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What’s inside Volume 3 Number 1 Thursday October 26, 2017

Editor/ creative director David Holub dholub@bcimedia.com 375-4551 Staff writer Patty Templeton ptempleton@bcimedia.com Contributors Katie Cahill Cassidy Cummings Christopher Gallagher Bryant Liggett Jon E. Lynch

Animas Valley Balloon Rally: Making the Hermost of it

From the Editor

Love it or Hate it

Street Style

High winds were a factor, but Friday and Saturday nights at the second annual Animas Valley Balloon Rally were for warming up.

Sound

Downtown Lowdown

Album Reviews 9 10 Beer

Brett Massé

11 Travel

Lucy Schaefer

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Cooper Stapleton

Wanderlust 11

Robert Alan Wendeborn

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Lucy Schaefer/Special to DGO

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Dreamy shadow show at DAC Multimedia performer and artist Miwa Matreyek’s work combines a shadow-show against projected, animated backdrops to create poignant, dreamlike narratives. She performs this weekend at the Durango Arts Center.

Founding Editors Amy Maestas David Holub

23 Halloween events in and around Durango We’ve got you covered for all the art, music, costume parties, zombie crawls, “Rocky Horror, and whatever else you want to scare up starting Friday and going through Tuesday.

10 Halloween party beer Don’t know which beer best complements doing the monster mash? We’ve got your witchy, werewolvian, horrifying hooch needs covered with four spooky beers to bring to your Halloween extravaganza.

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David Holub |DGO editor

Two years later, I’m still digging DGO, the town and the mag After two years at this, it seems I have a pretty cool job. When people ask what I do and I say, “magazine editor,” questions tend to follow. I have my spiel down to 30 seconds, one minute, five minutes, or 2.5 hours based on their perceived interest level (PIL). One hundred and four issues later, I’m not quite sure how we do it every week. One thing is sure, I’ve been proud of every single issue of this magazine. Here’s what I love most about my job: Sitting next to a stranger in public who is reading DGO. It happens every once in a while, the last time during lunch at Olde Tymers. I like to see where they stop and hold for a while, and what they inevitably gloss over. Without being weird and noticeable, I like to inch closer, to gauge their eye tracking to see how the headlines land and how long they study the images versus the text. And then I inch even closer, maybe pick a fry off their plate, close enough to hear their breathing patterns and to study the creases in the forehead. This is how I understand which stories work and which don’t. Reading the work of, sitting next to, and brainstorming with Patty Templeton I always tell people that having Patty in Durango writing on a weekly basis is a treasure. Patty has a buoyant, outsized, charming, empathetic, vivacious, curious, irreverent personality. She also has the gift of transferring that personality verbatim onto the page no matter what she’s writing. But Patty isn’t just a writer for a Durango alt-weekly. She’s a published novelist. She just had a play performed at the Durango Art Center’s 10-Minute Play Festival. She writes TV scripts and short stories. When people tell me how much they love her writing, I beam like a proud fatherunclebrotherfriend and then rub it in their face that I get to sit next to her five days a week. Though it’s only happened 28.5 times, my goal every day is for both of us to be so wildly inappropriate that we’re hauled into HR only to be released unscathed because we were legitimately brainstorming for upcoming issues.

to these organizations, it also gives them a little poke to say, “Your community supports you, we’re with you, we want you to thrive.” Showcasing Durango’s most talented, thought-provoking, outspoken, brave; the weirdos, the people doing something different. I don’t know if it’s because of my job that I have found myself in the company of these people, but some of Durango’s most talented and interesting people I now call my friends. Actors, painters, illustrators, photographers, organizers, playwrights, DJs, singers, teachers, circus performers, jewelers, facilitators, songwriters, activists, party people: Durango is oozing with amazing. This magazine thrust me straight into a novel full of make-believe characters. Being curious about Durango and the world at large and seeing that come to life in these pages. It’s fun to sit around with friends and lovers discussing the things that interest us, things we’re curious about, things we want answers for. Sometimes those conversations find their way into the magazine in the weeks that follow. Here’s a sampling of headlines for some of those stories definitely worth a read if you haven’t already: »»“What you don’t know about house party strippers” »»“I saw a transgender article and was like, ‘Oh my god, that’s me’: A trans Durango resident shares her journey, experience” »»“Treating pets with cannabis: Don’t get your animal stoned, get them well” »»“Six ideas to make Durango even better: We researched progressive small towns and cities across the country. Here are six ideas that could work here” »»“The state of Durango arts: Talking to experts about what’s good, support needed, and big dreams for local art”

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»»#VanLife: A brief look at the mystique of van customization and four snapshots of Durango vans and vanners

The Durango Pride Festival and the iAM Music Festival come to mind. Sponsoring these two groups in particular made me especially proud to be a part of Ballantine Communications and DGO and have the ability to contribute. Being a sponsor not only gives financial or promotional support

After two years at this, I hope DGO is still as fun and compelling to pick up as it is to produce it. Here’s to many more years of freaks and weirdos, thought-provoking and inappropriate conversations, and maybe a trip or two to HR.

Cemeteries Love it Fourteen-year-old lil’ punk rock Patty had big dreams of a deep, dark love and banging in boneyards. Because, ya know, when you listen to The Cure and are obsessed with the supposed gritty underworld of adulthood, you think smoochin’ on tombstones and handjobs against crypts are romance. Alas, no groping of rocker dudes or rudegirls ever happened amidst the headstones for this shy weirdo. Not even the tamest of fantasies came true, which was, I nerdily report, to lean against an ancient burial oak and read Rimbaud to a skater dude I knew while he drew me pictures of crows. “Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you,” yer damn right, Morrissey. There was no grand passion found for me in a deadyard, but I did discover solace. Cemeteries were and are where I hide away with a book or my journal. They’re where I go to enjoy the silence. My favorite is Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa. It has rolling hills, towering trees, and the resting place of T. Nelson Downs, a sleight-of-hand magician who was Houdini’s best friend. I took pine cones, grave dirt, and a clipping of lilacs from it before I left town, and, well, what I do with those is a secret I am going to keep a while longer, friends. — Patty Templeton

Hate it I am not macabre. My sense of humor may be dark, but my sensibilities are not. Neither are my activities. I like history but not so much to consider myself a buff (what qualifies someone as a buff?). This is why cemeteries are places I leave for others to visit. Burying the dead is one thing that sets us apart from other beasts (though not elephants!), but I want nothing of it. Cemeteries hog the best real estate and prized landscaping in virtually any city, save for golf courses. And what do they use this beautiful land for? Being a huge downer. A walk through any cemetery saddles you with babies who didn’t live a week, the old married couple who died within a month of one another, a fresh gravestone with fresh flowers and fresh sadness lingering in the air. There’s something about walking atop all those bones, seeing gravestones that have been forgotten over time, and always being afraid you’re standing on (aka desecrating) someone’s beloved burial site. I have one solution to all of it: To stay away from cemeteries. — David Holub

