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Highroad Watering America’s food factories by Jim Hightower

ater scarcity is getting scary, and banning long showers is not even a drop in the solution bucket. The biggest water sponge by far is food production, and agri-giants continue to pour it on their vast fields like there’s no tomorrow. In a May 31 column, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times reports that the Pacific Institute and National Geographic have calculated how much water today’s industrial-

ized food system sucks up. For example:  One little almond: 1 gallon  A single walnut: 5 gallons  A head of lettuce: 12 gallons  A cluster of grapes: 24 gallons But wait, America’s Big Oil frackers say not to worry, because they can offer a gusher of H2O to food producers. Believe it or not, they’re selling their fracking wastewater to agribusiness for irrigating fruit and vegetable crops. This is water that ExxonMobil and other drillers mix with a witch’s brew of some 750 toxic chemicals before powerblasting it into underground rock formations. The drillers have had to reclaim and store this contaminated water, but “Eureka!” someone shouted, rather than store it, put it on America’s salads! It’s perfectly safe, the always-trustworthy oil industry tells us, because they treat the water to remove all the cancer-causing nasties. But studies have found toxics remaining in some of the

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

“treated” water, and a California science panel found that state regulators have no adequate testing process, nor any controls in place to stop contamination of crops. Fed up, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto has introduced a bill to require warning labels on all state produce that has been irrigated with fracking water. This would empower consumers, rather than Big Oil, to decide whether fracking chemicals belong on our families’ dinner plates. For more information, contact: www. WaterDefense.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

danish plan Cage match! Canada/New York edition by Paul Danish

age match! Trump and Cruz are down in the mud and the blood and the beer, punching and kicking and clawing and generally trying to bite each other’s nuts off. All in all a bold and brassy show (to borrow a phrase from Senator Ted’s fellow Texan, Kinky Friedman). OK, lets start by reviewing how it came to this. Back in June when Trump declared his candidacy and started talking trash to power — and to anyone else within earshot — the nation’s self-appointed arbiters of political correctness in the media started piling on, as did most of the 15 other Republican presidential candidates. And just as quickly the latter worthies came sailing off into a leisurely death spiral in the polls. Almost alone Cruz refrained, and was largely spared The Wrath of Trump. This left Cruz, who resonated with many of the same voters as Trump, free to do his own thing — which was to build a formidable grassroots organization in Iowa that, starting in December, allowed him to top Trump in a number of polls there. That was intolerable for Trump, since a big part of his campaign pitch was that he was a winner and had the polls to prove it. So Trump started sniping at Cruz. Trump started with a shot at Cruz’s evangelical bonafides — evangelicals are a big part of the Republican base in Iowa — but it fell flat. Cruz is the son of a preacher, for god’s sake. So on Jan. 6, Trump tried a nastier line of attack. He questioned Cruz’s eligibility to run for President on grounds that Cruz had been born in Canada and therefore he failed to meet the Constitutional requirement that the President be a “natural born citizen.” Cruz initially tried to laugh it off — he tweeted a link to the video clip from the old Happy Days show of Fonzie jumping the shark — but Trump doubled down on the charge. He also began playing “Born in the USA” at his rallies. So at the Republican debate last Thursday ( Jan. 14) Cruz cut Trump a second asshole over the issue — with Boulder Weekly

surgical precision. He also launched an attack of his own on Trump, charging that he had “New York values.” So who’s gonna’ win the cage match? I have a hunch Cruz is. Trump’s challenge to Cruz’s presidential eligibility has about as much legal merit as his birther challenge to Obama’s eligibility. Americans born abroad to U.S. parents are natural born citizens in the eyes of U.S. law. How else do you explain the fact that they are not required to go through a naturalization process — which is the only thing that distinguishes a naturalized citizen from a natural born one? There have been at least seven candidates for president (including two presidents, Chester Arthur and Obama) whose eligibility for the office has been challenged on grounds that they were not natural born. None of the challenges has ever made it out of the lower courts. If Cruz is not a natural-born citizen, neither are tens of thousands of Americans born to the families of U.S. servicemen, diplomats, CIA officers, foreign aid workers, missionaries and corporate employees while they were posted abroad. In putting a question mark over Cruz’s citizenship, Trump is putting one over theirs as well. As for Cruz’s accusation that Trump held “New York values” — it was an obvious innuendo intended to paint Trump as a closet liberal. And during the debate Trump had a terrific riposte to it — he played the 9/11 card, pointing to the gallantry of New York City’s firemen, police and first responders as examples of New York values in action. He also called Cruz’s ploy “very insulting,” which is amusing coming from a candidate whose campaign is built around the art of the insult. Trump’s riposte could have fatally wounded Cruz had things ended with Cruz offering an abject apology, as Trump and a number of others, including New York Governor Andrew Cuono, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlassio and Hillary Clinton demanded. But Cruz, like Trump, is a no apologies sort of guy, and the day after the see DANISH PLAN Page 6

guest column The ongoing tension between power and morality by Robert J. Gould

merican Exceptionalism is the belief that, even when the U.S. is flawed in its policies, those politics are justifiable because there is something innately morally superior about being an American. This alleged moral high ground comes from our international commitment to promote and enforce democracy and free-market capitalism — even when it boils down to supporting dictatorships and economic exploitation. This view has deep historical roots. We can go back 2,400 years to Plato’s dialogues to find the belief that it is better to act unjustly than to suffer unjustly. In the dialogue, Gorgias, Callicles challenges Socrates (Plato’s stalking-horse) by asserting that there is no good in being a victim, so it is morally better to be the victimizer. In my memory, there was an interesting contemporary parallel to this view when I saw a female gang member being interviewed to explain how she was tired of being a victim, that it was time to be the victimizer. Even though Socrates appears to defeat Callicles’ argument, we find ourselves ensnared on Callicles’ belief today. American Exceptionalism is the legacy of Callicles, where the victimizer can create and maintain power, security and riches (aided by lawyers, accountants and publicists, who are conveniently for sale). Key to the success of the modern

Callicles is the use of dishonesty to make the politics of ruthless power appear to be moral. One of the most crazy-making victimizations is the ability to lie with impunity. We were lied to about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, about the alleged Vietnamese attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin, about the RMS Lusitania off Britain, about the USS Maine in Cuba, and on and on, to make wars appear to be the moral mission of self-defense, when they have too often been instruments for the maintenance of world dominance, justified by American Exceptionalism. The dilemma created by Callicles is brought into bold relief when we think about Socrates’ counterargument, that people should work together, honestly, with justice and moderation: honesty, not lies, nor corruption; justice, not oppression; moderation, not inequality and exploitation. This dilemma finds its parallel today in the proclamations of Donald Trump, in the Callicles role, and Bernie Sanders, in the Socrates role. How the election turns out will speak volumes about how Plato’s dilemma plays out in the drama of American Exceptionalism going forward. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Robert J. Gould, Ph.D., is an ethicist, writes for PeaceVoice, and co-founded the Conflict Resolution Program at Portland State University. January 21, 2016 5

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letters Colorado Wildlife Commission is stacked with business lobbyists

The article by Caitlin Rockett [Re: “A turning point,” Jan. 7] expertly reveals the lopsided role played by the Colorado Wildlife Commission composed mostly of lobbyists for the ranching, hunting, and fossil fuel industries that work against wildlife in Colorado. The article documents the failure of this stacked commission to consider the available science with regard to reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf into its native habitat in southern Colorado. As described in the article, members of the commission, appointed by Governor Hickenlooper, largely represent these industries and consistently side against maintaining essential wildlife habitat in our state necessary for endangered wildlife such as the gray wolf. The extent of this deception is illustrated from the employment background of the current chairman of the commission, Chris Castilian, who earns his living as manager for government and community relations for Anadarko Petroleum. Castilian, like many of the other lobbyists on the commission, has actively opposed the wishes of the great majority of Coloradans who favor reintroduction of the gray wolf (including the subspecies Mexican wolf ) in our state. These lobbyists do the bidding of commercial entities in the state who stubbornly oppose the reestablishment of wildlife habitats that may pose a potential conflict with their unfettered exploitation of our land by ranching

and fossil fuel interests. I have witnessed the anti-wildlife agenda of the commission in 2015 when I presented to them in support of a submitted citizen petition to establish a one-mile moose hunting exclusion zone around Brainard Lake. While the commission eventually conceded to allow a much smaller no hunting exclusion zone, the resentment of several members of this commission against the non-hunting public during these hearings was evident. By establishing this lopsided commission, Governor Hickenlooper thumbs his nose against the majority of voters who support wildlife in Colorado, including the reestablishment of a few natural ecosystems in our state that can support endangered species such as the Mexican gray wolf. The only solution to this lopsided commission is for the Governor to change the composition of the commission to include a 50:50 balance of pro-business lobbyists with an equal number of credible wildlife scientists and knowledgeable advocates for wildlife that will consider the available scientific literature when making policy decisions, as well as the wishes of the majority of Coloradans who enjoy and support our wildlife. Furthermore, the budget of Colorado Parks and Wildlife should be shifted from funding via hunting licenses to a larger monetary component taken from the general budget. Only then will we enter into the 21st centusee LETTERS Page 7

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debate he doubled down on the New York values narrative with a scathing faux apology that transformed the innuendo into an explicit laundry list of New York political values that conservative Republicans (the folks who will pick the candidate this cycle) find offensive, including gun control, abortion, gay marriage, the ban on fracking, anti-cop feeling, high taxes and over-regulation of small business. And then to prove Trump had New York values, he also produced videos of Trump singing the praises of Hillary Clinton and supporting partial birth abortion and gay rights because “I’ve lived in New York City, in Manhattan, all my life, so my views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa.”

By last Monday, Cruz’s assault left Trump howling like a stuck pig, tweeting like a whirling Dervish and quoting scripture like Elmer Gantry unto evangelicals — while the New York media elite, of all people, rushed to defend him. What Cruz has done, in short, is manage to inject Trump’s past support of liberal causes into the campaign in ways that can’t be ignored and may well stick, which no other candidate has been able to do up to now. Whether that will do him any good remains to be seen. But he is the first candidate who has struck at Trump and succeeded in drawing blood. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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ry with regard to supporting our greatest wildlife asset to reflect the growing importance of tourism and personal enjoyment by the general public. Thomas Gootz, Ph.D./Estes Park, CO

Protecting and preserving the Mexican Gray Wolf species in Colorado

I write this message on behalf of my aunt who is the greatest wolf advocate that I know [Re: “A turning point,” Jan. 7]. She lives in South Africa, and I think it suffices to say that if this is an important and concerning issue to her, then it must be taken into consideration. I read the article from your website and I find it important that the following points are made in order to ensure that the Mexican gray wolves wellbeing is taken into consideration. First of all, the wolves are native to the Colorado area and there is scientific evidence to prove that. However, the question of whether or not they are native to the area does not change the fact that they have the right to roam in the area according to the Endangered Species Act. Similarly, it is something that the people largely support. Recent polls have shown that voters are in favor of reintroducing the wolves to the area. These wolves are in dire need of a stable habitat in which they can thrive and they can bring their numbers back to where they used to be. This can only be achieved on the long run by reintroducing them into the area. Lastly, the reintroduction of these wolves into the area will strengthen the game species and make the landscape and the ecosystem as a whole stronger. There are not many wolves that would need to be reintroduced anyway, there were only 109 wild Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and 25 in New Mexico. That’s it! I really appreciate your time in reading this letter. I am hopeful that it will make a difference. Savannah Aigner/New Redruth, Alberton

importance of all the creatures in the food chain. After all, Mother Nature or God, if you prefer, doesn’t make mistakes. Therefore, wolves were put here and evolved with a specific purpose in mind and we, humans, are upsetting that balance of nature. I believe we will suffer for our arrogance and greed, maybe not us, personally but, our grandchildren and

their children. My children were taught to respect all living creatures. My grandchildren know how important I consider that trait, as well. A few of them, the grandchildren, are hunters. They only kill for food and nothing goes to waste. They don’t begrudge the wolves their place at the table. A couple of the grandchildren have traveled to your state to hunt.

