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ADDICTION Misconceptions about pain med addiction persist. But much like disease, the problem doesn’t discriminate.

Also: Steamworks’ 20th anniversary roundup, doc screening ‘Embrace’ at ACT, and beer and football

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Vests are a functional piece to have when the weather changes: Core-warming vests are a great option before having to break out the huge winter coat and for wearing inside instead of a cardigan or jacket. They can be of a thicker, heavier material like leather and still not feel bulky.

Vests can be pretty much everything you’ve ever wanted.

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Get Smart about driving Whether it’s been a few months or a few decades since you took that driver’s test, you’ve certainly forgotten some basic rules of the road (or you’re just an inconsiderate asshole, but we’ll go with the former ...) Let Capt. Adrian Driscoll of the Colorado Highway Patrol remind you about how to make the ride home safer.

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Durango photographer McCarson Jones, an active participant in the fight for positive body image, is sponsoring a screening of “Embrace” at the Animas City Theatre. We spoke with Jones about how the media contributes to cruel body shaming and what we can learn from this topical doc.

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Steamworks started a party 20 years ago – and it’s still going

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t was like the staff was having a party and we just happened to get invited.”

It was a comment from a customer on social media, as relayed by Steamworks’ co-founders Kris Oyler and Brian McEachron.

With the venerable Durango brewpub celebrating 20 years in business last week, it might be the biggest intangible for why Steamworks seemingly always has lines out the door two decades after it opened.

Everything I like about being at Steamworks could always be relayed in concrete terms: The exposed rafters, the fish-tank brew operation, the wiiiiiide horseshoe bar. And the eclectic menu: I love sitting at the bar and a first-timer or outta-towner looks at the expansive menu and asks “What’s good here?” never expecting the 20-minute treatise that covers each section but always ends with my choreographed dance inspired by the smoky French dip.

All of these things contribute to the elusive “atmosphere,” but it’s the staff that puts the exclamation on it, from those off-duty congregating at the end of the bar, to the busers and runners happily fetching Whatever, to the heartwarming attentiveness and cheerfulness of the bartenders. It’s the first place I ever saw (1) a bartender get a $100 tip and (2) a bartender emphatically refuse a $100 tip, only to (3) be convinced to accept a $100 tip. Talk about a party.

But that’s exactly the kind of place Oyler and McEachron envisioned, that accurate if admittedly overused reference of a “Cheers” atmosphere, where people pop in after work and talk issues over pints and where people know your name. (Steamworks wasn’t the first place a bartender knew my name, but it was the first place six bartenders knew it.)

More pointedly, the two founders wanted to create a working-class brewpub. “We knew that this place – Durango – had a soul. It wasn’t an Aspen. It wasn’t a T-Ride,” McEachron said.

Growing up in the working-class town of Greeley with a family in the restaurant business laid the groundwork for Oyler, who was passing through town in 1994 and fell in love. By September 1996, now reacquainted with McEachron, the two had a business plan, a building and set up shop.

“We had this idea that let’s do something flippin’ cool in this mountain town/ski town/bike town/hike town. Those were the things we loved,” McEachron said. “Make money, have fun, work hard. Be world-class. Those were the initial goals, and those still stand today.”

The two were in their late 20s at the time, Oyler 29 and McEachron 27, living in basements, sleeping in trucks and on cots, doing pilot batches in a garage and maxing out credit cards. “It was a good time

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»» From left to right, Ken Martin, director of brewing operations; Brian McEachron, director of marketing and co-founder; brewer Spencer Roper; and Kris Oyler, CEO and co-founder.

to take that risk in our lives, see if we could make something happen” Oyler said.

Twenty years later, now with families of their own, the fact that they’ve evolved into a family-friendly brewpub is one of the biggest surprises for both of them.

“That’s been one of our notches that has kept us rolling hard. You can come in here with your family; your kids can be rolling on the floor hanging out,” McEachron said. “And no ones going to look at you weird. ” That evolution is even reflected onto the Steamworks staff, whom Oyler and McEachron see as their kids as well. “We want them to (have) a good work environment and not be here until 4 in the morning like we were,” McEachron said.

The business model itself has evolved and matured over the years as well. Initially, they wanted to be everything to everybody. They “toyed with breakfast, did lunches, chased late-night business,” McEachron said. “We were a bar, we were a music venue. We’ve had Harley-Davidsons burning out in here ... horses riding through in Snowdown.”

The changes they’ve made and policies put in place have worked, from pumping profits back into the business with improvements to the organization

and aesthetics of the property to implementing an employee ownership program, which is up to 26 staff taking part, including brewers, chefs, kitchen managers, floor managers, bartenders and waiters.

Highlights over the decades are many, but both McEachron and Oyler recalled early successes. For McEachron, it was when they won the Gold Medal with the Steam Engine Steam at their very first Great American Beer Festival in 1997, beating out standard-bearers like Anchor Steam.

For Oyler, it was their first Memorial Day weekend, Iron Horse weekend, 1997. They’d just weathered the slow season in Durango, having opened the previous September. They were both tending bar that weekend and saw their fledgling business hit $10,000 in revenue for the first time.

“We were back there, we were having fun doing it,” Oyler said. “I knew were going to make it at that point. I knew we were going to survive.”

Steamworks does six times the revenue it was doing in 1997. Oyler said he never imagined Steamworks would be such a pillar of the community.

“Work hard, have fun,” he said. “Coming to work doesn’t have to suck. We’ve always tried to espouse that and it spills over to the customers as well.”

A party, for sure.

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Get Smart | Cyle Talley

Driving Whether it’s been a few months or a few decades since you took that driver’s test, you’ve certainly forgotten some basic rules of the road (or you’re just an inconsiderate asshole, but we’ll go with the former ...) Let Capt. Adrian Driscoll of the Colorado Highway Patrol remind you about how to make the ride home safer.

How long have you been with the CHP?

emergency vehicles, yes?

Twenty-one years. I got into it because I love to help people, and I think we have an excellent opportunity to do that here every day. Every traffic stop we make is a chance to change someone’s opinion of law enforcement.

Yes. That means getting over on the shoulder, or stopping where they are if there is no shoulder so that an emergency vehicle can get through. And emergency vehicles, we’re going to drive with due regard. We’re not going to blow through intersections.

What are the most common moving violations?

A lot of speeding. Occupant protection is a huge thing with us as well. We’ve got a very high compliance rate for a rural community, but there’re still people that don’t feel they need to wear their seatbelt. That’s frustrating. Taking the extra two seconds to click that seatbelt makes a huge difference in a crash.

Is that a misconception – that law enforcement takes advantage of their authority?

Sure, you see officers who are in a hurry to get places.

We’re very proactive about emergency driving. We go through an extensive course in the academy and

going. The law requires you to signal for 100 feet in town and 200 if you’re over 40 mph.

How about turning at an intersection?

Drivers are required to turn into the lane closest to them when making a right or a left hand turn.

And the big one: Texting.

Texting and driving is extremely dangerous. There’ve been studies by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration where they took drivers who were distracted and drivers who were intoxicated and they modeled the exact same behaviors. It’s obviously a danger.

What can the average person do to be a better driver?

Really?

Keep your head in the game.

There’re so many distractions in our vehicles these days. We’re probably the worst practitioners as officers – we’ve got computers, radios going – but you have to put that to the back of your attention and just drive.

Scan the road two or three seconds ahead of where you’re at, especially this time of year when we have so many deer collisions. Limit your distractions, don’t drink and drive, wear your seatbelt and make sure your mind is focused.

Getting ejected from your vehicle is the big thing. We’ve had several really, really bad crashes in the last few months where people would’ve fared much better if they’d just put on their seatbelt.

We’ve also had a lot of motorcycle crashes lately. Wear your helmet.

Wear your helmet. The last motorcycle fatality we had, if he had just worn his helmet, he’d have been fine.

I have a long-standing feud with a friend. True or false, the left lane is for passing?