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EXPLORING THE INFORMATION AND EMPTINESS OF SHADOWS »» Multimedia performance

artist Miwa Matreyek to put on dreamy show at DAC

A shadow woman walks and a forest sprouts from her steps. This same shade stands against a starry sky then mindfully strides through cities that build before her. The phantom is multimedia performer and artist Miwa Matreyek. Matreyek’s work combines a shadow-show against projected, animated backdrops to create poignant, dreamlike narratives. The weekend before Halloween, the Durango Arts Center will host the Los Angeles artist as she continues her international tour of “This World Made Itself” and “Myth and Infrastructure.” DGO talked to Matreyek to learn more about the silhouette of self used in her work and how she used fantastical theater to showcase the history of the Earth and humanity’s complex relationship to it. Can you talk about the use of shadow as storytelling tool? Shadow has been an interesting medium for me because it is in this between space of almost three dimensional but also flat. It is full of information but also empty. Shadow can become a vessel for the audience to experience the world of what is happening in the performance. My shadow almost becomes a symbol of a person rather than me as a specific person. That has been interesting for me being a multi-racial woman artist. There’s certain details you can see in the shadow that you can see I am a woman but maybe you can’t really tell what race I am. The audience doesn’t really see me. You see me off to the side so you know I’m a real person and that was

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»» Multimedia performance artist Miwa Matreyek

GO! Miwa Matreyek’s “This World Made Itself” and “Myth and Infrastructure” When: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27 & Saturday, Oct. 28 Where: Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave. Cost: $10 students, $12 DAC members, $17 general Ages: All ages Info: http://durangoarts.org intentional, but beside that, most of the audience’s relationship to me is as a shadow. That space is not overlaid with the specificity of who I am or the narrative that an audience may put on me because of the way that I look or who they perceive that I am. Your work is described as being dreamy. Do your own dreams enter into your process? There had been dream influence in some earlier work. If anything, now, it is that sense in dreams of physical anticipation. Can you talk about the messages you are connecting to and want others to connect to in your work? There’s an ecological philosopher named Joanna Macy. One of her books, “World As Lover, World As Self,” talks about the idea of the greening of the self. If someone is cutting off their leg, you’d say, “Don’t do that, you’re hurting yourself.” Similarly,

if someone is cutting down the rainforest, we need to see that as an extension of self. She said, “The trees in the Amazon rain basin. They are our external lungs. We are beginning to realize that the world is our body.” Macy’s ideas explore expanding your consciousness to more than your body into something that encompasses these larger ecologies that support you. Macy described the greening of the self as the process of replacing one’s “skin-encapsulated ego” with “wider constructs of identity and self-interest – by what you might call the ecological self, co-extensive with other beings and the life of our planet.” That greening of the self is something that links into my own work. Your work provides a magical, awe-inspiring moment for people. Where do you go when you need that moment for yourself? I feel like that recharge happens a lot being out in nature and hiking – feeling my body in outdoor spaces. There is this concept, skinship. It is a pseudo-English Japanese word based on the concept of intimacy. For example, when a dad holds his child on his bare chest and there is skin-to-skin contact. I was thinking about that in the relationship humans have touching the Earth. We’re constantly walking on concrete or laying in GMO grass. How far do I have to go into the wild for the land to be untouched, to have that skinship and lie on top of the Earth? A lot of my inspiration comes from looking at and being with the Earth. Interview edited and condensed for clarity. —— Patty Templeton

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Extra Life | Brett Massé

In games and in life, do we always need to be right?

here’s been a murder in a run-down area of Krakow, Poland. “The Stacks” is what locals call the tenement building that is an unending tangle of apartments and trash. The only reason I’m here is because I got a suspicious call in my squad car about an hour ago and traced it to this location. Rock bottom. Just about everything surviving in 2084 Poland can be described as such. Absolute rock bottom. “Observer” is a recent release that convinced me to pick it up by using such descriptors as “cyberpunk,” “noir,” “horror,” and Rutger Hauer, who voices the main character. I’m glad I did no research on this before I started playing. It feels like the old days when you’d rent some filthy cartridge from the video store because it had cool cover art. After an exciting beginning where I got to gather clues from a murder scene using cybernetic implants with overlay displays akin to DOS circa 1995, I left the crime scene to ask around. Now I’m arguing with some paranoid guy through his locked front door about sudden lockdown on the building. I have no actual idea of why there is a lockdown, or what that even means in this context, but I am compelled to win this argument. The sudden realization that I wanted to be right more than being correct pulled me out of the game for a moment. I was stressed arguing with this fictional character because I wanted to be right without actually knowing what the hell was going on. Some kind of primal reaction was filling me with judgment and hardening my convictions. I didn’t have any solid knowledge of what was happening, but at the point of provocation, I was defensive. Indignant, even. This is a feeling that doesn’t just happen when I’m playing games. Why should I have such an attachment to a story or event that I really have no control of ? I know what I have experienced and have feeling about what I believe to be true, but that doesn’t have to be right. It can be easily argued that I’m frequently not right. I’m not always right in my actions with others

see little value in fighting to be right when I should instead be embracing my own truths and feelings. I should state my position clearly, stand up for my values, and combat the injustices I witness or encounter. My truths may change, they may turn out to be wrong or I may alter my opinions and that’s OK. Often, we do not have control over what is true and what isn’t, only control of our behavior. Nothing is gained from being right and judging others for having a different truth. “KPD, I’m Officer Lazarski. I have some questions for you if you have time,” I say into the door’s audio receiver. A blurry image of a man’s face appears on the small screen distorted by static. The conversation begins to rapidly devolve when he tells me I sold my soul when I got my cybernetic augmentations. He and his family, he claims, are “immaculates” and will definitely be going to heaven since they are free of “corruption.” I pause for a moment, voice that I disagree, opt to end the converDavid Holub/DGO sation civilly and move on. I feel – my friends, family, co-workers. I’m not even right a little better about that interaction. It would be easy about my own life half the time. In this case, I’m certo defend myself, feel self-righteous and condemn the man for what is simply his view. It’s not him that tainly not right arguing with this stranger behind a I have a problem with. Yeah, the guy was actively a door and a thick layer of outdated computer locked jerk, but I also don’t care. He’s expressing his opinhardware providing two-way communication for me to shout into. What am I doing? Is this what I go ion, not lunging at me with a knife. through for that entirely hypothetical opportunity This attitude can apply to many other positions to say “I told you so!”? and be difficult to see. Many of us may have been The machine loosely bolted to the door goes quiet through abusive relationships, or had difficult famand I let out a sigh before walking to the next apartilies growing up. These are also just our own views and feelings and we should stand up for them bement. Some of the doors are broken or locked and I have to pass through some tenant-sanctioned holes cause they are our experiences. We are obligated to stand up for our views, but to do so without that dein the brickwork to the other side of the building. I’m thinking about righteousness. I’m thinking sire to be right. We could be wrong about something, about how we argue every day through social or our perspectives may change, and that’s OK. Our media. How we turn someone else’s experience dignity is not built upon being right. We should meainto a personal affront. I no longer think there’s a sure our worth by being someone who stands up for direct connection between what is true and what what we believe while having a mind open to new is “right.” There is a rift between what I and what perspectives. any other person has experienced. These different experiences, which we know to be true at least to Brett Massé is currently playing “Observer” by Bloober ourselves, won’t always sync up with one another. I Team.

