kid. When he started his own career, it wasn’t a country sound he was chasing.

“My dad and mom were both into Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, stuff like that. So I heard a lot of that when I was a little kid. I got into my teenage years and actually started playing music, and doing more rock and punk rock.

I still wasn’t really writing any songs, I was just playing guitar in other bands and was just trying to get into the scene,” said Tyson. “I was a senior in high school when I started getting into writing my

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Thee Oh Sees,“Live in San Francisco”

own songs. I was trying to go for a folk and indie vibe with those songs, and they were terrible. Then I started gravitating to country songs without really trying to. It kind of came naturally. When I moved to Nashville, I met a pedal steel player and we became really close friends, and he reintroduced me to all of this stuff and I fell back in love with it.”

The result is a full package that is as present as anything made in 2016 should be, with a throwback feel all the way down to his record packaging, including pictures of the young musician that look like they were taken in 1974. It’s not retro, because these sounds never really went anywhere. And its content of heartbreak among crying in your beer tunes; they could be autobiographical, but are more just stories and reflections of observation.

“Some of it is (autobiographical), some of it isn’t. Some of its true some of it isn’t,” said Tyson. “I think that’s the tale of country songwriting. If all those sad songs were true, I’d have a

Available: Friday, July 15, via Castle Face Records as a CD and in two double LP formats: standard black vinyl and ‘Ultra Clear’ edition vinyl with limited flexi disc. Both formats come with a DVD of the performances.

Somewhere around three years ago, after attending my third or fourth show from the once Providence, Rhode Island-based now San Francisco stalwarts Thee Oh Sees, I made an off-handed comment on social media that John Dwyer and co. were “one of the best touring live acts today.” I completely stand by that sentiment today, even after calling it “quits” as a band, serious lineup changes and their subsequent reformation. I figured it was only a matter a time that Castle Face Records (run by Dwyer, Brian Lee Hughes and Matt Jones) released a live album from Thee Oh Sees, having already released a slew of “Live in SF” records from the likes of Fuzz, Bronze, White Fence, Destruction Unit and OBN III’s amongst many others. However, I was admittedly reticent that the release wouldn’t quite capture the frenetic energy, sweat, spewing saliva and chugging intensity that the band deserved. Thankfully, this doesn’t disappoint.

Recorded over three nights at The Chapel, the track list is culled from the band’s extensive discography and well represents one of the pre-eminent garage punk bands of the last 20 years.

Recommended for pre-existing fans of Thee Oh Sees, Coachwhips, The Blind Shake, Useless Eaters, Ex-Cult and the upper echelon of heavier-leaning garage rock being made today.

— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

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Style Fetish | Heather Narwid

TV’s best lady stoner style This week Style Fetish takes a toke and rambles on about the stoner styles and influential attitudes of some of our favorite women TV characters who are all about weed. From ’90s U.K. to modern-day New York, lets inhale and enjoy some hilarious and mildly hallucinogenic life and fashion inspiration from a few fictitious and surreal style icons from television.

“Ab Fab”

Land is Mary-Louise Parker’s weeddealing suburban mom character Nancy Botwin from the Showtime program “Weeds.” “Weeds” seemed to be the first marijuana-based TV show and held plots as tangential, free form and confusing as eating fistfuls of unmarked THC edibles.

One of the earliest depiction of stoner chicks/overall party ladies on TV must have been on the cult British show “Absolutely Fabulous,” which aired on the BBC from 1992 to 1996.

This classic comedy-duo program features two 40-something besties Patsy and Edina, who party constantly. Their unapologetic and endless joint, voddy and champers consumption seamlessly entwine with friendship, work, home and family.

Regardless, Nancy Botwin looked fabulous in bohemian, short, sheer dresses with heeled, chunky sandals or retro platforms. Nancy’s silhouette was loosely-cut on top and leggy on bottom, heavily influenced by the 1960s and ’70s. The scene of Nancy stressstripping after learning she caused her DEA boyfriends death captures perfectly the complicated “Get it off, GET IT OFF” feeling we women can have with our clothing sometimes, high or not.

Patsy and Edina’s fashion styles are hapless and over-the-top: Edina drips with every late-’80s and mid-’90s trend there was – everything a tad too young, too trendy, too tight and too loud.

Next to Edina, Patsy is almost sophisticated with her towering-80s chignon hairstyle and pumps with tight bodycon dresses. Through the deft costume design of “Ab Fab’s” tacky-savvy styles, the characters are absorbed like a bong-rip. Both ladies are wonderfully fun parodies of 1980s-strength career women and are characters still relevant to a contemporary audience of busy ladystoners who like to get high and manage life simultaneously.

“Ab Fab” has apparently been made into a movie, opening in late July, but watch the series first. Edina and Patsy are the bleary-eyed bad-grandmas of all contemporary, female-produced, post-legalization stoner comedienne genre and show their influence in the work of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer from “Broad City” and many others.

“Broad City” “Broad City” is rife with fashion and style-based visual jokes and the whole show is colored by weed and stoner plot lines and humor of the sharpest, most realistic kind.

The “Broad City” duo show a refreshing anti-style for New York girls

Nancy Botwin wasn’t a smoker herself but is still appealing to ladystoners as a strong, female anti-hero, the conflicted, drug-flirting, law-skirting type similar to Jackie Peyton from “Nurse Jackie,” whose scrubs display harrowing style as the uniform of an addict and Gemma Teller from “Sons Of Anarchy” in gorgeous leather jackets and belts – biker-mama style at its best.

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»» Mary Louise-Parker, star of the Showtime show “Weeds.”

– the styles they wear are realistic and neither one is overly hip. They remind me of the “Ab Fab” ladies: Ilana wears skimpy ’80s retro and is overly trendy like Edina while Abbi wears short stretchy body-con dresses for evening reminiscent of Patsy’s.

One stoner style standout was when Ilana wore a dog hoodie as a shirt to her job. It was an honest mistake (though one she’d made before) that

she then attempted to make more professional by coloring in her revealed stomach with red marker. This absurdity is high-cringe millennial attitude: Self-absorbed, unaware and makes for perfect comedy. “Broad City” continually contrasts childish inexperience and internet-supplied hyper-knowledge, assumed hipness and actual haplessness.

“Weeds” A sexy sort of stoner style out of TV

An unapologetic attitude toward style and deed is exampled in all of these ladystoner characters. Modern women who love their freedom to party without judgement, and to live this complicated life in a slightly-altered state can produce inspiration and validation from all of these characters while laughing their asses off on the couch with red eyes and chins covered in ice cream.

