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Even though industrial beer turned women into sex objects and left them to be barmaids and bottling line reject inspectors, women’s participation in craft beer doesn’t have a limit.

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Skinwalkers, horror, and blessing yourself on set These days, Navajo filmmaker Kody Dayish (above) is wrapping up post-production on his first feature-length film, a thriller called “The Red Hogan” and DGO got to talk to him about it.

Bryant Liggett Jon E. Lynch Heather Narwid Cooper Stapleton Cyle Talley Robert Alan Wendeborn

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Olives Love it

The joy of waiting in a world all about instant gratification

ou might have heard of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, where, starting in the late 1960s, researchers put young children in a room alone with a marshmallow (or pretzels or cookies), telling them that they could eat the treat at any time. However, if they waited 15 minutes, they would get two marshmallows. Decades later, the kids who delayed their gratification were more likely to have better life outcomes in areas such as SAT scores, body mass index, and more brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. The theory is that those wired to delay gratification are more equipped to deal with stress when pursuing goals throughout life and are “more able to sustain effort and deal with frustration,” psychologist Dr. Walter Mischel, the originator of the study, told CNN. While the media has exaggerated the importance of the study’s findings, according to Mischel, not to mention the study having flaws, like a homogeneous sample, it’s a fascinating idea. Regardless, I’ve always found delaying gratification fun. Recently, I told the ladyfriend a story about how, in fourth grade on pepperoni pizza day, I picked off the three pepperonis on my pizza and set them aside on my plate. Thinking they were intended garbage, my friend reached across the table for them. I batted his hand away and said, “I’m saving those for the end!” After the story, the ladyfriend said, “You still do that!” Apparently, I had done it on one of our first few dates – again with pizza, this time with pineapple. Perhaps there’s an evolutionary explanation for this behavior. If things are going well in the present, why not save a bit of the good fortune for later, when circumstances might be different? For me, delaying gratification is not about deprivation, but about saving a morsel of joy for later. That “later” can be minutes, like when eating a sandwich, eating all around the edges so

your last few bites are from the fluffy, crust-less center. Or when eating something like a burrito, it is imperative to save a bite for the end that has the perfect combination of the burrito’s filling so the meal ends on a stellar note. There’s nothing like a final bite of just tortilla and sour cream to ruin your day. Or that “later” can be months, like with a special bottle of beer, like the brew I had once been saving on the top shelf of my refrigerator. I had recently moved to Durango from Connecticut and had a bottle of Dogfish Head 90 Minute I was saving for a special day, not knowing if I’d be able to find it out here. A colleague had stopped by to pick up a chair she’d left at the party I had the day before. Despite the brevity of the visit, she asked if she could have a beer and I said, “Go for it.” Now, the middle shelf in the refrigerator was stacked with leftover beer from the party, but wouldn’t you know it, she bypassed all of it and reached for that lone bottle of 90 Minute tucked away up top in the back. Perhaps, I should have let it go, but I had to stop her. Any other beer in the fridge, I told her, but I’m saving that one. Delaying gratification can be agonizing but ultimately fun. In the anxiety-ridden days of Trump, I’m an increasingly obsessive checker of news. But man is it satisfying to avoid news the entire day and then open up the iPad at night and see the day’s catastrophes. Or to turn off my phone (or unbearably try to ignore the buzzing and chirping in my pocket) and wait hours to check messages. But it’s a great practice of establishing and maintaining control over our lives or to create opportunities for small joys in a world that encourages instant gratification. For now, the ladyfriend and I are going to use St. Patrick’s Day to finally open the pricey bottle of whiskey from the Dingle Distillery we bought in Dingle, Ireland, last year. Regardless of how it tastes, the fun has been waiting for this day.

The eldest, living olive tree is more than 2,000 years old. Even at two millennia, the Olive Tree of Vouves in Crete, Greece, still produces olives. Some scientists date it at 4,000 years. Imagine the scenes of ardor and darkness that have been enacted in front of a tree as ancient as the Parthenon. I admire the gusto of any living entity willing to keep going as the world continuously, dramatically changes around it. Even run-of-the-mill, younger olive trees impress me. They produce a fruit fit for working class and royal tables. Kalamatas, purple-brown niçoise beauties, and martini-perfect picholines posh up a plate, especially when you pair them with cheese. God save the world for its cheese and olive trays. All of the noms. If you gave me the choice between a plate of olives from the Tree of Vouves and $1,000, I would take the olives. — Patty Templeton

Hate it There are a number of foods I do not like, many that I simply cannot understand how people eat: Capers, beets, skim milk, sun-dried tomatoes, canned fish that is not tuna, blood sausage, raw oysters, black pudding, to name a few. But I reserve a particularly special place in Donald Trump’s furrowed brow for the olive (drop the “O” and shuffle it around and you have “vile”). Since the age of 8, since a neighborhood kid paraded around his retched afternoon snack, walking out to the cul-de-sac with olives attached to the ends of his fingers, eating them like they were Pringles, I have described olives as a cucumber pickled by someone who miserably failed the correspondence course on pickling, and then steeped in a disgustingly sweaty gym sock for two years. Even on pizza – pizza! – cooked with the delicious companions of cheese, sauce, dough and savory, cured meats – olives have the power to ruin the party, rendering an otherwise gift from God to sustenance better suited for the bottom of a toilet bowl. They have the texture of a slippery, limp, and rotting carrot and taste like the crotch of an endurance runner’s underpants. Olive oil: Fine. Olive Oyl: Kinda sexy. But olives? Keep them out of my sight. — David Holub

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What is “The Red Hogan”? It’s a film that will focus on Navajo culture, the good and bad. Like witchcraft, the skinwalkers, and other types of spirits. I’m a really big fan of horror films. We are really excited about it. Is it a horror film? I would say it is a thriller. It opens up with there being something very wrong with a kid. He’s the oldest of a sheep-herding family. His family is trying to figure out how to help him. When it comes down to it, they find out a skinwalker is involved, and throughout the whole film, you’re trying to figure out who the skinwalker is. Who are your horror influences? Oh man, I really think that I got inspiration from James Wan who directed “Saw.” That dude’s films are so good. I like “The Conjuring” and I think he is my favorite director. The style of his films are a big inspiration. Him and Alejandro González Iñárritu, the director of “The Revenant.”

SKINWALKERS, HORROR, AND BLESSING YOURSELF ON SET »» An interview with Navajo filmmaker Kody Dayish

When you break your neck and end up in a halo for six months, it gives you a lot of time to think about your life and career. Back in the summer of 2010, Kody Dayish had founded Kody Dayish Productions with his siblings, Kolette and Kolin, in Shiprock, New Mexico. It took the accident to fire up Dayish about filmmaking, rather than acting, a recovery process that also included screenwriting. His first film, “The Beginning,” is a 12-minute short featuring an all-Navajo cast and production team. In it, an elderly Navajo man teaches traditions to his grandson through sacred song and prayer. “The Beginning” won Dayish the Emerging First Time Director Award at the 13th Red Nation Film Festival in November 2016. These days, Dayish is wrapping up post-production on his first feature-length film, a thriller called “The Red Hogan” and DGO got to talk to him about it.

