Sensi Magazine Colorado - March 2021

TUNES FOR THE TRIP

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C O LO R A D O MARCH 2021

LIGHTING THE PATH

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FOR THE RECORD

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FEATURE

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From Reefer Man to Method Man

For Sensi’s first ever music issue, we celebrate—what else?—the eternal relationship between ganja and the groove.

DEPARTMENTS

17 EDITOR’S NOTE 30 THE LIFE Contributing to your health and happiness 18 THE BUZZ LET IT GLOW A new skin News, tips, and tidbits to keep you in the loop SOBER JOLT Optimist Drinks’ nonalcoholic success story JAVA TREAT A nondairy CBD creamer SPA IN A BOTTLE Enjoy these sensual herbal products.

I LOVE HUE Download this color app.

STRANGE BREW Sip this mix of kombucha and beer.

INTO THE VORTIC Taking timepieces to a new level ROUND NUMBERS Pi day is coming.

CBD GOODIES Enjoy your hemp.

LISTEN UP These speakers and headphones will blow your mind.

TRAIL MAGIC An outdoor brand hawks CBD.

care routine will take the edge off winter.

ONLY NATURAL Medicine’s future is plant-based.

VINYL APPEAL Dig in to the enduring charm of our record collections.

TRIP TRACK Be your own personal psychedelic DJ. HOROSCOPE What the stars hold for you in March

56 THE SCENE Hot happenings and hip hangouts around town

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WAITING ON A FRIEND

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LIFELONG LOSER How your parents affect your diet.

FRESH TUNES Our picks for 2021’s best music so far.

70 THE END Jeff Tweedy headlines the Bluebird Music Festival.

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NEVADA Stephanie Wilson Co-Founder + Editor in Chief Abi Wright Market Director stephanie.wilson@sensimag.com Doug Schnitzspahn Executive Editor NEW ENGLAND doug.schnitzspahn@sensimag.com Richard Guerra Market Director Robyn Griggs Lawrence Editor at Large Jenna Scandone Media Sales Executive John Lehndorff Dining Editor MICHIGAN Helen Olsson Copy Chief Jamie Cooper Market Director Ernie Butcher Media Sales Executive Amelia Arvesen, Jedd Ferris, Julie Raque, Chelsea Carter Media Sales Executive Katherine Rothman, Mona Van Joseph Kile Miller Media Sales Executive Contributing Writers Leah Stephens Media Sales Executive Constance Taylor Media Sales Executive MANAGING EDITORS

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The music we listen to can take us back, and

it can propel us forward. Take, for example, this anecdotal story about the very first time I ever got high: It was a clear black night with a clear white moon, and I was a sophomore in high school in New Hampshire. My two BFFs (to this day!) and I were rolling to a haunted house with this girl named Liz Dube—pronounced, no lie, just like the doobie bestie #1 pulled out of her pocket, sparked up, and passed to me at the same time the human Dube put G Funk Era on the CD player. To this day, more than two decades later, when I hear the opening beat of Warren G’s “Regulate” ft.

Nate Dogg, I feel a little lifted.

Music is powerful. As the summer draws near and the vaccines roll out, I get evermore hopeful that concerts will return to our calendars. For me, concerts are therapeutic—getting lost in the music is almost essential for my mental well-being. Standing in the middle of a crowd in front of a band you love, singing along to songs that move you, shoulder-to-shoulder with people who love the band just as much and who are singing just as loud—that’s an immersive, all-engulfing experience that touches my senses and wells up my emotions.

Seeing a video of a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre inspired me to pack up everything I owned into my Fiat 500 and move across the country to Denver back in 2016.

When I saw the crowd bouncing between the towering rocks, singing and dancing in unison with the band, whose energy radiated from the stage, I wanted to be there.

Needed to be there, to be in the middle of it, to be swallowed up by the experience. I yearned to add my energy to the currents rolling through the audience, transforming the crowd into a community. That communal energy is one of the things I have missed the most over the last year, and I can’t wait to welcome it back into my life.

That’s the type of energy we tried to capture in this issue—an ode to the transformative power of music. To the soundtracks of our lives. I hope this issue inspires you to add some new tracks to yours.

And I hope we’ll be singing together at Red Rocks in no time at all.

As the summer draws near and the vaccines roll out, I get evermore hopeful that concerts will return to our calendars.

For me, concerts are therapeutic— getting lost in the music is almost essential for my mental well-being.

Until then,

Stephanie Wilson @stephwilll

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Year of the Optimist A botanical spirit line that’s free of alcohol and full of flavor.

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Optimist Drinks Founders Tommy Johnstone and Lisa Farr Johnstone never intended to launch their line of distilled botanical non-alcoholic spirits during a global pandemic and time of immense social upheaval, but as 2020 wore on the name and mission of the company took on an even more urgent significance. The husband and wife duo identified a common issue among their social circle—alcohol was so synonymous with socializing that “not drinking” had become a barrier that was stopping people from connecting. They set out to create craft, clean and complex beverages that would enable social connection by giving people the freedom to experiment with their drinking rituals without compromising their mental or physical wellbeing.

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flavor but without alcohol. Their initial product offering, Optimist Botanicals, is entirely free of alcohol, sugar, sodium, carbs, calories, and additives, allowing sober curious gourmands and health-conscious consumers to enjoy a delicious craft spirit without compromising their mental or physical wellbeing.

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BROAD SPECTRUM CBD OIL The Healing Rose’s hemp-derived CBD oil is the perfect addition to your morning routine or a great way to end the day.

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Color Me Happy If you’re the type of person who likes colors or who likes order, here’s a recommendation. Bonus points if you like color and order.

Download “I Love Hue,” available on the App Store and on Google Play. It’s a “gentle journey into color and perception” that involves putting blocks of varying hues into order, and it’s simultaneously calming and addicting. Don’t just take my word for it: Sensi’s creative director downloaded it and sent me this note the next morning: “I love it. I love the soft, quiet music that plays in the background when I’m building a perfect and beautiful screen, and I love the pure satisfaction and sense of joy I feel once I put together the perfect palette.” And she hadn’t even gotten to the level where the app rewards you with compliments, calling you a magnificent unicorn and iridescent moonbeam. i-love-hue.com

STRANGE BREW Combine a mother mushroom and hops and you get a drink that blends the best of kombucha and beer.

Kombucha is that increasingly popular drink that owes its probiotic properties and tangy taste to a mother fungus. Beer is, well, you know. Kombucha can contain small amounts of alcohol due to fermentation, and it also mixes well into a cocktail, but Unity Vibration has taken the pairing one step further with its kombucha beers. They combine the healthy tonic with organic hops and fruit flavors ranging from ginger to peaches to elderberries to create a concoction that’s easy to sip. Just be prepared: it packs a whopping 8 to 9.1 percent ABV. The Bourbon Peach is the beer snob’s favorite, and the Raspberry is a crowd pleaser.

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What if I told you I feel like I know you, but we never met?”

—Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers in “Punisher”

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GOING BACK IN TIME

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Vortic is taking vintage timepieces to a new level.

Vortic Watch Company is a small-batch, vintage timepiece restoration company headquartered in Southern Colorado. Vortic offers several wrist watch lines: American Artisan, Railroad Edition, Military Edition, and Red Rocks Edition. You can also have your own timepiece custom-made from your own family’s heirlooms with the “convert your watch” program.

Each line is unique, from the American Artisan pieces made from upcycled parts to the Railroad Edition’s removable bezel and other features. The newest line, Military Edition, features meticulously restored AN5740-1 pocket watches, which were commissioned by the United States government at the beginning of World War II. The originals were designed to withstand altitude as they were utilized by navigators on bomber aircrafts including B-17s and B-29s, equipped as stop watches, used as location devices, and made to meet very clear specifications to ensure the navigators would always have accurate time.

