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Unsung heroes

Not just a party band: a deep read into Blink-182

Cropping out The long run

Lowering barriers to farming as shortage looms

A Navajo runner’s journey to retrace The Long Walk

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Reunion of ’90s band a reminder to fiercely kick at this absurd world by Kirbie Bennett

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Playing chicken

Are protections for lesser prairie chickens too little, too late? by John Horning

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Ear to the Ground

“We had a party last night and had only two people puke, so … pretty successful night.”

– Some people have a knack for finding the silver linings

Drop the gloves

For the next few weeks (and hopefully into June), we here at The Durango Telegraph are fully prepared to oscillate in a moment’s notice between a state of terror and ecstasy, rapture and despair, loathing and jubilation.

What, you ask, could possibly drive us into such madness? Especially when the 2024 Presidential Election is still (thankfully) so far off?

What else? The NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Oh yes, while your two Telegraph faithfuls don’t root for the same team (one for the Avs, the other for the Rangers), both teams are in the playoffs, and we’re ready to experience prolonged hell. And, it’s not just us; we now have scientific evidence of our anguish. Well, technically it’s a clever ad campaign, but still.

The long run

Book follows journey of Navajo runner retracing The Long Walk by Kirbie Bennett

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Bayer Aspirin, a German pharma company, is trying to raise awareness around the stress of watching your favorite team and the risk it poses to your heart health. According to Bayer, stress – like the heart-pounding moments fans may experience when watching their favorite teams play – increases cardiovascular risk. In fact, Bayer says heart attack risk can more than double when your team’s on.

“It doesn’t matter what sport, league, or team you cheer for – every fan has experienced heart-pounding moments when watching their team play,” Kelly Fanning, General Manager at Bayer, said in a press release. “While that feeling may seem trivial, the stress that comes from those heartpounding moments, along with other risk factors, may increase your cardiovascular risk.”

At first, we kinda thought this was a joke, but then found many of these claims are backed up by the American Heart Association. A 2009 study found death rates in Los Angeles from heart attacks and ischemic heart disease increased in 1980 after the Rams lost a championship playoff game. And in the 1984 Super Bowl, a Raiders victory was associated with a decline in death rates from any cause. (Does it count that I die a little on the inside every time I watch the New York Jets play?)

The ultimate goal of Bayer’s campaign, however, is to encourage people to get screened for cardiovascular disease, so who can argue with that? Plus, it seems better than our stress management plan of taking a shot every time there’s a commercial break.

Flailing now with joy

“A secret sadness lurks behind the 21st century’s forced smile,” philosopher Mark Fisher wrote in 2014. In recent years, that forced smile has been shattered as plagues, shootings, fascism and violent transphobia become the background noise to our precarious lives. When every hour brings a state of warning or a state of mourning, I think it’s vital to find comfort in a few minutes of crude, baroque joy.

Because, last week, I watched Blink-182 perform a reunion set at Coachella while sitting at home, sharing in the excitement with other fans on a music message board. That sentence and scenario were unimaginable in 2014. That year, Tom DeLonge, the original guitarist, abruptly left the band and it seemed like he severed ties for good. Like other rock bands, that wasn’t Blink-182’s first messy breakup. But this time around, the remaining members continued without DeLonge. They brought in a new guitarist to continue touring and recording. I was midway through my 20s then and shrugged off the drama. But still, a part of my inner teenager was left feeling disenchanted.

Blink-182 was my gateway drug to punk, which became my gateway drug to everything I value now – namely literature, history and journalism. I have this elementary school memory of a classmate asking me about my favorite music. I didn’t know how to respond and said something like, “I dunno. I guess I listen to whatever’s on the radio?” Knowing I could be asked that question at any moment by friends and classmates induced a pre-teen existential crisis for me. I couldn’t grasp how my peers could say with confidence they liked this or that artist based on a few songs.

A year or two later I was in junior high, playing video games with friends. We were trying out MTV Sports: Snowboarding on the PlayStation. All I remember about that experience was “Don’t Leave Me” from Blink-182’s 1999 album, “Enema of the State.” The song played in the video game’s background, but it was at the forefront of my attention. The chuggy, frantic palm mutes followed by crunchy power chords immediately became my ear candy. I heard that song and thought, “This is my favorite band,” followed by, “I wanna play guitar, and I want it to sound like THAT.”

In middle school, Blink-182’s degenerate sense of humor seemed fitting in an environment where sexism and homophobia were as common as recess. But I always heard the band’s crude humor differently, then and now. I’ve never felt at-

Thumbin’It

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Colorado legislators moving to make falsely reporting an active shooter a felony offense, because this is our world now.

Reports that White House grounds are now safe after a toddler breached the fence. Phew, crisis averted. Secret Service 1, tiny tots 0.

tached to the masculine identity, and Blink-182’s raunchy self-deprecating humor felt like it was disarming masculinity, bastardizing the male ego to reveal a frazzled, confused heart.

“Lost in a lot of the conversation of Blink-182 is the heart in their songs, much of it hidden and masked by layers of ironic detachment and throwaway jokes of little redeeming value,” trans writer Niko Stratis recently mused in an essay on the band. At one point, Stratis reflects on taking inspiration from the band, using “selfdeprecation as a shield” in her youth, which is something I can relate to. That same self-deprecating humor got me through school life. It felt liberating as a teenager to take sadness and confusion and turn them into humor. And Blink-182 was often my point of reference. Call it the forced smile and secret sadness of adolescence. Then when I reached adulthood, I realized those feelings were still constants in life. So when bassist Mark Hoppus sings, “I’m flailing now” in the song “Dammit,” I still relate to it now as I flail through my 30s. “Well, I guess this is growing up,” Hoppus sings in the chorus, and it still rings in my heart.