Skinwalkers aren’t often talked about. Do you think you’ll get any flack for opening up that side of Navajo culture? Definitely. It was a really hard challenge that I knew we would take on. It’s an absolute bad thing to hear or be around or to talk about skinwalkers. Especially if you strongly believe in Navajo tradition. We talked about it. We talked to the whole crew about it. At first, when I would explain to our elders that were backing the film, they would say, “No, you can’t do that.” But as I explained how the story went, then they kind of saw the point of making this film. It is going to be an awesome film. There is so much respect behind it. Especially from me because I know it is a bad thing. But you know, we researched a lot and took a lot of time aside to contemplate and everything is very accurate. There’s a bunch of misinterpretations about our Navajo culture. If you Google “skinwalker” the picture is way off. I hope this film will correct those misinterpretations. Another thing I bring up is that it is a catch-22. If we film too much of it people will get mad. If we film too little, they get mad. It is hard to please everybody all of the time. But the film, I am happy with it. I want the movie to be over and the audience to just sit there quiet for a minute like, “Whoa.” Did anything spooky happen on set? Oh yes. Absolutely. There’s quite a bit that took place at night and to make this film as authentic as possible, the whole thing is based on true stories. We went to the actual, reported locations where events took place. There’d be these abandoned houses, or hogans, that we’d go to. My sister – I have to give it up to her on this film – she was the production manager. We’d be out in the middle of nowhere and Kolette would have to sit alone outside and make sound effects. When we were done and driving back home, she was like, “Dude, don’t make me do that again! I swear I heard something.” The film, it’s borderline graphic sometimes. To the point where I even started thinking, “Oh my goodness, I better do some prayers,” ya know? So I would bless myself every time we did a dark scene. What’s something you’re stoked about in the film? We even got Hank Williams III involved. It’s one of the things we haven’t publicized. We haven’t really shown much about it yet. It’s one of the things I’m most excited about. Is he on the soundtrack or acting? You’ll have to wait for the details. It’s crazy. When does “The Red Hogan” come out? 2018. We are going to submit it to the 2018 Sundance film festival. We wanted to do it for 2017, but as time went on, we found things that needed re-doing or editing. After we submit it to Sundance in May of this year, we’ll post the full trailer online. This interview was edited and condensed for clarity. —— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

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GET TO KNOW IRISH

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start if you want to get into liquid sunshine St. Patrick’s Day is night in Durango town, that feasting day for Ireland’s patron saint for his efforts to bring Christianity to the Emerald Isle. If you’re not into St. Patrick’s efforts to convert pagans (i.e., the snakes he drove out of Ireland), you can tip back a glass of whiskey for whiskey’s sake, this Friday, March 17. You certainly won’t be the first American to swill what Bernard Shaw called “liquid sunshine.” In 1830, the average American age 15 and older, drank 88 bottles of whiskey a year. That means a bottle every four days. A hundred years of being stinking drunk and no wonder Prohibition happened to dry out the U.S. Maybe Americans needed time off from Irish whiskey, but they sure as hell don’t anymore. From 2002 to 2015, Irish whiskey sales have increased by 642 percent. But with all the Jame-Os and Tullamore-somethings, where the heck do you start if you want to get into Irish whiskey? El Moro, the Bookcase and Barber, and the Irish Embassy Pub have your back. Here are six Irish whiskeys found in Durango, from affordable to luxurious.

The Bookcase and Barber, 601 E. Second Ave.

Kilbeggan Price: $ The Bookcase and Barber focuses on craft cocktails with a literary twist. The most approachable Irish whiskey they have is Kilbeggan. “It’s very mellow and smooth,” said Beau Black, bartender and proprietor of the B & B. Kilbeggan whiskey is double distilled in traditional copper pots, one of which is the oldest working pot still in Ireland at 180 years old. You’ll find notes of vanilla and barley with a dry oak finish.

Bushmills Original Price: $ Bushmills is a triple-distilled, single malt whiskey. It’s argued that Bushmills gives a smoother finish than Jameson, the most popular Irish whiskey in America. Popular whiskey drinks at The Bookcase and Barber are $5 Manhattans on Mondays (if you bring in the password found on social media), old fashioneds, and Harry Houdinis (a house creation).

The Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave.

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“This is the rarest Jameson you can have,” said Phil Brennan, co-owner of the Irish Embassy Pub. “It’s a 40-year-old Jameson.” The pub only goes through two to three bottles a year because the price of a shot – $40 – makes it a special occasion, sipping whiskey. “It’s a lot more fruity than the Bushmills. It’s softer and has a sweeter aroma ... it’s easier on the palette.”

Bushmills is a distillery in Northern Ireland that has been around since 1784, but its license to distill spirits was originally granted to Thomas Phillips in 1608. Its 400th Anniversary blend is 40 years old and its rich, warm, smoky notes have won it the World Whiskies Awards twice.

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The Irish Embassy Pub has 45 Irish whiskeys to try, a whiskey club to join, and on St. Patrick’s Day, Friday, March 17, they’ll have whiskey specials. All Irish whiskeys will be between $1 to $3 off.

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The origins of Tullamore Dew, whose origins go back to 1829, has a gentle complexity. You aren’t going to feel a burn here. “It uses the same type of casks as the Green Spot, but it’s not aged as long,” Hess said. Which means it’s “super approachable in price and a delicious whiskey in its own right.”

Green Spot has a full, smooth body with hints of toasted wood, clove, and vanilla. It’s a blend of 7- and 10-yearold whiskey matured in sherry and bourbon barrels. “The bourbon barrels are going to give you that color. That sherry cask, which is my favorite touch on an Irish whiskey, is going to give it a real drying character. It makes you want to have that next sip,” said Hess.

