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Highroad New GOP Congress rushes big favors to Wall Street by Jim Hightower

f members of the brand-spanking new, Republican-controlled Congress are at all confused about why We the People consider them just another load of bovine excrement, they should look at their bill called “Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens.” Only one day after being sworn in, the GOP introduced this deceitfullytitled bill as its top-priority, must-pass

piece of economic legislation. But forget jobs and small business, those are just gauzy shams to hide the fact that this bill is nothing but a thank-you gift to the party’s sweethearts on Wall Street! A little background: First, having wrecked our economy with their reckless casino gambles in 2008, the banking giants had to swallow the 2010 Dodd-Frank reform bill that put some modest limits on their destructive gambling habit. Second, the banksters went running to Republicans, wailing that the Dodd-Frank wrist slaps were hurting their profits. Third, they pledged to back sympathetic GOP candidates over those mean ol’ Democrats in the 2014 elections. Fourth, they did. And fifth, with Republicans now in charge, it’s payback time for banksters! The chief pay clerk is Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, chair of the financial services committee. He even tried to ram his Wall Street giveaway through the

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House with a rigged process that would’ve prevented any debate. No need to question what’s in it, he averred, for it merely makes “technical corrections” to the Dodd-Frank reforms. Yeah, “technicalities” like putting us taxpayers back on the hook for bailing out banksters when their speculative gambles fail, allowing them to take more risk with our money, and letting them hide more of their scams from public scrutiny. To learn the truth about the GOP’s corrupt coddling of their thieving financial benefactors, go to www.OurFinancialSecurity.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 22, 2015 5

Really BAD Ideas Just got our first bill from Boulder’s new municipal electric company for $225.

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danish plan Real tax reform means everyone pays something By Paul Danish

hances are the tax increases, likely emphasize tax cuts and tax breaks cuts and fiddles President for the wealthy and for businesses, the Obama proposed during the last intended to encourage investment State of and job creation. the Both parties will Union speech claim that their Tuesday night are respective proposals DOA in the simplify the tax Republicancode and make it controlled fairer. Congress. Yeah. Whatever. And chances are We don’t know ARE FINALLY ADOPTED the tax cuts, what, if anything, increases and fidwill come out of WILL MAKE AN dles the this round of “tax ALREADY GROTESQUELY Republicans will reform,” but — just propose shortly are guessing here — if COMPLICATED TAX also DOA. The the past is any sort CODE MORE COMPLEX. ones Democrats in of a guide, it probathe Senate don’t bly will be somesuccessfully filithing like this: buster, Obama will Whatever proveto. posals are finally Obama’s proposals emphaadopted will make an already grosize income redistribution. He tesquely complicated tax code more wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and complex. give tax breaks to the middle class and At the end of the day, the code will to the working poor, the last through contain more loopholes and fiddles, not expanding eligibility for the earned fewer, if for no other reason than income tax credit, among other things. because members of Congress take care The Republicans’ proposals will of their states and districts and of the

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special interests that matter to the peo- young and old, black and white, male ple they represent. Also the nature of and female. the legislative process will drive memWe’ve strayed a long way from that bers to create compromises in which concept, and that is not just economieach party will have to accept some of cally dangerous; it is politically and the other party’s favorite tax breaks in socially dangerous as well. Real tax order to get enough votes to pass their reform would begin with a simple, own. Compromises based on each three-word axiom: Everyone pays party agreeing to eliminate some of something. Everyone has some skin in their pet loop-holes are much harder to the game. Everyone. From the guy with fashion. the wine cellar to the wino. The added complexity will increase We will have successfully reformed the people’s distrust in government, cynitax code when at the end of the day the cism about the political process and terms “the tax-payers” and “the people” alienation from are interchangeboth. able. Worse, more Real tax reform IN people will end up would be based on WHICH HALF THE PEOnot paying income a second, equally taxes. These people simple axiom as PLE PAY FEDERAL will be found at well: nobody gets INCOME TAXES AND the top, where they special treatment. know how to game All exemptions, HALF THE PEOPLE the system, and at deductions, credits DON’T IS A COUNTRY the bottom — and loop-holes are where the earned eliminated. Bang THAT WILL NOT LONG income tax credit dead. Real tax ENDURE, FOR REASONS and other deducreform means that tions and tax if the government THAT ARE PRETTY breaks aimed at wants to redistribSELF-EVIDENT helping the poor ute income or will probably end favor particular up being broadened, groups, industries, as a trade-off for some new and activities or institutions, it will have to creative fiddles for those at the find ways of doing so that don’t involve top. the tax code. The worst failure of our current tax You want tax simplification? What system isn’t that it doesn’t raise could be simpler? enough revenue or that the system The most direct way to create a tax lisn’t more fair or less fair to this or that system consistent with these two pringroup. The worst failure is that fewer ciples would be to scrap the income tax and fewer people and businesses end and replace it with either a national up paying income tax, which is the sales tax or a value added tax, or a comfederal government’s main source of bination of the two. revenue. That way everybody pays some. As a result, the current system is thing. And the rich, who spend more, reducing buy-in to the American social pay more in taxes. This is the point contract — and that, ultimately, is where Democrats start howling about lethal. the regressive nature of the sales tax Mitt Romney earned himself a full and about how it results in the poor ration of shit, and cost himself a lot of paying out a higher percentage of their votes, in 2012 when he said that 47 income in taxes than the rich do. percent of Americans don’t pay taxes, If the American people want the by which he meant federal income government to augment the incomes of taxes. That doesn’t change the fact that low income Americans, that’s well and they don’t. fine. Do it with a direct stipend from A country in which half the people the government, or by subsidizing necessities like food, clothing, housing pay federal income taxes and half the or energy as we already do in many people don’t is a country that will not cases. Just don’t involve the tax system long endure, for reasons that are pretty in it, especially in a way that exempts self-evident — starting with the fact tens of millions of Americans from that each group is increasingly coming t to view the other as blood-suckers. paying taxes. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Implicit in the American social This opinion column does not necessarily contract is the idea that everyone has to have skin in the game — rich and poor, reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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The answer is mass transit

Joel Dyer’s column [Re: Affordable housing vs. mass transit, Jan.8] “knocked it out of the park.” The endless bloviating appearing in the daily paper is finally and definitively put in context. Until Boulder’s leaders and citizenry can finally admit that affordable housing for the middle class (and, I would add, perhaps, municipalization), are wasteful diversions for realistic solutions to the problem of transportation from the suburbs to Boulder, we will continue to be stuck in an endless loop of self-recrimination about the nature and function of our city. At present, Boulder seems incapable of simultaneously understanding two divergent concepts at the same time, viz. vast open space and, as it is understood in the rest of the country, affordable housing, are incompatible. Boulder is built. Single family residences are increasingly for the upper middle and upper classes. Don’t get me wrong. Open space is wonderful. The Blue Line is a godsend from the leadership of the past. The question is how to overcome the problems the unforeseen consequences of past actions present. DRCOG and Fastracks focus Boulder toward Denver. BRT will improve that connection to a point — that “point” being Table Mesa park-n8 January 22, 2015

ride. What happens then? I submit that our attention and funding should be elsewhere. Ideally, we could renegotiate our sales tax commitment to RTD, but those bonds have been sold and the income stream has been promised. Too bad, but the past is past. The key to our economic prosperity lies in much, much better transport connections to, first, Longmont, and, next, to Louisville. Longmont and Boulder have a marvelously symbiotic economic relationship. We are one county and one economic zone — the most dynamic zone in the Denver metro area. How much longer we can maintain that position as others gain better transport is questionable. I expect soon we will hear of the need for more lanes on the Diagonal. NO! What we need is a light rail/ tram connecting Longmont with Boulder. There are trams being built in Asia without an overhead catenary power source. There’s plenty of space on which to construct a LongmontBoulder tram. It appears to be one of the simplest pathways one could imagine for such a project. Do you really think we can wait twenty years for a commuter rail line? Get real! After the Boulder-Longmont connection our next priority should be a tram loop comprised of 95th St., Arapahoe, Broadway and South Boulder Road. This last would provide a connection at the Table Mesa park-nride for incoming bus commuters to connect to the city via the tram. And, by the way, don’t believe those who say a tram can’t climb Davidson Mesa. It’s not exactly rocket science. There are barriers to the realization of this proposal. One significant barrier is that U.S. domestic content legislation makes it impossible for American cities to import state-of-the-art urban transport technology such as that mentioned above from outside our shores. The second solution to affordable housing is already underway. Density. Perhaps Boulder is bewitched by the myth of a rural idyll at the foot of the Rockies. But, contrary to what Malthus and others since have said, dense cities are healthy and prosperous places, especially so when they have provided the park, recreational and public educational opportunities Boulder has. We have natural, undeveloped transportation corridors. Recently, a trial balloon has been floated regarding the densification of East Arapahoe. What an outcry! Yes, the Peloton looks out of place, but it is Boulder Weekly

properly sited. Do those opposed truly feel that a series of low-rise strip malls are the highest and best use of a major thoroughfare? From 55th to 28th Streets lies a tremendous potential for “affordable” apartments and condos. The folks who might live there will provide the same green benefit to the city that residents of North Boulder do now. That is, they don’t commute. They don’t crowd the parking lots. They don’t add disproportionately to green house gas emissions. It makes absolutely no sense to permit the construction of affordable housing on Broadway next to the North Boulder Rec Center while denying better density on the Washington school site because of a few neighborhood whiners. The result is the construction of several million dollar dwellings on 13th St. to assuage the whiners. Some affordable housing that is! Such contradictory decisions in close proximity tell me that a vision for Boulder is lacking at the top. Joel Dyer has provided us a roadmap to move beyond the civic preoccupations of the past. Perhaps, Boulder’s best option for its future is stagnation. But, I sincerely hope not. Michael J. Maloy/Boulder

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contamination into weeds, and subsequent spread of contaminated ashes or dust through winds from this source or from airborne contaminants from soil. Another danger is that prescribed burns could get out of control, as happened in the 2012 Lower North Fork fire where three people were killed. It’s also dangerous whenever the burn is carried out fairly close to a populated area, as is the case at Rocky Flats. Other means of weed control would be preferred on this site.

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news briefs AND THE TRADITION CONTINUES Wikipedia The Conference on World Affairs is always one of the year’s highlights for the region. This year will mark the 67th gathering and as always, fans of the conference have been waiting to find out who will be delivering the keynote address to get the ball rolling. The keynote speech has a long, distinguished history. Past keynote speakers range from Eleanor Roosevelt to Arthur Miller to Henry Kissinger to Chuck Hagel. The folks at the Conference on World Affairs have just announced that this year’s keynote will be titled “In a Single Garment of Destiny,” and will be delivered by none other than Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. on April 6, at Macky Auditorium. Pitts is a syndicated columnist and author who won Leonard Pitts, Jr. will deliver the keynote address at the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004. According the Conference on World to a press release, the title of the speech was “inspired by Affairs this year. a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.’” THE CRY WENT UNHEARD Jose Luis Guerrero, the father of four U.S.-born children, small business owner and minister with no criminal record that Boulder Weekly wrote about earlier this year [“A cry for help,” Jan. 1, 2015], has been deported. Guerrero was detained in August 2014 after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials came to his home looking for someone else. Despite not having a warrant with his name on it, Guerrero and his wife, Sophia, who had been blocking the door, obliged officials and showed them the ID. When ICE ran his information, they found he had a prior deportation and re-entry on his record. ICE came back a week later and, with a gun to his head, arrested him and brought him to jail. Despite Obama’s executive action on immigration in November that called for discretion amongst local Immigration officials, and asked them to consider things like job status, children, criminal record, etc., the local ICE office in Colorado determined Jose Luis fell under the new enforcement guidelines. Matt Cortina Then on Friday at 3 a.m., says his wife Sophia via the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, five guards came to Jose Luis’ cell at the GEO Detention Center in Arvada and asked him to sign a voluntary departure form, which ended up being a deportation order. Jose Luis refused to sign the order and asked to speak to a lawyer, but officials Jose Luis Guerrero was deported this week, away from his allegedly forced him to wife and children. the ground, cuffed him and forced him to put his fingerprints on his deportation order against his will. The Guerreros found out Jose Luis had already been shipped to El Paso over the weekend when their lawyer received a letter in the mail detailing what had happened. As Boulder Weekly was en route to speak with the family on Tuesday evening about the events and what they had planned to keep Jose Luis in the country, we were notified by Brendan Greene of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition that the family had just learned Jose Luis had been deported. They were, of course, unable to speak immediately due to the emotion of the situation, but Boulder Weekly will continue to follow the story. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Marta Moreno, executive director of El Comité de Longmont, visits with quadriplegic Roman Cabrera. Despite Cabrera’s medical needs, he has no insurance as an undocumented citizen. No long-term facility in the U.S. will take him, and as such, Cabrera could be deported to Mexico, where his family fears he will die.

