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Hitting delete

A friend in need

How deep is your love?

Why I got rid of my Facebook account – this time for real p4

Rallying to raise funds for bar owner’s medical treatment p8

Pandemic pleasures of Hall & Oates and Brothers Gibb p11

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4 La Vida Local

State rolls out free e-bike program in fight against climate change

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Free ride

by Sam Brasch/Colorado Public Radio

5 Word on the Street 6 Soapbox

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7 State News

Helping the helper

Friends rally around local bar owner to raise funds for medical treatment

8 Local News

by Missy Votel

10 Flash in the Pan 11 Top Shelf

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Ear to the ground: “Thanks Gen Z ... now if you could do something about making cellulite fashionable that’d be awesome.”

– Local woman remarking on the new trend of fake dark eye circles (see p. 4)

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Adding to an already grim year of statistics, last week was the deadliest week of avalanches in the U.S. in more than a century. At least 15 people were killed in avalanches in six states between Jan. 31 – Feb. 6, including three in the San Juans alone.

To help folks better contend with this season’s treacherous and unprecedented conditions, Friends of the San Juans wants to equip them the best tool possible: knowledge.

The local avalanche awareness nonprofit recently released three short Youtube videos covering avi basics including: “Know Before You Go” (KBYG) principles; avalanche awareness and warning signs; backcountry etiquette; gear and training; and the all-important “Five Red Flags” (recent avalanches, signs of instability like thumping and whumping, recent snow, wind loading and rapid warming.)

OP’s Josh Kling on the “Five Red Flags”

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Spicing it up Taking a stand for the laughing stock of the greens aisle

13 Ask Rachel

by Ari LeVaux

14 Free Will Astrology 15 Classifieds

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On the cover: A skateboarder prepares to land what we’re pretty sure is called a nollie at the Durango Skate Park recently./ Photo by Jen Manganello

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The short and informative videos include appearances by FOSJ volunteers as well as Jeremy Dakan, of Pine Needle Mountaineering; Josh Kling, of FLC Outdoor Pursuits; Michael Ackerman, of the Silverton Avalanche School; and CAIC South San Juan Forecaster Chris Bilbrey.

In addition to the videos, FOSJ has teamed up with the Silverton Avalanche School and the Telluride Mountain Club/Peter Inglis Fund on “No Blackout Days,” a website for all things backcountry awareness. From learning materials to case studies, and information on where to sign up for regional avalanche courses, No Blackout Days is meant to be a one-stop shop for virtual backcountry awareness education.

Check it out at www.noblackoutdays.com. To see the FOSJ vids, go to: tinyurl.com/177jxniq

Serving up help Early in the morning of Feb. 6, local chef Seanan Culloty narrowly escaped an apartment fire with his life and his faithful dog, Bubba. However, Culloty, the head chef at Manna, escaped with little else. To help Culloty get back on his feet, friends and co-workers are hosting a GuFundMe page. The money will be used to help Culloty replace his belonging as well as with a deposit and first month’s rent on a new apartment.

“Seanan is a beloved member of the Durango community who is dedicated to serving those in need … He is kind, funny and caring and goes above and beyond to help others,” wrote supporters on his GoFundMe page.

Beyond that, Culloty has been a staple in Durango's restaurant scene, serving on the Colorado Restaurant Association and spending seven years as executive chef at Ken & Sues.

To donate, go to: tinyurl.com/8bdegg37

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LaVidaLocal Facebook story I remember the first time I heard about Facebook. My friend and I were in the public library – back before I could afford a laptop and internet – and he suggested I get on this new platform. “But, I’m already on Myspace,” I told him.

I eventually joined, but then found myself deleting my account, and then rejoining – much as people do on Tinder these days. This was circa 2008 and right around when I got my first professional job working in public relations and marketing at my alma mater up in Gunnison at Western Colorado University.

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and blogging were the beginning of tearing up the old playbook of PR and marketing and setting a new set of rules of engagement. The older employees at Western didn’t know what to make of this new world, and because I was young, I was looked to as a social media expert. The reality was I didn’t know what to make of it either – I was trained in the world of newspaper and magazine writing. But I did have a better understanding than my bosses.

My job kept me logged into Facebook, as it went from a place to connect with friends to your Aunt Bertha being on there to getting sucked in to QAnon conspiracy theories, which were amplified

by Facebook’s algorithm.

I enjoyed uploading photos and sharing my stories, and the platform was wildly successful for the business that I launched after leaving Western: The Climbing Zine. I was able to launch several successful Kickstarter campaigns, and my books and zines found more and more readers through this free platform.

Therein lies one of the major issues with Facebook. Since it’s free, they mine and sell every little piece of data they get from us to advertisers and other marketers. To this day, Facebook is nearly entirely funded by ads. So in a sense, Facebook itself is just one big advertisement, masquerading as news, photography, political rants, and whatever else is going on in there.

As you might be able to guess, this article is about me finally deleting my Facebook account. Though it continued to be a tool for my business, I found myself getting into political arguments with people who were my socalled “friends.” Logging onto Facebook would start to affect my mood, and frankly it became an unnecessary time waster. Nearly every time I logged in, there would be something that would make me angry, and then I would sit there, deciding whether to engage or just let the anger fester.