Popular whiskey drinks at El Moro include ever-changing craft cocktails, Irish coffee, and weekly-themed whiskey flights. —— Patty Templeton

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Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

Expect the unexpected with dynamic Alvin and Gilmore

hey’re two musicians with almost a century of songwriting between them. You can file them under the “roots-country-folk-Americana” label but ditch the names and just refer them as two dudes w make important contributions to the songbook of the world. One is a blues-at-the-core, Southern California cow-punk who helped form roots-punk band The Blasters, had a run playing guitar in X, and for decades has had a steady run of playing folk and roots rock. His talent is vast, his catalog deep. He’s a lyricist whose words paint vivid scenes of America: Angst, beat jobs, blowing out of town with nothing and coming home with less. He’s also a hell of a guitar player with encyclopedic knowledge of America’s lesser-known heavy-hitters of early blues music. The other is a laid-back, independent Texas folk and country singer. He’s high and lonesome when he needs to be, and rough around the edges like a beaten West Texas town; an unpretentious and gritty singer with a pocket full of songs both sad and celebratory. He also carries that same encyclopedic knowledge of the important contributors to American music. If that isn’t enough, he plays Smokey in “The Big Lebowski.” California’s Dave Alvin and Texas’s Jimmie Dale Gilmore are performing together Wednesday, March 22, at the Henry Strater Theatre. They’ll trade off on songs, tell stories, and knock down the walls that define genres. It’s all blues, it’s all roots rock, it’s all country, a head-first dive into a pool of American music that moves well beyond watered down mountain grass and the twang that defines the PBR crowd. This is musical exploration grounded in lyrical reality: Two musicians with unique voices exploring their personal brands of country and blues via a partnership that came together with little fanfare, just a mutual admiration of the other’s work. “It just kind of happened; there wasn’t an ‘aha’ moment. I’ve known Jimmie for 30-some

Bryant’s best Friday: Little Wilderness and the Crags, 9 p.m. No cover. The Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave. upstairs. Information: 422-8008. Wednesday: KSUT presents Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 7:30 p.m. $30/$35. Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. Information: 375-7160. years, and we’ve never done anything where it’s just me and him with guitars, which is how the show is structured. It can get interesting. It’s not just an ‘Oh, and then I wrote this’ kind of situation. We pull things out of the hat, out of very obscure hats,” said Alvin. “But it was really just an idea that boiled down to something as mundane as ‘Hey, are you busy? No? You wanna do this? Yeah.’” Alvin is stoked on the partnership and subsequent tour that continues to add more dates around the states. There is no set-list, and neither musician dictates what the other will perform throughout the show. You’ll likely hear Gilmore’s “Dallas,” and you could hear Alvin dip into The Blasters catalog, ripping through an acoustic version of “Marie Marie.” If a fan yells out “Fourth of July” it could get played. It’s loose, casual, and cool. “It really is fun; it tickles the ol’ creative funny bone or something. Some nights, Jimmie will pull out something he hasn’t done in 40 years, because of the song that I just played,” Alvin said. “We’ve covered everything. We do our own songs, of course, but then we get to everything from Townes Van Zandt to Merle Haggard, to Blind Lemon Jefferson to Sam Cooke. Things come out. Jimmy singing Sam Cooke is pretty amazing but Jimmy singing Blind Lemon Jefferson is downright eye-opening. What happens is pretty organic.” Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. liggett_b@fortlewis.edu.

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[sound] What’s new Craig Finn,“We All Want The Same Things” Available: Friday, March 24, via Partisan Records in a wide variety of formats: digital download accompanied with the bonus Calvary Court EP and a number of bundles that include compact disc, a flexi disc of single “Preludes,” and vinyl versions, along with extraneous offerings such as a coffee mug, knit beanie, test pressings and hand-written lyric sheets. “We All Want The Same Things” is the third proper solo record from the lead singer of the Minneapolis-via-Brooklyn rock ’n’ roll outfit,

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The Hold Steady. Still present are the hooks and choruses, along with Finn’s unique delivery and wry approach to lyrics. The album was largely recorded in Rhinebeck, New York, with “frequent collaborator Josh Kaufman producing and Dan Goodwin engineering and mixing, the record also features contributions from drummer Joe Russo, keyboardist

Sam Kassirer, Rainer Maria vocalist Caithlin De Marrais, singer/songwriter Annie Nero, horn master Stuart Bogie, Jon Shaw, Jordan McLean, Matt Barrick and Finn’s longtime partner in The Hold Steady, guitarist Tad Kubler.” Stylistically, the songs on this latest album fit right alongside Finn’s work with The Hold Steady

and those on the previous two solo outings. The sing-talk delivery and vivid imagery that established fans are used to are still very much present, if not darker and heavier themed here. As a casual fan of The Hold Steady, I’ve found the songs, characters, and stories on “We All Want The Same Things” worth revisiting. Above all else, Finn can certainly turn a phrase.

having a bit more maturity and it’s a good look for them.

Maybe next record.

is gonna like it. Listen to “We Chase The Sound” and if you like it we should be best friends. Seriously, come to the record store and be my friend. If you like the strange alt electronics of bands like HEALTH or The Knife, you really should know about ADULT.

Dodecahedron,“Kwintessens (Through Bodies Measureless to Man)”

March 17 Depeche Mode,“Spirit” There are two different types of music listeners in tough times: Those that seek happy music to counteract the world, and those that seek catharsis in music that exemplifies the sad state of the world. On the final track of “Spirit”, “Fail,” singer Martin Gore shows which side Depeche Mode falls on, and in his immortal words, “We’re [effed].” Over Depeche Mode’s 40-plus-year career, they have encapsulated the state of their times so well and so consistently, taking a soulful and bluesy singing style and adapting it to their own means. Some of the tracks on “Spirit” are fairly forgettable, but overall it’s a good bit of cynicism that can be good for the mind sometimes. Real Estate,“In Mind” If you weren’t satisfied with last week’s offering of sappy saccharine indie pop, then I have something to show you! Having a dreamier production bent than that new Shins album, Real Estate’s “In Mind” floats about three feet above your head, like a really good sativa. The lead single for the album, “Darling,” reminded me strangely of Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper” with its whispered harmonies and quietly plucked guitar lead. Lovers of dream pop will find a lot to dream about on “In Mind.” It finds the band

Now we get to the good stuff. This is the type of music that makes your parents afraid. These Dutch madmen make some of the angriest black metal music out there right now, comparable to the likes of Deathspell Omega or Portal. Dodecahedron makes music that is not for the faint of heart. Those that desire strength of mind and heart should drink from this chalice and welcome this beast into their bodies. Occasionally, songs like “Dodecahedron: An Ill Defined Sense of Otherness” show up and add a breath of fresh atmospheres before plunging back into the depths. This is one of the most versatile and powerful metal records I’ve heard this year, and it is truly something special. Spoon,“Hot Thoughts” Spoon is one of those bands that I never listened to because I just assumed I knew what they sounded like. I wouldn’t say I was wrong, but “Hot Thoughts” has surprised me so far. The title track is their usual sound of pop that has one toe over the “art pop” line, and I dig it. The jangly xylophone is a sound more bands need to utilize effectively. It sets a much different mood than most contemporary pop pieces tend to. Other songs, like “Can I Sit Next To You,” did absolutely nothing for me, while some of the tracks like “WhisperI’lllistentohearit” have a strange but enamoring krautrock bent. I would like to hear more of this straight up experimental side of theirs. Oh well.

