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Goodbye, civil liberties
[“Obama announces changes to NSA surveillance,” boulderweekly.com, Jan. 17.] The dystopian fantasies of yesteryear are now a reality. We’ve allowed the coming of an age where the civil liberties our forefathers fought so hard for are being eroded by the day. Freedom of press, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are mere ghostly images of their original
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osa Parks became a powerful symbol of courage and defiance in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s by simply refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus, as the racist culture of that time dictated she was supposed to do. Only, there was nothing simple about it. As personally courageous as she was, Ms. Parks was not alone that day, nor was her defiance simply the spontaneous reac-
tion of a woman who was tired — tired after a long day of work, tired of domineering white rule, tired of going along to get along. Parks was part of a deep and wide grassroots movement for AfricanAmerican rights and dignity. It was this movement that developed the sit-down strategy, trained Parks for this moment of refusal, and surrounded her with the support and love she needed to withstand the clamor of hate that followed. Rosa Parks was not alone on that bus. Half a century later, a new movement for justice is following in the footsteps and in the spirit of those earlier civil rights activists. Steadily building broad grassroots coalitions of civil rights groups, labor, church leaders, students, teachers, environmentalists, retirees and others, this movement is literally moving through Southern states. It is gaining popular support by directly confronting the immorality of extremist governors, legislators and corporate lobbyists who’re
regarding the latest industry lawsuits against local communities and citizens. Indeed, elections matter and so does democracy. Through its power and influence, the oil and gas industry is not only risking the public health and quality of Colorado life, it is attempting to eliminate the voice of the public altogether. The industry’s endless lobbying, see LETTERS Page 10
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denying health care to poor families, preventing both the elderly and students from voting, gutting state funding for public education, and generally legislating a permanent state of inequality and injustice for millions of people. This promising progressive uprising began last year in North Carolina as the “Moral Monday” movement, named for its weekly peaceful protests at the state Capitol. It has now spread to “Moral Monday Georgia” and “Truthful Tuesday” in South Carolina. To follow its progress and offer support, go to www.naacpnc.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 23, 2014 7
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socialized to get elected. It is that the American political system currently is structured in such a way that they can’t compromise. Specifically, it has become nearly impossible for politicians to do anything in secret anymore. Unfortunately, meaningful political compromises can only be negotiated in secret, and the bigger the compromise, the more secret the negotiations have to be. A National Secret Meetings Act would be an important step toward restoring a robust level of secrecy to public life. Such a law would be the opposite of the “open meetings” laws (sometimes called “sunshine laws”) that progressives and journalists are obsessively fond of. A National Secret Meetings Act would not only allow important public deliberations to be conducted in secret, it would mandate closed meetings when “matters of national importance” are being considered. It would also provide that politicians who leak the proceedings of such meeting be removed from office for doing so and subject to criminal penalties. “Matters of critical national importance” would include things like the federal budget, taxes, entitlements, health care, national defense, global warming and whether the NCAA Boulder Weekly
danish plan should hold a tournament to determine college football’s national champion. More mundane matters, like a resolution declaring Michael Bloomberg’s birthday National Learned Helplessness Day, would still be considered in public. For more than a generation, it has been a received truth in American politics that “the public’s business ought to be done in public” and that open meetings are an unqualified good. And for more than a generation political polarization and gridlock has been on the rise, and the ability of political leaders to solve problems has been in a death spiral. The reason is simple. Solutions to big, important national problems can rarely be fashioned without leaders agreeing to compromises that require them to abandon core beliefs and break longstanding political promises for the common good. Politicians can’t make those sorts of compromises in public. That’s because if politicians are seen using core beliefs and promises as bargaining chips — say opposition to tax increases in the case of Republicans, or opposition to entitlement cuts in the case of Democrats — their base supporters will tear them to pieces. Here’s a dirty little political secret: Politicians who go into negotiations saying, “We’re prepared to compromise, but we won’t compromise on principles,” are lying to you or lying to themselves. The truth is that any negotiation that doesn’t put core principles and values on the table isn’t worth the haggling time. Negotiations that will produce the sort of “statesman-like” compromises that most Americans would like to see can only be fashioned behind closed doors — where negotiators can speak with brutal candor without fear of blow-back, and where anything and everything can be put on the table and taken off it as required in the course of negotiations. To be sure, there are those who will argue that no good ever comes out of secret negotiations. Hogwash. The single most important political negotiation in American history was conducted entirely in secret. That was the negotiation that took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to Sept. 17, 1787. It produced the United States Constitution. The Constitutional Convention’s first order of business (after electing George Washington as president of the Convention) was to close its deliberations to the public and swear all members to secrecy. The convention was attended by some of the greatest and most passionBoulder Weekly
ate revolutionaries in human history. Compromise is often an acquired taste with such men. Yet the document they created was a towering work of political compromise — and it was all done in secret. Most historians agree that it couldn’t have been done in public. Here’s how the late historian Catherine Drinker Bowen described the convention in her 1966 book Miracle at Philadelphia: “In the Constitutional Convention, the spirit of compromise reigned in
grace and glory. As Washington presided, it sat on his shoulder like the dove. Men rise to speak and one sees them struggle with the bias of birthright, locality, statehood. … One sees them change their minds, fight against pride and, when the moment comes, admit their error.” If you doubt the value of closed meetings for fashioning compromises for the public good, ask yourselves this question: Do you think the Philadelphia convention would succeed
in producing the Constitution if it were held today and its sessions were open to the public and to swarms of journalistic harpies hyper-ventillating over every twist and turn in the deliberations? Closed meetings don’t guarantee that attempts at compromise will succeed. However, open meetings all but guarantee that they will fail. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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its spare-no-expense attempts to influence lawmaking and local citizens’ votes, and its litigation against the people of Longmont, Lafayette, Fort Collins and Broomfield all show quite clearly that hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas extraction cannot function in an environment of democracy and community participation. And, of course, if state law does not respect the democratic will of Colorado citizens, the law and the politicians that support it must be changed to bring our government back to its intended purpose. This means we will need to address the four key legal doctrines that give corporations superiority over communities: state preeminence, Dillon’s Rule, corporate personhood and the corporate commerce clause. The legal proceedings against four communities and hundreds of thousands of citizens will determine if Colorado law places corporations as the legal masters of the public, which would turn the environmental issue of fossil fuel extraction into a potential civil rights movement. I think we’re all in agreement that people have rights to clean air and water, freedom from chemical trespass, sovereignty and community self-determination. If so, then we (citizens, communities, legislators and state officials) must conclude that peoples’ rights supersede corporate rights. We look forward to Rep. Polis’ support on this critically important issue. Mandi Papich and John Lamb, East Boulder County United/Lafayette
Californians are wimps
I remember attending a plastics conference in Colorado Springs over a decade ago and hearing a local speaker say that his ancestors made it out to Colorado but apparently did not have the right stuff to make it the rest of the way to California. Well, it seems to me that the ouster of Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron, as a result of their war on guns, proves that ultimately the ones who made it to California evolved into wimps! You have no idea how such a victory for our dwindling freedoms restores the faith of the rest of us Americans that all is not lost. This news and the news that Vladimir Putin may have averted WW3 truly makes this a moment to cherish. Joseph DuPont/Towanda, Pa.
Christy’s bridge debacle
Had any other of our 49 states experienced congestion like we saw on
the George Washington Bridge connecting New York and New Jersey, any other governor would have been on the phone demanding answers as to the cause and persons responsible within an hour of the first report. (The fact that it occurred during the week of the anniversary of 9/11 should throw up a bright red flag by all itself.) Our own I-25, had it been similarly blocked for four days, with subsequent missed appointments, deliveries, kids missing most of their first days of school, EMTs delayed, etc., would result in Gov. Hickenlooper looking for a new gig at the very least. Or being charged with domestic terrorism at the other end of the scale. All Americans can understand the frustrations with traffic jams, whatever the cause. And if Gov. Christy is found innocent of all charges, he is still the governor on whose watch interstate commerce was disrupted, infrastructure compromised, lives endangered and American citizens prevented from conducting business as usual. However the result of the investigations turn out that [the traffic jam] appears to be business as usual for the governor of the state that watched the WTC destroyed from across the river. “Business as usual” ceased on 9/11/2001. Tommy Holeman/Niwot
No new Iran sanctions
From the agreement to eradicate Syria’s chemical weapons to the deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program, 2013 will be remembered as a year of historic diplomatic accomplishments. I hope 2014 is not the year the U.S. Senate passes sanctions that sabotage our diplomats’ achievements. I hope Sen. Mark Udall and Sen. Michael Bennet will oppose the MenendezKirk-Schumer legislation that would increase sanctions on Iran and encourage Israel to launch a preemptive attack on Iran. If these sanctions passed, it would violate the first-step nuclear deal and likely lead to the collapse of the negotiations with Iran, which is why the White House has issued a veto threat. The Senate should heed advice from a recent U.S. Intelligence Community assessment, which stated that “new sanctions would undermine the prospects for a successful comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran.” The Friends Committee on National Legislation has more on how Congress can support, not sabotage, diplomacy with Iran: fcnl.org/iran. Sara Avery/Lafayette Boulder Weekly
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Cracking the dome International trade agreements threaten area fracking bans and moratoriums by Joel Dyer
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hese days, if you take a drive down County Line Road, the narrow strip of pavement dividing Weld and Boulder counties, it might just remind you of an episode of Under the Dome, assuming that you’re familiar with that poorly acted, made-for-TV sci-fi show. The point is that on the eastern, Weld County side of the road, drilling rigs, producing wells and production platforms, with their off-gassing tanks and burners, butt right up to the pavement. But they don’t cross over, for the most part. It’s as if some invisible barrier is keeping the oil and gas industry at bay. And, in fact, that’s pretty much the case. The tsunami of drilling that has sent Colorado’s Wattenberg Field roiling with its 22,000-plus wells and production platforms, forever changing the air and water above and below every community in its path, is for now having its western advance blocked by an invisible wall composed of the area’s fracking bans and moratoriums that have been put into place by Boulder County, Broomfield and the cities of Fort Collins, Boulder, Lafayette and Longmont. Unfortunately, this citizen-driven legal maneuvering that has, for the time being, prevented the irreversible destruction of the Front Range landscape may itself now be threatened by another unseen power, the secret tribunals that oversee the investor/state arbitration process that occurs when lawsuits are filed under the provisions of our nation’s international trade agreements. On Jan. 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into full force and effect. While the agreement has resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in 12 January 23, 2014
trade among the U.S., Canada and Mexico, it has also created its share of problems, particularly for the environment and the poor. NAFTA’s 1,700 pages of legalese contain many provisions that are rarely talked about, let alone understood by the general population. To put it into layman’s terms, NAFTA was supposedly intended to create a level playing field by ensuring that corporations in any one of the three signatory countries could operate in the other two countries under the same rules and regulations. For instance, Canada can’t make a U.S. corporation abide by any restraints that are not being equally applied to Canadian corporations in the same industry. And if Canada has stricter rules than the U.S. when it comes to a particular industry, then the U.S. corporation can choose to take legal action against Canada for making it too difficult and expensive for the corporation to do business in that country. NAFTA, like the other international trade agreements, literally elevates the rights of corporations and their investors to the same status as the nations themselves — and far above the status of mere citizens or their duly-elected local governments. The section of the trade agreement that seems to most often come up in disputes filed by corporations is NAFTA’s Chapter 11, and more specifically articles 1105 and 1110. These sections of the trade agreement provide a corporation with a guarantee that it will be treated fairly in accordance with international law and make it illegal to expropriate the rights or property of investors unless there is a public purpose, due process and the payment of compensation. All of this sounds at least somewhat reasonable until you look at the types of
lawsuits being filed by corporations under NAFTA and realize that the outcomes of these disputes are being determined by secret three-judge tribunals that bypass the signatory nations’ court systems entirely. In a report titled “Trading Away Our Climate? How Investment Rules Threaten the Environment and Climate Protection,” the Sierra Club states, “Among the most harmful components of investment rules are vaguely worded provisions that guarantee investors a ‘minimum standard of treatment’ and ‘fair and equitable treatment.’ When a corporation feels that its rights have been violated or the monetary value of its investment has been reduced by the introduction of a new law or policy, the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism allows foreign firms to bypass domestic court systems and sue governments in private trade tribunals that lack transparency and public accountability. Corporations have used investor-state dispute settlement provisions to challenge environmental, land-use, energy and other socially beneficial laws passed by democratically elected governments.” As a result of the secrecy provisions of NAFTA and the other trade agreements, the public is never made privy to the existence of the lawsuits or the legal arguments being made unless there is a leak of some sort. Even the outcomes of the lawsuits are rarely publicized, despite the fact that hundreds of millions or even billions of taxpayer dollars are being handed over to private corporations. At this time there are more than $6 billion worth of lawsuits pending against the U.S. government as a result of our international trade agreements. If you’re wondering how this affects you beyond the taxpayer burden, consider that more than 500 lawsuits have been filed under trade agreements, the majority in an effort to overturn laws
Looking south, with Weld County to the east and Boulder County to the west, County Line Road offers visual evidence of the importance and impact of the area’s fracking bans and moratoriums. It’s as if there is an invisible barrier holding back the oil and gas industry’s tsunami of drilling and fracking activity.