Quadriplegic patient afraid hospital will deport him to Mexico

Federal funding scheme is to blame by Cassie Moore

am afraid,” says Roman Cabrera, lying tiltedup in a hospital bed at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, his neck swallowed in braces. “I am very scared they will send me to Mexico. I don’t want to go. There are no services there.” If Cabrera were a U.S. citizen it would be about time that the Loveland hospital, which saved his life following a catastrophic car crash in December, would transfer him to a nursing home or long-term care facility. After one month of care, the now-stabilized Cabrera, who used to love to dance, is paralyzed from the neck down, tied to a ventilator and will need daily medical attention for the rest of his life. But Cabrera came to the U.S. from Mexico illegally, and unlike a U.S. citizen he does not qualify for any public benefits. Without health insurance or money to pay thousands of dollars up front, no domestic long-term care facility is likely to accept him as a patient. So what would normally be a routine discharge from the acute-care hospital to a long-term care facility has turned into a debacle at the crosshairs of two of the most controversial systems in this country — health care and immigration. The uncertainty of what Boulder Weekly

will happen to Cabrera and where he will be transferred in the next few weeks has left him and his family despondent. The ventilator that keeps Cabrera alive hisses in the background now and again, and though he can’t audibly speak, he mouths Spanish words his family reads off his lips. When they struggle to understand, his younger brother Diego pulls out a tablet with the alphabet and patiently sounds out each letter. “Ah. Beh. Ceh…” When he hits the right letter Cabrera clicks his tongue. Ktch. Diego starts over to find the next letter. “Ah. Beh. Ceh…” until Cabrera clicks again — ktch — painfully slowly communicating his fear that the hospital will deport him to Mexico. “They told me I only have one week to know where to go [to another facility in the U.S.] or they will send me to Mexico,” Cabrera says. “That’s why I am scared. And I want to get better. My son is here.” Cabrera’s seven-year-old son is not a U.S. citizen, he came to the U.S. as a one-year-old because his father was “just trying to be somebody, to have a life and good things for his family,” says his cousin Jessica Rodriguez. Cabrera crossed the border illegally with

his now ex-wife and their baby. While U.S. hospitals are required to admit any patient in need of emergency care, their obligation and financial reimbursement for an uninsured patient ends when the patient is stabilized. Typically, patients in Cabrera’s condition would be moved to long-term care facilities as soon as they were in a stable condition. But unlike hospitals, rehabilitation centers and nursing homes are under no federal mandate to accept uninsured patients. So they take advantage of the opportunity to refuse. “If you send him to Mexico he will die,” Rodriguez says. “No ands, if or buts about it. I know how hospitals work in Mexico. There are no regulations like here. They are not going to give him the same care, especially if we don’t have money for a private hospital.” Known as medical repatriation, the international transfer of undocumented patients like Cabrera is quietly practiced by U.S. hospitals nationwide. Hundreds if not thousands of immigrants have been shipped back mostly to Mexico, Central and South America, oftentimes to grossly inadequate medical care that leaves patients debilitated or dead. All this happens without the involvement of any branch of the federal government, including immigration. In fact, no federal agency oversees the practice and hospitals are not required to report or track medical deportations, making it impossible to know the number of patients that have been medically deported and leaving room for mistakes and corruption that only a small number of journalists and immigrant advocates have documented: one hospital attempted to repatriate a two-day-old U.S. citizen born to immigrant parents; a Phoenix hospital attempted to repatriate a legal immigrant mother of seven U.S.-born children back See DEPORT Page 12

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to Honduras; a Florida hospital repatriated a Guatemalan national with severe head trauma to a rehabilitation facility that operated on a $400,000 annual budget — the Guatemalan hospital kept the patient for two weeks before discharging him to his elderly mother’s home (because they “needed the bed”), where he received no medical treatment for years and suffered violent seizures, vomited blood and frequently fell unconscious, according to a 2008 New York Times report. “This is the result of having a health care system based on free market values,” says Longmont Immigration Attorney Ian McKinley. “I wish health care reform would have instituted socialized medicine so everyone would have access to health care. But in order to change that you’d have to go back and re-pass health care reform and obviously that’s not going to happen. Look at the fight in this country just over the changes that were made. It’s the health care system that is to blame here because it allows hospitals to treat people based on whether or not they can pay.” •••• After receiving word of her son’s accident, Cabrera’s mother, Gabriela, came to the U.S. in December on a humanitarian visa. Gabriela worries that because she has no money, Cabrera will be worse off in Mexico. “In Mexico right now it’s really rough,” she says through an interpreter. “There is nothing really. I am a single mom. I don’t have a husband. So right now I am having it rough. In Mexico there is no work, no money.” She previously worked in a factory cleaning and packing potatoes, or did cleaning jobs, but says she has been unemployed for the last six months. She says that causes her to worry that she will not be able to pay for the care that Cabrera will need in Mexico, the care that she worries he will only be able to get at a costly private hospital. According to his family, the Medical Center of the Rockies has said they will transfer Cabrera to a Mexican facility with or without his consent. Boulder Weekly contacted Medical Center of the Rockies, but spokesperson Kelly Tracer said the hospital had no comment. A spokesperson for the larger University of Colorado Health system also said it could not comment, citing patient privacy. Even commenting on the practice of medical repatriation in Colorado might breach patient privacy, said Dan Weaver, the UC Health media relations director. Gabriela says the pressure the hospital is putting on her to find a solution makes her anxious. 12 January 22, 2015

“I feel like they are pressing me to make a decision,” she says. “In yesterday’s meeting [ Jan. 14] they said, ‘You have got to find somewhere to put him or he is going to Mexico.’ He [Cabrera] gets really anxious, really nervous. Doctors tell me they have done all they can for him, that he is always going to be on a respirator, obviously, but doesn’t need to be in hospital, that I need to find somewhere to put him. If not, then [going to Mexico] is the consequence. They have not told me to reach out to this person or that person for help. It’s just either I figure it out or else.” In response to newspaper reports on medical deportation, the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs released a statement in 2009 advising hospitals not to repatriate without the patient’s or guardian’s consent. “Assist a patient who is unwilling to accept the discharge plan to seek independent ethics consultation or other means of resolving ongoing disagreement,” the statement advised. “And refrain from signing a discharge order that would result in an involuntary discharge of a patient who is not a U.S. citizen.” Colorado Hospital Association spokesman Kevin Downey says that while such a statement is admirable, it might not be enforceable or applicable to all hospital systems. “That recommendation comes from a well-intended place, but what are hospitals supposed to do then?” he asks. “Are they supposed to continue to care for a patient that has exorbitant costs and no one there to pay for it when there are patients lining up who need that bed? This is not a problem that can be solved by hospitals engaging differently. This particular group was left out of the Affordable Care Act, and that’s virtually the only group not protected in the ACA. This is a public policy and social issue that was not addressed and it’s beyond the sole ability of hospitals to solve. There needs to be enough parties coming together so patients can have all of their other options exhausted before they are asked to get up and move to their country of origin. Obviously, there seems to be incredible roles for states and incredible roles for the federal government as relates to this. It would be wonderful if there were other ways to get this sorted out without hospitals having to do it trial by fire.” •••• A Chicago hospital that deported a Mexican national in 2011 came under fire after the patient, Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, was transferred to a Mexican hospital where he died in 2012 after he

suffered cardiac arrest, developed bedsores, septic infection and ultimately died of pneumonia and other complications. According to the Chicago Tribune, advocates for Ojeda said they believed he might not have died had he remained in the U.S. and the Tribune called the hospital to which he was transferred “ill-equipped to handle his needs.” The lack of oversight of these types of international transfers is unsettling, McKinley says. “Some federal entity should be overseeing this,” he says. The problem is not particular to any one hospital, it’s systemic. How can it be possible that a hospital should be required to admit everyone, stabilize them, but then nursing homes aren’t under the same statute and can simply refuse patients who can’t pay, leaving hospitals with a patient they cannot discharge and for whose care they are not reimbursed? “There’s a relatively easy solution to this,” says Joseph Ramos a medical doctor and a Denver-based attorney. “That is for the federal government to say, ‘Look, just like we provide funding through Medicaid for emergency care to hospitals for people who don’t have health insurance or don’t have money, we’re also going to provide for the ongoing care after that emergency treatment.’ That would probably put an end to this.” But is that likely to happen? Downey doesn’t think so. “Just judging by the political landscape nationally, there doesn’t seem to be much of an appetite politically to do what is necessary for this [immigrant] population it terms of offering them protection and things like that,” Downey says. “There needs to be a national conversation and until that happens, hospitals are being forced to make these unique decisions based on the information they have at the time.” So far, legal repercussions for medically deporting patients against their will is mostly untouched territory. Medical repatriation circumvents the deportation process entirely. Most patients facing these situations are poor, and once they are sent back to their native country the likelihood for them to pursue legal action is miniscule. “That’s why hospitals can get away with this,” McKinley says. “It’s a legal gray area.” Legal action in Cabrera’s case, McKinley says, is unlikely. He doesn’t have U.S.-born children, he hasn’t been in the U.S. that long and according to the police report he was driving under the influence of alcohol and sustained a single-car accident when he ran into a

tree fleeing the police. Marta Moreno is the executive director of El Comité de Longmont, an immigrant advocate organization, and says she hopes that Medical Center of the Rockies is recommending Cabrera be sent to Mexico truly because they exhausted all other options and because it will be best for him, not just to save money. She says the anti-immigrant will argue Cabrera was here illegally and illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes and don’t deserve public benefits, but she asserts that is a false assumption. “We have an immigrant population that has contributed a lot, and they pay a lot of taxes and they don’t get that back,” she says. According to a 2013 study published in Health Affairs journal, immigrants contribute billions to Medicare because employers give them fake social security numbers, but they rarely see any of the benefits. Between 2002 and 2009, immigrants contributed $115 billion more to the Medicare program than they drew out. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens draw more from the Medicare program than they contribute — running a deficit of $30.9 billion. McKinley says that even though Cabrera’s case makes it extremely difficult to pursue legal action, it makes him sick to think the health care system here can just cut him off. “If I could have it my way we would be a society that recognized some people are going to fall into extremely bad situations and we’ll be there to help out,” he says. “But that’s obviously not the country we live in. Nobody is going to help him here.” Rodriguez, Cabrera’s cousin, is a U.S. citizen and says she is disappointed in her country. “The doctor who talked to us yesterday said they checked with Craig Hospital in Denver [to see if he could be transferred there] and they basically said, ‘No money, no service,’” she says. “I told him this is so unfair because if you’re an immigrant or non-status person with no insurance and no money then that means you have no right to any therapy? And he basically said that’s what it boils down to. He was straightforward, like it is what it is. I am very disillusioned with my own country. I thought this country would always say it is all about family, and I don’t see how they could be so… just raw and rude and say, ‘If you don’t have money and you’re not from here, well then it sucks for you.’” * The names of some sources in this article were changed upon request to protect their identity. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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The downside of Boulder’s changing business landscape by the staff of Boulder Weekly

wenty years ago, Boulder Weekly did a story about a rash of business closures including a number of well-liked, locally owned shops and eateries. The Pearl Street Mall was particularly hit hard back in 1994-95 as many long-term leases were expiring around the same time and landlords were more than tripling the rents in some cases because… well, they could and that’s what landlords do when they can. It all made for a disappointing transition that saw the Mall go from almost entirely locally owned shops to a mix, including a good number of national chain stores. So here we are again some 20 years later with Boulder experiencing the loss of, or at least the relocation of, some of its best-known and most beloved businesses. The reasons for these latest changes are more varied this time around. Landlords are still the source of change in most instances but gouging the price on leases seems to be only one of the problems. Another culprit is that owners are increasingly deciding to sell off affordable commercial property so it can be redeveloped into not-so-affordable commercial property. In other instances, business owners are simply shutting down because they have been at it for so long they just feel the need to ride off into the retail sunset. While some businesses have definitely decided to close, others have chosen to relocate, leaving a hole in their old neighborhoods that isn’t likely to be filled. Still more business owners aren’t yet sure of their future, likely to close but still pondering whether they might move if they could find a suitable new location they can afford. But that’s a big “if ” in Boulder these days, as the new and very expensive are replacing the old and slightly less expensive on the commercial real estate front at an alarming pace. We looked around the county, and this latest round of business upheaval seems to be primarily a Boulder issue as the other communities in the county are simply booming, adding new businesses almost daily while still offering much more affordable space to existing and new businesses because the supply Boulder Weekly

of commercial space is still adequate. That could change, of course, as East County commercial property continues to heat up, but for now, seeing successful businesses forced to close or relocate because of development and lease price increases seems to be a Boulder phenomena and a serious one at that, at least from a community perspective. That’s because the businesses that are closing or at a minimum relocating are some of our favorite restaurants, our neighborhood place to go for this or that or the only affordable store left in town that sold the stuff we actually needed. Boulder’s eclectic collection of businesses and restaurants has always added greatly to the quality of life for the community, but over the past 30 years there has been a continuous effort on the part of developers and landlords to upscale the Boulder market, and that evolution has come at a price. Every decade or two we have to say goodbye to places that we have grown to love, places in which we have created collective memories. Maybe something just as good or better will fill the space being left behind by these businesses, but then again, maybe not. Can you actually think of a local business you would trade to have more Google in your neighborhood? As for the businesses that are going away, you can never replace a spot where you first fell in love, hoisted a last beer with a friend not knowing it would be the last time you ever saw him, ate breakfast after finally making it up the Naked Edge or maybe found your all-time favorite jacket hanging on a used-clothes sale rack in the back corner for 10 bucks. As for those businesses that are being pushed out of your neighborhood, now you’ll have to drive across town to work out or wash your clothes. And nothing feels worse than no longer being able to walk to your favorite neighborhood restaurant. It’s like losing a friend. Admit it, we all have a little “Norm” inside of us. This is why BW would like to take a little time to reflect on at least some of the changes to some of the places we care about that are currently in the

to talk. I liked to talk. So the front steps of Boulder Café became like a second office for me as I was always traipsing past with my camera bag and reporter’s notebook. This was particularly true in the early days as I was either going to or coming from the old BW offices that were located upstairs between Where the Buffalo Roam and Falafel King. I always found good conversation by day and good wine, beer and food when 5 o’clock rolled around, or sometimes 4:30 … or maybe a little before that. Whatever the hour, we made some good memories. BOULDER CAFÉ We buried our saxophone-playing BY JOEL DYER friend Lucky back in December of ’97. The whole town mourned. I remember can still remember the first time I Dave Jablonski organizing memorials, met Dave Jablonski, the owner and helping with expenses and contacting founder of Boulder Café. It was 1994 Lucky’s family and friends from Denver and I was standing in front of his place to Mobile, Ala., and pretty much all on the Pearl Street Mall at the corner over the South. I wrote the obit for the of 13th. I was chatting with my friend, Weekly, and some of my photos of street musician Eugene “Lucky” Lucky were hung on the south wall of Hudson, when all the Boulder Café Joel Dyer of a sudden this bar as a tribute. I’m high-energy fellow pleased to say that in a crisp, yellow they are still there shirt appeared from more than a decade the front door of and a half later. the restaurant. He Loyalty has always walked right up to been on the menu me with a plate of at Boulder Café. some oddball conI was saddened coction he’d just to hear that the rescooked up in the taurant will be closkitchen and told me ing this June to try it and tell because the owners him what I thought. of the building have I indulged him, not decided not to being one to say renew Jablonski’s “no” to free food or lease even though social experiments. Eugene “Lucky” Hudson plays for tips the business is I can remember outside Boulder Café. prospering. Last it was good and year was the best that it was something unusual, but for financial year in the restaurant’s 23-year the life of me I can no longer recall history. How do you measure that in what I ate that day. It became a blur, ways that all of us can understand? The because over the years such field-testing Boulder Café sold 47,000 oysters at of gastronomic experiments aimed at happy hour prices last year, along with a whole lot of other great stuff. Business the menu of Boulder Café occurred with some regularity. It’s still part of the is good. The building is owned by Tebo/ Jablonski process of running an interKarakehian LLC, a partnership made esting restaurant. I was hooked from that first experience. Jablonski liked to talk. Lucky liked See CHANGING PLACES Page 14 works or that have already occurred in the last few weeks or months. J.D. Salinger got it right when he wrote in The Catcher in the Rye, “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” We ought to be able to but it just doesn’t work that way in real life. Sometimes we just have to say thanks and goodbye. —Joel Dyer

