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Meal ticket Thirteen locals to face-off for Manna’s third annual Durango Voice by Missy Votel
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Running wild New theatre company reconciles love of outdoors, love of the stage by Jennaye Derge
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Thompson releases exhaustive book on Animas River saga by Missy Votel
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If you thought April 1 was closing day at Purg – April Fool’s. On Tuesday, the resort announced it will be re-opening 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Fridays – Sunday through April 15. After that, it will be open Saturdays and Sundays through April 29. Sun., April 15 will also be a Locals Benefit Day with $45 tickets ($32/teens and $25/child and $32/senior) when bought 48 hours in advance at skipurg.com. To help sweeten the deal, this weekend, the Bear Bar will be serving up a chance to win a New Belgium Fat Tire cruiser bike as well as a Jimmy Buffett theme, complete with beer-ritas on the beach (discounts for those in costume.) Discounted lift tickets are available online, season passes are valid, and weekday passholders can use their passes on April 6, 13, 21, 22, 28 & 29. For more info. on lifts and terrain, check our this Friday’s snow report.
Pour it on If you’re looking to maximize that 20-minute power nap, maybe a little coffee’s in order. OK, so it sounds counterintuitive, but hear us out. It’s called a “coffee nap,” and besides being another excuse to drink more coffee, there’s actually some science to it. According to Vox.com, if you caffeinate immediately before napping and sleep for 20 minutes or less, you can exploit a quirk in the way sleep and caffeine affect your brain. That’s because sleeping clears from the brain adenosine, a natural byproduct of brain activity that makes us feel tired but also competes with caffeine for brain receptors. Meanwhile, it takes about 20 minutes for caffeine to get through the GI tract and reach the brain. So, if you slam a cup of joe and nap for 20 minutes, you'll reduce your adenosine levels just in time for the caffeine tsunami. According to Stephen R. Braun’s book, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine, it's like "putting a block of wood under one of the brain’s primary brake pedals." Researchers at Loughborough University in the UK found when tired participants took a 15-minute coffee nap, they went on to commit fewer errors in a driving simulator than when they were given only coffee, a decaf placebo or only a nap. This was true even if they had trouble falling asleep or just laid half-asleep during the 15 minutes. Meanwhile, a Japanese study found people who took a coffee nap before performed significantly better on memory tests compared to people who solely took a nap, or took a nap and then washed their faces or had a light shone in their eyes. There's even evidence that caffeine naps can help people go for long periods without proper sleep. As part of one study, 24 young men went without sleep for a 24 hours, taking only short naps. Twelve, who were given just a placebo, performed markedly worse on cognitive tests compared to their baseline scores. The 12 others, who had caffeine before their naps, managed scores roughly the same as their baselines.
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LaVidaLocal Blood donors and don’ts I had one of my most brilliant and most heroic ideas last week immediately after finishing a grueling bike ride. Normally, my brilliant and heroic ideas come during grueling bike rides, rather than after. After grueling bike rides, all I usually think about is drinking chocolate milk, eating a sandwich made with whatever’s most accessible in the fridge, taking a hot shower, and then mounting my bike on the wall like a trophy moose head and never ever taking it down again. During rides, however, my most genius ideas fly out of my mouth even more often than bugs fly into my mouth. Tragically, I don’t remember many of these ideas. Even I, a seasoned writer, am not skilled enough to slip my notebook out of my coolness-enhancing fanny pack and write them down with any sort of quality penmanship while maintaining momentum in the desired direction. So when this brilliant and heroic idea struck after my ride, I still did not write it down, because it was an idea I could act upon immediately. Now I should mention that I am sympathetic to people who don’t give blood. Other people don’t donate blood because they’re afraid of needles, or they have fresh tattoos, or the just found out their spouses have been receiving money or other forms of payment in exchange for sex. Yet I’m also sympathetic to them because I also had never given blood. I abstained for years for the simple reason that my blood does its best work, generally speaking, inside my body. But here was a sign from the universe. Whatever you believe about signs – heavenly messages or strange auspices or whatever you want to call them – this sign was pretty blatant and impossible to ignore. It was about 3 feet high, and it called on me to be a hero. It said “Donate Blood Today.” And in case I missed the sign, a woman stood next to it, an angel waiting to ask me – me! – if I wanted to donate blood today. In words I will remember forever, owing to the principle of repetition, this angel said, “Would you like to donate blood today?” My first thought was: It depends. Do heroes ride bicycles? I genuinely wasn’t certain. I mean, maybe Batman never rides the Batbike because it prevents him from donating blood at a moment’s notice. However, I was still wearing pretty blatantly bicycle-related clothing, and this angel had asked me anyway. I deduced that helmet-haired heroes are still eligible
blood donors. My second thought was of the post-ride smorgasbord awaiting my sandwich bread. “Do I need a big lunch first?” I asked. “It’s helpful to have eaten, yes,” she said. “I have a banana in my fanny pack,” I said in a completely #MeToo-compliant way. And five minutes later, I was on a blind date with a blood-drawing tech – let’s call him “Chad” because I didn’t hear his name over my bananachomping, and he looked like a Chad. Chad spent enough time asking me questions that I burned through my banana and got hungry again. He also now knows more about my personal life than both my parents put together, including my weight and my mailing address. But I had no problem supplying him all the answers. After all, the questions he asked gave me fascinating insights into the kinds of things people must sometimes say “yes” to. For instance, there’s that “Have you ever received money or other forms of payment in exchange for sex?” question. Now I’m a pretty good test-taker, and it’s clear to me that saying “yes” means I fail the test and don’t get to donate blood. It’s also easy to lie on this test, because they don’t even check to see if your fingers are crossed behind your back. So the only plausible reason I see for people answering “yes” to this question is that they really want a divorce but don’t have the cojones to tell their significant partner in person. When Chad finally finished grilling me, he sat me in a chair and tied a band around my arm. “How long should this take?” I asked, gauging my gnawing hunger level. “Maybe 10 or 15 minutes,” he said. “Depends on your blood flow. Here, squeeze this piece of foam every five seconds.” I squeezed it every three, because math tells me that I’d finish faster that way. And when I woke up, these nice people had put ice packs down my shirt and on my neck and turned all the fans on and they were asking me how I was doing, and even though I didn’t really know where I was anymore, they fed me pretzels and water and I didn’t have to go back to work for a full extra hour. But they got their full donation in record time. Don’t thank me. I’m just a hero.
This Week’s Sign of the Downfall:
Thumbin’It Colorado lawmakers netting $2 million for wildfire preparedness ahead of what will likely be an active season across the state
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Stagnant poverty rates in the area despite low unemployment, with the Colorado Kids County report finding that 11.7 percent of children in La Plata County and 25 percent in Montezuma County lived in poverty in 2016
The City of Durango attempting to address the homeless situation by allowing overnight camping near the Dog Park as well as providing water, port-a-potties and storage
Fire season getting an early start in Southwest Colorado, with two brush fires flaring up in La Playa County on Monday due to high winds
Local nonprofit Pine River Shares working to increase food security and access to healthy food by encouraging residents to grow more of their own food through community greenhouses and gardens
Trump Administration plans to roll back national car fuel-efficiency standards, which would increase carbon emissions in Colorado by 3.9 million tons per year and make it harder for places like the Front Range to meet ozone standards
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The ‘Condom Snorting Challenge’ The generation that will guide our species through what promises to be the most difficult time in history has stopped chewing Tide Pods and started snorting condoms up their noses. The “condom snorting challenge” (where one snorts a condom and tries to pull it out one’s mouth) started in 2013, but it’s booming right now thanks to social media. It’s ironic, because if you think about it, condoms could’ve prevented this phenomena if used properly in the first place.
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Be reasonable, re-elect Barger To the editor, With the LPEA elections … please folks be reasonable. Please vote for Karen Barger in District 4. Who cares about politics? I care about somebody with a level head, a business background and somebody who has taken time to really learn how to manage this crazy thing that is the electricity industry. I worked in the industry. Karen has proven herself over the last three years. She’s a supporter of renewable energy while figuring out how to make sure it’s something we can afford. She also is a huge supporter of the staff at LPEA – really smart folks who know how to get electricity to us better than any of us do. Please reelect Karen Barger. – Keith Brant, Durango
Wage gap goes beyond paychecks To the editor, April 10, 2018, is Equal Pay Day and symbolizes the date when wages paid to American women catch up to wages paid to men the previous year. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) observes this date to raise awareness of the gender pay gap. AAUW also observes equal pay days in March for Asian American women, in August for African American women, in September for Native American women, and in October for Latina women, all for whom the gap is higher. More than 50 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, women continue to suffer the consequences of unequal pay. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that women working full time, year round, on average earned 80 percent of what men earned. If pay equity progress continues at the current rate since 1960, the gender wage gap will not close 4
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until the year 2057. Moreover, according to the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, if Colorado women earned the same as comparable men, the poverty rate for all working women would be cut in half. One evening last week my husband and I were talking about the 20 percent wage gap. He happened to glance at his phone and said, “Oh, I’m down to 20 percent.” “If it were female,” I quipped, “it would be depleted.” Zero! Zip! Nada! Of course, you can recharge your phone. But just imagine if there were a gender gap in distribution of electricity and natural gas, for instance. Would you tolerate that? Just imagine, the extra time, the extra physical and emotional energy that many women require and expend to make ends meet – for food, clothing, shelter, utilities – in order to care for their families and themselves. The consequences of the wage gap extend far beyond a paycheck. May Equal Pay Day come much sooner than predicted. – Faye Schrater, public policy liaison, AAUW Durango
Thanks, Katzin, for gift of music To the editor, Katzin Music will be sadly missed. Retail in our current world is extremely challenging and not for the faint of heart. In these times, art and music are vulnerable to extinction. But artists and musicians are a determined, stubborn, resilient group, and they won’t be stopped in their creating. The true legacy of Katzin Music is the thousands and thousands of students who took music lessons at the Katzin Music Studios. Did you happen to be in the store after school and hear the cacophony of music as students of violin, flute, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, piano, guitar, drums and voice, all practiced their scales, songs and expression during their weekly lesson?