that have been put in place to slow or reverse global warming or to protect us from other environmental calamities. These are hardly the types of binding legal decisions that most people believe should be determined on their behalf in secret tribunals run by unknown and unaccountable political appointees. Sadly, global warming isn’t the only corporate target under the trade agreements. Removing local environmental regulations on oil and gas extraction and even dispensing of the right to study the environmental impacts of exporting natural gas seem to be the latest targets in the corporate crosshairs. This includes the attempt to use NAFTA and other trade agreements to overturn local bans and moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing. To understand this process of undermining local fracking laws by way of international trade agreements, there are a couple of case studies that shed light on the subject. First, there is the case of Canadian corporation Glamis Gold Inc., which used Chapter 11 of NAFTA to challenge certain California mining regulations that were created to protect the environment as well as the rights of Native Americans who had cultural resources located in and around the Glamis mining claim. Glamis said in its NAFTA claim against the U.S. government that the California laws — which dealt with the final remediation of the Glamis mining site and were passed after the company acquired its lease — would make gold mining the lease so expensive that it would be considered an illegal “taking” of its property under the rules of the trade agreement. In the end, Glamis lost its $50 million arbitration case in part because the price of gold nearly tripled by the end of Boulder Weekly
the NAFTA proceedings. The tribunal fractured along the horizontal portions found that at more than $900 per ounce to crack open the formation with a of gold, Glamis could comply with the highly pressurized mixture of more than California environmental and cultural 500 toxic chemicals, sand and water. protection laws and still operate a profOn July 28, 2006, Lone Pine applied itable mining business, or sell its lease to the Quebec Ministry of Natural for a profit if it chose not to commence Resources for an exploration permit mining operations. covering approximately 11,600 hectares Despite this finding, the NAFTA (28,664 acres) of land located under the tribunal overseeing the Glamis case set a St. Lawrence River. It was the compadangerous precedent for future arbitrany’s intention to drill and frack the shale tions concerning environmental laws. formation under the river itself. Remarks from the arbitrators made it Well, it turns out that the people of clear they agreed with the Canadian Quebec and Boulder County have a corporation that if California’s new good deal in common. The idea of drillenvironmental laws had caused the ing and fracking under the St. Lawrence Glamis mining claim to be unprofitable was as motivating to the citizens of to operate, it would likely have found in Quebec as the idea of fracking under the corporation’s favor. Longmont’s Union Reservoir was to This interpretation of the Glamis Longmont residents in 2011. The peoruling has led to several recent claims ple of Quebec became concerned about under NAFTA based on similar circum- the impacts of drilling and fracking and its potential for air and water contamistances, including the recent notice of arbitration filed by Lone Pine Joel Dyer Resources, Inc. against the government of Canada as a result of Quebec’s moratorium on fracking. The Lone Pine/Quebec fracking case has Front Range roots. It all started when Denver-based oil and gas company Forest Oil decided to get into the Utica shale gas play in Quebec by first partnering with a Canadian company and then taking over the bulk of the play. To make a complicated chain of title simple, suffice it to say that nation. the Denver-based company eventually formed a Canadian offshoot called Lone As a result, they took to the streets, Pine and eventually distributed its inter- and eventually their democratically est in Lone Pine to its shareholders. elected government responded with a Lone Pine subsequently became a pubmoratorium on drilling and fracking so licly traded company and created its that the whole shale gas extraction proown subsidiary called Lone Pine cess could be studied. Resources that at least had an office in Quebec’s citizens liked the idea, but the United States. Lone Pine wasn’t so enthusiastic about This is important because it demon- it. The company saw the moratorium as strates how simple it is for companies to an illegal taking under Chapter 11 of create entities in other countries, which NAFTA and used its U.S. subsidiary to makes it possible for virtually any oil file a $250 million lawsuit against the and gas company to file for arbitration, Canadian government. even against the country where it is priSo what happens to Quebec’s frackmarily located. ing moratorium now? Should the In other words, with the filing of the Canadian government lose the case right paperwork, Canadian companies before the NAFTA secret tribunal it can make claims against Canada under will have two choices: It can pay Lone NAFTA and, of course, U.S. companies Pine the $250 million or it can settle can make claims against the U.S., simthe case, which is the far more concernply by creating a Canadian or Mexican ing outcome. subsidiary, which can be as insignificant When the federal government of a as a single rented office. nation settles a case under NAFTA or The Utica Shale gas play in Quebec any of the trade agreements, it is basithat first interested Forest Oil is similar cally committing to use its power to to the shale gas plays occurring all remove the offending laws or statutes across the U.S. The wells are drilled to that caused the original corporate lawthe depth of the shale and then curved suit to be filed. In other words, in a setto drill horizontally for substantial distlement, the federal government sides tances through the shale formation. with a corporation over a democratically After drilling, the wells are hydraulically elected government at the state, county Boulder Weekly
or community level. Lone Pine’s NAFTA case demonstrates just how vulnerable Colorado’s fracking bans and moratoriums really are to international trade agreement suits. Consider that in Boulder County, Encana is the oil and gas company with the most pending drilling permits that have been put on hold due to the county’s five-year moratorium on fracking. Encana is a Canadian corporation and therefore could file for arbitration under NAFTA at any time. But it’s not just Encana. As the Forest Oil/Lone Pine/Lone Pine Resources case shows, any company owning mineral leases under Boulder County, Broomfield, Longmont, Fort Collins or Lafayette could potentially file suit under NAFTA. Anadarko Petroleum recently sold its Canadian subsidiary, but there is nothing stopping
in an actual court system, then the secret tribunals of the trade agreements will likely be the next step by an industry that tends to be able to buy its way to its desired political outcomes. Ilana Solmon, trade representative for the Sierra Club, told BW that such “investor-state arbitration offers corporations a second bite at the apple,” referring to the fact that when a company fails in the real court system it can always take its case before a tribunal under trade agreement provisions. The pressure to overturn local bans and moratoriums on fracking is only going to increase with the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which, like natural gas extraction and fracking, is enthusiastically supported by President Barack Obama. The TPP trade agreement will initially include 12 Pacific Rim countries: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States The oil and gas industry wants the west side and Vietnam, but could eventually of County Line Road to look like the east side. And the secret tribunals of NAFTA and include every Pacific Rim nation. TPP could make that happen. Obama has asked Congress for fast-track authority on trade agreements, which would allow him to sign the TPP into law while limiting Congressional debate and eliminating any possible amendments to the trade agreement. It is an understatement to say that TPP is the oil and gas industry’s dream come true. In many circles the TPP is being referred to it from starting a new one, which would as the “gas export agreement.” Once signed into law, the TPP give it the ability to sue under NAFTA. ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, would likely make any local laws British Petroleum and literally hundreds restricting the drilling or fracking of gas illegal under federal law. Even doing of other oil and gas companies, large research on the significant environmenand small, have subsidiaries in every tal impact of exporting gas would be North American country, as well as prohibited as a result of TPP. That’s many other countries around the world. Any oil and gas corporation wanting because of a little-known change in wording to a 1938 Congressional act. to challenge local fracking laws along In 1938, Congress passed the the Front Range need only to own a Natural Gas Act. The act was originally mineral lease that it can no longer created because pipeline companies had develop due to a fracking ban or moramonopolies on gas transport and were torium, transfer all or part of the intercharging exorbitant prices to move gas. est in that lease to a foreign subsidiary, and then file suit under one of the many As an additional provision of the act, international trade agreements to which exporting or importing natural gas to or from any other country was expressly the U.S. is a signatory. forbidden. It likely hasn’t happened yet only But in 1982, New York wanted to because the arbitration process is both long and expensive, and there is no need import natural gas from Canada, so the to venture down this path until the out- act was amended to allow for such imports. So when it comes to internacomes of the current lawsuits against tional trade agreements, the language of Longmont, Fort Collins and Lafayette, the Natural Gas Act has been radically which have been filed by the State of altered to the following: Colorado and/or the Colorado Oil and (c) Expedited application and approval Gas Association and certain companies, process are determined. For purposes of subsection (a) of this If the fracking bans and moratorisection, the importation of the natural gas ums are still standing at the conclusion of the current lawsuits that are being argued publicly in front of actual judges See DOME Page 14 January 23, 2014 13
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referred to in subsection (b) of this section, or the exportation of natural gas to a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas, shall be deemed to be consistent with the public interest, and applications for such importation or exportation shall be granted without modification or delay. What this means is that once TPP is enacted, it becomes illegal to create any U.S. law at the federal, state or local level that would restrict or even delay the exporting of natural gas. Once TPP is law, environmental impact studies of gas exporting become illegal, as they would cause delay or even potentially disallow gas exports. Once TPP is in effect, U.S. citizens lose their right to have any say over how much of our nation’s gas reserves the private oil and gas industry is allowed to export. With prices of natural gas in Asia and Europe ranging between three and five times higher than prices in the U.S., some experts are predicting that more than half of all the gas produced in the United States will eventually be exported under trade agreements. Not only will the oil and gas industry extract massive profits as a result of higher prices overseas, but with so much gas being exported, domestic natural gas prices will likely double or even triple as availability dwindles due to the demands of the export market. That will undoubtedly be very bad for the average citizen, but it will create a double windfall for the gas industry. And at what price? This huge increase in domestic gas prices will result in major increases in the prices paid by consumers for many common goods. The chemical industry and other major manufacturers have been warning for several years now that their products’ prices will skyrocket as the result of unfettered gas exports, and these price increases that will be passed on to consumers could be a threat to the current, soft economic recovery. In addition, if domestic gas prices increase significantly, then coal will once again be the fuel of choice for generating power, effectively eliminating the last contrived excuse for why we should be viewing natural gas as a bridge fuel to a sustainable energy future. According to a Sierra Club report titled “Raw Deal,” “Large-scale [liquefied natural gas] exports, which the TPP would facilitate, would put more pressure to frack in the United States in order to feed foreign markets; require significant new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, such as pipelines and LNG terminals, at a time when we should be investing in renewable energy;