So, a few months ago, I just stopped checking it. And then months after that, I deleted my account. I didn’t make a post announcing I was leaving:

that kind of seems like an alcoholic at the bar, drink in hand, announcing he or she is quitting drinking. I just did it, and though I’m sure I missed out on some traffic to my website and potential sales, I don’t miss the site one bit. Facebook had gone from a powerful tool to a complete time waster.

Of course there’s so much more to the story – I still use Instagram a lot, which is owned by Facebook – and I’ve been spending more time on LinkedIn. But what really strikes me when I reflect on those 12 years I was on Facebook is how much things have changed. I truly believe there are almost as many positives to social media as negatives. Then again, I am someone who makes money off social media, so I am probably biased. Last year one third of my online sales came directly from Instagram.

Facebook and social media have decentralized many things, including publishing. The downside of this is the horrific rise and proliferation of conspiracy theories and hate speech, which up until the Capitol insurrection, Facebook and Twitter let run wild and unregulated. The upside is that people like me can start a small business and compete with much larger traditional businesses.

I am addicted to my phone and social media as much as everyone else, but I am lucky enough to know a world before these technologies. And I also get to spend time in wild places where cell phones and the internet don’t work (yet). My best days are those when I don’t check the internet and focus on climbing and other recreational outdoor activities. (Perhaps as a society we need to designate cell service-free zones, much as we designate wilderness zones, for the sake of our collective mental health.)

I feel reluctant to call social media a necessary evil, because quite honestly, it’s created more good in my life than bad. At the end of the day, I feel social media is more social marketing, than anything else. I am glad that social media didn’t come out until I was an adult. I got bullied in junior high and high school, and I can’t imagine also being subject to that behavior online.

I think the verdict is still out whether or not social media is good for society. There’s no doubt it’s not going anywhere though. I’ve just been trying to keep myself in check and constantly questioning if where I spend my time on the internet is good for my mental health. At the end of the day, social media is about one thing: the almighty dollar, and companies that capitalize making money off our personal information and interests. Each and every one of us who use it should always keep that in mind.

– Luke Mehall Luke Mehall is the publisher of The Climbing Zine and host of the Dirtbag State of Mind podcast. You can’t find him on Facebook, but you can find him on Instagram and LinkedIn. More of his work can be read at climbingzine.com.

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Gen Zzzzzzz FLC student Bella Aiukli Cornell’s handmade traditional ribbon skirt being worn on Inauguration Day by Biden Secretary of the Interior pick, Deb Haaland More good news with easing of COVID restrictions, with La Plata County moving to “blue” on the COVID dial, allowing businesses that were operating at 25 percent capacity to increase to 50 percent and moving last call for on-premise alcohol sales from 10 p.m. to midnight The City of Durango launching a utility forgiveness program for residents who’ve been impacted by COVID-19

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Hesperus Ski Area closing down just a week after opening due to poor snow conditions Snowmobilers descending on the San Juans in droves this winter, leading to parking and trailhead overcrowding, a rise in search and rescues, and conflicts with other users, including snowmos inside the boundaries of the Wolf Creek ski area A stockpile of tens of millions of muchneeded American-made N95 masks sitting in warehouses due to supply chain obstacles and hospitals opting for the slightly less expensive Chinese-made ones

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Remember when we told you about the $200 pants Nordstrom’s was selling with fake mud prints on the knees so kids could get that “working man” look? Well, the avocado-toast generation is at it again, because the “under-eye trend,” wherein women use makeup to create fake bags under their eyes, is the newest craze on TikTok. Sara Carstens was the one who started it by applying expensive lipstick under her eyes in an attempt to “normalize dark circles,” and now the lipstick is selling like crazy. Guess what? If you get a job, the circles are free.

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“Grogu, aka Baby Yoda.”

“Bill Murray, or really any cast member of the movie ‘Rushmore.’”

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“Chuck Woolery.”

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“The ghosts of murdered Lakota Sioux paddling Gutzon Borglum.”

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SoapBox Admitting crisis is the first step To the editor, A psychological crisis is a life event that an individual perceives as stressful to the extent that normal coping mechanisms are insufficient. The first step in resolving a crisis is to admit that there is one, without which no progress can be made. The second step is to accept responsibility. The same steps apply to nations (read Upheaval by Jared Diamond).

Therefore, is our scientifically highly advanced country in a crisis when half a million U.S. deaths make up 25 percent of the world’s COVID fatalities despite having only 4 percent of the world’s population, and some people are still refusing to wear masks? Do we have a crisis when our country spends by far the most of any developed nation on health care, yet we are at the bottom in respect to outcomes? Do we have a crisis when we do not have the manufacturing capability to provide our healthcare professionals with personal protection equipment?

Finally, do we have a crisis when a mob invades our Capitol threatening our elected representatives and attempting to overturn verified election results while elected representatives support that effort?

While the issues with our health-care system are not new, the COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the shortcoming of our health-care system. A functioning society needs competent government and public entities serving the common good. Are we, as a nation, but especially the Republican Party, finally willing to admit that we have a crisis and accept responsibility? As a society the somber choice is ours – “Divided we fall, united we stand.”