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irk James has done his blues homework. The local musician, whose fulltime job is doing graphic design, and whose other hobby-job is custom pin-striping on cars and guitars, has listened to the records, read the books, and consumed the music, making him a local aficionado on all things blues music, both onstage and off. He has a great knowledge of the genre, knowing what Winter brother played on what Muddy Waters records, when “Big” Bill Broonzy recorded and what got Broonzy and other early blues musicians to Europe, which hipped a bunch of young British guitar players to American blues. It was those British musicians who turned a bunch of American kids onto the blues-music originators that had been making the music and defining the genre right in their own backyard for decades. James was a kid digging on classic FM radio in Dallas, being raised on a hearty dose of The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, and other Britrock bands that knew something a lot of Americans didn’t: Blues music was cool. These were the rock bands whose members had an appreciation of American blues music – the aforementioned Broonzy, Leadbelly, Lightning Hopkins. For most, The Stones and Yardbirds were just tunes on the radio, but James, who had an interest in music at a young age, needed to dig a bit further into what Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton were listening to. “Growing up in Dallas, there was a lot of music in the ’70s, and I listened to a lot of radio; it was before corporate radio was a thing,” said James. “I would listen to all these rock bands that I was into as a kid. But hearing all these musicians I really dug, I asked ‘What turned them on?’ A lot of them were turned on by old blues, and some old jazz and even some country, but I gravitated toward the blues. It worked for me and it gave me meaning. I

Bryant’s best Saturday: Rock and jam with Space Wail, 9 p.m. No cover. The Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave. upstairs. Information: 422-8008. Monday/Tuesday: Rock, funk, jam-grass with Eldergrown and Liver Down the River. 9 p.m. $15-$40. Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. Information: 799-2281. could understand what was going on. That was while I was singing in church and playing piano. It veered over to something that made more sense to me than Beethoven, Bach and Mozart.” It is important to note the blues-based British Invasion musicians were a major catalyst for American rock ’n’ roll fans, helping them discover first-generation American blues musicians. Had it not been for the radio play of the Becks, Pages, or Claptons, many of these early blues players would have hung back in under-the-radar obscurity. “It was a jewel that wasn’t appreciated in the U.S. That started that awareness; and then they all started appreciating what was going on. The British had the big appreciation, specifically those musicians. And those American blues players were hearing the different versions of their tunes, and then they were influenced by what they heard,” said James. A study of the rich history of the genre is loaded with characters, people who lived for the music, and whose lives were a hard reflection of those lyrics. Audibly, it remains the basis of so many other genres, heard in blues, rock, punk, jazz, jam. It’s a genre that works for Kirk James. “It had meaning to me, in the sense that I could digest something to feel for instead of wanting to sound like somebody. I tried covering rock ’n’ roll and pop music and it just wasn’t my thing.” Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. liggett_b@fortlewis.edu.

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[sound] What’s new Slaughter Beach, Dog,“Birdie” Available: Friday, Oct. 27, digitally via the Slaughter Beach, Dog Bandcamp page in various formats as high-quality download in MP3, FLAC etc. For those still (thankfully) buying physical albums, Lame-O Records is releasing the compact disc and two, count ’em two, vinyl versions. One thousand LP’s will be pressed on standard black vinyl and a thousand on half gold/half green vinyl. I’ve got a friend with similar taste who tried, for some time, to get me into Modern Baseball. The sensitive indie, post-emo, rock ’n’ roll of this nature should’ve been somewhat in my relative wheelhouse and/or right up my alley. Problem was, I just couldn’t get into it. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based band

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Oct. 27 Bell Witch,“Mirror Reaper” I hold to the idea that artist intent is a vital part of experiencing music. Some artists prefer their art expressed as two-to-four-minute singles structured around hooks, choruses, and leads. Others present a body of work as a whole, for digestion as the listener prefers. The idea of the album had gone away for a while but has made a comeback more recently. And others still demand more of their listeners. Such is the case with Seattle’s Bell Witch. Their new opus “Mirror Reaper” is one 83-minute song, meant to be absorbed as such. It is a suffocating and cathartic experience, building throughout the entirety of the piece, slowly adding vocals and organ where necessary. It honestly astounds me what this band is able to produce with just two full-time members on drums, bass, and vocals. It’s breathtaking. So much emotion comes across from so few pieces. By no means is this record for everyone – far from it – but those who are willing to put in the time and patience will find something genuinely rewarding. As a lament and funeral dirge for the passing of founding member Adrian Guerra, it is an immaculate and heartfelt swan song. And as a metal record, it does more to push the genre to further emotional heights than anything I have heard in a very long time.

was surrounding themselves with bands I dug, playing shows at venues I’d attend, and all should’ve been eye to eye. Again, something just didn’t click. That said, who knows? Perhaps I just needed to back into their work via Jake Ewalds’ solo work while Modern Baseball is on hiatus. There is a wistful nostalgia to the music Ewald crafts under the Slaughter Beach, Dog moniker. With a full-length and EP already under his belt, there is no denying his output and talent. There

Perturbator,“New Model” Last year I called Perturbator’s fourth full-length album, “The Uncanny Valley,” my favorite release of the year. Unbeknownst to me, while releasing said wonderful display of nostalgia-drenched synth worship, he was brewing an even more sinister EP. “New Model” is a breath of fresh air in the synthwave world, and it does so by exuding the patience of a predator stalking its prey. By slowing down the tempo, Perturbator allows the space between the heavy electronics to sizzle and crack with anticipation of the next build-up and come-down. This is most evident on “Tactical Precision Disarray,” a single that he unleashed at the end of 2016. About two and a half minutes in, everything melts away, time enough for the listener to appreciate the silence before the onslaught of auditory machine gun fire begins with a growling lead. He has followed up “Uncanny Valley” in the best way possible.

and gorgeous alto all flow throughout the record, giving each part the emotional weight that it demands. One of the most notable aspects of the band is the presence of violin, and my favorite moments of the record come on the track “Urn Part II As Embers Dance In Our Eyes.” At the start there are these dissonant yearning strings, like a beast

is a clear DIY aesthetic to his process that I also admire. On “Birdie,” his second full-length, I’ve responded to his earnestness and sincerity that comes through the recordings. Guess it may be time to give Modern Baseball another go. For the uninitiated, I’d start here, with Birdie. Recommended for fans of Modern Baseball, Tim Kasher (The Good Life & Cursive), Strand of Oaks, Pinegrove, The Hotelier, and Craig Finn (The Hold Steady) — Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

straining against its chains. Other notable releases: Kelly Clarkson, Weezer, SOJA, Theory of a Dead Man, Hollywood Undead, Yelawolf, 10 Years, All Pigs Must Die, Powerman 5000, Butcher Babies, Winds of Plague, and Big KRIT —— Cooper Stapleton

