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Correction: A Jan. 2 commentary, “ALEC’s attack on renewables arrives in Colorado,” mistakenly identified Xcel Energy as a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Xcel was a member of ALEC until 2011. It continues to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to a trade association, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which is an ALEC member. ALEC has never published a list of members. The list comes from whistleblower documents

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Danish trivializes a death

[Re: “Total elapsed time: 80 seconds,” Danish Plan, Dec. 26.] Paul, my only hope is that you don’t actually believe the ridiculous things you say but are merely trying to get a rise out of all the “progressives” here in Boulder. There is absolutely no way to know

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Highroad The spreading plague of antibacterial products by Jim Hightower

ave you had your daily minimum requirement of triclosan today? How about your dosage of triclocarban? Chances are you have, but don’t know it. These two are antimicrobial chemicals, which might sound like a good thing, except that they disrupt the human body’s normal regulatory processes. Animal studies show, for example, that these triclos can be linked to the scram-

bling of hormones in children, disruption of puberty and of the reproductive system, decreases in thyroid hormone levels that affect brain development, and other serious health problems. Yet corporations have slipped them into all sorts of consumer products, pushing them with a blitz of advertising that claim the antibacterial ingredients prevent the spread of infections. The two chemicals were originally meant for use by surgeons to cleanse their hands before operations, but that tiny application has now proliferated like a plague, constantly exposing practically everyone to small amounts here, there and everywhere, adding up to dangerous mega-doses. Triclosan and triclocarban were first mixed into soaps, but then — BOOM! — brand-name corporations went wild, putting these hormone disrupters into about 2,000 products, including toothpaste, mouthwashes, fabrics and (most astonishingly) even into baby pacifiers!

whether or not Pierson knew the armed officer was “closing in” when he decided to shoot himself. It’s far more likely — if we’re going to try to fathom the mind of a disturbed individual — he did it because upon arriving in the library, he found his supposed intended target was no longer available. Since he’d already shot one person — by the way, thanks for trivializing see LETTERS Page 10

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Today, use of the chemicals is so prevalent that they can be found in the urine of three-fourths of Americans. They also accumulate in groundwater and soil, so they saturate our environment and eventually ourselves — one study found them in the breast milk of 97 percent of women tested. For decades, corporate lobbying and regulatory meekness let this chemical menace spread. But now the Food & Drug Administration is finally questioning the continued use of the two triclos. For more information and action, go to the Natural Resources Defense Council: www.nrdc.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 9, 2014 7

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danish plan to buy legal pot and make history. The early lines were not particularly long (dozens, not hundreds, by most accounts) and were laid-back, good-tempered and orderly — which is more than can be said for the crowds at a lot of New Year’s parties. There were no reports of disturbances, no arrests, fist fights or tramplings. The stoners, in other words, were better behaved than the door-buster mobs at a lot of Black Friday sales. “What I love about it,” Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks said, “is the peacefulness of the crowd … and the diversity.” “Things have really been going well,” said Ashley Kilroy, described by the Denver Post as Denver’s marijuana czar. “We haven’t really seen a negative impact.” She added that the biggest concern Denver officials had was that marijuana buyers would disregard municipal ordinances prohibiting public use of marijuana, and “we haven’t had any of that.” There were police and private security present at some stores, but this was more for the protection of the customers than for keeping order; recreational marijuana is a cash-only business because the stores can’t take credit cards, so customers would have more cash on them than they might otherwise. The actual buying and selling appears to have gone incredibly smoothly. One reason was that the state legislature gave the proprietors of medical marijuana operations a nine-month head start in applying for recreational licenses — so all of the 37 stores that opened for business on Jan. 1 were owned by people who had been in the medical marijuana business previously, some for years. That meant store employees were already experienced in handling pot transactions and following state regulations governing them. In short, it was a rollout that must have left the poor wretches responsible for ObamaCare’s pratfall of a rollout green with envy, so to speak. Reporters interviewed a number of customers waiting in line. Some of them were middle-aged or outright geezers. My favorites, though, were two 20-somethings — Brandon Harris and Tyler Williams, both 24, who drove 20 hours straight from Cincinnati to be at the inflection point when the inflecting took place. And now that they’re here, they’re not going back. “We’re staying,” Harris said. “We’re going to become residents.” Harris and Williams may have the distinction of being Colorado’s first marijuana refugees. If they’re serious, Messrs. Harris and Williams are “voting with Boulder Weekly

their feet,” an excellent and time-honored way of sticking a finger in the eye of tyranny. Come to think of it, it was the massive flow of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin that prompted the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. I hadn’t really thought of it this way until now, but on Jan. 1, Colorado became the drug war’s “West Berlin,” an enclave of freedom surrounded on all

sides by oppression and tyranny. Colorado won’t hold that distinction for long, of course. In a couple of months, Washington state will become a second enclave. And a lot of other states are poised to follow its lead in 2014 and 2016. But for the moment, it’s the enclave of freedom surrounded by a virtual wall of the drug war’s deliberate ignorance, cynical lies, irrational fear and dysfunctional

tyranny. Reagan gave his tear-down-this-wall speech on June 12, 1987, a few weeks shy of the 26th anniversary of the wall going up, which was August 13, 1961. Well, there’s no need to wait 26 years to say it: Mr. Obama, tear down this wall! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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the pointless death of a lovely young woman — he probably knew it was unlikely he’d be able to acquire any more victims. (For the record, a Dec. 13 Chicago Tribune article quotes a witness as saying that, in fact, the debate coach was in the library but Pierson fired at him and missed after which the coach fled. That article names the coach. It also cites police as saying the attack lasted 14 minutes.) And about that librarian/debate coach — how exactly was that person warned but the rest of the school’s occupants were left open to potential harm? Seems as if you are again making assumptions you can’t possibly confirm. (Again, the Tribune article indicates the only warning the teacher might have had was Pierson yelling his name as he walked — gun in plain sight — through the school.) One thing we can all be very certain of is this: Every student at that school — including Pierson — has to know about the armed guard. Yet somehow, that knowledge did nothing to dissuade this unbalanced person from planning and carrying out a successful armed attack on the school. Yes, if a mentally ill teenager is able to obtain a weapon and massive amounts of ammunition, enter a school and fatally injure someone ... his attack is successful. Even though “only” Claire Davis is dead. You know what could have prevented this? Reasonable gun control. As well as, perhaps, spending education money on education so that the “resource officer” is an educator/psychologist who can pinpoint those students in need of support and treatment rather than an armed guard whose usefulness still remains to be seen. (No disrespect to the officer involved. I’m sure he did everything he could.) Finally, stop acting as if the NRA is any longer a club of responsible gun owners. It is not. It is a front for the gun manufacturers from which it receives most of its funding ... and of which Wayne LaPierre is just the smarmy, soulless face. Laurette Reiff/Nederland

