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Whistleblower’s lament

(Re: “City to spend $4 million cleaning up teahouse property,” News, Dec. 19.) The City of Boulder’s June 2009 Water Quality Strategic Plan (“WQSP”) outlined actions to protect and preserve the quality of water in Boulder Creek. The WQSP was responsive to the city’s environmental goal, “To enact and enhance city policies that cause the Boulder community

to become a nationwide environmental leader among communities.” Coincidentally, and in retrospect, ironically, also in June 2009 I provided the city with environmental reports warning that benzene and naphthalene were most likely emanating from the Dushanbe Teahouse site and moving through the groundwater in a southeasterly direction toward Boulder Creek. In June 2009 there were 14

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Get a whiff of ‘synthetic biology’ by Jim Hightower

t’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or crook, and deceive and gouge consumers. Welcome once again to the phantasmagoric world of DNA manipulators. In particular, this branch of genetic engineering wizardry calls itself “synthetic biology.” Yes, that’s an oxymoron

meaning “fake life.” But it’s also moronic in this case, for it’s a crude and costly attempt by high-tech alchemists at such corporate powers as BASF and Cargill to genetically modify micro-organisms to produce something wholly unnecessary: artificial flavorings and fragrances. One of their “achievements” is to use a powerful form of gene-altering technology to re-engineer yeast and make synthetic vanilla. Hello — of all the world’s needs, why put so much money and scientific energy into something that’s on every grocery shelf, both in a natural and artificial form? Also, this corporate wizardry creates a massive threat to the livelihoods of thousands of small tropical farmers in developing nations. Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s poorest countries, has 80,000 farmers whose only reliable cash crop is vanilla beans. “I really count on that to make a living,” says one.

monitoring wells between the teahouse and Boulder Creek that provided support for this warning; however, the city has ignored these wells in its own investigation. Instead, the city has limited its investigation to the teahouse site and taken the position that the site is not the source of the benzene and naphthalene down-gradient, even see LETTERS Page 10

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

Well, sniff the faraway synthetic makers, we can do it cheaper. But “can do” is not the same as “will do.” Even though the lab-made vanilla is not as good as nature’s own, corporations will use their political and marketing muscle to capture the market and jack up prices. Advertising gimmickry is already in play, for the synthetic biology industry is insisting that its fake stuff is a “natural” product, therefore it need not be labeled as a GMO — even though it is. To get a bigger whiff of this outrage, go to Friends of the Earth at www.foe.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 2, 2014 7

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ive t first I thought itLmight doesn’t want to answer, but that’s a a just be the holiday season h e column for another day.) alth or perhaps the sense of Iti ewould have been easy for the r life optimism that tends to city to try and claim that the cement wash over me with the over the plaza was plenty of protection start of each new year. Whatever it for the public, or that because nearby was, I initially assumed it was tainting residents aren’t drinking well water my perspective and clogging my jourthe contamination posed little risk, or nalistic BS filter. What I was thinking even that the migrating groundwater just had to be skewed somehow. As I contamination doesn’t eventually have read and reread the city’s plans for to flow into Boulder Creek … well, remediating the old town-gas-plant actually the city did claim all those contamination under the 13th Street things, but that doesn’t matter now. Plaza and Dushanbe Teahouse, I kept What matters today is that the city coming to the same unsettling conclu- didn’t use those excuses to do as little sion; the city had put together a pretty as possible at the site. I don’t know darn good plan. why exactly, but instead of excusing a I know, it surprised me as well. quickie Band-Aid approach to the After all, I spend most of my life ana- problem, Boulder made the bold and lyzing and reporting on what local correct decision to spend more than governments and city bureaucrats are $4 million to dig up and remove the doing poorly, and properly remediatmajority of the contamination from ing contamination tends to be a recur- under the plaza and dispose of the ring theme on the city-screwed-it-up hazardous waste properly once and for list. all. Don’t get me wrong. I make no No jokes here. If the city fulfills its apologies for my critical eye towards VCUP and doesn’t use any of the wiggovernment at every level. It’s my job. gle words it wrote into the plan like We in the news media are supposed to “to the best of our ability” or “when tell you about the metaphorical plane possible,” then it will have done by far that crashed, not the 700 that landed the most thorough cleanup of a consafely without incident. taminated property in the city’s histoBut last week as we were putting ry. together our update on the city’s volIs the city’s plan perfect? Nope. As untary cleanup plan (VCUP) for the pointed out by Allen Hatheway, one 13th Street Plaza site, it struck me of the nation’s top experts on remedithat in my two decades of reporting ating town gas sites, who examined on various contaminated properties the city’s plan at BW’s request, a owned by municipalities in Boulder complete remediation would have County, this was the first time that a included the city taking down the cleanup plan didn’t make fast and Dushanbe Teahouse and removing all cheap its primary priorities. of the soil and groundwater under Not once, until now, have I seen a the site to bedrock, as well as suckremediation plan wherein the public’s ing up the contaminated groundwahealth and the environment seemed to ter plume that has moved off properbe a legitimate top concern. ty, and cleaning it as well. I could provide numerous examples Hatheway also pointed out that of impotent cleanup attempts at this the city should not have filed the juncture to make my point, but that VCUP with the Colorado Department would not be in keeping with the of Public Health and Environment, honest intent of this column. I genutaking full economic responsibility for inely want to compliment the City of the project on its own instead of seekBoulder, from the council to the man- ing reimbursement from the company ager and attorney right down to the that originally polluted the property. project managers in the utilities That company was Federal Gas, an department who are no longer allowed entity subsequently purchased by to talk to us directly. ( Just saying there Public Service Company, which is is still room for improvement in how see DYERTIMES Page 11 the city handles tough questions it Boulder Weekly

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POT PRUDENCE For those of you reading this while standing in that long line outside the door of one of the new retail marijuana stores in the Denver metro area, we want to remind you that this is not a free-for-all … yet. While we’ve had the right to possess up to an ounce of pot and six plants for the past year thanks to Amendment 64, Jan. 1 marked the first day the average Joe could stroll into a shop and buy some Acapulco Gold or a Cheeba Chew. Now, here’s the rub. Where are you going Susan France to smoke it or eat it? It’s not legal to do it in public, and obviously you can’t light up indoors where smoking is prohibited. This week, the Denver International Airport joined the growing list of facilities that is not allowing weed on premises. In Denver, you can’t display or transfer it on city-owned property, apparently. So that leaves, well, your own private property. Let’s just say there will be lots of smoke rising from backyards starting this week. And what about all of those tourists who are going to descend on our fair state to buy a doobie, perhaps on their way to the slopes? Progressive hotel owners might be smart to begin adding smoking rooms and marketing their property as marijuana-friendly. Another caveat: Employers still have the right to prohibit pot use and fire you for violating that policy. Luckily, the market for drinks, shampoos and other products that help you detox quickly is likely to see a boom. Baby steps. At least we’re making progress toward moving beyond the “reefer madness” mentality that has gripped this country for decades for no good reason. Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

DRONE SEASON It may come as a surprise, but yes, we, too, were shocked and dismayed at the news that the University of Colorado’s bid to host a test site for federal drones was turned down. After all, we had taken quite an interest in drones. Back in July, we took the extreme measure of driving all the way to Deer Trail, a tiny burg east of DIA on I-70, to investigate why a local resident wanted to make it legal to shoot them down. What we discovered was illuminating. And convincing. You can read all about it at http://bit. ly/19CHPmK. What we found was that there were many opportunities for a community like Deer Trail to take advantage of drone-shooting, and we secretly hoped that Boulder’s bid for a testing site would afford us the chance of taking aim at low-flying, constitutionally questionable surveillance devices. But alas, Colorado was passed over. We can only hope that the Federal Aviation Administration — which, according to media reports inexplicably chose the likes of the University of Alaska; the state of Nevada; some New York airport; the North Dakota Department of Commerce, if there is such a thing; a Texas A&M outpost in Corpus Christi; and Virginia Tech as prime drone-testing locales — will fly a few unmanned aircraft over Boulder County. It may come across as sour grapes, but as proud, gun-bearing defenders of the Second Amendment, we will take great pride in setting our sights on any small plane with no pilot that dares to enter our air space. Somebody has to take a stand on Obama’s inexplicable infringement of our civil liberties. This is our chance. It’s time to load live rounds, people. Get in the drone zone. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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though these same two toxic wastes from coal gasification are the two pollutants that exceeded groundwater standards’ concentrations at the teahouse and down-gradient. In spite of one city official’s statement to me in 2009 that the city would “resolve the matter in as expeditious a manner as possible,” little happened in the way of meaningful, much less expeditious, progress to resolve this problem until Boulder Weekly picked up on the story this year and published its series of exposés. While it is heartening that the city has finally decided to proceed with cleanup of the site, it is also disappointing that it has done so in such a slow and disingenuous way, wasting time and money on cloaking itself in plausible deniability of responsibility to down-gradient property owners, rather than obtaining contribution from Xcel, which should be paying the lion’s share for the cleanup. Dennis R. Frohlich/Boulder

Danish’s latest flub

[Re: “Total elapsed time: 80 seconds,” Danish Plan, Dec. 26.] Paul Danish’s piece on the recent shootings at Arapahoe High School in Littleton and the homage to Wayne LaPierre and the NRA was stunning, and not in a good way. Danish seems to think LaPierre is a visionary for wanting to put armed guards in all our schools and arm the teachers rather than a well-paid shill for gun manufacturers purporting to support gun owners. Danish even cites LaPierre’s idiotic statement, “The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” when, in fact, this situation was ended by the bad guy with a gun taking his own life. Danish seemed pleased that “only” two teenagers were killed in this instance (the toll may have been larger had the disturbed teen managed to set off his bombs or entered one of the classrooms he had targeted) and somehow ascribes this outcome to an “armed officer present who had a gun.” Somehow he knows the shooter panicked and shot himself because of the officer’s armed presence rather than any other motivation. The only thing we know for sure is that two more kids are dead because one of them had access to a gun. Danish cites a poll (unsourced, of course) stating that 64 percent of Americans agree with the NRA. I would guess a majority of those people (assuming a valid poll was conducted) 10 January 2, 2014

have not read the Second Amendment and that most who have don’t understand a couple of simple facts. First, there is no guarantee of the right to own “guns.” The actual verbiage reads, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” We have regulated and banned many “arms,” including flame throwers, thermonuclear devices, and hand grenades, to name a few, so have already breached the Second Amendment. The two things we haven’t regulated are most guns and the less responsible people among us who own them and contribute to the 30,000-plus gun-related deaths per year. I don’t know how many more kids (and adults for that matter) need to be sacrificed at the altar of corporate profit and misinformed ideology before we have the courage to do something about this abomination. We lost 3,000 people to the 9/11 terrorists (one-tenth of what we lose annually to gun violence) and as a result started two wars and removed many of our rights (as well as our shoes and belts at airports), and we can’t even get universal background checks on lethal weapons! Danish and LaPierre are both “dead wrong” on this issue. James C. Bailey/Boulder

Let dipomacy work

The nuclear deal brokered by the United States and Iran in Geneva is historic. Just as the agreement to peacefully disarm Syria of its chemical weapons demonstrated, diplomacy makes the world a safer place. Now comes the hard part: U.S. diplomats are working to secure a final agreement to prevent war and a nuclear-armed Iran. I hope my senators and representative will publicly support these efforts and oppose calls by some in Congress for more sanctions. As former national security advisors Zbigniew Brezezinski and Brent Scowcroft have pointed out, “additional sanctions now against Iran ... will risk undermining or even shutting down the negotiations.” Sabotaging diplomacy would jeopardize the unprecedented progress our diplomats have achieved to guard against yet another war and nucleararmed nation. The Friends Committee on National Legislation has more on supporting this unprecedented deal: fcnl. org/iran. Kyle Hall/Golden