– Werner Heiber, Durango

This week’s Retooned guest artist is Kayla Shaggy, 27, a 2017 graduate of Fort Lewis College and native of Shiprock, N.M. Shaggy is an Indigenous artist that specializes in illustrations and comics, including her book The Sixth World. Her focus is to create positive representation and media for Indigenous people.

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Shalon Bowens with her Momentum LaFree E+ e-bike outside her home in Denver's Central Park neighborhood.

Bowens received the bike for free last October./ Photo by Sam Brasch/CPR News

Wheels of change Free e-bike program part of state’s plan to slow climate change

by Sam Brasch/CPR News

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rowing up in Los Angeles, Shalon Bowens remembers looking forward to a new bicycle on Christmas morning. The gift was her ticket away from adults and out into the neighborhood, an excuse “to get outside and do something.”

Bowens, who now lives in Denver, couldn’t help but recall that moment last October when the state of Colorado gave her a brand new, ruby red electronic bike along with a pump, a helmet and a lock – all for free.

“I cried. I did. I was so happy,” she said.

Today, Bowens uses her bike to get to her job at It Takes A Village, a sexual health clinic on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora. As a low-income essential worker, she qualified for Colorado’s initial “mini-pilot” program that gave free e-bikes to her and 12 other Denver-area residents.

Colorado is now gearing up for a second giveaway of the Can Do Colorado e-bike program, which will award more than 100 e-bikes to residents. The program is being funded by $560,000 from the Colorado Energy Office, the City of Denver and the Regional Air Quality Council.

Unlike the first round of bike giveaways, individuals can’t apply for a free e-bike. Instead, organizations were required to submit plans to manage the bikes for the benefit of essential workers by the end of January.

Will Toor, director of the Colorado Energy Office, said the pilot program came in response to the pandemic. Last spring, his office started hearing stories about essential workers who had decided to avoid the close confines of buses and light rail and instead use their own cars to get around. RTD later cut some of those routes altogether.

Going forward, Toor thinks e-bikes could play a much larger role as Colorado confronts the threat of climate change. Transportation now accounts for more emissions than any other sector of Colorado’s economy. A lot of those emissions come from Coloradans driving bikeable distances. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, three-fifths of each household’s 2017 car trips, nationwide, were 6 miles or less.

“I think there is significant potential over time for e-bikes to play a really important role in replacing a lot of those short-tomedium distance trips,” Toor said.

The strategy is one of many transportation plans outlined in Colorado’s recent climate change “roadmap,” which spells out how Gov. Jared Polis’ intends to meet emission-reduction goals passed by the legislature in 2019. The plan has received fierce criticism from environmental advocates, who complain the policy lacks specifics and didn’t include enough input from marginalized communities bearing the brunt of climate change.

Toor said equity is really important as

Colorado tries to get people out of internalcombustion cars. He noted the Colorado Energy Office supported Xcel Energy’s recent plan to provide $5 million in rebates for low-income electric car buyers. (What Toor didn’t mention is Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission shot down a plan his office submitted for $30 million in rebates.

Some PUC members did not like that the plan would have incentivized luxury cars.)

Meanwhile, the e-bike pilot is showing early signs of success. Jack Todd has helped administer the program for Bicycle Colorado, a nonprofit advocacy group. He said interviews with participants show they’ve replaced car trips with bike trips about three times per week.

The program also had participants log their activity through a phone app. Todd said the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden is now reviewing the data.

“We know participants are using them a lot and really enjoying them,” Todd said.

That’s certainly the case for Bowens, who said the bike has helped her mental and physical health. The electric assistance can propel her at 20 miles per hour, but she still has the option to pedal along when she wants a workout. Bowens said that’s helped her lose 70 pounds over the last year.

“I love this bike,” she said. “I really do.”

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Help from her friends Community rallies to help bar owner obtain treatment for MS

by Missy Votel

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or more than two decades, Carol Clark has suffered from the debilitating and degenerative effects of multiple sclerosis. Some days, her attacks are so bad she can’t get out of bed, and most days she needs a cane just to walk.

But there is hope of the horizon for the 50-year-old longtime local resident and business owner. A relatively new breakthrough treatment called HSCT, short for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, is showing remarkable promise in stopping the disease in its tracks.

The only problem: it’s deemed “experimental” in the United States and many Western countries, where doctors are not approved to administer it. The good news is, it’s offered in many other countries, including Russia, Singapore and just over the border in Mexico, where Clark plans to travel this spring for the potentially lifesaving treatment. Of course, as an experimental treatment, the estimated $65,000 cost is not covered by Clark’s health insurance, meaning she has yet another hurdle to clear in her 20-year battle with MS.

How to help • Donate to Carol Clark’s GoFundMe page at: tinyurl.com/yv6u7mmn • Online auction to help Carol Clark, Feb. 19-March 6 • Fundraising event at the Union Social House, March 6 • For more info., go to: www.repreivefundraiser.com Fortunately for Clark – who opened the Union Social House in 2020 and also brought us such brilliant inventions as Toast mobile cocktail lounge and the Durango Farmers Market – the community is stepping up to get her there.

