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departments 6 T HE HIGHROAD: Bezos buys a big piece of power 7 DYERTIMES: End municipalization secrecy 7 COMMENTARY: We didn’t always hate Castro 9 L ETTERS: Another Danish absurdity; Charlie Hebdo murders a reminder 12 NEWS BRIEFS: Wage theft protection takes effect; Gardner moves fast on natural gas exports; Natural gas spills in Colorado in 2014; Immigrant sanctuary seeker denied action 31 OVERTONES: Conrad Tao will be both soloist and composer 37 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 42 FILM: The bleak fallout of ‘Little Accidents’ 43 SCREEN: ‘Selma’ resonates 45 CUISINE REVIEW: Fish and chips joint comes to Lafayette 47 TIDBITES: Food happenings around Boulder County 51 DRINK: Brewers team up for unique beers 57 SAVAGE LOVE: Finding a better therapist to translate problems 59 ASTROLOGY: By Rob Brezsny 61 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: National news finally taking cannabis legalization seriously Boulder Weekly

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Highroad Bezos buys a big piece of power by Jim Hightower

n old cowboy aphorism says: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse.” From the 1970s into the 1990s, there was a proud truth-telling newspaper of national importance. At the Washington Post, fiery editors hired strong investigative diggers to expose corporate and political corruption, telling the public who was doing what to whom… and why.

From consumer ripoffs to the Watergate scandal that consumed Dick Nixon’s presidency, the Post practiced Journalism with a capital J. But then it devolved into just another corporate media property, focusing more on cutting newsroom costs than on its watchdog role. Finally, the Post plunged all the way down the corporate rabbit hole by selling out — body and soul — to the avatar of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Why would the master of digital marketing metrics want a newspaper? It doesn’t square at all with his matrix of other businesses. Was it just a lark? Get real — Bezos doesn’t do larks. Indeed, the Post is not just any newspaper. It’s the paper at the epicenter of governmental decision-making, and it’s read first thing in the morning by practically every congress critter, agency head, lobbyist and others involved in Washington doings. And Amazon’s doings are increasingly tied to the

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Capitol City — including possible antitrust probes of its monopoly practices, its secret push to get a $600 million contract to build the CIA’s cloud, its scandalous laundering of much of its global income through the tax-dodger’s paradise of Luxembourg, and its infamous exploitation of low-wage warehouse workers. And now, Mr. Amazon can “speak” through the Post every single day with every key policymaker, shaping the debate on everything that affects his grandiose ambition. Bezos wasn’t buying a newspaper — he bought a big piece of power. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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commentary We didn’t always hate Castro by Dave Anderson

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DyerTimes End municipalization secrecy by Joel Dyer

et me start by saying I’m all for municipalization. I have supported the idea of forming a municipal electric utility in Boulder from the beginning. That said, I continue to be disappointed by the way that the City of Boulder conducts itself on this important issue — in particular its disregard for transparency, which seems to indicate that City Council and staff don’t think the people of Boulder can be trusted to understand complicated facts and make informed decisions. From the very beginning, the municipalization process has been clouded by this lack of confidence in the public and bureaucratic lack of - candor. Why is municipalization a good idea? There is only one reason: because it could, if done properly, help to curb global warming in ways that getting our electricity from Xcel’s profit-motivated system never will. Aside from that, who in their right mind would ever consider tasking the city and taxpayers with such a monumental undertaking? So why didn’t we just put it on the ballot that way, without all the contrived financial requirements and potential “off ramps”? The explanation is telling: Those pushing municipalization never thought, and still don’t think, the people of Boulder would municipalize their electricity based on the environmental motive if they thought it might cost Boulder Weekly

them a few extra bucks a month. I thought they were wrong four years ago and I still think they’re wrong. The only question mark for most folks on municipalization centers on the city’s competence to create and manage such a large project. It’s not the fear of spending a few more cents per kilowatt. All that was needed to make a municipal utility a reality in Boulder was a little faith in the people, the faith to let one of the most environmentally enlightened communities in the country lead the way by doing the right thing on global warming. For the vast majority of people, supporting municipalization was never about limiting stranded costs or maintaining or cutting the cost of electricity. As a result of this lack of public trust, the whole process has become more about a financial sales pitch that makes guarantees on the price of electricity than it is about the environmental necessity to act. This misplaced emphasis has caused the City Council to wrongly believe that the financial details of municipalization have to be formulated behind closed doors and kept secret from the public and the Xcel boogieman. Unfortunately, when governments start doing things in secret they lose the trust of the people. And that is exactly what is happening when it come to Boulder’s municipalization process. The people I talk to every day are more skeptical now that a municipal see DYERTIMES Page 8

s America embarks on a more friendly relationship with Cuba, it is interesting to recall a peculiar moment in our history when Fidel Castro was seen as a Robin Hood figure by many Americans, including a fair number of conservatives. Historian Van Gosse says: “Since the dawn of the Cold War, few Third World figures of any sort have received such sustained, sympathetic coverage from the journalistic establishment in the U.S. as did Fidel Castro in the two years before Batista fell.” U.S. reporters in 1957-58 emphasized his elite landowning origins, his status as a lawyer and intellectual and his Spanish — racially pure — parentage. Underneath this enthusiasm for Castro was a sense of guilt. Batista’s U.S.-supported dictatorship was at odds with the Cold War narrative of a “Free World” battling tyranny. U.S. corporations and the Mafia dominated the island. Castro talked about liberty and humanism in a vague manner. In October 1955, he undertook a sevenweek tour of Cuban communities in the U.S. from Tampa, Key West and Miami to New York City, Bridgeport, Conn. and Union City, N.J. In February 1957, Herbert Matthews of The New York Times travelled to Cuba to interview Castro and his guerrillas in the mountains. In May, there was a primetime TV CBS Special Report called “Rebels of the Sierra Maestra: The Story of Cuba’s Jungle Fighters.” The documentary featured three teenaged American recruits. They were sons of U.S. soldiers at the Guantanamo base. Henry Luce, the fervent anti-Communist publisher of Time and Life magazines, was quite proCastro. Gosse notes that Time ran 31 stories on the rebellion in Cuba in the last two years of Batista’s reign. All of them focused on Castro as a guy Americans could like. He was “the well-born, well-todo daredevil”; “the swashbuckling young lawyer” and “the strapping, bearded leader of the never-say-die band of anti-Batista rebels who strike and run.” In April 1959 (only a few months after the revolutionary victory), Life magazine reported that a U.S. toy manufacturer had produced 100,000 Fidel cap-and-beard sets. The accompanying photos showed a gang of little boys playing in the New Jersey woods pretending to shoot at each other. Instead of plastic G.I. Joe helmets, they wore

khaki fatigue hats with a 26th of July movement logo and the legend “El Libertador.” The caps’ chinstraps were covered in thick, black hair. Also in April, Castro visited the U.S. at the invitation of the National Press Club. He hired a prestigious U.S. public relations firm, which arranged his public appearances. He was presented with the keys to New York City in Central Park. He toured the Bronx Zoo and ate a hot dog and ice cream. He laid a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial. He spoke at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton. In Washington, D.C., he spoke for two hours before some 1,500 newspaper editors. “We are not Communists,” he insisted. He received a prolonged standing ovation. After that, things went downhill fast. In order to escape U.S. domination, Castro chose to ally with the Soviet Union and to adopt a “Communist” topdown planned economy, which produced “big thumbs and small fingers” — the capacity to effectively carry out mechanical and repetitive operations (mass inoculations, hurricane evacuations), but not operations that require flexibility and innovation (the development and introduction of sophisticated labor-saving techniques). This produced serious problems and, in response, the regime zigzagged between hyper-centralized planning and market liberalization. Meanwhile, the U.S. would invade Cuba, carry on a long terrorist war and launch numerous assassination plots. As President Obama has acknowledged, this bullying policy was a big failure. His move toward normalization of diplomatic relations was long overdue. But that is not enough. The inhumane trade embargo needs to end. This can be a time for reflection in both countries. America needs a more humble foreign policy. Cubans need the right to dissent and to form free political associations and parties. Today’s Latin America has changed significantly since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. A “pink tide” of democratically elected, left-leaning governments have come to power in Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. This can be a new beginning for America’s relationship with not only Cuba, but all of Latin America. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 15, 2015 7

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utility can be created and properly operated by the city than at any time since the original vote. Part of this public skepticism stems from seeing Xcel make headway against the city in ways that city officials initially told us could never happen. Not acknowledging the potential for such legal and regulatory setbacks from the beginning was either the result of overselling the ease of the process to glean public support or actual naivety of the legal and regulatory system the city is now playing in. Either way, it hardly engenders trust. The latest blow to the public’s confidence in the city came last week as a result of a lawsuit filed by municipalization critic Patrick Murphy. The suit forced the city to release public records. That’s right, public records, records that already belong to the citizens of Boulder but were being wrongfully withheld from those citizens because the city had decided they should be kept secret. Sound familiar? Murphy’s suit forced the release of a 20-year financial summary for the city’s proposed utility. That summary showed that, under certain scenarios, the city could run its utility within the selfimposed fiscal limitations now set out in the City Charter. That’s great provided that the summary contemplated the right scenarios along with proper financial analysis to arrive at its numbers. So did it? The city says yes… And then essentially adds that it’s nobody’s business how it arrived at its numbers. A judge agreed with the city, saying that the software used to model the city’s assumptions, which subsequently produced the city’s summary, was not a public record. I think the judge’s ruling is as wrong as the City Council’s secret executive sessions, but I’ll save that column for another day. Realizing that its refusal to make the “algorithms and formulas” used to calculate the feasibility of a utility public was generating skepticism of its process, the city did some quick damage control by releasing a 20-part Q-and-A on Jan. 12. The Q-and-A did offer a nice explanation and confirmation of some of the basic data modeled to create the summary, but, once again, it did nothing to elaborate on the process used by the software to reach the numbers found in the summary. In other words, it still screamed, “Just trust us” and, “No, you can’t see the real process for yourselves.” It is time for the city to change directions on the way it is managing the municipalization process. If it doesn’t, it could ruin the opportunity to create a municipal electric system. The city is

dyertimes losing public support on this issue because of its continuing and intentional lack of transparency. The City Council claims that is has to have secret executive sessions to talk about municipalization and that the city can’t make its modeling system available to the public because to do so would give Xcel an unfair advantage in its fight to stop the process. In what world does this make any sense? Only in a world where the city fears that some of its assumptions might be wrong. If the city really can create a municipal utility under the self-imposed restrictions it has put in place, then it is time to prove it. Put an end to the secrecy and make the full financial analysis available to the public, including the software. If Xcel can use this information to demonstrate why the city is wrong in its assumptions, it would be better to know now rather than another $10 million and five years down the road. If Xcel can’t demonstrate that the city’s assumptions are wrong, then public confidence will have been restored and it’s full speed ahead. And just one more thought. The city says that it will only rerun its modeling process should new information arise that could substantively change its financial calculations. Well, I’m afraid that such information has arrived. Liquid gas exports, which are being enthusiastically rushed forward by both Democrats and Republicans, are estimated to double or even triple the price of natural gas domestically over the next decade. Some large utilities have already traded their use of coal for long-term, fixed, low prices on natural gas. It is therefore likely that the city might have to pay three times more for its gas than a major player in the power generation industry will have to pay. Let the recalculations begin. Also, the city must be aware that a good deal of research done since it began its municipalization process now raises the very real possibilty that producing, transporting and burning natural gas for power generation may well be worse than coal when it comes to global warming. This too could radically change the cost for operating a municipal electric system whose goal is to fight global warming. If gas is out, a mix using far more renewables will be required to meet that environmental goal and the city’s own modeling has already shown that using such a heavy renewables mix pushes the cost of municipalization beyond the city’s selfimposed requirement to meet or beat Xcel’s prices. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

letters Another Danish absurdity

Paul Danish writes in “The Danish Plan” [“The dark horses of 2016,” Jan. 8] in speaking about Ben Carson, “Carson became a ferocious reader, who went from one of the poorest students in his school to one of the brightest.” To begin with, this is a total non sequitur. One does not follow from the other. Clearly though, Mr. Danish must think that poor children are not bright and that Mr. Carson “overcame” this affliction by studying hard. In addition, I can not be sure but I can only assume a tinge of racism here. Mr. Danish, you embarrass yourself when you pen such absurdity. David Segal/Lafayette

of the press. Meat industry fanatics in the U.S. have devised a more subtle means of stifling freedom of the press. The states of Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and Utah have enacted “ag-gag” laws that impose criminal penalties on investigators seeking to expose animal abuses and safety violations in factory farms. According to an Associated Press report in yesterday’s papers, four members of an animal protection organiza-

tion were charged with violating Utah’s ag-gag law. They sought to document the daily transport of thousands of pigs from the infamous Circle Four factory farm in Cedar City (Utah) to the Farmer John slaughterhouse in Los Angeles. Ag-gag laws are clearly unconstitutional and are being challenged in federal courts. Assaults on press freedom need to be confronted wherever they rear their ugly heads, even when they assume the legitimacy of a state law. Rudolph Helman/Boulder

