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Let’s get basted!

Fairgrounds fallout

Let’s dance

Your step-by-step guide to an easy weeknight dinner p4

Plotting park’s next steps in wake of county pull out p8

For local somatic DJ, the groove will set you free p10

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4 La Vida Local

Let’s get basted!

An easy guide to a 30-minute meal that would make MeeMaw proud

by Addyson Santese

6 Soap Box

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7 State News 8 Top Story

Getting skunked

10 Between the Beats

Turns out, trying to rid your garden of pesky critters really stinks

by Richard Rubin / Writers on the Range

11 End of the Line

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12-13 Stuff to Do 13 Ask Rachel

Bump in the trail Planning the next steps in wake of county’s pull out at Durango Mesa

by Jonathan Romeo

15 Haiku Movie Review

On the cover Fall is here, and I think we can all agree, walking and running through leaves is way more fun than raking them./ Photo by Renee Cornue Studio, @reneecornue_studio.

Dance like no one’s watching and other lessons from DJ Brady Wilson

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by Stephen Sellers

STAFF REPORTER: Jonathan Romeo jonathan@durangotelegraph.com

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About face

A few weeks ago, The Durango Telegraph published a story about a developer building an Edward Abbey-themed subdivision in Moab, and, perhaps, how that was a bit of an odd choice, seeing as Abbey was fiercely anti-development.

Well, this week, Joel Linares, a business partner of the development, said that after the article published, the developers spoke with Abbey’s former wife, Clarke, who owns his estate. After learning Clarke was uncomfortable with using her late husband’s nomenclature, the developer offered to change the name.

“We never wanted to cause any ill-will,” Linares said.

The developer, Moab local Mike Bynum, said previously he is a huge Abbey fan and thought naming the development after him was a way of honoring the author.

Before the original story published Sept.

28, the Telegraph had reached out to Clarke, who did not respond to a request for comment (the Telegraph later learned she was dealing with a family emergency).

It’s unclear what the new name of the subdivision will be (perhaps after Bynum’s family, Linares said). Our suggestions on things to avoid: “Aldo Leopold Court,” “EarthFirst! Drive,” and “Greta Thunberg Avenue.”

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Ear to the ground: “When I get up in this altitude, I fart like a m***er f***er.”

– Uhh, yeah, we know – disturbing.

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Sooo, you may have seen this week’s Ear to the Ground and thought: I’m going to throw up. For context, it was overheard at a Mexican restaurant in town – loudly and right in the middle of the restaurant – by a man with his wife and five kids, who we have strong reason to believe were from out of town.

As gross as it is, we couldn’t help but Google: “Is there a correlation between flatulence and altitude?” And god help us, there is.

In fact, there’s a whole article about it in Backpacker magazine, which begins: “I huffed and puffed as I approached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. In retrospect, some of my puffs weren’t just breaths.”

It turns out, the … condition? … has a name: high-altitude flatus expulsion. (Unbelievably, the term was coined by two docs on a hike in the San Juan Mountains in the ’80s).

The doctors found a direct increase in uh, gassy emissions, at high altitudes, yet were at a loss as to why. One theory is lower concentrations of oxygen makes it harder to digest, resulting in, yeah, more farts.

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LaVidaLocal Easy weeknight dinner Pleasing everyone at dinnertime can feel impossible, especially when you’ve got a husband and two picky kids to feed. Luckily, you’ve come to the right place. My food blog, “Just Baste It,” is a carefully curated culinary experience that will guide you through the step-by-step process of crafting your family’s next favorite meal, all in 30 minutes or less. So, get your spatula, grab a glass of wine, and let’s get cookin’!

Look, I get it. Life gets busy. Work can be draining.

Family is stressful – I’m already pouring a second glass of wine just thinking about mine! You’re probably someone who’s looking for one night’s respite from the Sisyphean task of ensuring your family doesn’t starve to death, and I’m sure you want to get this whole meal over with already. But first, I’m going to wax poetic about this recipe for at least 800-1,000 words. Whatever it takes to appease the Google Algorithm Gods and generate that ad revenue.

Let’s start with my childhood.

Like every dish I make, this particular recipe always brings me back to cooking in the kitchen with my grandmother. MeeMaw absolutely loved this meal. She often told me that it reminded her of being back in the old country. So quaint! So nostalgic!

