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Highroad Will you support Carl Icahn’s charity? by Jim Hightower

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all Street buccaneer Carl Icahn has pocketed billions on deals, but he says he’s now passionate about help-

ing others. In particular, the corporate-takeover specialist is pushing a charitable cause involving a group of people who, through no fault of their own, are being forced out of America. Poor refugees? No, Icahn weeps for the incomprehensible suffering of a small tribe of

Americans, namely: the CEOs of several U.S.-based, multinational corporations. Huh? Yes, he wails that poor superrich chieftains of such profiteering giants as Pfizer pharmaceuticals are having to move their corporate domains abroad, having been driven out of the U.S.A. by “our uncompetitive tax code.” These American-raised corporations have been raking in enormous profits on foreign sales, but the CEOs have whined that those profits should be exempt from U.S. taxation, since they’re taxed by the countries where the products are sold. In fact, however, their “double taxation” claim is a fraud, for most of the $2.6 trillion in profits they’re hiding have been stashed in offshore tax havens that assess as little as zero taxes. These rank corporate tax dodgers are starving America’s essential public services of some $600 billion they owe in taxes, yet Icahn sobs in print that they are victims!

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If these trillions are brought back home, he explains, they’ll be taxed — so, don’t you see, this “forces” CEOs to desert the U.S., moving their corporate citizenship to a place that doesn’t make them pay for public services. Icahn insists that America must let the CEOs “repatriate” their foreign bounty by essentially forgiving the taxes they owe on it. That way, the corporations get the money, and America gets to keep the corporations. But Carl: Why should we want to keep scofflaw corporations that refuse to pay what they owe to America? This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 14, 2016 5

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awrence Ferlinghetti, the celebrated poet and publisher of Beat Generation writers, argued in an essay in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1999 that poetry can change the world: “The greatest poets not only change the way we see the world but also cause us to question our perception and interpretation of everyday reality. The greatest poetry subverts the dominant paradigm, ultimately challenges the status quo of the world and transforms it into something new and strange.” Denver poet Phil Woods has been trying to change the world for decades with his words and activism in the civil rights, anti-war and labor movements. He starts an autobiographical poem with the line “I remember eating cornbread & soul food, / In Fannie Lou Hamer’s kitchen.” Hamer was a crucial figure in the civil rights movement. She was famous for challenging the all-white segregationist delegation from Mississippi at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. In 1971, Woods went down to Mississippi to be a poll watcher for a progressive slate in the Democratic Party. Hamer was running for the state senate. Woods tells us what happened: “The State Patrol confiscated / The ballots in what is largely / An all-black town. Drove them / To the county seat, When the count / Came in, 6 for Hamer, the rest / Poetically, for a white man / Named Crook.” Woods says Hamer was “the most impressive person I ever met and a gen-

uine Christian. She didn’t have any hate in her. Both of her parents were sharecroppers and she started working in the fields at the age of six. She was fired from her job and lost her home just for registering to vote.” Woods writes about so-called “ordinary” people like Hamer. He has a poem inspired by a newspaper story about a seemingly insignificant death in Kansas. On Thanksgiving Day, a 73-year-old woman “bought the farm / in a car wreck / on her way to work” at Wal-Mart. “No turkey, no sweet potatoes, / no gravy. Just another / poor soul who lost her life / having to stretch the budget / working for the Waltons.” Woods has worked in canneries, construction, the post office, taught in public schools, colleges and prisons. He studied poetry with Robert Bly, Gary Snyder and Ann Waldman. In his poems, he juggles hope and despair about changing our society. He expresses discouragement about many of his students. When he showed the film Wall Street to “children of the underclass, “ they didn’t want to jail Gordon Gecko but instead wanted to be like him and “not get caught.” His hometown is Pueblo, which once was the “Pittsburgh of the West” before NAFTA was passed and steel companies escaped the U.S. for cheap labor abroad. In a melancholy and affectionate poem, Woods writes about being a fifth grader in the 1950s in Pueblo and dressing up like a soldier (his dad worked at the Army Depot) see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7

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Please for the love of God, let the grey wolves remain of their territory (Re: “A turning point,” January 7). They were there, thousands of years before you were. It is their habitat. Do not exterminate (murder is really the word) these innocent beauties. We need to nurture our wildlife, not exterminate it. Marcia Stratton/via internet

Americans have had our Christian morality brainwashed out of us

Many have said that our leader’s and society’s lack of ethics and morality doesn’t matter anymore, that polls show 66 percent do not care. Well then what does matter? Americans no longer care because they have been brainwashed into immorality by the education establishment. Our primary Founders, however, said that Liberty and Freedom absolutely depended on Judeo/Christian morality, virtue, and ethics and if we lost them we would lose our Liberty and Freedom. In addition, the book The Harbinger makes it very clear that America is being judged by God and the hedge of protection and blessing is being removed from our land precisely because of it, particularly that of our leaders. No, it doesn’t just matter; it is provable fact that it is what matters most! Government statistics show that

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Wake up folks who want more permanently affordable housing! The developer, of Greenius LLC, is licking his lips thinking of his profits and the assured approval of the obscenely priced $5,000/month, 2000 sq. ft. townhouse rental units to be built at the Boulder Junction Transit Village (“Townhouse project advances,” Daily Camera, Jan. 4). Wow! Recent report — 59 percent of renters in Boulder cost-burdened! Rents priced at $2.50/sq.ft. or $5,000/ month for 2,000 sq. ft. unit will shoot up Boulder’s already sky-high rents! All units will be high-priced rentals with no permanently affordable housing — “Greenius paid cash-in-lieu instead of including the required 20 percent designated permanently affordable units on site.” see LETTERS Page 8

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If you voted against 300 and 301 to have more permanently affordable housing built in Boulder, you were duped — you didn’t follow the money. From the Steve Pomerance column “Following the money” (Daily Camera, Sept. 29): “Developers pay on the basis of 75 percent, not 100 percent, of the actual difference between the market price and the price that would be affordable for someone in the eligible population. To make up for this gap, affordable housing providers use various sources of mostly public money ... developers are getting a deal ... and our taxes make up (most of ) the difference.” These developers, who are the real NIMBYs (don’t want any lower-income folks around to turn off the crowd they are rent gouging) get to further inflate the already sky-high Boulder rental market and pad their rental profits with a 25 percent off cash-in-lieu deal, subsidized by taxpayer’s money, not to build permanently affordable housing! Wake up folks! That’s why there’s a shortage of permanently affordable housing in Boulder and why rents are sky-high! The high-priced “infill” being built is only “filling” developer’s pockets, at your expense! Dinah McKay/Boulder

Drones versus assault Rrifles, guess which one is more regulated

As required by the FAA, this little quad-copter drone flown for recreation is now registered. It has its very own aircraft certificate and carries an identification number, just like big airplanes. FAA registration required promising never to fly near manned aircraft, airports, over groups of people, stadiums or sporting events, near emergency responders and not under the influence. Those rules seem reasonable, a pilot should behave responsibly and of course I’ll comply. But wait a minute; we can buy AR-15 assault rifles without making those same promises. There are zero controls established in Colorado that prohibit the Second Amendment-protected gun owner from getting liquored-up and blasting away for “recreational” fun. Compared to the efficient killing capability of one assault rifle that takes out tens of innocents per clip, no reloading required, the little drone presents miniscule risk of harming others. Yet it has to be registered, a fee paid and personal information transferred to

the Federal Government; otherwise you’re breaking the law. In stark comparison, purchase an assault rifle in Colorado (for example from Colorado Springs sellers listed on armslist.com) without license or registration required, maybe endure a background check and, presto, you have military firepower without joining the Army. Drones have many legitimate commercial, educational and recreational uses. It seems out of balance to regulate them more stringently than assault rifles, which are an inherently unsafe product having the sole use of killing humans. It is time for Colorado to get serious about protecting residents by banning assault rifle sales and the ammunition that feeds them. Robert Carrier/Boulder

Maybe just this once, human rights could win over property rights

I’m wondering if one or two justices on the Colorado Supreme Court aren’t “making the rounds,” trying to gain a unanimous decision on the regional anti-fracking cases. The crude industry certainly prefers a report before the snow melts, to plan for new or reworked activity. This assumes oil is not trading for $20 a barrel by April, of course. For what might we hope here? We tend to learn about flood hazards after our home has been flushed away. Recent (successful) opposition to a density change in part of the “Anthem” development in north Broomfield should remind us that, like it or not, residents may need to have more discretion over vertical juxtaposition of land uses, than the more common horizontal ones. The former are much more difficult to escape. That we endure severed mineral estates arises from an economic premise, as does zoning. Severing a mineral estate is to me akin to leaving a burglar behind to torment and fleece future property owners. Because the federal government institutionalized the practice is no reason to consider it more palatable. The high Court should have nagging questions about the rectitude of fracking in or near urban areas. The best outcome would have the case[s] remanded to district court, for a full evidentiary hearing. There we would air the disclosures the drillers resist. But maybe just this once, human rights could win over property rights. Gregory Iwan/Longmont Boulder Weekly