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Besides selling strings, valve oil and reeds, sheet music, instruments and gear, along with Roger and Jim’s instrument repair shops, this was the place to learn music, directed by the unwavering champion of music education, Ruth Katzin. She has always taken the high road in cultivating, developing and sustaining music education as well as putting together a stable of the area’s most diverse music teachers. Ruth, Jim Gillespie, and Cathy and Scott Duncan have been deeply committed to the music through instruction and sales, caring for the needs of this region’s music students and musicians. For 39 years, and for several generations of musicians, Katzin Music has provided an abundance of cultural richness to our Southwest corner of the world. To the Katzin Family: bravo! Standing ovation! The music lives on! – Jeff Solon, Durango
How to recall from the recall To the editor, If you recently signed the Gwen Lachelt recall petition and wish you hadn’t, it’s not too late. Signatures were accepted through March 30, but the county clerk has 15 days from that date to approve the signatures. Bring to the County Clerk Office (next to the DMV in Bodo Park) two signed copies of a statement, declaring your wish to be removed from the petition. – Sarah Rankin, Durango
Mannix will put members first To the editor, More than 75 percent of La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) customers don’t bother to vote for LPEA’s board members. Don’t let that be you. Not this year. Too much is at stake.
You’ll get your ballot in the mail the week of April 16. Fill it out. If you don’t, your high electric bills will get higher as old-generation technology now being used will continue to get more expensive. Did you know that past and current board members locked you into an expensive energy-supply contract with Tri-State Generation and Transmission until 2050? Your rates are set to rise over the next 32 years at the whim of Tri-State, which already charges us more than market value, while the cost to produce electricity is dropping everywhere else in the world. My name is Jeffrey Mannix, and I am running for a seat on the LPEA Board that controls the future of how much it will cost you and me and every LPEA customer to run lights, computers, televisions, refrigerators or heat or hot water heaters and the pump that brings up water from your well. I’m running for this seat now because your current representative, Kohler McInnis, has refused to look at our options for cheaper and cleaner energy. Mr. McInnis was elected by the LPEA Board to sit on the Tri-State Board. Even though you voted for him to serve LPEA first, he has decided he now represents Tri-State first. Last April, the LPEA board voted unanimously to loosen Tri-State’s hold in order to allow LPEA to seek less expensive, locally generated power. But when Mr. McInnis went to the July Tri-State Board meeting, he voted against LPEA’s request. McInnis voted against the LPEA Board and against coop membership, in favor of Tri-State’s bottom line. He no longer represents you. The future isn’t what it used to be. The energy industry is advancing faster than anybody can report accurately. We need leaders who will stand up for LPEA in the inevitable shift. I promise to represent you and seek the reliable power and lower rates you deserve. I promise to put LPEA first. – Jeffrey Mannix, LPEA Board Candidate, District 2, Durango
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A voice for the hungry Manna benefit ‘The Durango Voice’ returns for third year by Missy Votel
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t may be absent Adam, Blake, Alicia and Kelly, but Durango’s version of the popular TV show “The Voice” still promises to deliver on plenty of drama and excitement. In fact, the tryouts for the third annual event, which were held in February, already did. “We had a very dramatic, fun thing happen,” Durango Voice organizer Elaine Chick said. The Durango version works a lot like the real one, in which one of the four judges must turn their chair for a contestant to move on to the finals. Each judge is allotted three contestants, who they then go on to coach and train for the finals, meaning a total of 12 could go on to the finals. At the February auditions, there were 18 competitors. However, the judges had reached their quota by the time they got to No. 17, a contestant – who, as it turned out, was a “total ringer,” according to Chick (the name of the contestant was kept secret to add to the intrigue.)
JusttheFacts What: The Durango Voice When: 7 p.m., Sat., April 7 Where: Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Tickets: $35, henrystratertheatre.com “We asked if any of the judges was willing to take on one more … and all four turned their chairs,” she said. So now, there are 13 – all of whom will face off starting at 6:30 p.m. this Saturday at the Henry Strater Theatre. And if there’s one thing we all know, a little drama is good for show biz – especially when proceeds are going to Manna. Last year’s event sold out, raising $10,000 for the local nonprofit, which in recent years has dropped the “soup kitchen” from its moniker. According to Chick, it’s because Manna, which will celebrate 33 years in May, offers more than just free meals. It also offers a culinary arts training program, help with job placement, an organic garden, and vouchers for everything from haircuts to eyeglasses. In order to get the vouchers, clients must first perform a service, such as cleaning up in the kitchen or working in the garden. “It’s more than just a hand out,” she said. In addition, Manna has also started a backpack program, which sends backpacks filled with nutritious food home for the weekend with children who might otherwise not get a good meal. Last year, Manna served 65,000 meals to people in need – made possible almost entirely by donations and sponsorships from the community. “They do not turn anybody away. If you are in need or hungry, you can get help,” she said. “Thank God for that … or thank Manna for that.” Bios of the 13 contestants, who range in age from 12 to “mature adult,” follow:
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Mckenzie Belt: A sophomore at Durango High School, McKenzie recently appeared in Troupe 1096’s production of “Grease.” Her musical tastes are varied, from hard rock to country to show tunes. “In our family, we truly listen Belt to and sing EVERYTHING.” At home, she also creates her own choreography. However, Mckenzie is happiest outdoors – particularly on the river. Shinta Dewi Fuller: Originally from Indonesia, Shinta, 29, entered her first singing competition at the age of 12. Since then, she has performed with bands and sung for weddings. She loves jazz and keeps up with the latest top 40 hits for Fuller her regular café gig. “Most people say that I am funny, and I’m happy having a lot of friends.” Her other passions are photography and modeling. Rebekah DeLaMare: A working mother of two, Rebekah has been singing as long as she can remember. She used to “conduct” the classical orchestras her mother would listen to while cleaning the house. Rebekah grew up and her DeLaMare biggest influences include Delta rhythm and blues. She calls her style, “Campfire Blues.” She is currently working on her first album. Ashlyn Boomer: Ashlyn, 12, has performed in theater productions and sung in choirs in San Diego, before moving to Durango two years ago. She says she was fortunate to find Stillwater Music, where she plays in the ukulele Boomer band and sings in the intermediate a cappella group. She plays piano, guitar and violin, but ukulele is her favorite. Macie Fogle: A seventh-grader at Escalante Middle School, Macie has been singing since she was old enough to talk and is in her school choir. She has sung the National Anthem at high school sporting events in Durango and ManFogle cos. Her advice to someone who has never sung in public: “Just
go for it and if you mess up, there will always be more opportunities.” She enjoys playing many sports, mostly hockey. Mark Palmer: has experience in collegiate choir and community musical theater with recent shows including, “Sweeney Todd,” “The Rocky Horror Show” and “Bat Boy.” He says, “It’s a fun fact that all of my recent musical Palmer theater performances were tenor parts despite me being a bass baritone.” Apart from musical theatre, he enjoys ’90s alternative rock, the music of his youth. Adde Neiman: a sixth-grader at Miller Middle School, Adde recently appeared in DAC’s productions of “Bugsy Malone Jr.” and “Annie Jr.” She loves to sing along to pop artists like Taylor Swift and Pink but also enjoys country and a Neiman cappella. She takes pride in her academics and is an honor roll student. She says, “I use singing as my release. I can get both my positive and my negative energy out.” Sophie Maja Hughes: A junior at DHS, Sophie has also appeared in multiple productions, including this winter’s “Grease.” She sang in front of her first audience when she was 5. Since then, she has performed at dance recitals, violin Hughes concerts, plays and musicals. She loves musical theatre because stage acting is her passion. Her advice for novices: “Don’t get in your head about your performance. Let your heart lead the way.” Andrew Schuhmann: A local middle school history teacher, Andrew says he came into his own as a musician at the age of 25, performing at venues around Lexington, Ky. However, he soon swapped his guitar for a mountain bike and Schuhmann moved to Boulder, where he met his wife, a third-generation Durangoan. He now performs around town. “My path to the Durango Voice is a testament to hard work, dedication and practice ... lots and lots of practice.” Devin Willis: Devin moved to Durango from Denver in 2016 to “get away from the city and to meet a girl, which I did!” A songwriter, he has a degree in history with a