I remember how dear MeeMaw would slap my hands with a wooden spoon anytime I made a mistake, but for the purposes of monetizing on sentimentality, MeeMaw was the best. She brought a certain old-world charm to the kitchen that I carry with me today.

In fact, MeeMaw taught me everything I know about baking love into every meal, as well as how many glasses of wine a human can consume over the course of a single 30-minute recipe. Her record is seven, but I’m shooting for eight. Calories don’t count when they’re liquid, right? By the way, if you’re wondering where the old country is, it’s Michigan.

Now that you’ve wasted precious minutes on my irrelevant backstory, it’s time to gather your ingredients. This super simple meal is mega-quick and mega-delicious, so not even the pickiest of eaters can complain. Looking at you, precious family. Plus, it can be made from pantry staples you already have on hand like beluga caviar and saffron and truffles.

We’re going to take a quick break here so I can bombard you with no fewer

than seven pop-up ads. Half of them are videos for insurance you don’t need and the other half are boxes where I’m trying to trick you into signing up for my mailing list. I can assure you, all of it is spam.

Yes, yes, I know that you’re tired after a long day, and all you want is to get to the recipe and be done with it, but if you try to scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll find that I’ve cleverly set up the website to bounce around to random parts of the page. Fun, right?

By now, you’ve hopefully been beaten into submission by my affiliate links and relented yourself to the drone of the Aflac duck, which means this is a great time to pop open another bottle of wine. I’ll join you.

The first thing you’re going to want to do is set your oven to 450 degrees. I guess I should have mentioned that at the start of this blog, but hey, once you actually start cooking, I promise this will only take 30 minutes tops. Plus the prep time. And however long it takes you to run to the store because you forgot to buy one essential ingredient and your husband won’t go because he’s a useless slug. Whoopsie! But honestly, this recipe is the EASIEST dinner I’ve ever made, and it’s always a hit.

Remember my husband and the two kids I told you about? Even they love this dish, and that’s saying something, because they have the unrefined palate of feral swine. Those ignorant savages would probably eat nothing but dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets and suffocate in the filth of their own making if I weren’t around to constantly cook and clean! Haha! What do they think I am? An indentured servant? Hahaha!

Another glass of wine, anyone?

Anyway, at this point, you might be scrolling back to the top, trying to figure out how long this recipe is supposed to take, because your family is hungry and I promised you’d be done in 30 minutes. Well, it looks like I forgot to mention one detail. My oven actually exists outside the fabric of space and time, somewhere on the Astral Plane where minutes are but mere illusions.

Again, I probably should have mentioned that before you bought all the ingredients and went back to the store and painstakingly diced all those vegetables and why does an easy weeknight meal require so much dicing anyway ... and … oh, what the hell?

Who wants to order takeout?!

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SignoftheDownfall:

Ballots hitting mailboxes this week for the upcoming election. Expect the Telegraph’s cheat sheet in our Nov. 2 issue.

Hey, procrastinating has gotten us this far. Why stop now?

The U.S. House of Representatives remaining at a standstill as Republicans can’t decide on a new speaker. Gee, who would have thought a party that embraces QAnon, election deniers and blatant racists would be dysfunctional?

The Katz family (who you can read about later in this issue) donating $10.4 million to Fort Lewis College’s School of Business, the largest donation in the school’s history.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declaring 21 species newly extinct, mostly birds and aquatic life, as a result of climate change, habitat loss and other factors.

A 104-year-old Chicago woman becoming the oldest person ever to skydive earlier this month. OK, there’s your inspiration for the week.

The FDA facing new pressure to enforce a nationwide ban on red dye in food. Great, now they’re trying to cancel Halloween in favor of protecting everyone’s health.

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Rock Bottomless Brunches with “bottomless mimosas” have become the norm in California, but since California also happens to be part of ‘Merica, people usually take it too far and vomit before paying. So, Kitchen Story, a brunch spot in San Fransisco, posted a sign in their bathroom last month warning that a $50 fee would be added to the tab of anyone caught puking. Since posting the sign, Kitchen Story said the vomiting stopped, so similar signs are sure to start popping up everywhere, thereby ushering in a new era of only semi-bottomless mimosas. So, once again, California is being a champagne in the ass.

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Getting skunked What to do with a stinky pest in the garden

by Richard Rubin

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kunks love autumn, as our backyard gardens fill up with ripe vegetables. But in my northern New Mexico corn patch, that meant a determined skunk chowing down on ears of corn every night.

What followed next was a conundrum: I wanted it gone but didn’t know how to make that happen.