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hen Obamacare passed, I just cried. I watched the votes come in,” says Emilyn Inglis of Lyons. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 7, Inglis has been regularly seeing doctors and filling prescriptions for the last 29 years. As a performing musician and self-employed music teacher, Inglis had been paying her own medical bills, unable to access affordable health insurance without an employer. “I realized I probably could have bought a new car at this point with all the money I have spent just in the care that I need on a daily basis, just to keep myself healthy,” she says. “There’s no point in saving money, there’s no point in buying a house. … And it made an impact on my family because if I went completely broke, they would have to step in and they don’t have a lot of money to do that.” Her daily medical supplies include eight insulin test strips a day, (approximately $1 a strip) a specific brand of insulin given an allergy she has to the generic kind ($100 a bottle, two bottles a month) and plastic tubing for her insulin pump she changes every three days to prevent infection ($12 per set). On top of that, she sees her endocrinologist every three months and undergoes routine kidney-function tests. “It’s just an astronomical cost,” she says. She had received some help from the former state program, Cover Colorado, but with the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, Inglis was finally able to get insurance through the marketplace. In 2014, the first year ACA plans were available, Inglis signed with Anthem but after a frustrating year of fighting for basic coverage of her exorbitant health care costs she switched providers in 2015. Given the lowcost premiums, she signed up with the recently folded Colorado HealthOP, a nonprofit consumer oriented and operated plan (co-op) founded with loans from the federal government. “What was really unique about Colorado HealthOP was that they saw all of this care as something that they should pay for to keep me healthy as an investment in their future as a company and my future as a healthy human being,” she says. “This is the first insurance company that seemed to be making sense.” Inglis had finally found an insurance company she could work with. The customer service department problem-solved with her to get her the care she needs. After battling health care providers and insurance companies for almost a decade, she finally wasn’t constantly wondering if there 10 January 14, 2016

was a better plan out there. That was until the Colorado Division of Insurance (DOI) announced on Oct. 15, 2015 that HealthOP couldn’t offer health insurance on the Colorado market in 2016, making it the twelfth co-op in the nation to fold out of the original 23. While conservatives in Congress and many of the Republican presidential candidates say this is just another example of the failure of Obamacare, those on the other side point the finger at legislation that has created an impossible environment for the ACA to function as intended. And despite communications with HealthOP management, as well as Colorado Senators and Representatives, Inglis, like many former HealthOP members, still isn’t sure exactly what happened. • • • • As one part of the 2010 ACA, the co-op program was designed to help create nonprofit health insurance companies as an alternative and competitive option for health plans on the individual and small group market. The program provided the nonprofit start-ups with federal loans, as well as the additional assurance of three premium stabilization programs: risk adjustment, reinsurance and risk corridor, known as the 3Rs. Reinsurance is used to offset the cost of insurance for people with remarkably high medical claims. The risk adjustment program takes money from the health plans of lower-risk populations and gives it to plans enrolling high-risk individuals, such as those with chronic illness. And the risk corridor program accounts for the uncertainty about how newly insured populations will use health care benefits under the new system. “They (the 3Rs) were put into the Affordable Care Act to make sure that new entrants in the markets could succeed. They were part of what made this whole idea work and everybody knew that,” says Chuck Holum, board president of Colorado HealthOP. “All of our rate planning and all of our financial assumptions going forward had been based on that.” The 3Rs were designed to help companies price their health plan premiums in a market that is no longer based on health history or pre-existing conditions, while protecting consumers from high premium rates to account for that risk. The risk adjustment program is a permanent function of the ACA, but both the reinsurance and risk corridor programs only cover the first three years of the law’s implementation (2014-17). The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) administers the 3Rs, under the Department of Health and Human Services. Boulder Weekly

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For 2014, Colorado HealthOP 10 business days to HealthOP paid into the risk find additional funding to offset adjustment program, Holum says, their losses: approximately $30 and their claims for $14 million million. Hutchins says in those out of the reinsurance program 10 days, the nonprofit was able were paid in full. By early fall to obtain three letters of intent 2015, HealthOP was still waiting from potential investors. for an additional $14 million or “Again, this just validates that so from the risk corridor prowe had a good business model gram. that was worth investing in,” Under the risk corridor proHutchins says. However, “none gram, if a health plan collects of those was check in hand, and more in premiums than it spends the Division of Insurance just in medical claims by a certain felt like they couldn’t take the amount, it pays into the federal chance in one of those working pot. In turn, health plans that out.” Emilyn Inglis uses a variety of medical prescriptions and supplies on a daily basis to balance her blood sugar and manage her type 1 diabetes. have more expenses than collec“Look at that from our pertions would, ideally, be paid the spective,” Plymell, of DOI, says. difference by the program. they didn’t get that, that just kind of turned their “Talking about just the state regulations, when they “It’s really to protect from sharp premium fluctua- world upside down.” don’t meet the capital and surplus requirements and tions that [could] occur in the first three years until HealthOP Executive Director Julia Hutchins says go into the negative, we are required to take action. the insurers have better information on the type of several adjustments to the ACA made it difficult to But let’s say we didn’t have that law and say, ‘Well, we enrollees they have,” says Aaron Albright, director of make HealthOP financially viable. “The first thing believe in you and let’s turn this ship around.’ And the media group for CMS. “You wouldn’t know until that made it very difficult and sort of wrote the future then we’re having to do this in March or April or you actually have the data that the insurance compafor us, was when the president promised everyone May or June. It’s a lot harder to extract people out of nies are requesting less than they are paying in, or vice they can keep their health plan,” she says. This meant that.” versa.” that the majority of the 14,000 members who signed People would have already paid into deductibles The intention of CMS was to operate the risk with HealthOP in 2014 hadn’t had insurance previand out-of-pocket costs and then would have had to corridor program budget neutral over the three years ously and accessed a lot of care that first year. That switch health insurance carriers without the benefit of of the program, says Albright, assuming the request also meant higher than expected medical expenses for open enrollment and the Colorado Health Exchange. for claims might be higher than payments in some those 14,000 members. The uncertainties of how much time it would actually years and not others. However, at the end of 2014, “Our health care costs were just through the roof take, and the consequences of a midyear closure were Congress passed legislation that required the program and so much higher than anybody could have anticitoo risky. to be budget neutral each year, as well as prohibiting pated,” Hutchins says. And although all health carri“The blow, in kind of looking back at how it all the use of taxpayer funds should a shortfall exist. ers reported high costs that year due to the pent up went down, seemed to be when Congress said that the demand, the bigger companies were able to absorb the program had to be budget neutral. That they couldn’t CMS officials testified before Congress and communicated to insurance providers that they expected cost in other areas of business, whereas the co-op access any other funds to make up the shortfall,” sufficient funds for 2014 with the caveat that if there couldn’t. Plymell concludes. This was back at the end of wasn’t, they would make payments in proportion to Ten other Colorado companies also didn’t receive December 2014, after HealthOP had already set the shortfall and use subsequent years’ funding to pay expected risk corridor payments, like many across the approved premiums for 2015 and enrollment was nation. “As we looked into the situation in early back the 2014 claims. already underway. October after CMS announced the shortfall, we The deadline for submitting payments and claims “It was too late at that point to change our trajecfor 2014 to the risk corridor program was July 31, reviewed each carrier to assess the financial impact,” tory,” Hutchins says. “Prices had been set, enrollment 2015 and CMS expected to announce funding availPlymell says, “and determined that no other carrier was coming in. We were definitely blindsided and felt ability by mid-August. However, as CMS began runwas impacted in a way that would impact their conabandoned, but the bottom line is the risk corridor ning the data through its formula, it became clear that tinued sustainability.” program was critical. It needed to be funded to help roughly half of the insurance companies had to resubBut 2015 was looking better for HealthOP. They small carriers serving large numbers of newly insured mit data due to discrepancies. This prolonged the pro- grew their membership from 14,000 to 83,000, represurvive the initial challenges of health care reform.” cess and CMS was unable to make the announcement senting 40 percent of the Colorado Health Exchange But other co-ops around the country, specifically until the beginning of October. “We couldn’t do the market. Eighty-three people ran for five seats on the those that are still in business, didn’t rely on the risk calculations unless we had solid data. Once we did board of directors. And they had enough cash flow to corridor payments in the same way that Colorado that, we ran it through the formula,” Albright says. continue operating, while expecting to start turning a HealthOP did. Although CMS’s announcement of “It’s basically math. It’s money in and money out, and profit by 2016, as well as build up reserves and poten- funding was disappointing for these companies, it we were unable to give out any more than that.” didn’t cause them to close their doors. tially pay back the federal loans early. But that was all The formula determined the government only col- dependent on the 2014 risk corridor payments. In the “Other companies didn’t count on [the risk corrilected $362 million dollars in the program, despite dor payments] essentially in their accounting,” Plymell end, when the payment didn’t come, they were claims for $2.87 billion. Given the budget neutrality says. “Obviously, they filed what they were supposed approximately $12 million short, which they had to requirement, that meant CMS was only able to pay account for as a liability, plummeting their losses even to file with the federal government and said, ‘We’re 12.6 percent of companies’ claims. For Colorado due x number of dollars.’ But other companies didn’t more. HealthOP, that meant approximately $1.8 million, book it as something they were going to have, whereas “We were really exceeding our financial predicinstead of the $14 million they had requested. tions all of 2015 and ended up having to close because the HealthOP did.” “As a start-up they were running close to the Take the Maine co-op, Community Health of what happened in 2014,” Hutchins says. “Which is edge,” Vincent Plymell, communications manager at Options, as an example. In 2014, the Maine co-op so crazy. 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quarters of 2015 due to high medical claims, in 2016 the health insurer has expanded into New Hampshire and stopped accepting new customers so as not to exceed capital resources. As for risk corridor payments, “We didn’t factor them in at all or consider them in our prices,” says Community Health Options CEO Kevin Lewis. “I don’t know to the extent that others leaned on that when they were pricing in preparation for 2014. We just saw it as too much of an unknown and understood the risk corridor was there in case … we didn’t want to lean on that as a way to subsidize the business model. That was never the intention of the risk program but the risk corridor program should be there in the advent of a higher than expected claims experience.” He admits health insurance is a difficult market to enter, especially given the peculiarities and changing regulations of Obamacare. And the failure to pay the risk corridor claims has the potential to destabilize the risk pool and ultimately could affect the health of the insurance market moving forward. But he also says the co-op model has the potential to still expand, like what Maine’s Community Health Options has done in New Hampshire, but only with available capital and an environment that fosters fulfilling commitments and potentially even some adjustments to the premium stabilization programs. “I think that the principle and the model [of co-ops] has a lot of salience for the entire country and people definitely gravitated towards it,” Lewis says. “They love that concept and they also want to make sure they have the best value and they are able to get the most bang for their buck.” Granted, Maine has a much smaller health insurance market than Colorado, with only three carriers offering plans, including Community Health Partners. And it’s this competitive market that also made Colorado HealthOP’s success as a start-up difficult from the beginning. “What we have seen is that the coops that have been able to continue to exist are largely functioning in markets where they are really competing only against maybe one or two other insurers,” says Adam Fox, the director of strategic engagement at Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, a bipartisan nonprofit. “Therefore they are able to price their premiums a little bit higher and not necessarily be faced with not having enough insured lives to make it viable in the same way. Because Colorado has a more competitive health insurance market with so many carriers,