Timepieces steeped in American culture combined with the Vortic promise to preserve history through truly refined and unique watches sets them apart.

Round Numbers Every March 14, math nerds and bakers rejoice in celebrating the most unlikely of shared holidays: Pi Day. Celebrated on 3/14, the day recognizes two of humankind’s most miraculous discoveries: the sweet combination of baked fruit, custard, and crust and the infinite numeric constant of 3.14159. A respite from the emotion and expectation of traditional holidays, partaking in Pi Day is a lighthearted break in the action. Seriously, easy as pie.

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Below is the playlist I had on repeat while making Sensi’s first-ever music edition.

1 REBELS by Call Me Karizma 2 MOTOR MOUTH by Kai Straw 3 GRATEFUL by Spencer Sutherland 4 GUILLOTINE by Mansionair x NoMBe 5 MYSTERY LADY by Masego and Don Toliver 6 TOPDOWN by Channel Tres 7 PURPLE HAT by Sofi Tukker 8 PUMP THE BREAK by morgxn 9 ALL THAT by Emotional Oranges 10 BROKEN PEOPLE by almost monday 11 WHO’S GOT THE WEED by G. Love & Special Sauce 12 CAN’T BE HAPPIER by SJ & Sugar Jesus feat. Goldford

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

—William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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Treat yourself with chocolates, teas, gummies, and balms.

FX Zen Chocolate: Hemp-infused chocolates give you zen vibes without a high. Each THC-free treat contains 5 mg of calming cannabinoids and dark chocolate with no sugar. $20 per box Purity Organic CBD Sleep Chamomile Tea: Unwind for the night with this blend of organic chamomile tea, lavender, and CBD in ready-to-brew tea bags designed to promote relaxation. $25 per box Defy Perform CBD Muscle Balm: Make massages better with this roll-on balm containing 800 mg CBD, 10 percent menthol, and 5 percent camphor to soothe muscles, reduce pain, and speed recovery. $50 AmourCBD Gummies: Chew these 10 mg CBD gummies to reduce pain—or even take the edge off your anxiety. All are 100 percent THC free and come in real fruit flavors. $37 Identity CBD Topical Oil: Wonder what the gifts of the Magi smelled like? This cinnamon and myrrh-infused CBD roll-on is a close approximation.

Use for pain, massages, and relaxation. $30 Pure Craft CBD Water Soluble Tincture: Made with Nanotechnology, these water soluble tinctures are among the most absorbable and bioavailable on the market. They dissolve 10 times faster than leading CBD brands. $95–$145

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THE BUZZ

LISTEN UP

How much you enjoy your music depends on how you hear it. These are Sensi’s picks for the best speakers and headphones we’ve tested in 2021.

HEADPHONES

Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 With so many options on the market, it’s tough to say that one single set of headphones rises above the rest—until you try these. Sleek and comfortable on your skull, they deliver sound that’s so full it’s almost tangible. Eleven settings (Nigel Tufnel be praised!) let you dial in the amount of noise canceling you want, from none at all (smart for when you’re walking on city streets) to full-on (perfect for tuning out all the drama of being stuck at home). $380 / bose.com IN-EAR HEADPHONES

NuraLoop These easy-to-wear in-ear headphones are truly in your head—they adapt to your hearing. Say what? That’s right. They actually send sound into your eardrum that then informs the system about the best way to play for your individual hearing. The result is bass that hits the back of your brain and sharp clarity on every note.

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Crosley Switch II Entertainment System A throwback to the days when a record player was the center of the musical $199 / nuraphone.com experience, Crosley’s practical system oozes retro cool and still cranks out SPEAKER pleasant sound. A belt drive keeps those JBL Party Box 300 45s and LPs spinning, and this set will add This sturdy, portable Bluetooth speaker turns any space into a mini-rave thanks to a groovy feel to any room—even when it’s a light system that synchronizes colors to not playing. the beat—and three settings mean you can $170 / crosleyradio.com pick up or slow down the tempo. Beyond the optics, it pumps out clean sound and runs on a rechargeable battery that keeps the party going for up to 18 hours. $400 / jbl.com

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Logitech Z313 Speaker System with Subwoofer This compact speaker and subwoofer set delivers deep, crisp sound and hooks up to a wide range of devices—from your laptop to your smartphone to your TV—as long as they have a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It’s the ideal music system for a workstation if you want to share tunes with your office mates, or, as things go in the days of COVID-19, if you just want to have your own private dance party in between deadlines. $50 / logitech.com

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An outdoor brand goes all in with CBD products meant to soothe hikers’ aches and pains.

Outdoor activities cause sore muscles. CBD is said to relieve pain. Even though the outdoor industry has dabbled in the cannabidiol market for a few years, it wasn’t until this year that a dedicated outdoor brand contributed its own formulations to the billion-dollar category.

In January, Kelty launched a collection of pain-relief salves, after-sun lotions, and antibacterial and itch-relief sprays for outdoorists. The longtime Colorado-based maker of tents, sleeping bags, and other outdoor gear sees the new CBD offerings as a natural brand progression.

“At Kelty, we’re all about spontaneous adventures, getting outside, goofing around, and having fun. But playing outside often comes with its own set of

of regulation of cannabidiol, but a new bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives in February would allow hempderived CBD to be marketed and sold as a dietary supplement. If passed, it could also lead the US Food and Drug Administration to establish a regulatory framework.

CBD made its debut on a large scale to the outdoor industry—a nearly $800 billion business— in 2018, when manufacturers exhibited at Outdoor Retailer, the industry’s largest trade show, and now numerous athletes, from ultrarunners to surfers, are sponsored by CBD brands.

Specialty outdoor retailers stock topicals and capsules. And Kelty has set a direct-to-consumer precedent. Which outdoor brands will enter the market next?

challenges in the form of aches and pains,” says Russell Rowell, Kelty senior vice president and general manager. “Thanks to our new CBD products, we now offer another tool to help you go farther, higher, and faster—and to bounce back more quickly when you do.”

To create research-based formulas, Kelty consulted Arizona-based pharmaceutical producer e2e Pharma to formulate the new line of THCfree products. The collection is available at kelty.com/CBD. Financially, it’s a strategic move.

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Let it Glow Create a new skin care routine to combat the havoc harsh winter air is wreaking on your complexion.

TEXT KATHERINE ROTHMAN

When winter rolls around and the temperature drops, everyone winterizes their wardrobes, homes, and even their makeup. But people often neglect their most important shield from the icy months of winter: their skin.

Skin is the body’s natural barrier from harmful agents in the air, and it should be treated with the care it deserves.

The combination of exposure to cold, windy air outdoors and the dry heat indoors can leave skin looking scaly and blotchy. Flaky, dry, irritated skin doesn’t have to be the norm every winter.

We enlisted the expertise of Dr. Manish H. Shah, a board-certified plastic surgeon with a private practice near Cherry Creek. Follow the docapproved SOS game plan and bypass the chapped, scaly misery of the season with

sound appealing, but you should avoid soaking very long in water that’s toasty and steaming.

Water can strip the skin of its natural oils. The hotter the bath, the more the skin loses moisture, leaving it flaky and easily cracked. “Use lukewarm or cool water when washing your face and Prep Your Home The drier the air, the dri- showering, and avoid exer the skin. To maximize treme hot or cold,” Shah suggests. “Also, keep the amount of water showers at a maximum in the air, Shah recommends placing a humid- of 10 minutes, and then pat yourself dry with a ifier in the room where towel rather than rubyou spend the most bing, as it will leave some time, which, in many water on your skin for cases, is the bedroom. added hydration.”

