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Correction: A Jan. 10 Boulderganic story, “Paving a contaminated parkway,” mistakenly referred to Rocky Flats as the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

The duel over guns

While I agreed with much of Andrew O’Connor’s “Danish is wrong on guns” (guest commentary, Jan. 10), I wonder if he doesn’t do as much harm as good by accepting the NRAbacked assumption that a ban on

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semi-automatic weapons clearly violates the Second Amendment and thus that banning that weapon would mean overturning the Second Amendment. Of course, Paul Danish and the other pro-gun zealots will then argue that end of the Second Amendment would be a giant step downhill on a slippery slope to totalitarianism. Let me point out that the USA had a ban on the buying and selling of semi-automatics for 10 years, 1994 to 2004; yet the

cissistic billionaires would not make a credible sales team for this dirty work, so Fix the Debt has recruited a bipartisan gaggle of former Congress critters to give their self-serving political gambit a softer public image, a sheen of high public purpose. With a budget of some $40 million, these “elder statesmen” are doing TV interviews, hosting breakfast sessions with members of Congress, making speeches about “mutual sacrifice,” and generally going all out to sell the financial elite’s snake oil. But wait — being an elder does not automatically mean you’re a statesman. Let’s peek at the resumes of these socalled public-spirited fixers of the debt. Start with Jim McCrery, a former GOP lawmaker. While urging Congress to cut peoples’ programs, he’s also a top-paid lobbyist pushing Congress to give more tax subsidies to America’s richest people

Who’s behind ‘Fix the Debt’? by Jim Hightower

ook out — the “fixers” are coming. Top corporate chieftains and Wall Street gamblers want to tell Washington how to fix our national debt, so they’ve created a front group called “Fix the Debt” to push their agenda. Unfortunately, they’re using “fix” in the same way your veterinarian uses it — their core demand is for Washington to spay Social Security, castrate Medicare and geld Medicaid. Of course, a group of pampered, nar-

courts never ruled that gun-control policy unconstitutional, said that it violated the Second Amendment. Intelligent, reasonable gun control and the Second Amendment can co-exist. Danish’s column of the same week, “Racist progressives and guns,” is shameless and pathetic: he finds one gun-controller who’s racist and then overgeneralizes to brand all gun consee LETTERS Page 8

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and biggest multinational corporations. Former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn is a fixer, too — but he’s also paid $300,000 a year to be a board director for General Electric. Likewise, Democrat Erskine Bowles, a co-founder of the fixers’ front group, is on the board of Morgan Stanley, drawing $345,000 a year. And former GOP Senator Judd Gregg takes about a million bucks a year as advisor to and board member for such giants as Goldman Sachs and Honeywell. I wouldn’t want this gang of fixers to pet my dog, much less touch my Social Security! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 17, 2013 7

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very January on Martin Luther King Day, people across the political spectrum claim King as one of their own. Few remember that he had become a pariah in mainstream politics in his last days. He was widely condemned for his opposition to the Vietnam War. Right-wingers called him a communist and a traitor. Black leaders, white politicians who had been allies and the national press said he had gone outside his role as a civil rights leader. The nation’s leading law enforcement official, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, conducted a vicious vendetta against King designed to destroy him by almost any means necessary. It was charged that he was the tool of a Soviet communist conspiracy to undermine America. Actually King was consistently critical of the communist regimes throughout his life, but he was a democratic socialist, according to his widow and many of his friends and co-workers. Thomas F. Jackson, in his book From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice, says King started becoming a socialist when he was in college. He argues that King was developing “democratic socialist alternatives to economic and poverty policy” in the 1960s. Instead of the “oversold and underfunded programs of the War on Poverty,” which came to be perceived by many white working-class and middleclass voters as attempts to placate an undeserving black urban underclass, King preferred policies that would include everybody and ensure “decent housing, medical care, guaranteed work, wages, and family incomes for all Americans.” Sometimes King would start to talk about socialism and ask the reporter to turn off the tape recorder and go off the record. Other times, he would talk about socialism in his public talks. He was getting more and more bold. In a 1967 presidential address to his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King asked some questions: “There are 40 million poor people here. And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there 40 million poor people in America?’ And when you begin to ask that question, you are 8 January 17, 2013

raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the oil?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the iron ore?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is twothirds water?’ These are questions that need to be asked.” In 1966, he told staffers at a SCLC retreat in South Carolina: “You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. ... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong ... with capitalism. ... There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” In January 1968, King announced plans for a Poor People’s Campaign of sustained protest to pressure the White House and Congress to launch a genuine war on poverty. Protesters would engage in massive civil disobedience, tying up traffic, staging sit-ins in Congress and in government buildings and essentially shutting down business in Washington, D.C. King was a dangerous man to the powers-that-be. For the rest of us, he should be an inspiration and a challenge. Today — in a time of grotesque inequality, high unemployment and low wages — he is more relevant than ever. — Anderson is a retired CU librarian and a member of Democratic Socialists of America. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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trollers as racist hypocrites. “If you are a standard-issue Boulder progressive nodding in agreement with this (racist) line of thought,” Danish writes. Excuse me! I’m a progressive, and I don’t remember agreeing with any of the silly racist nonsense he just quoted. Danish is fishing with a red herring — introducing an emotionally charged issue (racism) that has little or no clear connection to the issue at hand (gun control). Paul Dougan/Lafayette (Re: “Racist progressives and guns,” Danish Plan, Jan. 10.) A friend of mine made a stupid comment. Therefore, all gun control advocates are racists. “If you are a standard-issue Boulder progressive nodding in agreement with this line of thought ...” apparently the majority of “standardissue” Boulderites believe that the Scots-Irish are killing machines. Of course, the true irony here is that, though he is a gun control advocate, when O’Connor gives us this particular ill-advised rant he’s actually taking Danish’s side. He’s arguing that gun violence is a cultural problem, which is exactly what Danish spent a page-long diatribe trying to convince us of two weeks ago. If Danish really wants to beat up a straw man, he should at least pick one who disagrees with him. Christopher Blair/via Internet (Re: “Repeal the Second Amendment? How about the First?” Danish Plan, Dec. 27.) Let us forget, for the moment, that Paul Danish thinks that repeal of the Second Amendment would lead to the repeal of the First. That’s merely an atten-

tion-grabbing line that is really beneath a man of Paul’s intelligence. What proponents of sane gun control are saying is that the Second Amendment already provides for controls in its preface: “a well-regulated militia” (though gutted by perhaps a deplorably dumb Supreme Court). These men knew the power of words and put this phrase first. Let us also put aside the arguments (true though they may be) that the Founding Fathers could not foresee the development of rapid-fire assault rifles, that the “well-regulated militias” of the time were the 18th century equivalent of the present National Guard, or that the Revolutionary War was not won by patriots grabbing Old Betsy but by revolutionaries breaking into armories and later getting help from the French. Let us, instead, consider that this was part of a document conceived by some of the smartest men of that age, men who had survived a revolution, had seen how religion had torn apart Britain and so created a secular state (a fact that escapes the religious right), and, finally, men who would have been appalled that we would still be clinging to so many outdated concepts. These were men who created a new order and trusted that those who followed would continue the revolution and that their successors would continue to improve upon that revolution. These were men who dreamed that their concept of a people’s democracy could survive but feared, given the short duration of the republic, that it might not. The past two and a quarter centuries have proven that the system works, that we have Boulder Weekly

letters no fear of tyrants from within seizing the government and enslaving us. Besides, there was no way these giants could know that a future generation, armed even with a multitude of assault rifles, would be unable to withstand a federal government that could dispatch them with a few drones. What they did expect is that country would move with times, that it would continue to adapt, or, to put it in the simple advice of my mother, grow up. Sadly, in that, they were wrong. And the children of Newtown paid the price. Tom Schantz/Lyons Thank you for your well-thought, superbly written and compelling article referenced above. I am hopeful the logic against the reactionary “gun control” movement — including as set forth in your piece — eventually will win out over the emotion of the times. I enjoy and appreciate your articles as they appear under the “Danish Plan.” It is difficult for me to be too critical of the proudly leftist Boulder Weekly since it endorsed me — a Republican — for district attorney in the 2000 election. However, as the Boulder Weekly has descended from more-or-less critical analysis of the issues to a panegyric of everything Obama, your sensible opinions are even more refreshing (and courageous). Please keep up the great job you are doing, and the great writing. David Sanderson/Boulder I personally think a change in our gun laws is definitely needed; people do kill people, but I see no need to make it easier for them. We don’t hand our kids matches and gasoline and tell them please do not start any fires, do we? Having said that, I do agree wholeheartedly with your article about repealing the Second Amendment. Many different things are causing this violence, but the groups for or against can only choose a black or white answer. Sometimes the world is grey. It’s that type of attitude of “no compromise” that has gotten our nation into trouble on a lot of things other than just gun control. How about repealing the Second Amendment, cleaning up our media violence, as you suggested, and banning citizens from owning assault rifles, or magazines that carry more than 10 bullets and limiting the amount of guns one person has to avoid another Waco incident. Until Boulder Weekly

both opposing parties make a reasonable effort to compromise, see the many issues of what is causing so much gun violence, only then will we see a difference, and maybe 10 years from now, the next generation will live in a safer country. Jean West-Watanabe/Broomfield

Honoring our fallen

Not quite a head on a pike But a grim trophy indeed A broad-antlered bull elk head Filling a white pick-up bed. Written in October 2011 on a scene witnessed during hunting season on the Western Slope. Hard to imagine it happening here in the City of Landlords. Robert Porath/Boulder

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PRIORITIES, PEOPLE It’d be easy to taunt Boulder’s endless wellspring of emotion regarding the gentle elk mercilessly killed by police officers just weeks ago. In the most glaring example of only-in-Boulder that we’ve seen in years, the martyred elk has inspired a song, a candlelight vigil allegedly attended by hundreds, sad attempts at poetic letters to the editor, and who knows what else. It’d be like shooting fish in a barrel, or rather, using your status as a law enforcement officer to try to get away with illegally poaching a friendly elk in the middle of a neighborhood street. But we’re rather more concerned about the effects of this most recent cold spell on Boulder’s homeless population, which we’re betting that many attending the elk’s candlelight vigil don’t like to think about. A 36-yearold man died on Jan. 13 in a warming center at Congregation Har Hashem. Where is his candlelight vigil? A memorial service is being planned, but for some reason we doubt it will be as popular as the elk’s. This is a town that has passed law after law making it harder to be homeless in this city. The Boulder Shelter for the Homeless’ budget is somewhere around $1.6 million; the Humane Society of Boulder Valley’s budget is about $5.6 million. If a memorial happens, we’ll see how many people show up. Here’s hoping Boulder redoubles its efforts to ensure no one else slips through the holes of the local safety net. MYSTERY MISSION TO MARS Apparently there’s this nonprofit in the Netherlands called Mars One that wants to establish a settlement of humans on Mars in 10 years, and they are accepting applications. And they make it clear it will be a one-way ticket. The requirements involve being able to play well with others, essentially. Oh, and you have to be at least 18. And get this: There will be six teams selected as finalists, but they’re leaving it up to a worldwide vote on which of the teams gets to go. Talk about taking reality TV to a whole new level. What’s next? Whoever gets voted off the island is sent away in a capsule hurtling toward the sun? If you’re interested in applying — or you’d like to nominate someone (we can think of a few, and no, they’re not all on city council) — check out http://marsone.com/en. FRACTIVISTS UNITE The movement against fracking in Colorado appears to have coalesced even further this week, as more than 25 groups have announced they are forming a statewide coalition calling itself “Protect Our Colorado.” Sure, there are anti-fracking organizations from around the state involved, including local groups like Our Longmont, Boulder County Citizens for Community Rights, Frack Free Boulder and East Boulder County United, but there are also companies like Patagonia, Inc. and Lighthouse Solar, not to mention the United Universalist Church of Greeley. The press release we got quotes Patagonia CEO Casey Sheahan as saying, “For the future of our children and our state, it’s essential that we stop fracking in Colorado and move immediately to a renewable energy economy.” The group’s goal? To get Gov. Frackenlooper and state legislators to ban fracking outright. Good luck with that, folks. As John Candy said in Trains, Plains and Automobiles, you’d have better luck finding a three-legged ballerina. Or playing pick-up sticks with your butt cheeks. But we admire your spirit! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com 10 January 17, 2013