They are not against having wolves in the same area. I am respectively requesting that you all make the reintroduction of wolves a priority and serious penalties be applied for the wanton killing of these intelligent creatures. Expecting your support. Elizabeth Angus/Winter Haven, Florida

Mexican Wolves must be respected

I am not a citizen of your great state but I have followed the ongoing battle and disinformation campaign regarding the reintroduction and maintenance of Mexican gray wolves [Re: “A turning point,” Jan. 7]. It is hard for me to understand why anyone does not recognize the Boulder Weekly

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ast month at a conference in and commits humanity to some amount Paris, 195 countries adopted a of climate change for as long as it takes landmark agreement on how the planet to work through the accuto respond to the Earth’s mulated excess. changing climate. The agreeEven if we eliminated all humanment included an ambitious goal to induced sources of this pollution right prevent the average global temperature now, the globe would continue to warm from rising more than 1.5 degrees for at least the next 50 years. Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above Our decisions about how to respond pre-industrial levels. to the threat of climate change will only Prior to affect “how Wikimedia Commons/NASA the conference, much” warmer most of the the planet will countries had get, and “how submitted long” it will pledges outlintake to return ing how much to its natural they intended temperature to reduce their for future genemissions of erations. The heat-trapping good news is pollution that most scibeginning in entists believe 2020. They it is still possialso agreed to ble to reverse assess and climate revise their change, and national plans the required every five transition can years, an be made gradessential step ually over sevgiven that the eral decades. Doug existing pledg- Climate engineering technology could draw carbon out of the atmosphere and into the ocean. Arent is a scies are insuffientist at the cient to National Renewable Energy Laboratory achieve the 1.5-degree goal. The challenges laid out in the “Paris (NREL) in Golden. He was born and raised in Colorado, and remembers Declaration” can be addressed with when Jimmy Carter established what aggressive investments in renewable was then called the Solar Energy energy technologies. But if we fail to Research Institute in 1977. act quickly, we may also need to evalu“I’ve focused my whole career on ate strategies for artificially cooling the clean energy and sustainability,” he says. planet until our transition away from Arent watched intently on Nov. 29 fossil fuel begins to help. when, on the opening day of the cliSince the industrial revolution, the mate conference in Paris, President average global temperature has increased by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Obama announced that 20 countries including the United States would doudegrees Fahrenheit). The collective ble their public funding for renewable actions of several generations resulted energy research and development over in the release of so much heat-trapping the next five years. At the same time, pollution that it exceeded the capacity Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates introof the Earth’s oceans and forests to duced the “Breakthrough Energy absorb it. The surplus pollution from Coalition,” a private group that promeach year remains in the atmosphere, Boulder Weekly

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these particles prevent some of the incoming sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth. Tilmes and her colleagues use computer models to examine how the climate system might react to a slightly fainter sun. She emphasizes that such measures should be seen as transitional strategies to help regulate the temperature of the planet in the short-term. But they aren’t a substitute for addressing the root causes of the problem. Another concept for engineering the climate involves artificially enhancing the capacity of the ocean to absorb heattrapping pollution. Small-scale experiments have already been performed, seeding the ocean with iron to stimulate the growth of microscopic plants that capture carbon dioxide and release oxygen. A more extreme option proposes to release genetically engineered bacteria into the oceans, which have been specifically designed to absorb global warming gases. All of these strategies raise the questions of who will decide which options — if any — should be used, and what level of climate disruption would justify such an emergency response. There is now a broad consensus that the Paris agreement is a solid first step to begin addressing climate change. With public and private forces aligned to kickstart the transition to renewable energy, there is hope that we can avoid dangerous levels of warming and create a sustainable future for the next generation. But it is comforting to know that if the transition is too slow, or if the projections are wrong, scientists are also developing options for a climate intervention. Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder, Colorado. If you so desire, you may make a tax-deductible contribution to support future Lab Notes columns at labnotes.whitedwarf.org This column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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ince Obamacare, officially ger offers health plans. known as the Affordable Care Medicaid is a federal matching Act (ACA), passed in 2010, health care program for low-income Congressional conservatives citizens who meet certain eligibility have tried to repeal the health requirements. The federal government care law more than 50 times. The most matches states’ Medicaid expenses current attempt, in late 2015, was the approximately 50 percent for populafirst time both the House and Senate tions the program has historically covpassed such legislation and sent it to ered, such as children, pregnant women the President’s desk. As expected, and people with disabilities. Obama vetoed the bill on Jan. 8. One of the provisions of the ACA But while Congress continues to was expanding Medicaid to include not battle the law, the national uninsured only the traditionally covered popularate has dropped below 10 percent, and tions, but also adults without dependent 17.6 million people have gained health children. For this specific population, insurance since the the federal governlaw began to take ment would pay effect. In Colorado, 100 percent of the uninsured rate Medicaid claims THE 2009 LEGISLATION, for the first several has fallen to 6.7 years and then percent from an COLORADO COVERED taper off to a 90/10 all-time high of ADULTS WHO WERE percent cost shar15.8 percent in EARNING $90 A MONTH ing model with 2011. According to states by 2020. As the 2015 Colorado OR LESS WITHOUT the health care Health Access DEPENDENT CHILDREN reform was chalSurvey conducted THROUGH MEDICAID. lenged in the by the Colorado Supreme Court Health Institute, a NOW THE STATE health policy early on, the COVERS ADULTS WITH research institute Medicaid expanAN ANNUAL INCOME OF in Denver, 4.9 milsion provision lion Coloradans became optional JUST UNDER $16,000. now have health for states, but not care coverage, a required. historical high. Colorado had “We call Colorado an all in already begun expanding its Medicaid state when you look at the program with the passing of 2009 legisAffordable Care Act because we lation (HB 09-1293) that introduced expanded Medicaid here, established hospital provider fees to help fund the our own co-op, established a health program without draining the general insurance exchange and all of those fund. Gov. Hickenlooper signed legislathings contributed in varying degrees to tion in 2013 authorizing the further the drop in the uninsured rate,” says Jeff expansion of the program through the Bontrager at the Colorado Health ACA provision. Institute. “We were slowly kind of opening “But it’s really looking like the the floodgates for new expansion popuMedicaid provision was the biggest lations with our own money and then driver in the drop in the uninsured when the federal money was authorized rate.” that is when we really went full tilt,” 293,000 Coloradans have signed up says Susan Birch, executive director of for Medicaid since the expansion of the the Colorado Department of Health program compared to 150,000 people Care Policy and Financing. who have enrolled in private insurance Additionally, the provision increased through Connect for Health Colorado, the income thresholds for eligibility to the state insurance exchange. Colorado Medicaid. Pursuant to the 2009 legislaHealthOP enrolled 40 percent of the tion, Colorado covered adults earning population using the exchange in 2015, $90 a month or less without dependent although due to financial reserve conchildren through Medicaid. Now the cerns, the company folded and no lonstate covers adults with an annual

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income of just under $16,000 or roughly $32,000 a year for a family of four. “When we talk about expansion, what we did was expand the upper end of the income range so that folks could get qualified,” Birch says. In Colorado, Medicaid covers roughly 1.3 million people. Of that, 44 percent are low-income kids and adolescents, 42 percent are adults without kids, 7 percent are those with disabilities and 4 percent are older adults who are often utilizing both Medicaid and Medicare. Adults without dependent children have seen the most increase in Medicaid coverage since the expansion of the program. “This is not the old traditional Medicaid. The way we are doing Medicaid is really a movement towards cost containment and improving health outcomes. …” Birch says. “What’s different now is that our systems are being redesigned so more people are getting physicals, more people are getting screenings and there is a lot more attention towards prevention and wellness.” Part of this new model is the Accountable Care Collaborative model, which focuses on cost containment practices such as prevention and wellness, coordinated care between different health partners and community-based care to keep people out of hospitals and assisted living facilities. This program has achieved “$285 million in gross savings, $77 million in net, which goes back into the general fund,” Birch says. “We’ve demonstrated real success with returning investments back to the state on how we are delivering on this new accountable care model.” For Boulder County specifically, the uninsured rate has dropped from 11.8 percent in 2013 to 5.2 percent in 2015. The local government has taken the lead to enroll citizens both in private and public health insurance programs. “Boulder County really does come at this from a holistic approach,” says Patrick Kelly with the Department of Housing and Human Services (HHS). “We are looking at this as being wellsuited as a county to have the infrastructure to assist clients in getting through the application process. … We can troubleshoot cases, help get clients through to determination and then either shop or utilize their Medicaid benefits.”

Medicaid enrollment for people over the age of 21, mostly adults without dependents, has increased 176 percent since 2012 in Boulder County. But this growth comes with increasing Medicaid claims over the last two years (69 percent), and it is becoming increasingly difficult for health providers to keep up with demand. One of the challenges of the Medicaid expansion is finding providers to accept the government insurance, as it tends to pay less than other insurers. So in addition to providing services for those enrolling in Medicaid, the County is also working with health care providers to educate them about taking on Medicaid clients and Medicaid reimbursements. “Not only are we helping clients through the process but we’re also trying to help increase the number of providers around the community that take Medicaid and then support them in that process,” says Alison Brisnehan with of the Community Support Division of HHS. “Just to make sure that we know as we are enrolling all these people there are providers out there that are helping to see these clients.” As both local governments and the State continue to focus on Medicaid expansion as well as enrolling people in the private marketplace and driving down the uninsured rate, it is unlikely that Colorado, or any other state for that matter, will be 100 percent covered. Undocumented immigrants who don’t qualify for public insurance and conscientious objectors will prevent that from happening. But with 94 percent coverage, Colorado ranks higher than most states. Which is why both Birch and Kelly agree that repealing the federal health care law, specifically the Medicaid expansion provision, wouldn’t be beneficial. The hospital provider fee will continue to cover the state’s portion of Medicaid, even as federal financing wanes and repealing the law wouldn’t save any general fund money, Birch says. “Our premise is that if you pull back the Affordable Care Act, the federal government would pull back on the funding mechanisms … it would create more expensive modeled care,” she says. “We think it’s much smarter to stay on this path.” January 21, 2016 11

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ep. Joe Salazar will introduce a bill in for the mass murder and enslavement of the Americas’ first people is not cut and dried. the state General Assembly this session Though Salazar has said publicly that there that would change Columbus Day to are plenty of other people of Italian heritage Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Colorado. to honor in lieu of Columbus, advocates on The bill’s draft has already been both sides of the issue are vociferous in the made available by Salazar, and the move comes support of their causes, with compromise far months after the Denver City Council voted in away. October to rename and rededicate the holiday to The American Indian Movement (AIM) American Indian and populations indigenous to the has long advocated for the removal of country. Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon and South Dakota Columbus Day in Colorado and nationally. do not recognize the holiday, and Alaska voted to “To our Italian-American friends, we say rename the day Indigenous Peoples’ Day last October, just as Salazar prompts Colorado to do. that to celebrate the legacy of this murderer is In the bill, Salazar outlines the story of an affront to all Indian peoples, and others Christopher Columbus’s first journey to the who truly understand this history,” the group Americas in 1492, using select primary sources to wrote in a statement. “It would be the same as highlight the brutality with which Columbus met Columbus Day parades may become a thing of the past if a proposed if German people would celebrate and glorify bill passes. indigenous populations. Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism, and the Quoting a journal of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Nazi holocaust by holding parades through Spanish priest on Columbus’ initial voyage, Salazar the Spanish government, Columbus was born in the Jewish communities of America and notes in the bill that Columbus landed on the island of Genoa, Italy, and Italian-American populations have throughout the world.” Hispaniola, which is now home to Haiti and the been using the day to celebrate their heritage. “I looked for a middle ground for about 15-16 Dominican Republic, and upon arrival, Columbus’ In fact, Colorado was the first state to recognize years,” says George Vendegnia with the Italian men “[acted] like ravening beasts, killing, terrorizing, Columbus Day. In light of discrimination and vioAmerican Commission of Social Justice. “Over time, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples.” lence heaped on the first waves of Italian-Americans, [AIM] didn’t get their way, and they’d throw [fake] Angelo Noce, an Italian immigrant who ran the first blood on the street [parade], and that’s not what it’s De las Casas went on to document that the conItalian language newspaper in Colorado, worked to all about. [They] are taking our freedom of speech quest was an effort to turn the native population into institute a holiday that would highlight the fact that, and right to gather away from us.” Christians, and the bill Salazar will introduce codifies outside of indigenous people, the country was made Vendegnia says the celebration of Columbus Day the recognition of certain aspects of the greater story up entirely of immigrants. In 1907, Noce successfully in Denver is intended to be much more inclusive than regarding Columbus Day: That indigenous people convinced lawmakers — namely the state’s only an ethnic celebration for Italian-Americans, and that “have overcome such cruelty, exploitation and inhuLatino legislator, Casimiro Barela — to make the holthe original impetus for the holiday — to unite all manity,” as was inflicted by European governments; iday official. As more Italians immigrated to the U.S. Americans — should be foremost. that other states have renamed Columbus Day; and in the early 20th century, more states adopted the hol“We’re celebrating the discovery of America. that Colorado still recognizes the contributions of iday, and in 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared Whether or not you want to say Columbus discovered Italian- and Spanish-American people. Oct. 12 officially as Columbus Day. Today, the holiday it, Amerigo Vespucci, anybody, that’s what we’re celeAs anyone who’s attended the Columbus Day is celebrated throughout the Americas and in select parade in Denver, or in bigger celebrations in New brating, because we’re Americans first,” Vendegnia says. European countries. York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and elsewhere, knows “It’s a two-hour parade, if that; I mean, it’s nothing. Figuring out a compromise between honoring the the day has become a celebration of community for “Anybody can interpret it any way,” he says. “They local Italian-American (and some Spanish-American) culture of Italian-Americans and other immigrants, [AIM] have the right to voice that opinion, but we populations. Though commissioned for exploration by while also not honoring a person who is responsible also have our opinion.”

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A pause on new leases for coal extraction on federal land will most likely not stop mining in roadless areas of Gunnison National Forest by Caitlin Rockett