I was moved by Stratis’ essay. Reading a transwoman’s poignant insight on Blink-182 made me realize how sad and odd it is that, in our hetero-patriarchal society, taking on the male identity precludes any right to emotions. And yet, for those with non-binary gender identities, society precludes any human rights to them at all.

In 2001, the band became a little more vulnerable in songwriting. They released their first acoustic song called “What Went Wrong.” It’s an expression of disillusionment with the status quo. For the song, the band’s long-time producer Jerry Finn found inspiration from a documentary on the first Russian nuclear test. There’s a scene with an old Soviet physicist reflecting on the explosion. “There was a loud boom,” recalled the physicist. “And then the bomb began fiercely kicking at the world.” That statement became the song’s outro lyrics: “I’m kicking up/ fiercely at the world around me/ to what went wrong.”

Today, with many communities facing the threat of violence via gun and legislative pen, daily life feels like an inescapable bleakness. But these are also reasons to fiercely kick at the world. And for a minute last week, I found joy in seeing a crude band I adore reunite and perform, and my inner youth healed a little. For a second, a baroque sunset beamed in me against a world absurdly dark and broken. And that gives more energy to face the unknown hours ahead.

– Kirbie Bennett

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A terrible fire at the gator farm in Alamosa County, resulting in the deaths of a number of critters.

Fox News settling a defamation lawsuit over the network’s promotion of misinformation about the 2020 election. Now we won’t get to see Tucker Carlson lie on the stand! Oh well, we can always watch him lie at 8 p.m. MST.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis seeking to control Disney with state oversight powers. Finally! Now we can have around-the-clock surveillance to see what Goofy’s really up to.

Short Fuss

Tony Saunders, of Pennsylvania, was pulled over this month in a stolen BMW full of items looted from a convenience store. He told cops he found it all in a junk yard and then sped away, only to get stuck on some railroad tracks. Tony, who had a dead deer he planned to use for garden fertilizer hidden in his trunk and had also brought along his dog, stole a school bus and led cops on another chase. When they pulled him over a second time, he stripped down naked and ran into the woods, because he didn’t want to get caught like a deer in dress-whites.

Running out of time

A dancing bird finally gets some protections, but is it too late?

by John Horning

What I remember most about that dark early morning of crouching on the prairie is the rhythmic sound of pounding. It was so loud I wondered if someone had put a microphone near the skinny legs of the dozen birds dancing on the turf. As the sun rose above the horizon in southeastern New Mexico, the male lesser prairie chickens continued their ritual performance, each hoping to entice a female.

They strutted, leaped in the air with feathers spread, and bowed, but the greatest thrill was watching them puff up the garish, red-orange air sacs on either side of their necks.

Concealed in a blind, we watched late into the morning that spring of 1999, until the last birds – members of a rapidly vanishing species – flew off.

I recalled that wonderful day recently, because in late March, after countless lawsuits and scientific opinions, the lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico, Colorado and eastwards finally got what it so desperately needs – federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The designation, however, comes 25 long years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first determined that this magical dancing bird could go the way of the passenger pigeon.

In June 1988, the FWS did something seemingly mundane, though it had profound consequences. It relegated the lesser prairie chicken to what might be called endangered species purgatory –making its protection status “warranted but precluded” under the Endangered Species Act. Precluded apparently meant, “We should list the birds but find it impossible to do that.”

For decades, the FWS, under pressure from opponents in Congress and powerful industries, has used this designation to delay Endangered Species Act protections for hundreds of species that need an ecological safety net, including the lesser prairie chicken.

The result since 1998 has been predictable: The bird’s numbers have plummeted. In many parts of the West, it has disappeared entirely. Lesser prairie chickens now number about 30,000, less

than 2% of what they were in the 19th century when the birds flourished in the hundreds of thousands.

Controversy around granting Endangered Species Act protection for the lesser prairie chicken has mainly been about oil and gas development. Meaningful protection of this bird, whose habitat covers millions of acres across New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma, would mean restraint from the oil and gas and agricultural industries. Pump jacks and plows are the greatest threats to prairie chicken survival.

Kansas Republicans, namely Sen. Roger Marshall and Rep. Tracy Mann, have already pressured the FWS to delay the date that the listing takes effect. Texas has also filed a lawsuit to block the listing, and Kansas and Oklahoma are threatening to sue. The long struggle to keep the birds alive is far from over.

Fifty years ago, Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act to recognize the importance of endangered and threatened species, citing their “esthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational and scientific value to the Nation and its people.” The Act’s vision was remarkable, and Americans are fortunate that the law fought for a halfcentury ago continues to be fought for today.

I am proud that our nation passed this powerful law to protect the diversity of life. But for our nation’s laws to really mean something, they must be enforced, even when – especially when –opponents are among the most economically and politically powerful industries.

You’d think that identifying a species as “endangered” meant that there was still time to save it. But the prairie chicken, along with its high-profile dis-

tant cousin, the sage grouse, is running out of time. The birds need lots of open space, and the new designation only puts some constraints on existing oil and gas operations, while limiting new development.