CRED lacks cred

A gigantic (8-1/2 inch by 11 inch) four-color postcard recently arrived in my mailbox from Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) touting “Revenue from oil and natural gas supports our schools. Strong regulations on oil and gas help keep our kids safe and healthy.” Talk about being “force fed” the facts by an organization see LETTERS Page 10

Charlie Hebdo murders a reminder

The gruesome attack on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France, reminds us that freedom of expression in cartooning is not a given in many parts of the world. Charlie Hebdo was also attacked in 2011, and continued to publish. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists condemns this revolting act of violence, and stands with the international cartooning community in mourning the loss of 12 people, including several police officers who were executed. President Hollande has called this an act of terrorism, and whether it was the work of those merely inspired by ISIS or those given direct orders doesn’t matter. Cartoonists and journalists around the world should be permitted to express themselves freely without fear of reprisal. These types of attacks only serve to illustrate how important the free spirit of cartoon commentary is, and how cartoonists make a difference in helping to expose hypocrisy. Furthermore, newspapers should not avoid publishing material from the magazine that allegedly incited the incident. More freedom of expression and not less demonstrates courage in the face of attacks. Shrinking from a newspaper’s watchdog role only encourages more terror. The AAEC board and membership expresses its sincere condolences to the innocent victims at this tragic moment, and calls for international solidarity with the cause of cartooning and freedom of artistic expression. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists/ Harrisburg, Penn.

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that is hardly CREDible! What’s their proof that regulations keep anyone safe and healthy, especially children? According to the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), regulations do nothing more than regulate the amount of harm done to us. Are you surprised? We should all be very, very worried. In December, photos were taken from the foothills showing a deep and dark brown cloud. Many people I know complained about breathing problems and/or other health issues. This isn’t an isolated incident. It has been getting worse year after year. So what’s in our brown cloud? I anticipate that we’ll learn more than we bargained for when the FRAPPÉ study (Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment) is published in 2015. I expect that they’ll find extremely high levels of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emanating 24/7 from “unconventional” (fracked) oil and gas locations. The children that you see in the glossy fourcolor postcard are especially vulnerable to VOCs. This harm has been documented by the late Dr. Theo Colborn as part of her work at the Endocrine Disruption Exchange. We are all part of a grand experiment being conducted by the oil and gas industry that will affect our health and our Colorado lifestyle. So take CREDs advertisement with a grain of salt. Don’t believe everything that you read or hear from the oil and gas industry. Their primary motive is to make money, not care for your health, safety, or well being. Teresa Foster/Longmont

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Regarding your recent letters publication, “Hands up, not heads in the sand,” I would like to respond to your writer, Carah Wertheimer/Boulder. More than three core issues were completely ignored by you, Ms. Wertheimer, in your ill-fated and fictional response. First, that the “gentlemen” you referred to in your (color) biased letter, were indeed criminals, engaging in criminal behavior and committing, wait for it... crimes. Secondly, color had nothing to do with the outcome for these “gentlemen.” Michael Brown robbed a convenience store, then he assaulted a police officer and he tried to take the officer’s weapon (presumably to kill the officer), and then he resisted arrest. But you’re probably not one to let facts taint your argument, are you? He did not, according to any of the witness (including the officer) raise his hands in the now famous,

letters yet fictional, rallying cry for the oppressed (arsonists and looters) people of Ferguson, Missouri and the nation. I can’t really blame you for using the “hands up” title though, it makes for such inflammatory headlines and it is, after all, a very convenient, if even untrue, picture of those unfortunate criminals who fall victim to the police tactics of arrest and actual upholding of the laws. You mention Mr. Eric Garner, who was committing yet another crime, and you might remember he has been arrested 31 previous times? Goodness, we’re not even out of the first paragraph of your letter. Thirdly, and I’ll be kind, so as not to rub your nose in this too much further: You mention war machinery, racism and bias. Do you think if so many of the “good people” of Ferguson were actually obeying the law, that the police would need tear gas, riot gear or crowd control vehicles? Think they just purchased this equipment in the past two weeks? And, Ms. Wertheimer, whom is committing these crimes? Survey says: Blacks, by majority. Racism? No, just fact. Darn, those pesky facts again. You cite several national facts whereby 85 percent of the people killed by police in the past 15 years were blacks and Latinos, but you don’t mention any facts (here I go again) that they pointed a gun at the officers, assaulted the officers, were committing or had committed violent crimes, etc. You present the illusion that the “victim” was running away from the officer (I am eluding to Michael Brown here) when shot, which is completely false and inflammatory. You mention, no one is above the law. Which is why, precisely, the officer was protecting himself and the greater community as a whole, when he used exactly the amount of force required to stop this known criminal from inflicting more harm upon the citizenry of Ferguson. You tell us there was no justice in Ferguson. I say, as do the majority of informed persons, justice was served, in the form of a hard lesson. If I commit a crime against my fellow man, what do I expect? How will society look upon me? Regardless of color, am I exempt from punishment? No. If you truly look at the facts, Ms. Wertheimer, and do not bury your own head in the sand, you and those you seek to influence, may see the truth that these people are fulfilling their own prophecies through continued criminal behavior. They alone, can stop their own criminal behavior, or the police will stop them, in order the protect the greater good. Steven A. Roth/Kansas City, Missouri Boulder Weekly

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COLORADO WORKERS GET MORE POWER AGAINST WAGE THEFT After two failed attempts since 2012, a new law protecting Colorado workers against wage theft is finally on the books. The Wage Protection Act, which went into effect on Jan. 1, allows the state to fine employers who withhold payment to their staff. According to the bill’s lead sponsor, Rep. Jonathan Singer (D–Longmont), this includes withholding a final paycheck, failing to pay overtime, paying Courtesy of Colorado General Assembly workers less than minimum wage, forcing employees to work off the clock, garnishing tips from restaurant workers, or incomplete payment for labor performed. Penalties can be up to 125 percent of unpaid wages under $7,500 and 50 percent of unpaid wages over $7,500. Proof that an employer intentionally withheld wages will result in an additional 50 percent penalty. Previously, the Colorado Department of Labor offered mediation, but when that failed, workers were left to hire an attorney or file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor, who, according to Singer, has 1,000 investigators for 7 million workplaces nationwide. Through the new law, the Colorado Department of Labor now has the authorRep. Jonathan Singer succeeded in ity to investigate wage theft. bringing a wage theft bill to life after years of stalemates with business groups. “What we have now is a fast track process where you get an answer, yes or no, in 90 days or less, without hiring an attorney, by going to someone who has everybody’s best interest at heart through mediation, investigation and ultimately adjudication,” Singer says. While many business groups that had previously thwarted attempts to criminalize wage theft in Colorado remained neutral about the newest iteration of the legislation, the Colorado Restaurant Association and the National Federation of Independent Businesses remained in opposition of the bill. Wikimedia Common/Jan Arrhénborg If you believe you’ve had wages stolen, visit the state Department of Labor website at www.coloradolaborlaw.gov, or call 303-318-8441.

GARDNER MOVES FAST ON NATURAL GAS EXPORT BILL In other legislative news, Colorado’s newest senator, Republican Cory Gardner, showed where his priorities lie within hours of being sworn in on Jan. 6, introducing a bill that will speed up the approval of liquefied natural gas exports to countries without free trade agreements with the U.S. The “LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act” requires the Secretary of Energy to make a decision In a 2014 report, the U.S. Department of on any natural gas export application Energy unintentionally showed that exporting liquified natural gas to Asia within 45 days of a completed environwould be worse for the environment than building another coal-fired plant in China. mental review. “Colorado is at the center of the American energy revolution,” Gardner said in a press release issued in the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 6 — just hours after Vice President Joe Biden swore him into office. “The natural gas industry helps power our state’s economy and provides thousands of jobs from the Western Slope to the Eastern Plains and beyond.” Opponents of the law say talk of jobs and American energy independence distract from the real intent of the law. Boulder Weekly

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Latino community reluctant to call 911, study finds Police distrust, language barriers cited among reasons for avoiding emergency services by Elizabeth Miller

uring a heart attack, cardiac arrest event or stroke, the minutes that pass before medical care is administered can cost heart muscle and brain function, but emergency medicine physician Comilla Sasson, who works at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, noticed time and again that Latino families weren’t calling for an ambulance during those events. Instead of calling for emergency medical assistance, which arrives, in Denver, on average in less than eight minutes, they wait, calling for a friend or family member to drive them to the hospital instead. “It’s one of the most frustrating things, especially for cardiac arrest because that’s when your heart stops and if you don’t call 911 right away, you basically have 10 minutes to save a life and so those 10 minutes are absolutely crucial,” Sasson says. “That delay can literally mean the difference between life and death.” During strokes, physicians have a three-hour window to administer a clot-busting drug, or for heart attacks, there’s an hour and a half to get to the catheter lab, where a surgeon can perform procedures to open a blocked artery. “I’ve seen delays of up to six hours to 24 hours,” Sasson says. “In those instances, you don’t get that clot-busting drug in that first three-hour window, there’s really very little that we can do for you, and it’s the difference of seeing somebody walk out of the hospital or live in the sick home for the rest of 14 January 15, 2015

their lives at the age of says. 40.” Many of those interSasson, who also viewed reported an works with the expectation that the HAS STARTED TO American Heart police would ask for Association, is lead identification when they INCORPORATE INTO THEIR COMMUNITYstudy author of the arrived on scene, a conBASED CPR TRAINING TEACHING THE recently published cern for those who “Barriers to Calling 911 might be undocumented ENGLISH PHRASES, “HEART STOPPED” and Learning and or have undocumented AND “SPANISH INTERPRETER.” Performing family members. Some Cardiopulmonary even believed that if Resuscitation for they could not show Residents of Primarily proof of immigration status at the hospital, they Latino, High-Risk Neighborhoods in Denver, Colorado,” which would be denied treatment. appeared in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. “Especially in the emergency department, we take care of anyone and everyone, regardless of The study utilized focus groups and detailed interimmigration status, race, ethnicity, what language views with community leaders in Denver neighboryou speak, if you can pay or not pay — it doesn’t hoods identified as having a high incidence of outmatter,” Sasson says. of-hospital cardiac arrest events. Their research Combating that perception is a question of confound that poor and minority neighborhoods see lower rates of bystander-provided cardiopulmonary sistently putting out the opposite message in the resuscitation (CPR) and lower survival rates with community, she says, and Denver 911, Denver EMS cardiac arrest. They found a lack of familiarity with and Denver police have been contacted to confirm CPR in those communities, and a reluctance to call that they will not ID those who call 911. 911 fueled by a distrust of police, language barriers, “We believe there’s definitely a reluctance to report,” says Felisa Marcia, deputy district attorney failure to identify a cardiac arrest event and confor the 20th Judicial District in Boulder County. cerns over the expense. Roughly 40,000 Latinos live in Boulder County. “It was really interesting to me just to get a sense Though she couldn’t speak to the specific study, of how much distrust there is of the police,” Sasson