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commentary ALEC’s attack on renewables arrives in Colorado by Dave Anderson

merica’s solar industry supplies less than 1 percent of the electricity in the U.S. but has experienced explosive growth. Unfortunately, there’s growing opposition from the utilities. A recent study by utilities think tank the Edison Electric Institute candidly says solar power is a future threat to the utilities. A coalition of corporations and rightwing activists is mobilizing to penalize homeowners who install their own solar panels in a wide-ranging new offensive against renewable energy, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. In 2014, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will promote legislation to weaken state clean energy regulations and neuter the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They favor stripping the EPA of any meaningful oversight of fracking (even explicitly barring it from shutting down any oil or gas well or facility). They also oppose the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas emission standards for new and existing power plants and its plan to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. In the first seven months of 2013, ALEC helped get at least 77 anti-environmental bills introduced into 34 statehouses, according to the Center for Media and Democracy. Some details of ALEC’s strategy were provided by John Eick, the legislative

analyst for ALEC’s energy, environment and agriculture program. Eick told the Guardian that the group was worried about homeowners with solar panels being compensated for feeding surplus electricity back into the grid. “This is an issue we are going to be exploring,” Eick said. He said ALEC wanted to lower the rate that electricity companies pay homeowners for direct power generation — and possibly even charge homeowners for feeding power into the grid. “As it stands now, those direct generation customers are essentially free riders on the system. They are not paying for the infrastructure they are using. In effect, all the other non-direct generation customers are being penalized,” he said. Eick dismissed the proposition that an individual who buys and installs home-based solar panels has made an investment. “How are they going to get that electricity from their solar panel to somebody else’s house?” he said. “They should be paying to distribute the surplus electricity.” Recently Xcel Energy (a member of ALEC) asked the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for permission to redefine the “net-metering credit” as a subsidy. That’s the price homeowners who have rooftop solar systems receive see SOLAR Page 11

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for sending surplus kilowatt-hours onto the distribution system. The credit, which Xcel deducts from a homeowner’s bill, is 10.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Xcel wants to lower the credit to 4.6 cents per kilowatt-hour. A few weeks ago, more than 200 supporters of rooftop solar demonstrated at the Xcel Energy headquarters in Denver and delivered a petition calling for Xcel to withdraw the net-metering proposal. The petition had more than 29,000 names. Rebecca Cantwell, spokeswoman for DYERTIMES from Page 8

now owned by Xcel Energy. I don’t disagree with Hatheway. And I’m sure that the city will eventually do what it can to be reimbursed by Xcel, which has already been given permission by the Public Utilities Commission to pass along any expense it may incur as a result of the contamination at the teahouse site to its utility customers. That said, what the city is committing to do should not be diminished. It is taking responsible action now to solve a potential public health problem. It would cost as much as an additional $6 million to $8 million to take down, store and then reassemble the teahouse. And the truth is, we know from our research conducted previously that the south side of the contaminated property underlying the teahouse was never the portion of the property that was the most heavily contaminated by the former town gas plant. What the city is proposing on paper is not the perfect plan, but it is a fairly comprehensive cleanup and I, for one, applaud all those involved for the decision to do at the 13th Street property what has never been done before, namely, the right thing for the public’s health and the environment. BW will continue to monitor the city’s efforts to remediate the teahouse site over the coming months. We will be appropriately skeptical and watch for any backtracking or attempt to alter the proposed plan in a way that could result in leaving behind a contamination problem that will need to be addressed again in the future. But I have to repeat that based on the plan, I believe that the cleanup the city is going to do at the teahouse demonstrates that it may well have turned a corner on its commitment to our health and the environment. Lets hope so. For now, I am pleased to report that a plane has safely landed. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, said the proposal “would greatly reduce the economic viability” of rooftop solar arrays. Net-metering exists in 43 states and Washington, D.C. The possibility of reducing net-metering payments has ignited an uproar in California, Louisiana and Idaho. Regulators in Idaho and Louisiana denied power-company requests to change the rules. A fierce battle has raged in Arizona, which has 300-plus days of sunshine a

requirement than other renewable sources, and that the power provided by solar users meets peak demands that the utility would otherwise fill by ordering up power from more expensive sources. APS lobbied hard to impose a surcharge of $50 to $100 a month on solar users. In November, Arizona regulators imposed a $5-a-month surcharge, which was a compromise, but a bad precedent. We should be encouraging a transition to renewables, not hindering it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

year. The Sierra Club says “over 138,000 households in Arizona are currently powered by solar energy, and the state ranks number one in solar jobs per capita.” A study by Crossborder Energy shows how rooftop solar actually makes money ($34 million more a year) for the utility Arizona Public Service (APS). As a result, there should be an average reduction of $2.58 a month on customers’ bills. The study cites APS’ own data that shows rooftop solar is a cheaper way for APS to meet its renewable-standard

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news Flooding, fracking among legislative priorities for county’s lawmakers by Jefferson Dodge

votes.” looding and fracking are When asked whether Foote adds that the oil and likely to be two main themes Hickenlooper, who gas industry has “a pretty good for Boulder County lawmak- opposed many of the ers in the upcoming legislabills aimed at cracking chokehold on the legislature, and tive session. down on oil and gas it’s hard to break sometimes.” State legislators representing local operations, may have districts say they will focus on improvsoftened his pro-industry Flood legislation ing Colorado’s ability to respond to stance in light of the Another fracking-related flooding and flood victims as well as bans and moratoria front lawmakers will be paying strengthening regulations on oil and approved by voters along close attention to in the coming gas operators when the session begins the Front Range this fall, weeks are the various oil and gas Jan. 8. Jones says, “I haven’t spills caused by the September Sen. Matt Jones (D-Louisville) says talked to him, but it’s floods. Jones, Foote and Singer he and Rep. Mike Foote (D-Lafayette) really hard to ignore.” all serve on the state’s Flood Rep. Mike Foote (D-Lafayette) Sen. Matt Jones (D-Louisville) plan to revive — and strengthen — a “I hope so,” Foote Disaster Study Committee, bill that didn’t survive last year’s session adds. which is expected to examine that would have increased daily fines Jones also says he’s “I think it’s hard to operationalize,” water contamination issues made it clear to COGCC Director assessed to oil and gas companies for he says, “but at the same time, we talk related to the flood at its Jan. 7 meetMatt Lepore that he’s not happy about about the environmental issues around spills and other regulatory violations. ing. the oil and gas industry suing 80 per[oil and gas operations], yet there are Like last year’s legislation, their new “Whether it’s a wastewater treatcent of his constituents, and that he also people’s financial well-being bill would not only raise those fines, ment facility in a floodplain or a prohopes the state does not sue any of the issues.” but would remove a cap on penalties duction site for oil and gas in a floodmunicipalities that passed bans or morRep. Jonathan Singer for certain violations, Jones says, addplain,” Singer says, “we should be lookatoria this fall, as it did in the case of (D-Longmont) says one of his prioriing at stricter standards for both.” ing that the reason they let their bill Longmont. ties related to oil and gas is to make Members of that bipartisan flood die last year was that the Senate took sure the COGCC actually hired the committee are expected to introduce a out a mandatory minimum fine for the worst violations. Falling property values additional well inspectors it received host of bills as a result of that group’s Foote, who Jones says he is funding for last year. After a legislative work, and Foote says he’s hoping to gain enough support for legislation that often carpools to open to considereffort by Singer and Foote to quadruwould authorize the COGCC director the Capitol with ing legislation on a ple the number of inspectors failed, to order an operator to shut down an Jones, says their fracking topic that they worked language into the Long oil and gas facility in an emergency or new bill may also Boulder Weekly has Bill to increase that figure by 60 perJUST GOT A LOT a natural disaster. Currently such an address the methbeen covering late- cent, Foote says. Singer recalls telling HARDER WITH THE order requires a vote by the full ods the Colorado ly: making real the Republican lawmakers from COGCC, and some Republicans on Oil and Gas estate devaluation Western Slope who opposed the move RECALLS. WE’RE Conservation part of the surface that “we have more oil and gas lobbythe flood committee want to keep it GOING TO BE VERY Commission damages that an oil ists than we do oil and gas inspectors,” that way. CAREFUL AT COUNTING (COGCC) uses to and gas company an observation that caused some of “I think it’s a pretty common-sense them to laugh and agree. He notes that bill, but any time you mention oil and heavily discount can be held liable OUR VOTES.’ the COGCC was anticipating some fines assessed to for. gas, there are people who get defensive —REP. JONATHAN SINGER difficulty in hiring additional inspecoperators who After reading about it,” Foote says. tors because they are highly specialized commit violations. recent BW articles He also plans to introduce a bill jobs that require significant education “We saw some about studies on designed to make the state’s emergency and experience, often in rural areas, instances where the impact that response more streamlined, efficient and those who are qualified often take discretion wasn’t being used nearby wells can have on homeowners’ and immediate, in part by consolidathigher-paying positions with the oil very wisely, in our opinion,” he property values, Jones said in a phone ing some advisory boards that report to explains, adding that in some cases the interview, “I find that really interesting, and gas industry. the governor and giving the governor Singer says he doesn’t expect to see commission was slashing fines by more that someone is studying what a lot of the ability to declare a disaster even if us already knew, that if they move as many oil and gas bills as last year, than 60 percent. “So you could have a the president has not. and Democrats will face an even steepindustrial operations several hundred fine that could have been as high as Also on the flood recovery front, er uphill battle than they did last year feet from your house, it probably loses $500,000 that turned out to be Jones and Kevin Lundberg value. I’m glad someone’s systematically in the Senate, where two Democrats, $100,000.” (R-Berthoud) are planning to run legJohn Morse and Angela Giron, have looking at it.” Foote says Gov. John Hickenlooper islation that gives counties the ability been recalled. Jones notes that while he hasn’t directed the COGCC to examine “best to use their general fund to fix roads “The math just got a lot harder practices” in discounting its fines, and a heard of any bills being introduced on and bridges for a period of four years with the recalls,” he says. “We’re going report on that inquiry was due on Dec. that topic, he’d be willing to look into after the governor declares a disaster. to be very careful at counting our 10 but hasn’t been released yet. it. (Currently, road and bridge funding is

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kept separate from the general fund.) For his part, Singer has several flood-related bills in the works, including one that is designed to make sure residents whose homes were severely damaged or totally destroyed don’t have to pay county property tax. While the details are still being worked out, he says, flood victims might be eligible for a state income tax return in the amount of the property tax that is due. “We want to make sure we’re not adding insult to injury at the state and county level by assessing taxes on things that no longer exist,” Singer explains. When asked how the state would fund such a program, he says “we have a relatively rosy budget projection,” and legislators seem to agree that “flood recovery comes first.” He’s also hoping to use a couple of programs in Lyons as models for helping small businesses deal with the flood’s economic impacts. Singer points to Oskar Blues’ CAN’d Aid Foundation, which is using donations to issue grants to owners of small businesses, and the town’s economic development commission, which is using a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the same purpose. He says he plans to run legislation to fund a similar initiative at the state level so that other flooddamaged communities and their small businesses can benefit.