True. Especially on thoroughfares where the speed limit is higher than 55 mph, there is a lane law where you’re required to stay »» Capt. Adrian Driscoll with the Colorado State Patrol. in the right lane unless you are passing. But that doesn’t give you an excuse to exceed the speed limit. [laughs] There is also a move-over law that we see regulate that on a very consistent basis. I recently had a complaint about an officer that was going too fast for neglected often. If there’s an emergency vehicle on the conditions and we took action on that officer. We’re not shoulder or in the right lane, you are required to move over. Basically, you want to give that emergency vehicle above the law. Sure, we’ve got to get places quickly, but we also have to get there safely. as much space as you can so that they can do their job safely. There’s a lot of potential for bad things to happen. Last year alone, just in my agency, we lost two officers who were hit by cars.

And vehicles are to yield to moving

Talk turning signal to me.

When you make a lane change, you’re required to signal.

We do write that up quite a bit. It’s very important because people behind you need to know where you’re

Why does it take an accident for us to realize that we’re piloting a several ton death machine?

Unfortunately, I think it’s human nature. People live their lives in a certain way until something forces a change on them. We’re very proactive, as I said, but it’s hard to reach everyone. And if you don’t want to make a change, nothing I can say will make you. The only consistent way we get results is writing tickets, which is unfortunate. I’m not out to wreck your day. We strive for voluntary compliance. We just want to make you a better driver and make the roads safer.

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Cyle Talley loves that fall is coming, but hates that football is coming along with it. Ugh. If there’s something you’d like to Get Smart about, email him at: cyle@cyletalley.com

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Meltdown transforms Ewing Mesa into full-on festival scene

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ast year, the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown gave Ewing Mesa a test run as a music venue. The plot of land that held the event belongs to Mark Katz, a local bluegrass musician who purchased the land southeast of downtown. Katz would like to see the land eventually become a city space for public use, which would include the fairgrounds, a sports complex and summer festival site.

The second Meltdown on the Mesa, a concert raising funds for spring’s Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, is Saturday. Playing this year are Six Dollar String Band, Fellowship of the Strings, Lawn Chair Kings, Lost Souls, Badly Bent, Running out of Road and Second-Hand Strings.

I know after last year’s Meltdown on the Mesa, every attendee walked away looking ahead to this year’s event with hopes of many more. It’s certainly one of the best festival venues I’ve ever been to, even though, at the moment, it’s just a field. By Saturday, a stage, tent for shaded seating, port-o-johns and food vendors will make it a festival and concert venue.

All of Saturday’s bands have performed Meltdowns past, with the exception of Second-Hand Strings. Harris Brogan, Justin Brown and Reuben Gallop are all Farmington-based musicians, joined by long-time Durango bluegrass picker Jeff Hibshman.

Hibshman, who has done time in many bands of many genres around the state, gives this band, according to the other members, “street-cred.” Yet Hibshman was drawn to them after discovering them on the internet.

“I saw these guys on a Facebook post. And I thought, ‘These guys are good singers and they have some energy,’ so I pretty much cold-called them.

And they said, ‘Come on down,’ we met in Justin’s garage, and well, here we are,” said Hibshman. “I like getting together with folks that are in the zone, and I could tell they were there.”

There’s a real dedication to the tra-

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Noon. $25. Ewing Mesa Road, off Highway 3. Information: www.durangomeltdown.com. dition of the music, and an even more dedication to craft. There’s very little screwing around; these people play, and make a hell of a time out of it.

It’s more than three chords; it’s more than improvisation; it takes years of practice to play it well, and it’s a lot harder than it looks. Perhaps it’s that dedication that comes from its players and fans that have resulted in the community that exists at this festival in Durango and others around the state.

The Durango Bluegrass Meltdown has created a scene with a working infrastructure sustainable via song.

“The bluegrass world is like a tribe, and it’s definitely my tribe,” said Hibshman. “I’ve played with Windham Hill guys, other guys and some big names. But they do not get together after the gig and just pick. When they’re done, they’re done. After we’re done on stage, then the picking might go until dawn, and I’ve seen bands form because of that, that interaction.

It’s that aural transmutation of tunes in picking circles.”

Hibshman’s not alone with that opinion. It’s an infectious scene for player and fan alike, obviously noticeable if you have any friends or acquaintances who have been bitten by what is a rabid bug.

“Bluegrass music itself, I had a huge draw to that,” added Brogan.

“Getting to play with these people, and watching people at these festivals stomp their feet and dance around, that’s what does it for me.”

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

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watered down or overly distilled. One of the argument’s many, many counterpoint-bands and examples of its virility and viability are the Los Angeles-based Allah-Las.

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As I’ve mentioned in previous reviews, it is easy to get bogged down and inundated within the current resurgence of modern psychedelic music.

Entire festivals to celebrate the renewed interest/influx are being curated in the United States, Canada and in slew of European locations. It can be argued that, within the genre and its myriad crossover and sub-genres, the style and sound has become

On “Calico Review,” the band’s third proper fulllength record, the four piece manages to integrate a handful of styles seamlessly into their pre-existing

New at Southwest Sound Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, “Broken Lines” GTO is a supergroup to those in the know. Featuring current and former members of Mastodon, Alice In Chains, Jane’s Addiction, The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Mars Volta, the group banded together with a mission to make music outside its comfort zone. What results is a somewhat overwhelming ride through groovy, metal-tinged rock music.

Imagine Alice in Chains with a focus on dancing instead of brooding and you’ll be on your way to visualizing “Broken Lines.”

Bruce Springsteen,“Chapter and Verse” “Chapter and Verse” is a parallel to The Boss’ autobiography “Born To Run.” It’s a greatest hits of sorts that runs through his entire musical career, culminating in five unreleased tracks to lead up to the release of his new album. The collection also includes tracks from his stint in The Castiles, in which the teenage Springsteen played guitar and sang.

This collection will be an interesting insight into his history.

Passenger,“Young as the Morning, Old As The Sea” British singer/songwriter Michael Rosenberg pulls from the rich history

If you dig The Zombies, La Luz, The Growlers, Eels, 13th Floor Elevators or Spaceman 3, then this record should already be in your collection, alongside their previous work.

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The new album follows the same vein, bringing to mind the seaside cliffs and low valleys of the island kingdom and an oddly nostalgic atmosphere.

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I’m going to have to pee on the tree I locked my bike to.

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Every Time I Die, “Low Teens” If you need energy and you need spastic screams and guitars that sound like Dimebag Darrell on a fighter jet, you need Every Time I Die. Metalcore can be boring and ETID is anything but.

“The Coin Has A Say” will show you what to expect. Drive with the windows low and far too many strangers packed into your car. It will feel right.

And if it doesn’t, then you simply weren’t ready.

Dwight Yoakam,“Swimmin Pools, Movie Stars” I was first introduced to Dwight Yoakam as a pill-popping doctor in the classic J. Stath (my pet name for Jason Statham) movie, “The Transporter.” Little did young, doe-eyed Cooper know that Yoakam was actually one of the best modern examples of country music. He has had constant output since 1986, with the biggest break between albums being four years. Expect drawling vocals, classic-guitar chording and probably a little bit of tongue placed in the cheek.

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

Beer and football: Distractions, d-bags and ‘shut up and play’

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his past Sunday afternoon will hopefully be a lot like the rest of my Sundays for the next 20 weeks or so. Hopefully, I’ll pull up a stool at a local bar, order a craft beer and some greasy food, talk about all the crazy things that have happened in the world, and slowly forget about all of those things as the bread and circuses of our time do their work. Yes, I’m talking about football, the crazy year-round shitshow that keeps America from devolving into actual riots by allowing the dramatization of a riot on national TV. And today, our daily bread is beer (but hopefully craft beer and not some shitty megabrewery).

I hate to admit it, but beer and football are the Great American Distraction. I usually have complete and utter disdain for anything that even slightly quivers the needle on my douchebag-o-meter: UFC, Jägermeister, things that are “dank,” motor sports, Jägerbombs, high-finance, video games, sports cars, the law and the study thereof, etc. The only things that create a blind spot for me are beer and sports. I love sports and I love beer.

Probably more than anything. So as sad as it is to admit, I’m not above being a completely mindless douchebag.

I’d like to say that I’m a highly-engaged citizen.

I know about current issues and take pride in being informed on both sides. I try to be thoughtful about the populations that believe in one side or the other. I’d like to think of myself as very open minded, but football and beer bring out the worst,

innermost douchebag in me.