market, that rate increase would have it really meant that HealthOP had to been the second highest and twice as come in with competitive prices, which meant that they weren’t able to build up much as almost half of the other carriers. “They were going up significantly, some of the reserves that the Division they were going to be up near the top of Insurance eventually was wanting to of that pack of rate increases,” Plymell see and that those federal funds would says. “They would have been up middle have helped fill.” to high on premiums.” • • • • But Inglis for one would have Ultimately, both Hutchins and HealthOP board president Holum hold stayed with the co-op despite premium increases. “After that first few months the federal government and not the period (in 2015), I decided I was going Division of Insurance responsible for the closing of the co-op. Holum says he to stay with them,” she says. “Even if they raised their rates, it would be heard politicians in Congress, specifiworth it. It is worth cally presidential it to stay with a candidate Marco company who actuRubio, call the risk ally has policies corridor program a and people and bail out for insurTHE REPUBLICANS IN communication ance agencies. It is CONGRESS WOULD BE that shows that opinions like that TRYING TO FIND WAYS they care.” which undermine With the help the Affordable TO UNDERMINE THE of an insurance Care Act, accordAFFORDABLE CARE ACT. ... broker, Inglis was ing to Holum. But, WE ALSO EXPECTED THE able to find a plan he says, CMS kept for 2016, with her assuring them that ADMINISTRATION WOULD previous insurer they would get DO EVERYTHING IT COULD Anthem, that their money. TO SUPPORT US. allows her to conRegardless of the tinue seeing her political forces at — JULIA HUTCHINS doctors at the play, in the end Barbara Davis Holum says he Center for feels betrayed by the Childhood Diabetes in Aurora and sign Obama Administration more up through the Colorado Health than anything else. Hutchins also Exchange. But she has yet to receive a conveys these same feelings of betrayal. “You expect all the Republicans in thorough explanation of benefits or her membership card with account inforCongress would be trying to find mation, even though she signed up in ways to undermine the Affordable early December. She went to her first Care Act. It’s predictable behavior,” doctor’s appointment of the new year Hutchins says. “I think what was so on Jan. 8 and was given an estimated hard is that we also expected the price of $142 for the visit, but isn’t sure Administration would do everything if that will change based on her beneit could to support us. We were really fits. She was unable to fill her new prethe front lines of signing people up scription without her membership card, getting people enrolled, and they just which she is still waiting for in the didn’t [support us].” mail. She says she’s waited on hold up But Albright says the smaller-thanexpected risk corridor payments weren’t to 30 minutes with the insurance comthe only reason why some of the co-ops pany several times without ever speaking to anyone. failed. “The announcement did have an A couple of weeks before impact and I’m not minimalizing that,” HealthOP announced it was closing, he says. “But the data went where the Inglis was approached by petitioners data went based on the formula. … It contributed but there are many other gathering signatures for factors regarding companies’ stability ColoradoCare, the universal health other than risk corridors. There is more care initiative set to be on the 2016 Colorado ballot. At the time, Inglis than one factor here.” didn’t sign the petition. “I liked Moving forward, Colorado Colorado Health Op so much that I HealthOP was set to raise prices in was feeling kind of selfish and was order to remain financially solvent. like, ‘I don’t want to sign that, I like While HealthOP offered the lowest this health insurance,’” she says. “It premiums in 2015, they had plans to increase their premiums by 25 percent wasn’t necessarily a well thought out in 2016, according to Plymell. decision [on my part] but now I’d Compared to other plans still on the support it.”

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A survey released Monday by the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project revealed Colorado voters support efforts to protect and maintain national public lands. Seventy-seven percent of those interviewed think national public land helps the Colorado economy and 84 percent are in favor of future presidents designating lands as national monuments. Additionally, voters favor keeping national lands in the hands of the federal government with 59 percent opposing a state takeover. Several members of Congress have proposed transferring control over national monuments, forests and wildlife refuges within state borders to state government and all funding responsibilities to state taxpayers. In the case of wildfires, 83 percent of Coloradans believe the U.S. Forest Service should be allowed to treat the largest and most expensive wildfires as a natural disaster in order to have access to emergency disaster funding. The survey also gauged changing opinions on energy sources such as oil, gas, solar and wind power. Fifty-five percent of Coloradans approve of continuing drilling and mining at the current pace, but with increased safeguards for land and water. Solar power followed closely by wind power ranked the highest for voters’ as an encouraged energy source. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation partially paid for the survey, but Brendan Boepple, assistant director of State of the Rockies Project, refused to reveal the other funders. He did say no oil and gas companies contributed funding. BW remains committed to disclosing the funding of research whenever possible as it has been found to be an important determinate on the reseach findings. The 2016 Conservation in the West Poll revealed similar findings in the six other states : Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada. All interviews were conducted over the phone with 400 registered voters from each state. —Alexandria Kade

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The Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia, one of the greatest wonders of the aquatic world and Southeast Asia’s largest lake, is set to become a construction site for 11 dams that will slow the flooding of the Mekong basin rivers and drastically affect food supplies in the area. The dams are being made to produce clean energy for China, Laos and Thailand. The Tonlé Sap is one of the most frequently fished lakes in the world. As monsoon season Wikimedia Commons draws to a close, the millions of fish in the lake will flow into the Mekong River, where they will become the main food source for thousands of villages throughout Southeast Asia. This annual cycle however, will be endangered with the construction of the dams. Mark Goichot, a hydrogeologist working with the World Wildlife Fund, said that the cycle, if altered by the dams, would have a serious effect on populations that depend on the fish supply. The plan is “an ecological time bomb that threatens the food security of millions,” Goichot told the Guardian. The Mekong is one of the world’s three greatest and most biologically diverse tropical rivers, along with the Amazon and Congo. A paper in Science presented by 39 leading aquatic ecologists, warns that these three rivers stand to be heavily dammed which will result in the tremendous loss of up to onethird of freshwater fish in the world. If 11 dams are constructed on the Mekong, total fish loss is estimated to be around 550,000 to 880,000 tons a year. — Chelsea Abdullah

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efore you stop reading this because you see the word “parkour” and think you know what it is (leaping over the airy gaps between skyscrapers), who does it (crazy people), and that it couldn’t possibly benefit you as a runner/ cyclist/triathlete/yogi/etc. (it can), think about this: As children, we gravitate toward obstacles. That big slushy puddle? Splash! The curb in front of the grocery store? One tiny foot in front of another, we practice balance. A railing? Why not just hang for a while? Through movement, kids explore their physical surroundings — and their potential — and in the process learn focus and presence and the sense of accomplishment that can only be gained by facing a challenge head-on. If at first they don’t succeed? You know what comes next. Adults, on the other hand, tend to see obstacles as a nuisance; in fact, we avoid

