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Durango illustrator Nathan Schmidt’s whimsical and imaginative sketches are reminiscent of the late, great poet/cartoonist Shel Silverstein. We solicited some local advice and cartoons from him.

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Get Smart about the Democratic Party It’s the homestretch. Forty more days of this nonsense. It’s about time to start thinking how you’ll vote. Don’t worry, we’ll help you by spending a few weeks talking with the various parties here in La Plata County. This week, it’s Jean Walter, chairwoman of the La Plata Democratic Central and Executive Committees.

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Our favorite oddball gallery Studio & has added a fifth member to its co-owner ranks. Self-taught visual artist Rosie Carter lives in Cortez and makes sculptures, home goods, screen prints, and dimensional pieces she dubs “shadow boxes.”

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In search of creative inspiration, know that you are not alone

t’s like when you unexpectedly hit the end of the ice cream container and you start running your spoon around the edges of the bottom to secure a couple more mouthfuls. Or when you add a bit of water to the last of a spaghetti sauce jar and swirl it around for an extra half-serving. Or, having coiled up the old tube of toothpaste long ago, you begin using your thumb to push out 10 more brush-worth’s. Or when you see just how long you can drive with the gas light on in your car, expecting any moment for it to sputter and quit. That’s how I’m feeling with my creativity these days. Down to the bottom. Almost out. One last drop. Where it went, I don’t know. (Well, I do, kind of. In part at least: The last four months have been consumed by a dreamy, fairytale romance, but that’s another story.) It’s a scary place to be because creativity and creative inspiration are so elusive. We can’t just go out to the (locally owned) store and buy another jar of creativity. For me, creativity comes from the union of disparate ideas, concepts, emotions and images, combining them in a way where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts to create a bigger idea and better understanding of the subject matter. But how does that convergence happen? In one realm of the creative job I have – illustration, something I’ve been doing for about 15 years – it has at times felt like I’ve had a teeming cauldron of creative components swirling in my head, ready to be ladled out. I just needed to find the right keys to unlock them and the right glue to piece them together. What has happened of late is that I go into my brain and the stove on which that cauldron sits has seemingly been left on overnight, the stock has burned off and what is left is beginning to stick to the bottom Freaked out, I began looking for answers and found some in writer Elizabeth Gilbert of “Eat, Pray, Love” fame, who did a TED Talk on the origins of creativity. The problem, Gilbert says,

is that too many times, creative people take on the burden as being sole originators. Creativity is something borne within us. “Allowing somebody, like one mere person, to believe that he or she is the vessel, the font, the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile human psyche,” Gilbert said. By contrast, the ancient Greeks and Romans thought of creativity not as something inhabited or produced solely by humans but in collaboration with gods and other mystical beings. A person wasn’t a genius but had the help of a genius, an external, fairy-like helper and contributor. She recalled Tom Waits having an epiphany one day in the car when a melody floated into his head, and, having no way to record it or write anything down and feeling the anxiety of losing this creative moment, he peered out the window to the sky and said, “Excuse me, can you not see I’m driving? Do I look like I can write down a song right now? If you really want to exist, come back at a more opportune moment when I can take care of you. Otherwise, go bother someone else today.” She adopted this approach in hopes to take the pressure off of her being the sole creative generator, sitting and stubbornly and grudgingly writing and rewriting sentences, peering into the corner, waiting for the genius to join her. “Maybe it doesn’t have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe in the first place that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you, but maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source ...” she said. Gilbert’s advice boils down to this: Keep showing up. “Continue to do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it.” So that’s what I’ll do. I’ll keep showing up, asking and asking and asking again if that once-familiar creativity gnome wants to take a little ride.

Jack-o’-lanterns Love it I literally love jack-o’-lanterns as much as I love my morning coffee. Every fall, the weather turns crisp, sweaters come out of the closet and pumpkin spice is jammed down our throats. While I am not a fan of the pumpkin flavor craze, I childishly anticipate the arrival of “decorative gourd season” so I can plan what I am going to carve into the orange, bumpy canvas of the perfect pumpkin. It’s possibly the only fruit (yes, pumpkins are a fruit!) that we get to paint, carve and decorate for fun! We can thank the Irish for creating the original jack-o’-lanterns (turnips, potatoes and rutabagas) then putting a light inside to ward off evil spirits. In America, the native pumpkins were larger and easier to carve, giving rise to the jack-o’-lantern as we know it. With great fervor, I anticipate my yearly visit to an idyllic pumpkin patch where my old-timey feelings for farming are reawakened. It brings me great joy to choose the perfect pumpkin stump (twisty and unique) attached to the heaviest pumpkin, which correlates with the perfect guts-to-carving-surface ratio. I spend hours scooping out the nightmarish blend of snotty goo and seeds and cutting whimsical characters or design spooky images into these suckers. Their spooky glow gives me joy as I anxiously wait for Halloween to arrive. And toasted pumpkin seeds ... delicious, delightful, delectable pepitas! Millions of Americans join me on my yearly obsession with jack-o’lantern season and nostalgia is kindled across the country! — Stephanie Gall

Hate it At the risk of coming off like a holiday killjoy, I’ll be quite frank: The reason I hate jack-o’-lanterns is that I’m not good at them. While I always have high ambitions to carve one of those complex, elaborate, intricate artworks that look more like a sculpture commission, what I end up producing inevitably looks like the work of a butter-knife-toting first-grader forced into a hands-and-all dog costume. Designing in Photoshop with a mouse is my jam. Designing on a bulbous fruit using a likely-dull knife, not so much. But beyond my lack of knife-wielding skills, using fertile ground and farming something perfectly edible – though there are tastier pumpkin varieties than the Howden pumpkin, the one most commonly used for carving – and then tossing it in the landfill to generate worrisome greenhouse gases seems needlessly wasteful. At least, there’s the possibility of composting. Along these lines, I get caught up in the guilt: What to do with the guts? Soup? Bread? Trash? And the seeds, which seem compulsory to salvage, rinse and toast. And I don’t even like pumpkin seeds all that much. (What are you supposed to do? Eat the whole thing or somehow extract an even smaller seed, like with sunflower seeds?) What a pain. But have your pumpkin fun; I’ll just watch, thanks. — David Holub

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Get Smart | Cyle Talley

On the Democratic Party It’s the homestretch. Forty more days of this nonsense. It’s about time to start thinking how you’ll vote. Don’t worry, we’ll help you by spending a few weeks talking with the various parties here in La Plata County. This week, it’s Jean Walter, chairwoman of the La Plata Democratic Central and Executive Committees. How long have you been working on behalf of the Democratic Party?

of the American people. Look at the issues. Don’t get hung up on Trump’s kids or the birther thing. Stay focused on the issues of relevance to your life. I think Clinton is far and away the superior candidate.” In this election, it’s true, all the way down the line. Senator Bennet is far and away the superior candidate. Gail Schwartz is so superior, she makes up her own mind about things, while Scott Tipton follows the party line. McLachlan the same. The local incumbent commissioners are doing their darnedest to make sure that we have a fair, predictable and reliable planning process. They’ve been working hard at it for four years. It’s important that they’re able to stay with it and get it passed.