Monsanto lies

[Re: “Farmers’ suit against Monsanto reaches Supreme Court,” News, Jan. 2.] Thank you for your article on the court case against Monsanto. It was good to hear that the case has progressed to the Supreme Court level. I’d like to express my great respect for all those who have engaged in this fight. Sometimes a destructive organization gets away with a lie so outrageous that people believe it. Hitler’s organization did that in Germany. When the organization has lots of money and power (and tries to use

them to prevail) the lie can persist, even past the point where it has been exposed as a lie. For example, Monsanto’s lie that its GMO “products” are good for anyone but Monsanto. It takes a fantastic effort on the part of many people to wage the information war required to shine the light of truth on the lie, and then to obtain the backing of the law to fight the money+power that has already been invested in forcing the lie on others. But those of us who know about the great GMO lie surely outnumber Monsanto’s hired hands. We all have to eat, and we all want good food for our kids. We can prevail, if we all take some action. Even if it’s just an email or letter to our legislators, or a signature on a petition, our energy added to this fight will lend support and hope to the farmers involved in the suit, who are our first line of defense in this matter. Jan Stephens/via Internet

Fast Track is bad policy

This week, “Fast Track” is expected to come up in Congress. Fast Track is a leftover from the Nixon era. It speeds getting a bill through Congress, but steals from citizens and Congress the ability to influence the terms of the legislation. President Obama is attempting to use it to push through the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), nominally a trade bill but mostly a newly expanded Corporate Bill of Rights. TPP has 29 chapters, all negotiated in secret, even from most of Congress. Only five are strictly about trade; the others give new rights and privileges to corporations. Those are rights that only living, breathing citizens now hold. Fast Track is also known by the more veiled term “Trade Promotion Authority.” Earlier this year 151 Democrats and 23 Republicans signed a letter to President Obama opposing the use of Fast Track to push the TPP. Rep. Jared Polis was not in the group. To read the letter search “letter opposing fast track.” Using Fast Track takes away the rights of human citizens and Congress to input crucial issues related to labor rights, patent and copyright, land use (including fracking and GMOs), food safety, agriculture and product standards, natural resources, the environment, professional licensing, competition, state-owned enterprises and government procurement policies, as well as financial, health care, energy, e-commerce, telecommunications and other service sector regulations. Urge Rep. Polis and the other members of the Colorado delegation to vote no on the undemocratic Fast Track, aka the Trade Promotion Authority. Call Congress at 866-338-1015. Tom Moore/Boulder Boulder Weekly

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Clears deadly plaque from arteries without pills, needles, or surgery; free trial offer available to readers of the Boulder Weekly for the next 48 hours By P. K. Fisher National News Syndicate NNS — Over 3-million doses have been shipped to heart patients across the country and sales continue to climb every day for the new skin cream called Kelacore™. “We knew we had a great product, but we did not expect this much demand,” said Alan Thompson President of NMA Inc. (Northwest Medical Associates) – the makers of this new arterycleansing sensation. “People just keep placing orders. It’s been amazing,” he said. But a closer look at Kelacore™ suggests that maybe the company should not have been caught off guard by its success. There are good reasons why Kelacore™ sales are booming. To begin with, the results of more than 34,000 patient case studies here in the U.S. are impressive to say the least. Many patients taking Kelacore™ report a 50% reduction in artery plaque. Some users report an incredible 75% reduction. The active ingredient in Kelacore™ is a natural amino acid. Scientists claim it is both safe and healthy. It absorbs into the arteries via the skin so results can be seen quite quickly. “Many patients notice better blood pressure and cholesterol levels within the first 30 days,” says Dr. Alex Livshin, a Staff Physician at North York General Hospital. WHY SO MUCH EXCITEMENT? Scientists believe they have discovered an amazing amino acid that clears plaque blockages from human arteries. Yes, the same blockages that trigger deadly heart attacks and strokes, which claim the lives of almost 800,000 Americans each year! This amino acid is not a drug. It is the active ingredient in Kelacore™. Clinical studies show it improves blood flow in the arteries. Many patients see blood pressure and cholesterol levels return to normal. Some are able to cancel costly drugs. Others avoid open-heart surgery. And many more report less chest pains and numbness in the arms, legs, and feet. “My femoral arteries were 70% blocked,” says Jack Yates of Vashon, WA. “but Kelacore™ has pretty much cleaned them out now. It’s a relief to know I’m not such a high risk person for a heart attack or stroke anymore.”

ARTERY-CLEANSING SENSATION: Top doctors from coast-to-coast are now recommending new Kelacore™ chelation cream to heart patients because it safely dissolves artery blockages without pills, needles or surgery. than 1,823 studies on Kelacore’s™ active ingredient. The results seem hard to believe. Yet the findings are published in the world’s most prestigious medical journals for all to see. The results show… • Plaque blockages in the arteries get dissolved… • Angina symptoms disappear… • Bypass surgeries get cancelled… • Cholesterol levels return to normal… • Blood circulation around the body is improved… And while we all know there is no miracle cure for high blood pressure, one study did show a remarkable 100% of patients had their blood pressure come down to a safer level. The findings are impressive, no doubt, but results will vary. Consumers are advised to always consult with a doctor. There is no substitute for medical advice. But with results like these it’s easy to see why thousands of callers are clogging the telephone lines trying to get their hands on Kelacore™.

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early eight months ago, cially acknowledged the policy of signaPresident Obama promture strikes.) ised more transparency Attorney General Eric Holder conand tighter policies firmed only that four Americans have around targeted killings. been killed by drone strikes since 2009: In a speech, Obama vowed that the Anwar al Awlaki and his 16-year-old U.S. would only use force against a son, Abdulrahman, Samir Khan, and “continuing and imminent threat to the Jude Kenan Mohammed. Holder said American people.” It would fire only that only the elder Awlaki was “specifiwhen there was “near-certainty” civilcally targeted,” but did not explain how ians would not be killed or injured, and the others came to be killed. when capture was not feasible. Although Obama said that this disThe number of drone strikes closure was intended to “facilitate transdropped in 2013, but they’ve continued parency and debate,” since then, the to make headlines. In November, a U.S. administration has not commented on drone killed the head of the Pakistani specific allegations of civilian deaths. Taliban. A few days earliWikimedia Commons/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson, U.S. Air Force er came the first drone strike in Somalia in nearly two years. How much has changed since the president’s speech?

