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Dropping the rope

True stories

Branching out

Season outlook hopeful after El Niño brings early presents p8

20 Moons’ shared experience explores nature of truth p10

Pine Needle sister store focuses on ‘product with purpose’ p14

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lineup

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4 La Vida Local

Dropping the rope What’s new and exciting for the 2018-19 ski season

4 Thumbin’ It

by Tracy Chamberlin

5 Word on the Street

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6-7 Soapbox

The seekers

20 Moons explores truth with collaborative community event

12-13 Day in the Life

by Stew Mosberg

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17 Top Shelf

Frosty acres

18-20 On the Town

Winter tightens its grip on Southwest Colorado photos by Stephen Eginoire

20 Ask Rachel

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21 Free Will Astrology

Pine Needle opens sister store with focus on conscientious consumption

22 Classifieds

New kid on the block

by Missy Votel

23 Haiku Movie Review

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On the cover: Living on a prayer: Prayer flags weather the storm outside a house in Hesperus this week./ Photo by Steve Eginoire

A funky roux

The Revelers, Fort Knox Five, Freddy Todd, and bumping & grinding

by Chris Aaland

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Ear to the ground:

“At least they have men with sexy voices calling.”

– Local office worker remarking on one of the more positive advancements in telemarketing.

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RegularOccurrences

While preparing the Thanksgiving feast next week, why not slip in a little insecty goodness? (After all, it could be argued that turkeys are nothing more than overgrown bugs, anyway.)

Yes, the environmental benefits of insects as a cheap and plentiful food source has crawled into the public sphere – City Market even has cricket chips on its shelves. But now researchers have found that eating insects is not just good for the planet, but good for humans.

Tiffany Weir, an associate professor in CSU’s Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Valerie Stull, a doctoral graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently teamed up to study what effects consuming bugs had on the microflora in the gut. The pair designed a blind study, which involved getting willing subjects to eat cricket powder that had been incorporated into milkshakes and pumpkin muffins. Students at CSU helped design and test the recipes, which – among other things – had to overcome the distinct flavor and texture of the cricket powder, described as “earthy” and “gritty.”

Fortunately, most of the subjects were college kids, accustomed to dorm food and latenight stops at the Circle K, so taste did not rank high on the list.

“People were surprisingly willing,” Weir said. “Some were even really excited.”

During the six-week study, participants were initially placed in one of two groups. The first group was given muffins and milkshakes with the cricket powder, and the second “control group” was given plain muffins and milkshakes.

For two weeks, participants ate the meals in place of their normal breakfasts. After giving everyone two weeks off, the team switched the control and cricket groups and repeated the process.

“For the most part we were looking at young, healthy individuals. We didn’t know if we would see any benefits because the population is generally low risk,” Weir said.

However, low and behold, they did see two major improvements in the guts of subjects: an increase in a healthy bacterium and a decrease in inflammatory markers. The elevated bacterium, bifidobacterium, is known for colonizing the gut of infants and helps shape humans’ immune systems. While everyone maintains populations throughout their lives, the number tends to drop over time.

The inflammatory marker – TNF-alpha – is associated with chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

One possible reason for these changes, researchers hypothesize, is that the type of fiber found in insects – called “chitin” – is only found in two others places, mushrooms and the shells of seafood, which people don’t tend to eat a lot of. Of course, more study will be needed to determine if chitin is driving the changes.

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LaVidaLocal Camo-lot It’s a beautiful autumn day, the mountain trail cobbled with golden leaves like a path to heaven. The sun warms your back, a breeze chatters among the leaves. You’re listening intently to the conversation when the crack of two rifle shots pierces the air. You’re not the target, but the sound startles you, those bullets rapidly traveling along undisclosed trajectories of your imagination.

Moments like these remind me that autumn in the high country is unavoidably the time of hunting, when our multi-use federal lands sport camo-and-orange attire. The expression “to die for” may or may not in this case apply.

A friend of mine related his experience at the start of bowhunting season. He filled his tag first day out, said he had a good trip but felt disappointed. What would he do with the rest of the season? I suggested cleaning his bow. Those arrows don’t need to be misfiring.

But there is good news. Hunting-related accidents have charted a serious decline in the last decade, only about 80 to 90 annual fatalities, nationwide. My chance of being killed by drowning, car crash, terrorism or the usual lack of judgment leading to so many unforeseen deaths is far greater than being unintentionally shot while hiking. Hunters are not the problem.

So why doesn’t my brain just relax and take a hike?

The not so new news is that I am not a hunter, as if you couldn’t guess. The meat I do harvest comes from the deli, and for me a good hunting trip occurs when there’s a sale and I arrive on day one.

My father tried teaching me to hunt. We marched through the dry cornfields in rural Minnesota like soldiers, each in his assigned row with a half-dozen or so rows between us to serve as a safety margin, trying to flush a plump pheasant out of hiding. I never killed one, and though I heard the occasional report of my father’s shotgun I don’t remember us ever returning home with a bird.

He issued me his old single shot, bolt-action 22 caliber rifle, apparently reluctant to buy an additional shotgun until I perfected my skills. I suspect he was protecting himself from me.

But we did have some luck, the kind I reminisce about these days as the good kind, a male bonding ritual of sorts without the killing, a rite of pas-

sage without the one-upmanship. As the day unraveled and our shadows lengthened, we behaved more like two hikers carrying firearms, out for a walk in the countryside.

My fondest memory of our hunting trips involves setting up cans on a stump or fallen log and practicing knocking them down like tin targets at a carnival booth. My father became genuinely excited when I hit one, the flush of pride visible in his cheeks, the praise and camaraderie bubbling from within. He’d served as an infantryman in WWII and had plenty of shooting experience, but he refused to talk about the killing part despite my earnest and persistent questions. What I learned during boot camp was to stop asking, because when I did ask he simply changed the subject, closed himself up, and returned to his drill sergeant self.

What I grew to love most involved simply being outdoors, the sound of the crackling leaves and cornstalks as I tested my stealth. The sun, the wind, the crisp cold air when we first stepped out of the car. I didn’t want to actually shoot a pheasant, but I sometimes wished one would conveniently fall from the sky so I could run over, pick it up, and ask my father, “Is this what you want from me?”

One particular pheasant made an impression, though not as either of us would have expected.

We’d tramped the cornfields until late afternoon, finally deciding to call it quits. At the edge of a field where a few trees provided some shade, we trudged to a standstill, listening, not saying a word while the world reclaimed its collective breath. Making sure my safety was engaged, I lowered the butt of my rifle stock to the earth. At the same instant a pheasant flushed from the tall grass between us, so close one of us might have reached and snatched it from the air. I thought my brain or my heart had exploded. Or simply that I’d just been shot. Normally a pheasant prefers to run, but if startled it can burst upwards at great speed, wings thrumming a blur.

My desire to hunt vanished as completely as that bird. Coulda, shoulda, woulda mighta been our conversation on the way home, but for me the heart has always known what to say before the brain can rationalize an explanation. It’s like a sixth sense, knowing when to call it a day.

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– David Feela

This Week’s Sign of the Downfall:

Cold temperatures and early season snow making for favorable conditions for Purg to lay down a base and open with top-to-bottom skiing this weekend, a far cry from last year

Confirmation of what appears to be a growing climate of hate and intolerance, with the FBI reporting that hate crimes were up 17 percent in 2017 over 2016

Vaping juggernaut Juul announcing it will stop selling flavored e-cigarettes and discontinue social media promotions in an effort to stem the teen vaping epidemic

Monday morning’s surprise snowstorm catching road crews and commuters off guard and resulting in icy roads, snarled traffic and accidents throughout town

ER doctors across the country raising their voices and calling for a lift of the gun-violence research ban after the NRA tweeted for them to “stay in their lane” on gun-safety issues

More cataclysmic fires in California, with the Camp Fire annihilating an entire town and claiming at least 49 lives with 200 still missing

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The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix for $150M because it copied the Temple’s statue of Baphomet in its new “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” series.

Netflix obviously copied the Satanist’s statue, which was erected near the 10 Commandments at the Arkansas State Capitol this year, but Netflix didn’t anticipate the suit because the Satanists are usually satirical. They’re not actually evil; they exist only to make fun of hypocritical organized religions. But they’re not laughing at this one. The Satanists are suing for copyright infringement and defamation.

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With Purg opening on Saturday, the Telegraph asked: “How are you preparing for ski season?”

“Training packs of dogs.”

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“Being a good girl.”

“Walking with lunges.”

“Thai food and lots of hot tea.”

Darian Harvey

“Hanging out in Odessa, Texas.”

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ReTooned/by Shan Wells

Keep ‘hand of god’ off our bodies To the editor, The “hand of god” con is one of the most dangerous situations our country faces. Does your religion compel you to build more cages for children and families? Does your religion encourage you to profit from bank and stock funding for incarceration?

Both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito were nominated by a man who saw himself as the “Hand of God,” George W. Bush. The Roberts court stepped over the line that forbids government institution and enforcement of the practice of religion in the Hobby Lobby case. Here, it was ruled that the oligarchic patriarchal corporate executive had the right to use his religious beliefs to determine what health care went into women’s bodies and what came out of women’s bodies in his employ. This is against the law and is the first step on a slippery slope to destroy the first Amendment in America. It is imperative to get the governments’ “hand of god” out of women’s fertility and health care.

It seems corporations bought the Roberts court, and by rule, now have the right to buy the best government and internet money can buy. The “hand of god” con in the hands of corporations and the politicians and judges that serve them, is polarizing America into flirting with predatory fatal results. Humiliation, intimidation and violence does not serve our Constitution. Don’t let the separation of church and state crumble.

– Stephanie Johnson, Durango

Medicare for all ... not a bad idea To the editor, In response to several recent articles demonstrating the benefits of single payer/Medicare for all, compared to 4

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our current health system, a few facts go a long way.

The World Health Organization of the United Nations annually ranks its 191 member nations on the effectiveness of their health-care systems. These enlightening statistics are available at the World Factbook published by our own CIA, the United Nations website, worldlifeexpectancy.com, and the Institute for Health Metrics from University of Washington.