n Western Colorado, just south of Somerset and Conservation Policy should protect this area of On July 3, 2012, the Colorado Roadless Rule east of Paonia, there is a tract of land within Gunnison National Forest, as well as Grand Mesa and became effective, creating a 19,500-acre exception Gunnison National Forest that, despite the area’s Uncompahgre forests where there are known coal dubbed the North Fork Coal Mining Area right in history with coal mining, remains untouched by deposits. This federal “roadless” rule was enacted in the middle of the Gunnison National Forest. A loopman and his machines. It is, in every sense, wil2001 by President Clinton to, at least theoretically, hole, as Zukoski calls it. derness. end all logging, road building, and coal, gas and oil “The [Colorado Roadless Rule] applies to 4.2 milAt first glance, the area appears to be heavily promineral leasing in 58 million acres of undeveloped lion acres of National Forest roadless areas within tected, first, by a federal Roadless Area Conservation national forest land, which included about 4 million Colorado and conserves roadless area values for future Policy from 2001, as well as by a Jan. 14 announcegenerations, while providing for activities important to acres in Colorado. ment by the Obama administration that placed a the citizens and economy of Colorado,” the Forest Clinton enacted the rule at the 11th hour of his moratorium on new leases for coal extraction on pubService writes on their website. last term — a little more than a week before he left lic lands. But as Colorado envi“When you look at the analCourtesy of the U.S. Forest Service ronmentalists have learned the ysis of what the Colorado hard way, nothing is guaranteed Roadless Rule would do, it protection from energy compawould permit more road connies in John Hickenlooper’s struction in Colorado roadless Colorado. areas,” Zukoski says. In his opinIn the case of Gunnison ion, the reason so many more National Forest lands in quesroads would be created, is that tion, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s there were at least three or more administration crafted a locations in the North Fork Coal Colorado-specific rule that the Mining Area that companies federal government allowed to desired to develop including an replace its own Roadless Area expansion of Arch Coal’s West Conservation Policy and which Elk Mine. left nearly 20,000 acres of But mining never occurred in untouched woodland in Western the North Fork Mining area, Colorado still vulnerable to minbecause in July 2013, High ing operations. Country Conservation When Interior Secretary Advocates, WildEarth Guardians Sally Jewell announced the federand Sierra Club challenged the Construction of road and methane venting pad above West Elk coal mine, owned by Arch Coal. al pause on coal leasing on Jan. exception, with Zukoski repre14, the policy sounded straightsenting the environmental forward: Coal companies will be groups. able to continue to mine on existing leases, but no Flash forward to the Jan. 14 announcement that office — and the Bush administration was less than new leases will be awarded as the government launch- enthusiastic about the policy. Ted Zukoski, a staff the federal government would pause leases on coal es a comprehensive review of the federal coal program, attorney with Denver-based nonprofit environmental extraction on federal lands. Much like the Colorado expected to take three years. The ultimate overhaul of Roadless Rule exception, this moratorium has its own law organization Earthjustice, says that Coloradans the program could lead to increased costs for energy allowances. worried, particularly when Bush was elected for his companies and a significant slowdown in extraction. “The Secretary’s order specifically says that there second term, that the federal law wouldn’t hold up, so “We haven’t undertaken a comprehensive review will be no pause on those leases that have gone the Hickenlooper administration used that fear to of the program in more than 30 years, and we have an work with the U.S. Forest Service to craft a Colorado- through [an] environmental [analysis] process and obligation to current and future generations to ensure have been set aside in court and are being evaluated,” specific roadless area conservation rule. the federal coal program delivers a fair return to Zukoski says. “There’s only a couple of such leases in What emerged from that collaboration was less American taxpayers and takes into account its impacts than protective for the state’s untouched national forthe country, and one of them is Arch Coal’s proposal on climate change,” Jewell said via press release. to bulldoze on 1,700 acres of roadless forest ... [in] ests. Even so, Hickenlooper’s plan was allowed to It looks clear to many folks — those in the industhis North Fork Coal Mining Area.” become the law for the state instead of Clinton’s try as well as those pushing to shut it down — that Zukoski is familiar with the land; in June 2014, he Roadless Area Conservation Policy which did, in fact, the intent of the leasing pause is to keep coal in the make it through court scrutiny and the Bush adminis- served as the lead attorney in a multi-organizational ground. lawsuit challenging Arch Coal’s desire to expand their tration. Turns out there was no need for But there are exemptions that mean the moratoriWest Elk Mine into the Sunset Roadless Area of Hickenlooper’s plan B, but that is unfortunately what um won’t prevent much new mining in Colorado, Gunnison National Forest. Sunset, as mentioned earnow governs much of the state’s still pristine federal lier, is part of the North Fork Mining Area that most notably in the untouched and highly controverlands. Hickenlooper exempted from federal roadless protecsial tract of land in Gunnison National Forest where “[They] give a little bit to coal, the ski industry, tions. coal company Arch Coal has been trying to expand its make sure log dividers can build where they want, Arch Coal, the nation’s second largest coal mining mining operations. we’ll have exceptions for power lines — every interest •••• under the sun came in and said, ‘We want some road- company, had been given federal permission to build 6 Ostensibly, the federal Roadless Area miles of new roads in this roadless area, as well as the less area,’” Zukoski says. 14 January 21, 2016

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right to build dozens of drilling huge potential costs to the envipads and construct vents to ronment,” Zukoski says. “This is release methane from the mines a textbook case of why you for worker safety. The expansion, should leave coal in the ground. Arch claimed at the time, was To get at [coal in the North Fork necessary to their growing interarea], they’ve gotta bulldoze national coal sales (the company through habitat for lynx and has just opened their first office black bear and elk at 9,000 feet in Beijing in 2013). where when you mow down an Zukoski and the other organiEngelmann spruce it’s gonna zations involved in the lawsuit take centuries for it to regrow. So wanted to know why the federal there are huge on-the-ground government had failed to factor in impacts.” the effects of global warming in Adding to the complication of their environmental analysis of the North Fork Area’s future is the Arch Coal proposal for Arch Coal’s financial situation — The view from the Deep Creek “slump,” a prominent geologic feature of the Sunset Roadless Area. expansion into the Sunset the coal company filed for Chapter The landscape west of the roadless area is already pockmarked with methane venting well pads from the West Elk mine’s existing operations. Roadless Area — an oversight 11 bankruptcy on Jan. 11. that seemingly failed to meet Mark Squillace, a former National Environmental Policy Act requirements. area will result in 130 million tons of carbon dioxide Interior Department attorney and current University The legal team was able to prove the government released into the atmosphere. of Colorado Boulder law professor, says that while it’s had knowingly ignored the so-called social cost of “That amount of carbon pollution is approximate- impossible to know what will happen because of carbon. An email from a Bureau of Land ly the same amount as is emitted from all the cars, all Arch’s bankruptcy, the federal moratorium on coal Management economist concerning the Arch Coal the factories, by all the citizens in the state of leasing could make approved but not-yet-sold leases proposal read “placing quantitative values on greenColorado in a year,” he says. much more valuable to other coal companies. house gas emissions is still controversial” and that the Finally, Zukoski says, the analysis reinforces the “It’s conceivable that Arch could sell [the West impact of methane emissions from mining range perception that federal agencies have a blind spot Elk Mine] off to another company and maybe get a between $5 and $800 per ton of coal. The BLM chose when it comes to the contribution taxpayer-owned premium for the sale of that because there’s a potento omit this information completely, while highlightminerals have on climate change. tial new lease [for expansion] attached to that,” ing the economic benefits of coal mining. Even with all the significance of this analysis, it Squillace says. “I don’t know. I think we don’t know Zukoski won the case. And the federal district seems the proposal to open the North Fork area to min- how this is going to play out.” court vacated the North Fork Coal Mining Area in ing is far enough along in the process to be exempt from Arch Coal didn’t respond to interview requests by September 2014. Arch Coal’s lease to expand the West the federal government’s moratorium on coal leases. publication deadline. Elk Mine (by about 1,700 acres) was thrown out. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued While the federal moratorium may seem like a climate change policy by the Obama administration, But that certainly wasn’t the end of the discussion a directorate on Jan. 15 that sorted coal lease applicasome experts don’t see it that way. over the North Fork Coal Mining Area. tions across the country into those likely to be In November 2015, the Forest Service published a impacted and those unlikely to be impacted. The “One of the things that was said on the heels of Notice of Intent to reinstate the North Fork Coal West Elk Mine is listed as a project “potentially covthe announcement was one goal was to ensure the Mining Area exception of the roadless rule. By Nov. 20, ered by one of the pause exceptions.” public gets a fair return on sales and margins of federal coal and that revenue should be used to pay the Forest Service published a Supplemental Draft Seventeen mines in total, with five of those in for the costs of an energy transition,” says Mark Environmental Impact Statement looking at the climate Colorado, will be exempt from the leasing pause. Of the five leases in Colorado that the BLM estiHaggerty a researcher and policy analyst at impacts, including the so-called social cost of carbon, of mates will actually be paused, four involve closed, Headwaters Economics in Montana. “What they opening nearly 20,000 acres of areas of Gunnison idled or nonexistent mines. are saying, I think, is the administration recognizes National Forest up to coal mining. The Forest Service’s “One active mine may be impacted (the King II [energy] markets have changed, and permanently so proposal would permit mining of up to 170 million tons Mine in La Plata),” Zukoski wrote in an email to BW, — air quality regulations, mercury [emissions] in of coal over a 10-to-30 year period. The public com“and it will take more research to figure out whether ment period on the proposal — which Zukoski and part, but also carbon if the Clean Power Plan surthat mine has reserves sufficient to mine without its other environmentalists refer to as the Colorado vives — those things are causing the shift already Roadless Rule “loophole” — closed on Jan. 15. proposed expansion.” [to other forms of energy] and that part of the Zukoski says that despite the Forest Service’s proUltimately, the moratorium won’t have much problem with federal leasing doesn’t match up in a posal to open some of Colorado’s roadless land up to impact on mining in Colorado. But Zukoski doesn’t number of ways.” mining, the environmental analysis is historically sigdismiss it out of hand. Zukoski agrees. nificant for three reasons. “That’s sort of the narrow picture, that it’s busi“We have to do something to help the communi“First, this is the first time ever that the federal ness as usual out there, but is it?” Zukoski asks. “What ties that are overly reliant on coal and try to figure out government anywhere across the country has attempt- the administration did [on Jan. 15] is to say that how to help those communities transition because ed such a thorough disclosure of the climate impacts they’re going to take a hard look at the climate coal seams run out,” he says. “I think employment in of a federal fossil fuel decision,” he wrote in an email impacts of coal mining on federal public land. Forty North Fork Valley dropped 30 or 40 percent over the to Boulder Weekly. percent of the nation’s coal comes from public land, so last three or four years.” Second, he says, the analysis provides “significant it’s a huge contributor to climate change, and one that Even if the exception to Colorado’s Roadless Rule fodder” for the “keep it in the ground” movement the Obama administration, except when they get — the “loophole” that is being proposed by the Forest because it looks at carbon emissions from coal mining sued, has declined to look at. So this is a significant Service now — is not reinstated, Zukoski says Arch processes, such as methane venting. announcement.” Coal still has the West Elk Mine under lease for “They are going to be venting [enough] methane He adds that the Forest Service should now be another 10 years. to overwhelm half or perhaps all of the benefits we keenly aware that opening up roadless forest in “So, this admin can say, ‘Let’s protect these roadget in Colorado from the much ballyhooed oil and gas Colorado runs against what the Secretary’s pause less lands and let’s work for the next 10 years to find a regulations that the state adopted in 2014,” Zukoski represents. better future for the North Fork people in the North says. He adds that mining the coal in the North Fork “Which is acknowledgement that there are these Fork Valley.” Boulder Weekly

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Melting Cordillera Blanca

A team of Colorado climbers researches the effect of black carbon on tropical glaciers

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ACSP director John All and volunteer Kate Von Krusenstiern climb the final push to the 20,846 foot summit of Chopicalqui in the Cordillera Blanca.

lacker than the thoughts that lurk in the Andes are home to 98 percent of tropical glaciers. corners of your mind, tiny particles come Glacial melt provides drinking water, irrigates to rest on the pristine face of secluded crops and generates hydropower. But since 1970, 40 glaciers in the Andes Mountains. In the percent of glacier surface area in Peru has melted tropical sun, black carbon warms the away. Climate change causes most of it, but carbon in snow and steals water from valley towns. the atmosphere isn’t the only culprit. Black carbon consists Rebecca Cole Carbon dioxide can of fine particles formed stay in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, for tens to hundreds of agricultural burning and years, creating changes wildfires. Scientists have in the long-term weather been studying the effects patterns as a result of of black carbon on glaglobal warming. But ciers all over the some of it, black carbon, Northern Hemisphere for falls back to Earth in a decades, but Southern matter of weeks, creating Hemisphere research was a separate issue. When it limited to Antarctica, lands on glaciers, the ice blackening South begins absorbing sunAmerican glaciers with light, rather than reflectSchmitt at the 18,000-foot summit of Ishinca mountain in no one the wiser. ing it, speeding up the the Cordillera Blanca. That is until Eldora already dangerous melting rates. scientist Carl Schmitt “Black carbon is about as efficient at absorbing took a trip to the Cordillera Blanca tropical mountain light as it is possible to be,” Schmitt says. “And it just range in the Andes of northern Peru. Most of us don’t takes little tiny specks.” think glaciers when we hear tropics, but for a sixth of Although Schmitt works for National Center for the world’s population in South America, Africa and Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in microphysics, he Indonesia, these glaciers are a major water source. The

wasn’t looking at the effects of black carbon when he first traveled to Cordillera Blanca. He and his wife, Rebecca Cole, are both retired cross country ski racers, and they were looking for something to fill the void of outdoor activity left by racing days gone by. Accordingly, Schmitt’s first trip to the Cordillera Blanca in 2010 was for a mountaineering course. The next year, Schmitt and Cole were invited on the Cordillera Blanca Environmental Expedition, a volunteer effort to gather scientific data from remote, high elevation mountains most scientists can’t reach. “When I went down that first year it seemed like there was just a huge need for more information,” says Cole, Costa Rica native and tropical ecologist with the University of Hawaii at Manoa. “The resources that exist there are just, they’re not great.” Schmitt and Cole founded the American Climber Science Program (ACSP) in 2011, with two other partners. Based in Eldora, the program focuses its efforts on research expeditions to conserve the unique environments of isolated mountains. Schmitt specifically focuses on determining whether black carbon is the reason tropical glaciers are melting faster than climate change alone can explain. “I think it’s going to be somewhere on the order of 10 to 30 percent of snow being lost is due to the black See BLACK CARBON Page 18