witness reports of civilian deaths. (Most of the deaths investigated happened before the Obama administration’s new policies were announced, although the administration has not said when those guidelines went into effect.) The reports also raised questions of the legality of specific strikes, questioning whether the deaths were all unavoidable casualties of legitimate attacks. It does not appear that the U.S. plans to expand strikes against Al Qaeda to other countries — officials have reportedly told Iraq, for example, it won’t send drones there. But the U.S. has established a surveillance drone

We don’t know the U.S. count of civilian deaths The administration says that it has a count of civilian deaths, and that there is a “wide gap” between U.S. and independent figures. But the administration won’t release its own figures. Outside estimates of total civilian deaths since 2002 range from just over 200 to more than 1,000. The Pakistani government has given three different numbers: 400, 147, and 67. McClatchy and the Washington Post obtained intelligence documents showing that for long stretches of time, the CIA estimated few or no civilian deaths. The documents also confirmed the use of signature strikes, in which the U.S. targets people without knowing their identity. The CIA categorized many of those killed as simply “other militants” or “foreign fighters.” The Post wrote that the agency sometimes designated “militants” with what seemed like circumstantial or vague evidence, such as “men who were ‘probably’ involved in cross-border attacks” in Afghanistan. The administration reportedly curtailed signature strikes this year, though the new guidelines don’t necessarily preclude them. A White House factsheet released around Obama’s speech said that “it is not the case that all military-aged males in the vicinity of a target are deemed to be combatants.” It did not say that people must be identified. (In any case, the U.S. has not offiBoulder Weekly

We don’t know exactly who can be targeted The list of groups that the military considers “associated forces” of Al Qaeda is classified. The administration has declared that it targets members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and “elements” of Al Shabaab, but there are still questions about how the U.S. determines that an individual belonging to those groups is in fact a “continuing and imminent threat.” (After the terror alarm that led to the closing of U.S. embassies this summer, officials told the New York Times they had “expanded the scope of people [they] could go after” in Yemen.) This ties into the debate over civilian casualties: The government would seem to consider some people legitimate targets that others don’t. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch conducted in-depth studies of particular strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, respectively. They include eye-

base in Niger, and fed information from drones to French forces fighting in Mali.

We don’t know if the U.S. compensates civilian casualties CIA director John Brennan suggested during his confirmation hearing that the U.S. made condolence payments to harmed families. But there is little evidence of it happening. U.S. Central Command told ProPublica that it had 33 pages related to condolence payments — but wouldn’t release any of them.

We don’t always know which strikes are American While unnamed officials sometimes confirm that strikes came from U.S. drones, other attacks may be from Pakistani, Yemeni, or even Saudi planes. (It’s also worth noting that the U.S. has used cruise missiles and Special Forces raids. But the bulk of U.S. coun-

terterrorism actions outside Afghanistan in recent years appear to rely on drones.)

We don’t know the precise legal rationale behind the strikes Some members of Congress have seen the legal memos behind targeted killing of U.S. citizens. But lawmakers were not granted access to all memos on the program. Legislation pending in the Senate would require the administration to give the Intelligence Committees a list of such legal opinions. Other congressmen have introduced bills with more reporting requirements for targeted killings. (Proposals for a “drone court” for oversight have not gotten very far.) It’s far from clear that any of that additional oversight would lead to public disclosure. The government and the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Times are still locked in court battles over requests for drone documents. While a judge has ruled the CIA can no longer assert the “fiction” that it can’t reveal if it has any interest in drones, the agency hasn’t been compelled to release any information yet. The government has also so far fought off disclosure of legal memos underpinning targeted killings.

Here are some things we’ve learned through leaks and independent reporting: How the U.S. tracks targets: Documents provided by Edward Snowden to the Washington Post detailed the NSA’s “extensive involvement.” Lawyers in a terrorism-related case also uncovered reports that government surveillance of their client may have led to a drone strike in Somalia. The Atlantic published a detailed account of Yemen using a child to plant a tracking chip on a man who was killed in a U.S. strike. What people in the affected countries think: The Pakistani government’s cooperation with at least some U.S. See DRONES Page 14

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drone strikes — long an open secret — The physical infrastructure: More of has now been well-documented. Public the network of drone bases across the sentiment in the country is vividly world has been revealed — from the anti-drone, even when violent Taliban unmasking of a secret base in Saudi commanders are killed, and politicians Arabia to the fact that drones had to continue to denounce them as be moved off the U.S. base in American interference. Limited pollDjibouti, in the Horn of Africa, after ing in the region most affected by crashes and fear of collision with pasdrones is contradictory, with some say- senger planes. ing that at the The CIA’s very least, they role: The adminprefer drones to istration had the Pakistani reportedly GOVERNMENT’S military camplanned to scale paigns. Life in back the CIA’s COOPERATION WITH AT those areas is role in targeted LEAST SOME U.S. DRONE between a killing, moving STRIKES HAS NOW BEEN drone and a control of much hard place: of the drone WELL-DOCUMENTED. Residents told program to the PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN Amnesty military. But the THE COUNTRY IS VIVIDLY International of CIA reportedly the psychologistill handles ANTI-DRONE, EVEN cal toll from strikes in WHEN VIOLENT TALIBAN drones, and Pakistan and has COMMANDERS ARE they also face a role in Yemen reprisals from as well. Officials KILLED, AND POLITICIANS militants who told Foreign CONTINUE TO DENOUNCE accuse them of Policy that the THEM AS AMERICAN spying. transition won’t Yemen’s happen anytime INTERFERENCE. president consoon. tinues to openly The history embrace U.S. of the programs: Revelations continue to change our strikes, though the public genunderstanding of the contours of the erally opposes them — particulardrone war, but two books published ly those strikes that hit lower-level fighters, or those whose affiliations with this year offer comprehensive accounts — The Way of the Knife, by Al Qaeda aren’t clear. Foreign Policy Mark Mazzetti of the New York recently detailed the aftermath of an August strike where two teenagers died. Times, and Dirty Wars, by Jeremy Scahill. Their family disputes they had any link Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com to terrorism.