“A cool mist humidifier increases the moisture Switch Your Moisturizer level in the air,” Shah says, helping the skin’s One of the most important and commonly barrier stay hydrated. overlooked steps is In addition, be sure the heat is kept on low or at changing to a seriously a moderate temperature hydrating moisturizer.

“Look for creams, rather to avoid extra dryness. than lotions, that are made with ceramides Wash Your Face with and hyaluronic acid,” Lukewarm Water Shah says. Ceramides Cold winter nights can aid in the prevention of make a hot bubble bath these smart, easy skincare switch ups. Small tweaks to your daily skin-care routine will work wonders to repair any damage winter has already ravaged and get you prepped to, ahem, face the rest of the harshest season.

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the skin’s barrier, which is easily broken down during the winter. For patients with severely chapped faces, slather on a generous amount of product, morning and night.

Exfoliate Once a Week It’s nearly impossible to look flawless in the winter without exfoliating. Slathering on extra moisturizer will work effectively only if you get rid of the dead cells on the dermis, or top layer of your skin. Otherwise the cream will not penetrate the skin for maximum hydration.

“Because the winter cold leaves skin dryer than usual, the flaky buildup on the surface of the skin causes skin to appear dull,” Shah says.

Exfoliating with a nonabrasive product once or twice a week will allow moisture to penetrate the skin more easily, yielding more supple and radiant skin.

Change Your Face Wash The change to drier, colder air calls for milder skin products.

In the winter, your skin craves more nourishment when it’s cold out, so skip products with alcohol or antibacterial soaps, as they tend to strip moisture from the skin. Instead, opt for

milder, soap-free products. Shah recommends changing from gel and foam cleansers to a richer milk cleanser and from a light summery moisturizer to a thicker nourishing cream.

Sleep Easy If you’ve been losing sleep lately, your skin will surely show it. Getting plenty of rest can benefit your skin far more than a slew of expensive products. Skimping on sleep can leave your usually rosy skin looking dull and sallow, not to mention the dark circles that will develop under your eyes. To keep your face looking radiant, Shah recommends

One of the most important and commonly overlooked steps to winter skin care is changing to a seriously hydrating moisturizer.

getting at least eight hours of sleep a night.

Keep Using Sunscreen One of the greatest misconceptions is that the sun isn’t as strong in winter, and thus it won’t damage your skin. “The sun may not feel as strong in the winter because the air is cold, but the harmful UVA rays are still in full effect,” Shah says.

UVA light is the main culprit for long-term skin damage and premature aging of the skin. Make sure the sunscreen you’re using protects against UVA rays, especially if you ski, snowboard, or engage in other outdoor activities for extended periods of time.

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Only Natural Medicine’s future is plant-based.

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has changed and shifted drastically over the past 5,000 years. With the mass availability of information, humans have become educated in the world of medicine and empowered to choose the practices to which

they wish to subscribe.

We’ve relied primarily on Western medicine and pharmaceuticals, but we can expect plant-based remedies to play a role in health trends in the year to come as people incorporate holistic healing

practices into their daily regimens as preventative and retroactive measures.

People will look to the root cause of disease, not just symptoms.

Often when people fall ill, they look to treat

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what they consider the worst part of their illness—the symptoms they’re experiencing—as quickly as possible. People are starting to understand that they need to solve the root cause of a disease rather than superficial symptoms.

With information readily accessible, people can understand why they may be feeling a certain way and what they can do to prevent an illness moving forward. More than ever, people are looking toward how active they are, vitamins and minerals, nutrients, and diet to uncover what’s causing their symptoms. They will, in turn, be invested in learning about how different plant-based

remedies address both symptoms and root causes, and how these can lead them on a path to better health and wellness overall.

People will look to natural remedies before pharmaceuticals.

Botanic remedies have been providing relief for thousands of years.

While the pharmaceutical industry has focused on isolating, synthesizing, and patenting specific chemicals and molecular compounds, alternative remedies employ natural treatments stemming from the plant kingdom. People now understand the harm an antibiotic can do to your gut flora, digestive

system, and kidneys, especially if it is interacting with another antibiotic in your system.

Many will look to herbs, spices, fruits, and vegetables to ease symptoms and issues such as anxiety, sleeplessness, mood swings, and adrenal fatigue before reaching for the medicine cabinet.

interact adversely with your kidneys and liver, a difficult trade-off for someone looking to alleviate a headache. Topicals allow you to target a certain area and reapply as necessary, making them a more appropriate treatment for acute pain.

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People will look toward other cultures.

Consumers will More people are looking experiment with to ancient Eastern and different methods.

Ayurvedic principles to There are less invasive figure out why they may ways to treat things like be feeling the way they pain and sore muscles are and how to treat it. than popping IbuproBoth ancient Chinese fen or acetaminophen, and Ayurvedic medicine including cannabipractices utilize plants noid-based topicals, in their healing stratlotions, tinctures, and egies and emphasize inhalants. Over-thebalance between mind, counter pain relievers can body, and spirit.

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Vinyl Appeal A public and personal history of the rise, fall, and resurgence of records.

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TEXT DAWN GARCIA

The Birth of Vinyl In 1877, Thomas Edison created what was known as the cylinder phonograph. While wonderful, there was no real way to mass produce it. But Emile Berliner created the mass-production flat phonograph record in the late 1880s. Berliner was able to tap methods used in a printing press to create audio recordings. As his access to enough funds presented a growth issue, he partnered with Eldridge Johnson, who would eventually take over, leaving Berliner on the outs. Johnson proved a

formidable partner who had strong relationships and access to capital. As a result, Johnson took over Berliner’s patents, pushing out any other competitors. He successfully launched the Consolidated Talking Machine Company, renamed in 1901 as Victor Talking Company, making his phonographs the most successful on the market.

Johnson grew the business through aggressive advertising. Inspired by British painter Francis Barraud, he adopted the recognizable iconic dog-and-phono-

graph logo, purchasing neath to store records the US usage rights to it. and accessories. By By the end of 1901, the 1906, he was marketing logo became synonythe new Victor-Victromous with innovative la to the wealthy at a listening devices. As the steep price tag of $200 industry became more (which in today’s market inundated with comis around $5,000). To petitors, Johnson (now his (and his employees’) referred to as Victor afsurprise, the Victroter his products) spent la was a hit and would too much time fighting be mass distributed by patent infringements by 1907. Having sold 15,000 competing businesses.

Victrolas at $200, the Those battles, however, company was primed for led him to further inno- growth and new models. vation when, in 1904, he Fast forward more began design on a new, than 100 years, and less massive turntable Victrola is still holding that was sleeker, had strong, adapting to the clearer sound, and inmodern market with cluded a cabinet underretro designs as a nod to M A R C H 2021

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its humble beginnings and implementing technology such as Bluetooth speakers.

How Vinyl Formed Our (Gen X) Childhood Those who remember the days when going to clubs meant the DJ was spinning records that weren’t plugged into their iPhones or laptops know that nothing quite compares to the feel and sound of a vinyl record. In spite of 2021 technology that blows our minds with kickass headphones, wireless sound systems, and the like, once upon a time in the 1980s, we misfit kids were stoked to get down with LPs and turntables.

Records were rad and we knew it—even if CD sales were starting to dominate.

We listened to our music on our parents’ old record players from the ’60s and ’70s. We were obsessed with John Hughes movies, The Breakfast Club, and bands like the Sex Pistols, Run DMC, and the

still dominating. In an article in Billboard magazine, an exec for United Record Pressing comments on the misconception of vinyl sales in the ’90s. “The seven-inch vinyl jukebox was [still] huge. And from my time working at labels at that point, I always duced me to Black SabBeastie Boys, and vinyl had stacks of 12-inch bath and Iron Butterfly. gave us an edge. We My mom introduced me singles behind my desk. were retro before we Most radio stations were to Carole King and The even knew it was cool.

