– We suppose for minimum-wage service workers, the prospect of a 7-month paid playcation sounds pretty good
RIP Outside?
The magazine that brought us such luminaries as Kevin Fedarko and John Krakauer is no longer – at least as we know it.
According to a Feb. 11 report by Adventure Journal editor Steve Casimoro, the parent company of Outside magazine laid off 20 staff members last week, leaving doubt about the ongoing viability of the publication. The news came in a companywide email last Thursday from CEO Robin Thurston announcing the acquisition of Inntopia, an online travel booking software used by Vail, Alterra and others.
Among those who lost their jobs are longtime top editor Chris Keyes, 30-year veteran and head of sustainability Kristin Hostetter, and brand director Mary Turner. According to insiders, just one print editor and three online editors remain. The layoffs included eight people from Outside’s HQ in Boulder. Thurston did not respond to a request from AJ for comment, but Outside’s public relations firm emailed this statement: “With the acquisition of Inntopia, we decided to restructure some of our editorial team to allow our outdoor vertical experts to own their categories across the entire platform,” read the statement.
One of our favorite cover boys, Mike Alcott, grabs fresh (what little there is left) last week in the San Juans. Hang in there – more is supposedly on the way./ Photo by Andy High
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Thurston did comment to “A Media Operator,” which covers online publishing. “Many people come to our properties, they want to know where to go, right? They want to know what to do. If we write a story about the top five ski resorts in North America, we don’t guide you after that into the travel booking,” he told AMO. “We just kind of say, ‘Hey, here’s some great information from a travel writer, good luck on your own.’”
Backed by venture capital, Thurston’s Pocket Media bought Backpacker, SKI and Climbing in 2020. He purchased Outside from longtime owner Larry Burke in 2021 and also bought Pinkbike, Gaia and numerous outdoor-recreation publications. Since then, he has funneled editorial content into the subscription-based Outside+.
“Outside magazine is dead. The company will argue otherwise, but you don’t lay off nearly your entire editorial staff and continue as a viable publication,” Casimoro wrote Wednesday. “Near as I can tell … the last edition was November/December 2024.”
For Outside’s part, it said it is working to reimagine the magazine, which debuted in 1977, and plans to introduce a new and improved print product in 2025.
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Ticket reselling and you
For the past eight years, I have been a box office manager for two separate performing arts venues in Durango. I have my fair share of ticketing stories, although you probably need to be in the ticketing world to find them interesting. No matter your background, what you will find interesting, or even alarming, is the rise in ticket reselling for events in Durango. What do I mean by ticket reselling? You may have heard or even used the term “scalping” to refer to this practice, but I do not use that phrase. Ticket reselling, when done by a business or an online entity, purchases tickets from venues and then resells them online at a premium. This can be done on a small and large scale, either by hand or by bot. If the resale prices were reasonable, this would not be setting off many, if any, alarms. However, these tickets are often resold at many times the retail price.
In addition to the higher price, tickets bought through a reseller’s website impedes the venue’s ability to provide the best customer service possible. Folks who buy from secondary markets do not receive emails, notifications or reminders for upcoming shows because they are not in the venue’s system.
What is in the venue’s system is the information the ticket reselling businesses opt to give, which is typically incorrect or misleading. I rarely see these fields get updated with the ticket buyer’s info. Venues are also not able to guarantee that a ticket bought from a reseller will work once presented at the door. This does not happen often, but when it does, it is a headache for guests and can spoil their experience.
• Use, without prior written authorization, an internet website to display a text, image, graphic, design or internet address that is substantially similar to an operator’s internet website;
• Sell a ticket to an event without disclosing the total cost of the ticket, including any service or other fees that must be paid, or displays service charges and fees less prominently than the total price of the ticket;
An easy question to ask is, “Is this legal?” In 2024, the state of Colorado passed the ticket consumer protection act, HB24-1378. Intended to help ticket consumers like you, this legislation protects a person who buys tickets from a friend or family member from being turned away by venues. But when this legislation applies to everyone, it becomes an opportunity for ticket resellers to take advantage of consumers. As long as that business presents its product (tickets) in a way that is not “deceptive,” the ticket reseller is free to charge any price they see fit.
HB24-1378 considers a business or person as deceptive if they:
• Use an internet domain or subdomain name that contains the name of the venue, event, individual or entity scheduled to perform, or a name that is substantially similar to those names without prior written authorization;
Deb Haaland, ex-Interior Secretary, is running for governor of New Mexico. If elected, she would be the first Native American woman to serve as governor of a state.
Score one for free speech. State lawmakers are proposing a new bill that would make it harder to ban books from public school libraries by stipulating that only parents or legal guardians of children at a school can challenge a book, protecting librarians from retaliation and limiting challenges to a book to once every two years.
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• Make a false or misleading disclosure of subtotals, fees, charges or any other component of the ticket price or increase the price of a ticket after the first time the price is displayed, with certain exceptions.
If you find yourself with a price-inflated ticket, and the website or person you bought it from did any of this, you may be able to have that charge reversed through your credit card company. Otherwise, my hope is there will eventually be limits on how much can be profited off resold tickets, especially when the venue still has plenty of tickets available at the original cost.
Now that you’re familiar with this practice, I want to help you navigate your future ticket purchasing experience. The biggest tip would be to purchase directly from the venue. If you’re unsure if a venue’s website is authentic, as per the CO Ticket Consumer Protection Act, only the venue may use their logo on their website and their name in the URL. But remember, this protection is only given in the state of Colorado. Events in other states may have different laws that protect consumers in different ways. You can also subscribe to a venue’s email system, giving you access to the website link, box office phone and upcoming shows.