The performance of the U.S .health-care system ranks 37th of 191 nations, which is truly pitiful. France and Italy rank first and second. The health of the U.S. population ranks only 72nd, slightly above Iraq. In Life expectancy, we rank 43rd, the third successive year of decline. In infant mortality, we rank a dismal 170th, in maternal mortality 138th. We are, however, first in one category: expenditures. We spend almost twice as much as any other nation on health, and health-care costs are the biggest cause of U.S. bankruptcies. Longevity projections published in the medical journal The Lancet rank the U.S. 64th in 2040, slightly better than Bangladesh!

Single payer/Medicare for all is used by the rest of the world, because it makes more sense and saves money with no middle men, like insurance companies or agents.

Doctors work for the health system, and drug companies are forced to sell drugs at reasonable prices. We can learn much from other countries about their success and as a result, experience better health at a much lower price.

– Jim Forleo, Durango

America needs sensible gun laws To the editor, Recently, there was a segment on the news about gun drills in preschools. When I grew up, there were only fire drills. One would think the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was enough to get sensible gun laws enacted.

As much as I am glad there are more elected officials agreeing with people wanting sensible gun laws enacted now, and not later, it’ll take no more lucrative pay-offs to

both sides of the political aisle. So far, over the many years of mass shootings, there are insane threats to realistic gun policy from pro-gun groups to keep their AR-15s. I did not see the negative reaction needed when a current law was installed for the mentally unstable to purchase firearms.

The latest California shooter, with PTSD from military overseas deployment, is an example of why we should not ever be engaged in war that breeds 12-people-triggerhappy deaths.

If gun deaths don’t happen in most politicians’ back yards, where their own family members/colleagues are affected, we will unfortunately see weekly carnage. Had there been a worse situation last year at a baseball field full of Republican congressmen, where one was shot in the leg, perhaps we the people would be spared weekly mass funerals.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving took years to create awareness. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America deserves recognition now, not to be kicked down the road.

– Sally Florence, Durango

Trump’s tariffs hurting states To the editor, President Trump is trying to correct a trade imbalance by imposing tariffs on products imported from China. China has retaliated by imposing tariffs on our exports to China.

Trump’s tariffs will cost automaker Ford $1 billion in 2018 and 2019 and require significant layoffs. Exports from the BMW plant in Greer, S.C., were down 35 percent in August 2018 versus August 2017. Honda USA is incurring hundreds of millions of dollars in unplanned costs because of Trump’s steel tariffs.

States incurring substantial revenue losses include: Louisiana a $5.7 billion loss, with China its top export market; Washington $5.2 billion, with China its top export market; California $4 billion, with China its thirdlargest export market; Illinois $2.1 billion, with China its third-largest export market; South Carolina $2.6 billion,

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with China its top export market; Alabama $2.4 billion, with China its second-largest export market; Texas $1.4 billion, with China its third-largest export market; Kentucky $917 million, with China its fourth-largest export market; Michigan $842 million, with China its thirdlargest export market; and Ohio $826 million, with China its third-largest export market Many states are suffering economic problems with declining exports and job losses because of Trump’s tariffs.

– Donald Moskowitz, Londonderry, N.H., via email

Two more years to get things done To the editor: I am honored to be re-elected as your State Representative for House District 59. Thank you for putting your trust in my leadership for the next session; I promise to continue listening to your concerns and voting for Southwest Colorado interests.

We came together this election around our shared values, advocating for a future in which we can all believe. It is a future where our economy works for everyone, not just a privileged few, where our natural world is protected, where our schools are strengthened, and where our cherished freedoms are afforded to everyone, no matter their gender, race, income level or religion.

As I toured the district, several distinct concerns consistently came up, which I intend to address this next session: health care, water storage, affordable housing, sustainable energy, affordable college, and vocational education. The issues are large and important, and we will work together to find solutions.

As always, I welcome your input. Email me at barbara.mclachlan.house@state.co.us; mail to 200 East Colfax, Room 307, Denver, CO 80203; or call 303-866-2914.

The election is over, and it’s back to working for all of you. Thank you for your support.

– Rep. Barbara McLachlan, D-Durango

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TopStory It’s all downhill www.wolfcreekski.com Wolf Creek is already 90 percent open. They’ve got a new lift, an all-digital ticketing and rental system, and fresh powder. www.purgatoryresort.com Purgatory will have top-to-bottom skiing on opening day, Sat., Nov. 17, along with their new Inferno Mountain Coaster, two new trails, some new stores and free skiing for kids 10 and under. www.tellurideskiresort.com Telluride’s benefitted from cold temperatures and some early snowfall. Officially, opening day is Thanksgiving, Nov. 22, but they’ll fire up the lifts on Wednesday, Nov. 21, for their annual benefit day. www.silvertonmountain.com Heli-skiing operations begin Nov. 24, and the lift fires up in December.

Groomers at Purgatory Resort run the snowcat on lower Demon. The resort is able to offer top-to-bottom skiing for opening day this Sat., Nov. 17 - something they haven’t had for the past couple years./Photo by Stephen Eginoire

On the right foot After tough year, local skiers and riders treated to early snowfall

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olf Creek got dibs this year. After an epic storm came through in early October and dumped 2½ feet of snow, it became the first ski area in the nation to open.

Not only was it the first, opening 60 percent of the mountain Oct. 13, it was the second-earliest opening in the ski area’s history.

(The earliest-ever opening was Oct. 8, 2011).

Although the ski area was only open weekends for the rest of October, it was able to start daily operations Nov. 9.

With some snow falling this past weekend and snowmakers supplementing the base area, Wolf Creek is already 90 percent open.

Heading into the season, they’ve completed all the upgrades to their rental, ski school and ticketing systems – going 100 percent digital – and spent the summer installing a new lift and removing hazardous,

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The new lift was part of the ski area’s 2012 Master Development Plan, but one change was made from the original plans. It was called the Meadow Lift on those initial maps, but they changed the name to the Charity Jane Express in honor of Wolf Creek owner Davey Pitcher’s mother.

Not only were Pitcher’s parents the previous owners of Wolf Creek, his mother was a big part of the ski area – and particularly with the kids program.

“It was a tribute to her because she was very involved in the ski area,” Rosanne, Davey Pitcher’s wife who also serves as the vice president of sales and marketing at Wolf Creek, said.

The Charity Jane is a high-speed, detachable quad located just east (or looker’s left) of the existing Alberta Lift. The new addition will take skiers and riders from the flat meadow and unload them about a third of

the way up the Alberta Liftline. From there, they can ski down to the Alberta Lift and catch a ride back up.

According to Rosanne, the ski area’s current trail map doesn’t feature the new lift but they’re working on a new 3D map and hope to have it printed and online soon.

The new lift will allow for access to what Pitcher said was about 55 acres of under-utilized beginner and intermediate terrain.

It will also serve as a connector lift, she added. The path back to the Alberta and Elma lifts from the eastern side of Wolf Creek has always been challenging. Skiers had to either skate ski or walk, and boarders had to hoof it the length of the flat meadow area to get to the Alberta and Elma lifts. Now, they’ll be able to hitch a ride.

There are still a few steps before the Charity Jane is up and running, though. The goal is to complete installation, get it inspected and have the bull wheel turning by Christmas.4

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www.durangonordic.org Besides the annual Nordic races, clinics and triathlon events, the Nordic Center hosts the Full Moon Holiday Howler on Dec. 22 and Jan. 18. The event features a bonfire, refreshments and food while watching the full moon rise over the Twilight Peaks. www.durangogov.org chapmanhill Chapman Hill crews plan to start snowmaking in early December, and the hill will likely open later in the month.

Other helpful links: www.durangoweatherguy.com Jeff Givens, the local amateur weather man, breaks down the graphs, charts and other meteorological magic in an effort to give residents the likely local forecast. He’s also got a Facebook page called Durango Snow Lovers. www.coloradoski.com Colorado Ski Country compiles snow reports from resorts and ski areas across the state. www.onthesnow.com This group also compiles snow reports, but they cover the country and have a free app you can download and customize. Search for “On the Snow.”

While installing the new lift this summer, Wolf Creek was also able to remove about 2,000 hazardous, beetle-kill trees. It’s something they’ve been trying to tackle since the infestation first hit the pass more than a decade ago. “It’s going to be an ongoing project for us,” Pitcher said.

The other big thing at Purgatory is the free season pass for kids 10 and under. There are no strings attached, according to Oyler. Any child 10-years-old or younger – local or not – can get a free season pass at any time throughout the season.

She said it’s a great way to introduce families to skiing, make it more affordable and help build a new generation of skiers and riders.

All fired up

To the west of Wolf Creek, the summer wasn’t quite as productive. The 416 Fire ignited on June 1, and the Burro Fire started one week later, on June 8. Together, the two wildfires burned more than 55,000 acres, cost more than $27 million to fight, and together became one of the largest in Colorado’s history.

The flames never reached Purgatory Resort, but the 416 Fire’s proximity to the ski area and Highway 550 meant the resort had to shut down for about a month. Following a rather dismal 2017-18 winter, resort officials struggled, employees were furloughed or let go altogether, and like most area businesses, they were just hoping to make it through.

So when whispers of an El Niño – which often brings above average precipitation to the Southwest – started to come out of weather rooms this fall, it seemed as though things might start looking up in Purgatory.

With colder temperatures and some snowfall (minimal though it might be at this point), crews have been able to make snow since mid-October, and the resort will offer topto-bottom skiing on opening day this Saturday – something that hasn’t happened for the past couple years.

According to Kim Oyler, director of communications at Purgatory, the plan is to run Lifts 1 (the Six-Pack) and 2 (aka the Engineer Lift, which was the only lift running on opening day last season) on the frontside.

“I think everyone at Purgatory is very excited,” she said.

“We think it’s going to be a great winter ski season.”

There are several new things happening this year as well.

First off, the resort’s Inferno Mountain Coaster is finally complete. It officially opened at the tail end of the summer and will stay open this winter for weekends and holidays – including this Saturday and Sunday for opening weekend.

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Workers install one of the towers for the Charity Jane Express, the newest lift at Wolf Creek Ski Area./ Photo courtesy of Wolf Creek Ski Area The resort also got a couple new additions to the frontside – Mark’s Park and Who (both located in the area between Exodus and What). Mark’s Park is an organic terrain park, which means all the features are built from wood instead of other materials, and Who is a gladed trail for beginners.