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she says the Boulder district attorney’s office has undertaken serious efforts to create an environment that welcomes Spanish-speakers and develop resources with a level of cultural competency to address the needs of immigrants and other minorities in the community. What they’ve learned in their efforts — word of which has spread far enough that Marcia reports getting phone calls from well outside the district — is that a consistent response and community participation are key. “You can’t four days of the week have someone at the front desk who speaks Spanish but the fifth day not, because that fifth day might be the day that person walks in [who only speaks Spanish],” she says. “On the other side, we need the community groups and the organizations to invite us out, because we don’t know all the places where people need help. So we rely a lot on community liaison groups, other nonprofits, even other members of our own Boulder County system to tell us where the need is and to help us identify where we should go.” They’ve done outreach in schools — and for a long time, people thought they would get carded at the door to schools as well, she says. As a mark of Boulder County’s success, and the work left to be done in other communities, she points to a recent experience with a young man who made a complaint to the police in Boulder County, then realized that because the complainant was outside the jurisdiction, he would have to take the complaint to a different police department. “He decided he wasn’t going to pursue a complaint outside the jurisdiction because he wasn’t sure what the police would be like in that jurisdiction,” he says. Boulder Weekly

The study Sasson completed also identified the need for increased education and a shift in messaging about CPR in the Latino community. Participants, particularly male participants, voiced concerns about performing CPR on a woman or child — would taking a woman’s shirt off to perform CPR be seen the wrong way or doing mouth-to-mouth look like trying to kiss a child? It’s important to note that since 2008, the Heart Association has been distributing guidelines for hands-only CPR. “The data now shows, the most important thing is getting oxygen and blood to the brain, and so that’s where the compressions on the chest, that’s what that does,” Sasson says. Most cardiac arrest victims take a gasp of air before their hearts stop, and that can leave about 10 minutes of oxygen in their lungs — enough time, “That’s enough time if you’re calling 911,” Sasson says. But there’s more work to be done on an administrative end as well to improve access for the Latino population. Among the causes for delay that can be encountered in contacting 911 is a language barrier. If a person calls 911 who doesn’t speak English, Sasson says, she’s seen it, in one study, take

anywhere from a minute to five minutes to find someone who can translate. “The problem is that that’s really the difference between life and death, especially if someone’s not doing CPR while they’re being transferred around,” Sasson says. The American Heart Association has started to incorporate into their community-based CPR training teaching the English phrases, “heart stopped” and “Spanish interpreter.” “If you’ve ever listened to 911 tapes, which are really tough to listen to some times, there can be a lot of fumbling that goes around just trying to figure out, from an English-speaker to a Spanish-speaker, what the emergency is,” she says. Denver has made having bilingual capabilities a priority, she says, “That’s not the case in every city, unfortunately.” The Boulder Sheriff ’s Department, which dispatches for six different law enforcement agencies in the area, has two bilingual dispatchers of 18 on staff. When those two are not available, dispatchers conference call in a program called LanguageLine Solution to provide translation services. LanguageLine can identify the caller’s language and translate, according to Steven Silbermann with the department, and accessing those services takes only as long as providing the department’s identification information and password. It’s available for use for deputies in the field as well. Most often, it’s used for Spanishspeaking callers, but has also translated for callers speaking Mandarin and Russian. The American Heart Association has videos available online to provide 60-second training on hands-only CPR at www.heart.org/handsonlycpr and for Spanish-speakers at www. heart.org/rcp. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The house of Jacob Dickes washed 30 feet downstream. It’s one of many homes that were wiped out in the 2013 flood that Lyons is trying to replace.

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bout one out of every five homes was destroyed or significantly damaged in Lyons in the 2013 flood. At least 98 households were forced to relocate. Many haven’t returned, in no small part because they have no home to return to. But the Town of Lyons is working to bring the displaced people back by proposing to build 50 to 70 affordable replacement housing units in Bohn Park. Lyons residents will vote on whether to allow the town to use parkland for housing development on March 24. It is a tight race, hotly debated at board meetings, and it is anyone’s call if the housing development will be allowed. One group of people who won’t get any say in the matter is the people who will be affected most by the vote: the displaced Lyons residents. Because many haven’t been able to return to Lyons, and because mail-in ballots, by state law, cannot be forwarded to an out-of-town address, a portion of the Lyons population large enough to decide the outcome of the vote will be disenfranchised. It is on the minds of community members, local and displaced, and the Lyons board of trustees. “Here are folks who consider themselves part of Lyons but don’t get to be a part of this very important vote,” Trustee Dan Greenberg says. “It weighs on my 16 January 15, 2015

mind. With the parcel we selected, we’re required by state law to have a vote. And the board has passed a resolution that we’re committed to holding that vote. It weighs on my mind that while the democratic process is incredibly important in this — we’re asking people to say, ‘Yes, this is OK to use parkland,’ — there’s a lot of people who don’t have a say, and they’re part of our town.” The crux of the issue, Greenberg says, is that Lyons residents rightly hold their parkland in high esteem and don’t want to see it developed. Opponents of using Bohn Park say construction there will limit revenue that comes in from budgetary allocations and Planet Bluegrass parking, and it will create environmental and infrastructure concerns. “These park properties in many ways reflect the core beauty and attractiveness of our town,” Lyons resident Mark Stevenson recently wrote Mayor John O’Brien. “They are heavily used and treasured by town citizens and visitors alike. They are irreplaceable. To change their designation and use against the wishes of our citizens would be a travesty of public intent.” But Bohn Park, Mayor O’Brien says, is really the only feasible option to build replacement housing. O’Brien says the town surveyed several dozen possible locations before pinpointing Bohn Park, and then hired an independent consulting group, the Trestle

Strategy Group, who also came to the same conclusion: Bohn Park was the best option. One other parcel was given final consideration, the Williams’ property, which is about 25 acres located across from the Eagle Canyon subdivision. But that property would need to be bought, O’Brien says, a significant cost that doesn’t even factor in the expenses associated with providing infrastructure for it. “It would’ve taken too long and cost too much for us to [use the Williams’ property],” O’Brien says. “Just off-site infrastructure costs alone, not the construction costs of housing or building, Williams’ would be a little over $1 million, and Bohn Park would be $450,000.” The other main consideration is that after construction of the replacement housing, if approved by voters, Bohn Park would actually realize a net gain in acreage. That’s because Lyons will receive funds through what’s called a 404 buyout program and a community development block grant — federal relief dollars — to buy up residential land damaged in the flood and use it as park land, or “return it to nature.” The lands bought via these programs are adjacent to Bohn Park and will be enveloped in the park eventually. Since the stipulations of those grants require that the land stay as parkland in perpetuity, the five to seven acres needed to build replacement homes would Boulder Weekly

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be built on current Bohn Park land. Still, the 25-acre Bohn Park would increase to at least 40 acres when all is said and done, and there is opportunity to work with Boulder County to buy more land contiguous to Bohn Park’s current boundaries that would expand the park even further. O’Brien says the town is facing urgency in applying for the $4 million community development block grant, which, with a deadline of March 2, is critical to the success of the development and “expansion” of Bohn Park. The next step, which is already under way, is to receive bids from developers, and a decision will be made on the winning bid as soon as Jan. 19 or 20. Google Maps So the Lyons trustees (who voted 5-2 in favor of sending the Bohn Park site to a vote) are moving forward and crossing their fingers that voters say “Yes” on March 24. But is there a backup plan if voters say no? “We don’t have one, frankly. We’ve looked,” O’Brien says. “That’s it. If this is voted down, then we’re back to any potential private sector development, which if that were possible would’ve already taken place.” “If we don’t get the people’s permission to do this, to build recovery housing, I think the next thing will be to wake up the next day and say, ‘What do we do next?’” Greenberg says. “However, I think we’ll be Bohn Park could nearly double in size, even with more than hard-pressed to find construction, thanks to federal grants. a viable solution. We wouldn’t have gone with this option if we didn’t think it was the best option, and I know that I would consider all other options before choosing parkland. They’re just not there. That’s the best I can say. … I guess there’s an element of do or die, but if the vote doesn’t pass I’ll put my thinking cap on the very next day and figure out what to do next. But I don’t know what that will be.” And the outcome of the vote is still very much in question, both O’Brien and Greenberg say after hearing comments from a very divided and passionate public over the past few weeks. “I think it’ll be close,” Greenberg says. “There are plenty of people in town who really want to see this happen, who think it is the best solution, who are seeking to organize. I think it’ll be close because we hold our parks dear. To ask them to set aside acreage of parkland is a big thing to ask people. So I’m optimistic and very hopeful, but I think it’s going to be very close.” “It’s necessary for the future of the town,” says O’Brien. “It’s vitally important, and I really can’t take a guess now. I’ve talked to a lot of people who are against it for various reasons; either they are afraid park space is going to be used up, and when we tell them there’s going to be a net increase in park space, it’s looked upon skeptically. On the other side, there’s people who want to be back in Lyons, living out of town temporarily and would readily buy affordable units.” For what it’s worth, the two trustees who voted against sending the Bohn Park site to a vote, Dawn Weller and LaVern Johnson, said in opposition to the measure at the time they were holding out hope the Williams’ property, a dog park or a viable third option would present itself as a site for replacement housing. Alas, the majority of the board couldn’t hold its breath. Janaki Jane, displaced resident advocate for the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund, says even those displaced persons are hesitant to allocate parkland toward development but see it as the only real option. “The ones I’ve spoken to feel quite strongly that — as most people I’ve spoken to in the town that support the proposal feel — that ideally, of course, nobody wants to take parkland, however, this is an extraordinary circumstance. We have a significant proportion of our residents, many 20-, 30-, 40-, 50-year residents who have been flooded out of their homes and we need 120 housing units to replace what we lost. This is only half of it. This is a reasonable solution that we’re being given a substantial amount of money for that will help to bring these people, and

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this demographic [lower income], back to town,” Jane says. And so in such a tight race that affects, most directly, the displaced residents of Lyons, enough people to swing the vote one way or the other are not going to get to vote. How many people are still displaced is up in the air, but Lyons Town Clerk Deb Anthony says 98 households were vacated the last time they checked, adding, “I’m not sure how many of them have returned but not as many as we would like.” Jane says 90 percent of the displaced residents she’s spoken to haven’t been able to return. But she also says about one-third actively want to return, one-third want to live in manufactured housing (trailers planted in foundations, not wheels) and one-third can’t afford to move back. Everyone she’s spoken to, however, would move back in a perfect world. Now with a vote looming, Greenberg and Anthony say there really isn’t much the town of Lyons can do to give the displaced Lyons residents a chance to vote on the issue due to state voting regulations. “If you have moved then you would not [get to vote],” Anthony says. “You have to actually physically live here, and the state statutes even say that in the election code, that you have to be a resident for a minimum of 30 days to vote. Just because you own a home here and live somewhere else doesn’t mean you get to vote. You have to physically live here.” “People who have been displaced haven’t lived in Lyons for over a year now,” Greenberg says. “Even in the 2013 November election, there were people who were displaced like me and couldn’t get their ballots. … A ballot is not going to get mailed to an out-of-town address, and if a ballot goes to a previous address and the person is living, say, in