news increase climate emissions; and shift the energy markets back toward coal due to the increase in natural gas prices that would result from significant LNG exports.” The TPP’s threat to Front Range fracking bans and moratoriums far exceeds that posed by NAFTA and other existing international trade agreements for several reasons. Canada and Mexico are both oil and gas exporters, meaning that they have more than enough fossil fuels to meet their own needs. So their willingness, along with that of U.S. oil companies, to file for arbitration under NAFTA is really limited to a big-picture desire to protect the industry’s future by swatting down any citizens’ initiatives that might prove a threat to future profits, should they proliferate throughout the country. But the countries signing on to TPP need our natural gas badly. And they know that TPP’s passage will give them the right to sue the U.S. if any community passes any law that gets in the way of their gas imports. And one can only assume that with tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars worth of Front Range oil and gas at stake, the U.S. oil and gas industry has plenty of incentive to use its Asian subsidiaries to bring suits before TPP’s secret tribunals, where the outcomes are almost guaranteed. That’s because it is highly unlikely that the federal government will choose to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to pay off oil companies, as opposed to simply settling the suits by agreeing to eliminate local drilling, fracking and environmental laws that could be viewed as an impediment to the gas-exporting business under the industry-friendly TPP. Barring some miracle of grassroots activism that halts the TPP process, Front Range communities may soon find themselves the subject of international trade agreement lawsuits filed by oil and gas corporations with offices spread from China and Japan to Chile and Peru. The vote to fast-track TPP, the vote that will effectively eliminate any Congressional oversight of the controversial trade agreement, could come any day now. Colorado Reps. Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter are among a handful of House Democrats who did not sign onto a letter stating their opposition to the president’s request to fast-track the TPP. The fast track vote is currently too close to call. Polis can be contacted at 202-2252161. Perlmutter’s number is 202-2252645. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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ampaign finance reports show industries, is regulated by the PUC. that Gov. John Hickenlooper’s From 2006 through 2012, Vaad controversial appointee to the received at least $7,800 from the energy Public Utilities Commission industry, including the Xcel contribution. has received money from an More than $6,400 of that amount came Xcel Energy political action committee from individuals, companies and groups and others in industries that he is now associated with the oil and gas industry. involved in regulating. BW found that during those same Glenn Vaad, a former Weld County years Vaad received contributions from commissioner who served as a state repre- other industries that he is now involved sentative from 2007 to 2013, has been in regulating: at least $1,700 from the under fire because of his leadership role in telecommunications industry and more the right-wing American than $3,100 from the Legislative Exchange transportation industry Council (ALEC). That (including trucking and group, which has camrail interests). In addition, paigned to overturn he got about $3,700 in renewable energy stancontributions from prodards nationally, named business groups. him “state legislator of the Any financial links to year” in 2012, according to regulated industries raise conflict of interest quesdocuments provided to tions because Colorado the Center for Media and law intends the PUC to Democracy by a whistlebe an independent panel blower. giving “paramount considCritics also point to PUC appointee Glenn Vaad eration” to the public Vaad’s possible conflicts of interest. The commissioninterest with Xcel Energy, ers act both in a quasi-legislative role (in which is regulated by the powerful threerulemaking procedures), and in a quasimember PUC and is battling the city of Boulder over its utility municipalization judicial role, during litigated proceedings. efforts. Vaad benefitted from an ALEC The PUC has its roots in the robber“scholarship fund” to which former baron days of the early Colorado railroad ALEC member Xcel contributed, accord- wars, as rival companies sought to saboing to whistleblower groups, and Xcel tage each other to gain advantage. After pays hundreds of thousands of dollars a gangs of gunmen squared off at the year to the Edison Electric Institute, an roundhouse in Pueblo during a dispute industry group and ALEC member. over a lucrative rail contract to the mines Vaad, who was sworn in on an interat Leadville, political support for regulaim basis Jan. 8, still must be confirmed by tion grew at the state and federal levels. the Senate. The Colorado Legislature created a conA BW inquiry into campaign finance tested railroad commission in 1910, reports filed by Vaad with the Colorado which became part of the newly created Secretary of State from 2006 through Public Utilities Commission in 1913. 2011 reveals even more possible conflicts The other members of the PUC are of interest, including contributions that Chairman Joshua Epel and Pamela Vaad received directly from the Xcel Patton. Epel previously served as chair of Energy Western Political Action the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Committee (PAC) of Colorado. Commission and has worked on regional According to those records and Xcel offi- air quality issues. Patton served on the La cials, that PAC gave a total of $1,400 to Plata Electric Association board of direcVaad during the six-year period: $200 in tors for 12 years. 2006, $400 in 2008, $400 in 2010 and When asked about Vaad’s possible $400 in 2011. (Mike Beasley, Xcel’s conflicts of interest, Colorado Ethics regional government affairs director, is Watch Director Luis Toro told BW, also listed as giving Vaad a $13 in-kind “Businesses spend money on politics for a donation for a fundraising luncheon.) reason: They look at political spending as The PUC regulates several industries, an investment that will pay off with including electricity, gas pipelines, natural favorable government policies. Anything gas, rail, telecommunications and eleelse would violate management’s responments of transportation, like towing carri- sibility to shareholders.” ers. Xcel, among other companies in these But Toro adds that his organization Boulder Weekly
has learned not to read too much into any individual legislator’s receipt of energy industry money. “It could be hard to find a former legislator that doesn’t have these types of contributions in their reports,” he says. “That doesn’t mean there is no reason for concern. It’s legitimate to ask questions about Vaad’s relationship with these donors.” While the amounts of money involved are relatively small, Toro acknowledges that sometimes it’s the relationships that matter. “He should explain fully why he should be trusted to deal fairly with those who come before the PUC when he has pre-existing relationships with some of the regulated community from his days in the legislature,” he says. Some of the contributions might be explained by the committees Vaad served on at the Capitol. As a state legislator in 2011-12, he chaired the House Transportation Committee and sat on the House Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources Committee. In 2009-10 he served on the Transportation and Energy Committee, among others. (Most of his professional career was spent working for the Colorado Department of Transportation.) Vaad did not respond to requests for comment. Some renewable energy advocates are concerned that, because of his financial ties, Vaad might favor Xcel’s pending request on net-metering for solar-generated electricity. Xcel says customers who don’t generate their own solar power subsidize the cost of transmitting it for those who do. The company says it wants to make the rate structure more equitable, but the proposed changes could mean higher rates for people who do produce their own power — a disincentive that could slow the transition to renewable energy in Colorado, according to Eric Westerhoff, a Breckenridge-based solar energy expert. Westerhoff says Xcel rate calculations should include the benefits of solar power generation. The huge growth of solar has enabled the company to defer the capital costs of building new power plants and transmission capacity, he says. “If we had no solar, we’d be buying electricity generated at the Craig power plant ... and the utility company would pay for the transmission losses in any case,” he explained. “Solar customers don’t get enough credit for contributing energy, which lessens the demand for new power
sources and transmission capacity.” When asked about the contributions to Vaad, Xcel spokesperson Michelle Aguayo says the employee-funded PAC gives money to lots of legislators, and looking at the per-year average, Vaad got less than Rep. Matt Jones, D-Louisville, who got $800 from Xcel over two years, and Rep. Max Tyler, D-Lakewood, who got $1,200 over three years. “The reason you’re wanting to tie our money to him is because you want to say he’s in our back pocket, and nothing could be further from the truth,” she told BW, adding that Vaad has voted in favor of renewable energy standards in the past. “This guy’s been vilified that he’s antigreen energy, that he’s anti-this and antithat. It’s very clear that people, especially the solar industry, want to paint him in one way. And in all honesty, what I read in all the different publications is that those industries have all of you reporters wrapped around their little fingers.” Aguayo adds that courting lawmakers is par for the course. “You know that the solar industry has their folks that are working with legislators too,” she says. “It’s the course of business. If you’re going to rake Xcel Energy over the coals for the course of business, then you’ve got to talk about who the solar industry has hired, and what they’ve got going at the legislature, and what they’re proposing.” When asked for a response to the latest revelations about Vaad’s possible ties to the industries he is helping regulate, Hickenlooper spokesperson Eric Brown said via email: “We discussed Glenn’s full record and found him to be a person of integrity and thoughtfulness.” As of press time Vaad’s confirmation still had not been referred to a Senate committee for a hearing, which must occur before it is sent to the full Senate for a vote. After being notified of Vaad’s additional possible ties to entities that answer to the PUC, Senate President Morgan Carroll told BW via email that the appointment has proven controversial and that the Senate is treating it carefully. “It’s fair to say this is an important and divisive appointment, so at this time the Senate is doing its due diligence in investigating Mr. Vaad’s qualifications and experience in this field,” she wrote. Nearly 1,000 people have signed a change.org petition urging the Senate to reject Vaad’s confirmation. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com January 23, 2014 17
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Boulder musicians and industry folk sound off on how to make the scene better by Kirsten Cohen
Monica Whittington of Monocle (second from right) thinks Boulder’s music scene needs a more defined sense of community.