This past Sunday was no different. I pulled up a stool at a pub, ordered queso and a craft beer and immediately asked why the F golf was on TV. I didn’t know that it was the playoffs for golf (the FedEx Cup, nerds). I forgot that the most important day in golf is Sunday. I forgot that the afternoon was the most important part of the round of golf, as that’s when the whole four-day build-up of a golf tournament is decided as the leaders finish their final round. And I didn’t know that the older man sitting next to me was watching golf.

He was polite and I tried to recover, asking who was winning. He offered to watch tennis when the golf tournament was over, and I was just as miffed by that option because I didn’t give two shits that it was the final of the U.S. Open, basically the Super Bowl of tennis, and a star in the prime of his career, Novak Djokovic, was defending his title against a player who is likely his biggest current rival, Stan Wawrinka (Stan is the only player to beat Novak in the final of a Grand Slam event since 2014. And not only that, he hasn’t lost to Novak in a final ever). Yeah. I gave exactly zero shits. Just give me the cold beer and the greasy food and let me watch the Cowboys kick field goals. (’Cause we all know they ain’t scoring any touchdowns! ZING!) Thinking about this little encounter made me feel guilty. It made me feel like a douchebag. And I was. At least I was drinking a nice locally-brewed beer and not some mega brew ilk. And looking at

my Facebook feed Monday Night gave me a little comfort. I wasn’t the biggest douchebag. There are a lot of people who are shouting down Colin Kaepernik over his decision to kneel during the national anthem. Shut up and play, they say. No one is paying you to talk about what’s wrong with America. Let me keep being distracted. Let me keep being a douchebag.

But the crazy thing is, Kaepernik is waking me up. I’m paying attention to something besides beer and football, bread and circus. I’m paying more attention to the national anthem because of what Kaepernik started. He’s doing it without a megastar celebrity singing or a flyover by some jet or a skydiving team or a live bald eagle soaring over the crowd. I don’t know what exactly needs to happen to make Kaepernik feel better about this country or how we fix something as megalithic as systemic racism, but I know we’re all thinking about it and we’re all talking about it, and that, I think, is pretty cool. It’s much cooler than having a guy with a potato-shaped head telling me to buy Budweiser. (I love you, Peyton, but c’mon.)

If you’re in the camp that says, “shut up and play,” you’re doing exactly what billions of dollars of marketing are telling you to do: Shut up and watch football and drink that shitty beer with your team’s logo on it.

Robert Alan Wendeborn is a former cellar operator at Ska Brewing and current lead cellar operator at Tin Roof Brewing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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For more photos from the Steamworks 20th anniversary street party, go to dgomag.com

Steamworks Brewing Co. celebrated its 20th anniversary with a party on Second Avenue. on Saturday, Sept.

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Hundreds came out – some dressed in ’80s fabuloso – to rock out to early Van Halen tribute band, “The Atomic Punks,” with Steamworks’ original beer lineup on tap.

—— Photos by David Holub/DGO

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[Sartorial over-enthusiasm with Heather of Sideshow]

Style Fetish | Heather Narwid

VEST LOVE

Slip into the evocative, wide-ranging and time-traveling style of the vest

Vests exist from Middle Eastern sheepskin and felted wool, silk brocade Asian mandarin, intricately constructed woven alpaca from South America, Renaissance-style doublets, early-American fringed buckskin jerkins, embroidered Spanish boleros, traditional menswear from almost any era, and more. These historic and exotic vests look amazing and are an interesting reference when worked into your contemporary style.

Vests are also a functional piece to have when the weather changes. Core-warming vests are a great option before having to break out the huge winter coat and for wearing inside instead of a cardigan or jacket.

They can be of a thicker, heavier material like leather and still not feel bulky. Vests are also made in reversible styles for even more versatility.

Extend the season of your summer clothing by topping a tee or dress with a vest. Or, a sleeveless dress can be vest-styled and warmed-up by layering it with a shirt underneath.

Vests are inherently flattering for women and men If you are feeling a bit fleshy in the torso, wear a vest in a thicker fabric. This will control and smooth out curves and bellies and lock down any extra jiggle (while controlling boobs, if you have them). If you’d like to add some bulk to a slim form, wear a thick knit sweater vest or a lighter-color plaid or patterned menswear-style suit vest.

Add vintage interest and style with a vest The fancy brocade “gambler” waistcoats, Old West-style WahMaker brand canvas and suede vests and traditional menswear suit vests I have seen on Durango men look amazing and relevant in our historic city. I keep seeing the leather-vestwith-Carhartts guy, and I can’t stop staring! Steampunk styles practically demand a vest or waistcoat on men and women. Ladies, the corset-styled vest tops out there are cute, flattering and work for real life and costuming. Don’t forget the 1980s strong-shoulder retro-futuristic “Flock of Seagulls” type that may be useful for the next Snowdown, “Intergalactic,” in January.

My favorite fashion era, the 1960s, rocked a ton of vests, and they were almost all reclaimed styles.

These bohemian hippies wore fancy antique velvet Edwardian suit vests, fringed suede Old West styles, sheepskin Afghanistan vests and embroidered Latin American folk wear styles.

The 1970s continued the trend and merged biker leathers with a counterculture hippie aesthetic inspired by “Easy Rider” and the slim-cut vest ruled the “Saturday Night Fever” and “Soul Train” dance floors. The film “Annie Hall” popularized the gamine style of menswear on women and the look is still relevant.

Do it yourself Any jacket minus arms equals vest! I recently caught Durango fashionista Danielle in her long chinchilla coat from which she removed the arms, making it a long, gorgeous, duster-style vest coat.

This method is great for when the vintage jacket arms are just too tight or too short. Cut the arms off a denim jacket, or a style more unexpected like a fitted blazer or a sweater.

»» An array of men’s vests from Sideshow, clockwise from top left: reversible plaid, brocade “Gambler,” vintage 1980s cotton with pockets, Fair Isle sweater, designer sheepskin and leather, retro-antique denim, leopard faux-fur party and suede/leather western.

Make a vest yourself from scratch. The style couldn’t be simpler: Three pieces of fabric with only four seams.

Extra rock ’n’ roll points for customizing

Photos by Heather Narwid/DGO

»» Heather’s own vintage 1940s wool and embroidered bolero vest. Ladies’ contemporary Wwestern waistcoat with velvet collar and silver buttons. Available at Sideshow.

your vest (see Style Fetish column about do-it-yourself denim from the Aug. 25 issue of DGO for tips!)

Heather Narwid owns and operates Sideshow Emporium, a vintage and modern clothing store for men and women.

Sideshow is located in Durango at 208 County Road 250 (West of Bread and North of Rocky Mountain Pawn at 32nd Street, in with the Vault and Core Value Fitness) and is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. Call her at 739-4646 and ask her anything at sideshowdolores@gmail.com.

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‘Embrace’ reminds you to love your body »» Durango photgrapher McCarson Jones brings documentary to Animas City Theatre “This body of mine is not an ornament – it’s a vehicle,” says director Taryn Brumfitt in her documentary “Embrace.” The film’s conception came about after Brumfitt, an Austrian photographer and mother of three, posted an unconventional before-and-after image of herself online, celebrating body diversity without trying to make a huge political statement ... until it went viral. Brumfitt realized just how many women worldwide hate their bodies, and set out to interview and connect with them all. Her movie questions whether “beautiful” is the most important thing a woman can be (spoiler alert: It isn’t).

Durango photographer McCarson Jones, an active participant in the fight for positive body image, is sponsoring a screening of “Embrace” at the Animas City Theatre for two nights (Sept. 25 and 26, both free to the Jones public). We spoke with Jones about how the media contributes to cruel body shaming and what we can learn from this topical doc.

What’s the connection between “Embrace” and your photography work with Red Scarf Shots?

My business is associated with a lot of body image and social contact groups. We speak and share and give guidance about the work we do as boudoir photographers and photographing women in general.