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up of Boulder County real estate baron Stephen Tebo and Boulder City Councilman George Karakehian. When asked if the decision not to renew the lease was mutual, Tebo reportedly told the Daily Camera, “it’s mutual in that the lease was mutually agreed upon when it was negotiated 20 years ago.” Nice. It’s always good to see such sensitivity when dealing with people’s dreams and livelihoods. Jablonski wasn’t quoted in the Camera article so I thought he might have a comment or two about his landlords and lease situation when I sat down with him recently. I should have known better. He didn’t have anything negative to say about the lease not being renewed or the people who made the decision. In fact, while acknowledging that he wished they would have let him keep the restaurant going for at least another five years, he was looking at their decision not to renew as a positive opportunity. After all, he said, he still has his health, his family, his garden and more than a few pretty interesting business ideas to launch in the future. And I’ll add one more, way too much energy for somebody who is 73 years old. The Boulder Café was born in June 1991. Jablonski had been living in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked for Stouffer’s, the famed restaurant corporation that owned numerous operations all across the country. By that time, Jablonski had held many titles within the company and had been involved in turning around some of its money losing operations in the past. Eventually Stouffer’s decided to sell off several of its underperforming properties. Of those available, Jablonski was interested in striking out on his own by buying one of three available restaurants, which were located in Fort Meyers, Fla., Vinings, Ga. and Boulder. So how did he choose? Jablonski says he allowed his young son to choose where he wanted the family to live. His kid chose Boulder and the rest is history… literally history come June. Thanks to Jablonski’s giant garden and green thumb, Boulder Café was doing farm-to-table before Boulderites had ever heard the term. He says, “I started the garden in 1993 and was using as much of what I grew in the restaurant as I could. But I was really doing it back then to cut food cost. It turned out to be a good idea for a lot of reasons.” If it was good in the garden it was good in the café. For instance, Jablonski grew a lot of nice lettuce in recent years so lettuce wraps hit the menu. Like the oysters, they’ve done really well. “That’s really the fun part,” he says.

But don’t despair just yet. The Dave “Experimenting, hearing about some new food and giving it a try. Letting my Jablonski show is still playing at the chef try something completely different. Boulder Café pretty much every day from now until June. So make sure you If people like it, it makes it to the stop in and say hello, order up some menu.” oysters or something unusual off the As the end for the Boulder Café best happy hour menu in town and draws near, I asked Jablonski what he drink one last toast to Lucky. will miss most. The words were hardly Don’t forget to say goodbye on your out of my mouth when he blurted out, way out. And don’t forget… any of it. “the people.” He reminisces about his employees THE BOULDER ARMY over the years while recalling how the SURPLUS STORE Super Bowl parties he throws annually BY ELIZABETH MILLER for employees past and present and their friends and family has grown. This at Long came to work at the February will be the last such party, and Boulder Army Surplus Store in that’s hard for him to think about. the mid-’80s expecting to work there He says he kept the emails between for a couple weeks — and a few months him and his landlord so he could show later Shannon Long, his brother, his employees that he really did try to walked in and said he was going to keep the restaurant going. work there for a while, too. Both were “I showed them that I wanted to there 30 years later when the store stay. I wanted to keep it going for closed its doors for good on Jan. 17. them.” Long’s father, who had purchased And so it goes in the world of busithe store when its previous owner ness. The Boulder Café came to town. Over a couple of decades, it became the retired, asked Long, who had a degree in business and experience working as a best place on the Mall to have a drink store manager, to on a patio and watch Elizabeth Miller come help out after Boulder’s vibrant culhe’d had to fire a ture explode before manager. The your eyes. It was a Boulder Army front row seat to hear Surplus Store had Lucky’s rendition of given him a chance “Bluebird” or to to test out some of watch a tightrope the things he’d walker, the zip-code learned in college, man, fire-eaters, jugand seemed to run at gling unicycle riders just the right level of or a very bendy challenging, without Jamaican in a box. It being too intense. was certainly the Long and his brother longest happy hour The Boulder Army Surplus Store took over managein town (3 p.m. to ment of the store close) and thouwhen their father sands of happy cusretired 15 years ago. tomers would tell you the best happy By the time the store shuttered, hour. How many memories have been having done everything from run the made in this place? It’s countless. I register to sweep the floors, Long says, know I have quite a few. “It’s like family — it’s different, but it’s Come June when the doors close for sort of like family. It’s your business the last time and the photographs of family, so you do whatever’s next right Eugene “Lucky” Hudson come down along.” off the barroom wall, who will do the He doesn’t remember it being parremembering then? Who will make ticularly hard, he says, though he consure that the joy that Dave Jablonski cedes there was probably a time right created with his café isn’t forgotten? after his father retired that making sure Who will guarantee that Lucky’s coneverything had been handled was a bit tributions to the culture of Boulder, his frantic. kindness to so many and his sheepish “During that era I didn’t mind, I grin aren’t lost forever, the victim of was kind of excited about it,” Long redevelopment or a trendy new cuisine says. “Really it wasn’t a hardship, it was concept? kind of fun at the time. … I look back I can’t answer that, but it’s the kind at it, I don’t have anything like ‘yeah of question that will, no doubt, keep that was hard.’ It was just one more coming up as some of our favorite plac- thing, so it was all doable.” es are pushed out to make room for He found the outdoor gear interestmore profitable ones. ing, he says, and for a long time used

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news much of it, going backpacking, hiking and skiing. Family advice followed all the way through to the finish line. “I grew up in a retail merchandise family, and we had an old saying: Don’t be fond of the merchandise,” Long says. “I think that maybe sums it up. It’s merchandise. It’s business. The people, though, that’s different. I have a lot of long-term people — and I think they’ll be fine. I’m very confident of that. I think I’ll be fine. My brother will be fine. I think we’ll all be fine, and in fact there is a good side to saying, ‘OK, now I’m making a change in my life and let’s see what opportunity presents itself.’” That idea of not getting attached to the store didn’t carry over for hundreds of people who have shopped there over the years, and stopped in during the weeks since the announcement that the Army Surplus Store would close and said they were sorry to hear the news. “Literally thousands of people have told us, ‘We’re so sorry you’re going,’” Long says. On the store’s penultimate day, shoppers stopped in to ask sales staff about the closure and to wish them luck. Many of the employees have been there more than 10 years, and some as many as 25 years. Despite these loyal patrons and employees, Long says, they’ve seen a shift away from shopping downtown, and business has taken a hit. “The way people shop in Boulder, we’ve watched it change over the years, and downtown, they don’t come downtown to shop like they used to,” Long says. “They come downtown, I believe, to go to restaurants, to go to the mall and watch the world go by, but to come downtown and shop for a lot of people, a lot of local people, their habits have changed and they’re going other places.” He lists parking among the complaints he hears from customers when they do come downtown, and that’s part of why they’re going to big-box stores and the Internet. Whatever merchandise wasn’t sold by the time the store closed was redistributed over donations and to the Glenwood store the Longs will continue to run. The building itself is more than 100 years old and considered historic, so the exterior will remain the same, regardless of what moves into the interior next. “Everything has a shelf life and this store’s done very well, it’s been a good store over the years and I didn’t see it having a lot of problems going forward but I also didn’t sit here and think that this is still a good opportunity,” Long says. “Without going into details, it was Boulder Weekly

a lot of different things, and it all summed up that it’s time. When we put it all together, it’s time.”

former restaurant and bar of the Broker Inn. But Mountains’ Edge was only the beginning at Table Mesa Shopping TABLE MESA SHOPPING Center. Not long after the gym had CENTER vacated the premises, a chain reaction BY CAITLIN ROCKETT began in November when Savers thrift store, a staple at the shopping center ou can’t call the Table Mesa since 1997, closed its doors at 695 S. Shopping Center desolate — cars Broadway. Albertsons, the chain grocer still fill the center’s northern parking lot that previously occupied the 40,000 while folks shop at King Soopers, bank square-foot space, still owns the properat Elevations Credit Union, eat at ty. The sale of the Savers building Under the Sun or flow through a class spelled trouble for three other businessat the Yoga Loft. But the south side of es that sublet in the structure: Dollar the shopping center sets a different Tree, Table Mesa Laundry and one of scene, with the recent loss or relocation two locations of Theatrical Costumes, of five businesses creating a noticeable Etc. & Trendy Boutique. void in this once-full development. “Everyone got their notices — The changing face of South Savers, Dollar Tree, us and the laundry Boulder’s only hub for business and people — we have to be out by the 31st entertainment has been emotional for of December,” says Debra Ordway, business owners and residents alike who owner of Theatrical Costumes, Etc. say they worry the “I’m coming in, as Peggy Dyer recent, forced exothe costume store, dus from Table Mesa into our season. We Shopping Center will got our letter at the spread and degrade end of September. I the diversity of the had to make some center’s collection of very rational decibusinesses. sions to say, ‘OK, I don’t know how my **** Halloween’s going to The first domino turn out, but I do fell in March, when know this, we’re Shannon Derby, cogoing to have to put owner of Mountains’ sales up.” Edge Fitness, says Ordway’s busiproperty manageness was served two Members of Mountains’ Edge help move the gym to its ment company W.W. Fitness blows as W.W. new location at the Broker Inn. Reynolds told the Reynolds decided, as gym their lease they did with wouldn’t be renewed for their tuckedMountains’ Edge, not to renew the away, southern corner of the shopping lease of her second location, just diagcenter. onally adjacent to her corner unit in “I had been at [the Table Mesa] the Savers building. location for 15 years,” Derby says. “It Theatrical Costumes is currently the was, for me personally, such a huge only business from the Savers building change in my life.” to find a new home after the sale. Derby says she was surprised by the Ordway and her employees are still setnews that their lease wouldn’t be ting up shop in their new digs on renewed — and scared of the future of Baseline Road in the Williams Village her business. Shopping Center, and while Ordway “Nobody moves a gym,” she says. says she believes her business will pre“We knew that the business would take vail in its new location, she says that a hit, but we also believed that in the the restructuring of Table Mesa long run the business would be fine.” Shopping Center reminds her of the And history was on their side. grey and desolate town Dr. Seuss Derby took over as co-owner of describes in The Lorax — a town creatMountains’ Edge in 2009 when the ed by greed and corporate business gym was on hard times. On the brink interests. of closing its doors then, members and “The empty hole has happened in staff pooled money and kept the South Boulder. People are very down. beloved facility open. When news came The morale is pretty low,” Ordway says of business owners in the center. that the gym was again facing difficult The rapid change at Table Mesa times last year in the face of lease nonShopping Center has made room for renewal, members rallied together and helped move the 13,000-square-foot fitness center to its new location in the See CHANGING PLACES Page 17

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plenty of speculation about the impetus for it all. When news that Savers was closing surfaced, many business owners in the center reported hearing that the building would be torn down and replaced, ostensibly with a Whole Foods, but Whole Foods has denied the claim. Some have suggested that Caffé Sole would extend its space back into Ordway’s old unit, but Sole manager Tim Bowers says that’s not the case. Derby says that the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts will be expanding into the former Mountains’ Edge space. Multiple calls to the cooking school were not returned to confirm. Regardless of speculation, and even regardless of the truth, one thing holds true — business owners and South Boulder residents are feeling the loss of their community hub. “This town will be really angry that the [Savers] building didn’t have to go down,” Ordway says. “It could have been administrated in different holding patterns until they could find other refuge and not destroy four businesses and destroy lives, from business owners … to even the community. And it’s just bad timing, man — Christmas and Thanksgiving.” For many residents, Savers represented something rare in Boulder — affordable shopping. “Think about it: We’ve lost the dollar store, now there’s no dollar store in Boulder. We lost Savers, and there’s nothing like Savers. You could argue that Goodwill is like savers but they are two different animals,” says Tim Newbury, South Boulder resident and former local business owner. Newbury, who lives just a few blocks from the shopping center on Ithaca Road, says he will also miss walking with his 3-year-old child to Ordway’s former location at Table Mesa. “I think the sad truth is that commercial real estate’s interest isn’t about serving the community. It isn’t,” Derby says. “And I guess if I had an opinion, I would prefer a shopping center that is a neighborhood shopping center,” as opposed to something like the 29th Street Mall. “I am worried about the loss of ‘character’ and of businesses that support their local community,” South Boulder resident Joel Parker said in an email to Boulder Weekly. “South Boulder has been growing in a wonderful way with neighbors and business owners that know each other, and I hope that whatever businesses replace the ones that have left or been forced out will be places that continue to foster that environment of people gathering and interacting.” Parker added that from his understanding, “development choices in Boulder Weekly