The second biggest tip I would give is to know that Google and other search browsers do not generate “natural searches.” Instead, they place the websites who pay them advertising money at the top (Google notes these websites as “sponsored” in your search.) Ticket resellers are apt to utilize this service. For example, for an upcoming event at my venue, there are three different sponsored ticket-reselling websites listed before ours.
With ticket purchasing becoming more online-based, it is important to keep ourselves educated about how to navigate this world. I hope this helps save you from some future headache, sheds some light on this issue and keeps a few more dollars in your pocket.
– Doug Gonzalez
Trump has slammed the brakes on EV charging station funding in Colorado, despite wide popularity. It’s yet another petty attempt to kill the EV car industry, in which his BFF Elon Musk is a key player. We know, we don’t get it either.
The friendly skies have turned ugly lately, with three fatal airplane crashes in as many weeks and an aviation alert system outage. But we’re sure the FAA is totally sound, even with all the political chaos and threats of cutbacks. No, really.
Uh oh, the MAGA egg-voting bloc can’t be happy: eggs prices jumped again in January, to an all-time high of $4.95 for a dozen Grade A eggs. Bird flu’s being blamed, but DEI and the deep state must be playing a sinister role as well.
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Cover Your Nuts
Late last December, researchers from UC Davis published a study proving that Californian ground squirrels have started hunting and eating voles for the first time, which is forcing the reclassification of the formerly adorable squirrel from “granivorous” to “opportunistic omnivore.” The hypothesis is that since humans have destroyed so much of the squirrel’s habitat and food supply, they’ve been forced to turn to murder for calories. But the best part is that since ground squirrels live in colonies that can have upward of 60 members, it’s possible that they’ll eventually team up in packs to hunt larger prey… like Californians.
A Trojan horse
Poking holes in the seemingly altruistic push to use public lands for housing
by Ben Long
Sometimes when I drive past the little house my wife and I bought when we first married 30 years ago, it makes me sad. Not only because of nostalgia but because of economics.
We were young professionals and bought a cute one-bedroom crackerbox in a small Montana town for less than $50,000. Today on Zillow, that house lists for more than $300,000. There’s no way salaries have kept up with that kind of inflation. Clearly, rising costs are hitting the working class hard. The escalating prices of fuel, food and shelter squeeze families like a vise.
But that doesn’t excuse people who would use the national housing crisis to advance their agenda to strip Americans of their public land heritage. While there are some rare opportunities for public land sales to help ease the tight housing market here and there, wholesale liquidating of public land is a false promise.
People should know that the folks who ideologically oppose public land are exploiting the housing crisis to push their unpopular agenda.
Recently, some pundits have suggested that a fix for America’s housing problem is to sell off the public estate, thereby increasing the supply of available land. After all, the federal government manages hundreds of millions of acres.
In a few widely scattered places, it makes sense to allow careful urban development on limited public lands. Clark County, Nev., has done just that on the outskirts of Las Vegas. But that scenario has been collaboratively developed over the years through legislation pushed through by the late Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid.
A crop of mostly Republican politicians in the West resent the public estate simply because they dislike the idea
A hiker checks out a map near Hite, Utah. There’s been a lot of talk among Republican politicians about using federal lands, particularly BLM, for housing under the auspices of easing the housing shortage. However, most of these lands are remote, rugged. heavily forested, arid and unsuitable for homes, leaving one to wonder what the real motives are. /
of federal land ownership. They use both the courts and Congress in their attempts to reduce the public estate. In their vision, Western states should be more like Missouri or Kansas, with almost no public land.
These folks insist they aren’t targeting national parks or even national forests. They know that’s political suicide. Instead, they focus on Bureau of Land Management property as a precedent, which most people have never heard of. And what are these lands like?
First, the vast majority of BLM land is remote and rugged. Think of the tundra in Alaska, the basin-and-range desert of Nevada and the Missouri River Breaks of northern Montana. These are history’s leftovers, and not where most people want to – or even can – live.
Second, these areas tend to be arid. Developments require water, and Western water rights already tend to be oversubscribed. Local climate alone means that human habitation in these places can’t be very dense.
These lands also are often prone to wildfire. Loading these “wildland-urban interfaces” with more homes could lead to future disaster. Managing fire risk in the interface grows more difficult and costly as they are developed. When the fires do come, damages can climb into the billions, rather than the millions. The tragic 2025 fires of Los Angeles would have been even more catastrophic had the adjacent Angeles National Forest been full of homes.
One more value is worth pointing out. Even if these public lands don’t have houses on them, public lands serve a purpose. Undeveloped canyons help control floods. Open lands provide habitat for wildlife – not just rare species –but also the deer and elk we like to hunt and the birds we like to watch. Public lands are valuable for recreation that’s good for our souls and are the goose that lays the golden egg for many rural economies.
The bottom line is that this debate has virtually nothing to do with the price of homes, which are high for a complex mix of reasons ranging from local growth policies and wealth disparity to high interest rates.
There’s a shortfall of millions of homes nationwide, but most of the demand simply isn’t where the public lands are. The BLM already has a process to liquidate lands when it needs to or when it makes sense. There is no screaming need for reform of that process, even if there is a screaming need for affordable housing.
To a local eye with any perspective, it’s clear that the argument to sell public lands for housing is a Trojan horse to take public lands out of public hands.