Later this spring, I intend to return to the prairies near the town of Milnesand, New Mexico, this time with my nineyear-old twins in tow. I can only hope that the birds are still dancing. I also hope that my boys have the opportunity to watch and wonder about why these birds return to woo females at the same place each spring, and what we, as a society, must do to ensure that the dance continues. ■

John Horning is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He is the executive director of Wild Earth Guardians and lives in Santa Fe.

For years, threats to prairie chickens were well known, yet protections have been lacking – until now./ iStock photo, Nattapong Assalee.

Become a model town

I just returned from Los Angeles, and the newspapers had a moving eulogy for P-22, a puma (mountain lion) that captured the hearts of residents after being spotted in the city for years, including under the Hollywood sign and in city parks. Sadly, he was hit by a car and had to be euthanized with “deep regret” and loss of his “transhuman magnificence,” as quoted by Robinson Jeffers in the local paper.

This year, I heard a young mountain lion was killed after killing livestock on a ranch. I’m sure similar cases occur here. I would ask that wildlife rangers first relocate such predators to remote areas, which Colorado has, and not use killing except as a last resort. Many of us love living in Durango because of the wildlife, and I would like for other alternatives to be used when mountain lions or other predators come into conflict with us.

I was dismayed to find Colorado has a year-round season on coyotes. Their main diet is rodents, which can be beneficial in an ecosystem. I propose the coyote hunt should be only part of the year, not all year.  I used to see and hear a couple of

coyotes near my home, but no more, and I feel deeply the loss of their presence. Please read “Don Quixote” about a Wyoming rancher who lived with and valued coyotes, and involve yourself with Project Coyote here.

Also, three of only six wolves in Colorado were killed by trophy hunters. Can we vote to stop trophy hunting? The barbaric hunting of wolves still occurs in the Northern Rockies, even though science shows wolves are keystone species that improve the entire health of the ecosystem. In India, a tiger killed a man and the village let the tiger live, because it had been cornered and had little choice. These villagers recognized the magnificence and importance of a tiger. The most moving experiences I have in nature are observing wildlife, such as coming on a bear somersaulting down a slope. Does this value the “transhuman magnificence” of a bear?

I ask that each of us here value wildlife magnificence and do all we can to protect it. The City of Durango has been working on a sustainability plan, which should include wildlife. I believe we should reduce our growth into wildlife areas and conserve green areas, such as in the Animas

Valley where almost all land is for sale. We also cannot continue to grow due to lack of water availability in the future and climate change  We have a rich town, and the green fields, meadows and forests outside Durango could be under conservation ease-

ments to keep it open land and not turned into housing developments. We humans cannot continue growing, and we in Durango could become a model town through careful planning for us and wildlife.

– Margaret Mayer, Durango

Going underground

COGCC could get a new name reflecting shift to more geothermal energy

by Sam Brasch / Colorado Public Radio

Colorado’s top oil and gas regulators could be getting a new name and a broader scope of work.  Since its creation in 1951, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has approved thousands of drilling projects across the state. That role has put the governorappointed panel at the center of countless conflicts related to climate change and impacts of fossil fuel extraction.

Now, a bill introduced by Democratic lawmakers would give a new title to the nine-member committee: the Energy and Carbon Management Commission.

The name change is more than cosmetic. It signals an attempt to bring the commission – and the industry it regulates – into the state’s larger efforts to combat climate change and provide new options for energy storage.

If the legislation wins approval, the panel would gain new authority over projects to drill for geothermal heat. It would also oversee any company planning to store natural gas underground and study the potential for similar hydrogen storage projects.

State Sen. Chris Hansen, a Denver Democrat and lead sponsor of the bill, said the shift provides clarity for oil and gas companies. Instead of exacerbating the climate

crisis, their techniques could assist in reducing emissions.

“That is certainly a possibility for some oil and gas firms. And we have a clear indication that some of those companies want to diversify operations,” Hansen said.

Geothermal energy has gained the attention of the oil and gas industry in the last few years, which sees it as a way to shift to a far less carbon-intensive form of energy.

A report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests underground heat is a vastly underutilized resource. Most current projects are undertaken at rare places where geothermal energy rises close to the earth’s surface. New technologies could allow for deeper drilling, opening up the possibility of generating zero-carbon electricity and providing steady, on-demand electricity.

Proponents say it offers an ideal complement for less consistent sources of renewable energy like wind and solar. A geothermal plant also takes up far less space.

The technology can also be used in shallower pools to heat and cool buildings. Under the current version of the legislation, the new ECMC would only manage projects that require drilling beyond 2,500 feet below the surface.

One of the leading boosters of geothermal energy is Gov. Jared Polis. Earlier this year, he launched  the “Heat Beneath Our Feet” initiative, which seeks to study oppor-

tunities for geothermal across the western U.S.

The oil and gas industry supports parts of the plan, but some environmental groups don’t want the state to throw companies a lifeline.

Dan Haley, the president of the industry group Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said his group hasn’t taken an official position on the bill yet. He said it was disappointing the legislation didn’t address carbon capture, utilization and storage. The technology describes the process to collect carbon from industrial sources like coal-fired power plants and inject it underground.

Some environmental groups are far less enthusiastic.

Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for WildEarth Guardians, said the legislation is part of a broad effort to help oil and gas companies remain relevant. He’d rather see the state focus on cheaper technologies like wind and solar.

“We don’t need to be managing carbon,” Nichols said. “We have the means to stop carbon from being emitted in the first place.”