Supremes. Music became using 12-inch singles, Turntables became our every birthday party DJ, the one thing I loved preferred mode of exevery roller rink, every pression and, thankfully, more than anything, particularly when played discotheque, and record our parents were onstores in general.” board (probably because on old-school turntaFast forward. Over they felt like their gener- bles. I’d head over to my the last few years, Gen ation was finally appreci- grandparents where my Z has taken a liking to grandma would introated and understood).

Crosley and Victrola Our record collections duce me to old Mexiportable turntables, and can love songs and my began growing, includgrandfather would teach young people own LPs. ing classics like Dylan, In fact the RIAA Music The Beatles, The Doors, me about the soul of Industry Revenue StaLatin beats. My othZeppelin, and a hearty tistics reported that, in er grandparents would dose of Barbra (hey, 2018, vinyl record sales Streisand still rules). But listen to the crooners— and I loved every part of were up 8 percent with bands such as Depeche $419 million in sales. No it. My sisters and I will Mode, The Smiths, Vione imagined that the never forget when we olent Femmes, and of pandemic would boost got Michael Jackson’s course the killer intro vinyl record sales, yet to Ice-T, NWA, Wu Tang Thriller album in 1982 last year, 27.5 million and turned our parents Klan, and The Fugees LPs sold in the United into fans. We played were infiltrating our States with a 46 perthat album so much, young minds with full cent increase over 2019. albums, rare singles, and we literally wore it out.

It seems vinyl records secret finds. Penny Lane When MTV played the have made a comeback, video, we’d hurry to the in Venice changed our turntable to keep up the and as a product of world; Tower Records the 1980s with teenage momentum, put on the lured us with crazy colchildren who asked for album, and perfect our lectibles; and Amoeba turntables and vinyls as Music ate up any money best zombie moves. gifts this year? I can say By the 1990s, record we were saving. that the vinyl record is sales were beginning to My parents gave in indeed hot. How gnarly show signs of waning, and let me borrow their is that? but vinyl singles were albums. My dad introM A R C H 2021

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Be Your Own Personal DJ Only you know the best soundtrack for your psychedelic journey.

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When you drink ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon, the shamans chant songs to orchestrate your experience, in every sense of the word. Known as icaros, the songs amplify your visions and drive the medicine deep into where you need it most.

Humans have known for centuries that music is the wind beneath the psychonaut’s wings, a tool that both fuels and helps to navigate sacred plant and fungi journeys. From the music that accompanied ancient Aztec mushroom and cacao ceremonies to Dead shows at the Fillmore, a great playlist is essential to a great trip.

Psychedelic therapists have been making playlists for therapy sessions since the earliest LSD experiments, and you can find a lot of them on Spotify and YouTube, along with current offerings from the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Conscious Research and many others (search “psychedelic therapy playlist,” “psilocybin playlist,” “LSD playlist,” or “MDMA playlist”). You can even find recordings of Maria Sabina, the first Mexican curandera to allow Westerners into psilocybin mushroom rituals in the 1950s. A little caution, however: Sabina was exploited by Americans and then persecuted

If you’re ready to take control of your own musical destiny in the cosmos, here are things to keep in mind as you make your playlist.

tions in depression. He found that the wrong music can be distracting and • Lean away from vocals and toward instrumake for a gobstopping mental music, chanting, or a collection of trip, amplifying feelings sounds. If you include songs with words, of resistance and negative look for lyrics in an unfamiliar language. emotions. His app, Wave• Stay away from jarring or discordant paths, allows therapists tunes or songs with unpredictable rhythm and patients to make their changes. own musical sequences, • Use calm music in the early stages to create leaving out anything that a sense of rest and safety. might bring up unwel• Alternate intense and calm tracks during come memories or resisthe peak stages. tance. Triggered by classi• Include emotionally evocative music only cal music? Brahms Sonata during peak stages. in B never has to be a part • Pay close attention to how songs transition of your journey. into each other.

Curating your own • Provide continuous music with minimal soundtrack for tripping is interruption. the best way. If you need • Emphasize variety. inspiration or guidance, • Use a high-quality source of music Helen L. Bonny and Walproduction. ter N. Pahnke, researchers at the Maryland Psychiscientist who calls music atric Center in Baltimore, by the people in her vilpublished a template for lage for her generosity, so “the hidden therapist.” selecting and structuring I’m not sure I would bring In an article about the that into my sacred space. playlist, Kaelen explains: psychedelic playlists in 1972 that therapists still “The idea here is to creThe Johns Hopkins follow today. Their seate a sense of ebb and Center’s playlist follows the formula established in flow that the participant quencing flows like this: the 1960s, heavy on West- can feel as a series of ten- • Pre-onset (0 to 1½ hours): quiet, neutral ern classical music. If that sion-and-release expe• Onset (1½ to 2 hours): riences. A playlist with just doesn’t do it for you, melodic, rhythmic the Multidisciplinary As- multiple peaks can also • Building toward peak help to titrate the expesociation for Psychedelic intensity (2 to 3½ rience and keep it from Studies (MAPS) offers hours): long, flowing getting too intense; peritwo playlists for MDphrases and dynamic MA-assisted psychother- ods of relief are built in.” crescendos In his own practice, apy featuring ethnic and • Peak intensity (3½ to Kaelen’s patients didn’t New Age music, and the 4 hours): powerful, Chacruna Institute’s psi- respond well to Western strongly structured locybin playlist on Spotify classical music. He plays • Re-entry (4 to 7 features indie, new wave, music that is personally hours): lighter, familiar meaningful to each perand rock. son, which results in more • Return to normal conThe Chacruna playsciousness (7 to 12 hours): list was developed by Dr. positive experiences and your favorite tunes.

Mendel Kaelen, a neuro- more significant reduc-

TUNING IN A recent study published in the Journal of Music Therapy found music integral for meaningful emotional and imagery experiences and self-exploration during psychedelic therapy.

“Music could convey love, carry listeners to other realms, be something to ‘hold,’ inspire, and elicit a deep sense of embodied transformation,” the authors wrote.

“Therapeutic influence was especially evident in music’s dichotomous elicitations: Music could simultaneously anchor and propel.”

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friends, body, mind, and place JULY 23–AUG. 22 on your spiritual path. Be fas- LEO You’ve been dancing around cinated with all the events un- There will be a financial a relationship that you know folding for you. Your authentic shift that will get your atis not healthy or committed love is showing you your path. tention. It may be about reto you. This could be work or financing your home or getpersonal or both. It’s time for MAY 21–JUNE 20 ting your taxes done early. you to decide where you want GEMINI Something in that process to be as of July—because it You finally know that some- gets your attention. won’t be where you are now. thing connected with work is not working for you. It’s time AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 MAR. 21–APR. 19 to either let go of the job or VIRGO ARIES let go of the emotional bur- Recent events have given Your power is what you know. den that’s connected with you clear focus about your A project will present itself future. You are willing to do work. You are worth more. that you have earned the abilthe work to make that fiveity to engage and negotiate. JUNE 21–JULY 22 year plan a reality, even if It truly is your preparation that plan surprises the peoCANCER meeting a long-awaited opTell all the people who love ple around you. portunity. You’ve earned this. you that you will be off the SEPT. 23–OCT. 22 radar. This is the month to APR. 20–MAY 20 LIBRA dive totally into a project TAURUS The new beginning without distraction or perAll things are connected sonal critique. Finish the proj- you’ve been waiting for with love, so love your work, ect and refine it afterward. is presenting itself. It’s FEB. 19–MAR. 20

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anja and song seem to cross all borders. Today more than ever. The octogenarian country icon Willie Nelson (“roll me up and smoke me when I die”) is peddling his branded Willie’s Reserve strains just as he does his albums. You can pick up a couple grams of Khalifa Kush to enjoy alongside the latest Wiz Khalifa record, and Snoop Dogg and the children of Bob Marley all have their own brands. Even country superstar Toby Keith, the Big Dog Daddy himself, released “Wacky Tobaccy,” a not-so-subtle weed endorsement, in 2017.