Ben Long is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West, writersontherange.org. He is senior program director for Resource Media in Kalispell, Mont. ■
Photo by Dave Marston
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Sheep’s clothing
The “Fix Our Forests Act” (H.R.471) may sound like a good plan, but look closer. Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Grand Junction, co-sponsored this bill and helped push it through the House. The Senate will vote on it soon, but Coloradans should know that this is not what it sounds like.
The “Fix Act” will approve massive logging projects by avoiding review under the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Protection Act. The public, as well as scientists and experts will be cut out of the review process. Millions of acres of our national forests are at risk for reckless commercial logging projects under this act. For this reason, more than 85 conservation groups, including Environment Colorado and Environment America oppose this law. It bypasses established processes for issuing logging permits.
Wholesale logging will not slow climate change and may make it worse. Intact forests help cool our planet, store carbon, and protect watersheds and wildlife habitat …. the list goes on! Please contact Sens. Bennett and Hickenlooper immediately. Ask them to vote no on this deceptively named bill. It will
not protect us from wildfire and can hurt us and our forests in so many ways. It is truly a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
– Mary Handrick, Durango
Heard from Hurd?
After checking in this past week with a diversity of local residents I concluded that I wasn’t the only person wondering why our newly elected Congressperson Jeff Hurd wasn’t standing up to raise his voice as to how the recent machinations of the Trump Dis-Administration were adversely affecting SW Colorado citizens – the same ones that Hurd specifically spoke about supporting in his recent campaign.
Thinking that perhaps I had missed a statement or comment from Hurd in the media, I checked the most recent press releases on his website and found nothing there indicating he had raised his voice (or at least his hand) to indicate concern about the dismantling of federal funding (including matches to local districts, citizens, non-profits, etc.) I phoned his D.C. office for clarification. “No statement is available” was the sorry response I received.
I’m hearing and reading that, at the pretense of “government efficiency”
by Rob Pudim
(perhaps like saving on your food budget by not eating?), payments from federal programs that had been authorized by Congress and coordinated through a diversity of federal agencies are being “held” or terminated. Appar-
ently, Hurd doesn’t feel the need to raise a voice of alarm about the truncating of financial commitments to local individuals and/or entities (governmental, private or nonprofit) that is now being used to “hang out to dry” the citizens
he emphasized he would support.
The withdrawal of these mutually agreed-upon and legally approved funds undercuts efforts in our community to repair/upgrade irrigation infrastructure; implement critical prescribed fire needs in our forests; and restore watersheds to enhance our climate/drought resiliency. I haven’t even touched upon social services, law enforcement, public health, nutrition support and a slew of other federal-local partnerships.
The citizens of Colorado’s Third District have done their part to create initiatives to better the lives and lands of our region. We have diligently paid our taxes to the federal treasury with the reasonable expectation that some of these monies will be returned to our region. I’m not quite sure why Hurd isn’t jumping onto his desk in the House of Representatives to demand that his constituency (along with those across the country) be treated fairly, respectfully and (gee!) like adults by fulfilling these financial agreements. However, if we individually jump onto our phones and give him a call to let him know that we are more important than irresponsible political antics, perhaps he will get the message. The number to Hurd’s office in D.C. is 202-225-4676. I’m sure he’ll be pleased to hear from constituents.
– Jimbo Buickerood, Hermosa
Fix Our Forests Act is broken
The Fix Our Forests Act (HR 471) if passed will not fight wildfires or fix our forests despite the cheery title of this dangerous act. The act prioritizes logging interests over proven community protections like defensible space and emergency planning. It bypasses critical
environmental laws and restricts scientific input and public engagement, potentially harming the environment and endangered species.
This bill, claiming to reduce wildfires, may worsen them by allowing profit-driven decisions that lead to more clearcutting, which has been proven to exacerbate wildfires and remove trees that are a lifeline in our fight against climate change.
Unlike the scientifically based Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act, FOFA focuses on federal lands and forests, while the L.A. fires originated on private lands and are chaparral/urban fires exacerbated by climate change-induced drought.
HR 471 passed the House and is heading to the Senate. Please contact Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and urge them to vote against this dangerous legislation.
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Louise van Vonno, Durango
Vote to continue POST tax
Many of us choose to live in Durango for the diverse outdoor recreation opportunities. Imagine what it would be like without the dedicated one-half cent sales tax authorized by voters in 2005 for the preservation, acquisition and maintenance of open space as well as the creation and maintenance of parks and trails.
Since that time, Durango have preserved more than 2,500 acres of open space including Horse Gulch, Dalla Mountain Park, and Oxbow Park and Preserve. The natural-surface trail system has improved with more than 100 miles of trails in town. Buckley Park in downtown Durango was purchased, and recreation at Lake
Nighthorse was opened to the public with necessary improvements. The Whitewater Park, including Smelter Rapid, was enhanced and stabilized enabling a permanent water right on the Animas River for boating. Smith Sports Complex, tennis courts and an upgraded softball complex were developed at Fort Lewis College. Development of the SMART 160 Trail was initiated and other connections to the Animas River Trail were completed. The dedicated tax for open space, parks and trails was key to securing $15 million in public grants to help fund high-priority local projects. Furthermore, these tax proceeds have paid for the maintenance of new open space, parks and trails acquired since the tax was approved, thereby alleviating the financial burden on the city.