Heather Narwid owns Sideshow, a vintage and modern clothing store for men and women established in 2007, now located in Durango at 208 County Road 250.

Have a style question? Email her at sideshowdolores@gmail.com.

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

‘F*&% Your Hair’ and other political activity involving beer

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here are a lot big political issues going on in America right now, and compared to most of them, beer is very, very, very low on the totem pole. I mean, our country is going through huge debates involving gun control, LGBTQ civil rights, economic inequality, women’s rights, latent systemic racism, and a major party candidate who’s biggest and best strategy so far is braggadocio and kindergartenlevel name calling. So beer is way way down on the list. But I think beer, especially craft beer, can be and often is an agent of change and a path to unity in our country.

Our country has a history of brewing revolutionaries: George Washington, Sam Adams and Thomas Jefferson all brewed a beer or two in their day. Washington brewed and distilled at Mt. Vernon. At one point, it was the largest distillery in America. Since then, historians have rebuilt the mill, brewery and still, which makes small batches of liquor in the traditional way.

The list of beer-loving politicians includes the living. Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing during his single term in office. Without this change in law, there are countless brewers who would not have gotten their start, and countless breweries that might not have opened at all. This law also enabled Barack Obama to brew an official White House Honey Ale, which was the first beer brewed in the White House (even if it was an extract).

Among other amazing politicians who’ve pushed for greater access to good beer include our own governor, John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper is the founder and former owner of Wynkoop Brewing Co., the OG brewpub in Colorado (opened in ’88, the same year as Carver Brewing Co.). A wildly popular governor who signed recreational weed legislation into law, helped save the name of Mile High Stadium and helped grow craft beer in Colorado, Hickenlooper is all around an awesome dude, and I wish he was

Photo illustration by David Holub/DGO; photo via Associated Press file

»» President Barack Obama has a beer at Wynkoop Brewing Co. with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2014. on our presidential ballot. (He is on several lists to be Clinton’s VP, so let’s cross some fingers.)

Another politician you won’t want to completely throw off a bridge is Peter DeFazio, a representative from Oregon, and the founder of the House Small Brewers Caucus. The Small Brewers Caucus is a group of 143 congressional representatives from both parties and all over the country, which works to promote a better economic environment for small breweries. They’ve even worked out a bill, The Small BREW Act (the Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanded Workforce Act) which would cut the excise tax that small brewers are required to pay per barrel of beer

produced (It’s currently stuck in committee, so call your representative, Scott Tipton, who is a member of the Small Brewers Caucus and tell him you want this bill ASAP!).

But when we look at the two politicians in all the headlines, Trump and Clinton, I’m not stoked on either, but I’ve got a strong lean toward Clinton as the better candidate for beer. For starters, Hillary worries me because she can’t pour a beer to save her life.

But Trump pissed off the only brewers in his employ on his first day as a candidate. Before he announced his candidacy, he hired 5 Rabbits Cerveceria to brew his Trump Golden Ale, which was served in the Trump tower in Chicago. But during his

campaign announcement speech, he said of immigrants from across the southern border, “they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists,” which didn’t sit too well with 5 Rabbits founder, Andres Araya, a native of Costa Rica. The name of Trump Golden Ale was promptly changed to, Chinga tu Pelo, or “F*&% Your Hair,” which sounds like a pretty strong campaign slogan to me.

Robert Alan Wendeborn puts the bubbles in the beer at Ska Brewing Company. His first book of poetry, “The Blank Target,” was published in 2015 by The Lettered Streets Press and is available at Maria’s Bookshop. robbie@skabrewing.com

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[performing]

A mime speaks:

‘I’m only allowed to not talk ...

Everything else is free game.’ »» Durango mime Ben Dukeminier sounds off on his silent hobby If you’ve ever seen a mime walking around Durango, there’s a good chance it’s Ben Dukeminier performing as Jacque the Joker.

The 23-year-old Dukeminier has been miming for almost eight years. He has recently performed as a mime with Durango band Hello, Dollface, as well as the Imaginario Circus. We sat down with a stack of mime questions for Dukeminier, before he put on his makeup, before he became Jacque, while he could still answer audibly.

is) still doing it in a joyful way.

So when I talked – because Jacque doesn’t have his own voice – it was me talking through the character. The way I do acting is very method, so I’m no longer Ben, I’m Jacque. And then for Ben to pop in for a moment, because Jacque was not prepared for that, it rattled me for a good two hours.

How did it make you feel?

It made me feel as if I was wearing someone else’s skin pretending to be someone I wasn’t. It was very surreal, kind of out-ofbody experience.

How do you get better at your craft?

I pretend to hold things all the time. I’ll pick up something and feel its weight and then put it down and pretend to pick it up and feel its weight and put it down so that I get the right measurements so when I move it looks fluid, it looks real, it looks like there’s actually weight in my hand.

And then sitting in the mirror for hours doing facial exercises, making sure I’m always smiling, making sure what my eyebrows are doing, making sure what my scowl looks like and what that feels like.

What’s it like performing as a mime?

It’s a lot like improv. You just kind of have to take your ego completely out of the equation and then be very good at reading people. Because you can see it in some people’s eyes, they want to play. And then some people are terrified. People who are terrified, maybe (I) do a little thing with them to try and break that barrier – because that is a thing; you can break that barrier. But if they’re just not having it, you leave them alone ... People who want to play really want to play because they realize they want to put you in a box, they want you to copy them, they want to dance with you. They just want to have fun.

What is the most challenging thing for you as Ben when you’re playing Jacque?

To remain in character at all times and being sure not to vocalize any kind of sound. Sometimes there’s things that are absolutely hilarious and everyone’s laughing, and you’re laughing but you can’t laugh.

So you’re holding a laugh in, but you can feel the contraction in your ribs and your abs. Keeping your mouth shut is the hardest part.

Have you ever slipped up and said something?

No, I’ve never slipped up and said a word on accident.

I’ve had to once for a director, talk to them because they had a very pertinent question that I couldn’t mime to them and it was very important to answer that question. And it freaked me out. I’ll never do it again. Be-

What are some bizarre things that have happened to you while miming?

I’ve done everything from sword fighting with people to dance parties in the middle of Main Street to being put in a box to climbing light poles. I mean, everything.

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»» Ben Dukeminier as Jacque the Joker.