The base area has also added several new shops, including Branded (selling everything with a Purgatory logo) and a new snowboard shop. Down at the beginner hill, the resort is introducing The Waffle Cabin, which sells Belgium waffles (also available drizzled in chocolate) that might even tempt advanced skiers to visit.

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Another first for the Southwest is happening at Silverton Mountain, where employees started taking turns Oct. 8.

They’ve announced on the website that for the first time, heli-skiing operations begin as early as Nov. 24.

The lift, however, isn’t scheduled to fire up until the end of December – but, of course, that could change. Like most places in this corner of the state, they’ll open when Mother Nature decides.

That’s true for the Durango Nordic Center, which hosts its first Nordic races and clinics in late December. Hesperus Ski Area, which is now owned by the same corporation as Purgatory, Mountain Capital Partners, will also open once the snow falls. Durango’s Chapman Hill plans to start making snow in early December, and will likely open soon after.

There is the possibility of snow forecasted for the Thanksgiving holiday, but it’s still too soon to tell. One thing meteorologists are saying for certain is that this season won’t be a repeat of last winter.

The latest from the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center is an approximately 80 percent chance that an El Niño will form this winter. It’s been called a “weak” El Niño – but any El Niño is a good sign.

It means plenty of precipitation in this corner of Colorado, according to NOAA officials. Not only would a wet winter be good for hitting the slopes, it would also chip away at the region’s drought conditions.

Either way, the early snowfalls and ski area openings have many people optimistic about the upcoming ski season in the Southwest – and ready to put the past year behind them. n

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OnStage

Seeking truth 20 Moons Dance Co. creates a shared experience

by Stew Mosberg

and reopen at 6 a.m. Attendees can otherwise come and go as they please, ot long after 20 Moons Dance join in meditation, dance (to their own Co. was founded in 2012, Codrummer) or engage as they see fit.

Director Anne Bartlett mused If all this sounds something straight about what lay ahead. “We have come out of the “Happenings” of the 1960s, together in this moment in time with it isn’t far off. For those not familiar a desire to explore new territory in with that art form of the idealistic Age dance, movement and performance of Aquarius, it combined elements of art; to push our own edges and exdance, theater, music, poetry and vipand the repertoire of what’s possible sual art that obfuscated the boundaries with movement art in Durango,” said. between life and art, leading to new Since then, the troupe’s performmethods of artistic expression. ances, collaborative dance events and “The line between the Happening community productions have and daily life should be kept as fluid stretched those dreams into reality. 20 and perhaps indistinct as possible; a Moons’ latest endeavor may yet be revolution in the conception of art one of its most ambitious, and ironimaking, enticing artists to consider cally, it is less about dance than collecand re-imagine audiences as part of tive exploration. their work,” Allan Kaprow, one of the From sunset on Fri., Nov. 16 until originators of Happenings, said in sunrise on Sun., Nov. 18, 20 Moons 1966. dancers will take over the Barbara Co-Director Bartlett concurs and Conrad Gallery at the Durango Arts looks forward to what may evolve from Center. They are inviting anyone in the event. She wonders how Durango the community to participate in an orartists will interpret the experience and ganic, loosely structured examination move toward new horizons. She and of “What is True?” The question also 20 Moons Dance Co., above, will present “What is True?” at the Arts Center this weekend her 20 Moons colleagues expect it will happens to be the title of the 38-hour from sunset Nov. 16 until sunrise Nov. 18./Courtesy photo also provide future interpretive and incontinuous undertaking. spirational dance performances.

“How long do we spend exploring a and van Tyn will create a “live sound tapesIt is the company’s ostensible care for Elsa Jagniecki, of Heirlooms, and Marje the community that was the origin of the concept; an hour?” muses 20 Moons Music try” using violin, drums and/or electronic Cristol, from Linnaea Design, were enlisted idea. Locals of all ages can come and go at Director Jeroen van Tyn. Further explaining keyboard. There is no planned score, just to create the most conducive atmosphere their convenience or stay through the en- the event’s rationale, van Tyn reckoned that improvised music. for the space. “We will be setting up a very Dancer Katie Clancy described the loose airy, organic and minimalist site to move tire happening. Attendees will be welcome with a day and a half to dig into the subject, to participate as viewers or to actively en- the experience – sometimes verbal, some- construct as akin to a mandala sand paint- around in, sit and lay down in; mostly bedgage by moving, writing, speaking, resting, times visual, sometimes written, sometimes ing, an additive process, that evolves as it ding, rugs, pillows and throws,” explained listening or sharing thoughts on the key silent – will provide an open-ended answer. goes. “‘What is True’ is a meditative process Jagniecki. “There will be candle light, paper It isn’t a debate, he cautioned, but a rather than a performance,” she remarked. lanterns and fairy lights to help create a question. chance to explore one’s own point of view The end result is meant to be ephemeral subdued atmosphere for meditative incubaas much as other people’s. Given the cur- in design, leaving a lasting impression on tion, and introspection.”

Justthefacts rent political and social environment and the creators and spectators but only a col20 Moons Co-Director Jessica Perino the questioning of what is true and what is lective memory.

What: “What is True?” 20 Moons Dance shared her vision of the event by remarkfalse, “fake news” notwithstanding, the The gallery will be segmented into a spe- ing, “My hope is that people will come, give Co. community event timing couldn’t be more fitting. cific space for the various activities; large themselves permission to explore and play, When: Sunset, Nov. 16 - sunrise, Nov. 18 As people enter the DAC, a 20 Moons sheets of blank paper will be mounted to and then, I know, inevitably, something Where: Durango Arts Center, 802 E. member will be on hand to provide “easy- the walls where written words and thoughts will happen. We can’t know what that 2nd Ave. to-follow instructions” so visitors enter the can be posted. Mats for sleeping will be something is yet. That’s what’s so great Tickets: Open to public at no charge – space with clarity and intention. As appro- available for those wishing to rest or even about the whole thing – we’re opening up donations accepted. www.20moons.com priate and at intervals, musicians Jon Bailey stay the night; doors will close at 11 p.m. to the mystery.” n

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MountainTownNews Difficulty in linking warming to skiing BOULDER – In October, the International Panel on Climate Change said greenhouse gas emissions must fall 50 percent in the next 12 years if temperature increases are to be kept to only 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2040.

The New York Times reported that sea ice in the Arctic will remain during most summers if the temperature rises only 1.5˚ C. However, if we miss that target and hit 2˚ C. (2.7˚ F vs. 3.6˚ F), ice-free summers will be 10 times more likely.

At the lesser temperature increase, 4 percent of vertebrates lose more than half their range. The number doubles to 8 percent at the higher temperature increase.

What will the increase mean for mountain towns? This level of prediction is impossible for ski town and valleys, several experts told Mountain Town News.

Cameron Wobus, a senior scientist at Lynker Technologies, says climate projections are not granular enough to say what will happen in Durango, Park City or other specific locations.

But Wobus does see advantages to precise estimates in communicating the risks of warming temperatures. In a 2018 paper published in Earth’s Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, Wobus and others set out to reframe the future risk of extreme heat in the United States. One of their examples is startling: If the world continues on its current track, a teen-ager in eastern Montana in 2075 might experience maximum summer temperatures that his or her grandparents would have had to travel to the Mojave Desert to experience.

Similar reports for extreme precipitation and flood damages are being done for the Environmental Protection Agency, he says.

Andrew Jones, co-director of Climate Interactive, says that distinguishing between 1.5 and 2˚ C matters less than focusing on how to reduce causes of warming. “If you are driving from New York to California, there’s no point debating where to park in Los Angeles while you are only beginning to cross Pennsylvania,” he says.

Jeff Lukas, researcher at Western Water Assessment, a project at the University of Colorado-Boulder, similarly said impacts associated with a particular level of warming, either locally or globally, are difficult to quantify.

“We know that reducing emissions will reduce warming, but we don’t know how much,” he said.

Lukas was the lead author of a 2014 climate report in Colorado that synthesized a great deal of research. The vast majority of the projections in the report were qualitative, not quantitative, depicting the direction of change, not precisely the amount.

“Many of the numbers the New York Times piece provides have a completely unrealistic level of precision,” he wrote in a followup e-mail.

“Let’s say we assume the +1.5 C globally is equivalent to a +5 F above the 1971-2000 baseline for Colorado. Can I give numbers for the changes in snowpack, streamflow, heavy precipitation events and wildfires, associated with that 5 F warming? Sort of, but they’re going to be a very broad ranges. For impacts to Colorado ecosystems and species, no way.”

Off-site modulars win favor in ski towns

TRUCKEE, Calif. – A converted submarine manufacturing site in the San Francisco Bay Area has been turned into a factory for producing housing units for Truckee, 2½ hours away along the crest of the Sierra Nevada.

Truckee’s Moonshine Ink reports that local construction costs have climbed 10 percent a year, primarily because of a tight labor market. But the 90-plus workers at the OS Factory can produce a housing unit a day. The first workers were hired in April. They are not employed along traditional craft lines. Workers, who are all represented by a single union, the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council, can do various types of work, improving labor efficiencies.

As soon as December, the factory will begin delivering the first of 137 units of workforce rental housing at a project called Coburn Housing. Mike Foster, architect for the developer, Vailbased Triumph, told Moonshine Ink that the constricted labor pool and cramping of construction in Truckee made off-site construction advantageous.

The developer, however, must make hefty deposits in advance of production. Too, the Bay Area factory has limited production

capacity. As such, Triumph is also getting units from factories in Boise and Pocatello, both in Idaho, and Waterton, S.D. A fourth factory will be used for a hotel in a bigger project, called Railyard.

Electric cars park for free in Aspen ASPEN – Parking in Aspen is scarce enough that permits are even required for parking in residential zones. Since 2004, the city has had a policy of allowing electric and hybrid cars to park for free.

With such cars becoming common, the City Council reviewed whether to end the park-for-free policy. A compromise was adopted.

Hybrids will have to pay $4 a day, half the full fare, and electric cars will continue to park free until 2020, reports The Aspen Times.