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them, scowl at them, get grumpy when the snowplow piles up chunks of dirty snow right where we wanted to park. While the sexy side of parkour may be backflips and pole vaults, learning to get comfortable overcoming physical obstacles is what gives it longevity. This, says Ryan Ford of APEX Movement gyms, is what “helps you grow beyond the anxious part of your brain that tells you what is possible or not. It gives you the confidence to attack life with less hesitation. More than anything, it is a mindset, a method, that pushes you to seek solutions to problems that may have otherwise seemed impossible.” Ford is one to trust on this. Athletic as a child, he played team sports and explored the wilder playing field of the natural world outside his home in Golden. In his late teens, armed with the sport-specific drills and mental preparation of track and football, he shifted his focus toward more acrobatic pursuits — he really wanted to learn to do a wallflip — and through a bit of digging around for tips online, he discovered the world of parkour. In the years that followed, Ford taught at The Spot Bouldering Gym, competed and performed around the world, and began to post videos on YouTube (his Demon Drills channel currently has close to 40,000 subscribers). In 2009, he opened the first APEX Movement gym in Denver (it was the third parkour gym in the world); APEX now includes several gyms in Colorado and California. Currently, in addition to managing the APEX empire, Ford leads coaching certification courses and is busy developing a new online platform, ParkourEDU, which will be home to digital courses, podcasts and blogs. And, on Jan. 5, with co-author Ben Musholt, he published his first book, Parkour Strength Training. If parkour is a mindset that can make the seemingly impossible possible, strength training is what allows the body to sync with the mind. It is also, Ford says, “massively underrepresented in parkour. “If we want our discipline to be taken more seriously, people need to start utilizing better strength training techniques so that they can be safer and perform better in the long run,” he says. Boulder Weekly

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Known as the “strength guy” in the parkour world for more than 10 years, Ford felt that it made sense to finally organize all that knowledge and content into a book. And while aspiring parkour practitioners may use the book as a step-by-step entry to the sport, in the first chapter of the book, Ford extends the invitation to six main groups of readers: “Parkour beginners, fitness enthusiasts, obstacle course racers, field-based service professionals, competitive non-parkour athletes, and advanced and competitive parkour athletes … should most benefit from the specific strength training in the following pages,” he writes. “This book is more like the preparation for parkour,” he says. “A few skills are covered, like basic vaults and landings, but to learn those, you would be better off going to a local parkour gym or learning from our online videos. People need proper strength training in parkour so that they don’t get hurt and so that they can learn faster. If you can’t do a proper squat, your body will break down when you jump and land. If you can’t do a pull-up, you won’t be able to learn some of the complex climbing and brachiating (arm swinging) skills in parkour.” It’s likely that you find yourself in one of the six groups mentioned above and may have already discovered the benefits of strength training. What sets Ford’s book apart from other strength training programs is that it reminds us that in the outside world we have a gym that’s open 24 hours a day, free of cost. “You don’t need any special equipment or facilities to do parkour strength training,” Ford says. “Benches, rails, tree branches, walls and hills can all do the job if you know what you are doing. We teach people how to draw inspiration from track and field, martial arts, acrobatics, dance and more and blend it into a comprehensive, full body workout. It also teaches you how to be creative, problem solve and face your fears.” Remember the days when the ground around the stones you skipped to and from was swirling hot lava and if you “fell” you’d get burned? Next time you’re walking the endless stretch of carpet at DIA or strolling down Pearl Street, do a bit of that same hopping and skipping to the safe square of carpet or brick on the pedestrian mall. You’ll be working on balance, mobility and bodyweight strength — all part of the foundation of obstacle-based strength training — one child-like smile at a time. Boulder Weekly

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spent the last five years combing through each artist’s career, attempting to create a conversation between father and son. Likening the process to conducting an orchestra, Standring was able to find patterns in the duo’s work that express their myriad similarities and differences. Jamie grew up making art in a studio next door to his father’s. He says he’d pop in and out of his father’s studio and while the two would sometimes interact, each was in their own separate world. Jamie cites inspiration from his grandfather N.C. Wyeth, who died just before Jamie was born. N.C. was a wellknown artist and illustrator whose work appeared in magazines and books, most notably in classic fantasy stories. “I’d wander up to [N.C.] studio ... and there were compasses, buzz saws, flint lock rifles. And it was filled with all of his illustrations still, as if he’d walked out of there an hour before. That was just magical. I’d spend hours there pouring over that stuff,” Jamie says. “When I’d walk back down the hill to the house, there’d be my father painting some dead crow or something and that was boring as hell. I’d come from knights and Robin Hood and Treasure Island. “So really the strongest influence for me was my grandfather. …” he says. “But I think painting is such an individual discipline, and no two are really alike. I think I’m as different from my father, as his work is from his father.” Still, Jamie always admired his

father’s work, saying he was fascinated by the airless crystallized world in his paintings. Andrew gained success early in his career — selling out his first show in 1937 at the age of 20. He had several notable pieces throughout this career, but none more so than “Christina’s World” (1948). Hanging in the Museum of Modern Art as part of its permanent collection, it is one of the most renowned paintings in American art history and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2011. Throughout the Wyeths’ careers there are similarities weaved throughout their work, tailored to fit each individual personality, Standring says. Each was interested in fleeting moments and capturing snapshots in time. Their work is also heavily rooted in place, specifically the space close to home, usually splitting their year between Maine and Pennsylvania. Paintings will feature their friends, family, animals and landscapes in their own backyard or community. This allows the painters to fully absorb their environment and churn out immersive works. “[I’m inspired by] generally things that I’m familiar with,” Jamie says. “Nothing interests me less than a fascinating face. But what does interest me is a face that I’ve known for a long time, and then all of a sudden I go, ‘Bingo, I have to make a record of it.’” Jamie spends most of his year on a small island in Maine, which might suggest a lack of unique things in his surroundings to paint, but he disagrees.

“I feel like I could live three lifetimes and still not be extinguished,” he says. Both painters are also known for their realism, but Standring wanted to expand the story and change the discourse on the Wyeths, calling them exuberant painters. The “realist” description is problematic because a brush stroke can be labeled a mistake when really it’s all about perception and the essence of the painter. “The word realism immediately brings to mind that it’s a slavish imitation, and it’s not,” Standring says. “I think that they worked in the vernacular of realism but used that to express great empathy and create works that elicit an empathic response in us. There are people who cry in front of Andrew Wyeth’s paintings. Why is that? Because he stumbled upon something that he put so much emotional weight into.” Those feelings jump off the canvas regardless of subject matter. Their work goes deeper than what they’re painting, as seen with their treatment of animals. A dog isn’t just a dog, and a seagull isn’t just a seagull. Andrew and Jamie don’t create Disney-like caricatures of animals. They present the animal in a way that infuses them with meaning, as seen in Jamie’s Seven Deadly Sins series (2005) where seagulls are used as biblical metaphors. This infusion process is what they do in all their work. “The danger with representational painting is that people can say, ‘Oh, it Boulder Weekly

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pretty honest about each other’s work because we had nothing to gain through flattering,” Jamie says. “So I miss that sort of council.” The Wyeths have been a staple of the national art scene for three-quarters of a century, and Standring calls them the quintessential American artists. Their work captures iconic imagery from the farmhouse to the lighthouse, from household pets to farm animals, from personal portraiture to the macabre. Whether the subject matter is relatable or not, their work itself is intimate and recognizable. For Standring, the Wyeths’ conviction to hold on to their viewpoint is what makes their work so strong. They never abandoned their passions to conform to an artistic ideal. “It could have been easy for them to be facile or decorative. …” Standring says. “I think they’ve produced hugely memorable images that our collective mentality across America identifies with, and it’s almost inexplicable how that happens.” The viewer imparts the meaning into the painting, and it’s never intentional, Jamie says. He doesn’t focus on the motivation behind the painting, only on painting, like what he’s done his whole life and what his father and other generations did before him. “Painting is a peculiar discipline and is what compels me. ... That’s why I don’t theorize about my work, because it tends to freeze me,” Jamie says. “I just want to keep doing it, to be excited by it and moved by it.”

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et’s get this out of the way right off the bat. We have absolutely no grudge against Montana. Beautiful place — postcard-y mountain ranges, limitless plains of peaceful bison grazing under serene Western skies, crystalline rivers brimming with trout. Yellowstone. Glacier. Kootenai. Big Sky country. But we want to know how Technicolor Tone Factory, one of Boulder’s best-established jamband franchises and a wellcredentialed festival entrant across Colorado, came to be a semi-regular marquee name in places like Whitefish and Phillipsburg. (Bozeman too, but alright, that’s a college town...) “We work with this agency called Rocky Mountain Artists,” explains Technicolor Tone Factory (TTF) guitarist Cam Canepa, “and through our travels up there, we found