Other priorites Freshman legislator and former Boulder City Council member KC Becker (D-Boulder), who succeeded Rep. Claire Levy when she stepped down this fall, says she plans to support her colleagues’ flood- and frackingrelated efforts, including signing on as a co-sponsor. Becker, who will sit on the House Finance Committee and Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources Boulder Weekly

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Committee, says she expects wildfirerelated bills to play a prominent role in the session as well. She says that while she is still getting up to speed, her priorities include poverty reduction and “getting money to where it needs to go” for flood relief. Becker says she plans to sponsor an animal welfare bill as well as legislation to boost science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. She also anticipates that Democrats will have to “play defense” on some of the most controversial legislation passed last spring, from renewable energy standards for rural co-ops to gun-control measures. In addition to flooding and fracking, Jones says his main priorities will include jobs, schools and fire recovery. He’s planning to run a bill expanding incentives for creating charging stations for electric cars, and he’s placing emphasis on promoting clean-energy jobs, renewable energy and energy conservation, as well as restoring and protecting education funding. Singer says his other priorities include reviving a wage theft bill that has been defeated twice before and would give the Department of Labor the authority and staff to “mediate, investigate and adjudicate” cases where employers are accused of “not paying what they promised,” an occurrence that he says is especially problematic in bluecollar and entry-level white-collar jobs. Foote says he’ll be keeping a close eye on whether the new rules expected to be approved by the Air Quality Control Commission in February are stringent enough. He didn’t rule out the possibility of lawmakers taking matters into their own hands if those regulations are too soft. “There’s always the possibility of running legislation, but we’re hoping they will adopt strong rules,” Foote says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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t’s been nearly three years since the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA), along with a few of its friends and peers, filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against agriculture giant Monsanto in federal district court. After two unsatisfactory and somewhat contradictory rulings in the lower courts, the Public Patent Foundation, which is serving as the plaintiff ’s lead counsel in the case, filed a brief last week with the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief is an effort to get the high court to hear and reinstate the OSGATA case, which now has a plaintiff group that has swelled to more than 300,000 individuals and 4,500 farms, along with numerous seed businesses and public advocacy groups, all of whom are seeking protection from potential Monsanto patent infringement lawsuits and the damages caused when Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) pollen contaminates organic or nonGE crops by way of drift or other accidental means. The suit also seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s patents on 23 of the company’s GE crops. BW has been reporting on the twists and turns of this important case since it was filed on March 29, 2011. Here’s a brief recap of what has transpired to date. In its original hearing before Judge Naomi Buchwald in federal district court in New York, the court sided with Monsanto’s motion to dismiss the case. The court basically found that the plaintiffs couldn’t seek protection from Monsanto’s patentinfringement lawsuits because the company hadn’t actually sued the plaintiffs yet and therefore no actual damage had been done. Apparently, it was Buchwald’s opinion that it wasn’t enough that Monsanto had sued or settled out of court with more than 600 other farmers for patent infringement and could sue any of the plaintiffs at any time if the wind happened to blow the company’s GE pollen in their direction. OSGATA and the farmers appealed Buchwald’s decision to the Court of Appeals in New York. There, a three-judge panel rendered a mixed message in July 2013. While the appeals court ultimately upheld Buchwald’s earlier decision, the judges also noted that Monsanto’s patented GE crops were quite likely to contaminate nearby non-GE crops. According to a statement released this December by OSGATA and the Public Patent Foundation, the “three-judge panel at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., issued a bizarre ruling that plaintiffs are not entitled to bring a lawsuit to protect themselves from Monsanto’s transgenic Boulder Weekly

seed patents ‘because Monsanto has made binding assurances that it will not take legal action against growers whose crops might inadvertently contain traces of Monsanto biotech genes,’ as stated anonymously on the company’s website. Farmers find this ruling inconclusive and insufficient to protect their future economic interests since the appeals court readily admitted that contamination from Monsanto’s genetically engineered crops is ‘inevitable.’ This Appellate Court ruling importantly validated that farmers do have a legitimate fear of contamination, something that the court and Monsanto’s own attorney, former Solicitor General Seth Waxman, admitted in court during oral arguments. Despite dismissing the farmers’ and seed growers’ case, the Court of Appeals ruling found the likelihood of contamination significant enough to order by estoppel that Monsanto make good on its promise not to sue farmers that are ‘inadvertently contaminated with up to one percent of seeds carrying Monsanto’s patented traits.’” While Monsanto’s promise not to sue can be viewed as a small victory for the plaintiffs in the case, overall, it was hardly a definitive decision by the appeals court. Monsanto describes trace amounts as less than 1 percent of a crop. This means that farmers who have more than 1 percent of their crop ruined by Monsanto’s blowing GE pollen can still be sued by the company for possessing the company’s patented seed traits. The suit was originally filed because the current interpretation of the law seems to allow the victim to be sued by the perpetrator. When Monsanto’s GE pollen trespasses onto a neighboring field, contaminating and ruining a non-GE crop, the neighboring farmer whose crop has been ruined is considered to be in illegal possession of a patented product. It truly boggles the mind. In a recent interview with BW, OSGATA president and seed grower Jim Gerritsen described it this way: “Can you imagine if a person decided to paint their house purple on a windy day, and as they’re spraying their purple paint, it’s blowing all over their next-door neighbor’s white house. But instead of having to pay the neighbor for ruining their house, the guy with the purple house sues his neighbor for taking some of his purple paint. It makes no sense.” For now, the appeals court decision does nothing to reverse this bizarre legal position afforded to Monsanto and other seed monopolies that have patented traits within living organisms that can be spread inadvertently by nature. That is why the plaintiffs in this suit are now ask-

ing the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and reinstate their case. When asked if he thinks the plaintiffs could be successful at the Supreme Court, considering its current conservative, pro-corporation majority, Gerritsen answers with cautious optimism. He says, “We’ve learned not to try and guess how judges are going to act. This is a good case with merit, so we have to hope the Supreme Court will give us the opportunity to present our arguments in a U.S. court. That’s all we have been trying to get for three years.” Gerritson says the biggest problem that the plaintiffs have run into is that the judges to date have had no understanding of agriculture. He says that “1 percent is not sufficient protection for farmers to carry on operations. I know farmers who have had more than 1 percent of their crops damaged. I know farmers who have had to abandon growing organic canola, corn and soy beans, not because of the possibility that it could become contaminated [with GMOs] but because of the certainty of contamination.” It’s not just the contamination that is affecting farm families. According to Gerritson, in their effort to protect their crops, farmers are having to spend thousands of dollars a year to test their organic and non-GE crops for Monsanto’s patented traits. They are also having to leave some of their land unplanted on their side of the fence to act as a buffer against Monsanto’s GE crops. “We’re paying property taxes on all of our land,” says Gerritson, “but we can’t farm all of our land. It’s unfair. The polluter that is causing this expense doesn’t have to pay anything. Farming is a difficult enough proposition without having to spend money to protect ourselves from Monsanto.” Gerritson sees the fight with Monsanto as something far more than a struggle between farmers and a corporation. He says, “We’ve spent 37 years as a seed grower. We’ve got four children who farm with us, two are still in school. We’ve raised them to believe that this is the greatest country in the world. We’ve taught them that it is based on a system of justice, a system that works for the common man. “All we want is to be able to carry on our work of feeding the nation without having to protect ourselves from being sued into bankruptcy. We went to court seeking justice, and we’re not going to give up if we lose this case. The problem is still there and it needs a remedy. “This is not a battle of farmers against Monsanto, but a battle of the American citizenry against Monsanto. It’s a battle for access. It’s a battle that will determine if people can have good food for their families.” The farm families who account for many of the 300,000 plaintiffs expect the Supreme Court to make a decision on whether to hear their case sometime in 2014. They are eagerly awaiting their day in court. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com January 2, 2014 15

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s winter sets in across the northern United States, the road salt that keeps people out of ditches is flowing into rivers at levels that could harm fish and other creatures. With billions of pounds of salt spread on U.S. roads every year, waterways in the nation’s wintry cities are getting saltier. And, according to new research, the salt, or sodium chloride, in rivers remains toxic not just in winter, but throughout twothirds of the year. In icy Wisconsin, where salt is liberally dumped on roads, the Menomonee and the Kinnickinnic have chloride levels in late winter and early spring 10 to 15 times higher than a federal level set to protect fish, amphibians and tiny crustaceans. Toxic concentrations also have been found in rivers, streams and lakes in New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri and several other states. “It’s likely that many of the organisms in rivers that are sensitive to chloride are simply no longer there,” says Steve Corsi, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Seven of 20 U.S. rivers — four in Wisconsin, one in Ohio and two in Illinois — have average chloride levels that approach or exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s guideline for protecting aquatic life, according to the USGS study, which is not yet published. All seven rivers exceeded it on more days in 2006 than in 1991. In addition to posing a threat to wildlife, the salt can leach into groundwater, contaminating drinking water supplies. The salt stays in rivers and groundwater for years after it’s tossed on roads, says Sujay Kaushal, an associate professor at the University of Maryland who studies road salt in Northeast U.S. streams. “Even if they quit applying salt now, it would take decades for it to be removed from the system,” Kaushal says. Yet road salt is considered a necessity in northern states. It is the most efficient and economical way to keep people safe in the winter, said Morton Satin, a

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vice president at the Salt Institute, a nonprofit trade association that advocates for salt. “We have chosen to live in a northern climate, where we want the same safety in the winter that we have in the summer,” Satin says. “Amazon has to deliver the same packages even when the roads are bad.” More than 116,000 people in the United States are injured and more than 1,300 killed on snowy or icy pavement each year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Road salt reduces snow-induced crashes by about 88 percent, says a Marquette University study. Salt lowers the freezing point of water, preventing ice and snow from sticking to roads. In addition, cyanide compounds, which also can be toxic, are often added to road salt to prevent it from caking. The volumes used on U.S. roads have increased each decade since the 1940s. About 617 million pounds were sold per year in the 1940s, and now it is roughly 35 billion pounds per year. Some cities, including Madison and Milwaukee,

have experimented with beet juice, sand and other “greener” ways to keep ice off roads. But most deicers still contain some chloride, Corsi said. “You may not need to apply as much of them, but they’re way more expensive.” In Minnesota, the salinity of 39 lakes has mirrored the upward trend of the state’s purchase of road salt. If this trend continues, salinity will double in these lakes in about 50 years, according to University of Minnesota scientists. In the new USGS research, the rivers were saltiest in late winter. But the Menomonee and the Kinnickinnic had high concentrations in the summer, too, Corsi says. “Chloride is very soluble and it’s easy for it to infiltrate the groundwater, the source of the river flow,” says Corsi, who was lead author of the study. The new findings build on previous USGS research that found that more than half of sites tested in 13 U.S. cities exceeded the EPA’s chloride guideline of 230 parts per million, according to a 2010 USGS study. That guideline is based on chronic exposure levels that reduced the survival of water fleas, rainbow trout and fathead minnows. Streams tested in Maryland, New York and New Hampshire were “well beyond” the toxicity guideline, Kaushal says. In Missouri, an urban stream, Hinkson Creek, had high levels of chloride linked to reproductive and survival problems for water fleas. Some of the creatures most sensitive to chloride are amphibians, which are declining worldwide from a variety of environmental threats. “Road-side aquatic ecosystems in North America are annually polluted with millions of tons of road deicing salts, which threaten the survival of amphibians which live and breed in these habitats,” Utah State University researchers wrote in a study published in 2013. Newts exposed in the Utah laboratory to amounts of salt commonly found in roadside streams had severe developmental deformities — bent tails, See SALTY STREAMS Page 18

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he largest, most-consistent money fueling the climate denial movement is coming from a number of well-funded conservative foundations built with socalled “dark money,” or concealed donations, according to an analysis released in December. The study, by Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert Brulle, is the first academic effort to probe the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the climate denial movement. It found that the amount of money flowing through third-party, passthrough foundations like DonorsTrust and Donors Capital, whose funding cannot be traced, has risen dramatically over the past five years. In all, 140 foundations funneled $558 million to almost 100 climate denial organizations from 2003 to 2010. Meanwhile, the traceable cash flow from more traditional sources, such as Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, has disappeared. The study was published Dec. 20 in the journal Climatic Change. “The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecolog-

ical impact on the failure of the world to act on global warming,” Brulle says in a statement. “Like a play on Broadway, the countermovement has stars in the spotlight — often prominent contrarian scientists or conservative politicians — but behind the stars is an organizational structure of directors, script writers and producers. “If you want to understand what’s driving this movement, you have to look at what’s going on behind the scenes.” To uncover that, Brulle developed a list of 118 influential climate denial organizations in the United States. He then coded data on philanthropic funding for each organization, combining information from the Foundation Center, a database of global philanthropy, with financial data submitted by organizations to the Internal Revenue Service. According to Brulle, the largest and most consistent funders were a number of conservative foundations promoting “ultra-free-market ideas” in many realms, among them the Searle Freedom Trust, the John Williams Pope Foundation, the Howard Charitable Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation. Another key finding: From 2003 to 2007, Koch Affiliated Foundations and

the ExxonMobil Foundation were “heavily involved” in funding climate change denial efforts. But Exxon hasn’t made a publically traceable contribution since 2008, and Koch’s efforts dramatically declined, Brulle says. Coinciding with a decline in traceable funding, Brulle found a dramatic rise in the cash flowing to denial organizations from DonorsTrust, a donordirected foundation whose funders cannot be traced. This one foundation, the assessment found, now accounts for 25 percent of all traceable foundation funding used by organizations promoting the systematic denial of climate change. Jeffrey Zysik, chief financial officer for DonorsTrust, said in an email that neither DonorsTrust nor Donors Capital Fund “take positions with respect to any issue advocated by its grantees.” “As with all donor-advised fund programs, grant recommendations are received from account holders,” he says. “DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund ensure that recommended grantees are IRS-approved public charities and also require that the grantee charities do not rely on significant amounts of revenue from government sources. DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund do not other-

wise drive the selection of grantees, nor conduct in-depth analyses of projects or grantees unless an account holder specifically requests that service.” Brulle concludes that public records identify only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars supporting climate denial efforts. Some 75 percent of the income of those organizations, he says, comes via unidentifiable sources. And for Brulle, that’s a matter of democracy. “Without a free flow of accurate information, democratic politics and government accountability become impossible,” he says. “Money amplifies certain voices above others and, in effect, gives them a megaphone in the public square.” Powerful funders, he adds, are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming and raise doubts about the “roots and remedies” of a threat on which the science is clear. “At the very least, American voters deserve to know who is behind these efforts.” Douglas Fischer is editor of The Daily Climate, an independent, foundation-funded news service focusing on climate change. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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known its “biggest long-term problem would be chloride running off into water.” There are ways to minimize the runoff impact, he says. “We encourage people to only use the lowest amount they need,” Satin says. “Also, as a country we have not re-engineered our road system in 50 years; we need to take runoff into account in our road design.”