My initial attempt, spreading coyote-urine crystals from the hardware store, failed to repel the raids. Then a Norteno gardener friend advised hanging mothballs in bags on the fence. Nope, no effect.

My plumber friend said he got rid of a big skunk family that took up residence under his mother’s house by borrowing a trap from the county’s agriculture extension agent. He used cat food as bait – but all he caught was cats. Switching to fresh eggshells, he said he caught the entire skunk family, one striped marauder at a time.

A farmer neighbor’s advice was similar: “Get a Havahart trap.” I got one, and the skunk ended up inside, but then what?

I called Taos County Animal Control. The agent said they don’t handle skunks and gave me two options: a private critter-control outfit or dropping it off myself “somewhere in the mountains.” And oh yes, be sure to cover the trap with a tarp when you approach to block possible spray and minimize alarming the animal, because you know why.

Not wanting to release the skunk in the yard where it might spray my dogs, I recruited an agile friend to carry the cage about 400 yards away to a fallow field protected by a conservation easement. The cornchomper was back the next night.

Then I read on the Havahart company website that skunks should be released at least 10 miles away. Somebody said that skunks had been dumped west of me across the Rio Grande Gorge in an area colloquially known as otra banda, a mix of private and public land.

This turned out to be a terrible idea. When I floated

Turns out, it’s not so easy to get rid of skunks in your garden./ Courtesy photo that alternative with Facebook group Taos Farm and Garden, I quickly learned that dumping a skunk across the gorge was anything but welcome. “Not near my back yard!” was the reaction.

The idea of dumping the skunk also led to accusations of animal cruelty, because I’d be removing the

animal “from his family and home range.” A few people had an easy solution, though not one I liked: “Just shoot it.”

What seemed doable was that early suggestion to drop off the skunk “somewhere” in the mountains, and I knew of some Bureau of Land Management land that included a National Conservation Area for wildlife.

But first I called the Taos BLM office to check. The clerk commiserated with my garden losses, said they have no policy on this issue and directed me to the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. The main office in Santa Fe verified that trapping a skunk was legal on my own property and referred me to the local Taos game wardens.

They said because skunks aren’t regulated as “nongame animals,” they could be moved to public lands where the BLM and the Forest Service have no restrictions on freeing trapped skunks. A solution at last.

So, wrapping the cage in a tarp, I drove the skunk 10 miles away to its new home, gave it time to adjust and then opened the trap door. Out it bolted, taking off at a fast waddle across the sagebrush. I hoped to never see it – or any member of its family – again.

Out of an abundance of caution, I set the trap again, because skunks are often seen at night traveling along the dry acequias (irrigation ditches) in my neighborhood. I learned that skunks have competitors for sardine bait – this one a tabby housecat without a collar.

I let the cat go, and a week later, we’re eating corn without competition. Our trap still sits in the corn patch, unbaited but ready, just in case. Though, I know what to do now: Que sera, sera.

Richard Rubin is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He writes in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, where he’s volunteer steward of the historic Aldo and Estella Leopold House, managed by the Forest Service. ■

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SoapBox War is hell The Israeli people and their government and military are deeply and rightly shocked and embarrassed by the Hamas surprise attack and massacres from Gaza on Oct. 7.

The focus on revenge is part political and part military necessities from the Israeli perspective.

However, war is hell, and urban warfare is something so terrible that I have no words for it. It is messy and difficult, and it has a long history of abject failure. The taste of revenge turns to ashes in the seeker’s mouth.

An international and devastating public relations loss awaits the Israeli revenge campaign. And, that outrage will provide terrorist recruiters with generations of eager conscripts for continued warfare and suicide assignments, which is exactly the terrorists’ plan.

While the Israeli invasion into Gaza is being prepared, the target areas are being hit with massive bomb, rocket and missile “softening-up” assaults. That campaign will be led by heavy armor and artillery, all of which will become targets for Hamas’ rocket-propelled grenades,

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D-Tooned/by Rob Pudim Molotov cocktails and other strikes.

The result of such intense and highly destructive warfare will be very high death and injury tolls among the combatants and a vast number of innocents.

Most of those who initiated and carried out the original attack and massacre will have fled before the Israel incursion, including the leaders and specialists, leaving behind the millions of innocents and some suicide-bent fanatics.