I first came aboard as an at-large member of the executive committee back in 1984, and I’ve been involved in some capacity ever since. What appealed to you about the Democratic Party? I call myself a Kennedy Democrat. I was pretty young when he was assassinated, but nevertheless, it was always clear that he was a people-first candidate. He insisted that we pay attention to how black citizens are treated in this country. I was still hearing about it – about how horrible it was that he called our attention to it – when I was in high school some years later. President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and when he signed it, he said, “We just lost the South for the next half century.” He was right, but he did it anyway, because it was the right thing to do for people. Then, when Title IX came along, it was passed because it was important for the women who’d been held back for so long. But that’s the sort of thing that Democrats have always supported and promulgated. Sheriff [Sean] Smith will tell you that he became a Democrat because he figured out that the people who were acting in such ways, and doing things that helped people were Democrats. That’s when he decided to switch parties. Secretary Clinton, her initiatives, have always helped people. “It Takes A Village,” the book she’s written, and the positions she’s taken, that’s what keeps me a Democrat. Why’d you get involved? Well, if you don’t vote, don’t crab. Lucy from “Peanuts” said that. You want to cast an informed ballot. There isn’t a shortcut, but people seem to think there is. There really is no excuse for not becoming an informed voter. How does one become an informed voter? Reading the candidate literature, reading the literature that people write up for the issues and picking the outlook that most closely aligns with your philosophy about what it means to be governed and

Do the parties need each other? Why?

what your city, county, state and country should look and act like. Ask questions of the candidates and really listen to what they’re saying. What would you tell young voters who might be voting for the first time? It’s the issues that count. I’m echoing Senator [Bernie] Sanders when I say that. I’ve admired him since he came on the scene and began saying that we needed more than business as usual. Young people who may be voting for the first time who were so excited about Senator Sanders, many of them were so excited that they called me asking about the caucus process and how they could support him there. When the senator didn’t get the nomination, it seemed like that support evaporated overnight. He recently said, “We’re not looking at Trump or Clinton, we’re looking at the needs

The concept of a loyal opposition! It’s like in a race. You train harder because you’re going to compete. If you know you’re going to be confronted with the weaknesses in your argument, you shore them up. If you know you face opposition over a particular section of a bill that you want passed, you either find a way to make it palatable or you leave it out. So yes, we need a loyal opposition. What we don’t need is grandstanding and horrifying blanket statements that are discriminatory and, in some cases, violence-inducing. It’s been difficult to conceive of Trump as a loyal opposition. He seems instead to be a firecracker or a loose cannon. He’s not good for the country. What is so compelling to you about politics? It is how we live. If we re-elect Scott Tipton, we’re looking at keeping in office someone who has supported the selling off our public lands. That’s very short-sighted. It’s not the way I want to live. I want the public lands that I enjoy and I want them to grow for children and grandchildren. That’s important to me. That’s what keeps me working so hard for candidates who align with how I’d like the county, state and country to look. Cyle Talley doesn’t give two shits about your fantasy football team. Go away. If there’s something you’d like to Get Smart about, email him at: cyle@cyletalley.com.

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Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

Neil Young in Telluride: A chance to do classic rock right

don’t like the genre of classic rock. That doesn’t mean I don’t like bands like Led Zeppelin, The Who or the Rolling Stones. They’re fine, and the music they’ve created are timeless contributions to global pop culture. But the genre of classic rock, as in classic rock radio, is a repetitive, played out and limited collective of songs that are a beaten dead horse. You know the songs, you’ve heard them a million times, and, as far as these ears are concerned, they can go away forever. Courtesy of Bryant Liggett The world would be »» Bryant Liggett’s ticket stub from a Neil Young show Aug. 31, 1989, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. a better place if classic rock radio dug into the vast catalog of “classic performed his music. He’s working-class and Go! rock” bands and played something a bit more blue-collar, defiant and thoughtful, dedicated and Friday/Saturday: Neil Young and Promise of rare. caring. the Real, 5 p.m. Single-day pass $135, two-day pass He’s also an experimenting thrower of curve Neil Young certainly has some rarities. With 42 $215. Telluride Town Park, Telluride. Information: balls; “Trans” experimented with Kraftwerk-inrecords under his belt, his catalog is more than www.neilyoungtelluride.com. “Heart of Gold” and “Cinnamon Girl.” Young will spired electronic music. “Everybody’s Rockin’” perform Friday and Saturday to a receptive and is his rockabilly nod. New-wave, country, grunge, noise and feedback through listening to “Crazy open-armed crowd in Telluride’s Town Park, and bluegrass and rock-operas have all been done. Horse.” I had an idea at that time that Young while I’m sure he’ll throw the obligatory bone He’s continued to release records almost annualtranscended genres and was a musician everyand fans will swallow that bone whole, lets hope ly, and sometimes two in a year. He’s got a hand he digs deep into his catalog. in Farm Aid and The Bridge School Benefit Conone could relate to. That night he played solo. As Backing Young this weekend will be The Promhe switched back and forth between piano and certs, and has taken on Monsanto and, as of late, the Dakota Pipeline. ise of the Real, the rock ’n’ roll band led by Lukas acoustic guitar, I realized that a musician didn’t need a Marshall stack to rock and be aggressive, Any show in Telluride Town Park is visually Nelson, son of Willie. They served as his backing and a man alone on a stage could be gritty and stunning. I’ve been to shows where the liberally band for his 2015 release “The Monsanto Years.” authoritative. conservative and “open-minded” music lovers It’s a fitting band, capable of delivering his melTwo years after I saw this concert, Young have plugged their ears because of volume. low country twang right alongside Young’s rock proved that he was transcendent of all genres and Young is capable of said volume, and, as he apexcursions. could draw various fans when people started callI’ve seen Young once. It was Aug. 31, 1989, at proaches 71, I hope the familiar tunes are mixed Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Marying him a godfather to the grunge movement, and with the more obscure and delivered with piercland. Those were good musical times, having he was showing up at rock shows while giving the ing volume, all from his catalog that’s as deep as spent the previous five years attending metal and it is influential. finger to various establishments. To define him as prolific and busy is an underpunk shows while keeping a foot in mainstream statement. Inspiring is obvious, as bands from rock. I knew Young had written some folkier Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station Phish to Los Lobos, The Whipsaws to Wilco have tunes, and was well aware of his penchant for manager. liggett_b@fortlewis.edu.

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[sound] What’s new Tim Presley,“The Wink”

Agents. He’s had short stints as a member with Austin-based garage rockers The Strange Boys and was even a brief member of (and recurring collaborator with) The Fall. Presley has famously collaborated and released records under varying monikers with Cate Le Bon and Ty Segall. I first came across his work as lo-fi psych-folk and Woodsist recording artist

Available: Now via Drag City as a digital download in both mp3 and FLAC formats, cassette, CD and standard black vinyl LP. Tim Presley is a grinder. Depending on whom you ask, you’ll get a different answer as to who he is and the sort of music he makes. An enigma punctuated with a question mark and an exclamation point. Some might know his work with LA psych outfit Darker My Love or hardcore punkers The Nerve

White Fence.

“Hair” collaboration with Ty Segall. This is his first release under his own name proper and an appropriate culmination of his work to date. The collection of songs on “The Wink” covers the ground from sparse-yet-dynamic piano clamoring, straight forward absurdist folk, lo-fi garage dirges, and also features production by Le Bon and backing from Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa. Recommended for those who dig the idiosyncratic stylings of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, David Byrne, Daniel Johnston or Calvin Johnson and Beat Happening.

The man has been busy, to put it mildly. Between 2010 and 2014, Presley released six LPs and his

—— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

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The hype is high for this new one. NPR Music has already said on the record that it “may be their greatest album.” The new album is powerful and emotionally charged with the frustrations of working folks all over the country. Let’s find out together if it can channel all this energy into something worth remembering.