Longmont, the ballot just gets returned.” Jane says the displaced people she’s worked with are starting to talk about the fact they won’t be able to vote, and some are just learning it now. “Some people said they didn’t get a chance to vote at all last year because they didn’t have a permanent place to live,” Jane says. “And about this [upcoming vote], I’ve heard discussions of people saying ‘I’m one of the people who wants to live there, and I can’t vote to say I’ll be able to live there.’” With numbers hazy to all involved, and the fact that only about two-thirds of displaced people are willing and able to return to Lyons, a conservative estimate of the number of disenfranchised voters would be somewhere around 50 people. Is that really enough to swing an election? “Close in Lyons can be 25 votes,” Greenberg says. “If you look at the last board of trustees election, you look at someone who finished seventh in the trustee voting, I don’t think they were too far away from being the sixth highest vote-getter, which would’ve put them on the board. We just approved community funding for the library district in 2014, and in 2013, there was [a previous] vote for it, and the vote was [decided by] less than 50 votes. “So we’re talking about incredibly small scale. When we’re talking close, we’re talking close. We’re talking dozens of votes.” O’Brien says he wants to get the displaced Lyons residents back simply because they want to be back. He also understands living in Lyons is special, and the replacement (or addition, depending on how you look at it) of 60 units is a big deal. “A lot of people want to live here,” O’Brien says. “It’s the last best place in Boulder County.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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elcome to the Aspen 24-footer!” It feels roomy inside. With its 11-foot ceiling, generous sofa seating and wide windows with natural light pouring through, it seems almost too roomy to be what it is: a Tiny Home on wheels. Not all “Tinys” are created equal, says the man who built this one — Byron Fears, co-owner of SimBLISSity Tiny Homes in Lyons. “It’s all about how you use the square footage,” he says. An entrepreneur and construction expert, Fears says he thinks the Aspen has used its square footage optimally. The 24 feet by 7 feet of space occupied by this “Tiny,” as Fears affectionately refers to all super-small dwellings — otherwise known as tiny homes, tiny houses or Byron Fears, owner of SimBLISSity Tiny Homes in Lyons, hopes that communities of tiny-home owners will grow as Boulder County begins to incorporate new policies into its building code. micro-homes — is permanently mounted to a specially designed steel trailer. Its interior boasts walls and under-sofa storage large enough for a the Department of Motor Vehicles, designed for permanent residency but ceilings made from Colorado-sourced few snowboards. beetle kill lumber, with a stylish built-in But this Tiny can’t officially be consid- incapable of passing the county’s home permitting process. sofa and two lofts, one spacious enough ered a “home” in Boulder County. All for a king-size bed and moderate storstructures in the county, including those That doesn’t mean the county disage. Creative storage cubbies under the intended as permanent housing, must be courages small-scale living. This is stairs, high-end LED light fixtures, a attached to a permanent foundation — Boulder after all, where many of the composting toilet, full-size fridge, “not on wheels or trailers,” according to an same ideas and values behind tiny RV-style tub, three-burner stovetop and FAQ page added to the county website homes — living simply, closeness to oven, and a stylish and efficient heating specifically to address the growing number nature, reducing one’s environmental and cooling unit all help to give the of tiny house inquiries. That means that impact and carbon footprint — are sense that this space, albeit only 250 for the time being, SimBLISSity Tiny prevalent enough to be reflected in the square feet total, is equipped for fullHomes on Wheels — among whose key county’s regulatory structure, including a time, functional and feng shui inspired assets is mobility, keeping down living “fairly aggressive energy code.” In fact, living. “You don’t have to be a total costs in the long-term — are just loads on says county chief building official Gary minimalist,” Fears says, showing off trailers in Boulder County, registered with Goodell, “Tiny homes really fit into

what we’re trying to do, especially in terms of encouraging less energy use.” And despite complications with making a tiny home code compliant in Boulder County, there are some built-in incentives for building smaller. For example, all homes — no matter the size — must undergo what’s called Site Plan Review, and it isn’t free. The cost for a home 2,000 square feet or greater: $1,075. But for a new, single-family structure less than 2,000 square feet, the cost is only $400, just one-third that price. Then there’s BuildSmart — requirements that homes meet strict energy efficiency standards — and wildfire protection requirements, mandating, among other measures, a home sprinkler system and wildfire prevention measures that can include tree removal. From any angle, says county sustainability examiner Ron Flax, “The best way to save money on a home, no question, is to build it smaller.” Even the International Residential Code, on which the Boulder County Building Code is modeled, has seen big shifts toward smaller living. The 2015 IRC changed to allow a minimum total area as low as 70 square feet — down from its already low 120 square feet of minimum floor area in the 2012 code. The change was a direct result of the growth in “proponents of minimalist living [who] have advocated living in smaller dwellings to reduce environmenSee TINY HOMES Page 22

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tal impact and provide for lower living costs,” according to the International Code Committee, which oversees the IRC. “Although micro units may not be everyone’s dream,” the committee reasoned, “There is no technical, safety or general welfare reason to require one room of at least 120 square feet.” Officials say the county hopes to adapt the 2015 IRC on January 1, 2016, assuming the public consents. That would mean tiny homes even smaller than the SimBLISSity Aspen 24 would meet minimum area requirements — as long as they’re on permanent foundations. There’s still another prohibitive expense — possibly the greatest — to making a tiny home code-compliant in the county: water and septic systems, which can run in the tens of thousands of dollars. The permit for any new septic, or onsite wastewater system, costs $1,023; installation estimates run between $7,000 and $15,000 on flat property and up to $35,000 in the mountains. That’s more than half the cost of SimBLISSity’s estimated $65,000 price for a new Aspen 24. But the land use code is a living document, says land use department communications specialist Richard Hackett. And as the tiny house movement grows larger, county officials say cost-saving options could become available — like smaller cisterns for water, or acceptable alternatives to permanent septic systems. Not to mention the possibility of allowing, eventually, a safe anchoring system for tiny homes on wheels, instead of a permanent foundation — once there’s a way to legally certify them as permanent homes, fixed in one spot. Despite the tiny house trend, new home size in the U.S. hit an all-time high last year, clocking in at 2,600 square feet. That’s more than two-anda-half times the average size of a new, single-family home just over a generation ago — 983 square feet in 1950.

And countywide, Boulder still struggles with people’s tendency to live large. “We did a search for building permits for 2014,” Hackett says. “We only found one new home that came in under 1,000 square feet.” The average new home size in the county, Goodell adds, has hovered around 1,500 square feet for many years. Still, Goodell says there’s tiny house momentum in Boulder — even two rogue tiny homes, reported to the county last year and now in the process of getting up to code. “Maybe not 80 square feet, but you could do a 200-square-foot home,” he says. “There’s a sweet spot in there, a size of house that works for families.” Not even the icons of tiny living are strictly advocating the tiniest homes. “Tiny houses are a great gateway drug,” says Merete Mueller, co-director of Tiny, a 2013 film aptly produced in the Boulder region. She and co-director Christopher Smith estimate their film — about Smith’s struggle to build his own tiny house from scratch — has garnered up to 5 million views on Netflix. “They’re so fascinating, and they help prove it’s possible to have really livable, comfortable, beautiful small living spaces,” she says. Mueller now lives in a small, shared NYC apartment, while Smith inhabits a shared Los Angeles apartment. “Unfortunately, filmmaking isn’t a career-choice that lends itself to living minimalist,” Smith says. “I have about 20 hard drives sitting in my room. I’m still wrestling with some contradictions like that.” As tiny houses on wheels move closer to being certifiable homes in Boulder County, Fears has a bigger tiny home vision for his business and his land: “I’d love to see a half-dozen families working on their tinys here, building their homes and building community.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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omeone else must have declared by now that if you truly want to know a place, you have to see it from the view granted by your own feet. You have to slow down and take a path that meanders. Mine, through India’s lower Himalaya, wandered in and out of valleys cut by streams that whispered of centuries of monsoon seasons, the boulders rolled to smooth edges and polished nearly white. Some of the houses we walked by were painted blue or yellow, but most were offwhite or gray. Their metal roofs looked to be held down by rocks, their only ornamentation the hung-to-dry laundry and occasional satellite dish. When we started uphill, I could look down on the villages below us in tableau. Those stacked houses, built up the steep ramp of the hillsides, and the women and children busy with work and play across them looked like a set for a play that shows a multistoried house in cross section. Scenes play out with the characters moving around, above and below one another, blissfully inattentive to each other while the audience looks on, seeing all. The landscape rotated from pine forests with Women hauling loads of firewood carpets of tan pine nee(above) and Rishu lighting a candle at an alter on the trail. dles on the ground, looking as dry as some in Colorado, to adjacent slopes that would see us walking through a carpet of blooming rhododendrons, everything green with those pink and red blossoms for punctuation. “Does your mother have land? Does she keep animals?” Jango asked after a day of walking upstream alongside cattle and small herds of goats. He doesn’t mean her cat and my cat and dog. Jango was my guide on a trek that passed through villages shrugged onto the shoulders of those hills, and would end with a push up toward snowline. We were headed steeply uphill to a mountain temple that had a place we could sleep for the night, and had stopped for a break halfway. I snacked on tea biscuits while Jango grilled me about our real estate and livestock holdings. “No,” I said, “we don’t have much land. And we don’t keep animals.” He had already asked about my family. I described our

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pieces: step-parents, a half-sister and step-siblings. He tried to line it all up from my father’s perspective — a former and a current wife, two daughters, one from each — then shook his head, muttering, “My God…” That night when he called his wife and children, he put me on the phone with his wife to say hello. I began thanking her for letting me start her husband’s trekking season so early. It turned out, “Hello, how are you?” was all she could say. She never went to school, he explained. Jango likely spent as much breath on the trip explaining India to me as he did sucking in air at our rolling altitudes. The women in their saris squatting on a hillside were gathering mud to plaster on the walls of their houses, he explained, and the shaved heads of two children we found riding homemade sleds down a grass knoll meant that someone had recently died. I’m greeted by excited, staring school children on our first day, near the town of McLeod Ganj, and as we walk further, the children are more wide-eyed and run from the front doors of their houses to get a closer look at the foreigner. Near the mountain temple where we make our camp for the night on a cold cement floor, families come to perform puja, to pray and make an offering — the real temple being the spring that provides clean water for their homes. They kicked off their shoes, thanked the gods for providing, then sat in the cool evening air by the stream, looking out over the valley. On foot, I can see that in India, anything can become holy. A rock, a tree, a watersource. What has become sacred is then marked with tridents and ribbons, tiles painted with the features of gods and goddesses affixed to nearby rocks. I can taste the generosity of the people as they share the Prasad — blessed food from that puja at the temple — a crumbly, bright yellow sweet. For a steep kilometer, I listened to shouting over the valley, the kind of calling that asks only for an echo as the answer. I expected children and prepared to dodge the rocks that would be thrown to test gravity — because while you’re testing a science like echoes, why not also check the earth’s pull? But at the top, we found not children, but three women, perched on an outcropping and looking out over the villages and valleys we had just traversed. They fell quiet as we took a seat on neighboring rocks, no longer bold enough to shout just to hear their own voices. We rested while they got up, collected bundles of sticks three times as big around as they were, helped one another off the ground once they had slid the straps to those enormous bundles over their shoulders and started walking down the trail. Though we lingered only a few minutes more, we never caught up to them. My backpack was stuffed with supplies acquired at the last minute in fear of the cold — a sweater borrowed from the man who owns the trekking company, new thick wool socks. But Jango hiked in track pants, short-sleeved, button-down shirts, and started the first day in steel-toed workboots that pinched his feet and he quickly traded for blue plastic sandals purchased from a street vendor. We stopped for chai when the first rainstorm hit, but were camped out, fixing lunch, when it began to snow. His nephew Rishu, who was in training to become a guide and joined us for a few days, kept a blanket wrapped around his shoulders and huddled near the fire when he wasn’t running errands for Jango. I crouched

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Luke Redfield took the “first thought, best thought” approach to writing his latest album of stripped-down, folk- and blues-influenced songs.