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minor in music from Metro State University. Devin is pursuing his teaching license from Fort Lewis College to teach social studies. Devin likes being involved here and says, “To me, this isn’t about Willis winning the competition, it’s about helping the community.” Chris Smith: Chris, 13, has been singing for three years now and finds pop and show choir tunes are the most fun. He also recently started playing the piano, which he loves. His advice for anyone who is about to sing in public for the Smith first time: “Just look around the room at everybody and be confident in your voice.” Ellie Ferguson: Ellie began singing in bands in high school and has since performed everywhere from weddings to Rockies games. But her favorite venue has been in the cave dwellings of Lake Powell. She is “crazy into llamas” and Ferguson hopes to own my own sustainable farm/food forest one day. While working with llamas over the summer, she would sing to them to get them to keep moving. She credits meditation as the foundation for all that she does. Jenna Szczech: A DHS senior, Jenna has appeared in numerous productions at the school as well as the DAC. Her favorite genres are reggae, indie rock and folk. Her other passions include volunteering at the Humane Society and Szczech she hopes to become a veterinarian. Her advice for first-time performers: “Enjoy the experience. Don’t focus on whether you sound good, just relish the fact that you are doing something you love.” The judges: Bailey Barnes-Fagg, a classically trained vocalist and music teacher; Drea Pressley, a singer and musician who has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera and various Hollywood soundtracks; Jill Holly, an award-winning vocalist, songwriter and recording artist who taught at McNally Smith College of Music for four years; and Andreas Tischhauser, a faculty member at FLC who was worked with Chanticleer, in San Francisco, as well as Yo Yo Ma, Bobby McFarin, Dave Brubeck and Philip Glass.n
MoutainTownNews Say goodbye to Tride’s myco-missionary TELLURIDE – Gary Lincoff, who died recently of a stroke at the age of 75, was an annual Telluride visitor who stood out. Photos on his Facebook page show him always smiling. More important, one of those smiling photos show him wearing a red stove-pipe hat with the pattern of an amanita muscaria, perhaps the most visually distinctive type of mushroom. In its obituary, the New York Times last week called him “a selftaught mycologist whose contagious enthusiasm turned him into a pied piper of mushrooms.” Lincoff was a resident of Manhattan, where he lived two blocks from Central Park. But in 1981 he helped create the Telluride Mushroom Festival. The festival had been conceived by Dr. Emanuel Salzman, a radiologist and mushroom lover from Denver, as an alternative to stuffy mycological conferences. “We had an ‘Edibility Unknown’ party every year that would horrify serious professional mycologists,” Dr. Andrew Weil, the alternative medicine guru and another festival co-founder, told the Times. No one ever got sick, Weil said, although the pioneers discovered that one species tasted like old tires. How they knew what old tires tasted like, he did not explain. Telluride local Art Goodtimes organized the festival for years. He painted his small Japanese import pickup red with white dots. Each year, on the Saturday in late August when the festival was held, he would drive his pickup down the main street of Telluride as the merry masters of mycology marched along in flowery fungi finery. Goodtimes praised the Times obituary. “Made him out to be the myco-missionary he was, not some looney psychonaut,” he said. Lincoff, he noted, had written the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, which has sold a half-million copies, as well as many other books. “He epitomized what it meant to be a naturalist … He did it for the right reasons; pure love & joy & wonder,” Goodtimes wrote in The Telluride Watch. Lincoff had studied philosophy, then tried his hand at law school but dropped out because, as he told his wife, he did not admire his professors. He tried his hand at writing a novel about a draft resister in New York City who is forced to subsist on what he could find to eat in Central Park. “I began to see that every tree, every weed, wasn’t alike. I got into minutiae,” he later told the New York Times. Over the course of decades, he found 400 species of mushrooms in Central Park. “No ego, no agenda, no pretense … just an unwavering passion for learning and sharing,” wrote one person on Lincoff’s Facebook page. He had over 3,700 friends. Said a Facebook poster: “No matter how dumb your question was, he never humiliated you, he never put you down, he never believed there was such a thing as a stupid question.”
Banff takes note of high-risk fire zones BANFF, Alberta – Inexorably warming temperatures coupled with giant wildfires of recent years have Banff officials talking about how to encourage homeowners to replace highly combustible woodenshake shingles. The Banff townsite will likely be declared a high-risk zone for wildfire, reports the Rocky Mountain Outlook. New zoning to encourage future development and landscaping takes into account the threat of wildfires. Banff was reminded of its own risk last summer by the giant Verdant Creek Fire, just across the Continental Divide in British Columbia. Before, there was the massive fire at Fort McMurray in 2016, which forced evacuating of the city of 80,000. Fort McMurray is the headquarters for tar/oil sands extraction. Silvio Adamo, Banff’s fire chief, said the Fort McMurray fire taught lessons about the distance embers can travel. Banff wants to dampen the risk. “The backdrop for this are the ‘longer, hotter summers’ that have led to extreme fire hazard,” Adamo added. Also a factor in Banff, as well as elsewhere, is a century of fire prevention, which has made forests more combustible.
Canadians track overdoses differently WHISTLER, B.C. – In most respects, an American visitor traveling to Whistler would not discern any differences of importance. People speak the same language, even if some words are spelled differently
(labour) and pronounced differently (it’s pro-cess, not proc-ess). Too, there’s the metric system. The Sea-to-Sky Corridor from Vancouver to Whistler and beyond to Pemberton, for example, is 150 kilometers, not 90 miles. Other differences are more mystifying, as was evident in Pique newsmagazine’s story about fentanyl overdose deaths. It seems nobody is willing to say just how many overdose deaths Whistler has had. That isn’t how records are kept. Unlike the United States, how you die seems to be a matter not of public record, even if police are summoned. Nevertheless, Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, who is with Vancouver Coastal Health, a government agency, says overdose deaths have tripled to quadrupled during the last five years in the Sea to Sky Corridor. That said, British Columbia altogether is not the coal-mining country of Appalachia, the worst place in the United States for opioid overdoses. However, all officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police now carry naloxone kits, used to counteract an opioid overdose.
Aspen cocaine story broke internet ASPEN – Two winters ago, the website for The Aspen Times crashed, along with all the websites for other ski town newspapers owned by the parent company, Swift Publishing. Cocaine, indirectly, was to blame. How so? Jason Auslander, the newspaper’s crime reporter, explains that he posted a story about a student from Saudi Arabia who repeatedly offered a local taxi driver cocaine, then spilled the drug on the driver, cursed him and, finally, exposed himself to the cabbie. The New York Post picked up the story, rewriting it but providing a link to the original story on The Aspen Times website. So many people clicked on the link that other Swift websites crashed, too. The chain includes newspapers in Vail, Summit County, Winter Park, Steamboat Springs, Park City, Utah, and two in the TruckeeTahoe area. Aspen being Aspen, Auslander says news from there often shows up elsewhere (including Mountain Town News).
‘Miracle March’ brings relief to Tahoe LAKE TAHOE, California – Squaw Valley got 18 feet altogether in March, but was it a miracle? Snowpack in the Lake Tahoe area grew from 25 percent of median at the start of March to 73 percent a little more than three weeks later. That’s a huge comeback, the Reno Gazette-Journal points out. A similar, even more robust “March Miracle” occurred in 1991. That winter’s drought had left the snowpack in early March at 15 percent but it ended up at 74 percent. “It’s is amazing how closely these two years have tracked,” said Jeff Anderson, a hydrologist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which operates automated measuring stations. “It is almost like there was a replay button: we’ll just do 1991 again this year.” “I think it’s safe to officially call it a Miracle March,” Chad Blanchard, federal water master in Reno, said. He added that it now appears that every reservoir will fill. In Oregon, Bend saw less than a fifth of what the city normally sees during a winter. Snow is not the same as precipitation, however, as weather forecaster John Peck suggested in his comment to the Bend Bulletin: “It just never got cold enough to generate much snowfall,” he said. Less than an inch of precipitation, almost all of it rain, fell in Bend during December and January. To the north, it’s been a record-busting year at Whitefish. The snowfall record of 426 inches set a decade ago might yet be broken, reports the Whitefish Pilot.
Wolf Creek, Squaw Valley go for green ALTA, Utah – Ski areas have been pretty good about talking about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and, sometimes, pushing forward projects that they have control over. Davey Pitcher, of Wolf Creek ski area, can now make a strong claim that his ski area is entirely supplied by solar energy. In California, Squaw Valley’s Andy Wirth is getting ready to create a microgrid, using batteries manufactured by Tesla to store solar energy.