The bill got its first public hearing before the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee Wednesday.

For more from Colorado Public Radio, go to www.cpr.org

Farming out ideas

Local partnership seeks solutions to looming farmer shortage

by Jonathan Romeo

America has a looming farmer crisis. Across the country, farmers are aging and approaching retirement. According to a census from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one-third of America’s 3.4 million farmers are over the age of 65. In just 10 years, that number will jump to more than half of all farmers.

To make matters worse, a number of factors make it challenging for young and aspiring farmers to take their place. The National Young Farmers Coalition, a grassroots advocacy network, says nearly 60% of young farmers cite affordable land as the top barrier in pursuing a career in farming or ranching.

“We’re at this moment now where young people are in crisis in terms of land access,” Holly Rippon-Butler of the National Young Farmers Coalition told NPR in September 2022. “And we need equity to be at the center of that so that we are creating policies that really center

young farmers and ranchers of color and lift up our whole next generation of young farmers as a whole.”

The situation is no better in Southwest Colorado, where land prices have shot up, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw a massive influx of new residents leaving cities for rural areas. And, even if you can find land, the availability of irrigation water is another hurdle.

Now, however, a partnership between La Plata Open Space Conservancy, Montezuma Land Conservancy and Fort Lewis College’s Old Fort at Hesperus is making a concerted effort to help new and aspiring farmers and ranchers.

“The U.S. as a whole is going through a major transformation with farmers and ranchers starting to age out and retire,” Adrienne Dorsey, executive director of LPOSC, said. “We wanted to come together and figure out how to support more equitable access to land for the next generation.”

Add it up

In June 2022, the partnership received a grant from the nonprofit Land Trust Alliance to conduct a feasibility study on the top barriers young farmers face in Southwest Colorado, along with building a vision for equitable land access and different land use models.

That effort is hosting community meetings throughout La Plata and Montezuma counties to talk to farmers and ranchers. Already, meetings have taken place in Towaoc, Cortez, Mancos, Durango and one next week in Ignacio.

“The intent is to bring community members together to talk about equitable land access, explore what that means to different people and identify barriers that people in the community are facing,” Dorsey said. “And also start talking about possible solutions.”

Though early in the process, it’s not hard to see what challenges farmers face. Land, and especially land with water, is incredibly expensive (and increasingly rare) in Southwest Colorado.

Young farmers get their hands dirty at Fort Lewis College’s Old Fort at Hesperus. Increasingly, it’s

harder for aspiring ranchers and farmers to find land, raising questions about local food production./

Photo by Cole Davis, Fort Lewis College

“Young farmers have a hard time getting a foot in the door and accessing land because of the cost,” Molly Mazel, deputy director of Montezuma Land Conservancy, said. “It really makes it harder to access for people without certain means.”

Indeed, whereas the previous generation of farmers either inherited land from family or benefited from lower land prices, young farmers, obviously, do not. Add on the price of equipment, water and training, and it starts to add up.

A cultural shift

But we all need to eat, right? Which means we need to work toward solutions. Mazel said there are other examples across the country that show it is possible, in fact, to support local, young farmers by thinking outside the box and reimagining land ownership.

“Historically, government subsidies have gone to big-mega-mono-crop industrial ag operations,” Mazel said. “It’s hard for farmers to make a living under the way our food system is set up. We’re interested in shared models – that’s something really interesting and a cultural shift as generations change over.”

The Southwest group has involved the Agrarian Trust, a New England organization that supports small farmers. Multiple requests for comment to the Agrarian Trust were not returned for this story, but

the group is known for its communal land-ownership model with a focus on sustainable ag.

One model, for instance, would have five different land owners on, say, 5 acres, overseen by a board where every farmer serves on the board. That way, the owners can collectively make decisions on the land while also building equity in their own parcel.

“We’re doing our homework to see what’s possible,” Mazel said. “But we’re also talking to our community to share what we’re learning. No model is perfect. We need to figure out what works best in Southwest Colorado to ensure conservation is long term and viable.”

Living off the land

Despite all the daunting challenges, there are still young people who want to get their hands dirty. Elicia Whittlesey, the farmer training program coordinator at FLC’s Old Fort, said the reasons young people choose farming are varied.

Many are driven to help take part in producing food in a sustainable way to combat climate change. Others believe it’s a way to give back to communities. And some just like working outside and playing in the dirt.

FLC runs an immersive five-month beginner farming program that can train up to 15 people. But once finished, many

people don’t have an opportunity to translate their skills into a profession, Whittlesey said.

“What stops people from entering farming is … access to land, water and resources,” she said. “I think a lot about the high land prices in Southwest Colorado affecting people’s interest in farming or their belief it’s a viable profession.”

On Monday, about 30 people attended the Durango community listening session. One of the recurring themes was not having access to land. Even those renting land don’t have equity at the end of it all.

Growing in a new way

With existing farmers aging out, many in the field are questioning the future of local food production.

“We need to try different approaches to change the way historical land ownership has existed,” Dorsey said.

One early benefit of the community listening sessions, Whittlesey said, is that they’re connecting land-owning farmers who would rather pass on their land to next-generation farmers instead of highpriced developments.

“I see other examples in communities across the country where they are securing land for farming and protecting it and taking it out of development,” Whittlesey said. “And farmers have a 99-year lease at a low cost to a community.”

Mazel said the group is optimistic and inspired by some of the models they’ve been researching, and the listening sessions are just the beginning.