To see a video of Jacque the Joker answering “Inside the Actor’s Studio” host James Lipton’s 10 famous questions (“What is your favorite curse word, etc.), go to dgomag.com.

cause when you separate the character and the person, they’re two separate things. Like, I feel all emotions: anger, joy, sadness, all of that. Where Jacque only feels joy. He does not know what sadness is; he does not know what anger is; he does not know what envy is ...

He knows joy. Even if I’m pretending to be sad, (Jacque

I found, believe it or not, people like to rub butts with mimes. Why? I’m not sure. Every time I go dancing, someone, somewhere wants to rub their butt on my butt. I don’t know why. It’s a thing. I did not realize when I signed up.

A common misconception: People think that mimes can’t touch you. They’re like, “Oh no, he’s not allowed to talk and touch you.” I’m like, “I’m only allowed to not talk ... that’s about it. Everything else is free game.”

I’ve been groped. I’ve been slapped. I’ve been carried. I’ve sat down and had dinner with people at a restaurant. ... It’s just amazing what you can get away with.

I’ve climbed one of the street light poles while an officer was parked right there just waving at me as I’m King Konging and swatting at invisible planes and they’re all just laughing.

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[visual]

»» Clockwise from left: “Play Thoughts of Tomorrow” by Michael Donnor; “El Arbol”

by Louis Gonzalez Palma; “Snowdown, 2014” by James Carmack.

Courtesy of Open Shutter Gallery

What we’ll be losing when Open Shutter shuts down

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

Durango’s fine arts photography gallery Open Shutter is closing in November after 15 years. Owner Margy Dudley is preparing to pursue her own photography work and travel, while gallery manager Arista Slater-Sandoval is moving to Santa Fe with her husband in August. The gallery is hosting two final exhibits before shutting its doors: Beth Moon in July and Holly Roberts in September. Though the retail space will disappear, Open Shutter plans to retain an online presence – but the days of wandering in and looking at photographs will be over.

There is no art museum in town (the Animas Museum is historical), and Open Shutter filled a portion of that void, showcasing sophisticated national and international photography. “We do have some other great galleries, like Studio & and the (Durango Arts Center),” said Slater-Sandoval. “But over the years we built a reputation, so we had the ability to draw international artists. We just had Luis González Palma, and that was a treat. You wouldn’t see his work unless you went to Chicago, New York,

maybe Santa Fe.” According to Slater-Sandoval, many within the Durango arts community have expressed gratitude to Open Shutter over the years for bringing in non-local work, but ultimately, there was more looking than buying. “That was another way it felt like a Slater-Sandoval museum,” she said. “We did sell cards and matted prints, but that’s not going to float the bill.”

Ideally, another progressive and contemporary exhibition space will move into the hollow left behind by Open Shutter. “It’s so perfect for a gallery, with the lighting,” said Slater-Sandoval. “I know Margy has had a decent amount of interest in buying, so we’ll see what moves in. I hope it’s another gallery – not just another T-shirt shop.”

Slater-Sandoval’s next step is still uncertain.

She’ll be curating a show at the DAC in October titled “Picture Perfect: Contrarian Voices in Photography,” with five local and three out-of-state photographers. She has never tried to support herself on

photography alone, even after receiving a Master’s of Fine Art in Photography from the College of Art and Design at Lesley University. Akin to most millennials, Slater-Sandoval is saddled with student loan debt, though she declares her education and arts training was worth every penny. “I’ve had work up at Studio &, the DAC and Open Shutter – but I’ve never just tried to make a living off my photography,” said Slater-Sandoval. “This might sound conceited, but I don’t think about selling my work when I’m making it. I’m thinking more of the concept and trying to execute it. Not necessarily trying to make an image that’s marketable.” With an MFA, a terminal degree, a person is qualified to teach as a college professor (for high school teaching you need a separate license), but many arts students struggle to secure jobs in their field or pay back expensive degrees. Careers in the arts aren’t wildly lucrative.

“A lot of people keep telling us they’re sorry we’ll be gone, that we’ve been a gift to the community,” said Slater-Sandoval. “Its been rewarding to bring so many photographers here. This is work that opens people’s ideas about what photography is.” Let’s hope something comparable to Open Shutter comes along.

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[women and weed]

Girls just wanna get high »» Despite the lack of lady

smokers in pop culture and the pervasiveness of males in every other business, women’s involvement in the evolving cannabis industry is strong and growing

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

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hink about all the stoner buddy movies you’ve seen: “Half Baked,” “Pineapple Express,” “Harold and Kumar,” “Dude Where’s My Car?,” “Grandma’s Boy.” They’re about men, right? That’s hardly a coincidence. Celebrities who identify publicly as stoners are largely male, as well – Snoop Dogg, Seth Rogen, Willie Nelson, Cheech and Chong. Several Judd Apatow comedies like “Knocked Up” feature uptight stick-in-the-mud ladies, annoyed by their male partners’ proclivity for getting high. Even Mary Jane, the female love interest for David Chappelle’s protagonist in “Half Baked” is aggressively anti-marijuana. Her pretentious disapproval of his smoking habits is a pretty ludicrous overreaction.

But the pop culture tide is shifting. Women are growing more comfortable admitting to their own pot use. Smoking weed was once unladylike, but now sexy musicians like Rihanna or Miley Cyrus post Instagram shots of themselves, scantily clad, cloaked in heavy smoke drifting off a joint. Abbi and Ilana on Comedy Central’s “Broad City” light up unapologetically in their crappy Brooklyn apartments, just two normal girls navigating the muddy waters of adult life. While women’s prevalence in marijuana pop culture continues to grow, the effect can be felt in real-world participation in cannabis culture.

Women Grow

The “Broad City” girls might be fictional, but they would probably join Women Grow in a heartbeat; it’s a very real national networking organization through which women in the cannabis industry can meet and connect with each other. On the first Thursday of every month, events are held in more than 35 cities across the U.S. and Canada, offering a supportive environment for the curious to learn more about the business and hobnob with dispensary employees, owners, growers and educational speakers. Women Grow will be hosting an event in Durango next week called Terp Talks, focusing on the flavor and aroma of cannabis. The guest speaker is Amy Spencer, a senior microbiologist at Aurum Labs, a local cannabis testing facility.

“It’s basically giving women in the marijuana industry a chance to take the reins and get leadership roles,” said Aubrey Belisle, founding chairwoman for the Western Slope chapter of Women Grow. “This industry has a high ratio of women CEOs compared to other industries. There’s not so much of a glass ceiling yet, it’s so

new. So a lot of ladies who are using cannabis or have enjoyed it for whatever reason have a platform now to say, ‘Hey, I’m a woman, I smoke pot, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, these are the ways it’s helping me.’”