“Over these past three decades, she’s given endless amounts of time, energy and love to countless community members,” longtime friend Louisa Drouet wrote on a GoFundMe page for Clark. “And now, this highly respected mom, friend, business woman … and simply

Carol Clark takes a seat at Mercy Medical Center, where she’s been receiving monthly infusions of medication for the last 10 years for her MS. With the meds losing their efficacy, Clark is turning to an experimental stem cell therapy that she will receive in Mexico. Friends are holding fundraisers to help pay for the $65,000 procedure, which isn’t covered by insurance./ Courtesy photo incredible, exceptional, loving human with a contagious laugh needs our love, help and support.”

Drouet, along with several other of Clark’s friends, are organizing the GoFundMe page, as well as an online auction and March 6 outdoor fundraiser at the Union

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button on her damaged immune system, “I was unable to walk or lift my head for and then have her stem cells reimplanted a month and half,” she said. “It was one of into her body. Although not 100 percent the most brutal experiences I’ve ever had. successful, HSCT’s successes have even been As a young and new mom all I wanted was highlighted on “60 Minutes Australia,” to hold my son, but instead he was whisked which followed the treatment and remis- away while I laid in bed trying to recover.” sions of an Australian woman who travelled This was the first of many debilitating to Moscow for the procedure. episodes, highlighted by paralysis, For Clark, a do-it-yourselfer from stoic headaches and exhaustion, which Clark Midwestern roots, accepting the help has continues to experience to this day. And, as been a huge lesson in humility. new medications eventually lose their effi“I had to swallow a gigantic vulnerability cacy, the attacks get worse. She estimates pill before I said, ‘yes, hit submit,’” she said she has been in and out of the hospital conof her friends making the GoFundMe page. stantly for the last six years. Her most re“I am grateful beyond my imagination. cent attack came in November 2020, when They are rocking it right now; they can she was dealt the double whammy of MS and COVID and spent several days in the move mountains.”

For Clark, the path to this point started hospital. In addition, the attacks have rendered her extremely in 2000, when she sensitive to hot or was 30. She had been cold temperatures experiencing unusual and affected her swalpain and numbness lowing and other, uh, that summer and bodily functions. “I generally was feeling hate to talk about tired and rundown. that out loud,” she She went to doctors, admitted. who misdiagnosed Perhaps worst of her with depression all, though, has been and put her on antithe wobbly legs, rendepressants. dering her unable to “I though, ‘OK, I work. “When I walk, I guess that’s what’s look like I’m drunk,” wrong with me,” she said. “I can’t work Clark recalled.

Then, sometime Clark in her Durango Farmers Market at the bar or carry glassware.” after Halloween that days, circa 1996.

Facing the year, she went to slip prospect of life in a into a pair of high heels for a friend’s surprise 30th birthday wheelchair, she knew it was time to explore party. That’s when she realized she couldn’t the stem cell option – likely the only one feel her feet – and in fact, hadn’t felt them she had left. “I know from my MRI that I for some time. At first, she tried to explain am progressing. There are lesions on my it away as lingering party wounds from Hal- brain and spine,” she said. “I’ve been workloween, when she had gone as a roller girl ing my ass off to deal with it. I really don’t and taken a number of messy spills. But, like it to stop me. Why? So I can sit on the now in mid-November, she started to couch and do nothing? I don’t want to be worry. She went to a doctor who finally di- that person.”

Until she leaves for Mexico City, Clark is agnosed her with MS – an autoimmune disease where the body attacks its own central off all meds and undergoing regular steroid nervous system, destroying nerves’ protec- treatments at Mercy Medical Center to keep tive myelin sheath. The attacks lead to le- the illness at bay. The treatment in Mexico sions on the nerves, disrupting the brain’s is expected to last 30 days, after which time she will come home and spend another five messages to the body.

“It’s like if you were listening to a or so months allowing her hopefully respeaker and some of the wires were dam- booted immune system to recover. Of aged, and instead of hearing music, you course, this means no work or anything would hear noise,” explains Clark. “Imag- outside her home – sort of an extended ine your nervous system like that speaker quarantine.

“My immune system will be like a newwire. Your brain sends a signal to your hand, but sometimes your hand is not get- born baby,” she noted. “But it’s something I need to do.” ting the signal.”

Bottomline, Clark wants to get healthy In hindsight, Clark believes the disease actually first flared up when she was 26 or so she can go back to being the one to help 27 and the right side of her body went others. “I like throwing these events for numb. However, the numbness soon sub- other people who need help – it’s the weirdsided, and she thought nothing more of it. est phenomena to have them thrown for Since her diagnosis at 30, Clark has battled me,” she admitted. “I want to get healthy the disease and learned to live with it. Over so I can take care of other people.”

Mostly, though, she wants to help others the years, she has tried several drugs on the suffering from MS – especially younger peomarket to treat MS, including daily injecple – to let them know there is hope. But tions of Copaxone. time is of the essence.