The recent overwhelming and unarguable failures in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon and a dozen other examples seem to have provided no lasting arguments against the use of urban warfare in this supposedly modern era – and not even with the emergence of AI. The Military Industrial Complex, especially its arms industry, is the likely victor.

– Hal Mansfield, Green Valley, Ariz.

A caring conservative The lack of traffic during the COVID19 pandemic gave me an opportunity to drive my 1927 Ford Roadster around town. I had to go through a drive-thru at a bank as the lobbies were closed and damn near died from the exhaust

fumes. Vehicles with the AC on full blast with the windows rolled up were idling for up to 15 minutes spewing noxious exhaust fumes.

Where are all those climate change warriors when you really need them?

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Let’s shut down all the food drive-thrus along with bank drive-thrus and use the land for high-rise, affordable 400-squarefoot studios and EV chargers. Conservatives care about climate change, too.

– Dennis Pierce, Durango

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Time to get rolling Colorado launches grant program for communities to offer e-bike rebates

by Sam Brasch Colorado Public Radio

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fter launching one of the largest statewide e-bike rebate programs in the United States, Colorado opened grant applications recently to help communities develop local programs and incentives to get residents rolling on battery-powered bicycles.

The $2.5 million program will offer $25,000 and $750,000 grants to local and tribal governments. Sarah Thorne, a senior program manager for the Colorado Energy Office, said the state funding stream is meant to help cities and counties develop e-bike rebates that fit the unique needs of their local communities.

It’s also an effort to draw local government into the push for sustainable transportation. To gain the maximum grant amount, Thorn said a city, county or tribe must match the state’s $750,000 grant.

“We really are looking for a way to maximize our funding and make sure we can go a lot further by having local communities bring in their own funding as well,” Thorne said.

New local programs will enter a growing ecosystem of e-bike programs across the state. Denver first offered vouchers to encourage residents to ditch their cars in favor of two-wheeled electric vehicles.

Those discounts proved far more popular than expected, subsidizing the purchase of more than 6,900 e-bikes so far, city data show. A follow-up survey found Denver recipients have replaced an average of 3.4 car trips per week.

Colorado followed suit with a statewide e-bike rebate program last August. It offers residents making less than 80% of their area median income $1,100 off the purchase of an electric bicycle. Those earning 80-100% of their AMI qualify for a $500 rebate.

About 1,300 people have used the state incentives to discount the purchase of a new e-bike, according to a spokesperson for the Colorado Energy Office. The state plans to open week-long application windows each month until it exhausts e-bike program funding early next year.

If a community uses the new grants to start its own rebates, those incentives can’t be combined with discounts from the current state discounts. Those local programs must also only offer rebates to middle- and low-income residents, which the state de-

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fines as anyone making less than their county’s median income.

Thorne said local leaders in Durango, Crested Butte and Sheridan have expressed interest in building their own local programs with the new grants. The Colorado Energy Office will accept applications from local governments until Nov. 30.

“This is an opportunity for local communities to magnify the work we’ve already started,” Thorne said.

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Durango Mesa Park, which was home to the Cyclocross Single-Speed Championships in 2022, has a grand vision. But how are those plans altered after La Plata County withdrew one of the pillars of the project – relocating the fairgrounds?/ Photo by Missy Votel

Fairgrounds fallout After county withdraws plans, what’s the future of Durango Mesa Park?

by Jonathan Romeo

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he repercussions of La Plata County’s decision not to move the fairgrounds to Durango Mesa Park, and how this impacts the broader vision of the expansive community project, are yet to be seen.

For nearly a decade, the City of Durango, the Durango Mesa Park Foundation and La Plata County have been figuring out how best to use the area, just east of Highway 3 – a 1,850-acre undeveloped parcel sitting on a mesa about 300 feet above town.

Those ideas have included a bike park and BMX track, a new dog park, disc golf course, tennis and pickleball courts and even an outdoor venue overlooking the

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La Plata Mountains. Just recently, a system of bike trails was opened to much acclaim.

From the start, a huge part of the Durango Mesa Park plan has been for La Plata County to relocate the fairgrounds, now located at 2500 Main Ave., up to the mesa.

Last month, however, La Plata County commissioners decided to nix the fairgrounds relocation based on concerns about the overall project cost. It was a move that came as somewhat of a shock to those involved in the project.

“It was a surprise to us,” Jessika Buell, a Durango city councilor, said. “Obviously, we’re going to have to look at the implications … but we still think it’s a great project.”