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illy Hoke has been playing the drums for 55 years and touring the area with multiple bands. He’s lived in Boulder for 45 years, and for the past 12 he’s owned the local music store The Drum Shop, taking over from the store’s previous incarnations Boulder Drums and Sandy’s Drum Store, which opened in 1993. “Any time I was out there playing anywhere, I would look if there was a music shop or a drum shop to hang out in during the day,” Hoke says. “I was always thrilled to find Amanda Moutinho them. I always wanted to have a drum shop when I was growing up — I liked them so much. To me it’s more than a business. … It’s a labor of love. But unfortunately that labor of love is being forced to relocate. Aspen Plaza, which holds the Drum Shop and is located on the south- The Drum Shop west corner of 30th and Pearl, was one of the properties bought up in 2013 by Pearl Place Associates, a subsidiary of Brickstone Partners and Forum Real Estate Group. Along with other neighboring properties, the buildings are being cleared out to make room for the proposed four-acre Google campus. Already with over 300 employees in Boulder, Google plans to bring in around 1,500 more. Hoke’s has spent nine years at his current location, 2065 30th St. He’s set to leave the place by March 31, moving to a new spot a few blocks away. He says he’s sad to leave this location that’s complete with plenty of storefront parking, big sunny windows and visibility on a busy street. “I will never find anything this nice ever again,” Hoke says. “And my heart goes to all the small business people that are getting run out.” Turnover is nothing new for Boulder, but the stakes are getting higher as richer companies move in. Hoke says the billionaires are coming in to buy out the millionaires and calls the

development, “Google’s hostile takeover of Boulder.” “The floodgates are open — you just can’t stop the migration here,” Hoke says. “[Boulder] is so beautiful and wonderful. A friend of mine once said, ‘The secret’s out. We’ve been discovered. There’s no going back.’ But from being a quiet rustic town with down-to-earth country folk living here, now it’s just overrun by... let’s just say that it’s lost its charm. And as a longtime Boulderite, it’s very disheartening.” Along with the Drum Shop, several other businesses in the area are being displaced. Some businesses have dispersed around Boulder like HB Woodsongs, D&K Printing, Quality Pools & Spa and Karliquin’s Game Knight. Some companies are biding their time to decide about their future. Ethiopian restaurant Ras Kassa’s has been a Boulder staple for over a quarter of a century. Owner Tsehey Hailu still hasn’t made any concrete plans but wants to relocate. Despite having to move, Hailu says she’s not discouraged and has no near-future plans for retirement. “I still have it left in me, and I want to continue,” she says. Before she gets out the next sentence, Haliu is up and seating a new batch of customers for the lunch buffet. She runs in and out of the kitchen grabbing water or bills and clearing dishes for the various customers before sitting down again. “My business means a whole lot of things to me. It’s culture, cooking, customers — they’re just the most beautiful people. I enjoy every minute that I’m here. It’s so much fun; it really is.” Long-time customers of the restaurant are concerned about the fate of the restaurant and are anxious to know where the new location will be. “They’re very worried. They want to make sure that I’ll keep in touch with them. People have been saying that I could come cook in their homes,” Hailu says with a laugh. “They’ll follow me wherever I’ll go. I’ve seen so many people grow up over the years and gotten to know their families.” Hailu says she wants to stay in Boulder, but if there aren’t any options she’ll look into expanding to surrounding cities like Longmont or Lafayette. At this point, Dorothea Mardick comes in for lunch, and Hailu springs up to give her a big hug. They’ve been friends

for almost 30 years, and Mardick has been eating at Ras Kassa’s since it opened in 1988. “I watched Tsehey and [her husband] Richard build this,” Mardick says. “I worry that if she moves to another place or has to relocate further away from Boulder, it’s going to affect her clientele.” Other companies have set their sights on new locations even farther than Boulder county limits. Crescendo Fine Audio, also displaced by the acquisition, opened a new store in Wheat Ridge. “There’s only so much room and only so many people in Boulder,” says Matt Alterman, an owner of Crescendo. “It mainly came down to there weren’t many spaces available for rent, and the spaces that were available were overpriced. We could have found a space, but it would have been small and boutique-ish.” Alterman says the Boulder community is kind to small businesses and that customers wanted to establish a relationship with him and ask his advice. But the plans he had for his business, he says, required more space. He also found more incentives for small businesses in Wheat Ridge. “We didn’t want to feel the pressure in Boulder of having this huge $3,0004,000 overhead,” he says. “We wanted to stay in Boulder but it just wasn’t feasible in terms of finance. ... With all the high rises and forcing everyone out, unless you’re some Versace or Gucci company, it’s turning into Beverly Hills. What was appealing [about Boulder], at first, was these unique establishments like Albums on the Hill and Mountain Sun. They are distinct establishments that are part of the culture, an integral part of Boulder. But a lot of those companies starting to get forced out.” With the current troubling marketplace for small business in Boulder, some restaurants are choosing to shut their doors permanently, like Dennis Oviatt, owner of Cafe Food. After working hard for over 20 years as the owner, Oviatt says he’s looking forward to the break. Closing was never his initial plan, but after the building got bought out in 2013, he says he saw the writing on the wall. He knew he had some options to keep the business going, but says he was discouraged. “It’s always been tough running a small business in Boulder, and I don’t think it’s getting any easier,” Oviatt says. When asked if Boulder was a good place for small business, “If you’re trendy and cool,” he says. “But if you want to feed the masses, you don’t get a whole lot of support.” See CHANGING PLACES Page 18

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stop for climbers. “I’m not a famous climber but I know tons of them,” Colo says. “I just infiltrated with the good ones. I know some of the best climbers in the world but climbers are not at all rich — gear is expensive and we don’t want to work; we all want to go climbing. But I felt hugely supported by the climbing community.” Throughout the restaurant, Colo hung photos of those very same climbers that stopped in alongside photos of peaks in Patagonia and deserts in Asia. She even got famed local climber, the late Steve Dieckhoff, to paint a mural on a wall near the entrance of the restaurant. When North Boulder Cafe closed in early 2014, Colo cut the mural out of the wall. “I spent 13 hours sawing this giant moon mural painted by Steve Dieckhoff; it was the only mural he ever painted. We got it off that wall, and I said, ‘I’m not leaving her,’ and I took it with me when we left,” Colo says. The other main group that supported the restaurant were folks in Lyons and Jamestown, Colo says. When the flood hit in September 2013, it not only closed the restaurant for a week due to repairs, spoiling entire shipments of food, but it also closed off some of her most regular customers from giving her their business for months. That, coupled with declining visitors, was the death knell for the cafe. “Once the flood came through in September, I was already struggling, and I was really struggling after that, so I didn’t make my December rent and that was it for me,” Colo says. “We got hit hard up at the end of town. There was a lot of mud and we were closed for seven days. I had to do my own cleanup — there was three feet of mud out the back door so we couldn’t get our deliveries. We couldn’t get to the dumpster.” Colo, who rented the space, says she didn’t have insurance for her damaged goods and also didn’t receive governmental financial assistance because she didn’t own the building and she couldn’t prove that she could pay back any loans. Three months of little to no business was too much to overcome, and she closed the business and moved out. Colo says she left a $6,000 commercial refrigerator in order to help pay off the rent she owed, but that she’s still battling the building owner to determine “what amount I still owe, and what they think I owe.” Colo says she had numerous offers to help her pay to keep the North Boulder Cafe open but they weren’t close to the amount she needed. Some have since suggested a move to Louisville or Longmont, but she’s just not confident it’ll be any better there. Now as she has moved on to a Boulder Weekly

waitressing job back at Dot’s, Colo reflects on the changing nature of Boulder — a change she’s seen in the businesses that have come in, the money it takes to live here and the people who now roam its streets. “It’s so sad to me. Boulder’s losing a lot of its nostalgic businesses,” Colo says. “I feel like our place was kind of special because it was really about community. Everybody knew everybody and everybody’s right at home there, and I think that that is missing huge in Boulder. It’s sad to watch all the businesses go and just how expensive it is getting.” As businesses are forced to move because of high rent, so is the case for renters in Boulder, says Colo. The same reason she couldn’t afford to operate a business in Boulder is the same reason her customers can’t afford to live in Boulder, she says. “I just feel like Boulder has changed a lot, and a lot of my customers have moved out further east to afford to live, so I think we’ll see more and more of the old Boulder dying,” Colo says. “I miss the old Boulder. I always will.” And the businesses and people who have replaced a lot of what “old Boulder” was, Colo says, aren’t the kind of folks who support what she offered at North Boulder Cafe. Reflecting on a restaurant career that has allowed her to converse with Boulder residents for 30 years, Colo says the population has simply changed. “Never have people in Boulder been so rude as they are now — all you have to do is drive through town,” Colo says. “I’m all for the Whole Foods and the healthy thing but the people that go in there are not very polite. “It’s just not as friendly and… I don’t know. I feel like it was kind of this cool, hippie little college, artsy fartsy, rock climber town, and now it’s changed to the rich and entitled. I mean, I don’t really want to be dissing people in Boulder because I’m not really trying to. It’s just any time big money moves in and the small little people move out, there’s a change in attitude. Because people who have to work hard for their money, life is different; it’s a different value system because you value the meal in front of you. I don’t know what to make of this town any more.” Colo says losing the North Boulder Cafe is like “losing a part of my soul,” and she sees the forces that caused her business to close as the same ones that have forced others and will force more to go out of business. Colo’s final thought, her breakfast plate half eaten, comes unprompted. “I think it’s really important that if you love a place that you support it,” she says, “because someday it will be gone.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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from 15-26 degrees Celsius. The temperature impact on yield decline varied widely across field test conditions. In addition, year-to-year variability increased at some locations because of greater yield reductions in warmer years and lesser reductions in cooler years. The scientists say that the way to adapt is to cultivate more heat-tolerant varieties, and so keep the harvest stable. The results of the study — by scientists from Finland, Germany, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, Colombia, Mexico, India, China, Australia, Canada and the United States — are published in Nature Climate Change. Professor Martin Parry, who is leading the 20:20 Wheat Institute Strategic Programme at Rothamsted Research to increase wheat yields, commented: “This is an excellent example of collaborative research, which will help ensure that we have the knowledge needed to develop the crops for the future environments.” — This article originally ran on Climate News Network Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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“You started these things because they look like fun,” author and mountain guy Brendan Leonard says of outdoor sports, “... but a lot of us treat it like a job.”

hen Brendan Leonard found the Banff Mountain Film Festival — and Denver’s Paramount Theatre — filled with puffy coat-wearing people cheering to outdoor exploits, he declared, “Yes, these are my people. I found my people. I imagine some people feel that at a Broncos game or whatever, but that was it for me.” His life as a mountain guy was born. A few years later, he started writing a weekly blog at www.semi-rad.com to share some of his stories and have an outlet for writing something more creative than his day job called for. But rather than write trip reports — we went; we climbed; we suffered; we eventually crushed for our particular scale of crushing; we had beers after — Leonard wrote satirical commentaries on the lifestyles and habits of those who like to vacate their warm beds to sleep on the ground and other such illogical undertakings. He’s written illuminating pieces such as “How to Talk Shit to Your Climbing Partner,” “The Masochist’s Guide to Bushwhacking” and “You Don’t Have to Clip That To The Outside of Your Pack.” His eye for human nature and his willing honesty are both measured and dosed out carefully so that it’s clear we are laughing together, at our-

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This is play. Not work. Brendan Leonard’s day job is to remind outdoorsy folks to have a little more fun by Elizabeth Miller selves and each other, for worries like helmet hair, coping with the bro-hug and the laughable ability climbing has to reduce a functional adult’s vocabulary to that of a teenager. Sick, brah. But here’s the thing. This flurry of funny actually does illuminate the level of seriousness so many people bring to their outdoor sports undertakings and asks, “Is that really necessary?” “You started these things because they look like fun, you know, you don’t need another job, but a lot of us treat it like a job — how am I training for this activity, or this completely contrived activity where I’m measuring my performance against a grad-

ing scale and then all the other people I see doing the same thing?” he says. “It’s like, come on dude, we don’t need more work. We need more play.” Now, he’s compiled the best of the roughly 200 blogs he’s written into the selfpublished book Funny Shit in the Woods and Other Stories: The Best of Semi-Rad.com. It might make a little money, he says, but really his hope is that it could be a handbook for explaining the outdoors lifestyle to a not-so-outdoorsy person. “It’s a thing where people can hand it to someone else and say, ‘Hey, I’m into the outdoors. This is kind of about me. This is what my life is like,’” he says.

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While Brendan Leonard says he has no hope of ever climbing something as ambitious as the Dawn Wall on Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, he adds that every foray into outdoor sports provides opportunities for challenges, growth and, most importantly, fun.