Almost every other powerful industry in the world is male-dominated, but we just might break the mold with this one. “Women have a legitimate chance to be key players and have an actual voice here,” said Tay Peter, a co-chairwoman for the Western Slope Women Grow chapter. “At least 30 percent of our membership is male, so there is no discrimination.

It’s all-inclusive.” Also an employee at Santé Durango, Peter appreciates the chance to chat with vendors and other dispensaries at Women Grow networking events, getting outside her “dispensary bubble” and gleaning more info about the products she regularly provides. She lovingly compares her job as a budtender to working with coffee (she was a barista for years at the Durango Coffee Co.). “There are so many different flavors and aromas you interact with

Peter

Belisle

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Illustration by David Holub/ DGO

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by smoking, vaping or eating,” said Peter. “The similarity of the number of processes coffee and cannabis go through from seed to cup or seed to joint – those are all variables that impact what you taste and feel. To me, that’s fascinating.”

Female leaders With cannabis legalized in Colorado and several other states, this booming business could become “the first billion-dollar industry not dominated by men,” as the cover of Newsweek optimistically crowed. It’s certainly an exciting prospect.

“When you look at magazines like Skunk or High Times, a lot of the time you do see women, but they’re scantily clothed,” said Peter.

“So it’s nice to see key players like Dahlia Mertens from Mary Jane’s Medicinals or Julie from Julie’s Natural Edibles. These are powerful women who have made their names in the cannabis game.”

Indeed, multiple women began launching their own Colorado companies over the past few years, postrecreational legalization. Mertens, owner and founder of Mary Jane’s Medicinals (they make organic topical cannabis products in Telluride) is proud to be shaping a burgeoning industry. She notes the overwhelming “purchasing power” women possess.

According to Forbes, women drive 70 to 80 percent of all consumer purchasing through a combination of their buying power and influence.

The Durango women interviewed for this article alleged predominantly favorable experiences in the marijuana trade. “I’ve been a cannabis user for over 35 years, and never once did I think it wasn’t for women,” said Elizabeth Caldwell, former general manager at Santé and current employee.

“I knew when I tried it that it was the medicine for me.” Caldwell says their dispensary employees are a majority of females, although they get a lot more male applicants for open positions. “That could be because of the population in Durango, too,” suggests current General Manager Maggie Gallagher. “We have a higher male population here.”

Although Women Grow caters to curious newbies looking to enter Continued on Page 15

Topical cannabis

Secrets from Mary Jane’s Medicinals Dahlia Mertens, founder of Telluride’s Mary Jane’s Medicinals, told us some secrets of her trade.

Her products are all topical (applied directly to the outside of the body), rather than ingested (taken internally), and the topical application of cannabis has been demonstrated as effective for pain management, healing of injuries, relaxation and improving skin health and appearance.

Cannabis used topically doesn’t really produce the psychoactive effects that ingesting it does (getting high, in other words), so pain relief and healing are these products’ primary focus. MJM products are available in multiple dispensaries around Durango.

The genesis of the business I was a massage therapist for several years, and I’ve always been interested in natural and herbal medicine. Then one fall, I went out to northern California to help on my friend’s medical marijuana farm. I got exposed to someone who had some grape seed oil out there; this woman asked if she could rub some on my neck. I didn’t think it was going to do anything, and I’d never heard of cannabis being used topically before. But the muscles in my neck and arms and shoulders were all tight from swimming, and I could feel my muscles relax right away when she put it on.

What the products do »» Dahlia Mertens The THC doesn’t actually enter the bloodstream with these, so they don’t wound closed up in two weeks, a lot of the nerve damage get you high. I started developing the line was healed and the scarring became a lot less. in my kitchen, using massage oil, playing with different recipes and using them on my massage clients. At first, I The products thought it would just make for a more relaxing massage, Our most popular product is the pain-relief salve. We but then a lot of my clients started coming back to me with also make a body lotion, a massage oil, a lip balm, a topical chronic issues going away. One woman had a radiation tincture and a bath soap. burn, a double mastectomy, six or seven different surgerSee more at http://maryjanesmedicinals.com ies. Really bad scarring on her chest, nerve damage. With a lot of skepticism, she tried my salve. And her radiation —— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

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When I was growing up, I definitely bought into the whole, ‘It makes you lazy; it makes you stupid,’” and I didn’t smoke that much pot. Then living in Telluride, I got exposed to really high-quality cannabis and grew an appreciation and a respect for it. I now recognize the herb as being very therapeutic in a lot of ways, and a healthier alternative to alcohol.

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Dahlia Mertens, Founder of Telluride’s Mary Jane’s Medicinals

Why women should toke Though she is an entrepreneur in the world of cannabis salves and oils with MJ’s Medicinals, Mertens came to cannabis relatively late in life. “When I was growing up, I definitely bought into the whole, ‘It makes you lazy; it makes you stupid,’ and I didn’t smoke that much pot,” Mertens said. “Then living in Telluride, I got exposed to really high-quality cannabis and grew an appreciation and a respect for it. I now recognize the herb as being very therapeutic in a lot of ways, and a healthier alternative to alcohol.”

Peter grew up in a conservative household in Farmington and didn’t admit to her parents she was working at Santé until several months into the job. “I told my dad, and he was like, ‘Wow that’s cool!’” she remembers.

“He’s always been supportive. My mom is still a little apprehensive. She doesn’t quite know what to tell the rest of our family, and I say, ‘Just tell them I’m in pharmaceuticals or something!’”

Working in the pot industry isn’t extremely different from working in the alcohol biz. Budtenders (dispensary workers) are basically bartenders who sell an alternate mindaltering substance. But our nation is a lot more accustomed to bartenders.

Alcohol has been legal for a long time, and there is very little stigma left. The weed industry is extremely regulated (bartenders can easily drink at work, but dispensary em-

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ployees would be in deep shit if they were to light up on the job). There is still a notable taboo surrounding herb, and lots of people worry that it’s unsafe; but Peter is reassuring.

“All the retail herb you buy in any dispensary goes through a testing facility,” Peter said. “They’re doing microbial reports, contaminate reports, potency reports. We know what’s in your bud. We know that it’s not going to be contaminated.”

Cannabis use isn’t merely about getting stoned and having fun – lots of women ingest marijuana medically, to deal with physical or mental ailments.