ping into old school prog rock, dance floor funk seductions and spaced-out instrumental excursions. Still, though, we press Canepa a little bit on the utilityknife paradox: bands that come to pride themselves on being able to pull off a variety of different genres onstage run the risk of being tagged as generalists, rather than masters of their own sound capable of burying their influences below the outfit’s personality. It’s a tricky thing, isn’t it? Once you commit to being a funk band, or an electronica band, or a songwriter’s collective, you gamble the perils of losing a portion of your audience at the expense of excellence in your pursuit of clarity and purpose. “Yeah, it’s a good question,” Canepa says. “We as a group have had a lineup change, and we’re definitely honing in on a sound more than we have before. The other guitar player left and now we have two keyboardists. “Our earlier sound, when I first joined Courtesy of Fox Theatre TTF [about a year and a half ago], was very eclectic; it was all over the place. Which I’m fine with, because as a guitar player I like to challenge myself and play different styles. But I also see the issue with that, in a set kind of being all over the place — losing interest from some and keeping it with others. In the past few months, we’ve definitely honed in on a more groove-oriented sound. We’re keeping the lyrics and jammy aspect, but individually, we’ve come together and said that we want to sound different from everybody else. We’re debuting some new material next week and the week after that, and we’re really excited because it is different, and we think we’re going to get a good response from it.” Canepa is keenly aware that the groove scene can inspire, what some might call, laziness. Some of its practitioners simply settle Technicolor Tone Factory’s Cam Canepa says he had to move on from his major musical influences in order to evolve as a guitarist. for easy genre-larceny in place of depth and genuine character. that there’s actually quite a music scene up there. Bozeman “It’s like getting away from stuff like dropping a random has got quite a good scene right now. And the same thing groove into a song where it really doesn’t seem to fit somewith Whitefish, as far away as it is. There’s a little venue up times, which I think bands can do as kind of a show-off there called the Craggy Range. They love us up there, and we thing. ‘Oh, I know how to play a Latin groove in a funk love them.” tune.’” There’s a science (and some old fashioned industry-smart For his part, Canepa cites Trey Anastasio as his earliest reconnaissance) to scoping out new markets, but sometimes, important guitar influence, hardly unexpected for a jam-stylas Canepa has found, you just find love in the most unexist player of his generation. He also points to progists like pected places. Tosin Abasi and Guthrie Govan (and decidedly un-progist “I’ve found just as random pockets of a scene in places Pat Metheny) as his current heroes. Canepa remains a realike Lincoln, Nebraska and other places. You just find all sonably committed Phish disciple, even if he concedes that, these kids who are kind of music starved. … Whitefish is a at some point, every player needs to find new sounds to beautiful area, and there’s actually a decent young population deepen their own muse. there. We’ve gone up there a few times and done well, and “(Anastasio) was the reason I became a guitar player, and they keep asking us back. “ I listened to Phish for about 15 years. Until I went through Being a jamband from Boulder, widely regarded as one of what he himself calls his ‘kill mommy stage,’” Canepa says. the epicenters of both the groove and acoustic hybrid music Or the stage where a musician stops listening to the music subcultures, carries a certain amount of cred out there in the that shaped them. non-Boulder real world. And despite lineup changes over its “And that’s my biggest advice to any guitar player these five-year history, TTF bares its reputation as an emerging days. ‘What have you been listening to? Oh, you’ve been lislivetronica act with commitment and undeniable chops. tening to Phish and the Dead for seven years?’” he says. Their shows display an uncommon fearlessness from drop“Move on.” Boulder Weekly

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Sie Film Center to screen ‘The Hidden Fortress’ by Michael J. Casey

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f I have seen further,” Sir Isaac Newton wrote to his peer, Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The line is well-known, but it isn’t Newton’s. Like many before and after him, Newton drew on another, and in this case, he lifted one of history’s signature metaphors from a 12th-century philosopher, Bernard of Chartes. Newton wasn’t the first to receive credit for something he nicked, and he certainly won’t be the last. All works of science and art are built on another. You don’t necessarily need to know the foundation to enjoy the view, but for those with inquiring minds, discovering the building blocks is half the fun. Which is why the Sie Film Center’s latest specialty program, Star Wars: Origins of the Force, is a welcome bit of cinema scholasticism in the midst of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens’ ascent to the top of the world box office. Co-presented by Alexandre O. Philippe — the director of documentary The People vs. George Lucas (2010) — Origins of the Force aims to discover the artistic influences behind George Lucas’s monolithic film franchise. It explores Lucas’s appropriation of 1930s serials Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon to the classic 1927 German silent film Metropolis. Even Lucas’s first attempt at sci-fi, THX-1138, plays a critical part in the making of the 1977 blockbuster: Star Wars IV: A Hew Hope (hereafter noted simply as Star Wars). While all three of these nestle

George Lucas drew inspiration from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, both through its storytelling and cinematic expression.

nicely into the context of Star Wars, the highlight of the four-week series is also the movie that it relates to the closest: Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. Released in 1958, The Hidden Fortress was produced during Kurosawa’s string of financial successes and artistic triumphs that began with Rashômon in 1950 and concluded with Red Beard in 1965. Over the course of that 15-year, 13-movie run, Kurosawa released a series of monumental works, one right after the other, which not only developed and deepened the director’s style, but also established a paradigm for future filmmakers to come, in particular Lucas. That connection becomes immediately clear with Hidden Fortress’ opening shot of two bickering peasants, Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) and Matashichi (Kamatari Fujiwara), lost in a vast wasteland. While this closely

resembles R2-D2 and C-3PO stranded on the desert planet of Tatooine, Star Wars also echoes Fortress by using these lowly characters for comic relief and the framing device of the story. Through these characters, viewers discover the world and meet the players. From there, Hidden Fortress progresses in a deceptively fairy-tale manner with Tahei and Matashichi helping transport Princess Yuki (Misa Uehara) — a badass princess if there ever was one — and a fortune of gold across enemy lines and back to her castle. To accomplish this, they enlist the help of a powerful samurai, General Rokurota (Toshirô Mifune in all his glory). Watching The Hidden Fortress is the immense pleasure of watching a director refine his aesthetic during a period of unmatched creativity. Much like a gambler on a hot streak, Kurosawa continued to experiment

ON THE BILL: The Hidden Fortress. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, Sie Film Center, 2510 E Colfax Ave, Denver, 720-381-0813. Tickets start at $8 at denverfilm.org.

and develop without setback, and Fortress was his first adventure into widescreen photography — Tohoscope to be precise. The result is astounding as each beautifully composed black-and-white image is kinetic, popping off the screen with giddy energy. Like directors John Ford and D.W. Griffith before him, Kurosawa achieved this feat not simply through story, but through cinematic technology as well. Kurosawa preferred to work with telephoto lenses and multiple cameras for each take, allowing him to cut seamlessly between performers without drawing attention to the cut. The result is a pictorial triumph, one that creates dynamic tension and explosive storytelling simply through staging and performance. It worked so well that Lucas wasn’t the only director to take his cues from Kurosawa. The Hidden Fortress’ stylistic template would lend itself to numerous modern actionadventure movies and the subsequent parodies. Shades of Kurosawa can be found in anything from Saving Private Ryan to A Bug’s Life. For baby boomers, Star Wars was a watershed moment, both cinematically and culturally. For moviegoers, any Kurosawa movie is that watershed moment, and The Hidden Fortress is one of the best. Lucas may have learned from Kurosawa and borrowed heavily from Fortress, but he didn’t make a movie as good as it. He couldn’t. But we shouldn’t hold that against him. Only Kurosawa could have topped Kurosawa.

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Thursday, January 14 Music Bill Smith. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303993-2094. Coby Mandell. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235

Lafayette Martin Luther King, Jr. March for Peace and Celebration 9:45 a.m., Monday, Jan. 18. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Rd., Lafayette, 303-661-1225. Lafayette will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. with its 11th annual march and celebration on MLK Day. There are events scheduled throughout the day, beginning with arts and crafts at 9:45 a.m. The peace march will start at noon after a performance by the Second Baptist Glory Choir, and it will end at Centaurus High School, where there will be live entertainment, service projects and a keynote speech by the Flobots’ Jonny 5. Make sure to get there early to get a free T-shirt — only the first 300 attendees will get one. — Tommy Wood

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Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Eric Adrian. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-3279318. George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Illenium, Said The Sky, Covex. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. see EVENTS Page 34

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Keeping the Dream Alive Benefit Concert

Maura Weiler: Contrition from Page to Screen

6:45 p.m., Friday, Jan. 15, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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Colorado-based variety band Soul-X headlines a benefit jam for Boulder’s Family Learning Center this Friday. The eight-piece band plays every genre from top 40 hits to Motown to blues to reggae to ’80s classics to country. They’ve played numerous local shows, as well as bigger gigs like the Democratic National Convention. For $15, fans can see them rock out in the Boulder Theater, and the proceeds will go to the Family Learning Center, which helps low-income, at-risk children secure their academic futures. The doors open at 6:45 p.m., and the show is open to all ages. — Tommy Wood

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Screenwriter and former 20th Century Fox executive Maura Weiler will speak at Chautauqua about the nature of adaptations in the film industry — including why there are currently more adaptations than original screenplays, what makes a book suitable for film adaptation and how that process is playing out with her own novel, Contrition. Written in Boulder, Weiler’s debut novel is about a journalist who finds out that her long-lost twin sister is a master painter, who resists showing her art to the public because she is a nun. — Tommy Wood

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Jeremy Parker, The Heartstring Hunters. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Open Bluegrass Jam. 6 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Avenue, Suite 180, Boulder, 303997-6134.

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Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770. Open Stage. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Romero Unplugged. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Samsara. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Events Acrylics 2. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Business 1.0. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Free Session for Those Interested in Starting or Growing a Small Business. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24.

Jamie Wyeth

Mark Making. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Jan. 24. Oil Paintings by Theresa Beckemeyer. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30. Photography by Glenn Randall. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30.

Father and son painters Andrew and Jamie Wyeth share the walls of the Denver Art Museum in Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio. Read more on pg. 25.

Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 31. Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 1.

Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967-1980. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 17. When the Winds Whisper. Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-678-7869. Through Feb. 27. Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 7.

GED Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Open Access For Painters & Potters. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. RiffTrax Live: Starship Troopers. 7:30 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303444-0583. Friday, January 15 Music

Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Robert Cline Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Doc Haze. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

Scott Vonn. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

El Javi. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Shadow Of Jaguar. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Electron. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Soul X with The Janes, The Other Guys. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

50 Shades of Blue. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Ann & Riley. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Funkiphino. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

Antonio Lopez. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

The Hunters. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-5507813.