An example of that instance is outlined in his first ously bikes everywhere, but never takes it seriously chapter: “The Rules For Dating a Dirtbag,” which and has gathered a group of fellow riders equally outlines such woes as the search for someone who inclined to pack beers for hydration. actually sees an attractive quality in a guy living in a “I realize that out of four people, I’m the only one van loaded with climbing gear or wanting to climb who brought water on a 22-mile mountain bike ride,” with your romantic partner, until you realize that Leonard says. “This stuff is so casual for them. allows them to see you at your most terrified, and the They’re not out there trying to set a record or improve effort to balance the principles of chivalry in an their Strava time. They’re like, ‘We’re playing. I’m undertaking that requires both parties to carry at least stopping for another beer.’” some portion of the gear. For him personally, the motiva“I’m not that goal-driven either, tion to mountain bike came from a ON THE BILL: “Play Hard, I mean, less and less so,” he says. friend’s axiom: “You’re just going out Laugh Harder,” with Brendan “But I’ve never had a goal like I hiking with your bike.” Leonard is at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29 at Neptune want to climb 5.12, which would “That changed everything for Mountaineering, 633 S. be, I feel like that might take the me,” Leonard says. “Now I just Broadway, Suite A, Boulder, 303-499-8866. fun out of it for me.” explore on my bike. Wow, what a Leonard sets little goals such as revelation. Sometimes it just takes going to the climbing gym with a the right person to say the right plan to climb 10 5.10cs for his workout that day. But combination of words to you.” if at the seventh climb he’s feeling like he can’t hold On Jan. 29, when he comes to Neptune on to anything, well, maybe it’s just time to go get a Mountaineering, the slideshow he plans to give will donut. He doesn’t need it to be another job. Nor, he be focused largely on those people whose level of says, does he want to quit eating donuts and ice unwavering enthusiasm has been personally inspiring cream so he can drop a few ounces of body fat. to him. They’re not superstar athletes as much as What’s inspired him to lead a life outdoors aren’t individuals willing to, for example, set a date any goals as much as people. time to go do a particular trail or bike ride or climb, “There are people who are very, very good at goof- or weld a grill to a bike frame before bicycling across ing off a lot and what they do is beautiful in a very the country. nontraditional sense,” Leonard says. “We’re kind of told that our identity or what we’re And spending time with those people rubs off. supposed to do besides work is consume things, “I think, as a person, if you do it right you’re this which is just not buying products or consuming combination of the best things about your friends,” he media. Whether you become a football fan or you says. watch 500 shows every week or you’re obsessed with He can name people, and their various virtues, Breaking Bad or The Voice or whatever, this is what you he’d like more of in his life, like the friend who serido, you get done with work, kick up your feet and you Boulder Weekly

consume media,” Leonard says. “If that makes you happy, that’s fine, but I think that some of us need something to do, like literally do, and for a lot of people it’s climbing and kayaking and skiing. “Living out West is really great because you’ve become part of this peer group, whether or not you’re actively in it every day. You see all these people and go, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not skiing enough.’ They remind you that skiing is fun, like why am I not doing this? “And so you get out more because of that. I think that’s a good thing.” Of course, inspiration comes in many sizes, some as large as Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson’s recent ascent of the Dawn Wall on Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan. “Do I have any hope of ever even climbing the easiest pitch on that route? Hell no, but something about that story is so ... it’s this guy with this dream he just will not give up on, it’s like pure American dream,” Leonard says. While the Dawn Wall may be the territory of a rare few, anyone headed outdoors can climb new routes and try new adventures — growth, improve, change, one might even say. “For me, it just means finding new places to do things and finding new things to challenge you,” Leonard says. Maybe that’s just making a moonlit run up one of the Flatirons. And yes, it can mean stepping up to a challenge. Caldwell and Jorgeson, he says, probably think the Dawn Wall, that seven-year project to put up what’s being called the hardest climb in the world, they see PLAY Page 24

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 The Lost Film of the Stettner Brothers. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866. Snowshoeing Basics. 6:30 p.m. Boulder REI, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. Wheel Truing. 6:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019. Registration required. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 Backpacking Training Series: Get Fit for your Weekend or Thru Hike. 10:30 a.m. Boulder REI, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303583-9970. Mountain Climbing Training Series: Building Strength and Fitness. 9 a.m. Boulder REI, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. Newcomers’ Hike. 1 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www. naturehikes.org. Six Pack Series Winter 2 Mile & 5K. 9 a.m. 10600 Westminster Road, Westminster, info@SixPackSeries.com Winter Cycling 101. 9 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019. Registration required. SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 Boulder’s Snowbirds. 9 a.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 Packing Light Clinic. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

In the 1920s, Joe and Paul Stettner were establishing climbing routes like an intimidating line up Longs Peak, Stettner Ledges, among many others across the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming, using horse ropes and just a few carabiners and pitons for protection. Stettner Ledges was considered by many, according to Jack Gorby, author of The Stettner Way: The Life and Climbs of Joe and Paul Stettner, to be the hardest climb in the United States at the time it was established. Roger Wiegand, who met the brothers and was mentored by them through the Chicago Mountaineering Club, will come to Neptune Mountaineering to talk about the Stettner brothers and show a 20-minute film of the brothers on Devils Tower that has never before been seen by the public. Hubs, Freehubs and Freewheels. 6:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019. Registration required. Winter Camping Basics. 6:30 p.m. Boulder REI, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Adventure.”

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probably think that was the most fun thing they’ve ever done. “If you can’t have fun pushing yourself then you’re definitely doing it wrong,” he says. His forthcoming adventures will see him biking Arizona’s Black Canyon Trail, four-wheel drive roads in the Maze in Canyonlands and perhaps even on an island-hopping tour across Norway, and there’s talk of climbing in Croatia and backpacking in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. He’ll continue to write, and has started to work on films, too. For Leonard, finding that crowd at Banff was about more than being in company where people understand why you’d walk around in a couple inches of quilted, feathery down — and it’s not

for the fashion statement, and nor are those duct tape patches on your elbows. “For me as an adult, I needed something else as an identity. I think where I grew up, your identity is your job and the family that you raise, like, ‘I work for this company and I do this, and I have two kids,’ and that didn’t really appeal to me,” Leonard says. “I feel like there’s something else, maybe, and I didn’t really have any idea what it was until I started going to the mountains and doing stuff and then I got this image of myself as a mountain climber — like, ‘How cool would that be?’ And I started doing stuff that gave me that identity when I was in my mid-20s — OK, this is what I am.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ost musicians want to be known. Some even want photos of their faces plastered across the covers of high-profile music magazines and lining the walls of teenagers’ bedrooms. The allure of “celebrity” often fuels the desire to keep creating. Slow Magic, however, is an anomaly. He wants none of that fame, so he dons a colorful mask for every performance. He wants his music and art to stand out, not his looks or who he is. “I never really liked the idea of putting my face on everything,” he says. “For some reason, that seems to be a normal thing these days. I wanted to try something different and I’m glad I don’t have to worry about my identity being the project. I definitely think they are two separate things.” For an artist who is barely on the radar, this almost seems crazy, but to him it’s the only way. His first full-length album, 2012’s Triangle, swells with vibrant electronic soundscapes that, as Slow Magic describes, “is the sound made by an unknown imaginary friend.” His most recent album, 2014’s How To Run Away, continues to provoke the imagination with Courtesy of Slow Magic

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more of his electronic brilliance, while the man behind the mask remains shrouded in mystery. “It started as a way for me to separate the music and the artwork I was working on from my identity and my location,” he says. “I wanted people to focus on just the art and not a face, location or person. It was a simple concept at first, and even now the reasons are exactly the same.” Not knowing his name can be both frustrating and intriguing, feeding a sense of anticipation about his live appearances. Armed with two drumsticks, two drums, a laptop and several electronic toys, he’s able to emit a massive, all-encompassing sound — with the mask on, of course. It lights up and couple of occasions where a drunken changes colors throughout the show. frat-boy type has attempted to de-mask The mask, which was created by his the elusive artist. Thankfully, those longtime friend Jonas McCluggage, has events are few and far between. pointy ears (much like a coyote or dog), “I think it only happened once or but it’s not meant to be a specific anitwice,” he says with a laugh. “I really mal. It’s open to interpretation, he says. hope that doesn’t happen again, but I “The mask started as always wear a mask the idea of an imaginary underneath just in case. I ON THE BILL: Slow animal,” he says. “Over think the crowd would Magic with Moon time, it turned into probably stop someone Bounce and Real Cosby. 8:30 p.m. Jan, 29, at the something else. from doing that. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th Sometimes I can talk to Everyone seems to get it. St., Boulder. Tickets are people at a show and I don’t plan on taking it $15, plus $2 fee for under 21 tickets. Visit they never realize that off at any point, I just www.foxtheatre.com for it’s me. I can just be a don’t see a reason to. more information. normal person and meet The project started as a people at my shows. way to put the art first, Sometimes if I’m selling so why change that? It’s merch, people ask who I more fun anyway. It defam, and I like to confuse them. I can initely makes the live show more excitalso get honest reviews on my show, ing for me. I can be a bit more free and not worry about what I look like on which can be a little scary. It’s fun for stage. It also helps me sneak around me to keep going and letting it be the crowd before and after the show.” something that people have questions Slow Magic is used to spending lots about.” of time alone creating, mostly from his Some people go beyond being home studio (wherever that may be). moderately curious. There have been a Boulder Weekly

How To Run Away has a high-tech studio sound, but was created in his bedroom. “The album was inspired by the quick transition to traveling all the time and running away to play music,” he explains. “It took a little over a year to make. I had been gathering the ideas over time and travels. I was basically finished with it and then it took a while to find a home to release it. It’s really exciting to have a record come on and watch it have its own little life.” How To Run Away has catapulted him all over the world. He recently completed a tour in Australia and is currently in Asia before he heads back to North America. Whether figuratively or literally, Slow Magic seems to want to simply escape. It’s tough not to speculate about what kind of person he is. Is he an introvert? Is he shy? Is he young? Is he old? There’s an enticing element to all of the unanswered questions. All he has to say is that he’s eternally grateful for his current position in life. There’s a sense this is just the beginning of his blossoming career. “I try to spend as much time as I can working on music, which can be really hard with a busy schedule,” he says. “My goal this year is to make more music on the road even though it can be a challenge. I usually come home to my studio and all the ideas come out of my head. I’d love to have some kind of tour bus set up that had a few speakers and a keyboard. That would be helpful. I feel like things are growing steadily. Sometimes I don’t even know how it all happened and now I’m sitting in Tokyo about to perform. Music itself will always be some kind of magic.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he Devil Makes Miller, who took a lead role Three has been in choosing the 10 songs that together now for a made I’m A Stranger Here, and decade, but guitarist/ helped refine the songs from singer Pete Bernhard their demo form. says he feels the group is only “I think the thing Buddy did now starting to hit its stride. the most is he just edited heavi“This is what we’ve done ly,” Bernhard says. “He just said with our whole adult lives,” he to us, ‘Why is this part in the says in a recent phone interview. song?’ Or, ‘Why isn’t there a “And I feel like right now, we’re break here?’ Or, ‘It feels like this sort of the best we’ve ever been, harmony isn’t right.’ Or, ‘Why which is really cool. don’t we extend this part because “We’ve all got an album we’re it’s cool.’ He sort of just kind of really proud of now,” Bernhard got in there with a pair of scissors says, referencing I’m A Stranger and said, ‘This word is unnecesHere, the album the trio released sary. Take it out.’ in fall 2013. “That’s more of what he did “Also, I think we’re all just than anything else, is take things playing together on a much away, get sort of the bare bones higher level than we ever have of what was happening in there,” Bernhard says. “That’s something before and everybody is contribI tried to do in the writing, too, uting more than they ever have.” is take a lot away. A lot of the Ironically, what helped the songs are a lot more simple than trio of Bernhard, banjo player/ a lot of the other songs I’ve writmulti-instrumentalist Cooper The Devil Makes Three brings a unique sound to the new McBean and bassist Lucia album I’m A Stranger Here and to the Fillmore Auditorium ten lyrically.” on Jan. 24. Miller also made an impact in Turino step up their game — helping The Devil Makes Three particularly with songwriting and recording — was a decision to look out- Cooper and Turino, though, decided it capture more of its live energy and side of the group for a key collaborator would take working with an outside sound on I’m A Stranger Here. on I’m A Stranger Here. producer to take another step up in the What stands out most, though, is Up to now, The Devil Makes Three studio. the songs, which are sharper and catchhad been pretty much a do-it-yourself “We already know what we can do ier than ever. I’m A Stranger Here has endeavor. But for I’m A Stranger Here, ourselves,” Bernhard says. “So it’s kind the kind of frisky bar room bluegrassthe band brought on of like there’s not flavored romps (“Dead Body Moving” Buddy Miller to promuch mystery there. and “Worse Or Better”) and rustic balON THE BILL: The Devil duce the album. We did all we could lads (“A Moment’s Rest”) that have Makes Three play the Fillmore Bernhard, do and we had kind long been staples of the group’s music. Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Cooper and Turino of like reached our But there are surprises as well. Denver, on Jan. 24. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30had done well while limitations there and “Hellelu” takes things in a twangier $48.50. old-time country direction, with great keeping its albums we wanted to try results. On “Forty Days,” the group in-house. Since something new.” brings some New Orleans ragtime to the forming in Santa Enter Miller, an song with the help of the Preservation Cruz, California in 2002, the group acclaimed artist in his own right, who Hall Horns. Then there’s “Hand Back had steadily improved as it developed has also been building an impressive Down,” the standout among an excellent its rollicking brand of rootsy acoustic resume of production projects. Miller music (which draws from bluegrass, turned out to be a key player in helping collection of songs. Here the group slows its tempo and builds a spooky, but ultracountry, jazz and pop) over the course The Devil Makes Three takes its music catchy, melody around the grooving, of three studio albums — a 2002 selfto a new level on the latest CD. steady thump of a rhythm. titled debut, Longjohns, Boots, And A In particular, Miller had a big impact as a song editor and sounding Now The Devil Makes Three is Belt (2004) and Do Wrong Right (2009) bringing its music to life on tour. board for the songs. Prior to setting up — and a pair of live releases, A Little “We’re playing something off of shop at Easy Eye Sound Studio, the Bit Faster And A Little Bit Loose (2006) every record,” Bernhard says. “But Nashville facility owned by Dan and Stomp And Smash (Live at the mostly I’d say it’s heavily toward our Auerbach of the Black Keys, the group Mystic Theater) from 2011. new record. We’re all just really excited brought in completed demos for 20 Along the way, the group slowly about that stuff, so we’re playing it a songs — far more material than built a following that is now big enough lot.” to enable the group to headline theaters Bernhard had ever written for a The and large clubs. Bernhard says he, Devil Makes Three album. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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fter reading the Boulder Weekly’s story on Scholastic National Student Poets Program and the subsequent essay issue of the paper, local poet Troy Suben approached the editorial staff with an idea: What about running poetry in the paper on a weekly basis? We’ve undertaken the experiment here and kick off the project with a few poems from Suben himself, who will henceforward curate this collection. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