Painful memories 100 years after war BANFF, Alberta – Sunday was the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. But the wounds of the war can be painful to read about a century later and across an ocean from the killing fields of France.

In Canada, a new film recalls the 24 internment camps in Banff and elsewhere in which 8,579 men from eastern Europe and the Ukraine were imprisoned. They had been determined to be enemyaliens by a government that had only years earlier enticed them to settle in Canada with the promise of land and freedom.

The Rocky Mountain Outlook explains that filmmaker Ryan Boko’s new film, “That Never Happened,” focuses on the camp in Banff National Park. There, prisoners were used as virtual slave labor to build a highway, bridges, and a nine-hole golf course.

“We are as hungry as dogs. They are sending us to work, as they don’t believe us, and we are very weak,” wrote one of the inmates to his wife.

To avoid being accused of slave labor, the Canadian government paid the inmates 25 cents a day during a time when the prevailing wage for laborers was $2 to $3 a day.

In Colorado, 1,000 men from Routt County went off to war in various capacities. They came from Steamboat Springs and surrounding towns and ranches. Guy Utter, who came from a place called Cow Creek, was among those drafted. He wrote letters, worried about the work he had left behind and commented on how few women he saw.

He was shot at Verdun, at the age of 24, and died of his injuries in a nearby hospital during the waning days of the war.

A surviving niece, Nadine Arroyo, told the Steamboat Today she had inherited her uncle’s letters when her father died. “He did not want to be there,” she told the newspaper. “He was really worried because there was a lot of work on the ranch that needed to be done.”

Heavy voter turnout in many ski towns JACKSON, Wyo. – An unusually high number of people voted last week compared to other mid-term elections. Ski towns, however, reported even higher numbers.

Nationally, 40 percent of qualified voters normally cast ballots in mid-term elections. Last week nearly 50 percent did. In Aspen, 61 percent turned out.

In Wyoming, nearly 81 percent of registered voters turned out in Teton County, reported the Jackson Hole News&Guide. Town Council and county commission elections may have boosted the numbers, but there was also a decision to make about tourism funding.

Shery Daigle, the Teton County clerk, says Jackson Hole has innate characteristics that typically produce large turnouts.

“We’re small enough that people care, compact enough that people are talking to their neighbors and their friends, and it’s big enough we have big-city problems in a small area,” she theorizes.

“We’re definitely unique in many, many, many ways.”

Snow early, but it’s likely to be warm BRECKENRIDGE – Hit by severe drought last winter, ski areas in southern Colorado and in New Mexico have had plentiful snowfall.

Telluride has reported 42 inches of snow so far this season. Last winter, it didn’t get that much snow until mid-January.

Breckenridge and other resorts in Summit County also have white faces, but long-term weather forecasts suggest a winter that is milder and warmer than average.

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Branching out Pine Needle expands with Patagonia-centric store with a mission

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n full disclosure, I have been a card-carrying member of the Cult of Chouinard since the sixth grade, when my dad bought me my first gray fleece Patagonia pull-over from the then-obscure brand. That was the beginning of a long and torrid affair with Patagonia Baggies, Stand-up Shorts, Expedition Weight long undies, drytops, sports bras, socks (I’ve had the same pair for over a decade) and anything in those early teal and purple trademark colors. I even so loved the brand that I spent more on my Patagonia ski jacket than my wedding dress. After all, a wedding dress you only wear once (or maybe twice, although I presume it’s tacky to recycle such things.) But a Patagonia ski jacket: that’s forever.

Thus, as you can imagine, I practically ruined my Gore-tex britches at the news that Pine Needle Mountaineering was opening a Patagonia-specific shop across the street from its flagship store. A Pineagonia, if you will.

Yes, after years of a slimmed down selection of goods, Durango would have its very own Patagucci store, in which to paw, lust and drool (not literally) upon the wares.

OK – maybe I’m taking this a little too far. But judging by the looks of it, I am not alone.

On Mon., Nov. 12, the new Pine-agonia (which is properly called Pine Needle Dry Goods before this thing gets too far gone) opened its doors at 858 Main Ave. And despite – or perhaps in spite of – it being a cold, dreary November afternoon, the store was buzzing with folks: shoppers, looky loos, well wishers and died-in-their-teal-Capilene hard-core junkies.

The surprise snow – the first in town this season – probably didn’t hurt either.

“I’m taking it as a good omen,” owner Jeremy Dakan said.

Impressed by the crowd, I asked manager Marty Emmes if anyone had pressed glass at the store that morning.

“No,” he replied, but the window

Pine Needle Dry Goods owner Jeremy Dakan, far left, and manager Marty Emmes, inside the store Monday./ Photo by Stephen Eginoire washer (probably removing smudges from previous glass pressers) left the door unlocked for just a second over the weekend.

“Before I knew it, we had 15 people milling around inside,” he said.

So, even though the store’s first official sale (if you must know, a womens Better Sweater vest and that’s all we’re saying; it was a present) took place Monday, the first unofficial sales took place last weekend.

Sorry, glass pressers.

Dakan, who bought Pine Needle with wife, Ashley Gonnella, in 2012, said he began planting the seed for a Durango Patagonia “partner store” with the corporate powers that be in 2013. He said Patagonia, with its use of recycled materials, legendary repair and warranty policy, “Worn Wear” program to keep products in

circulation longer (which, unfortunately, Dry Goods will not offer, at least initially) and attempts to reduce its environmental footprint all played into the decision.

“Obviously, Patagonia has been a front runner environmentally, and we appreciate their vision,” Dakan said.

“Climate’s a big concern,” added Ashley. “I’ve always admired Patagonia and how they find something they’re passionate about and go after it. They are dedicated to trying to change the course of the way things are going.”

Plus, moving the Patagonia goods out of Pine Needle would free up more space for other up-and-coming brands and features (like the “pick-your-own-puffy” kiosk. Pure genius.) “(Patagonia) is cranking, and so is

Kuhl, Prana and all of Pine Needle’s other brands,” said Jeremy. “There’s only so much space, and at a certain point, the shopping experience gets sacrificed.

There’s so much stuff, you start to go cross-eyed. This will give the guys across the street room to spread their wings.”

The idea behind the Dry Goods store is to offer the same familiar Pine Needle experience in a more open, modern and user-friendly format.

“Pine Needle is 43 years old; it’s got character,” said Jeremy. “It’s still going to be our ski and climbing shop, but I hope we can transfer some ideas over here.”

But more so than giving the flagship store more breathing room, the new store is about giving back. It’s about conscientious consumption over 4

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Don’t worry – the new store still maintains that Pine Needle charm with shop dog Tilli./Photo by Stephen Eginoire And all this is but a mere sampling. There conspicuous consumption.

“First and foremost our focus is on people are countless other small brands, and the list doing good – product with a purpose,” said is growing. “We’re looking for more brands that are giving back,” said Ashley (hint: if you Jeremy.

“It’s about giving back, socially and envi- happen to know any, let her know).

In addition to giving back to the world ronmentally,” Ashley continued.

To that end, in addition to Patagonia, the and environment, the store is also looking to Dry Goods store also features lesser known give back to the community. Local builders were used for the remodel, and Durango fine brands with altruistic or sustainable goals.

“We picked stuff we think is fun and dif- craftsman Andy Barber built the store’s custom concrete counters and metal display ferent and has a story to tell,” said Jeremy. racks.

Even the wood in the store’s sign was For example, a small San Francisco-based sunglass company called Sunski (alas, not repurposed locally. The store is also planning the Sun Ski of your ’90s ski bum glory days) to work with local nonprofits on hosting events, like movie nights that makes their and fund raisers. frames from plastic “Just being involved, recycled from the that format works for us,” medical industry. said Ashley.

Not only does the “We’re fortunate we company give back have a town that backs us 1 percent for the en– Jeremy Dakan, owner, up,” adds Jeremy. “I think vironment, it also Pine Needle Dry Goods we’re onto something.” shares its proprietary In other words, we all have to buy stuff recycled plastics with other manufacturers.

“It’s all done out of a tiny house in San eventually, for whatever reason. The butt in Francisco; these guys have some great those Baggies finally blows out; the Gore-Tex in the beloved shell leaks like a sieve; the purideas,” said Jeremy. ple and teal went out with big bangs and Other brands include Boulder blanketmaker Trek Light, which plants a tree for gaiters on the outside.

It’s OK. But if you’re going to spend your every blanket sold, and small colloquial guide books written by local writers and out- hard-earned money, you may as well make it doorsy types. There is also Purpose jewelry, count.

“It’s all about stretching your dollar furmade by victims of sex-trafficking trying to rebuild their lives and Handsup Global ther. You’re buying something but doing Goods, which employs young men in Haiti. more with your money,” said Ashley. n

What: 50th anniversary re-release of “Mountain of Storms,” from Patagonia films When: 6 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 29 Where: Pine Needle Dry Goods, 858 Main Ave. Before Matchstick Productions, Teton Gravity Research and even Warren Miller, there were five dirtbags in a van setting out for South America from Northern California. The year was 1968, and the plan was to surf, ski and climb their way to the mythical land of Patagonia, in Southern Chile – all while capturing the exploits on a 16 mm movie camera.

These weren’t just any dirtbags, though. The five amigos were none other than future outdoor gear moguls Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins – who would go on to Patagonia and The North Face fame, respectively – as well as legendary rock climber Chris Jones, Dick Dorworth (U.S. Ski Hall of Famer) and Lito Tejada-Flores (founder of Telluride’s Mountainfilm.)

And the resulting footage, a film called “Mountain of Storms,” was not your typical dude-cation. Rather, upon arrival at their final destination, the five put up the first ascent of Cerro Fitz Roy’s famed Southwest Buttress, now forever known as the “California Route.”

When first released, the film became an instant cult classic, leading the route for the entire adventure film genre.

Now, 50 years after its release, Patagonia (the clothing company) is re-releasing the film, with showings at its stores across the country. In addition, it will also be selling the film online at patagonia.com. Curiosity piqued (and peaked)? Watch the “Mountain of Storms” trailer here: youtu.be/Rhtq8rYeLz4.

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Thanksgiving for losers

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ome of my best Thanksgivings have been ones I’ve missed. This isn’t to say I’m a hater. I’m a hunter, and I have a rule: a full freezer is more important than a party.