Now, organizers are faced with questions about the scope, as well as the price tag, for the project. Yet Moira Compton, a spokeswoman for the foundation, said despite the county’s exit, the project will continue with its goal of providing something for everyone in the community.

“We know this is a challenging project, but we have tremendous community support and are proceeding forward,” Compton said.

And, for the county’s part, officials will have to figure out how to meet the demands of the ag community in upgrading the existing fairgrounds, which have a host of issues including parking, outdated facilities and aging infrastructure.

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Adding it up For decades, the area in question, formerly known as Ewing Mesa, was eyed for massive development. In 2015, however, local philanthropist Marc Katz bought the mesa with the intent of donating most of the land to the City of Durango and La Plata County.

The idea: to make something awesome for the community.

For La Plata County’s part, it saw a chance to relocate the outdated fairgrounds and provide a major new asset for the ag community, to be located on about 200 acres. In the ensuing years, countless hours and resources were spent fine-tuning a new facility on the mesa.

In September, the Durango Mesa Park Foundation provided La Plata County up-

updated estimates on upfront infrastructure costs, with the county’s part at $5.6 million (the total is $19.7 million). The foundation also gave the county until the end of the year to commit to the project.

It was at that point county commissioners decided the cost of infrastructure, as well as the actual cost to build the fairgrounds, was not the wisest use of county funds, according to Commissioner Matt Salka. Instead, Salka said funds should go to the $140 million backlog for roads.

“It is unfortunate,” Salka said. “I think it would be a great location, but we have to come back to reality here and make the decision if we can really afford this, and we can’t.”

Costs, of course, have always been a concern – and limiting factor – of the mesa project. In 2017, an estimate showed it could cost the county a total of $80 million for the fairgrounds relocation – and that was five years ago, before the incredible uptick in inflation.

County Manager Chuck Stevens was adamant the county explored all possible funding options before deciding to pull out of the Mesa Park project. The numbers just didn’t add up, he said.

“Early on, it’s exciting to be part of this grand vision, and how do you not take part when someone (Katz) is that gener-

ous?” Stevens said. “But over the last few years, the reality has set in – what is this going to cost, and who is going to pay for it?”

Instead, Stevens said the decision of whether or not to fund a fairgrounds location should be decided by a public vote. Commissioners have no plans to put the measure on the ballot, and it’s unclear if a citizen initiative will surface.

(For what it’s worth, voters have twice turned down a tax increase for roads in recent years.)

What lies ahead What this means now for the future of Durango Mesa Park is unclear. Compton said the foundation board will meet next week to start figuring out details in the wake of the county’s withdrawal. City spokesman Tom Sluis said, too, the city is still processing the change in plans.

From the beginning, the project has been pitched as something for everyone, from a bike park and BMX track to disc golf and horseback riding and hiking trails. Full buildout has always been envisioned as a multi-decade project, yet one that would certainly transform the City of Durango. Compton noted the county was only leading the charge on the fairgrounds, and the intent is to go forward with the grander vision.

“(The fairgrounds) was certainly one of the pillars we were building on, but I don’t think it alters the plan,” she said.

“It’s a beautiful location, and it will become an incredible park for future generations. It will still be that.”

In the short-term, the foundation plans to complete a master plan for the bike park and BMX track, which will also include a community gathering area, disc golf course and new dog park. Work could begin on that phase as early as 2024.

At the same time, a plan for necessary infrastructure (water, sewer and access roads) will also be developed. As for how infrastructure will be paid (originally, it was supposed to be split three ways, and now will seemingly be split between the city and foundation), is yet to be seen.

“If the county is not going to be involved, then some infrastructure costs may actually be less,” Compton said.

“That’s what we’re working on now – to get to a point of what lies ahead.”

Staying put As for the fairgrounds, La Plata County has said it will fund a study to see what improvements can be made to the existing facilities. And, it turns out, most people in the ag community are supportive of staying in town where it’s been lo-

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cated for 75 years.

“A lot of members didn’t want to go up there,” Amy Peterson, La Plata County Fair Board president, said. “We think being in a central location, in town, is where it needs to be.”

Ultimately, La Plata County has $6.2 million in conservation trust funds in the 2024 proposed budget that could possibly be used for fairgrounds upgrades.

Lorene Bonds, livestock superintendent for the fairgrounds, said that first and foremost, the parking situation needs to be improved. Also, other projects could include adding fans to the pavilion, a new sound system and wash racks for animals.