However, she stopped taking the drug 15 “The sooner you do this, the better outyears ago when she was trying to get pregcome you’ll have,” she said. “Maybe hearnant with her son, Armand. Although she ing my story will help somebody. That in doesn’t regret the decision, pregnancy is esitself feels good.” pecially hard on women with MS. After her To see the “60 Minutes” segment on HSCT son was born, she had an enormous MS retreatment, go to: tinyurl.com/1rtm4sy n lapse, which rendered her bedridden.

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Roquette science

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nybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?” asked then-Senator Barack Obama, during an Iowa campaign rally in 2007. There was no Whole Foods in Iowa at the time, and his gaffe, and the inevitable backlash, all became known as “Arugula-gate.”

Thus, the fates of arugula and Obama became inextricably linked. His alleged elitism sealing the spicy green’s fate for at least two election cycles, according to agriculture industry observers. At the time, kale had sales on par with arugula but went on to dominate the dark leafy greens category, while arugula has languished ever since.

I, too, got off to a rocky start with rocket, aka roquette, as arugula is variously called.

Maybe it was too many salads that were too heavy on the arugula. But the scrappy plant from the mustard family found a home in my heart and belly, as a flavor adjuster, not the entire flavor. It’s the difference between a touch of mustard and a bowl of mustard.

As a leafy condiment, our pungent green has a lot going for it. It stays stiff and crunchy long after harvest, yet remains tender. Arugula has been a staple for centuries across Europe, with deepest recorded roots in ancient Rome, where it gained repute as an aphrodisiac.

Virgil wrote that its fiery flare reinvigorated the weary goddess Aphrodite, and the rest was history.

In the field, this lovable plant is all toughness. It can handle the cold. It can grow in the weeds. It thrives on adversity, through the winter in greenhouses far away from the E. coli hotspots of California and Arizona.

With a new year, a new administration and a divided nation, I decided to give arugula another chance. And I began to see my sassy new friend everywhere I turned.

At my local deli I noticed a wad of this dressed arugula

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in a sandwich of lox, onions, capers and cream cheese. At Sunday brunch in Madison, Wisc., last week, as I was driving across country, the arugula was hiding beneath a decadent plate of eggs Benedict. The Italians, of course, have been on it forever. These days they add fresh handfuls to pizza and chop it onto pasta. I don’t know if the Brazilians are on it, but I put a pile of arugula on a bowl of feijoada – black bean stew – and the sharp bite was perfect. It’s almost always tossed in some kind of simple vinaigrette like lemon juice with olive oil.

One of my favorite ways to use arugula is as the final stroke in a winter pan salad. It’s a continuum of raw and cooked roots, tubers, bulbs and leaves. I like tossing it with scrambled eggs, which gives it a breakfasty feel.

Made exciting with the wild flavor of arugula, like a splash of green hot sauce, but with more fiber.

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You can skip the eggs to make it more salad like. Or double down on breakfast and add bacon, in the spirit of that trendy arugula salad with the warm bacon vinaigrette. Assuming it’s fatty enough, use it instead of some or all of the oil by cooking a slice and breaking it into bits, leaving the grease in the pan.

Winter Pan Salad Serves 2 2 tablespoons olive oil (or oil of your choice, including bacon fat) 1 good-sized potato cut into ⅛-inch coins 2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped 1 medium carrot, grated ½ cup minced onion ½ cup parsley, chopped coarsely 2 cups Arugula Mix (recipe below) 2 eggs, scrambled or fried Optional: hot pepper flakes Heat the oil on medium in a skillet. Carefully place the potato coins in the oil, making sure each coin has full contact with the pan. Arrange the fatter pieces in the center of the pan. Deglaze with water or stock if it starts to burn. After about five minutes, grate in the carrots, add the garlic, and stir it around. Cook until the potatoes are soft and browned on at least one side. Turn off the heat, add the onions and parsley, and allow to cool for five minutes.

To serve, toss the potato mixture with the arugula mix and the eggs, and arrange into a big heaping pile. Dust with red pepper flakes for a spicy garnish.

As for the magic Arugula Mix, it’s your secret weapon and finishing touch to anything from soup to sandwich to salad, pizza and pasta, and everything in between.

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Philadelphia freedom, Brothers Gibb & pirates on the mic

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radio whether they were head-bangers, new wavers or Top 40 dorks. Then again, you’d never claim allegiance to Hall & his pandemic has done weird things to all of us. As I sit Oates. They were never a band that you’d scribble their logo on around my house Monday afternoon, unbathed since Friyour homemade book cover or sew their patch on your denim day, unshorn since God knows when, still wearing my best jacket. They were kind of like Huey Lewis & the News, the Cars weekend sweatpants and looking at the remnants of a Super or MTV-era Journey … groups you’d bring a date to and maybe Bowl “party” that only included Shelly, Otto and me, I pondered get lucky with afterward. the meaning of it all.