So many women hate to be in front of the camera because they’re judging themselves. The Body Image Movement is one particular group I’m involved with – and that’s Taryn’s movement. On her Facebook page, she posted about this documentary, and I was like, ‘Our community needs that, the women I work with need that, I need that.’ I contacted the Animas City Theatre and started getting everything organized. Michele Redding is donating the theater the two nights of the screening, since she felt so moved by the film. And I bought the two film screening evenings. No one has to pay to get into the shows on Sunday and Monday, it’s free. We have a pretty proactive community here, so I didn’t think one night was enough.

How does the media objectify women or contribute to unhealthy body image?

Oh man. Number one, I’m a photographer who doesn’t use Photoshop. I have Lightroom, where I can adjust some lighting. But I’m not the photographer who will stretch your neck or thighs and lengthen your hair. I don’t believe in it. I’m a naturalist and a truist, and the media is exactly the opposite. There’s some magazines or corporations coming along to embrace natural beauty and not doing the massive editing, and a lot of celebrities standing against having themselves Photoshopped to the degree where it’s not them, and they’re a little offended. But the media bombards both young and old men and women with what they should think, eat, own.

It’s really sad, and with all those visuals out there to look at, it triggers people who don’t look like that to have poor body image. It snowballs into a negative dialogue with yourself.

did it take you a long time to get there?

I’m still not there! I’m happy and comfortable with a lot of things about me and my life. But not a day goes by that I don’t wonder, ‘Gosh, did this fit me quite right?’ I feel like I don’t have to worry about my style, I believe in myself, but I still question, ‘Are people going to think I look funny in this?’ Positivity is a huge part of happiness. I have happiness in many other realms of my life, but I’m not going to lie, I do struggle, just like every other woman, like, ‘Jesus, am I going to be OK today?’ And then there’s some days when you just don’t give a shit.

— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

What can people do to combat body shaming?

My grandmother used to tell me that if you just mind your own business, you’ll be fine. There are a lot of people who aren’t involved in the body image movement. But I think our society has become so quick to judge and we’re so visual – that’s a big part of the whole body shaming and degrading people. If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything.

Why is this an important doc for people to see?

One of my tango instructors told me, ‘Your dance is going to become as unique as your face.’ That really rang true for me, as I thought, ‘I don’t want to dance like this or that person.’ I just want to dance. It’s the same with this movie. Everyone will identify with at least one or more of the characters being interviewed, talking about their own body struggles. We as a community can build on supporting people to be their true selves.

GO! What: Documentary screening of “Embrace” When: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25 and 26 Where: Animas City Theatre Cost: Free, first come/first sit

Were you always comfortable, confident and positive about yourself? Or

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[health]

Prescription drugs: The opiate of the masses »» Pain

med addiction is a national and local problem, and attitudes and treatment methods are changing

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold | DGO STAFF WRITER

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n Colorado, the opioid-related death rate is double the rate of deaths in motor vehicle crashes. Drug addiction is a pervasive problem around the world, and Durango is no exception. You might assume you’re personally immune to developing an addiction – but much like disease, addiction doesn’t discriminate. Even the medical world has been riddled with misconceptions about it, and some doctors are still uncomfortable addressing the topic. Dr. Dan Caplin, a former ER doc who opened the Southern Rockies Addiction Treatment Services center in Durango last October, admits he was once ill-equipped to contend with the issue himself. “I didn’t have the tools to deal with it and I was miseducated,” said Caplin. “I experienced that with HIV back in the ’80s and ’90s – we didn’t know what we were dealing with, people were dying. And we saw that again last year with Ebola.”

The late ’80s, according to Caplin, was an era when addiction was considered a failure of morals. Addicts were thought of as “weak.” Caplin recalls his years working in the emergency department, sending citizens into detox and seeing them again four or five hours later, already inebriated. “I did this over and over, and it got to the point that we had to do something different,” he said. “I started reading more about addiction, how it’s really a disease of the brain. Everything we’ve been doing in the ER is wrong, we haven’t really helped anybody. They can’t quit on their own. The cravings are too strong.” He decided to take matters into his own hands, opening a non-narcotic pain clinic in Durango.

So what are the most common addictions in these parts? “In Durango, heroin is huge,” said Caplin.

“Prescription drugs. Methamphetamine.” Dr. William Plauth, chief medical officer at Mercy Regional Medical Center, agrees the most popular addictions here are prescription pain medications, opioids, methamphetamine, and benzodiazepines like Ativan and Valium.

Both expressed additional concerns about the addictive psychological effects of marijuana, a drug that is popularly believed to be benign.

The ins and outs of opiate addiction The Southern Rockies center focuses on treating adults addicted to narcotics like heroin or prescription opiates (e.g. OxyContin, Lortab, Vicodin, Percocet, morphine). It’s surprising and frightening how easy it is to get hooked on a perfectly legal substance – and opiates are one of the most widely-prescribed medications in the country. They’re great at diminishing pain if you’ve had a surgery or injury; the drawback is their habit-forming nature. Opiates are a derivative of opium, which is also used to manufacture heroin.

The withdrawal symptoms from opiate use can be mad-

dening and agonizing. Most people don’t even realize how risky swallowing their pills could be until it’s too late. “Physicians have felt a lot of pressures nationally to potentially prescribe more pain medicines to limit how much pain patients have, for patient satisfaction scores,” said Plauth.

Caplin treats his patients using methadone, a medication that is both safe and effective for the treatment of narcotic withdrawal and dependence.

Caplin didn’t originally believe in the treatment success of methadone. But after doing extensive research and touring other methadone clinics, he became a convert. Patients taking methadone still feel pain (the thing painkiller addicts so desperately wish to avoid), but learn to deal with it in other ways, such as taking over-thecounter painkillers.

Caitlin Countryman, 29, was a pain pill addict for 14 years before visiting Southern Rockies.

After a car crash at age 17, she was prescribed pain meds by her doctors, but wasn’t warned about the risks. “I was handed a script of 90 Percodan,” Countryman said. “I got to the point when I had such a high tolerance for the pills, I was taking up to 25 or 30 a day. I could drive and everything – I never got a DUI or was driving crazy. I just couldn’t get

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out of bed without taking pills, and I needed them to feel normal.”

When Countryman took her first dose of methadone administrated by Caplin, she felt better just 45 minutes later. Every patient is different, but recovering addicts often take methadone for a year or two, then slowly taper off (while continuing counseling).

According to SRATS, some patients can remain in methadone treatment for more than 10 years, and even for the rest of their lives, but they constitute a minority (5 to 20 percent). “[SRATS] is the only place I’ve gone that helped me,” said Countryman. “When you think ‘methadone clinic,’ you think of a dark, gloomy place with junkies. But when I talked to Dr. Caplin, I knew I was going to be OK. He wasn’t judgmental. You’ll have doctors who try not to seem judgmental, but you know they’re judging you. He was compassionate, and felt really sorry about what had happened to me.”

Another Southern Rockies patient, 41, who asked to remain anonymous, said she became addicted to painkillers after requiring numerous surgeries including gastric bypass, right knee and vein removal. The stay-at-home mom, born and raised in Durango, admits she was warned by doctors about the dangers of the pills. But after she injured her shoulder and wasn’t able to get the appropriate surgery because of insurance hold-ups, she was suffering and succumbed to pain pill overuse.

“I tried tons and tons of different stuff, and it got to the point where I was just so tired of trying things and waiting to see if it would work ... when I was hurting, and I knew what was gonna work,” she said.

Joel Smith, 41-yearold Durango resident, was addicted to Oxycodone and Percosets, what he calls a “$100,000 a year habit.” He tried visiting var-

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ious detox centers but they didn’t treat addicts with medicine, thus Smith would find himself right back on the street amid horrible cravings. Then he found SRATS, became their fourth patient, started methadone treatment, and is today clean from opioids. “Anyone going through an opioid withdrawal will kill or steal to go get medication to feel better,” Smith said. “SRATS has brought big-city treatment to a small town with big-city problems that nobody knows about.”

Who becomes an addict?

In a word: anyone. “One misconception would be that anyone is immune to being at risk of developing an addiction – it could happen to any of us,” said Plauth.