Belisle believes strongly in these healing benefits. “There’s a company called Foria, and they’re revolutionizing the way we address menstrual cramps and period pain through cannabis,” said Belisle. “They have some pretty impressive products.” They also sell natural sensual enhancement oil. “For some women, it may awaken arousal and heighten sensation making orgasms more intense, fuller or easier to access,” promises the Foria website.

Peter has personally used activated hash oil for help with bad joints, also citing it as effective for anxiety, depression and general inflammation. She’s content with the changing trends and dazzled by Colorado’s level of progressiveness at the forefront of all this commerce. “Sometimes it’s, ‘Oh hey, let’s go get a drink after work,’” said Peter.

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[movies] The BFG Playing at Stadium 9 (Also available in 3-D with surcharge) Rating: PG Genre: Kids & family,

science fiction & fantasy Directed by: Steven Spielberg Written by: Melissa Mathison, Roald

Dahl Runtime: 1 hr. 55 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 73% Synopsis: A young girl, the Queen

of England and a benevolent giant known as the BFG set out to capture the evil, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.

The Purge: Election Year Playing at Stadium 9 Rating: R Genre: Action &

adventure, horror, mystery & suspense Dirceted by: James

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that occurs over 12 hours of annual lawlessness sanctioned by the New Founders of America.

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Brewer Runtime: 1 hr. 49 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: Not available.

Synopsis: Tarzan has been invited

back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge.

Oh, Anthony Weiner ...

By Stephanie Merr y © 2016, The Washington Post

Anthony Weiner’s name was always an easy punch line – in a grade-school insult kind of way. But the former congressman all but giftwrapped the joke when he accidentally broadcast a picture of his bulging boxer briefs on Twitter in 2011.

An unfortunate moniker became a fitting one. The New York Post had a field day.

But there’s more to the man than extramarital sexting. That’s what documentarians Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg set out to prove with “Weiner,” a fascinating account of the Brooklyn native’s failed bid to become New York City’s mayor in 2013.

Before he was a filmmaker, Kriegman worked in politics as Weiner’s chief of staff in the mid-aughts. But before you assume that the movie was a favor to Kriegman’s former boss, consider this: Weiner isn’t thrilled about the documentary, which has been gaining buzz since winning the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

He doesn’t want to talk about it, he said by email – he hasn’t even seen the movie. He elaborated a bit on “Larry King Now” in February, complaining that the filmmakers used clips of his wife, Huma Abedin, without her permission. Of course, there’s considerable interest in seeing her onscreen because she’s long been one of Hillary Clinton’s closest confidantes. And there’s something inexplicably gripping about watching the inner workings of a struggling marriage.

But there was also his pride.

“Look, I know how the story ends,” Weiner told King. “I’m not eager to watch it and relive it.”

Steinberg and Kriegman began working together a few years ago, directing a PBS special about prison reform. But they were both interested in a verité-style character study.

Kriegman thought Weiner would be a good subject but didn’t think it would pan out after he floated the idea and got a tepid response. But on the day Weiner announced he was going to run for mayor (for the second time; he also ran in 2005), he texted Kriegman and asked whether the director

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»» Documentarians Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman set out to show that there’s more to Anthony Weiner than just political sex scandals.

Weiner

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Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 95%

wanted to come over with a camera.

Steinberg had never met Weiner before he agreed to the documentary. Like most people, she had only a vague notion of the man beyond the salacious details she picked up through headlines.

“What I discovered by meeting Anthony and looking through the footage was that my preconceived notions and expectations were not in line with reality and who he is,” she said over the phone recently. “He was a much more human, complex person.”

In the documentary, Weiner comes across as many things: egotistical, funny, dishonest, cocky, self-effacing, charismatic and pathetic, among other descriptors. One moment he’s joyously waving a rainbow flag to the delight of a gay pride parade crowd, and the next he’s getting into a screaming match during a campaign stop with a voter who calls him a scumbag. “Takes one to know one, jackass,” Weiner counters before

the men launch into an ugly verbal brawl.

For a while, Kriegman and Steinberg thought they might be filming a redemption story. Weiner was leading in the polls, and the public clearly didn’t care about his internet habits. On the contrary, when other candidates brought up Weiner’s indiscretions during debates, the crowd would start booing.

“And then, of course, new revelations from his scandal resurfaced, and the whole thing went in a very different direction,” Kriegman said.

A 22-year-old named Sydney Leathers came forward and revealed that she had exchanged explicit messages with Weiner after he had copped to the initial round of sexting.

To the filmmakers, it didn’t matter whether Weiner was winning or losing. They were less interested in where the story went than how to best capture their subject.

Steinberg and Kriegman said the response to the movie has been varied. Some people see Weiner as a sympathetic character; others remain disgusted by his lack of selfcontrol and peculiar sexual habits.

To some, he will always be the cyberspace flasher who deserved to be an easy target for late-night talk show hosts.

The filmmakers asked Weiner why he thought people have been so hard on him.

“I lied to them,” he says in the movie. Then after a few moments of thought: “And I have a funny name.”

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Check this out

Critical Mass

“Listen, Liberal,” by Thomas Frank

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Review by Kirbie Bennett As the current madness of this election year continues to reveal both major political parties to be two cheeks connected to the same sphincter of Wall Street and imperialism, Thomas Frank’s new book is here to help make sense of the hollowing out of the Democratic Party.

Written in the vein of rabble-rousing, muckraking journalism, “Listen, Liberal” documents the party’s abandonment of the working class in the post-industrial 1970s, thereby catering to the growing class of “professional elites” – those with Ivy League degrees, Upper-East-Side social status (perhaps what Ted Cruz would condemn as embodying “New York values”) and Silicon Valley brains, all with the “power to prescribe” what’s best for everyone else. In assessing the donkey party, Frank reveals how proponents of liberalism have accommodated these technocratic entrepreneurs, professionals in the “knowledge economy” scheming up new rackets in finance, communication, surveillance and military contracting. Frank points out that although this “creative class” once identified as Republican, over time they became swayed by the charm of Democrats eager to ditch the unions, and ready to please their corporate suite-hearts.

Frank spends considerable time on the Clinton administration – the team Frank pinpoints as being largely responsible for transforming the liberal class. “The triumph of Clinton marked the end of the Democrats as a party committed to working people and egalitarianism,” Frank says. From the gutting of welfare reform and the increase of mass incarceration among African-Americans to the deregulation of Wall Street and the championing of NAFTA (which destroyed the local economy of Mexico while multinational corporations devoured the profits), Clinton was able to achieve what a Republican could not have done. And this doesn’t even include the bloody military interventions in the Balkans and the crippling sanctions imposed on Iraq.