“We don’t want the project to end at listening sessions,” she said. “We want to pursue funding to keep the project going and pilot projects we think will work.” ■

Creating a space

The Hive serves as a blank canvas for creativity and connections

by Alex Vick

In my work as creative director at The Hive, I’ve been fortunate to witness special moments. I’ve seen a kid with a learning disability drop into the mini ramp for the first time and engage with his peers. I’ve seen a local metal band composed primarily of Durango High School students light up the venue with their talent and head-banging solos.

I’ve seen a youth from Farmington express the importance of his performance and gratitude, presenting his own original music that took three years to create. I’ve witnessed the evolution of Farmington punk band The Mommy Milkers, from playing some of their first shows at The Hive to opening for Grammy-award winning metal/punk band Gwar. I’ve seen local and regional hip hop acts – names unknown to the Durango community – move the room.

I’ve played some of my first shows with new projects in this multi-use space. I’ve been present for a night of punk and hardcore featuring all Indigenous-led bands and felt the power of their message and emotion. At The Hive’s first allages drag show, I saw a woman show so much vulnerability in sharing her coming-out story that it left the crowd empowered and in tears. It was a moment where myself and our executive director caught eyes across the venue and wept together in joy that our dream space for openness and connectivity was serving the community.

Like many businesses in Durango, we have felt and been subject to the highs and lows of operating. In a town so influenced and driven by tourism, our organization, which strives to serve this town’s and region’s residents, has had its bumps in the road. Coming into summer, we are looking forward to a packed show schedule. We will be hosting bands and performers from across the nation and even around the world. Our unique skate park/venue will house music from drum and bass to black metal, from hip hop to alt-country.

At 8 p.m. Friday, you can experience a night of musical landscapes and ethereal theater featuring Violent Scenes, a psychedelic indie art rock group from Apulia, Italy. Supporting Violent Scenes will be locals DJ Recess and Josie Loner. This will be an audible experience not to be missed. On average, The Hive will run four to six shows a month through the summer. The cost of entry to these shows will be just $5 – the intention being that we can offer the most affordable and accessible music and performance-based experiences. Opening up these shows to all ages furthers accessibility.

In the venue’s beginning, bands often donated their talent to help support The Hive. As we’ve grown, I felt it my obligation and privilege to support the performers supporting the space. I created a model that divided the door profits in which the bands could walk away with the lion’s share of the earnings: 70% of what is raked in from ticket sales, which consists of everyone from high schoolers to aging rockers.

As a result, The Hive needs support more than ever to keep its goal of accessibility and be able to guarantee $200 to bands and acts with three people or more. This, frankly, is less than what they deserve, but it’s a start. When paying a musician or

an act, the venue is paying for more than just time on stage. They’re paying for time spent working toward mastering a craft, drive time, loading and unloading. In my personal experience, setting up and breaking down a gig can feel like –and be as taxing as – operating a moving company.

With these goals in mind, The Hive is extending an invitation of sponsorship to any and all corporate names, local businesses and individuals. If you see value in expanding possibilities and opportunities for musicians, performers and those with talent, please express this passion in attendance to shows and monetary sponsorships.

Special, priceless and extraordinary moments happen at The Hive daily, and on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m., rare performance moments can be witnessed and enjoyed. The Hive hopes you will come, take part and be moved in such a way to financially support these musicians and performers who travel from across the Four Corners, the nation and now the world to breathe new life, sonic waves, perspectives and culture into our town. If you already feel compelled to support this space and the talent, local and afar, that comes through the venue, or you are interested in more details, please reach out by email at alex@hivedgo.org. And if you have not yet experienced a show at The Hive, come this Friday for an art rock experience. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and you could walk away with extraordinary moments to call your own. ■

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Running with a cause

“Send a Runner”

by Kirbie Bennett

In 2018, Edison Eskeets, a Diné runner and educator, organized a run from Canyon de Chelly, Ariz., to Santa Fe, N.M. The 330-mile run took place over the span of 15 days. The event was meant to honor the 150th anniversary of The Long Walk, which was the forced removal of most Diné people from their homelands in Arizona to a military-controlled reservation on the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico in the 1860s.

Taos writer Jim Kristofic, who has roots in the Navajo Nation, followed Edison and his family, and documented the journey in “Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk.”

“So many people have asked me, ‘What’s the meaning?’ They are asking me why I’m doing this. And I’m trying to explain to them that I don’t fully know,” Edison said of the purpose of his run. “It’s so many things. Many people. Many voices.” Edison carries these thoughts all throughout the journey while running a marathon a day. “I’m thinking about the old ones. I’m looking toward the Great Ones … Beyond that? We’re out there dancing in the road.”

In “Send a Runner,” Kristofic bears witness not only to Edison’s ceremonial run but also to the history of the Diné resisting 19th century colonization, culminating in The Long Walk. The two stories unfold together page by page, with each vignette moving fluidly from past and present. And yet, during Edison’s run across the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah) and border towns, the readers see the

present-day effects of colonization. A few days into Edison’s run, his group meets a couple and they have a discussion about the ongoing effects of uranium mining.

In July 1979, a mine tailings disposal pond at a uranium mill in Church Rock, outside Gallup, breached its dam. “See it,” Kristofic demands of the reader. He paints the scene of a calm July morning with sun coloring the land and birds sing ing. Then suddenly, there’s “a roar of water and the poisoning has begun. Ninety-four million gallons of radioactive sludge goes down into the Rio Puerco.”