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he Boulder music scene has a rich history of supporting live performers and has numerous positives going for it — including great venues like the Fox Theatre, Boulder Theater, eTown and a variety of national and local acts performing on any given night. But what, if anything, would some of our local musicians and industry professionals suggest in order to make it even better? One refrain sings clearly. Boulder needs another dedicated music venue. Jake Schneider of Boulder-based booking and management agency Madison House thinks we may be ready for some changes. As the director of music development, Schneider is responsible for the routing and booking of tours for local and national artists across America and sometimes internationally. Schneider believes we have a vibrant scene, but we need more venues. “Right now, places like Lazy Dog and Shine are doing great at what they do, but a multi-genre 100- to 300-person concert venue like Tulagi’s is needed in order to support local developing artists. It could even be a blank canvas — perhaps an arts space, where each band could go in and the room could feel like it should as it relates to each band.” In his experience, Schneider has seen university towns
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similar to Boulder experience good success with smallercapacity venues that cater to all demographics. “There’s no reason in my mind to think we are not ready for another smaller-size concert venue in Boulder,” he says. Emerging Boulder rock band West Water Outlaws is one of the few bands to break out of playing local venues and tour extensively across the nation in the past year. In 2013 they played more than 100 shows, including several at SXSW. Guitarist Blake Rooker thinks the lack of a midsize venue where all genres of bands can develop their sound is what’s missing. “I’d really like to see a smaller venue — a 200- to 300-person room, perhaps where someone could farm opening acts.” Rooker thinks there’s a huge jump from playing music in bars to playing larger venues. “The hardest thing about coming up in Boulder right now as a band is that jump from playing the bar set to a music set at the Fox,” he says. Rooker suggests that a smaller venue could aid in building the music community by providing a way to bring musicians together. “It would be great if there was a cool spot where people could hang out and get to know everyone — like a networking spot to build new bands,” he says. Boulder-based band Rose Hill Drive owns a unique history unlike many others in our city. They have shared the stage with The Who, Pete Townsend, Van Halen, Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, Wilco, Queens Of The Stone Age and Stone Temple Pilots. Jake Sproul of Rose
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Blake Rooker, left, of West Water Outlaws wonders why Boulder lacks that key 200- to 300-person venue that is so critical to local music scenes.
Hill Drive agrees that while there are a number of venues doing a good job booking local, developing artists, he also sees a specific lack of a small venue. “There needs to be a diversity of music represented — and it gets tricky with rock,” he says. “Bands like West Water Outlaws can currently play basically at The Fox. You can book a bluegrass band in multiple places, but once you talk about rock bands, you run into difficulties with sound regulations, etc.” Sproul feels there is room in Boulder for more live music, and that it’s important “on a really local business level. It’s our responsibility, if we are into music, to make sure that as many genres of music are happening in as many locations as possible.” While discussing the news that Rose Hill Drive has been in the studio working on new music, Sproul pointed out the importance of developing musicians being exposed to numerous types of music and genres. “Kids need to hear the sounds of big energy and feel it in their bones,” he says. Matthew Fritz, manager of local jamming/jazz/ funk band Springdale Quartet sees a need for a small venue as well. “In order to expose CU students to a different genre like Springdale, it would be great if there was a place that sold tickets at an affordable price where students who might not be old enough to get into The Fox or other venues would be exposed to different sounds,” he says. Fritz sees a unique opportunity for local bands to fill a smaller venue as a stepping stone in their career, noting that two of the most valuable words in the music industry are “sold out.” Fritz thinks if university students hear those words enough in conjunction with a local band, they might be inclined to go see them and maybe invite their friends, too.
Aside from the possible need for another venue, there are other suggestions from area professionals. Danny Shafer has worked in the local Boulder music scene for more than 23 years. He has worn multiple hats as a musician and a booking agent for both The Pearl Street Pub and Conor O’Neill’s. With all that experience, Shafer has a specific set of advice for bands looking to take things to the next level. “A lot of people think that we need more medium-size venues,” he says. “I think that may or may not be true, but we need to show that we are all doing better with what we have now, or no one will want to have a medium-size venue.” In order to improve our local music scene in Boulder, Shafer would like to see local bands and the current venues work more efficiently together. “We really need to have musicians and venues show up for each other.” He explains further: “The music business is one of no rules. Many times there are no contracts, staffs rotate, and communication is inefficient. I’d like to see bands take their gigs seriously — know what sound they need beforehand, have posters, show up on time, and communicate more effectively. I like to book bands that are psyched to be there.” Shafer is quick to mention that there are numerous positives working in our community.
“In our scene, listeners appreciate original music,” he says. “I think that’s something that we need to feel great about in Boulder. People have always supported music here. I think even brand new local bands that work on their sound can really stand out quickly in this town.” Producer and DJ Alex Botwin (Paper Diamond) agrees with some of Shafer’s observations about the positives in Boulder, and in Colorado in general. Botwin originally moved to Boulder because he saw the electronic music scene thriving — and he thought it was going to be a hotbed. Although Botwin recently moved to Los Angeles part-time in order to pursue creative projects, he will continue to reside part-time in Colorado because he loves it here so much. “Big names have come out of Colorado, like Big Gigantic and Pretty Lights. Colorado and Boulder are great because they are somewhat flexible and forwardthinking in terms of the music scene,” he says. Monica Whittington of local band Monocle suggests finding a way to define the musical community currently, and then build bridges between Boulder and nearby towns. “I think it’s important to be confident and strong in our community, and to extend the reach beyond our town by inviting bands from Denver and Fort Collins to play together,” she says. Whittington likes the idea of collaborating and building a diverse and strong musical community, much like what the nonprofit band incubator Spokesbuzz is doing in Fort Collins and guitarist Inaiah Lujan of The Haunted Windchimes is doing in Pueblo. How the music scene evolves in Boulder is anyone’s guess. One thing is clear — the sounds of local bands are out there waiting for more listeners. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Play about famous physicists gets Spanish-language treatment by David Accomazzo
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en Barron, a retired 80-year-old edujust not all that much Spanish-language theater cator, has enjoyed a lifelong fascinahere. With Census data showing Boulder tion with one Albert Einstein. He County’s Latino population growing 14 percent says he has gone into more than 200 since 2000, they might be on the front end of a schools since 1989 doing talks on the trend. physicist and education, and for years that “Now that I’m going around telling people, included a one-man show he’d perform, trying they actually are very surprised … that the whole to spread the gospel of Einstein to the children thing is going to be in Spanish, delivered by of Boulder County. native Spanish speakers,” García says. “I hope we A few years back, he shook things up. start something new here.” Barron expanded his show to include the tale of One of the things that interests Barron physicist Niels Bohr, one of the godfathers of about Bohr and Einstein is the fact that both quantum physics and Einstein’s lifelong friend. men, despite being geniuses on different intelIn 2012, Barron created a play discussing the lectual planes than the rest of humanity, cultitwo men’s characters and designed it to be read vated lighthearted, wondrous attitudes towards by seven grandmothers from the Boulder comlife. munity, including former state Sen. Dorothy “Einstein and Bohr [were] like a puppy,” Rupert. Now, one of the other grandmothers, Barron says. “They had a large capacity for Delia Teresa García, has brought about another enjoyment. … When they talk about geniuses, Top row from left: Delia Teresa García, Laura DeCarto, Gloria Lanboy version of the play — one translated entirely they don’t talk about the sense of play, which is and Nyrna Zalaquett. Bottom row: Ivette Disval, Ana Cox and Lorena into Spanish. Instead of grandmothers, the really absolutely central to their inventiveness.” García piece stars seven current or retired bilingual The two men shared a love of fairy tales, a Latina schoolteachers. love that Barron says enabled their genius. When García first became involved with Barron’s ter part meaning “fairy tale” in Spanish. Most of the García says that fascination is one of the quirks that play — then called Einstein, Niels Bohr and women who are part of this production — García endeared her to the two men. Einstein once wrote an Grandmothers … A Fairy Tale — she was taken by the herself, Laura DeCarto, Gloria Lanboy, Nyrna essay called “Education for Independent Thought” two physicists’ profound take on education. Zalaquett. Ivette Disval, Ana Cox and Lorena García that outlined the need for critical thinking in schools, “The piece is a story, a fairy tale, about these two — are bilingual schoolteachers, with one librarian, a something that resonated with García. men who loved fairy tales, loved children, recognized businesswoman and an assistant principal in the mix. “What [Einstein] said was that we have to crethe value of playing freely, understood the real value “My idea, my goal was for Latino people, for any- ate these thinkers that can actually imagine and of education, and also believed in justice for every body who is bilingual, to have the enjoyment and to wonder, and what better to do [than read] them human being,” García says. listen to this incredible piece, which has so many fairy tales, because that’s what the parents did to As a bilingual educator — she worked for more beautiful and anecdotal bits of advice and bits of these two men when they were little,” García says. than two decades in Boulder Valley elementary wonderful ways of looking at education,” she says. “They read fairy tales and they felt that by reading schools — García believed the message of the play “When you hear something in your second language, fairy tales you feel that nothing is impossible, that important enough to spread to those whose first lanyou grasp what you’re saying, but when you hear if you dream it you think anything can be true. guage wasn’t English. For that reason, she spearhead- something in your [native] language, you can really The child needs to play, to experience and learn ed the effort to translate the piece into Spanish, her understand it on a better level.” through touching and laughter. It’s a very impornative language. She and Barron have renamed the What she and Barron have created is actually tant experience.” play Einstein y Bohr … Un cuento de hadas — the latsomewhat of an oddity in Boulder County. There’s Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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odging and weaving their way around countless hyphenated genre tags over the course of better than a decade, The Motet greet the new year with just one: funk band. Well, mostly a funk band. Drummer and Motet majordomo Dave Watts unleashes the Boulder-based band’s seventh and most rigorously cogent CD this coming weekend, titled simply The Motet. Eponymous one wants to play solos. The first track CDs are usually a not-so-subtle stateof the record has two solos on it. Most ment of identity, and while the band [classic funk] tunes don’t have any.” pushes a lethal dance-floor bounce front But this is hardly a jam record, and center, honed by several years of either. Torched by the grimacing burn of playing tribute shows covering landmark vocalist Jans Ingber’s lead vocals, the artists like Earth, Wind & Fire and stuff gets deep right off the bat. “Like Parliament-Funkadelic, the CD also We Own It,” the lead-off track and one resonates with the band’s lengthy tenure of the CD’s bedrock servings, bounces on the groove and jazz-jam circuit. across a mid-tempo beat punctuated by Longer cuts (only one shorter than five alternately sly and punctuating horn minutes and several charts before yielding over six), crafty into a creamy Joey instrumental interPorter keys solo. ON THE BILL: The Motet plays the Fillmore Auditorium ludes, some healthy Likewise, the Tower on Saturday, Jan. 25. Doors soloing and a sparof Power-ish raver at 6 p.m. Snarky Puppy, kling garnish of house “Closed Mouth Don’t Orgone and DJ Mikey open. Tickets are $27.50 in electronics belie a Get Fed” plays advance, $30 day of show. band that hasn’t forIngber’s effortless 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, gotten where they’ve octave scaling off diz303-837-0360. been. There’s a reazying brass lines, tightly arranged so sonable argument to that neither steps on the other. The be had about what makes a “cominstrumental “Rynodub,” the CD’s most mercial” release in this day and age, but obvious nod to the band’s past forays the fact is, this is not a pop record. into horn-stitched house music, grunts “No, you’re right,” Watts says. “And and prowls like a furtive sci-fi feline, I think we’re actually going to release a opening up into a synth melody line ‘radio edit’ version of it, with some of the tunes cut down. I realize that you that vaguely recalls The Specials’ iconic can do that: cut some of the songs down “Ghost Town.” And what may be the and still have them make sense as songs. album’s jewel, the seductive But you know, we’re a solo band; every“Extraordinary High,” moves between a