Starting out as a pure, third-wave black metal solo act by multi-instrumentalist Neige, Alcest gained popularity (and notoriety) for adding in elements of shoe gaze and post rock, eventually settling into a comfort zone of quiet, contemplative rock music. With “Kodama,” the fifth full-length from the project, Neige has embraced the most appealing elements of his sound and coalesced them into what I consider to be his masterpiece.

2. Bon Iver,“22 A Million”

4. Opeth,“Sorceress”

Bon Iver never grabbed me. The first time I heard “For Emma Forever Ago,” I wrote it off as pure, no-holds-barred, hipster bullshit. Justin Vernon’s music then promptly fell off my radar. But with the relentless nagging of my friend Gareth, I succumbed to the fuzz that is “22 A Million.” This year, at Vernon’s festival Eaux Claires, he premiered the album in full and I was blown away, as it was steeped in massive amount of chamber feedback and old analog vocoder work, bringing in hooks and melodies out of nowhere while simultaneously embracing the tape delay prowess of people like Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. The album is no different. It’s a somber trip that feels all too familiar while at the same time being completely alien to any of Bon Iver’s contemporaries.

If you haven’t been paying attention to Opeth over the years, you may still think that they are one of the more artistically proficient death metal bands. But do not be mistaken: They no longer make death metal music. “Sorceress” and the three preceding albums, have seen Mikael Akerfeldt and Co. turn into a ’70s prog worship band. Songs like “The Wilde Flowers” will fit right alongside your Jethro Tull and Blue Oyster Cult jam sessions. The artistic and technical proficiency is still present, and Akerfeldt’s vocals have a wonderful warmth to them that serves to even more solidify that this album is actually a time capsule from 1971 and it’s all a sick joke on Opeth’s part.

1. Drive-By Truckers, “American Band”

5. Danny Brown,“Atrocity Exhibition”

3. Alcest,“Kodama” Alcest is an enigma in the metal world.

The weird voice. The gap in his teeth. Beats that make you think you might

be dying. The Adderal admiral returns. Danny Brown has embraced his place in the modern hip-hop game as a black sheep. He cites Joy Division as a huge influence on the album’s sound. Beyond the obvious link in the title, the cold beats build without breaking, giving an unease that would make Ian Curtis proud and scare away all the x-ed out candy kids waiting for the

drops that seem to permeate modern hip-hop production. Throw on top of that an amazing use of the rap language, features from heavy-hitters like Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, Earl Sweatshirt and even B-Real of Cypress Hill. —— Cooper Stapleton

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with a quiet roar of upbeat chatter. Around 7 o’clock, dinner service is in full force. Any stresses from the workday have been long forgotten, and time and money are being well spent. Cheers to putting in another day. Ah, at last. The clock rolls around to closing time, which means around 10 p.m. for most restaurant workers. After dishes have been washed, tables have been reset and tips have been collected it is FINALLY time for the much-anticipated wind-down. How do we do it? The bars. Allow me to introduce the “third shift” workers. This includes bartenders, servers, bar-backs or really anyone working until the early a.m. The long shift is filled with energetic music, quirky dance moves, endless shots and, as always, a handful of uncontrollable people still working on winding down. It takes a very patient person to deal with the chaos from not only the restaurant workers, but also any stragglers from the 9-to-5 group. Thank your bartenders. They could be sleeping, but here they are, serving you at 2 a.m. So, how does a bartender wind down? Unfortunately, they are on their own. The cycle has to end at some point in time. I imagine the unwind goes something like: Shower, Netflix, beer(s) and bed. It’s important to remember that we all serve each other in shifts, whatever your job may be. No matter how you choose to wind down, having fun is important. It just so happens that a lot of people also link alcoholic beverages, snacks, live music and dancing along with fun. So come out to your favorite local hangout and allow the industry workers to help you decompress and refuel for the next day. This will be my last column in DGO; life has got me busy doing massage! Shout out to all you readers. I’ll catch ya at happy hour where I’ll be winding down, too!

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

The scariest thing about Halloween? Pumpkin beer

he leaves are changing, the breeze has begun to bite with cold and nighttime has become undeniably chilly while the stores are stocked with orange and black, ghouls and ghosts, candy of all sorts. The smell of roasting chiles wafts through farmers markets. It’s an amazing time of year, unless of course, you are like me. It’s one of my favorite/least favorite times of year. I love the weather of fall. I love the angle of light that only a fall afternoon brings. I love football and porches and bonfires. But there are two things I hate more than anything, and both of them coincide with fall: scary movies and pumpkin-flavored anything. Scary movies are easily avoided, but with enough coaxing I can watch one, or even enjoy one (“Stranger Things,” you feel me?), but pumpkins, pumpkin spice, pumpkin candles, pumpkin lattes and, especially, pumpkin beer, are hard to avoid and even harder to appreciate. Somehow, pumpkin beers are super popular (or used to be, times are a changing; there’s apparently a steep decline in pumpkin beer sales. Hopefully, this is a sign). Other than hops, barley and yeast, there is probably not another single addition to beer that is more popular than pumpkins. At my local bottle shop, there were eight different pumpkin beers in early September. The manager promised even more the next week. I didn’t want to come back for that, so I bought a handful of what was available so I could describe for you how putrid they all were. Just kidding. I tried to give them all a fair shake, but I want you all to know I am quite biased because I think pumpkin is not only the most overrated beer flavor, but is one of the most overrated flavors period. I mean, have you eaten a pumpkin? Just cracked one open and took a bite? They taste nothing like those lattes or smell like those candles. Just saying. I started with a can of Hornocopia Pumpkin Ale from Horny Goat Brewing. It’s orange-to-straw color and nice clarity, spicy cinnamon and clove on the nose, with a little pumpkin buttery-ness to it. A fairly bright beer for most pumpkin beers, but it still has too much spice, and the carbonation was pretty effervescent with a quickly-dissipating head. This was like the Miller Lite of pumpkin beers. Next was Wasatch Pumpkin Seasonal (yep, just Pumpkin), of similar ilk, but it’s a bit darker, more reddish in color and has that same spicy nose, though none of it coming through in the flavor.

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This has a lot more of the buttery-ness, with a lot of creamed corn and biscuity malt and the same quickly-dissipating head and soda-like effervescence. Right now, as a brewer, I’m thinking, buttery-ness, creamed corn ... wow, those are some seri-

ous off flavors! But I assure you, that’s just what pumpkin tastes like: A really shitty beer. After that, I tried Blackolattern Pumpkin Stout by Wasatch, (yep, two pumpkin beers from the same brewery) which is basically a stout. It had a little less head than a normal stout, (And I did a hard pour!) but it’s just a stout. If I didn’t know it had pumpkin in it, I wouldn’t have thought it had pumpkin in it. Southern Tier’s Imperial Pumpking (Get it!? Because it’s an imperial beer, it’s got the word “king” in the name?) is 8.6 percent ABV and 100 percent spooky! Just kidding, it’s not scary at all, unless you’re afraid of under-attenuated syrupy-ness and fake-tasting spices, then it’s downright terrifying. This is the Starbucks venti skinny five shot no foam extra whip pumpkin spice latte of pumpkin beers. It’s got all the things that you want in a pumpkin beer: Smells and flavors and colors that look like Halloween – and by the way, Halloween smells like Spencer Gifts and tastes like a candle. But seriously, I wanted to like this one. I was rooting for one beer to stand out and scream scary spooky things at me till I cried in a good way. But, it was just like the rest, except it had even worse head formation and retention. Crown Valley Brewing’s Pumpkin Cider was the crazy outlier in this whole bunch: it’s not a beer, and it’s from a really small brewery in the South (I know what you’re thinking, but Southern Tier is actually in upstate New York). This is a totally different take on a pumpkin beer, one I’ve never seen. It had all the trappings of a pumpkin beer, the spices, the subtle buttery-ness of the orange gourd but with the tart apple flavor and very dry crispness of a good cider, and it pulled it all off. It actually tasted a lot like a mulled wine. I’m not entirely behind this beer, because pumpkins, but I think this might be the way to go with a pumpkin beer: Give me contrast of flavor versus overly complimentary. This may be the last year we see huge sales of pumpkin beers. They’ll probably continue their decline, and I’m totally OK with that. I’d proudly be able to say, “I lived through the craft beer boom without ever having to brew a single pumpkin beer.” Although, I might still brew a pumpkin beer, but only if someone gives me one of those massive 2,000-pound pumpkins and lets me ferment an entire batch of beer inside 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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[cartoon]

