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Weed threat overstated
Numerous times on New Year’s Day, I looked and the sky wasn’t falling [“Colorado goes legal, ho hum,” Weed Between the Lines, Jan. 9] here in Summit County either. Cannabis (marijuana) prohibitionists lied again. Can’t say the same for the other 48 states, which haven’t re-legalized the God-given superplant yet. Stan White/Dillon
Good guys kill too
[Re: “Total elapsed time: 80 seconds,” Danish Plan, Dec. 26.] This column is a great exercise in drawing sweeping, universal conclusions from a single instance. It examines absolutely none of the many problems attendant to actually implementing universal armed school guards as an effective nationwide solution, and it in no way vindicates
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Highroad A new player for Ohio State football games by Jim Hightower
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n the ever-escalating competition to be the Number One big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx. Actually, it’s not the coaching staff that signed up this brute, but the OSU campus police department. And the recruit’s full name is MaxxPro — not a
football player, but a 19-ton armored fighting vehicle built by a pentagon contractor to withstand “ballistic arms fire, mine fields, IEDs and Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical environments.” Wow, college games really have gotten rough! But the campus PD, which received the MaxxPro as a gift from the Pentagon (i.e., us taxpayers), says it’s not just playing games. Maxx is available for Big Actions, like hostage scenarios, killers loose on campus and extreme flooding of up to three feet. Well, have such things been a problem at OSU? Uh, no. Would a huge, slow, gas-guzzling vehicle designed for warfare be effective if any of the above were actually to occur? No one in the department wanted to tackle that question. Oh, by the way, operating and maintaining these machines requires specially trained and licensed personnel — are any of OSU’s officers qualified?
LaPierre’s simplistic sloganeering. People are shot by good guys every day. Pierson, for example. Peter Aretin/via Internet
Udall is Piñon Canyon ally
Sen. Mark Udall has greatly supported us down here in southeastern Colorado in our protracted battle to presee LETTERS Page 11
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Again, no answer from headquarters. Also, the vehicles are subject to frequent rollovers, and they lack the ability to go off-road or to maneuver in confined areas. That doesn’t sound ideal for a college campus. But the gendarmes say they’ve adjusted Maxx to fit their needs. How? By removing the top gun turret and repainting the vehicle. OSU police finally admitted that Maxx’s chief role would be to provide a police “presence” on football game days. Great — police authorities now believe they need a show of military force to keep tailgaters in check. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 16, 2014 7
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Democrats playing too nice with the GOP by Dave Anderson
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Republicans have used hot-button social issues like guns to divide working people. In a low-turnout election, they successfully recalled two Democratic state senators who supported popular moderate gun control measures. As a result, the Democrats have only a oneseat majority in the state Senate. The anti-gun control forces are particularly vigorous and militant. If economic justice advocates had a similarly intense core of activists, we could transform our state. Labor unions are the major force for economic justice, but they are relatively weak in Colorado. With limited resources, they are cautious. They put a lot of money and energy into elections. The balance of power between Democrats and Republicans in Colorado has been close for many years. This is an important factor because the Republicans are consistent enemies of unions and working people in general, while the Democrats support boosting the minimum wage, increasing health coverage and investing more in infrastructure and education. There are disagreements among Democrats on economic issues such as Wall Street reform, foreign trade agreements, the future of public schools, the role of unions, the privatization of govsee DEMOCRATS Page 9
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lame justifications for their claim that releasing the records would cause “substantial injury to the public interest.” They told District Court Judge Francis Wasserman they were concerned that opening the files might compromise two ongoing legal actions related to the election (including Wasserman’s own decertification of the election results) and that a few ballots could be traced back to individual voters because of how ballots had to be sorted due to conflicting residency requirements. Candelarie said he really wants to be transparent, deep down, but he was using an “abundance of caution” and didn’t want to “cause a problem” with the other cases. Um, last time we checked, those weren’t legal justifications for withholding public records. The Broomfield officials also argued that the judge hadn’t even made it clear yet whether the recount is complete, and the
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CITY OF BOULDER STRIKES AGAIN Did you hear about Boulder city officials’ latest ploy to “clean up” the municipal campus? Apparently the camping ban and the night-time parks closures haven’t done enough to remove those unsightly homeless people from the area, so now City Manager Jane Brautigam wants to ban smoking in the area so the city can drive those undesirables out for good! Out of sight, out of mind, right? We had to laugh out loud at the city’s press release announcing the proposal, saying it was intended to address “increasing dangers to the welfare and quality of life” in the area, as well as the health impacts of secondhand smoke. Yeah, right. If the city is concerned with health issues, then it should start by offering a hand to the 66 percent of the homeless population that is suffering from mental illness and/or is in need of help for substance abuse. And let’s not forget that 40 percent of homeless men are veterans, many coping with the horror of PTSD while living on the street. At least they will now be safe from the nightmarish consequences of secondhand smoke. Thank you City of Boulder. Your compassion is becoming legendary. HEY BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE SOME TIME? Speaking of the homeless, it’s that time of year again. Time to count them. Actually, the Point-in-Time initiative is about Wikimedia Commons/Chris Sanderson more than just counting, it’s about surveying the homeless and learning more about this often-overlooked population, its needs and its causes. And the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative, which runs the effort, needs more volunteers for Boulder County and other counties. It’s going down on Jan. 27. So if you’re too uncomfortable handing out your spare change to the scruffy-looking individual on the corner, try donating your time. See http://mdhi.org for more information. VOTE FOR ONE OR MORE One of our very own Boulder County legislators, Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont), is co-sponsoring a bill that has made local election reform activist Paul Tiger happy. Now the trick is getting it passed. Last year, a similar bill didn’t make it. Tiger, who was one of the first to blow the whistle on the county’s traceable ballots that Boulder Weekly covered in 2012, is a big fan of “approval voting.” It’s an election format in which citizens can cast votes for as many candidates as they’d like, and then the candidate with the most votes wins. Proponents say the system helps avoid the “spoiler effect,” or situations in which a majority of likeminded voters can be split between two similar candidates, allowing a third, who the majority oppose, to win. It also allows third parties to receive support without taking votes away from the Dems or the Republicans. Check out the animated video explaining the whole thing using fruits and vegetables at http://bit.ly/1j44VLq. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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vent the Army from expanding the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, thereby militarizing millions of acres of scenic and historic agricultural land. Back in 2007 he supported an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which blocked spending by the Army for the purpose of expanding Piñon Canyon. (He has supported the year-to-year funding ban ever since.) That same year he introduced an amendment requiring the Army to justiRECORDS from Page 9
Colorado Open Records Act has differing standards on what can be released during and after an election. Granted, the latter is a question that Wasserman should answer — and quickly. But as for the other excuses offered by Tuthill and Candelarie, there are ways to protect voter anonymity while still letting the public examine ballot materials, to ensure transparency. Wasserman offered a snarky suggestion regarding advances in technology that provide the ability to redact sensitive information: “Copy machines are wonderful these days,” he told Tuthill. Marks rightly pointed out that just because a city or county is in the middle of litigation doesn’t automatically give it the right to withhold related open records. She also argued correctly that there shouldn’t be “blackout periods” on the ability of the public — or at least bipartisan election “watchers” — to inspect election materials. “There can’t be any break in public oversight,” Marks said. Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert, who has handled thousands of records requests and who testified at the hearing at Marks’ request, agreed. “The voted ballots need to be available to someone,” she said. Staiert said tends to “favor on the side of release when it comes to voted ballots” and that voter anonymity can be protected through redaction or by shuffling ballots into larger batches. But aside from the bumbling justifications produced by Tuthill and Candelarie, perhaps one of the most telling — and disheartening — examples of public officials’ basic misunderstanding and distrust of open records requests came when the judge himself suggested that if Marks were given access to an election report she might claim it was tampered with. Gasp! Her reply was perfect: “I would think that would be a proper role for a citizen, if they thought it had been tampered with.” After all, your honor, the whole point of open government is to let the public see that it’s being done right — and, more importantly, when it’s not. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
fy its expansion plan. The report brought to light a number of deficiencies. And he asked the Government Accountability Office to do two studies: an analysis of the Piñon Canyon expansion proposal, and an examination of the overall process by which the military pursues major land acquisitions. He came to Trinidad and La Junta to gain the first-hand perspectives of multigenerational ranching families whose lands and livelihoods were threatened.
In 2010 he secured a promise from Secretary of the Army John McHugh that no expansion would happen for at least five years. And he stood with us in questioning the Army’s motives for attempting to change the name of Piñon Canyon to “Fort Carson South.” Most recently he sponsored an amendment that spells out the rigorous requirements the Army must conform to if it wants to try to expand Piñon Canyon in the future. He worked with
Assistant Secretary of the Army Katherine Hammack to do something unprecedented: rescind the waiver that authorized Fort Carson to begin acquiring land. With the amendment to the NDAA and the rescinding of the waiver, Sen. Udall has helped us to push the Army back to square one and caused a dark cloud to be lifted from southeastern Colorado. We are most grateful to him. Doug Holdread/Trinidad
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Claude Monet’s “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect,” from 1903, was purchased with funds from the Helen Dill bequest for the Denver Art Museum after being owned by a Russian textile merchant, a French prince and a Denver widow.