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breezy Impala backseat make-out groove into a punchy, almost-Latin middle section and a string-sweetened ride out, eerily conjuring a mid-’70s Philly R&B vibe. So the lesson is unmistakable. If you’re going to take a four-year break from recording a CD, don’t waste it on a slam-out-a-live-gig exercise, especially if (as is their habit), you make plenty of the live stuff available a few mouseclicks away anyway. This is a studio record worthy of the name; original tunes, utterly flawless production and not a throwaway in the bunch. Ambitious, airtight and built to travel. And as good as Ingber’s vocals are here — if you’ve never heard this cat, you’re in for a spine-tingling treat — the listener is never really persuaded to regard this as a vocalist’s showcase. The Motet has always been about the greater sum of its parts, and that holds true even for a vocal-heavy CD. “We actually had the vocals [louder] in the mix for a minute there,” Watts says, “and we were all talking about it. And we were like, ‘We’ve been an instrumental band for a long time.’ We’re not trying to make this a vocal record; we want to feature the band. Especially here, I’ve got the bass fea-
tured on a lot of the record. We wanted that to be out there too, we didn’t want to diminish that at all by having the mix lean too far in one direction or another. “So that was something that came across to us and was thought out to a certain degree. It’s a balance; when you’re going into the studio, you’re trying to balance everything. … The album is really a true expression of us becoming a band.” And as for the brass — beat-stomping exclamation points, carefully woven filigrees, gusty raves — Watts just turned the charts over to the horn section. “In a lot of ways, it’s fairly new to them, because they’re more steeped in jazz than anything, but the last three or four Halloween [tribute shows], doing the music of Parliament-Funkadelic and Earth, Wind & Fire, really kind of expanded their minds when it comes to horn arrangements. They really stepped up.” For his part, Watts knows that The Motet is fairly tightly associated with the groove scene. His audience is pretty well established and has traveled far with the band. Having a reputation as a serious guy with an outstanding band and a lengthy resume, though, also allows Watts the freedom to say out loud what a lot of the scene’s rank and file may have already quietly admitted to themselves. “Honestly, one of the things that I miss the most about the scene that we’re in is that there aren’t that many great songs being written,” he says. “There are some great musical moments, but not a lot of great songs. So we’re trying to apply a songwriting ethic to what we already do.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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or the Mountain Sun’s “Funky ber on her way to becoming a regular is Good Times” anniversary Dawson, who is returning for the second show, co-owner Tim time. McMurray must put together Dawson initially met McMurray seva band of talented musicians eral years ago at a happy hour after a who may never have played together. Motet gig. She says playing at the “[I] cherry-pick people from wellMountain Sun is more of an organized established bands who are good at their jam session than an organized gig. instrument and put them in an environ“It’s going to be like one big family ment that’s a little different to what up there,” she says, later noting, “You they’re used to,” McMurray says. just [check] your ego at the door, and The band has different members make good music, and beautiful things every year; this year, the band has seven happen from that.” members total. Stalwarts George Porter She mentioned that it’s not that hard Jr. (bass player from for all of the different The Funky Meters) musicians to come ON THE BILL: The and Kyle together and play, Mountain Sun Funky Good Hollingsworth (keybecause “music is a Times benefit concert takes place on Saturday, Feb. 1, at universal language, boardist for The the Boulder Theater. Tickets and we all communiString Cheese are $25. Doors at 8 p.m. For cate through music.” Incident), who have tickets and more information, visit www.bouldertheThe well-thought-out, been in all 11 iteraater.com. organized jam session tions of the band to brings a breath of date, will this year be fresh air as everyone joined by Adam just focuses on the music. Smirnoff (guitarist for Lettuce), John “It’s such a great energy in the room, Staton (drummer for Karl Denson’s Tiny and that’s what makes it the most fun,” Universe), Art Edmaiston (saxophone player for Mofro), Dennis Marion Dawson says, recalling last year’s show. (trumpet player for Mofro) and Kim “There [was] such great energy on stage Dawson (a vocalist from The Motet). and in the crowd, you’ll be surprised by The concert is a celebration of the how good of a time it is.” Mountain Sun’s 20th anniversary, and it The extensive wealth of knowledge kicks off at the Boulder Theater on that all of the band players have amazed Saturday, Feb. 1, at 8 p.m. The concert her, but one musician in particular, also rolls out the pub’s beloved Stout Porter, stood out. Month, when most of the Mountain “I know a lot of music, but I’ve got Sun pubs’ taps turn to the dark side with nothing on George,” Dawson says of the many beers you can’t see through. bassist. “You’ll just call out a tune and As in previous years, all of the prohe’ll say he worked on the original of it ceeds of the event go towards the volun- back in the day.” teer-run, local public radio station Dawson said that when they were KGNU. practicing before the concert last year, a “I’m a huge proponent of public guitarist asked George if he had heard of radio, I think it’s one of the last channels a song by Dr. John, and George replied, for a lot of free speech,” McMurray says. “Please, I played on that.” Nikki Kayser, KGNU’s membership When asked about his extensive director, is grateful for the Mountain knowledge of music, Porter talked Sun’s generosity through the years. about how important it is to listen to “This is something that happens other people’s music when you’re a between us each year, it’s really amazing musician. [that] Mountain Sun pulls it off and “If your knowledge of music is good, does most of the grunt work, and we do it allows you to listen to what’s going on most of the publicity,” she says. around you, then it’s going to be well When it comes to choosing the played out,” he says. “If your knowledge members of the band, McMurray always of music is bad, and you only listen to starts off with his base of Hollingsworth what you do, it’s not going to be a good and Porter, but the rest of the band night.” could be anyone. A slightly newer memRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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WHITE DENIM The band opened for Tame Impala at the Boulder Theater in October, and they return as headliners this time around. White Denim blends psychedelic rock and prog rock through indie rock sensibilities. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Erie Police Department Open House. 2 p.m. Erie Police Department, 645 Holbrook St., Erie, 303-9262850
Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 pm St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Big Dog and Cool Cats. 7:30 pm Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Femcee: Lyrics Decoded. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. 1750 13th St., Boulder. 303-4432122.
Brian Payne. 8 pm The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 Thirteenth Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344.
Dale Cisek Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.
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Intuit. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
K Theory Live. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Penny and Sparrow. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Acoustic Stew. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Café, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
Issovee. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Kristina Murray & Matt Skinner Band. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St, Boulder, 720328-8328.
Steve Ellis. 6 p.m. J. Wells Brewery, 2516 49th St. #5, Boulder, 303-396-0384.
Burgers, Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Thursday Night Live Music. 9 p.m. Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-3050.
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Thursday, January 23: Penny and Sparrow. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St, Boulder, 303-4404628.
Saturday, January 25: January Brew-U. 1 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut Street, Boulder. 303-786-9270.
Wednesday, January 29: Three Sisters. 7:30 p.m. University Club, University of Colorado, Boulder. 303-4928008.
The roommates-turned-bandmates Penny and Sparrow are exploring the music scene of different states as they move from Texas to Colorado. The duo emphasizes returning to basics as they focus on acoustics and moving lyrics to draw you into their music.
Spend the afternoon learning about brewing basics at this three-hour course taught by the Bob Baile, the owner of Twisted Pine. Graduates of the course will receive a diploma, a “Stay Twister” poster, and will have access to happy hour at the Twisted Pine for the rest of 2014.
This innovative play, written by Anton Chekhov, tells the story of the three Prozorov sisters who deal with the conflict of wanting to return to their home in Moscow while not knowing if the risky journey would be worth it.
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Berlin Graphics 1928–1938 — Artist Herbert Bayer. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 23.
Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-6787869. Through March 1. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through June 21.
Boulder Stories of Romance and Courtships. Boulder Public Library Carnegie Branch, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-4413110. Through Feb. 28. The Circle Limit Design Series — Artist Ben Van Dusen. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through Jan. 31.
Boulder Stories of Romance and Courtships will take a historic look at stories of local romance. It runs though Feb. 28 at The Carnegie Branch Library for Local History
Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26. Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. Foto Flood — Works by Boulder High School students. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26. Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through March 30. Narrative Forms at the WESTend — Features the paintings and sculpture of Damon Mohl and the small metal work of Jessica Mohl. Muse
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Pattern: Follow the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Feb. 9. Pin-up Photography — Exhibition in conjunction with screening of Bettie Page documentary. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 31.
Plein Air Landscape Design — Artist Lamya Deeb. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Jan. 31. Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Studio Spotlight — Features the work of Rick Stoner, Dwayne Wolf and Martha Williams. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb. 2.
EVENTS from Page 33 Bluffett. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Blindchild. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397. Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 4 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642.
Boulder, 303-939-9900. Steel Pennies. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Tamba and Shamwari. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Halden Wofford and The Hi*Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.
Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 Thirteenth Street, Boulder, (303) 442-4344.
Isa & JoeAlan. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
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JV3. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Maynard Mills Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. The Mighty Twisters. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Problem. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Sambadende. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St,
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Passport to Paris. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb. 9.
Saturday, January 25 Brillz. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Chris Daniels and the Kings. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303-3390767. The Disco Biscuits. 7:30 p.m. 1st Bank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Dreamboat Annie. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397. Drew Schofield Band. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Fast Eddy. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
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MAMMA MIA! returns to the Buell Theatre in Denver Jan. 28-Feb. 2. Black Odyssey. The Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Feb. 16. Dial “M” For Murder. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-7725200. Through Feb. 1. Evita. Buell Theatre, 950 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Jan. 26. Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women. The Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. 303-893-4100. Through March 9. Jekyll & Hyde. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through
The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Johnny Long. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Lizzy Pedersen. 3 p.m. Buchanan’s Coffee Pub, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-440-0222. My Romance. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Pries & Neffy. 8 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. School of Rock. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Jan. 26. The Legend of Georgia McBride. The Ricketson Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Feb. 23. MAMMA MIA! Buell Theatre, 950 13th St., Denver. 303-893-4100. Through Feb. 2. Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through March 1. The Whipping Man. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524. Through Feb. 15.