Nathan Schmidt, about town

Nathan Schmidt is a Durango illustrator, writer and musician. His whimsical and imaginative sketches are reminiscent of the late, great poet/cartoonist Shel Silverstein. We solicited some local advice from Schmidt. He recommends you: Meet new people. Buy local art. Find a hobby. And get serious about your health.

Hiking? Nope. Biking? Nuh uh. Rafting? Nah. Fishing? No. I’m in town for the recreation.

He practices the banjo. I practice self-restraint.

»» Nathan Schmidt

Take ashwaganda tincture for anxiety and to boost the immune system. For inflammation, cut out gluten and dairy. Take coconut oil and milk thistle for better skin. But for THAT? For that, I’d go see a doctor.

Just because you’ve hung it up on the wall, that doesn’t make it a “tapestry.”

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Farmer-turned-artist joins Studio & Our favorite oddball gallery Studio & has added a fifth member to its co-owner ranks. Self-taught visual artist Rosie Carter lives in Cortez and makes sculptures, home goods, screen prints and dimensional pieces she dubs “shadow boxes.” In these thickly-framed dioramas, butterflies burst out of cocoons shaped from wire, and birds and lone houses are sketched silhouetted against the sky. Carter draws inspiration from the immense connection between our Southwest landscape and the people who live here; from Native Americans and their homelands to farmers and ranchers with their fields. “I like the thought of the great terres»» Rosie Carter trial sweep laying beyond our control, of the solidity of a landscape weighed against humanity’s impermanence,” writes Carter at rosiecarter.com. “I’ve been working to capture this perspective, this feeling that comes from looking out over boundless expanse and losing a sense of substance. That sensation of being caught up in the sweep of a desert landscape or the arc of a never-ending night sky.” We spoke with Carter about her recent career change (from farmer to full-time art maker) and how the dramatic Western scenery informs her work. Why become part of Studio &? I’ve worked with this gallery over the years, showing in group shows, and got to know and become friends with all the members. I appreciate that Studio & has a different angle than other places around here; more contemporary, experimental. I love how they bring all kinds of artists in. I live in Montezuma County, so for me to have that sort of connection with other creative people has been a big deal. When the opportunity came up, I had to put some thought into it – it’s a commute for me. But like most artists, I spend 90 percent of my time working alone in my studio, so it’s nice to have the opportunity for some collaboration. Why did you make the transition from farming to making art full-time? I’ve been trying to juggle both for a long time. I got more serious about it because I felt like I was finally making something representative of what I wanted to be doing. It became a bigger and bigger force in my life.

With farming, it was pretty impossible; once the farming season started in April, I had to drop any sort of art. There wasn’t time. Farming is really physical, and I was getting pretty beat up. It became something I wanted to do less. So here I am. I made the switch.

viewer, but that’s where I’m coming from; the understanding that we’re a blip. The name of my recent show was “All Shining Briefly.” I’m trying to express this small moment of shining briefly in this long expanse of time and the big scheme of things. I love the vastness here.

Anything you’ve learned from farming that you use in your artistic process?

—— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

Farming is actually a very creative endeavor because you’re always having to be flexible and reacting to changing conditions. When you’re creating stuff, there’s lots of accidents. Some happy, some not. That’s part of the creative process – it’s not a linear thing. You’re bouncing around, trying things, reacting to the results. And something that’s definitely helped me in terms of making an effort to be a professional artist is the discipline that farming requires. If you want to make a living at it, you gotta just be on it all the time. You need to be constantly working. What mediums do you work in? I make what I call “dimensional pieces,” they’re kind of like shadow boxes. For those I use a lot of sheet metal, wire, pen and ink. I paint the backgrounds. And screen printing plays into almost everything I do. I first came about creating the dimensional pieces because I’m not a trained artist, so I don’t have a lot of skill in painting a picture that has dimension ... I don’t really know how. But I wanted to start creating dimension in my work. I also make free-standing sculpture, using a lot of the same materials. And then I screen print, too, taking my pen and ink drawings and transferring them to the screen. I’ve been doing prints on sheet metal. And I also have a line of home goods called Home and Range, where I make throw pillows, dish towels, napkins and T-shirts with those same images. That’s what’s so great about screen printing; I can print on any flat surface.

»» “Slip Away” (wire, copper sheet metal, acrylic)

Your “Artist Statement” mentions how in the Four Corners region, people are very intimately tied to the landscape. How does that idea inform your work? I’m really interested in geologic time and the universe. Living here, or in the West in general, you can really see that passage of time. Being able to stand in one place and look out over such a huge expanse and be aware that time has spanned ... forever. And our place in it, humanity’s insignificance. That’s what a lot of my work is about. But that doesn’t mean each moment isn’t special in some way. It might not be specifically obvious to the

»» “Stay Close” (copper and galvanized sheet metal, screen print, pant stretcher, acrylic, paper)

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[ psychics ]

What’s wrong with a little fortune-telling? »» We

spoke to three Durango psychics to find out whether it’s genuine or all a hoax, and how to tell the difference

t’s hardly a mystery why “psychic” is a fruitful occupation. People are afraid of the big questions: Who are we? Where are we going? What happens when we die? Psychics, whether fraudulent or not, can assistant in answering some of those questions, similar to a therapist – though psychics don’t need college degrees or licensing, which puts a damper on their public perception. Where a therapist might reassure you that everyone suffers in the same way, a psychic is more likely to try to make you feel special. There is no shortage of psychic scams. A few years ago, a New York City storefront psychic named Tammy scammed a client out of $55,712. The woman even sold her house to pay the fortune-teller, who promised to rid her of a curse. And while there are plenty more psychics who have come forward to admit they made it all up, many others (including the three I spoke with in Durango) suggest the fakers shouldn’t give the rest of them a bad name. Fake psychics take advantage of clients, but lots of professions rely on deceptive exchanges; it’s up to you to be discerning. One could argue journalism exploits the sordid details of people’s lives in order to deliver a good story. Lawyers will say anything to get their defendants off the hook. Retail workers assure customers everything looks good on them. Politicians ... well, that’s a no-brainer. How a psychic reading works