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Tracing a Monet from a London bridge to the Colorado ghost town of Tolland
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ur story begins on a smoky London morning, just after the turn of the 20th century, when Claude Monet sat in a room at the Hotel Savoy on the banks of the River Thames, his oil paints and a few inprogress canvases within reach. He was working to capture the way the sunlight cut across the coal-loaded smoke from the factories visible beyond the bridge and the shimmering surface of the river, which is marked with yellow and orange as the sun plays across it around the arches of the Waterloo Bridge. “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect,” today, is a fine example of Impressionist painting — loose brushwork capturing changing weather and the effects of light, an investment in representing modern life. But in 1903, when it was painted, the art world was still acclimating to that style. Cutting-edge artists like Monet were just emerging from 12 January 16, 2014
years of French art in three decades of scandal and impoverishment, having revolutionexhibitions, charting the rise of ized the international art scene, the Académie des Beaux-Arts, as well as the way in which the French Academy that overpaintings are bought and sold, saw the annual art markets, which opened a floodgate for from its founding in 1648 Impressionist art to come to through the height of America. Impressionism, which ultiBut behind the broad mately disarmed the Academy strokes of these global shifts in that never evolved to embrace the art movement and the art the avant-garde movement. markets were a few key individ“That really is so interestuals — a shrewd gallery owner; ing because nowadays you a small, fiercely devoted Russian think there’s hardly anything collector; a prince who would that is as embraced by the Claude Monet’s “The Houses in the Snow, Norway,” from was recently given to the museum as a bequest of walk away from his entitlements 1895, broad audience and everybody Frederic C. Hamilton. to die unknown in battle; a as the Impressionists, but it one Monet painting has traveled in the Colorado woman who would really, really took a long time,” turn her husband’s fortune into a tourist 110 years since it was created, the waves says Christoph Heinrich, director of the of change it has ridden, lives touched destination that’s now a ghost town; a Denver Art Museum. and how it came to be purchased by the Denver school teacher with an eye for • • • real estate; even the current director of Denver Art Museum, where it now So let us begin with understanding the Denver Art Museum. And this is hangs in the Passport to Paris exhibition. the atmosphere surrounding the artist, their story. It’s the story of where that Passport to Paris covers 300 definitive Monet, master Impressionist. Boulder Weekly
“Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” was among 200 canvases he started while in London in 1903, painting the Houses of Parliament and the Thames in addition to Waterloo Bridge, all features of the city he could see from his rooms at the Hotel Savoy. Of the 200 started, he finished only 30 or 40. Many of the paintings not purchased at an exhibition of them a year later, as “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” was, were reworked or burned. “Monet writes to his wife and he’s sitting in the Hotel Savoy on the banks of the River Thames painting this and he loves the winter weather because it’s foggy and it’s smoky and it just brings all this dirt into the air, which actually reflects all these colors … All the stoves are producing these fumes, and the sun then comes up and the river looks like gold, like fluid gold,” Heinrich says. “The Denver Art Museum’s painting is one of the most colorful, one of the most dramatic of the whole Waterloo Bridge series; some of them are more reduced, some of them are greener, some of them are less light-full, and this one is, I would say, it’s pretty radical really, with this purple and orange contrast. It’s quite strong.” Monet stands out now as a sentinel among his contemporaries partly as a numbers game — in his 86 years, he completed roughly 4,000 paintings. Born in 1840 in Paris, Monet, as he self-styled his biography, was a rebellious young artist, drawing and selling for 10 or 20 francs brazen caricatures of high-profile residents of the small town on the French coast where he grew up. The established landscape painter Eugène Boudin spotted him at work and taught Monet to paint “en plein air” — outdoors. He carried that influence with him as he shrugged off training in traditional painting as he had shrugged off the family grocery store business. Taken to the Louvre to copy the old masters, he sat by the window and painted what he saw there. “He’s really one of the clear examples of someone who went to look for his own way to do things and was everything but adapting to the standards of the art establishment,” Heinrich says. Monet chose instead to work in the company of other nascent Impressionists, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley among them, and they all strove to capture the effects of light in the open air using short, rapid brushstrokes and broken colors. Aided by the 1841 invention of the tube, these rebels, armed with tiny tubes of paint, went out into the world to paint what they saw. In the mid-1800s, the golden age of French art was in full swing, a center for painting, decorative arts, fashion and culture. Paris was home to the Boulder Weekly
Académie des Beaux Arts and its Monet and his contemporaries annual Salon, an art market that had effectively circumvented the mingled artists with the patrons French Academy — which never who would pay for their works. welcomed the Impressionists into There was no way to make a living the annual Salons. The as an artist than to exhibit at the Impressionists, with the aid of their carefully juried annual Salon. independent dealer Durand-Ruel, “Of course the jury, in some of simply drove the Salons into obscuthe years, was just this very tightrity. knit wall against the more revoluDurand-Ruel catered to patrons tionary or the more innovative with money to spend — wealthy streams,” Heinrich says. families, wherever they may come But the latest generation of from. France was coming out of a painters wasn’t interested in the deep recession through the 1880s. ancient stories that were approved But at the turn of the 20th century, subjects for paints, or even in using the Russian economy was booming. the paint in the traditional, “paintThe buyer who purchased erly” method. They wanted to paint “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” what they experienced. from Durand-Ruel was a frequent Impressionism was nothing if visitor to the Paris gallery and, by not a new window onto the world. then, a known collector of A portrait of art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel painted by And how were those paintings Impressionists, the Russian textile Pierre-Auguste Renoir. received at the Salon? merchant Sergei Shchukin. “It was a scandal,” says Molly The Shchukin family was part Medakovich, master teacher for of a growing class of wealthy merWestern American Art at the chant patrons that sprang up out of Denver Art Museum. “When these Moscow’s growing industrialization paintings came out to the public and commercialization, and brought there was a feeling among critics with them diverse artistic interests that these weren’t really finished that weren’t tied to the conservative paintings.” aesthetics maintained in the What followed was a mass rejecRussian aristocracy, according to tion of these new artists’ works. Beverly Whitney Kean, author of All the Empty Palaces: The Merchant For 10 or 15 years, with a wife Patrons of Modern Art in Preand children to support, Monet Revolutionary Russia. weathered dire straits financially, Though the third of 11 chilborrowing money, occasionally from dren, the small, intense Shchukin Impressionist painters who came Claude Monet’s “Nympheas (Water Lilies)” from had risen to become the natural from more well-to-do families, to 1907, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, bequest heir for his father’s company, and stay afloat. of Anne Parrish Titzell. had grown the textile business into At the same time, a determined an empire. By the early 1890s, art dealer nearly drove himself to finanand among undiscovered treasures. Shchukin, then in his 40s, was able to cial ruin twice in the steadfast assurance It wasn’t until 1887, after the first indulge the “collector’s fever” that had that his commitment to Impressionist successful exhibition of Impressionists infected much of Moscow and began artists would pay off. in the U.S., that he came into real sucfilling his own palace with Western art. Paul Durand-Ruel discovered the cess. He was introduced to Impressionism at Impressionists in 1870 and regularly In 1886, at the invitation of the Durand-Ruel’s Paris gallery in 1897, purchased and promoted their works. American Art Association and James where he purchased the first of 13 He would be the first to own “Waterloo Sutton (who would go on to have the paintings by Monet, “Lilacs in the Sun.” Bridge, Sunlight Effect,” buying it from largest collection of Monet’s paintings), the artist in 1904. Durand-Ruel was Durand-Ruel organized an exhibition of The collection that followed would include Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Paul steadfast in his support of Monet and 264 Impressionist paintings in New Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse the other Impressionists, despite their York at the National Academy of and Pablo Picasso. lack of welcome among French audienc- Design — and the tide began to turn. Shchukin would spend hours studyes. Initial exhibitions created so much He was introduced to wealthy American ing a painting before deciding to buy it, public indignation the police were families, and his firm, which had been analyzing the artist’s methods and their called. His parents had run a paper shop in financial distress the year before, was final effect. His advice to his daughter, in Paris that became an impromptu gal- able to expand to include a New York Yekaterina, on choosing artwork was: “If lery. In 1865, when he inherited the gallery, situated on Fifth Avenue in a a picture gives you a psychological space from them, he expanded to space given to him by two of his shock, buy it. It’s a good one.” London and Brussels, but later had to wealthy art patrons. The Russian collector returned close those galleries. But Durand-Ruel Over the last 30 years of his life, he “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” to continued to run the gallery space purchased close to 12,000 paintings, Durand-Ruel the same month he inherited from his father, guided by a including, roughly, more than 1,000 by philosophy of, above all else, protecting Monet, 1,500 by Renoir, 800 by Camille bought it, exchanging it for Monet’s “Houses of Parliament, Seagulls.” and defending the art. His patience was Pissarro, 200 by Edouard Manet and It was his last Monet. In 1905, he profound, sometimes holding paintings 400 each by Edgar Degas, Sisley and turned his attention to the Postfor decades before they could be sold. Mary Cassatt. Monet acknowledged Had he died in his 60s, Durand-Ruel Durand-Ruel as the one person he later noted, he would have died in debt owed anything to. See MONET Page 14 January 16, 2014 13
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Impressionist painters. Had “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” stayed in the hands of the Russian collector, it would have been absorbed into the collections of the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg or the Pushkin Museum of Moscow. Lenin decreed all of Shchukin’s collections and his palace the property of the people in 1918 during the Russian Revolution and distributed his paintings between those two museums in the 1930s. The painting Shchukin took instead, “Houses of Parliament, Seagulls,” is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and was not exhibited outside Russia between its first show in Paris in 1904 and a 1998 exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. • • • The next time “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” departed DurandRuel’s care, it was to reside in the treasure-box-like chateau of a wealthy young prince whose great-grandfather had been ennobled for his service in the Napoleonic wars. In 1906, the painting was purchased on behalf of AlexandreLouis-Philippe-Marie Berthier, the fourth prince of Wagram, an Impressionist painting collector whose art holdings would include works by Gustave Courbet, Manet and Renoir. The 23-year-old French noble was the son of Louis Philippe Marie Alexandre Berthier and Bertha Clara von Rothschild, from the German branch of the famously wealthy Rothschild family. A family, in short, so wealthy and influential that in the original Yiddish song that inspired Tevye to sing, “If I were a rich man,” the language reads “Ven ikh bin a Rotshild”: If I were a Rothschild. The fourth Prince and Duke of Wagram, described as a free thinker, admirer of Voltaire and financier for one of the French liberal journals, resided in the chateau of Grosbois, built of brick and stone in 1690 near Seine-et-Oise, 40 minutes from Paris (by 1911-era car), surrounded by a park full of trees. Marquise de Fontenoy, biographer of the European royals of the era, described the chateau as “full of the most interesting relics of the first emperor and of the Napoleonic era, including some loot brought back from the Kremlin at Moscow.” He was said to have replaced the historic portraits in the house with the works of ultra-modern artists — Van Gogh, Renoir, Van Dongen, Sisley. But like Shchukin, Berthier’s chateau would provide only a brief stop for the painting, which he sold back to Durand-Ruel Paris in 1909. • • • Less burdened by institutions like
the French Academy advocating for more of the same in Europe, American attitudes toward the experimental styles of art coming out of Europe rapidly shifted around the turn of the 20th century. Auction houses in America were reporting lively sales of Monet’s paintings for prices in the low thousands, and a New York Times story from 1899 observed that “the once despised and much reviled Impressionists are better appreciated, and their works sell better and better all the time.” Durand-Ruel had secured his location in New York City and fostered relationships with Americans with money to spend — Henry Osborne Havemeyer, founder of the Sugar Trust, and his wife, Louisine, who built a now legendary collection that included thousands of artworks, including paintings by Degas, Manet, Monet, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Cézanne and Gustave Courbet; and Bertha Palmer, wife of Chicago financier Potter Palmer, the dry goods store owner who pioneered innovations like the first “bargain days,” money-back guarantees and the option for women to shop unescorted. She purchased 25 of Monet’s paintings. Americans at the dawn of the 20th century had money to spend and status to demonstrate, and they used it to infuse European culture and import European art to American shores. Given that climate in the U.S., it made sense for Durand-Ruel’s New York Gallery to purchase “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” from its Paris gallery in December 1910, and transfer it from France to the U.S., where it was then moved again to sit in the Brooks Reed Gallery in Boston. Just a few months later, the painting sold to what would be its longest private home, that of Katherine Ellen Wolcott Toll, the widow of Charles H. Toll, at one time the attorney general of Colorado. After Charles Toll’s unexpected death in December 1901, Katherine Toll was left to manage the fortune and properties owned by the family. She ignored his plan for property they owned in Gilpin County, which was to dam South Boulder Creek to form a reservoir west of Rollinsville near the Moffat Tunnel that would serve their ranches near Broomfield. Instead, in 1904, she and her sons platted the town of Tolland and she built the Mariposa Hotel, later the Toll Inn, creating a bustling tourist stop. The railroad had just been completed over Rollins Pass, and the town of Tolland, formerly Mammoth, became a thriving summer retreat. Many of the lots sold were for seasonal-use cabins and houses, and the railroad ran “picnic trains” and excursion trains in the summer from Moffat Boulder Weekly