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our waste, thus polluting our own environment. We’re poisoning the air, water and food that nourish us. Yup! Makes sense to me! Don’t make me write a book! We’ll either evolve to have a cleaner, healthier world together.. or not. A few want to control the rest of us. How did we let this happen? Hmm? Is it apathy, low self-esteem, laziness, fear or personal greed? Or all of the above? We allow the few to make laws for us that we don’t agree with, that are not in our best interests and remain caught up in irrational disputes that keep us at each other’s throat over individual belief systems (religious differences) that pay into political personal agendas. What’s wrong with this picture? Whatever you call it, fascism, socialism, corprocrazy, etc., these are just fancy labels to keep “We The People” divided. It creates cognitive dissonance so that people shut out what they think they know to be true in fear that they might not be right and hence creates suspicion for those who think differently. The only way we have a chance to save this stinky little hunk of rock is to start working together and see the true “earth terrorists” for who they are, the greedy corporate industrialists who are destroying all of our resources to maintain their stranglehold of control. Everyone can do a part to silently fight these terrorists by limiting their own consumption of oil and its largest by-product, plastic, as much as you can. Boulder Weekly

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hey call it “the chair.” It’s a restraint seat used by many jails to subdue inmates who pose a threat to themselves or others. It has wrist straps, ankle straps, a lap belt and a harness. The thing is, inmates don’t always go peacefully into “the chair.” And when they don’t, deputies are authorized to use what at first glance might be seen as violent methods to force compliance. In official police reports, those methods carry names like “infraorbital pressure point technique” or “straight punch to the chest.” But inmates describe it more along the lines of getting beat up by out-of-control cops. And unfortunately, in cells and a common area of the jail where the chair is used, there are no video cameras to record the proceedings, so when inmates complain about excessive force, it’s their word against the deputies’ word. However, that may be changing.

self and then slumped over and blacked out. At one point, Johnson recalls repeating one deputy’s name over and over, intending to report him. “He squatted in front of me, looked into my eyes and said that he’d seen the same thing happen ‘thousands of times,’ and that there was absolutely nothing I could do about it,” he says. Johnson woke up with a something over his head, a bag used to keep inmates from spitting on deputies, and he found himself still in the chair, in the front of a cell, where he says he stayed for four hours. He says he was taunted by deputies who repeatedly asked if he was ready to cooperate. Finally, unable to walk, Johnson says he had to be carried to a cell, where he curled up into a ball, covered in urine and blood, with a broken nose.

•••• y his own admission, Joshua Johnson became angry after he was taken to jail on Sept. 19, 2009, after being pulled over for a broken headlight. He felt he had been arrested wrongly, for violating an alcohol-related condition of a restraining order that he said had been lifted. In addition, he was supposed to pick up his daughter later that morning, but being incarcerated put a crimp in those plans. Johnson, who had been placed on suicide watch, began kicking and pounding on his cell door. A deputy came and agreed to place a call regarding his inability to meet his daughter. But he continued being disruptive, yelling, pounding and covering his cell door with his “suicide smock,” keeping deputies from seeing inside. They decided to put him into “the chair,” in a common room known as the “disciplinary day area,” where what happened was visible to other inmates. Johnson says it was out of spite. The deputies’ reports say it was out of concern for his own safety. What happened next is disputed, since there are no cameras in the disciplinary day area, and therefore no video to corroborate either side of the story. Johnson says they came into his cell five deep, the red laser light of a Taser target shining on him, and he put his hands up. He says they cuffed him and backed him out of his cell, his arm twisted back hard. He was

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•••• ccording to reports filed by the deputies involved, Johnson was not only verbally abusive, but was warned “during this tirade that it would not do him any good and might work against him if he continued to be disruptive.” Officers agreed that he represented a danger to himself with his pounding, punching and kicking against the cell door, and that they could not monitor his well-being since he was covering the door with his smock. When deputies decided to place him in the chair for his own safety until he calmed down, the reports said, he resisted, arching his back and refusing to sit. According to reports that contain a varying degree of detail, at least three officers used their knees against his midsection to push him down into the chair. One deputy “applied an infra-orbital control hold,” the aforementioned blows to the nose, which by one account “had little impact and he continued to resist.” The reports say another deputy “attempted to take control of Johnson’s head using a mandibular angle pressure point technique,” which involves applying a knuckle between the jawbone and the ear. When those methods didn’t work, one deputy wrote, an officer “threw a straight punch to Johnson’s midsection, forcing him back into the chair,” and they were able to place the restraint straps on him. Several minutes into the altercation, the reports said, one officer drew another’s Taser from his belt and held it to Johnson’s back and warned him he would be Tased if he did not cease resisting. Because there are no cameras in that day room, there is no video that would back up either version of

placed forcefully into the chair. According to Johnson, his face was slammed against his knee after he dared to look backwards, and he asked why they were hurting him. Johnson admits he called the deputy a “fucking cocksucker,” and says the officer straddled him and said, “I’m going to show you what a cocksucker I am.” That deputy then lifted the inmate’s upper lip, Johnson says, pulled it up to his nose, put his palm underneath his lip and repeatedly jammed his hand up forcefully against the base of his nose for more than 60 seconds. Johnson says he heard squealing and later realized he was making the noise himself. He says he thought about biting the deputy’s pinky finger that was in his mouth, but thought the better of it. Johnson claims he managed to gasp that he couldn’t breathe, and the officer replied, “Yes, you can, because I just heard that.” As he was about to pass out, Johnson says, another deputy punched him in the stomach. “I swear on my life I was fully cooperative the whole time,” he says, adding that he urinated on him-

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know what a bad cop is,” Kirkland says. •••• “Don’t hand me a piece of shit and tell ohnson is not the only inmate to me it’s a cherry pie, because they smell share tales about abuse in the different.” Boulder County Jail. Last August, Prominent Denver civil rights attorRobert Kirkland filed a lawsuit alleging ney David Lane took on Kirkland’s case, that deputies inflicted serious injuries and he claims jail footage shows the after placing him in one of the cells, inmate entering his cell without the leg which also have no cameras. injury, leaving only one explanation. Kirkland, who acknowledges serving “We have videotape of him walking time in Texas for driving under the pretty much on his own steam into the influence, claims he was arrested on a cell, but then there’s no further videos petty disorderly conduct charge and was provided to us about him after the fact,” taken to jail, where deputies yanked him Lane tells Boulder Weekly. “So we have out of the patrol car by his head and called them out on that and demanded “pile-drived my head into a wall.” that they produce those videos too. … Kirkland insists that all he was asked They should have done that right up to do was to stay still, and he complied, front, and they didn’t. … They are but deputies pulled hair out of his head required to give us any relevant docuas they took him to a Courtesy of Joshua Johnson ments, and so they cell where he fracgave us what they gave us, but come on, tured his left leg we’re claiming he got when they threw him his legs busted in the onto a bunk. When cell, and they don’t he screamed that they think it’s relevant to broke his leg, see any videos of him Kirkland says, one leaving his cell?” deputy replied, “Now we’re going to break •••• your other one!” His shoe came ea Wheeler, the off, he says, and they assistant county turned his right ankle, attorney who handles fracturing his big toe cases involving the in the process. Boulder County Joshua Johnson Kirkland also claims Sheriff ’s Office and that a deputy tried to the jail, says lawsuits stuff his beanie cap down his throat to about excessive force in the jail are not stop his yelling. He says his other injucommon. She says an August 2012 ries include a dislocated left hip and complaint filed by Giles Locke was elbow. recently dismissed, and a claim filed by “To this day, I have no feeling in my Daniel Hrynewycz in August 2011 was left two fingers,” Kirkland says, adding settled by the county about a month that he was denied proper medical treat- later. Wheeler declined to disclose the ment for more than a week and got terms of that settlement. admitted to the hospital only after using As for cases like those involving a razor to slash his own arms. He claims Kirkland, she says, there may be a reathe leg injury left him using a wheelsonable explanation for why certain chair for four months and a walker for video wouldn’t be provided: It doesn’t another four months, and he still uses a exist. cane. She explains that for privacy reasons, there are no video cameras in the cells, “I know when I’m being tortured; I since that’s where inmates use the bathlearned that in the military,” Kirkland room and change. And due to video says, citing the recent elk killing in storage space constraints, footage that is Boulder as yet another example of cops being out of control. “Now they’re blow- more than about a month old is recorded over. She declined to comment on ing away the wildlife. They’ve got a the specifics of the Kirkland case crooked force going on up there, and I’m going to expose them. I’ll take it to because it is active litigation. But the Supreme Court. I won’t settle in this Wheeler says video records are not case. I don’t give a dang if I don’t get a withheld. dime.” “To the extent that we still have He adds that his father was a police them, we produce them,” she says. “As officer. See CHAIR Page 14 “I know what a good cop is, and I

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we progress through these types of cases, it’s a protection for the deputy.” And in the case of the disciplinary day area where Johnson was strapped into the chair, there are now plans to add video surveillance. Jail Division Chief Bruce Haas, who replaced Larry Hank last September, acknowledges that recent complaints were a factor in deciding to have cameras installed in areas like the disciplinary day area where Johnson claims he was abused. There were never cameras there because video was used primarily to assist deputies with real-time surveillance, not recording, he explains, and there is an observation area looking directly out onto the day room, so there was no need. “Now, with more and more questions coming up and allegations being made, that is prompting us to say we have nothing to hide,” Haas told BW, acknowledging that it protects the deputies from false accusations as much as it protects inmates from abuse. “I think it’s just being responsive to what’s going on. I think it’s a good thing to protect us. One frustration, on our end, is that there are allegations made that are not necessarily true.” He adds that it may seem like overkill, in the case of Johnson, for instance, to have four or five deputies subdue an inmate, but jail protocols call for several deputies to be involved to minimize injuries to officers or the accused. “It’s not because we’re ganging up on the guy, it’s because we don’t want anyone getting hurt,” Haas says. •••• eff Goetz, administrative commander for the jail, explains the processes used to evaluate, book and control inmates. People booked into the jail are classified in one of three ways: cooperative, semi-cooperative and uncooperative. All are assessed for their medical condition before being incarcerated, he says, and if treatment is needed, the arresting agency is responsible for securing medical attention, so that the jail — and the taxpayers — are not on the hook paying for pre-existing conditions. When someone deemed “semicooperative” or “uncooperative” is brought to the jail, he explains, additional deputies are brought in to ensure that officers — and the suspects themselves — are not injured. Goetz, who has worked in the jail since 1990, says inmates who are out of control, especially when under the influence of alcohol or drugs, may not be