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he controversy over the appointment of Glenn Vaad, a member of the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission has not only raised questions about whether he will be confirmed by the Senate, but where Vaad’s loyalties will lie when it comes to Xcel Energy’s battle with the city of Boulder over municipalization. Vaad, who did not respond to a request for an interview before press time, has been targeted by proponents of renewable energy because of his leadership role in ALEC, a group that has campaigned to overturn renewableenergy standards around the country. He was sworn in on an interim basis Jan. 8, but he won’t be official until the Senate confirms him, and a date for that vote has not Glenn Vaad been set. Vaad, a Mead resident, was active in ALEC when he was a state legislator, serving as chair of the ALEC Task Force on Commerce, Insurance & Economic Development, according to ALEC documents posted by Friends of the Colorado PUC (friendsofthecoloradopuc.wordpress. com), which recently launched an antiVaad petition drive that has garnered more than 750 signatures. Gabe Elsner, executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., points out that Vaad also received ALEC’s “State Legislator of the Year” award in 2012, according to documents provided to the Center for Media and Democracy by a whistleblower. “ALEC does not hand out these awards to members of state legislatures that are looking out for other interests,” Elsner told BW. “They hand out these awards to legislators that are helping ALEC’s corporate members pass policies that are favorable to them.” Even more concerning, he says, is the possible link between Vaad and Xcel Energy, which answers to the PUC on regulatory matters. Elsner notes that an October 2012 report by Common Cause shows Vaad received ALEC “scholarships” for traveling to the council’s conferences in Boulder Weekly

2006, 2007 and 2008 — from a fund that Xcel Energy contributed to. It is at these conferences where hundreds of state legislators and lobbyists reportedly work side-by-side to draft industry-friendly legislation that then becomes boilerplate for bills at statehouses around the country. “It’s a disgusting process,” says Ken Beitel, advisory board chair of the Boulder-based Drive Sunshine Institute. “It’s the corruption of democracy.” Elsner and Friends of the Colorado PUC point out that Xcel is a former member of ALEC and continues to send hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), a national industry trade group that is an ALEC member. They question whether Vaad will be in Xcel’s pocket, given their common ALEC links. “Is he going to serve Colorado families,” Elsner asks, “or is he going to serve powerful special interests like Xcel that have lobbying dollars and a lot of money to spend to get the policies they want?” He adds that even if Xcel is no longer an ALEC member, it is pouring money into front groups that are, like EEI. “What we’ve seen across the board in this new political reality that we live in, of post-Citizens’ United and dark money, is that a public-facing company like Xcel doesn’t want to be a member of ALEC, because it can lead to bad PR, it can lead to bad press,” Elsner says.

‘Charitable donation’ Michelle Aguayo, a spokesperson for Xcel, says her company hasn’t given money to ALEC since 2010, but “if you’ve been affiliated once, then they’ll brand you for life.” She also says it’s a bit of a stretch to make a connection between her company and Vaad just because of Xcel’s payments to ALEC or EEI. “If we give a grant to our United Way fund, I don’t know how often we go and say it can be used for this person, this person, but not this person, or it can be used for this event but not that,” she told BW. “It’s a charitable donation.”

“They’re probably trying to connect a lot of dots that probably aren’t there,” Aguayo says of the renewable energy advocates criticizing Vaad. “They will use any and every tactic they can to bolster their positions, whether they are valid or not. And unfortunately, you get some groups that, if they say something enough, they believe it, whether or not it’s true, and they want everybody else to believe it as well, to validate their opinion. Do we quit giving money to anybody and everybody because of possible ties somewhere down the road?” Elsner also claims that solar netmetering — the credit that those who have solar panels get for sending excess produced energy to the grid — is under attack by ALEC and EEI, and he says it will be interesting to see where Vaad comes down on it. (For their part, Xcel officials say they are considering making people with rooftop solar panels begin paying a fee to use the company’s electric lines, just like their other customers do.) “Homeowners who invest in solar shouldn’t be punished because the utilities are feeling threatened by the emergence of cheap, clean energy,” Elsner says, adding that studies show solar users actually save utilities money, reducing wear and tear on the grid and relieving the need to invest in costly fossil-fuel plants. “There are benefits to all ratepayers by having more solar power on the grid, and the utility industry is less concerned about ratepayers and more concerned about their profits, and that’s why they’re attacking solar.” Aguayo disagrees. “Xcel Energy just received approval to add 170 mega watts of utility scale solar to the Colorado system,” she says via email. “We are adding this not to fulfill the state’s renewable energy standard [RES], but because it was cost-competitive with natural gas and benefits all Colorado Xcel Energy customers. This clearly shows that Xcel Energy is looking at all sources of energy for our customers (the PUC also approved an additional 450 mega watts of wind for the system, also not a part of the RES plan) at the best possible price, including solar energy.” Aguayo also points out that Xcel’s PUC filing regarding net metering does not include any proposal to roll back incentives on rooftop solar. See PUC Page 16

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“We have asked to start the conversation on how to deal with net metering moving forward,” she says. “Incentives will decrease over time, as agreed upon by the solar installation community.”

‘I’m disappointed’ Sen. Matt Jones (D-Louisville) says Hickenlooper could have found a better candidate than Vaad. “I’m disappointed in the appointment,” he told BW. “The governor needed to appoint a Republican or an unaffiliate, and there are a lot of moderate Republicans around who believe in renewable energy. Glenn Vaad’s a very nice man, but he has a very poor renewable energy voting record.” Jones says he hasn’t counted the votes to determine whether Vaad has enough support to gain Senate confirmation. “I think there are different levels of support,” he says. “People know his voting record. People who believe in renewable energy … know that the governor could have appointed somebody stronger in that regard.” While Jones was unaware of any link between Xcel and Vaad, he told BW the ALEC affiliation is concerning, “because of the policies that ALEC’s been putting out, such as trying to get rid of renewable energy standards, and now they’re moving to try to get rid of net metering.” According to Aguayo, Xcel is not taking a position on Vaad’s appointment. “In all honesty, it probably doesn’t matter what our thinking is,” she says. “It doesn’t matter what our opinion is of who gets appointed. … We always work with the commission. That’s part of the job that we have to do on a daily basis, so it’s really inconsequential who the governor appoints.” Some say Vaad’s appointment increases the likelihood that the PUC will require the city of Boulder to cover the cost of building new substations and other infrastructure it condemns and takes over from Xcel rather than requiring the two entities to share such infrastructure, an outcome that could significantly increase the pricetag of municipalization. “The Public Utilities Commission has made it perfectly clear what their stance is going to be, and that’s that they are protecting the customers outside of the home-rule city, and that they are protecting the integrity of the grid,” Aguayo says. “And I think they will do that, regardless of Boulder and regardless of Xcel Energy. … People are going to believe what they want to believe; we are not going to try to guess what the commissioners are going to rule and how they’re going to rule.” When asked about Vaad, Boulder Mayor Matt Appelbaum said via email, “Boulder doesn’t have any sort of posi-