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onrad Tao can do York and went to Harlem and it all. some jazz clubs in and around Saturday with the city and was amazed by the Boulder the musical language and the Philharmonic, the instrumentation that he saw.” talented young pianist will be The jazz influence is obvithe soloist for Beethoven’s ous right away, as the score “Emperor” Concerto. And he opens with a solo on saxowill play in the orchestra. And phone — which replaces the he composed one piece on the viola in the string section. The program. percussion part is derived “And he could sweep up from the drum sets Milhaud afterwards, too,” Michael heard in New York, and there Butterman, the orchestra’s are obvious jazz influences in music director, says with a the melodies and the syncolaugh. pated rhythms. “When one thinks of comTao the composer is repreposers in Beethoven’s days, sented by Pangu, an orchestral Conrad Tao says his impulse to compose music began almost they were very often the perpiece inspired by another creas soon as he started to play. formers as well,” he continues. ation legend. “So here we have somebody “It’s effectively a god sleepdoing something in a way that harkens wide repertoire, including not only ing in an egg and waking up and sepaback to that earlier time.” Beethoven concertos, but rating the egg into the sky and the Tao says he always knew that he Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Bach, Elliot earth,” Tao says. “He dies after the sheer wanted to compose as well as play. Carter, Mozart, Ravel, Debussy, effort of this separation, and his body “Even as soon as I was plunking out Gershwin, Stravinsky — “Yeah, it’s becomes rivers, mountains, and all these melodies at the piano I started wanting quite across the board,” he says. “Right other fabulous geographical features of to just play my own [pieces],” he says. “I now, I’m at a point where I feel like the earth. was improvising from a very, very, very there are massive holes in what I know “I think it’s a fabulous creation story. early age. I guess in a way it just seemed and what I’m familiar with, so I want to I had a lot of fun writing the piece.” so logical to me.” fill in as many of those gaps that I have. The score is descriptive in a general He began music lessons on a 1/32It’s a voraciousness that I definitely way. sized violin when he was 2 1/2, but he associate with youthfulness. I’m still in “Film music was a point of referhad been picking out tunes on the this place where I welcome any opporence, because there was a cinematic piano from tunity to aspect to the story I was going to tell,” about 18 expand.” Tao says. “For me [the style] is someON THE BILL: “Creative Legends” months. Now at Before the what Bernstein adjacent, and that was a Music of Beethoven, Haydn, Milhaud age 20, he is Beethoven conreally fun sort of language and mode to and Conrad Tao.Boulder Philharmonic, studying piano certo, Tao will be working in.” Michael Butterman, conductor Conrad Tao, pianist. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and composition expand into the Taking a cue from Pangu and Jan. 17, Macky Auditorium, University of in the Columbia prominent Creation de Monde, the Boulder Phil has Colorado Boulder campus, 303-449-1343, University/ orchestral piano titled the concert “Creative Legends.” It X2, www.boulderphil.org “Creative Legends” will also be broadpart for Darius will open with Beethoven’s Overture to Juilliard School cast live by Colorado Public Radio. Milhaud’s jazzy The Creatures of Prometheus, about the joint degree ballet score Greek legend of the Titan who brought program and Creation du fire — and symbolically the creative serving as artistMonde (Creation impulse — to mankind. in-residence of the world). One of several pieces on Beethoven’s overture will be folwith the Dallas Symphony. Getting started so early, Tao has the program inspired by creation leglowed by a piece inspired by the Biblical gotten used to being called a prodigy, ends, Creation du Monde is based on story of creation: “Chaos” from Haydn’s although he says he doesn’t really like it. African folk mythology. The score was oratorio The Creation. Lacking the “I think that label robs you of a cerwritten in the early 1920s. melodic and harmonic elements that tain personhood,” he says. “There’s only “This was the time of Josephine Haydn would normally use, “Chaos” is so much I guess I can do about that. At Baker in Paris and a fascination with famous to musicians as an example of this point you have to accept that it’s just ‘Le Jazz Hot,’” Butterman says. “It was music that is effective while avoiding an easy way of describing [someone].” one of Milhaud’s first forays into the the usual elements of musical order. As a pianist, Tao has an extremely Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com world of jazz. He made a trip to New Boulder Weekly

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arts & culture A career in keeping you scared of the dark

Author Stephen Graham Jones on the whys and hows of horror

ON THE BILL: Stephen Graham Jones will be reading from After the People Lights Have Gone Off at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 21 at the Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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n the personal history section of writer Stephen Graham Jones’ website where he delves into what he’s learned, there’s this little gem: “Art’s a contest, after all: do it better or go home.” He’s talking about approaching being a writer like carpentry; some stories flow from a place in need of bloodletting, and some simply need to be hammered together. He prides himself on being able to take those assignments and build some furniture. But there’s a remarkable grace that emerges in that process: He’s built a lot of chairs that do a fine job of taking the weight off your feet. Or, perhaps we should say, inspiring worried over-the-shoulder glances and nightlights in adult bedrooms, because this University of Colorado Boulder professor and veteran writer focuses on horror and dark speculative fiction. Why? “I don’t always plan to write horror at all,” he says. “Sometimes I just plan to write a little sweet Chekov story about a guy looking out a window at a girl for 20 years — which sounds a lot more leery than Chekov is I guess — but I get bored two pages in and then I have to have somebody with a machete or a ghost or a monster or something. ... What I like about horror is that, I think of all the genres, all the modes of writing, horror is the one that can evoke or elicit a response from the reader that the reader doesn’t want to give.” The response materializes in that moment in the night when a reader

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Horror stories “bleed through the walls” drawn between a reader and what’s being read, says Stephen Graham Jones, and that’s part of the fun.

hesitates before turning off the lights. “A lot of fiction can either insulate itself intellectually or cerebrally, or the reader in the act of reading can kind of say, ‘Put it over here in a safe place,’” he says. “But horror always bleeds through the walls.” Genre fiction, like horror, gets knocked as pure entertainment — not literary. Jones says otherwise. “I think literary is something that should refer to the caliber of writing. I do think literary means it’s something you can return to again and again and get more and more,” he says. To him, that’s as true for Watchmen

as it is for Moby Dick. “I resent the idea that that which gets called literary is only the stuff that doesn’t have werewolves in it,” he says. Jones has now authored 15 novels and six collections of short stories, his most recent of which is 2014’s After the People Lights Have Gone Off, which he says may be his strongest so far. The collections naturally congeal over the years, he says, as he finds a group that seems to, as he says, “feel like it’s coming from the same person’s set of fears.” Of course, most of his writing, to varying degrees, shares that common ground of his experiences and his fears.

“My very first collection, Bleed Into Me, is not horror, but I always feel strangely naked when people read that because I am at the center of every story,” he says. “After the People Lights Have Gone Off feels similar because … those are all my fears.” His stories also draw from his extracurricular interests, like a deep fascination in anthropology. In his short story “Chapter Six,” the zombie apocalypse is analyzed through the eyes of two anthropologists who seize on the opportunity to explore theories of human evolution. Those musings are met with a long night the writer spent lost while driving on Interstate 95 in New England. In some ways, he uses horror as icing on the cake to entice a conversation about something more dry he’d like to discuss — like theories on why humans became bipedal. The slasher-style Growing Up Dead In Texas plumbs even deeper into his autobiography, drawing from an unsolved crime in a West Texas town he lived in as a child. For the novel, he says, he wanted it to “pretend to be nonfiction,” and so asked his nonfiction-writer friends for advice and book recommendations. But the real insight into the nonfiction model that would work for Growing Up Dead came from binge-watching all the episodes of Monster Quest and dissecting that rhythm: “you start with a dramatic recreation and then you go to eye-witness on the porch saying, ‘It was big. It ran past here. I don’t know what it was. I see JONES Page 34

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arts & culture UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL

Concert & Movie Series:

Jan Railroad Earth

Join the band for the launch of their “Live at Red Rocks” DVD release, including a short intimate performance and catered reception.

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“A Tribute to Crosby, Stills, & Nash” Free Admission

Saturday Jan 17

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Jax Fish House presents:

TRASH FISH SOCIAL Celebrating sustainable seafood and the by-catch of our global waters

Great food & drinks, plus an awesome band

“Variety Dance”

Sunday Jan 18

WADIRUM “Neo-folk/Rock” Free Admission

Wednesday Jan 21 WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUES FEATURING

JOHN WEEKS BAND Free Admission

Friday Jan 23

REBECCA FOLSOM BAND Saturday January 24

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Concert Series with reception: Community Music Night

This event is aimed at inspiring local professionals to pursue their musical roots while fostering community spirit.

MR MAJESTYK’S 8-TRACK REVIVAL “70s AM Rock”

Sunday January 25

TAPESTRY REVISITED

“A Tribute to Carole King”

Wednesday January 28

NELSON RANGELL “Contemporary Jazz”

Thursday January 29

HOGBACK BLUES BAND Free Admission

Friday January 30

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Jan 24 - Music & Dance Gala Fundraiser:

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URBAN DANCE THEORY “Dance/R&B”

Saturday January 31

THE CHAMPIONS “Arena Rock”

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screamed,’ and then you go to some dude in a lab coat and he’s pouring stuff back and forth in his lab and you say, ‘Well, we got some hair. We’re going to do this with it,’ then you go back to another recreation and then you do an interview…” Sometimes, he puts himself in a box just to see if the confinement makes the work more interesting, or forces him to learn something, or both. “For me, real innovation is when you want to get from point A to point H, say, but you don’t want to go through B, C, D, E and all the other letters, so you find the wormhole that will take you from A to H immediately,” he says. Writing his novel Demon Theory, for example, as a film treatment provided both an effective device for telling that story, and forced him to learn how to write dialogue, something he’d long resisted. Every novel he’s written has had a different starting point, required a process of its own. Sometimes it rolls together like a snowball headed downhill, he says, sometimes just one line leads off into the darkness and he follows, sometimes it requires an outline or a treatment that builds a map for where he’s going. Like so many working writers, he says, sometimes where he finds himself… isn’t so great. He spent a recent afternoon writing a 7,000-word story that has a rapidly approaching deadline, arrived at the end, looked back, and thought, “This is just total crap.” He spent the next two afternoons rewriting the whole thing. Now, he says, it’s actually scary, which means it’s approaching ready to submit. He won’t submit a story until it has scared him, he says. The writing keeps him so on edge that the computer he works at has a rearview mirror above it so he can see if his wife, kids or dogs walk into the room. “I’d be terrified if they just touched me on my shoulder,” he says. Jones, now a full professor CU, stumbled into teaching in 2000. “I never planned on teaching,” he says. “I was going to do manual labor and just write novels.” But a back injury set him to searching for a desk job, which led to a position at a university library and then one teaching creative writing. It’s good, he says, “I’m liking teaching a lot more

than I’m liking hauling refrigerators around.” In his work with aspiring writers, he says, the trap he sees that catches them most often is that of imitation. “Where you kind of mature as a writer is where you figure out that you’re not Thomas Pynchon or you’re not Louise Erdrich or you’re not whoever you’re trying to be. You’re your own writer with your own unique voice. It takes a lot of writing — what do people say, like 10 million words or something? — until you stumble on to your voice,” he says. “You’ve got to try out all the wrong ways before you finally find your right way, but that’s the problem. A lot of young writers try out four or five wrong ways and they give up, they’re like, ‘Oh well, I suck, I’m going to go do something else,’ but if they would have tried two or three more ways, they would have circled back around to themselves possibly.” Even now, he says, he runs into that, like with that piece he recently rewrote. But he had to write that first version to get through to the good one that followed. Knowing when to admit something isn’t working, alongside the persistence to keep after it, is also necessary. “You can polish something that’s bad until it has the shine of something that’s good, but still you know in its heart it’s hollow,” he says. “A lot of people will work on one story for three years and they get all their hopes pinned on that story. I can’t imagine that. I do a story and if it takes more than a week, then I usually just kick it away because I know something’s broke that I’m not seeing.” Among the traces of his autobiography that infiltrate his work is that he’s Native American, though he’s worked to avoid being classified by that title. “My first novel came out and it was dealing with identity politics and tribal issues and sovereignty and all that stuff, and I was really afraid I was going to get pigeonholed as an Indian writer, and I think any time that the audience starts putting an adjective in front of your name, that’s just the first step to dismissing you,” he says. “You just want to be a writer, you don’t want to be any adjective at all — maybe good,” he laughs, “or best-selling.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company Thursday, Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium

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Thursday, January 15

Deja Vu. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757.

Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Celtic Sessions Hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Chris Sheldon and Friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Danny Shafer. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Dave Honigs Latin Quarter. 6 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St., Boulder.

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The Forgotten: Women in Classical Music

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2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, The Performance Space, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky. The most popular names of classical music have one thing in common: they’re all men. On Jan. 21 The Dairy Center for the Arts is paying homage to the lesser-known women in classical music. One of these composers is 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, who was also a philosopher, writer, poet, a Benedictine abbess and is known as Saint Hildegard. The concert will also feature performances from Boulder-based Lyric Duo, minimalist Ann Southam and work from 84-year-old west coast composer Emma Lou Diemer. Tickets are $12.

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Ed Breazeale’s Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Eric Wiggs. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Copmany (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Micro Altenbach. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, see EVENTS Page 38

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Fight Church 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282 Documentary Fight Church tells the story of the meeting of two unlikely worlds: Christianity and mixed martial arts. While, of course, it’s natural for pastors to have hobbies, cage fighting is a peculiar choice for those who preach to “love thy neighbor.” Directors Daniel Junge and Bryan Storkel shed light on these men trying to navigate the tricky, ethical grey area while still following the path of God. Stick around after the film for a talkback with Junge, who won an Oscar for his 2012 documentary Saving Face. Tickets are $12-15.

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Aaron Watson 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, The Grizzly Rose, 5450 N. Valley Highway, Denver, 303295-1330 It’s National Western Stock Show time in Colorado, so to keep the rodeo going pull on your cowboy boots and hit the Grizzly Rose for a night of country music with Aaron Watson. In his 12-year career Watson has toured all over the world, and his albums have appeared on the Billboard top 200 charts. A bonafide Texas musician, Watson’s music has avoided the country-pop bullet and clung to its traditional roots. He’ll be playing songs from his new album Underdog, due out in February, featuring tunes inspired by his home state, time on the road and the death of his infant daughter.

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Music

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

Acoustic Stew. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Art Therapy: Portal to Another World. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Jan. 18.

Sherefe: Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985.

Banshee Tree. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 15.

Stephen Thurston Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Bear. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 Colorado 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981.

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554.

Strings Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Chicha. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

String Board Theory. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Dechen Hawk, Colin Robison and Danit. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Tyler Grant. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Honeytree. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Winter Soiree. 5 p.m. Chautauqua Dining Hall, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-3776.

Events Marketing with Google AdWords. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Musical Storytime with Alice and Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Opening Reception: Conor King: Seeing, As I Am. 5:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder. Volta to Celebrate Artist Kelly Degan with Reception and Dinner. 5 p.m. Volta Mediterranean Restaurant, 2480 Canyon, Boulder, 303-938-8800.

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Jack Hadley. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-4492911. James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Lionel Young Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Moon Poodle. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. A Musical Tour of Brazil with GINGA. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Pete Kartsounes Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road,

Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb. 15. Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Jan. 18. Echoes. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb. 22. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through March 22.

Echoes features work mostly made using paper to reference repetition, movement and memory through cutting and folding techniques. Through Jan. 30. Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 25. Matisse and Friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 25.

Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017.

The Art of Fiber: 50 Years of the Boulder Handweaver’s Guild — Various artists. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 16.

Acrylic Paintings by Cynthia Marsh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30.

Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Through April 12.

Photography for a Change group exhibit. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174.

Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.

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theater Longmont, 303-485-9400. Pink Talking Fish Presents Dark Side of the Moon. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Rob Nance and The Lost Souls. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Selasee and the Fafa Family. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Ultralowfi. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303449-8623. Westin Smith. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Duct Tape Anything: Is that made out of duct tape? 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Intention Setting Art Series. 11 a.m. Boulder Art Therapy Collective, 1400 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 7, Boulder, 303-593-0277. Minecrafternoons* at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Saturday, January 17 Music Ben Cosgrove, Niya. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

DCPA Theatre Company

1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Appoggiatura. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Jan.16Feb. 22.

The Prairie Scholars: Brews and Tunes. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Grounded — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 18.

Sixty Minute Men. 9:30 p.m. Pizza Bar 66, 430 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6262.

Fiddler on the Roof. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28.

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

Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Mar. 1.

Wallpaper House Band. 2 p.m. Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433683.

Events Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Big Medicine Gang. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Fauxgrass. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Boulder Philharmonic: Creative Legends with Pianist Conrad Tao. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1595 Pleasant Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Including You. 7:30 p.m. Atlas Building, CU Campus, Boulder. 303-492-7355.

Craig Cornett And The Phast And Wreckless. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623. Deja Blu Dance Band Show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dukes of Winter. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

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We Are Family. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Wooleye. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Zimmermans. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events All Ages Art Class. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder Track Club Youth Group. 9 a.m. Viele Lake Park, Boulder, 909-528-8708. see EVENTS Page 40

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Saturday, Jan. 17 Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime/Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Every Stanza Tells a Story. 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. 303-296-0219. Monday, Jan. 19 Kent Haruf Memorial Reading 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, Jan. 20 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Watch Sam Gregory, among others, perform narrative poetry in Every Stanza Tells a Story on Jan. 17.

EVENTS from Page 39 Burlesque Variety Show. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Fly Tying with Randy Hanner. 10 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375. Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4472400. Magic Safari of Books with Inspector Magic. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Magic Safari of Books with Inspector Magic. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Marcus Lucas Game Show. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Michael Tamura Presents Joy to You and Me. 10 a.m. Best Western Plaza Hotel, 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 530-926-2650. Saturday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. STEAM Saturdays: Learn coding with Coder Dojo and SparkFun PicoBoards. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Third and Fifth Saturday Swing With Live Music! 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Trance Medium Healings. 4 p.m. Boulder Psychic Institute, 1332 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-530-0920. Zumba plus Zumba Toning 90 Minute Class. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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9400. K.C. Groves and Greg Blake. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Lindsey Saunders. 5 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Manic Focus. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Tupelo Honey. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Wadirum. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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“What Can I Do?” Spaceship Earth Presentation. 12 p.m. Center or Spiritual Living, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette, 303-664-5603. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Go Club for Kids and Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. January Jeopardy. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120. Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Reynolds Teen DIY. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch - Boulder Public Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Music Elise Wunder. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Fauxgrass Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

I & The Many Jazz. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Jet Set. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-

Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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events Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Bear. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 Colorado 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981.

6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Engaging Children’s Emotions in Learning. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Jake Clough and Friends. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Wednesday Night Blues featuring the John Weeks Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Flatirons Running/Under the Sun Fun Run. 6 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway St., Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837.

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Flutes, Wine, and Astronomy: Shamans in Early East Asia? 7 p.m. Paleontology Hall, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Open Stage. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Whiskey Autumn. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Events German Speaking Table. 6:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

January Discovery Days. 10 a.m. WoW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424. Lyons Local Music Night. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Nice Work Jazz Combo with MaryLynn Gillaspie.

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BDA Creative Meetup. 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts Training Center, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Death Makes Life Possible. 7 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania

Kent Haruf Memorial Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Tuesday, January 20 Music Funk Jam with Technicolor Tone Factory. 7 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. January Discovery Days. 10 a.m. WoW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424. Joy Circle. 6:30 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

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Events Boulder Massage Therapy Institute Open House. 6:30 p.m. 2900 Valmont St., Suite F1, Boulder, 303618-5518. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Colorado Green Building Guild January Happy Hour. 5:30 p.m. The Post Brewing Co., 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette.

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Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series presents: Celli and Bandoneon. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Crystal Springs Brewing Company, 657 S. Taylor Ave, Unit E, Louisville, 303665-8888. Tuesday Hikers. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, Ninth St., Boulder, 303-494-9735. Tuesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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et in a small coal-mining town in the hills of West Virginia, Little Accidents ON THE BILL: Little revolves around two incidents, neither Accidents opens Friday, Jan. of which is little. The first provides the 16 at Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave, Denver. Tickets engine of the plot: an accidental death start at $7. Show times and that is covered up. The second: gross negligence tickets on their website that cost 10 coal miners their lives. We all make www.denverfilm.org. mistakes, but some mistakes cause repercussions that shape and shadow a community for years to come. Little Accidents, which played at this past year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, opens Friday, Jan. 16 at the Sie Film Center for a limited engagement. Little Accidents is not your typical January release — a month known commonly as “Hollywood’s dumping ground” — nor is it a typical award season candidate, even though it is nominated for a Spirit Award (Best First Screenplay), Little Accidents is a moody, bleak look at a world clouded by the dust of aftermath. Coal mining was/is a way of life for these people, and every person in this town is connected in some way to this accident. They littleaccidentsfilm.com all move forward in their own way, but they do so with a pall and a resignation that none of them will come out of this alive. There is Owen ( Jacob Lofland), a high school student who lost his father in the cavein. Owen has taken on the responsibility of his brother with Down syndrome (Beau Wright) while his mother (Chloë Sevigny) tries to put food on the table. Owen tries to lead a normal life, playing video games, swiping beer and trying to get in Little Accidents tells the story of a small coal min- with the cool kids, led by JT ing town wracked by tragedy. See it starting Jan. (Travis Tope), but it doesn’t work 16 at the Sie Film Center. out quite like Owen would hope. JT’s father, Bill ( Josh Lucas), is a middle manager at the coal mine where the cave-in occurred and he might be on the hook for more than he bargained for. His wife, Diane (Elizabeth Banks), drinks too much, takes too many pills and has drifted from Bill to the open, yet damaged, arms of Amos (Boyd Holbrook), the sole survivor of the cave-in and the key testimonial witness to the on-going investigation. It may not be a small world, but it certainly is a small town. Written and directed by Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents is not a light or happy movie, it is a dark and dusty thing — beautiful cinematography by Rachel Morrison — one that leaves a little grit in your teeth and a lot of rhetorical questions in your mind. There are many conflicts in Little Accidents, but the one that permeates every scene is the crushing cost of capitalism. Poor choices have been made in the interest of money, and poor choices will continue to be made in the interest of money, and the cycle will remain unbroken. There is a moment in the end that alludes to catharsis, but the cold reality of this town is that they will forget. The dirt will be swept under the rug, the miners will return to the mine, the managers will cut corners and lower costs in the interest of higher profits and someday, all of those little accidents will once again add up into something quite large. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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nd in July of 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.” Writer Paul Webb did not include that text in his script for Selma, and director Ava DuVernay did not close her powerful film with those lines. But they could have. Heck, maybe they even should have, just David Oyelowo takes on the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, a film about the 1965 march from Selma to to drive the point home. Montgomery. At a time when “dieins” on public roadways have emerged as a darker echo of decision to depict him as such, historiMartin Luther King Jr.’s “sit-ins,” Selma cally accurate or not, is narratively is the proverbial “right movie at the effective in avoiding yet another “white right time.” That is, if audiences under- messiah” story, wherein LBJ rides in on stand the present day urgency that the Voting Rights Act to save black underscores every scene and the call to Americans. The criticism from the democratic action explicitly laid bare. other side has been thornier, with civil Selma tells the story of the 1965 rights historians objecting to the overmarch led by King (David Oyelowo) simplification of grassroots groups and from Selma to Montgomery, despite figures other than King and the omisviolent opposition from Alabama’s sion of several key individuals. Governor George Wallace (Tim Roth). Approached from a purely historical In one of 2014’s most haunting, impact- standpoint, perhaps Selma the film is ful scenes, DuVernay presents the best seen as a prompt to revisit the real bombing death of four young girls as a events of Selma in context. sort of “call to action,” in exactly the But there’s something important same way the deaths of Michael Brown and vital here beyond historical accuraand Eric Garner have motivated so cy, a vibrant and timely undercurrent many. “Now what?” DuVernay seems to buoyed by Oyelowo’s complex and ask as the tattered dresses of children muted performance and DuVernay’s float by. well-measured drama. Selma is a scathKing explains to President Lyndon ing indictment of any who fail to exerB. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) the “what” cise their right to vote and a condemthat must come “now”: Voting protecnation of the Supreme Court’s foolish tion. In one of the film’s many fascinat“racism is dead” decision to limit voter ing logical explications, King explains protection in the South. As a modern that justice won’t come for black bodies allegory, Selma is vital. because elected prosecutors chosen by It’s hard to divorce a movie like this nearly all-white electorates won’t press from its real-world context and assess it charges and all-white juries look the purely as a film. It feels shallow to do other way. Change will come from votthat, wrong somehow. Yes, Selma is ing booths, and in 1965, thousands of spectacularly staged, impressively acted Americans demanded access to those and narratively satisfying. But it is also booths with the march of their feet. something much, much more and we Selma has taken fire from both need much, much more like it. This review first appeared in The sides. LBJ’s assistant on domestic affairs Reader of Omaha, Neb. stated publicly that the president is the one who had the idea for the march on Selma, not King, and was not an obstiRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com nate politician as depicted. DuVernay’s Boulder Weekly