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carbon particles,” Schmitt says. “But that’s just a very rough educated guess.” Millions of people around the world rely on glacial water, according to NCAR. But local governments don’t always have the resources or information they need to build new infrastructure or find new water sources. “We’re basically trying to provide information so that the people in that area can better manage their resources and better adapt to climate change,” Cole says. “We had a student two years ago who did interviews with the locals, and it’s really interesting, their perceptions of climate change,” Cole continues. “There was literally not a person that he talked with who didn’t say something like, ‘we’re not getting as much rain as we used to,’ or ‘the timing of the water flow is really different, so it’s difficult for us to grow our crops,’ or say that the water supply to their house has changed.” One Peruvian town, Ollantaytambo, is rebuilding a centuries-old Inca canal to bring water into town. But that’s not an option everywhere, especially for big cities like Lima, the capital of Peru. Lima, with a population of eight and a half million, is the second largest desert city in the world and it relies heavily on glaciers. Ideas for new water sources include expensive desalinization projects and digging a 120-mile tunnel to the Amazon. “We’re not going to stop climate change, not in time to save these glaciers,” Schmitt says. “So they need to adapt their infrastructure and figure out what they need to do.” In Cordillera Blanca, ACSP found that glaciers near Huaraz — where black carbon rises from pollution in the city and is deposited on surrounding glaciers — are more severely impacted on average than glaciers 50 miles north in Huascaran National Park. ACSP is planning expeditions next year to study the glaciers north of Lima that supply its water to see if they are similarly polluted as the glaciers 200 miles away in Cordillera Blanca. ACSP wants to find how much time is left before important glaciers are gone. “Probably a 50 year time scale for some of the remote glaciers,” Cole says. “But we could be talking a 10 year time scale in areas where glaciers are being impacted by black carbon and melting much more quickly.” Burning the Amazon rainforest to make room for crops, livestock and people and agricultural burning to clear land and improve soil are the biggest threats to South American glaciers. Other sources include industry, mining,

diesel trucks and cook stove smoke. None of which would be as bad if it weren’t for lax pollution regulation by local government. “There are pollution controls, but they’re not necessarily enforced,” Schmitt says. “I did a presentation in Huaraz, and a woman asked me a question, she said, ‘What do you think about the practice of burning tires? Is that a big source of black carbon?’ And I said, ‘Yeah I think it could be.’ She said, ‘Well it was outlawed five years ago, so they only do it at night now, so you can’t see the smoke.’” ACSP is in their sixth year of taking volunteers and students into the field to sample snow, test water quality, study soils, measure vegetation and monitor wildlife. Through a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, ACSP also brings Peruvian students on expeditions so they can learn to study the glaciers in their own backyards. “They live right next to this amazing national park and most of them had never had the opportunity to go into it,” Cole says. “They’d never been camping, and they don’t have any opportunities to do hands-on science.” The mountains in Cordillera Blanca rise as much as 22,000 feet above sea level. Students in Huaraz look up at them everyday, but never go. Some had never even felt snow. A day with the ACSP expedition could be anywhere from eight to 18 hours, hiking through valleys and climbing peaks over 20,000 feet. Each backpack of snow samples weighs 40 to 60 pounds at the end of the hike. All the snow must then be strained through filters the size a quarter to be packaged and shipped back to the U.S. for study. More Peruvian students sign up every year, Schmitt says, and currently three students are working on independent projects studying black carbon and measuring air pollution. ACSP is primarily funded by volunteers and Cole and Schmitt work on the project during their vacations, weekends and evenings on top of their daytime work. But Cole says it’s worth it. “As scientists most of us get into the field because we want to make a difference. ... A lot of times we end up doing research and writing papers and just kind of hoping that will have an impact, somebody will read it and decide to change something,” she says. “But it’s really gratifying to actually do something in a place where at the end of the day you can see the result. And that’s what I feel this is all about.” Boulder Weekly

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CHANGES TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST

In early January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) replied to many petitions regarding the Endangered Species List, which led to several changes in species’ listings. On Jan. 8, USFWS proposed relisting the West Indian manatee as threatened, a step down from its previous endangered listing. The species has been listed as endangered Wikimedia Commons/Ramos Keith since the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973. Current estimates suggest the existence of 6,350 manatees in the southeastern United States and 532 in Puerto Rico, according to the USFWS. The decision follows a 2007 recommendation to down-list the species after a five-year review. On Jan. 14, the USFWS finalized a ruling to list the northern long-eared bat as threatened effective Feb. 16, due to rapidly declining populations caused by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that affects many hibernating U.S. bat species. Similarly, on Jan. 11, USFWS also released a response to 17 other petitions, 11 of which will undergo further review to decide if a listing is warranted and six which will not. In the case of the Cabinet-Yeak grizzly bear, currently listed as threatened, USFWS denied petitions both to delist and uplist the species. The USFWS also denied petitions to list the Colorado desert fringe-toed lizard, Kings River slender salamander, sandstone night lizard and the Yellowstone bison as threatened or endangered. The Great Basin silverspot, narrow-foot diving beetle, Northern Rocky Mountain fisher, Scott riffle beetle, four species of skinks from the U.S. Virgin Islands and three from Puerto Rico will all receive 12-month reviews. — Alexandria Kade

SPREAD OF EBOLA, OTHER DISEASES LINKED TO POVERTY

According to a recently published study, poverty played a crucial role in the spread of Ebola in Liberia and other West African countries. Many factors, including lack of health education, overcrowding of slums and lack of access to sanitary food and water, contributed significantly to the spread of disease. Researchers from the Liberian Ministry of Health and the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis evaluated more than 3,500 Ebola cases reported in 2014 to determine the effect of poverty on the transmission and spread of Ebola. They found areas of extreme poverty were more likely to be associated with high rates of Ebola transmission and spread. Their work was published on Dec. 31 in the Public Library of Science journal Neglected Tropical Diseases. This is not the first study linking poverty and the spread of disease. A paper published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in 2012 found that poverty, although arguably the most potent risk factor for susceptibility to disease, is often overlooked for its difficulty to be quantified in medical terms. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) includes poverty in its definition of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), such as Ebola. NTDs are infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poor, and have only begun being contextualized within the scope of poverty by WHO since a study by the organization in 2010. The 2015 paper “implies a need for more investment, time and effort spent on improving health and education in urban communities,” said Elizabeth Hamann of the International Rescue Committee in a SciDev.net article. — Max Heidt

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ADVENTURE

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After founding the nonprofit Mountain to Mountain, Shannon Gilpan brought her bike to Aghanistan to answer why women weren’t allowed to ride bikes.

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TWOWHEELED REVOLUTION

Empowering Afghan women one ride at a time

by Amanda Moutinho

n America, a woman on a bike is not a novel sight. But in Afghanistan, a woman on a bike starts a conversation. The country has had a long, sorted history of restricting women’s rights, and while the country made big strides recently, the bike is still a mountain waiting to be conquered. “I was curious that in a country where women were running for parliament, becoming doctors, joining the police forces as well as the army, that bikes were still that last hold out. Women were going to driving school and learning to drive cars, but they can’t ride a bike,” says Shannon Galpin, founder of the nonprofit organization Mountain to Mountain. Boulder Weekly

In 2007, Galpin founded the organization with a goal of focusing on advancing women’s rights in conflict zones. Although she had no previous experience running a nonprofit, she had spent years as a sports trainer in Europe running her own business. She knew she wanted to do whatever she could to help women in tough areas, but first she knew she needed to learn more. “Because [Afghanistan] was a country repeatedly ranked the worst country in the world to be woman, I wanted to understand what the reality was, and also what was the gray scale of that reality,” she says. “It’s not that every

women is oppressed and a modern day slave and the property of man.” Baffled by the thought of women not riding bikes, Galpin started there. In 2008, she left her home in Breckenridge, Colorado, and took her mountain bike to the terrain of Afghanistan. “They found me a curiosity,” she says. “I always joke that I was like a circus bear juggling on a unicycle, because I was a spectacle. But it became an icebreaker … as a means to explore the barrier and to also challenge it and show that women can ride. It’s just a

matter of acceptance and accessibility.” Over the past several years, Galpin has visited Afghanistan multiple times, helping to improve education by providing computer labs, building a school for the deaf and developing programs for incarcerated women. Through her work she realized the importance of voice. In 2014, she wrote Mountain to Mountain: A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan detailing her personal journey. As a foreign woman in the country, see REVOLUTION Page 22

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In Afghanistan, a woman on a bicycle carries a stigma. Women riding bikes are seen as dishonorable, and it may be harder for them to marry. Some people also believe that the bike can take your virginity, which is a key to a woman’s value in their culture.

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Galpin says she was treated as an “honorary man.” way too prevalent,” she says. “Essentially, I looked at This gave her unprecedented access to both men and my sister and thought what are the odds that my parwomen and an ability to hear various perspectives ents would have two girls 10 years apart, and it hapfrom both sides. She encouraged people to tell their pens to both of them in different states in, supposedly, own stories and wanted to start a dialogue. a very safe country. And here I was bringing a daughAlong the way, she heard various women’s stories ter into the world.” of abuse and violence. Unfortunately, those odds are very high, and even Courtesy of Shannon Galpin “I had a lot of curihigher in Afghanistan, osity around gender which is why Galpin violence and questions chose to help. She as to why we don’t look wanted to shred the at the women who are labels and rise above victimized as catalysts societal limitations. Her for change?” she asks. own background “Why are we always allowed her to start looking at areas like talking and make things Afghanistan and the happen. women within “I might be a white Afghanistan as ‘vicgirl from North Dakota tims?’ And we do the living in Colorado, but same thing in the U.S. for me personally, my We look at them as intimacy of knowledge [of gender violence] has ‘victims,’ of gender vioGilpan works extensively with both the men’s and women’s become a way to conlence or human trafAfgahnistan national cycling team. nect with other women ficking, and therefore and a way to look at we negate their voice.” these issues without the framework of ‘these poor The cause hits home to Galpin and her family. women.’ Instead to look at it as, what do we need to When she was 18 years old, Galpin was raped and do to plug in these women as leaders in their commubeaten. Several years later, her younger sister had a similar experience, and it shook Galpin’s own memory. nity? What tools do they need?” “It was an immediate switch of recognizing that I She realized two methods for progress were art had never acknowledged my own rape, and that it was and sport. Galpin worked with graffiti artists, photog22 January 21, 2016

raphers and more to stage exhibits like Streets of Afghanistan in 2012. This life-size photo project helped bridge cultural gaps and bring exposure to the realities of everyday life in Afghanistan. But a lot of Galpin’s work came back to the bicycle: an easy, cheap and available tool that packed a heavy punch when breaking societal norms. “When you ride a bike you feel strong and you feel free — all those things resonate to fighting back, to using your voice, to not accepting things as a ‘victim’ would,” she says. Initially, when the female bike riders are introduced, almost every culture resists the shift. For example, in 1800s America, Galpin says, women riders were called promiscuous and immoral. But while the beginning may be rocky, the end results are remarkable. Galpin cites Cambodia, where women were given bikes to travel to school. Education was the first benefit, but access to bikes also lowered instances of gender violence, especially in rural areas, greatly reducing crimes of opportunity and making women harder targets. Of course, Afghanistan is still in the early stages. Even if Galpin found supporters of her personal bike riding, they drew the line at their own family members. “A girl’s worth is linked to her ability to be married, and if she’s seen as dishonorable she can’t get married,” Galpin says. “There’s also the worry that the bike will take your virginity, which is also one of the only keys of value. There are a lot of stigmas attached in very real, concrete ways. As well as just the fact that Boulder Weekly

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you’re viewed as a bad girl.” Thankfully, the situation is improving. In 2012, Galpin ran into Abdul Sadiqi, the coach of Afghanistan’s men’s and women’s cycling team — he started the men’s team before the rise of the Taliban and the women’s just a few years ago. Sadiqi wanted to bring cycling to Afghanistan as a new sport that could build easily in the country. With the women’s team, Sadiqi single-handedly started from scratch, with many girls who didn’t know how to ride. From their first meeting on, Galpin has worked with both teams on her various visits. She has also helped to replace their outdated, rusted equipment with over 500 pounds of cycling gear for both teams, including more than 60 new racing and mountain bikes. This has allowed the teams to train better and accept invitations to race in other countries. If female bike riding is to be normalized in Afghanistan, Galpin knows local women need to ride and be seen by their fellow citizens. This recognition is an important factor for the women on the team and their families. “The girls all have families that support them. The coach was very direct with the team, ‘If your family doesn’t support this then you can’t ride,’” she says. “But he’ll go with them to talk with the fathers and the mothers. ... [These families] have also supported their education. They may not be well off girls, many are very poor, but the families value education. And they’ve been supportive of the girls doing new things and exploring the opportunities presented to them in this post-Taliban era.” Boulder Weekly

Galpin says being on the team has strengthened the women’s confidence, and the team’s visibility has also increased worldwide. Last year, they were chosen among National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year, an honor that Galpin earned in 2013. The girls are also attached to a Nobel Peace Prize recommendation this year for the bicycle as a vehicle for social change. The future for the Afghan women’s cycling team and Mountain to Mountain looks bright. It includes Afghan Cycles, a documentary produced by Galpin and an all-female crew that’s planned to hit the film festival circuit this spring. Galpin also hopes to bring some of the Afghan riders to Colorado in the summer to train and attend some screenings. Their success is a great accomplishment, but the end goal is bigger. “They are kind of the 1 percent. There are a hundred girls, maybe, who ride bikes in the entire country of Afghanistan. It’s not yet acceptable,” Galpin says. “But every time they ride, they ride knowing that others see them. It challenges the perception.” The conversation has started, and it’s catching fire. And while there are systemic problems and generational shifts that need to be addressed, Galpin says it all starts with the individual. “I remember after one ride,” she says, “one little boy came up to me and said, ‘I didn’t know that girls could ride bikes. I’m going to go teach my sister!’ And that’s exactly what you want to see.”

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BUZZ

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A classical composer and a political cartoonist join forces in a night of audience participation and improvisation.