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fully aware of their ability to do bodily harm to themselves or others. The metal restraint chair is used to subdue inmates that exhibit such behavior, for the safety of themselves and deputies, Goetz says. “It’s not a comfortable situation, because you can’t move,” he explains. “It’s designed to restrain you and not hurt yourself or others.” He adds that there are strict protocols for when and how to use the chair, and it can never be used as a punitive device or as an example to other inmates, as Johnson contends it was used when he was placed in the chair in the day area, in full view of the other inmates in the disciplinary unit. “Just because you pissed me off, I can’t put you in the chair,” Goetz says, adding that inmates are sometimes placed in the chair in the common area because the cells that the apparatus fits into may already by occupied. He acknowledges, however, that the scenario described by Johnson is not a unique one, since deputies periodically have to use force to place an uncooperative inmate into the chair. Goetz also admits that injuries like Johnson’s broken nose do occur, because “if you ram your head forward, force on force, something’s got to give there.” But he says the jail has never seen an inmate death due to an altercation with a deputy, and the Boulder County facility has a reputation for fairness and respect. In fact, Goetz says, under a previous district attorney, the jail “used to be known as the country club on the hill.” •••• aneuvers like the “straight punch” and the mandibular and infraorbital pressure point techniques that Johnson describes as being abusive are methods that deputies are well-trained in, and are “pain compliance,” Goetz says, because they “hurt like hell.” They are part of the deputy’s arsenal, he explains, comparing them to tools used in other professions. “You may need a hammer, a pair of pliers, a saw,” Goetz says, adding that deputies who have large hands can even employ the “C-clamp,” which is a combination of applying both the mandibular and infra-orbital pressure points using one hand. When asked how an internal affairs investigation like the one initiated in the case of Johnson — which resulted in a finding of no violations by jail workers — can be definitive when there is no video evidence, Goetz says all deputies involved are interviewed. “They’re under oath to tell the truth,” he says. “If they are lying, they’ll

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be held accountable.” Goetz explains that if one deputy has a different story than the others, “we’ve got an issue,” and that “if you have a bad apple in there, it’s going to get you in trouble.” He acknowledges that law enforcement can attract macho, aggressive individuals who might be tempted to abuse the power that comes with carrying a badge and a gun, but there are forces that reign them in — or kick them out. Bullying an inmate not only incites that inmate but sows discontent among the rest of the jail population, Goetz says, which endangers a deputy’s co-workers. “If I’m that officer who’s going to go in and be the king of the roost, someone’s going to get hurt,” he explains. “That’s dealt with internally, amongst themselves. They’re going to police that amongst themselves.” When asked whether the jail has ever had a “bad apple” deputy who has abused his or her power, Goetz says, “We’ve had that happen before, and they no longer work here.” He adds that most “bad apples” are weeded out in the extensive screening/ interview process. In addition, prospective deputies have to pass a three-month training period, and the inexperienced ones are paired with seasoned veterans who show them the ropes. •••• or his part, Johnson remains unconvinced. He started a “Tortured in Boulder County Jail” Facebook page and a petition on change.org to call on the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office to use video surveillance in disciplinary areas as a means of transparency for the methods used by deputies. The petition has garnered nearly 150 signatures in less than three months. “I’ve been broadcasting how horrible the jail is, and I’ll do it the rest of my

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hen it comes to fresh seafood, many of us consider sushi the grand master. But these days, with the health of the environment pushing us to make more sustainable choices when it comes to what we put into our bodies, texture and flavor are not the only criteria we use when we decide what or where to eat. For sushi lovers, finding sustainable options is possible, but certainly not easy. Some of the most popular menu items are among the worst choices when it comes to the health of our oceans. The good news is that there are

now tools to help consumers make educated decisions at the dinner table. “Right now, I think we all know that the oceans are in trouble. We are basically fishing our seas dry,” says Vicki Nichols Goldstein, founder and executive director of Boulder’s Colorado Ocean Coalition. Nichols Goldstein, who started the nonprofit about two years ago, has dedicated her career to ocean conservation. She’s lived on both U.S. coasts, she says during a recent phone interview, and when she moved to Boulder, she saw a real need for an organization like hers, which aims to educate the public about fishing techniques, which species are at

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“The big red flag is the bluefin tuna,” Nichols Goldstein says. When served as sushi, bluefin tuna is often called toro or “fatty tuna.” “It was a majestic species,” she says. “But because of technology and severe cutthroat harvesting, they really are at risk of going extinct in the next decade or so.” According to Seafood Watch, 90 percent of the freshwater eel (unagi) sold in the U.S. is farm-raised, but instead of starting with eggs, the farms are stocked with eels taken from the wild, which puts pressure on the wild See SUSHI Page 18

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APPEAL OF BLM DRILLING PROJECTS IN WYOMING ADVANCES IN FEDERAL COURT

An administrative judge at the Interior Board of Land Appeals in Wyoming has ruled against a Bureau of Land Management request to dismiss an appeal filed by the Wyoming Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation. The two conservation groups have challenged the BLM’s 2011 decision to approve natural gas drilling in the Atlantic Rim area, southwest of Rawlins, on the basis of the area’s use for recreation. In 2007, at the height of the drilling, the BLM created an Adaptive Management Plan intended to provide a dynamic approach to assessing negative impacts to wildlife and adjusting drilling plans to minimize harmful effects. But Michael Saul, the lawyer representing the groups, says land reviews using scientific data have not happened. “The grounds of our appeal are that no new drilling project should be authorized until the BLM can show it is complying with the promises from 2007,” Saul says.

The Interior Board of Land Appeals administrative judge ruled the groups could challenge the drilling of a 48-well coal-bed methane project based on recreational ties to the land. “Standing is a legal doctrine that says courts should not adjudicate academic disputes to parties not directly involved,” Saul says. “We were able to bring forward affidavits from a member of the federation recounting his recreational use in the Atlantic Rim. Last week, the Interior Board ruled on that procedural area, saying that his intention for recreation, which is affected by the drilling, is sufficient for the board to consider the case. “ The judge has yet to rule whether the BLM adhered to the proper planning process as laid out in 2007, before approving more drilling in 2011. — Cayte Bosler

FISH AND WILDLIFE SURVEY SHOWS AMERICANS SPEND BILLIONS ON OUTDOOR RECREATION

In 2011, wildlife enthusiasts shelled out $54.9 billion on expenses for recreational activities like hunting and fishing. The U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service census estimates that 33.1 million U.S. residents fished that year. The most popular fish species caught among freshwater anglers was the black bass. The survey also reported that 13.7 million people spent billions of dollars on trip expenditures and equipment to pursue big game, such as deer and elk. The total amount of money spent on wildlife recreation also includes the subtler side of outdoor recreating, like camping and bird watching. — Cayte Bosler

BOULDER COUNTY TO RECOGNIZE CONSERVATION EFFORTS

The Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department is accepting nominations of families, individuals and organizations that have made significant achievements in the areas of land conservation, environmental stewardship or historic preservation. Seven individuals received awards last year for their volunteer efforts. Nominations are open until Thursday, Jan. 31. — Cayte Bosler

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species. Octopus (tako) is on the program’s “avoid” list because of a practice known as bottom trawling — basically casting out a huge net that catches more than just octopus and is contributing to the depletion of many ocean species. “We’ve become so efficient at pulling everything out of the sea. We need to be smarter about our fishing techniques,” Nichols Goldstein says. Other fish on the menu, like shake (salmon), maguro (tuna) and hamachi (yellowtail), can be great options if they’ve been caught sustainably. The

only way to know this is to ask. Much of the salmon served in restaurants, for example, is farmed. While this may sound like it’s a sustainable option because the fish were raised to be eaten, the reality is that more wild resources are used to feed fish in farms than come out of them, according to Seafood Watch. Hamachi and maguro are tricky, too, because they can refer to any number of different species. Clearly, it can be difficult to know which fish are OK to eat. The good news is that there are some consistently

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hristmas saw snowy weather around the Patagonian peak Fitz Roy, and Boulder residents Jonathan Byers and Joaquin Espinosa camped at its base, huddled together, wishing for better weather and wondering what would come of the summits both traveled to Patagonia to attempt. Byers and his partner, Espinosa, an associate professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Colorado, had both come to Patagonia with Fitz Roy in mind. For Espinosa, it was his third trip to Patagonia to chase summits. The two had been introduced in Chile by Rolando Garibotti, who runs Pataclimb.com and is a source of wisdom on the notoriously Climbers looking up at Cerro Torre temperamental Patagonian peaks. They’d from Laguna Torre. set off when what seemed to be a threeday weather window appeared, hoping that the word they’d heard from other climbers, that the routes Supercanaleta and Afanasieff might be clean, was right, despite the snow and ice visible on the faces of Fitz Roy that could be seen from town. An eight-hour approach delivered them to the base of the routes. “On the first day of our supposed three-day window, it snowed all afternoon and into They turned back toward town, but on the way, the night,” Espinosa says. “When we woke up on day decided to detour to Guillaumet, a smaller, neighbortwo, the routes were in very bad condition.” ing peak with a summit at 2,580 meters, and waited People on Supercanaleta were coming down, and at its base the afternoon of the second day in that Afanasieff was loaded with ice. weather window to see what the weather would do. It “We spent Christmas Eve under a boulder getting held, and at three in the morning, having picked up a snowed on,” Byers says. “It just became obvious, by third partner who had also been turned back by conthe morning, that it just wasn’t going to happen, that ditions on Fitz Roy, they started the approach. climbing a 4,000-, 5,000-foot rock route in the snow The route they chose, Amy-Vidailhet, puts varywasn’t going to be a good plan. … We1were pretty 10:01 AMing demands on a climber’s skills — 200 meters of ice rudy.bw.2for1.left page.3.pdf 6/19/12 disappointed.” climbing is followed by about 400 meters of moderate

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5.9 rock climbing and a snow ramp to the summit. “The dimensions of this place are pretty spectacular,” Espinosa says of climbing in Patagonia in general. The route they’d planned to complete on Fitz Roy was 40 pitches, or about 1,600 meters — almost one and a half times the height of the Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite. “To me, they are the most beautiful mountains that I’ve seen. From what I’ve seen, there’s nothing like it. And they are very elusive. They have that seductive character. You can be totally set, and have the right gear and the right partner and it’s still no, you’re not allowed, not this time.” But Guillaumet was more permissive, and they reached the summit at 11 a.m. “We had a grand time. … It was great, it was smooth, perfect,” Espinosa says. “It’s always hard to bail from a very coveted mountain like Fitz Roy, and this is my third time down there, and I was feeling very good about getting on Fitz Roy, but in the end it was very clear we made the right decision.” Patagonian peaks require a wide and deep skill set; climbers draw on physical fitness in addition to ice climbing, rock climbing and glacier travel skills. But that the peak was Byers’ first summit in Patagonia never seemed to show, says Espinosa, who completed the Benitiers Route on Cerro Mocho four years ago and the Ciari di Luna on Aguja Saint Exupery two years ago. “You can tell he’s a young man with a deep love of the mountains who, despite his age, has a significant amount of alpine experience,” Espinosa says. The two returned to El Chalten, a town that’s popped up in recent years and provides climbers with previously unheard of comforts, like a chocolateria