“I like the idea of the grounds being upgraded,” Bonds said. “Being centralized in the city, it’s important that the urban and rural areas can come together.”

Yet, for some involved in the project for years, the dream of what could have been will always be an unknown.

“You don’t always have a benefactor willing to go to the extent that the Katz family has for the community,” Brad Blake, who served as county commissioner from 2014-18, said. “And I just thought for a 30-50-year look ahead, it sure was a possibility to do.” ■

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Let’s dance Who’s the best dancer? The one having the most fun

by Stephen Sellers

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t’s a crisp Sunday morning, as light spills through the massive windows illuminating the pristine wood floors of The Light Box venue at Stillwater Music.

The sound of laughter and the silence of smiles weave through the harmonious frequencies coming from the speakers next to the DJ booth. The space is immaculately clean, smells great and is full of joy. This is Soma Sound Space, aka Dance Church, a place where you can bring it all to let it go.

For this week’s Between the Beats, I sat down with the one and only Brady Wilson. Wilson is a yoga teacher, herbalist, DJ and one of the kindest, warmest souls you will encounter in Durango. We could write several columns about Wilson’s practices and creative gifts that he offers in the medicinal and musical world, but today we focus on his latest offering. As the wise Stephanie Dressen said, “Music is medicine.” And this conversation with Wilson will convert even the baddest goat or backslider out there to the truth that will help set you free.

How did you find your way into the magical world of sharing music on sound systems of all sizes and being a DJ? The DJ stuff evolved out of being a yoga teacher, actually. I always joked about the fact that I became a yoga teacher, so I could share my playlists. At first, that was definitely part of the joy of being a yoga teacher being able to arrange a playlist to complement the practice. I’ve always been making mixtapes for friends and girlfriends when those were a thing. I’d splice in little sayings, quotes of people speaking into the mixtapes back when we had the sideby-side boom boxes. The yoga teaching took it to the next level.

What compels you to share your talents as a DJ with Soma?

I was a participant in a youth program in Boulder that was born out of a dance music community. It was an off-branch of ecstatic dance. That was my initiation into somatic experiencing. I believe somatic experiencing is a particular brand of psychological therapy. Basically, I came

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Brady Wilson, local DJ, yoga teacher and sound bather./ Courtesy photo away from that program with a knowing in my core that dancing is an essential human activity. We as a culture largely do not have that opportunity available to us.

We’re not taught dance, we’re not exposed to it, especially in a sober mind state. Most of us who dance started drunk in a bar. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but to bring a sober state to the dance floor is a whole other experience.

Exactly. It’s only been in the last decade of my life that I’ve realized that going dancing, for me, is not essentially about escaping with drugs and alcohol.

It’s catharsis. I don’t know the exact definition, but it’s something close to the ability to move emotions through your body. We talk about that as yoga teachers a lot. Memories, thoughts, feelings residing in the cells of our bodies. You can do talk therapy your whole life, but to get the emotion out of your body, you need to access those parts of your body, and that is available through dance, yoga and other embodied practices. We’re moving ourselves in ways that are maybe uncomfortable, suppressed, embarrassing, and emotions will arise.

One of the things that comes up

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for me as a dancer and a DJ is ego.

How do we step into our full power as the beautiful creatures we are vs. getting caught up in “what are people thinking about me?”

Very few individuals are capable of separating themselves from their egos.

So, the ego is part of it, like it or not. But you don’t have to deny that your ego is part of you. You’re not going to get it right most of the time; you’re going to have to try again.

Who is Soma for?

It’s a multigenerational event.

Children can come free. Who is the best dancer in the room? The one who’s having the most fun. The dance is for anyone who is curious.

You have one coming up Nov. 5.

What does the event look like?

There’s a suggested donation of $20$30. Wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing. You can dance barefoot or in socks. If you choose to arrive at 9 a.m., you will be treated to a half-hour of warm-up yoga. The music begins at 9:30 a.m. and runs to 11 a.m. We will offer blindfolds for those who want to partake in that. We then do a half-hour live sound bath. ■

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Surviving math

And other lessons in humanity

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began my freshman year at Rutgers University in the fall of 1967. All freshmen had to take five core classes: composition, finite math, western civilization, a language and a science. The course I dreaded most was finite math. My strengths never relied on numbers. So that September, I stumbled into the classroom fearing the subject. I survived the first of two semesters with an average grade. What I wasn’t looking forward to was another four months of the same. The professor I had for the first semester was indifferent to my struggles and steered me to a teaching assistant for help. I wasn’t looking for that anxiety again, as I left those TA sessions with more confusion. So what would the January sessions reveal? Well, to my surprise the professor I had the first semester was replaced by a new instructor.