2850. Futurescapes of the Late Archaic — Annual Distinguished Archaeology Lecture featuring Dr. Kenneth Sassaman. 7 p.m. Hale Science Building Room 270, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-3396. Pink Mammoth Party. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120. In Transit. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 Thirteenth Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344. January Brew-U. 1 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Sympathy for the Devil. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Radiate. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Taylor Radio. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642.
Running Club. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Thunder Rain. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Town Hall Meeting with Rollie Heath. 10 a.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2690 Walnut st, Boulder, 303444-7328.
Three Shots Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Thorn’s Musical Journey. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tribal Seeds. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
events Art show — Benefiting Orphaned Armenians with Disabilities Group Home. 4 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. BOLD Youth Film Project Premier — Hosted by Out Boulder. 3 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Boulder Art Show. 4 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303-3390767. Erie Police Department Open House. 10 a.m. Erie Police Department, 645 Holbrook St., Erie, 303-926-
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Sunday, January 26 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Becca Neun. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat at Norlin Library CU Campus, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, . Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. BM Senior Recital. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, (303) 492-1411. Brandon Hagen. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Armistead Maupin - The Days of Anna Madrigal. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-4361070.
Monday, January 27 “So, You’re a Poet,” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Mindful Parenting — by Dr. Kristen Race. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Tuesday, January 28 Active Minds Lecture: Fracking & U.S. Energy Policy. 5:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.
Vicki Mandell-King & Ran Huntsberry. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Friday, January 24 Four Russian Poets: Barskova, Pavlova, Rybakova, Slivkin. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303579-1644.
Ishmael Beah will read from and sign his novel The Radiance of Tomorrow at The Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver on Jan. 28.
Saturday, January 25 Mary Margaret Alvarado. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Peter Heller, Nancy Horan, Brian Payton & Karen Russell — Writers Respond to Readers. 8:45 a.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628
Ishmael Beah - Radiance of Tomorrow. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Rocky Mountain Land Series with Vicki Robin - Blessing the Hands That Feed Us. 7:30 p.m.The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-436-1070.
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Live Bluegrass Pickin’. 4 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Live Bluegrass Pickin’. 4 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Open Band Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Monday, January 27
Pace Goodman. 12 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Rob Roper Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Singer Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Tractorbeam. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Vibe Warrior. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Wadirum. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
events Boulder Wedding Showcase. 11 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St, Boulder, 720-328-8328. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2690 Walnut st, Boulder, 303-444-7328.
music DMA Recital. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, (303) 492-1411. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1 Boulder Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-449-0884. events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1 Boulder Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-449-0884. Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Mic Night. 10 p.m. Ullrs Tavern, 78415 US Highway 40, Winter Park, 970-726-3026. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Tuesday, January 28 music
In Transit. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.
Adrianna Marie & Groove Cutters. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Jekyll & Hyde. 2 p.m. Jesters Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.
Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Dinner Music. 6 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Dopapod & Kung Fu. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Faculty Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, (303) 492-1411.
Eric Wiggs & Monica Whittington Live. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Jim Herlihy. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.
The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, .
Piano Jazz Tuesday. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Soul Explosion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
White Denim. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Pendulum New Music. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-492-1411.
Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th Street, Boulder, 303-444-7465. Relieving the Pain of Hand & Wrist Arthritis. 7 p.m. Plaza Conference Center, 1850 Industrial Circle, Longmont.
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Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
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“It’s a documentary about the life of Bettie Page. She’s one of the most famous pin-up models of the ’50s and ’60s, and then at the height of her career she just disappeared from the public eye,” says Glenn Webb, the cinema manager for the Dairy’s Boedecker Theater.
Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
events Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 Thirteenth Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Three Sisters. 7:30 p.m. Loft Theatre at CU Boulder, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8008.
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Trivia. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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reel to reel American Hustle When the FBI decides to recruit con artists to infiltrate the Jersey mob and crooked power brokers, things get interesting in a hurry in this well-acted film starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. Rated R. At Colony Square and Century.
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French wife Marie’s (Bérénice Bejo, The Artist) request, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa, Leila) returns to Paris from Tehran to finalize their divorce procedure so she can marry her new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet). During his tense brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie’s relationship with their teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet), and his efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past. NR. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) has traded his old anchor job in for a modern cable news position. He is joined by his original team: Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), street reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports reporter Champ Kind (David Koechner). If you laughed at the original, you’ll laugh at this one as well. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Philomena The unparalleled Dame Judi Dench brings to life the story of a woman who gave away the child she conceived out of wedlock for adoption in the United States and her search, decades later, to find that son with the help of a BBC reporter. Rated PG-13. At Century, Esquire and Chez Artiste.
The Armstrong Lie This documentary examines the career of cycling legend Lance Armstrong and his spectacular fall as a result of doping. NR. At SIE Film Center and Century.
August: Osage County Oscar regulars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Sam Shepard lead an extraordinary cast in this play-turnedfilm about a family reunion in Oklahoma that none of us will ever forget. Don’t miss it. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
The Book Thief This film tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a new family in World War II Germany. Young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) embarks upon a journey marked by discovery, courage, friendship — and the power to triumph over the most daunting obstacles. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Clue A murder has been committed. And the game is on … the screen, that is! The popular board game of the ’80s gets the all-star treatment in this comic caper set in a Victorian mansion, based on a story by John Landis (Animal House). Whodunit? Rated PG. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose freewheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Devil’s Due A newlywed couple experience a lost night on their honeymoon. When she turns up pregnant and starts acting all demonic and stuff, he figures out that something has gone terribly wrong. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Century.
DocuWest Presents: A Whole Lott More Lott Industries in Toledo, Ohio, employs more than 1,200 workers, all with developmental disabilities. For decades the company excelled in assembling car parts. However, with the decline of the auto industry in neighboring Detroit, Lott is threatened with closure. The company has 12 months to reinvent itself and to save the livelihoods of its employees. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Frozen When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the reindeer and a comical snowman that has trouble keeping his head, set out to end the spell. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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Astronauts played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney get stranded in space when a space walk goes terribly wrong. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Her Only Spike Jonze could come up with a comedy flick wherein a shy writer (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his computer’s sexy-voiced operating system. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Another entertaining installment in the Lord of the Rings series. This one has a giant dragon guarding treasure. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Hunger Games: Catching Fire Jennifer Lawrence dazzles in this adventure sequel. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.
I, Frankenstein 3D In a world of gargoyles and demons, a battle for ultimate power rages as both try to uncover the secret behind the immortality of Victor Frankenstein’s creation, Adam (Aaron Eckhart). PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Inside Llewyn Davis The Coen brothers craft this story of a homeless young folk singer trying to create a name for himself in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. Rated R. At Mayan and Century.
The Invisible Woman Ralph Fiennes (who also directs) shines as the most famous writer of his day, novelist Charles Dickens, who had a secret affair with 18-year-old actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones, Like Crazy). Dickens was 45 and at the top of his fame when he met the beautiful young actress, performing in a troupe with her sisters, and was immediately struck. Her pragmatic mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) encouraged Nelly to welcome the interest of such a famous man, even if she can never become his wife. At first Nelly resists, but Dickens makes her the focus of his passion and his muse, and they embark on an affair, lasting 13 years until his death. Rated R. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Kill Your Darlings Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poet’s early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving Ginsberg, his handsome classmate Lucien Carr, and fellow Beat author William Burroughs. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick, David Cross and Michael C. Hall co-star. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Legend of Hercules Kellan Lutz stars as Hercules, the mythical son of Zeus. The super-strong half-god, half-man kicks some gladiator butt in this action film. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Lone Survivor If you still have the stomach for such tales, this film finds Mark Wahlberg telling the story of a group of Navy SEALs on a covert mission gone wrong trying to kill a big-shot Taliban operative. The SEALs get ambushed in Afghanistan. The film is based on a bestselling book. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
The Motel Life Based on the popular novel by Willy Vlautin, this film is a searing and profound examination of brotherhood set in the timeless Sierra Nevadan frontier. Frank (Emile Hirsch) and Jerry Lee Flannigan (Stephen Dorff) work odd jobs, drink hard, and drift from motel to motel. Their only escape is through Frank’s fantastic stories and Jerry Lee’s rich illustrations. Everything changes when Jerry Lee is involved in a hit-and-run accident, which forces the brothers across the state to the home of Frank’s old flame, Annie (Dakota Fanning). At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Nebraska After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Rated R. At Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