Ne Obliviscaris,“Urn” Progressive metal has, of late, almost become a checklist of tropes that bands must hit. Though not necessarily a bad thing, it does dilute the sound. What makes something progressive if it is fulfilling a checklist? Regardless, even while fulfilling the check marks, bands can soar above rudimentary entries into a genre by becoming more than the sum of their parts. Australia’s Ne Obliviscaris is one such act. First catching my interest in 2012 with their debut “Portal of I,” they have all the chops and then some, bringing in, most notably, some astounding bass work and vocals. High shrieks, low growls,

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Four spooky beers to bring to your Halloween party It’s HALLOWEEN! Time for fun and time for screams, or in the very least, a throat-soak of celebratory suds. Don’t know which beer best complements doing the monster mash? DGO’s got your witchy, werewolvian, horrifying hooch needs covered. Here’s some brews (all available at Star Liquors) to swig on Halloween:

Flesh and Blood IPA Dogfish Head’s Flesh and Blood IPA sits at 7.5 percent ABV and is a mischievous brew concocted with lemon flesh and blood orange. It’s tart, slightly sweet, and has a light hop finish. Bonus: It pours a dark amber that’ll look macabre in a goblet.

Pump Action Imperial Pumpkin Ale Broomfield’s 4 Noses Brewing won gold medals at both the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) and the World Beer Cup in 2016 for this pumpkin ale. The nutmeg, brown-sugary, 7.7-percent-ABV brew has over 10 pounds of pumpkin per barrel. Autumn-freakin-licious.

White Rascal

Dawn of the Red

Coriander and Curaçao orange peel give this 5.6-percent-ABV Belgian White Ale a classyass, crisp kick. Avery Brewing’s White Rascal, a 2012 silver medal-winner at GABF, pours a light gold and its barley notes add a complexity to this devilish all-night sipper.

Get zombified with Ninkasi Brewing’s Dawn of the Red. This malty red IPA is hella hoppy and has a deep caramel background. Smooth and a little bit fruity, at 7 percent ABV it perfectly complements you screaming, “WHY ARE YOU GOING IN THE BASEMENT?” at the TV during your horror movie marathon.

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Silverton’s 142-year-old Hillside Cemetery 4-year-old Rachel Farrow, a full 10 years before Silverton was incorporated as a town in 1885. After that, the six-foot-drop was pickaxed into the mountain for people blown to bits in the mines, folks hit by boulders, those eaten by bears and swept away in avalanches, and a whole slew of other early American maladies.

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Nobody knows how many bodies are in Boulder Mountain at Hillside Cemetery in Silverton. What ya got is a 20-acre boneyard with 142 years of internments chaotically situated between aspen, spruce, pines, and wild grasses.

WANDERLUST Travel stories worth telling I love Iceland. More importantly than that, I love baby sheep. They are soooo cute. They’re adorable. If my husband and I are driving around and I see baby sheep, I’ll stop and we’ll hang out with them. Anywhere. One time, I was in Montana and there was a guy herding them and I stopped and hung out with them for an hour. He had regular sheep, but I really, really like the baby ones. One time we were in Scotland and my mother-in-law kept joking about putting one in our suitcase. I geek out. I get all [makes mewling, excited Muppet noise]. So, I’ve been to Iceland twice, both in early June, which is when the baby sheep are all prancey and have just been born and are super cute ... My husband probably gets annoyed because I’m always like, “Look at the baby sheeeeeeeeeeeep!” Last time we went to Iceland, it was for our honeymoon. The whole time I was like, “I want to hold a baby sheep.” It doesn’t work very well. They kinda run away from you. [Laughs] One afternoon, we were on a backcountry lava tour and my husband had told the tour guide, “She wants to hold a baby sheep.” The tour guide was like, “Um ... I will see

what I can do.” It didn’t sound promising. It was a great trip, but no baby sheep the whole day. We were going back to Reykjavik and got a flat tire. The tour guide pulled over into a farm and asked the farm family if we could park there while we waited for a ride. They said it was no problem. Then, out of the corner of the tour guide’s eye, he notices – baby sheep. It was pouring rain, by the way, and he has a conversation in Icelandic with the family. He then says to me, “Hey, they’ll let you hold a baby sheep.” I was like, “OH MY GOD,” and I ran into the barn faster than I’ve moved in forever. There’s two parents and a daughter who is maybe like 18. The daughter kinda speaks English but the parents don’t and I’m like, “I can hold a baby sheep?” She was like, “Um, OK?” I got to hold THREE baby sheep and they thought I was the weirdest person ever. They all laughed at me the whole time and my husband took pictures that were out of focus. I was so happy. I am obsessed. —— Claudia Laws Got a crazy travel story? Write it in about 400 words and send it to editor@dgomag. com. If you’d rather tell your story, send a brief synopsis along with your name and phone number to the same address. Either way, your story should be true. Also, be sure to include your full name and town.

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If you like invigorating walks full of history, Hillside Cemetery should be on your go-to list before snows blanket the sometimes bold, often tragic, gravestones. There’s about eight times as many dead folks in Silverton as living, with Hillside containing over 3,000 graves, but then there’s all those unmarked graves ...

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»» Claudia Laws and a baby sheep.

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BLOOD, LOVE, AND MURDER:

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»» The sordid story of a

The sleeper car where Kate lives

sleeper car you can visit at the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum There’s a ghost that lives at the rear of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum. Kate, a forlorn haint with a history of woe and ruin, resides in an unrestored sleeper car built in 1883. It ain’t smart to go tromping willy-nilly through the spirit world, thus, the D&SNG keeps Kate’s passenger car roped off from the general public, at the back of the museum. Jeff Ellingson, the museum’s curator and local history buff, is willing to give tours of the haunted train car, but you better have a fortitude for foreboding and courtesy toward the incorporeal. Ellingson has dealt with a fair number of paranormal investigators and he doesn’t take kindly to people who are abusive or brusque with Kate. Kate’s car is dark green, and the century-plus paint job is exhausted. Inside, the lights are dim against beige, wooden walls. Shadows lurk. The air feels thick. The lower sleeping berths are out for seating and the upper berths tucked away. A doorway cuts the car in half, separating the sleeping space from the living area. A small cook stove, a table, shelving, and minor seating occupy the back half of the train car. Leaning against the doorframe in low light, Ellingson unveiled a tale of a young prostitute, a gory train fight, and a bloody mishap that led to a brutal suicide. Here is his account of the story:

This is the last of its kind. This car was taken out of service in 1900. It was built in 1883. It was an immigrant car. It transported people that didn’t have much money that were trying to get to the gold fields of Colorado. It was part of a train that, during the day, you would ride in a regular passenger car. At night, this is where you would sleep. You would cook your own meals. There are sinks and space to prepare your food. That’s where you would eat and you’d probably share this car with another family. In 1900, Pullmans came out. They were much fancier. They tucked you in at night. You didn’t have to cook for yourself anymore. You didn’t have to bring your own bedding. They did everything for you. Pullmans made this car obsolete. In Salida, a huge railroad town right in the middle of Colorado, they dealt with a lot of train wrecks. This car was part of a 10car train that was used in dealing with train wrecks. Whenever there was an accident, they could put 60 men on a train that was already made up. They’d hook a locomotive on it. These 60 men were roundhouse guys and car shop guys, going to the wreck. Part of their job was to rescue the survivors and part was grizzlier; it was getting the people that had died back to town. This car was used because it was like a cabin on wheels with a cook here to make meals for all the men on the train.