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and beds to sleep in — it’s a Jonathan Byers on the “Cumbre,” the summit far cry from the of Cerro Torre, with the snow caves Fitz Roy range and the climbers in pampas of Argentina in Patagonia 25 the background. years ago would spend months in waiting for weather windows. “Getting shut down is always a part of the journey here,” Byers wrote in a Dec. 27 email. Back in town, Byers starting hearing about a Christmas rush on Cerro Torre, But Cerro Torre was a peak that a fiercely vertical spire in Argentinean had figured on his horizons for years, Patagonia that peaks out at 10,278 feet, starting as his computer desktop image but is among the world’s most coveted during high school and, more recently, peaks because of the difficulty of its becoming the feature of many sunrise technical climbs. Mountaineer and and sunset photographs taken during writer Jon Krakauer has named it his time in Patagonia. The mountain among his first really difficult summits. had been the backdrop for so many While Byers and Espinosa were other training excursions, running and pondering Fitz Roy, as many as 28 peo- bouldering to get in shape for projects ple climbed Cerro Torre via the Ragni that seemed more reasonable. Route on the peak’s western ridge, To climb the western route up including 23 people on Christmas Day. Cerro Torre, the Ragni Route, climbers Since the route’s first ascent in 1974, sink ice axes and crampons into a layer only about 80 people had completed of constantly changing ice. One year, the route. climbers reported spending five hours “That’s totally wild,” Byers says. digging a tunnel through billowing “Usually that’s the peak that’s really mushrooms of unconsolidated rime ice scary and nobody gets up.” to reach the summit. But this season, Though Espinosa had to return to the route shaped up with well-protected Boulder, Byers still had time to consider ice climbing and little rime climbing, what to do with an incoming weather Garibotti has reported on Pataclimb. window. com. Rather than tunneling or praying “Rolando Garibotti, he was like, if over each swing of an ice axe into overyou’re going to do it, now is the time to hanging rime ice with a consistency do it,” Byers says. “I’m not nearly as some climbers have described as cotton experienced with ice climbing and it’s candy-like, stem-boxes opened up, and an ice route, so it was a difficult decithe typically volatile weather was genersion because I knew I was going to be ous with another window of stable days. out of my comfort zone.” So Byers turned toward Cerro Torre

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thinking, OK, maybe this could go. He partnered up with fellow Colorado resident Jonathan Schaffer, who lives near Durango, and the two left town on Dec. 29 and set up a tent at Niponino, below the southeast ridge. All day on Dec. 30 they sat in their tent as it rained, but clear weather meant they could cross the Col Standhardt on the 31st and arrive at the base of the route. At 2 a.m. on the first day of 2013, while other Boulderites would have been just winding down their New Year’s Eve celebrations, they set off up 2,000 feet of vertical ice, headed toward the top of Cerro Torre. Other groups had left even earlier, and they spent the first part of the climb being pelted with golf ball- and softball-sized chunks of ice. “The guy I was climbing with, first thing in the morning, when he showed up at one of the belays, he had a bloody nose,” Byers says. “It’s always sort of risky to look up at all in those situations.” The routes he’d planned to try on Fitz Roy would have been much more rock climbing, something more in his skill set, says Byers, who has been a rock climber since college but ice climbed only a handful of times before leaving for Patagonia. A Live Your Dream grant from the American Alpine Club allowed him to take climbing rescue training courses,

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oulder Weekly first caught up with Jonathan Byers in December to talk about his work with the Alpine of the Americas Project, repeating historic photographs of glaciers to illustrate how they’ve changed over the decades (See “Finding the past in the present,” Boulder Weekly Dec. 20, 2012). Though mountaineering has been his focus for the past few weeks of good weather, Byers says he’s been able to use the time in the mountains to identify a few locations that historic photos were taken from, and has met climbers who will be able to contribute as he continues to crowd-source images from people who have been traveling to Patagonia for decades. That may include Pataclimb.com creator Rolando Garibotti, who has been climbing in Patagonia since he was a teenager and taking photos there since the mid-’90s, and Colin Haley, an American climber who climbed Cerro Torre twice this year. Visit www.alpineamericas.com for additional information on his project or to participate by repeating a historic photograph.

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though, and that able to go up it.” increased his A solid half comfort climbing pipe had cut its and knowing that way through the he had the skills top section, to get back down where people safely, he says. have spent hours “I was thinktunneling ing maybe I’d go through soft spend about a rime ice before. year training on It leads to a blue ice climbing and tunnel of ice, all that stuff followed by one before going for more belay and Cerro Torre,” he then a scramble says. “When I to the summit. actually went up From there, there and we Byers says, he started climbing, could look out I realized I did 360 degrees, have the skills.” across the The groups Patagonian Ice Bootpack at dawn looking up at Cerro ahead were mov- Torre (on the left), Torre Egger, and Cerro Cap and to the Stanhardt. ing slowly, and Pacific Ocean — they were able the source of all to simul-climb past some of them and those storms so prone to shutting catch up with friends. down climbers. “It wasn’t like any kind of climbing “A week earlier I would have said, I’ve ever done before,” Byers says. “It’s ‘Yeah, I might climb that someday, but not very solid, so you have to be really that’s going to be a long time away. careful to get ice screws and protection That’s not going to happen this year,’” in when you can. But it was a really Byers says. “That’s what happens in incredibly beautiful place up there. the mountains. What you expect to There was only a tiny bit of sort of happen doesn’t, but what does happen mixed rock climbing and the rest of it is way more than I could have was pretty solid ice, which is sort of dreamed.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com why this year so many people have been Boulder Weekly

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hough separated by a cavernous gulf of ideological and political differences, the distance between the United States and the island of Cuba is just 90 miles. In 2010, three U.S.-based jazz musicians, trumpeter Christian Scott, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, and tenor saxaphonist David Sánchez, traveled to Cuba to meet with local musicians and make an album. What they found was something both familiar and foreign. “This reminds of New Orleans,” Scott says in a preview of a forthcoming documentary about the project. “When people start playing music in Cuba, it’s almost like a musical catharsis for the entire community.” The resulting collaboration spawned a critically acclaimed live album, 90 Miles Live at Cubadisco, and a group of musicians has been playing shows around the country ever since. Scott left the group and was replaced by Nicholas Payton, who has been traveling with the group for about a year. Payton stirred up controversy at the end of 2011 24 January 17, 2013

when he wrote a fiery manifesto of sorts called “On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore,” in which he wrote, “Jazz ain’t cool, it’s cold, like necrophilia. / Stop fucking the dead and embrace the living. / Jazz worries way too much about itself for it to be cool.” His intent was to ditch the label “jazz” altogether, writing in a follow-up post, “‘Jazz’ is an oppressive colonialist slave term and I want no part of it. If Jazz wasn’t a slave, why did Ornette try to free it? … I am Nicholas Payton and I play Black American Music.” Boulder Weekly talked to Payton about Cuban music, the ever-evolving 90 Miles project, and the state of all types of “Black American Music.” Boulder Weekly: What was your experience in Cuban music before joining the project? Nicholas Payton: Well, I have some experience playing in the genre … but I think at this point it’s fairly safe to say it’s far beyond just a Cuban music project. I think “90 Miles” has perhaps come to suggest the relative closeness between cultures as opposed to a

specific idiomatic reference to Cuban music. I think we span a broad range of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, all the way to Puerto Rico. Actually most of the band is from Puerto Rico. We have a Venezuelan pianist, and actually only one Cuban, our percussionist Mauricio Herrero. And I’m from New Orleans, which is often referred to as the northernmost region of the Caribbean. How did it evolve from its roots as collaboration between Cuban and American musicians? I think the musicians sort of determined that by who’s playing. Obviously, when they recorded the album, it was a Cuban rhythm section and they did it in Cuba. I think with the influx of personnel and different personalities, they bring their experiences to it. So it’s not like a repertory band where we feel restricted to a style or how a particular recording with the band — it’s a totally different band at this point, with the exception of [Sánchez] and [Harris]. By nature of that it sounds completely different, and the band is going in Boulder Weekly

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different directions. Everyone is bringing their experiences to it. Have you ever been to Cuba? What was it like? I would say it’s pretty much the same in that there’s a heavy root of Africa present; the music has a direct spiritual and social context. There’s music everywhere. The musicians are a highly regarded part of society, there as in New Orleans. Pretty much the same social function, from what I witnessed. It has the same level of cultural vibrance and significance and prominence. Musically, what adjustments do you have to make to play Cuban-based music? This is not a Cuban band. I think we’re all versed in that language, like I said — not that you necessarily have to be from Cuba to play it — but what we do is not Cuban music. I think it would be maybe somewhat disrespectful to traditional Cuban music to say that it was, because it’s a lot broader than that. We bring our own personal experiences to the table, which covers a broad range of geography and cultural heritage. I think the music is more honest if we’re representative of what we’re doing with obvious respect to those roots, but even that music is a lot broader than what’s given credit to. The way that those transmissions of rhythms throughout the Caribbean, from Haiti, to all these places in the Caribbean, they are all connected and re-influence one another. Even the way American music has re-influenced the rhythms of Cuba is a study in itself. So it’s not so linear, you know. You caused some controversy a few years ago when you said that you don’t play jazz, you play Black American Music. Does this project fit into that label? I think some of the things that we do could be attributed to that. Not everything, but it does have a heavy part of that. But I wouldn’t say it’s exclusively that, because a lot of it, like I said, is Afro-Caribbean. What is the state of the controversy that stirred up? What is the state of controversy that I stirred up? [Pauses.] I wouldn’t tell you that it is controversial. It’s just the truth. I think [the fact] that it is controversial, to me, speaks to an issue, which is that a lot of people don’t acknowledge it as having roots in the black community. They think it’s of either ambiguous origin or that somehow the music has grown beyond that and now it’s kind of this world music where you do what you want. It’s for everybody, certainly, everyone can play it, but the truth of the matter is that the roots of the music come from the African-American community, just like other things. Boulder Weekly

Do you find more and more people identifying themselves as playing Black American Music instead of jazz? Yes, I have seen that. You know, I don’t necessarily expect people to do it, or think everyone should, because some people do play jazz, and they should embrace that if that’s what they do. But to me, those are not the same thing. But when you say “jazz,” it’s still based off of black music, it’s just a characterization of that, but it’s still based on it. Jazz is a type of music that first started in the black community and then was fairly quickly mainstreamed to white audiences. Do you find that most people in your audience are white? Yup. What are your thoughts on that? I’m glad whoever comes is there. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m appreciative of anybody who appreciates good music. I don’t want less white people, I would just like to see more people of color at the gigs. I think a lot of it is that people don’t realize it’s their music. I think a lot of black people associate jazz with being Kenny G, or something not of their community. I don’t think they realize and have been taught that this music is a part of their cultural heritage. It’s something that should seem blatantly obvious, but it’s not. And that’s one of the points that I’m trying to drive home, specifically to black people is that, this is something for you to be proud of. All these great musicians come out of your community and have been a part of changing the status quo for black people and have been a part of the struggle for liberation and freedom from oppressive forces. We’ve come a long way, and a lot of that has been done through people like Louis Armstrong and Count Basie and Duke Ellington and so forth. They were a big part of changing the perception of black people all over the world. When you have to deal with forces like Charlie Parker and see a genius like that, it’s harder to dehumanize that. You have to respect that person on a personal level. I don’t believe we’re post-race. We’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. What do you think about hip-hop? I think hip-hop suffers from the same thing. It’s underground music developed in the black community out of a very street and social and spiritual sensibility. But as it got popularized and mainstreamed, it lost in general a lot of its character. I don’t think the spirit of the music died, but certainly what’s considered hip-hop now, it’s like the same [state] as jazz. Interview conducted, condensed, and edited by author. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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alexico’s John Convertino was fielding questions from the media recently; we were his last interview that day, but also at least his second interview prepping the Boulder market for the Tucson-based outfit’s upcoming Fox Theatre gig. The first one caught him a little off-guard. “Yeah,” he remembers. John Convertino, left, “They called up and said, ‘Oh, and Joey Burns we’ll have Cathy on the line of Calexico here in a minute’. I go, OK, no problem, and then she gets on the phone and she’s DJ-ing, she says the name of the tune she was just playing, and then says, ‘Oh, and now we have John Convertino from Calexico on the line. … John, are you there?’ “I was like, ‘Whoa, I guess I’m live on the radio.’ Ha! But it’s all fine, we’re really looking forward to coming back to Colorado, it’s been a while.” A little press juice isn’t the worst thing in the world for these guys, and Boulder is probably catching them, rested and chilled after the holiday break, at just the right time. The band released its sixth long player (and first in four years) a few months ago, Algiers, and plenty of their followers are suggesting that after 16 years as a going concern, the indie Southwest alt-TexMex duo of Convertino and Joey Burns (plus backing band) might have just achieved vintage status. Algiers paints its stories in pastels; calloused frontier loners (“Splitter”), reluctant lovers (“Para”), determined and probably hopeless Cuban refugees (“Sinner in the Sea”), grimly desperate modern Gypsies (“Better and Better”), all set against a relaxed but meticulously orchestrated bed of buoyant six-strings, a garnish of mariachi horns and background vocals that harmonize and wail gently in the fringy recesses of the canvas, like Calexico member Jacob Valenzuela’s