“I remember all of that,” Edison recalled. “We played in that damned water. And no one even told us.”

All throughout the book, the writing is as striking and vivid as the landscape the story is held in. Along with that, Kristofic is unflinching in his recounting of American colonization, where diplomacy, such as treaties with Indigenous nations, is “theft by paper.” After the Diné are marched into a concentration camp from The

the steps of The Long Walk

Long Walk, Kristofic describes how the “open-air prison” of Bosque Redondo contained the crude ideals of Western civilization: “American capital, private property and borders writhe into being on this alkali ground.”

For everyone on this journey, they carry the heaviness of this history. But then there’s also humor. It plays a vital role in this journey. At one point after another marathon, Edison is resting and ready to call it a day. His family is about to place a mile marker nearby. Across the road, a fenced-in horse watches the group. “You know,” Edison said, “we could use that horse as our marker if he agrees to stay there.”

The history of my people and family was running through my mind as I read about Edison’s experience. I thought about Kit Carson, the colonel who led The Long Walk, parading my Diné ancestors through Santa Fe to proudly display ethnic cleansing in action. I thought about the 1974 protests in downtown Farmington over another parade celebrating the “Old West” with law enforcement wearing frontier cavalry

outfits. To Diné folks, the parade was glorifying the cavalrymen responsible for The Long Walk. A riot ensued.

While reading, I thought about my great-grandmother Josephine. When that Farmington riot unfolded, my dad, a child then, was in the area. The news spread, and he went to my great-grandma to tell her about the protests. “Good!” she replied, “That’s what the police get for what Kit Carson did to us.”

It only felt fitting to dwell on family stories and history while reading about Edison’s journey. Kristofic describes Edison’s run as a “prayer made with the body,” and it gave me comfort to believe that what my family lost and endured through the Long Walk was being carried in that prayer pronounced by the limbs and motion of a runner with a message. Edison’s run is a prayer, responding to a history of settler state dehumanization. Edison’s run is a dance, reclaiming and amplifying an Indigenous presence. His run was intended to send a message, to honor the lives lost in The Long Walk. Edison’s run also highlights Diné resilience, which is found in many forms – it’s held in laughter; it’s held in the steps we take. “Send a Runner” is a moving tribute to the history and future of Indigenous resilience. ■

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What: Talk/book signing: Edison Eskeets & Jim Kristofic “Send a Runner”

When: Thurs., April 27, 5-7 p.m.

Where: Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main

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Electronics Recycling, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.

Durango PlayFest Speaker Series, featuring Broadway actor Sky Lakota-Lynch, 1-2 p.m., FLC’s Main Stage Theatre.

Business After Hours with LPEA, 5-7 p.m., La Plata Electric Association, 45 Stewart St.

Ignacio Public Library Meet & Greet, 5 p.m., Ignacio Library, 470 Goddard Ave.

Speaker Series: Morgan Sjogren and Scott Graham, 5 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.

“Living with Beavers,” presentation, 5:30 p.m., Durango Public Library. lposc.org/event/living-withbeavers/

Smelter Mountain Boys play, 6 p.m., 11th St. Station.

19 Degrees of Being: Graduating Senior Communication Design & Studio Art Majors, opening reception, 6 p.m., The Art Gallery at FLC. Exhibit runs until May 6.

Author Robin Wall Kimmerer (“Braiding Sweetgrass”), part of the Skywords Common Reading Exeperience, 6-7:30 p.m., FLC Student Union Ballroom.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1330 Camino del Rio.

Friday21

Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, thru Sunday, info at durangomeltdown.com

Trail Crew Brew Release Party, 4-8 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.

“Connections: An Art Show,” 4:30-7:30 p.m., Moody’s on Mill St., 15 E. Mill St., Bayfield.

Donny Johnson plays, 5 p.m., Mancos Brewing.

Riverside Rendezvous: Supporting Five Rivers Trout Unlimited, 6-10 p.m., live music, food and more. Powerhouse Science Center, 1330 Camino del Rio.

Free Yoga, 6-7 p.m., Smiley Building Room 15, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.

Horizon plays, 6 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.

Smelter Mountain Boys play, 6 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.

Ru Paul’s Drag Race Watch Party, 6 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave.

Pete Giuliani plays, 6 p.m., Weminuche Woodfire Grill, Vallecito.

FLC Music Department presents “Pop through the Ages,” 7 p.m., FLC’s Community Concert Hall.

Violent Scenes, DJ Recess and Josie Loner play, 8 p.m., The Hive, 1150 Main Ave.

Drag Show, 8:30 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave.

Saturday22

Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, shows thru Sunday, info at durangomeltdown.com

Earth Day Parade: Procession of the Species, dress up as your favorite animal, tree or fungi and meet at the train station at 10:10 a.m. to walk or bike to Buckley Park celebration including food, trash-totreasure art, maker space, circus, booths, kids activities and more.

Mind, Body, Spirit Fair, focusing on local hoslistic healers, educational booths, occupational therapists, 10 a.m., VFW Post 4031, 1550 Main Ave.

Leah Orlikowski plays, 6 p.m., Weminuche Woodfire Grill, Vallecito.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Community Yoga, 6-7 p.m., Yoga Durango, 1485 Florida Rd. Donations accepted.

San Juan Symphony – Poetry in Motion, 7:30 p.m., FLC’s Community Concert Hall. Also featuring San Juan Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Silent Disco w/DJ Chaser, 9-11:30 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Sunday23

Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, info at durangomeltdown.com

Feed the People! free mutual aid meal & winter gear drive for homeless community members, every Sunday, 2 p.m., Buckley Park.