news Station in Denver to Tolland and $100,000 to the city for the Civic Corona at the top of Rollins Pass. As Center, including for an art museum demand for traffic to Tolland increased, building. the Moffat Station from 15th and The Denver Art Museum had floatDelgany streets in Denver was taken ed among various public buildings but apart brick by brick and relocated to was facing little room to grow. It used Tolland. $40,000 from Helen Dill to finish the Her oldest son, Charles Toll, became fourth floor of a municipal building an assistant professor at Amherst then under construction and dedicated a College in Massachusetts in 1909, gallery to Helen Dill in 1933. teaching philosophy and psychology. It The remainder of the funds purmay have been that connection that chased works by contemporary painters took her to Boston in 1911 where she — the Old Masters being prohibitively purchased her Monet. expensive and the collection of Native American art already considerably well By that point, the Monet would supported. have been seen not as an avant-garde With the money given by Helen purchase, but as a status symbol, a sign Dill, the museum purchased two Monet that she had truly arrived. landscapes, “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Her second son, Roger Wolcott Toll, Effect” and “The Water Lily Pond” from went on to become superintendent of 1904 for less than $15,000, and 27 other Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone pieces by renowned painters like national parks. Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Winslow Homer A year before her death, Katherine and Max Ernst. Indeed, the bequest Toll parted with the Monet that had from Helen Dill funded many of the been with her for more than 20 years. museum’s cornerstone pieces, according “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect” to Heinrich, several of which are on diswas among the first purchases made by play in Passport to Paris. the Denver Art Museum after receiving • • • a sizeable bequest from More than a cena surprising source. ON THE BILL: “Waterloo tury after the smoky That bequest Bridge, Sunlight Effect” is on winter morning came from Helen view in Nature as Muse, part of Monet was painting, Dill, a Denver schoolthe Passport to Paris exhibition at the Denver Art Museum Heinrich reached out teacher and real estate through Feb. 9. The museum is to the Denver Art investor. Dill was born at 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy, Museum to loan him in Vermont in 1848 as Denver. Tickets at www.denverartmuseum.org “Waterloo Bridge, Helen Lynch and, Sunlight Effect” for against her father’s an exhibition on series wishes, pursued an paintings he was doing for a museum in education all the way through the teachGermany. The conversation that foler’s college, Normal School, in Vermont. lowed led him to join the Denver museShe took a train west, arriving in um’s curatorial staff, where he has just Denver on a recently completed spur off presided over the largest gift the musethe Transcontinental Railroad in the 1870s. um has ever received. “Helen Dill was one of a generation On Jan. 13, the museum announced of pioneering female schoolteachers to that Frederic C. Hamilton, the museum’s come west in search of adventure and chairman emeritus and founder of the opportunity (and, usually, husbands),” Hamilton Oil Corporation, is bequeathing Nancy Tieken writes in The Helen Dill to the museum 22 paintings from his colBequest: A Schoolteacher’s Legacy. She lection that are currently on view in found a husband in wealthy widower Nature As Muse, their first public exhibiCapt. Robert Gordon Dill, a Union tion. The Denver philanthropist also led army soldier. The pair married in 1875, the fundraising effort for the building that then divorced in 1883, Robert Dill now bears his name and houses the claiming in the divorce decree that he’d Passport to Paris exhibition. been deserted by his wife. Heinrich called the moment a pivotal Helen Dill continued to teach in one in the institution’s history. Among the Denver area elementary schools, as she paintings given are the first Vincent van had from 1875 until she retired in the Gogh painting to join the collection and early 1900s. Meanwhile, she was buying the first (second, and third) by Monet’s and selling a number of downtown mentor Boudin, as well as paintings by Denver buildings, including a building Cézanne, Manet, Berthe Morisot, on Glenarm Street she purchased for Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley — and four by $4,000, rented for $20 a month to a Monet. Chinese laundry, then resold for The gift brings 22 more Impressionist $40,000. She spent the end of her life paintings to the museum’s collection, and traveling and studying abroad, before with them, 22 more stories. concluding her days as a bookish recluse. At her death in 1932, her will gave Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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ttention city dwellers: 50 percent smaller carbon footprint There’s consolation for than the average U.S. household, your cramped apartments while those living in distant metroand crowded subway cars. politan suburbs — up to 45 miles Your carbon footprint away — may have a carbon footprint might be a quarter the size of your up to four times higher than those suburban counterparts, with their living in the city proper and twice as green lawns, separate kid rooms and high as the U.S. average. drives to get groceries and coffee. “Policy and planning tools tend to But don’t be too smug, because focus on trips to work,” said Scott the biggest cities also tend to have Bernstein, founder and president of the most carbon-intensive suburbs, The Center for Neighborhood essentially wiping out the climate Technology, a Chicago-based nonbenefits achieved by many metropoliprofit focused on sustainable developtan areas, according to new research ment. But work commutes account from the University of California, for one out of five suburban car trips Berkeley. taken, said Bernstein. The other four This graphic shows carbon footprint density in New York City. The green urban areas have a “Many U.S. cities have become are for things like food shopping, vissmaller carbon footprint than the dark orange suburban areas. leaders on climate protection within iting friends and going to the doctor. their urban core, but more needs to be A bigger impact, according to done to integrate the suburban halo,” footprint over the national average, researchers found. Bernstein: Build everyday amenities said Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the univerThe study was published last month in the journal such as shops and offices closer to suburban homes. sity. Environmental Science and Technology. Transportation-related emissions may be a major Suburbs account for about 50 percent of the carHousehold carbon footprint is an estimate of the driver in greenhouse gas emissions, as suburbanites bon footprint contributed by households in the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from transportatend to drive more than their urban counterparts. But United States. That makes sense, given suburbs hold tion and household energy use as well as consumption it’s not the whole picture, said Kammen. Higher about half the U.S. population. of food, water and other goods by a U.S. household. incomes and larger household size, at least in some The typical U.S. household dumps 48 tons of carbon suburbs, spawn more consumption. And more con30 tons of carbon, minimum emissions into the air, either via direct emissions — sumption means a bigger carbon footprint. Household carbon footprint bottomed out at such as driving a car — or indirect emissions such as Suburbs with larger homes, more vehicle emisabout 30 tons of carbon air emissions per household wastewater treatment or growing crops. sions and higher incomes may be ideal candidates for per year — about 35 percent of the national average a combination of energy-efficient technologies, — for those living in urban areas with a density of Global picture including solar power systems and electric cars, wrote 50,000 people per square mile or higher (Manhattan, The picture looks bleaker on a global scale. the researchers. one of the most densely populated areas in the world, U.S. households are responsible for about 20 perLindsey Konkel is a staff writer at The Daily Climate, holds about 69,000 residents per square mile). But cent of annual global emissions, yet make up only 4 an independent news service covering energy, the enviwhen the suburbs in a city’s metropolitan area were percent of the total global population. In the 25 bigronment and climate change. added to the mix, cities had no advantage in carbon gest American cities, urban dwellers may have up to a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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xposure to low levels of bisphenol A (BPA) during development may make men more susceptible to prostate cancer later in life, according to a new study published Tuesday. The study, which uses a new model of implanting human stem cells into mice, is the first to link early-life BPA exposure to human prostate cancer. It adds to a growing body of research that suggests exposure to low doses of the chemical alters cells and can lead to diseases later in life. “Overall I think this is some of the strongest and most convincing evidence to date linking early-life BPA exposure and cancer,” said Heather Patisaul, a
researcher at North Carolina State University who was not involved in the study. “They were careful to make the exposures human relevant, used cells derived from healthy humans and replicated physiological conditions seen in aging men.” Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in U.S. men. About 15 percent of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, according to the National Cancer Institute. BPA is used to make polycarbonate plastics and is found in in some paper receipts, liners of some food See BPA Page 18
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cans and dental sealants. More sures to BPA,” Steve Hentges, a than 90 percent of Americans representative of the American have traces in their bodies, and Chemistry Council, said in a previous studies suggest there is prepared statement. “universal fetal exposure.” “The [BPA] levels tested are Researchers led by a team more than 1,000 times higher from the University of Illinois at than typical human exposures,” Chicago implanted prostate stem he said. cells from deceased young men Prins said “that’s just not into mice. When the mice were true.” fed BPA by mouth for the first “Twenty minutes after expotwo weeks of life, 33 percent of sure the levels of BPA measured the stem cells had cancerous or in the blood of the animals that precancerous lesions later in life. were the hosts bearing the Forty-five percent of the cells transplants were exactly what that were exposed to BPA before we’re seeing measured in the and after mice implantation umbilical cord fluid of women,” developed precancerous or canPrins said, citing a 2013 study John Couse, a biologist in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, holds a sister of one of on California women. cerous lesions later. In comparithe new “sex-reversal” mice whose ovarian cells reverted to male, testis-like cells. The NIEHS laboratory son, only 12 percent of the mice now has ten females of the new strain. In addition to the BPA, all not exposed to BPA during the mice were given an estrogen development had cancer or preto simulate human male aging. cancerous lesions later in life. As men age, their estrogen levels rise. BPA acts as an estrogen, and previous research Men’s rising levels of estrogen are at least parthas linked elevated estrogen levels during pregly responsible for prostate cancer. Prins said the nancy to increased risk of prostate cancer in males. early-life exposure to BPA is sensitizing the prosAND PREVIOUS RESEARCH HAS LINKED “We know that stem cells help replenish our tate stem cells to estrogen, and the stem cells pass organs throughout life. We propose that if there is along this estrogen sensitivity to prostate tissues ELEVATED ESTROGEN LEVELS DURING exposure early in life to an estrogenic compound later in life. — such as BPA — it reprograms our stem cells,” Prins’ earlier work found that rats exposed to PREGNANCY TO INCREASED RISK OF said Gail Prins, a University of Illinois at Chicago BPA at human-relevant doses had adult prostates researcher and lead author of the study, which was that were more sensitive to developing cancer. PROSTATE CANCER IN MALES. published in the journal Endocrinology. Also, developmental BPA exposure was linked Although the cells were from deceased adults, to breast cancer in rats last year by Tufts by using regenerative stem cells that produce prosUniversity researchers, but the data did not reach tate tissues, the researchers said they were able to statistical significance, said Nicole Acevedo, a simulate developmental exposure. It is the latest postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University and addition to a growing body of research — called epithey’re exploring “the impact of BPA ... on human lead author of the study. Some rats exposed to low genetics — that has linked some chemicals to altered cells in a whole animal instead of a dish.” doses of BPA developed malignant tumors, while DNA sequencing in fetuses that can lead to diseases However, a representative of the chemical industry none of the non-exposed did. later in life. said that the model of implanting the stem cells into Brian Bienkowski is a staff writer for Environmental Patisaul said the new model cannot “perfectly rep- mice has not been established to be valid. The study Health News. licate human physiology,” but is advantageous because has “very limited relevance to real-life human expoRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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anadian-American novelist Deni Béchard, a recent resident of Breckenridge, has written two award-winning books and explored more than 50 countries. When he heard bonobos, our closest living relative alongside chimpanzees, are going extinct, he set out for the Congo to turn his writing abilities to examining the sole country where bonobos exist. In Empty Hands, Open Arms: The Race to Save Bonobos and Make Conservation Go Viral, Béchard pries into the foundations of a place wrought by war and home to extreme beauty (the secondlargest rain forest in the world is here) with a personal desire to tell an empathetic story. He says he is sick of reading books about imminent doom. His first exposure to bonobos came before the wild forests of the Congo, with American primatologist Sue SavageRumbaugh at the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary. Savage-Rumbaugh was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people for her success with sign language studies with bonobos. A technology she developed allows bonobos to communicate
with a keyboard of lexigrams, producing 120 separate utterances using 12 different symbols. Those talents have been demonstrated by a bonobo named Kanzi on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Béchard notes how strange it is that bonobos are becoming media darlings, as they are being exterminated in the Congo. Generally, conservation movements consider any public awareness to be a positive. The average person still cocks their head at the mention of a bonobo, even though we share more than 98 percent of our genetics. Recent studies provide evidence to suggest we shared a common ancestor as recently — relative to an evolution time scale — as one million years ago. But Béchard wonders if their portrayal in Western media might be a bit too kitschy. They swing safely from trees in glossy photographs. Rarely do we pause to consider their larger plight. It is difficult to collect reliable population estimates partly because this creature learned to stay elusive for its own survival by taking refuge in dense forests, and partsee BONOBOS Page 22