Caplin has watched the heroin and opiate addiction problem skyrocket throughout white rural America. “It’s not what we used to think of at Skid Row, seeing the bums passed out on the street,” he warns. “The demographics have changed. Addiction is blind to your color, size, sex, religion. It affects anybody if you have two things: exposure and the genetic predisposition.” According to Caplin, about 4.8 percent of people have this genetic bias, or one in 20; meaning if you have enough exposure, you could become addicted no matter how strong your will power. Two weeks is enough time to become an opiate addict from prescription medication. Something as innocuous as back surgery can lead to a sudden dependence, and unfortunately, abstinence tends not to work.

“You take a completely normal person and get them on an opiate, when they start to crave, they will do whatever it takes, hurt whoever it takes, just to get their next fix,” said Caplin.

Caplin claims 40 or 50 percent of his heroin-addicted patients started off with a legitimate prescription. The overprescribing of opiates is a huge difficulty in the medical community, as many of these patients eventually move on to heroin when their doctors cut them off pills.

Heroin isn’t as tricky as it used to be, either; you don’t have to inject it intravenously, as you can smoke or snort it.

For Countryman, getting access to pain pills was all Continued on Page 14

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too easy. She visited almost every doctor in Farmington, or found pills on the street. “I could walk out of my house on a normal day, and in any direction, in at least a two-mile radius, I had somebody I could go to to get pain pills,” she remembers. “It was very simple; the doctors don’t take the precautions. They want you in and out of there, since they have so many patients. Sometimes they don’t even look you in the eye.” She figured out how to work the system; in Countryman’s experience, appearance dictated whether doctors gave you scripts, so she made sure to get up early before an appointment to do her hair and makeup. “And they’d give them to me every single time,” she said. “But people who went in there looking scruffy because they didn’t feel good – they’d get turned down.”

Smith says he was also never warned by doctors of impending pain med dangers, and feels doctors might have mishandled his treatment by giving him too many pills and not monitoring his progress or burgeoning chemical dependence. “I don’t want to blame the medical field for where I’m at – but my addiction came from a skating accident. I dislocated my shoulder, that’s when I was prescribed the Percoset. When they cut me off from that, I went berserk and started buying scripts off the street.”

How can you avoid getting hooked?

Caplin recommends that if you’re prescribed pills, take them for the shortest term possible, and at the lowest dose. Use them only as prescribed, and don’t go to another doctor to try and get more. Being pain-free is unnecessary, says Caplin. You just need to be functional. “Eighty-five percent of hydrocodone in the world is used by the United States,” he added. “We don’t have 85 percent of the world’s pain.” Caplin says doctors dole out meds for simple injuries in the ER, at urgent care centers, for dental procedures ... the list goes on. He hopes to assist in the re-education of dentists, doctors, prescribers and physician assistants to limit the amount of opiates, the quantity and the consistency to the shortest amount of appropriate time. “In general, the risk of addiction goes up after using it for more than seven days,” said Plauth. Seven days is a very short time.

Plauth additionally notes one of the more recent advances in pain management, multimodals. Multimodal pain management uses a variety of pain meds that work in concert with one another, to minimize the amount or how much of any one drug is needed. “That has been very successful in decreasing the amount of narcotic or opiate use,” said Plauth. “By using medicine such as Tylenol, and NSAIDs like Motrin, as well as other medications like Gabapentin or Neurontin, it can reduce the amount of opioid people need.”

Smith says that if he’s ever injured again, he’ll request 800-mg Ibuprofen, which can be prescribed by a doctor. “People want to feel good,” said Smith. “But everyone doesn’t feel good – that’s life! You’re supposed to be getting anxiety, feel pain, hurt, worry. That’s human nature. Nobody wants to do that anymore, so scientists and rich pharmaceutical companies have come up with Continued on Page 15

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all these things.”

Most people’s medicine cabinets have at least one bottle of leftover pills tucked away. But be warned: Adolescents can find and harbor those pills. Caplin suggests disposing prescriptions properly at turn-in sites, which happen throughout the year at certain pharmacies. “The police department and Walgreens should have turn-in days,” he said. “If you throw them in the toilet, they wind up in the water system.”

What should change What can be done to make things better? Plauth, for one, is hopeful of improvements. “I’d say over the last couple of decades, there’s been a large push for better treatment of pain, and over the last one or two years, there’s been an increase in recognition of addiction or some of the unintended consequences of that initial push,” Plauth said. David Bruzzese, director of public relations and marketing at Mercy Regional Medical Center, agrees there’s more scrutiny now than ever. “Opioid addiction has been in the news a lot lately, and the conversations are becoming public, so the awareness is being raised about this being an issue challenging providers and patients,” Bruzzese said.

“To tell you the truth, I think the doctors are going about it the wrong way,” added the anonymous

SRATS patient. “A lot of times they just cut people off cold turkey, and I think that’s when they have the tendency to run into the heavy stuff, just to try to get away from the pain. What they need to do is gradually cut them down, work with them on it, talk to them about it and give advice on counseling and places to go. People might not have that understanding of how to get help.”

Sometimes, unexpectedly good things come out of hard times: Smith has quit the marketing business and is going back to school to become an addiction counselor. “What I called my curse is now my calling,” said Smith. He has observed that many counselors you find in the addiction field are recovered addicts themselves, because they have the experience.

“If I told you what a roast smells like, could I explain it?” asked Smith. “No. You have to experience it.”

Countryman also desires stricter regulations of opiate prescriptions. “They need to make it super hard for people to get pain pills!” she said. “Honestly, I wish they would outlaw pills and come up with a different way. Now when I’m in pain I take two Aleve, and that helps way more than heavy narcotics.”

Countryman, like Smith, is planning on going to school to become a drug and alcohol counselor, eager to help other people who have survived the ordeal she did. “I urge anyone who’s having these issues to take that first step,” Countryman said. “It will be the most important and best step you’ve ever taken.”

Addiction: What about marijuana?

That’s right, Coloradoans: Marijuana can be addictive, too, in the experience of Dr. Dan Caplin and Dr. William Plauth. “About 9 percent of people who use cannabis become habitual users, or get so-called addicted to it,” said Caplin. This is not a physiological addiction – you don’t go through withdrawal symptoms like you might with heroin or nicotine – but it is psychological.”

Counseling, abstinence and education can help. Marijuana is pretty safe, and no one really dies from it, but the jury’s still out on how it effects a developing brain. “It predisposes teenagers to developing certain psychological conditions later in life, like schizophrenia,” added Caplin. “They say a brain is developing until age 25.” Plauth’s impression is that people don’t take the use of marijuana as seriously as alcohol or other drugs, which has more to do with how it’s portrayed in the media and by many of its supporters, plus the fact that it has recently been legalized.

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[movies] The Magnificent Seven Playing at Stadium 9 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Action &

adventure, drama, Western Directed by:

‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ is delightful, but where’s her backup plan?

Antoine Fuqua Written by:

Richard Wenk, Nic Pizzolatto Runtime: 2 hr. 12 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 63% Synopsis: With the town of Rose

Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns.

The Last Film Festival Playing at the Gaslight (Wednesday only) Rating: Not

rated Genre: Comedy Directed by:

Linda Yellen Runtime: 1 hr. 30 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: Not available Synopsis: An obscure film festival is

the last hope for a failing producer and his “disaster” of a movie.

Storks Playing at Stadium 9 (Also available in 3-D with surcharge) Rating: PG Genre: Kids &

family Directed by:

Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland Written by: Nicholas Stoller Runtime: 1 hr. 27 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:

67% Synopsis: Storks deliver babies – or at

least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a internet retail giant.

By Lisa Bonos THE WASHINGTON POST/ WP BLOOMBERG

“You can do this on your own, you know.”

That line is uttered by Bridget Jones’ obstetrician, played by Emma Thompson, deep into the second half of “Bridget Jones’s Baby.” But the concept isn’t given much deep consideration. Instead, our successful-yet-clumsy spinster heroine is, as always, mad about the boys.

As you probably know from the previews, the movie’s premise is this: A 43-year-old Bridget Jones, very single at the time, has gotten knocked up by either her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) or American billionaire Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey). That Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is about to have a child out of wedlock is not extraordinary. In the United States, 40 percent of children are born to unmarried mothers. In Britain, where our fictional Bridget lives, nearly half of babies are born outside marriage.