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emperature matters. It says so on the wall of Reelfish, a new seafood joint in Lafayette that specializes in fish and chips. I agree. The best fish and chips I ever had were at some wharf-side shack on Granville Island in Vancouver. Hands numb and cramped under a space heater, wet from it being Vancouver in November, and tired from a long, lost walk… temperature mattered. A crispy, thick shell held in steaming halibut, and all was in balance. So it was a little disappointing when there were temperature issues with the fried fish at Reelfish. You can choose any number of sustainably caught options to grill or fry at Reelfish — halibut, tuna, cod, sole, mahi mahi, haddock and more. I sidled up and ordered a platter of cod, sole, haddock and shrimp ($13.95). Pieces come atop hand-cut fries, in more of a nugget shape than a traditional strip — if we use a basketball-sized globe for reference, one piece of fish was Australia, one Greenland, one Chad. And that’s not without consequence either. The fish were thinner than the meaty strips you’ll find elsewhere, and so when dredged in batter and fried, they are, of course, going to react differently and be more challenging to cook than the fish strip. What resulted then was obviously fresh and delicious fish, cooked 30 sec-

will help keep the bite piping hot. 2770 Arapahoe Ave., And that is really Lafayette, 720-630-8053 critical of fried fish. It needs to be steaming hot. You need to bite in and then do that “hottt-hot-hot” face where your mouth opens and your head turns up and retracts into your body like a turtle. And that’s not a preference thing either — the hotter the fish and the quicker it gets from fryer to mouth, the less soggy it’ll be, the silkier it’ll be, and the more balanced bite you’ll have. The New England clam chowder and Brussels sprouts available were strong companions, however. The sprouts were grilled and served in a bowl with mushrooms, dressing and spices. The chowder was tasty, but the large chunks of potato kept a lot of the clams and creamy broth off the spoon. Too, I’d go back and try the grilled fish options because Reelfish does bring in quality sea meat. There’s a couple easy areas for Reelfish is also a fun place to eat. It improvement, though. Reelfish boasts a is smartly designed. Bright and airy thin shell for their fish, but thin crust with nautical wood and a big marine and thin fish doesn’t work. It’d be great mural, it passes as an inland recreation to either cut the fish thicker in house, and reminds you of those real dockside or develop a thicker shell (they might shacks in Boston and Vancouver. Kid’s be doing that by this point in the paintings are up on the wall, and there review). By dredging fish in cornmeal were a lot of smiling families dining and using a beer-batter, you’ll get a when I dined. crunchy, thick, airy shell that allows the But temperature matters. And I’m fish inside to cook properly. You’ll also cool, for the moment, on Reelfish. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com create pockets for steam to inhabit that Reelfish

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Fish and chips joint comes to Lafayette by Matt Cortina onds too long with too thin of a batter, creating a slightly soggy and tough piece of fish. Boy, it hurts to write that. Preparing fresh seafood in Colorado is a challenge, and it’s important to support restaurateurs who take that challenge head on. But when you put “temperature matters” on the board, and other chefs in the county are able to plate fish and chips at a high level for a similar price, it attracts scrutiny.

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Black Cat Bistro in Boulder will be hosting a six-course beef dinner on Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m. The beef will be sourced from their own farm, and the event is a special opportunity to honor the Scottish Highland cattle that were brought to the farm last year. “The steer lived a beautiful life, grazing on TOUR DE FRANCE WINE DINNER AT pristine Boulder County ARUGULA pasture and dwelling under the Colorado The six-course dinner at Black Cat Bistro will be sourced from beef raised skies,” Black Cat says on at Black Cat’s farm, and rancher Frank Silva will be on hand to discuss. Dig into a five-course meal its Facebook page. “Now it is time paired with French wines at to celebrate with our first beef dinArugula on Tuesday, Jan. 20. Wines “a hop head red lager with a well rounded ner from our farm. This six-course dinner will on display include selections from all over bitterness, smooth malt finish and pungent, feature our succulent beef in every course. France, including a “fruity and smooth” citrusy hop aroma”; a dunkel, “supple, crisp As a guest of honor, we will host Frank Silva, Côtes du Rhône, a Gamay from Beaujolais and surprisingly drinkable dark lager”; and a our region’s preeminent rancher and the and a 10-year-old Bordeaux. helles, a “light, sweet finishing, Bavariansource of our young steer.” “By smelling, sipping and savoring each influenced lager.” Silva and Black Cat Chef Erik Skokan will wine, then using French culinary tradition for The Wibby taproom will include lawn be on hand to talk about raising cattle and guidance, Chefs Alec and Sven have creatgames and a gazebo, as well as a big open cooking meals from their meat throughout ed a sumptuous and enticing January meal. indoor space that lets visitors check out the the evening. They will, of course, also be Sommelier William Davis, of Wilson Daniels brewing process. Look for it at First and Main spending some time in the kitchen preparing in Longmont before June. Fine Wine Importers, will lead the evening the fare. Cost is $68 per person without alcoand share his vast knowledge of these hol; call for reservations. wines,” the restaurant notes in a press CELEBRATING WOMEN AND BEER release. The wintery menu includes duck and The Pink Boots Society will be hosting a chicken liver mousse, pork belly risotto, beef LAGER TIME fundraiser at Twisted Pine Brewery in Boulder tenderloin and apple strudel. Cost is $50 per on Saturday, Jan. 17 from 12-6 p.m. person, with an additional $29 per person for Wibby Brewing is coming to Longmont The event includes a five-course beer the wine pairings. Reservations required and soon, and with their arrival comes a brave and food pairing, exclusive brewery tours foray into German-style lagers. seatings start at 6:30 p.m. and a special tapping of a collaboration Wibby’s will focus on three brews: an IPL, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com brew. Also, the brewery says, “some of the

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s you have probably heard, start-up food company Hampton Creek was recently sued over the branding and labeling of its egg-free sandwich spread, “Just Mayo.” It’s not mayonnaise, complained the plaintiff, food giant Unilever, maker of Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise. Unilever ended up backing down and the suit was dropped, thanks to a perfect storm of public relations blowback it created. But the question remains, for those of us who care to ponder it: was Hampton Creek wrong for saying, “It’s just mayo,” Or was Unilever out of line for crying, “No, it’s not!”? The debate comes down to the meaning of mayonnaise. And how it’s defined depends greatly on the context. There is a legal meaning, under which a relative few materials would qualify, and there is a functional meaning, a street definition of mayo, that is relevant at the table, where it counts the most. Egg-free products like Just Mayo easily qualify for the latter category, as does the carrot mayonnaise I once encountered in the dining hall of a Brazilian commune. Before I reveal the details of this carrot mayo, I should dole out enough mayonnaise theory to con-

would have its lawyers all over that infraction with squirt bottles blazing. The same definition also says that real mayonnaise must contain eggs. I’m no legal scholar, but based on that requirement, it’s hard to deny that Unilever had a good little point, at least in a legal sense. In the context of a food lab, meanwhile, mayonnaise is recognized as an emulsion of oil and water, two substances that don’t normally mix. They are coaxed into forming a stable partnership with the help of an emulsifier, which, in the case of mayo, comes in the form of various molecules in the egg’s yolk. The resulting emulsion has a thick texture and a fleshy body that’s sturdy enough to stand in a glorious, three-dimensional dollop. As has been demonstrated by the toned bodies of Just Mayo and others like it — including my favorite fake mayo, Vegenaise — it is possible to make a fantastic oil in water emulsion with pea- and soy-based emulsifiers rather than yolk based. These vegan emulsions are nearly as impressive as the ones formed with eggs. The one discernable shortcoming being the vegan emulsions need to be refrigerated in order to retain their form, while mayo, amazingly, can hold its form at room

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vince you that carrot mayo is real mayo. At least at my table. According to the Food and Drug Administration, mayonnaise must contain at least 65 percent oil to qualify. The reason Miracle Whip isn’t mayo is because it doesn’t have enough oil. (It has added starch as a thickener.) One can be sure that if Miracle Whip were to call itself Miracle Mayo, Unilever

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temperature. In practice, mayonnaise is less about the specifications of the product, and more about a niche that needs to be filled. More than almost any other edible item, mayonnaise embodies lubricity, a quality that facilitates the chewing of food. Can you imagine trying to eat tuna salad without some mayo to lube it up and send it down smoothly? Plus, you need creamy stuff

on your food, because... creamy stuff on food. Yet despite its all-around awesomeness, mayo is humble, mild mannered, and doesn’t try to steal the show. It is literally the glue behind the glitter of whatever dish it’s in, quietly getting the job done, dollop by dollop, on the noodles, on the meat and even in the soup. There are some rare cases when

there’s actually no need for mayo. With Middle Eastern food, for example, hummus fills the niche. Hummus isn’t an emulsion, doesn’t contain eggs and isn’t usually very thick. But it’s got the creamy lubricity we need from mayo, and everything it touches — or better yet, everything smothered in its silky embrace — becomes more delicious. Along these lines, in the mountains of Bahia, Brazil, a chef named Jeu

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makes a vegan potato salad that is held together by a substance that she called carrot mayonnaise. Even the Hellmann’s lovers at the table couldn’t protest, so busy we all were one day at wolfing down this dish. Jeu agreed to show me how it’s made. It’s much easier than samba dancing, that’s for sure.