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The new frontlines Former intelligence officer discusses brave new world of cyber warfare by Stew Mosberg
and, in some cases, driver’s license and credit card numbers as well as credit dispute information. That’s everything emember “Big Brother is watching you” from George needed to open a credit account in your name, make false Orwell’s apocalyptic novel 1984? Well we’re there. If medical claims, and more. Unfortunately, this was not the you browse the internet, scroll Facebook or have a first time and, as we now know, will likely not be the last cell phone, iPad, Alexa, GPS in your car, or even a refriger- time a cyber attack has or will occur. Remember the Sony ator (yes, they have computand Target hacks? ers inside) it is a safe bet your However, the stakes are Justthefacts activities are being monieven higher than accessing tored in some way. people’s personal data. Such What: “Russia’s Foreign Policy,” a talk by Gail Harris, Concerns of computer inhacks could lead to a worldpart of the Great Decisions lecture series filtration have dominated wide financial crisis and quite Where: Durango Public Library the news cycle in the past possibly endanger the lives of When: 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Tues., April 10 several weeks, and they will millions of people. likely grow. In late 2017, the While this may seem like a credit rating company stretch, when considering the Equifax announced it had experienced a criminal security series of cyber attacks targeting American and European nubreach that captured important information belonging to clear power plants and water and electric systems, it doesn’t some 2 million Americans. The stolen data included seem so far-fetched. It’s even more plausible when you connames, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth sider who’s believed to be behind these attacks – Russia,
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North Korea and Iran, aka the sworn “axis of evil.” “We now have evidence (Russia) is sitting on the machines connected to industrial control infrastructure that allow them to effectively turn the power off or effect sabotage,” Eric Chien, of the digital security firm Symantec, said in a recent New York Times article. That same article went on to say that American intelligence agencies have been aware of attacks on U.S. infrastructure since 2015 and the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. first issued urgent warnings to utility companies in June 2017. To be clear, this is a global war and not just against America. And the United States sometimes does the same thing. Gaining access into the vital networks of perceived enemies is now an integral part of preparing for potential conflict. For example, according to the 2016 documentary film “Zero Days” the U.S. hacked into Iran’s infrastructure before the 2015 nuclear accord, inserting a virus that could bring down power grids, nuclear enrichment centrifuges and control systems and other infrastructure. Two years before the Equifax debacle, as most people 4
are now aware, Cambridge Analytics, a British voter-profiling company working on President Trump’s election campaign, had access to profiles of 50 million Facebook users. That data got into the hands of Russian hackers who then used it to create phony personas and false news in an effort to sway opinions in the 2016 election. To help put it in perspective, retired U.S. Navy Captain, intelligence expert and Durango resident Gail Harris will be presenting a talk, “Russia’s Foreign Policy,” next Tues., April 10, at the Durango Library. The lecture is part of the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions Lecture Series. Founded in 1918, the FPA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring Americans to learn more about the world outside its borders. Harris was the highest-ranking African-American female officer in the Navy at the time of her retirement in 2001. Her 28-year career in intelligence included leadership roles in numerous major conflicts including El Salvador, Desert Storm and Kosovo. As such, she was at the forefront of the Department of Defense’s Cyber Warfare unit and has extensive experience and expertise in cyber warfare. In addition to writing for the Foreign Policy Association, Harris is the author of A Woman’s War, a senior fellow at the George Washington Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and a senior advisor for the Truman National Security Project. She also happens to be a DJ on KDUR on Wednesday evenings from 6-8 p.m. Harris notes that the capability to access private citizen’s information, as well as that of corporate, government and entire infrastructure networks, has been available for years. A good part of the problem is the lack of collaboration between various organizations responsible for security. “There is disagreement among all 17 agencies as to the definition of cyber war and what defines an ‘attack,’” she says “We also need new definitions for privacy.” Harris believes it would take a “Pearl Harbor” type of cyber catastrophe to mobilize our country and its citizens. It’s not that U.S. allies aren’t in the same situation or at risk, or that there isn’t anything being done about it. NATO, she says, has gone the furthest in defining cyber war ramifica-
Gail Harris, a retired U.S. Navy Captain, intelligence expert and Durango resident, will present a talk on Russia’s Foreign Policy on Tuesday./Photo by Jennaye Derge tions. “But,” she continues, “We need to focus on the solution, not the problem.” Too often, it seems, the public is out of the loop unless it affects them personally. “There has been a lot of info available for some time, but the public and media haven’t given it the attention it deserves,” she said. “Each year, the intelligence community puts out a Worldwide Threat Assessment. It’s a big deal and they brief Congress on the results. Each year, since about 2013, cyber has been identified as the number one national security threat.” For Harris, the greatest danger is not from nation states, but from terrorist groups. Nations are aware of retaliatory capabilities, but, Harris believes, “terrorists just don’t care.” Writing one year ago in her newsletter “GailForce,” Harris quoted Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., then-chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as saying, “Threats to
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the United States in cyberspace continue to grow in scope and severity. But our nation remains woefully unprepared to address these threats, which will be a defining feature of 21st century warfare.” On a more personal level, the vulnerability of private citizens and the companies they work for has been compromised through virtual offices and employees taking work home. A long-time colleague of Harris’ is Bob Gourley, founder of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm. Among his outstanding credentials is his role as chief technology officer (CTO) of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was also named by technology web publication Infoworld as one of the top 25 most influential CTOs on the planet. Gourley acknowledges that many people are now leveraging advanced interconnected technologies at home. “In doing so,” he says, “they are introducing new risks to their personal privacy, and, at times, introducing new risks to the firm they work for.” The remark suggests it is almost always in the best interest of employers to help employees understand how to better protect their personal information. Perhaps the first line of defense, continued Gourley, is to encourage employees to adopt an attitude of personal responsibility regarding home security. Being diligent about how much information one shares on the internet or elsewhere is just a start. Being aware of the risks, the devices we depend upon for convenience and information, how our personal data is being used by others, is also important. Harris warns that by repealing net neutrality protections, internet service providers such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, can pass on their customers’ browsing habits, who they exchange emails with, and other information, without the knowledge or approval of the consumer. But all is not lost, and all it not outside our hands, according to Harris. She believes the power rests with the voters to ask for laws about the sharing of information, including re-instatement of the net neutrality rules. “People need to demand laws,” she says. n
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Doing the wild thing Theatre of the Wild bridges gap between inner, outer pursuits by Jennaye Derge
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hy do we choose to do the things we do? Why do we choose to scale tall mountains or climb up sheer rock walls? Why do we wake up at 4 a.m. to run in the dark before work or ride our bikes through the desert in the hot sun? Why do we drink too much on Tuesday nights, procrastinate work, or why, as my friend so gingerly asked me the other day, do I only date emotionally unavailable men? Why do we choose to do these things that will almost certainly cause us pain and anguish, or if anything, sore quads and a headache the morning after? Maybe we do it for the thrill or because we love “Type 2” fun. We love sufferfests in that we love arriving on the other side, maybe bloody, tired, or heartbroken and bitter, but alive nonetheless. We are masochists. It’s this masochism that led Bayfield native, actor and self-proclaimed mountain goat Mike Largent to explore some of these questions and turn his findings into theater. “Move: A Mountain Goat’s Monologue”
Justthefacts What: “Move: A Mountain Goat’s Monologue,” by Mike Largent” When: 7:30 p.m., April 12-13, 19-20 Where: Fort Lewis College Main Stage Theatre Tickets: Available at durangoconcert.tix.com was originally written by Largent as his senior project for grad school at Arizona State University in 2017. But since then, it has become a traveling one-man and award-winning show visiting places like Tempe, Fort Collins and now for the two upcoming weekends, the Fort Lewis College Theater. In its earliest stages, “Move” was Largent’s public proclamation of love for the mountains, and his plan for the project was simple. In July 2016, he left Arizona and went back to Colorado to run through some 14,000-foot mountains for a full day without stopping, ideally for 12 hours, and ideally without having to call search and rescue. Then he was going to write a play about it. His location of choice was the daunting Collegiate
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Peaks Wilderness, located in the Sawatch Range near Buena Vista. He would run the Belford grouping, which includes Belford, Oxford and Mount Missouri. He tacked on another, Harvard, on the day-of just for more suffering. In all, Largent logged 11,000 feet of elevation gain over 22 miles, burning, as he mentions in his monologue, calories equivalent to 15 turkey sandwiches. That’s a lot of turkey sandwiches. “I experienced everything. Depression, elation, I talked to myself quite a bit … I found what mettle I’m made of,” said Largent, who now works as an adjunct theater professor at Fort Lewis College. “I had quite a few visitors, and each one brought a whole new set of emotions. None too extreme. It was definitely more bearable while they were there.” He kept a journal during the three weeks of training and scouting leading up to the run to help him write the monologue when he got back to school in Arizona. But he admittedly didn’t use much of it. “I wrote a first draft and it was garbage, and I had a few people read it who also very gently told me it was garbage,” Largent joked. 4
But after about a dozen re-writes, he came up with pure gold. Largent’s final monologue re-enacts his experience of moving through the mountains for 13 hours, using plenty of witty quips, gesticulations and humor. He includes some interesting inner dialogue and outer dialogue from folks he meets along the way and he relives this all on stage with props to boot, including a treadmill to mimic the run and corn chips for snacking. The jokes and laughs are perfectly weaved in with Largent’s more serious, personal history of alcoholism, depression and donating his part of his liver to a friend. “It’d probably make for a really nice story to be able to say that I replaced alcoholism with alpinism,” Largent said of the intertwining events. “We even threw out taglines like ‘from the bottom of bottles to the tops of mountains.’ But they’re just not true. They’re just parts of my evolution.” Which is why “Move” is a story that almost all of us can relate to, whether we’re outdoor enthusiasts or not. Largent touches on the struggles we all battle in a way that folks can relate. “Strangers would approach thanking me the way a close relative would thank someone for giving them a large sum of money,” he said of past performances. “I forget how personal and vulnerable the show gets.” But “Move” is not the end of the story. In fact, it’s just the beginning, inspiring Largent to create his new local theater company, Theater of the Wild. The hope is to bridge the divide between the arts and the outdoors resulting in entertainment, self-re-