On April 1, 2025, Durangoans will decide if the one-half cent sales tax, which amounts to 50 cents on each $100 of taxable purchases, should be reauthorized. Without creating either a new tax or a tax increase, we can build a community park in Three Springs, develop Durango Mesa Park, enhance the Animas River, and extend the Animas River Trail and SMART 160 Trail in addition to other projects. This reauthorized tax would continue to pay for the maintenance of existing open space, parks and trails assets.
Without this tax reauthorization, the vision of the adopted Parks, Open Space, Trails and Recreation Master Plan may never be realized. Together we can assure future generations the quality of life we have enjoyed. Learn more about Ballot Issue 2A at opt-indurango.info, and vote yes on 2A!
– Cathy Metz, former City of Durango Parks and Recreation Director
The nuclear option
Bill that would add nuclear toward state’s clean energy goals picks up steam
by Allen Best
State Sen. Larry Liston, a Republican from El Paso County, has carried a lonely torch during the last two legislative sessions. His bills that proposed to classify nuclear energy as “clean” in Colorado went exactly nowhere.
However, this year’s nuclear bill has a different look. It has four prime sponsors, two of them Democrats. And it comes after warnings about rapidly escalating electrical demand for data centers.
House Bill 25-1040 will get its first committee hearing this week. It would allow nuclear energy to count toward Colorado’s clean energy goals of netzero emissions by 2050.
Unlike Liston’s previous bills, it might even get approved. All five Republicans in the House Energy and Environment Committee will likely support it. The committee chair, Alex Valdez, a Democrat and former solar developer, helped write the bill.
In public testimony, the other seven Democrats will likely be reminded that we have no long-term solution for safeguarding radioactive waste. They will likely hear that nuclear plants remain extremely expensive. Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear plant was originally projected to cost $14 billion. It was completed in 2023 at a cost of $36 billion. Other nuclear projects have had similar overruns.
Some Coloradans also remember St. Vrain, the problem-plagued nuclear power plant south of Greeley. It operated from 1976-89. Customers of Public Service Co. of Colorado, now a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, paid $1 a month from 1993 - 2016 to cover the $125 million cost of decommissioning the nuclear plant.
Legislators likely are hearing from Xcel’s lobbyists. It has two nuclear plants in Minnesota. The utility announced in October that it has models showing nuclear delivering 1,000 megawatts of electrical generating capacity within Colorado by 2037. That compares with 750 megawatts from Comanche 3, the coal-fired power plant in Pueblo that Xcel plans to retire by 2031.
A Pueblo task force created by Xcel and local leaders in early 2024 reported that a nuclear power plant was the best
replacement for the jobs and property taxes lost in the transition from coal. Craig, in northwest Colorado, has similarly been hunting for answers to replace jobs and tax base after the last coal plant closes in 2028.
Cheerleaders for nuclear usually ignore the costs. All of the technologies that will get us beyond 90% renewables have the same problem. Their gambles are smaller, though. In Wyoming, Bill Gates has invested in a first-of-its-kind small, modular liquid-metal fast reactor. If successful, these smaller modular reactors would lower the financial risks. The downside? Presumably, the tax base for Pueblo would potentially be far less.
Liston, a retired investment banker, told me he hopes for nuclear costs mirroring the declined cost of computing. That has a certain irony. The predicted explosive growth of data centers provides a key argument for taking nuclear seriously. Xcel has told state regulators it projects it will need 1,923 megawatts of new generation – equivalent to several
coal-fired plants – for large customers by 2031, with 70% of that demand coming from data centers.
How real will this demand be? And who bears the risks of investment in new and still expensive technologies?
I caught up with Sen. Dylan Roberts, D-Steamboat Springs, at a water conference. If adopted, the bill will “allow nuclear to be part of the conversation about Colorado’s energy future,” he said. “It doesn’t obligate the state financially in any way. It doesn’t move anything forward as far as permitting or regulations. It would just say that if we get to a point where it becomes financially viable and a private entity – along with local governments – buys in and decides to pursue this, it would count toward Colorado’s carbon emission reduction goals.” Obviously, he added, conversations must also occur about security and waste.
A crucial difference in this bill – to be offered as an amendment in a committee hearing – is a requirement that nu-
clear pay property taxes similar to coal and other energy producers.
Roberts pointed out that France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy. “As far as I know, nobody is scared of going to France,” he said. “They have found a way to do it and do it safely and responsibly. I’m not saying it has to be part of Northwest Colorado’s energy portfolio or the state’s portfolio, but at least it can be part of the conversation if a bill like this passes.”
I’m not sure that “love is in the air” for nuclear, as Krista Kaer, a columnist in the Denver Post, recently concluded Less-expensive opportunities may arrive in enhanced geothermal, for example. What we do have is sober discussion about the hard work of getting to zero emissions by 2050 while satisfying increased energy demands. That will be harder than closing coal plants by 2030. Allen Best publishes Big Pivots, which chronicles the energy and water transitions in Colorado. For more on this topic, visit Big Pivots.com. ■
Georgia’s Vogtle Units 3 and 4, the first nuclear plants built in the country in decades, went online in 2023-24 at a cost of $36 billion. Nuclear is increasingly being considered to help meet future data center energy needs and clean energy goals. However the costs, financial and environmental, remain serious stumbling blocks. Colorado is considering adding nuclear to its list of “clean” energy sources to meet its 2050 zero-emissions goal./ Photo courtesy Georgia Power
Chugging away
New owners roll up sleeves to spiff up iconic liquor store
by Missy Votel
There’s a new-old face behind the counter at 6th Street Liquor. Former resident and Fort Lewis College graduate Jared Thomson and wife, Amy, bought the venerable downtown “packie” liquor store last month.