I entered the classroom with 60 fellow students and found a seat in the back. The instructor entered with a jovial attitude and a distinct foreign accent. After a week of confusion, I decided to see the instructor personally for help. Sheepishly, I came up to him after class, feeling

embarrassed and defeated. He told me to grab a seat. In a deep Turkish accent this burly man said, “I fix your problem. Come to me at lunch, to my office. I’ll help you with the math.” I was dumbfounded by his kindness and willingness to help me. After a few lunch sessions, I began to regain my confidence and got through the course with an above-average grade. But more importantly, I found a kind and caring mentor.

Orhan Alisbah came to Rutgers as the chair of the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics in 1959. He graduated with his doctorate in mathematics in Berlin in 1935. He studied with Albert Einstein, and both left with the rise of Nazism in Germany. Einstein came to the United States, and Alisbah returned to his native Turkey and taught at Istanbul Technical University. After the war, Alisbah was invited to the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University. There, he became an associate of Einstein and Oppenheimer.

During his Rutgers lectures, Alisbah would recount some interesting stories about his time in Istanbul and Princeton. One such story took place in Istanbul during the war. Turkey declared war on Germany in February 1945, so there were some aerial attacks by Germany along the Bosporus. Alisbah was about to graduate a number of students that winter. They were to take their final exams, and Alisbah asked them whether they would like to return home because of the hostilities or if would they like to go into the basement to finish their exams. They all opted to take their exams despite the risks. He said the bombing was so close that debris would fall on the makeshift desks they were using in the basement.

Another story he told centered around his recollec-

Orhan Alisbah tions as an assistant to Einstein. He said that Einstein would sometimes come into his lab still wearing his pajamas. He would grab a cup of coffee and begin writing formulas on the blackboards. He recalled that these blackboards were all around the room. By noon, all were full. Alisbah would copy these formulas, as there were no copying machines at the time. He related that Einstein was humorous and kind and would take breaks to smoke his pipe. We all sat there in awe!

Alisbah reveled in the development of his students.

He was a true teacher and unfortunately passed away in 1977. He considered himself a world citizen, and before his death, he was involved in the Human Rights Commission of UNESCO in his home country. I will always remember Orhan as the professor who shared his lunch with me but more importantly, modeled the true meaning of being an educator. ■ – Burt Baldwin

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High-fructose fun, rat race and just say no Interesting fact: “Pied” means simply “having two or more colors.” Makes me wonder why this attribute was relevant to the famous piper.

Dear Rachel, With Halloween coming up, do you think it’s ok to give out popcorn balls to the trick or treaters? Yeah, the homemade ones that I gave out in the 1960s before you were born.

Do you think any of the kids even know what a popcorn ball is? I don’t think a mom in 2023 has even made one. Oh I guess a packaged candy bar will do. Not so much trouble to show them how to make them and enjoy.

Do you like them or have you even made one?

It may be not approved as a healthy snack, but my kids loved them. Happy Halloween, Rachel.

– Jolly Time Mom Dear Good Time Woman, I would absolutely not recommend giving out the popcorn balls you made in the ’60s. No way are those still edible. Not even with the preservatives going around kitchens by then. Better living through chemistry! Speaking of which, if you are still a jolly time mom 60 years later, I have to wonder what chemistry is keeping you going. Because with a name like that, it sure sounds like popcorn balls weren’t the most popular of the treats you were giving out on Halloween.

– Definitely tricks, please, Rachel

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What do you think? Could we get funding for this program?