Such a con job continues under the two-term administration of Barack Obama. Despite the creative class of technocrats and financiers

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And under the Obama administration, mass surveillance has expanded, along with military interventions and the use of armed drones, and financial technocrats continue to run free, concocting new hustles to plunder the economy.

But at least Obama’s not a Republican, right?

Taking swings left and right, Frank smashes the hollow halos of a morally bankrupt liberal class. “Listen, Liberal” is an urgent read to make sense of the funk we’re in. And while Frank offers an open-ended conclusion about where to go from here, presenting a fork in the road between reforming the party or revolt, given the momentum and monkeywrenching of Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, in a few months, the people may make the decision themselves. As Howard Zinn once wrote: “The really critical thing isn’t who is sitting in the White House, but who is sitting in – in the streets, in the halls of government and in the factories.”

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

Legal weed gets an ‘A’ ... except on pesticides

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believe that the “Colorado Cannabis Experiment” is one of the most successful legislative initiatives introduced in our nation, at any level, over the past decade or more.

Were I grading it, I would be hard pressed to find enough problems with the progress of Amendment 64 as it approaches the two-and-ahalf year mark to give it anything other than straight A’s. I would be remiss, though, if I chose to ignore the small set of problems that have cropped up (See what I did there?) with relation to marijuana legalization. That will be the focus of this column for the next few weeks. »» The Nebraska/Oklahoma lawsuit: A joke. The spread of marijuana

beyond the Colorado borders: Same as it ever was. »» The fears surrounding legalization and children’s expanded access to weed: A reasonable issue to address.

Luckily, Amendment 64 creates a selffunded educational opportunity as a result of the revenue it generates. »» The use of pesticides on buds and in cannabis products: Now, this is an actual problem, for a variety of reasons, some that you may not have considered.

The fourth quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016 may come to be known as The Pesticide Era because of the dozens of recalls by the state of both buds and cannabis-infused products due to the use of prohibited pesticides, but there is more to this

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any profits are seen (and that takes a minimum of about four months from seed or clone to cash).

An infestation, by fungi or pests, of even a single crop could be devastating for a still-fledgling business. (And with the short history of the legal cannabis industry, every related business in the state is still “new.”) Every piece of conventional produce that you buy in the store uses pesticides to some degree. Like any other agricultural producer, cannabis growers need to protect their crops (and their investment).

The use of pesticides is currently guided by Gov. Hickenlooper’s Executive Order 2015-015, which states, Continued on Page 19

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The folks running cannabis grow operations are licensed by the state.

That costs money; the application and licensing fees quickly reach the lowfive figure range and this is the least of the investments associated with starting a cannabis cultivation business. There are physical spaces to be procured and outfitted, which can get very expensive: Electrical upgrades, lighting, temperature control, water, security. These are things that need to be addressed before any decisions are made concerning grow methods and the necessary raw materials like soil, nutrients, plants, etc. It’s reasonable to believe that any person or group involved in cannabis growing is invested in the order of a cool million before

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[Netflix and chill — 420 edition]

From Page 18

‘Getting Doug With High’

“ a. The label allows for use on unspecified crops and/or plants (e.g. “bedding plants,” “flowering plants,” “other crops”); b. The label allows for use at the intended site of application (e.g. allowed use in greenhouses); c. The label directions do not prohibit use on crops or plants for human consumption; and d. Use of the pesticide complies with rules promulgated by CDA governing pesticide use on marijuana.”

This is where we run into a Catch22 that would make Heller cackle maniacally.

Under the system currently in place, cannabis is classified by the DEA (a federal agency) as a Schedule I drug; designating it in the same category as heroin and methamphetamine. Fine, whatever, old news ... except ... the oversight of pesticide use falls under the jurisdiction of another federal agency, the Environmental Protection Agency. The state code that governs pesticide application, the Colorado Pesticide Applicator’s Act, or PAA, prohibits the use of pesticides in a manner inconsistent with the EPA. I’m going to step back and give you a minute to reread that last paragraph.

It’s complicated. Are pesticides something you want on your weed and weed-related products? Probably not. Are pesticides used in the production of your corn, your apples, and your grapes? They absolutely are.

The status of cannabis under federal guidelines has not allowed for testing and acceptable levels (most produce has a parts per million or ppm level) and cannabis, being a combustible product sits with only tobacco in the category of “inhaled produce.”

I could write another million words on the topic, but this, at the end of the day, is another issue that is not going to be fully resolved until the federal status of cannabis is resolved. I’m sorry to say, Colorado, the fight is not over. If you like our little experiment as much as I do, you should recognize that this particular joy in life sits more tenuously than you might realize.

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

“Getting Doug With High” is a video and audio podcast show hosted by stand-up comedian Doug Benson, and every episode is available on YouTube. You might remember Benson from “Super High Me,” a documentary about marijuana use in which Benson consumed cannabis every day for 30 days and noted changes in his physical and mental health.

Keep in mind, Benson himself is not overwhelmingly funny (actually, he’s pretty obnoxious). But the concept of “Getting Doug” is ingenious. Benson invites various celebrities into a studio (mostly comedians, not movie stars), gets them stoned and interviews them. A plethora of funny women have visited the program (and were more than game to blaze): Jenny Slate, Abbi and Ilana from “Broad City,” Sarah Silverman, Natasha Leggero and Aubrey Plaza, to name a few.

The show features a couple of regular segments (casually, in between meandering banter). There’s High History, when guests are asked about the first time they ever smoked; Pot Topics, where Benson discusses cannabis news such as which states have legalized or decriminalized marijuana; and Gabe Time, during which magician Gabe Dylan comes out to perform a magic trick for the guests, who are usually so high they’re either wildly impressed or don’t really understand what’s going on.

High interviewing is not a bad idea. People tend to loosen up when they smoke (unless they become anxious

or paranoid, which sometimes happens on Benson’s show, too). Questioning celebs who aren’t quite so buttoned-up (and have their minds a little distorted) leads to stranger, erratic answers. Stoned conversations are usually circuitous – but when you’re high, they also seem filled with revelations and bursts of unparalleled insight. Each new sentence you or a friend speaks explodes into the night air and instigates a thousand new connections. Watching people who are high talk about stuff when YOU’RE not high is a little less fun, but it’s still good entertainment.

Benson calmly peer pressures guests into inhaling more and more.