“My whole family is from the area,” said Thomson, who grew up in Farmington but had grandparents in Durango. After graduating from FLC, he moved to Seattle, where he met Amy and lived for 16 years prior to moving back to Durango. “We decided to come back to Durango and ended up buying 6th Street Liquor,” he said.
Jared and Amy were bartenders in Seattle, so working in the alcohol industry is nothing new to them.
“We were both bartenders the majority of our adult lives,” Jared said. “We always wanted to be independent business owners, so when we saw this opportunity, we jumped on it.”
Since buying the business from the former absentee owners who lived out of state, Jared has taken up frontof-the-house duties while Amy works behind the scenes on the bookkeeping. (She also has a day job in the medical field).
“She’s the brains, and I’m the brawn,” he said.
And speaking of brawn, they’ve both been rolling up their sleeves organizing, cleaning and generally spiffing up the joint with the help of Jared’s parents, who live in Farmington.
“The wine shelves probably had not been cleaned in 20 years,” Jared quipped. “We’ve been doing a lot of improving, rearranging and brightening it up.”
For Jared, who local music buffs may remember as a
member of the 2000s local hip hop group Dialogue, owning 6th Street is a sort of homecoming for him.
“My dad also went to FLC and lived a block away,” he said. “In the ’70s, he would call the owner, and he would set aside six 30-packs of beer in the back for him and his friends. My dad always had a heartfelt appreciation for that.”
While the days of leaving 30-packs out for the college kids on the honor system may be long gone, Jared said he does not plan to change much about the iconic downtown spot, a 1,000-square-footish repurposed
house. “We plan on keeping it as it is and maybe bring in some new inventory,” he said, adding he welcomes suggestions. “We want to remain friendly to the people who don’t mind the grime.”
And by “grime,” of course he means the generations of built-up, cherished, if not somewhat foggy, memories (stemming at least all the way back to when College Drive was known as “6th Street.”)
“We’re glad to be back and part of the community,” he said. “I’ll be here all day, every day, chugging away.”
(We’re assuming not literally, of course.) ■
Jared and Amy Thomson, new owners of 6th Street Liquor./ Photo by Missy Votel
BetweentheBeats
Selling out (in a good way)
Two nights of Brett, Celtic supergroup and covering R.E.M.
by Stephen Sellers
Greetings, dear readers! RE: A fork in the road. The Telegraph has given me a little bit of leash recently and put me in charge of “efficiencies” around here. Personally, I can’t wait to rinse and spin this whole rag through Chat GPT every week! I hope that my complete lack of editorial experience and general buffoonery are the exact tools needed to get the job done. Thank you for giving me these powers you never actually voted to give me. I’ve truly done nothing to deserve them!
That being said, here are some of Durango’s best shows coming up in the next few weeks – this time typed up from my new sofa bed in the Telegraph office. As always, see you on the [deleted].
• Brett Dennen, Julianne Marqua, Animas City Theatre, Thurs.-Fri., Feb. 13-14, 7 p.m.You’re outdoorsy and laid-back. You dig socially conscious efforts and probably have worn a pair of Toms to either High Sierra or Telluride Bluegrass more than once. You have a soft spot for quirky, high-caliber folk pop. You… are going to see Brett Dennen for at least one night, if not two, this month!
Beloved troubadour Brett Dennen is back at the Animas City Theatre for his eighth annual two-night run in Durango, this time with local chanteuse Julianne Marqua on direct support both nights. Come prepared with your favorite songs to ask Brett to play, as he’s known to crowdsource in Durango from time to time.
• Solas, Community Concert Hall at FLC, Thurs., Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m. - For my shillelaghs, Solas is the greatest Celtic act to ever visit Durango. Shoot, maybe to exist. I first caught the bug through local bandmates in Patrick Crossing, who swore upon Solas’ worldclass talent and charming stage presence. The local Celtic legends weren’t lying. It’s been a minute since their last visit, and you better believe I’ll be front and center at this one.
• KDUR Cover Night: The Music of R.E.M., Animas City Theatre, Sat., Feb. 15, 6 p.m. - A long-storied tradition of the local music scene and
bequeathed from the indefatigable team at KDUR, another sold-out edition of KDUR Cover Night returns to the Animas City Theatre. As is custom, local bands of all shapes, sizes and infamy will take the stage to do their best with the catalog of rock music’s finest. This time, R.E.M. is the guest of honor. Expect mysterious deep cuts and ironclad singles to be belted, reworked and inadvertently set on fire (at least once, I imagine) by the stars of Durango’s live music galaxy. This one goes out to the one I love: R.E.M.
• Cousin Curtiss and Harrison B, Cody Tinnin and Tashi T., Animas City Theatre, Thurs., Feb. 20, 7 p.m. - Cousin Curtiss and Harrison B set their Americana sights on the Animas City Theatre for a night of “blues at bluegrass speeds” and “rock with a soulful drip.” The duo will be paired with Durango’s hottest duo in recent memory (ever?) Cody Tinnin and Tashi T. Tinnin and Tashi first debuted last summer in Silverton and have been working in tandem throughout the fall and winter, playing a mix of individual originals and old-
time classics.
• Maddy O’Neal, Disco Dolly, Animas City Theatre, Fri., Feb. 21, 7 p.m. - You don’t have to put that glow-in-the-dark wig back in the closet quite yet. The Front Range queen of bassy house music, Maddy O’Neal, returns to the Animas City Theatre for one more February dance party. O’Neal has clearly done her homework by inviting up-and-comer Disco Dolly to warm up the dance floor – one of my favorite new DJs in town.