It’s really no secret. Musicians love marijuana. Always have. I have spoken with many of them about it over the years. Some love to perform while under the influence, others only for composing, and many like to do both. As guitarist and oud master Neil Haverstick, who uses it for creativity, puts it: “I surprise myself. And that is the key word: surprise. I am often able to create new shapes, patterns, something that did not previously exist. And I assure you that, for many artists, that’s the greatest moment of all—the moment of discovery.”

Or as Louis Armstrong, and we’ll get back to him in a bit, told his biographer, “We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and with much better thoughts than one that’s full of liquor.”

Not surprisingly, it’s not only musicians. Many people who listen to music like it even better after a little elevation. And if you don’t, you know somebody who does.

Keith’s “Wacky Tobaccy” represents perhaps the complete mainstreamization of marijua-

na songs, and an example of how music about cannabis has always reflected the culture in which it is created. Here’s a guy who’s as all-American as they come, who’s known for his patriotic songs, and on the video for “Wacky,” Keith and his boys are grinnin’ and tokin’ on the tour bus just like Snoop or Dr. Dre or Uncle Willie Nelson (who appears in the video) might.

You can bake it in some brownies, smoke it through a bong Roll up a great big fat one like ol’ Cheech and Chong Burn it through a hole in a can of Budweiser If you can’t take the heat, son, vaporizer.

Before Recording: The Smoking of Dagga It hasn’t always been out in the open like that. Before sound could be recorded, there are, of course, no concrete examples of pot songs. But to imagine that marijuana was first used by musicians after they started recording in the last 100 years sounds pretty unrealistic, right?

We know there was music for the Parisian elite that included Charles Baudelaire and Alexandre Dumas, who came to Club des Hashischins for séances and hashish experiments. Cannabis historian Chris Bennett has found written records of dervish sects and African tribes with music dedicated to hashish.

A 1913 report, “The smoking of dagga (Indian hemp) among the

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JAZZ “Have You Ever Seen the Funny Reefer Man,” Cab Calloway and his Orchestra “You’se a Viper,” Fats Waller “When I Get Low I Get High,” Chick Webb & His Orchestra “Here Comes The Man with the Jive,” Stuff Smith & his Onyx Club Boys “Wacky Dust,” Ella Fitzgerald & the Chick Webb Orchestra

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REGGAE & CANNABIS Even more than jazz or rock or hiphop, reggae music has always been associated with marijuana, mostly because of its association with Rastafari, a loosely defined religion and social movement developed in Jamaica in the 1930s that celebrates a god named Jah who lives

native races of South Africa and the resultant evils,” included a cannabis smoking song of the Besotho people who settled there: We smoke it and it reminds us of different things.

We remember the miracles of the world.

We remember those far and near.

We remember.

The Jazz Age: Vipers and Reefer Men Perhaps the first popular song to be upfront about cannabis in the United States was “Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man?” The tune, a.k.a. “The Reefer Man,” ostensibly about a guy, obviously stoned, who “trades dimes for nickels and calls watermelons pickles,” was performed by Cab Calloway in the 1933 film Inter50

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inside humans. Many Rastas believe that Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian emperor from 1930-1974, was the reincarnation of God on earth.

More importantly in this context, Rastas consider cannabis as a sacrament. Its most famous musical disciple was Bob Marley,

national House and is still popular. Likewise, jazz violinist Stuff Smith, playing off the Harlem term for a pot user, had a regional hit with his “You’se a Viper,” in 1936, and it became perhaps the best known cannabis song after pianist Fats Waller became the first of many to record it in 1943.

What we know of the connection of jazz and cannabis in that period comes at least in part from the autobiography of Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, a white clarinetist better known for his pot dealing during the 1930s than for his own musical prowess. Mezzrow was an odd fellow who considered himself a Black man, even getting himself placed in the Black prison ward after being arrested in 1937. But his writing about how cannabis was

an ardent Rasta who became an international musical star and celebrity. He talked openly about his marijuana use and was often pictured with a large spliff between his fingers.

Americans caught onto the music in the 1970s, and there were plenty of ready/steady musicians on the island to accommodate the growing taste for the music. Reggae today is considered world music and still almost perfect for enjoying with cannabis.

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“Easy Skanking,” Bob Marley “Smoke Two Joints,” Sublime “Come Around,” Collie Buddz “Police in Helicopter,” John Holt “Unda Mi Sensi,” Barrington Levy

intertwined with jazz reached far beyond his own generation.

Mezzrow’s book included passages like this one, recounting a dancing woman at a party: “The rhythm really had this queen; her eyes almost jumped out of their sockets and the cords in her neck stood out stiff and hard like ropes.”

Lyrics like “The Reefer Man” and comments like that also drew the attention of Harry Anslinger, who, upon being appointed director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930, began waging a campaign of arrests and disinformation against cannabis that lasted several decades. By all accounts a nasty piece of work, Anslinger peddled the cockamamie story that jazz musicians on marijuana were creating extra beats in the

music that were making listeners, like the Mezzrow woman depicted above, go crazy. As silly as this seems today, Anslinger was able to use it to harass Black musicians, especially those who flouted him.

Then there was Louis Armstrong, who began using it in the 1920s and whose affinity for the plant became legendary. Though busted a couple of times, he somehow escaped Anslinger’s wrath—I even found a clip of him joking about getting high while a contestant on the 1960s TV quiz show What’s My Line?

“That’s one reason why we appreciated pot, as y’all calls it now.

The warmth it always brought forth from the other person—especially the ones that lit up a good stick of that shuzzit or gage, nice names,” Armstrong once said.

Anyone who has shared a joint at a concert with the stranger next to you surely can appreciate exactly what Armstrong was talking about.

But relatively speaking, during World War II and beyond there were few references to cannabis in popular song. General public acceptance for cannabis was at a low. But jazz culture, and Mezzrow’s book, caught the attention of others, like influential poet Allen Ginsberg, writer Jack Kerouac, and others of the so-called Beat Generation, who picked up on his language and style, which they found wasn’t that different from their fledging, marijuana-influenced writings.

The 1960s and Beyond: Everybody Must Get Stoned Perhaps the most important beneficiary of the Beats was Robert Zimmerman, who changed his name to Bob Dylan after moving to New York in 1961 and became close

“THAT’S ONE REASON WHY WE APPRECIATED POT, AS Y’ALL CALLS IT NOW. THE WARMTH IT ALWAYS BROUGHT FORTH FROM THE OTHER PERSON— ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT LIT UP A GOOD STICK OF THAT SHUZZIT OR GAGE, NICE NAMES.” —Louis Armstrong

friends with Allen Ginsberg soon afterwards. (That’s Ginsberg hanging in the alleyway behind Dylan in his iconic video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”) One early song, “Mr. Tambourine Man,” seemed to many listeners to be about someone under the influence (“Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship/My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip/My toes too numb to step”), especially after it became a massive hit for the Byrds in the summer of 1965.

Less than a year later, his own single, “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35,” with its leering, wheezing horn chorus screaming “everybody must get stoned,” reached No. 2 on the US charts, which, not surprisingly, most listeners took as an appeal to indulge. Interestingly enough, neither song mentions cannabis, but both were immediately and have been forever associated with it.