HAMMER Sleep beside this unforsaken hammer. Everything it is. Cell phones and pineapples. Not for their meaningfulness. For being a person significance doesn’t inhale from the mouth of a utility bill. You, who isn’t sunlight are gasoline for them. Not, cell phones and pineapples. Not their meaningfulness. Cold mountain lion prowls washing our faces with its tongue. Locked to a valley and the mountain, skinned, all our faces. No one has de-clawed its paws. The brick exposes its paws de-clawed. “over the mantle”: someone says before arriving anywhere here. The brick, where its paws and our hands are similar. Commercials. Hear the violin in the rocks each tree hears a voice each speaks, (dimensions umbrella), the brick’s color. Locked in the brick the last of brick’s origin talking a gasoline voice. No one can hold the brick. It’s an unidentifiable human organ chewed up obviously it cannot afford housing. Without it people cannot afford to miss the neon. Beside the gasoline mountain. Look a stranger in the face. Worlds

contained within utterance. Never look at a stranger once. All rights to be known. The essence of rocks cannot bare emerge upon a brick demand. Car honk. Invisible ancients remain on the horizon. Is this a place known for wind? Spores sprawled beneath shadow of mountain overwhelms us nothing what trees or rocks mistake. Nothing in trees or rocks hear the brick, an empty street, remains comforting sky contains mountain depth the Niwot museum. Love stands beside an unforsaken hammer. — Troy Suben

PLACES People living in this place in every perception people, a self, to alleviate alleviate by people when population inhales anyone must go for conversation whatever coffee bird-speckle ground purchasing enough elongated speech gifts thing in common people, blocks with sound, not that anyone is greatly afraid of another, but it’s hard to hear if anyone houses what can’t allow conventional know-how to end — people dwell above economy-surgery (friendly street corner now stranger: 17th and Walnut) and if a dread

COFFEE BEAN Nothing it seems can crack corrupt progression building more opportunities for elevator music or disturb speed at which upscale windows ascend silence, year after year, reconstructed facial features electricallandmarks — screens assemble the body —prices rising for birds out-of-town high-end neighborhoods fly in and expect to peck at fanciest china plate regardless of season; traffic and whispers of a shopping district, a horn player, bearded man’s backpack, skin folding mechanical-grey-camouflaged apartments — what could become redistribution: calcium, iron, magnesium — coffee bean transplanted residency, vacant parking spots free on Sunday, topsoil which houses arid mountain peaks sustainable for pine trees. — Troy Suben Troy Suben is an open mic night host, poetry teacher and published poet.

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of mirrored generation tars away by commercial’s wall of speech

decays to a putrid behavioral puss of snow that there always is when people lie to themselves, a computational replacement for voices, it’s hard to see such privilege bear humanity behind a silence of consumption because my eyes have become carboard cups by familiarity people here can serve to remind each other places that bring conversations-smile — Troy Suben

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Thursday, January 22

Pub, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-440-0222.

Music

Idlewhile. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Amelie Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Dave Honig’s Latin Quarter. 6 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St.,

Boulder, 303-444-2260.

David Booker. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and

Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Delta Sonics Duo. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Kaleidoscope Music Free Demo Class. 4:15 p.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub,

1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

Michael DeLalla. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Long-

Evan Cantor’s Compleat Grateful Dead. 6 p.m. Buchanan’s Coffee

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Erik Stensland

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030 The Rocky Mountains have been around for millions of years, but this year Rocky Mountain National Park is celebrating its 100-year birthday with a party at the Boulder Theater. Learn more about the park with a presentation from Erik Stensland, Rocky Mountain photographer and author of Wild Light, and the debut of the short film Wilderness, Wildlife, Wonder. Expect live music, a silent auction with outdoor goods, and surprise guests who will talk about the next 100 years for the park. All the proceeds from the party go to the National Parks Conservation Association.

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Jeff Coffin & The Mu’tet. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

Jewgrass Rocky Mountain Jewgrass

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7:30 p.m. Saturday Jan. 24, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. When looking at one music genre through the lens of another, the result becomes its own unique entity. When bluegrass meets Jewish music the result is Colorado’s own Rocky Mountain Jewgrass. The band is made up of artists who have been playing music for decades and has a tongue-in-cheek approach to their music, with songs like “Jews Don’t Camp” and “Thank God I’m a Jewish Boy.” Watch them take the stage at The Dairy on Jan. 24 and enjoy songs about common problems facing the Jewish community, including JDate woes and the “Yom Kippur Blues.” Tickets are $15.

Foster Colorado Foster Care and Adoption Film Festival

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11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-381-0813 In partnership with the Denver Film Society, the Colorado Department of Human Services is throwing a film festival to shed light on adoption and foster care and all the realities that come with it. The festival features several documentaries including America’s Most Unwanted about the struggle of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in the foster care system, and Tough Love, about two families fighting to get back custody of their children. There will also be the Colorado premiere of Black or White, starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer. Apart from the movies, the festival will host guest speakers and panel discussions. Tickets are $12.

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mont, 720-340-4169. Miles Perry. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770. Mister Tim Vocal Showcase. 7 p.m. Mojo’s Music

Academy, 1350 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303776-3373.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627

S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196

Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

Pace Goodman, The Rabbit’s Atom. 8 p.m. The

Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Son Tres. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900

Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Stone Soul. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Strings Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Bier-

garten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Events

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Backgammon. 7 p.m. The Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-0081. Camp Minder. 10 a.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017

13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Disc Brakes. 5:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805

Wilderness Place, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Father, Misty, and the Big Rock. 7 p.m. Innisfree

Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wildfire Mitigation Home Retrofit Workshop. 2 p.m.

Sean O’Meallie

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

Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through Jan. 30. Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 25.

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 15. Echoes. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Feb. 22.

Matisse and Friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000.Through Jan. 25.

Sean O’Meallie brings his playful view to the world through Freeplay at the Arvada Center.

First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 22.

Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017. Acrylic Paintings by Cynthia Marsh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30. Photography for a Change group exhibit. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850

March 29.

Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12. Phil Bender. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through

rePOPulated: Contemporary Perspectives on Pop Art. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. Sean O’Meallie: Freeplay. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.

Boulder County Clerk & Recorder, Houston Room, 1750 33rd St., Boulder, 303-446-7877. Friday, January 23 Music

The Angle. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St.,

Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Chaeus. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave.,

Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Cold River City. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1128 13th

St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Cosmic Mesa. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe,

108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Crime Scene. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

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Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

David Matters & Andrew Conley. 7 p.m. Very Nice

Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Dr. Phil Good with Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m.

The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Espresso Swing. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten,

2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

The First Waltz. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th

St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Ginga. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900

Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Kirtan with Steph Schwartz. 7:30 p.m. Harmony

Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303444-7444. KISSm. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St.,

Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Lee Johnson. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company

(Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Lonesome Rolan with No Restrictions Apply. 6 p.m.

Lunada’s Eatery & Cantina, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette. Mayhem Gulch. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

The Mighty Twisters Dance Party. 8 p.m. Tandoori

Next Doori, 623 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-9312653.

Mike Masse. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600

S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

MIX: CU Denver’s A Cappella Ensemble. 7:30 p.m.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Events Avery Brewing FC vs. Denver Dynamite. 8 p.m.

Longmont Indoor Soccer, 795 S. Sherman St., Unit 8, Longmont, 303-678-8878. Camp Minder. 9 a.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Coffee Cupping. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore

& Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303. Ethan Indigo Smith. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry

Mollie & Rich O’Brien. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Ramaya. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St.,

Gallery Opening and Reception for Artist Maria Rosa Fusté. 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St.,

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Rastasaurus. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional

Intention Setting Art Series. 11 a.m. Bolulder Art Therapy Collective, 1400 Lee Hill Road, # 7, Boulder, 303-593-0277.

Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Rebecca Folsom Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Rouge 2 Band. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing

Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623.

The Seers. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap

Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Jax Fish House and Oyster Bar’s Trash Fish Social.

6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303443-8696. Opening for a Trio of New Exhibits. 5 p.m. The

Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, January 24

Tim and Doug. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Music

Tim Hill Combo. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confec-

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

tions, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl

Alvin Risk. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Andrew Wynne. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Com-

pany, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Bear. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 Highway 72, Neder-

Wellington Bullings. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S.

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Radio 1190’s Krewe de Louisianne show hosts a Mardi Gras Party at the Bohemian Biergarten (2017 13th Street, Boulder, CO) for two nights on February 6th and 7th. Travis Matte & The Kingpins from Lafayette, Louisiana, bring a musical gumbo of Cajun, zydeco, rock n roll, rhythm & blues, and even some accordion based hip-hop to the stage starting at 9:30 p.m. each night. The Krewe de Louisianne encourages everyone to dress in festive purple, green, & gold Mardi Gras attire with bead, boa, hat, and mask accessories. There will be prizes for the best dressed!

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Big Paddy Irish Groove. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergar-

ten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Blue Canyon Boys. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music

House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4447444.

Brian Payne and Augustus. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Contraband. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe,

108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Danny Shafer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel

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

Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Tai Shi

Courtesy of Boulder Book Store

Saturday, Jan. 24 Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime/Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Saturday, Jan. 24 An Afternoon with Local Authors. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133.

Monday, Jan. 26

An Evening with Richie Furay. 7 p.m. Calvary Bible

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-4423484.

George Nelson. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main

St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Greg Schochet and Katie Glassman. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

Tuesday, Jan. 27 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Hot Foot. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623. Idlewhile. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional

Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain

Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jack Hadley Band and Sherefe Ensemble. 5 p.m.

eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4438696.

The Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House,

300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Longmont Symphony Concert. 7:30 p.m. Vance

Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796. Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s,

2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Prohibition Six. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S.

Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Punch Drunk Munky Funk. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog

Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-3355.

Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and

My Old Lady. 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker

Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Ninth Clan: Exploring Apachean Origins in the Promontory Caves. 7 p.m. Hale Science Building,

University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-2547.

Particle. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Seth Phillips. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine

Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625. Sunday Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues

Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Research Rendezvous. 11 a.m. Boulder Library,

1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Takács Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building, University of Colorado, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

Tasty Truffles and Techniques. 10 a.m. Piece, Love & Chocolate, 805 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4494804.

Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757.

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Events

The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

WOW — Women of Wisdom. 2:30 p.m. Meadows

Boulder Silent Outdoor Group Hike. 1:30 p.m. Settlers Part and West Pearl walk, Boulder.

Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303441-4390.

The Symbols. 5:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Com-

Sunday, January 25

Classics: All That Jazz. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Music

Go Club for Kids and Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library,

pany, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Touch of Blue. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish

William & the Romantics. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60

Brian Parton. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Compa-

Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

ny, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120.

You Knew Me When. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Chris McGarry & the Insomniacs. 3 p.m. Oskar

Sensory Friendly Playtime. 9:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.

Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.

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

Events

Denver Municipal Jazz Band. 2:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

All Ages Art Class. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300

Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Boulder Folders - Learn Origami. 10 a.m. George

Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Boulder Track Club Youth Group. 9 a.m. Viele Lake

Park, Boulder, 909-528-8708.

Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303.

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Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4472400.

Come meet local authors such as Mary Kathleen Rose, writer of The Children’s Tarot: The Road is a River.

Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

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

Honeytree. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids

and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Reynolds Teen DIY. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch

Swan Lake. 10:55 a.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583. Winter Heritage Day at the Walker Ranch Homestead. 1 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999

Flagstaff Road, Boulder, 303-776-8848. Monday, January 26 Music

Augustus. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St.,

Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Jenn Minor, Kaia Nutting. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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theater Annie Jr. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Feb. 8.

Courtesy of Jesters Dinner Theater

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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18

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Harvey. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Feb. 7. Fiddler on the Roof. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28. Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 1.

Skip the new movie version and check out Annie Jr. at the Jesters Dinner Theater.

EVENTS from Page 36 Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

I & The Many Jazz. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301

Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St.,

Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Science on Screen: Fighting Ebola in Africa. 7 p.m.

The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar,

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe,

Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Crystal Springs Brewing

108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Takcs Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig

1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Company, 657 S. Taylor Ave., Unit E, Louisville, 303-665-8888.

Building, University of Colorado, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

Tuesday Hikers. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, Ninth St., Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Events

Wednesday, January 28

Cinema Program Free Screening of Tayler Dunne Program. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapa-

Music

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

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder

Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303449-2911. Women of the West Monday Group. 11:30 a.m.