Beauty of My Land. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Blues Krewe. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Longmont, 303-776-4594.

Deja Blu. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Eric Stone. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303258-3770.

Jeremy Mohney. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Taylor Radio. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Boulder Bookies. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. The Boulder Filmmaking Incubator. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Doctor Who Party. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Booster. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Johnny O Band. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Friday Afternoon Concert & Art Show: Take Down the Door. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Brews & Tunes. 4:45 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

KC and Jake Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.

Intercambio English as a Second Language Class Level 4/5. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Paul Shinn. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Introduction to Shamanism. 7 p.m. Edie Stone’s Office, 2027 Broadway, Suite H, Boulder, 303-415-3755.

Clisset and Company. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

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Dear Landlords. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Paul Sullivan. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Dechen Hawk & Colin Robison. 8 p.m. The

The Prairie Scholars and The Honkabilly Heroes. 4:30 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St.,

Masterpiece Makers. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Boulder Weekly

events Steamworks. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

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Saturday, January 16 Music Adam & The Conundrum. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Andrew Sturtz, Bay Bryan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. The Aristocats Band. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-7747698. Arthur Lee Land. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

The Addams Family. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 27.

Asalott. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Cody Sisters with Jackson Earles. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Dance, American Style. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303492-8423. Dechen Hawk Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE. DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Eminence Ensemble. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Good Manners Quartet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Hotsoup. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. The Jet Set. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. John McKay. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Kitchen Dwellers. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Monocle Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Native Station. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. St.Vrain Swing Jazz. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Taylor Radio. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-5507813. Thumpin’. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Tweed with Digital Beat Down. 8:30 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Wildwood Roots. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. The Zimmermans. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Events Adobe Premiere Pro Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Boulder Weekly

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Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21. Yankee Tavern. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-7725200. Through Jan. 24.

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Friday, February 5, 2016 Conspiracy theorists and 9/11 truthers unite for the suspenseful thriller Yankee Tavern, now playing at the Longmont Threatre Company.

Elvis Costello Detour: Live at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with Larkin Poe. 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Flowers (Loreak). 3:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art. 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Sunday, January 17 Music Both Sides Now. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Brian Rezac. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Chris Ralph, Lauren Alexander. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Colorado Chamber Players. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100

Don Cleason. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. Maya Bennett. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Patrick Latella. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Prarie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Terrapin Flyer feat Melvin Seals, Mark Karan and John Kadelcik. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-8498458. Events Ballroom Dance Class. 6:30 p.m. Danceophile Ballroom and Folk Dance Studio, 250 31st St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. see EVENTS Page 36

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Layth Matthews — The Four Noble Truths of Wealth. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, Jan. 19 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Friday, Jan. 15 Priya Huffman — of Bone and Breath. 7:30 p.m. Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Katherine Marlow — An Unusual Courtship. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Saturday, Jan. 16 Terri Farley — Wild at Heart. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, Jan. 18

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“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

Maura Weiler — Contrition. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Wednesday, Jan. 20

Julie Tara — Songs of Gaia. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Psychedelic Shine. 2 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder.

I Spy Wildlife in Winter. 4:30 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont.

Monday, January 18

Landscape Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647.

Music Many Mountains. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Paisley Nightmare, The Youthful Nothings. 11 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder. Sixty Minute Men. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303543-0886. Events Adult Ballet at Reverence Academy of Dance. 11:30 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Dr., Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. Elvis Costello Detour: Live at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with Larkin Poe. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Getting Started with Adobe Lightroom. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Past & Present: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights in Colorado. 7 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder. Rosenwald. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tuesday, January 19 Music

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Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: John Gunther Safari Trio. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Wednesday, January 20 Music Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Brokedown Shack. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Eric Wiggs. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Rhythm Allstars. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Events Acrylic Painting. 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. ALDA-Boulder (Social Sign Language Class). 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BoulderReads Tutor Training. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Breakfast Club. 9 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Cruisers and Crawlers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Designing and Building Net Zero Homes. 5 p.m. Upslope Brewery Tap House, 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder. Flatirons Mineral Club Junior Geologists Meeting. 6 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Flatirons Running FunRun. 5:30 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway Street, Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837. I Am Eleven. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Indoor Play with Chinese Jump Rope. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Intercambio English as a Second Language Class Level 6/7. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Intro to Acrylics. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Mediterranea. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Our Open Space Lands: The Next Fifty Years. 5:30 p.m. Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Complex, University of Colorado, Boulder. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. The Supply-Side Agenda Today. 4 p.m. Old Main Chapel, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-6393.

GED Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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American Life in Poetry: Column 561 by Judy Ray

Here’s a New Year’s poem by Judy Ray, who lives and writes in Tucson. I like the way that common phrase, “the turning of a year,” has suggested to her the turns in a race track. Her most recent book is To Fly Without Wings, (Helicon Nine Editions, 2009). — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

Turning of the Year We never know if the turn is into the home stretch. We call it that—a stretch of place and time— with vision of straining, racing. We acknowledge each turn with cheers though we don’t know how many laps remain. But we can hope the course leads on far and clear while the horses have strength and balance on their lean legs, fine-tuned muscles, desire for the length of the run. Some may find the year smooth, others stumble at obstacles along the way. We never know if the finish line will be reached after faltering, slowing, or in mid-stride, leaping forward.

We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2012 by Judy Ray, “Turning of the Year,” from The Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers, (Whirlybird Press, 2012). Poem reprinted by permission of Judy Ray and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

Send poetry submissions of 250 words or fewer to poetry@boulderweekly.com.

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‘The Revenant’ punishes DiCaprio for Academy love by Ryan Syrek

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ithout spoiling whether quently redundant, even on a visual level. survivalist/temptingNot that cinematographer Emmanuel bear-treat Hugh Glass Lubezki doesn’t do his damndest to (Leonardo DiCaprio) make every shot look gorgeous. It’s just, survives The Revenant, there are only so many ways to show we can still talk about one climactic snow-covered rocks and blood. shot. DiCaprio, having been maimed in DiCaprio will be nominated and all maimable ways, stares directly into likely win an Oscar for this performance the camera, seemingly shattering the — already winning a Golden Globe — fourth wall by sheer force of will. Teeth in a notorious case of an actor winning grit, lips sneered, his eyes scream, “Is this for the accumulation of his performances enough? Huh? Is in a soft year. this finally Because, the enough? Daniel truth is, while Day Lewis didn’t the shoot was sleep inside a likely physically f**king horse like demanding, actI just did! Give ing isn’t really me what I am supposed to be owed!” We are about watching down to it, rich folks get America: We give dirty and lose Leo the statue or weight. The he becomes a “performance” Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance is mostly super villain. here is mostly grimacing and screaming in The Revenant. Those are our just grimacing choices. and screaming. The Revenant is director Alejandro Hell, we spend nearly three hours with González Iñárritu’s latest visually specGlass, and all I can tell you is that he tacular, intellectually lazy artistic showloved his woman and son and he’s really, off. In the early days of America, Glass really accident prone. I don’t know if leads a fur trapping expedition through Glass is a good man or a bad one, a soltreacherous territory. When a bear makes dier with regret over American treatment of Natives or a man who simply fell in him a chew toy, in an epic scene we’ll love. He’s blank. See through. Glass. talk about later, the wilderness explorer As such, The Revenant is like finds out that man is more treacherous Iñárritu’s last effort, Birdman, in that it’s than nature. Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), a a movie that convinces you it’s more sigmumbling, half-scalped jerk-faced jerk, nificant and important than it is, when wants to leave Glass to die so he won’t it’s really just pretty and kinda dumb. In slow them down. Glass’s son, Hawk fact, the lasting legacy of the film for me (Forrest Goodluck), understandably isn’t going to be anything that happened objects. So, obviously, Fitzgerald guts on screen. In the lead-up to the film’s Hawk and kicks Glass into a shallow release, rumors swirled on the internet grave. Too mad to die, the brutalized that DiCaprio actually got “raped by a father sets out to avenge his son. bear” in the movie. Of course, this is This vengeance mostly involves nonsense. But the rumors grew so scenes of DiCaprio crawling desperately strong, a studio exec had to officially say over various objects. He crawls over that “Leonardo DiCaprio does not get rocks. He crawls in piles of snow. He raped by a bear.” I guess there’s one crawls inside a dead horse. DiCaprio’s thing left Leo hasn’t tried to win an belly was on the ground for so much of Oscar. the shooting, for several months, he was This review first appeared in The legally considered a snake. The long, bleak sequences are meant to convey the Reader of Omaha, Nebraska. harrowing nature of the survival story. And they do. But they also seem freBoulder Weekly

film Secrets between the dead and the living Love and grief in ‘Flowers’ by Michael J. Casey