A particularly good episode guest stars comedians Sarah Silverman and Todd Glass, close friends in real life. Sarah is charming, demure and quite different from her crude television persona, while Todd is all over the place; childish, self-conscious, brutally honest. These two have smoked together before. They discuss the time Todd got too high and freaked out, and Sarah had to comfort him. They also remember the time Todd got high and started having a heart attack, but Sarah told everyone, “It’s fine, he’s just high!” because she couldn’t tell the difference. When Benson asks Sarah whether she’s reaped the intended “euphoric” benefit from the strain she is toking, she thinks for a moment, then admits, “I mean ... I still remember death.”

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Savage Love | Dan Savage

Is it OK to fend off creepy men by pretending to be a lesbian?

Is it a super douchey move to pretend to be a lesbian to avoid unwanted male attention? I’m a straight single woman in my mid-30s and a very plausible lesbian in terms of sartorial stereotypes. Occasionally, a guy will hit on me in an awkward or creepy way and I’ll trot out a line about “not being into men.” Most recently I used this pose when a courier broke down in my driveway and I invited him in for a glass of water while he waited for the tow truck. It was really uncomfortable and a little threatening when, after establishing that I lived alone, he asked me out. I guess I use this as an excuse so as not to hurt their feelings, but also to shut the conversation down as quickly as possible if I’m feeling vulnerable. Is this a harmless white lie, or a major cop-out that would offend actual lesbians?

Can you suggest some better strategies for when you’re feeling cornered by a dude you’re not interested in?

Lady’s Entirely Zany Identity Enquiry “I’m not offended by this,” said someone I thought was an actual lesbian. I shared your question with this person – a woman I thought was an actual lesbian – because I wasn’t offended by it either, but wanted to check with an actual lesbian just to be safe. Turns out my friend doesn’t identify as a lesbian, but as a woman-who-loves-womenbut-does-not-identify-as-a-lesbianbecause-she-sometimes-finds-the-odddude-hot. So for the record: my friend is speaking for the WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH community here – which often intersects/sexts with the lesbian community – and not the lesbian community. “But even though I’m not offended by it, I have to say I’ve found the ‘I’m into women’ line to be totally ineffective,” said my not-a-lesbian friend. “The creeps I’ve used it on get even more riled up after hearing that line. Sometimes I check out and start ignoring these creeps as if they’re wallpaper, but that can rile them up too.

Same with a polite ‘I’m not interested.’

The only success I’ve had with warding off creeps is by actually yelling at them, asking them if they’d like to be treated the way they’re treating me, and if their mothers, sisters, et cetera, would appreciate that treatment.” My not-a-lesbian friend – who, as it turns out, identifies more strongly with the term “bisexual” than she does WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH – has also had some luck with the lose-your-shit strategy (e.g., screaming, yelling and waving your arms around like a crazy person). “You kind of have to treat these people like bears at a campsite,” said my not-a-lesbian friend. “You have to make yourself big and loud and scary so they don’t get closer. Because they will get closer.”

I have a difficult question. A dear young friend has recently started being a stripper for work. I won’t lie: It tears me up. All I feel is sadness and worry – such a nice soul for what I feel is a not-so-nice environment. I really hope I’m wrong. Is there any way in which this can be OK? My thoughts are that no matter how strong a woman is, no one can forget what they see or have to deal with. I worry for the sake of a nice person getting her ass handed to her too often and potentially breaking beyond repair. My gut emotion is that it doesn’t matter how well you handle these situations – what matters is the fact that you see too much ugliness, too often, and get to a point where you forget that there are actually nice humans out there. I guess my question is: How well can anyone handle this?

My Endangered Lady I suspect she’s handling it better than you are, MEL. And I would recommend minding your own business, backing the F off and Googling “white knight syndrome.” But if your conscience requires you to say something, say something that opens up a conversation, rather than something so larded with

shame, fear and judgment that it shuts the conversation down. Instead of saying something like “Oh my God! What were you thinking?! You’ll be shredded emotionally and sexually! You could break beyond repair!”, try something like, “Stripping isn’t something I would feel comfortable doing myself. But I’m your friend, and if you need to talk with someone about your new job – if you need to decompress or vent – I’m here for you.”

I’ve been lying to myself. I told myself that stability and friendship were more important to me than sex.

I’ve been with my husband for 12 years, and we’ve been married for five of those. We were best friends, and I was already in love before we started dating and before we ever had sex. I should have known in the beginning that we weren’t sexually compatible, but I chose to ignore it (or I chose stability and friendship). I chose my best friend, and have been suffering ever since. Luckily, I listen to your advice on a regular basis, and I’ve started having more open conversations about my feelings and my wants and needs. About a year ago, my husband and I decided to open our relationship. This was all my idea, and I’m not sure he’s fully into it.

We agreed to a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and a month ago we finally acted on it. I met someone in an open relationship and had sex with them.

It was amazing – everything about it. In the end, I didn’t feel guilty, but I did want to tell my husband. I still feel the need to get his approval, but I also know that he doesn’t want to hear it. If he gave me the go-ahead, even though everything was my idea, should I feel guilty, or just happy for finally getting what I needed from someone? Are there baby steps I can take to tell my husband these things, or do I just keep them to myself? I feel like this is saving our marriage, but society probably just looks at me like a cheating whore.

Feelings Are Insanely, Terri-

bly Hard For Unsure Lovers You have your husband’s approval to do what you did, but his approval was contingent upon you not telling him what you did. Honor the commitment you made to your husband, FAITHFUL, by keeping your mouth shut. You’ll doubtless have conversations in the future about your relationship, and about monogamy, and you can ask him if he wants to stick with “don’t ask, don’t tell.” If he says yes, continue to keep your mouth shut.

I’m a (mostly) straight guy in his mid20s. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved wearing women’s lingerie.

It turns me on, but it also makes me feel comfortable. I’ve never worn women’s clothing in public, but I’ve recently been wearing it more and more around my house. It just feels right! Side note: I’ve also recently been obsessed with being pegged by my female partner, and I love the reversal of roles. Would I be considered genderqueer, genderfluid or what?

And would I be considered part of the LGBT community?

Frequently Excited Miss Genderqueer and genderfluid aren’t kinks, FEM, they’re identities. And I don’t know what you mean by that parenthetical “mostly” you dropped in there before “straight.” If it means you’re attracted to dudes – regardless of whether you’ve ever acted on that attraction – you would indeed be considered part of the LGBT community, under the “B” designation. But if all you meant was, “My cock gets hard when I wear panties and think about getting my ass pegged by my girlfriend,” then you’re just another kinky straight guy.

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] Color by the Animas on Sundays Feeling stressed? Yoga not cutting it? You might want to try adult coloring.