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— counter-intuitively, for all its turquoise and rawhide texturing — at The Living Room Studio in New Orleans, a small converted woodframe house (formerly a church) under a bridge and across the river from downtown, in the neighborhood which bears its name. ON THE BILL: Calexico The album doesn’t plays the Fox Theatre on Friday, sound like it; don’t strain Jan. 18. Bahamas open. Doors too hard listening for brass at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $22 in advance, $25 day of show; parade flourishes or honkyadd $2 for under-21 tickets. tonk piano. This is a true1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443to-the-queso Calexico CD. 3399. But Convertino says that New Orleans, a musical landscape with plenty of ghosts of its own, cast its spell on Burns and Convertino. Anyone who has spent time following the band over its years as its own franchise, or as soundtrack and collaboration artists, would probably not find that surprising. Calexico absorbs and reflects a compelling sense of place in its writing and playing. melancholy and silky smooth trumpet lines on his “Yeah, that’s really true,” Convertino says, “and I own composition “No Te Vas.” Completely without guile or inauthentic sampling, appreciate you picking up on it. … I really think this is music that seduces and persuades, borrowing its musicians are like antennas and we’re just picking up southwest Mexican influences with dignified elegance, these signals. “One thing I noticed walking around the neighand if it takes a few spins before the lyrics fully frame borhood in Algiers were these little historic plates, the scene, the effort is more than worth it. they would say something like, ‘So and so lived here. This is a band that has grown up. He was the piano player with Louie Armstrong.’ … Convertino agrees, and to some extent credits the That combination of culture and instruments that band’s longtime producer and counsel Craig came together in New Orleans, I mean, it couldn’t Schumacher for the album’s confident and deftly exehave happened anywhere else. That definitely affected cuted stride. us.” “When Craig catches that one moment, when But none of it — the ghosts, the history, the culyou’re listening to the basic tracks — like just guitar ture — helped Convertino with his Spanish. and drums, or a piano line and drums, or even if Joey He laughs. is in there by himself — it’s like the song automati“My Spanish is terrible. We have Jacob and Jairo cally tells you what it wants next. It’s a really interest[Zavala] in the band. Those guys speak fluent ing process, and there are times when … it’s done.” Spanish, and we gringos just ‘Spanglish’ away. We These moments of spontaneity and self-confihear them singing, and we go, ‘Man, that just sounds dence happen a lot when a band is in a familiar enviso much better in Spanish!’” ronment — a home studio, a regular-gig stage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Instead, though, Calexico actually recorded the CD

Sounds of the Southwest

Calexico delves into the sounds of their home by Dave Kirby

Bullet with a change

Rotating members, a career on the edge of the mainstream haven’t derailed Nonpoint by Alan Sculley

o put it mildly, Nonpoint went through a major transition heading into its seventh album when it replaced two band members — guitarist Zach Broadrick and bassist Ken “KB” MacMillan — with three new recruits, lead guitarist Dave Lizzio, rhythm guitarist Rasheed Thomas and bassist Adam Wolosyzn. But if Nonpoint vocalist Elias Soriano and drummer Robb Rivera had any doubts about the move or the future of the group, they were erased almost as soon as the new trio of musicians joined the lineup. “In the first two weeks, we wrote eight songs,” Soriano says. “So it was hit the ground running. This is a serious project. And these guys, they realized how serious it was. So they jumped right on board. There was no down time at all.” That sort of enthusiasm and participation in the creative process was exactly what had been missing for Nonpoint over the preceding few years. “The new members really wanted to work and they really wanted to write music,” Soriano says. “You know, past members, they get jaded, they get lazy. They see NONPOINT Page 28

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think that music is just going to come without any work.” There was a time when the original lineup of Nonpoint was hitting on all cylinders. Formed in 1997 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Nonpoint came on the national radar in 2000 with its third album (and first major label Nonpoint has weathered multiple lineup changes during release), Statement. its 16-year career. Tours with Mudvayne, Drowning Point and Fuel (among others), plus a slot on the MacMillan decided to quit Nonpoint, 2001 Ozzfest helped raise awareness Soriano and Rivera turned to Lizzio, of the band, and Nonpoint’s next CD, who brought along Thomas and 2002’s Development, entered the Wolosyzn, who were his bandmates in Billboard album chart at No. 52, more Inn Cinema, a Chicago-based band. than 100 slots higher than the peak Nonpoint also changed labels, signposition for Statement. ing with Razor & Tie Records for the The band never made a big comcurrent self-titled album. mercial breakthrough, but over the The new band members brought a course of the next three albums — fresh energy to Nonpoint, with Lizzio 2004’s Recoil, 2006’s To The Pain and and MacMillan quickly becoming sig2007’s Vengeance — Nonpoint stayed nificant songwriting contributors. Soriano said their enthusiasm and work visible and had a pair of Top 25 mainethic, in turn, re-energized him and stream rock hits, “The Truth” and had him thinking back to the raw, but “Bullet With A Name.” melodic, rock sound of the band’s early By this time, though, problems major label albums as songs started to were starting to surface within come together. Nonpoint, and in 2008, the group “The riffs and stuff [Lizzio and parted ways with guitarist Andrew Thomas were writing] were just remiGoldman. The band brought in Broadrick as a niscent of Statement and the days when we were really, really going crazy on replacement and released a 2009 EP, Cut The Chord, followed by a 2010 full- stage and we had the energy of youth to drive us,” Soriano says. “This time, it length CD, Miracle. But after touring was just the music was coming from behind Miracle, Soriano and Rivera every direction and it was so great. It realized further house cleaning was was easy to look back on our past and necessary. say ‘Hey, what I used to do back here “[Broadrick] was pretty much a would fit great over this,’ and I would quick fix,” Soriano says. “He was a sort of bring some of that old style Band-Aid over a wound that we had. back.” … So when it came down toward the The Nonpoint album should please end of the Miracle cycle, we kind of and reassure the band’s fans, as the looked at the performance, and Robb and I agreed we just needed to let Zach album features such raw and combustible but melodic rockers as “I Said It,” know we were going to move ahead “Lights, Camera, Action” and “Left For without him and try to find somebody You.” else.” Soriano said Lizzio, Thomas and At that point, MacMillan, who according to Soriano had tired of music Wolosyzn also quickly fit into and touring, decided to leave Nonpoint Nonpoint on stage as well, and he feels the band is living up to its long-standand pursue work in the graphics field. ing reputation as an aggressive and Soriano and Rivera didn’t have to energetic live band. look far for the three musicians that “They’ve been really pulling their came on board to complete the new weight and falling right into the lineup. Nonpoint game and perspective,” he Rivera had met Lizzio through a friend, and he and Soriano had actually says, “which is exciting live shows with a lot of sweat, movement and singing started working with the future along.” Nonpoint guitarist on a side project. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com When Broadrick was fired and Boulder Weekly

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

Backwoods Galaxy. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Delta Sonics. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Bongo Love. 10:30 p.m. The Walrus, 1911 11th St., Boulder, 303-443-9902. Chicha. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Eminence Ensemble. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Felonius Smith. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Luke Redfield Band. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.

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

Message in a Bottle — A tribute to The Police. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Jazz Nicholson. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Johnny O. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Marc Cohn. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. The Ninety Miles Project. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Patrick Lee Group Trio. 9 p.m. Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-3050. Rogue Sound. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.

events Climb to Glory — A documentary on the legacy of the 10th Mountain Ski Troopers. 6 p.m. The Oriental Theatre, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-4200030.

Monocle Stache. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2739. www.sportsexpos.com. (Runs through Sunday.) A Night With Nicholas Sparks’ Safe Haven. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, www.fathomevents.com.

Friday, January 18 music Best of the Open Stage. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2. Black Dog. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. BlueKrewe. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Calexico. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Friends of the Longmont Library Book Sale. 6-9 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont, www.friendsofthelongmontlibrary.org.

Campfire Vendetta. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

International Sportsmen’s Exposition — Adventure, travel, fishing and hunting show. 12-9 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver,

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Ramaya & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Rocky Mountain Grateful Dead Revue — With Rob Eaton. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Samba Dende. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Wendy Woo and Nina Storey. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

events [ABSURDUS] corpus. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-717-6619. The Boulder Filmmaking Incubator. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St. #100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Brews & Bites — Three-course dinner with beer pairing. Q’s, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4880. Friends of the Longmont Library Book Sale. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont, www.friendsofthelongmontlibrary.org. see EVENTS Page 32

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Alchemy — Bronze scupltures by Kerry Cannon. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-4924247. Through March 24.

Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464. Through Feb. 10. Cover Story — Works by Daniel Pitín. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27. Dana Schutz: If the Face had Wheels. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb. 13. Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration — With Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee. Norlin Library East Lobby and West Lobby, CU campus, Boulder, www.ucblibraries.colorado.edu. Through March 8. Out West: Photographs by Loretta YoungGautier. The Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-4933. Through

Feb. 23. Random Walk with Drift — Works by Marius Lehene. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27. Expert talk at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 24. Resonance — Solo exhibition by Greeley sculptor Hee-Hun Cho. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Feb. 23. Rethinking Western — Contemporary artists on the American West. Gallery 1261, 1261 Delaware St., Denver, 888-626-1261. Through Feb. 23. Sky Black — Surrealist paintings. Trident Cafe and Bookstore, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433133. Ira Upin, Erik Geschke and Aspen Hochhalter. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Artist talks 4-5 p.m. Opening reception 5-7 p.m.

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PBJ Fridays — Art, music, free peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Saturday, January 19 music Aural Elixir. 12 p.m. The Red Frog, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-772-7209. Blue Canyon Boys. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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The Casey Driessen Singularity. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

The Longest Day of the Year. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Magdalena Taberna and friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847. Particle's '80s Flashback. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Pink Mammoth Party. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Randall Dubis Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Chris Malley & Bob Schlesinger Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985.