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): JooHee Yoon is an illustrator and designer. She says, “So much of artmaking is getting to know yourself through the creative process, of making mistakes and going down rabbit holes of research and experimentation that sometimes work out – and sometimes don’t.” She adds, “The failures are just as important as the successes.” I would extend this wisdom, applying it to how we create our personalities and lives. I hope you will keep it in mind as you improvise and transform yourself in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Sometimes, we droop and shrivel in the face of a challenge that dares us to grow stronger and smarter. Sometimes, we try our best to handle a pivotal riddle with aplomb but fall short. Neither of these two scenarios will be in play for you during the coming months. I believe you will tap into reserves of hidden power you didn’t realize you had access to. You will summon bold, innovative responses.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini novelist Meg Wolitzer suggests that “one of the goals of life is to be comfortable in your own skin and in your own bed and on your own land.” I suspect you won’t achieve that goal in the coming weeks, but you will lay the foundation for achieving that goal. You will figure out precisely what you need in order to feel at home in the world, and you will formulate plans to make that happen.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some astrologers say you Crabs are averse to adventure, preferring to loll in your comfort zones and entertain dreamy fantasies. As evidence that this is not always true, I direct your attention to a great Cancerian adventurer, the traveling chef Anthony Bourdain. In the coming weeks, I hope you will be inspired by these Bourdain quotes: 1. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” 2. “What a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.” 3. “The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know there is no final resting place of the mind.” 4. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my book, “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings,” I propose that life often works to help dissolve your ignorance and liberate you from your suffering. I hypothesize that you are continually being given opportunities to grow smarter and wilder and kinder. In the coming weeks, everything I’ve described here will be especially apropos to you. All of creation will be maneuvering you in the direction of feeling intensely at home with your best self.

Cooperate, please!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Never do anything that others can do for you,” said Virgo novelist Agatha Christie. That’s not a very Virgo-like attitude, is it? Many astrologers would say that of all the zodiac’s signs, your tribe is the most eager to serve others but not aggressively seek the service of others on your behalf. But I suspect this dynamic could change in the coming weeks.

Amazingly, cosmic rhythms will conspire to bring you more help and support than you’re accustomed to. My advice: Welcome it. Gather it in with gusto.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m not enamored of Shakespeare’s work. Though I enjoy his creative use of language, his worldview isn’t appealing or interesting. The people in his stories don’t resonate with me, and their problems don’t feel realistic. If I want to commune with multi-faceted characters dealing with fascinating dilemmas, I turn to French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799– 1850). I feel a kinship with his complex, nuanced understanding of human nature. Please note I am not asserting that Shakespeare is bad and Balzac is good. I’m merely stating the nature of my subjective personal tastes. Now I invite you to do what I have done here: In the coming weeks, stand up unflinchingly for your subjective personal tastes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As much as I love logic and champion rational thinking, I’m granting you an exemption from their iron-grip supremacy in the coming weeks.

To understand what’s transpiring and to respond with intelligence, you must partly transcend logic and reason. They will not be sufficient guides as you wrestle with the Great Riddles that will be visiting.

In a few weeks, you will be justified in quoting ancient Roman author Tertullian, who said the following about his religion, Christianity: “It is true because it is impossible.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As a Sun-conjunct-Uranus person, I am fond of hyperbole and outrageousness. “Outlandish” is one of my middle names. My Burning Man moniker is “Friendly Shocker,” and in my pagan community, I’m known as Irreverend Robbie.

So take that into consideration when I suggest you meditate on Oscar Wilde’s assertions that “all great ideas are dangerous” and “an idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea.” Oscar and I don’t mean that interesting possibilities must be a risk to one’s health or safety. Rather, we’re suggesting they are probably inconvenient for one’s dogmas, habits and comfort zones.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some people might feel they have achieved the peak of luxury if they find themselves sipping Moët & Chandon Imperial Vintage Champagne while lounging on a leather and diamond-encrusted PlumeBlanche sofa on a handknotted Agra wool rug aboard a 130-foot-long Sunseeker yacht. But I suspect you will be thoroughly pleased with the subtler forms of luxury that are possible for you these days. Like what? Like surges of appreciation and acknowledgment for your good work. Like growing connections with influences that will interest you and help you in the future.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There are more than 20 solutions to the riddle your higher mind is now contemplating. Several of them are smart intellectually but not emotionally intelligent. Others make sense from a selfish perspective but would be less than a blessing for some people in your life. Then there are a few solutions that might technically be effective but wouldn’t be much fun. I estimate there may only be two or three answers that would be intellectually and emotionally intelligent, would be of service not only to you but also to others, and would generate productive fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Naturalist John Muir didn’t like the word “hiking.” He believed people ought to saunter through the wilderness, not hike. “Hiking” implies straight-ahead, no-nonsense, purposeful movement, whereas “sauntering” is about wandering around, being reverent towards one’s surroundings, and getting willingly distracted by where one’s curiosity leads. I suggest you favor the sauntering approach in the coming weeks – not just in nature but in every area of your life. You’re best suited for exploring, gallivanting and meandering.

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