Open Mic, 4 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos

Durango Cowboy Gathering presents “Not Your Average Barn Concert,” featuring Miss Devon & the Outlaw, 5-8 p.m., Destination Ranch (end of Lightner Creek Road). More info at 970-403-4451.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Monday24

Land Access Community Listening Session, 11:30 a.m., Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum, Ignacio.

Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Open Mic, 6 p.m., Weminuche Woodfire Grill, Vallecito.

Comedy Showcase, 7:30 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Tuesday25

Great Decisions: Iran at a Crossroads, 11:45 a.m., Durango Public Library.

Community Yoga, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Yoga Durango, 1485 Florida Rd. Donations accepted.

Bluegrass Jam, 5:30 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave.

People We Know, 6 p.m., Durango Hot Springs.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Farming for Climate Change: Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors, 6:30-8 p.m., FLC’s Vallecito Room. A 45-min film followed by panel of local organic farmers.

Interesting fact: Swiss watches used to be the knockoff version of fancy French and English watches. Maybe someday, these Ray-Ben sunglasses of mine will be worth something.

Dear Rachel,

Every single place I get put on hold tells me they are experiencing higher than normal call volumes. I might have bought this the first time I heard it, years and years ago. But what kind of rube do they think I am? The dentist, the bank, the insurance company … by definition they cannot all be experiencing higher than normal volumes all the time, or else that would become the new normal, wouldn’t it?

– Hold Freezes Over Dear Valued Customer,

I will answer your letter in the order it was received. In the meantime, your question is very important to us. You are the… SEVENTEENTH… letter writer in the queue. Please feel free to visit our website, double-u double-u double-you dot durango telegraph dot com. That’s the letter double-you, not two you’s in a row. Or, if you’d like to be disconnected just when you are the… THIRD… caller in the queue, please stay on the line. After all, we are definitely experiencing higher than normal letter volumes in these uncertain times.

– Hold me, Rachel

Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Wednesday26

Lunch & Learn Workshop: SEO Implementation & Optimizing Your Website, 12 noon, TBK Bank, 259 W. 9th St.

Spring Clothing Swap, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard Ave.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Orgone with Talia Keys play, doors at 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre.

An Evening with Author David Sedaris (sold out), 7:30 p.m., Fort Lewis College’s Community Concert Hall.

Dear Rachel,

Time on your hands. Well, at one time in the 1800s and early 1900s men and women had gold and silver pocket watches to show how rich they were. No more… just wrist watches and now smart watches that help a few. I see most don’t even wear a watch now. Smartphone in back pocket. Are we going to see the wrist watch go bye bye like the pocket watch? Invest or don’t invest in wrist watch stock?

– Father Time

Dear Papa Tiempo, Me? I like to wear a pocket watch on my wrist. Saves me taking it out of the pocket, but preserves all the coolness of having to wind my clock every night before bed. Just before I put in my retainer and brush my wig. Ooh, baby, the sexiness of nighttime rituals. I would totally buy wrist watch stock, in other words, but mostly because I have a thing for Roger Federer ever since seeing my first Rolex ad.

– Watch this, Rachel

Dear Rachel, 420, here we come! Though it’s definitely a lot less magical than it used to be. Every day can be 420 now. It was way cooler when I was younger and it was way more forbidden. Now it just helps with my knees and gets tax dollars for the state. Oh my god I got old, but at least I

Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr.

Karaoke Roulette, 8 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Ongoing

“Wire Fed” by Noah Stotz, Studio & Gallery, 1027 Main Ave. Exhibit runs until April 30.

Great Old Broads for Wilderness “Wild for Wilderness” Online Auction, April 14-23 at 2023wildforwilderness.afrogs.org

28th annual Creativity Festivity, 4-6 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Avenue. Exhibit runs thru April 28.

“Tyrannosaurus – Meet the Family,” Farmington Museum, 3041 E. Main St. Exhibit runs thru April 26.

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still have my weed. How can we make 420 exciting again?

– Dope Fiend

Dear Dopey Friend, Somewhere along the line, my brain conflated 420 and Earth Day (which is not technically 420) but now I think they should be the same. It’s all green, man. Light one up or chew one down, dial up your favorite corporate 800 number using your solar-charged smart phone, wind up your pocket watch that doesn’t even use electricity, and chill out to some killer hold music.

The Hive Indoor Skate Park, open skate and skate lessons. For schedule and waiver, go to www.thehivedgo.org

Upcoming

Steven Espaniola plays, April 28, 7:30 p.m., Smiley Café, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.

Durango Wine Experience, April 28-29, durangowine.com

Skyfest, featuring Black Belt Eagle Scout, Claire Glass, Adobo, Desiderata, April 29, 2 p.m., FLC Campus.

Dragondeer & Little Wilderness play, April 29, 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre.