A fireman wants to impress his young lover What happened in 1937 was really sad. In Salida, across from the railyard, there was a red light district called “Laura’s.” Laura was a madam of the highest caliber, an amazing lady who had a lot of beautiful girls that worked for her. There was a girl who was 15 and her name was Kate. Kate was in love with a fireman who worked in the railyard. The train was about to go out of Salida to a wreck. The fireman was like, “How cool would it be to take my girlfriend along?” He sneaks Kate onto the engine to impress her – hides her there until the train gets out of town and it’s dark. But the fireman is busy. Coal won’t shovel itself. He is buddies with the cook, so the fireman says, “Kate, I’m going to take you back to the car where the cook is. I have to work.” So the fireman brings Kate back here, where we are.

»» Jeff Ellingson, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum curator. Photo by Jerry McBride/BCI Media;

Kate is not alone with the cook. There’s railroad men in here. They’re playing cards. They’re drinking. Sixty guys and one beautiful lady is a bad combination on a moving train in the wilderness. A lot of the guys recognized Kate. They knew her job – that she worked for Laura. Continued on Page 14

illustration by David Holub/DGO

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[haunted durango] From Page 13

Crimson pandemonium in a moving passenger car The men get bad ideas. The fireman gets word and rushes back to Kate. Kate’s hiding behind the cook. The fireman and a brakeman – a big, burly, drunk guy – get in a fight right in this doorway. The conductor, even from a few cars back, can hear all this shouting. He rushes here and sees two men on the floor, rolling around, fighting. Do you see this framing here? [points to the left side of the car] There used to be a sliding service door, right here. The conductor comes in, he sees these guys on the floor. He grabs the guy on top, trying to break it up, but the conductor’s adrenaline is flowing and the train is moving and he throws the man on top of the pile off the train, in the middle of the night, through that service door, right there. Meanwhile, the fireman is on the floor. He’s been stabbed. He’s bleeding out. Kate is screaming for her lover. The cook is holding her back. The fireman’s unconscious and dying. The conductor stops the train. Gets everybody off. Questions everyone, asks, “What in the hell is going on here? What happened? What’s she doing on the train?” The fireman dies. The train goes back to find the brakeman – he’s wanted for murder. The brakeman is found along the tracks with a broke shoulder. He was pretty beat up, but not at risk of dying.

But the fireman isn’t the ghost on the train ... Kate never recovers from the trauma. She blames herself. Thinks, “If I hadn’t of gone on the train, I would still have my fireman and none of this would have happened.” She ends up killing herself – committing suicide. Carbaulic acid. Women would choose that in the 1930s, and it was a really agonizing way to die. Getting back to present, this car sat in the lower yard for a lot of years. The D&SNG owner saved it, realizing how rare it was, a 1900 car not restored. He didn’t realize its other

GO! The D&SNG Railroad Halloween Tour Where: Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, 479 Main Ave. When: 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31 Cost: $20 Ages: 18 and over Info: http://www.durangotrain. com/events/full-moon-ghost-crawl If you miss out on the Halloween tour, email Jeff Ellingson at jellingson@durangotrain.com for details on future ghost tours.

history. I didn’t know the story of Kate then, either. It came from researching the history of the car. The thing of it was, people would come in here with their cameras and take pictures and see things. I had some travel writers in here a couple of weeks ago and a lady with her phone was recording me telling the story. She said, “I’m getting orbs.” There were these little balls of light cruising around in here when I was talking, on her phone. We had a paranormal investigation done in here by folks who claimed to be professionals who had special equipment and they lasted until about 2 a.m. then they wanted the heck out. They got locked in the car. I’ll never allow it ever again. What they did was try to antagonize to get a reaction out of Kate. And they got one. They got locked in. That door [points to front entryway] has a wooden wedge under it and it slammed shut and locked. They called me up and wanted the heck out of here and I was like, “You know what, climb through a window; you brought it on yourself.” I was kind of mad about that. One of the reasons why this car is back here and we don’t let people go tromping through and only bring in little tours is out of respect. How can the D&SNG be certain this is the muder train car? It is a small world. The D&SNG hired a brakeman, Avery Martinez. I had heard some stories from some Continued on Page 15

»» Inside the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad ghost car.

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[haunted durango] their reputation. The Mountain Mail was the newspaper over in Salida. Still is today. The Mountain Mail was going to publish the murder story and the railroad went traipsing into their office and said, “If you print this story, we’ll make it so you’ll never print anything ever again.” So the murder was reported as an accident in official documents. Out in the middle of nowhere, the railroad could make up any story it wanted. Our investigation was at the courthouse in Salida and looking at the death records in 1937. There were murders in Salida that year, but none listed as on this car. There were two accidental deaths listed at the railroad in 1937. One was a fireman. There isn’t direct correlation so I can’t say for sure, but it makes you think ... David Holub/DGO

»» The exterior of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad ghost car. From Page 14

folks in Salida, but Avery came in here and had the whole story. Avery’s great uncle was hired by the Rio Grande in the 1930s and moved here from Illinois. He didn’t have a place to stay when he first arrived in Salida. This car was sitting empty in the railyard and they said, “OK, you can live on this car.” The murder hadn’t happened yet. This was his house. He was a heavy equipment operator. The railroad hired him to work in wrecking service.

district in Salida, a little earlier. Well, the Rio Grande was this huge company and there were a lot of married guys that worked for the railroad that were sneaking over to Laura’s and having affairs. The railroad was worried about

Maybe that’s why Kate is the one here, her energy still attached to this car – her lover had an unsolved or unstated murder. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. —— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

Avery said, “I heard that the 460 is in here.” I said, “Yeah, it is.” He said, “Well, my great uncle used to live on that car.” I go, “Really? There’s an interesting story about that car.” He said, “Yes, there is.” And, in fact, his great uncle was on the train the night that the murder happened. His great uncle used to tell the story at holidays. There have been people who have walked in here, without me telling the story, who are just sensitive and they’ll be like, “Did you know there is a lady that is in that car? You have a female ghost back there.” And I’ll go, “Really?” They’re like, “Yeah, her name is Kate or something.” I’m like, “How do you know that?”