I thought tracking down Hall & Most years, dozens of friends Oates would be an easy quest. Dugather at my house with their finest rango is full of lots of former wild game entrée for my annual Philadelphians … Ted Holteen, the Wild Game Super Bowl. This year, Lynagh Brothers, Scott Bickert from our menu was queso dip, guacamole Animas Brewing and that taper guy, and frozen chicken taquitos. For Billy Dee. Surely these fine folks most of the game, it was just me on would have scores of Hall & Oates my couch, struggling to keep my CDs just sitting around. Holteen, eyes open. There were no beers conwho has a deep and tribal affinity sumed, no pitchers of margaritas or for all things Philly, shut me down bottles of wine. I drank a couple of quickly. “If I want to listen to Hall Diet Pepsis. About the only thing & Oates, I go to Spotify,” he barked. that seemed normal was a certain I couldn’t endure further scorn from ageless wonder hoisting the Lomthe Lynaghs, so I just bought the bardi Trophy. greatest hits album on iTunes.

I didn’t pay all that close attenA phone call to Billy Dee after tion to the TV, either. That’s bethe fact revealed something to me, cause my vision is limited to my though. Holteen, the Lynaghs, Bickleft eye right now. I’m in between ert and I are all roughly the same surgeries to replace a dislocated age. We were children of MTV, and lens, one of many problems the geour Hall & Oates was that of netic disorder known as Marfan “Maneater” and “Private Eyes” Syndrome presents to those who videos. Billy Dee said he owned suffer from it. The most devastating nearly the entire catalog on vinyl or thing that happens to those with CD. He’s a decade older than the Marfans is an aortic aneurysm, rest of us, and his Hall & Oates was which is often fatal. In my case, it the one from the mid-’70s “Abanwasn’t – I survived the surgery eight doned Luncheonette” and “Bigger years ago and have an artificial Than Both of Us” era. Billy Dee’s heart valve and fancy aortic sleeve, Barry Gibb in his feathered hair glory days. collection will fill in some of the kind of like the Six Million Dollar cracks for deep cuts.

Man. Mom and my brother, Billy, weren’t so lucky. Mom’s The Bee Gees are another of those guilty pleasures. I was death was nearly instant when she had her aneurysm; Billy firmly in the “Disco Sucks” camp back in the early ’80s when died on the operating table. Mom also had two dislocated rock & roll wrestled my soul away from earlier pleasures like The lenses, and my sister, Stephanie, also had one repaired.

Village People. “Saturday Night Fever,” for better or worse, left a Driving a vehicle, while legal, is hard right now, particularly lasting scar. heading into sunsets and sunrises. I either wear an eye patch But what was once cool will someday be cool again. The (like a pirate!) or keep my right eye closed, and certainly strugBee Gees are enjoying a cultural renaissance thanks to the regle with depth perception. That means I drive like your little cent documentary, “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broold grandpa, often well below the speed limit. I try to limit my- ken Heart,” and the recent Barry Gibbs & Friends album, self to driving out to Ignacio on Saturdays, when the station is “Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1.” The latter empty. Most weeks, I’ll host the “Saturday Blend” live. I’ll also pairs contemporary Americana artists like Jason Isbell, Gillian prerecord my weekly “Tales of the New West” program in the Welch and Brandi Carlile and Top 40 country superstars like production room.

Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban with Gibb.

My colleagues, many of whom I haven’t seen in months, will There’s not a bad cut on the album, and we’ve been playing the get into virtual discussions with me about music, our extensive hell out of it at KSUT. station library and, often, what’s missing. In recent weeks, one DJ Fortunately, our business manager Robb Brantley is long on asked me if I had any Hall & Oates that I could add to the library. Bee Gees. I spent a few Saturdays these past two months adding Another told me that KSUT doesn’t play enough Bee Gees.

Brothers Gibb tunes to our library that represents everything With the combination of pandemic isolation and my vision from late ’60s folk-rock classics to ’70s disco behemoths to even problems, I’ve been devouring a lot more music lately, including ’90s R&B kitsch. some guilty pleasures. I took it upon myself to see the change …

So there I sat, live on the “Saturday Blend,” staring out the to be the change … and to track down these sorely overlooked studio window at the beautiful blue sky with my one good eye, gems from the past. listening to the conga fills in the background of “You Should Be Let’s face it, Hall & Oates isn’t really all that much of a Dancing” and shuffling my ass off to the jam. I say “shuffling” guilty pleasure. The duo has been inducted into the Rock & because pirates don’t dance … but you knew that. n Roll Hall of Fame, had six No. 1 singles and are one of those What you doin’ on your back? Email me at chris@ksut.org. groups that, back in the day, people tended to leave on the

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Although the stage lights have gone dark this year, DHS Troupe 1096 has been hard at work. This week, 1096 presents the “DHS Play and Tech Fest” featuring original works by the students, such as “Waiting for You,” (left) a short film written by and starring Helene Brimhall and Aiden Hurley. Community members are invited to view the submissions on Youtube and vote for their favorites.

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Gary B. Walker plays piano, 11a.m.-1 p.m., JeanPierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. Heartwarming Soup Sale, featuring Cream of Potato and Celery, 4-6 p.m., Dandelion Café, 725 E. 2nd Ave. $10 min donation/quart. All proceeds go to support local families in need. thehivedgo.org/upcoming-events “Colorado Water: Snowpack or No Pack” zoominar presented by FLC Lifelong Learning Lecture Series, 7-8:30 p.m., featuring Gigi Richard, director of the Four Corners Water Center and FLC instructor of Geosciences. tinyurl.com/2o6ltmsq

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“Aerospace Industry and Advancements,” live Facebook stream, 4:30-5:30 p.m., a free lecture about space weather and the Artemis/Orion from two experts in the field, Jo Ann Joselyn and Edwin Cooper, followed by Q&A. Tune into @powscicenter.