Bill Blank. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main

St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian

Tuesday, January 27

Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park

Music Dancing with Boulder Stars. 7:30 p.m. Boulder The-

ater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Daryl Gott Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Funk Jam withTechnicolor Tone Factory. 7 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee,

210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Peregrine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl

St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Ron LeGault. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa,

900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Events

Joy Circle. 6:30 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual

All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300

Open Mic at the Pioneer Inn. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15

Boulder Folders- Learn Origami. 1 p.m. George

Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Open Mic Night. 5:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing

Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional

Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the

Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-4774164. Events Big Cactus: Author Reading and Book Signing.

4:30 p.m. Norlin Library, Center for British and Irish Studies, Fifth Floor, Colorado University, Boulder, 303-492-7511.

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017

Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Meadows

Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303441-4390. Picnic in the Meadows. 11:40 a.m. Meadows

Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303441-4390. Song One. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Studio Art Free Demo Class. 10:15 a.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Tinker Open Studio for 5 and Under. 10 a.m. Tinker

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re zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Is The Daily Show a news program with some comedy in it or a comedy program with some news in it? Is Blackhat a bad movie with a lot of good parts or a good movie with a lot of bad parts? The world may never know… but let’s try to figure it out, shall we? Opening with a hypnotic computer sequence that feels like an episode of How It’s Made that’s tripping balls, Blackhat works very, very hard to make cybercrime look sexy. Hence the casting of Chris Hemsworth as Nick Hathaway, a former MIT student serving a lengthy prison sentence for hacking into banks. A bad guy hacks in and causes a nuclear reactor in China to go boom because explosions are sexy. The government agent they dispatch to investigate, Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang), just so happens to be Hathaway’s former MIT roommate. A similar attack on an American nuclear plant failed, so Chen hightails it to America with his sister, Lien (Wei Tang), to liaise with them because liaising is sexy. Chen convinces FBI agent Carol Barrett (Viola Davis) to spring Hathaway from the clink to help them locate the nasty cyber baddie. Hathaway and Lien rather quickly begin “plugging into each other’s networks” because that’s literally sexy. The gang chases leads from Chicago to China to Jakarta sexily traveling and sexily gun fighting along the way. Methinks he doth protest too much… The “he” being director Michael Boulder Weekly

Mann in this case. With his signature close-ups filmed by a cameraman with a hand tremor, Blackhat is immediately identifiable as a Mann film. Sometimes that’s a good thing, as the shootouts are super thrilling and the climactic encounter is so brilliantly staged it deserves to be the climax to a much better movie. How Blackhat manages to feel simultaneously laboriously long and completely spastic is impossible to explain. Much of the problem comes down to Morgan Davis Foehl’s script. For MIT attendees and cybercrime specialists, everyone in the movie is impossibly stupid. For example, Hathaway is a convicted criminal with much needed skills in computer hacking. So why is he brought along when a SWAT team tries to physically capture a bad guy? Literally everyone else in the scene has a gun but him. What is he doing there? Is he going to yell binary code at the mercenaries? Hemsworth should be thankful the script is as clunky as it is because it distracts from his truly brave decision to give his character the voice of Sylvester Stallone doing elocution drills. When Blackhat is good, it is very very good — seriously, that climax though. But when Blackhat is bad, it is as bad as “What if Jason Bourne was a computer programmer?” sounds. Too long to be a pleasant diversion, too badass in parts to completely dismiss, this is a movie that tap-dances on the precise equator between good and bad.

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n the clown car kitchen of China Gourmet in Boulder, a dozen cooks are calmly doing two dozen things. Composed but busy, the kitchen is preparing Chinese-American standards like cashew chicken, mu shu pork and Szechwan beef alongside “Shanghai specials” like cold salty duck, kung pao squid, salt-andpepper soft shell crab and “Ants Climbing a Tree.” One gets the immediate feeling that China Gourmet is the kind of place you ask the server to bring whatever’s good. So that’s what we did. First was a giant bowl of west lake style beef soup. A protoplasmic ladleful of the soup contained a thick, but light-tasting broth (traditional versions of this soup include cornstarch for thickening), shreds of egg, cooked-in-broth beef strips, some heat and herbs not limited to parsley. If not remarkable only for its exceptional balance with few ingredients, then it is for the fact that two cups of it had been downed before a second thought was given. Next was a tofu and vegetable hotpot. Three bricks of tofu had been lightly covered and seared, so as to create an almost-crispy cover that encased the hot and silky tofu. Veggies in the pot included snow peas, cut bok choy, green peppers and some less vibrant role players. All the dishes brought to the table were well executed, but the hotpot shined

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not to greasy-faced gorge on these things like movie popcorn. What they really needed was a dipping sauce (for us, the hot bean sauce from the fish dish was perfect, and soy sauce was a fine companion), because they were the slightest bit dry and the seasoning was thick. But there’s potential here for a Sunday snack overhaul — the chicken wing, the mozzarella stick, the nacho… the fried pork fritter. Why not? There are well over 100 dishes on China Gourmet’s menu. Very few exceed $11 per dish so there’s opportunity to try out dishes you can’t get everywhere like scallion pancakes, black mushroom and bok choy in oyster sauce, and marinated bean curd sheet when you go. In fact, the affordability of these dishes complements the understated dining room and the cafeteriastyle service, and it creates the perfect atmosphere in which to both test your taste buds and indulge in clean renditions of goopy standards. You may find the service a little cold, but the connection between patron and cook is strong enough in each carefully prepared and uniquely designed dish — without excessive frill or flourish, and just enough risk to keep you guessing, the food is the thing at China Gourmet. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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SALVAGGIO’S REPLACING THE RIB HOUSE ON THE HILL

After six years of bringing barbecue to the Hill, The Rib House has sold its location to Steve Salvaggio (of Salvaggio’s Deli) and will now focus on its location in Longmont. “Due to the overwhelming response to the expansion of The Rib House landmark restaurant in Longmont (1920 S. Coffman St.) the dedicated owners Tracy and Merry Ann Webb, have decided to dedicate their efforts in Longmont,” The Rib House said in a recent press release. Salvaggio’s now plans to make the move into the new digs at 1335 Broadway at the beginning of February. —Wyatt Carlson

WHAT CAN A GRAPE BE? If you’ve ever been curious about what sommeliers and wine buffs are talking about when they say they smell burnt rubber and decayed lilacs in their wine, Settembre Cellars in Boulder is hosting an event you might need to attend. On Jan. 24 from 1-6 p.m., the winery will offer single-vineyard and single-variety wines all made by the same winemaker, using the same techniques and aged in the same type of French Oak barrels. The event, “Vertical Tasting: A Story of Two Cabernet Sauvignon,” is a unique opportunity to see how wine can change from vine to vine, vintage to vintage.

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Settembre says, “Beginning with a library of wine from our 2007 vintage: seven wines, four vintages, two vineyards,” will be provided to interested guests, and winemakers Brett and Tracy Eliasson will be on hand to answer questions on the spot. Flights are $20 and you can show up at the Lee Hill Drive winery on Saturday afternoon without reservation. — Wyatt Carlson

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EAT WEIRD FISH Jax Fish House and eTown Hall are teaming up to host the “Trash Fish Social,” which will put lesser-eaten fish, or the “by-catch of our global waters,” onto Boulder County diner’s plates. The event, Friday, Jan. 23 from 6-9 p.m. at eTown Hall, will feature cooking from eight Jax chefs, live music and biodynamic wine. Tickets are $50 and proceeds benefit eTown Hall and Growing Gardens, an urban agriculture resource group. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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A night in the kitchen at a Boulder homeless shelter provides a lesson in resourcefulness by Matt Cortina

oward the end of the night, a patron of the attached to their resume. Biggers says the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless said it’s There’s a big atrium and a recrepatrons at the shelter bittersweet when volunteer kitchen manation room with a TV. Lights out at don’t always get a fresh ager Mark Biggers makes a meal — the 10 p.m., lights on at 6 a.m. Dinner dessert, so he likes to food was always good, but, the man said, it at 6:30 p.m., breakfast at 6:30 a.m. make it a point to was making him fat. Volunteers make every meal at the make one every shift That’s an end-all compliment if you saw what shelter, and tonight, Biggers, a he works — even if Biggers and a team of 10 volunteers had made the retired engineer with no professional that means bringing in meal from and how it was made. kitchen experience, leads a team his own ingredients. The dinner shift began a little after 4 p.m. and from the Boulder Valley Unitarian In fact, that’s the Mark Biggers switches out meat and vegetarian Volunteer Program Manager Tiffany Stamas leads me Universalist church and one dude pizzas in the kitchen of the Boulder Shelter for the obvious challenge of on a tour of the shelter. The doors are Matt Cortina from Boulder Weekly. Homeless. catering a 160-person locked during the day and already a About 90,000 dinner with a pantry dozen or so homeless people line the meals are prepared each year at the that will be stocked week to week with completely building. The shelter can take in about shelter, and tonight, about 160 of different things. The shelter gets most of its food 160 people per night. Still, when the those meals are pizza and pasta. from the community food share program and also shelter meets capacity anywhere from Biggers, one of about a dozen people takes in fresh and canned food donations, but not who volunteer as lead kitchen manag- knowing exactly what food will come in, the kitchen zero to 40 are turned away and given a er — the head chef so to speak — bus pass and sent to a partnering shelstaff improvises. immediately gets us working. “We get volunteers and community members who ter in the city. The first things we get going are drop things off on any given day that we don’t In the men’s dorm, there are about the tomato sauce and the apples. I expect,” Stamas says. “So say we get some fresh pro70 bunks crammed into a large, open open about 40 cans of tomato — duce come through the door — and there’s really room; blue vinyl mattresses on spring diced tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, nothing better we can get than fresh, beautiful probed frames. There’s a doctor that tomato sauce, roasted chunk tomatoes, duce — then we can modify the menu, and we don’t makes weekly visits to screen for whatever’s there. Different brands, dif- have to used canned green beans.” tuberculosis and STDs, and provide ferent consistencies, different expiraStamas says the full-time kitchen manager, first aid and general health care. Volunteers make parfaits with tion dates; they all go in. Biggers adds Marybeth Bannon, “very innovatively and creatively There’s a little pharmacy where cubed apples and caramel. in about two cups of oregano from an improvises” meals on a weekly basis depending on patrons can buy sundries like soap, aspirin and laundry detergent. The unmarked bag, a heap of salt and pep- what comes through the door. Back in the kitchen, Biggers has me sweating over shelter has a phone line that potential employers can per, some garlic cloves, onion and grated cheese. call so that patrons can receive messages without havMeanwhile, a team of three volunteers starts peelsee SHELTER Page 48 ing to worry about the word “homeless” being ing and cubing Granny Smith apples for the parfait.

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the grill, chopping and flipping some teer is slicing mushrooms, and now big chicken parts into cubes. There’s not rectangles of pizza on giant metal sheets enough time in the day to fully defrost are being prepped to go into the the chicken, so Biggers throws a 500-degree oven. Out in the service 12-pack of filets meat-down on the grill area, a young volunteer arranges lettuce when we can’t get the wrapping underin a bin, other people are pouring milk neath off, then about ten minutes later, and water into a menagerie of coffee tussles with the wrapping until it finally mugs, while others are now in the back concedes. cleaning off pots, pans and trays. There’s a lot of resourcefulness like Some of the patrons of the homeless that going around. Volunteer Millie shelter start to line up outside the Montgomery cuts the bad spots and closed dining room door, while others mold out of donated are helping out in the Matt Cortina bell peppers. We use at kitchen. About 60 least three different shelter patrons particikinds of goat cheese pate in a betterment from various donors to program that provides top the pizzas. guaranteed housing for Biggers says he’s nine months while they used the experience of do several chores getting random shiparound the facility. ments to be able to Today, two patrons develop a catalog of help clean dishes, but recipes specific to the Stamas says homeless shelter. patrons also serve din“One year they got ner three nights a week a shipment of 1,200 at the shelter. pounds of catfish filets At mealtime, the so we had catfish a lot Millie Montgomery slices peppers guests shuffle in, and of times. It’s a lot of I’m on the line serving for the pizza. what do we have a lot pizza. Patrons pick up of, what don’t we have a metal tray and some a lot of, and based upon that I go ahead pasta is plopped down first. Then they get the choice of meat or vegetarian and plan a meal, and because I’ve been pizza, then down to the salad bar. Then doing it for five years, I’ve got a big, they can pick up a cup of Biggers’ apple thick recipe book,” Bigger says. parfait (apple cubes, caramel, graham Biggers even uses volunteers resourcefully. Somehow, our group of 10 cracker crumbs and whipped cream) and a mug of milk. that have rarely, if ever, worked in a Some people are enthusiastic and kitchen before are all busy for three happy. Some are quiet and grateful. straight hours. No one is standing Some are out of it. Some are tired. around, everyone seems to know what everyone else is doing, and there’s beau- Some are silent. Some are white, some are Hispanic and some are black. Some tiful synergy and cooperation amongst are old and some are young. Tall and the team. It seems effortless, but short, handicapped, full smiles and Biggers says it was difficult when he cracked teeth, warm sweaters and tatfirst started volunteering five years ago tered t-shirts. It’s clear why folks volunto get the most out of volunteers. teer here, and why Biggers and the “The most challenging part, particother volunteer kitchen leaders meticuularly at the beginning, is not knowing lously plan meals every week, and why how much the volunteers can do and how much you can push them,” Biggers after a long day, they want to come and work really hard for four hours, but I says. “Part of that is just trying to help people, breaking up the things. You can ask anyway. “This group of people, the homekind of plan ahead. less, these folks are probably one of the “Like you were talking to Millie…” most appreciative groups,” Biggers says. Whoops. “You have to remind people sometimes that we’ve got a lot of slicing “You have people coming by saying, ‘Thank you’ and there’s at least a dozen and dicing to do and generally people people every night that come by and are OK with it. make it a point to say, ‘Thank you.’ I “The difficult thing is not knowing the ability and willingness to work hard worked at the same company for 35 of the folks that come in,” Biggers says. years, and it was really a great company, Biggers now has me stirring a vat of but there were weeks and weeks that went by without someone saying, caramel he brought from home and the ‘Thank you,’ so to get that immediate chopped apples from before over the feedback… It’s fun.” stove. To my left is the bubbling caulRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com dron of red sauce, behind me a volunBoulder Weekly