Information is hard to come by about Kate and her fireman Patty Templeton/DGO

I mentioned Laura’s, the red light

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he Green Rush has expanded, reaching from coast to coast and all the way to the North Pole now. Massachusetts and Maine (along with Nevada and California) passed voter-driven ballot initiatives last November, joining Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. The booming recreational and medical marijuana sectors, including the newly expanded Canadian counterparts to American sellers, crested the $6.7 billion mark in 2016, with Colorado accounting for a cool billion of that total. SIX POINT SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS!!! That is a shit-ton of money, huh? It is, right up until the moment when you continue down your Google search results and realize that the total amount generated by cannabis purchased by both Americans and our poutine-eating, exceedingly polite neighbors to the north is estimated to be somewhere in the region of $53 billion – that’s a 5 and a 3 followed by nine zeroes dollars. That, my friends, is an actual shit-ton of money; and the huge majority of it is bought and sold illegally. These staggering numbers raise the question of what is next to come for the cannabis industry. The cashola wizards at Forbes compared the growth of the cannabis industry (30 percent during the last calendar year) to the booms experienced by the dot-coms and the cable television and broadband internet industries during the last couple decades. So, what does this mean for you and me and Joe and JoAnn McBlaze? Twenty-dollar eighths all day, every day? Marlboro joints? Even more delicious edibles? No idea, really, but if you are inclined to put your hardearned dollars into an investment sector that still carries the stigma of federal prohibition, cannabis might be the place for you. Think about it for a minute. There exists out there in Moneyworld a

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Octopuses: Fascinating and heartbreaking

Montgomery goes on to explore the realm of animal consciousness that is categorized by science as anthropomorphic. Who are we to say for certain what animals think and feel when in actuality we know so very little? One can only watch, wonder, and hypothesize. One thing’s for sure, humans still have so very much to learn. The book is also a memoir, as Montgomery is very much a part of the story. It follows her relations with fellow enthusiasts, her struggles with scuba diving, and her own emotional connection to the creatures. The book can be incredibly sad. Octopuses live very short lives of only a few years. Montgomery finds herself building a close attachment to these wonderful creatures, only to suffer heartbreak after heartbreak. The creatures can die in very tragic ways. They become senescent and act similar to a human with Alzheimer’s in that they seem lost at times, as if their mind is somewhere else. This personal aspect means that after reading the book, you will likely think the unthinkable and want to experience an octopus

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Life Hax | Carolyn Hax

Rules for when seasonal work strains a relationship My boyfriend and I moved in together two months ago. We’re very much in love, and I feel comfortable discussing issues and feelings with him.

ing it introduces disappointment and blame, intimacy-killers both. Don’t dismiss the wanting, though; it can tell you what matters to you.

you needed, or did you stop at saying how you felt? And did you take her (non)response as the last word?

Although, I have always struggled with bringing up things that make me upset (I’m working with a therapist on this).

(3) When you don’t get what you want, try liking what you actually have. Each fall, you have the security and promise of a shared love plus the freedom of “found” time. What good ways can you use that? And, how can you make your couple time both restorative for him and satisfying to you?

This is the core of every compromise you will make in your life – not just the one you were looking for now in this situation with this girlfriend. You need to decide on the minimum you will agree to; think of what you’re willing to offer (if anything) in exchange for that; speak for yourself accordingly; and then not accept less than your minimum – with the full understanding that it might cost you in other ways.

His job is seasonal, and fall is exceptionally busy. This is the first fall we have been together, so I was not emotionally prepared for the long amounts of time we are spending apart. He takes a large amount of pride in his work and making sure his customers are satisfied. I love and respect this about him. Coupled with his commute – he moved farther from work so we could live together – he’s gone from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. every weekday, and they will be adding Saturday hours, too. He’s exhausted when he gets home (which I understand) and not in much of a mood to talk and reconnect. However, I’ve been home for a few hours at this point and miss him and really want to chat. When he’s not wiped out, we can talk for hours. What advice do you have for getting through this hard time of year? Chatty and Wide Awake Treat him like he’s deployed. He’s gone for the fall except for some bonus quiet-evening-togetherness visits. You’ll get him back in full soon enough. Try to make it work by finding other productive, interesting or just fun things to do with the time you’d normally spend with him. Do this till the season ends. When you’ve had him back for a while and gotten some distance from the emotions you’re feeling now, reflect on the whole experience – including his sacrifice in extending his commute. If at this point you decide you don’t want to live like this indefinitely, then you talk to your boyfriend about the future – goals, dreams, realities. Then you decide accordingly whether this relationship is where you really want to be. You’ll be happier about this whole answer, though, and happier in general, if you come up with it (and others like it) on your own.

(4) Put away any preconceived notions of how a relationship “should” be and let your contentment, or lack of it, tell you whether it works. Don’t fight your reality – be patient, live it, and listen to it. See what will and won’t change – not because you want it to, but because it does. Then trust the answer you get. My girlfriend and I have been together for almost a year and are moving in together at the end of the month. She’s not perfect but neither am I, and she’s awesome at understanding and supporting me. She’s younger (27 to my 33), but because she’s A LOT more mature than I was at 27, I’ve overlooked it – until now. We started the move-in process at the end of summer, after I was stressed because of repeated family visits. She understood, but instead of offering to wait a few weeks, she kept pushing to look at apartments. I wonder if she did that because she’s really eager to move on to the next stage of her life – move out of the row house she hates, get a dog, keep developing a social network beyond loser, alcoholic roommates. That’s all great! But I worry she’s so eager that she’ll ignore my needs in doing so. And now I’m still stressed and slated to move in with her. ARGH!!!! All I want is a few weeks of hikes on the weekend and eating right during the week, not scrambling to pack and find movers. I worry that once we move, we’ll have to unpack, decorate the new house, and then the holidays! She’s generally good at compromise, but if we got this far with me being stressed 24/7, can I trust future compromises? And if I can’t trust her and am so nervous about this move, should I be in this relationship at all?

So, here’s a rough set of commandments to get you there:

Butterflies or Warning Signs?

(1) Do not take personally what isn’t personal. He is driving, working, driving and resting; he is not purposefully avoiding you.

The person you need to trust at compromising is you. You’re the one who agrees to the terms, or doesn’t agree and holds out for what you need.

(2) Do not confuse desires with expectations. You want to chat after a long day, but that doesn’t mean it’s fair to expect him to chat after a long day. Expect-

You told her you were stressed, she said she understood ... and didn’t offer “to wait a few weeks,” OK. But did you ask her to? Did you articulate what

So in this case, that would have meant, for example: deciding you were not ready to undertake a move, and needed a few weeks to catch your breath; committing to be all-in as soon as the rest time was up; and stating these two points clearly to your girlfriend. Then, if she kept pushing you, you would have: kindly but firmly acknowledged her urgency and her reasons for it; asked her to respect your needs nonetheless because you wouldn’t be asking if it weren’t important; and refused to give in on your baseline request of waiting until X date to start apartment-hunting with her. In a relationship, that is the way you keep your priorities and sense of self from being swamped by your partner’s – any partner’s. If the price of holding the line where necessary is a breakup or, worse, a soul-sucking, peace-of-mind killing, good-time erasing, endlessly recurring argument, then that’s your indication that you two don’t fit, because you aren’t able to give each other what you need while getting your own needs met. Note, while I don’t endorse her “pushing” and would tell her so if she were the one writing to me, none of this is about her maturity or trustworthiness in forging a compromise. Each of us is the author, ultimately, of any arrangement we agree to just by virtue of agreeing to it. So if you’ve found yourself caught in a rush to move against your will, then, yes, that could be a sign you shouldn’t be “in this relationship at all” – not because of your girlfriend herself, per se, but because you’re not (yet?) willing or able to stand up for what you need and invite the consequences, whatever they may be. Carolyn Hax is a syndicated advice columnist for The Washington Post. She started her advice column in 1997, after five years as a copy editor and news editor in Style and none as a therapist. Email her at tellme@washpost. com. Can’t get enough Carolyn Hax? Read more every week at dgomag.com.