Free Virtual Legal Clinic, 4-5 p.m. To sign up, call the Ignacio Library at 970-563-9287.

Jack Ellis & Larry Carver play, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Manhattan Short Virtual Film Fest begins, thru Feb. 24. Come together with a worldwide audience to view and vote on seven short films. $10. www.manhattanshort.com.

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Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave.

New York Times political columnist David Brooks on Zoom, 4:30-5:30 p.m., part of the Community Foundation’s Making a Difference Speaker series. Tickets are $40 for single/couple/household link and limited. To buy, go to: swcommunityfoundation.org/brooks

Skate Clinic for All Levels, 1-3 p.m., Durango Nordic Center. Call to confirm availability: 970-385-2114. $30 with season pass, $35/without. www.durangonordic.org

Meditation and Dharma Talk with Gregory Kramer, 5:30-7 p.m. durangodharmacenter.org

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Motivational speaker André van Hall, aka the “Curiosity Instigator,” 6 p.m., presented by the Rotary Club of Durango. A 40-year veteran of the hospitality industry, van Hall suddenly went blind in 2011. His family and friends helped him “see” the importance of becoming curious about alternatives and thrive in spite of his insurmountable challenge. For log-in, email: Mtnman16@gmail.com.

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Dirty donuts, conservative streakers & not kidding Interesting fact: The smell of black licorice is an aphrodisiac that increases the blood flow to the penis by 13 percent. When combined with the smell of donuts, however, that percentage jumped to 32.

Dear Rachel, I thought this year was the perfect excuse to reinvent Valentine’s Day. I’m tired of buying my boyfriend a little teddy bear and a foil helium balloon, both of which let’s be honest go in the trash. But my boyfriend is such a little girl. He wants to eat candy hearts and trade stupid gifts and have a five-course dinner in formalwear, where I’m like let’s have donuts for dinner and then go to sleep early. Think I can convince him?

- V-Day D-Day Dear VD, I recommend a subtle change of wording. How about, “Let’s go to bed early and bring donuts with us.” That implies both sexytime shenanigans AND sexytime shenanigans WITH DONUTS. And if your boyfriend doesn’t like the sound of that, please dump him and date me instead. I don’t even need the sexytime stuff.

Donuts and sleep is all this girl needs.

– Be mine, Rachel Dear Rachel, I hope this letter makes it in under the wire.

But did you see the guy who rushed the Super Bowl field in a swimsuit? I don’t know if it was on the actual broadcast or not, but it got me Paws for Celebration online auction benefiting Parker’s Animal Rescue (formerly Lisa Parker’s Puppies) thru Sun., Feb. 21. For info., go to: parkersanimalrescue.com High Camp Hut Raffle, a fundraiser for the La Plata Open Space Conservancy, thru Feb. 26, 10 a.m. $10/ticket or $40/five.

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thinking… has COVID ruined America to the point where streakers aren’t even going naked anymore because we have to cover everything up? Back in my day, streaking meant something. And you knew the guy who tackled you had to be willing to tackle your tackle, too. I’m disgusted with the swimsuit poser.

– Losing Streak Dear Wannabe Voyeur, The only noble and socially responsible streak right now would be what I’ll call “the inverse 2019.” Remember that year? When we walked around with our bodies covered and our faces exposed to the world? Which reminds me, remember how we Westerners used to have controversy over whether or not Islamic women should be allowed to wear face coverings in public? Yeah, I seriously hope that debate goes away forever, because if I’m now allowed to walk into the grocery store or, you know, THE BANK dressed like a stagecoach robber crossed with the Unabomber, everything should be allowed. Except nudity. This is America, yo.

– On a hot streak, Rachel Dear Rachel, They say that having pets is a good training ground for having kids. Well, I just watched my friend’s dogs for a week, and I am pretty sure I can never have children. Seven days of refereeing playtime, and refereeing mealtime, and refereeing who gets which part of the floor, and that’s with mutts who can’t use your own words

Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com against you. I need to know, is it an overreaction to go under the scissors right away? Or should I just never have sex again?

– Single Non-Parent Dear Not Kidding, Oh god no, it’s not an overreaction. I once swore off dating after watching a family of five at Applebee’s for an hour. I quite like not being woken up because of monsters, and I quite like that my Netflix doesn’t have to buffer because some buttmunch is in the other room Minecrafting up all the bandwidth. Besides, who needs love when the world has donuts?

– Insert donut hole euphemism here, Rachel

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Rocky Mountain UkeFest online ukulele jam, Mon., Feb. 22, 6 p.m. happy hour; music at 6:30 p.m. For info: rockymountainukefest.com “Roles of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic,” Tues., Feb. 23, 11:45 a.m. with Benjamin Waddell. Presented by the 2021 Great Decisions International Affairs Discussion Program. For link, visit www.lwvpaplata.org.