Kaushal agrees, saying that ensuring protection of wetlands and vegetation “provides some line of defense before things get into the river.” “We need to ask ourselves if we should really be putting more highways, parking lots and houses right on top of rivers.” Brian Bienkowski is a staff writer for Environmental Health News. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Chris Jarnot, chief operating officer at Vail, “researches the product” on an early powder day at Vail Mountain.

hris Jarnot skis like you’d expect someone who has spent nearly all of his adult life working in the ski industry does: fast, fluid, no bobbles or unnecessary movements, legs together, turns carved. He’s smooth through all types of terrain, and as we lap broken powder snow through rolling glades off of Vail’s Chair 11, he’s chalking up one of approximately 70 days he’ll be on the mountain this season. That number may pale compared to hard-core locals, but Jarnot is hard-core in a different way. The University of Colorado graduate — he was a member of the class of 1989 — is the top guy at Vail. His job title is chief operating officer of Vail, but that doesn’t come close to describing the complexity and intensity of the position, which also includes overseeing all of Beaver Creek’s operations. Jarnot could have the best job in skiing. But given the fact that Vail and Beaver Creek ski areas are part of a large, publicly held company (Vail Resorts) that comprises 10 mountains, 18

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Vail’s top dog talks powder, work opportunities and why he still gets pumped every fall by Tom Winter hotels, 106 restaurants, eight golf courses, 180 retail shops and more than 22,000 employees, and considering that Vail is the crown jewel of the brand, it’s also one of the toughest jobs in skiing. “A lot of the time I ski, it is work-related,” admits Jarnot, who probably gets fewer days lapping powder on Chair 11 than he’d like, but who also says he can’t complain about the on-snow time that does come his way. Given the fact that Jarnot has spent all of his career with Vail Resorts, there’s no doubt that he’s scored plenty of epic days on the hill, even though the

day I skied with him, we only ended up with time for four runs on a snowy afternoon with the holidays breathing down the back of our necks. The skiing is good, very good, and Jarnot jokes about the difficulties of testing the “product” as we take 11 back up for a final lap. The snow keeps coming down and the conditions get softer with every turn. One of a handful of kids in his neighborhood, Jarnot grew up in Edwards. After high school he made the trek see VAIL Page 22

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to Boulder, where he attended the University of Colorado, intending to major in finance. He strayed from that path when he discovered that he could get a degree in tourism management from CU’s business school. For a student who had been moonlighting as a ski instructor during the holidays back at Beaver Creek, it seemed like a perfect fit. Things got even better when he scored an internship in the marketing department at Vail. While the internship was required for graduation, the end result was even

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sweeter: At the end of the summer, Jarnot was hired by Vail’s advertising department. The year was 1989, and unbeknownst to him he was about to embark on a multi-year journey that would take him to the top of the organization. There is a saying among Vail locals that they “came for the winter and stayed because of the summers.” That’s not entirely true in Jarnot’s case. His family has roots in the Vail Valley. His parents still live in the area, and his younger sister just returned to the area

after a stint on the East Coast. But the flip side to sticking around a resort town like Vail is that year-round jobs — the kind of employment that makes it possible to enjoy the summer — can be hard to find. When Jarnot landed his gig in the advertising department, he scored, as he freely admits. “I thought I’d spend the winter after my internship ski instructing,” says Jarnot. Still, if you’re a CU student reading this, and you want to break into the ski

industry, or maybe even pull a “Jarnot” and end up running a place like Vail, instructing isn’t a bad place to start. The opportunity to learn the mountain, interact with customers and be out there every day is invaluable, and it’s a path that Jarnot says can lead to good things, particularly if you’re hardworking and go the extra mile. “We have a lot of well-educated, bright people who move to Vail for the season,” notes Jarnot. “If they excel, we look to them to fill our year-round positions.” Vail and the rest of the Vail Resorts family have developed fairly sophisticated ways to track customer satisfaction with the ski area’s employees as well as on-the-job performance, he adds. “I recommend that you come and work for us and differentiate yourself,” he says. “Take on more than you are assigned.” Of course, at a place like Vail, there are a lot of opportunities to do just that. Not only in the positions that most people think of when considering heading to the mountains, jobs like lift operations, ski patrolling and instructing, but also those that are more behind the scenes, like grooming, terrain parkbuilding and snowmaking. For Jarnot, who is in the hot seat when it comes to choreographing all these people, their departments and the rest of the infrastructure into a winter ballet that delivers effortlessly, there’s one time each year that always seems more special than the rest. Surprisingly, it’s not opening day, when the lifts start to spin and another season starts on the mountain. Rather, it’s in the period immediately prior to when the mountain fires up for the season, when the new employees are arriving and they’re getting their first informational meetings with the guy at the top. “One of my favorite things is getting to speak to all of our new employees each fall,” Jarnot says. “I’m envious of them because the time that they are about to have during the upcoming season is going to be an experience of a lifetime.” The stoke and excitement of people who are about to spend a winter working at one of the best resorts in Colorado is energizing, says Jarnot. And, while most of them will only spend a couple seasons at the resort before moving on, there’s always the chance that one of them will stay for the summer, maybe move into a year-round position from that ski instructor gig, and end up one day finding themselves, miraculously and unexpectedly, at the top of the mountain, amazed and blessed that somehow they’ve ended up in the hot seat, running the whole damn show. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Clyfford Still’s “PH-563” from 1943, “PH-23” from 1944-45 and “PH128” from 1952 show him revisiting a similar composition over a decade in pastels and oil, always in conversation with his own work.

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rawings are generally seen as the preliminary sketches for later, more polished works, but two exhibitions in Denver, at the Denver Art Museum and the Clyfford Still Museum, are making the case for viewing drawings as artworks in and of themselves. Each exhibition works to very different ends. At the Denver Art Museum, Drawing Room: An Intimate Look at French Drawings from the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection isolates the drawings, offering an intimate look at an intimate art form, separate from the complete works that might otherwise dwarf them. For Drawing/Painting/Process at the Clyfford Still Museum, the curators have put abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still’s drawings alongside the finished oil paintings they inspired or revisited compositions from. The effect in both is of pulling back the veil of varnish and oil to glimpse the artist’s mind at work, to see a little bit more of the process behind the end products and understand the craftsmanship that fed into creative works. Drawings are also as close to the artists’ hands as we will ever get; there is less between 24 January 2, 2014

the artists’ mind and us in these simple pen and ink or pencil and paper representations — that’s the motif that sings through the Drawing Room. Here are the artists at work, at play, at their freshest views of the world. Until Impressionism took off in the late 1800s, all paintings were done indoors. Only a drawing would have been completed outdoors or on the streets. These artists are, perhaps, at the starting point for the journeys that will lead them into grand scale landscape paintings or epic oils. “I think the drawings in particular allow you to see each artist, the creative genius in their hand,” says Angelica Daneo, associate curator of painting and sculpture for the Denver Art Museum. “There’s really very little, if nothing, that separates you, in a drawing, that separates your eye from the hand of the artist. There’s no varnish, there’s no multilayer of paint. There’s really just your eye, and almost you can feel the hand of the artist tracing the paper.” “I think drawing also is a way to connect artists to tradition,” says Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum. “I think the Impressionists and the Abstract Expressionists use drawing because it is a part of their tradition of how you make artworks, and I think many

artists, as avant-garde as they chose to be — in fact this goes all the way through very, very contemporary artists — they still make drawings, for various reasons, but I think it’s part of that tradition and tool kit that you have as an artist.” The opportunity to see these works, in both cases, is unprecedented. For centuries, drawings were used only among artists as teaching tools, then they slowly gained attention among certain connoisseurs who took an interest in the craftsmanship behind the final artworks. Only recently have they been treated as something worthy of exhibiting in their own right. So the drawings at the Clyfford Still Museum — which holds some 2,200 works on paper by the sole artist exhibited there, Clyfford Still — were never shown in his lifetime. The 39 drawings collected by Esmond Bradley Martin, now on view in Drawing Room, one of the trio of shows under the banner of Passport to Paris, have been loaned only sporadically and never before exhibited as a group. The two exhibits weren’t planned in tandem, but show an increasing sophistication in our understanding of art — and reap generous rewards in a sense of immediacy, closeness to the artist and intimacy, as well as a chance to view the artist’s process and perhaps even evoluBoulder Weekly

Pierre Andrieu’s “Reclining Lion,” from ca. 1865, is one of hundreds of drawings the artist made of animals. The technique of using overlapping, curvilinear lines to indicate a soft surface is distinctive of Andrieu’s work.