Beverly Anderson has been a practicing psychic in Durango for 14 years. She has 2,500 clients, many from around the world; but she can’t Skype with her international patrons, as she claims electronics don’t react well with her electromagnetic flux, and she can blow up computers. Anderson doesn’t advertise her business because she doesn’t need to; she’ll only book an appointment via a referral, and says she accepts 20 percent of new clients who seek her out. She describes herself as a Chigung grandmaster, one of three women in the world at her level; Chigung is a highly-trained energy form, the equivalent of doing chiropractics on a person’s soul (in her words). “The human mind is designed to pick up five senses,” explained Anderson. “There are actually six; the psychic sense. If you’re walking in the woods and the hair stands up on the back of your neck, you probably know there’s a mountain lion or a bear close by. That’s a natural organic response. Well, I do that, times a million.” Apparently, psychic abilities are

genetic, as Anderson comes from a long line of them. “It’s like having singers or dancers or painters in the family,” she said. In a psychic reading with Anderson, there’s no hokey crystal ball. You simply sit on a chair in her office while she “plugs into you.” “I can hear their emotions, thoughts, the pattern of preconceived notions about who they think they are and how they were raised,” Anderson said. “I can see past life information that got them to the head space they’re in. I also can see the future quite clearly. I know people have trouble comprehending that. I’m notoriously accurate and direct – I don’t blow smoke up people’s butts, I give them exactly what I get.” Amanda Fresh is a Durango psychic who specializes in “mediumship,” or speaking with people’s passed loved ones. She also conducts spiritual guidance readings to discuss life choices, but doesn’t project far into the future (that’s a misconception about what “fortune-tellers” do.) “I always ask for the information that comes through to be in the highest and best interest of the client,” Fresh said. “And I don’t think things too far out in the future are in someone’s best

interest to hear – there’s a process to get from point A to B.” Fresh could always feel spirits (both in church and when she studied Taoism, in the temple) but never knew quite what they were. Our third psychic, Whitney Lamb, is a student of Anderson’s; in fact, Anderson hopes to pass her business on to Lamb when she retires, as she considers the younger psychic vastly talented. Lamb, who has been practicing in Durango for five years, avows she has been “speaking with angels” for much of her life. Not to be confused with deceased human beings, angels don’t usually want to take a human form. “They don’t have anything to really learn, as they’re the closest to the Godhead,” Lamb said. “They’re here to help humanity.” Angels have revealed themselves to Lamb in varying ways, pushing books off a shelf or indirectly introducing her to someone she needed to meet. She feels her life became synchronistic to such a degree that it was impossible not to accept them working with her. Continued on Page 14

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How to tell the good from the bad Money-grubbing psychics can give people false hope, make them believe in something that isn’t real or convince them their loved ones are OK, all without any evidence. There is a comfort in this, not dissimilar to the kind we find in religion. But the problem isn’t the comfort, it’s the money gleaned from taking advantage of vulnerable folks. You’ve probably heard of John Edward, the most famous medium in the world; his critics point out his guesses about people’s dead relatives are general and vague (things anyone could guess), and that the correct statements he makes are fewer than the incorrect ones, but clever television editing weeds out his misses. The Durango psychics are not scamming people out of their money – at least, not as far as I can tell. But does that mean their “readings” are true? That’s for you to decide. If you’ve had a bad experience with one doctor, would you swear off all doctors? Of course not. It’s common for someone to visit one psychic who feeds them insincere or transparent lines, and

assume all psychics are like that. Anderson is personally insulted by bad psychics. “That’s like someone hanging up a sign saying they’re a doctor and being a quack, then hurting somebody,” she said. “What doesn’t drive me crazy is people who do have talent, but have never been trained to know what to do with it. Like a person with a good voice who could end up being an opera singer with training.” She estimates one out of 20 in her profession are any good. Anderson is expensive ($300 an hour), but in her opinion, she delivers. “People on my level in LA charge $1,000,” she said. Anderson has a few pointers for weeding out the imposters: “If you go in, and they present a schlocky ‘Madame Helga’ thing,” she said. “They have curtains or beads all over the place, flowy robes. That’s your first sign.” Everything in Anderson’s studio is clean-cut and feng-shuied. “If it feels dusty or dirty, walk out the door,” she continued. “If someone says, ‘I can remove a curse or get your boyfriend back for you ...’ Oh no no no.” No good psychic will propose fixing a situation in exchange for money, Anderson adds; everyone has free Continued on Page 15

Durango’s special vibes

Anderson

Fresh

Lamb

Durango is a sort of hot bed for psychics, energy healers, holistic medicine and yoga devotees. It could be because we’re in a remote corner of the state, far from any major cities, with only the wilderness for company. This can free people up to engage with nature and spiritual exploits. “There’s healers on every corner here now!” said local psychic Whitney Lamb. All three Durango psychics we spoke with (Lamb, Beverly Anderson and Amanda Fresh) agreed this town is a magical, powerful place that’s conducive to their kind of work. Anderson says it’s holy ground, placed in between four sacred mountains, and that “very clean, restorative, nurturing, feminine energy” comes out of the mountains, all the way from Silverton to Pagosa Springs. Lamb agrees that a higher vibration and energy flows through this valley in particular, especially with all the sacred monuments like Chimney Rock around. “When I’m hiking up Junction Creek, I’ll have Native Americans come around and walk with me all the time, just in spirit,” said Lamb, who is also a medium. —— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

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Reason and skepticism There is an understandable stigma associated with psychics, so it’s not the most widely-respected profession. That doesn’t bother Anderson, who was turned down for a loan application while living in Texas because she “worked for the devil” (the bank officer was a bornagain Christian). Anderson grew up in a science-oriented family, and jokingly considers herself the “slow” one because she has a master’s, but no Ph.D. “I find that people who are educated are intrigued when you start opening up their perception fields,” Anderson said. “All a good scientist wants is proof. The proving is, I talk to them.” Fresh and Lamb are similarly unphased by cynics. Fresh asserts a skeptic is only a skeptic because they don’t have the experience to know any different. But both agree that sometimes a person’s reluctance or resistance can make it more difficult to read them. Lamb describes it as a brick wall: “I’ve learned that when I hit that, I need to say, ‘I can’t read you,’” she said. “I can’t get in there fully.” Technically, the fact that Lamb “speaks to angels” could be grounds for a schizophrenia diagnosis. But she doesn’t possess other symptoms of the mental disorder, so it’s unfair to pin her with that. Another inherent problem with claims like Lamb’s is the seeming disregard for darkness, and the almost ingratiating focus on positivity or light. Lamb insists every soul has angels around them, and

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When you leave a reading, you should feel euphoric. Truth resonates. Amanda Fresh

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those angels’ purpose is to help humanity; but what about the people who fall into deep depressions? Or commit suicide? Those who have suffered unimaginably with seemingly no reward? This is a question that arises when anyone combats the existence of God or religion, but what does a psychic make of it? Of depression, Lamb said, “When a person is at such a low vibration, it’s hard for the angels to cut through. It creates a static. The angels are trying their hardest to send some source of guidance or inspiration. They patiently wait until that soul is at a place where they can work their magic.” I suppose this means that when a person succumbs to evil deeds or gloom, their angels have failed them. Another frequent criticism is that psychics give people inaccurate information; predictions never come to fruition, advice turns out to be bad. But psychics explain that discrepancy with the existence of autonomy. A psychic can suspect something about your future, but you might still make a different choice and alter the course of everything. It also seems possible readings result in self-fulfilling prophecies: A psychic says you’ll meet your future husband in October, so you spend the entire month on the lookout, far more receptive to romantic possibilities. Don’t be too hard on psychics. The cliché of the powerful celebrity or solitary genius who cries alone at night is somewhat applicable. “To relax and be myself with someone is a rare gift,” said Anderson, when questioned about how her job affects her personal life. She can’t stand being in cities (too many energies) and always knows where her son is and what he’s been doing, which made his teenage life hard. “People who know what I can do never let me relax. It’s like with a doctor, asking them, ‘Would you look at my rash?’ at a party. It’s rare for me to be able to have a friend.”