ADULT,“Detroit House Guests” Speaking of krautrock, ADULT has returned with their weird style of off-brand electronic tunes. Drum machines and weird vocal harmonies abound. That’s how you know Cooper

Recommended for fans of The Hold Steady, Lifter Puller, Bruce Springsteen, The Replacements, Future Islands, or Jets to Brazil. —— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

Brewing isn’t a woman’s world, but that is changing

’ve written about women and beer before, but it’s usually from the perspective of women as drinkers or women as consumers, not so much as women as brewers, but I should have. I should have a long time ago, because women have been instrumental in the history of brewing, and still play huge roles today. Much in the same way that the 20th century killed the craft of brewing, the 20th century and the industrialized beer it created also killed the participation of women in the craft. Before industrial beer, women were the primary brewers of beer all over the world. In ancient Sumeria, the birthplace of beer, brewing had a goddess, not a god, as its overseer,

and women were the original baker/brewer/priestesses. Even though industrial beer turned women into sex objects and left them to be barmaids and bottling line reject inspectors, women’s participation in craft beer doesn’t have a limit. Women in craft beer today hold positions up and down the payroll, as well as sign the checks of some of the biggest and best craft breweries. My list of beer heroes includes some really rad women, such as Lauren Salazar, the wood cellar manager at New Belgium, and Gwen Conley, the quality and production manager at Lost Abbey. Whether they are quality supervisors, shift brewers, heads of marketing, HR, or even packaging technicians and, yes, beertenders, women are filling the ranks and

leading the craft beer revolution. Last Wednesday was International Women’s Day, and to commemorate, The Pink Boots Society did their annual Women’s Collaborative Brew Day, and breweries across the world collaborated on a beer. This year’s brew was a historical/ancient beer. Ska Brewing’s Erica Tieppo wrote the recipe for their version of the brew, a Gruit with a farmhouse/saison inspired grain bill and honey, juniper, lemon balm, and cardamom. The crew at Ska was joined by brewers and industry folk from Mancos Brewing, Steamworks, Animas Brewing, and even Two Beers Brewing in Seattle. As uplifting as all this sounds, craft brewing is still a male-dominated field and market. There are still sexist

marketing strategies, company ideals, and workplace environments, just like the rest of society. I think there’s still a lot of work to do in this area. This is a symptom of something bigger, and that men (and women) are afraid to call themselves “feminists” even though they may agree that women should have the right to own property, vote, have equal pay for equal work, and access to the same educational, legal, economic, and avenues of healthcare as men. So if you believe those things, guess what that means? You’re a feminist. 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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WOMEN IN COLORADO HISTORY WHO WILL INSPIRE YOU

»» For Women’s

History Month, we celebrate a slave-turned-real estate mogul, the mother of modern taxidermy, a member of the Ute tribal council, the preserver of Mesa Verde, an African American female doctor, and an actor who turned to politics

t’s Women’s History Month, y’all, and since 1988, every president has signed proclamations making it so. Themed observance months, no matter their subject, commonly are questioned with, “Why do we need a whole month dedicated to that?” In the case of Women’s History Month, we need it because people still think that women don’t or haven’t done things, that skilled women in history are anomalies, or that if a woman did accomplish something, she must have had help from a man to get it done. Which is bullsquawk. If you want a basic primer on how a society erases women, Joanna Russ’ “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” is a phenomenal work, and if you only have time for a cruisethrough, Kameron Hurley’s essay, “Where Have All the Women Gone,” breaks it down beautifully. Colorado is no different, with a history full of fascinating women. Here are six ladies who helped forge the Centennial State into being great. Clara Brown (1800-1885)

Clara Brown was a free black woman five years before the Civil War began. She spent the 56 years she lived in Alexi Grojean/Special to DGO

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»» (From left) Elizabeth Eyre Pellet, Clara Brown, Chipeta, Justina Ford, Martha Maxwell, Virginia Donaghe McClurg.

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[women’s history month] From Page 13

Virginia and Kentucky as a slave, but when her last owner died, he granted her freedom in his will. The 1850 U.S. Census shows that Brown wasn’t alone in her freedom. At the time, there were more than 400,000 free black folks in America. Brown journeyed by river from Kentucky to Leavenworth, Kansas, where she was hired as a cook for a wagon train of Gold Rush hopefuls headed to Denver. The eight-week working trip was Brown’s only way West. In 1859, in large swaths of the United States, it was illegal for a black person to travel without the accompaniment of a white person

“So, with dream-chips on my shoulder – a habit I can no longer break, it’s on to tomorrow’s unknown battle, or folly.” Elizabeth “Betty” Eyre Pellet

Martha Maxwell (1831-1881) Martha Maxwell was a naturalist and the mother of modern taxidermy. After a short stint as a teacher in the circus-centric town of Baraboo, Wisonsin, she married a fella, who, after the Panic of 1857 (the first worldwide economic crisis involving gold), convinced her to join him in the Gold Rush. The couple settled in Nevadaville and, not content to sit at home while her husband mined for gold, Maxwell baked pies, mended clothes, and took in washing. She invested her money in mining claims, a boarding house, and a one-room log cabin. In an odd turn, a squatter took over the log cabin before Maxwell made use of it. Maxwell waited until the German miner left on an errand, unhinged the front door, and chucked all his possessions out. The claim jumper had been a taxidermist and, soon after, Maxwell wrote her family for a book on preserving animals. By 1874, Maxwell, a lifelong vegetarian, opened

After the Meeker Massacre, Chipeta was a key negotiator in the release of women and children taken hostage. 1880 brought her to Washington to discuss a treaty on reservation resettlement. Even though, through the help of Chipeta, the Utes ratified a treaty with the U.S. government, they were forced to leave Colorado for placement on a Utah reservation. It wasn’t until the end of her life that Chipeta was again recognized as a wise peacemaker by the likes of poets and President Taft.

Mary Virginia Donaghe McClurg (~1850-1931)

Central City is where Brown put down roots, working as a midwife, nursemaid, and cook, but it was when she set up the first laundry in Gilpin County that her fortunes took off. Brown soon gathered $10,000 in savings (over $270,000 in today’s money), owned 16 lots in Denver, seven houses in Central City, and other property and mines in Boulder, Georgetown, and Idaho Springs. But folks didn’t know Brown as a rich, old lady. They knew her as “Aunt Clara” who had, according to a Denver Tribune-Republican reporter, “a remarkable face, with high cheekbones, a long, pointed nose, and very black eyes. Her cast of features is strong and almost classical, and the hair which curls above her temples is as white as the snow.” She was the kind woman who hosted Methodist church services at her house, the philanthropist who donated to those in need and to churches of all denominations, and the woman who paid for over 16 family members and freed slaves to come to Colorado.

Chipeta became the caretaker of Chief Ouray’s son and when his first wife died, Chipeta became his second. She was renowned for her beadwork, wisdom, and ability to sing in multiple languages. Even after Ouray’s death, Chipeta continued as the leader of her people and the only woman permitted to sit on Ute tribal councils.