Rebel Tongue. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Connally & Ramey. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

Ryan Flick. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Daniella Katzir. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband — With The Quiet American. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Tim the Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

The Whales — With Hot Soup. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Eclipse — Journey tribute band. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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The Funky Fresh Trio — With Tupac Amaralluoa. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder,

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Sunday, January 20

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

The Scrampiano Orchestra. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Blues Jam — Hosted by Todd Johnson. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Friday, January 18 Spanish with Kena. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Danny Shafer Trio. 8:30 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.

Auditions for disLabeled — Emotionally and/or cognitively challenged adults 18 and up can audition for Phamaly’s disLabeled. 6 p.m. Naropa University Arapahoe Campus, Sycamore Building Classroom 8150, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-575-0005.

Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Dave Gerard. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Searching for Sugar Man. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Craig Corona. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Delta Sonics Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

KIDS CALENDAR

French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

music Antonio A. Lopez — With Essence Rider. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Hey Penny Bridge. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio. Players welcome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Boulder Blues Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Kung Fu — With Roster McCabe. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

The Prairie Saga — Join Petey, the Prairie Dog, as he learns about the animals that live on the prairie. 1 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Thursday, January 17 Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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wo minutes in: You can do this, Ryan. Sure, a three-hour film version of a Broadway musical is a dry way to waterboard you, but people say Les Misérables is the best adaptation yet. Maybe this is the one that finally changes your mind. Five minutes in: Nope. This is my personal hell. Twenty minutes in: If anyone finds this, please get word to director Tom Hooper that there’s a difference between a close-up and invasive surgery. If I see any further up Hugh Jackman’s nose, I’ll see his thoughts. Twenty-five minutes in: Man, Jean Valjean ( Jackman) did a 20-year bid for stealing bread. The French take croissants seriously, huh? Hey, if I can already pick up on how the theme is a simple contrast between Javert (Russell Crowe), the absolutist, and Valjean, the “changed man,” reflecting the potential of France herself to change, do I have to stay? Forty minutes in: Holy goblin face, Hooper! What demonic camera lens did you use to turn Anne Hathaway into a grotesque mutant? Still, she is acting her corseted booty off, and her singing is pretty dope. You know, maybe I’ll like this movie after all!

Les swing and les miss  ‘Les Misérables’ is the nail in the coffin  by Ryan Syrek

Forty-two minutes in: She’s dead? What? How? What did she die of? Prostitution isn’t fatal or we’d be reading Kim Kardashian’s eulogy by now. An hour in: Why is there no French Revolution in this French Revolution movie? And why don’t these characters just talk instead of sing, at least sometimes? I’ve seen them do it! They should be able to stop talksinging and just talktalk. I mean, for God’s sake it doesn’t even rhyme or have a discernible cadence! An hour and fifteen minutes in: Abandon all hope! The corpse of Helena Bonham Carter has been dredged up and reanimated as a bloated clown walrus, and Sacha Baron Cohen keeps poking at her like her pasty boobs are mini-pinatas. Oh, and Valjean talked to Fantine (Hathaway) once in his life and now he’s raising her kid? Eighteen years, am I right, Kanye? An hour and forty five minutes in: Hooper, the way your cinematographer shot Amanda Seyfried means I can’t buy that Marius (Eddie Redmayne) would love her at first sight; she looks like a mouse that got into hydrochloric acid. And Marius sings like he’s doing a Kermit the frog impression! Two hours to two and a half hours in: Cold … so

Where you been, Laden?

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ asks a good question by Ryan Syrek

hat members of the U.S. Senate have spent more time discussing the fictional depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty than they spent discussing the actual torture the military was performing in the wake of 9/11 is yet more proof that “Congress” is the opposite of “progress.” This isn’t to say that director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal aren’t challenging our ethics. They are, and they found a cunning way to do it. For a decade, Osama bin Laden was a national bogeyman, making Zero Dark Thirty as much Jaws as it is Black Hawk Down. The laborious, mostly narrative-free endeavor is a slow-motion examination of the line between determination and obsession and a reminder that stopping evil just may take evil, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. The film opens with one of the most jarring sequences in memory, and not one image is displayed. The sounds of 9/11, the phone calls to loved ones, the television reports, the noise and confusion play out Boulder Weekly

over a black screen. Because the film only works if we remember the bloodlust and anger America collectively felt, it’s a masterful way to refresh those feelings without exploiting the audience. It’s also the last truly breathtaking moment until the final sequence. We meet Maya ( Jessica Chastain) as she watches fellow intelligence agent Dan ( Jason Clarke) torture the ever-lovin’ crap out of a man who is chained to the ceiling, waterboarded and forced to soil himself. She hates it. But she doesn’t leave. Watching Maya’s quest for answers over the next decade is exhausting, confusing and devoid of personality. Chastain was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar because she managed to squeeze a full character arc solely through body language and “oh-no-she-didn’t” sass. She bumps heads with her boss (Kyle Chandler), and doggedly pursues her theory regarding bin Laden’s message courier. Spoiler alert: Her hunch is right.

very cold. The singing never stops. It. Just. Never. Stops. And the camera keeps getting closer and closer and … I’m going towards the light. I feel you, Javert! You my boy! Epilogue: Jackman, Hathway, Crowe and newcomer Samantha Barks gave their damn damnedest, for nothing; they were tilting at windmills. Broadway musicals do not, will not and cannot work as films. Cinema is a medium that relies on showing, not telling, and musicals are all telling; characters tell us how they feel, where they’re going, what just happened and what will happen next. It’s not about “getting it right” with these adaptations. It can’t be gotten right: these mediums are in diametric opposition. On stage, Les Misérables may bring me to tears. I only cried at the movie during a panic attack due to a fear the singing would never stop. To musical enthusiasts everywhere: I tried. I promise. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

The last 40 minutes is the white-knuckle military raid promised in ads. It makes sense; how many would see a movie sold as “watch a woman relentlessly do research!” The mission is perfectly shot, exquisitely paced and clearly edited. And it is easy to feel the payoff for Maya, because it feels like we waited a decade for this moment too. This film asks, “Was it worth it?” America tortured people. That’s a fact, even if we’re inclined to place it in a box on the cultural shelf right next to Native American genocide and slavery as things we all pretend to forget. Maya gradually learns to accept that torture is the most efficient way to do her job, a job that means saving and avenging lives. And the movie never sanitizes the torture, never glorifies it. The theory that somehow this film is a defense of such behaviors is reprehensibly stupid and should be dismissed outright. No, Bigelow and Boal want us to think on what we did, to remember that our “triumph” in killing the world’s greatest terrorist came at the expense of the world’s greatest moral authority. So, was it worth it? Judging Zero Dark Thirty as a movie is hard. It feels more like an expensive ABC News reenactment and would make for a better documentary. The hubbub and praise it has received is understandable if somewhat hard to echo. In other words, the intelligence assessment here is “good, but not great.” —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant meditation on man and his place in the mysterious universe concerns two astronauts (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood) who become imperiled by their hyper-intelligent shipboard computer (HAL 9000) while on a mission in the depths of space. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher, a six-footfive monster of a man who made a career in the military as an investigator, as created by novelist Lee Child. While many feared the wee Cruise too small for the role, his expansive personality proves capable of mitigating the size difference in this somewhat cliched but unquestionably fun diversionary detective fare. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

ANNA KARENINA Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity comes to life thanks to director Joe Wright. A unique narrative device illuminates the theatrical behavior of the randy Russian nobles who can’t seem to help trying to sleep with each other’s spouses. Rated R. At Esquire. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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ARGO Ben Affleck’s latest directing project (in which he also stars) is based on true events from the Iranian revolution in 1979. Militants storm the U.S. embassy and take 52 Americans hostage. Rated R. At Esquire.

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BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a 6-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society BROKEN CITY The mayor of New York City (Russell Crowe) hires a former cop (Mark Wahlberg) to spy on his wife. The private eye uncovers a scandal much larger than an extramarital affair. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. CHASING ICE Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino does to slave owners what he did to Nazis in Inglourious Basterds, taking therapeutic cinematic revenge upon them with Django, a freed slave turned bounty hunter. He and his partner, Dr. King Schultz, attempt to rescue Django’s wife from the watchful eye of Calvin Candie and his head slave. Things do not end peacefully. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and 38 January 17, 2013

The most wanted drug kingpin in the country has escaped jail and is headed straight for the border with Mexico. But first he’s got to get through Summerton Junction, where the sheriff is waiting for him. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. LES MISERABLES See full review page 37. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Three World War II veterans learn that life back home can also be hell. When a girl is kidnapped by a serial killer in the Nebraska Sandhills, Sheriff Henry Fisher asks his pilot brother, Jack, to fly to the scene, where the kidnapper has been discovered hiding in a barn. Jack complies, never guessing what will happen in his small aircraft and the devastating effect it will have on the lives around him. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

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LIFE OF PI 3D Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. GANGSTER SQUAD In the violent underground of 1940s Los Angeles, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) calls the shots with the police firmly in his pocket. But some cops can’t be controlled, and John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) form a group of tough, civic-minded police determined to protect their city from crime. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. THE GUILT TRIP Before setting off on one of the biggest trips of his life, Andy Brewster makes a quick stop at his mom’s house and unexpectedly picks her up to join on his personal adventure. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. A HAUNTED HOUSE In the vein of the Scary Movie series he helped create, Marlon Wayans stars in this parody of found-footage haunted house films like Paranormal Activity and The Devil Inside. Rated R. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. HITCHCOCK Lurking behind Alfred Hitchcock — cinema’s “master of suspense” — was a hidden side: his creatively explosive romance with his steadfast wife and filmmaking collaborator, Alma Reville. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D Peter Jackson goes back for an Unexpected Journey that produces expected results, as this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s original tale of hobbits and wizards is every bit as good as the Lord of the Rings series (and is, in some ways, even better). Rated PG-13.

At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. HOLY MOTORS French bad-boy Leos Carax re-imagines the City of Light as the backdrop for nearly a dozen surreal adventures starring the filmmaker’s longtime collaborator Denis Lavant as a 21st-century man of a thousand faces, who transforms into various characters for strikingly different vignettes. Also starring Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue. At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Boedecker Theater HYDE PARK ON HUDSON In June 1939 the King and Queen of England stay overnight at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s country estate Hyde Park in upstate New York. This was the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE IMPOSSIBLE Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But as the family relaxes around the pool, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres IN ANOTHER COUNTRY Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in the first English-language film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo. In overlapping stories, three different French women visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious director, a lovestruck lifeguard and far too much soju in an effortless, laugh-out-loud comedy that plays like a lost French New Wave classic. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