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ly because organizations often skew estimates to benefit their projects. Regardless of whether our primate cousins remain in numbers as low as 5,000 or at a peak of 50,000, their future is precarious at best. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List classifies them as facing extinction. Threats include poaching, war, habitat degradation due to logging and agriculture, and a general lack of information about the need of bonobo groups. The biggest threat to their survival comes from bushmeat hunting done by those living inside the country. A hunted, skinned bonobo, eerily resembling the human body, draped over a stick for sale, may not make the cover of National Geographic, for obvious reasons. But as gruesome as this image may appear, Béchard considers the circumstances that led up to it. The Second Congo War, 1998 to 2003, claimed more than 5 million lives and left the country unstable and with a lack of infrastructure and marketplaces. Turning to the wild for meat, then smoking it to last long distances, offers an adaptive solution and fulfills the legitimate need of hunger. Béchard, even on this aspect, is reluctant to blame or vilify. Instead, Béchard’s latest book provides depth, context and clarity into the rich history of a country enmeshed with a species facing peril and some harsh realities about the global conservation effort. While he jokes that his book won’t single-handedly save the world, he does have concrete missions. “My mission as an author is to educate people, to generate empathy to step outside of their bubbles and understand another creature is going to extinct — 22 January 16, 2014
and one that shares many of the qualities we recognize as human: empathy, a strong sense of family, deep emotion and intelligence,” he says. The most dire estimate predicts all bonobos will be extinct within 50 years. “I think there is no question that a great deal of their habitat will disappear with more plantations, more mining, more logging,” he says. “But groups will survive. I think as far as perseverance goes, we don’t have a choice. You give up or you do something. We have to look for solutions and engage in public debate. Each member in our society has to decide the degree to involve themselves. My dream for this book would be that someone says to me, I became a conservationist because I read this book in college.” The book, in which he chronicles one of the biggest conservation efforts underway, focuses largely on the Congolese people — he tells how their livelihood and participation is crucial to furthering any conservation aim. “I think that one of my goals is to make Western readers not see themselves as the saviors of the world, that we have the solutions,” he says. “So many of our projects fail because we don’t recognize the intelligence of local people or engage with it. We diminish it and try to get them to go along with our plans.” Béchard writes that “the Western view of the Congo remains limited by colonial mythologies: the great river, the dark heart of Africa, notions that Cold War rivalries, mineral exploitation, and the recent wars have kept alive in our minds. The Congo has come to signify savagery, and hearing its name, many shudder without quite knowing why.” That angle, he says, is reinforced by
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gonzo journalists who often emphasize the brutality and abuse of the Congo. He acknowledges the hardships and repercussions of a nation devastated by war, but bad things happen everywhere, he reminds us. When he chose to embed himself in the issue of bonobo conservation, he was less interested in pointing fingers and more focused on finding solutions. What he found was a small nonprofit, the Bonobo Conservation Initiative, or BCI, based in Washington, D.C., and the Congo. To date, the BCI has worked to protect more habitat and to stabilize local communities than any other existing non-governmental organization (NGO) in the Congo. The BCI works with local Congolese leaders to address root causes of unemployment
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and poverty. The solution may seem simple and rational, but in fact, what is referred to as collaborative conservation is rare in large-scale conservation organization operations. BCI built an inclusive model by inviting people from rain forest villages to participate. Béchard writes, “They take into account their histories, cultures, and needs in order to foster grassroots conservation movements.” By understanding another culture’s values, he says, the BCI’s conservation model becomes self-replicating. A tenet of his book is how to make conservation go viral, something he doesn’t think will be achieved by a colonial model — that is to say, large non-governmental organizations competing with one another to establish reserves Boulder Weekly
all the while ignoring local leadership potential. “The greatest solutions and the greatest allies we can have in these struggles to protect the environment are local people — and they are driven and compassionate about conservation — more collaborative and creative in their solutions than we are,” Béchard says. “We need to learn from them and recognize them as equals.” It demands a great deal of tact on the part of any organization attempting to work with the Congolese people. The recent war, and the repeated insult of colonization, leave many natives skeptical of outsiders, at best. Building trust and mutual respect is key. Not every habitat can be set aside as an animal reserve; some have villages nearby. But Béchard says there’s a way to work around that. “If you create an educated culture with mutual benefits of living next to bonobos, then they get benefits by protecting them,” he says. Benefits like a boosted economy when researchers and tourists visit. A hundred U.S. dollars can provide schooling for many families for up to a year. “Larger NGOs tend to cannibalize smaller NGOs — they come in with big government money and absorb the small projects that are much more personal and work because they are built around human relations,” he says. When a section of forest is put under the care of an organization and it has not built a relationship with the people living closest, he says, then when war breaks out or funding ceases, leaders brought in from other regions, or the foreign representatives of the NGO, leave. If local leaders have built their reputation on the local reserve and their life around it, they have an incentive to stay and defend it. That’s not to say traditional NGOs are not achieving admirable goals. Many well-cared-for forest reserves have resulted — but Béchard would like to see the underlying perspective of these organizations shift. “If NGOs collaborated across the country, I can almost say without question that they wouldn’t be wasting millions of dollars competing with each other,” he says. “There is so much that slows us down because of our territorial nature. The way bonobos behave can be a lesson.” Béchard, who has spent time with bonobos in research facilities and in the wild, says he thinks there is a line between what we can understand based on scientists’ field observations and what we learn by living with another Boulder Weekly
ON THE BILL: Deni Béchard will speak about and sign his new book, Empty Hands, Open Arms: The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at the Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
creature and sharing its daily life. He wasn’t expecting to gain profound insights into humanity from interacting with bonobos. He devotes a few chapters to this unexpected discovery — how the social structure, one of sharing and relative peace, stands to shed light on our own future.
“If you were to invite someone from another planet and say ‘OK, what makes a human a human?’ and we were written up in the intergalactic species, an observation might be: We fight over resources, we hoard resources,” Béchard observes. “Where there is a concentration of resources, there are high levels of peace, but where there is
adventure an imbalance, there is a high level of violence and fight for control. Bonobos share resources in all instances and are connected by all adult members in the group. They have aggression and violence, but it is restrained for common interest.” A strange irony, considering the very creatures exhibiting cohesive group dynamics are the ones we are competing against each other to save. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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hen Victor Galván’s parents brought him over to the United States from Mexico, he was just 8 months old. His parents are undocumented immigrants who hailed from Chihuahua, Mexico, but Galván, who speaks perfect English, grew up in the United States. In practically every sense, he’s American. Except, of course, for the fact that like his parents, he’s an undocumented resident, and he has spent most of his life watching his back, knowing that one wrong move could get him deported. He recounts one of the biggest scares he’s ever had, when, were it not for the discretion of a police officer, his future was suddenly up in the air.
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He was driving his wife, Ana Cristina Temu, a natural-born citizen, to work and was in slow traffic on the highway. With little warning, a car smashed into his rear fender, and they had to pull over. As a non-citizen, he couldn’t legally obtain a driver’s license, and he started to sweat. He was looking down the barrel of deportation. If the cop so chose, he could have run Galván’s name through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement database and arrested him on the spot. “I’m thinking, the police are going to show up, they’re going to ask me about my status, my license, why I don’t have a license, and fear sets in that I might have to prove my legal status,” Galván recalls. “They’d deport me. That just runs through my mind. Boulder Weekly
Fortunately, he just gives me a driving “We helped them write their own without a license ticket, but for so stories, autobiographical monologues, many people that’s not the case.” and they were very, very powerful, and He got lucky. But it was a close call. we thought it would be a great perforHis brother wasn’t so fortunate; he was mance to really move conversation,” deported a year-and-a-half ago, even Wilson says. “So we upped the theatrithough he was just two years older than cal power by weaving them into a uniVictor when he came to the United fied drama, and adding live music and States. He now has to find a life in photographs and really making it into a Mexico, a country as foreign to him as dramatic experience of what these it is to most other people living in the young people’s lives are like as undocuUnited States. mented members of our community.” “He tells us how hard it is to live The play starts out with Temu tellthere,” Galván says. “It’s a constant ing the story of getting rear-ended with struggle to keep work. The workforce is her husband, Galván, and the fear the so competitive. Everyone is looking for pair felt as the car hurdled towards work and it’s not sustainable.” them, when there was nothing they Galván’s story is a key part of Do could do to prevent it. The stage is You Know Who I Am, a theater performade to look like a street, and the story mance organized becomes a metaby Kirsten Wilson phor for overcomON THE BILL: Do You Know of Motus Theater. ing obstacles. Who I Am plays at the University The play stars “The whole Memorial Center on Monday, Jan. Temu, Galván, thing is about how 20. The show starts at 2 p.m. and is free. 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303and brothers Juan, [the students] move 492-6161. Oscar and Hugo forward,” Wilson Juarez. Besides says. “There’s no Temu, all are going back. There’s undocumented obstacle after obstaimmigrants who came over at a young cle put in front of these young people. age. During the play, they all tell their They’re moving forward with their stories of overcoming obstacles on their education and their lives. This whole paths to becoming contributing memthing is coming at them, this legislation bers of society. against undocumented immigrants, and The goal, Wilson says, is to start a there’s nothing they can do about it.” conversation in the community that will Galván received a scholarship eventually impact the push for immiaward from the city of Denver for gration reform. overcoming adversity before it was The way the system is now, Wilson yanked away after it was discovered he says, “We end up with these young was undocumented. He is now part of people who consider themselves the Deferred Action for Childhood American. … They’re a part of our Arrivals (DACA) program, a program school system, they’re a part of our created by a decree from President community, and yet they run into huge Barack Obama in 2012 after Congress obstacles graduating from high school failed to pass meaningful immigration where they can’t get a driver’s license reform. Basically, he gives his name, legally, they can’t hold a job legally, and address and other personal information yet they don’t know their country in to the federal government in exchange which they were born, most of them for a “deferred deportation” that lasts have never even visited that place two years. At the end of the two-year period, he will be eligible to renew for because they couldn’t legally get back. another two years. But if a Republican So they’re in a kind of purgatory that wins the White House in 2016, there’s takes away their hope and their initiano telling what the future could hold tive. Some of these young people are huge assets to their community, and we for Galván and the roughly 600,000 people who have applied for the proinsist on looking at them as problems.” gram. The show came about after the “They gave me a two-year work board of Motus Theater decided the permit, and hopefully we’ll be able to organization should focus on immigrarenew it in two years,” Galván says. tion issues. Wilson reached out to “But [the long-term future is] up in the Boulder County Legal Services to try air. … That’s why for me it’s so importo find immigrants willing to share tant that we pass another immigration their stories, and she was directed reform bill. towards an organization called “Temporarily, it’s really great relief Longmont Youth for Equality. There, knowing that we’re safe from the streets she met the students who would and that we’re able to provide for our become actors in the play. After they families,” Galván says. shared their stories, the idea for the Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com play came naturally. Boulder Weekly
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nlike the 20-something I overheard hand grenade, Spamalot has you covered on Pearl Street the other day and then some. Director Piper Lindsay exclaiming to her friends that she Arpan, who was part of the Broadway ON THE BILL: Monty Python’s Spamalot plays through March 1 was “literally shitting bricks” as she and national touring casts of Spamalot, at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 awaited a call or text from some also successfully incorporates some Arapahoe Ave. Tickets start at unnamed hottie she met at a recent party/rave/ updated jokes, including a reference or $38. For tickets or information, call 303-449-6000 or visit www. bash/hoedown/Burning Man, I know the diftwo to the newly legal nature of Marybouldersdinnertheatre.com ference between “literally” and “figuratively.” For Joe-Juan-a in the Centennial State. example, while my head figuratively explodes Anchored by a handful of Boulder’s when I hear semi-literate mall rats misuse the Dinner Theatre mainstays like Brian English language, in my more than a decade of Norber, Wayne Kennedy, Scott Beyette, Brian reviewing shows at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre I Jackson and Alicia Dunfee, the cast of Spamalot have literally never experienced a bad producis truly stellar. As Sir Dennis Galahad (I bet tion. you never knew his first name was Dennis), I can’t think of any other theater company Scott Severtson’s return to BDT is most welabout which that is true for me, and it speaks come. His understated style meshes perfectly volumes about the consistent quality of this with the material. Bob Hoppe, who has acted in Boulder institution. BDT has always made many BDT shows over the past few years, also great choices about which shows to produce, steals the spotlight at times with his not-sowhich actors to employ and which dishes to brave Sir Robin. serve (excepting the tragic removal of Bosco Following ably in the footsteps of such Sticks from the menu — bring them back!), but master thespians as Tim Curry and John since Michael Duran took over as the producO’Hurley, Wayne Kennedy brings his tradeing artistic director, BDT has elevated its game mark comic timing to the role of King on all levels. Its latest show, Monty Python’s Arthur. Another of my BDT favorites, Brian Spamalot, is a prime example. Most dinner theJackson, is dashing as Lancelot, sufficiently atres wouldn’t even think to stage this silly as one of the Knights of Ni and absoBroadway behemoth, let alone actually attempt lutely hilarious as the head of the French it, but like King Arthur and most of his guards. Scott Beyette dials it