“The Young Mother,” ca. 1730, by François Boucher, is one of the earliest drawings done of a standing female figure from the back.

tion over a lifetime. ers the same 300 years of French art in a historic narDrawing is the basic art of every artist — the com- rative, charting its evolution from the late 1600s to the mon denominator, the point from which they all begin early 1900s, and includes many of the same artists feaand in some ways, the point to which they all return as tured in Drawing Room. In contrast to the bright, fema way of exploring new ideas and a low-cost, low-peninine Court to Café, the drawing exhibit aims for intialty form of experimenting. macy over spectacle. The “[Drawing] really was perlabels are hand-drawn calligceived as the intellectual raphy, and magnifying glasses moment, the moment the artare available for inspecting ist sits down and uses his details. intellectual abilities to draw “In this show we want our something instead of just putaudience to lose themselves, ting directly colors on the canin a way,” Daneo says. “We vas, so it was really what have some guidance in the allowed the artist to shift from sense of these groupings, but a mere craftsman to someone fundamentally, we want you that could be on par with a to look closely, to really poet,” says Daneo. She points appreciate the virtuosity of to the founding of the these artists and the creativity Academy of Drawing in of each artist.” Florence, Italy, in 1564 as The assembled works are demonstrative of that shift. anything but monotone; from (And that, the Italian native Antoine Watteau’s work in argues, justifies the inclusion red, black and white chalk to of three drawings by Italians pastels by Claude Monet, in an exhibition focused on there’s plenty of color to be French art.) found. But more than that, “In earlier centuries, drawvariety emerges in the many ings were sort of recipes that ways a drawing can be mani“Telemachus Embracing Love Held in the Arms of were given from one generafested. Eucharis,” ca. 1785, by Jean-Guillaume Moitte tion to the next of how to do “It feels like a little jewel things, how to look at somebox of different materials,” thing,” Heinrich says. “Italian Renaissance drawings says Molly Medakovich, the Denver Art Museum’s played really a role of information within a studio, and master teacher for Western American art. A dozen in the 18th and 19th century, drawings were somelines in pen flesh out Pablo Picasso’s “Man with Pipe” thing for the connoisseurs. ... But an exhibition of while watercolor, gouache and black chalk is used to drawings is a rare thing.” produce an elaborate portrayal of mythical Telemachus, The fellow Passport to Paris show Court to Café cov- Eucharis and Love done by Jean-Guillame Moitte. Boulder Weekly

“It’s really a celebration of the stories that the artists are telling, the wide variety of approaches to making art, how individual they are, in other ways, how related some of them are,” Medakovich says. Moments like François Boucher’s “The Young Mother,” a sketch of a woman from behind, a child in her arms, have the feel of a candid photograph. That sense comes not from the exactness of their representation — these figures are roughly drawn — but in the care and attention in catching this particular moment as a mother lifts her child up, catching a layer of her skirts in her grip, and looks away a bit from the infant toward something Boucher didn’t bother to illustrate — it doesn’t matter. She does. “What I really particularly love about the Drawing Room show is how much closer you are with the drawing to the artist’s original idea and, really, how much closer you can be with an artist if you look at his drawings or her drawings and just this spontaneity, this direct proof of their creativity, of their artistic mindset which you have in a drawing, whereas an oil painting, it gets done over months, sometimes a year — layer after layer after layer, and then the layer needs to dry, and then the artist might get back to the painting six weeks later and does the next layer,” says Christoph Heinrich, director of the Denver Art Museum. “A drawing very often is done in half an hour, or maybe two hours, but it’s very direct form, shape of an idea, of an artistic mind. … You never feel as close to an artist as when you see their drawings.” And in their drawings, we see their first attempts to look at what has already been made and remake it as their own — to adapt common subjects and increasingly standardized templates to their own style. The edges of the minds and hands at work that will build iconic styles for these artists become visible just in see DRAWING Page 26

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their early sketchwork. As a teenager undertaking an informal study of art, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec drew “The Egyptian Mare,” completed in 1880, which copies the composition for Théodore Géricault’s “Jument Égyptienne (An Egyptian Mare),” from 1822. In both, an Arab groom in billowing white pants holds the reins of a horse while an onlooker, seated below a palm tree, smokes a hookah. But his handwork makes it his own. Géricault’s meticulous, fine lines and precise representations are replaced with Toulouse-Lautrec’s looser style. There’s just a bit more swagger in the hip of the groom, the details of his turban are lost in a tangle of graphite, the eye of the horse obscured by the bangs in Géricault’s rendition comes sharply forward in Toulouse“The Seine Estuary,” ca. 1864-70, by Claude Monet Lautrec’s drawing, which is completed in the chunky lines that will recur in his posters, prints and lithographs throughout his career. were opened and I really understood nature. I learned By 1888, when Toulouse-Lautrec completed the at the same time to love it. I analyzed it in its form second of the two drawings in Drawing Room, he was with a pencil, I studied it in its colorations,’” deep in the subject that would be central to his most Medakovich recounts. famous works: performers in Paris. “The Dunce Cap” The caricature, done when Monet was 18 or 19 shows a clown in an acrobat costume, hands on hips years old, is a bold, brave and cheeky interpretation of and chin lifted. It’s one of 36 drawings he completed the man. In this elementary work, we see, yes, the cerat the Cirque Fernando, one of four permanent circus- tain skill of a nascent artist, but also, in that youthful es in Paris at the time and a subject he shared with exuberance, we see a boy not afraid to walk away from Impressionists Edgar Degas and Pierre-August Renoir. the traditions upheld by the men already at work in his He was still on his way to creating the line of posters art form. We see a young man who will grow into a of Paris’ entertainers that would memorialize his career rogue artist not afraid to ride the wave of a changing and amassing sketches that would support those later art world, challenge the French Academy, the maker works. and breaker of so many artistic careers and go on with The acrobat depicted is at the ready, but not yet in the unwavering belief that his artistic choices, and not the grip of his act — a brief moment of waiting that theirs, were the way in which art should be made. Toulouse-Lautrec has jotted down in graphite on *** paper. It’s precisely the kind of moment Impressionists set out to capture, whether in light or in the face of the theatre-goers in Montmartre. In final form, Clyfford Still’s paintings take on a “Really the job of the artist is to capture that light, levitating feel — his late works in particular seem to capture cloud-like forms in mid-aerial rotation glimpse and that moment in time,” Medakovich says. across a blank canvas atmosphere. His drawings, how“It’s the same objective, I think, no matter what their ever, reveal the carpentry behind the final construction. subject matter is.” You see him thinking things through, adding weight, Perhaps among the more notable surprises in the changing colors but maintaining the same composiexhibition is a tiny caricature of a businessman, his tion, shifting emphasis, deciding, like any good editor small body, basically all suit-coat, topped in an does, that less can be more, and the heavier strokes enlarged head with a prominent nose, dispassionate eyes fixed in the distance and a firm set to the mouth thin out as he moves from ink to oil or crayon and above his double chin. The signature reads “O.M.” for paper to oil and canvas. That’s the conversation highOscar Monet — Claude Monet was christened Oscar- lighted in the Clyfford Still Museum’s group curatorial Claude Monet and went by, and signed his artwork as, effort Drawing/Painting/Process, which exhibits oil Oscar Monet until his early 20s. paintings alongside paper drawings Still made. It’s a As a teenager in Normandy, Monet drew caricaflexing of the museum’s collection of more than 2,200 tures on the streets of iconic figures around town. At works on paper Still preserved, and some 94 percent of age 15, Eugène Boudin, an established landscape all the artwork the artist produced. painter and one of the first French artists to paint outStill’s work went both ways — sometimes an oil doors, spotted Monet at work, sketching the architecpainting was produced from a drawing, and sometimes ture and the nearby landscapes and drawing caricatures the painting produced the drawing. The conversation of Le Havre businessmen. Boudin slowly persuaded with his own body of work was ongoing. Monet to add his pencil to the growing momentum in “More than anything else, Still was returning to his the art movement, which hinged on a choice to paint own art for inspiration,” says Sobel, who co-curated outside that lead to a sense of immediacy and personal the exhibition with Senior Consulting Curator David experience in artwork fundamental to the Anfam and Collections Manager Bailey Harberg. Impressionist movement. The caricature depicts an art “Drawings aren’t considered only a step to something dealer from Le Havre and a patron of Boudin’s work. else. So in Still’s case, he would even use oil paint on And where did Monet’s study of art with Boudin paper or they would be place holders for other ideas as begin? In drawing, of course. he works through other similar compositions on can“After meeting Boudin he said, ‘My eyes finally vas or on paper.” 26 January 2, 2014

Given their sheer numbers, Sobel says, it’s clear they were a vital part of his artistic process, but Still did not exhibit these drawings in his lifetime. They’ve spent the decades carefully stored in archival boxes, and arrived that way at the museum, where conservation staff began the task of documenting them and matting them for exhibition. Some are so sensitive to light that they’re hung with gray fabric curtains just the size of the frame over them, which each viewer must lift to take a look at the pastel drawing on colored construction paper underneath. “We call it almost like an exhumation, you know, digging up a life or a body,” Sobel says. “In early 2012 we started that inventory, and that’s exactly what led to this exhibition. Over the year and a half it was like, ‘Wow, that looks familiar,’ and ‘That relates to something, but I can’t remember what,’ and it started to organize itself in a certain way as we started to learn more about the drawings.” Still’s paintings had been photographed, so when conservation staff unfurled them from the rolls in which they had been stored, they knew largely what to expect. But the drawings had virtually no visual record. “We actually had to see them,” Sobel says. “It’s part of that reveal, the discovery of all this, which is still ongoing.” Still’s studies and experimentations with abstract forms are hung alongside their final expression in oil paintings — as are the anatomical drawings he completed displayed beside drawings in which abstracted forms just hint at the vestiges of a skeleton. In an interview, Still once described the farmworkers in western Washington, where he grew up, as “men and machines ripping a meager living from the thin top soil” with “arms bloodied to the elbows from shucking wheat.” That memory of farmworkers’ bloodied hands and the toll taken in trying to rip a life from the stubborn land of a Depression-era farm seem to have haunted him for years to follow. In the 1930s, before Still had abandoned recognizable human figures for pure abstraction, he completed a series of paintings hung together now. In them, we see him engaging again and again with a figure he takes from a black-and-white photograph of a man leaning against a car. “PH-644,” from 1934, shows a loosely drawn blue field and a man in blue coveralls leaning against a blue tractor, his over-large cherry red hands dangling from the end of arms draped over the side of a blue tractor. Still returned to that figure two years later, this time rendering him in pen and ink, showing an increasing reduction of form in favor of line. In the same year, he completed a large oil painting of a farmhand holding a scythe, his elongated features typical of Still’s paintings of farm workers. Then comes “PH-324” — also from 1936, which shows the hints of that figure in just the hook of a face with two tiny spots for eyes, with the massive, beastlike hands that have appeared in every rendition. Nowhere else is it more clear that when Still had finally reduced his paintings to those singular strong lines and ephemeral clouds he was still talking about humanity than it is here, where we watch the human form being slowly pared down to its bare essence. “I think it’s authentic, I don’t think it’s just curatoBoulder Weekly