Fruit of the brain

Bruce Adolphe and Kevin Kallaugher head to Boulder for a night of music and drawing

by Amanda Moutinho

top me if you’ve heard this one before. A political cartoonist and a classical musical composer meet at a neuroscience conference in Austria. As the scientists try to nail down just how creativity manifests in the brain, the cartoonist and the composer become friends and eventually plan to spend an evening in Boulder exploring their respective crafts…

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artists. And just as they did when they met at a conference exploring creativity, the two will detail their processes and delve deeper into the artistic mind. “There is crossover in the way you think in creative terms, whether it’s music or drawing, and we want to explore that a little bit,” Kallaugher says. Both artists will connect their work with humor and show audiences the anatomy behind what we laugh at. As a writer, musician and professor, Adolphe says music can be funny even without words or images. He cites Joseph Haydn and Ludwig von Beethoven as classical music jokesters, among others. The humor can lie in scherzo movements or dance segments; the music can go off beat and shift, producing surprising rhythms or strange harmonic endings. “In order for something to be funny, you need to have references to things that change your expectations, just like a joke,” Adolphe says. “You set up something then it takes a strange turn.” Beyond his own compositions, Adolphe is also known for his Piano Puzzlers segment on NPR, in which he takes an easily identifiable song and plays it in the style of a classic composer. Listeners see BRAIN FRUIT Page 26

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then call in and try to guess both elements. Some examples include “A Hard Day’s Night” in the style of Frederic Chopin, “Over the Rainbow” through Felix Mendelssohn and “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” played by Johannes Brahms. The juxtaposition can be tricky to dissect. “Children’s tunes for example ... I’ll play it in a romantic style, and the tune is actually there completely in the clear, but the harmonies and moods are so different that you don’t even hear it. “I’ve done a couple versions of ‘London Bridge is Falling Down,’ and almost every time I do it usually people can’t hear it the first time. Then when I point it out you can’t help but hearing it. It’s almost like an M. C. Escher drawing or an optical illusion.” Putting the songs in a new environment helps you get a fresh look at each element, which is similar to Kallaugher’s work. He has published

more than 8,000 cartoons for publications around the world, and has worked for The Baltimore Sun for more than 20 years and The Economist for more than 35. When sitting down to do a cartoon, his process takes about 10 hours and starts with thorough research. He then narrows down his idea and begins to draft a sketch, thinking about composition, caricature and calligraphy. His ultimate goal is to polish his ideas in a crisp, amusing way. “You want to find something that hopefully isn’t being an astute observer of the obvious,” he says. “You want to say something thought-provoking and also something, in my view, that moves the conversation forward that tries to get people talking and thinking about what’s happening next.” Kallaugher says there are a hundred cartoons you can do on any given subject, with a million things that could be Boulder Weekly

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ON THE BILL: The Dairy said about the underbelly and tickPresents One Night Only: upcoming election. If ling it a little bit in Cartoons & Hidden Tunes. he were to have a order to get a point 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, The Academy, 970 Aurora conversation with across.” Ave., Boulder. someone about While neuroloDonald Trump, he gists are still trying to says, each observation logistically map crecould be turned into a cartoon. ativity, sometimes it’s necessary to kick It’s important to be open for inspiback with artists like Adolphe and ration, and Adolphe says an idea can Kallaugher and just enjoy the fruit of strike at any time. the brain’s labor. “Once I was watching a Fred “The creative process is a mysteriAstaire movie with my daughter and ous thing,” Kallaugher says, “but to me ‘Cheek to Cheek,’ which is an Irving it’s also so much fun.” Berlin song, came on and there was a chord progression that reminded me of (Beethoven Sonata Pathetique),” Adolphe says. “So the reason that reminded me of that is because I write puzzlers all the time, so connections just hit me. It was a small connection, only about a few seconds long. But immediately I grabbed the two and put them together.” Adolphe’s ultimate goal is to make sure the songs seem like they belong together. Sometimes the union is effortless. Others need to be forced together, and those can be more special. “Sometimes when things don’t seem to fit together, it’s more fun when they do,” he says. “It’s not always about finding connections, sometimes it’s the exact opposite. I’ll take some that absolutely should not fit, and I’ll make it fit, and that’s often funnier when it works.” For Kallaugher, his obstacle is keeping his work pointed, original and relevant — not what’s funny today, but what’s interesting today. When the whole world is talking about one issue, it’s hard to elevate the conversation. “How many times can you say the debt is bad or there are too many guns? You have to find new ways of saying that, and that can be a challenge,” Kallaugher says. “And to me that’s the most fun, the challenge of finding a new way, poking and stoking the creative juices to find a fresh dynamic possibility.” Both Adolphe and Kallaugher are masters of their craft, which is essential when trying to infuse humor into something as complex as a classical music composition or a political cartoon. It’s only with deep institutional knowledge that one can properly deconstruct to reconstruct. “I try to find, what I call, the scene of the story. The part of a story where it’s the weakest, where you can put your fingers in it and pull the threads apart to peek in behind and underneath the story and reveal a lot of what goes in it,” Kallaugher says. “To me that’s where you start dealing with satire. Satire is about finding the delicate

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uring the two years that went into making her current album, Midnight, Grace Potter realized a game-changing truth about

“This [album] could completely blow up in my face or it could be incredible,” Potter says. Midnight should challenge fans that are accustomed to the tuneful, potent herself. and decidedly American-sounding gui“I figured out that I’m here for a tar rock Potter created with her longreason,” she says. “I think people show time band, the Nocturnals, over the up for a certain time or space for a reacourse of five studio albums. son. And it’s definitely not to make Some will consider Midnight other people happy and just for me to Potter’s sell-out album and her bid for pop stardom. And Hilary Walsh songs like “Delirious” (a song Potter said she wrote to prove to her label she could write a Top 40 hit), “Alive Tonight,” “Hot To The Touch” and “What We’ve Become,” with their programmed dance-friendly beats, synthetic instrumentation and hook-heavy choruses, certainly fit with the sound of today’s Top 40. But a few other tunes seem less tailored to fit today’s pop trends and help diversify the album. “Empty Heart” is a sassy rocker with a little funk. The breakup song, “The Miner,” is a soulful pop ballad with a striking vocal melody. “Let You Go,” Grace Potter attempts to reach a Top 40 audience with her the standout closing solo album, Midnight. track, is a stark pianobased ballad with a stay in my place and do my bit. I don’t dramatic vocal melody. ever want to run what I call… I call it a Potter admitted that to a point, ‘carnival,’ essentially. Midnight indeed seeks to reach a Top “There are a lot of bands that do 40 audience. She said she realized if she this, where the show is the same every was ever going to gain a presence in the night and they’re essentially the dude pop mainstream, she’d better try to that pulls the lever on the roller coaster,” catch the bus now before the doors Potter explains. “The roller coaster closed on that ride. always feels the same. And it’s always “I think if I was going to try to fun and people always get their yeah stand up and be counted, I better fuckyeahs out and they always go home ing do it soon. I’m getting fucking going, ‘That was great. Totally worth the old,” she says good-naturedly before money.’ I don’t want it to be about that.” touching on the reality of her situaInstead, Potter was looking for tion. “Just that 30 marker was a big something more substantial, something one for me because I realized that I more rewarding — an album that still had so much I wanted to do. So might be risky, but also more genuine. the answer is yes and no. I’d like to be Boulder Weekly

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relevant, but I don’t really care. If the songs I’m writing aren’t relevant [to mainstream pop], then I don’t really care. If I’m loving them and I’m having fun playing them and I’m out there able to play them on stage in front of an audience that’s still willing to come to the show, I’d rather do that than be on Top fucking 40 radio, because I’ve got my thing and I’ve worked really hard at my thing and it’s definitely not being a pop star. “But having said that, I’d like to help peoples’ ears. I’d like to offer an alternative to what people have been listening to, something that’s going to give a bit more girth to what [Top 40] music can be.” Despite her Top 40 ambitions, Potter says for awhile she fully intended to make Midnight with the Nocturnals. The band had gained considerable popularity with its two previous albums, a 2010 self-titled effort and the 2012 release, The Lion The Beast The Beat, and Potter didn’t want to sidetrack that momentum. But she started the project by changing up her writing process, especially as she worked in the studio with producer Eric Valentine. As they found themselves recording most of the instruments themselves, it became clear that Midnight was going to be a solo album. But Potter also emphasizes that Midnight does not mark the end of the road for the Nocturnals, and she fully intends to make more albums with her band. In fact, the band for her Midnight tour includes two long-time members of the Nocturnals, drummer Matt Burr and guitarist Benny Yurco. And Potter promises that in addition to songs from the new album, her setlist will include plenty of songs from the albums made with the Nocturnals, including some selections fans won’t expect. “There are some really cool songs that we haven’t played in a really long time, like some of the really early, 2005, 2006 stuff that literally never saw its way to the stage ever and was only ever on a record,” she says. “We’re bringing some of that up and kicking up the dust. It’s really been a fun experience on a musical level just getting back into some of those older songs.”

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Pro Musica Colorado plays music for and by victims of World War II by Peter Alexander

ON THE BILL: Shostakovich: Dedication. Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, Cynthia Katsarelis, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, First Baptist Church, 1373 Grant St., Denver. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, First United Methodist, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. For more information: 720-443-0565 and promusicacolorado.org.

omposers who write their composers of the 20th century, one of is four notes that in German spell the own musical eulogies do not the great symphonists, one of the great letters DSCH — a musical anagram usually create jolly pieces. string quartet writers,” Katsarelis says. taken from the letters of his first and Dmitri Shostakovich, “This is (the quartet) I find the most last names. who suffered various forms compelling.” Elsewhere, the score is filled with of personal and artistic oppression Shostakovich was inspired to write transformed quotations from his works, throughout his career, was certainly no the quartet when he visited Dresden, as including the First and Fifth symphoexception. When he wrote his Eighth part of a project to memorialize the nies, the First Cello Concerto, the String Quartet in 1960 he was contemWorld War II firebombing that Second Piano Trio and the opera Lady plating suicide — which his Macbeth of Mtsensk — a friends prevented, fortunately. Glenn Ross work that had triggered The work he wrote, dedicated denunciations of the comto “the victims of fascism and poser from Stalin himself. war” but also reflecting his Another prominent own suffering under the motive is three repeated Soviet regime, remains a pownotes, like a knock. In Soviet erful testament to a low point times, that was a widely recin his life. ognized code for the KGB, “This is really dark,” says and the ominous midnight Cynthia Katsarelis, who will knock on the door that so conduct the string orchestra many Russians feared. version of the quartet, the Katsarelis notes that “he was Chamber Symphony for String worried his whole life that Orchestra, with the Colorado he would hear the knock at Pro Musica Chamber the door and be taken away Orchestra Friday in Denver forever.” In fact, he kept a Conductor Cynthia Katsarelis brings compositions reflecting on the and Saturday in Boulder. “He tragedies of World War II to Boulder. packed bag by the door for thought it was his own eulothat possibility. gy.” Composer Pavel Hass The concerts are part of a two-year destroyed the city. He was so moved was one of the victims of World War II. celebration of Shostakovich chamber that he wrote the quartet in three days. The Czech composer was imprisoned in music organized by the Colorado Some believe that the official dedication the Terezín concentration camp, along Chamber Players. Other works on the — “to the victims of fascism and war” with many other Jewish musicians. His program will be the world premiere of — was done at the behest of the Soviet Study for Strings was one of several Life Between Lives by American guitarauthorities, and that Shostakovich actu- works composed and performed in the ist/composer D.J. Sparr, J.S. Bach’s ally intended the dedication for all viccamp. Near the end of the war, Haas Third Brandenburg Concerto and the tims of totalitarianism, himself included. was shipped to Auschwitz, where he Study for Strings by Pavel Haas. As often with Shostakovich, the was killed. The quartet may be dark, but it is truth is elusive, but there is no question Karel Ancerl, a Czech conductor recognized as one of the composer’s that he filled the score with references who was interned with Haas at Terezín greatest works. to himself and his work. The opening and survived Auschwitz, found four of “Shostakovich was one of the great motive, one that is repeated throughout, the five parts to the Study for Strings

after the war. The missing part was reconstructed, making performances possible. “It’s a terrific piece,” Katsarelis says. “It was composed in the summer of 1943 and was performed twice. It speaks marvelously to the human spirit that something beautiful and wonderful could be created under those circumstances — and to the power of music and the need for music in our hearts.” The concert will open with a much sunnier work, Bach’s lively Third Brandenburg Concerto for three violins, three violas, three cellos, bass and harpsichord. “It’s going to be really fun and energetic,” Katsarelis says. D.J. Sparr based his Life Between Lives on the instrumentation and the use of instruments — but not the themes — of the Third Brandenburg. The composer told Katsarelis that he wrote it in the style of Eastern European minimalism, such as the meditative music of Arvo Pärt. “The first movement, which opens rather slow, is that sort of thing,” she says. “The whole construction is just terrific because it starts from this meditative, slow place and gradually builds up speed until it’s really quite powerful.” Katsarelis likes the way the four pieces fit together. “The Bach goes with the Shostakovich, the Haas goes emotionally and musically with the Shostakovich, and the Sparr piece is a very interesting modern work that pays homage while giving contrast,” she says. “This is one of the coolest programs of all time.”

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Music

Celtic Session Hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bonnis and the King Trio. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Brazil Night with Members of Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709

DaVinci Institute Tasting Room for Colorado Distillers 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, Compass Bank building, 9191 N. Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, 303-6664133

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If you’re interested in a night of trying local liquor and cuisine, The DaVinci Institute is hosting its first Tasting Room event. The DaVinci Institute is a nonprofit networking firm and think tank aimed at influencing innovators and helping Colorado’s tech community grow. The event will host 11 different Colorado distillers and multiple local caterers for a night of good food and drink. The night will begin with an initial tasting hour for those who purchased V.I.P. tickets, and it will focus not only on the liquor, but also supporting local distilleries that use natural ingredients and fresh Colorado water. Register at davinciinstitute.com. — Peter Ferrante

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Colin Kelly. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131. The Complete Unknowns. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Yee-haw Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering Various events, Thursday, Jan. 21 - Sunday, Jan. 24, The Miner’s Alley Playhouse ,1224 Washington Ave., Golden, and The American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, 720-213-6446. Courtesy of Cowboy Poetry

Celebrating its 27th year, the Cowboy Gathering will be a weekend to hark back to the ways of cowboy heritage through poetry, song and food. The four-day event includes three unique evening performances and two full days of popular theme session matinees, authentic cooking, yodeling and old-fashioned cowboy music. This year, the gathering includes classes to hone your cowboy skills, like playing the harmonica and learning to weave a horse tack cinch. This event has plenty going on for all ages, including sessions covering topics like women of the West, cowboy humor and more. — Peter Ferrante

DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Ed Breazeale and Friends. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine Street, Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Ginger Slap. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Heartstring Hunters. 7 p.m. Por Wine see EVENTS Page 34

Listen Southern Journey: Black, White and Brown Blues Saturday Jan. 23rd, 7:30 p.m. Congregation Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 720975-4514. Courtesy of Sheldon Sands Join Sheldon Sands and other artists as Southern Journey performs a two-hour staged rendition of the music of legendary musicologist Alan Lomax. Genres will range from slave songs and spirituals to blues, hymns and gospel. Audiences can look forward to 10 varied musicians and singers reviving the spirit of Lomax’s collection and the American South. The Lomax Family and the Association for Cultural Equity have shown support for Southern Journey and its commitment to research, writing and presentation of Lomax’s work. This concert is part of a monthly series being put on by Sheldon Sands, so be on the lookout for more. — Peter Ferrante

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House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Interstate Stash Express. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Jessica Eppler. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Bluegrass Jam. 6 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Avenue, Suite 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134.