This film draws us into the world of two 11-year-olds with no access to clean drinking water, a girl forced to labor inside a brick kiln, and a teenage dancer on the precipice of choosing child marriage to escape from her abusive family. From these fragile lives, lawyer-turnedchange-agent Amlan Ganguly mines the strength and vision to build a most unlikely revolution. The film follows Ganguly and four children from Kolkata’s poorest slums on an intimate journey through their adolescence. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Ride Along Kevin Hart and Ice Cube star in this latest tale about misfit cops as partners. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Saving Mr. Banks Inspired by a true story, this film tells the tale of how Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) was finally able to convince the very difficult writer P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to allow him to bring her book Mary Poppins to the big screen. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Century.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Ben Stiller stars in this film version of author James Thurber’s classic. It’s a tale of a man who escapes his ordinary life by day-dreaming his way into fantasy worlds filled with adventure. But when his real world gets threatened, he and his co-worker, played by Kristen Wiig, get caught up in a wilder adventure than Mitty ever could have imagined. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along: From London’s West End Set over three decades in the entertainment business, Merrily We Roll Along charts the relationship between three friends Franklin, Mary and Charley. Traveling backwards in time, this powerful and moving story features some of Stephen Sondheim’s most beautiful songs, including ‘Good Thing Going,’ ‘Not a Day Goes By’ and ‘Old Friends’.AT Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. Rated R. At Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
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This animated film is an action-packed comedy starring a mischievous squirrel named Surly (voiced by Will Arnett). Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
John Mieras and Friends: A live music and fresh music video event
Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Jean Dujardin in this adaptation of 1990s banker gone bad Jordan Belfort’s memoir. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Stackable Productions, in association with The Dairy Center for the Arts, presents a concert of local independent singer-songwiters John Mieras, Megan Burtt and Andy Palmer, with a screening of their latest music videos. Included will be the world premier of Mieras’ “Abilene.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE Film Center in Denver: Captain Phillips; Maidentrip; I Used To Be Darker; Blue is the Warmest Color; All is Lost; Frankenstein; Polyester; God Loves Uganda; Betty Page Reveals All; I am Divine; The Great Beauty.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Rated PG-13. See full review on page 39. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
When a young man starts behaving oddly, as in possessed with evil demons, family and friends step in to help and things get scary. Rated R. At Twin Peaks. After a four-year separation and at his estranged
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hat the hell is a “shadow recruit?” Did they really just figure out the terrorist target via Instagram? Does Viktor Cherevin (Kenneth Branagh) win the award for “most stereotypical Russian villain in history” now that we know he has cirrhosis from drinking too much vodka? And seriously, what the hell is a shadow recruit?! A good movie leaves you questioning previous notions. A series of clichés vaguely edited in the shape of a movie like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit makes you question your previous decisions. If at first, second or third something doesn’t succeed, Paramount will put Chris Pine in it. Pine is the fourth Jack Ryan, a character so devoid of personality literally any white male can play him. Ryan’s schtick is that he’s more brains than brawn, which probably works great in Tom Clancy’s novels, but watching a character think on screen isn’t very exciting. This alleged thriller has all your favorite action beats, including bomb with a countdown clock and file that’s almost done downloading. The economically minded Ryan is recruited into the CIA by Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner), a man seemingly always on the verge of yawning. Ryan is then placed on Wall Street, where he monitors banks, a job that the government apparently doesn’t actually have in real life. He notices some Russian accounts that look fishy, so Harper sends him to Moscow. Ryan’s fiancee, Cathy (Keira Knightley), follows along and goes from having no idea her partner is a spy to joining him in full espionage in about Boulder Weekly
five minutes. Realizing bad bank assets aren’t exhilarating, there’s a bomb thrown in there too. Pine was seemingly carved by God to be an action star. He has all of Tom Cruise’s charisma with significantly fewer alien-based religious beliefs. Yet he can’t quite find the right roles. Jack Ryan is so boring. If he had asked any of the three previous very famous people who abandoned the role to describe this non-character, perhaps Pine would have passed. Knightley’s American accent is wound so tight you can almost see her face pucker. Branagh, who also directed, gave his borscht-filled baddie such a stiff upper lip his mouth barely moves. Meanwhile, Costner thought the food provided on set was delicious. Even the title of the film shows the vacant, hollow nature of this lethargic paint-by-numbers, punctuated by a scene where Pine stands among a bank of computers and busts a plan decades in the making using the hottest social media sites. It would be silly if everyone wasn’t so stone-faced serious. A good spy movie requires taking the film one of two directions: action-heavy and fun (like 007 films) or methodical and thoughtful (like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy). Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit wants to be both and manages to be neither. It falls in the cracks between the two, into the void of competent and nearly mediocre diversionary fare. Dear Paramount: Don’t give Mr. Ryan a fifth do-over, please. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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t’s occasionally said that Denver is racing to become Portland, Ore., as fast as it can. The statement is wildly subjective, but the roots of what truth it holds may be found in the Mountain Sun Pub on Pearl Street in downtown Boulder. In the early ’90s, long before anyone was connecting those two dots, founder Kevin Daly got the inspiration for the iconic downtown bar during his stint in Portland. Daly, a student at Lewis & Clark law school, frequented the Fulton Pub, one of the McMenamins chain. There, he got his first taste of the burgeoning craft brew scene in the northwest and decided to open his own brewery in Boulder. Daly aped everything from McMenamins brews to its classy pub grub to its interior design style. The result: Mountain Sun. Daly first opened the doors in late 1993, and this month, Mountain Sun is officially celebrating its 20th anniversary, a milestone that will be marked with no shortage of pomp and/or circumstance. Mountain Sun will be holding a large KGNU benefit concert on Feb. 1 at the Boulder Theater, featuring members of the String Cheese Incident, Mofro, Lettuce, The Funky Meters and more, playing as The Pearl Street AllStars (see story, page 31), and the anniversary will also mark the start of the increasingly popular Stout Month. “I think in Boulder, in the restaurant business, it’s a pretty huge accomplishment,” says Managing Partner Tim McMurray. “You see restaurants come and go all the time.” McMurray has been with Mountain Sun almost since the beginning, starting out as a line cook in 1996 and working his way up to partner over the course of
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Doing everything ‘wrong’ for two decades Mountain Sun turns 20 by Josh Gross his 17 years with the company. He’s seen a lot of expansion in that time, but not a lot of evolution. “We did a remodel of the back hallway 10 years ago,” he says. “But it’s pretty much as it was. It’s the original bar; it’s the original booze. All the artwork has been hanging in there for 20 years.”
But if it ain’t getting fixed, that’s probably because it ain’t broke. Mountain Sun was enough of a hit to open a second location in South Boulder in 2002. Six years later, they opened a third location in Denver. Then another Boulder location in 2012, and a soon-to-be-opened fifth storefront in Longmont.
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Though business types joke that Mountain Sun succeeds despite doing everything wrong, if doing it their way is wrong, McMurray doesn’t want to be right. “That [wrong] is the wrong way to phrase it,” says McMurray. “We do things differently, and not by the book.” What do they do differently? A bit of everything. Start with the beer. While most micro-breweries are racing to build their brand by pushing into the grocery store market, Mountain Sun doesn’t do bottles. “It’s not in our business model,” says McMurray. “It’s a whole other beast.” Then there’s the sheer volume of varieties. Though Mountain Sun has a relatively small brewing operation, only 12 barrels at its largest location, the number of beers it brews is staggering. “We have upwards of 100 recipes,” says McMurray. “Last year was kind of a big year, we brewed 60-80 different kinds. This year, we’re going to slim down a bit and only do 50-60 kinds depending on the season.” Only 50-60 kinds. Whereas the average brewery might do 10 of its own beers, Mountain Sun keeps 21 of its own taps stocked. “We had a brewer start in ’98, his name was Michael, he brought us up to 10 or 12 taps, and everyone became used to that, and then it got to the point where we had 21,” says McMurray. “Once we started doing it, it was hard to take back, because people expected it and it was part of who we are.” And in addition to not accepting credit cards, probably the most curious part of how Mountain Sun operates is see MOUNTAIN SUN Page 44
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for sushi. Pearl Street standard and weed-pairing visionary Hapa Sushi has announced that in spring it will be opening Motomaki, a build-your-own-sushi-roll restaurant in the Twenty Ninth Street mall. The 100-seat restaurant will focus on quick-service and customizable rolls. Motomaki will be located at 1600 28th St., Suite 1216, and plans to open in April.
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Thinking of going vegetarian but still struggling with how to make steak out of kale? Worry not, eco- and health-conscious citizen. Julia Hellerman, chef at Julia’s Kitchen in North Boulder and faculty member at Bauman College, will be leading a workshop on plant-based cooking this weekend. Sunday, Jan. 26, swing by Alfalfa’s in downtown Boulder and get the skinny on how to make veggie-based, gluten-free recipes delicious and fun instead of drained of fun and flavor. The workshop starts at 3 p.m. and is free. Get more information at www.alfalfas.com.
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Hey ladies, do you need a better excuse for daydrinking than “what business of it is yours, eh, jerky?” ’Cause if so, you’re in luck. There are two events this week for you. Barley’s Angels, an international craft beer appreciation club, is opening a new Colorado chapter that’s holding its first meeting this week. Wednesday, Jan. 29, lushy ladies can meet up at Sanitas Brewing at 7 p.m. and make some new friends interested in craft beer. What will happen at these meetings? “Each meeting includes a set of 3–4 beer tasters (4 or 5 oz. each) paired with a food taster to match,” said a press release. “There will also be a presenter and a discussion at each meeting. Over time, if there’s interest, other activities such as beer dinners, brewery tours or outdoor activities like bike rides paired with brewery stops, will be developed.” The Sanitas meetup will feature a presentation by John Scaggs of Haystack
Mountain Goat cheese, who will lead a beer and cheese pairing class with four different Sanitas Beers. Barley’s Angels currently boasts 62 chapters in six countries. Future meetings will be held on the last Wednesday of each month at a rotating location. Get more info at www.barleysangelscolorado. com. Similar, but different, is the longer-running Ales4Females series at Left Hand Brewing, which will be going down Monday, Jan. 27. Left-handed lushy ladies will get to hear from Coey Jenkins and Ashley Luscan, Left Hand Brewing’s quality control lab technicians, aka, the job everyone thinks they want until they have to do it. “During their presentation these two will tell our guests about their experiences within the craft beer industry, the importance of quality control in a top craft brewery, and lead us through a beer and food pairing with our Left Hand Brewing Beer Week Sauce,” says Left Hand Brewing’s website. Ales4Females starts at 6:30 p.m. and is free. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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he name sounds like it belongs to the latest Batman villain, but the reality of Ras Kassa’s is much less nefarious. That is, unless you have an aversion to getting a little messy. Their motto is “Eat like you’ve never heard of silverware,” and they aren’t kidding. Everything from farmer’s cheese to lentil stew is served with spongy Ethiopian bread called injera to be used for scooping, and nothing else. Forget forks, spoons and knives and get ready to become best friends with this spongy, sourdough-like concoction. The tangy injera is ideal for soaking up juices and complements every dish without overpowering the delicate flavors. Simply tear off a chunk, stick it between your fingers and dive in like a toddler facing a bowl of spaghetti. The injera goes particularly well with the sweet potato stew, featured as an entrée and in the spicy vegetarian combination. The best way to experience Ras Kassa’s is through their combination plates. With a variety of meat and vegetarian combos, these make it easy to try as many things on the menu as possible, and since they range from $13 to $16 apiece they’re easily the best bang for your buck. For the veggie lovers out there, the spicy vegetarian combo is a must-have. Sweet potatoes, lentils and yellow split peas all make an appearance. The spicy sweet potato stew is a complex combination of sugary sweet potato, buttery onion, crunchy pepper and a zap of spice for the tingly effect spicelovers crave. When scooped with a piece of injera, the stew gains a citrus-like vibrancy that mingles perfectly