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ANIMAS VALLEY BALLOON RALLY:

Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m.

MAKING THE HERMOST OF IT

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. Durango Green Drinks, 5

p.m., Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main Ave., 259-2545. Halloween Fun(d)raiser with celebrity bartenders, 5 p.m., The Red Snapper,

144 E. Ninth St. Teton Gravity Research “Rogue Elements” film,

5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., $15, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606. Tim Sullivan, 5:30 p.m., Di-

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

Friday Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m.

Where there is fire, there is hot air. Sometimes that hot air goes into balloons, and, through the magic of science, makes them fly. Unless high winds make it unsafe and ground the balloons altogether, as was the case over the weekend at the second annual Animas Valley Balloon Rally (around 20 balloons finally got off the ground Sunday). Regardless, Friday and Saturday nights were for warming up – literally and figuratively – in Hermosa. To see more photos, go to dgomag.com Photos by Lucy Schaefer

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave.

Halloween Carnival, 2

p.m., Sunnyside Elementary School, 75 County Road 218. FUMC Trunk-or-Treat and Carnival Fall Festival, 3 p.m., First United Meth-

odist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive. Environmental Panel Discussion, 5 p.m., Durango

Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606. Kitchen Jam Band, 5:30

Halloween, 4 p.m., $5-$10, Powerhouse Science Center, MakerLab, 1295 Camino del Rio. “Understanding Tax Payers Bill of Rights and Gallagher Amendment” League of Women Voters presentation, 5:30 p.m., Du-

rango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

Tuesday

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

Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m.

Donny Johnson, 5:30 p.m.,

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave.

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

Watercolor Painting 101,

Sky Ute Casino Resort, 14324 Highway 172, Ignacio.

1 p.m., $150-$175, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

The Rocky Horror Show,

Children’s Halloween, 4

Black Velvet Duo, 6 p.m.,

7 p.m., 10 p.m., $18-$25, Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160. Jarabe Mexicano Dios De Los Muertes, 7:30 p.m.,

p.m., Downtown Durango, 3755000. Terry Rickard, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Metalsmithing workshop, noon, $200-$225,

$15-$22, Fort Lewis College, Community Concert Hall, 1000 Rim Drive.

Tuesday jam, 6 p.m., Steam-

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

Sunday

Tim Sullivan, 7 p.m., Office

Members Environmental Exhibit, 5 p.m., Durango

Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606. The Cannondolls, 5:30

p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. The Rocky Horror Show,

7 p.m., 10 p.m., $18-$25, Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160. Black Velvet Trio, 7 p.m.,

Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave.

Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m.

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. Community yard sale, 9

a.m., Southern Ute multi-purpose building, 256 Ute Road, Ignacio. 4CD&CTA Spook-tacular Hunter/Jumper Show,

9 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave., 7495582. Henry Stoy piano, 11 a.m.,

Saturday

Jean-Pierre Bakery and Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave., 247-7700.

Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m.

Heartstrings: a tribute to love with strings and song, 3 p.m., $15, St. Mark’s

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. Durango Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon, First National

Bank of Durango, 259 W. Ninth St., www.durangofarmersmarket.com. Dog wash benefit, 10 a.m.,

Healthy Hounds and Fat Cats, 21738 U.S. Highway 160. Durango Nature Studies workshop: The Life of an Elk, 10:30 a.m., $0-$10, Duran-

go Nature Center, 63 County Road 310.

Episcopal Church, 910 East Third Ave., 247-1129. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, 3 p.m., Durango Community

Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave., 375-7300. Blue Moon Ramblers,

5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. The Rocky Horror Show, 8

p.m., $18-$25, Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

Henry Stoy piano, 11 a.m.,

Monday

Jean-Pierre Bakery and Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave., 247-7700.

Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m.

Three Springs 2017 Fall Festival, 11 a.m., Three

Springs Plaza, 175 Mercado St., 764-6000. Sunnyside Elementary

Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. Prayer and Watching the News, 10 a.m., Christian Sci-

ence Reading Room, 1166 East Third Ave.

ing Bean, 900 Main Ave., 4031200. Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 3757260. Full Moon Ghost Crawl: Haunted Durango Train Museum Experience,

8:30 p.m., $20, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, 479 Main Ave.

Wednesday Coffee with the Superintendent, noon, Durango

Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380. Know Your Dough donor and volunteer appreciation party, 5 p.m., Academy

Mortgage, 835 East Second Ave., Suite 400. SMART Recovery Durango, 5:30 p.m., Suttle Street Clin-

ic, 72 Suttle St., Suite M. Greg Ryder, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Terry Rickard, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 3757260.

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is an excellent week to ask for a loan or mortgage or a favor from someone else because you can benefit from the wealth and resources of others. Try it! TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Relationships with partners and close friends are warm and cozy this week. If you need the advice of an expert or close friend, ask for it this week. Someone will help you. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Work-related travel is likely for many of you this week. In the bigger picture, this is a fun, profitable week at work. Make sure you show up. CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

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Start to make some vacation plans this week because you’re going to have

some fun this year. Take time out this week for a long lunch or some laughs with some pals because this is an upbeat, friendly week! LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a wonderful week to entertain at home. All your interactions with family members will be upbeat and positive. People will encourage each other! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a strong week for writers and people in sales, marketing, acting and teaching because your communication skills are tops! That’s because you’re in an optimistic, positive frame of mind. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Look for ways to boost your income because you can do this this week. Yes, “There’s money in them thar hills!”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You feel happy and warmhearted toward everyone this week, which is wonderful! It’s important to appreciate who you are and what you have every day. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) This is a feel-good week, which is why you’ll have a warm feeling in your tummy. You will enjoy solitude and quiet surroundings or low-key, social diversions. Take it easy. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) It’s a popular week! Your dealings with friends as well as clubs, groups and associations will be successful. Be ready to accept help from someone. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You make a fabulous impression on boss-

es and VIPs this week because both the Sun and Jupiter are lined up at the top of your chart. Ask for what you want! PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Do something different this week. Shake things up. Travel if you can, or talk to people from different backgrounds and other cultures. You want to explore more of life. BORN THIS WEEK You are friendly and warmhearted. You also are reliable and dependable. (These are noble qualities.) This is a year of new beginnings, adventures and exciting changes! It’s time to take the initiative and define your goals. What you begin now will benefit you in the future. You might even take on a leadership role. It’s the beginning of a fresh new cycle! © 2017 King Features Syndicate Inc.