The floodgates opened, and as the youth counterculture embraced rock and roll as its music of choice, those musicians began writing and recording songs about cannabis.

For anyone growing up then, there seemed to be a tune for every situation. Anyone growing up back then knew exactly what Commander Cody was talking about when he sang about being down to “Seeds and Stems Again,” or what an “Illegal Smile,” as described by folkie John Prine, looked like in the mirror.

High-end strains like Panama Red and Acapulco Gold were celebrated in song, and titles like “Don’t Bogart That Joint” became buzzwords.

Country star Merle Haggard even penned a reaction to the hippies’ cultural dominance, and “Okie From Muskogee” (“a place where even squares can have a

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ball”) became a monster hit in 1969. Most listeners never realized that the song’s point of view was written tongue-in-cheek by Haggard, a user himself, who in 2015 wrote and sang, with Willie Nelson, “It’s All Going to Pot.” Nelson is his own story, and except for perhaps Bob Marley, the most iconic marijuana character of all time. He worked the outside fringes of the country music industry for a couple of decades, living off a couple of standards he wrote while his career went nowhere, before finally chucking Nashville for Austin, where he hooked up with a nascent batch of other similarly minded, former Nashville has-beens and wannabes like Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson who became known as leaders of the Outlaw movement.

Today, at 87, Nelson is arguably the best-known musician espousing the new normal, a common-sense voice for cannabis, seniors, and sensible drug laws. As he puts it, marijuana won’t kill you “unless you let a bale of it fall on you.”

CANNABIS AND MUSIC HAVE FINALLY COME FULL CIRCLE, AND PERHAPS WE HAVE REACHED A TIME WHERE THEY ARE JUST INDICATIVE OF THE NEW NORMAL.

all in front of the camera. Rappers and reefer became synonymous.

Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Method Man and bands like Cypress Hill built their songs, recordings, and live shows around cannabis use.

That hasn’t stopped, and today rappers who deny cannabis use are in the minority. The smell of cannabis can be detected at nearly every live music event—trance and EDM to country—especially in states where cannabis is legal. “Wacky Tobaccy” rules. The reefer man has become the method man. Cannabis and music have finally come full circle, and perhaps we have reached a time when they are just indicative of the new normal.

“It has a lot to do with calming the nerves,” good old Louis Armstrong once said, “which makes the creative juices flow a little easier.” Snoop Dogg adds, “It makes me feel the way I need to feel.”

May it ever be so.

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HIP-HOP “I Got 5 On It,” Luniz “The Weed Song,” Bone Thugs ‘N’ Harmony “The Recipe,” Kendrick Lamar “Mary Jane,” Rick James “Blueberry Yum Yum,” Ludacris

Hip-Hop: Snoop, Wiz, and Cypress Hill With the ascendance of hip-hop as the dominant music form in the US, marijuana made the complete transition to the mainstream.

Before hip-hop, there was always the wink and the clever turn of phrase to alert those in the know to what was going on. That went totally out the door with hip-hop.

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We learned we could get just about anything we wanted, from lightning cords to liquor, left at our doorsteps by masked angels otherwise known as essential workers. All we had to do was hop online and order through one of the many handy apps available to us. We could even get weed. Oh, wait. We could get weed delivered, but only if we lived in a certain dozen of the 50 United States— namely Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado,

Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont—and even then, maybe not.

Among the handful of states where cannabis delivery is allowed, regulation varies wildly, even from city to city and county to county. I spent half of last year in California, where all I had to do was hop on an app to get cannabis delivered, and the other half in Colorado, where delivery is legal but nonexistent—

and I felt the loss hard.

Once you’ve enjoyed the convenience of delivery, it sucks to be without it.

That’s another reason why cannabis delivery is the new industry darling, expected to provide the industry’s fastest-growing revenue stream by 2024, according to a report by ArcView Market Research and BDS Analytics.

It’s ridiculous and weird that Colorado, the pioneer in legal adult use, is so far behind in addressing delivery—

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even after COVID-19 made cannabis use an increasingly crucial issue.

At this point, though, the problem isn’t really the state. Colorado lawmakers approved medical cannabis deliveries to begin in 2019 and recreational deliveries in 2021 but left it up to local governments whether to allow delivery or not. So far, only a small number of cities are saying yes. Medical deliveries are permitted in Boulder, Superior, and Longmont. Aurora (population 400,000) is the first Colorado city to allow recreational delivery.

Colorado might be late to the game, but it will always be a player.

Earlier this year, Aurora’s brand-new, wide-open delivery market caught the attention of Lantern, a Boston-based cannabis delivery platform that connects cannabis users to licensed dispensaries in Massachusetts and Michigan.

Lantern was developed and funded by Drizly, the largest online marketplace for alcohol in the United States, which saw online alcohol orders spike by 485 percent during the pandemic. Denver is Drizly’s third-largest market, and the data told them (though all they had to do was ask me) that Denver consumers want delivery.

“Residents of Aurora, whose city council

passed a vote in favor of recreational delivery in December 2020, will likely be the first in the state to access Lantern’s services once the city finalizes the permitting process,” says Meredith Mahoney, Lantern’s president. “Once Aurora’s local law goes into effect, customers over the age of 21 in Aurora will be able to conveniently place recreational cannabis orders online at lanternnow.com and have products delivered to their doorstep within an hour.”

Dispensaries pay Lantern a percentage of sales through the app, which offers users increasingly personalized product suggestions, whether they’re in the mood for gummies, vapes, or topicals. Users, who aren’t charged extra fees for using the app to streamline their searches, are directed to dispensaries that have what they need and trained dispensary personnel deliver their orders within an hour.

Business has been brisk, Mahoney says, as (in most states, anyway) the pandemic has accelerated the cannabis industry’s shift to e-commerce and delivery. “We believe that the demand for cannabis delivery will continue to grow and flourish post COVID-19, as an increasing number of customers integrate

“We believe that the demand for cannabis delivery will continue to grow and flourish post COVID-19, as an increasing number of customers integrate cannabis into their daily routines.”

—Meredith Mahoney, president of Lantern

cannabis into their daily routines.” In Michigan, where Lantern is available to customers in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and Battle Creek, delivery orders increased 89 percent three days before Christmas, she adds.

In February, Uber announced its acquisition of Lantern’s sister company, Drizly, but Mahoney says that will not affect Lantern’s operations or mission. Lantern, which had been an independent subsidiary of the Drizly Group, will now operate as a fully autonomous private company.

“Lantern’s consumer-centric ethos was born out of Drizly’s founding vision to create a more streamlined e-commerce experience, and Lantern will continue to build its best-in-class logistics technology platform, which has already transformed the emerging cannabis retail industry,” Mahoney says. “The company was first-tomarket in Massachusetts and Michigan and is optimally positioned to continue expanding into new legal markets. The next few years will be consequential not only for the cannabis industry but also for the entire digital retail sector. Lantern is eager to set new standards for what is possible in both spaces.”

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My Life as a Loser Your parents’ bad diets weigh heavily on how you nibble today.

Someone in my house was always on a diet when I was growing up.

Sometimes it was my older and younger sisters who followed various diets, and sometimes it was my older and younger brothers. My dad—an anesthesiologist who struggled with his weight—believed in burning more calories than you eat.

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My mom, the former nurse, was a chronic dieter throughout her life, from the Scarsdale, South Beach, and Atkins diets to the Cabbage Soup and Grapefruit ones. She was one of the very early adopters of the original Weight Watchers. More often than not, she was on the Pall-Mall-cigarette-andblack-coffee diet.

“I didn’t want to be like my mother, Nanna, with her hanging stomach,” my mom would later say. She started smoking as a teenager to control her weight and inhaled for more than 70 years.