buzz rial license here,” Sobel says. pastel, in oil on canvas and then again “Legitimately that’s what’s really hapin oil on paper. The move from pastels pening. He’s just abstracting, and we’ve to oil and canvas just reaffirms how oil kind of known this anyways, but he’s paint asserts itself as indispensible in abstracting those things — landscape, Still’s particular style in his mature figure machinery, clothing, et cetera, and works — the texture of the palette I think that reveals that pretty definiknife-applied paint gives a sense of tively.” movement lost in the even surface of In a series of landscapes produced the pastel in “PH-128.” The oil rendiearly in his career, we see a pastel rendition — hung between two similar comtion of a canyon from 1923, then he positions in which Still visibly plays treats the same landscape in a pencil with the weight of various colors on the sketch in a work dating to roughly the canvas and the width of a central brown same year. A decade later, he comes form — has a sense of gesture and an back and renders that same view in pen ability to capture the moment, the gesand ink. The horizon once so dense ture of the artist’s hand at work. with shadows and color is reduced to In the extraordinary “PH-87,” Still black singular lines and yet it feels most appears to have applied teal paint to the truly, honestly prescanvas and then ent in that simpliciscribbled through it ty. with the point of In a delightful his palette knife. ON THE BILL: Drawing/ Gesture, indeed. duo from 1942, Painting/Process is on view at the Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock It’s in vast con“PH-550” and St., Denver, through Feb. 9. trast to the work of “PH-757” (Still was Additional information, including the French artists in adamant about hours and ticket prices, is at 720354-4880 or www. the neighboring leaving his canvases clyffordstillmuseum.org. museum, where finunnamed to give ished works are their interpretation Passport to Paris runs through Feb. 9 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. ones in which the entirely to the view14th Ave. Pwky. For information or actions of their er), PH-550’s flourto reserve advance tickets for hands are all but ishes of near-priPassport to Paris, call 720-865-5000 or visit www.denverartmuseum.org. invisible behind mary yellow and orange in geometric smooth, painterly forms are replaced surfaces — leaving with caramel, burgundy and near navy their drawings as the only place to get blue. The spindly forms that look more close to their hands. When mechanical on paper feel, on canvas, Impressionists began to leave texture in reedy, organic, plantlike. The move from the paint surface, the works were called one medium to the next — and the “unfinished,” but it paved the way for an exhibition includes, alongside the oil aesthetic that could accept seeing the paintings for which Still is most well brushstrokes on the canvas. Still picks known, watercolors, pastels, pen and ink that conversation up in many of his drawings as well as lithographs and mature works, and the brushstrokes wood carvings — changes the shapes of become a foundational element in experecurring compositions. riencing the work. Sometimes, he comes back to entireAnd yet, at the end of his career, as ly reconceived forms, as in 1938’s “PHhe moves toward compositions with an 297,” an oil painting of geologic features airy, breathless feel and less use of the with undulating profiles which are then vertical lines that often dominate the recast in the hard lines of a lithograph middle part of his career, the number of in 1944’s “PH-15.” drawings he’s producing increases. Of Like any artist, Sobel says, Still was the 2,200 works on paper at the museat play with what a medium change um, about 900 of them were made in could to do change the image itself. the last 15 years of Still’s 60-year career. “Still, especially, knew that paint “What I find striking in Still’s later itself and the way you apply it and the paintings, the last paintings especially, is properties of paint and the way it can be that in many ways they look like big varied, wet or dry or et cetera, is and can pastels. … I think they are absolutely be a powerful expressive agent,” Sobel informing each other,” Sobel says. “As says. “What you’re feeling when you see drawing went up in his career, painting an abstract expressionist like Clyfford stayed about the same, but the relationStill is often times your own response to ships between the two — and I mean that paint. It is what’s communicating more the quality, not the actual, this as opposed to a subject, a portrait or a drawing was made larger into a painting landscape.” — but it’s the quality of the paintings A trio of paintings show him that seem to be coming right from those employing a similar color scheme of pastels.” black, brown and a flourish of red, in Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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icture this. You’re Denver comedian years, and he’s seen it all. He’s one-third of The Andrew Orvedahl, and you’re booked as Grawlix, a comedy group that inclues Orvedahl and the opening act for Jeff Tweedy — the comedians Ben Roy and Adam Cayton-Holland. In frontman of Wilco. You’re the only thing 2011, he started a monthly storytelling show called between a crowd and a major music headThe Narrators, and it has been running strong ever liner. And you have 40 minutes to fill with jokes. since. Denver and Salt Lake City, Orvedahl says, were Orvedahl and the Grawlix (who do a monthly great, enthusiastic crowds. But the Kansas City one? show in Denver) are stalwarts in the Denver comedy Not so much. scene. As Denver’s comedy First, they boo you when you first enter the scene has grown (a few years stage, just because you’re from Denver. Our sports ago, Orvedahl noticed that “It ON THE BILL: Andrew Orvedahl will be performing at teams beat theirs, or something. Regardless, they’re just kind of evolved that way the Dairy Center for the Arts on not happy. But you keep at it, and they grudgingly over time to where … your Thursday, July 9. Comedians warm to you. reputation as a Denver comic Brent Gill, James Gold and Dickey Bill Wagner will also perExcept for that one guy. The guy in the crowd would precede you,” like a form, and Ben Hutcherson will “New York comic” or a “Los who at first just shouted out “Tweedy! Twee-e-e-ehost the show. Tickets are $10. Angeles comic”), Boulder has e-dy!” during your set. How do you handle a hecksoaked up some of the overler? This isn’t even a comedy show. It’s not like flow. The weekly comedy show you’re headlining Comedy Works in Denver; the at the Bohemian Biergarten, run by Denver comedirules are different here. You can’t just go after the ans Chuck Roy and Brent Gill, and the Dairy guy; he paid to see Tweedy! Plus, you’ve opened for Center for the Art’s comedy show often feature many acts, it’s sort of been a theme in your career, so Denver comedians as headliners. you know your role. It’s your job to soften the audiThe Denver comedy scene is strong, Orvedahl ence members for the headliner, not antagonize says, but he has a new theory on it. them. You can’t just berate the guy. What if the “All the success hinders all the comedians,” crowd turns on you? So you keep going. But then Comedian Andrew Orvedahl he says. “No one wants to leave because it’s so he yells out the ultimate heckle, one you’ve only much fun, and no one is making full-time money seen directed at other comics, not you. from here because the next closest city is like “You suck!” these thousands of people think that I do suck.” 1,000 miles in any direction. So you’d basically It’s the worst thing anyone can shout at you, Luckily, it’s a fleeting feeling, since, as you quickly have to go out and become a road dog — and because it’s a litmus test for the audience. You’ve seen it realize, you aren’t sucking. You’re doing all right. So then, you’re not even doing comedy in Denver — go two ways: Either they agree with the heckler (“Yeah! you handle it as gracefully as you can. After the show, to earn full-time money. You can’t make full-time You do suck!!) or they side with you (“Shut up!”). people come up to you to congratulate you on your comedy money in Denver unless you’re living in a Nevertheless, it takes you off guard. It doesn’t help set. They compliment you on how you handled the squatter house with 11 other dudes and your that there are more than a thousand people in the heckler, but wish you were a little meaner to him. He’s monthly expenses are like $300. There’s just not audience, and through the bright lights you can’t see a just a drunk asshole, why be so polite to him? And enough opportunities that pay enough. ... It’s like single one of them. There’s a horrible moment where honestly, there’s a part of you that wishes you hadn’t. a part-time job I have.” the catastrophic thought flashes through your mind: Screw that guy. “Oh God. This could be it. Maybe the majority of Orvedahl has been doing stand-up comedy for 10 Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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When manager, band members quit, the core of In This Moment persevered by Alan Sculley

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n This Moment may still be finishing up its touring cycle behind its fourth album, Blood, with the second leg of its “Hellpop” tour this January. But already, the band has mapped out the next phase of its career. As guitarist Chris Howorth reveals, the ON THE BILL: In This Moment plays the Fillmore group will go into the stuAuditorium on Tuesday, dio in February to start Jan. 7. Show starts at 5:30 work on its fifth album, p.m. Must be 16 to enter. Tickets are $10.67. 1510 and plans to have the first Clarkson St., Denver, 303single out in June and the 837-1482. album released in August or September. “We want to jump out on tour right away in July, on a sumIn This Moment will enter the studio in February to start working on its fifth album. mer festival or something like that,” Howorth says. “We want to come out for the fourth album and reflected a new with something big.” Churko, who had produced the attitude from Brink, Howorth and That talk of big plans for the next group’s second and third albums — Churko (who became a major songwritalbum is especially striking considering 2008’s The Dream and 2010’s A Staring collaborator during the “Blood” projthe situation In This Moment was in Crossed Wasteland — suggested writing ect — even bringing in some of the musiprior to making the Blood album, which and recording a couple of new tunes that cal ideas that were developed into finwas released in August 2012. could then be shopped to help secure a ished songs). As work was set to begin on the new manager. The song “Blood” was something difalbum, manager Rob Blasko dropped the “He said, ‘Let me make them sound ferent for In This Moment. Its spokenband. Then, three weeks later, two band good for you, and then we’ll send them members, guitarist Blake Bunzel (who out to everybody and see what they ish vocal parts, industrial-ish rhythms and shared music writing duties with think,’” Howorth recalls. “And literally the electronic touches that go with its metalish guitar work gave the song a notably Howorth) and drummer Jeff Fabb next day after I sent those songs, first different sound than earlier In This abruptly quit the group. thing in the morning, phone calls were “At that point, [singer Maria Brink] coming in from all these different people. Moment music, which was a more standard type of melodic guitar-based metal. and I were just like, wow, nobody believes ‘We want to meet with you guys.’ ‘We And different was exactly what Brink in us anymore,” Howorth says. “Our own want to set up a meeting.’ It was just like and Howorth wanted with the music. band doesn’t believe in us. Are we done?” really, this is so crazy. It was like out of a “We had this no fear kind of feeling Fortunately for Brink and Howorth, movie or something. Everyone just comof let’s just try whatever and let’s do there were still some believers — namely pletely flipped around, and we had mansomething different and fresh. Fresh was their producer, Kevin Churko, and the agement secured in maybe two weeks.” a word we were saying a lot,” Howarth band’s label, Century Media, which was The song that generated the enthusisays. not dropping In This Moment. asm was “Blood” — and it set the tone

The new sound was not only a hit with management candidates — the group signed with In De Goot Entertainment — it connected with fans once “Blood” was released as the first single. The song became the group’s first charting single — going top 10 at active rock radio. Two follow-up singles, “Adrenalize,” and the current single, “Whore,” also cracked the top 20 on that chart. The latter two songs (as well as tunes like “You’re Gonna Listen” and “Scarlet”) carry forward the dark, eerie and at times sensual personality that characterizes the hard-hitting Blood album, as Brink’s emotional vocals ride atop thick guitar riffs, heavy rhythms and synthy/electronic textures that add density and melody to the sound. The group’s musical fearlessness and ambition has also extended to its live shows, which have steadily grown more elaborate as the touring cycle for the Blood album has continued. Early on, the guys in the band — Howorth, bassist Travis Johnson, guiarist Randy Weitzel and drummer Tom Hane — started adding makeup to their stage attire, and Brink began changing outfits over the course of the show. As time went on, new visual effects and props were added to the stage show. “We wanted to make it like a theatrical performance in a rock show, kind of like Alice Cooper does or Rob Zombie or Kiss, where things are rocking and everything, but there’s a plan and a show to be put on,” Howorth says. “It’s really, really cool and something that we’re all really enjoying,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Roberta Brenza. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Nikki Hill. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Peanut Butter Lovesickle. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E.

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Thursday, January 2: Nikki Hill. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Friday, January 3: Aaah! Real Monsters. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Boasting a Colorado Springs-born singer, Aaah! Real Monsters brings melodic pop-punk with emotional choruses and catchy hooks.

Steve Manshel Solo. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Third Stream. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. see EVENTS Page 34

movie Saturday, January 4: The Prairie Scholars. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

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As more time passes since the September floods, artists and musicians are beginning to process the disaster and channel it into art. Husband-and-wife duo Andy and Jessica Epler make up The Prairie Scholars, and their composition “100 Year Flood” tells the story of the once-ina-lifetime rainfalls and how they brought out the best help-yourneighbor instincts in the community.

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Thursday Night Live Music. 9 p.m. Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-3050.

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Gidion’s Knot. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Trio FM. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-3175522.

Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Walker Shellist Blues. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Friday, January 3 music Aaah! Real Monsters. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Andrew Wynne. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397.

events Flood Tour on Open Space — Tour vans will leave from the Parks & Open Space Building in Longmont. 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, 303-678-6200. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Saturday, January 4 music Alan Knight & Company. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Brews & Tunes. 5:30 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-5300642. Captain Quirk and the Cosmic Rangers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733. Denny Driscoll. 8 p.m. Sun Rose Café, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

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Caribou Mountain Collective. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-3390767.

Wednesday, Jan. 8, Folk duo with decades of chemistry: Strangebyrds. 7 p.m. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5445973.

DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Eva Rendle. 7 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303447-3278.

Fredi and the Soul Shakers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ganesha New Year Kirtan Jam — With Steph Schwartz. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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

John Runnels Band. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Isa and JoeAlan. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

K.C. Groves and Greg Blake. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Paula Nelson. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & 34 January 2, 2014

Kronen. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Left Hand Market Boys. 9 p.m. Left Hand

Plein Air Landscape Design, the work of artist Lamya Deeb, is on display in a gallery at the National Center for Atmospheric Research through Jan. 31. Berlin Graphics 1928–1938 — Artist Herbert Bayer. Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 23, 2014. The Circle Limit Design Series — Artist Ben Van Dusen. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Jan. 31. Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26. Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. Foto Flood — Works by Boulder High School Students. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26. Julie Puma: The Immortal Jellyfish. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Jan. 12. Landscape M — Artist Heimrad Bäcker

(1925-2003). Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 5. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 21. Passport to Paris. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 9. Pattern: Follow the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Feb. 9. Plein Air Landscape Design — Artist Lamya Deeb. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Jan. 31. Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Yellowstone: A Project for the Nation — Artist Thomas Moran. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 19.

Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Avenue, Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Ross Hopkins. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Mark’s Midnight Carnival Show. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-7733.

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

Paula Nelson Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Prairie Scholars. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

Second Acts. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Tiffany Christopher Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Watersong. 8 p.m. Crossroads Tavern, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, Boulder Weekly

theater Aida. Presented by Ignite Theatre. Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 720-362-2697. Through Jan. 19.