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[movies] Deepwater Horizon Playing at Stadium 9 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Action &

adventure, drama

‘Audrie & Daisy’ challenges ideas about social media

Directed by:

Peter Berg

By Alyssa Rosenberg

Written by:

THE WASHINGTON POST/WP BLOOMBERG

Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand Runtime: 1 hr. 39 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 89% Synopsis: On April 20, 2010, one

of the world’s largest human-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. This story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone’s lives forever.

Masterminds Playing at Stadium 9 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Comedy Directed by:

Jared Hess Written by:

Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Emily Spivey Runtime: 1 hr. 30 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: Not available Synopsis: Based on true events,

David Ghantt discovers the meaning of adventure. Day in and day out he drives an armored vehicle, transporting millions of other people’s money. The only excitement is his flirtatious work crush who soon lures him into the scheme of a lifetime. Along with a group of half-brained criminals and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David makes off with $17 million in cash ... only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this group of double-crossers and has been set up to take the fall. With the bandits blowing the millions, they leave behind a glaring trail of evidence. Now on the lam and in over his head, David must dodge the authorities, evade a hit man and try to turn the tables on the ones he trusted most.

My King Playing at the Gaslight Rating: Not

rated Genre: Drama,

romance Directed by:

Maïwenn Written by:

Maïwenn, Etienne Comar The way we think about our digital world often shades into paranoia, often when we discuss the way teenage girls use it. So “Audrie & Daisy,” a documentary about teenagers, rape and social media that arrived on Netflix on Friday, is highly refreshing for the sensible approach directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk take to the internet. While they recognize that social media can be a source of enormous cruelty, it can also be a powerful tool for forging life-saving connections. “Audrie & Daisy” follows two girls, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman, both of whom said they were sexually assaulted and were subjected to vicious harassment afterward. The three teenage boys who assaulted Audrie circulated pictures of the attack afterward. They ultimately pleaded guilty to the assault and to possessing pictures of Audrie, but by that point, Audrie had committed suicide by hanging. Daisy and her best friend, Paige, were both allegedly assaulted at the home of Matthew Barnett, a friend of Daisy’s older brother. The attack was reportedly taped and the footage distributed, though the prosecutors in the case said they were unable to find the footage. Daisy was 13 at the time of the attack. She was left outside in the snow afterward, her family’s home was burned down and she attempted suicide twice. Prosecutors initially charged Barnett with sexual assault, but those charges were dropped. He eventually pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child. These are awful stories. But Daisy’s doesn’t end there. Though social media was one of the instruments of Audrie’s harassment, it was also the way that Delaney Henderson, a sexual assault survivor and activist, reached out to Daisy. As horrifying as it is to watch “Audrie & Daisy” re-create Audrie’s Facebook message com-

Runtime: 2 hr. 5 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 72% Synopsis: Tony is admitted to a

Courtesy of Netflix

»» Daisy Coleman stars in “Audrie & Daisy,” now on Netflix.

ments in the days leading up to her death, Delaney’s message to Daisy arrived through social media, too. When I moderated a panel on the film at the AFI Docs festival here in Washington this year, both Daisy and Delaney pointed out that teenagers live a great deal of their lives on social media today. Withdrawing from the internet might be the simplest solution to bullying and harassment because it doesn’t require tech companies to build strong tools or invest in moderation systems. But telling young women to just walk away from social media also denies them sources of support. Cutting Daisy off from the internet might have spared her some gossip. But online abstinence wouldn’t have protected her family’s home from fire or saved her brother from the experience of having a friend allegedly attack his sister. And if Daisy weren’t online, Delaney would have had a much harder time reaching out to her. “Audrie & Daisy” is a powerful reminder to avoid knee-jerk reactions to horror stories that seem to have their roots in the internet and social media. A quick response might be to cloister girls from everything that can hurt them. But a more lasting solution might be to help teenagers develop the tools they can use to support each other.

rehabilitation center after a serious skiing accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work that may finally set her free.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Playing at Stadium 9 (Also available in 3-D with surcharge) Rating: PG-13 Genre: Kids &

family, science fiction & fantasy Directed by: Tim Burton Written by: Jane Goldman Runtime: 2 hr. 7 min. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 63% Synopsis: From visionary direc-

tor Tim Burton, and based on the best-selling novel. When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds a magical place known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepen as he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers ... and their powerful enemies. Ultimately, Jake discovers that only his own special “peculiarity” can save his new friends.

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

What you need to know about dabbing

abs. Are. Real.

As in, the only other preparation of cannabis that will give overeating edibles a run for its money in the oh-good-godI’m-so-high-I-think-I-may-perish-from-this-mortalcoil category. Dabs are often (if not always) accompanied by drooling, watering eyes and coughing ... Oh, the coughing. Coughing until every bit of residue in your respiratory system is dislodged, until your face is numb, until your hands and arms tingle like they did the last time you ran like you were being chased. (Or maybe the last time you were actually chased; I don’t know your circumstances.) Sometimes, people throw up. Sounds fun, right? “Dabs,” as they are referred to in the toker’s lexicon, are the smokeable preparations of cannabis by solvents, often butane, but also by carbon dioxide, ethanol and a few other less-often used chemicals. They come in variety of final forms that vary with regards to consistency and stability (which I will discuss in detail next week) known as shatter, wax, budder, crumble and oil. These concentrates can run in the range of 60 to 90 percent THC content. For frame of reference, most strong flowers that you lay your hands on will be somewhere around 20 to 25 percent THC and highest percentage measured of any raw bud to date belongs to Colorado’s own RB26, a grower whose Gorilla Glue 4 strain registered at 33.5 percent last year.

I have slightly simplified things in my description of this equipment (to be expanded on in next week’s “Dabs, Part II”); the possibilities with rigs and dabbers are, like the potential permutations of glass bowls and bongs, nearly limitless, and anyone interested could keep him or herself enraptured for hours searching the internet or visiting the local glass shop. Pros »»Concentrates will get you about as high as an Earthbound being can get. »»The high THC levels are actually the best way, other than eating, to use cannabis as medicine. Cons »» The process of creating these concentrates, especially the low-tech use of butane by amateurs can be very dangerous and has been responsible for a number of explosions over the past decade. »» If the solvent is not purged correctly, there can be residual amounts that remain in the finished product. »» The process of dabbing, with a torch in particular, can appear a bit crack-like. »» Not sure if the level of highness can be filed as a “con,” but this is not your average high. Don’t make any plans for a few hours and be sure to have a comfortable landing spot. So, remember, until you get a sense of how this concentrated version affects you, let that old Bryl Cream saw be your guiding light: ”A Little Dab Will Do You.” 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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There is a process to doing dabs. The smoking apparatus, known as a rig, is basically, a

slightly modified bong (there are even conversion kits available) in which the sliding bowl piece is replaced a small piece – known as a nail – that is heated up with a butane torch until it reaches a temperature slightly below that of the sun. The concentrate is applied to this nail by use of a “dabber,” generally a smallish instrument of either glass or similar to a dental tool. The nail is then capped while the smoker inhales. Viola ... Dabs!

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‘Zootopia’ “Zootopia” is one of the best films I’ve seen about racism, prejudice and police brutality, and it illuminates those issues with talking animals. (Don’t worry, it’s not too heavy-handed to watch stoned.) The animation stars Judy Hopps, an idealistic girl bunny from rural carrot farming country who dreams of becoming a do-gooder policewoman on the mean streets of Zootopia. She is generally discouraged from the profession by friends and family, because bunnies are sweet and small as compared to most police animals (typically of the predator variety).

deceptive (plus a fox bullied her growing up). Hopps’ police chief doesn’t think she’s capable of chasing down criminals, so he assigns her insulting meter maid duties. All the creatures judge each other based on their respective species, not on their individual characteristics. Sound familiar?