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ne (Nagore Aranburu) lives her life of quiet desperation ON THE BILL: Flowers one bland day at a time. Stuck (Loreak). Jan. 13-16, The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut in a loveless marriage and St., Boulder, 303-440-7825. Tickets grappling with early on-set start at $6 at www.thedairy.org. menopause, the childless Ane sighs. She always thought there would be more. More life, more love, more music, more dancing, more... flowers. And right on cue, they arrive, a beautiful bouquet of flowers just for Ane. But the bouquet is not from Ane’s husband, Ander (Egoitz Lasa). Must be a mix-up, Ane surmises. A week passes and another bouquet arrives, and another the following week. There is no mix-up; Ane has a secret admirer. He is Beñat ( Josean Bengoetxea), a crane operator at the construction company where Ane is a secretary. Beñat is also married — to Lourdes (Itziar Ituño), a tollbooth operator with a child from another marriage. And though his marriage is not as prickly as Ane’s, it is no Hallmark card and these secret presents clearly give him a sense of satisfaction that he hasn’t felt in some time. But then Beñat dies in an automobile accident, and Like its namesake, Flowers is sweet but lacks a lasting presAne’s flowers stop ence. arriving. Ane puts two and two together and returns the favor, placing fresh flowers at Beñat’s crash site every week. Lourdes, who is trying to sweep everything that reminds her of her late husband under the rug and move on, is frustrated by the appearance of the flowers. She visits the florist to demand that they reveal the identity of the secret admirer, but they refuse. Beñat’s mother, Tere (Itziar Aizpuru), tries to help Lourdes as best as she can, but Lourdes finds Tere an equally frustrating reminder of Beñat’s absence. Death leaves holes in the lives of the living, and all three women deal with the hole Beñat left behind in the only way they can. Set in the lush and picturesque Basque Country of Spain, Flowers (Loreak) is the second film from the directing team Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga — their first, For 80 Days (2010), was not distributed in the U.S. The touch they bring to the material is both gentle and distant. Flowers is a movie about how the living deal with the death of a loved one and the expanse of time it takes to deal with that loss. Flowers unassumingly covers years worth of relationships and emotions, constantly returning to that one incident time and time again like a nagging feeling. But nagging feelings aren’t always pleasant, and they aren’t always impressive. Flowers is a pretty movie with a sweet sentiment at its core, but Garaño, Goenaga and co-writer Aitor Arregi’s character development is ultimately anemic. Coupled with a story that is so languidly paced, the climatic reveal ends up being ho-hum at best. Though that moment has a nice Tarantinoesque touch where the same information is presented twice from two different perspectives, there is nothing surprising about it. And in a case like this, a little surprise wouldn’t hurt anybody. Boulder Weekly

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Susan France n four street food dishes, Mumtaz cultivated unique flavor and elevated the routine to the exceptional. The first dish was a lamb and beef gyro on a pita. The meats were broiled and grilled, then sliced in halfcentimeter-thick slabs and laid atop thick, chewy pita bread. The sandwich was perfectly balanced, with meat slabs going three deep, creamy yogurt-mint sauce just short of Mumtaz smothering, and Mediterranean Food fresh, crunchy bits of 588 U.S. 287, Lafayette, lettuce, tomato and 303-926-1400 cucumber. The unique flavor of this gyro came from the lamb. It was cooked to perfection, highlighting all the earthy and grassiness of the meat without crossing over into gamey. It was slightly tough but juicy, and its cooperation with the beef released delicious fat and satisfied the palate with rich umami. It created the foundation for the yogurt sauce to hit high notes, like a wellplayed drum set. The balance of texture — chewy bread, relenting meat, crunchy vegetables and creamy sauce — was a feat. The second dish was a plate of falafel with tahini sauce. The falafel came as plump sand dollars, and had the exact consistency of a thick hush puppy. The fry on the outside of the falafel was non-greasy and thin, but still retained composure and provided a small crunch. The chickpea and fava bean innards were dry but soft; made for the tahini accompaniment. The unique flavor of the falafel came from what must be fennel seed or tarragon. Mumtaz pulls the KFC card and calls their spices “special,” and thus secret. Though the flavor was subtle, it was unmistak-

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dish. It likely either came from grilling the eggplants before they were blended, or the late-stage addition of smoke. It was a wild flavor. The smoke brought out the fruitiness of the eggplant, which so often loses its flavor when cut too thin or fried or baked too long. Here, the eggplant and smoke worked in harmony to make you feel like you’re eating something much grander than bread and smear. The fourth dish was a plate of kefta. Two long strips of seasoned and grilled beef sat atop billowy rice. It was served with a thick garlic sauce. The beef had been ground and reshaped before it was grilled, allowing the meat to be rolled with parsley, onions and spices. The unique flavor of the kefta came from the addition of cinnamon to the spice mixture. Its aroma was more striking than its flavor throughout the process of eating, which subdued the cinnamon and let it work behind the scenes to bring out other flavors in the meat. The other dishes — spanakopita, grape leaves, sambusek (cheese wontons, basically) and baklava — were all fresh and bright. Mumtaz has been doing this for a while, so you’ve likely already been and experienced their subtle mastery of Lebanese and Mediterranean fare, but if you haven’t, the recommendation is to stop in and taste for yourself.

Mumtaz Mediterannean Food elevates street fare with clever additions by Matt Cortina able. Perhaps you have to like the anise flavor to like Mumtaz’s falafel, but even if you don’t, it is used with refinement here. It is sweet and salty, like salted licorice, and it hits your nose first, gets lost when the falafel is in your mouth and then lingers softly in your head until the next bite. The third dish was baba ghanouj. Eggplant was blended into a thin paste with sesame oil, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and topped with spicy paprika. It was served with the thick, chewy and lightly charred pita bread. The unique flavor of the baba ghanouj came from some process by which smoke is imparted into the

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fter earning a biology degree in 1995 from the University of Colorado, Alec Schuler had two urgent goals. “To travel and to ski,” he said with a smile as he sat with a cappuccino at Laughing Goat Coffeehouse. To finance his excursions he worked in restaurants, mainly as a waiter and eventually realized that he wanted to welcome guests to his own place. Shuler studied at Manhattan’s Natural Gourmet Institute, cooked in Seattle and worked in a French restaurant in Spain because, he said, “The Spaniards wouldn’t hire me, because I wasn’t Spanish.” He returned to his “favorite place of all,” Boulder, to cook at L’Atelier and at

Treppeda’s Ristorante in Niwot. Shuler’s Arugula Bar e Ristorante opened in 2009 in the North Boulder space that was once home to A La Carte, a gourmet cafeteria, and Ristorante Laudisio. Arugula dishes ingredient-focused Italian and Mediterranean fare and Shuler’s brunch and lunch spot, Tangerine, followed next door a few years later. After decades of sweating the details every night in various kitchens, Shuler now happily depends on Swedish-born Sven Hedenas, longtime former executive chef at Boulder’s 4th St. Bar & Grill. “I went away for two weeks at Christmas and

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Alec Schuler, Chef/owner of Arugula Bar and Tangerine shown here with his children, Marcello left, and Gabriel, right.

I only got one text from the restaurant,” Shuler said. Shuler’s focus is on his family. He and his Italian-Venezuelan wife, Gabriella, are parents of four rambunctious sons aged 9 and 7 with 20-month-old twins. “The kids are starting to learn about food. We were at a hamburger place recently and the 7-year-old asked the waiter if he could have some olive oil on the side,” Shuler said proudly. In the first of an ongoing series of Out of the Kitchen Q&A’s, I sat down with see NIBBLES Page 45

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Shuler at the Laughing Goat. An avid bike commuter, he bragged about his free parking spot right out front. First thing you ever cooked? “I grew up on Long Island, and both of my parents were European-born. The first thing I cooked was probably rice. I really loved it when I was a kid. My favorite dish that my Mom made was roast chicken with rice. Risotto was served every Sunday for 20 years at my house.” Best soundtrack for cooking? “A lot of the music I listen to is reggae. I find it very positive and uplifting. I also love listening to KGNU and I have since 1991. I really missed it when I moved away.”

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Arugula’s menu changes twice a week. Why? “Instead of having a menu and then another menu of specials, we decided to change it up so we could use what is fresh. If a farmer brings us a bag of baby rutabagas, we can go ahead and use them. I like to get in four to eight pounds of seafood and serve all of it in an evening. I love our wine dinners the most because it gives us total freedom in the kitchen. We start with the wine and let it guide us to the food, not the other way around.” Any sacred menu items? “The bison Bolognese and the sausage and cheese with penne have been on

the menu since Day One.” Local produce sources? “We get a lot of our local produce in season from Red Wagon Farm and also Oxford Gardens and Toohy and Sons Organic.” Any restaurant pet peeves? “People get really picky sometimes. They don’t like the way we serve salt. Or they say the polenta’s too hot or get impatient. We create food to order from scratch. It’s not scoopn-serve. It takes time. Or they’ll say that the waiter looked at them wrong.” see NIBBLES Page 46

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Polenta or creamy cornmeal has always been one of Alec Shuler’s go-to dishes because of its adaptability. Polenta can be served warm and creamy or cooled and cut in triangles to be baked or fried and topped with various sauces. It can be meaty or vegan with added protein, veggies and cheeses. Use stone-ground coarse cornmeal or polenta — Shuler uses Anson Mills brand and said there is only one secret to successful polenta making: “You have to be in the kitchen the whole time when you make polenta to keep it from scorching in the pan.”