news tion on Vaad’s appointment, other than, of course, considerable interest in the process and a desire to have a thorough confirmation hearing so we can all better understand his take on energy issues. From my perspective, a quick take on this is that the issue isn’t really a narrow concern about our muni, but a more general interest in whether he, or any PUC appointee, will help move Colorado into the modern era in the energy realm, or continue to prop up the existing, unsustainable — both economically and environmentally — regulatory framework. While I don’t expect a Republican appointee to necessarily be an environmental champion (and I certainly understand the concerns raised by some in the environmental community, particularly about the ALEC connection), I would hope that such an appointee might be concerned about the economic issues and the need for competition, choice, more open markets, long-term cost-effectiveness, innovation, and a clear path to the energy future we all — including the utility industry — know is rapidly coming.” Boulder City Council member Macon Cowles put it more bluntly in a message he sent Jan. 8 on the city’s “Hotline” email Listserv. “The Colorado Senate should not confirm someone who is a climate change denier to the position of Public Utilities Commissioner,” he wrote. One PUC insider says that at the very least Vaad is going to have some big shoes to fill in succeeding James Tarpey, who announced his resignation in November. “It’s a big loss to lose Jim Tarpey,” says Leslie Glustrom, a consumer advocate who has intervened in numerous PUC dockets and was a founder of Clean Energy Action. “He was a fine example of what the best of politics used to be, and the best of what regulation used to be, which is that you’re open to the evidence. You think thoughtfully about it, you treat all parties with respect, and you’re working hard to make the best decision possible from the most honest perspective possible, as opposed to coming in with a predetermined, dogmatic political point of view where you’re now going to use every opportunity you can to drive home your perspective. And Tarpey was the opposite of that, so it’s a big loss.” When asked about Vaad, she told BW, “I hope that he will follow in Commissioner Tarpey’s footsteps as a thoughtful and reasoned commissioner. This is a time of great transition, and it’s essential to keep an open mind about the best way to promote competition and protect consumers.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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s the Dark Snow Project reached the end of its inaugural year, its director was feeling anxious. “I was under a lot of pressure, because I had to prove that the project was not just a publicity stunt,” says Jason Box, climatologist and founder of the Dark Snow Project, designed to measure the impact of black carbon on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. “I felt pretty nervous that unless I demonstrated

some hardcore science, I would be forever branded as a kind of media whore.” That’s because unlike typical scientific research, a media storm has surged around the Dark Snow Project almost since its launch: more than 30 articles swirled in the mainstream media — including a front cover story in Rolling Stone — not to mention a flurry of Facebook, Twitter, Kickstarter and other social media campaigning. And this is because, unlike most scientific endeavors, Box and his col-

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temperatures were causing massive melting across the ice sheet. During one exceptional period in the summer of 2012, the entire ice sheet surface was melting simultaneously, even up at its maximum elevation of 10,600 feet. From the ground and via satellite, Greenland’s surface ice and snow looked dark. Box wanted to find out how much of that darkness was black carbon — the partially combusted dark-colored particulate matter that

emits from industrial smokestacks, vehicles, ships, aircraft, agricultural burning and, of course, wildfires, more commonly referred to as soot — and how much it was contributing to the startling melting in Greenland. In a landmark 2013 study, scientists called black carbon “the second-most important individual climate-warming agent after carbon dioxide.” They estiSee GREENLAND Page 20

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Black carbon can travel from as far away as the recent wildfires along Colorado’s Front Range before landing on the Greenland ice sheet.

Impurity-rich glacier ice in western Greenland. Visible are snow-filled crevasses.

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mate that black carbon contributes more than twice as much to global warming than previously thought, and has about two-thirds of the overall effect of carbon dioxide, the largest artificial contributor to climate change. If measured per unit of mass in the atmosphere, black carbon can absorb a million times more energy than carbon dioxide. The EPA estimates that the U.S. emitted 0.64 million tons of black carbon in 2005. By darkening the surface of the earth, black carbon decreases the albedo, or a surface’s ability to reflect light back into the atmosphere. Scientists say this may have contributed toward earlier onset of seasonal melting, thinning Arctic sea ice and other signals of a changing climate over the past century — including the melting of land ice, such as that in Greenland. When it falls on ice and snow, black carbon drastically reduces surface albedo, meaning that the darker surface absorbs more sunlight and causes the snow and ice to melt. As the darker-than-snow melt water spreads across the whiter icy and snowy surfaces, it heightens the effect of the black carbon: even less sunlight is reflected away, even more sunlight is absorbed and surface melting continues to accelerate. In the summer of 2012, this became a runaway process across the entire Greenland ice sheet. Flush with more generous crowdfunding than expected for the 2013 expedition, Box and the Dark Snow Project team trekked across the Greenland ice sheet to drill for the answers to their question of just how much this process contributed to overall melting. They drilled at three differ20 January 9, 2014

ent locations of varying elevations, even making it out to their prime target site at 8,600 feet along the topographic divide. This meant a risky helicopter ride and a strategic refueling site at about the halfway point, set up in advance via snowmobile. The team drilled more than 10 ice cores across the three sites, drilling as far as nine feet down — enough to read the evidence from the unprecedented 2012 melting. In the ice cores from the highest elevation site, the team found a well-defined melt layer exactly where Box expected it to be, about six feet below the surface. They also found the dark snow they thought might have contributed to the melting. “We got a black carbon concentration at the 2012 layer, which we needed to be able to calculate how much of the absorbed solar energy we can blame explicitly on black carbon, and how much we can pin simply on the heating effect, which makes ice crystals rounder on the edges and helps them to absorb more sunlight,” Box says. “With those numbers, I calculated what fraction of the energy of melting, and ultimately what volume of melt water, was attributable to black carbon.” By the time he presented his preliminary findings this past December, he had the compelling results he needed to prove that the Dark Snow Project had weathered the media storm. “Compared to pure snow without any light absorption impurity, the difference was 40 percent. Four-zero,” Box says. “You could say that without black carbon — if there were no black carbon — there probably would not have been complete surface melting on the ice sheet in 2012.”