back to just the knights, BDT is not afeard. right level and plays a mean coconut as King If you consider yourself a Python fan — Arthur’s put-upon servant, Patsy. Seeing Monty, that is, rather than Hulk Hogan’s Brian Norber flouncing about in heavy24-inchers — Spamalot should be calling to you Even those unaware of the British comedy troupe’s work will laugh their bosomed drag as Galahad’s mother is a treat arses off during Monty Python’s Spamalot at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. like a fair maiden from a high castle tower. in and of itself. I won’t spoil the identity of Even if you’re unaware of or indifferent to the the actor who voices the part of God, but the legendary British comedy troupe, you’ll laugh your arse other Monty Python films. It’s a veritable comedic fact that BDT got such a legendary talent to take off at all the high and low comedy on display. As its cornucopia of Anglophilic fun. part in this show is beyond remarkable. extended moniker explains, Spamalot is “lovingly If you’re craving a visit to a French castle There wasn’t an open seat in the house the night I ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and manned by taunting guards, wish to witness the attended Spamalot, and I’m guessing that trend will conthe Holy Grail,” and while that is certainly true, it also extent of damage a series of flesh wounds can do to tinue, so get your tickets quickly. This show is so much incorporates some of the best Python bits, gags and a Black Knight, or hoping to see what happens fun it will blow you away. Figuratively, of course. songs from the Flying Circus television show and from when a killer bunny rabbit goes up against a holy Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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hen is forthcoming, so if I have Kristina to play a bunch of dives and Murray first shitty bars, I’m OK with started perthat,” she says. “As long as forming her it’s honest, as long as it’s real country/Americana songs and strong.” around Boulder County, The songs that make up there simply weren’t many Unravelin’ mostly blend people doing what she does. Americana with rock And to this day, country in inflections. The opening Boulder stands out like a song, “Smoke and Brown three-piece suit at a hoeWhiskey,” starts out with a down. rock-ish drum fill, while “Oh, it breaks my heart,” the second song, “I Can’t Murray says in a slight Recall,” is a fairly straightSouthern accent. “Thursday, forward honky-tonk numFriday and Saturday, I’m ber, complete with clinking searching every venue we piano, fiddle and lyrics have in Fort Collins and about drinking away heartLyons and Denver for anyache in a bar. “Half Empty” thing remotely close, and swings almost entirely to there’s definitely a handful the opposite side: a driving, of bands that I like to check powerful guitar riff anchors out, and I’m grateful for the song, leaving Murray’s those, but yeah, the lack of voice as the only thing country music or countrycountry about it. tinged rock is saddening.” Murray cites Loretta That said, when you hear Lynn, Lucinda Williams Murray’s rock-tinged take and Emmylou Harris as on country music, you think her primary muses, and she that she might have honed admires the storytelling her craft jamming someacumen of people like Guy Kristina Murray’s first time on stage was at Oskar Blues in Lyons in where in the clubs around Clark, Adam Carroll and 2009. her hometown of Atlanta, Hayes Carll. She mostly Ga., or perhaps at jam sesdips into her own experience to come up with lyrics — three sions in Clemson, S.C., where she went thing in a four-foot radius. songs on the album are about her to college. But Murray didn’t start per“So I had been practicing on a mic dad, who passed away recently — forming music until 2009, two years like that, and I remember at the Gram though she is working on a song after she moved to Parsons show they had about a meth ring down south. She Boulder. Her music is as the regular Shure SM58 ON THE BILL: local as organic, gluten[microphone],” which you has a handful of songs already written Kristina Murray and for her next album, which she is free granola. practically need to swalTwo-Hearted Jones After moving to low to use properly, “and I already planning to record. play Bohemian Biergarten on She’s gigging around town, but she Boulder in 2007, Murray was singing, like, five feet Thursday, Jan. 23. has her sights set beyond Boulder started playing in jam sesaway. No one could hear Matt Skinner Band County. She acknowledges that you sions and bluegrass picks anything I was singing; I also plays. Show starts at 9 p.m. 2017 can’t make it by just staying a local around town — ones at was so nervous.” 13th St., Boulder, musician, and if she could she would Oskar Blues, Southern Murray has come a 720-328-8328. drop her full-time job and hit the road Sun, Foolish Craig’s, long way since then, and touring. Albums on the Hill — and she certainly knows how “I could hate it,” she says, and starts people at the jams soon to use a microphone now. encouraged her to write Late last year she released to laugh. “I could totally hate it. But I don’t know if sitting in front of a comsongs and perform solo. Her first time her first album of 11 original songs, puter for eight hours is something I’d on stage was at a 2009 Gram Parsons Unravelin’, and she has been gigging tribute concert at Oskar Blues in locally to support it ever since. She got a rather be doing. And I think if I don’t Lyons. Her boyfriend was in a blueslew of good press right after the release, do it, I’m going to hate myself when I’m grass band, the type that played in a and she is looking forward to taking her older. ... I mean, as cliche as it sounds, you only live once. Why not?” semicircle around a single, vertical musical career to the next level. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com microphone designed to pick up every“All I know is that due-paying time Boulder Weekly
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Open Mic. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
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K.C. Groves and Greg Blake. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Carol Frazier. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Marrakech Express. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Silent Bear. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.
Collective Soul. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Men’s Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Enriching Elements, 2712 28th St, Boulder, 303-515-7974.
Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Hezekiah Goode. 8 p.m. The No Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.
Naive Melodies. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Odd Meter. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Film Screening: Drop City. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
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Friday, January 17: Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy. 10 p.m. The Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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Exploring the lives of 21st-century women, MFA candidate Rachel Oliver dives into what would happen if women today let go of their multiple responsibilities and cultural expectations, and let everything settle on its own. This performance encompasses dance and film while University of Colorado Boulder students unravel the expectations of women in today’s world.
Out Boulder Third Thursday Happy Hour. 5 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-499-5777.
Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, 303-668-7355.
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Friday, January 17: Settle. 7:30 p.m. Black Box Theater, ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
Getting Started with Final Cut Pro X. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
With members from all over the world, this folk band resides in Lafayette and recently released its album Back to Life. The lead singer, Esther, wrote the songs while pulling from her experiences with illness, depression, poverty and more. The show is guaranteed to move you with Esther’s powerful performance and uplifting messages.
music Saturday, January 18: Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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PAPER/ PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through June 21.
Berlin Graphics 1928–1938 — Artist Herbert Bayer. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 23. The Circle Limit Design Series. Artist Ben Van Dusen. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1000. Through Jan. 31.
Left to Right, Top to Bottom features the work of Denver artist Joel Swanson and is showing from Jan. 17 to March 30 at MCA Denver.
Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Jan. 26. Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. Foto Flood — Works by Boulder High School students. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26. Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Jan 17. to March 30.
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Narrative Forms at the WESTend — Features the paintings and sculpture of Damon Mohl and the small metal work of Jessica Mohl. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Jan. 10 through March 1.
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Pattern: Follow the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Feb. 9. Plein Air Landscape Design — Artist Lamya Deeb. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Jan. 31. Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Studio Spotlight — Features the work of Rick Stoner, Dwayne Wolf and Martha Williams. Firehouse Gallery, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb. 2. Yellowstone: A Project for the Nation — Artist Thomas Moran. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 19.
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Friday, January 17 music
Janine Gastineau and Her Rhythm. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
The Bell Hours. 9 p.m. The No Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.
The Jeff Brinkman Band. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Bill McKay Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.
Katie Rose and Dustin Moran. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303317-5522.
Bonnie Lowdermilk. 8 p.m. Sun Rose Café, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
The Nick Hexum Quintet. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Boombox. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Ragged Union. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Chick Corea & Bela Fleck. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.
Smack Thompson. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
The Yawpers. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Deja Blu. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Eef and The Blues Express. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Passport to Paris. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb. 9.
Esther Sparks & The Whiskey Remedy. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733. Friday Afternoon Concert & Art Show. 1:30 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 901 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8411. Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Gidion’s Knot. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Settle. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre at CUBoulder, 1201 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577.
Saturday, January 18 music Ambiance Music Duo. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Aural Elixir Piano Poetry & Siren Song. 7:30 p.m. Amante Coffee, 1035 Walnut St., Boulder,
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theater Aida — Presented by Ignite Theatre. Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 720-362-2697. Through Jan. 19. Dial “M” For Murder. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-7725200. Jan. 17 through Feb. 1.
Danny Shafer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.
Gidion’s Knot — Presented by Square Product Theatre and Goddess Here Productions. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Jan. 18.
Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Jekyll & Hyde. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through
Jan. 26. Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through March 1. Gidion’s Knot — Presented by Square Product Theatre and Goddess Here Productions. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Jan. 18.
Dial ‘M’ for Murder runs through Feb. 1 at the Longmont Theatre Company.
Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through March 1.
Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-3390767. Dinner Music. 6 p.m. Fresh Thymes Eatery, 2500 30th St., #101, Boulder, 303-955-7988. Forever In Blue Jeans. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Hatters Blend Birthday Bash. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder. The Hill Combo. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. The Lantern Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Laughing Hands. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. My Blue Sky. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397. Purple Squirrel. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Pluma Varia. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303317-5522. Robotic Pirate Monkey. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Stephanie Margolis. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303530-0642. School of Rock. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Steven Manshel Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s,1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Wandering Natives. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
events 7th Annual Snowshoe Fun-Fit Hike — A snowshoe hike from the Justice Center to Brainard Lake. 8:30 a.m. Call 303-550-3491 to register. Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Gidion’s Knot. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Hatters Blend Birthday Bash. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder. Radiate. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Settle. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre at CUBoulder, 1201 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577.
Sunday, January 19 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s,1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. see EVENTS Page 36
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EVENTS from Page 35 Ben Hanna. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Billy The Mountain Bluegrass Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.
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Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1 Boulder Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-449-0884.
Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-3390767.
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Do You Know Who I Am? 2 p.m. University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4926161. Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Old’s Cool Rock. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s,1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.
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The Hatters Blend Birthday Bash. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder.
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Chinese New Year Celebration. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-666-9555.
Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
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Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Craig Cornett and the Phast and Wreckless. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Radiate. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Mar 30 - Los Lobos & more
Dan King Appreciation Day. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
Kenny Loggins and the Blue Sky Riders. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.
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Dinner Music. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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The authors of The Syria Dilemma will be at the Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, Jan. 22.
Settle. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre at CUBoulder, 1201 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577.