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5 medium-sized carrots, chopped into rounds. 1 clove garlic ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup olive oil Optional: tablespoon or so of herbs, like oregano or thyme (omit if using herbs on the potato salad, as discussed below) Steam carrots until soft. Let them cool to room temperature. Add garlic to a blender or food processor, along with salt, oil and herbs (if using). Blend, adding the carrot rounds, one by one, letting each round liquefy before adding the next. If it’s not making a smooth, moving vortex add more olive oil. The resulting sauce, especially if left overnight in the fridge, has the core strength to stand tall, rather than puddle. There are emulsifiers in the garlic and carrots, and they are at work in carrot mayo, binding oil and water as best as they can. This flavorful binding lubricity, added to potato salad, is a winning combination. Sitting on the dining hall bench of a commune, after pulling weeds and funky yoga moves all morning, we happily gobbled it down. But if you’re stuck in more of an uptown mode, perhaps looking to impress or one-up a dinner guest, I suggest serving this potato salad deconstructed, as an artful pile of roasted potatoes alongside a dollop of carrot mayo. Alas, bathing a bunch of potato chunks in a yellow aura that makes everything look a bit out of focus isn’t necessarily the most aesthetic way to serve it. But by dipping the potatoes in it as you eat, like you would catsup with French fries, you can get the same flavor in prettier fashion. Roasted potatoes, bronzed and seasoned, can stand alone on the plate or in your mouth, and can hold their own next to a bright dollop of carrot mayo. Toss in olive oil, salt, pepper, and herbs. Roast them at 350 until chewy on the outside and soft on the inside. Plate the potatoes next to a dollop of carrot mayo, and serve. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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et’s put a pair of leather chaps and grain. Buehler says being part of a in the mash, or cactus or tum- larger brewery like Oskar Blues affords bleweed.” That was the first him the flexibility to experiment, idea Jason Buehler, head brew- whereas some smaller breweries have to er of Oskar Blues in Lyons, concern themselves with extra expenses had for Hi*Beams Honky Tonk Ale, a as each batch makes a larger impact on collaboration beer made not with anoth- their bottom line. This can help spur on er brewery, but a honky tonk band. No collaborations between brewers though, chaps or tumbleweed made it into the as a cheaper ingredient for one may be a final brew, but cactus did, and the beer luxury for another. This was the case for has become a dark horse favorite among both brewers in the initial steps of the some of the regulars at Oskar Blues process of Death by Coconut, as Grill and Brew. Buehler says cocoJason Buehler Hi*Beams nut was harder for Honky Tonk Ale him to source, was just one of the while Shamrock many collaboradidn’t have the tions Oskar Blues access to certain brewed in 2013, specialty hops. with a different “I ended up collaboration being having [Hefley] produced almost buy the coconut every month in and I just drove it 2014. up from Pueblo, Blank Slate Brewing owner Scott LaFolNo two collabo- lette helps Oskar Blues on a chili brew. and we did our secrations are alike, ond batch down and “they come about in different ways, there, and we traded hops for coconut so sometimes we do them just for fun,” straight up,” explains Buehler. says Buehler. “It gives us a better presOskar Blues’ most recent collaboraence in a certain market and so we’ll tion is with recent startup Blank Slate look at that market and say, ‘What Brewing in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tim breweries would make sense to do a little Matthews, head brewer in Longmont collaboration with?’ We look at things for Oskar Blues, suggested a companion like who’s canning, or who makes beers for Cincinnati’s famous chili. The team like ours, or who’s up and coming.” also wanted to incorporate some of the As the former brewer at Shamrock spices used in the chili, but didn’t want Brewing in Pueblo, Colo., Buehler natto overwhelm the beer, so Buehler sugurally wanted to do a collaboration to gested an alternative method: “How connect with old friends. about we spice the barley and then “I approached them about doing a smoke it?” Buehler recalls. The beer will collaboration for the festival likely be featured at an upcoming craft [Collaboration Fest, put on by the beer festival in Cincinnati, introducing Colorado Brewer’s Guild],” Buehler says. Oskar Blues to a new market, and giving “We basically decided we would do one Blank Slate credibility from working at each place, and I think I had the idea with a veteran brewery. of maybe we should do one that kind of Buehler says he can’t emphasize the flipped the beer styles of each brewery, impact of the knowledge gained from so do an Irish kind of theme here and collaborating with another brewery. do a hoppy beer down there. … “Huge, humongous, huge, absolute[Shamrock’s head brewer Keith Hefley] ly. You know, as a brewer, anytime you said maybe we could do something with go into any brewery you will always chocolate or coconut or maybe both,” learn something,” says Buehler. says Buehler. And thus the 2014 Great But in the end, it’s all about brewAmerican Beer Festival silver medalist ing with friends, as Buehler says of for chocolate beer, Death by Coconut, most collaborations, “You have a friend was born. that’s at another brewery and you just Other smaller breweries might have want to make a beer together for shits difficulty brewing such an ingredientand giggles.” Editor’s note: Cody Gabbard is a lead intense beer, with both the chocolate bartender at Oskar Blues’ CyclHOPs. and coconut coming with prices steeper Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com than your typical ingredients of hops Boulder Weekly

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stand and empathize with her fear.” But Dr. Ley wonders if something else is at work here. “LOST’s fiancée might be dealing with a form of anxiety disorder, where obsession is sometimes expressed through irrational fears of infidelity,” Dr. Ley says. “A therapist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy — the ‘other kind of CBT’ — for anxiety disorders may be helpful and less likely to get distracted by blaming porn.” To find a therapist who specializes in CBT and isn’t a batshit-crazy, smutshaming sexphobe, Dr. Ley suggests you find a therapist through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (aasect.org) or the “Kink Aware Professionals Directory” at the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (ncsfreedom.org). “The therapists LOST will find there are more likely to be sex-positive,” Dr. Ley says, “and less likely to jump on the ‘porn is the root of all problems’ bandwagon.” You can follow Dr. David Ley on Twitter @DrDavidLey.

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Dear Dan: My fiancée is extremely bothered by me looking at porn. It revolves around insecurities that have gotten so bad that even other girls bother her. (We can hardly go to a beach anymore.) I don’t have any weird relationship with porn — no addiction, no violent stuff, and I look pretty infrequently. She acknowledges that it’s a normal thing but is unable to get past it. She has gone through two counselors on her own, and we have gone through two couples counselors. They have ALL said the same thing: “It’s completely reasonable to want him to not look at porn, and if he loves you, he won’t look at it anymore.” I have been asked how often I look at it, why I won’t stop looking at it and why is it so important to me. They have recommended “clinics” to help me abstain from porn. This all happens after both of us say that our goal is for this — me looking at porn very occasionally — to not be a problem and even after we’ve told them that she used to be totally okay with it (four years ago) but now she feels crazy and doesn’t want to feel this way about it. Our last therapist said my refusal to go to a clinic showed that we had a toxic relationship! I’m dumbfounded. Every time we see a therapist like this, it damages our relationship. — Lack Of Sane Therapists

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

You will never make anything that lasts forever. Nor will I or anyone else. I suppose it’s possible that human beings will still be listening to Beethoven’s music or watching The Simpsons TV show 10,000 years from today, but even that stuff will probably be gone in 5 billion years, when the sun expands into a red giant star. Having acknowledged that hard truth, I’m happy to announce that in the next five weeks you could begin to work in earnest on a creation that will endure for a very long time. What will it be? Choose wisely!

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

What does your soul need on a regular basis? The love and attention of some special person? The intoxication provided by a certain drink or drug? Stimulating social interaction with people you like? Music that drives you out of your mind in all the best ways? The English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said that the rapture his soul needed more than anything else was inspiration — the “sweet fire,” he called it, “the strong spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame.” So the experience his soul craved didn’t come from an outside stimulus. It was a feeling that rose up inside him. What about you, Taurus? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your soul needs much more than usual of its special nourishment.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In 1987, California condors were almost extinct. Less than 30 of the birds remained. Then the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service launched an effort to capture them all and take emergency measures to save the species. Almost 28 years later, there are more than 400 condors, half of them living in the wild. If you act now, Gemini, you could launch a comparable recovery program for a different resource that is becoming scarce in your world. Act with urgency, but also be prepared to practice patience.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was an American statesman who served in both houses of Congress. He dearly wanted to be president of the United States, but his political party never nominated him to run for that office. Here’s the twist in his fate: Two different candidates who were ultimately elected president asked him to be their vice president, but he declined, dismissing the job as unimportant. Both of those presidents, Harrison and Taylor, died after a short time on the job. Had Webster agreed to be their vice president, he would have taken their place and fulfilled his dream. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I advise you not to make a mistake comparable to Webster’s.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

In one of his poems, Rumi writes about being alone with a wise elder. “Please,” he says to the sage, “do not hold back from telling me any secrets about this universe.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I suggest you make a similar request of many people, and not just those you regard as wise. You’re in a phase when pretty much everyone is a potential teacher who has a valuable clue to offer you. Treat the whole world as your classroom.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Have you been tapping into your proper share of smart love, interesting beauty, and creative mojo? Are you enjoying the succulent rewards you deserve for all the good deeds and hard work you’ve done in the past eight months? If not, I am very upset. In fact, I would be livid and mournful if I found out that you have not been soaking up a steady flow of useful bliss, sweet revelations, and fun surprises. Therefore, to ensure my happiness and well being, I command you to experience these goodies in abundance.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

Engineer Robert Goddard was the original rocket scientist. His revolutionary theories and pioneering technologies laid the foundations for space flight. Decades before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, he and his American team began shooting rockets aloft. Members of the press

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were not impressed with his unusual ideas, however. They thought he was a misinformed crank. In 1920, The New York Times sneered that he was deficient in “the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools.” Forty-nine years later, after his work had led to spectacular results, the Times issued an apology. I foresee a more satisfying progression toward vindication for you, Libra. Sometime soon, your unsung work or unheralded efforts will be recognized.

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

In the plot of the TV science fiction show Ascension, the U.S. government has conducted an elaborate covert experiment for 50 years. An outside investigator named Samantha Krueger discovers the diabolical contours of the project and decides to reveal the truth to the public. “We’re going full Snowden,” she tells a seemingly sympathetic conspiracy theorist. She’s invoking the name of Edward Snowden, the renegade computer administrator who in the real world leaked classified information that the U.S. government wanted to keep hidden. It might be time for you to go at least mini-Snowden yourself, Scorpio — not by spilling state secrets, but rather by unmasking any surreptitious or deceptive behavior that’s happening in your sphere. Bring everything out into the open — gently if possible. But do whatever it takes.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In 1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because the letter “e” didn’t appear once in the text. Can you imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to summon an equally impressive expression of discipline and self-control, Sagittarius. But devote your efforts to accomplishing a more useful and interesting task, please. For example, you could excise one of your bad habits or avoid activities that waste your time or forbid yourself to indulge in fearful thoughts.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Most plants move upwards as they grow. Their seeds fall to the ground, are blown off by the wind or are carried away by pollinators. But the peanut plant has a different approach to reproduction. It burrows its seeds down into the soil. They ripen underground, where they are protected and more likely to get the moisture they need to germinate. The peanut plant’s approach to fertility might be a good metaphor for you Capricorns to adopt for your own use. It makes sense for you to safeguard the new possibilities you’re incubating. Keep them private, maybe even secret. Don’t expose them to scrutiny or criticism.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

In his poem “The Garden,” Jack Gilbert says, “We are like Marco Polo who came back / with jewels hidden in the seams of his ragged clothes.” Isn’t that true about you right now, Aquarius? If I were going to tell your recent history as a fairy tale, I’d highlight the contrast between your outer disorder and your inner riches. I’d also borrow another fragment from Gilbert’s poem and use it to describe your current emotional state: “a sweet sadness, a tough happiness.” So what comes next for you? I suggest you treat yourself to a time out. Take a break to integrate the intensity you’ve weathered. And retrieve the jewels you hid in the seams of your ragged clothes.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet,” wrote Shel Silverstein, in his children’s book Where the Sidewalk Ends. It’s especially important for you to focus on that truth in the coming weeks. I say this for two reasons. First, it’s imperative that you identify and celebrate a certain unique aspect of yourself that no one else has ever fully acknowledged. If you don’t start making it more conscious, it may start to wither away. Second, you need to learn how to express that unique aspect with such clarity and steadiness that no one can miss it or ignore it.

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recently filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado. Using the argument that Amendment 64 is preempted by the Controlled Substances Act, it seeks to force the U.S. to enforce federal cannabis laws in Colorado because legalization here harms neighboring states and may increase crime. The story missed the latest wrinkle in that particular legal action. Last week a group of state Republican lawmakers petitioned Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to drop the federal lawsuit. This is particularly interesting since none of the signees are pro-cannabis. But each one well understands the Pandora’s box opened if the Supreme Court were to rule in favor of the federal government over state’s rights. They have even threatened to side with Colorado if the case is ever actually heard. “Oklahoma has been a pioneer and a leader in standing up to federal usurpations of power on everything from gun control to Obamacare and beyond,” they write. “We believe this lawsuit against our sister state has the potential, if it were to be successful at the Supreme Court, to undermine all of those efforts to protect our own state’s right to govern itself under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” No word on whether or when the Supremes might take up the case. You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/category/features/ weed-between-the-lines/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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