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Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Purple Squirrel. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Rodina. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Sherefe (Arabic Mediterranean Fusion). 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303499-2985. Technicolor Tone Factory & Rowdy Shadehouse. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Events Acrylics 2. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

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

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Art of the State 2016. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 27. The Engaged Object. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through March 26. Case Work. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 17.

Stop by MCA Denver for the final days of Marilyn Minter’s retrospective, Pretty/Dirty.

Mark Making. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Jan. 24.

BoulderReads Tutor Roundtable. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Oil Paintings by Theresa Beckemeyer. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30.

CodeCraft School Open House. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Photography by Glenn Randall. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30.

ON THURSDAY NIGHTS

The Dairy Presents One Night Only: Cartoons & Hidden Tunes. 7:30 p.m. The Academy, 970 Aurora Ave., Boulder.

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

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GoDoh Story Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120.

So What Brothers. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839.

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

Tony & Jose. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770.

Eric Elliott, Slidin’ Delta. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Taking Rites Seriously: Faith, Reason and the Courts. 4:30 p.m. Hellems Room 199, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Felonius Smith and Steve Sheldon. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Music

Flip And Fly. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Honeytree Duo. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Last Men on Earth. 7:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

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

The Mighty Diamonds and The Yellow Wall Dub Squad. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

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

Moe. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Boulder Bach Festival: A Musical Offering. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 720-301-0957.

Mr. Atomic. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145.

Brokedown Shack. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 7.

Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Open Access For Painters & Potters. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Friday, January 22

When the Winds Whisper. Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-678-7869. Through Feb. 27.

Signel-Z. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

EGi with Lo 5. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

YOGAlphabet Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through May 1.

Danny Bastos Collective. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Older Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 31.

Peter Garland. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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

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

Caribou Mountain Collective & Friends. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

The Robin Davis Duo. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Chris Daniels & The Kings featuring Fredi Gowdy. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Shane Borrillo. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Tyler T. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-8739185. Wild Road Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Events Icebreaker: A Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival Appreciation Pre-Party. 6 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Intercambio English as a Second Language Class Level 4/5. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Masterpiece Makers. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Minecrafternoons at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. The Politics of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. 3 p.m. Eaton Humanities Room 150, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-6132. Teens, Trivia, and Tea. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tree of Life Artists Reception. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. WordPress One-On-One Consulting. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

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events Saturday, January 23

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Aristocats. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303-339-0767.

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

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

Dirty Dancing. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Jan. 31.

Aural Elixir. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21.

Bonnie Lowdermilk Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

The Nest. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21.

Chris Kroger Duo. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Vera Rubin: Bringing the Dark to Light — prestened by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Yankee Tavern. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through Jan. 24.

Crazy Mountain Billies. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Davellie Swing Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Delta Sonics. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Blood Drive. 9 a.m. Starbucks, 1087 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-774-0143. Boulder Folders. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Gallery on the Go. 6:30 p.m. Settembre Cellars, 1501 Lee Hill, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.

The Hippie Buckaroos. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625.

High Country Winter Ecology Hike. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, 3491 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-678-6214.

Jake Joyce Mccoy. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Learning Source Adult Basic Education (ABE) Class. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Joe Marson, Big Green Carpet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mitchel Evan & The Mangrove. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-9974164.

Magic Tree House Adventure. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. One Action 2016: Arts + Immigration Project. 2 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

MojoMama. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Sunday, January 24

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

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

The Nadi Warriors. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Paul Kimbiris. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Pro Musica Colorado presents Shostakovich in Dedication. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Ragged Union. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. She Grooves. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Southern Journey: Black, White and Brown Blues. 7:30 p.m. Nevei Kodesh Congregation Building, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 720-975-4514. The Symbols With Tony Saccomanno. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Terravita. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Timber. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. VooDoo Julia. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Events

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Choral Compline. 9 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

David Booker. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Flash Mountain Flood. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Foxfeather. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Hartwood Duo. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Creek Park, 1800 Creekside Drive, Longmont, 303-651-8992. Honeytree Duo. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. The Sweet Lillies. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Events Ballroom Dance Class. 6:30 p.m. Danceophile Ballroom and Folk Dance Studio, 250 31st St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. DIY Party at Reynolds. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. see EVENTS Page 36

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Courtesy of Innisfree

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Poet Janice Gould. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Tuesday, Jan. 26

Gayl Gray — Artscape Boulder, CO. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Saturday, Jan. 23 Heather Sappenfield — Life at the Speed of Us. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074. Monday, Jan. 25

Stop by Innisfree to hear the work of renowned poet and CU professor Janice Gould.

Krissy Moehl — Running Your First Ultra. 7:30 p.m. Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Amy Cuddy — Presence. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787. Wednesday, Jan. 27

MFA Reading: Katie Woods. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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Go Club for Kids and Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772. Winter Heritage Day at the Walker Ranch Homestead. 1 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Road, Boulder. Thursday January 21

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friday January 22

eleCTrOniC Tuesday feaT BOMMer w/ aOwl & dillard

Thursday January 28

exMaG & defunk w/ Mikey Thunder, JasOn Burruss & sassfaCTOry

friday & saTurday January 29-30

The BlueGrass Generals feaT Chris PandOlfi & andy hall (The infaMOus sTrinGdusTers), Billy nershi & keiTh MOsely (sCi) & Billy sTrinGs 1/29: GranT farM

1/30: Taarka

Thursday feBruary 4

Trae Tha TruTh w/ JaCk flash, J-kruPT & MeelO v

friday feBruary 5

nOn PhixiOn w/ flOwaliTiOn, PrOxiMiTy & arkus

Thursday feBruary 11

an-Ten-nae & BOrhaM lee (PreTTy liGhTs, Break sCienCe)

weirdOs in The hOOd

feaT sixis, BOGTrOTTer, ClOud-d, resOnanT lanGuaGe & dMvu

saTurday January 23

Passafire & BallyhOO w/ MindsTaTe

MOnday January 25

MOnday niGh MenaGerie feaT Cirque TOnes w/ TOday’s ParaMOunT & GhOsT Pulse

Tuesday January 26

sCOTT MOrrill BirThday CeleBraTiOn

feaT dave waTTs & friends w/ kiM dawsOn (PiMPs Of JOyTiMe), Mike TallMan (eufOrquesTra), JOrdan liniT (analOG sOn), Tanya shylOCk (sisTers Of sOul), fleeB ThOMas (O-neB) & MOre

friday January 29

Mike dillOn Band w/ dandu

saTurday January 30

The Malah & JPOd

(laTe seT) w/ fresh2deaTh & evanOff

Tuesday feBruary 2

suB.MissiOn PresenTs

5 year eleCTrOniC Tuesday anniversary

feaT yOunGsTa & haTCha w/ COMMOde

wednesday feBruary 3

Monday, January 25 Music Coin Purse. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Too Soon. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Events Adult Ballet at Reverence Academy of Dance. 11:30 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Intercambio English as a Second Language Class Level 6/7. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Introduction to User-Centered Design. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Learning Source Adult Basic Education (ABE) Class. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Community Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

andy frasCO & The u.n.

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w/ sleazy Grease & sMall GianTs

Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

w/ sTylusT BeaTs & diGiTal COnneCTiOn

friday feBruary 5

Younger Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

& COlBy BuCkler

friday & saTurday feBruary 12-13

The new MasTersOunds w/ earPhunk

saTurday feBruary 20

wildliGhT “a COllaBOraTiOn PrOJeCT frOM The POlish aMBassadOr & ayla nereO” w/ The huMan exPerienCe (laTe seT)

friday & saTurday feBruary 26-27

Tea leaf Green & hOT BuTTered ruM 2/26: Chain sTaTiOn

TaTanka

w/ sun-dried viBes

saTurday feBruary 6

4Th annual BOB Marley BirThday CeleBraTiOn w/ wake uP & live, COllierad, i COnsCiOus & seleCTa razJa

wednesday feBruary 10

revenGe Of The 90’s saTurday MarCh 19

MarCO BenevenTO wednesday MarCh 23

w/ reasOn The CiTizen & JiGGy ThOMPsOn

Thursday & friday aPril 14-15

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Fred Dawson. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Interstate Stash Express. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Laurie D and Dianne Zimmerman. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Eric Wiggs. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Pendulum New Music. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. The Prairie Scholars Happy Hour. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., Suite 1, Longmont, 303684-8383. Events Acrylic Painting. 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. ALDA-Boulder (Social Sign Language Class). 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder Folders. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120. BoulderReads Tutor Training. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

friday feBruary 19

sisTer sParrOw & The dirTy Birds

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-3390767.

Craft Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120.

saTurday feBruary 20

Open Mic Hosted By Black Dog. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

w/ new Orleans susPeCTs

liMe liGhT Media PrOduCTiOn shOwCase

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saTurday feBruary 27

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

Open Jam. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Thursday feBruary 25

OPiO, a Plus, Casual, PhesTO & TaJai)

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

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Alex Heffron Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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Music

Matt Michaud Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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Wednesday, January 27

Comedy Night! 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

sunday feBruary 14

MOnday feBruary 15

TurBO suiT

Open Code for Youth with Coder Dojo. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Jalbatross. 9 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Brent Loveday. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508873-9185.

Life Drawing. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Breakfast Club. 9 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

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feaT The MaGiC Beans, zOOGMa &

Music

Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Tuesday, January 26

hoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Mic Hosted by Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-6844728. Open Mic Night w/ The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. GED Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapa-

Cruisers & Crawlers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Flatirons Running FunRun. 5:30 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway Street, Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837. High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303441-4390. Intercambio English as a Second Language Class Level 6/7. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Intro To Acrylics. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Learning Source Adult Basic Education (ABE) Class. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Deer Fording the Missouri in Early Afternoon Perhaps to those familiar with their ways The sight would not have been so startling: A deer fording the Missouri in the early afternoon. Perhaps they would not have worried as much As I about the fragility of it all: Her agonizingly slow pace, the tender ears And beatific face just above the water.

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We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Kevin L. Cole, “Deer Fording the Missouri in Early Afternoon,” (Third Wednesday, Vol. VIII, No. 4, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Kevin L. Cole and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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arriage: two people come together, make a proclamation of lifelong devotion and fidelity and try their damnedest to carry it out. For some, it all works out. For others, it doesn’t. What makes the difference? Could it be the convenient omission of crucial information? Possibly. The marriage at the core of 45 Years has survived this long because of an event in Geoff ’s (Tom Courtenay) past that has been casually, or calculatedly, glossed over. But as the old story goes, the truth will come out. And when it does, it takes everything in its path. Just look at the face of Kate (Charlotte Rampling) when she finally realizes what her husband has been covering up. His omission may have carried them 45 years, but the truth could cost them number 46. One week before their 45th wedding anniversary, news arrives that Geoff ’s ex-girlfriend’s body has been discovered. The woman died 45 years ago, before Geoff and Kate ever met, while she was vacationing with Geoff in Switzerland. They were hiking on a glacier when she fell down a fissure and died. Due to the location, the body could not be recovered, but thanks to global warming, the glacier has thawed and the authorities rescued the body and notified the next of kin, which happens to be Geoff. Geoff has told Kate this story before, but it was many years ago, and Kate — head-over-heels and in love with Geoff — most likely dismissed the event. Yes, the death was tragic, and a traumatic moment in Geoff ’s past, but we all have our little tragedies. Life goes on. But Geoff can’t let it go. His mind

wanders and he no longer seems as present. Kate looks at her husband and wonders what he isn’t telling her. Or maybe he has told her everything, but age has cost him and his mind can no longer recall the past as strongly as he wishes. Memory is a funny thing; one can actually repress the truth so long that it’s forgotten. That is, until the day comes when those secrets can no longer be submerged, and the truth comes bubbling to the surface. That moment hits Kate like a punch to the gut, and it is the reason that Rampling has been nominated for Best Female Performance at this year’s Academy Awards. Alone in the attic, Kate searches for the truth in Geoff ’s carousel, viewing slides from the past one at a time as if confronting a ghost in the dark of night. Kate’s face conveys mountains of emotion while she watches 45 years of her marriage erode under an unstoppable realization. This is not the first time that writer/director Andrew Haigh has found just the right moment to reveal a character’s entirety. Haigh’s previous film, Weekend (2011), managed a similar reveal when a gay couple saying goodbye to each other on a train platform received catcalls and a few homophobic slurs. There, as with 45 Years, Haigh proves that there is no veneer that a movie camera cannot penetrate. It sees through our façades, past our defense and right into our souls. 45 Years achieves that effect, as Haigh’s camera — manned by the understated cinematographer Lol Crawley — observes moments so casually that we barely even notice that what we are really watching is not just the love and joy of a 45-year commitment, but the toll as well. Boulder Weekly

film Through a sparkling glass The childlike wonder and joy of ‘Boy & the World’ by Michael J. Casey

hildren’s movies are fascinating triumphs of simplicity and ON THE BILL: Boy & the clarity. Often these movies World. Opens Jan. 22, Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., render complex issues so sucDenver, 720-381-0813. Tickets start cinctly that they become masat $8 at denverfilm.org. terworks full of sophisticated ideas, a trait that some of the best “adult” works cannot hold a candle to. For proof, look no further than the recently Oscar-nominated, animated movie from Brazil, Boy & the World. This deceptively complex movie begins as innocently as the opening line of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, with Cuca, a young boy who speaks little, if at all, but giggles at the wonder and vast scope of the world before him. Cuca lives on a farm with this family, and it is a good life for Cuca, but viewers will immediately realize it is not always peaches and cream for Cuca’s parents. Cuca’s family is poor, and Cuca’s father must leave home for work. First, Like other animated Academy Award-nominated films, Boy & to the cotton fields, The World refuses to be pigeonholed. then to the factories, before ending up where all discards go: the dump in an ever-expanding city. Cuca follows, tracking his father down until he too is lost in the impersonal and dispassionate world of commerce. A system where human beings are turned into cogs, working endlessly and tirelessly in unison to make clothes that are then sold back to them until they are discarded, just like the tired and spent workers who made them. Boy & the World is not a subtle movie. It wears its politics on its sleeve, and that’s probably where they belong. Not for the children, mind you; they are having too much fun with the combination of stick figure and color pencil animation. No, this bluntness is for the parents and relatives that brought the child. This message is for them, and it needs to be obvious, for these are the very people who often believe children’s movies are of little substance. They will think twice after seeing this one. This might make Boy & the World sound like a dour message movie, but it isn’t. Writer/director Alê Abreu utilizes a crude animation style — fitting the world it depicts — but this only engages the imagination more as the simplistic characters take on a wealth of emotions depending on the scenario. And what is happening around them is magical and fantastic, all of it accompanied by a joyous samba chorus from musicians Ruben Feffer and Gustavo Kurlat, a lovely reminder that no matter how grim life gets, music is often the antidote. Boy & the World is one of the five nominees for this year’s animation Academy Award, a category stacked with some of the year’s best, including the stop-motion despair, Anomalisa; the computer-generated world of an 11-year-old girl’s emotions, Inside Out; a flock of claymation sheep on the loose, Shaun the Sheep; or Ghibli’s gentle and hand drawn, When Marnie Was There. Boy & the World fits perfectly into the group, one that refuses to be pigeonholed. Each one is an individualistic triumph and deserves your attention, no matter your age. Boulder Weekly