But Hopps graduates from police academy and makes it to Zootopia anyway, a city teeming with every kind of species imaginable, not unlike New York; there’s an arctic tundra district with polar bears, a jungle district housing jaguars, and renegade creatures who live on the sidelines of the culture, like a wise-guy fox named Nick who befriends Hopps. The visual dynamism of the city is a feast for bloodshot eyes, and the anthropomorphized animals are a delight; there’s a sexy, curvy pop star named Gazelle (voiced by Shakira), and the DMV is run by literal sloths, moving at a maddeningly sluggish pace. Unfortunately, the city’s segregation allows the animals to nurse stiff prejudices against one another. Hopps has learned from her bunny clan to be fearful of foxes, who are notoriously

Crime in Zootopia is kicked up a notch when citizens begin going “savage,” reverting back to their baser animal instincts and lashing out violently. Hopps gets involved in the case, but when she flippantly notices that all the animals going savage happen to be predators (no prey), a public panic circulates. Suddenly all prey are suspicious and fearful of predators. Hopps wants to be a good cop, struggling to find a solution to the savage infection. One of the film’s most tender revelations comes when tough-as-nails Nick reveals he was bullied as a kid for being a “sly fox,” which led to him becoming a con artist. He figured fighting bigoted ideas about fox behavior was a losing battle, so he conceded early on. Indeed, prejudice can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The simplicity with which “Zootopia” proves these harsh and tragic truths will resonate with adults, but also with the younger generation who so desperately need to learn these lessons in their formative years. —— Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

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Savage Love | Dan Savage

When is it OK to keep an infidelity a secret? I’m a guy, 35, and a cheating piece of shit. I’m engaged to a woman I love, but earlier this year I cheated on her. I have no excuse. She discovered the dating app I used, and we worked through that. But she doesn’t know that shortly after her discovery, I went ahead and cheated. To my meager, meager credit, I did seek out only women who were looking for NSA hookups. But I quickly came to realize how big of a mistake this was, how much I love my fiancée, and that I’m a shitty person. I see a therapist, and he advised that, if I’m certain this was a onetime thing, and if I’m convinced that I’m happy with my fiancée, I should keep quiet. I shouldn’t burden my fiancée with this knowledge. I’m inclined to agree but, dear God, the guilt. I feel like I’m not the person my fiancée thought I was. What do I do? Should I just accept this as a lesson learned and keep it to myself? Perhaps there’s selfishness at play here, since I’m trying to make myself feel better, but I’m struggling. Can’t Personally Overlook Selfishness I’m with your therapist, CPOS – and, hey, it’s nice to see “keep your mouth shut about a one-time infidelity” make the jump from our finer advice columns (Dear Prudence, Dear Sugar, Savage Love) to some of our actual therapists. While honesty (best policy) and confession (good for the soul) get all the positive press, there are times when unburdening yourself is absolutely the wrong thing to do. The person who confesses may wind up feeling better – because at least now they’re being honest – but the person to whom they’ve confessed can wind up feeling a whole lot worse. Some burdens should be borne not shifted. If your fiancée is going to inevitably find out, CPOS, better she find out about it from you. But if the secret

can be kept and if living with the guilt motivates you not to cheat again, then you can keep your mouth shut with a semi-clear-ish conscience. This advice is not a license for serial adulterers. If you can’t be faithful to someone – if that’s what you discovered when you had the affair – then you should extract yourself from the monogamous commitment you’ve already made to your fiancée and refrain from making monogamous commitments to anyone else in the future. But if you honestly believe you can be faithful, CPOS, you don’t have to see yourself as a cheating piece of shit. A serial adulterer/betrayer/liar is a cheating piece of shit; someone who cheated once, regrets it, and makes a goodfaith, multi-decade effort not to do it again is a fallible human being. My boyfriend of five years is a sweet, smart, handsome, loving, supportive, middle-aged, chubby white guy. We have a fulfilling sex life. When we first met, he shared a fantasy he had about watching me get [bleeped] by a black guy. (He knows it’s not something I’m interested in IRL.) I’ve caught him several times posing online as a young, buff, handsome black guy looking for a “snowbunny.” I call him out on it every time, and it causes huge fights. He says he’ll stop, but he never does. Weighed against all his other good qualities, this isn’t that big of a deal. Clearly he’s not going to meet up with the women he’s chatting with. What makes me sad is that I adore him as he is – I love his big white belly, his bald head and his rosy cheeks. I think I do a good job of communicating this to him. I guess I’m writing to you for some reassurance that I’m doing the right thing by letting this behavior go and also for some insight into why he’s doing it in the first place. Upset Girlfriend Hates

Eroticized Racial Secrets If this isn’t that big of a deal, UGHERS, why are you calling him out on it? Why are you monitoring his online activities/fantasies at all? What your boyfriend is doing sounds relatively harmless – he’s pretending to be someone he’s not while flirting with other people online who are most likely pretending to be someone they’re not. (I promise you most of the “snowbunnies” he’s chatted with were other men.) The world is full of people who enjoy pretending to be someone they’re not, from cosplayers pretending to be Captain America or Poison Ivy to creative anachronists pretending to be knights and ladies, to Donald Trump Jr. pretending to be a human being. We can’t gloss over the racial/ racist cultural forces that shaped your boyfriend’s kinks, of course, but it’s possible to explore those kinds of fantasies online or IRL without being a racist piece of shit. And a person can pretend to be someone of another race online – because it turns them on – without injecting racial hate into online spaces and/or thoughtlessly reinforcing damaging stereotypes about people of other races. You’ve seen your boyfriend’s online chats, UGHERS, so you’re in a better position to judge whether he’s exploring his fantasies without making the world a worse place than it already is for actual black men. If he’s being a racist piece of shit online, UGHERS, call him out on that. If he isn’t, stop policing his fantasies. I am a 36-year-old Italian straight man. I love my girlfriend endlessly. One month ago, she told me she has thoughts about missing out on the things she didn’t get to do in her teens. She is 29 years old now. Also, she says she feels only a mild love for me now and is curious about

other men. Yesterday we met and cried and talked and made love and it felt like she still loves me passionately. But she also told me she had sex with a stranger a week ago and she is going for one and a half months to Los Angeles on her own. Now I feel confused. I should hate her for what she did to me, I should tell her to [bleep] off, but I can’t do it. I am so in love and I want to be together again after her trip. How do I exit this turmoil? Pensive And Insecure Now You exit this turmoil by breaking up with your girlfriend. She wants to get out there and do “things she didn’t get to do in her teens,” i.e., [bleep] other guys and most likely date other guys. This isn’t what you want, PAIN, you’ve made that clear to her, but she’s gonna [bleep] other guys anyway. You don’t have to pretend to hate her, PAIN, and you don’t have to tell her to [bleep] off. But you do have to tell her that it’s over – at least for now. And once she goes, PAIN, don’t lie around tormenting yourself with mental images of all the things/men she’s doing in Los Angeles. Don’t put your life on hold – love life included – while she’s gone. You’re going to be single. So get out there, date other women, do some things/women you haven’t done. If she wants to get back together when she returns, and if you still want to get back together with her, you can pick things up where you left off. But you should act like it’s over while she’s gone, PAIN, because it most likely is. 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] Ska celebrates winter We’re about a week into autumn, which means that winter will be knocking on our door soon enough. Ska is getting into the spirit of the upcoming season with the always-anticipated release of its Euphoria Pale Ale – and is throwing a party to kick things off right Friday night. The seasonal beer is brewed with Ska’s friends from Venture Snowboards – Ska brews Euphoria with Venture, and Venture makes a snowboard with Ska. They call it a Ska/Venture venture. Both make winter Courtesy of The Great Contention better, and both are hand-crafted in the mighty San Juans. The party will be from 5 – 8 p.m. at Ska Brewing World Headquarters, 558 Girard St. in Bodo Park, where you can also catch live music by Durango’s Americana “soulgrass” band The Great Contention.