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Anton Chekhov made a radical proposal: “Perhaps the feelings we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows people who they should be.” In accordance with astrological potentials, my beloved Aries darling, I invite you to act as if Chekhov’s proposal were absolutely true for at least the next two weeks. Be animated by a generous lust for life. Assume that your intelligence will reach a peak as you express excited kindness and affectionate compassion. Be a fount of fond feelings and cheerful empathy and nourishing ardor.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau told the following story about Taurus composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). When Satie died, his old friends, many of whom were highly accomplished people, came to visit his apartment. There they discovered that all the letters they had sent him over the years were unopened. Satie had never read them! How sad that he missed out on all that lively exchange. I beg you not to do anything that even remotely resembles such a lack of receptivity during the coming weeks, Taurus. In fact, please do just the opposite: Make yourself as open as possible to engagement and influence. I understand that the pandemic somewhat limits your social interactions. Just do the best you can.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On behalf of the cosmic omens, I demand that the important people in your life be reliable and generous toward you in the coming weeks. You can tell them I said so. Tell them that you are doing pretty well, but that in order to transform pretty well into very well, you need them to boost their support and encouragement. Read them the following words from author Alan Cohen: “Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For a while, poet Alfred de Musset (1810-57) was the sexual partner of Cancerian novelist George Sand (1804-76), also known as Aurore Dupin. He said that after intense love-making sessions, he would fall asleep and wake up to find her sitting at her desk, engrossed in working on her next book. Maybe the erotic exchange inspired her creativity? In accordance with current astrological potentials, I recommend Sand’s approach to you. Vigorous pleasure will coordinate well with hard work. As will deep release with strong

focus. As will tender intimacy with clear thinking. (PS: I know your options for pleasure and intimacy may be somewhat limited because of the pandemic. Call on your ingenuity and resourcefulness to work the best magic possible.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo poet Warsan Shire suggests, “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.” This would be an excellent exercise for you to carry out during this Valentine season. You’re in a phase when you’re likely to enhance your lovability and attract extra support simply by intensifying and refining the affectionate compassion you feel and express toward yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I wish the pandemic would give us a short break so we could celebrate the Valentine season with maximum sensual revelry and extravagant displays of joyful tenderness. I wish we could rip off our masks and forget about social-distancing and hug and kiss everyone who wants to be hugged and kissed. But that’s not going to happen. If we hope to be free to indulge in a Lush Love and Lust Festival by Valentine Season in 2022, we’ve got to be cautious and controlled now. And we are all counting on you Virgos to show us how to be as wildly, lyrically romantic as possible while still observing the necessary limitations. That’s your special task.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Raymond Carver wrote, “It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.” That seems like a harsh oversimplification to me. Personally, I think it’s fun and interesting to pretend we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.

And I think that will be especially true for you in the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, you should be discussing love extensively and boldly and imaginatively.

You should redefine what love means to you. You should re-evaluate how you express it and reconfigure the way it works in your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m turning over this horoscope to psychologist John Welwood. His words are the medicine you need at this juncture in the evolution of intimacy.

Study the following quote and interpret it in ways that help illuminate your relationship with togetherness: “A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. This kind of mutual recognition provides the catalyst for a potent alchemy. It is a sacred alliance

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Transform yourself with the sweetest challenge you can dream up. Give yourself a blessing that will compel you to get smarter and wilder. Dazzle yourself as you dare to graduate from your history. Rile yourself up with a push to become your better self, your best self, your amazingly fulfilled and masterful self. Ask yourself to leap over the threshold of ordinary magic and into the realm of spooky good magic. And if all that works out well, Sagittarius, direct similar energy toward someone you care about. In other words, transform them with the sweetest challenge you can dream up. Dare them to graduate from their history. And so on.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to compose a message to a person you’d like to be closer to and whom you’re sure would like to be closer to you. Be inspired by what poet Clementine von Radics wrote to the man she was dating, telling him why she thought they could start living together.

Here’s her note: “Because you texted me a haiku about the moon when you were drunk. Because you cried at the end of the movie ‘Die Hard’ on Christmas eve. Because when I’m sick you bring me fruit, kiss me on the mouth, and hold me even though I’m gross. Because you bring me flowers for no reason but on Valentine’s Day you gave me a bouquet of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Because every time I show you a poem I love you’ve read it already.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve adopted some lines from poet Walt Whitman for you to use in composing a love note. Send it to a person you know and love, or to a person you want to know and love, or a person you will know and love in the future. Here it is: “We are oaks growing in the openings side by side.

We are two fishes swimming together. We are two predatory hawks, soaring above and looking down. We are two clouds driving overhead. We are seas mingling, two cheerful waves rolling over each other. We are snow, rain, cold, darkness. We circle and circle till arriving home again, voiding all but freedom and our own joy.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear,” author Stephen Levine wrote. I propose you make this theme a keynote for your best relationships in the coming days. What can you do to alleviate the anxiety and agitation of the people you care for? How might they do the same for you? If you play along with the cosmic rhythms, you will have extraordinary power to chase away fear with love.

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