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Tuesday, January 21 Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Faculty Tuesday: String Faculty. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352. Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Piano Jazz Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Seth Phillips. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300
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Thursday, January 16 Until They Have Faces — With Joy Redstone, Elle Page and David Page. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Until They Have Faces: Stories of Recovery, Resilience, and Redemption is a collection of profile essays about roughly 50 homeless people in Boulder County, complete with portrait photographs by Niwot photographer David Page. Written by 35 local contributors, the profiles detail the lives of local homeless people, their stories and how they got to where they are today. The people profiled range from chronic drug addicts to one-time tech entrepreneurs bankrupted by medical costs. Joy Redstone, the former executive director at Bridge House, will be joined by David Page and Elle Page, who compiled the book. Sales from the book, which is $38, will benefit Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow, Bridge House and Boulder Shelter for the Homeless.
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Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Kort McCumber Duo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Real-World SEO Hands-on Intensive. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Martian Acres. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465. Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Tuesday Trivia. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.
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Stone Soup. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
events Introduction to HTML. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
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Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Orientation to family child care workshop. 6 p.m. CYF Building, 2160 Spruce St., 303-441-1912.
Brews & Tunes. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Trivia. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Deep String Theory. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,
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reel to reel American Hustle
it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Rated R. At Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
When the FBI decides to recruit con artists to infiltrate the Jersey mob and crooked powerbrokers, things get interesting in a hurry in this well-acted film starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
When a young man starts behaving oddly, as in possessed with evil demons, family and friends step in to help and things get scary. Rated R. At Century and Twin Peaks.
Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) has traded his old anchor job in for a modern cable news position. He is joined by his original team: Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), street reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports reporter Champ Kind (David Koechner). If you laughed at the original, you’ll laugh at this one as well. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
THE NUT JOB
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August: Osage County Oscar regulars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Sam Shepard lead an extraordinary cast in this play-turned-film about a family reunion in Oklahoma that none of us will ever forget. Don’t miss it. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Bettie Page Reveals All With her razor-sharp wit and Tennessee twang, the world’s greatest pin-up model and cult icon recounts her life in intimate detail. An abundance of provocative photos and film clips help uncover her enigmatic and irresistible personality while telling the story of how her free expression overcame government witch hunts to help launch America’s sexual revolution. At Boedecker and SIE Film Center. — Boedecker Theater
The Book Thief This film tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a new family in World War II Germany. Young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) embarks upon a journey marked by discovery, courage, friendship — and the power to triumph over the most daunting obstacles. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Captain Phillips Tom Hanks gives a great performance as the captain of a freighter hijacked at sea by Somali pirates and held for ransom. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose freewheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Devil’s Due A newlywed couple experience a lost night on their honeymoon. When she turns up pregnant and starts acting all demonic and stuff, he figures out that something has gone terribly wrong. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Fargo Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. A Coen Brothers classic. At Boedecker. — B oedecker Theater
Frozen When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the reindeer and a comical snowman that has trouble keeping his head, set out to end the spell. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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The Nut Job 3D This animated film is an action-packed comedy starring a mischievous squirrel named Surly (voiced by Will Arnett). Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Philomena The Great Beauty Gorgeously photographed in Rome and Tuscany, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) is a dazzling, lyrical and at times surreal dramatic comedy, like a modernday La Dolce Vita. The magnetic Toni Servillo plays dapper journalist Jep Gambardella, slick and soulful, who has been a permanent fixture in Rome’s literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. When his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself taking stock of his life. At SIE Film Center.
Gravity Astronauts played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney get stranded in space when a spacewalk goes terribly wrong. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Her Only Spike Jonze could come up with a comedy flick wherein a shy writer (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his computer’s sexy-voiced operating system. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Another entertaining installment in the Lord of the Rings series. This one has a giant dragon guarding treasure. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
The Human Scale Fifty percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, by 2050 it will be 80 percent. Cities have become the primary human habitat, and if we are to make them sustainable and livable we must re-imagine the very foundations of modern urban planning. Rather than examining buildings and urban structures themselves, visionaries study the in-between spaces of urban life: the places where people meet, interact, live and behave. Stunningly photographed, Director Andreas Dalsgaard’s film travels around the world to explore how Jan Gehl and other like-minded designers, city planners and urban activists have begun to transform cities as diverse as New York, Beijing, Christchurch and London. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Hunger Games: Catching Fire Jennifer Lawrence dazzles in this adventure sequel. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Inside Llewyn Davis The Coen brothers craft this story of a homeless young folk singer trying to create a name for himself in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. Rated R. At Mayan and Century.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Based on author Tom Clancy’s character, this action
thriller follows Jack (Chris Pine) from 9/11 through Afghanistan as he tries to thwart a terrorist plot. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Jewels: The Bolshoi Ballet LIVE
The unparalleled Dame Judi Dench brings to life the story of a woman who gave away the child she conceived out of wedlock for adoption in the United States and her search, decades later, to find that son with the help of a BBC reporter. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Esquire and Chez Artiste.
Inspired by brilliant precious stones, George Balanchine exquisitely choreographed Jewels in 1967 as three disparate parts, each with its own composer and striking beauty. The ballet serves as a tribute the three cities — Paris, New York and St. Petersburg, all of which carved the elegance, aesthetic and style of Balanchine. Emeralds, honoring the French romantic school, reveals the most delicate of movements, while Rubies reflects the lightning-fast pace of New York in a jazzy, witty and sharp attack. Diamonds is an homage to the opulence and regality of Balanchine’s native Russia. Music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Ride Along
Kill Your Darlings
Ben Stiller stars in this film version of author James Thurber’s classic. It’s a tale of a man who escapes his ordinary life by day-dreaming his way into fantasy worlds filled with adventure. But when his real world gets threatened, he and his co-worker, played by Kristen Wiig, get caught up in a wilder adventure than Mitty ever could have imagined. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poet’s early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving Ginsberg, his handsome classmate Lucien Carr, and fellow Beat author William Burroughs. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick, David Cross, and Michael C. Hall co-star. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Legend of Hercules Kellan Lutz stars as Hercules, the mythical son of Zeus. The super-strong half-god, half-man kicks some gladiator butt in this action film. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Lone Survivor If you still have the stomach for such tales, this film finds Mark Wahlberg telling the story of a group of Navy SEALs on a covert mission gone wrong trying to kill a big-shot Taliban operative. The SEALs get ambushed in Afghanistan. The film is based on a bestselling book. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
MisLEAD: America’s Secret Epidemic. The Dairy Center for the Arts will screen a 94-minute rough-cut of this film that has been showing around the country over the past several months. The free screening will be at The Dairy Center for the Arts on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m., followed by a discussion of lead poisoning issues with Tamara Rubin, who directed the film. Everyone who attends this free screening will also be given a free lead-paint test kit for their home. At Boedecker.
Nebraska
Kevin Hart and Ice Cube star in this latest tale about misfit cops as partners. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Saving Mr. Banks Inspired by a true story, this film tells the tale of how Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) was finally able to convince the very difficult writer P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to allow him to bring her book Mary Poppins to the big screen. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Selfish Giant Set in a gloomy but picturesque region of Northern England, two teenage boys skip school and find themselves more useful and interested in making money by finding scrap metal. The boys are increasingly encouraged by the scrapyard owner and motivated to help their poor families, but everyone learns how the pursuit of money, even with good intent, can lead the selfish and the naïve to a tragic ending. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. Rated R. At Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Jean Dujardin in this adaptation of 1990s banker gone bad Jordan Belfort’s memoir. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square. Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE Film Center in Denver: Blue is the Warmest Color; All is Lost; A Touch of Sin; Pink Famingos; The Armstrong Lie; Frances Ha; God Loves Uganda; A Winter of Cyclists; I am Divine; Female Trouble.
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he most laughable part of Her isn’t the complex, sophisticated romantic relationship between a man and his software operating system; it’s the high-waisted, Clint Eastwood-esque pants everybody wears. Forget flying cars; just promise us a future where we don’t have to unzip to scratch our belly buttons. To be fair, this silly fashion is a logical extension of the oversized, lensless glasses and various goofy-ass accessories that define hipster-chic, which actually speaks to what makes Her so remarkable. To borrow a phrase from director Spike Jonze’s good friend, Kanye West, the film manages to “pop a wheelie on the zeitgeist,” using near-future sci-fi to draw stylish attention to the present moment, when human interaction seems to be evolving. Joaquin Phoenix is Theodore, a mustachioed dweeb whose job is writing beautiful love letters for other people to give to people. Good lord is that depressing, if you think about it. You want sadder still? Theodore’s wife (Rooney Mara) is divorcing him, causing him Instagram-style flashbacks of the cutest, cuddliest, sexiest memories all day. Dude needs a partner or a hobby — fast. Along comes Samantha (Scarlet Johansson), an artificially intelligent software operating system (OS). If someone isn’t working on a mash-up between Terminator and Her, then the Internet has failed, as these systems keep evolving in scary ways humans can’t predict. Samantha and Theodore fall in love. Real love. Deep love. In a conversation with his newly single and human friend Amy (Amy Adams), we discover that he isn’t alone; other people are dating their OSs, too. In fact, some people are dating other Boulder Weekly
people’s OSs. This leads to a final act that uses science fiction conceits to drive home a profound truth. Just what that “profound truth” is will kind of vary person-to-person, however. Some will see Her as an indictment of what we’ve done to ourselves by digitizing human interaction. Others will choose instead to focus on the hopeful concept that every time we love, no matter how we do it, it helps change the person we are. There’s more than that though, as Jonze urges us to revise the one constant in all our relationships: ourselves. Phoenix is breathtaking. He gets more attention for gnashing and spazzing, for violent outbursts like in The Master or drug-fueled depression in Walk the Line, but this is more impressive. One wrong step by him, and Her would have been an unintentional laugh riot. Johansson is equally remarkable. Saying her appearance-free work here is her best since Lost in Translation feels like an insult until you see it … or hear it, you get the idea. Her wasn’t as fantastically profound emotionally as the similarly toned Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It lopes a bit in the middle when you want it to run. If you bought the premise initially, the trailer pretty much spells out all the emotions you’ll have. Still, it’s one of the most original relationship movies in years, and will leave you reflecting on the global evolution of love as well as your own individual progress. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Justin Lee, co-owner of J&L Distilling Company in Boulder, creates a variety of cocktails using spirits distilled at the 4843 Pearl St. tasting room location.