Black carbon can travel vast disface ice, this pigment can visibly tances through the atmosphere before change the color — and reduce the it lands on the Greenland ice sheet, albedo — of the ice surface, and this even from as far away as wildfires can then mean more melting,” Stibal along the Colorado Front Range. In says. “More melting means more liquid July 2013, just days after the team had water for the algae. And all living finished taking its core samples, black organisms are dependent on liquid carbon fell on the Greenland ice from water, so it potentially creates a posiintense wildfires in Quebec, more than tive feedback loop.” 2,000 miles away. While that soot The new phase of Dark Snow didn’t make it into the first ice core Project crowdfunding will focus on samples, Box and his team are working the importance of figuring out how toward tracing every the increased meltbit of black carbon ing is affecting algal back through the growth — as well as INFO: More details about the atmosphere and to other microbial study on black carbon in Greenland’s ice is available on its origins. growth — and the the International Geosphere“We want to finextent to which algae Biosphere Programme’s website, at http://bit.ly/1lPE96C. gerprint how much and microbes are is industrial, how contributing to the much is wildfire, dark snow effect. how much is from airplanes, how Box and Stibal are even planning a much is from ships. We have hope in study to test whether pollutants like that, but it’s going to take some time,” black carbon may be fertilizing these Box says. “But we need to develop other microbes — dark snow breeding more confidence in just exactly where dark snow. this shit is coming from.” “I like to call this the climate That’s one key goal moving forX-factor, because we don’t know how ward — but the 2014 expedition is important it is,” Box says. “We know also adding a new element to the Dark that the reflectivity at the lowest part Snow Project. of the ice is a lot darker because of the “Here’s the thing: a lot of the dark- microbes. We just don’t know by how much.” ness is not black carbon. It is algae,” By the summer of 2014, the bioloBox says. “And that’s especially true at gists and climatologists of the Dark the lowest elevations, where most of Snow Project hope to combine their the melting happens.” expertise to find out. Biologist Marek Stibal, part of the “Together we’re going to crack this Dark Snow Project team, says that thing open,” Box says. “I think it’s these algae produce a pigment, probagoing to be really high-impact.” bly to protect themselves from excess For more information on the Dark solar radiation, which may damage Snow Project’s research and crowdfunding their DNA or disrupt their ability to campaign, visit www.darksnow.org. photosynthesize. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com “At high cell densities in the surBoulder Weekly

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To prepare for skiing Denali, Bettner has completed classic ascents on Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams and Mt. Baker.

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Skiing is in Bettner’s blood. His grandfather escaped the Iron Curtain by skiing over the Alps into Italy.

elevation gain of the mountain is approximately 18,000 feet, the largest of any mountain situated completely above sea level. It remained unclimbed until 1913, when a party led by Harry Karstens, Walter Harper, Hudson Stuck and Robert Tatum were able to successfully ascend the peak. The dramatic elevation gain that climbers and ski mountaineers like Bettner face is compounded by Mother Nature’s curveballs. The weather on Denali

can be beautiful, with calm days and warm sunshine. However, it’s more likely that those who challenge the mountain will face howling winds, impressive snowfall and bitter cold. Conditions can change rapidly, without warning and each year climbers who overestimate their abilities are caught at altitude on the peak by storms. Some never make it back to base camp. According to a 2008 study published by the medical journal High Altitude Medicine and Biology, the fatality rate for the peak is approximately three out of every 1,000 summit attempts. The number, of course, doesn’t include the numerous close calls and nearmisses that happen every year on the mountain. Bettner first saw Denali in 2008. He was working see DENALI Page 24

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in Alaska and caught a heli ride on a clear day. “I had a clear line of sight to Denali,” he recalls. “I immediately said to myself, ‘I need to do that.’” At that point, Bettner was already chasing a passion for skiing. His family had a deep connection to the sport. An Austrian-Hungarian grandfather, Francis Sogis, escaped the Iron Curtain by skiing over the Alps into Italy. And this, as well as Sogis’ other climbing and skiing exploits, had a profound impact on Bettner. “He told me about the Seven Summits [the seven highest peaks on each continent],” says Bettner. “I was a Wolf Cub Scout, and one of the things we did was to make a life goal list, and my goal was to climb one of the seven summits.” Bettner smiles as he continues to recall time spent with his grandfather, describing learning how to climb with him as a kid, as well as other mountaineering lessons. “He just turned 90 and finally quit mountain biking,” Bettner says with a laugh, obviously still impressed by the grit and physical abilities of Sogis. 24 January 9, 2014

With the life list in place, his grandfather’s passion for mountains running through his veins and the memorable view of Denali on a clear day haunting him, Bettner started focusing on the Messner. “I realized I would need a lot of experience,” he says. “I did the Circle of Fire volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest, Rainier, Mt. Adams, Baker. These are all classic ascents. “I also started working on the planning and ski mountaineering aspect of the project.” The work that Bettner got going on featured some impressive lines, including the second descent of the Nisqually ice cliff on Mount Rainier, a big solo on the west face of Mount Adams and a lot of other smaller projects. “I’ve done stuff all over Colorado,” says Bettner. “Day-long tours from Frisco over into Vail, skiing the steepest stuff I could find, things like that.” Still there’s a method to his madness. Bettner ended up in Colorado due to the University of Colorado, particularly the school’s excellent engineering programs. Bettner spent his undergradBoulder Weekly