303-635-6616. events Aquaponics Tour. 1 p.m. The Aquaponic Source, 1860 Lefthand Circle, Ste. E, Longmont, 303-720-6604. The Comedy Crew. 9 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Gidion’s Knot. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 18. Jekyll & Hyde. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through Jan. 26. One Act. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Fridays through May 2, 2014. Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through March 1.

Gidion’s Knot runs through Jan. 18 at The Dairy Center for the Art

Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Gidion’s Knot. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Mayama Movement Studio, 625 1/2 Fourth Ave., 303-823-0816. Sunday, January 5 music Acoustic Jam Night. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Conor Cameron. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Jami Lunde. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Justin Hoffenberg. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Live Bluegrass Pickin’. 4 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Band Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-2976397. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397. Tyler T. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Avenue, Longmont, 303-7720258. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Monday, January 6 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel see EVENTS Page 36

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Tuesday, Jan 14 - 6pm - in the Tavern

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wednesday, Jan 15 - 6pm - in the Tavern

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Saturday, Jan 18 • 8pm

my blue Sky

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SeTh phillipS

Sunday, Jan. 5, Wintertime fiddling: Justin Hoffenberg. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

wednesday, Jan 22 - 6pm - in the Tavern

Jubal

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blindchild

Saturday, Jan 25 • 8pm

dreamboaT annie

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The prairie ScholarS

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Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1 Boulder Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-4490884.

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Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-6524186. events

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

Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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

Tuesday Trivia. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-6524186.

Frankie and Floyd

Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Birds of Prey Slide Show. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

music AZTeC. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St, Lyons, 303-823-6685. Esther Sparks. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465. Wednesday, January 8 music 1st Wednesday Music Club. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900

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Tuesday, Jan. 7, Jazz quartet that plays Tool Covers: AZTeC. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-4992985. Laurie Dameron. 6:30 p.m. Treppeda’s Italian Ristorante, 300 Second Ave., Niwot, 303-652-1606. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Paul Shinn Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Strangebyrds. 7 p.m. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5445973. Treena McCurdy. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-2976397. West of the Blues. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Communities. Boulder County Resource Conservation Center, 2639 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-999-3820. Euchre. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186. Finding our Families — Author Wendy Kramer. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. ‘From Burned Out To Fired Up’ by Claire Amber. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 Thirteenth Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344. Monty Python’s Spamalot. 5:30 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder. Trivia. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

The Act of Killing

“I’m the king of the world!”

A documentary that challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers. NR treat as R. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Philomena The unparalleled Dame Judi Dench brings to life the story of a woman who gave away the child she conceived out of wedlock for adoption in the United States and her search, decades later, to find that son with the help of a BBC reporter. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Esquire and Chez Artiste.

All is Lost Robert Redford is brilliant in his role as a nameless man who must survive after his sailboat sinks, leaving him lost at sea. Rated PG-13. At Boedecker and SIE Film Center.

Almost in Love This movie represents the pinnacle of the new trend in indie cinema of actors improvising around a structured storyline. Shot in two continuous 40-minute takes set 18 months apart — the first over a sunset in Staten Island, the second over a sunrise in East Hampton — it pushes the limits with surprising results. See full review on page 39. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

American Hustle

ideology — the dreams that shape our collective beliefs and practices. At SIE Film Center.

is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. When an unexpected tragedy hits a new family, everything they know and love is tested. At Boedecker.

Colony Square.

Dallas Buyers Club

Another entertaining installment in the Lord of the Rings series. This one has a giant dragon guarding treasure. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose freewheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

47 Ronin 3D

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Hunger Games: Catching Fire Jennifer Lawrence dazzles in this adventure sequel. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

The Punk Singer Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut up, and her fans hoped she never would. So in 2005, when Hanna stopped shouting, many wondered why. Through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, The Punk Singer takes viewers on a fascinating tour of contemporary music and offers a never-before-seen view into the life of this fearless leader. At SIE Film Center. — Denver Film Society

When the FBI decides to recruit con artists to infiltrate the Jersey mob and crooked powerbrokers, things get interesting in a hurry in this well-acted film starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Kai (Keanu Reeves) joins forces with 47 samurai who have been outcast by the evil dude who killed their former master. They face big obstacles and trials that would do in most fighters as they attempt to restore order to their world. And it’s in 3-D. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Frozen

Labyrinth (1986)

Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) has traded his old anchor job in for a modern cable news position. He is joined by his original team: Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), street reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports reporter Champ Kind (David Koechner). If you laughed at the original, you’ll laugh at this one as well. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the reindeer and a comical snowman that has trouble keeping his head, set out to end the spell. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

When a young girl makes a wish about her little brother, it unexpectedly sends him to the mysterious land of the fairies. Rated PG. At Esquire.

Inspired by a true story, this film tells the tale of how Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) was finally able to convince the very difficult writer P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to allow him to bring her book Mary Poppins to the big screen. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Le Joli Mai

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Blue Is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle)

Freda Kelly was just a shy Liverpudlian teenager when she was asked to work for a local band hoping to make it big. Though she had no concept of how far they would go, Freda had faith in The Beatles from the beginning, and The Beatles had faith in her. History notes that The Beatles were together for 10 years, but Freda worked for them for 11. In this film, Freda tells her stories for the first time in 50 years. One of few films with the support of the living Beatles and featuring original Beatles music, the film offers an insider perspective on the beloved band that changed the music industry. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, Le Joli Mai documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war. It is a film with several thousand actors, including a poet, a student, an owl, a housewife, a stockbroker, a competitive dancer, two lovers, General de Gaulle and several cats. The film ends with sweeping views of Paris, the façades of its prisons, and the faces of its people as they struggle to make sense of their moment in history. SIE Film Center. —Denver film Society

Ben Stiller stars in this film version of author James Thurber’s classic. It’s a tale of a man who escapes his ordinary life by day-dreaming his way into fantasy worlds filled with adventure. But when his real world gets threatened, he and his co-worker, played by Kristen Wiig, get caught up in a wilder adventure than Mitty ever could have imagined. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. At 15, she is approaching adulthood and dreams of experiencing her first love. A handsome male classmate falls hard for her, but an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered in the street slips into her bed and possesses her with overwhelming pleasure. That bluehaired girl is a confident older art student named Emma (Léa Seydoux), who will soon enter Adèle’s life for real, making way for an intense and complicated love story. Rated NC-17. At SIE Film Center.

The Book Thief This film tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a new family in World War II Germany. Young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) embarks upon a journey marked by discovery, courage, friendship — and the power to triumph over the most daunting obstacles. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

The Broken Circle Breakdown An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of footstomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown

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Good Ol’ Freda

The Great Beauty Gorgeously photographed in Rome and Tuscany, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) is a dazzling, lyrical and at times surreal dramatic comedy, like a modernday La Dolce Vita. The magnetic Toni Servillo plays dapper journalist Jep Gambardella, slick and soulful, who has been a permanent fixture in Rome’s literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. When his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself taking stock of his life. At SIE Film Center

Grudge Match You’re never too old to make fun of yourselves, and that’s what this film is really about. Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro play two retired boxers who are talked into getting back in the ring to settle an old score. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and

Inside Llewyn Davis The Coen brothers craft this story of a homeless young folk singer trying to create a name for himself in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. Rated R. At Mayan and Century.

Nebraska After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Rated R. At Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones When a young man starts behaving oddly, as in possessed with evil demons, family and friends step in to help and things get scary. Rated R. At Century.

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology The makers of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema return with The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling cinematic journey into the heart of

Saving Mr. Banks

12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. Rated R. At Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Walking with Dinosaurs 3D In this prehistoric adventure, Patchi, a little dinosaur in a world of big, mean dinosaurs, still manages to triumph and become the hero. Fun story, but the real delight of this film is the amazing portrayal of dinosaurs in their natural habitat looking more realistic than ever before. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Jean Dujardin in this adaptation of 1990s banker gone bad Jordan Belfort’s memoir. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

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he first thing to note about Sam Neave’s indie thinkflick on love, Almost in Love, is that it’s made in practically the opposite way as a Hollywood film. Editing in mainstream cinema typically hews to what Peter Watkins dubbed the “monoform,” a style of rapid cutting that barrages the viewer with images, leaving little time for contemplation of context. Almost in Love goes in the complete opposite direction. Neave tells the story through two 40-minute-long shots, the first at a barbecue hosted by Sasha (Alex Karpovsky) and the second at his wedding party. It’s a tale of a doomed love triangle. Sasha was madly in love with Mia (Marjan Neshat) until his good friend Kyle (Gary Wilmes) stepped in and dated her, throwing a wrench into Sasha’s friendships with both. When the film starts, it’s been a month since Sasha has talked to either. In the opening minutes of the party, we get a sense that all 10 or so guests are old friends. Sasha is prone to quote John Updike on a whim, and his friends lovingly indulge him, even as the points he make sort of meander into nothingness. Banal small talk occurs. The manliness of an outdoor electric grill is questioned. Everything goes swimmingly — Sasha has invited Mia over, to mend bridges — until a friend mistakenly invites Kyle over. The drama begins, mild, polite confrontations occur, and the long take ends with Sasha and Mia sharing their first, passionate kiss. Fast-forward to the next take and we find ourselves at Sasha’s wedding afterBoulder Weekly

party at a house in the Hamptons. Suprise, surprise, Mia ain’t the bride. We see the same group of friends (plus a new, previously un-introduced bride) discuss marriage and love and engage in more familial chatter before the movie ends, almost-but-not-quite resolving the main tension of the so-called storyline. Neave’s favored technique is to put his characters in emotionally awkward positions and then zoom in on their faces, relying on his actors’ faces and the audience’s unease with broken social conventions to create the tension in the film. The camera often lingers on the listener rather than the speaker during a conversation, and when one side of the party dies down, the audio switches to another conversation. Or, conversely, we hear one conversation while the camera focuses on someone just entering a room, sitting down alone, and looking for an opportunity to enter a conversation. These strange filmmaking decisions nearly make Almost in Love interesting. But the love problems faced by the well-off young professionals are realistic to the point of being unremarkable. The most touching moments arise as a result of the connection the characters seem to share with one another, not because of any particular deep insight uttered by one of the characters. The actors admirably do their part to execute the director’s vision. Watching the concept’s execution makes for an entertaining viewing experience, yet at the end it feels like an experiment or a filmmaking exercise rather than a fully formed film. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Feeding the recovery Lyons restaurants still rebounding after flood by Angela Buchanan

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enture a few streets away from the downtown area in Lyons and the scope of the flood damage is still palpable, with uninhabitable houses, washed out side streets, and debris piles waiting to be moved by the heavy construction vehicles still dotting the landscape. But downtown itself provides few lingering clues of the devastation of the September floods. Most shops are open for business, holiday decorations are on display, and the general vibe is one of forging ahead, especially in local restaurants. When Lyons residents were allowed back into their homes in late October, restaurants were among the first businesses to reopen, engineering a food service based on what was possible with the still-compromised infrastructure. Now, a little more than three months post-flood, many of the restaurants have returned to their normal winter hours, with full menu service. You can once again

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get an order of crispy fried pickles at Smokin’ Dave’s BBQ, or an eggnog shake at Lyons Dairy Bar. You can enjoy a chai and a glutenfree scone at The Stone Cup and be blissfully unaware that business was ever disrupted. Despite this welcome return to business-asusual, all of the local restaurants are still working to recover from weeks of lost revenue, and some face larger challenges still. Mindy Tallent, owner of The Stone Cup and the newly opened Rise and Shine Bistro, said the post-holiday season is a tough time for businesses to recover. “This is typically our slowest season in town, so it is extra challenging for any business to reopen now,” she says. “We have had many problems and we have to relocate ourselves,” says Sushi Matsuri owner Yumi Sueyoshi. “Lyons is trying to help us find a space, but no luck so far.” Lacking flood insurance and government see LYONS Page 44

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NO EGG SALAD FOR ANYONE EVER AGAIN

If you’re anything like us here at BW, you woke up New Year’s Day with a hankering for some egg salad. Excited, you leapt from bed and rushed to Pearl Street, where you then, in a hail of expletives, discovered that fhe Frasca Caffé was closed, meaning any egg salad you ate that day would have to come from other, inferior dispensaries. So in yet another hail of expletives, you gave up your fool’s errand and went back to bed. The reason the Frasca Caffé is closed is for a big remodel of the space that will last through Monday, Feb. 10. And when it’s done, there will be no egg salad for anyone because the Frasca Caffé will be no more. “The plan is to turn the Caffé space into a private event space (for both Frasca and [Pizzeria] Locale), and use it as overflow seating for Pizzeria Locale Boulder guests,” Account Director Sarah Abell said in a press release. Remodeling crews will remove the coffee station and refrigeration units, build a wine station, and repurpose the wood fixtures and current seating to make one table to seat up to 10 guests. Owners cited the space not being set up to their liking, and already used as overflow seating for Pizzeria Locale at night as the reason for the remodel. But the subtext is clearly that they were tired of all those gangs of teen hooligans getting hopped up on egg salad and scaring the locals.