no means ignores the meat lovers. Though the vegetable selections at Ras Kassa’s are tough to beat, the lamb stew ($16.95) manages to stand out in the sea of lentils, squash and greens. Slow-cooked, the meat practically melts in your mouth as you savor the deep flavors of turmeric and other mild spices. Alone with injera, the lamb is something special, but mixed with either the spicy red lentils or the mild yellow split peas, the flavors become drool-worthy. Though it’s a lot to fit on one plate, everything is placed carefully in a circle with each dish granted its own space. This perfect symmetry doesn’t last though: As you dive in with your injera scoops and fingers the dishes blend together into a harmonious, though messy, combination of flavors and textures. Warm, sweet and spicy at the same time, the house tea is the perfect way to wash down the flavorful dishes. Even better, the mug is kept full throughout the night, so you’ll never find yourself parched. As if the opportunity to act like a kid again and eat with your fingers hasn’t made the experience surreal enough, the subtle incense fumes, bright and traditional decor and soft background music in Ras Kassa’s make you want to tell Toto you aren’t in Boulder anymore. If you’re looking for an inexpensive excursion away from the Americanized Boulder scenes or a good way to test someone’s sense of adventure on a second or third date, Ras Kassa’s is the place to go. You may want to bring a few wet wipes though. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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with the other flavors. Red lentils are another robustly flavored dish included in the spicy combination. With a 20-spice berbere sauce, the lentils have the perfect balance of heat that adds a kick of flavor without leading to steam rushing out of your ears. The lentils are cooked perfectly with just the right amount of crunch to let you know you aren’t eating baby food, though they do look similarly mushy. The combination plate also features mild and slightly sweet butternut squash stew, tangy collard greens, traditional injera salad with onion and tomato in vinegar, and delightfully buttery yellow split peas. Each acts as the perfect complement to the more boldly flavored sweet potatoes and red lentils and manages to maintain its own flavor without being overshadowed. For the carnivores out there, have no fear — Ras Kassa’s does a great job for the vegetarians, but by
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that everyone there does everything. Another thing McMurray says The cooks are the servers are the hosts Mountain Sun does its own way is to are the bartenders, and so on. take baby steps. McMurray says the close-knit family “All of our growth has been a natufeel of that team system is a big part of ral process,” he says. why he stuck around, and that it’s a big The next baby step Mountain Sun is part of why people like Mountain Sun, taking will be to open a pub in as the employees tend to self-manage, Longmont, probably in spring or late giving them a sense of pride and owner- summer. After that, maybe another ship in their Denver Susan France work that location or a isn’t present ski-town. in top-down They haven’t managerial given it systems. much “If thought, employees preferring to are having wait for each fun, then the restaurant to customers develop its will as well,” own characsays ter at its McMurray. own pace. That “We said, don’t really McMurray have a fiveDavis Brown, left, and proprietor Kevin Daly, right, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mountain Sun Pub & also readily year plan,” Brewery. admits that he says. the team That approach comes with flaws, such as the approach makes it hard for McMurray potential for over-service from the sheer to predict what the next 20 years might volume of servers, and limitations on hold. But if history is any guide, it what you can do in the kitchen without should be a steady upward trend of specialized cooks. But those are flaws he doing things “differently.” “We’re really happy for what the can live with. “It’s not for everyone, and not every- community has given us,” says one likes it, but I definitely think it has a McMurray. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com lot to do with who we are,” he says. 44 January 23, 2014
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t’s official. Denver is going to the Super Bowl. And while most of the Centennial State is applauding our QB Peyton Manning’s accomplishments on the field, folks at Left Hand Brewing took a “pass” on the quarterback’s choice of beer, Bud Light. Ewwwww….. After expressing a desire for a nice cold Bud Light during a post-game interview last week, Manning received a care package of sorts from the Longmont-based craft brewery: three cases of Left Hand beer, including Polestar Pilsner, Sawtooth Ale and Milk Stout Nitro. A letter accompanying the package stated, “We think it’s a better call.” While security prevented the letter from being delivered, they promised to deliver the beer. But seriously Mr. Manning, with a Colorado/ Washington matchup coming only months after pot legalization in both states, we’re going to have to change up the nature of the “Bud Bowl,” for this year. Get with the program. In other beer- and football-related news, Boulder-based West Flanders Brewing found itself in hot hops with the National Football League after naming a new brew “Brett on the Broncos,” described as an “AFC Champion Style Ale.” The NFL quickly shot the local brewery a cease and desist letter for “engaging in unauthorized promotional use of the NFL Marks (including inter alia, the AFC word mark and the Denver Broncos word mark and color combination).” While the hopheads at West Flanders admitted they had no clue what “inter alia” means (and were somehow surprised that the NFL was offended by their use of color schemes and trademarked names), they expressed great respect for the Denver Broncos and the NFL’s legal depart-
ment. They have since changed the name of the beer to “Omaha! Omaha! Brett!” The beer’s new description? “After Formal Complaint Championship Game Ale.” Here’s hoping no one in Nebraska gets pissed. Something else not to get pissed about is the hooch coming out of Avery Brewing, something the world at large is about to get more of. As previously reported in Boulder Weekly, Avery Brewing is mega-yummers. So much so that the brewery has been bursting at the buttons in its current “secret clubhouse” location in a weird back parking lot somewhere way down Arapahoe that is super-hard to find in the dark and has been planning a new mega-facility for some time. This week, Avery broke ground on phase one of its new location at 4910 N. Nautilus Court in Gunbarrel. Once Avery’s new Brew Star is fully operational, it will be more than 96,000 square feet, with seating for 249 and the capacity to push out around half a million barrels of beer annually. Brewery reps have said that that amount isn’t to expand so much as meet current demand. It’s just that yummers. But the scope of the project is so large that it will be built in two phases. Avery estimates that the first, which will focus on the production facilities, will be completed in a year, and the second, which will build the front-ofhouse elements, will come some months after that. That should set things up nicely for the third phase, which everyone knows is “profit.” Projected costs for the facility are more than $27 million. But perhaps since Avery is dropping so much cheddar on its new digs, they can get the construction company to throw in a spoiler. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Manufacturing a jelly bean is not a quick, slam-bam process. It’s a five-step procedure that takes a week. Each seemingly uncomplicated piece of candy has to be built up layer by layer, with every layer needing time to fully mature. I’m wondering if maybe there’s a metaphorically similar kind of work ahead for you, Scorpio. May I speculate? You will have to take your time, proceed carefully, and maintain a close attention to detail as you prepare a simple pleasure.
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I understand the appeal of the f-word. It’s guttural and expulsive. It’s a perverse form of celebration that frees speakers from their inhibitions. But I’m here today to announce that its rebel cachet and vulgar power are extinct. It has decayed into a barren cliche. Its official death-from-oversaturation occurred with the release of the mainstream Hollywood blockbuster The Wolf of Wall Street. Actors in the film spat out the rhymes-withcluck word more than 500 times. I hereby nominate you Sagittarians to begin the quest for new ways to invoke rebellious irreverence. What interesting mischief and naughty wordplay might you perpetrate to escape your inhibitions, break taboos that need to be broken, and call other people on their BS and hypocrisy?
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German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has had a major impact on the development of ideas in the Western world. We can reasonably divide the history of philosophy into two eras: pre-Kantian and post-Kantian. And yet for his whole life, which lasted 79 years, this big thinker never traveled more than 10 miles away from Konigsberg, the city where he was born. He followed a precise and methodical routine, attending to his work with meticulous detail. According to my analysis, you Capricorns could have a similar experience in the coming weeks. By sticking close to the tried-and-true rhythms that keep you grounded and healthy, you can generate influential wonders.
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The Aquarian author Georges Simenon (1903-1989) wrote more than 200 novels under his own name and 300 more under pseudonyms. On average, he finished a new book every 11 days. Half a billion copies of his books are in print. I’m sorry to report that I don’t think you will ever be as prolific in your own chosen field as he was in his. However, your productivity could soar to a hefty fraction of Simenon-like levels in 2014 — if you’re willing to work your ass off. Your luxuriant fruitfulness won’t come as easily as his seemed to. But you should be overjoyed that you at least have the potential to be luxuriantly fruitful.
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Dear Dan: I’m a straight 24-year-old female, and I just recently lost my virginity. I’ve had sex only three times (not with a monogamous partner) and have found each time to be incredibly painful — even when the guy’s just using his fingers. I’ve always been extremely sensitive. In the past, I’ve had guys run their hands over my jeans, and even that hurts. I brought this up when I went to my first ob-gyn appointment, and my doctor assured me that everything was normal down there. It’s driving me nuts because I feel like I’m missing out on a big part of my life. I know a lot of this may be psychological, but I wanted to know if I am just supposed to continue having sex to the point where it becomes pleasurable? —Tight Twat Dear TT: “Although vaginal intercourse hurts some women the first time or two that they have sex, it’s usually not ‘incredibly painful,’” says Dr. Debby Herbenick, a research scientist at Indiana University, a sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute, and the author of numerous books. “And women rarely experience pain when it’s just fingers (unless the person is being really rough or has sharp fingernails), and especially not when someone is just running hands over jeans.” So something is up down there, TT, and you did the right thing by seeing a doc. “It’s fantastic that she went to an ob-gyn so soon after starting to have sex,” says Herbenick. “Many women are too shy or nervous, even though it’s recommended for all sexually active women. Unfortunately, many doctors have had little to no training in diagnosing or treating vulvar pain, something that groups like the National Vulvodynia Association (nva.org) have been working to change.” So it’s great that you went to a doctor, but you’re going to have to see another doctor, TT, one who knows something about vulvar pain. Herbenick recommends that you find someone who “lives and breathes the vulva and vagina in their medical practice,” and there are organizations that can help you find those livers and breathers. “TT can find such a healthcare provider through the NVA or the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (issvd.org),” says Herbenick. “I don’t know where she lives, but there are excellent vulvovaginal health clinics at the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan. The U.S. is really far
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here were a lot of national news stories dered by cannabis use, but the stigmatization has about the long lines of people standing made me hide in the closet in the dark. Now with outside the world’s first adult retail canna- recreational being legalized, anyone can come into bis shops in Colorado. It wasn’t really that the light and out of that darkness. Usage doesn’t put difficult to decipher — there were only a you in a risky place, but couple that with hiding in an small number of shops open on an historic day alley? Now it is dangerous.” whipped up by a frenzied media. But national news has little time for nuance, so the stories all blended together as one long narrative of long lines and high prices. The lines also indicated something else, something that I think is much more telling: Thousands of people who had bought cannabis on the black market were finally willing to stand in public, where anyone can see them, and in essence, declare themselves as cannabis users. For millions of Americans, it’s been a long time in the dark. I waited about 40 minutes in line that day. Later I joined a press tour in Denver. During the opening remarks, Todd Mitchem of O.Pen Vape, a maker of pen/stylus vapor- Todd MItchem of O.penVAPE/Organa Labs izers that co-sponsored the event, said that he was “tired of living in the darkness” and “wanted to live in the light.” I certainly feel that frustration. We aren’t talking That stuck with me. By merely standing in line about using cannabis in public — that’s still against and participating in “opening day,” each one of us was the law — but I think we will need to have a conversaletting the world know that we are cannabis users. It tion in Colorado about other options for people to use made me feel pretty damned good. And pretty a legal product besides in their own homes, and the damned proud. sooner the better. It still feels like the state considers Mitchem, who joined O.Pen Vape several months what hundreds of thousands of citizens (and lots of ago after years in the corporate world, says he’s tired tourists) will be doing legal but also still slightly crimiof living behind a facade. nal and tawdry. And that attitude feeds directly into “Like a lot of people, I have personally spent my the stigmatization of the majority of cannabis users, adult life hiding from the use of cannabis, that I use none of whom are psychotic or derelict or any of the it and enjoy it,” he says. “‘How do I hide this from other ridiculous nonsense I’ve read and heard about my parents?’ ‘How do I only let certain friends know?’ cannabis since it became legal in Colorado and ‘How do I keep away from drug testing?’ There are a Washington. lot of mechanics in trying to hide something that’s Over the last few months, I’ve gotten to talk with not harmful to me. a lot of people in the industry. Like Mitchem, like “I look back on my career. Never have I been hin- the people who were standing in line on New Year’s
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