adventure uate years studying civil and environlenges of skiing down large peaks, at mental engineering. Then, undeterred high altitude, often unroped and at the by the heavy course load, he went on to mercy of snow conditions on steep, nograduate school, where he obtained a fall terrain, a cool head that can calcumaster’s in mechanical engineering. (At late the risk-versus-reward factor is this juncture, it’s interesting to note essential. There’s also, given the amount that his grandfather, Sogis, was a civil of time, effort and planning that go into engineer, with a career the front side of expediJoel Bettner path that included worktions like this, a need to ing at the World Bank be highly motivated and and also in Alaska.) focused. But a career in engi“I’m very goal-driven, neering wasn’t in the not necessarily the type of cards. goals other people might “The engineering field have,” says Bettner. “Most was not for me,” admits of my peers are very Bettner. “I sat in an office financially goal-driven, 60 hours a week in a cube, which is fine and I dreaming of what I was respect it, but it is not one going to do on the weekof those things that keeps end. I was making money, Joel Bettner left engineering me awake at night. But I to climb mountains — and will stay awake at night but that’s not what was then ski down. thinking of a mountain I motivating me.” will ski, and Denali is the What did motivate most consuming one, because there is him were mountains: climbing them so much to it.” and then skiing down. With the attempt set for this spring, Mountaineering, particularly ski when the Denali climbing season starts, mountaineering, is a high-risk game, Bettner keeps focusing on the Messner. fueled by passion. But it is also a game where people who have the kind of ana“In the past 10 years, I’ve learned lytical mindset that works for engineerthat I get so much less enjoyment if I ing excel. Expeditions to large peaks like can’t ski a mountain,” he says. “I won’t Denali are a complex dance of logistics, climb it unless I can ski it. We are hopfrom dialing in food supplies to undering to ski the Messner Coulior, one of standing weather patterns to organizing the biggest and most classic lines on the finances to the actual climbing. There’s mountain, with more than 5,000 feet of a lot more math involved than most vertical on the line itself.” climbers would want to admit and, He smiles. “It is iconic.” when you throw into the mix the chalRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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might be good to title your But country they are not. The L.A.article ‘Boobies,’” El Cucuy, based band combines the bad-ass riffs trumpet player for and lyrics of metal bands like Metallica, Metalachi, says. “And your Guns N’ Roses and Bon Jovi with the first sentence would be, ‘Boobs.’” distinct instrumentation and arrangeBreasts, in one way or another, ments of mariachi. The intro to “Crazy came up nearly 30 times during our Train” on a trumpet? Yes, please. They interview with two of the five brothers cite Black Sabbath as the greatest metal who make up the metal mariachi band band ever. “They’re dark, and they’re that will play at Denver’s Larimer scary, and their music kicks ass, and Lounge on Friday, Jan. 10. “The most they play metal,” El Cucuy says. “And surreal moment [of our career was] they get a lot of boobies on tour.” when we had three girls show us their boobies after a show at the same , time. We like to call plays with Skulls and Fool them chi chis,” brother for a Day on Friday, Jan. 10, Maximillian “Dirty” at the Larimer Lounge in Denver. Sanchez says. $12 advance, $15 day of show. “Chi chis. It’s like a magic word,” El Cucuy says. “It’s like a fine wine.” Though we can’t verify the validity of their claims, the brothers Espinoza say their The genres are more similar than mother, Consuela Espinoza, conceived you might think. They are both epic them simultaneously in 1982 after a styles and take a fair amount of skill to “night of snorting horse tranquilizers execute. “There’s a commonality in the with seven members of the village jai people who like both types of music,” alai team in a Super Ocho” motel in El Cucuy says. “You look at people who Veracruz, Mexico. listen to metal: Either they’re high, El Cucuy doesn’t see the novelty in they’re drunk, or they do drugs. You their origins. look at the people of mariachi: Their “What’s so strange about it? I don’t blood-alcohol level is above that of a know. I think it’s pretty rock ’n’ roll,” he tranquilized horse. They’re so drunk off says. “It gives you something to sing tequila, they laugh, they scream, they about. You can make a song about losget naked, they dance.” ing your virginity to a carne asada burThe band’s motto is, “The more you rito. Man, that sounds like a country drink, the better we sound.” song.” El Cucuy quickly adds, “And the

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more likely you are to show your chi chis.” Their wardrobe is similar to that of Kiss, except with lit-up sombreros. “You have to kill people to get [a sombrero],” Maximillian says. “I have to apologize for my brother; he’s very dark and likes to kill people,” El Cucuy says. “Me, I could probably get you one for some boobies. OK, I consider that a fair trade.” According to Maximillian, all of their costumes are custommade by child factory workers in Mexico. They assure that the children are paid fair and square — with tacos and Chiclets. “Yeah, little kids love Chiclets,” El Cucuy says. When they take time off from being in the self-proclaimed “greatest heavy metal band to ever live,” Maximillian is busy hunting chupacabras and making tacos with their meat. “Have you ever had the McRib at McDonald’s?” El Cucuy asks. “It tastes like [chupacabra]. It’s probably what McDonald’s uses.” Quite the baker, El Cucuy also bakes cookies in the shape of kittens and — what else? — boobies. “People have the misconception it’s fake, that we’re not for real,” Maximillian says. “But when people come to our shows, they have nothing but respect for mariachi and metal music. People think it’s stupid and silly, but it’s actually great music.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Square being closed to car traffic is not a good idea, the area’s foot traffic has not really caused a rebirth of community, as the film implies. That’s because such a cultural shift was never really the intent. The reinvention of Times Square was always intended to create a tourist draw and thereby an economic engine. And those who remember how New York City police cleaned up the area by harassing and searching without cause and jailing tens of thousands of young blacks would never claim that community had been enhanced by the often-unconstitutional process employed. But overall, Dalsgaard’s film holds up well and should be viewed as a helpful map for cities going forward. It is a film that will resonate with Boulder County residents, to be sure. But in some ways, it should also be viewed as a warning. Bike to work days, open space purchases and growth restrictions will never be enough to improve our human connectivity, and thereby our culture. We must plan our communities in ways that look beyond creating barriers to keep out the “others.” To achieve Gehl’s ideals we must find regional solutions to our automobile problems as well as create housing opportunities that amplify community and diversity through the use of common areas and large auto-free zones. But it is good to see that we may at least be on the right track. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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ore than 50 percent of the world’s population now lives in our cities, and that number is only going to grow. Some experts predict that by the midpoint of this century, more than 80 percent of the global population will find itself in an urban setting. But is all this urbanON THE BILL: The Human ization really Scale is showing at various times good for us, from Jan. 12 through Jan. 18 at for our culthe Boedecker Theater, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut ture? Does it St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. help or harm our quality of life? These are the primary questions that The Human Scale shows how cities like Chongging are experimenting with reducing automobile usage to boost human interaction and improve quality of life. Andreas Dalsgaard attempts to answer in his enlightened documenthesis. This city has already incorporattary The Human Scale. notion that by decreasing the physical ed many of the architect’s concepts. Dalsgaard’s film explores the work space and planning emphasis that curStreets have been pedestrianized, and and philosophy of Danish architect Jan rently goes into all things automobile, Gehl, who has long advocated that our city planners and architects can actually bikes are now the dominant mode of transportation. It is now estimated that cities should be built for the benefit of heighten human interaction by adding only 24 percent of Copenhagen’s people rather than for the convenience more space for things like bike paths, 560,000 residents now use cars to get of automobiles and the profits of devel- common areas and greenways that are opers. closed to things with noisy, polluting around, as opposed to the 35 percent In its quest to explore this imporengines. who primarily use bikes. City planners tant issue, The Human Scale takes us to It’s a simple concept: The more have established no-traffic zones, housing units built around common areas cities across the globe, including time we spend walking and talking and more than 350,000 bike lanes. Copenhagen, New York City, together, looking each other in the eye Not all of the film’s examples of Chongging, Dhaka, Melbourne and while socializing in person rather than trading car space for pedestrian ways more. While examining these highly by digital means or isolating ourselves ring as true as Copenhagen’s. The populated hubs of humanity, often in in cars or high-rise housing, the better Human Scale attempts to push New the company of the bureaucrats and our quality of life becomes — which in York City’s Times Square through planners charged with guiding their turn enriches our culture and creativity. Gehl’s round hole, but it doesn’t fit. evolution, the film searches out examThe film uses Copenhagen as the While few could argue that Times ples that can help us explore Gehl’s best example to give weight to Gehl’s