• Sunsquabi, Loop Story, Squoze, Animas City Theatre, Fri.Sat., Feb. 28-Mar. 1, 7 p.m.Sunsquabi is the reigning MVP of Colorado’s live jamtronica scene. Based a few clicks up north in Denver, the trio has been hard at work on their latest EP and is ready to test their new batch of tunes on a handful of Colorado and Utah shows. Having toured with the likes of STS9 as far back as 2017, Sunsquabi now finds themselves as elder statesmen in a thriving ecosystem of recording and touring. Loop Story and Squoze warm up the dancefloor for both nights!
Brett Dennen graces us with his presence for two nights: Thurs., Feb. 13, and Fri., Feb. 14, at the Animas City Theatre./Courtesy photo
FlashinthePan
Thinking outside the pod
Going to the source for the most sublime chocolate you’ll ever have
by Ari LeVaux
Not everyone loves chocolate, but those who do, feel it deeply. My son, Remy, is one of those people. He’s a skilled cook with the ability to think inside the dish he’s preparing. All cooking is an expression of love, but chocolate, more than most foods, confers the feeling of being loved. And for the last several years, Remy has been researching the process by which chocolate is created from raw cacao beans. So when we went to Hawaii a few weeks ago, Remy was ready.
Within minutes of arriving at my friend Ken’s lushly planted property, Remy had an oblong yellow cacao pod gripped firmly in hand, freshly twisted from one of Ken’s trees. He carried it around as he took stock of Ken’s other cacao trees. Long before he’d unpacked his suitcase, Remy had harvested roughly 20 golden pods. Moving with the steadiness of an expert, despite never having touched cacao in his life, Remy opened the pods by whacking them with a hammer. He extracted the seeds, which are covered in a sweet, white, fruity pulp. He then asked Ken for a container in which to ferment the beans. They decided on a sun tea maker, into which they placed the pulpy beans and left it in the sun. For the next few days, we enjoyed the kombucha-like liquor that built up as the pulpy beans fermented. It was fruity, alcoholic and decidedly non-chocolatey, despite being pure cacao.
Although Ken has a grove of cacao trees, he doesn’t bother with the laborious chocolate-making process. Instead, he places the individual seeds in a dehydrator, pulp and all, and dries till crisp. The pulp shrinks down and hardens into a sweet leather that encapsulates the seeds, adding just the right amount of sweetness to balance the bitterness of the cacao bean. If I had cacao trees, I would probably do the same.
But Remy was laser focused on the smooth, refined chocolate you find wrapped in foil, with zero interest in shortcuts or hacks. After several days of fermenting
his beans, he dried and roasted them on cookie sheets in the oven, carefully stewarding them into a rich shade of brown. The transformation was impressive, as the beans developed a deeply fulfilling chocolatey flavor that Ken’s dehydrated beans lacked. Taking note of this, I began my own research.
As Remy had cleaned out Ken’s ripe cacao pods, I visited a nearby self-serve farm stand and grabbed a few, with which I made a batch of Ken-style seeds, but with a twist. Before dehydrating them, I tossed the white pulpy seeds with sugar and vanilla, because nothing brings out the flavor of chocolate like those two. After dehydrating these, I roasted them to add that rich, dark, chocolatey flavor. At this point they were perfect. No further processing necessary. A sweet and vaguely fruity chocolatey snack, as crunchy as a corn flake. I am munching on some as we speak, as I sip my coffee. A more pleasurable and potent combina-
tion of beans does not exist.
Meanwhile, Remy was ready to grind his beans, but there was no cacao grinder in the house. So he used Ken’s coffee grinder, shaking it like a maraca as it spun so as to prevent a paste from building up and sticking to the bottom. It was a generous move by Ken to allow him to use the coffee grinder, which was never the same, to put it mildly. Before that heroic little machine overheated and died, Remy managed to incorporate cocoa butter, sugar and powdered milk and grind it to a smoothness that was probably as silky as we were gonna get without a stone roller to slowly grind away the beans for about 48 hours.
Our chocotourist proceeded to spoon his mixture from the broken-down grinder into a rubber mini ice cube tray and put it in the fridge to harden. A few hours later, we enjoyed some damn good chocolate.
If you want to try any of these diy chocolate methods, finding cacao pods online is significantly cheaper than a trip to Hawaii. But you don’t have to go to anywhere near those lengths to in order to get creative with chocolate. Allow me to introduce my own hack that was created out of necessity one evening when I found myself needing chocolate, but had only cocoa powder. I came up with a little recipe that is so simple and easy that I fear I might have to go into hiding after telling you this, so the Hershey hitmen don’t hunt me down and give me the kiss of death.
I kid you not, people. All you do is combine cocoa powder, heavy cream and sugar – or the sweetener of your choice – and stir until thick and smooth. That’s really it – you have essentially created an instant ganache, with way less effort. Proportions don’t matter, because it’s all to taste. If it’s not sweet enough, add more sweet. If it’s too sweet add more cocoa powder. If it’s too thick add more cream. If it’s too thin add more cocoa and sugar.
If you want to shape this divine paste into a cute animal be my guest, but it will never be finger friendly. This chocolatey goodness is definitely spoon material. ■
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“Crafternoons,” matchbox crafts, 4-5:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Estate Planning 101, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
“Outdoor First Aid Basics,” taught by City Parks Ranger Tosh Black, week two of two-week class, Thurs., Feb. 13, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Durango Rec Center, 2700 Main Ave.