flection, appreciation of the wild and inspiration to get out and move. “I think a lot outdoor people really appreciate the arts and want to be a part of them – I think that theater people appreciate the outdoors and want to get into them,” he said. Largent would like to pass the torch to college students who might be interested in the same kind of outdoor/theater cocktail that he created. And although auditions for the new theater company are open to anybody, Largent is particularly focused on students, especially those who may not have the means for an outdoor adventure. “At first I was looking for students in the Theater Department who were also athletic and interested in the mountains, and then I realized that that’s malarkey,” he said. “Instead, I went to people who were most excited by the script of ‘Move’ in that they saw the value of the story and saw the kind of thing I was trying to do.” He ultimately found a group of five students, four theater majors and one outdoor education major, to voluntarily partake in his sequel: a three-week trek through the Himalayas over the next Thanksgiving break. The expedition will be led by a trekking company – although the whole purpose is to get the students out of their comfort zones. “I hope they earn the belief in themselves that goes with doing something one might initially think is impossible,” he said. Students will keep journals of their individual experiences and then pass them over to Largent when the trip is over. From
Mike Largent, back right, stands with other members of his newly formed Theater of the Wild. The group of FLC students plans to trek into the Himalayas next November and write a play about its escapades./Photo by Jennaye Derge there, he will write a script that the students, though not required to, will act out for audiences. Though this after-school group does not get course credit, there is much more to be gained. “I know it will be profound for them, and so the theater that we create will also be profound,” Largent said. Students are currently fundraising for the trip, and Largent’s upcoming performances of “Move” will also go toward the trip. If all goes well, he said he envisions future Theater of the Wild expeditions, possibly with trips closer to home. But more
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than anything he hopes to inspire and bring laughter to others in this long, epic journey we call life. “Others see themselves in the struggles I re-live while I perform these heavy moments of my past and heavy moments in the mountains,” he said. “After studying it and performing it, I’ve discovered that the real takeaway is the importance of others. Especially when putting ourselves so far out there. I hope audiences laugh. A lot. I hope they feel seen and validated.” But most of all, he hopes they just get outside and move. n
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The road to ruin Israeli sensation Waking Lions hits American shores by Jeffrey Mannix
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tions from very culturally different places so we can experience different truths. Israel is about as ambiguous and disparate a culture as there is in the world. The book opens with neurosurgeon Dr. Eitan Green driving exuberantly through the hills of Beersheba to blow off frustrations after a long graveyard shift at the outpost Soroka Hospital. He comes around a curve “thinking that the moon was the most beautiful he had ever seen,” and that’s when he hits the man. For the first moment after the accident, Dr. Green was still thinking about the moon, and then he suddenly stopped, “like a candle that has been blown out … at first, all he could think about was how much he needed to defecate.” Dr. Green stops, of course he does, and goes to the aid of the stricken refugee, an Eritrean or Sudanese. “Or God knows what. A man about 30, maybe 40; he could never determine with any certainty how old those people were.” He was alive with a crushing head wound that Dr. Green knew would mean certain death in 15, 20
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minutes, even if they were in the surgical theatre of a hospital. He should call the police, call an ambulance, be the mensch he is to his profession and family and his community. But “the Eritrean kept bleeding as if he were doing it deliberately. If Eitan was lucky, the judge would give him only a few months. But he wouldn’t be able to do surgery anymore. That was for certain. No one would hire a doctor convicted of manslaughter. Suddenly he knew he had to go.” Dr. Green leaves the scene, goes home to sleep the sleep of a dead man. He wakes to the reality of what he’d done. And a few days of growing wretchedness later, the victim’s well-designed, raven-bright wife returned the good doctor’s wallet she’d found next to her dead husband. Waking Lions is not without some faults, only noticed because the entirety of this book is so excellent. I daren’t reveal more, except to say that there are no actual lions in this story, and the payback for Eitan is demanded in the way of a culture very different from ours. You can’t but treasure this book. n
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GDIs, I’m With Her and Bernstein by Chris Aaland
Martin and Shaw have appeared on more than 100 albums. Martin is best known as the guitarist for Daimh, while Shaw is the f you’ve spent the past month spanking your e-monkey with fiddler for The Poozies. They’ve been at the heart of the tradiweb searches of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, you’ve tional Scottish music scene for the past 20 years. probably missed El Orangutan’s War on the Truth. It seems The San Juan Symphony concludes its season with a celeevery time El Pendejo Naranjo tweets his latest tantrum, another bration the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein at 7:30 flock of right wing pigeons flaps their collective wings. Take Sinp.m. Saturday at the Community Concert Hall. Bernstein could clair Broadcasting, which mandates “fake news” readers from its have chosen any one of several successful careers – pianist, comnews anchors across the country. Why let your local affiliates deposer, conductor, writer, educator or Broadway songwriter. Incide for themselves when stead, he chose to excel at you can rule with an iron all of these things. Under fist! Fortunately, Sinclair’s the baton of Music Director antics fail to fluster indeThomas Heuser, the sympendent media. phony will feature music KDUR’s spring memfrom the movie, “On the bership drive kicks off Waterfront,” familiar fathis Friday and continues vorites from “Candide” and for eight days. In an age “West Side Story,” plus when Sinclair, Fox and Bremusic by one of Bernstein’s itbart have declared war on greatest American contemthe truth, KDUR broadcasts poraries, Aaron Copland’s alternative and trusted “Hoe-Down.” voices like the BBC News, The San Juan SymDemocracy Now! and phony’s Youth OrchesKCRW’s Left Right and Centras will step out at the ter. Musically, the station’s Bayfield Performing Arts lineup is as diverse as its Center at 7 p.m. Monday, dozens of volunteer DJs, Bluegrass powerhouse trio I’m With Her plays the Concert Hall on under the direction of Lech ranging from classical to Usinowicz. The concert will Wednesday night. bluegrass to alt-country to feature solo violinist Casey indie rock to hip-hop, with everything in between. I spent more Reed, winner of the second annual SJS youth concerto competition. than two decades as a volunteer DJ there before becoming a paid Reed, an eighth-grader at Escalante Middle School, will perform the employee at KSUT. As someone whose station shares the bottom Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor. Like the SJS, the part of the dial with KDUR – that freakishly wonderful public youth orchestras will honor Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday by radio/community radio territory – I truly know the value that performing his “West Side Story Overture” and other selections. these alternative voices and sounds add to our regional culture. Classical fans can also enjoy Cocktails with the ConducNow more than ever, community radio needs your help. Pledge tor from 6-8 p.m. Sunday at the Sorrel Sky Gallery. Conductor at kdur.org or call them at 247-7262 to pledge your support. Guillermo Figueroa will be on hand as Music in the Mountains The talented female group I’m With Her takes the stage at kicks off another festival season. RSVPS can be made at the Community Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The trio musicinthemountains.com or by calling 385-6820. consists of Sara Watkins (best known as fiddler for Nickel Creek A new month means a new firkin at Steamworks. Sweet Ginand, more recently, as a solo performer), Sarah Jarosz and Aoife ger is this month’s release, scheduled for a 3 p.m. tapping on O’Donovan (a former member of the popular indie string band Friday. The base is Steamworks’ popular Third Eye PA, a pale ale Crooked Still). Individually, they’ve played the larger festival with a strong malt backbone that balances the significant hop stages of Telluride and Pagosa Springs for decades; collectively, presence. “Third Eye has a malty sweetness and moderate floral they’ve only recently burst onto the scene. A couple of years ago, and citrus-like aromas,” head brewer Ken Martin said. “We then the Four Corners Folk Festival audience was treated to an I’m used a sweet ginger puree and added some pure cane sugar in the With Her performance even though they’d never recorded tofirkin re-fermentation process. I anticipate that all these flavors gether as a trio. A few months ago, they dropped their debut are harmonizing and producing a truly delicious beer.” album, “See You Around,” which has garnered heavy airplay on Finally, Kirk James plays solo blues at Digs Restaurant in public radio ever since. Alt-country singer/songwriter Jonny Fritz, Three Springs from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday. who previously recorded as Jonny Corndawg, opens the show. The best thing I’ve heard this week is the latest from blues piDon’t dilly dally: this one was selling quickly earlier this week. anist Marcia Ball, “Shine Bright.” By my count, it’s her 13th KSUT and the Animas City Theatre present spirited, deep and solo studio record since her 1978 debut. Throughout her career, thought-provoking singer/songwriter Trevor Green at 8 p.m. Marcia has always straddled the Texas/Louisiana line by mixing Wednesday. Green has released five studio albums, including his Lone Star, Cajun and Crescent City influences. “Shine a Light” is most recent, “Voice of the Wind,” plus an EP, “Collide.” All of his perhaps the most N’awlins influenced of the lot. She channels work is captivating and spiritual, bringing forward the messages the piano chops of the late, great Professor Longhair on tunes of our ancestors – particularly those of indigenous cultures. His like “Life of the Party” and “When the Mardi Gras is Over,” while latest record is layered in five guitars, three didgeridoos and an covering such legends as Ray Charles, Ernie K-Doe and Jesse Winarray of percussive instruments. His music has both Native Amerchester. The first two singles – “Shine Bright” and “I Got to Find ican (his adopted brother is Navajo) and Aboriginal roots (he reSomebody” – stand alongside previous Marcia Ball classics like cently journeyed to Australia for two months to immerse himself “Crawfishin’” and “Hot Tamale Baby.” It’s a boozy, piano-driven, in Aboriginal music and roots). horn-infected classic, produced by Los Lobos saxman Steve Berlin The Durango Celtic Festival welcomes Scottish performers (who also blows his own horn on five tracks). Ross Martin & Eilidh Shaw to the Henry Strater Theatre at We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing? Email me at 6:30 p.m. tonight (Thurs., April 5). Between the two of them, chrisa@gobrainstorm.net. n
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“The West,” a six-part film series by Ken Burns, 7 p.m., Mancos Public Library.
Yoga Flow, 8 a.m., Pine River Library. Coffee with the Mayor, 9-10 a.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. www.durangogov.org. Baby Meetup, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Columbine House at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Dr.
Older Adults Coffee Klatch, 10 a.m.-noon, Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287. Toddler Storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Durango Public Library. Card making and paper crafts, 1-3 p.m., Ignacio Community Library.
Submit “On the Town” items by Monday at noon to: calendar@durangotelegraph.com
Drop-in Tennis, all ages welcome, 4 p.m., Durango High School courts. 769-3772. Kidz Klub, after-school activities for elementary school kids, 4-5 p.m., Ignacio Community Library.