A storm ravages a boat carrying a zookeeper’s family and menagerie, and the only survivors are the family’s son, Pi, and a Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Shot in 3-D, the film is a visual feast and is almost certain to receive a Best Picture nomination. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. LINCOLN This is all about the creation of the penny. OK, kidding. This is Daniel Day-Lewis proving he’s the best there is (maybe ever) at embodying the emancipatory president as he works to get the 13th Amendment through a divided Congress in the midst of war. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. MAMA Five years after they disappeared, sisters Victoria and Lilly are found in a half-collapsed cabin in the woods. But when they come back to civilization to live with their uncle and his girlfriend, the girls don’t come alone. Based on a short film by the director, Andres Muschietti. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. NOT FADE AWAY Inspired by the Rolling Stones, three friends form a rock band in what is both a coming of age story and a tribute to romanticized images of the ’60s. Not rated. At Colony Square. OPERA: LOHENGRIN — LA SCALA Rene Pape, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros star in Wagner’s deeply romantic and chivalrous opera. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater PARENTAL GUIDANCE A grandfather and his wife face new challenges when they babysit their three grandBoulder Weekly

reel to reel children while the parents are away, and they find they must adjust their methods when faced with the problems of a younger generation. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

between attractive people. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. —The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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Matt Damon plays a slick corporate salesman sure he can snag the drilling rights from a small town in economic decline, but meets surprising resistance from a grassroots campaign. Rated R. At Century. REFLECTIONS OF EVIL Cult filmmaker Damon Packard wrote, directed, and stars in this bizarre independent feature about a sugar-addicted, obese watch seller. Packard plays Bob, a man whose penchant for sweets is threatening to send him to an early grave. His dead sister’s ghost attempts to help him while he seeks out a mysterious woman he saw in a vision. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE REVISIONARIES The highly politicized Texas State Board of Education periodically rewrites teaching and textbook standards for its nearly 5 million schoolchildren, influencing the whole nation’s textbooks. Don McLeroy, a dentist, Sunday school teacher and avowed young-earth creationist, leads the Religious Right charge, challenged by a group of academics who see this as the front line in a crucial “culture war.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater RUST AND BONE Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, The Dark Knight Rises) gives a tour-de-force performance in Rust and Bone that rivals anything she has done before. She plays Stéphanie, a freespirited whale trainer at a marineland on the French Riviera, who suffers a devastating injury. Rated R. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres SAMSARA “Samsara” is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and it is the point of departure for filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE SESSIONS

Based on the autobiographical writings of s journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined — at age 38 — to lose his virginity. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK When Pat (Bradley Cooper) is released from court-mandated institutionalization after beating his wife’s lover, he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a young widow struggling with grief. Great set-up for a romantic comedy, right? Although the film has the trappings of drama, everything is sanitized and clichéd enough for this to be little more than a feel-good romance Boulder Weekly

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What if you were struck by lightning and died before you even finished high school? That’s the starting point of this hilarious black comedy written by and starring Chris Colfer (Glee) and directed by Brian Dannelly (Saved!, Weeds). At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society SUNSET BOULEVARD Three-time Oscar winner about a hack screenwriter who writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater TCHOUPITOULAS Tchoupitoulas is a lyrical documentary that follows three adolescent brothers as they journey through one night in New Orleans, encountering a vibrant kaleidoscope of dancers, musicians, hustlers and revelers parading through the lamplit streets. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D This film takes up the narrative from the earlier Texas Chainsaw tales. A young woman inherits a house that once housed a vicious killer. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. THIS IS 40 Judd Apatow’s latest writing and directing effort depicts the marriage of two of the characters from Knocked Up. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann play a couple struggling through marriage in this emotional comedy. Rated R. At Century and Twin Peaks. WHEN THE IRON BIRD FLIES Follow the path of one of the world’s great spiritual traditions from the caves of Tibet to the mainstream of Western culture. Along the way, the film tackles the provocative exchanges between Buddhist practitioners and scholars and Western scientists, psychologists and educators. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater ZERO DARK THIRTY See full review page 37. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Decode your food cues by Sandra Gordon

n a recent three-day trip to Grandpa and Grandma’s house, my parents took “clean your plate” to a whole new level, insisting at every meal that my girls eat it all up, whether or not they were full. After a while, even a gulp of milk left in a glass seemed to drive Mom and Dad crazy, the tension growing at every meal. Of course, nobody wants to waste food. Still, I was mystified. Didn’t my parents know that “Clean your plate” is so 1970s? That it’s an antiquated message that teaches kids to eat based on portion size, not actual hunger? That there’s an obesity epidemic raging? Hello?! I should talk. Younger generations of parents like me may have snubbed the clean-plate club for our kids and for

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ourselves, but we’re still guilty of conveying unhealthy messages about food. “It’s tough for moms and parents in general these days. We live in a foodobsessed environment and parents themselves are stuck in the food jungle,” says Marilyn Ann Migliore, author of The Hunger Within and director of a program of the same name at the University of Michigan. And whether it seems like it or not, our kids are tuning in to our subtle food cues, watching our every move (as well as enticing TV food commercials) and taking mental notes for themselves much earlier than we might think. What they observe can seep into their hardwiring, set them up for negative self-talk and form the foundation for unhealthy habits. What hidden meal messages are you expressing that your child is eating

up? Here’s food for thought. Maybe some of these common refrains sound familiar. You say: “You better eat now. Otherwise, you’re going to be hungry later.” Your child learns: That it’s OK to eat when you’re not hungry. Sure, you’d like your soccer player to eat before his 5 p.m. practice so he has plenty of energy to burn, and you’d love your preschooler to become a breakfast eater. But by encouraging kids to eat preventively, you’re training them to eat when they’re not hungry. Eating for any reason other than physical hunger — timing, convenience, boredom, fatigue or even happiness — is a set-up for weight gain, Migliore says. Make it part of your routine and your child could lose touch with his hunger cues long-term. Migliore has lots of adults in her practice struggling with this issue.

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The Corner Bar at Q’s Restaurant in the Boulderado Hotel in downtown Boulder will be hosting a “Brews and Bites” dinner at 4 p.m. on Jan. 18 and Jan. 19. The first course will include cauliflower and bacon perogie, a petite mixed greens salad, mustard beer sauce and Blue Moon Vintage Blonde Ale. The second course will feature beer-battered fish and chips, Atlantic cod and creamy coleslaw, green apple tartar sauce and Pilsner Urquell. The third course consists of a milk stout cheesecake with chocolate pretzel crust and salted caramel sauce as well as Leinenkugel’s Snowdrift Vanilla Porter. The cost is $26 per person plus tax and gratuity. Seating is first come, first serve.

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cuisine review Basta’s brunch among the best by Clay Fong

nce known as Pizzeria Basta, the My similarly priced main course was a fresh interand we finagled some that were tempura-fried with Boulder eatery now simply known as pretation on that comforting classic, humble biscuits impossibly delicate breading. While most oysters Basta still serves savory wood oven pies. and gravy. Spicy sausage in an exceptionally cleanwould come with a tartar sauce variant, this preparaBut this name change tasting white gravy was flavorful, but not overpowertion was boldly paired with prosciuttomore accurately reflects a laced gravy. The experiment was successful, ing the ideally textured buttermilk cheddar biscuit’s Basta menu offering much more than just gentle dairy-based tang and silky baked egg. The sauas the low-key smoky cured pork tones 3601 Arapahoe pizza, which is a smart move. Because accentuated the shellfish’s fresh brininess. sage’s quality was second to none, and the sauce didn’t Ave. (inside the while I’ve always felt the pies here are suffer from floury muddiness like others. Mara’s $12 entree was the “bird’s Peloton), fine, they may not be the best medium Mara paused in mid-sentence as she sampled a nest,” which she described as a most eleBoulder to fully showcase Chef Kelly Whitaker’s gant version of toad-in-the-hole. The cen- complimentary taste of smoked vanilla ice cream. 303-997-8775 skills. After taking in flavors both complex and familiar she terpiece was melt-in-your-mouth tender My suspicion was confirmed during said the taste reminded her of a campfire-toasted and perfectly seasoned duck that had a recent special Sunday brunch, which is undergone sous vide water bath slow-cookmarshmallow. Intriguingly, the initial shock of smoke not a regular event — this particular celebratory ing. Next the fowl had been prepared confit-style, pre- flavor yielded to an undeniable creaminess and pure repast commemorated this eatery’s third anniversary. served in its fat. Strips of bird lay scattered in a hole in vanilla bean flavor. Staff noted that brunch may become a regular event if toasted brioche, enlivened by creamy yet earthy strips The year is still young, and it may be premature to demand warrants, and it’s worth mentioning that of Japanese mushroom and a baked duck egg. start praising meals as “the best of the year.” But I’d Basta also serves lunch, but only on feel somewhat derelict in not awarding Fridays. Nevertheless, this brunch front-runner status to this brunch. At afforded an opportunity to sample the their most basic, meals provide sustewood-fired oven technique that’s a hallnance, and hopefully, some degree of mark of most Basta meals. gustatory pleasure. Our meal went well Astonished delight crossed friend beyond that, leaving me at a loss to idenMara’s face as she bit into a first course tify what could have been improved he documented origins of sous vide cooking go back to the of $5 beignets, the best I’ve had locally. upon. time of Count Rumford. Rumford, an American-born aristocrat, On the side was a ramekin of thick and Basta’s out-of-the-way location in the hightailed it out of the colonies after being accused of being a litluxurious chantilly cream, perfumed Peloton residences has likely prevented tle too chummy with the Redcoats. He was also a scientist interestwith vanilla. The custardy insides of this this spot from receiving its full due. But ed in heat, and he experimented with tossing a leg of mutton into donut cousin delightfully contrasted one thing is unequivocally clear: Chef a low-heat potato drier. When he removed it, he looked at the meat rather disdainfully and like any good 1 percenter, he gave it with the hot and crisp exterior lightly Kelly Whitaker’s craft warrants him a to the servants. He quickly regretted this decision, as he realized dusted with powdered sugar. well-deserved place among the very top the taste and texture were remarkably appealing. West Coast oysters baked in the Boulder culinary professionals. wood oven were offered for $3 apiece, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Message makeover: “Teach your child to eat only in response to true, physical hunger,” Migliore urges. If your child isn’t hungry before soccer practice, for example, he can bring a healthy snack and eat it when his stomach starts to growl. Also, avoid pushing food any time your child says he’s not hungry — even if it’s “time to eat.” “Go ahead and have set meals, but keep the structure loose,” Migliore says. If your child says he’s not hungry at breakfast with everyone else, for example, offer a bowl of cereal at 10 a.m. Your mission: To help your child learn to listen to his body and eat when he’s hungry and stop when he’s full. “From the very beginning, encourage your kids to trust their own intelligence,” Migliore says. You say: “After you get your flu shot, we’ll go out for ice cream.” Your child learns: Food helps smooth life’s rough spots. Using food as a reward for enduring a little physical pain can teach kids to use food to self-soothe and eat for emotional reasons too. And there’s no limit to the emotional stuff that’s apt to

come their way that a little food might seemingly help cure. Besides the flu shot, what about getting a bad grade on a test? Or being teased? Or not getting invited to a birthday party? Ouch! “As soon as you start to attach meaning to food, as in ice cream equals comfort, it gives food more significance,” Migliore says. Trouble is, eating doesn’t solve problems. Sure, ice cream can give your child something to look forward to after a visit to the doctor. But it doesn’t negate a bad grade or the fact that someone called you a name. And it doesn’t get you on the birthday invite list either or cure the more grownup issues all kids will have later. Message makeover: Stop emotional eating before it starts. “Think of fun ways to treat or reward your kids that don’t involve food,” Migliore says. After the flu shot, for example, you could take a trip to the toy store or the park or get a mommy-daughter manicure, or just go home and relish in the fact that it’s over. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Avery thrives on the extremes by Steve Weishampel