Bike Durango multimodal informational gathering with City Multimodal Manager Devin King, 5:30 p.m., Durango Cyclery, 143 E. 13th St.
Terry Rickard plays, 6 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Book Club: Local and Regional Authors, presented by Durango Public Library, 6-7:30 p.m., Bread, 135 E. 8th St., registration required
Open Mic, 7 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Grieves with Horrorshow (Australia), The Street Sweepers, InFLuSense & DJ Tones, 8 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr.
AskRachel
Prime time, dating for dollars and Star Spangled manner
Interesting fact: Two-thirds of Americans do not know the words to the first verse of the national anthem. In fairness, who knows what a “gleaming” is, anyway?
Dear Rachel,
I am all for cutting off my Amazon account. Screw the billionaires. I’d burn my Tesla in the street if I had one. Except … well … it’s just really inconvenient. I started reading on a Kindle a whole lot of years ago, so all my books are there. And I’m really used to most of my essentials on subscribe and save. Can’t I get principled in another way?
– Prime Dilemma
Dear Unloyal Customer,
I suspect you’ll feel better than you think when you cut yourself off from the free-shipping mindset. Stop ordering online. Shop local. Even better, stop shopping altogether. Cobble together what you need from the earth, and/or your neighbors’ trash bins. Then, only then, will you be free. Plus, you’ll have more money, owing to not spending any of it! Live about 20,000 years like this, and you can join the billionaire class you’re railing against.
– Pinching your pennies, Rachel
Dear Rachel,
I’ve been seeing this woman for a few months now. Honestly, it’s not really working for me. The conversation isn’t that great, and
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Exploring “The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life” by John Bruna, in person book club, 5:30-7 p.m., Wild New Way, 813 Main Ave., Suite 209
Donny Johnson plays, 5:30-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
“Breeding Biology and Populations of BrownHeaded Cowbirds and Their Hosts” hosted by Catherine and Joseph Ortega, 6 p.m., FLC Education and Business Hall, Room 055
Open Mic with Leigh Mikell, 7 p.m., EsoTerra Ciderworks, 558 Main Ave.
Karaoke, 8 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Word Honey Poetry Workshop, 6-7:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Ongoing
“Vintage Visions” artwork by Erin Clyne, thru February, The Recess Gallery at Studio &, 1027 Main Ave.
“Given Time: Sensory Aesthetics of Reclam-
I just don’t see a future together. But she is very well off. I mean, more well off than most people would guess, and they’d guess quite a bit. I find myself wondering how long I can stay. Is this immoral? Am I selling myself? Or am I just choosing security and being spoiled over, you know, love?
– Boy Toy
Dear Plaything,
How much money are we talking here? Because you can’t buy love, but you can sure buy a lot of other things. Wait, what am I saying? Of course you have to choose love. You’ll regret this for the rest of your days if you stay. Granted, you might regret them in obscene luxury and comfort, while the rest of us plebes go down with the Titanic. Oh wait, the rich people went down with the ship, too. Hmm.
– Capsizing, Rachel
Dear Rachel,
Did you watch Jon Batiste play the heck out of the national anthem before the Super Bowl? The internet did predictably internet things, trying to rip him apart for “changing the song” yada yada. Read into the subtext what you will. I think he took a tough piece of music and breathed new life into it. Everything has to be controversial and divisive now, so can we please come together over something like this?
– Donzer Lee Light
ation,” exhibit exploring Indigenous relationships to land, FLC Center of Southwest Studies. Show runs thru April 24, 2025.
“Coffee with Chris” meet LPEA’s new CEO Chris Hansen, Thurs., Feb 20, 10-11:30 a.m., Pine River Library
Hiking and Backpacking Essentials, presented by City Parks Ranger Tosh Black, Thurs., Feb. 20, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Durango Rec Center
Spanish Conversation Hour, Thurs., Feb. 20, 5:306:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Write Your Own Obituary workshop, Thurs., Feb. 20, 6-8 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave., registration required
Standup Comedy Open Mic Night, Thurs., Feb. 20, 7-9 p.m., Sunflower Theatre, 8 E. Main St., Cortez
“The Shape of What Remains” by Lisa C. Taylor, book talk and author event, Fri., Feb. 21, 5 p.m., Hand-inHand Books and Bottles, 128 Grand Ave., Mancos
Email Rachel at
Dear Red Glare,
You know what we need? We need performers to play it straight, the traditional way – with all four verses of the original poem, the way God, the founders and Willie Nelson intended it. By the time it’s done, we won’t even have to have a Super Bowl, baseball game or whatever was supposed to come next. The lack of commercials might lead to sponsored verses, though. “Oh, Amazon sale, get discounts on bulk goooooods.”
– José can you see, Rachel
Larry Carver & The Rando Zone plays, Fri., Feb. 21, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Agave plays, Fri. Feb. 21, 7-10 p.m., The Tangled Horn, 275 E. 8th Ave.
“Cabin Fever Party” featuring Farmington Hill, Fri., Feb. 21, 7 p.m., Ska Brewing, 128 Girard St.
Maddy O’Neal with Since JulEYE & Disco Dolly, Fri., Feb. 21, 8 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr.