Mesa Verde National Park may not have been preserved from treasure hunters and land-grabbers if it wasn’t for Mary Virginia Donaghe McClurg. McClurg arrived in Colorado in 1879 as a newspaper correspondent for the New York Daily Graphic, covering the “scenic West.”

the Rocky Mountain Museum in Boulder to showcase specimens she had hunted and preserved. It moved to Denver a year later, but ultimately closed due to monetary difficulties. Still, after hundreds of preservations, Maxwell had developed her own taxidermy techniques that included an instance of specimens displayed in a replica of their natural habitat. She was invited to create a display at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first World’s Fair in the U.S., and her taxidermy techniques would go on to influence Carl Akeley, the taxidermist and diorama creator for the Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History.

Chipeta (1843-1924) Chipeta, translated as White Singing Bird, was an integral negotiator in mediations between white settlers and the Ute people. As a babe, a band of Tabeguache Utes had pity on Chipeta and adopted her as their own after finding her crawling in the remains of a Kiowa Apache encampment, the only survivor of a brutal attack.

McClurg fell in love with “Colorado’s wonderful buried cities and lost homes” after she visited Mesa Verde in 1882 and 1886. Her second trip included a guide, a photographer, a cook, and horses to haul supplies. Her party rediscovered Echo Cliff house, Three Tier House, and a Balcony House. The Utes were, of course, well aware of Mesa Verde and what it contained, but McClurg’s rediscovery of the ancient ruins led her on a path to advocate for them. She formed the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, published sketches, photographs, and a book on Mesa Verde and gave public lectures, including several at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. After teaching an 1894 class on “The Prehistoric West,” McClurg circulated a petition to preserve Mesa Verde as a national park. It took 12 years of petitioning with Lucy Peabody, the vice regent of the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, which caused President Roosevelt to designate Mesa Verde as a national park in 1906.

Justina Ford (1871-1952) Justina Ford was the first African American female doctor in Denver. After acquiring her MD at Hering Medical College in Chicago, Ford set up offices in Denver. In 1902, she received a medical license, but the examiner stated, “I feel dishonest taking a fee from you. You’ve got two strikes against you to begin with. First of all, you’re a lady, and second, you’re colored.” He didn’t believe that Ford would make a dollar as a doctor being that African Americans were barred from working in hospitals. During her 50-plus-year career, Ford delivered alContinued on Page 15

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Feminist history hotspots in Colorado »» Get your go-shoes on for some women’s history tourism “The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers,” said Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. There are plenty of female makers of Colorado history. Here are six historic locales you can visit on your next vacay that are in honor of or created by women. Black American West Museum

almost 7,000 babies from her home practice. She specialized in general medicine, gynecology, obstetrics, and in taking care of people hospitals did not want to: Black folks, non-English-speaking immigrants, and poor white folks. It wasn’t unusual for Ford to accept trades in lieu of cash from her patients or for her to buy food and coal for those who couldn’t afford it. Though she had a flawless, generous medical practice, Ford was not initially allowed entry into the Colorado Medical Society or the American Medical Association. After submitting yearly applications, it took until 1950 before Ford was accepted into the Colorado Medical Society, two years before she died. Today, her Denver home is now the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center.

3091 California St., Denver Learn about Justina Ford, the first female African American doctor in Denver, in the very house she used to live in. Additional displays cover the lives of black pioneers who made the West their home.

The Colorado Trail The Colorado Trail is a 567-mile route that leads from slightly southwest of Denver to Durango. It passes through historic mining towns, near Native American trails, past spectacular wildflowers, and in sight of gorgeous vistas. The trail was created due to the passion of Gudy Gaskill, who corralled over 10,000 volunteers to help create the trail and then spent the next 30 years of her life polishing it into a Colorado gem.

Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

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Elizabeth “Betty” Eyre Pellet (18871976) Associated Press file

»» The front of the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver.

215 S. Tejon St., Colorado Springs Helen Hunt Jackson was a 19th century poet, writer, and activist most known for her nonfiction work, “A Century of Dishonor,” and her novel, “Ramona.” Both works depicted the U.S. government’s mistreatment of Native American people. Jackson’s home with its original furnishings is on view at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.

less Mine. This silver mine, purchased in 1879 by Horace Tabor, was the sight of Baby Doe Tabor’s death. In 1893, the price of silver crashed, leaving the once fabulously wealthy Tabor family destitute. After her husband’s death, Baby Doe Tabor lived off and on at the Matchless Mine until she died during a lonely winter in 1935. It’s the perfect spot to get your macabre ghost mining on.

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The herb and scripture areas of the Denver Botanic Gardens were designed by Jane Silverstein Ries, the first woman in Colorado who worked as a licensed landscape architect. Ries was a ringleader in rehabbing the grounds of the Colorado Governor’s Mansion, 400 E. 8th Ave. in Denver, and the grounds of the Molly Brown House Museum.

Molly Brown, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, was a brash and bold woman best known for demanding her lifeboat return to the wreckage to attempt to save more passengers. Brown’s Queen Anne home is the perfect follow-up visit after watching the movie “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”

Forney Museum of Transportation 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver OK. So this is a gorgeous car museum that has almost nothing to do with women’s history, but they have Amelia Earhart’s 1923 Kissel “Gold Bug.” If you wanna see what the queen of the air drove when landlocked, head here.

Matchless Mine Leadville Arguably the most depressing site you can see is the Match-

Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine 9388 Colorado Highway 67, Cripple Creek Mollie Kathleen was a miner who staked a claim in 1891, which became a vertical shaft gold mine that would eventually descend 1,000 feet into the mountain. For comparison, 1,000 feet is roughly the height of the Empire State Building. You can tour 100 stories of the mine shaft, learn about the evolution of mining, view golf veins in their natural state, and, of course, visit the gift shop.

Every career Pellet had, from acting to politics, she followed one piece of her mother’s philosophy: “If women raised fewer geraniums and more Cain the world might be a lot better place to live in.” Pellet’s accomplishments are a strange lot. She met and fought with Mark Twain, kissed President Theodore Roosevelt, marched as a suffragette in Hell’s Kitchen, sang on Broadway, acted in silent films, and was a Colorado Congresswoman from 1940 to 1942 and again from 1948 to 1964. Pellet was a savior of mountain roads and railroads, her advocacy saving entire Colorado regions from ghosting out. She was instrumental in the creation of road access from Kansas through southern Colorado into Arizona, which helped farmers sell their bean crops. As the first female House Minority Leader, she advocated for children, education, and the disabled. “So, with dream-chips on my shoulder – a habit I can no longer break,” Pellet said, “it’s on to tomorrow’s unknown battle, or folly.”