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harm is the currency by which I quantify the value of a coffee shop. Red Frog Coffee in Longmont has vast reserves of it in odd denominations, and they’re not frugal about sharing it with their customers. Like, for instance, the charm of their creation story. The brother-and-sister team Jason and Emily Kelly started the shop in the skeleton of an old Starbucks five years ago. When they went looking for a loan at a bank with 80 percent of their startup funds in cash, they were denied and had to come up with the rest on their own. The resulting identity of their shop is charmingly self-described “as independent as our forefathers envisioned, run by real people who don’t lie and cheat all day long, and neighborly enough to know you by name if you stop by on a regular basis.” Righteous. Plus, the name Red Frog Coffee is cute. So is the interior of the shop, which they’ve transformed from its corporate predecessor into a homey relaxation station with the help of folk furniture, good lighting, art and music. There’s a couch with a lavender-colored wood frame and faux burlap-upholstered cushions. There’s a colorful sign that asks patrons to share tables, even though most tables are for two people, and my goodness how awkward would that be? There’s a bunch of Red Frog-branded merchandise,

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which proves that folks like the name too. There are also friendly baristas — a title that has really become kind of an ugly, cold word that doesn’t accurately describe the folks at Red Frog. And they also put a little snowflake sticker on the openings of to-go cups so your drinks don’t get cold. Charming. Of course all the charm would be for naught if the drinks weren’t good or were too expensive. Luckily, neither is the case. Red Frog Coffee serves locally roasted organic, fair-trade coffee (from Conscious Coffees in Boulder), as well as tea, smoothies, local foodstuffs, beer and wine. What was particularly charming about Red Frog for me was that they had two of my favorite coffeehouse items on the regular menu: an Earl Grey latte called London Frog and a cinnamon and chocolate latte called Mexican Mocha. The London Frog was made with loose-leaf Earl Grey tea collected in a large bag. Whole milk was steamed and added to the tea, creating a smooth, creamy and warm cup. The bergamot in the tea took over the aroma, which was pleasant, and the rich and sweet black tea was a lasting, substantial boost for the morning. The Mexican Mocha was exceptional. Bright cinnamon and dark chocolate worked in perfect harmony.

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n Saturday, the people of the United States will enjoy a day devoted to the dessert that defines our country, National Pie Day. Few will know (or care) that the special observance wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for Boulder. I’ll have a slice of pie in Boulder on Saturday and muse over the unlikely path that made me a pie expert. I owe it all to my friend, Charlie. That’s Charlie Papazian, the nuclear engineer-turned-school teacher who put the liberal bastion of Boulder on the pie Susan France map. Pie had been served in Boulder County since the first white settlers settled down, but things changed in the 1970s when Charlie told his Boulder elementary school students that he preferred pie over cake on his birthday. In fact, he liked it so much that he declared that his birthday, January 23, would be National Pie Day. It was all for fun, he said, and he registered National Pie Day with “Chase’s Calendar of Events,” the bible of special days and months in the pre-Internet era. Registration required an organization so he Crack Pie from the Walnut Cafe invented the American Pie Council, and a phone number, his own. Since Charlie was often out of the country on his birthday, he asked me to fill in as the official spokesperson for National Pie Day talking to media from across the continent. Over time the Great American Pie Festival would take place several times in

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Assembling an apple pie in my kitchen

Boulder at the Harvest House Hotel and later at the Hotel Boulderado where I was the head judge for the National Pie Championships. I decided to turn the American Pie Council into a real organization and its first office was in my home on Concord Avenue where the Pie Times newsletter was born. Our slogan: “In crust we trust.” Eventually, the organization and me went our separate ways, but I’m proud that see NIBBLES Page 45

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In 1999 the General Assembly designated apple pie as the Vermont State Pie and that it should be served with “a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce.”

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National Pie Day has taken on a life of its own and is celebrated in large and humble ways across the nation. Every January I still get a few pie calls from the media. The question has always been the same: Why pie? My answer is still the same: Pie is tasty and made to be shared. Bake a pie for someone and see how much love comes back to you. It also represents America at its best. Pie is the ultimate refugee — dessert flotsam washed up on these shores, legally or not, along with European expatriate cooks. The thing we now call “pie” has a complex DNA ranging back to the ancient Greeks. We are genetically inclined toward anything wrapped in pastry. When it comes to food, Americans

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famously welcome the best the world has to offer, tweak it with abandon and call it our own. It becomes as American as apple pie. The other night I saw a sign in the bakery department of a Louisville supermarket offering 50 percent off on pies on January 23, National Pie Day. Manufactured pie was never what this holiday was all about. Charlie wanted homemade pie on his birthday, and he still hopes cooks will discover the joy of making pie from scratch. By the way, Charlie went on to found the American Homebrewers Association, the World Beer Cup and the Great American Beer Festival and has written books including the best-selling The Complete

Joy of Homebrewing. He is one of the best-known and most respected people in the global world of beer. He and his family live in Boulder where he still brews beer and bakes pies.

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Last August when Palisade peaches were big and cheap I bought a pile of fruit with grand plans to makes preserves or a pie. Circumstances forced me to simply slice the unpeeled ripe fruit and freeze it in a bag. A recent visit from my son inspired me to thaw and drain the block-o-peaches for a day before adding see NIBBLES Page 46

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Apple pie with cheddar cheese slice

a bunch of cinnamon sugar and a sprinkle of salt. Since I only had one rolled Kroger refrigerated pie crust left, I laid it flat in a pan, arranged the peach slices on top with more cinnamon sugar, and baked it in a 325-degree oven for about 90 minutes until caramelized. It wasn’t a tart, and it was too flat and thin to be a pie, so I called it a Peach

Flie. It tasted like summer concentrated in all its perfumed and slurp-y sweetness. As a bonus, the drained peach juice upgraded my oatmeal for several days.

Zen and the art of pie

To make a good pie, you don’t need another pie recipe from me or anyone else nor the secret addition of iced vinegar, vodka or egg yolks. Mainly you need to make more pies because piemaking is in the eyes and fingers. Practice perfects pie. Also, it’s an inexpensive hobby. I do have a few suggestions. Use a glass pie plate and you can see whether your crust is golden on the bottom. Skip the shortening and use butter, coconut oil, lard, bacon fat or some combination thereof. For all ingredients including the flour, make it fresh. For apple pie, combine varieties that are hard and ones that are tart with soft and sweet, and don’t include the word “delicious.” (For an apple pie recipe, visit my blog: http://wp.me/ pw0Ma-p5)

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“Candy might be sweet, but it’s a traveling carnival blowing through town. Pie is home. People always come home.” — From the fine, short-lived TV series, Pushing Daisies. John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU, 88.5 FM, 1390 FM, kgnu.org. Listen to archived shows at news.kgnu.org/category/ radio-nibbles. Send your comments and quibbles to: Nibbles@boulderweekly.com. His favorite pie is double-crusted wild blueberry pie … or the pie in front of him. Boulder Weekly

drink Rethinking the tasting note by David White

his first wine is a fighter; he’s loud. The second wine is pensive; she has a dark side.” As I led a recent seminar, one of the participants offered these tasting notes while comparing two wines. We were exploring pinot noir from California and France. I offered more typical descriptions to highlight the differences — dark, ripe cherries on the Sonoma example versus earthy, tart cherries on the one from Burgundy — and several students pushed back. At least half the room admitted that they find tasting notes bewildering. Others acknowledged that they scoff at wine descriptors. Many confessed that such notes intimidate them. At first, I defended the standard wine review. I collect wine, so I pay close attention to people whose palates are similar to mine, like Eric Asimov of the New York Times. And I read reviews from Wikimedia Commons critics like Stephen Tanzer and Antonio Galloni of Vinous to glean information about a wine’s general flavor profile. With chardonnay, for example, I’m interested in wines that are high in acid and offer aromas of tart citrus fruits. I’m rarely excited by a heavy chardonnay with notes of ripe tropical fruits, butter and oak. Basic descriptors like these help describe a wine and its style. But I could sympathize with my students. Communicating effectively about wine shouldn’t demand an encyclopedic knowledge of rare fruits and bizarre aromas; after all, wine is just fermented grape juice. Thanks to mass-market wine magazines, however, we’ve come to expect gobbledygook. In my seminar, the student who Perhaps it’s time to rethink the tasting note. personified the two pinot noirs was joking. But after quickly reflecting on the notes, I praised his creativity and urged all my students to follow his lead. After all, the descriptions were spot-on. Full of rich, ripe fruit and oak, the Sonoma pinot noir was a bruiser. If it were a person, he would always be the loudest in the room — and a liability at the bar. The Burgundy, by contrast, was graceful. If it were a person, she’d spend her days studying poetry — and offer a mischievous grin to admirers. At the very least, descriptions like these are just as valuable as laundry lists of obscure aromas. Imagine, for a moment, if I offered you a glass of either Dom Perignon or Krug, two of the world’s top Champagnes. If I compared the former to Natalie Portman and the latter to Scarlett Johansson, you’d know what to expect: Dom Perignon’s beauty is in its elegance; Krug is more of an opulent bombshell. Likening wine to art also works. My favorite Beaujolais isn’t enjoyable because it smells like strawberries and plums: it’s enjoyable because it’s like a Bruce Springsteen concert — exhilarating, spiritual and deeply emotional, with a finish that just keeps going. Experiences also work. My favorite Champagne brings me back to the winemaker’s small hotel in Avize, France, where I once spent a magical evening. Wine enthusiasts are inevitably asked if we can truly detect crazy aromas in our wine. Those who answer affirmatively then find themselves explaining why they care so deeply about a beverage that smells like tar, wet leaves, black pepper and blueberries. The truth, of course, is that those aromas have nothing to do with why we love wine. Perhaps it’s time to change the way we talk about it. David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com. His columns are housed at Grape Collective. Boulder Weekly

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On a clear day, if you stand at the summit of Costa Rica’s Mount Irazú, you can see both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It’s not hard to get there. You can hop a tourist bus in the nearby city of San José, and be 11,200 feet high two hours later. This is a good model for your next assignment: Head off on a stress-free jaunt to a place that affords you a vast vista. If you can’t literally do that, at least slip away to a fun sanctuary where you’ll be inspired to think big thoughts about your long-range prospects. You need a break from everything that shrinks or numbs you.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

A filmmaker working on a major movie typically shoots no more than four pages of the script per day. A director for a TV show may shoot eight pages. But I suspect that the story of your life in the near future may barrel through the equivalent of 20 pages of script every 24 hours. The next chapter is especially action-packed. The plot twists and mood swings will be coming at a rapid clip. This doesn’t have to be a problem as long as you are primed for high adventure. How? Take good care of your basic physical and emotional needs so you’ll be in top shape to enjoy the boisterous ride.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

The city of Paris offers formal tours of its vast sewer system. Commenting at an online travel site, one tourist gave the experience five stars. “It’s a great change of pace from museums full of art,” she wrote. Another visitor said, “It’s an interesting detour from the cultural overload that Paris can present.” According to a third, “There is a slight smell but it isn’t overpowering. It’s a fascinating look at how Paris handles wastewater treatment and clean water supply.” I bring this up, Cancerian, because now is a favorable time for you to take a break from bright, shiny pleasures and embark on a tour of your psyche’s subterranean maze. Regard it not as a scary challenge, but as a fact-finding exploration. What strategies do you have in place to deal with the messy, broken, secret stuff in your life? Take an inventory.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

I was a rock musician for years, which meant that I rarely went to bed before dawn. I used to brag that my work schedule was from 9 to 5 — 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., that is. Even after I stopped performing regularly, I loved keeping those hours. It was exhilarating to be abuzz when everyone else was asleep. But two months ago, I began an experiment to transform my routine. Now I awake with the dawn. I spend the entire day consorting with the source of all life on earth, the sun. If you have been contemplating a comparable shift in your instinctual life, Scorpio — any fundamental alteration in your relationship to food, drink, exercise, sleep, perception, laughter, love-making — the next few weeks will be a favorable time to do it.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

You Sagittarians are often praised but also sometimes criticized for being such connoisseurs of spontaneity. Many of us admire your flair for unplanned adventure, even though we may flinch when you unleash it. You inspire us and also make us nervous as you respond to changing circumstances with unpremeditated creativity. I expect all these issues to be hot topics in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your cycle when your improvisational flourishes will be in the spotlight. I, for one, promise to learn all I can from the interesting detours that result from your delight in experimentation.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Capricorn world-changer Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail on 29 different occasions. His crimes? Drawing inspiration from his Christian faith, he employed nonviolent civil disobedience to secure basic civil rights for African Americans. He believed so fiercely in his righteous cause that he was willing to sacrifice his personal comfort again and again. The coming months will be a favorable time to devote yourself to a comparable goal, Capricorn. And now is a good time to intensify your commitment. I dare you to take a vow.