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

Smiley Cafe, 1309 East Third Ave. Ska BQ! with live music from Shaky Hand String Band, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing

early 1900s photographs, 5 p.m., Toh-Atin Gallery, 145 W. Ninth Street, 247-8277.

www.durangocowboypoetrygathering.org.

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

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

Euphoria Pale Ale Release Party, 5

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

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

p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St.

National Theatre Live: A View From the Bridge, 11 a.m., Animas City Theatre,

Jeneve Rose Mitchell – American Idol finalist, 3 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre,

Navajo Taco Dinner by the Durango Children’s Chorale and Youth Chorus, 5 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. 910

128 E. College Drive.

www.henrystratertheatre.com.

East Third Ave.

Local author and artist Lorie Preusch, 4 p.m., Kennebec Cafe, 4 County Road 124,

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

Lacey Black, 6-9 p.m., Fox Fire Farms, 5513

Hesperus, 247-5674.

County Road 321, Ignacio, 563-4675.

Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering,

Open mic, 7-11 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900

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

6 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave., www.durangocowboypoetrygathering.org.

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

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

A Starry Night at Mesa Verde, 7:30 p.m.,

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. Nic Oz: Hip-Hop, 9:30 p.m., Balcony Back-

Morefield Campground Amphitheater at Mesa Verde National Park.

stage, 600 Main Ave., Suite 210.

Million Dollar Highway Band, 8 p.m.,

Saturday

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

Journey of Hope 5K Run/Walk, 7:30

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

Co., 225 Girard Street. Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering,

6 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave., www.durangocowboypoetrygathering.org. Thursday Night Football and Local Art Show, 6 p.m., Balcony Backstage, 600

Main Ave., Suite 210.

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. Hello, Dollface w/Marv Ellis and We Tribe, 9 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E.

College Drive, www.animascitytheatre.com/ event/258065.

Friday

a.m., Three Springs Plaza. Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m., First

Buster’s Ghost, 9:30 p.m., $3.50 Ska drafts,

Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering,

7 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave., www.durangocowboypoetrygathering.org. 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. Lacey Black, 5:30-7 p.m. and 8-10 p.m., Di-

amond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150.

National Bank Durango, 259 W. Ninth St.

Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., Suite 210.

For Art’s Sake: A Fine Art Sale, 8 a.m.,

Sunday

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

Durango Brew Train, 10 a.m., Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Ukulele Open Mic Night, 6 p.m., The

Jim Rey paintings, Skyhorse saddles, early

Thrive! Living Wage Fall Fundraiser,

30th Cowboy Poetry Train, 10 a.m.,

Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave.

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, www.durangotrain.com.

Jim Rey paintings, Skyhorse saddles, early 1900’s photographs, 9 a.m., Toh-Atin Gallery, 145 W. Ninth Street, 247-8277.

Cowboy Gathering - Bonnie Conrad, Jane Chavez and Roger Conrad, 5 p.m.,

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

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

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

Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200.

Football Brunch, 10 a.m. Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., Suite 210.

1900’s photographs, 9 a.m., Toh-Atin Gallery.

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave., 247-3555.

6 p.m., Eolus Bar & Dining, 919 Main Ave.

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

For Art’s Sake: Preview Night, 5 p.m.,

Cowboy Poetry Gathering Parade,

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

Rooftop Old West Gunfights, 6 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

10 a.m., downtown (along Main Avenue from Train Depot to 12th Street and Main Avenue),

Football Brunch, 10 a.m. Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., Suite 210.

Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave. Jim Rey paintings, Skyhorse saddles,

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Drive, http://durangouu.org. Lacey Black, 5:30-7 p.m. and 8-10 p.m.,

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

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

Tuesday

Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 3757150. Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, theirishembassypub.com. Geeks Who Drink trivia, 8:30 p.m.,

Lacey Black, 5:30-7 p.m. and 8-10 p.m.,

Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 3757150. International Peace Activist Kathy Kelly: The Cost of War; The Price of Peace, 7-9 p.m., free, Pine River Library,

395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield, 8842222. Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m.,

Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www.facebook.com/SuperTedsTriviaAtSkaBrewing. Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main

Ave., 259-9018. Salsa/Latin Dance Night, 8 p.m., Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Cumbia and Reggaeton, Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., Suite 205, salsadancedurango@gmail. com.

Wednesday International Peace Activist Kathy Kelly: The Cost of War; The Price of Peace, 3-4:30 p.m., free, Durango Unitar-

ian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan

BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 W. College Drive, 259-5959. Pub quiz, 6:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200. Pingpong and poker tournament, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-

9018. Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9

p.m., Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 375-2568.

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Buster’s Ghost on tap at the Balcony

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Durango’s own Buster’s Ghost brings the ska flavor back to the Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., on Saturday night. Made up of Daniel Szabo on guitar and vocals; Phil Loudermilk on bass; Cruz Muniz on drums; Timmy Esposito on saxophone; Kelly Emery on trumpet; and Bryce Staley on trombone, Buster’s Ghost serves up ska music of all traditions. And what better to drink while listen to ska? Ska, of course. The Balcony will be offering up $3.50 Ska drafts all night.

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Remember that you need more rest in the next few weeks. Interactions with partners and close friends also are more important. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Do whatever you can to feel that you are more efficient and on top of your game, as this will please you. This even applies to your health. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Grab every chance to slip away on a vacation or to enjoy sports and playful activities with children. This is a fun time for your sign. Romance looks promising! CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

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For the next few weeks, your focus is on home, family and your private life. You also will enjoy cocooning at home

among familiar surroundings. Interactions with a parent will be significant. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Accept your busy pace of short trips and visits because this will continue for several weeks. Discussions with siblings, neighbors and relatives are significant. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Because you sense that you can earn more money, your focus right now turns to earnings and cash flow. Think about what it is that you truly value and want. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a strong, energetic time for you because the Sun is in your sign. Because people and favorable circumstances easily will come your way, take advantage of this!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Continue to work alone or behind the scenes for best results. Start to get your ducks in a row for when the Sun enters your sign and you are strong! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Socialize extensively now because the focus is on groups and friends this month. Examine the role these relationships play in your life because they are important to you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It’s easy for you to make a great impression on bosses, VIPs and parents right now. You have an advantage – make your pitch and go after what you want! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Travel will appeal to you now and in the

next few weeks. Grab any opportunity to learn more and expand your experience of life. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Tie up loose details regarding inheritances, shared property, taxes and debt because this will be easy for you now. Look for ways to be the best that you can be. BORN THIS WEEK You respect the opinions of others. You are intelligent and practical. You have a perceptive mind that seeks practical solutions. It’s important to know that you will benefit from dealing with others this year. In other words, your success lies with interacting with other people. Make friends. Join clubs and organizations. Your social activities will be mutually beneficial. © 2016 King Features Syndicate Inc.

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