24th annual Creativity Festivity: Pathways to Imagination, opening reception 4-7 p.m., events daily thru April 14, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org. Durango Mesa Area Plan Kick-off Meeting, 4:307 p.m., City Hall, 949 E. 2nd Ave. Pete Giuliani performs, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. Jason Thies performs, 5 p.m., Durango Brewing Co., 3000 Main Ave. 247-3396. Sitting Meditation, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave. 764-8070 or durangodharmacenter.org. Information Session for First Time Homebuyers, 5:30-7 p.m., R Space at the Rochester, 734 E. 2nd Ave. nd
High School Poetry Slam, 6-9 p.m., part of Creativity Festivity, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org. Powerhouse Pub Trivia, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio. www.powsci.org. “Choosing a Child-Free Life,” part of the Life-Long Learning Lecture series, 7 p.m., Fort Lewis College Noble Hall, Room 130. www.fortlewis.edu/professionalassociates.
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Free education to those with prediabetes, 9-11 a.m., Mercy Regional Medical Center. 764-3415. Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Caregiver Cafe, 10 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. 884-2222.
“Doc Swords,” PTSD Social Club for Veterans, 4-6 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave.
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Less Jargon, More eBooks & Audiobooks, 1-5 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287.
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Karaoke with Crazy Charlie, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave. Thursday Night Funk Jam, for experienced musicians, 9 p.m.-midnight, Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.
Little Readers Storytime, 10 a.m., Pine River Library.
Open Mic Night, 6-8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2 Ave.
Open Mic & Stand-Up Comedy, 8 p.m., El Rancho Tavern, 975 Main Ave.
Open Art Studio, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287. Preschool Storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Durango Public Library. Firkin Fridays, featuring “Sweet Ginger!” on tap, 3 p.m., Steamworks Brewing Co., 801 E. 2nd Ave. 259-9200. Lego Club, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.
“Turkey Hunting 101,” hosted by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 8:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Durango Public Library. 247-0855. Drop-in Tennis, all ages welcome, 9 a.m., Durango High School courts. 769-3772. Tack sale, a benefit for the Four Corners Backcountry Horsemen, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds. Meet the Author: Kristina Munroe, author of Twisted Oak: A Journey to Create a Self-Sustaining Life and Home, 10-11:30 a.m., Smiley Café, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. Learn how to graft with Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project, 10 a.m.-noon, The Old Fort at Hesperus. www.montezumaorchard.org. Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Café, 601 Main Ave. 570-650-5982. MakerSpace Skill Sessions, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287. VFW Indoor Flea Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1550 Main Ave. 247-0384. Kirk James performs, 5:30 p.m., Digs at Three Springs. 259-2344. Rob Webster performs, 6-9 p.m., Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. 403-1200. Durango Voice Finals, a fundraiser for Manna Soup Kitchen, 6:30 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. henrystratertheatre.com. Flagship Romance performs, 7 p.m., Sunflower Theatre in Cortez. www.sunflowertheatre.org. Laugh Therapy Comedy Showcase, 8-11 p.m., Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. 403-1200.
After School Awesome, 3:30 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. 884-2222.
Movie Night for Teens, 7-10 p.m., Mancos Public Library. 533-7600.
“Power Up the LPEA Election!” meet LPEA Board candidates Tim Wheeler, Britt Bassett & Kirsten Skeehan, 5-8 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio.
“Leonard Bernstein Centennial” performed by the San Juan Symphony, 7:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College; www.durangoconcerts.com.
Blue Lotus Feet Kirtan, 6-8 p.m., Yoga Durango, Florida Road.
Comedy Cocktail open mic stand up, 8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2nd Ave.
Open Mic Poetry Night, celebration of National Poetry Month, 6-8 p.m., Mancos Public Library. Open Mic Night, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. 403-1200. Laugh Therapy Comedy Showcase, 8-11 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave. 403-1200. DJ Noonz, 8 p.m.-close, Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.
DJ Noonz, 8 p.m.-close, Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.
Sunday08 Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Café, 601 Main Ave. 570-650-5982. Free books, hosted by Durango Book Rescue, noon-5 p.m., 923 Narrow Gauge Ave.
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Free Tax Help, 1:30 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Register at 553-9150.
Hawk Tank Business Plan Competition, 8 a.m.noon, Roshong Recital Hall at Fort Lewis College. fortlewis.edu/businessplan.
Writers’ Workshop, 2 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 4
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“Cocktails with the Conductor” featuring Guillermo Figueroa, a benefit for Music in the Mountains, 6-8 p.m., Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. 385-6820 or www.music inthemountains.com.
Soul searching: Author tells Gold King tale thru local lens What: Jonathan P. Thompson booksigning for River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster. When: 6:30 p.m., Wed., April 11 Where: Durango Public Library
Blue Moon Ramblers, 7 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
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Who better to tell the tale of the Animas River than a native son of the San Juans? Jonathan P. Thompson, who was raised in Durango and whose family lived in the area for six generations, will return to town next week for a reading and signing of his new Thompson book River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster. The event takes place at 6:30 p.m., Wed., April 11, at the Durango Library. Billed as part elegy, part ode, part investigative science journalism, the book tells the story behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, which left a 100mile orange plume of toxic sludge from Silverton to the San Juan River in New Mexico. Along the way, the orange sludge made international news and wreaked havoc on cities, farms, recreation and the Navajo Nation. The book is the culmination of years of intensive research by Thompson, 47, who is no stranger to local audiences. His father was Ian “Sandy” Thompson, a well-known local writer who served as editor of the Durango Herald in the early ’70s and went on to help found Crow Canyon Archaeology Center, where he also served as executive director in the late ’80s.
Spring Cleanup begins, April 9-May 4, all around Durango. www.durangogov.org/cleanup. Yogalates, 9 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Jammin’ Juniors, 10 a.m., also Wed., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Mystery Book Club, featuring Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, 11a.m., Ignacio Community Library. Gentle Yoga, 1 p.m., Durango Senior Center. La Plata County Thrive! Living Wage Coalition Meeting and Potluck Dinner, 5:30 p.m., Commons Building, 701 Camino del Rio. www.ThriveLaPlata.org or 335-8114. Sitting Meditation and Talk, 5:30-7 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave. 764-8070 or durangodharmacenter.org. Salsa/Bachata/Merengue dance classes 6:30 p.m.; social/practice time 8-9 p.m., VFW Hall, 1550 Main Ave. www.salsadancedurango.com. San Juan Symphony Youth Orchestra performs, 7 p.m., Bayfield Performing Arts Center. Learn to Square Dance, with Wild West Squares, 78:30 p.m., Florida Grange, 656 Hwy 172. 903-6478.
Tuesday10 Yoga for All, 9 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Little Readers Storytime, 10 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Storytime, 10 a.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave. Storytime, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Mancos Public Library. 533-7600.
Drop-in Tennis, all ages welcome, 4 p.m., Durango High School courts. 769-3772.
Billy Goat Saloon in Gem Village. Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., Blondies in Cortez.
Inklings Book Club, 3rd-5th graders, 4-5 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. West Durango District Plan Meeting, hosted by La Plata County Planning Commission and staff, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Community Development Services Office, 211 Rock Point Dr. 382-6263. Terry Rickard performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.
“Russia’s Foreign Policy” with Gail Harris, part of Great Decisions 2018, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Durango Public Library. www.lwvlaplata.org.
Knit or Crochet with Kathy Graf, 6-7 p.m., Mancos Public Library. 533-7600.
ICL Knitters, 1-3 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 5639287.
Adult Board Game Night, 6-7 p.m., Durango Public Library.
Baby Storytime, 2-2:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.
Folk Jam, 6-8 p.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. 4031200.
Tuesday Too Cool, gaming and STEAM programming, 3:30 p.m., Pine River Library. 884-2222.
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Jonathan followed in his father’s footsteps, working at the Silverton Standard and the Miner starting in 1996. He worked his way up, eventually buying the paper, where he was editor and publisher from 2002-06. From there, we went on to serve as editor in chief of the esteemed Paoniabased High Country News from 2007-10. He left his post for a nine-month Scripps Fellowship in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in 2011. In 2016, he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalist’s Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. Today, he continues to write for HCN as well as on his blog at www.riveroflostsouls.com. He splits his time between Colorado and Bulgaria with his wife, Wendy, and daughters, Lydia and Elena. New York Times best-selling author Steve Friedman had this to say about River of Lost Souls: “By turns mournful, optimistic, angry and hilarious, Thompson offers fresh takes on everything from a mountain town’s bare knuckle politics to a young man’s loss of innocence to what it truly means to be a Westerner. Along the way he upends conventional wisdom and offers fresh insight into everything from Manifest Destiny to the salve of community. Deeply researched, thoroughly unsentimental, this is a moving and rip-roaringly told tale.” The event is sponsored by Maria’s Bookshop, San Juan Citizen’s Alliance, Mountain Studies Institute, Durango Public Library, Ska Brewing and Torrey House Press. For more information, visit www.marias bookshop.com.