S
eth Johnson and Justin Lee were both University of Colorado graduate students at the same time, studying physics and chemical engineering, respectively. But that’s not where they met. They met as members of the Boulder Home Brew Club, where the duo found they’d both been hobby distilling since the ’90s. After federal laws changed six years ago, dropping licensing costs from averages of $50,000$60,000/year to $1,000/year, rates more feasible for smaller distilleries, Johnson and Lee decided to go into business together, creating J&L Distilling in Boulder. But it turned out to be a lengthy venture. Though they started planning the distillery in 2005, they weren’t able to find the perfect spot for seven years. In May of 2012, J&L took over its new space at 4843 Pearl St., getting their permit to operate in November of the same year. It took nearly another year until their official labels were approved. J&L finally started selling bottles and operating its tasting room in June of 2013. It currently produces three spirits, SNO Vodka, SNO Gin and FYR — a cinnamon liqueur in the European style. They say that what sets their spirits apart is that they are fermented and distilled from sugarcane molasses, producing a cleaner, smoother, purer end product. “Sugarcane molasses is a superfood for yeast, which turns sugar into ethanol — i.e. fermentation — and when you keep the yeast happy, it will produce less of the congeners,” Lee says. Congeners is a fancy scientific term for the other substances that are produced during fermentation, substances like propanol, glycols and ethyl acetate, which a high-quality producer definitely wants to reduce. This is what helps the end product taste clean. “There’s a huge focus on craft distilling right now,
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but distillation is a science. You have to understand both sides of things,” Lee says. “We’re focused on the science and the art to perfect the craft.” Science is a key background component for another local distiller, Ted Palmer. “I’ve been distilling since I was 10 years old, when I began learning in a garage in south Denver with my grandfather,” Palmer says. “I watched him do it, and it was like alchemy.” When Palmer later studied chemistry, microbiology and botany, his higher education reinforced the hands-on education he was getting from family two
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generations before him. Using a hand-grinder, a Spanish copper still and American oak barrels, Palmer takes the art of the craft to heart. Palmer’s distillery, Roundhouse Spirits in Boulder, was the sixth micro-distillery license in the state once the laws changed, making it the oldest in Boulder County. The lower licensing fees didn’t just allow small distillers like Palmer to get in the game initially, but also let him invest more in his business itself, making a better space and procuring higher-quality staff and ingredients for a better product. That has translated into a demand that is already straining the 5,000-square-foot space Roundhouse Spirits operates out of. Its four craft spirits — Roundhouse Gin, Imperial Barrel Aged Gin, Corretto Coffee Liqueur and their limited production Pumpkin King Cordial — are in high demand across the United States, and it’s also exporting to Italy, while also in talks with potential clients in Japan, India and Thailand. It took Palmer three years to develop the recipe for the pumpkin cordial, and the process to make it is a special one. Made using organic Baby Bear pumpkins from Boulder’s Munson Farms, they are roasted the afternoon they’re harvested. The pumpkin then soaks in gin for three weeks, pumpkin pie spices are added, see DISTILLERIES Page 44
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dance floor and several interior murals. Slotted Spoon, café|bar Breakers is at the southeast corner of and Hideaway Kitchen + Pearl Street Fourth and Main, and will be holding a grand Bar and more. staple Hapa The event runs from 2:30 opening par-tay on Friday, Jan. 17. If you go, Sushi made the you probably shouldn’t mention that whole to 5 p.m. with early entry at national press bit about planning to pay for college by hus2 p.m. for VIPs. Tickets are last week with a tling pool. It’s sort of, well, “illegal.” available online at www. made-for-viral bourbonandbaconfest. marketing camcom and cost $45 for paign showcasSHOUTING BAM FOR A GOOD CAUSE normies, or $85 if you feel ing a menu full A new celebrity chef series that will run the need to avoid the rabof sushi and pot through the end of February started up last ble for the first 30 minutes. pairings, such week in Lafayette. Pro-tip: Make sure to as Pakistani Every Friday of the series, the Indian get, like, Kush with Peaks Bar and Grill will super-high Pakalolo Shrimp or blue bring in a hot new spatulabeforedream with katsu curry. slinger to make the menu hand to “Do you prefer a nice sing. And there are some maximize sit-down restaurant to the serious names on the list, both the Taco Bell drive-through including Emeril “BamHapa Sushi made national news with bourbon when the munchies hit? Bam” Lagasse, who will be and the Then do we have the place its pot-pairing menu press release. making Asian braised beef bacon, for you.” wrote Gawker. short ribs on jasmine rice, and to give Gawker someThe menu was a joke, of course, which is and James Beard himself, thing to write about that good because while we here at BW experiwho kicked the series off mented with pairing at a college party once, week. with pork chops in balsamic and the results of our dimebag-calamari red wine reduction with all brownies were a little too trippy for their own the side dishes fit to mastiLONGMONT IN THE CORNER good. cate. POCKET This week’s guest is Hey kids, did you miss Giada De Laurentiis, who B IS FOR BLOCKED ARTERIES out on a college scholarship will be doing stuffed shells How’s your heartburn doing? Mellowing and find yourself in need of with arrabbiata sauce, aruout? Not on our watch. Pack your Rolaids a way to pay for college? gula salad with lemon vinand get thee to the McNichols Civic Center Don’t worry. Just pay your aigrette and herb Italian Building in Denver on Saturday, Jan. 25 for way through school by hus- Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse bread. Yummers. the Bourbon and Bacon Fest and get that tling pool at the newly Dinners are $20 per perpuppy roaring like Godzilla again in no opened Breakers in son, with $5 of each meal going to the Sister time. Longmont. Carmen Community Center, a local food In case you’re wondering, the Bourbon & The 9,400-square-foot space is decked Bacon Fest is pretty much exactly what it out with eight pool tables, six of them full-size, charity. Reservations for the series must be made sounds like: lots of barrel-aged corn liquor and has been fully done up with $300,000 by noon the day before by calling 303-666and pork candy. There will be samples from worth of renovations. It now seats 270 and is distilleries like Buffalo Trace, Larceny, Evan rocking an old family recipe for pizza and 9597. Williams and more, alongside tasty pig from calzones. Work is also underway to finish up a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Tiffin’s India Cafe 2416 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder 303-442-2500
Indian street food on a budget by Grace Boyle
Susan France
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he word “tiffin” is slang for lunch or a light meal in England. It originated in British India when the Indian custom took over the British tradition of afternoon tea by instead, enjoying a light meal or lunch, for the afternoon meal. Tiffin’s in Boulder pays homage to the idea of enjoying authentic, southern Indian street-food, and has been doing so since it opened in August 2011. Opened by Justin Patel, who hails from Gujrat, India, the space is small, simple, with gleaming colors of bright red, burnt orange and yellow walls dotted with Indian artwork and photographs. Matching its laid-back and non-excessive environment, Tiffin’s is tucked away in a corner of the Arapahoe Village Shopping Center on Arapahoe and Folsom. When Tiffin’s opened two years ago, its focus was solely on vegetarian food common in southern India. This year, they’ve expanded their menu by also offering meat and, notably, some new northern Indian dishes. To contrast the two styles, southern Indian dishes are more heavily influenced by rice and coconut, and the dishes have higher water content and intense spices, whereas northern Indian — the Indian food most consumers are more familiar with eating — are often heavier, thicker and creamier. A server on staff said they can still
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make almost anything on the menu vegan or vegetarian. Orders are taken in back at the cash register, and customers are given a number for their table. Since Tiffin’s doesn’t have a liquor license, a refrigerated case sports drinks like chai, Izze, Fanta and Coke, mango lassi, as well as gulab jamun — a traditional Indian dessert akin to doughnut balls that are soaked in syrup. The owners are usually present, milling about the restaurant, ensuring quality control, bringing guests their freshly prepared food or chatting warmly with regulars. Real winners are Tiffin’s lunch combinations, which are an impressive bang for your buck. Lunch, served from 11:30
a.m. to 3 p.m., offers three tiered curry specials written up on a board in the restaurant. You can choose one curry plus rice for $5.95, two curries plus rice for $6.95 or three curries plus rice for $7.95. All three are a steal for the portions you’re receiving. The spicy lamb vindaloo or the dal makhani (a vegetarian lentil curry cooked with spices) are standout offerings based on their vibrant spice and consistency. You can add on plain naan or roti for $1 each during this lunch special. You also can’t go wrong with the samosa chat as a starter dish to share. It comes with two pastry dumplings, filled with soft curried vegetables and topped with ginger-tomato sauce, garbanzo
noodles, chutney, fresh cilantro, red onion and garbanzos. Alternatively, if you’re looking for a vegan appetizer, try the idli sambar, which comes with three lentil cakes dipped into spicy toor dal soup. The rest of the menu is composed of curries (meat and vegetarian), tandoori kabobs, biryanis (basmati rice sautéed with vegetables or your choice of meat) and a variety of dosas, which is a paperthin rice and lentil crepe stuffed with your preference of vegetables, spiced potatoes, onion sabiji and/or cheese. In truth, I was slightly disappointed by Tiffin’s foray into North Indian cuisine, as it was once so niche by offering only southern Indian dishes, a move that helped it stand out from the other Indian restaurants in town. Luckily you can still find those traditional southern Indian dishes that its foundation was built on. Nonetheless, their food is steadfast, the prices are low, and even though there are no frills they hold true to the tiffin afternoon enjoyment, with decidedly lighter street-style comfort food that delights the palate. Go on, enjoy your tiffin. Tiffin’s is open from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 9 p.m. on Sunday, and closed on Monday. They also offer take-out and delivery. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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it’s filtered twice, and then sugar is added. A full pound of pumpkins goes into each 375 mL bottle. It makes for an exceptionally smooth and strongly fall-flavored cordial. After using 5,000 pounds of pumpkins last year alone, Roundhouse has already contracted two full fields of pumpkins from Munson Farms for this year’s production. He says the high quality and intense coffee flavor of his Corretto Coffee Liqueur is due to his use of high-quality coffee, which he gets from another local source — The Unseen Bean in Boulder. While most distillers want the flavor J&L Distilling Company produces three spirits, SNO Vodka, residue from the SNO Gin and FYR. whiskey, brandy, rum or other spirits that have been stored in the barrels of 1907, he traveled with a steamer before, Palmer prefers to age his trunk containing the family’s potato Imperial Barrel Aged Gin in new vodka recipe tucked into its lining, oak barrels for the requisite 10 though he didn’t even know it was months. there. It wouldn’t be discovered for 50 “So many barrels aren’t cleaned years, after Pete’s passing. The recipe properly, and that can introduce mold,” his family found in that trunk became he says. “We don’t want the possibility the basis for 303 Vodka, the flagship of that in our products.” product for Viezbicke’s Boulder The maturing of spirits in oak — Distillery. whether in new oak, or aged — is fasciBoulder Distillery also produces 303 nating. When it’s warm, the spirit Whiskey to supply the pleasant burn of absorbs into the wood, and when it’s whiskey — considered the father of cool, it extracts back into the barrel, classic cocktails — essential to timebringing with it the flavor characterishonored ones like the manhattan, old tics of the wood, like vanilla, butterfashioned and boulevardier. American scotch and caramel. The 1 percent to 2 Indians referred to it as “firewater,” and percent of the liquid that evaporates is that’s as close to an accurate description called the Angel’s Share, and that evap- as you can get for it. oration also helps to concentrate the Distillation dates back to the 700s flavor. and is credited to the Arabs. The proThere are many specific laws surcess itself, shrouded in secrecy, wasn’t rounding container types and the length divulged until 1286 by a Montpelier of time that spirits are aged. For examUniversity professor. ple, cognac can only be aged in oak Like bitters, spirits have been used casks from wood from the Troncais and as medicine since their inception. But Limousin forests in France. The United it’s taken clever distillers and craft disStates requires straight whiskey to be tillers to find ways to make spirits that taste great too. stored in new, charred white oak for a And there’s no shortage of clever minimum of two years. Bourbons must distillers in the region. With other age in new American oak. There’s another micro-distiller play- noted local craft distillers like Leopold’s in Denver and Dancing Pines in er in Boulder, but it’s rooted more in Loveland, we are nearly as spoiled along history than in science or tax law. When Boulderite Steve Viezbicke’s the Front Range with craft spirits as we are with craft beer. grandfather Pete emigrated to the Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com United States from Poland in the fall Boulder Weekly
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ross-promotion is good marketing, something the folks down at West Flanders Brewing in Boulder are clearly trying to take advantage of with a newly released American style porter, Recreational Smoke. “Many of our customers have told us they wanted to be able to enjoy recreational smoke here at our brewpub,” head brewer Brian Lutz said in a press release. “In light of recent events, we decided the time was right for us to make that happen.” Recreational Smoke is an Americanstyle porter made with beechwoodsmoked malts the brewery claims has notes of, ahem, “brownies.” Keeping to the theme, they’re also selling it by the ounce. If you’d like to ditch the smoke, but maintain the dark and snackalicious, there are plenty of other new brews to try around Boulder County this week. Twisted Pine Brewing is rocking a small batch of its Rhesus Peanut Butter Stout, which tastes about as delicious as it sounds, with a sweet, nutty flavor totally free of the odor of the monkey for which it is sort of named. At last report supplies of RPBS were running low, but another batch is on the way. You can also race out to Front Range Brewing in Lafayette and hope to catch the closing drops of the Vanilla Coconut Porter they started pouring this month. But when BW called Front Range to confirm that this unicorn of a porter existed, we were told the supply was running low. So don’t dally. Put the vanilla porter in the coconut and drink it all up before someone else beats you to it. But if you want your local dark beer a little more dark and a little less local,
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then head over to Fate Brewing and get a taste of its recently released Foreign Extra Stout, with a bright, bitter-roasted flavor packed into a jet-black brew that clocks in at 7.6 percent ABV. Yeowza, that’s a great way to jet-black out! And if you’re still awake on Friday night, you might want to consider heading over to Upslope Brewing’s Lee Hill location, which has started a new “Firkin Fridays,” for the new year. A Firkin is a two-and-a-half-gallon, self-carbonated vessel that can be used to make micro-micro-batches of beer, and every Friday, Upslope will be going nuts and brewing something impulsive and nutty, then pouring it until there’s no more to pour (usually sometime that night). This year has already seen a chili stout, and a milk stout with vanilla beans, cocoa nibs and cinnamon. This week’s batch will be a Lemonhead Whit made with real pieces of Evan Dando. … Evan Dando? Singer for The Lemonheads? Anybody? Moving on. But perhaps the coolest part of the new Firkin Fridays at Upslope is that the first Friday of every month will be a people’s choice brew, in which Upslope will announce a basic style of beer on its Facebook page and then take suggestions from commenters about how to gussy it up. For example, they’d say stout, and you could comment with “blood of thine enemies,” and they could then choose between brewing it for Friday night’s party, or calling the FBI and reporting you. Either way, delicious. Crowdsourced cannibalism or otherwise, Upslope will announce each Friday’s Firkin via its social media accounts, so you might want to firkin follow them. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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world?” asks novelist Terry Pratchett. “It’s all the people who never find Whose enemy are you? out what it is they really Are you anyone’s adverwant to do or what it is Go to RealAstrology.com to check out sary or obstructionist they’re really good at. It’s Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO or least favorite person? all the people who never HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE Answer honestly, please. get to know what it is that Don’t be in denial. Next HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes they can really be.” If that question: Do you derive are also available by phone at 1-877description applies to you anything useful from play873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. even a little, Libra — if ing this oppositional role? you’re still not completely If your answer is yes, that’s sure what you’re good at fine. I won’t try to talk you and what you want to do out of it. Continue to reap — the coming months will be prime time to fix that probthe benefits of being someone’s obstacle. But if, on the other lem. Start now! How? Open your mind to the possibility hand, you get little value out of this negative relationship, that you don’t know yourself as well as you someday will. now would be a good time to change it. You have more Take vocational tests. Ask smart people you trust to tell you power than usual to free yourself from being an antagonist. what they think about your special aptitudes and unique qualities. And one more thing: Be wildly honest with yourTAURUS self about what excites you.