My first Thanksgiving hunt ended without meat, and that night I joined two other hunters in a motel in southwest Montana.

After a full, fruitless day of hunting, we dried our gear, drank Yukon Jack from the bottle and called our friends at the potlucks we could have attended. I broke out my last package of deer meat from last year, and proceeded to make Ham Bourguignon on a camp stove.

Despite what the name implies, there is no ham in Ham Bourguignon (or hamburger, for that matter), but the first ingredient is at least bacon. It’s followed by deer, wine, onion, wine, vegetables, wine and more wine. The winey, greasy steam filled the room, perfuming our hunting clothes with “human” scents. It was getting dangerously close to a party interfering with a full freezer by the time we turned in.

I spotted a herd of elk at dawn, tracked them all day, and radioed my friends at 3 with the news I’d shot my first elk. They came with a sled. Twelve hours later, the elk was in my truck. By morning on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I was home with my meat, a proud graduate of the Loser School of Hunting.

The Loser School of Hunting is not a prestigious institution. No hunter begins the season hoping to matriculate, much less miss the Thanksgiving feast. The foundational academic principle of Loser School is that if you haven’t filled your freezer yet, you don’t just need meat. You need practice. So you get back out there and do that, hoping to sharpen your skills enough to succeed. It could be your shooting that needs attention, or your ability to be quiet, stay focused and sense the animals before they sense you. It may depend on your willingness to go where fresh tracks take you, even if it’s away from the truck and toward the grizzlies.

As hunting season winds down, a loser will cycle through his or her hunting buddies until there is nothing left but misfits like us. We find buddies of buddies who still haven’t succeeded, and make plans to bed down with these strangers in tents, motel rooms or cold, mouse-infested cabins. We may still hunt alone, but it’s good to know that somebody knows generally where you are. Sometimes, when the conditions are right on the ridge lines, it can feel like outer space. Once in a while, a text floats up with a delicately posed question about how it’s going.

Behind these well-intended messages, I visualize the sender, having already filled his freezer and now chilling in his sweat pants by the fire, drinking tea and planning his Thanksgiving side dishes. And I’m gonna be listening to some other hairy dude snoring.

But those strangers, hairy or not, dudes or dudettes, can be treasure troves of knowledge. They have different ways

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of doing all the things that a hunter must do, like keeping the falling snow off of a scope, keeping your precious water in liquid form, and of course, cooking burger meat.

Every hunter has his or her ways of cooking burger.

I’m not above putting a frozen chunk in a pan and letting it thaw there. With Ham Bourguignon, the wine

steam helps thaw it.

On my second high country Thanksgiving, the Loser School mess hall was the Silver Dollar Saloon in Ennis, Mont. That was back before I had kids and was still a raging wild man, hunting the steep, silent Madison range like a Sasquatch with a rifle. I kept moving to stay warm, and ate hard salami like granola bars. But I was a lonely, meatless Sasquatch on that Thanksgiving. The Silver Dollar had a Thanksgiving buffet, and I filled up a plate and sidled up to the bar, next to a stranger.

He was a rancher, wasn’t going to make it home by dark and knew better than to drive at night. Between black ice, deer and fellow motorists, Thanksgiving dinner was secondary to living another day to crash his snowmobile, which based on his stories he did quite often.

The tales of survival in the aftermath of some of these mishaps, in subzero temperatures with wet clothes and injuries, were as riveting as anything I’ve read by Jack London. I ate turkey, drank IPA and listened. When he started telling hunting stories, I asked him why he would cut the throat of an animal he just killed. My point being it was already dead. He stared at me like I was from Mars.

“You’ve never cut a throat?” he asked. His red, windburned face had turned ashen beneath his hat, as if he’d fallen ill just thinking about all of the unbled meat.

I already knew that for meat to taste good, a lot of things have to go just right. It has to be a healthy animal,

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on a good diet, killed with a clean shot, ideally in the cold. How hunters clean, skin and trim the body can all ruin the flavor, as can hanging an animal too long, or letting it get too warm.

Back home, I studied throat cutting and blood letting, and realized it’s exactly what kosher and halal butchers do, and for many good reasons. Now I go straight for the jugular. If I’m lucky, that is where my shot will hit. My hunted meat has never tasted better. If only there was more pumpkin pie in Loser School.

Ham Bourguignon A quick and satisfying version of the classic Boeuf Bourguignon, made with frozen ground meat.

Ingredients 2 pieces bacon, cut into half-inch strips (keep frozen for easy cutting) 1 pound lean ground beef, frozen 3 cups red wine, of a quality you’d happily drink 2 potatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes 1 large onion, minced 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons butter 1 large carrot, cut into 1-inch lengths 2 stalks celery, cut in 1-inch lengths 4 cups broth and/or stock ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon dried Herbs de Provence 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 teaspoon soy sauce Place the bacon in a large pan on low/medium heat with a tight cover. Stir to prevent burning and release the grease. When the bacon is nice (about five minutes for thawed bacon) add a hunk of ground meat, frozen or thawed. Surround with potatoes, cut sides flat against the hot pan. When the mass of ground meat develops a brown skin underneath that you can feel with a spatula (about 10 minutes), add a half cup of wine. Keep covered.

When the wine is half evaporated (about 10 minutes) the meat will have developed a purple crust. Flip it over and flatten it out to push out the water and make a similar crust on the other side, adding another half cup of wine after the first one dries up, and adding oil if the bacon wasn’t very fatty.

When purple crusted on both sides, break the meat into stew-sized chunks – don’t atomize it like taco filling.

When the pan starts to dry out, add the minced onion and gently stir amongst the browned meat chunks. The onions add so much water it’s like another deglaze.

Stir often but gently until the onions disappear (about 20 minutes). Add the garlic and butter. When the garlic smells like it’s frying in butter, add carrots, celery, stock and another cup of wine. Add the garlic powder, black pepper, salt, Herbs de Provence and soy sauce. Stir together and cook for 25 minutes, or until the carrots are soft. Season with butter, wine, spicy stuff and gratitude. Serve with hot sauce and more wine. n

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Extreme couponing, Funksgiving & the Revelers Celebrate Funksgiving at 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Animas City Theatre with Fort Knox Five and special guest Posh Josh. rushed from work in Ignacio last Friday afternoon and made a FK5 is no stranger to the ACT, having brought their D.C. funk fest mad dash to the Ska Brewing World Headquarters to utilize a numerous times in the past to the alley between Main and 2nd. handful of Be Local coupons, which were set to expire the next Principal DJ Steve Raskin and company always keep it fresh, but day. I’d clipped a few from the book at work, naturally gravitating the retro sounds of their classics like “Radio Free DC” and “The toward beer and pizza … two of the primary food groups that New Gold Standard” sound as good as they did a decade ago. have sustained me for much of my adulthood, along with green The Revelers are a Louisiana supergroup that will cook up a chile and Copenhagen. One was for a free flight of tasters; the funky roux of swamp-pop, Cajun, country, blues and zydeco at other for a growler.

7:30 p.m. Saturday Upon entering at the Community Ska, I was hailed to a Concert Hall. The table where Erin and band was birthed by Bonnie were seated. founding members I’ve known these two of the Red Stick ladies since the late Ramblers and Pine ’90s, getting into Leaf Boys, called mischief before they “unquestionably the were even 21. Erin two groups at the and her family are vanguard of the practically kin. On Louisiana cultural the table lay a small renaissance.” Led by stack of Be Local singer/songwriters coupons. Great Chas Justus and Eric minds think alike!

Frey, they mix tradi“You can only use tional Cajun and zyone per visit, and you deco dance music can order a pint inwith the swing for stead of a flight,” Erin which the Red Stick informed me. She Louisiana supergroup the Revelers cook up a funky roux of swamp-pop, Cajun, coun- Ramblers were also said the growler try, blues and zydeco at 7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17, at the Concert Hall. known. Glenn fill requires the addiFields and Frey form tional purchase of a new growler. Boo! I already have a garage full of a magical rhythm section, while Blake Miller is arguably the most assorted growlers at home. I had no interest in another. Erin and prolific French songwriter coming out of Louisiana. Sax, fiddle Bonnie quickly departed after slugging their freebie pours. I mosied and accordion augment the sound. up to the bar and placed my order with another Erin, this one a Ska Freddy Todd heads a big bill at the ACT at 9 p.m. Friday. bartender. She repeated the rules to me. I chose a Euphoria, which Todd was born just outside of Detroit, where he was weaned on has become my favorite Ska offering for years. Free Euphoria tastes Motown, soul, funk, blues, hip-hop and techno. These roots even better than the six pack I bought. formed the base for his live show, in which he programs beats & As I finished my free pint, I sampled a few of the Mod Project rhythms with psychedelic, funky bass and serenades the crowd beers on tap, including the wicked good New England IPA. I was with analog synthesizers, keytar, loops and occasional drums and smitten: I ponied up for a to-go quart to sip at home in front of percussion. Glitch-hop producer kLL sMTH joins him, along with the fireplace. As I sat at the bar, chatting up with Erin #2, I noopeners the Dancing Arrow and Kid Konsume. ticed that nearly every customer was exchanging coupons for free The Four Corners Piano Quartet plays the second installpints or taster flights. My reporter’s intuition caused me to call ment of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango recital my anonymous source at BREW. She verified that freeloaders series at 7 p.m. Friday. Kay Newnam (violin), Danny DeSantis armed with “10 percent off” coupons were infiltrating the front (viola) Anastasia Nellos (cello) and Marilyn Mangold Garst lines at the bar. At Carver’s, the same scene unfolded. Then I re(piano) tackle the works of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Spanish membered last Wednesday, when I phoned in an order for a large composer Joaquin Turina. pie at Homeslice to use my – you guessed it! - $3 off Be Local The Met: Live in HD continues with a new production of Saintcoupon. Yep … lots of folks were redeeming theirs, too.