However, it is extraordinary that our heroine barely ponders the prospect of raising that child without a love interest by her side. Instead, the questions driving the film are: Who is the father? Which man will show the most devotion to Bridget? Which one will Bridget choose?

Both men do appear to be interested. They show up to a birthing class, both bringing beverages for Bridget and offering to carry her belongings.

But Mark and Jack’s appeals for Bridget’s heart appear to be fueled more by manly competition than by interest in Bridget herself.

Not that there’s anything wrong with romance in a rom-com! I don’t begrudge our heroine her happy ending. We’ve been waiting for it long enough!

I’m not spoiling the movie by saying that she does end up with a dude at the end. But it strains credulity, even for a rom-com, that a 43-yearold woman would plan to bring a baby into the world without a strong

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»» Renée Zellweger, foreground center, Patrick Dempsey, right, and Colin Firth star in “Bridget Jones’s Baby.”

Bridget Jones’s Baby

Playing at the Gaslight Rating: R Genre: Comedy, romance

Directed by: Sharon Maguire Written by: Emma Thompson,

Dan Mazer, Helen Fielding Runtime: 2 hr. 2 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 77%

backup plan. A backup plan that doesn’t require romance.

Her bestie and co-worker Miranda (Sarah Solemani) is happy to scheme with Bridget when debauchery and romance are involved. (Miranda was the one to bring her to the music festival where she met that handsome Jack in the first place.)

Had this accidental pregnancy happened to a real-life Bridget, I doubt the men would have been the ones to show up at that birthing class. Rather, it would have probably been Miranda – or one of Bridget’s many other friends, or her parents – who’s there to help with the baby prep, and maybe even offering to move in once the

little one arrives. These connections in her life go back far longer and appear to be deeper than those with either of the men in her life.

The audience knows, deepdown, that Bridget can do this on her own. Of course, she would prefer not to. Bridget has always been teetering on that line between confident and despondent – it’s part of what makes her endearing. But we also expect that she’s grown up a bit in the decade-plus since we’ve last seen her. That’s she’s more confident in her self-sufficiency.

Readers and audiences have been peering into Bridget Jones’ fictional life in print and on screen for 20 years. A lot has changed in that time. Increasingly, women are giving birth later in life, and half of all children – in the United States, at least – are spending some of their lives outside married-parent families.

I’m not judging this fictional character (too much) for being mad about the boys. I just wish she’d given her own strength more of a starring role.

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Thrift stores Love it Most of my clothes come from thrift stores. Truth be told, there’s an abundance of choice in New York City second-hand shops, probably because there are millions more people dropping off stuff (many of them wealthy) and because fashion is a higher priority there than it is here, deep in the mountains. There are still goods to be coveted in Durango – you just have to look a little harder.

At any standard department store or high-end boutique or wherever your price range takes you, you’ll be forced to try on multiple sizes of any one item to see which fits best. You can never be sure, because sizes vary vastly from store to store, brand to brand, food-intake-that-day to FITD. But at a thrift shop, there’s only one of everything. Either it fits, or it doesn’t, or it ALMOST fits but you buy it anyway because it’s only $7 and what the hell do you have to lose. It’s a much less exhausting process, as you never have to decide between different fits. If you get something from T.J. Maxx, you’ll eventually see another Durangoan (or worse – a New Mexican) wearing the exact outfit; whereas if you get something from a thrift store, you probably never will. You’ll be unique in all the world.

The whole “unexpected thrift store treasure” thing is cliché, but the hunt is truly half the fun. You might walk away utterly dejected and empty-handed, smelling musty. You might wander into Goodwill and find nothing in the “art” section except framed Winnie the Pooh posters and dull paint-by-numbers landscapes. Or you could stumble upon the weirdest trinket or portrait you’ve ever seen. There are scores of (true) stories about people finding extremely valuable art in thrift stores, and getting rich off it. You never know.

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If you’re looking for something specific – a vintage blender from when things were made right, heavy duty and in gently-used shape – you might find yourself making cursory rounds at 18 different thrift shops only to end the day weary, frustrated and still having no answer for how to get all those cookie ingredients to intermingle.

If you’re not looking for anything in particular, you’ll inevitably come home with that ashtray with the deer figurines glued to one side, a Marlboro clock whose tag said “works!” but whose minute hand is forever stuck on the 4, and a buckskin vest you think you might get in shape so that you can wear it shirtless to your next Western rave.

That is to say, thrift stores for me are usually either a fruitless endeavor or a simple transfer of junk from one person’s house (a person who’s probably dead) to mine. At least charities or underprivileged dogs stand to benefit.

And please pardon the snobbiness, but there’s the “thrift store smell,” the second-hand equivalent of the “Walgreens smell.” As every Walgreens across the country smells the same, so does every thrift store, which must be what happens when people’s discarded clothes and fad exercise equipment from the early ’90s are put in close proximity. And sometimes, no matter how hard you scrub, those garments you got for $2 apiece will always smell like they belong to someone else.

– David Holub

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

Cannabis-delivery instruments, Part III: The bong I had promised a friend that this week’s column would look into the e-nail and some of the other cool technology that accompanies the explosion (that may be a poor word choice – tune in next week to see why) but, as things developed, there seemed to space for only one implement, the King of All Smoking Apparatuses ...

The bong There is a certain threshold crossed when a smoker of cannabis becomes a bong owner. A bong is not something one generally just brings home to Ma and Pa’s house and plunks down on the coffee table to be used when the mood strikes. (There definitely are those households, but mine was definitely not one of them). Bong ownership denotes a certain level of commitment to the cause.

There are a few reasons. First, you’re not just running into the gas station and walking out with a bong for under 10 bucks like you can with paper wraps or a small pipe. A bong, technically called a “filtration smoking device,” is a more elaborately-engineered tool than the others we’ve discussed the past couple weeks that uses water to cool and clean the smoke. The result is a smoother smoke with the capacity for large amounts of cannabis intake in a single hit ... like, very large amounts. This is another reason why bongs are a step up from the average smoking implement. Bongs encompass the terrain of coughing, tears running down the face, more coughing and moan-type utterances combined with barely recognizable linguistic offerings.

Pros: You gonna get hiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh high.

See last week’s discussion of glass bowls with regard to the incredible crafted beauty available in this genre of device.

Cons: Also breakable. Not very portable, as a result.

I don’t know if this totally classifies as a “con,” but if you want to see someone’s head explode, walk into most headshops across this great nation and ask to see the “bongs” instead of the “waterpipes.”

Next week we will look at rigs and vaporizers, the delivery methods of choice for concentrates. Enjoy your bong hits ’til then.

Christopher Gallagher lives with his wife and their four dogs and two horses. Life is pretty darn good.

Contact him at chrstphrgallagher@gmail.com

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The way a bong allows a smoker to create such daunting amounts of smoke is by use of the magic of volume. The basic bong is a glass or plastic tube with an addition fitting near the bottom that houses a removable “slide” piece submerged in water. Sizes may vary wildly – one house I lived in had a six-footer that could be coupled with several three-foot extenders

to create the possibility of 21 feet of smoke inside a 3 ½-inch diameter chamber. I think I have admitted my math deficiencies here previously; I don’t know the total volume of smoke, but I only saw one person do it solo, and he just sat quietly for the rest of the afternoon before being walked home by a chaperone. My current bong uses a “bubble” fashioned at the bottom of the tube to create its volume. I’d kind of forgotten about its potential for super-sized hits until my brother-in-law recently visited and noted the years it had been since using one. There was coughing that day, a lot of coughing.

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‘South Park: Season 20’ Many years ago, back when I was young and naïve, I didn’t like Comedy Central’s “South Park.” To be fair, I hadn’t really watched it, but the crude cut-out animation was unpleasant to my untrained eye, so I scoffed as all my friends got hooked. Then, one fateful evening, I watched the show while under the influence of marijuana. Finally, I understood: The vulgar humor fiercely lampooning celebrities and politics and pop culture trends; the criticisms of everything from Scientology to fraudulent psychics to branded content; the evil genius of Eric Cartman, a fat third-grader. I loved it all.

“South Park” has just entered its 20th season. The show’s heart always belonged to Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Butters, kid characters who were wiser than all the adults combined. “SP” children are cynical, but observe the world around them with keen, unclouded eyes.