We all got the not especially subtle message.

I was the middle child and on a diet for half of my youth. I know

all the euphemisms.

Chubby. Heavy boned.

Overweight (or is it under-height?). The most feared was the dreaded obese, uttered by our terrifying family pediatrician who expressed apocalyptic opinions about my weight.

Fueled by shame, Catholic guilt over failed willpower, and sublimated anger, I was well on

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When my mother moved out of our family home, I grabbed a stack of diet-related pamphlets and cookbooks, some now dating back 70 years. I started flipping through them recently and was stunned by the absolutely idiotic—if not dangerous advice and language that now would be labeled offensive, patronizing, and misogynistic.

my way to the vibrant dysfunctional relationship with food that has inspired my best writing over the years.

I was a great student, but I got a lot more positive feedback when I lost 10 pounds than when I got straight As—even if it was the same 10 pounds I’d lost (and gained) repeatedly.

They called me “Fatso.” Under the moniker “Fitchburg Fats,” I penned a high school editorial against overweight prejudice.

In college, I became “Big John.”

Eventually that became simply “Big.” I learned to wear all black clothes because, as Mom said, “It’s slenderizing.”

One summer, I lived on tomatoes, cottage cheese, grapefruit, hardboiled eggs, and burger patties. I tried low calorie, high protein, heavy on the broth, apple cider vinegar, and artificial sweeteners from saccharin to stevia. I wanted to be a loser.

My fatness was blamed on my Sicilian heritage or my Austrian parentage. Now, with genetic testing, I blame it on my Jewish heritage too. Mostly, I blame it on bad messaging.

Simply Because They Eat Too Much The oldest of the pamphlets includes some of the most truthful tips. “Overweight and Underweight” (1950) by MetLife takes a matter-of-fact approach: “Overweight people are apt to develop diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure … die younger … are poor surgical risks, and have less resistance to infection.”

The volume offered some decent advice including: “Never eat when emotionally upset or overtired. Relax or rest first.”

Reducing Without Tears The pamphlet promises we can

learn “how to eat as much as you want and lose weight” without falling into the usual diet despair: “If you follow the rules, you will not be hungry, or depressed, or irritable, or weak for one minute during your reducing program.”

“The rules” largely center around the word no. One page is a laundry list of excluded foods including no jam, raisins, soft drinks, candy, macaroni, cakes, pies, white bread, grits, corn, potatoes, drippings, lard, bacon, cheese, chocolate, fatty ham, ice cream, beer, wine, or whiskey.

According to the pamphlet, you must confess your sins. “Keep a record of the times you forgot and took sugar in coffee, just one bite of French pastry, just one cocktail.… Write all the forbidden foods you take in the Out of Bounds column.”

Allowed snacks ranged from bouillon, carrot sticks, and lemonade sweetened with saccharin to tomato juice, cantaloupe, and black coffee. Two appetite-supressing recipes are boiled beef heart and broiled smoked tongue.

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The Reducing Cook Book and Diet Guide, published in 1951, offers some good news: “No longer is overweight just a subject for condescending humor. Today, practically everybody knows that [being] overweight threatens health and longevity.”

Three-Day Slimming with Pleasure Plan “If you’ve been hitting the calories a little too hard, you’ll be surprised how peppy and energetic a three-day rest from heavy meals will make you,” offers 1952’s “Best Diets from Good Housekeeping.”

The paperback book warns that exercise is not the answer to being overweight: “There is only one way to proper poundage: The quick way, the simple way, in fact, the only practical way to attain a pretty weight, and stay there, is to control your diet. So, don’t think you can play a few more sets of tennis, or do 50 bends a day, and take off fat.... To take off just one pound, you must walk about 36 miles or wash clothes on a washboard for 28 hours.”

If You Can Cut Out Just 50 Calories “Tempting Low-Calorie Recipes” (1956) turns to “science” to provide answers. The Cream of Celery Soup recipe includes “½ teaspoon monosodium glutamate.” In fact, flavor-enhancing MSG appears in multiple recipes, including a lamb kabob and the always-popular jellied veal loaf.

Many recipes such as Harvard beets call for saccharin, a substance that would be declared carcinogenic a decade later.

Why Be Fat When It’s So Easy to Slenderize?

“The Slenderizer Unit System Calorie Counter” (1958) proudly proclaims that it “recommends no starvation diets, no steam baths, or tiresome exercises—nor any other unpleasant experiences.”

However, it does recognize one reality: “Realize that it’s impossible to reduce your weight and at the same time freely indulge in alcoholic beverages.”

The Slenderizer includes calorie counts for a lot of foods most folks no longer consume such as Liederkranz cheese (100), gum drops (25), creamed chicken (150), chopped chipped beef (300), ladyfingers (25), fried ham (250), and banana custard (100).

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In the 1962 bestseller Sex and the Single Girl, a crash diet consisting of black coffee, hardboiled eggs, steak, and wine—“one bottle allowed per day”—promised weight loss of 5 lbs. in 3 days. The “Wine and Eggs” meal plan appeared in Vogue in 1977.

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Men Never Get Chatty with Gals who Are Fatty The dieting artifact that made me cringe the most was “The Fat Boy’s Calorie Guide,” published in 1958. It is a treasure trove of antique insults. It offers wisdom like “Men never get chatty with gals who are fatty” and bad advice, as in: “To lose one pound, you have to take 370 steam baths.”

Under the heading “The Fat Boy’s Bartender,” the pamphlet reminds readers that “one jigger of Scotch has less calories than a glass of prune juice.”

Look at a Pound of Lard “For many and many a year, people have been inventing doodads to shake the fat off us, or to roll it off, or knead it away, or cook it out of our systems, or sweat it away,” notes the 1962 Edition Diet Handbook.

The book discourages excess eating by contemplating pig fat: “In a pound of excess human weight, there are about 3,500 calories. Look at a pound of lard.

It contains about 4,100 calories.”

One of the book’s 320-calorie lunches gives you 3 ounces liverwurst, 6 leaves lettuce, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 1 cup skim milk. However, it includes a warning: “Notice whether a too-light lunch leaves you faint in mid-afternoon.”

You Can’t Eat Cigarettes Under the heading of “Cigarettes and Your Appetite,” the Weight Losers Cookbook & Diet Guide (1967) offers dieters a low-cal option: “You can’t eat cigarettes, but in a pinch, they can serve as food until something better

avoid certain suggestive motions: “[Avoid] the hip-rolling act.…

This posture is vulgar as the lady throws herself about like a GradeB-Movie-Trollop-on-the-Prowl, until people fear she will become disjointed.”

Seeing these diet pamphlets and books after all these years, I’m amazed my relationship with food is not even more messed up than it is.

comes along. By smoking you can dull the pangs of hunger until you hardly knew you had an appetite … If you hold a cigarette in your fingers you can’t hold a chocolate.”

To be fair, the pamphlet notes that there is no evidence that smoking is a desirable health habit, and considerable evidence that it isn’t.

The paperback’s attitude toward women—the main target of all these volumes—is typical of the times. It recommends exercise but warns ladies to

Avoiding the Sleeping Beauty Diet However, despite how little they knew about nutrition and metabolism at the time, much of the advice remains true today. Seeing these diet pamphlets and books after all these years was like getting my 23&Me report and finding out my family is screwier than I ever imagined. Frankly, I’m amazed my relationship with food is not even more messed up than it is.

I live near Boulder, an area swarming with profoundly trim and fit adults (from age 20 to 90) who fast-walk past me on the trails and outswim me at the rec center.

I think I thought living here—instead of say, Green Bay, would inspire me, and maybe it has.