Saëns’ “Sampson et Dalila” at 10:55 a.m. Saturday in the ValThe 11th annual Be Local Coupon Book will be released lecito Room of the FLC Student Union. Run time is nearly 3½ from 5-7 p.m. Wed., Nov. 28, at the Derailed Pour House. I sughours with two intermissions. The original opera premiered in gest buying early … and redeeming early to avoid the Nov. 9 rush 1877 and is based on a single chapter in the Book of Judges. It benext year. Local First was founded in 2008 to work with the local, came one of the world’s great stories of love and passion, as well independent business community in La Plata County to create an as the archetypical depiction of a man betrayed by an immoral economy that values people, the planet and prosperity for everywoman. Contrary to popular opinion, it is not a reenactment of one. Proceeds from the sale of the coupon book benefit this valumy first marriage. able resource.

The best thing I heard this week is Angélique Kidjo’s funky, Speaking of Ska suds, the Bodo gang releases the second install- Afro-pop recreation of The Talking Heads’ classic album, “Rement from their barrel-aged program, Bumpier & Grindier Im- main in Light.” Is it possible to one-up David Byrne and comperial Coffee Cream Stout from 5-7 p.m. Friday. For $12.99, pany’s masterpiece? Kidjo may succeed. With producer Jeff you get to reserve a bottle and a seat at the table for a trio of beer Bhasker at the helm – he’s worked with A-list talent like Rhianna, and food pairings, chat up the brewers and enjoy the most limKanye, Bruno, Drake and Jay-Z – a fourth Grammy is probably in ited of Ska’s limited releases. I went to last spring’s debut in this Kidjo’s future. series, and it was the best 13 bones I’ve ever spent. These bottles No loving in our souls and no money in our coats? Email me at will sell out on Friday. chrisa@gobrainstorm.net. n

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Thursday15 Yoga Flow, 8 a.m., Pine River Library.

Beginner Tai Chi, 9:15-10:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Baby Meetup, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Columbine House at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Dr. Office Hours with La Plata County Commissioner Julie Westendorff, 10 a.m.-noon, Pine River Library in Bayfield. 382-6219.

Little Artists, 10:30 a.m., Pine River Library.

“Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution” screening, hosted by Citizens’ Climate Lobby, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Vallecito Room, Fort Lewis College.

Pub Trivia, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio. www.powsci.org.

“Plagiarism: What it is, what is (sometimes) done about it, and some famous and not-so-famous cases,” part of the Life Long Learning Lecture Series, 7 p.m., Noble Hall at Fort Lewis College, Room 130. www.fortlewis.edu/professionalassociates.

Toddler Storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Durango Public Library.

Laugh Therapy @ the Embassy, open mic standup comedy and benefit for SASO, 8-10 p.m., downstairs at The Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave. 403-1200.

Here to Hear: Office Hour with City Councilor Dick White, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., City Hall, 949 2nd Ave.

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Luminaries Toastmasters, public speaking club open to all, noon, La Plata County Administration Building, 1101 E. 2nd Ave.

Submit “On the Town” items by Monday at noon to: calendar@durangotelegraph.com

Restaurant & Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave.

Durango Early Bird Toastmasters, 7-8:30 a.m., LPEA, 45 Stewart St. 769-7615.

Free yoga, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Lively Boutique, 809 Main .

Kidz Klub for elementary school kids, 4 p.m., Ignacio Library. 563-9287.

Durango Friends of the Arts Bake Sale Fundraiser, 9 a.m.-noon, Bank of Colorado, 1199 Main Ave.

Space Between Shadows perform, 5-7 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. Death Café, gathering for people to talk about death and dying, 5:30 p.m., Mancos Public Library. 533-7600.

Sitting Meditation, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave. Meet the Author, featuring FLC professor Andrew Gulliford, author of Woolly West: Colorado’s hidden History of Sheepscapes, 6 p.m., Durango Public Library. www.mariasbookshop.com.

Smiley Café Open Mic, 5:30-8 p.m., sign up from noon-4 p.m.; Smiley Building, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. 403-5572.

The Climate Reality Project Presentation, presented by 4CORE director Laurie Dickson, 6-7:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.

Stillhouse Junkies perform, 6-8 p.m., Durango Craft Spirits, 1120 Main Ave., Suite 2.

Friday Night Funk Jam with Bootyconda, 6-9 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave. “Rainbow of Voices,” a Fort Lewis College student musical stage performance, 6:30 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Four Corners Piano Quartet, part of the 2018-19 Recital Series, 7 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Drive.

Polar Express, Nov. 16-Jan. 2, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. www.durangotrain.com.

Afterschool Awesome! for K-5th graders, 3:30 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

“Doc Swords,” PTSD Social Club for Veterans, 4-6 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave.

5:30 p.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. durangocafeauplay.org.

Living the Rainbow: True Stories of Coming Out and Transitioning, 7 p.m., event also runs 9 p.m., Nov. 17, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. Teen Game Night, 7-10 p.m., Nov. 16, Mancos Public Library.

Freddy Todd, KLL SMTH, the Dancing Arrow and Kid Konsume perform, 9 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. www.animascitytheatre.com.

Book Walks, meet at Ignacio Library for carpool at 9:15 a.m. or at Little Bear Trailhead for walk back to library at 9:30 a.m. 563-9287.

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Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

45th annual Holiday Bazaar, featuring local craft vendors, pies, baked goods and more, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., sloppy joe luncheon begins, 11 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive. 247-4213.

Open Art Studio, 10 a.m., Ignacio Library.

Lactation Support, 10 a.m.-noon, Prenatal Yoga, noon-1 p.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. 749-9607 or durangocafeauplay.org.

Caregiver Café, open playtime, 10:30 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

11th annual “Fill the Bucket” food drive, sponsored by La Plata Electric Association, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., drop off locations at City Market and Hometown Food Market in Pagosa Springs. 317-0496.

21st annual Artisans Holiday Gift Show and Sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Henry Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave. 247-0235.

Storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Durango Public Library.

“Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution” screening, 6:30 p.m., Student Union at Fort Lewis College, Vallecito Room.

Intermediate Tai Chi, 10-11 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Café, 601 Main Ave. 570-650-5982.

High Altitude Baking, presented by Colorado State University Extension Agent Wendy Rice, 6:30 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

STEAM Lab: Leonardo da Vinci and his Amazing Machines, for ages 5-12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.

VFW Indoor Flea Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1550 Main Ave. 247-0384.

Gary B. Walker performs, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Jean-Pierre

Spanish Speaking Parents & Littles Fridays, 3:30-

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of all ages, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Durango Public Library.

The Met: Live in HD, featuring Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila,” 10:55 a.m., Student Union at FLC. www.durango concerts.com.

Survivors of Suicide Loss Day, featuring “A Daughter’s Journey” screening and more, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Noble Hall at Fort Lewis College, Room 130. 946-8004.

“What is True? An Immersive Community Event Exploring Art, Ritual, and the Collective Dream,” presented by 20MOONS dance theatre, show begins, 5 p.m., and runs 38 hours thru 7 a.m., Nov. 18, Barbara Conrad Gallery at the Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.20moons.com.

“TE ATA” special screening, part of the Celebration of Native Heritage Month, 6 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. www.durangofilm.org.

Cousin Curtiss performs, 6 p.m., Mancos Brewing.

Kirtan, 6-8 p.m., Studio 10, Smiley Building, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. The Black Velvet Trio performs, 7 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave. Kirk James Blues Band performs, 7 p.m., 11th Street Station.

Thom Chacon and special guest Moe Cooley perform, 7:30 p.m., Sunflower Theatre in Cortez. www.sunflow ertheatre.org.

The Revelers perform, 7:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.durangoconcerts.com.

Comedy Cocktail open mic stand up, 8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2nd Ave.

Sunday18 Veterans Breakfast, 9-11 a.m., Elks Club, 901 E. 2nd Ave. 946-4831.

Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Café, 601 Main Ave. 570-650-5982.

Irish Jam, 12:30-4 p.m., Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. Writers’ Workshop, 2 p.m., Ignacio Library.

Transgender Day of Remembrance Community Service, 5 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church.

Blue Moon Ramblers, 7 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Larger than life: Alex Honnold climbs onto big screen What: “Free Solo,” a documentary on climbing phenom Alex Honnold When: 3, 5:30 and 7:45 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 15 Where: Animas City Theatre It’s rare that a reclusive, van-dwelling rock climber becomes a household name. But Alex Honnold has done just that with his death- and logic-defying 2017 pioneering free ascent of climbing’s holy grail: Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan.

Now Honnold’s feat – the realization of a lifelong dream – as well as a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the man comes to audiences with “Free Solo.” From award-winning filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and her photographer/mountaineer husband Jimmy Chin, directors of the 2015 mountaineering movie “Meru,” viewers can expect heart-stopping vistas and vertigo-inducing angles as only the big screen can deliver. Beneath the surface, however, the filmmakers also reveal the man behind the myth.

Now 33, Honnold grew up a loner in northern California and turned to climbing as an outlet at a young age. He has completed more than 1,000 solitary ascents and is reputed to be the greatest “surviving” free-soloist. (Due to the inherent nature of the sport, many practitioners don’t live

Monday19 Yogalates, 9 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Play day, 10 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Watch Your Step class, 10:15-11:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Blondies in Cortez.

Classic Movie Monday, 7 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Books & Brews, hosted by Durango Public Library, 78:30 p.m., Animas Brewing Company, 1560 E. 2nd Ave. Learn to Square Dance, with Wild West Squares, 78:30 p.m., Florida Grange, 656 Hwy 172. 903-6478.

long enough to earn such accolades, as evidenced by an inmemoriam montage of fallen comrades in the film.)

The filmmakers even go inside Honnold’s brain, where an MRI scan shows – unsurprisingly – an almost non-existent amygdala, the stress-center of the brain.

Meanwhile his mother, Dierdre, wonders if he has Asperger’s syndrome. Nevertheless, the man himself is unfazed by speculation.

“Nobody achieves anything great by being happy and cozy,” he says.

The film also explores the personal toll of pursuit of such excellence. While training for his heroic climb, Honnold meets and falls in love with girlfriend Sanni McCandless. The relationship threatens to derail his focus, resulting in injury and setbacks that Honnold must overcome in addition to the stark granite monolith.

“It’s uphill all the way in a piece of portraiture that’s as stirring as it is thrilling. Great documentaries, of which this is one, need great subjects, and Mr. Honnold fills the bill; he’s thoughtful, funny, articulate, self-reflective and fatalistic to a scary degree,” wrote the Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgenstern.