—— Patty Templeton

DGO Staff Writer

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

The BOSSest of them all: Jack Herer »» Celebrated author, PBS doc subject and a great MJ strain named in his honor

ow, there are CannaBosses and there are CannaBOSSes. When you are the guy who writes the definitive book exposing the true causes behind Prohibition; when you have one of the all-time great cannabis strains named in your honor; when PBS does a documentary about your work in support of cannabis; when you spend your life traveling hundreds of thousands of miles advocating for the plant we love until you have had a stroke after one speech and a heart attack that claims your life after another. When this is your resume, the, you can join Jack Herer in that latter category as a stone cold CannaBOSS. Born in 1939 in New York City and raised in Buffalo, New York, Herer was a relative latecomer to the pot party, smoking his first joint at the age of 30. Soon after, he opened a head shop in Venice Beach, California. In 1973, he made a pact with Los Angeles cannabis advocate and fellow head shop owner who went by Captain Ed Adair “to work every day to legalize marijuana and get all pot prisoners out of jail, until we were dead, marijuana was legal, or we could quit when we turned 84.” And campaign he did, covering the world giving stirring speeches in favor of cannabis and, after an encounter with New Mexico state Sen. Tom Rutherford, researched and wrote “The Emperor Has No Clothes,” the definitive

text about cannabis prohibition in the United States. He also ran for president in 1988 and 1992 under the banner of the pro-hemp Grassroots Party. “Emperor,” published in 1985, has sold over 600,000 copies and has been translated into at least a dozen languages. It is now available at no cost on the website maintained by Herer’s widow in his honor, www.jackherer.com, along with every manner of information related to hemp education and advocacy. Herer’s magnum opus came about as the result of his conversation with Rutherford in which the politician told him that if the information he was presenting was real and put into a book, then cannabis would be legalized. There was no stopping the dynamo from there. He compiled his facts concerning hemp’s superiority as a food, fuel, and fiber into a volume espousing the plant. It was not only an excellent personal resource for humanity, but also the cure for the ills created by the dominance of petrochemicals in our society. Among all the honors bestowed upon Herer as a result of his tireless advocacy, one stands out as a wonderful legacy for those of us who follow him: The eponymous strain created in his honor in the 1990s by the Amsterdam-based Sensi Seeds. This 55 percent sativa hybrid was created by breeding a “Haze hybrid with a Northern Lights #5 and Shiva Skunk cross,” according to Leafly, making one of the most popular and effective daytime strains ever invented. JH is legendary for its uplifting properties and has since become a foundation of the cannabis breeding community. 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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[Vintage Durango]

Merriam-Webster: The ever-evolving dictionary Noah Webster was a be-all-end-all badass lexicographer. It took 26 years of research and learning 28 languages before he published “An American Dictionary of the English Language.” Unfortunately, Webster went into debt because his dictionary sold like crap. He created a second edition in 1840, but died shortly after, mortgaged up to the ears. Webster’s estate sold the rights to his dictionary in 1843 to George and Charles Merriam. The Merriams called their new edition the “Merriam-Webster Dictionary.” In the 71 years between that second edition and this 1914 Durango Democrat advertisement, they next-leveled the dictionary to include 330,000 more words than what Webster had left them with. These days, Merriam-Webster runs a hella amusing Twitter (@MerriamWebster) that calls out the incorrect word use of pop culture icons and politicians. For example, M-W tweeted the definition of a fact at Kellyanne Conway during her “alternative facts” incident. They also track trending words. Lately, immigrant, recuse, fascism, and nefarious have been popular look-ups. —— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

»» “Merriam-Webster Dictionary” advertisement in the Durango Democrat, March 18, 1914.

The cost of Mar-a-Lago to all of us News you need to know President Trump owns a West Palm Beach, Florida, estate called Mar-a-Lago. Since 1995, it has been a private club for the rich. It’s a 20-acre, ocean-front property that costs $200,000 to join, $14,000 in annual dues, plus taxes, and a minimum food cost of $2,000 annually per member.

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cal meetings at Mar-a-Lago, it also affects the local economy of Palm Beach. Examples of Trump-associated costs are: »» $200,000 in lost fuel sales at a local airport for a Trump four-day visit.

NOT NORMAL

Since taking office, Trump has spent about 22 percent of his time at Trump-branded properties (mostly at Mar-a-Lago), rather than at the White House.

Why this is not normal Each time Trump goes to Mar-a-Lago – and he’s traveled there four of the eight weekends he’s been president – it costs the American people about $3 million. In one year, President Obama’s travel expenses were $12.1 million. In less than two months, Trump has spent more than $10 million on travel. When Trump insists on hosting politi-

»» 250 flights being grounded every day that Trump is in town.

»» Restaurants having up to 75 reservation no-shows in a single night due to patrons not wanting to deal with the politics or traffic of Trump being nearby.

»»$60,000 a day in deputy overtime to guard presidential road closures. Trump has hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago. In April, he will host Chinese President Xi Jinping. Instead of Trump strengthening the brand of America by bringing dignitaries to the White House, he chooses to strengthen his own wallet by hosting them at Trump-branded properties. —— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

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Savage Love | Dan Savage

Is conservative Islam incompatible with kink? I went to Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, the big kink hotel takeover event in Washington, D.C., in February. There was one thing I saw there that is messing with my head, and I hope you can set me straight. There was this lovely little six-person orgy going on with two cute-as-could-be hippie girls and four older dudes. Then these four people came along. They sat and watched – a guy and three women in hijabs and dresses that went wrist to ankle, fully covered. After a while, one of the hippie girls turned to them and said, “I’d be happy to flog you later if you’d like.” The three women in hijab giggled. The whole scene was really sweet, but I just couldn’t get over these three women. I saw them walking around all night, taking it all in. Intellectually, I know there is no reason to think that conservative Islam is incompatible with kink. But my cultural biases make me feel that it is. Or is it possible that covering is their kink? What would you make of that? Washington Kinkster Wondering “With all the hateful anti-Muslim rhetoric out there these days, it is tempting to romanticize Islam,” said Eiynah, a Pakistani-Canadian children’s book author who also hosts a podcast that focuses on sex, Islam, and apostasy. “The impulse is understandable, but Islam is another one of the blatantly sex-negative Abrahamic faiths.” The other blatantly sex-negative Abrahamic faiths, for those of you keeping score out there, are Judaism and Christianity. “Nothing outside of ultra-vanilla plain ol’ two-person hetero sex within the confines of marriage is permissible,” said Eiynah. So as much as I’d love to agree with WKW that conservative Islam isn’t incompatible with kink, there’s every reason to say that it is. It’s even incompatible with a woman being slightly ‘immodest’ in front of men. Modesty codes are pretty rigid in Islam, and in non-Muslim-majority countries, modesty garments tend to stick out rather than blend in. Which achieves the exact opposite purpose – attracting more attention, not less.” And when sex-negativity, modesty, and religion mix it up, WKW, the part of our brain that grinds out kinks – precise location yet to be determined – kicks into high gear. That’s why there is Mormon-undergarment porn out there and nun porn and hot-priest calendars for sale on sidewalks just outside Vatican City. “Islamic modesty has become fetishized for some – quite literally,” said Eiynah. “There’s hijabi porn and

hijabi Lolitas. So the people WKW saw could be into some form of hijab kink.”

tures with your boyfriend.