At least I’ve avoided the worst diet idea I’ve ever heard. The “Sleeping Beauty Diet,” an approach reportedly favored by Elvis Presley, pairs sedation with starvation. Dieters knock themselves out with sleeping pills and, since they’re asleep, they can’t eat.

I still need to lose 25 (or 50 or 75) pounds, and I may well let them go for all the best reasons.

I looked into the keto, Paleo, and Whole30 diets, and decided that a modified Mediterranean diet works best. I make small incremental changes I can maintain while supplanting Camembert, pie, and French fries with nonedible forms of joy. I’m a work in progress.

A B O U T T H E AU T H O R

John Lehndorff writes “Nibbles” for the Boulder Weekly and hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU.

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on studio projects, with many being released in the early part of the year. From indie upstarts to established legends, here’s a look at 10 new albums coming by spring.

debuted Bonny Light Horseman, a new side project with fellow folk innovators Anaïs Mitchell and Josh Kaufman that earned two Grammy nominations. Not slowing his pace, JohnFruit Bats son is celebrating the The Pet Parade (Merge 20th anniversary of the Records) Fruit Bats by releasing Fruit Bats leader Eric D. the band’s eighth overall Johnson has been on a studio album, The Pet hot streak lately. In 2019, Parade, in March. Johnhe hit a creative peak son brought Kaufman with his main band’s onboard to produce the soulful album Gold Past album, and although it Life, and last year, he was made during quar-

antine with supporting players adding their parts remotely, it doesn’t sound like an isolated effort. Lead single “Holy Rose” is a powerful poprock song with orchestral sonic textures.

Same Spark: In February, Brooklyn upstart trio Wild Pink will release its anticipated next album, A Billion Little Lights. The effort blends earthy roots songcraft with indie inventiveness that will please fans of The War on Drugs.

The Hold Steady Open Door Policy (Positive Jams) The Hold Steady is back with more heavy riffs and vivid tales on its eighth studio al-

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bum, Open Door Policy.

Frontman Craig Finn’s narrative lyrics still dig into the dark side of the party, but with keyboardist Franz Nicolay permanently back in the mix, the band’s tight rock arrangements provide anthemic swells of cathartic redemption.

“Open Door Policy was very much approached as an album vs. a collection of individual songs, and it feels like our most musically expansive record,” Finn says of the new album, which was released on February 19.

Same Spark: Another stalwart rock act with a loyal following, roots heroes Lucero made its new album When You Found Me at the famed Sam Phillips Recording studio in the band’s hometown of Memphis.

Willie Nelson That’s Life (Legacy Recordings) The great news first: Willie Nelson, 87, has been vaccinated. Now the good news: the country legend is releasing his 71st album this year. That’s Life is Nelson’s second collection of Frank Sinatra covers,

following 2018’s My Way. Nelson has said that Sinatra had a big influence on his singing style, and he made part of his latest tribute to the late crooner at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios, where Sinatra recorded many of his beloved standards.

The songs of Ol’ Blue Eyes sound relaxed and comforting through the mellow voice of the Red Headed Stranger, especially the well-known title track and the breezy “Cottage for Sale.” It’s a record perfect for chilling out during our remaining days of hunkering down at home.

Same Spark: Singersongwriter Pete Yorn also went the covers route on his new LP, Pete Yorn Sings the Classics, a Bandcamp exclusive release that features takes on the Pixies, Bob Dylan, and The Beach Boys.

Julien Baker Little Oblivions (Matador) Julien Baker is known for her confessional indie rock songs usually delivered with sparse guitar arrangements and disarming vocal crescendos. Following a long touring cycle supporting her acclaimed 2017 album Turn Out the Lights, she took a break from music to finish college and reassess her

priorities. When she returned to the studio to record Little Oblivions, Baker’s vision expanded, and new tracks like the standout “Hardline” feature crashing drums and emotive keyboard layers.

The full sound adds new depth to her unflinching lyrical revelations.

Same Spark: Danielle Durack offers similar intimately intense songcraft on her new album No Place.

Valerie June The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Fantasy) Valerie June’s breakout album, 2017’s The Order of Time, was a roots-driven project, with tracks featuring the singer-songwriter’s alluring voice placed among primitive banjo tunes and jangly blues cuts. The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers—the muchawaited follow-up made with producer Jack

Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Alicia Keys)—finds June honing her stylistic leanings into celestial R&B that fits the record’s searching themes. The album’s opening threesong sequence, “Stay” / “Meditation” / “You and I,” is a sublime astral-soul suite that contemplates relationship dynamics.

“With this record, it finally became clear why I have this dream of making music,” June said in a statement previewing the new album. “It’s not for earthly reasons of wanting to be awarded or to win anybody’s love— it’s because dreaming keeps me inquisitive and keeps me on that path of learning what I have to share with the world.”

Same Spark: Lake Street Dive went into the studio with Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Fiona Apple), who helped shape the band’s next set of retro-minded soul-rock tunes. Obviously will be out March 12.

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the infusion of true water-soluble, “We felt like the cannabinoid nanoparticles,” says Kyle market needed Williams of Colorado Concentrate Co. a traditional, NanoBites come in a wide range of chewy gummy tasty flavors, from piña colada to black made with cherry, and are available at numerous high-quality retail locations throughout the state. ingredients— Inspired by your favorite electric specifically, blue convenience store slushy, blue the infusion raspberry is the company’s best-sellof true watering go-to flavor. The medical version, soluble, infused with extremely refined, clean cannabinoid cannabinoids, delivers 50 mg of THC nanoparticles.” per gummy (that’s not a typo). On your —Kyle Williams, next dispensary run, reach for these Colorado Concentrate cutting-edge edibles.

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moment you pop one of the brightly colored THC-infused gummies into your mouth.

NanoBites gummies contains water-soluble cannabinoids for quick onset. Traditional fat-soluble cannabinoids are metabolized through the liver, which can create a significant time lag before you can feel effects. Because the cannabinoids in NanoBites are water-soluble, absorption in your system begins as soon as you start chewing.

Average time to full onset is 30 minutes. The increased bioavailability also means your body absorbs and utilizes more of the cannabinoids compared to fat-soluble edibles.

“We felt like the market needed a D SD NanoBites traditional, chewy gummy made with Edible Gummies high-quality ingredients—specifically, dosdedibles.com

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and 26 with Jeff Tweedy headlining a lineup that includes Paul Hoff man of Greensky Bluegrass, Jade Bird, Rayland Baxter, and Trout Steak Revival. Beyond slaking your personal thirst for live music, the festival serves as a fundraiser for the nonprofit Future Arts Foundation, which provides musical instruments to students across Colorado. Hopeful that vaccinations will help put the pandemic in the rearview mirror by fall, Bluebird has released 8,000 tickets for the festival, which was originally scheduled for April.

The event will follow all current COVID-19 protocols. “We’ve taken all the information from the scientific community to select a time when things look to be safe for fans, while also committing to anything and everything that will ensure the event is safe at that time,” says Travis Albright, Future Arts Foundation executive Boulder’s Bluebird Music Festival plans for a September Future director. “If this cannot take place safely, as Arts Foundation fundraiser featuring Jeff Tweedy. deemed by ourselves, the state, and university, TEXT DOUG SCHNITZSPAHN the event will be held at Musicians and music sound and excitement of table are on the horizon, a reduced capacity—or canceled if need be. But lovers have been hit seeing artists live at your however. Last month, hard by the pandemic. favorite small venue or Boulder’s Bluebird Music in the meantime, let’s get excited and happy Zoom concerts alleviatfestival grounds. Those Festival announced it about getting together ed some of what we’re days of sticky floors, was back and put tickagain.” missing, but they are a ringing ears, and a new ets on sale for two days bluebirdmusicfestival.org tinny substitute for the shirt from the merch of music September 25

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