The end result is a triumph of the human spirit that represents what the New York Times calls “a miraculous opportunity for the rest of us to experience the human sublime.”

Beginner Tai Chi, 9:15-10:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Toddler Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201.

Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Storytime, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Mancos Public Library.

Knitters, 1 p.m., Ignacio Community Library.

Tuesday Crafternoons, 1 p.m., Pine River Library.

Baby Storytime, 2-2:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.

Teen Time! 3:30 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Inklings, book club for grades 3-5, 4 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287.

Tuesday20 Yoga for All, 9 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

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AskRachel Interesting fact: A statistically significant increase in motor vehicle accidents occurs on the Sunday after we turn the clocks back. Let’s go ahead and blame traffic and immigrants on Daylight Savings Time, too.

Dear Rachel, I’m well aware that things were always better back in the good ol’ days. But there’s got to be points of comparison, right? My nextdoor neighbor, who says he’s lived here his whole life even though he’s older than the town itself, was just bemoaning Durango traffic because it took him three minutes longer to get downtown during peak traffic time! Can we please stop with lamenting every change as a decline of civilization?

– Thoroughly Modern Millie Dear Cutting Edge, Ah, a classic case of back-in-my-day-ism. Things were always brighter in days of yore, unless you were indoors, because we hadn’t yet invented electric light bulbs. I know that traffic time can suck, unless you’ve got a really good podcast on. But you’re right, Millie. Let’s compare traffic time to horse-travel time. A fast horse might get you there quicker, but without air conditioning. I’m all for modernity. I mean, we could have no cars, and also have polio. I’ll take the traffic.

– Full speed ahead, Rachel Dear Rachel, I’m clearing out all kinds of junk from my closet in anticipation of my next move (that is,

OntheTown from p. 19 Drop-in Tennis, all ages, 4 p.m., FLC courts. www.du rangotennis.com.

Rotary Club of Durango meets 6 p.m., Strater Hotel.

Knit or Crochet with Kathy Graf, 6 p.m., Mancos Library.

Adult Board Game Night, 6 p.m., Durango Library.

Super Ted’s Super Trivia at The Hank, 6:12 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. DJ Crazy Charlie hosts karaoke, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Billy Goat Saloon in Gem Village.

Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., Blondies in Cortez.

Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.-close, Moe’s Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Wednesday21 Service to Cascade Canyon begins, Nov. 21, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. www.durangotrain.com.

Morning Meditation, 8 a.m., Pine River Library.

Storytime, 10 a.m., Ignacio Library. 563-9287.

presuming I can find someplace with affordable rent). I’ve got boxes with my parents’ journal entries from when I was born, a newspaper from the day I was born, hospital bracelets from that time I was born. It would all be really interesting to a future biographer. But at this rate, no one is writing my biography. Am I obligated to keep this stuff?

– Burdened Dear Pack Mule, Ah, lucky you. Most of our parents stuck us with insecurities and misplaced responsibilities and other junk that you can’t sell at a garage sale. You got the physical versions. It’s your life, señor(it)(a), so only you can decide what’s worth clinging to. But I will say this: you were there that day you were born, but you probably don’t remember it. These are more your parents’ souvenirs, and yet here you are, left holding the baby.

– Coochie coochie coo, Rachel Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com Dear Rachel, I’ve witnessed a sudden influx of nasty dogs in the neighborhood who all want to attack my dog. People are out walking these terrors without leashes. Letting them roam yards without leashes. Should I blame the dog owners? Or is this somehow a result of that caravan of undesirables coming up from the southern hemisphere? I don’t see how that’s possible, but I also can’t deny the synchronicity. Perhaps there are doggie doors in The Wall?

– Marked Man

Dear Pork Chop, Yes! Let’s not blame individuals for their individual shortcomings! An external bogeycaravan sounds like the perfect way to avoid uncomfortable conversations with neighbors. This particular caravan is a little too far away, though. I bet there’s a stealth caravan that came in advance of the decoy caravan, and we’re already experiencing the repercussions of all those illegals (and their little dogs, too). It would at least explain all that traffic we’ve got.

– Bad dog, Rachel

Pine River Valley Centennial Rotary Club, noon, Tequila’s in Bayfield.

warmers, closed toed shoes, toiletries, tea, canned goods and more. Drop offs at the Leadership Center, Grub Hub and Noble Hall Room 135 all at Fort Lewis College.

Free Trauma Conscious Yoga for Veterans and Families, noon-1 p.m., Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave. Knitting Group, 1-3 p.m., Smiley Café, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. Teen Café, for grades 6-12, 2 p.m., ICL MakerSpace, 2 p.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287.

Floor Barre Class, 3 p.m., Absolute Physical Therapy, 277 E. 8th Ave. 764-4094.

Thank the Veterans potluck, Peter Neds and Glenn Keefe perform, 5:30-8:30 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave. Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 6:30 p.m., BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 W. College Dr. 259-5959.

Pub Quiz, 6:30 p.m., Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. Karaoke, 8 p.m., Blondies in Cortez.

“Herding Chaos,” works by Joan Russel, thru Dec. 22, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org.

Free one-on-one technology tutoring, Durango Library. Register at www.durangopubliclibrary.org.

Tuesday Tech Time, Pine River Library, 884-2222.

Live music, nightly, Diamond Belle & The Office, 699 Main Ave.

Upcoming Community Thanksgiving Dinner, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Nov. 22, La Plata County Fairgrounds.

Karaoke with Crazy Charlie, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave.

Winter Solstice Artisans Market, Nov. 23-Dec. 22, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org.

Funksgiving with Fort Knox Five, 9 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. animascitytheatre.com.

Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons, 8 p.m., Nov. 27, Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. animascitytheatre.com.

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11th annual Be Local Coupon Book Release Party, 5-8 p.m., Nov. 28, Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave. www.local-first.org.

Little Readers, stories, activities and crafts, 10:30 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

“Living With Wolves” photographic exhibit, “Lummi Nation Bear Totem Pole” and “Riders of the West,” exhibits, thru Nov. 30, Southern Ute Museum.

Intermediate Tai Chi, 10:30 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

FLC donation drive for the homeless, thru Dec. 14, items needed include warm clothes, hats, gloves, hand

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“Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Becoming Cheyenne,” thru Dec. 14, FLC Center of Southwest Studies.

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“Durango Wolf Symposium: Is There a Future for Wolves in Colorado?” 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and 7-9 p.m., Nov. 29, Student Life Gymnasium, Fort Lewis College. bit.ly/co-wolf.

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Interior designer Dorothy Draper said she wished there were a single word that meant “exciting, frightfully important, irreplaceable, deeply satisfying, basic and thrilling, all at once.” I wonder if such a word exists in the Chamicuro language spoken by a few Peruvians or the Sarsi tongue spoken by the Tsuu T’ina tribe in Alberta, Canada. In any case, I’m pleased to report that for the next few weeks, many of you Aries people will embody and express that rich blend of qualities. I have coined a new word to capture it: tremblissimo.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to my astrological intuition, you’re entering a phase when you will derive special benefit from these five observations by poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. 1. “There are truths that you can only say after having won the right to say them.” 2. “True realism consists in revealing the surprising things that habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.” 3.

“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate.

It is you.” 4. “You should always talk well about yourself! The word spreads around, and in the end, no one remembers where it started.” 5. “We shelter an angel within us.

We must be the guardians of that angel.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Adolescence used to be defined as a phase that lasted from ages 13 to 19. But scientists writing in the journal The Lancet say that in modern culture, the current span is from ages 10 to 24. Puberty comes earlier now, in part because of shifts in eating habits and exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. At the same time, people hold onto their youth longer because they wait a while before diving into events associated with the initiation into adulthood, like getting married, finishing education and having children.

Even if you’re well past 24, Gemini, I suggest you revisit and reignite your juvenile stage in the coming weeks. You need to reconnect with your wild innocence. You’ll benefit from immersing yourself in memories of coming of age. Be 17 or 18 again, but this time armed with all you have learned since.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian baseball pitcher Satchel Paige had a colorful career characterized by creative showmanship. On some occasions, he commanded his infielders to sit down and loll on the grass behind him, whereupon he struck out three batters in a row – ensuring no balls were hit to the spots vacated by his teammates. Paige’s success came in part because of his wide variety of tricky pitches, described by author Buck O’Neil as “the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long

Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin’ ball.” I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because now is an excellent time for you to amp up your charisma and use all your tricky pitches.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head,” writes fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss. “Always.

All the time. We build ourselves out of that story.” So what’s your story, Leo? The imminent future will be an excellent time to get clear about the dramatic narrative you weave. Be especially alert for demoralizing elements in your tale that may not in fact be true, and that therefore you should purge. I think you’ll be able to draw on extra willpower and creative flair if you make an effort to reframe the story you tell yourself so that it’s more accurate and uplifting.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In describing a man she fell in love with, author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote that he was both “catnip and kryptonite to me.”

If you’ve spent time around cats, you understand that catnip can be irresistible to them. As for kryptonite: it’s the one substance that weakens the fictional superhero Superman. Is there anything in your life that resembles Gilbert’s paramour? A place or situation or activity or person that’s both catnip and kryptonite? I suspect you now have more ability than usual to neutralize its obsessive and debilitating effects on you.

That could empower you to make a good decision about the relationship you’ll have with it in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I had to learn very early not to limit myself due to others’ limited imaginations,” testifies Libran astronaut Mae Jemison. She adds, “I have learned these days never to limit anyone else due to my own limited imagination.” Are those projects on your radar, Libra? I hope so. You now have extra power to resist being shrunk or hobbled by others’ images of you. You also have extra power to help your friends and loved ones grow and thrive as you expand your images of them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The U.S. is the world’s top exporter of food. In second place is the Netherlands, which has 0.4 percent as much land as the U.S. How do Dutch farmers accomplish this miraculous feat? In part because of their massive greenhouses, which occupy vast areas of non-urbanized space. Another key factor is their unprecedented productivity, which dovetails with a commitment to maximum sustainability. For instance, they produce 20 tons of potatoes per acre, compared with the global average of nine. And they do it using less water and pesticides. In my long-term outlook for you Scorpios, I

see you as having a metaphorical similarity to Dutch farmers. During the next 12 months, you have the potential to make huge impacts with your focused and efficient efforts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): “The world is like a dropped pie most of the time,” writes author Elizabeth Gilbert. “Don’t kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.” From what I can tell about the state of your life, Sagittarius, the metaphorical pie has indeed fallen onto the metaphorical floor. But it hasn’t been there so long that it has spoiled. And the floor is fairly clean, so the pie won’t make you sick if you eat it. My advice is to sit down on the floor and eat as much as you want. Then carry on.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist Anita Desai writes, “Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forward in a kind of flood?” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect that the locks she refers to will soon open for you. Events may not exactly flow like a flood, but I’m guessing they will at least surge and billow and gush. That could turn out to be nerve-racking and strenuous, or fun and interesting.