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APRIL 20-MAY 20:
You Tauruses are customarily more grounded than the rest of us. But this week, I’m wondering if you will be tempted to escape the laws of gravity and rebel against the call of duty. I suspect that your dreams, at least, will feature uninhibited forays into the wild blue yonder. While you’re sleeping you may float weightlessly in an interplanetary spaceship, become an eagle and soar over forests, wear a futuristic jet pack on your back and zip through the sky, sail across the Serengeti Plains in a hot-air balloon, or have a picnic on a cloud with a feast of cotton candy and sponge cake and mint tea. Would you consider bringing this kind of fun into your waking life?
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MAY 21-JUNE 20:
What part of your life is too small, and you want to make it bigger? Is there a situation that’s overly intense and dramatic, and you wish you could feel more light-hearted about it, less oppressed? Are you on a quest that has become claustrophobic, and you’d love to find a way to make it more spacious and relaxed? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Gemini, there’s good news. Very soon now, you will have a close encounter with the magic you need to open what has been closed and expand what has been narrow. Be alert for it. Be crafty as you gather it in and harness it for your use.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22:
In her poem “Catch a Body,” Ilse Bendorf says she dislikes the advice “Don’t ever tell anybody anything.” On the other hand, “Tell everyone everything” isn’t the right approach, either, she says. Judging from your astrological omens, Cancerian, I surmise that you’re wavering between those two extremes. You’re tempted to think you’ve got to do one or the other. Should you cultivate the power that comes from being silent, and keep people guessing about your true feelings? Or should you seek greater intimacy but risk giving away your power by confessing all your inner thoughts? I suggest you take a middle path. Tell the vivid truth, but carefully and incrementally.
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JULY 23-AUG. 22:
If a substance has been burned, it can’t be burned again. There’s no flammable stuff left to feed a fire. That’s simple physics. Now as for the question of whether a person can be burned more than once — we’re speaking metaphorically here — the answer is, unfortunately, yes. Some folks don’t learn from their mistakes and don’t have enough emotional intelligence to avoid the bullies and manipulators who burn them again in the future. But I’m confident that you aren’t one of these types, Leo, or that at least you won’t be in the coming days. You may have been burned before, but you won’t be burned this time.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year,” said author Peter Drucker. “People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” In general I agree with that assessment. But I think it needs to be altered for your situation in the coming months. Here’s the adjusted version of the formula: Virgos who don’t take risks in 2014 will make an average of 3.1 big mistakes. Virgos who do take risks in 2014 will make, at most, a half a big mistake.
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In his book Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition, Ben Schott dreams up new compound German words for use in English. Here’s one that would serve you well in the coming week: Fingerspitzentanz, meaning “fingertips-dance.” Schott says it refers to “tiny triumphs of nimble-fingered dexterity.” His examples: fastening a bracelet, tightening a miniscule screw, unknotting, removing a recalcitrant sticker in one unbroken peel, rolling a joint, identifying an object by touch alone, slipping something off a high shelf. Both literally and metaphorically speaking, Scorpio, you now have an abundance of this capacity. Everything about you is more agile and deft and limber than usual. You’ll be a master of Fingerspitzentanz.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
The four elements that compose cocaine are the same as those that make up TNT, caffeine and nylon: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The combinations and proportions of elements are different in each substance, of course. But the point, for our purposes, is that the same raw materials lead to different results. I foresee a similar drama unfolding in your own life, Sagittarius. How you assemble the ingredients you currently have at your disposal could produce either a rough and ragged high, a volatile risk, a pleasant stimulation or a useful resource. Which will it be?
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
Metaphorically speaking, you have recently come into possession of some new seeds. They are robust. They are hardy. They have the potential to grow into big, strong blooms. So when should you plant them, metaphorically speaking? I’m going to suggest that you wait a while longer. It wouldn’t be bad for them if you sowed them right now, but I think their long-term vitality will be even greater if you postpone the planting for at least a week. Two weeks might be better. Trust your intuition.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck (1385-1441) was renowned for his innovative mastery of oil painting. He signed many of his works not just with his name but also with his motto: Als ick kan. Its idiomatic translation is “The best I can do.” What he meant was that he had pushed his talent and craft to the limit, and then stopped and relaxed, content that he had given all he could. I invite you to have a similar attitude as you wrap up the projects you’re currently involved in, Aquarius. Summon all your passion and intelligence as you create the most excellent outcome possible, but also know when to quit. Don’t try too hard; just try hard.
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omewhere, Dick Nixon is smiling. Another one you’ll hear often is that “not enough What is up with the media and marijuaresearch has been done on cannabis.” This is the pure na? Recreational cannabis went on sale in hokum. It is true that any legitimate medical cannabis Colorado on Jan. 1, support for decriminalstudies will not be sanctioned by the federal governization is crescendoing, and the mainstream, ment, which only studies drug abuse, not use. But especially on the right, has gone totally batshit crazy. more than 20,000 studies have been done anyway, The commentators, such as they are, sound like my thousands more than on any prescription drug curparents’ generation back in the 1960s, or worse, a left- rently in circulation. Does it deserve more study? Of over DARE program from the Reagan years. course, but is there a lack of research? If you’re curiNew York Times columnist David Brooks wrote ous, go to PubMed and type in “cannabis.” one that, honestly, I thought was from the Onion or Here’s another favorite that every mainstream Daily Currant until I noticed the newspaper is obligated to use. source. Brooks’ logic seemed to “Legalization advocates claim be that he tried it when he was that it’s safer than alcohol.” young, had fun until he got too I’m not big on cannabis-vs.high once before teaching a class, alcohol comparisons because each and has decided that since he acts on people in vastly different quit, the government has a moral ways. But that it’s safer than alcoobligation to keep cannabis illehol really isn’t a “claim.” Except to gal and should encourage people prohibitionists, the federal govto go to museums instead. ernment and editors seeking “fairness,” there’s no real dispute. For Washington Post columnist Ruth teenagers or anyone else, alcohol Marcus chimed in that it should is the more dangerous drug. End remain illegal, but said if she’s in of story. Colorado, she’ll be buying some So why are all the hoary kush. arguments being trotted out On TV, it’s even worse. again? Much of it is simply the Nancy Grace told an interviewer Right being the Right, stigmashe’s read all the studies and tizing cannabis because it’s still weighed carefully the pros and cons of cannabis. Her profession- Former President Richard Nixon’s drug illegal at a federal level and makpolicies helped stigmatize marijuana. al opinion after an obviously ing claims that make most of us exhaustive study? “It makes you laugh. The Justice Department fat and lazy.” Joe Scarborough was even more succinct still “claims” cannabis has no medical benefits, so they in his expert appraisal: “It makes you dumb.” Dr. Oz can say that, too. We expect Nancy Grace to spout worries over its addictive qualities by using gigantic nonsense. And really, a lot of it is just laziness and a charts and diagrams. contemporary reliance on old clichés about cannabis Bill O’Reilly said that using cannabis was literally and “pot” and “stoners” and “the munchies.” “playing Russian roulette,” and tried to explain how But nowhere is the hypocrisy thicker than with having a couple of glasses of wine was different than those in the media who insist that more teenagers are smoking a joint before dinner. People drink to have going to become hooked on cannabis because it’s fun, he said, but cannabis users only use it to “leave legal. reality.” (Even Juan Williams was caught on-camera A recent Denver Post article allowed psychiatric rolling his eyes at that one.) professionals to explain how to talk about marijuana
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with your kids. “An ongoing study of the behaviors and attitudes of teens and young adults has found that while teens aren’t necessarily reporting higher use of marijuana, they’re less likely to consider it ‘risky,’” the article states. In other words, teens aren’t reporting using more cannabis, but more are reporting that they believe it’s less risky than alcohol. The same “professionals” then warn parents to tell their kids that marijuana is as dangerous as heroin or cocaine, and causes lung cancer (despite much evidence to the contrary) and psychosis. Further, they suggest that parents be less than honest or candid, especially when talking about their own past or present drug use. I’m against teenagers using cannabis. Like anything else, using cannabis involves risks. Still, the idea that it shouldn’t be legalized because teenagers might not think of it as being as “dangerous” as alcohol or tobacco stretches the limits of credibility. And the sad truth is that most kids aren’t getting it from medical patients or unscrupulous street dealers. They’re getting marijuana from their parents, in their own homes. Might more kids get access to cannabis as a result of legalization? That’s certainly possible, since more adults might purchase it and bring it into their homes. And here’s where real responsibility begins. But interestingly, while I see lots of calls for government responsibility to enact teen-education programs (which are mandated by Amendment 64), what I don’t see, either in state materials or in anti-marijuana organizations like Smart Colorado, are calls for education of parents — well, beyond experts telling reporters to lie to their kids in newspaper stories. Whether or not regular use of cannabis as a teenager shaves off IQ points in later life, which one study has suggested, teenagers shouldn’t be using it. The state can rightly close businesses and arrest dealers for selling to minors, but it can’t come into a private home and tell parents what to do. Once that door closes, it’s up to parents to be responsible. Legalization doesn’t change that. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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