[Halloween facts] »»Jack-o’-lanterns were originally made from turnips, not pumpkins. »»Samhainophobia is the word for the fear of Halloween. »»Some terrifyingly rad dude named Stephen Clarke holds the world record for fastest pumpkin carver. He can carve two eyes, a nose, and a mouth into a pumpkin in 24.03 seconds. »»Romantic fortune-telling used to be a bigger deal than candy on Halloween. Adults would search for their soulmate via parlor games. For example, a person would hold up a hand mirror, look into it, and walk backwards in moonlight while saying an incantation. When done correctly, the mirror would show the face of their true love. »»In 2016, Americans spent more than $8.4 billion on Halloween. »»Halloween can turn little kids into a-holes. Seriously, science proves it. Groups of costume-wearing kids can suffer from deindividuation, which is a psychological term for the loss of self-awareness in groups. Thinking of consequences of actions decreases and mob mentality begins. »»The most common pet costume, regardless of pet species, is a pumpkin. »»35 million pounds of candy corn is produced for the Halloween season.

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Events in and around Durango:

HALLOWEEN EDITION Friday

20, 18 to enter, 21 to drink, party at 6 p.m., music at 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., www.facebook.com/ WildHorseSaloonDurango

EERIE ART SHOW “Altared Memories: Celebrating Life Through Offered Memories,” Studio &’s newest show, opens Friday and lasts only one week. There will be an open altar for objects of remembrance, a “Letters to the Dead” fire, as well as 2D and 3D artwork, installation, time-based artwork and more.

FALL FEST AT THREE SPRINGS The Fall Fest at Three Springs will have trick-or-treating, food vendors, a pumpkin patch, and arts and crafts for the whole family. Details: Free entry, all ages, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, Three Springs, 175 Mercado St., www. threespringsdurango.com

Details: Free, all ages, 5 to 9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27, Studio &, 1027 Main Ave., www.anddurango.com GIVE BLOOD, GET BEER If you donate blood, you’ll receive a T-shirt and a voucher for a pint at a Bootlegger’s Society location (like Steamworks, Ska, and Carvers). Donors need to be at least 18, but obvs, if you’re not 21 you ain’t getting a beer voucher. Details: Free, 18 and up, 11 a.m.6:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27, American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Unit 28, 878 E. Second Ave., www.facebook.com/KDUR. Durango event section for deets

Friday and beyond DO THE TIME WARP Damn it, Janet, get to the Strater for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live on stage. Details: $18 students, $20 advance, $25 doors, opening show 18 and up, late shows 21 and up, varied times, Friday, Oct. 27-29 (Sunday), Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., http://henrystratertheatre.com NIGHTMARE ON ELK STREET The Elks creep you the f out with their second annual Nightmare on Elk Street Haunted House. Details: $7, all ages, 6-10:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27, Saturday, Oct 28, and Tuesday, Oct. 31, Elks Lodge, 901 E. Second Ave., www.facebook.com/Durango-Colorado-Elks-Lodge-113595278673847

Saturday SPOOKY PUB DANCE Shake that devilish ass at a Halloween Dance sponsored by the Four Corners Alliance for Diversity and Durango

SWAMPY TONK AT BALCONY

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»» Artwork by Tim Kapustka Pride Festival. Costume contest, $200 in cash prizes, and music by n00nz. Details: $10, 21 and up, 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, Irish Embassy Underground, 900 Main Ave., www.facebook. com/DurangoPride HALLOWEEN SPIRIT AND DRUM CIRCLE Open drum circle, sacred elements chanting, and trance dance that promotes spiritual awakening, mental clarity, and emotional well-being. Details: $10, all ages, 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, Groove U Studio, 26369 U.S. Highway 160, www.durangodrums.org COSTUME CONTEST AT CERDA 7 Get gussied up and throw down $2 well shots at Cerda 7’s Halloween DJ dance party. Details: Free, 21 and up, 9 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, Cerda 7 Cantina y Comida, 639 Main Ave., www.cerda7cantinaycomida.com LIVE TUNES AT WILD HORSE SALOON Costume contest with cash prize and live music by Aaron Einhouse at Wild Horse Saloon. Details: $5 – 21 and over, $10 – 18 to

Slowdraw gets their weirdo, neo-country on at Balcony for the Halloween weekend and Balcony’s anniversary party. Details: Free, 21 and over, 4:308:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, Balcony Bar and Grill, 600 Main Ave., www. balconybarandgrill.com

Sunday LOWRIDER AND HIP-HOP SHOW AT FLC 5K Schools Not Prisons Run from 10-11 a.m. Lowrider and car audio show in Jones parking lot from noon-2 p.m. Hiphop slam featuring Xamorai and Kaos, DJ Mowgli, K. Benally and Letsjusb, DJ Young Native, and Def I. from 2-4 p.m. Details: $15 for the 5K, free car show, $5 hip-hop slam, all ages, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 29, Fort Lewis College, Student Union, Vallecito Room, 1000 Rim Dr., www.facebook.com/fortlewiscollegesociologyclub

Monday and Tuesday SPOOKY TUNES AT ACT Liver Down the River and Elder Grown will do two days of shows – alternately headlining – at the ACT to get Halloween hella started. Monday’s show is 18 and over. Tuesday’s show is 21 and over. Details: $15 general, $40 VIP for EACH show, doors 7:30 p.m., show 8:30, Monday, Oct. 30 and Tuesday, Oct. 31, Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr., www.animascitytheatre.com

Tuesday HALLOWEEN CEMETERY TOUR Ghost Walk Durango hosts a dark and spooky tour of Durangoland. Your admission fee includes a two-hour tour, flashlight, and either a T-shirt or umbrella. Tour is limited to 30 folks. Details: $50, 15 and up, 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, tour starts at 201 East 12th Ave. (Old High School), www.ghostwalkdurango.com HAUNTED DURANGO TRAIN MUSEUM EXPERIENCE Railroad museum curator Jeff Ellingson recounts macabre tales of the train yard at this ghoulish tour. Limited to 30 guests. Details: $20, 18 and up, 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, D&SNG Railroad and Museum, 479 Main Ave., www.durangotrain.com/events/full-moon-ghost-crawl THE UNDEAD TAKE OVER DURANGO Get zombified (or just get any kinda costumed) and hang on Main from 11:59 p.m. on Halloween until the wee hours with the Durango Halloween Zombie/Monster March. Details: Free, 18 and up (but 21 and up to pub crawl), 11:59 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, party/parade starts at College and Main, www.facebook.com/durangozombiemonstermarch DURANGO CRITICAL MASS HALLOWEEN RIDE Get on wheels (bikes, boards, Rollerblades, etc.), throw on a costume, and meet at Buckley Park for a Halloween bike parade. Details: Free, all ages, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, parades starts at Buckley Park, 1200 Main Ave., www.facebook.com/ DurangoCriticalMass MIDWEEK MEGA PARTY Come to Lady Falc’s Halloween party in costume between 10-11 p.m. and you’ll get a zombie cocktail on the house. Prizes for top three costumes. Details: Free, 21 and over, 10 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, Lady Falconburgh’s, 640 Main St., www.facebook.com/ladyfalconburghs

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