AQUARIUS

LEO

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“When I look at a sunset, I don’t say, ‘Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple in the cloud color.’” Pioneering psychologist Carl Rogers was describing the way he observed the world. “I don’t try to control a sunset,” he continued. “I watch it with awe.” He had a similar view about people. “One of the most satisfying experiences,” he said, “is just fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset.” Your assignment, Leo, is to try out Rogers’ approach. Your emotional wellbeing will thrive as you refrain from trying to “improve” people — as you see and enjoy them for who they are.

PISCES

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

The future is headed your way in a big hurry. It may not be completely here for a few weeks, but even then it will have arrived ahead of schedule. Should you be alarmed? Should you work yourself into an agitated state and draw premature conclusions? Hell, no! Treat this sudden onrush of tomorrow as a bracing opportunity to be as creative as you dare. Cultivate a beginner’s mind. Be alert for unexpected openings that you assumed would take longer to appear.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

The birds known as mound-builders are born more mature than other species. As soon as they peck themselves out of their eggs, they are well-coordinated, vigorous enough to hunt, and capable of flight. Right now I see a resemblance between them and many of you Aquarians. As soon as you hatch your new plans or projects — which won’t be long now — you will be ready to operate at almost full strength. I bet there won’t be false starts or rookie mistakes, nor will you need extensive rehearsal. Like the mound-builders, you’ll be primed for an early launch.

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

You are not purely and simply a Pisces, because although the sun was in that astrological sign when you were born, at least some of the other planets were in different signs. This fact is a good reminder that everything everywhere is a complex web of subtlety and nuance. It’s delusional to think that anyone or anything can be neatly definable. Of course it’s always important to keep this in mind, but it’s even more crucial than usual for you to do so in the coming weeks. You are entering a phase when the best way to thrive is to know in your gut that life is always vaster, wilder, and more mysterious than it appears to be on the surface. If you revere the riddles, the riddles will be your sweet, strong allies.

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SAVAGE by Dan Savage

Dear Dan: I am no longer sexually active, but I have a significant collection of sex toys from earlier years. I’m thinking of getting rid of most of them, and it seems such a waste for them to end up in the landfill. What’s an environmentally responsible way to dispose of dildos? I wish there was a place I could donate the dildos where they could be used again. Many of them are quality silicone types, they’ve never been used on a person without a condom, and they’ve been thoroughly cleaned. I’d be happy to donate them to impoverished dildo users in need, if only I knew where to send them. —Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Dear RRR: Your question comes up frequently, RRR, and there really isn’t a satisfactory answer. In Seattle, where I live, a community tool bank recently opened in my neighborhood — but they don’t collect and lend the kind of tools you’re looking to donate. I’ve heard about dildo graveyards in other cities (spots in parks where people bury their used sex toys), but burying sex toys isn’t environmentally responsible. And while high-quality dildos can be cleaned and safely reused, most people are pretty squeamish about the idea. Which is odd, considering that we routinely reuse actual cocks that have been enjoyed by others — so why not the fake ones? But even if I can’t tell you what to do with your dildos, RRR, I can tell you what not to do with them: Do not ship your used dildos to the anti-government militia currently occupying a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon. After militia members asked supporters to send them supplies — via the US Postal Service — their spokesperson complained bitterly about all the dildos they were getting in the mail. So if you decide to put your used dildos in a box and send them somewhere, RRR, please make sure the address on the box doesn’t read: Bundy Militia, c/o Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 36391 Sodhouse Lane, Princeton, OR, 97721. Dear Dan: I understand that monogamy is not something people are good at — and that’s fine. In fact, most of the people I know are in healthy poly or monogamish relationships. Here’s the thing: I’m monogamous. Not the “I’m attracted to other people but won’t act on it because it makes me uncomfortable or believe it’s wrong” kind Boulder Weekly

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of monogamous, but the “I genuinely have ZERO desire to fuck anyone but my partner” kind of monogamous. Fantasizing about others is fun, so is looking, so is porn and role-play. There’s a world of deliciously kinky, weird, and wonderful sex stuff I’d LOVE to explore until my sexy bits fall off. But I want to do those things with one partner and one partner only in a monogamous, intimate relationship. Here’s the kicker: I’d like my partner to feel the same way. I don’t want someone to enter into a monogamous relationship with me if in their heart/groin they’d genuinely like to fuck other people. Am I a lost cause? Surely I can’t be the only genuinely monogamous person there is? I’m 31 and still turn heads, but I worry my quest for a partner who feels as I do is impossible and a waste of my time. — One 4 One Dear O4O: You value monogamy, you want a monogamous commitment, and you want someone who feels the same. That’s great, O4O, and you have my full support. But you do acknowledge that fantasies about others can be fun, as can looking, as can porn (watching others) and role-play (pretending to be others). So while you may wanna fuck other people — hence the looking and fantasizing and role-playing — you have no desire to actually fuck other people. If you’re having a hard time finding partners who want what you want — a monogamous commitment without the stress of maintaining the monogamous pretense/facade/fraud, i.e., pretending they don’t at least think about fucking other people — either you’re living in some sort of poly parallel universe where nonmonogamy is the default setting or you’re not giving others the same benefit of the doubt you’ve given yourself. You wanna fuck other people and you don’t seem to think that disqualifies you from making, honoring, and genuinely wanting both a monogamous commitment and a monogamous sex life. (The two don’t always go hand in hand.) If you’re breaking up with people for admitting to the same things you’ve admitted to in your question — you might think about fucking other people, but you don’t want to actually fuck other people — then you’re the reason your quest to find a partner has been so frustrating. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter. January 21, 2016 55

EEDBETWEENTHELINES

by Sarah Haas

The gummy bear dilemma

here are two bowls of gummy bears on a packaged. table — one is infused with cannabis and This is a substantial hiccup in business operations the other is not. Can you tell the difference? for marijuana-infused product companies and one that This is the question that was posed to comes at a considerable cost. But, according to the a committee of state senators that led them Cannabis Business Alliance (CBA) spokeswoman to continue to seek a revision of the Universal Symbol Nancy Whiteman, who is also a co-owner of Boulderfor medical and retail marijuana packaging and based edible company Wana Brands, that doesn’t labeling, and to require it to be marked, stamped or mean they don’t support labeling regulations, or at otherwise imprinted directly onto edible products least the intent behind them. by October 1, 2016. “The Cannabis Business Alliance, and I think the The new rules are industry at large, were foreshadowed by 2014 very supportive of the House Bill 14-1366 that child resistant packaging granted rulemaking regulations because we authority to the State can clearly see how that Licensing Authority and helped public safety and instructed them to come helped keep it away from up with and enforce prodchildren,” Whiteman uct-marking regulations by says. But the CBA is under January 1, 2016. the impression that the The marking is previous rounds of labelrequired to go on all mariing and child resistant juana infused products so packaging sufficiently long as it is practicable, a dealt with the potential word that has stirred up for accidental ingestion. quite a bit of controversy According to CBA, there in the industry as manuis a severe lack of data to facturers scramble to figure support the new labeling out which of their products can feasibly be requirements. The revised Universal Symbol for medical and retail imprinted. This isn’t necessarily marijuana packaging and labeling that is also required According to the about data, this is about to be marked directly on edible marijuana products by October 1, 2016. Marijuana Enforcement commonsense, according Division, the official to State Representative stance is “if it can be done, it must be done.” For Jonathan Singer of the House District 11, an original example, it may be difficult to imprint a gummy bear, sponsor of House Bill 14-1366. Either you can tell but it is possible, so it must be done. But, an infused the difference between an infused product and a nondrink or granola product is considered impracticable. infused product or you cannot. For products that fall into that category, the THC The contesting claim by CBA is that without data, dosage cannot exceed 10 mg — the least popular dose there is no way to know if the regulations make things on the market, according to the Cannabis Business better, or if the round by round labeling changes are Alliance (CBA) — and servings must be individually just acting to hamper the emerging industry.

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“What we have been asking for, as an industry group, is please show us data that there is in fact even a need for this,” Whiteman says. “As soon as we went to child resistant packaging, according to the information that has been shared with us, the incidents of accidental ingestion went from what was already a low number to almost non-existent. It seems that, through existing legislation and regulation, we have essentially taken care of the issue through child-resistant packaging.” According to the CBA, many, if not all edible manufacturers, are retooling their manufacturing lines and, in many cases, are forced to totally overhaul their product offerings, too. Inevitably this will result in substantial increased costs for the companies and a need for an influx of capital in order to update their manufacturing lines to accommodate product marking. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of money available to these companies by banks or investors, so long as marijuana remains federally illegal. Fast forward to November of 2016, just after the new labeling requirements have taken place. There are two bowls of gummy bears on a table— one is infused with cannabis and the other is not. Can you tell the difference? Most likely. But, what if you are 3 years old, which is, according to the CBA, the median age for accidental ingestion. Or what if you don’t know what THC is? Then it is likely that you can tell the difference, but you still don’t know which one to eat. According to CBA, what this really boils down to is public education and yes, improved data collection around incidents of accidental ingestion so that it can be better understood and better protected against. “As much education as everybody can get in terms of safe edible consumption or safe cannabis consumption, is all that’s really needed and I don’t think that there has been enough of it yet,” Whiteman says. “We will support and comply with the new regulations, our position is just that this is not the most effective way to do that.”

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olling tells us that a majority of Americans now favor legalizing marijuana and regulating it like alcohol. But how much support is really out there? Here are a few tips for reading pot polls. First, a single poll does not a megatrend make. Back in 2013, a Gallup poll found that 58 percent of American adults favored legalizing marijuana, a spectacular 10 percentage point jump from the 48 percent who told Gallup they favored legalization in 2012, and the largest pro-pot majority ever recorded in a national poll. Legalization advocates rejoiced. But when Gallup asked the same question a year later in 2014, only 51 percent said they favored legalization. But then in October 2015 the number was back up to 58 percent. And again no other poll has found support that high. So what’s going on here? A likely explanation is that the 2013 Gallup number was an “outlier.” When the press reports that a poll has a margin of error of, say, plus or minus 4 percent, it’s over-simplifying. What it should be saying, and what professional pollsters will say, is that their poll had “a margin of sampling error of plus or minus five percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.” The “95 percent confidence level” is what’s important here. What it means is that there’s a 95 percent chance that the poll’s results are accurate within a margin of plus or minus four percentage points. Put another way, there is one chance in 20 that the poll’s results are off by more than plus or minus four percentage points. Such polls are called “outliers.”

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A clue that the 2013 Gallup poll was an outlier was the size of the jump from 2012. Most marijuana polls have shown slow but steady progress toward legalization. Also, legalization polls by other pollsters taken in 2013 and 2014 showed support for legalization usually in the 50 percent to 52 percent range or lower. So is this year’s Gallup result also an outlier? Possibly, but less likely than in 2013. For one thing, a poll by Morning Consult, also taken in October 2015, found 55 percent support for legalization, closer to the Gallup results. Moreover, Morning Consult surveyed registered voters only,

as opposed to Gallup’s all adults survey. A registered voters poll usually comes out a bit more conservative than an all adults poll, which may account for some of the three-point difference. Polls for CBS News and Pew Research in 2015 both put support for marijuana legalization at 53 percent among all adults. A Fox News poll of registered voters put the figure at 51 percent. All three of those polls showed support for legalization ticking up a point or two since they asked the same question in 2013. When several different polls are all moving in the same direction over the same time frame, the trend is probably real, even if the individual results vary a bit. And what accounts for the movement? Demographics more than anything. In virtually every poll on marijuana legalization taken in the last five years the two subgroups most opposed to legalization are Republicans and Americans over 65. People’s beliefs on social issues like abortion and pot legalization tend to form early in life and get locked in. If they change at all, they tend to change slowly and incrementally. Which means the greatest driver of attitudinal change on social issues is demographic change. Every year about two million Americans die of old age and four million Americans come of (voting) age. In the latest Gallup Poll 71 percent of Americans aged 18-34 favored legalization, while only 35 percent of Americans aged 65 or older did. Legalization advocates shouldn’t get too cocky though. The 65-plus geezers are the group most likely vote. The 18-34 year olds are the group least likely to.

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(IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) An irreverent and not always accurate view of the world

CU DEBATE MADE FAKE MONEY

The University of Colorado Boulder announced this week that it spent over $764,000 to host a Republican presidential debate last October. The university says it raked in about $4.2 million in publicity value, a denomination that surely has more value than actual money. After commissioning a $10,000 study, CU found that it earned about $300,000 in “publicity value” for a short Matt Cortina introductory video that aired before the debate. There was also the equivalent of 3.87 million actual dollars gained via the numerous articles that mentioned CU by name, including the several hundred that lambasted CU for holding a debate in an arena that held 11,000 people and only letting in 1,000 people, of which, less than 100 were actually students on campus. It’s great that CU earned 4.2 million Internet points, but the whole debacle takes the “All publicity is good publicity,” mantra too far. Sure, I can go out on Pearl St. in a biologically accurate Winnie the Pooh costume — that is, red shirt and no pants — screaming for Christopher Robin and Tigger to come out and play or else I’ll start lighting things on fire, and I’d probably gain the equivalent of $4.2 million in publicity value too. I’d earn a jail sentence, but think about all that PR value! We’re not saying CU committed any crimes of course, but if we’re judging the worth of an event based on fake monetary values, then we should at least factor in the numerous protests against both the folks the school hosted and the school itself.

WEST VS. BOWIE

Twittersphere was aghast this week with rumors that Kanye West had plans to release a David Bowie tribute album in honor of the rock star’s recent passing. The Guardian published a post in favor of the tribute, stating that West is the only performer out there these days risky enough to emulate the British icon. Other Bowie fans were not so gracious. In fact Wikimedia Commons 16,000 of them signed a petition hoping to prevent the infamous rapper from desecrating their sacred tunes. Because, obviously, West has proven himself rational enough to acquiesce to public opinion and reverse his ways based on such a request. Obviously. But let’s set the record straight. West has no plans to release such an album and all this media hoopla was for nothing. However, fans can look forward to West’s newest album set to release in February. And just to prove that West has changed his ways, the new songs are about rainbows and butterflies, unicorns and strawberries. In other news, a week after Bowie’s death, scientists have discovered a Neptune-sized planet in our solar system lurking behind Pluto. Coincidence? We think not.

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