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FreeWillAstrology
by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Love requires stability and steadiness. But it also needs unpredictability and imaginativeness. The same with friendship. Without creative touches from routine, even strong alliances can atrophy into dutifulness. With this in mind, I offer quotes to inspire your quest to keep togetherness fertile and flourishing. 1. “Love has no rules except those we invent, moment by moment.” – Anaïs Nin. 2. “The essence of love is invention. Lovers should always dream and create their own world.” – Jorge Luis Borges. 3. “A successful relationship requires falling in love many times, always with the same person, but never in quite the same way.” – Mignon McLaughlin.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In celebration of the Valentine season, I suggest you get blithely unshackled in your approach to love. Be loose, limber and playful. To stimulate romantic and intimate qualities, I offer you these quotes: 1. “Love is the endless apprenticeship of two souls daring to be both sanctuary and storm for one another.” – Rainer Maria Rilke 2. “Love is the revolution in which we dismantle the prisons of our fear, building a world where our truths can stand naked and unashamed.” – Audre Lorde. 3. “Love is the rebellion that tears down walls within and between us, making room for the unruly beauty of our shared becoming.” – Adrienne Rich.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To honor the rowdy Valentine spirit, I invite you to either use the following passage or compose one like it, then offer it to a willing recipient: “Be my thunderclap, my cascade of shooting stars. Be my echo across the valley, my rebel hymn, my riddle with no answer. Be my just-beforeyou-wake-up-dream. Be my tectonic shift. Be my black pearl, my vacation from gloom and doom, my forbidden dance. Be my river-song in F major, my wild-eyed prophet, my moonlit debate, my infinite possibility. Be my trembling, blooming, spiraling and soaring.”
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote, “The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all.” One of those strange jewels in you is emerging from its hiding place. Any day now, it will reveal at least some of its spectacular beauty – to be followed by more in the subsequent weeks. Are you ready to be surprised by your secret self? Are your beloved allies ready? A bloom this magnificent could require adjustments. You and yours may have to expand your horizons together.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2025, togetherness will inspire you to achieve unexpected accomplishments. Companionship and alliances may even stir up destiny-changing developments. To get you primed, I offer these quotes: 1. “Love is a trick that nature plays on us to achieve the impossible.” – William Somerset Maugham. 2. “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.” – Tom Robbins. 3. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Yet each day reveals new constellations in our shared sky.” – Emily Brontë.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Psychotherapist Robin Norwood wrote that some people, mostly women, give too much love and kindness. They neglect their own selfcare as they attend to others. They may even provide nurturing and support to those who don’t appreciate it or return the favor. Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh expressed a different perspective. She wrote, “No one has ever loved anyone too much. We just haven’t learned yet how to love enough.” What’s your position on this issue, Virgo? It’s time to come to an understanding of how much giving is correct for you.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you ready to express your affection with exuberance? Now would be an excellent time. I dare you to give the following words, composed by poet Pablo Neruda, to a person who will be receptive to them. “You are the keeper of my wildest storms, the green shoot splitting the stone of my silence. Your love wraps me in galaxies, crowns me with the salt of the sea, and fills my lungs with the language of the earth. You are the voice of the rivers, the crest of the waves, the pulse of the stars. With every word you speak, you unweave my solitude and knit me into eternity.”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Among its potential gifts, astrology can raise our awareness of the cyclical nature of life. When used well, it helps us know when there are favorable times to enhance and upgrade specific areas of our lives. For example, in coming weeks, you Scorpios could make progress on building a strong foundation for love. You will rouse sweet fortune for yourself and those you care for if you infuse your best relationships with extra steadiness and stability.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I want you to be moved by intimacy and friendships that buoy your soul, inspire your mind and pique your sense of adventure. To boost the likelihood they will flow your
way in coming weeks, I offer you these quotes. 1. “Love is a madness so discreet that we carry its delicious wounds for a lifetime as if they were precious gems.” – Federico García Lorca. 2. “Love is not a vacation from life. It’s a parallel universe where everything ordinary becomes extraordinary.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 3. “Where there is love there is life. And where there is life, there is mischief in the making.” –my Sagittarius friend Artemisia.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Every intimate alliance is unique, has its own rules and shouldn’t be compared to any standard. This is a key theme for you right now. Below are helpful quotes. 1. “Each couple’s love story is a language only they can speak, with words only they can define.” – Federico Fellini. 2. “In every true marriage, each serves as guide and companion to the other toward a shared enlightenment that no one else could possibly share.” – Joseph Campbell. 3. “The beauty of marriage is not in its uniformity but in how each couple writes their own story, following no map but the one they draw together.” – Isabel Allende. 4. “Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different, and each one is beautiful.” – Maggie Reyes.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Borrowing the words of Aquarian author Virginia Woolf, I’ve prepared a love note for you to use as your own. Feel free to give to the person whose destiny needs to be woven more closely with yours. “You are the tide that sweeps through the corridors of my mind, a wild rhythm that fills my empty spaces with the echo of eternity. You are the unspoken sentence in my every thought, the shadow and the light interwoven in the fabric of my being. You are the pulse of the universe pressing against my skin, the quiet chaos of love that refuses to be named. You are my uncharted shore.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Love, intimacy and togetherness are fun. But they’re also hard work – especially if you want to make the fun last. This will be your specialty in coming months. I’ve assembled quotes to inspire you. 1. “The essence of marriage is not that it provides a happy ending, but that it provides a promising beginning – and then you keep beginning again, day after day.” – Gabriel García Márquez. 2. “The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. But those who follow the art of creating it day after day come closest to discovering it.” – Pearl Buck. 3. “Love is a continuous act of forgiveness.” – Maya Angelou. 4. “In the best of relationships, daily rebuilding is a mutual process. Each partner helps the other grow.” – Virginia Satir
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