f you want to win the craft brewSo let’s go back to the extremes: ery game, do one thing and do it Avery’s 15 percent to 17 percent ABV well. Mephistopheles Stout. The Meph, as That’s one lesson to be they call it, is the most serious stout learned from Colorado’s biggest I’ve ever had. It’s thick, creamy, heavy, craft brewers. New Belgium has ridden complex, intense — and pretty damn its Fat Tire to distribution in 29 states, alcoholic. It finishes with liquor-like and you can grab a Dale’s Pale Ale in tones and a distinctive solid texture. 30 states. In short, the formula for It’s sweet but far from sugary. growth is: Get a flagship beer and ride If you like the sound of that but it across the country. aren’t interested in “creamy” or “sweet,” Boulder’s Avery Brewing Company well, don’t get a stout. But if you must, has its flagship in the Avery IPA, but there’s the Chili Czar Imperial Stout, that beer isn’t nearly as Avery’s Czar infused with Steve Weishampel well-known as Dale’s or Fat chipotles. Tire. Still, Avery has gotten I took the following by — and grown immensely, notes on the Chili Czar: selling to 23 states. “Challenge. Unpleasant.” Instead of riding one But that’s no condemnabeer, Avery thrives on varition. For Avery, a brewery ety and experimentation. defined by experimentation, Twenty-some beers fill it might well be a badge of Avery’s menu, shifting all honor. the time and generally Ordering the Chili Czar crowding around the two underscored one big differextremes of off-the-chart ence among Boulder’s brewIPAs and pitch-black stouts. eries. Last week at the five-person That includes the 3Point7, a milk operation at Asher Brewing Company, stout that takes its name from its low the staff knew everything about the alcohol content. Elizabeth’s taster glass beer. At Avery, everything’s on a bigis nearly empty by the time the rest of ger scale. They employ seven times the BW staff gets to the East Boulder more people than Asher — and that’s taproom, and she says she’s ready for just on the brewing end, not including something more substantial. taproom servers. “I don’t know why you’d want a 3.7 So when Jeff asked about the types [ABV beer],” she says, “unless you’re of peppers in the Chili Czar Imperial concerned about falling off your chair Stout, our server wasn’t sure. It’s not a before your co-workers arrive.” big deal, but it does highlight the necSo we dive into the more serious essary trade-off Boulder’s bigger brewstuff, like the Maharaja, an Imperial eries make. You can’t grow without IPA that David says is one of his losing something at some point along favorite beers. While I’m not a hopthe way. But to be fair, on a return trip head by any means, Maharaja’s depth the server knew exactly what went into and balance of flavors is very appealeverything. ing, and while the hops are powerful, Next week we’re going corporate. they don’t overwhelm everything else BJ’s Brewhouse on Boulder’s 28th going on. Street is up, and before you vault onto The same could be said of Avery’s your Boulder-certified High Horse of Belgians, particularly the Reverend Brewery Judgment, keep in mind that Quadrupel, which is smooth and BJ’s is actually a lot less widespread, fruity. At yet another extreme, the available in only 13 states, than some Bolder Weisse is deeply and unapolobreweries on our list. And BJ’s in getically sour. Boulder brought home a gold at the The New World Porter, meanGreat American Beer Festival for its while, isn’t very portery. The menu and indigenous ale Got Beer. Joel both cite “black IPA” as the main But beyond those reasons: If flavor at work, and while NWP offers they’re pouring their own beer in Boulder County, we’re there. some smokiness, it’s not a traditional Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com porter. Boulder Weekly

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he recently opened Rincon Argentino brings Argentine fare to Boulder in the form of traditional hot sandwiches and exquisite empanadas. This friendly, order-at-the-counter spot also features such beverages as Malbec wine and yerba mate, the traditional South American tea. Top choices include the archetypical steak sandwiches, available in both a basic and completo version augmented by ham and mozzarella. Can’tmiss empanadas include the spicy steak, and the vegetarian will likely enjoy the Patagonia, an open-faced number featuring garlic, onion and cherry tomato.

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he go-to spot for all things chocolate in Boulder, Piece, Love & Chocolate, might also be the place you’d most likely spot an Oompa Loompa peering out of the back room. Featuring an impressive selection of artisan chocolate bars, drinking chocolates and housemade truffles, cookies and cakes, there’s plenty here for the most ardent cocoa connoisseur. Top choices include the basil and ginger truffles, and the salted caramel chocolate truffle torte.

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oulder’s 3 Margaritas is a local outpost of a Coloradocentric Mexican restaurant chain. A self-described family restaurant, this ethnic eatery features reasonably priced combination plates spotlighting classic tacos, burritos and enchiladas, presented alongside chips and salsa, as well as rice and beans. Comforting selections include the chock-full-of-pork chile verde and the complex chicken mole. Boulder Weekly

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afayette’s recently reopened Ting’s Place has all of the staples of Chinese-American cooking, such as sesame and lemon chicken and Kung Pao dishes of different stripes. But perhaps its strengths are in some of the more traditional and authentic offerings, such as the spiced duck with steamed buns, essentially a scaled-down Peking duck. Another top-shelf selection is the superlative steamed flounder, seasoned with such traditional Chinese aromatics as ginger, scallions and cilantro.

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oulder’s Pizzeria Locale has solidified its position as a go-to spot for wood-fired, Naples-style pie. Starters such as arancini, an addictingly rich fried melding of risotto and cheese, and desserts like the sensual butterscotch budino, an upscale pudding, have also burnished this eatery’s reputation. First-timers might want to try the Margherita, perhaps the most emblematic of Naples pie, with buffalo milk mozzarella, basil and tomato.

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onuts seem to have supplanted cupcakes as the retro sweet of the moment, and Boulder’s Dizzy’s Donuts is riding this wave by offering fresh takes on this pastry. Dizzy’s brews Ozo coffee alongside unique creations like maple bacon donuts. Other new-school selections include S’More

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haggy’s Famous Poutine brings Canada’s foremost contribution to guilty pleasure chow to Boulder’s University Hill. Poutine is a mix of french fries, gravy and cheese curds. Shaggy’s dishes out filling portions of basic poutine, as well as sophisticated versions featuring jalapeños, chili and guacamole. One offering is the French Tickler, poutine featuring beef gravy and Montreal-style smoked meat.

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oulder’s Mediterranean Market serves up simple, reasonably priced gyros and falafel near the corner of Bluff and 28th. Both the baba ganoush and hummus feature a remarkably silky texture packed with fresh flavor, and the gyro has a pleasing lamb savor that’s a cut above other versions. Sweets include a flaky, honeyed baklava that surprises with a gentle rosewater accent. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com January 17, 2013 47

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astrology ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it,” wrote 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the earth.” This is good counsel for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect you will have a good, clear shot at a target you’ve been trying to get close to for a long time. Make sure you adjust your trajectory to account for the attraction of the earth.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Do you know what a “binky” is? It’s what a rabbit does when it gets so crazily happy that it exuberantly leaps up into the air, stretching and twisting its body as it flicks and flops its feet. I’m not sure if lexicographers would allow us to apply this term to humans. But assuming they might, I’m going to predict that you’ll soon be having some binky-inducing experiences. You’re entering the Joy and Pleasure Season, Libra — a time when abundant levels of fun and well-being might be quite normal.

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GEMINI

NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Studying the movements of the planets is my main way of discerning the hidden currents of fate. I sometimes supplement my investigations by reading Tarot cards and the Chinese “Book of Changes,” also known as the I Ching. To arrive at your horoscope this week, I used all of the above as well as the following forms of prognostication: catoptromancy, which is divination by gazing into a mirror underwater; cyclomancy, or divination by watching a wheel that’s turning; geloscopy, divination by listening to random laughter; and margaritomancy, divination by observing bouncing pearls. Here’s what I found, Gemini: You now have the power to discern previously unfathomable patterns in a puzzling mystery you’ve been monitoring. You also have the ability to correctly surmise the covert agendas of allies and adversaries alike. Maybe best of all, you can discover certain secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need,” said drama critic Henry Hewes. I agree. We all need to periodically reinvent ourselves — to allow the old ways to die so that we can resurrect ourselves in unforeseen new forms. According to my analysis, Cancerian, your next scheduled rebirth is drawing near. For best results, don’t cling to the past; don’t imitate what has always worked before. Instead, have faith that surrendering to the future will bring you the exact transformation you need.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

My readers Paul and Sophie wrote to let me know they have patched together three Latin words to invent a term for a new concept: vomfiabone. They say it means “a curse that becomes a blessing.” Here’s an example of the phenomenon at work in their lives: While driving home from work together, they experienced car trouble and had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, where they called a tow truck. Later they discovered that this annoying delay prevented them from getting caught in the middle of an accident just up ahead. Extrapolating from the current astrological omens, I’m guessing that you will experience at least one vomfiabone in the coming week, Leo.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

I bet that in the next five months you will be obliged to carry more responsibility than you have in the past. You will find it hard to get away with being lazy or careless. I suspect that during this time you will also have the privilege of wielding more influence. The effect you have on people will be more pronounced and enduring. In short, Virgo, your workload will be greater than usual — and so will your rewards. To the degree that you serve the greater good, you will be a major player. As for next few weeks, you should concentrate on

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

If you learn a novel idea or a crucial new lesson while you are tipsy or outright blitzed, you will probably forget it when you sober up. And it will remain forgotten as long as you abstain. But there’s a good chance you will recall the vanished information the next time you get loopy. I’m telling you this, Taurus, because even if you haven’t been inebriated lately, you have definitely been in an altered and expanded state of consciousness. I’m afraid that when you come back down to earth in a few days, you might lose some of the luminous insights you’ve been adding to your repertoire. Is there anything you can do to ensure you will retain these treasures? It would be a shame to lose track of them until the next time your mind gets thoroughly blown open.

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You know that area on your back that you can’t quite reach if you want to scratch it? It’s called your acnestis. I propose that we make it your featured metaphor of the week. Why? Because I suspect you will have to deal with a couple of itchy situations that are just beyond your ability to relieve. Yes, this may be frustrating in the short run. But it will ultimately make you even more resourceful than you already are. By this time next week, you will have figured out alternative solutions that you haven’t even imagined yet.

SAGITTARIUS “We need new friends,” said essayist Logan Pearsall Smith. “Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.” Smith could have been talking about you Sagittarians in early 2013. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you need some fresh alliances. Their influence will activate certain potentials that you haven’t been able to access or fully express with the help of your current circle.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

A San Francisco writer named Maneesh Sethi decided he was wasting too much time on the Internet. His productivity was suffering. So he hired a woman to sit next to him as he worked and yell at him or slap his face every time his attention wandered off in the direction of Facebook or a funny video. It worked. He got a lot more done. While I would like to see you try some inventive approaches to pumping up your own efficiency, Capricorn, I don’t necessarily endorse Sethi’s rather gimmicky technique. Start brainstorming about some interesting yet practical new ways to enhance your self-discipline, please.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“Ronnyjohnson618” is a guy who posts his opinions on a wide variety of YouTube videos. Many times, he claims to be an expert in the field he’s commenting on. Responding to a live music performance, he says he’s a conductor for an orchestra. Offering his opinion about a mimosa plant, he asserts that he is a botanist. Beneath other YouTube videos, he declares he is a meteorologist, chemist, psychologist, soldier, and geometry teacher. I love this guy’s blithe swagger; I’m entertained by the brazen fun he’s having. As you express yourself in the coming week, I recommend that you borrow some of his over-the-top audacity. Create a mythic persona. Imagine your life as an epic story. Play the part of a hero.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

The earliest performance artist on record was the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. In one of his notorious stunts, he wandered around Athens with a lit lantern during the daytime, claiming to be looking for an authentic human being. I recommend that you undertake a similar search in the coming days, Pisces. You don’t have to be as theatrical about it. In fact, it might be better to be quite discreet. But I think it’s important for you to locate and interact with people who are living their lives to the fullest — devoted to their brightest dreams, committed to their highest values, and sworn to express their highest integrity.

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