I’ve seen a few people dressed up as Catholic nuns at fetish parties, WKW, and I didn’t think, “Hey, what are nuns doing here?!?” I thought, “That person has a nun kink.” (Related point: The nuns you see at queer pride parades? Not really nuns. #TheMoreYouKnow)

I cannot find a woman who will accept my panty fetish. Please advise.

“Finally, it’s possible they could be a more ‘open-minded’ polygynous Muslim family that ventured into the hotel in a moment of adventurousness,” said Eiynah. “We are all human, after all, with urges, kinks, curiosities, and desires that surface, no matter what ancient morality code we try to follow.” Amen. Eiynah tweets @NiceMangos, her terrific podcast – Polite Conversations – is available on all the usual podcast platforms, and her children’s book, My Chacha Is Gay, can be ordered at chachaisgay. com. I’m a 30-year-old woman in a long-term polyamorous relationship with a stellar guy. Our relationship began as extremely Dom/sub, with me being the sub. My boyfriend and I began super casually but quickly became serious partners. Now, six years later, I find having kinky sex with him challenging. We have a very deep, loving relationship, so my feelings get hurt when we engage in bondage and kink play. This is especially problematic because I still enjoy BDSM with folks I’m not dating. Basically, if I’m not in love with someone, it doesn’t hurt my feelings when they beat me and humiliate me. My boyfriend feels slighted, but I just don’t know what to do. Every time we play rough – the same way we had played for years – my feelings get hurt. Any thoughts? She’s Hurting His Heart It’s not uncommon to meet people in BDSM spaces/ circles who have passionate, intimate, solid, and regular vanilla sex with their long-term partner(s) and intense BDSM play and/or sex with more casual partners. For some submissives, intimacy and a longterm connection can interfere with their ability to enter into and enjoy their roles, and the same is true for some Doms. If this is just how you’re wired, SHHH, you may need to write a new erotic script for your primary relationship – or make a conscious decision to have new and different and satisfying sexual adven-

Trembling Man Inquires Keep looking, TMI. There are women out there who think men can be sexy in panties – and anyone who thinks men can’t be sexy in panties needs to check out all the hunky panty-wearing models at xdress.com. I am a sissy husband. My problem is I am not attracted to women at all. I have asked my wife to cuckold me. My penis is less than two inches long, and the only way for me to have sex with her is by using my strap-on on her. When I do that, all I can think of is my best friend Roberto who I am very attracted to. I shared a queen-size bed with him for two years. While we lived together, I did all of the “women’s work.” Roberto always told me how small and soft and feminine my hands were. He drank a lot and then would pass out in our bed. I would put on one of my sexy pink nighties and sleep next to him. Now I have a wife, and I am so jealous that Roberto might find a girlfriend. I have begged my wife to cuckold me with Roberto. She said, “Roberto is a very sexy man, but I don’t know.” How can I tell her that I am totally feminine and turned off by women and totally turned on by men? How do I tell her that she is married to a sissy man lover? I want her to have a boyfriend. Then when she is out with her boyfriend, I would get dressed up like a sissy and be locked out of the house dressed as a woman and have to wait for her to let me back in after her boyfriend left. Please help. Lust In South America Thanks for sharing. Not sure I believe a word you wrote, LISA, but it was an entertaining read. (OK, OK, some advice: Tell your wife the truth, i.e., you are not and have never been attracted to women, suggest redefining your marriage as a loving-but-companionate one, propose cuckolding as a way for you two to maintain a sexual connection, albeit one mediated through a third party. Good luck.) Dan Savage is a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist writing for The Stranger in Seattle. Contact him at mail@savagelove.net or @fakedansavage on Twitter and listen to his podcast every week at savagelovecast.com.

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[happening] Thursday La Plata County Luminaries Toastmasters, noon, La Plata County Admin-

istration Building, 1101 East Second Ave., 382-6250. Acoustic lunchtime cafe, noon, Smiley

Cafe, 1309 East Third Ave., 903-5598. “Dance for Balance!” dance class for seniors, 3 p.m., Absolute Physical

Therapy and Wellness, 277 East Eighth Ave., 764-4094. KDUR “Furniture As Art” auction,

5:30 p.m., $30, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606. LPEA election progressive launch party, 5 p.m., Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main

Ave., 259-2545. Summer child care and activity fair,

5 p.m., Early Childhood Council of La Plata County, 130 Rock Point Drive, Suite C, 2470760. League of Women Voters La Plata election forum, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 949

East Second Ave., 375-5000.

event, Durango Brewing Co., 3000 Main Ave., 247-3396.

Czech circus to take over the Community Concert Hall

Master’s Men Colorado, 6:30 a.m.,

It’s the graveyard shift at a Prague warehouse and workers shuffle through another night. So starts “Slapstick Sonata,” performed by Cirk La Putyka, a modern Czech circus stopping by Fort Lewis College’s Community Concert Hall, 1000 Rim Drive, on Thursday, March 16. A drab evening turns into an extravaganza as laborers amp up odd hijinks to kill time. The traveling troupe of Cirk La Putyka contains 10 members who specialize in acrobatics, puppeteering, and dance. Physical comedy and circus arts are set to the backdrop of Mozart for a performance that alternates from poetic to hilarious. The show is at 7:30. Tickets are $29 to $39. More info at durangoconcerts.com

Women’s History Month focus, 10 a.m., Christian Science Reading Room, 1166 East Third Ave., 247-0218.

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

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Steepland String Band, 6 p.m., Balcony

DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, 2596580.

Sudden Science, 3 p.m., $40, Needham Elementary School, 2425 West Third Ave., 247-4791. Fourth Annual Sustainability Summit, 4:30 p.m., Fort Lewis College, Student

Union, 1000 Rim Drive, www.fortlewis.edu. Cribbage Club, 5 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub,

900 Main Ave., 799-3457. Terry Rickard, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Acoustic jam, 6-9 p.m., Steaming Bean,

downstairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.thebean.com. Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www.facebook.com/supertedstriviaatskabrewing. Useless Knowledge Bowl Trivia+, 7 p.m., Durango Brewing Co., 3000 Main Ave., 247-3396.

Backstage, 600 Main Ave., 422-8008.

403-1200, www.thebean.com.

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Nightingale Luminary and Star Awards, 7 p.m., $28, Henry Strater Theatre,

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

Blue Moon Ramblers, 5:30-10 p.m., Dia-

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

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

Space Wail, 9:30 p.m., Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., 422-8008.

Jazz church experienced musician session, 6 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725

Saturday

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

Wednesday

Colorado Craft Beer Week, all-day

Joel Racheff, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spiritori-

Bird Walk, 9-10:30 a.m., Rotary Park,

event, Durango Brewing Co., 3000 Main Ave., 247-3396.