In the series’ later seasons, the adults are given more screen time, particularly the middle-aged, capricious Randy Marsh (Stan’s father), who acts as a kind

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of surrogate for Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the show’s creators. Randy has the wary perspective of adulthood, but the reckless enthusiasm for new trends (like medical marijuana or metrosexuality) of a much younger man, and he’s a key character in the new season’s first episode “Member Berries.”

As with most “South Park” episodes, this one seamlessly incorporates varied topical themes into one surreal (but meaningful) storyline. The press comes to cover a girl’s volleyball game at South Park Elementary, eager to find out which athletes will sit out the national anthem in protest (a nod to Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest). J.J. Abrams is asked to “reboot” the national anthem with something even better and more patriotic (a nod to Abrams’ successful “Star Wars” reboot and America’s obsession with rebooting things). The 2016 presidential election is in full swing, featuring a Sophie’s choice between a Giant Douche (Mr. Garrison, spray-painted orange, an obvious stand-in for Trump) and the

Turd Sandwich (Hillary Clinton). They’re both bad, but one is clearly worse. Mr. Garrison is desperately (and secretly) trying to lose the election by saying and doing outrageous things. He didn’t think he’d get this far. Imagine that.

The funniest invention of this episode is the member berries, a “super fruit” recommended to American citizens to calm their politically-frenzied nerves.

The purple berries speak to their eater in drawling, trollish tones, reminiscing about how great things used to be. “’Member Ghostbusters? ’Member Chewbecca?” they chide. Randy is appeased, until the nostalgia takes a sinister turn. “’Member when there weren’t so many Mexicans?” the berries ask. “And ’member when marriage was just between a man and a woman?

Remember feeling safe? ’Member no ISIS? ’Member Reagan?” Startled, Randy spits the berries out in disgust. But plenty of Americans are still enjoying them.

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold DGO Staff Writer

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Savage Love | Dan Savage

And now for a marathon bout of Q&A quickies I’m a 27-year-old straight male and a high school teacher held to a strict code. I left my fiancée in June and haven’t had sex since. Needless to say, I’m really horny. I’m also in that weird in-between age where I’m not comfortable hanging out at college bars but I’m also a bit younger than most of the women in other bars. But when I scour dating apps, I see profiles of women ages 18 to 22 – women who, for all I know, could have been students at my school. I would never [bleep] a former student, of course, but I’m worried that I could get my license revoked if my supervisors discovered I was online trolling for sex. So what am I supposed to do? My [rooster] is making sad faces at me right now.

Teacher Evidently Needs Sexual Encounter If you live in a college town, TENSE, there’s at least one bar where grad students hang out – look for the bar where women are grading papers, not pounding shots, and hang out there. And with more than one in three new marriages beginning with an online meeting these days, and with Pew Research telling us that 60 percent of Americans approve of online dating, I don’t see how your supervisors could possibly object to staffers scouring dating apps and the interwebs for age-appropriate partners.

Unless we’re talking about a Catholic school staffed entirely by nuns, which isn’t what we’re talking about.

I’m female, 26, and in an open marriage with a wonderful man. I am having a recurring fear that he’ll get some other woman pregnant and she will refuse to abort. I trust him, but condoms break (or get holes poked in them). He inherited serious money from his father, and his father got “oops’d” into having three kids.

I would immediately divorce my husband if this happened. (Yes, I’m an asshole, but my life plans have NEVER included children, step or otherwise.)

My solution is for him to get a va-

sectomy. He says he’s for it, but it’s been a YEAR and he hasn’t made an appointment. I’m seriously considering yanking “open” until he’s sterile.

Maybe he really wants children and he’s not telling me, but I keep asking and he keeps saying no. Am I being unreasonable asking for the snip?

Seriously Not Into Pregnancy Maybe your husband wants children, SNIP, maybe he doesn’t. Or maybe he’s one of those guys invested in/aroused by the power of spunk to make babies they don’t want; these guys would rather see their shots intercepted than go unattempted. So while a vasectomy is an eminently reasonable way for a married man who wishes to remain childless to prevent himself from impregnating someone who isn’t his wife, SNIP, arousal often defies reason. And ultimately this is his decision to make – his body, his choice.

I’m a single gay male in my 40s. I have a good life and do good work. I’m not worried about finding the right guy to settle down with. I’m worried about what happens next. I’ve had three serious long-term relationships and several friends-with-benefits relationships. In every single one, a time has come, generally sooner rather than later, when I completely lose interest in my partner sexually. It’s not a matter of him being less attractive to me. It’s not a matter of us not being on good terms – often we become very close friends. It’s not a matter of my sex drive shutting down – I’m all kinds of turned on by other guys, just not the one I’m with. It’s reached a point where I’m deliberately holding myself back from getting into relationships because I’m tired of ruining good things.

Confirmed Bachelor You could get your ass into therapy, CB, and churn through several relationships while you work on this – relationships that could fail for this or some other

reason – and not have anything to show for your effort 10 years from now. Or you could find a guy who has the same problem you do – your predicament is not uncommon – and instead of breaking up when you lose interest in each other sexually, you stay together, you love each other, you take care of each other and you both [bleep] other guys.

I was wondering about: I don’t feel guilty, not one bit. This [bleep] was a strong contender for best [bleep] of my life. Does that make me a bad person? And if so, do I just accept the fact that I’m a bad person?

Mid-20s female here, ready to date after a period of difficulty in my personal life. I have started taking an antidepressant, which has allowed me to regain control over my life, but one side effect is difficulty having orgasms. People can be judgey when it comes to antidepressants, and it’s not something that’s easy to share. It’s frustrating because this medication allows me to be in a place mentally where I can pursue healthy adult relationships, but it affects sex, which for me is something that is key for a healthy relationship. How do I have a conversation about this with a potential partner?

[Bleeping] someone you know to be cheating implicates you in an infidelity, of course, and that’s usually bad – but not always. In some cases, cheating is the least worst option for all involved (the cheater, the cheated, their dependents); in others, cheating saves marriages that needed saving; in still others, cheating ends marriages that needed ending. Absent more info about this woman’s particular circumstances, BADDY, I can’t make a definite ruling about her badness for cheating or your badness for aiding and abetting.

Hopeful About Potential Partners,Yay You can put off the convo about your meds with a white lie, HAPPY, by telling your potential partner you never come the first few times you’re with someone new – no pressure on you to come (or come clean just yet), no pressure on them to make you come. Then level with them about the real reason you’re having difficultly coming – new to antidepressants, still adjusting, but grateful for the other benefits – after you’ve gotten to know them better. It’s a harmless, understandable white lie, not a major betrayal. If they react like it is one, HAPPY, then you’ll have to DTMFA. I’m male, 30, and newly single. I’ve been using my newfound freedom to sleep around, and last week I had sex with a married woman. Yes, she was cheating. Yes, I was aware. There won’t be any future sexual encounters with this woman, but here’s the thing

Basically A Dastardly Dick, Yes?

Straight 64-year-old man wanting to try the gay side of life!!! Don’t have the bodybuilder’s body anymore!!!

Average size!!! Would anyone get turned on to old-timer’s body!!!

Need some advice where and how to meet other gay men!!! Also HIV is a concern!!! Any other advice would be appreciated!!!

When I’m Sixty-Four Check out daddyhunt.com, WISF, the “largest gay personals site for daddies, bears, and guys that love them”!!!

Don’t be paralyzed by fear!!! Of HIV or anything else!!! But consider getting on PrEP!!! And use condoms!!! And remember::: Sex with a guy who thinks he’s negative but isn’t is way riskier than sex with a guy who knows he’s positive and takes his meds!!! And stop calling yourself straight!!!

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] Weekend in New Mexico features wine, music, food, art It will be a weekend of wine, food and handmade items for sale at the Wines of the San Juan’s 15th annual Harvest Wine Festival in Blanco, New Mexico.

And there will be two days of live music. Saturday: noon to 3 p.m. is The Cannondolls and 4 to 7 p.m. is Todd and the Fox. On Sunday: Noon to 3 p.m., The Outskirts and 3 to 6 p.m., Felix Y Los Gatos.