Which way it goes will depend on your receptivity to transformation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them,” writes author Mark Helprin. “They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.” Those descriptions could fit you well in the coming weeks but with one caveat. You’ll have no need to take on the melodramatic, almost desperate mood Helprin seems to imply is essential. Just the opposite, in fact. Yes, risk defeat and be willing to exhaust yourself in the struggle to accomplish the impossible; but do so in a spirit of exuberance, motivated by the urge to play.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear,” warned author G. K. Chesterton. “It annoys them very much.” My teachers have offered me related advice. Don’t ask the gods to intervene, they say, until you have done all you can through your own efforts. Furthermore, don’t ask the gods for help unless you are prepared to accept their help if it’s different from what you thought it should be. I bring these considerations to your attention, Pisces, because you currently meet all these requirements.

So I say go right ahead and seek the gods’ input and assistance.

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Announcements Holiday Arts and Crafts Unique vendors! Nov. 17, 9-4. Ignacio Highway 172 to Ute Road. Smiley balloons show the way!

Eclipse Fundraising Gala Come join us for our Fundraising Gala to support our local, nonprofit youth volleyball club. Come enjoy some drinks, food, live music and a silent auction! $35 online or $45 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at eclipsevbdurango.com/events 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.

Wanted Turn Vehicles, Copper, Alum, Etc. Into Cash! at RJ Metal Recycle, also free appliance and other metal drop off. 970-259-3494.

HelpWanted Experienced, Charismatic Bartender wanted at BREW Pub & Kitchen. Must be reliable and available to work during the holidays. Bring resume to 117 West College Drive and fill out an application between 2pm and 4pm.

Nonprofit Executive Director The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado seeks executive director. Details online: TheGardenProjectSWColorado.org

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KDUR Radio is Looking for Someone to fill the community member position on our Community Advisory Board.

This person should live in La Plata County and be a regular listener to KDUR Radio. Monthly meetings/assistance at fund-raisers and miscellaneous duties are the commitment. Interested parties email Liggett_b@fortlewis.edu

Classes/Workshops Love and Logic Parenting Class Dr. Doug Miller, PsyD, is offering a 4week parenting course, “Parenting the Love and Logic Way,” designed to give parents practical skills to address struggles parents often face. Weds, Nov. 28 - Dec. 19; 11:45am – 1:15pm; Summit Psychology 270 East 8th Avenue, Suite N-206 at Horse Gulch Health Campus. $110 per person. To register call 970-382-2680 or email dougmillergroup@gmail.com.

Mommy and Me Dance Class Come join the fun! Now registering for classes. Call 970-749-6456. mom myandmedance.com.

Services Herbal Medicine House Calls Kate Husted, clinical herbalist, is making house calls in the traveling Herb Hut. Specializing in stressed-out moms. Contact herbhutclinic@gmail.com for an appointment.

Harmony Organizing and Cleaning Services Home and office 970-403-6192.

Low Price on Storage!

Inside/outside near Durango, RJ Mini Storage. 970-259-3494.

Advanced Duct Cleaning Air duct cleaning specializing in dryer vents. Improves indoor air quality; reduces dust and allergens, energy bills and fire risk. 970-247-2462 www.advanced ductcleaninginc.com.

Endless Energy, San Juan Hearth Beautiful wood and gas stoves, fireplaces, and furnaces with expert installation. The premiere dealer for Jotul, Regency, Kozy Heat and Pacific Energy.

Other brands available. 5% discount with mention of this ad. 999-4929

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Organic Spray Tans!

Glow for the Holidays! Meg Bush, LMT 970-759-0199.

BodyWork Hope Chiropractic and Yoga Presents Only 3 spaces remain: Workshop: Help for Low Back and Hip Issues including sciatica and nerve pain Sat. Nov 17, 9-12:30 Smiley Studio 10. $65 Pre-register. More info Dr Keneen Hope DC 970-305-3239 www.hopechi royoga.com Holiday Special Give the gift of a therapeutic massage buy 4 and get a $40 discount DurangoMobileMassage (nat’l certified) 970-7998950.

Therapeutic Massage Special: 1 hr.-$50 / 1.5 hrs.-$75 - Durango/free parking/call or text Nancy: 970- 7992202. massageintervention.life Voted best massage in Durango 2018.

Couples, sauna, outdoor shower, cupping. Reviews on FB + Yelp. 970-9032984.

Insight Cranial Sacral Therapy Quiet, relaxing, deep. Don 970-7698389.

Massage Gift Certificates!

30, 60 & 90 min Meg Bush, LMT 970759-0199.

Massage with Kathryn 20+ years experience offering a fusion of esalen style, deep tissue massage with therapeutic stretching & Acutonics. New clients receive $5 off first session. To schedule appt. call 970-201-3373.

RealEstate Radon Services Free radon testing and consultation.

Call Colorado Radon Abatement and Detection for details. 970- 946-1618.

ForRent Home in Quiet Cul-De-Sac 3BR 1.5BA, quiet cul-de-sac in town,

large yard, attached garage, W/D, $1475/mo. Lease. No students/smokers.

Pets? Available 12/1. 970-749-0420.

ForSale Colorado Paddle Boards Make Great Gifts!

Free shipping to any location in the USA. Boards in stock at the Durango Outdoor Exchange.

Used Computers for Sale Used Dell Optiplex 790 computers for sale. $110. Ignacio Community Library, 970-563-9287.

Hot Tub – New 6HP pump, 50 jets. Cost $8,000. Sell $3,650. 505-270-3104.

Reruns – Two Stores to Choose From Get ready for the holidays! We have dishes, linens, serving ware and cool furniture. Beautiful new arrivals – several Pier One cabinets, Asian frog drum/table w/ glass top (repro), stained glass, lamps, nice rugs, lots of cool art (local as well), and beverage fridge. 572 E. 6th Ave. 3857336.

CommunityService Electrical Workers Host “Fill the Bucket” Food Drive The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (Local IBEW 111 26A), of La Plata Electric Association hosts the 11th annual “Fill the Bucket” food drive, Sat., Nov. 17 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. LPEA personnel and the “bucket trucks” will be at both City Market to collect non-perishable food items. Donated food will be distributed to community food banks. Cash donations are also welcome, contact Jeremy Gurule at 970-317-0496.

2018 Community Thanksgiving Dinner All are invited to attend the 31st Community Thanksgiving Dinner at the La Plata County Fairgrounds from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m, Nov. 22. This free event is offered for the entire community in a festive environment. To volunteer, get a ride or have a meal delivered, call 259-4061.

Donation of pies is always welcome.

Give the Gift of Warmth FLC donation drive for the homeless community and others in need. The event runs through Dec. 14, and there are three drop offs at Fort Lewis College: Leadership Center, Grub Hub and Noble Hall Room 135. Items needed include: warm clothes, hats, gloves, hand warmers, closed toed shoes, new toiletries, tea, canned goods and more. For questions contact coordinator Ellis McNichol at ecmcnichol@fortlewis.edu.

Alternative Horizons Needs Volunteers for our 24-hour domestic violence Crisis Hotline. If you’d like to make a difference in the lives of others, join us Dec. 4-5 for a free, comprehensive training. For more info call 970-247-4374. If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic violence please call our free and confidential 24hour hotline 970-247-9619.

Upper Pine River Fire Promotes “Fill the Boot” for MD Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that causes progressive weakness and loss of muscle. The disease can take away the ability to walk, run, hug, talk and even breathe. There is no cure for MD, but medications and therapy can help. Every year the Muscular Dystrophy Association sends more than 3,500 kids with MD to a week at one of nearly 80 MDA summer camps nationwide. Through donations made during “Fill the Boot,” MDA is able to provide this life-changing summer camp for free. Upper Pine River Protection District firefighters are asking local residents to help “Fill the Boot”

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at several locations throughout Bayfield, including the Heritage Day Parade. So, next time you see a firefighter holding a boot, remember what an awesome cause it is. For questions contact: www.mda.org, aharrison@upper pinefpd.org San Juan Mountains Association Needs Volunteers San Juan Mountains Association is looking for volunteers to help on our 6th annual Christmas Tree Lot located at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad parking lot, Nov. 23-Dec. 21. Heavy and light duty spots are available. SundayFriday, noon-3 p.m. and 3-6 p.m.; and Saturdays 9 a.m.-noon, noon-3 p.m. and 3-6 p.m. All proceeds go to support SJMA programs. Contact kathe@sjma.org to sign up.

Come join the fun and give back to your public lands.

Snowdown Follies Mail-in Ticket Deadline Dec. 1 Applications must be delivered to our PO box no later than 9 a.m., Sat., Dec. 1.

Get your a Snowdown Follies mail-in ticket application at: www.snowdownfollies.org.

HaikuMovieReview ‘Preach’ In under seven minutes a feminist learns to heed her own words – Lainie Maxson

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 p.m. & 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., 970-903-9051 Crossroads coffee proudly serves locally roasted Fahrenheit coffee and delicious baked goods. Menu includes gluten-free items along with bullet-proof coffee, or bullet-proof chai! Pumpkin spice season is here! 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, and wonderful wines & cocktails. Happy Hour, Tues.- Fri. 4-6 pm & all day Sunday with $1 off beers, wines & wells & select appetizers at 20% off. Watch the sunset behind Smelter Mountain.

Hours: Wed.-Sun., Noon - 9p.m., Tues. 4p.m. - 9 p.m. Closed on Mon. $$

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