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

699 Main Ave., 375-7160. Rob Webster, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spirito-

rium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Prague’s Cirk La Putyka Slapstick Sonata, 7:30 p.m., $29-$39, Fort Lewis Col-

lege Community Concert Hall, 1000 Rim Drive, www.durangoconcerts.com. Laugh Therapy comedy night, 8 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 4031200. Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9 p.m.,

Friends of the Durango Public Library, 9 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900

East Third Ave., 375-3380.

um, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Two-step lessons, 6:30-7:30 p.m., $10, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 7998832.

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

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

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

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org.

Friday

Black Velvet Duo, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

Women’s History Month focus, 10

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

a.m., Christian Science Reading Room, 1166 East Third Ave.

Main Ave., 247-3555. Friends of the Durango Public Library, 9 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900

East Third Ave., 375-3380. Durango Brewing Co. St. Patty’s Day Party, 5 p.m., Durango Brewing Co., 3000

Main Ave., 247-3396. Devil’s Dram, 5:30 p.m., Balcony Back-

stage, 600 Main Ave., 422-8008. Ace Revel, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Sa-

loon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Divorce Care Group, 6 p.m., $25, First

“Drop Dead” murder-mystery comedy, 7 p.m., $15, Durango High School, 2390

Main Ave., 259-1630. “Dances in Real Time” presented by 20MOONS, 7 p.m., $15-$25, 6:50 p.m.,

Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

1565 East Second Ave., www.durangogov. org.

Monday

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Artist workshop with Sharon Abshagen, 9 a.m., $260, Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828

259-9018.

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

Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792.

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

Do-it-yourself rain-barrel construction workshops, 9 a.m., $38, Ska Brewing

rium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Open Mic, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.,

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Colorado Craft Beer Week, all-day event, Durango Brewing Co., 3000 Main Ave., 247-3396.

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

Tim Sullivan, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spirito-

People’s Practice in the Park, 12:30

p.m., Buckley Park, 247-8395, www.turtlelakerefuge.org. “In Pain?” free talk and demonstration, 12:30 and 6 p.m., Durango Public Library,

1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

Greg Ryder, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spiritori-

Sudden Science, 1:30 p.m., $40, Park Ele-

um, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

mentary School, 623 E. Fifth St.

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

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

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. Little Wilderness, 9:30 p.m., Balcony

Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., www.skabrewing. com.

Backstage, 600 Main Ave., 422-8008.

Joel Racheff, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive, 247-4213.

Sunday

“Drop Dead” murder-mystery comedy, 7 p.m., $15, Durango High School, 2390

Main Ave., 259-1630.

Colorado Craft Beer Week, all-day event, Durango Brewing Co., 3000 Main Ave., 247-3396.

Dustin Burley, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spiri-

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

rium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

torium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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

Open Mic, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, down-

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

Tuesday

stairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave.,

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

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

downstairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.thebean.com. Rob Webster, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spirito-

Colorado Craft Beer Week, all-day

Acoustic jam, 6-8 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub,

900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com. Geeks Who Drink trivia, 6:30 p.m.,

BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 West College Drive, 259-5959. Pub quiz, 6:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com. Terry Rickard, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Pingpong and poker tournament, 8

p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018. Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9 p.m.,

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

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’m a military brat who grew up on an American naval base an hour south of Tokyo. Once, my older brother accidentally abandoned me off-base. My parents let us venture off downtown, and everything went well until, on our way back, we stumbled into a huge Japanese protest outside the base. As an 8-yearold, having a crowd of Japanese people screaming “Yankee go home!” was disconcerting. I asked my brother what a Yankee was, and he told me that we were Yankees, because we were American. Confused and curious, I paused to watch the protest; to look at the angry, scary faces of the men, women, and children milling around in front of the gate, at their rhythmic stomping and the picket signs bouncing up and down. When I turned around, my brother wasn’t there. He eventually came back to get me, but I sat right outside the gate with my arms wrapped around my knees for a while. I don’t look Japanese, but I am an Asian, and I didn’t have an ID. The gate guard was in his early 20s, probably newly enlisted, and even though I spoke perfect English, he couldn’t let me on base. I remember looking past the gate and thinking, “I should be in there! I’m a Yankee!” Ten years later, I’m 18. It’s the end of my freshman year at George Washington University. I had just gotten back from my calculus class, and this boy from Oklahoma was complaining about

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rice nigger.” our professor’s Indian acFor the next two months, cent. I mean, I get it. CalcuI did not want to go to south lus is hard enough without City Market by myself. One being unable to understand afternoon in early December, what your teacher is sayI drove to City Market and ing. We’re sitting on these sat in the parking lot, talking gross armchairs – five college myself into going inside. I freshmen, all of us majoring drove home instead. in science or engineering – Cruz My understanding of what and the conversation turns to it means to be American has the fact that many of our progone through several evolufessors hail from somewhere tions. My feelings of patriotism and my in Asia and have heavy accents. This is values come from multiple generations of when I learned that in some contexts, white American and non-white Amerimy family having served in the military. can are not the same thing. However, I’m having experiences that line The boy says, “If we let you come here, me up with a sub-par version of being American. I am the child of immigrants. you damn well better learn to speak right. Being first generation means that, if my It’s bullshit that I have to pay money to father wasn’t in the service, I could be learn from someone who can’t even speak living in a third world country right now, English. They should hire American where so many of my relatives are. My professors.” I remember thinking that his skin color makes me stand out and other “you” encapsulated my mother, who has people question my being an American. a great grasp of the English language, but As a result I have to continually process does speak with a heavy Filipino accent. my status as one, because people can’t I also remember not feeling like he was look at me and know that I am. referring to me, because I speak with a Being an American isn’t about recitCalifornian accent. But did an Indian accent really mean my professor wasn’t ing a pledge or raising a flag. It means American? Or was this boy casually exthat I embrace all of my identities, bepressing racist views and asking the quescause they all tie into this beautiful idea tion, “Why don’t they hire more people that the United States is a place where that look and sound like me?” everyone is accepted. And I trust in this, deeply. I trust that all of my identities On the Sunday after the 2016 presiare accepted, loved, and valued here. dential election, I’m at south City MarAnd in those identities, which used to ket, and it’s late in the afternoon. I just just be as an American woman, but now want to go home and make dinner. As include my identities as an Asian, a FilI’m leaving, I pull out my phone to text my younger brother and sister about ipina, and a first generation immigrant the awesome dinner I’m about to make. to this country, I value the sacrifices and Because I was looking at my phone and the honor of being American perhaps not paying attention to my surroundeven more than those who were born with the luxury of acceptance. ings, I accidentally shoulder-checked a man who was on his way in. The man was wearing a cowboy hat, a shiny belt Cyle Talley wonders if there is anything to buckle, and boots. He looks at me, with say after hearing a story like that. Feel free to really hard eyes, and says, “Watch it, email him at your leisure: cyle@cyletalley.com.

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