Starting at 3 p.m. Sunday, and running every Sunday through the end of August, White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. Fourth St., will be hosting adult coloring sessions in its garden beside the Animas River.

It will provide some coloring books and pencils, but you’re more than welcome to bring your own supplies – and your friends, too.

You can find the shop in the Riverfront Center on the river trail between the Powerhouse Science Center and Burger King.

For more information, call 259-2213.

Thursday Cale Tyson, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Buckley Park,

12th Street & Main Ave. Ragtime Piano, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150.

Burger and Band Night with Jeff Solon, 5 p.m., James Ranch, 33846 Highway

550, 385-6858.

The Durango Western Music and Vaudeville Show, 7 p.m., Henry Strater

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

rium, 699 Main Ave.

Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

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

“You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,”

Durango Tango: Informal tango practice & instruction, 6-8:30 p.m.,

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

7:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org/charlie_brown.

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

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

Rotary Park Gazebo, 533-7231, tangodurango. com.

“You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,”

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

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

7:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org/charlie_brown.

Void Where Prohibited with Larry Carver, 8 p.m.-midnight, Derailed Pour

Contiki, Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

Saturday

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

House, 725 Main Ave., 247-5440.

The Crags, 6-9 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.,

Sunday

Monday

259-9018.

Henry Stoy, piano, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-

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

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

Pierre Bakery, 601 Main Ave., 385-0122.

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org.

Ave., 259-9018.

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

The Assortment, 1 p.m., Buckley Park,

Music, 104 North Main Ave., Aztec, NM, crashmusicaztec.com, 505 -427- 6748.

Henry Stoy, piano, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-

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

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

Laugh Therapy Turns One, 8 p.m., The

Stillwater Music, 12 p.m., James Ranch, 33846 Highway 550, 385-6858.

The Assortment, 1-3 p.m., Trimble Hot

American Rockers Festival, 4-8 p.m., Purgatory Resort, http://americanrockers. brownpapertickets.com/.

“You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,”

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

2 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org/charlie_brown.

Tuesday

Nina Sasaki with Dave Rust, 5-9 p.m., DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, 2596580.

Void Where Prohibited with Larry Carver, 6-10 p.m., The Hideaway, 18044

Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

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

Reverend Freakchild, 7:30 p.m., Crash

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

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

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

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

Friday Void Where Prohibited with Larry Carver, 6-10 p.m., Balcony Bar & Grill, 600

Main Ave., 422-2008.

Pierre Bakery, 601 Main Ave., 385-0122.

Ragtime Piano, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle

Springs, 6475 County Road 203, 247-0111.

County Road 501, Bayfield, 884-2964.

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150.

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

The Durango Western Music and Vaudeville Show, 7 p.m., Henry Strater

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

Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

The Durango Western Music and Vaudeville Show, 7 p.m., Henry Strater

Andy Janowsky, 7-11 p.m., Office Spirito-

12th Street & Main Ave.

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

Ave., 259-9018.

Wednesday Ace Revel, 6-8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar and Cocktail Lounge, 723 East Second Ave., 385-0105.

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

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Help send off Liver Down the River on tour Durango’s Liver Down the River will be serving up a little psychafunkadeligrass Friday night at the Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive, as it kicks off its “Life You Love” album release tour.

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The band is Patrick Storen on mandolin; Emily AguirreWinter on fiddle, viola and vocals; Dylan Ruckel on guitar and vocals; Tyler Rice on banjo, keyboards and vocals; Derek Abt on bass and vocals and Carter Colia on drums and washboard. Formed in 2012, they specialize in mix-

The show starts at 9, and doors open at 8:30.

This is an 18 and older show.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 the day of the show.

Get yours at Southwest Sound, www.animascitytheatre.comat and at the ACT box office. For more information, call 799-2281.

Pingpong and poker tournament, 8

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

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

p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

Two-step and waltz dance lessons,

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

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Opening for Liver Down the River will be The Outskirts from Durango.

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Open studio figure drawing, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $15/$10, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., www.durangoarts.org.

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ing psychadelic bluegrass and funk in their music, while also using their life stories and adventures as inspiration.

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

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

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

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

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The week starts out with financial promise and good feelings at work.

However, issues at home and with family members will be intense and emotional. Caution.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You’re in a good mood because the Moon is in your sign dancing with lucky Jupiter. Just remember to keep things mellow, especially when talking to siblings and relatives. (People are demanding.)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) On the whole, this is a feel-good week when dealing with others. However, disputes about money and possessions might arise, especially if jealousy is in the picture.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

Bizarro

Relations with others, especially

romantic relationships, will be passionate and intense. Some of you will fall in love with someone because it’s simply irresistible. (Cary Grant, where are you?)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You make a great impression on bosses and authority figures. Do not let something brewing behind the scenes mar your good judgment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) If you can travelthis week, you will enjoy doing so. Meanwhile, relationships with a friend might feel superimportant. Take it easy; this is a passing thing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Be diplomatic talking to parents, bosses and the police because issues seem to be do or die – very important. Don’t let your passions make you forget your main objective.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Be cooperative with others because the Moon is opposite your sign; you have no choice. It would be wise to avoid controversial subjects like politics, religion and racial issues.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Disputes about shared property, inheritances and anything you own jointly with others will be intense today. Likewise, any romantic involvement will be intense! (That’s putting it mildly.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Obscure conflicts might arise between you and your partner or close friend. Be careful not to let hidden resentments flare up and ruin a good relationship.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)

A work-related romance or crush might begin for some of you this week.

If so, this new relationship will be compulsive in nature. Oh yeah.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a hot and heavy week for romantic partners. However, creative, artistic people will feel just as passionate about whatever it is they’re doing.

BORN this week You have excellent money savvy. (Often, this is connected to a particular technical skill.) Something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish now to make room for something new this year. Although this will be a year of service to others, it is also a great year to travel. Get ready for a fresh, new cycle waiting in your future! © 2016 King Features Syndicate Inc.

[gold from the blotter] June 25 7:49 p.m. A man was

wandering the DoubleTree Hotel for about an hour.

June 26

12:38 a.m. A woman

slammed a cup into a man’s face at 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave. 8:38 a.m. Someone reported a loud church concert in the 800 block of Plymouth Drive.

June 27 12:13 a.m. A vehicle hit a house in the east 200 block of 37th Street.

June 28 6:41 a.m. Someone com-

plained that blowing leaves were causing a noise disturbance in the 2300 block of West Second Avenue.

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