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SAVAGE by Dan Savage

Dear Dan: Longtime reader and listener (magnum podcast subscriber!) here, and I have a conundrum. My partner and I have a DADT agreement in regards to extramarital relations. I’m a fortysomething woman who travels a lot on business, and I find those trips a great oppor© LaRae Lobdell tunity to have NSA flings with younger men, all in good fun. So far, Tinder seems to be a good way to meet people, and I try to take precautions to ensure they are who they say they are by checking them out on social media and meeting them first in a public place. But a girl can’t be too careful. Sometimes I wish I had someone I could call and just say, “Hey, I’m hosting a stranger tonight at my hotel. Could you call me at a specific time to check he hasn’t chopped me up into little pieces?” My partner can’t be that person because of the whole DADT thing. My friends don’t know about my flings. And the front desk seems inappropriate. Is there

an app out there providing this kind of service? Or does someone need to create one? — Seeks Discreet Call Service Dear SDCS: A Tinder-like app to hook up random people who are about to hook up with other random people so the randos who met via the Tinder-like app can verify neither was murdered by the randos they met via Tinder itself? Sounds a little complicated, SDCS, and I’m not sure the market for your proposed app is big enough to attract investors. I also don’t think introducing a second potentially unreliable and/or sinister stranger into the mix is going to make your hotel hookups appreciably safer. Here’s a better idea/simpler life hack: Schedule a wake-up call for an hour or two after your Tinder rando is

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— More Or Less Dear MOL: Italians pet with their teeth? Good to know. Also good to know: yourself. Now, I would never suggest that bi guys can’t honor monogamous commitments — even though I routinely say just that about straight guys, gay guys, straight women and lesbians — but it would be foolish for you to make a monogamous commitment. Not because you’re “destined to be unfaithful,” MOL, but because you’ve already been unfaithful. Here’s what you know about yourself: You’re bisexual, you want to have sex with women and men, and you don’t want to cheat. Which means you’ll have to either renegotiate the terms of the relationship you’re in now — get your boyfriend’s okay to have sex with a woman once in a while — or end the relationship and find a boyfriend (or girlfriend) who will give you their OK. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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Risky Business, Part II: Credit cards no longer accepted

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get asked five times a week by people who want business to offer a cannabis-specific solution — one to run Visa and Mastercard through Jane,” says that they claim is backed by banks. Despite or because David Ellerstein, CEO of Jane, a Denver-based of the nebulous environment that they operate in, company that sells a kiosk that creates an elecretailers may jump at the opportunity to decrease the tronic chain of custody for cash in cannabis retail amount of cash transactions and to accumulate the businesses. “It is ready for it, because that is our back- benefits of doing business with credit or electronic ground, processing and mobile banking, but there are transfer. lots of reasons to be cautious about how we proceed. But, as far as Ellerstein knows, there is no bank Until we have a partnering bank, we will not have a that is publicly backing electronic fund or credit transcard processor on the kiosk.” fers for cannabis, although retailers are not likely to be Ellerstein’s comment is based on his understandprivy to that information, leaving them vulnerable to ing of the position of the major credit card companies make the decision to accept credit without fully when their networks were first being used in legal understanding the risk that they are taking. It is likely cannabis industries. the banks are In a 2014 statement Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons unaware their name made to the Denver is being used in Post, Visa, among the association with more cannabis-tolermerchant processing ant credit lending in the cannabis companies, explained space. that they were willThere are clues that something is ing to work with amiss — like the banks in navigating fact that there is no the murky legal merchant code for waters. cannabis, making it “In offering our difficult for compapayment service, Visa nies like Visa to adheres to the rule of detect when their law and seeks to prenetwork is implicatvent our network In a year, Visa has drastically changed its stance on working with legal marijuana retailers. from being used for ed in cannabis transunlawful purposes. In actions. Without the this instance, the federal government considers the option to be labeled as cannabis, the transaction will sale of marijuana illegal but has announced that it will be listed as something with a similar price point and not challenge state laws that legalize and regulate buying cycle, like hair care or flowers. marijuana sales. Given the federal government’s posiSince 2014, Ellerstein says that many retailers tion and recognizing this is an evolving legal matter either don’t realize the risk, or do and have become with different standards applicable in different states, complacent. In selling its kiosk, Jane often talks with our local merchant acquirers (banks) are best suited to retail marijuana businesses who accept credit/debit, make any determination about potential illegality.” saying that they feel OK flying under the radar and Visa’s statement opened the door for third-party, don’t fear being penalized for their use of the platmerchant processing companies to sell their platforms form. to cannabis retailers. According to Ellerstein, it is But cannabis industry insiders should be the first common for sales representatives to come directly to a to know better than to rest on assumptions. After all,

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regulations and legality are notoriously temperamental in the cannabis industry. With more than a year passing since Visa’s last public statement about their willingness to work with marijuana retailers, Boulder Weekly checked back in to see if anything changed since 2014. Not only has the credit card company changed its stance, it has hardened. “Although the federal government previously announced it will not challenge state laws that legalize and regulate marijuana sales, marijuana nevertheless has remained illegal under federal law. Such transactions are not permitted on the Visa network until such time as federal law allows otherwise.” Even if the federal position hasn’t changed, Visa is now saying that it is absolutely unlawful to use its network in the cannabis space. So, what does this mean for retailers who are still using merchant processing? Vendors who violate or are in suspicion of violating Visa’s user agreement rules will be placed on a Terminated Merchant File (TMF) list or a MasterCard Alert to Control High-risk Merchants (MATCH) list. Essentially a blacklist, TMF/ MATCH lists the social security number of the business owners and prohibits them from using credit networks. TMF/MATCH lists are shared between all credit card companies and affect the ability of a business owner to use credit, both personally and as a part of current or future business. This will be particularly damaging if marijuana is ever legalized at the federal level, serving as a severe disadvantage. The risk of being placed on a TMF/MATCH list is not new, but based on Visa’s advancing position against the cannabis industry, it is more likely to be detected and used now that violations are more clear. What once appeared an undefined space free for experimentation now looks more straight and narrow. “In my 30 years of working in banking and telecom services, we played in the gray a lot,” Ellerstein says. “There was policy that everybody knew and you would make business decisions based on those accordingly. In cannabis though, there is only black and white. We can toe the line, but we can never cross it.”

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rom Maine to California the war to end the war on marijuana is heating up as never before. Here’s a down-and-dirty situation report from the major battleground states. Nevada: A petition drive in Nevada has succeeded, and Nevadans will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana this November. Like most of the initiatives likely to appear on state ballots this year, the Nevada initiative bears a family resemblance to Colorado’s successful 2012 initiative. This isn’t surprising since the Marijuana Policy Project, which led the fight in Colorado, has been cooperating with the initiative campaigns that are getting the most traction. California: California billionaire tech entrepreneur Sean Parker is the driving force behind the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), which was cleared to start collecting signatures by the California Secretary of State on Jan. 6. The initiative has the support of a number of pro-legalization groups, including the Marijuana Policy Project and Drug Policy Alliance, which had planned to sponsor their own petition drives but decided to unite behind the AUMA measure. The measure will need 365,880 signatures (5 percent of the vote for California governor in 2014) to get on the ballot. Last week Parker donated $500,000 to the cause. He’s expected to donate a lot more. Maine: As of Jan. 5, a joint effort by activists from two groups, Legalize Maine and the MPPbacked Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol, had collected about 80,000 signatures.

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THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE $4.33 In case you were wondering how to waste a couple bucks, the Powerball lottery award ballooned to $1.5 billion — an amount of money that shouldn’t be legal to give to any one person for doing nothing more than buying a piece of paper. Anytime the number gets to extreme heights, people jump on the get-richquick bandwagon, seeming to forget that lottery winners are notorious for destroying their lives and committing suicide... but hey, at least they won a huge lump of money beforehand! The list of potential purchases is endless, from buying your favorite sports team to stupidly expensive cars to private islands to investing it like some dweeb. Hillary Clinton says she’d put the money back in her campaign — yes, she seriously said that. But we’re not really sure why she doesn’t just buy the White House instead and kick everyone out, followed shortly by remodeling the Lincoln Monument in her likeness. The person who does win could do us all a favor and persuade Donald Trump to STFU and drop out of the race. Hopefully, the person who wins will be smarter than the meme that circulated the interwebs claiming that if the money was split between America’s population of 3 million, then everyone would get a nice $4.3 million in their bank account. Nope. Come on guys, everyone knows that 1,400,000,000 ÷ 300,000,000 = 4.33. Womp womp. But hey, who wouldn’t mind an extra four bucks? At least it would reimburse your initial Powerball investment.

CAMP OUT WITH YOUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS The Boulder City Council 2016 Retreat is scheduled for January 22 and 23 and our local representatives are champing at the bit to spend quality time with their fellow council members. At last year’s retreat, council members sat around the campfire telling horror stories about reading the comment sections on articles about right-sizing. Matt Appelbaum busted out a guitar and the nine members sang Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” for 13 straight hours, passing around a bottle of Malibu. This year, council members have planned a weekend full of activities including trust falls, macaroni picture frame making and a high ropes course. New council members will of course be hazed, as they are every year, by being asked to put on a full showing of Les Miserables. Bob Yates will play Jean Valjean, Jan Burton will play Cosette and Aaron Brockett will play Javert. The dynamic triple-threat — Appelbaum signed up to play every other part despite numerous objections. After the show, the council members will retreat to their cabins, with the boys and girls separating for the night. Sources close to the situation say they will ask questions like “Who do you like?” and “What do you want to be when you grow up?” City Attorney Tom Carr has already called for a moratorium on grab-ass and all forms of horseplay, but an anonymous council member was quoted as saying, “We’re going to steal his glasses and duct tape him to the flag pole, tee hee.” Boulder Weekly

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