Metal Night, featuring Decapitation of a New Day, Red Lotus, Skinwalker and Anarchy Hammer, April 29, 8 p.m., The Hive, 1150 Main Ave.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In English, the phrase “growing pains” refers to stresses that emerge during times of rapid development. Although they might feel uncomfortable, they are often signs that the ongoing transformations are invigorating. Any project that doesn’t have at least some growing pains may lack ambition. If we hope to transcend our previous limits and become a more complete expression of our destiny, we must stretch ourselves in ways that inconvenience our old selves. I’m expecting growing pains to be one of your key motifs in the coming weeks, dear Aries. It’s important that you don’t try to repress the discomfort. On the other hand, it’s also crucial not to obsess over them. Keep a clear vision of what these sacrifices will make possible for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Satirical Taurus author Karl Kraus defined “sentimental irony” as “a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.” Please avoid that decadent emotion in the coming weeks, Taurus. You will also be wise to reject any other useless or counterproductive feelings that rise up within you or hurtle toward you from other people, like “clever cruelty” or “noble self-pity” or “sweet revenge.” In fact, I hope you will be rigorous about what moods you feed and what influences you allow into your sphere. You have a right and a duty to be highly discerning about shaping both your inner and outer environments. Renewal time is imminent.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem “October Fullness,” Pablo Neruda says, “Our own wounds heal with weeping, / Our own wounds heal with singing.” I agree. I believe that weeping and singing are two effective ways to recover from emotional pain and distress. The more weeping and singing we do, the better. I especially recommend these therapeutic actions to you now. You are in a phase when you can accomplish far more curative and restorative transformations than usual.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): After careful analysis of the astrological omens and a deep-diving meditation, I have concluded that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to indulge in an unprecedented binge of convivial revelry and pleasure. My advice is to engage in as much feasting and carousing as you can without completely ignoring your responsibilities. I know this may sound extreme, but I am inviting

you to have more fun than you have ever had – even more fun than you imagine you deserve. (You do deserve it, though.) I hope you will break all your previous records for frequency and intensity of laughter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1886, Vincent van Gogh bought a pair of worn-out shoes at a Paris flea market. When he got home, he realized they didn’t fit. Rather than discard them, he made them the centerpiece of one of his paintings. Eventually, they became famous. In 2009, a renowned gallery in Cologne, Germany, built an entire exhibit around the scruffy brown leather shoes. I propose that we regard their history as an inspirational metaphor for you in the coming weeks. What humble influence might be ready for evocative consideration and inspirational use?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Gliding away from the routine for rendezvous with fun riddles? I approve! Delivering your gorgeous self into the vicinity of a possibly righteous temptation? OK. But go slowly, please. Size up the situation with your gut intuition. In general, I am pleased with your willingness to slip outside your comfortable enclaves and play freely in the frontier zones. It makes me happy to see you experimenting with AHA and WHAT-IF. I hope you summon the chutzpah to find and reveal veiled parts of your authentic self.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The German word “Sehnsucht” refers to when we have a profound, poignant yearning for something, but we quite don’t know what that something is. I suspect you may soon be in the grip of your personal Sehnsucht. But I also believe you are close to identifying an experience that will quench the seemingly impossible longing. You will either discover a novel source of deep gratification, or you will be able to transform an existing gratification to accommodate your Sehnsucht.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most of us have at some time in the past been mean and cruel to people we loved. We acted unconsciously or unintentionally, perhaps, but the bottom line is that we caused pain. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to atone for any such hurts you have dispensed. I encourage you to be creative as you offer healing and correction for any mistakes you’ve made with important allies. The goal is to purge your iffy karma and graduate from the past. Perform whatever magic you have at your disposal to transform suffering with love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The blues singer-songwriter B. B. King wasn’t always known by that name. He was born Riley B. King. In his 20s, when he began working at a Memphis radio station, he acquired the nickname “Beales Street Blues Boy.” Later, that was shortened to “Blues Boy,” and eventually to “B. B.” In the spirit of B. B. King’s evolution and in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to identify areas of your life with cumbersome or unnecessary complexities that might benefit from simplification.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Proboscis monkeys live in Borneo and nowhere else on earth. Their diet consists largely of fruits and leaves from trees that grow only on Borneo and nowhere else. I propose we make them your anti-role model in the coming months. In my astrological opinion, you need to diversify your sources of nourishment, both the literal and metaphorical varieties. You will also be wise to draw influences from a wide variety of humans and experiences.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s challenging to track down the sources of quotes on the internet. Today, for instance, I found these words attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato: “I enjoy the simple things in life, like recklessly spending my cash and being a disappointment to my family.” That can’t be right. Elsewhere, I came upon a review of George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm” that was supposedly penned by pop star Taylor Swift: “Not a very good instructional guide on farming. Would NOT recommend to first-time farmers.” Again, I’m sure that wasn’t written by Swift. I bring this up, Aquarius, because one of your crucial tasks these days is to be dogged and discerning as you track down the true origins of things. Not just internet quotes, but everything else, as well –including rumors, theories and evidence. Go to the source, the roots, the foundations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In accordance with astrological omens, I’m turning over this horoscope to Piscean teacher Esther Hicks. Here are affirmations she advises you to embody: “I’m going to be happy. I’m going to skip and dance. I will be glad. I will smile a lot. I will be easy. I will count my blessings. I will look for reasons to feel good. I will dig up positive things from the past. I will look for positive things where I am right now. I will look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It’s natural for me to love and laugh. I am a happy person!”

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Garage sale - Restaurant equip & smallwares, chainsaws, water heaters, AC unit, kids shoes, books, groover, projection screen, clothing, guitar amp & lots more! Free hotdog w/$10 min

Compañeros is Seeking Qualified Candidates for either an Executive Director or Executive Co-Director position beginning in Summer 2023. Fulltime, $63-$73k annually, competitive benefits package. For more information and to apply, please visit www.compan eros.org/careers

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