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SAVAGE by Dan Savage

Dear VORE: A quick dip into Wikipedia for readers who aren’t familiar with the term “vore”: “Vorarephilia (often shortened to vore) is a paraphilia wherein an individual’s sexual arousal occurs in response to a fantasy of themselves, another person, or an object eating or being eaten… The fantasy sometimes involves the victim being swallowed whole, though on some occasions the victims are chewed up, and may or may not include digestion.” Makes you wonder how many of the people who were furious with the Discovery Channel after that guy wasn’t “eaten alive” by a snake were secretly vore fetishists. Anyway, VORE, you’re not the only person on earth whose sexual fantasies revolve around or are completely dominated by something impossible or unrealizable. The lady centaur fetishist is not and never will be a lady centaur, the guy into giant women has not met and will not ever meet a 50-foot-tall woman on the subway, you are not and never will be a monster capable of swallowing another monster whole. While most people with unrealizable fetishes or fantasies enjoy “regular stuff ” all by itself, a great many do not. The latter type — kinksters who can’t get off to regular stuff — allow their impossible/ unrealizable fantasies to play out in their heads while they enjoy the intimacy and physical sensations of non–vore/centaur/ giantess stuff. Most aren’t “checked out” during sex: They’re enjoying regular stuff and irregular stuff simultaneously — they’re fully present, getting into and getting off on their partners, all while Boulder Weekly

their impossible/unrealizable fantasies play on a loop in their heads, sometimes in the background, sometimes in the foreground. So while you may be “doomed” to go through life with this fetish, VORE, you are not doomed to solo sex. You can have your fantasies and partnered sex too. But I don’t think you’ve been at this sex stuff long enough to conclude that you’re incapable of enjoying regular stuff on its own. Everyone has their go-to fantasies, and years of solo masturbation can carve a deep groove in a person’s erotic imagination. Since vore was where you always went when you were aroused prior to your boyfriend coming along, your brain may have automatically gone there when you got aroused with your boyfriend. Don’t mistake what may have been force of habit for complete dependence, or what you seem to fear most — complete dependence on your vore fantasies — could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. As for your shame about your kink (“a really warped, messed-up fetish”), you gotta shake that shit off. Take it from Tynan Fox, a kinkster and public speaker: “We don’t choose our kinks — our kinks choose us.” You didn’t choose your kink, VORE, your kink chose you. So give yourself a break, okay? Stick with sex- and kink-positive partners (like your current boyfriend), incorporate your kinks carefully and consensually, and don’t neglect your partner’s interests and possible kinks. You also might want to explore the furry/scalie community, a space where you can be (or meet) the anthropomorphic monster and/or dragon of your dreams.

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Dear Dan: I’m a straight 18-year-old girl in my first sexual relationship. Things are a little awkward, and I could chalk it up to inexperience, but here’s what I feel conflicted about: I have a vore fetish. It was a fascination for me as a young child and became a sexual thing around the time I hit puberty. I’m wondering now whether this is something I need to get off. It works well when I’m on my own, but I always thought “regular stuff ” would work too once I was actually getting some. I’ve told my boyfriend about it, and he’s more than willing to roleplay with me. But these fantasies are in-my-head-only, as they rarely feature human beings (think anthropomorphic monsters and dragons, strange as this may seem), so I don’t know if I could actually do this. Maybe we just need to hold out a little until we know what we’re doing and regular stuff will cut it after all? I have a mounting suspicion that it won’t, and I’m having trouble coming to terms with what seems to be a really warped, messed-up fetish. What if this is the only thing I can get off to? Am I doomed to solo sex forever? — Vore Only Really Excites

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Is there a patron saint of advertising or a goddess of marketing or a power animal that rules publicity and promotion? If so, I’m going to find out, then prey to them on your behalf. It’s high time for your underappreciated talents and unsung accomplishments to receive more attention. And I am convinced that the astrological moment is ripe for just such a development. Help me out here, Aries. What can you do to get your message out better? What tricks do you have for attracting the interest of those who don’t know yet about your wonders? Polish up your self-presentation, please.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

During his 67 years of life, Taurus-born Leonardo da Vinci achieved excellence in 12 different fields, from painting to engineering to anatomy. Today he is regarded as among the most brilliant humans who ever lived. “His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf,” said one observer. “He towered above all other artists through the strength and the nobility of his talents,” said another. Yet on his deathbed, Leonardo confessed, “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” Typical for a Taurus, he underestimated himself. It’s very important that you not do the same, especially in the coming weeks. The time has come for you to give yourself more of the credit and respect you deserve.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Where you have been and what you have done will be of little importance in the coming weeks. Both your mistakes and your triumphs will be irrelevant. In my estimation, you have a sacred duty to spy on the future and reconnoiter the pleasures and challenges that lie ahead. So I suggest you head off toward the frontier with an innocent gleam in your eye and a cheerful hunger for interesting surprises. How’s your Wildness Quotient? If it’s in a slump, pump it up.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Will you ever find that treasured memento you misplaced? Is there any chance of reviving a dream you abandoned? You are in a phase when these events are more likely than usual to happen. The same is true about an opportunity that you frittered away or a missing link that you almost tracked down but ultimately failed to secure. If you will ever have any hope of getting another shot at those lost joys, it would be in the coming weeks. For best results, purge the regret and remorse you still feel about the mistakes you think you made once upon a time.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

In the early 1300s, the people of the Mexica tribe had no homeland. They had wandered for centuries through the northern parts of what we now call Mesoamerica. According to legend, that changed in 1323, when their priests received a vision of an eagle eating a snake while perched at the top of a prickly pear cactus. They declared that this was the location of the tribe’s future power spot. Two years later, the prophecy was fulfilled. On an island in the middle of a lake, scouts spied the eagle, snake, and cactus. And that was where the tribe built the town of Tenochtitlan, which ultimately became the center of an empire. Today that place is called Mexico City. Have you had an equivalent vision, Leo? If you haven’t yet, I bet you will soon. Go in search of it. Be alert.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

By the end of the 16th century, nutmeg was in high demand throughout Europe. It was valued as a spice, medicine, and preservative. There was only one place in the world where it grew: on the Indonesian island of Run. The proto-capitalists of the Dutch East India Company gained dominion over Run, and enslaved the local population to work on plantations. They fully controlled the global sale of nutmeg, which allowed them to charge exorbitant prices. But ultimately their monopoly collapsed. Here’s one reason why: Pigeons ate nutmeg seeds on Run, then flew to other islands and pooped them out, enabling

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plants to grow outside of Dutch jurisdiction. I see this story as an apt metaphor for you in the coming months, Virgo. What’s your equivalent of the pigeons? Can you find unlikely allies to help you evade the controlling force that’s limiting your options?

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

Have you triggered any brilliant breakthroughs lately? Have you made any cathartic departures from the way things have always been done? Have you thought so far outside the box that you can’t even see the box any more? Probably not. The last few weeks have been a time of retrenchment and stabilization for you. But I bet you will start going creatively crazy very soon — and I mean that in the best sense. To ensure maximum health and well-being, you simply must authorize your imagination to leap and whirl and dazzle.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

The cassava plant produces a starchy root that’s used as food by a half billion people all over the planet. No one can simply cook it up and eat it, though. In its raw state, it contains the poisonous chemical cyanide, which must be removed by careful preparation. An essential first step is to soak it in water for at least 18 hours. I see this process as a metaphor for the work you have ahead of you, Scorpio. A new source of psychological and spiritual sustenance will soon be available, but you will have to purge its toxins before you can use and enjoy it.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) didn’t like to work hard, and yet he was also prolific. In fact, his desire to avoid strenuous exertion was an important factor in his abundant output. He got things done fast. His most famous opera, The Barber of Seville, took him just 13 days to finish. Another trick he relied on to reduce his workload was plagiarizing himself. He sometimes recycled passages from his earlier works for use in new compositions. Feeling good was another key element in his approach to discipline. If given a choice, he would tap into his creative energy while lounging in bed or hanging out with his buddies. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I recommend you consider strategies like his.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Each hour of every day, the sun offers us more energy than oil, gas and coal can provide in an entire year. Sadly, much of our star’s generous gift goes to waste. Our civilization isn’t set up to take advantage of the bounty. Is there a comparable dynamic in your personal life, Capricorn? Are you missing out on a flow of raw power and blessings simply because you are ignorant of it or haven’t made the necessary arrangements to gather it? If so, now would be an excellent time to change your ways.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, 2015 is the year you can get totally serious about doing what you were born to do. You will be given the chance to slough off all that’s fake and irrelevant and delusory. You will be invited to fully embrace the central purpose of your destiny. If you’re interested in taking up that challenge, I suggest you adopt Oscar Wilde’s motto: “Nothing is serious except passion.” Your primary duty is to associate primarily with people and places and situations that feed your deepest longings.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“Give up all hope for a better past,” writes Emily Fragos in her poem “Art Brut.” That’s generally sound advice. But I think you may be able to find an exception to its truth in the coming weeks. As you work to forgive those who have trespassed against you, and as you revise your interpretations of bygone events, and as you untie knots that have weighed you down and slowed you up for a long time, you just may be able to create a better past. Dare to believe that you can transform the shape and feel of your memories.

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ran across several stories about Bethenny Frankel, a reality show personality, who, after apparently being spotted coming out of an Aspen dispensary and tweeting her delight at the experience, is rumored to be wanting to cash in on the cannabis business. Frankel developed the Skinnygirl ready-to-drink cocktail line, and “insiders” say she wants to sell a special strain that would not induce the munchies. This is hardly news. Google “munchies and pot” and you’ll find recommendations for strains that don’t necessarily force the unsuspecting into wolfing an entire giant bag of jalapeño potato chips in 15 minutes. Recent studies are indicating that cannabis opens olfactory receptors, which then helps activate appetite. But really, “the munchies” concept seems little more than a marketing device, developed and perfected from the 1970s, when pot was highly illegal yet flourishing and depicted in a long parade of stoner movies and advertising, from Cheech and Chong and Animal House to Jeff Spicola in Fast Times at Ridgemont High up through Seth Rogen’s Pineapple Express. What this really has to do with is branding, which in this case involves taking a product nobody is particularly looking for and, through association with a hypothetically “famous” person (I had never heard of Frankel or Skinnygirl before this) induce people into spending money on said product. A similar tactic is being carried out by the family of Bob Marley, who has already been selling men’s, women’s and

children’s clothing, bags, hoodies, headwear and other décor under the late reggae star’s name for several years. In November, the family announced it was giving permission to use it on a new line of cannabis- and hemp-based products. “The brand, dubbed Marley Natural, marks the first time the family’s name would adorn packages of can-

nabis products ranging from strains similar to those Bob might have smoked in his homeland Jamaica to concentrates, oils and infused lotions sold in countries and U.S. states that have taken steps to decriminalize and legalize pot use and sales,” according to a Reuters story. It will be interesting to see whether Frankel or Marley will be able to establish a national product line that will distinguish itself from any of its competitors. Marley would seem to have the edge in that he is the musician most associated with cannabis. But whether people will line up and pay premium prices for “strains similar to those Bob might have smoked” or a chic line of

diet pot is still a question mark. Every national story I’ve read about Skinnygirl or Marley Natural says that products will be in stores in states where cannabis is legal, including Colorado, the latter perhaps by the end of this year or early in 2016. And while it is possible that Marley Natural will be available in Washington state — its operations are there — it probably won’t be on Colorado shelves that quickly, if at all. That’s because Colorado has fairly strict laws about cannabis business ownerships. Bob Marley or Skinnygirl or anybody else who wants to sell their products here would have to obtain a state license, which requires a two-year state residency, and they must create their products here. It’s one of the most important Colorado cannabis regulations that, at least for now, helps keeps big business and out-of-state money at bay and gives local entrepreneurs a leg up while they try to establish their businesses for the longer haul. That doesn’t mean that the Colorado law will be in place forever, and I’m guessing there are already those who are lobbying legislators for those very changes that would allow outside interests into the state. But for the time being, Colorado won’t be seeing any national brands, at least for awhile. Besides being good for local businesses, it gives consumers more possibilities and choices that a national brand would most likely eliminate for expediency and efficiency. An interesting story from Frisco: The Summit Daily in that mountain town

reported that a local Holiday Inn tried to stop a cannabis dispensary from opening next door. The fracas took place at a city council meeting January 13, when councilmembers were reconsidering and updating marijuana codes for retail and medical businesses. The hotel argued that its customers would be turned off by a dispensary and would then look elsewhere for lodging. Representatives said that families were complaining of cannabis odor in the hotel, and many were uncomfortable talking to their children about it. It even asked council to change zoning rules so that the hotel’s temporary quarters for employees would be considered full-time housing, which would disallow the dispensary. Town officials, while passing some changes in the town’s regulations and code, shot down every one of the hotel’s arguments. More than one person reminded the owners that cannabis is legal in Colorado, and that parents do their children a disservice by not talking to them about it. And is legal cannabis hurting the lodging business? Being a ski town, frequent users of the hotel include racers, which prompted a response worth repeating from Tom Wilkinson, a former ski coach and now Frisco mayor. “Believe me, I coached ski racing for a long time,” he said. “And if you can find a ski racer that doesn’t smoke pot, I’ll give you $100.” You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/category/features/ weed-between-the-lines/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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