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boyfriend had been drinkLocale are in luck, howev- Susan France ing at a different establisher. The Boulder-based ment and police were not class-fest opened its first actually called to the franchise location in Biergarten, but took their Denver in May, a locale report on the incident later that folks noted was a bit in the evening when they more proletariat than the responded to a domestic Boulder class-fest, featurviolence call. ing a lunch-counter Calls to management assembly line style of prepat the Bohemian aration. Biergarten for comment But word came down on the closure were not last week that’s because returned by press time, but the franchise locale in they did say at their hearDenver was opened ing with the liquor board through a partnership with that new policies have burrito-biz-behemoth been instituted since Sept. Chipotle, which helped 7 to ensure that the inciowners Lachlan dent is not repeated. Mackinnon-Patterson and But before rushing to Bobby Stuckey develop an Beth Wright enjoys a liter of beer at the judgment with witticisms oven to replicate their Bohemian Biergarten. like “Bohemian crust and help them transFightklubgarten,” it’s also form the restaurant experience into something more like Chipotle’s pro- worth noting that as previously reported in BW, Boulder City Attorney Tom Carr was run out of cess as the opening salvos of Chipotle’s push Seattle in part for overzealous, and potentially into the pizza market, meaning more Pizzeria unconstitutional, crackdowns and prosecuLocales are on the way, regionally and possitions on nightlife and bars while he was city bly even nationwide. Locale indeed. attorney there (see “A Sobering Look at Tom Still no egg salad though. Carr,” June 24, 2010). “If they want to kill nightlife in Boulder — BOHEMIAN BIERGARTEN CLOSING TEMPORARILY make bars go away, make music venues go away — Tom Carr is your guy,” David Meinert, There will also be no egg salad at the an owner of Seattle restaurants and bars and a Bohemian Biergarten. At least not for the 18 leader of the Seattle Nightlife and Music days following Thursday, Jan. 2. The downAssociation told BW when Carr was hired in 2010. town German-themed restaurant will have to Worry not fraus and herrs, the leder should temporarily close due to a liquor code violation stemming from a Sept. 7 incident in which be back in the Biergarten’s hosen on Monday, Jan. 20. But there won’t be any a bouncer reportedly broke up an altercation between an off-duty employee and her intoxi- egg salad then either, probably because it is cated boyfriend in the bar a little too enthusinot on the menu. astically. According to hearing transcripts, the Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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cuisine review SALT’s chocolate tart: a recipe for forgiveness

by Cayte Bosler

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y dining companion and I dressed in our finest for SALT. But not just because it’s a rustically chic eatery on Pearl Street in downtown Boulder designed by co-owner Carol Vilate. We hoped our dapper appearance disguised our secret, ugly desire: To gorge on more dessert than the food pyramid suggests for cardiovascular health. The menu description for SALT’s Dark Chocolate Caramel Salt Tart I’d read online wasn’t exactly poetry — just the words chocolate, caramel and salt together — but I’d been dead set on eating one ever since. And now that it was time and the tart was within my reach, without explanation, SALT turned us away an hour before closing time. If you’ve ever SALT’s desserts often pair well with a drink at the bar. scoured for an open table on a weekend night in a trendy neighborhood in a proper city, you’d know that a table, heck, even a squeezed And the eats are good. What SALT lacks in conseat at a bar with just enough breathing air, is envisistent courtesy they make up for with desserts that able. And SALT had many open tables. will make you forget your woes, much less any minor We gave our best impression of a scowl and manoffence received at the door. aged to negotiate a seat. Ganache is the star ingredient of the chocolate And it wasn’t the only issue I’ve had. Over my tart: nature’s gifts of butter, cream and chocolate all three visits to SALT, the service has been somewhat mixed together for the holidays. Add the finesse of a erratic, which is surprising since chef and co-owner trained chef, large crystals of salt and warm caramel, Bradford Heap trained in New York and Europe, and I wouldn’t care if the waitstaff dropped a tray of locales known for encouraging good service. Not to coffee in my lap. needlessly rub salt in anyone’s wounds, but why not Smitten, I searched the ’net for similar recipes and pepper your guests with a little good will to go with found some with the same ingredients as SALT’s the good eats? standout dessert. I look forward to making a few of

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them. After all, it wouldn’t be fair for trademark to pertain to burgers and chocolate. Apart from a near perfect dessert, the tavern burger topped with trusty Vermont cheddar SALT cheese is nearly heroic. It 1047 Pearl St. may not have saved any Boulder kittens from a burning 303-444-7258 building, but the locally sourced ingredients and fresh flavors certainly better humanity. I barely noticed anything else as I chowed down. One lesson Heap picked up from observing cuisine in Europe is that freshness is paramount. SALT is partnered with Boulder’s extraordinary farmers, giving them poise to procure the freshest ingredients possible. Even with the discordant interactions, my overall impression of SALT stems from the quality of the food enjoyed over a few occassions. The feeling I got was analogous to attending a cocktail party at the house of an acquaintance instead of a close friend. The wine is flowing, the food is plentiful and satisfying, the atmosphere is at once comfortable and nice enough that you can dress up without feeling on display. But the host may whip out the vacuum cleaner before you’ve decidedly gorged yourself, as if saying, it was lovely to have you, but please, it’s time to go. Just make sure you eat the chocolate tart before. It’s a recipe for forgiveness. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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If you’re not ready I urge you to nestle and to write a book, I hope you will attempt an equivalent cuddle and caress more than usual in the coming months. If accomplishment. you aren’t totally clear on where home is, either in the external world or inside your heart, devote yourself to finding it. SCORPIO Hone your emotional intelligence. Explore your roots. On a OCT. 23-NOV. 21: regular basis, remember your reasons for loving life. Stay in I’m hoping you will find a new teacher or two in 2014, close touch with the sources that feed your wild soul. maybe even a mentor. Not a guru who tells you what to do. Not an exploitative “expert” who claims to know what’s TAURUS right for you or a charismatic narcissist who collects adoraAPRIL 20-MAY 20: tion. What I wish for you, Scorpio, is that you will connect For years, French painter Édouard Manet and French poet with wise and humble sources of inspiration … with lifeStéphane Mallarmé hung out with each other every day. long learners who listen well and stimulate you to ask good Mallarmé referred to their relationship as “the most comquestions … with curious guides who open your eyes to plete friendship.” They influenced each other to become resources you don’t realize you need. In the coming months, better artists and human beings. I’m guessing that in the you are primed to launch a quest that will keep you busy coming months, Taurus, you’ll thrive on that kind of stimuand excited for years; I’d love to see you get excellent help lating companionship. Having such regular contact with in framing that quest. a like-minded ally might even be an important factor in ripening your intelligence. At the very least, I predict that SAGITTARIUS soulful friendship will be a crucial theme in 2014. You will NOV. 22-DEC. 21: attract blessings and generate luck for yourself by deepening In 2014, it’s possible you will be given a cabbage farm your ability to cultivate synergistic bonds. or a petting zoo or some bequest that’s not exactly in close alignment with your life’s purpose. But it’s more GEMINI likely that the legacies and dispensations you receive MAY 21-JUNE 20: will be quite useful. The general trend is that allies will St. Peter’s Basilica is a very old church in Vatican City. It make available to you a steady flow of useful things. contains a life-size bronze statue of St. Peter that is at least Your ability to attract what you need will be high. In the 700 years old. Over the centuries, countless visitors have coming months, I may even have good reason to name paid their respects by kissing and touching the feet of the you an honorary Scorpio. You might match those Great idol. The metal composing the right foot has been so thorManipulators’ proficiency at extracting the essence of oughly worn down by these gestures that the individual toes what you want from every situation. have disappeared, leaving a smooth surface. You will have a similar kind of power in 2014, Gemini. Little by little, CAPRICORN with your steady affection and relentless devotion, you can DEC. 22-JAN. 19: transform what’s rigid and hard. Would you be interested in a motto that will help set the tone for you in 2014? I’ve got a suggestion that’s in alignCANCER ment with the astrological omens. It’s from a poem by JUNE 21-JULY 22: Margaret Atwood. Try saying this and see if it works for you: Big rivers don’t travel in straight lines. Their paths are curvy “Last year I abstained / this year I devour / without guilt / and complicated, with periodic turns and bends. In some which is also an art.” If you choose to make this affirmaplaces they flow faster and in others they’re slower. Their tion your own, be sure you don’t forget about the fact that depth and width may vary along the way, too. Your own devouring without guilt is an art — a skill that requires craft destiny is like one of those big rivers, Cancerian. In some and sensitivity. You can’t afford to get blindly instinctual and years, it meanders for long stretches, slowing down as it greedy in 2014; you shouldn’t compulsively overcompensate wanders along a crooked course. It may even get shallower for 2013’s deprivations. Be cagey and discerning as you and narrower for a while. But I expect that in 2014, you will satisfy your voracious hunger. be moving more rapidly than usual. You will be traveling a more direct route, and you will be both wide and deep.

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“In games there are rules,” writes science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, “but in life the rules keep changing.” This is always true, of course, but I think it will be an especially poignant truth for you between now and your next birthday. During the coming months, you may sometimes feel as if every last law and formula and corollary is mutating. In some cases, the new rules coming into play will be so different from the old rules you’ve been used to, they may at first be hard to figure out. But now here’s the happy ending: It may take a while, but you will eventually see that these new rules have an unexpected logic and beauty that will serve your future well.

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earthy Tootsie Rolls but with a much better mid-afternoon punch. Or perhaps you’ll be drawn to the Beyond Mars Krispy Treat or the incrEdible Monkey Bar? Ensuring quality, consistency and controlled dosages is paramount for edibles makers, and the state is soon expected to issue rules and regulations to help ensure those things. There’s also the ever-expanding world of vapor, oils and butters. As with any new product, you should know what you’re getting. The state has put in place strict labeling procedures. All products will include information about the facility where it was grown and processed, a serial number to facilitate recalls and product warnings, date of packaging, quantity, amount of THC and/or CBD, a list of non-organic pesticides or fungicides used in its cultivation and results of product tests. Everything must be sold in a sealed, tamper-evident container that is childresistant and opaque on all sides. Still, do your homework, spend some time and ask a lot of questions to make sure that you get what you’re looking for. Type “cannabis strains” into a search engine, and you’ll find websites with helpful information. I use a free, handy phone app called Weedmaps, which shows the locations of stores, with detailed information on menus, prices and deals, along with videos and patient reviews. As of this writing, it’s only for medical outlets, but I’m sure the company will be updating it for the retail market ASAP. Sales of medical marijuana exceeded all expectations in the state’s latest fiscal year. Dispensary retail sales from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013, totaled $329 million, reports the Colorado Department of Revenue. That’s an increase of $110 million over the year before. That means that medical marijuana patients last year spent an average of $2,900 a year, or $242 a month, $60 a week, $8.64 a day, for medical marijuana. It also brought the state $9,112,237 in tax revenues. The state also announced this month that the price of a medical cannabis card went down to $15 per year. Reason? Big surplus in money — $13 million in the registry fund. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com.

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