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AskRachel Interesting fact: CDs and vinyl records outsold digital downloads in 2017. But it’s streaming services that keep the industry afloat now. MP3s are dead. Long live MP3s. Dear Rachel, It’s that time of life once again: time to buy a new computer. This feels ridiculous to me every single time. I just plopped several hundred dollars on my last computer a few years ago, and without me doing anything more taxing than sending emails and listening to music, it’s stopped functioning altogether. I open a program, and then I go eat dinner, and then I come back and it’s still opening. Why do computers crap out all the time and require me to go relearn what RAM is anyway? – Intel Outsider Dear Reboot, I learned everything I need to know about journalism without going to journalism school, and here’s that everything: Follow the Money. You want to know the motives behind any senseless act? Scope out who’s profiting. And the answer here is obvious. There’s only one group profiting and benefitting from your computer crapping out every few years and requiring you to go buy another one. It’s the paper industry. Because one of these times, you’ll just give up on electronics altogether. Sounds good to me, anyway. – CTRL ALT DEL, Rachel Dear Rachel, I’ve never been a coffee drinker because I had a middle school teacher who smelled like coffee and cigarettes, which was disgusting, and quite 10:30-11:15 a.m., Durango Public Library. Pine River Valley Centennial Rotary Club, noon, Tequila’s in Bayfield. Free Trauma Conscious Yoga for Veterans and Families, noon-1 p.m., Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave. Green Business Roundtable, featuring Jonathan P. Thompson, author of River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics and Greed behind the Gold King Mine Disaster, noon-1 p.m., Henry Strater Theater, 699 Main Ave. Register at info@san juancitizens.org.
honestly I didn’t want to be one of those people who can’t function without coffee and who live for the next cup but now I’ve started having some high-grade coffee in the mornings and oh my god this stuff is heaven I just want to know what you recommend for a coffee newbie like me? – Full-Bodied Flavor Dear Coffee Beaned, I used to think the worst thing about coffee people was all the really lame coffee humor. Empty jokes about empty mugs, “I can’t do that until I’ve had my coffee ha ha ha,” and so on. But now, I think the worst thing about coffee is how it destroys lives, wrecks families and obliterates punctuation. I might recommend you start going half-caf. Or stick with water. – Top me off, Rachel
Dear Rachel, I was perusing records at a local antique market the other day, and no fewer than three people browsing near me stopped to say, “Vinyl’s making a comeback, huh?” And this really annoyed me. The problem is, I’m not sure why it annoyed me. Can you shed some light into my psyche to tell me why I feel the way I do? – Broken Record Dear Playback, Maybe it annoyed you because you’re not jumping on vinyl as the latest hipster revival. Maybe it annoyed you because you wanted to browse records in peace without having to talk to strangers. Maybe it annoyed you because these people were right and you didn’t want to Greg Ryder performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave. Thank the Veterans! potluck, Peter Neds and Glenn Keefe perform, 5:30-8:30 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave. 8287777. “Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados,” film screening and discussion, 6 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. Heartbeat Durango, support group for individuals affected by suicide, 6-8 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, look for the Heartbeat sign. 749-1673.
MakerSpace, noon-4 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287.
Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. 403-1200.
Open Knitting Group, 1-3 p.m., Smiley Café, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.
Meet the Author: Jonathan P. Thompson, author of River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics and Greed behind the Gold King Mine Disaster, 6:30 p.m., Durango Public Library. www.mariasbookshop.com.
Teen Cafe, 2-5:30 p.m., Wednesdays, Ignacio Library. 563-9287. Floor Barre Class, 3-4 p.m., Absolute Physical Therapy, 277 E. 8th Ave. 764-4094. Tween Time: Food Lab, 4-5 p.m., Durango Library. Trails and Ales Party, 4-7 p.m., Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main Ave. www.trails2000.org. Nina Sasaki performs, 5-7 p.m., Leland House & Rochester Hotel, 726 E. 2nd Ave. Delaney Library Book Sale, 5-7 p.m., Genealogy Research in Archives, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, Lyceum Room 120. 247-7456 or swcenter.fortlewis.edu.
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Terry Rickard performs, 7 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.
Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com admit that to yourself. But whatever the reason it annoyed you, at least you can rest easy knowing your turntable will last longer than that other guy’s new computer. – Spin the black circle, Rachel
Karaoke, 8 p.m., Blondies in Cortez. Karaoke with Crazy Charlie, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave. Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8:30 p.m., BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 W. College Dr. 259-5959. Trevor Green performs, 9 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. animascitytheatre.com.
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Graduating Art & Communication Design Majors Exhibition, exhibit runs thru April 27, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery. 382-6925.
“Splendor of the Rockies,” plein air works by Moab artist Carolyn Dailey, thru May 5, Eno, 723 E. 2nd Ave. 3850106. Teen Time, 3:30 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, Pine River Library. 884-2222. Live music, 5:30 p.m., daily, Diamond Belle, 699 Main.
San Juan Basin Archaeological Society meets, presentation on the 1917-18 flu epidemic and the Durango-Silverton train, 7 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. sjbas.org. Herbalism Series: Food Allergies, 7-8:30 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.
Live music, 7 p.m., daily, The Office, 699 Main Ave. Karaoke, 8 p.m., Thur-Sun, 8th Ave. Tavern, 509 E 8th Ave.
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I’m With Her performs, 7:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.durangoconcerts.com.
La Plata Quilters Guild meets, 6 p.m., April 12, La Plata County Fairgrounds. 799-1632.
Yoga en Español, 7:30-8:30 p.m., YogaDurango, 1140 Main Ave.
The Expanders perform, 8 p.m., April 12, The Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. www.animascitytheatre.com.
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FreeWillAstrology by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Eighty-three-year-old author Harlan Ellison has had a long and successful career. In the course of publishing hundreds of literary works in seven different genres, he has won numerous awards. But when he was in his thirties, there was an interruption in the upward arc of his career. The film production company Walt Disney Studios hired him as a writer. During his first day on the job, Roy Disney overheard Ellison joking with a co-worker about using Disney characters in an animated pornographic movie. Ellison was fired on the spot. I am by no means predicting a comparable event in your life, Aries. On the contrary. By giving you this heads-up, I’m hoping you’ll be scrupulous and adroit in how you act in the early stages of a new project – so scrupulous and adroit that you will sail on to the next stages. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you an evolving Taurus or an unevolving Taurus? Are you an aspiring master of gradual, incremental progress or a complacent excuse-maker who secretly welcomes inertia? Will the theme of your next social media post be “The Smart Art of Compromise” or “The Stingy Glory of Stubbornness?” I’m hoping you will opt for the former rather than the latter in each of the three choices I just offered. Your behavior in the coming weeks will be pivotal in your long-term ability to animate your highest self & avoid lapsing into your mediocre self. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you fly in a passenger jet from New York to London, the trip usually takes more than six hours. But on Jan. 8, 2015, a powerful jet stream surging across the North Atlantic reduced that time significantly. With the wind’s extra push, several flights completed the trip in five hours and 20 minutes. I suspect you’ll have comparable assistance in the course of your upcoming journeys and projects, Gemini. You’ll feel like the wind is at your back. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Actor Keanu Reeves’ career ascended to a higher level when he appeared as a lead character in the film “Speed.” It was the first time he had been a headliner in a bigbudget production. But he turned down an offer to reprise his starring role in the sequel, “Speed 2.” Instead he toured with his grunge band Dogstar and played the role of Hamlet in a production staged by a local theater company in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I admire him for being motivated more by love and passion than by fame and fortune. In my estimation, Cancerian, you face a choice that in some ways resembles Keanu’s, but in other ways doesn’t. You shouldn’t automatically assume that what your ego craves is opposed to what your heart yearns for and your soul needs.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A Leo sculptor I know is working on a 40-foot-long statue of a lion. Another Leo friend borrowed $30,000 to build a recording studio in her garage so she can pursue her quixotic dream of a music career. Of my other Leo acquaintances, one is writing a memoir of her time as a blackmarket orchid smuggler, another just did four sky dives in three days, and another embarked on a long-postponed pilgrimage to Slovenia, land of her ancestors. What about you? Are there any breathtaking challenges or smart gambles you’re considering? I trust you can surf the same astrological wave. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How sexy is it possible for you to be? I’m referring to authentic soul-stirring sexiness, not the contrived, glitzy, counterfeit version. I’m alluding to the irresistible magnetism that wells up in you when you tap in to your core self and summon a reverent devotion to your life’s mission. However sexy it is possible for you to be, Virgo, I suggest you unleash that magic in the coming weeks. It’s the most reliable strategy for attracting the spiritual experiences and material resources and psychological support you need. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my analysis of the cosmic omens, your impact is rising. You’re gaining influence. More people are tuning in to what you have to offer. And yet your stress levels also seem to be increasing. Why is that? Do you assume that having more power requires you to endure higher tension? Do you unconsciously believe that being more worried is the price of being more responsible? If so, banish that nonsense. The truth is this: The best way to manage your growing clout is to relax into it. The best way to express your growing clout is to relax into it. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The immediate future will challenge you to revisit several fundamental Scorpio struggles. For best results, welcome these seeming intrusions as blessings and opportunities, and follow these guidelines: 1. Your control over external circumstances will increase in direct proportion to your control over your inner demons. 2. Your ability to do what you want will thrive to the degree that you stop focusing on what you don’t want. 3. Your skill at regulating and triumphing over chaos will be invincible if you’re not engrossed in blaming others. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): I’m about to say things that sound extraordinary. And it’s possible that they are in fact a bit overblown. But even if that’s the case, I
trust that there is a core of truth in them. So rejoice in their oracular radiance. First, if you have been hoping for a miracle cure, the next four weeks will be a time when you’re more likely than usual to find it or generate it. Second, if you have fantasized about getting help to address a seemingly irremediable problem, asking aggressively for that help now will lead to at least a partial fix. Third, if you have wondered whether you could ever retrieve a lost or missing part of your soul, the odds are more in your favor than they’ve been in a long time. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The French government defines books as an “essential good,” along with water, bread and electricity. Would you add anything to that list of life’s basics? Companionship? Stories? Deep sleep? Pleasurable exercise and movement? Once you identify your “essential goods,” I invite you to raise the level of reverence and care you give them. Take an oath to treat them as holy treasures. Boost your determination and ability to get all you need of their blessings. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to enhance your appreciation of the fundamentals you sometimes take for granted. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Buckingham Palace is the home and office of the Queen of England. It has been the main royal residence since Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837. But in earlier times, the site served other purposes. The 17th-century English lawyer Clement Walker described the building occupying that land as a brothel, a hotbed of “debauchery.” Before that, the space was a mulberry garden where silkworms tuned mulberry leaves into raw material for silk fabrics. I see the potential for an almost equally dramatic transformation of a certain place in your life, Aquarius. Start dreaming and scheming about the possibilities. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Carolyn Forché is a role model for how to leave one’s comfort zone. In her early career, she earned writing degrees at placid universities near her childhood home in the American Midwest. Her first book mined material about her family; its first poem is addressed to her grandmother. But then she relocated to El Salvador, where she served as a human rights advocate during that country’s civil war. Later she lived and wrote in Lebanon at the height of its political strife. Her drive to expand her range of experience invigorated her poetry and widened her audience. Would you consider drawing inspiration from Forché in the coming weeks and months, Pisces? I don’t necessarily recommend quite so dramatic a departure for you, but even a mild version will be well rewarded.