The Great Grape Stomp is a preregistered, costumed event that will also be held. Participants are judged based on costumes as well as the stomping of the grapes and amount of juice produced. It’s a great spectator event.

The festival features only handmade items, and you can expect to find: pottery, jewelry, art, organic bath and body products, unique wearable art/textiles, stained glass, studio jewelry, rustic and upcycled items, carpentry, candles and more. There’s also going to be farm booths where you can pick up fresh produce.

And don’t be afraid to bring the kids; there’s going to be plenty for them, including roasted Courtesy of Wines of the San Juan corn on the cob, kettle corn, cotton candy, jumpy »» Participants at last year’s festival compete in the Great Grape Stomp. castles, face-painting and sculpture painting.

For food, you can have pizza, crepes, deli sandTickets are $13. Kids 17 and younger are free with an adult. wiches, barbecue, hamburgers, veggie burgers, Wines of the San Juan is located at 233 Highway 511 in Blanco. veggie fajitas and fresh-squeezed lemonade. Most vendors will For more information, call (505) 632-0879. have gluten-free items available.

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Acoustic Lunchtime Cafe, 11:30 a.m.,

Manhattan Short Film Festival, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 College Drive, http://durangofilm.org/wp.

Yoga in the Park, 10-11 a.m., instructors

Smiley Cafe, 1309 East Third Ave., www.facebook.com/smileybuildingcafe.

Contemplative Photography with Artist Deborah Sussex, 3-5 p.m., Duran-

12th Annual Balloon Festival and Art Fair, Downtown Mancos (Grand Ave.), all day.

go Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., sandra@ durangoarts.org.

Ska-BQ! with Gary Gorence, 5-7 p.m.,

Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St. Kirk James, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Kennebec Cafe,

4 County Road 124, Hesperus.

Basic Beading Class, 6-8 p.m., Beads and

Beyond, 840 Main Ave., 247-1204.

Dave Mensch, 6 p.m., The Irish Embassy Pub,

900 Main Ave., www.theirishembassypub.com.

Realistic Acrylic Landscape Painting with John Grow, 6:30-8 p.m., Durango

Opening Reception: Annual Members’ Exhibit, 5 p.m., Durango Arts Center,

802 East Second Ave., peter@durangoarts.org.

Backpacker Magazine Post-CT Hike Celebration, 5-8 p.m., music by Six Dollar

String Band, Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St. Live music by Neil Nelson, Balcony Bar

& Grill, 600 Main Ave. Open mic, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, locat-

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

Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., sandra@ durangoarts.org.

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

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

UUFD Recital Series – Southwest Piano Trio (violin, cello and piano), 7 p.m.,

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

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

$20 adults/$8 students and children, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive.

Sandra Fleming and Nicole Landrus, Buckley Park, free, all levels, mats available for purchase.

12th Annual Balloon Festival and Art Fair, Downtown Mancos (Grand Ave.), all day.

Annual Members’ Exhibit, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., peter@durangoarts.org.

Ignacio, 888-842-4180.

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Sunday Fall Photographer’s Special: Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, 7 a.m., 479 Main Ave., www.duran-

gotrain.com/events.

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

12th Annual Balloon Festival and Art Fair, Downtown Mancos (Grand Ave.), all day.

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

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

Fall Photographer’s Special: Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, 10:30 a.m., 479 Main Ave., www.

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

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

durangotrain.com/events.

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

Meltdown on the Mesa (Durango Bluegrass Meltdown), gates at 12 p.m.,

Quadrivium Special Inaugural Performance: The Four Seasons, 1 p.m.,

bands 2-8:30 p.m., Ewing Mesa, 1661 Ewing Mesa Road, www.durangomeltdown.com.

Roshong Recital Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, wasmith@fortlewis.edu.

Alternative Horizons 11th Annual Wine and Music Fest, 5:30-8:30 p.m.,

Happy Trails Festival with Afrobeatniks and Elder Grown (Trails 2000),

Smiley Building (outdoors), 1309 East Third Ave., director@alternativehorizons.org.

The Commodores, 7 p.m., Sky Ute Casino

Resort Center, 14324 Highway 172 North,

2-6 p.m., food vendors, beer from Steamworks and Ska, Buckley Park, 12th and Main Avenue, Continued on Page 22

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[happening] Sherry Slater rides Durango Transit every day. She knows all of the bus drivers by name.

Sherry says: “I like riding the bus because I can count on it. It’s the only transportation I have. It’s convenient for me and great to get around so easily.

I’ve relied on it for years.”

Join us for the last two public meetings for the Multi Modal

Transportation Master Plan update of 2016!

Thursday, September 29, 5:00 to 7:00 pm at Durango Brewing Company, 3000 Main Avenue DRAFT Plan Unveiling: Monday, October 10, 5:00 to 7:00 pm at Carver Brewing Company, 1022 Main Avenue

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First-ever Happy Trails Festival is Sunday Even though fall is upon us, there are still plenty of festivals to be had. Sunday, check out the first-ever Happy Trails Festival, brought to you by Trails 2000.

Celebrating Durango’s trails and community, the afternoon features live music by Elder Grown and The Afrobeatniks; beer by Steamworks and Ska; food trucks; DEVO kid zone, and group rides and run.

The group mountain bike ride will be led by Olympian Travis Brown. Riders are to meet at 9 a.m. at Buckley Park. The group run is sponsored by Durango Running Co. Runners are to meet at 1 p.m. at Buckley.

The festival runs from 2 to 6 p.m. at Buckley Park in Durango.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of (at the gate). Kids are free.

Pick your tickets up at the Durango Community Recreation Center and Southwest Sound.

This event benefits Trails 2000.

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

Durango Ukulele Jam, 4 p.m., all skill lev-

els, Magpie’s, 707 Main Ave. Jazz church (experienced musician drop-in session), 6 p.m., Derailed Pour

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

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

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

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org. www.adventurepro.us

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Get The Led Out – “The American Led Zeppelin” Rock/tribute, 7:30 p.m.,

Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College Student Union, 1000 Rim Drive, www.durangoconcerts.com.

Pingpong and poker tournament, 8

p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

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

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

Tuesday

Submissions

An Evening with Ruth Bader Ginburg , 7 p.m., Noble Hall Room 130, Fort

Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, laplatadems. org, 764-4756.

Open Music Jam, all types of instruments

or vocals, 6 p.m. Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave. Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main

Ave., 259-9018.

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

Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www. facebook.com/SuperTedsTriviaAtSkaBrewing.

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

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19)

ing projects will particularly appeal.

In the next four weeks, you will need more sleep. This also is a good time to learn more about your style of relating to those who are closest to you.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)

Short trips, increased reading and writing plus conversations with siblings and relatives will characterize the next month. You’ll be busy!

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20)

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)

Grab every opportunity to take a vacation or play in the next few weeks.

Enjoy lighthearted times with children, sports events and the arts.

During the next four weeks, you have a chance to recharge your batteries for the rest of the year. You also will attract important people and favorable situations to you.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)

Home and family will be your primary focus in the month ahead. Redecorat-

Start to plan what you want your new year (birthday to birthday) to be all about. You

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Do whatever you can to get better organized in the next four weeks because you want to be efficient, productive and effective in everything you do. This is your plan.

Think of ways to boost your income in the next month, because you will certainly do this now and in the next two years. Ideas?

Write them down.

have one month to do this. Write down some goals with deadlines.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Enjoy increased popularity in the next few weeks while you schmooze with friends.

Many of you will join clubs, groups and associations as well.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is the one time of year when you look really great to your bosses. Use the next four weeks to demand the advantage and get approval or permission for something you want to do.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Take advantage of any opportunity to travel or get further training and education during the next four weeks because you want to expand your world! Go, go, go!

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Do what you can to wrap up loose details about inheritances and shared property in the next few weeks. You will accomplish this quite easily. You might also think of ways to become a better person.

BORN TODAY You are focused, modern, stylish and elegant. You also are conscientious and responsible. Initially, this year begins quietly, which is why you might not see major changes until next year; however, it will be a year of growth, construction and building. Do what you can to reduce your debt and strengthen your financial position because you are building for your future! © 2016 King Features Syndicate Inc.

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