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Announcements The Perfect Gift for your favorite dirtbag. Literature from Durango’s own Benighted Publications. The Climbing Zine, The Great American Dirtbags, American Climber, Climbing Out of Bed and Graduating From College Me are available at: Maria’s Bookshop, Pine Needle Mountaineering, the Sky Store, or on the interweb at www.climbingzine.com.
Pets Love Your Dog! At the Durango Dog Wash behind Liquor World in the Albertson’s parking lot. Open every day!
Wanted Turn Vehicles, Copper, Alum, Etc. Into Cash! at RJ Metal Recycle, also free appliance and other metal drop off. 970-259-3494.
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join our innovative, holistic wilderness therapy program for young adults and adolescents based in Durango, CO. Schedules are variable. Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen and physical. Pay DOE. To apply, please visit our website @ https://www.openskywilderness.com/careers/ and follow the “how to apply” instructions. Conservation Legacy Hiring an organized, FT office assistant for local nonprofit. Conservation Legacy is located in downtown Durango. Must be positive, flexible, and able to multitask. Benefits available. Apply soon, alyssa@conservationlegacy.org Landscapers Looking for landscapers for everything from flowerbed maintenance to custom hardscape installation to join a fun and hardworking crew. Lots of variety within the work to learn and grow within a company serving Durango since 2003. PDE. 970-259-5557 Interested in Psych, Human Services or Corrections Careers? Work with at-risk students in a secure detention facility. *Detention specialist/coach counselor (FT,PT, days, nights) Open interview/tour at DeNier Youth Services, Mondays 9:00 am or 5:30 pm, Thursdays 3:00 pm or 5:30 pm. Must be 21 yo and pass drug/background tests incl THC. Email resume karen.doyle@rop.com or apply at 720 Turner Dr, Durango
Classes/Workshops Blacksmith Classes Learn the art of blacksmithing in a working blacksmith shop in Mancos, CO. Beginning to advanced classes. More info www.cowboyforge.com Conscious Dance ½ Day Workshop Sunday, April 8, 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Room 15 in The Smiley Bldg., $35. Intro to Soul Motion® conscious dance practice. Register at julie@juliegentry.com Healing & Intuitive Trg. Starts Mon’s in Apr. Meets twice a month. www.bodyandsoulhealing.com 247-9076.
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Curious About Mindfulness? Come learn from the best teachers – horses! Practice concrete tools in the arena that you can use to enhance your life right now. Group classes to start on April 30th. Individual sessions by appointment. Contact Trish at Joy Rides 970-946-7835, joyrides.dgo@gmail.com. Kids Energy Awareness & Yoga Ages 6-11: spring session begins now. New parent + child (ages 3-6) class: Tuesdays 10:15am www.ener gyawarekids.com Be a Massage Therapist! Next ski season! MountainHeart School in Crested Butte! May 28th. 800673-0539 www.mountainheart.org Mosaic Bird Bath Workshop With Lily Russo April 14-15, Mancos Www.lilymosaics.com Mommy and Me Dance Class Come join the fun! Now registering for classes. Call 970-749-6456. mom myandmedance.com.
Services 46 Years of Carpentry No job too small, 970-799-4103. First Choice Home Improvements Siding, windows, roofing, etc. Free estimates, 35+ years exp. Dan 259-6451; Brent 317-5474 Gorgeous Spray Tans at Spa Evo! Get your gorgeous natural glow on at Spa Evo with a spray tan color-customized exclusively for you. Expertly applied by Durango’s only Gold-certified spray tan artist. 6 years exp. Read my reviews on Yelp & FB. Text or call 9702590226 to schedule. www.spaevo.com Lady w/a Van (De-muddler adjutant) Call Sue 970880-2036 for decluttering/downsizing/moving help. Botanical Hi-Altitude Skin Care A drug free approach to metabolic, hormonal signs of aging, and environmental damage. Private and personal. Monie Schlarb lic. esthetician. 970-7644261, leave message.
Prepare for Fire Season The winter of 2017-2018 has been a historical low for moisture throughout the state of Colorado. Many of us experienced a similar winter in 2001-2002, endured Missionary Ridge and Valley fires. Now is the time to prepare for what could be a very destructive fire season. Please contact us for a fire mitigation assessment and quote. 946-8250 New Moon Special by Donation Only! BodyTalk™ and Red Hat Qigong healing sessions offered by donation between March 17th and April 16th new moons. Any amount accepted. www.juliegentry.com R & D Landscaping and Masonry Early season deals for all aspects of landscaping, masonry, concrete, excavation, etc. 970-529-3034. Spring Break Spray Tans! Meg Bush, LMT 970-759-0199. Low Price on Inside/ Outside Storage Near Durango, RJ Mini Storage. 970259-3494. Harmony Organizing and Cleaning Services Create harmony in your space this year by organizing and cleaning your home, vacation home or office. Martee 970-403-6192. Typos Are Your Worst Enema A good editor is your ally. Full-service text editing for websites, businesses, books, papers and tattoo ideas. Write to zach@zachhively.com
BodyWork Primo Massage Office to Sublet I am looking for a massage/bodywork professional to share my beautiful office in the Horse Gulch Health Campus 3-4 days a week. Fully furnished and beautifully decorated. Please call Leslie at 5530103 for more info. Massage by Meg Bush, LMT has Moved across the St. to 1075 Main, #215 fresh new space, same great massages! 970-7590199.
Edward Coons ~ Massage Therapy Advanced bodywork for athletes and people of all walks and ages for 15 years. 512-731-1836.
furniture on sale – gorgeous carved armoire, antique dressers. Patio items – vintage bouncy porch chairs, fire pits & more. Daily markdowns. 572 E. 6th Ave. 385-7336.
Massage Intervention ... 24 years of experience. Check out reviews on Facebook and Yelp. Couples massage! 970-903-2984.
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RealEstate Nice 2 Bed, 2 Bath Condo For Sale Fully furnished vacation rental, 2 bed, 2 bath between downtown and Fort Lewis College. $229,000 Call Thad at 970-375-7029. Radon Services Free radon testing and consultation. Call Colorado Radon Abatement and Detection for details. 970-946-1618.
ForSale Hot Tub – New 6HP pump, 50 jets. Cost $8,000. Sell $3,750. 505-270-3104. Great for Kayaks, Rafts Folding lightweight trailer, 5’x9’ with 2’ removable rails. 1200 lbs pay load, pull with a tiny car. Like new, $300. 259-2251. Reruns Home Furnishings Store full of furniture & décor – West Elm rug, Crate and Barrel entryway storage bench, Pier 1 Asian-style dresser. All bigger
Male Only, In-Town Clean, quiet. No smokers, pets, partiers. $550 including utilities, plus deposit. 970759-0551.
ForRent Summer Sublet Responsible, older professional looking for one or two bedroom sublet mid June through mid August. Walk to downtown or on trolley route to North City Market. 303681-6114 or email barth.jayne@gmail.com.
CommercialForRent Share OFC Big rm w/waiting area/kitchen. 12th & Main. FT & PT avail. 247-9076.
HaikuMovieReview ‘Ave Maria’ An unorthodox meeting between Israelis and some West Bank nuns
Drinking&DiningGuide Himalayan Kitchen 992 Main Ave., 970-259-0956 www.himkitchen.com Bringing you a taste of Nepal, Tibet & India. Try our all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. The dinner menu offers a variety of tempting choices, including yak, lamb, chicken, beef & seafood; extensive veggies; freshly baked bread. Full bar. Get your lunch punch card – 10th lunch free. Hours: Lunch, 11am-2:30 pm & dinner, Sun. - Thurs., 5-9:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. ‘til 10 p.m. Closed 2:30 to 5 daily $$ Crossroads Coffee 1099 Main Ave. 970-903-9015 Crossroads coffee proudly serves locally roasted Fahrenheit coffee and local baked goods. Menu includes delicious gluten-free muffins and bullet-proof coffee. Come in for friendly service and the perfect buzz! Hours: Mon.- Fri., 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. $ BREW Pub & Kitchen 117 W. College Drive, 970-259-5959 www.brewpubkitchen.com Experience Durango’s award-winning brewery & restaurant featuring unique, hand-crafted beers, delicious food - made from scratch, wonderful wine & cocktails. Happy Hour, Mon.- Fri. 3-6 pm & all day Sunday with $2 off beer, $1 off wines & wells & 25% off appetizers. Watch the sunset behind Smelter Mountain as the train goes by. Hours: Sun.-Thurs.11 a.m. - 9p.m., & Fri. & Sat.11 a.m. to 10 p.m. $$
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