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hat do you call a violinist who plays concertos with orchestras, Baroque music with a period-instrument group, and heavy metal with her own rock band? You could call her versatile “beyond belief,” like conductor Jose Serebrier did. Or you could just call her Rachel Barton Pine, since no one else performs in all three styles in the way that she does. Pine will appear in the first role — concerto soloist with orchestra — Saturday, Jan. 11, with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Michael Butterman (7:30 p.m., Pine plays heavy metal with a rock band when she’s not performing classical music. Macky Auditorium; http://boulderphil.org/concerts/three-bs). But that does not mean she will leave her rock sensibility at home. “Within classical music my goal is to do the same thing [as heavy-metal bands], to give 150 percent and get everyone caught up in the emotions,” she says. In addition to Pine’s performance of Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, the orchestra will present Leopold Stokowski’s arrangement of the Bach chorale “Komm, süsser Tod” (Come, sweet death), the “Blumine” movement Berg in Boulder — she played with the life path is, I think all of us have been that Mahler wrote for his First Colorado Music Festival just over a through things like that and it makes Symphony and later removed, and decade ago, she says, and in a funny the concerto very universal.” Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. coincidence, she played the Berg As fascinating as these hidden The Berg Concerto is the linchpin Concerto. meanings are, Pine is looking for someof this interesting program. Although it was the conductor’s idea thing deeper. She explains, “The ques“The Berg has been on my list for both times, Pine is quick to add, “I’m tion I always come back to as a perBoulder for a long time,” Butterman always delighted to do it. When I was former is, is that knowledge going to says. “And this program has been com16 I did a big research project [on the impact my interpretation?” In at least pleted in my mind for several years now. concerto], reading every article about it one case it does. I think it all works together as a unit.” that I could find in the library, so it’s a “When the Bach chorale comes in, The concerto was inspired — in part piece that’s very close to my heart.” Berg has a seemingly strange designa— by the death of Manon Gropius, the One thing Pine discovered, she says, tion ‘amoroso’ [amorously]. Why would lovely and well-loved teenaged daughter is that “the Berg Violin Concerto is not he write that in a piece about Manon of architect Walter Gropius. The cononly very intense and beautiful, but it is Gropius? Understanding that he was nection to Mahler is that Manon’s also an extremely personal work.” On actually thinking about his own death mother was the composer’s ex-wife one level, the piece is about Manon and [being] reunited with his true love Alma. Gropius, who died of polio when she does directly impact the way that I play Bach is connected to the concerto was 19. The Concerto falls into two that phrase. I play it in a romantic, lovtoo, because Berg quotes another Bach parts, the first a musical portrayal of a ing way, with a hint of sensuality, somechorale about death, “Es ist genug” (It is playful and beloved daughter, and the thing I certainly would not do if I wasn’t enough). And Bach provides the link to second the expression of anguish at her aware of that layer of meaning.” tragic death. Brahms, who used a Baroque composiBut in the end, Pine says, it’s the But there is a second level of meantional technique, and a Bach bass line, music that matters, not the stories about ing as well. Berg himself was nearing for the final movement of his Fourth the music. “Even if you have no knowldeath — the Violin Concerto was his Symphony. edge of either the official story or the last completed work — and the score “In this program you’re seeing ways secret story, you would still be able to holds hidden references to his life, in which subsequent German and listen to the music just for itself and including a servant girl who bore his hear the different changing moods,” she Austrian composers have paid homage to Bach in their music,” Butterman says. own daughter when he was a teenager, says. Curiously, this will be the first time and a later love from his adult years. It won’t hurt that those moods will Butterman and the Philharmonic have “He’s basically talking about his life,” be conveyed with the intensity of a rock performed any Brahms symphony, but Pine says. “It makes the piece so person- ’n’ roll, either. not the first time Pine has played the al and relatable, in a way. Whatever ourRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Turkuaz and Springdale Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Adrienne-O with Soul Electric. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Esther Sparks. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Café, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

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

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

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

Bad Brad and the Fat Cats. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

The Lantern Band @ West Flanders. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447BREW. Leftapalooza. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Do You Know Who I Am? 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Gidion’s Knot. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

David Booker. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

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

Bethy Love Light Performing Muzoetry. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Dead Set. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Dexter Payne Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Laurie D returns. 6:30 p.m. Treppeda’s Italian Ristorante, 300 2nd Ave, Niwot. Noah Wilson. 9:30 a.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Trio Con Brio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monty Python’s Spamalot. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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Sample lyrics from Bethy Love Light’s “muzoetry,” which comes off as spoken word poetry over Hare Krishna-style beats: “Within the human body, which is a spaceship / a merkaba from a cosmic relationship / and life is a trip / and we like to sit / on the soma, the drips and the great spirit’s lips / these entheogens, they make the lights bright, so we can see now what was out of sight / and it’s a reflection, a real connection, with the presence of the infinite perception.”

Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown. Potcheen. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Symbols. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

events Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Auditions for Longmont Theater Company’s Sweeney Todd. 6 p.m. Longmont Rehearsal Space, 314 Main see EVENTS Page 34

music Saturday, Jan. 11

Lucia DeGiovanni

Covenhoven w/ Patrick Dethlefs and Chimney Choir. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. When Joel Van Horne’s band Carbon Choir broke up roughly a year ago, he locked himself in his family’s cabin in Wyoming and wrote music. What he emerged with was a powerful indie-folk album, a melancholy, gorgeous work celebrating his childhood summers spent in the mountains.

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Berlin Graphics 1928–1938 — Artist Herbert Bayer. Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Nov. 23, 2014. The Circle Limit Design Series. Artist Ben Van Dusen. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1000. Through Jan. 31.

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Chuck Forsman’s Litchfield Park, Arizona, 2001. The Denver Art Museum is featuring the photographer’s work through May 24.

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.

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Foto Flood — Works by Boulder High School students. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26.

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Julie Puma: The Immortal Jellyfish. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Jan. 12. Narrative Forms at the WESTend — Features the paintings and sculpture of Damon Mohl and the small metal work of Jessica Mohl. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Jan. 10 through March 1.

Passport to Paris. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb. 9.

Pattern: Follow the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Feb. 9. Plein Air Landscape Design — Artist Lamya Deeb. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Jan. 31. Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Studio Spotlight — Features the work of Rick Stoner, Dwayne Wolf and Martha Williams. Firehouse Gallery, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Feb. 2. Yellowstone: A Project for the Nation — Artist Thomas Moran. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 19.

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Saturday, January 11 music

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

Al Chesis and Bob Pelligrino. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 9:15 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ash Ganley. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

Rocky Mountain Grateful Dead Revue. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Aural Elixir Soothes Your Soul. 7 p.m. Espresso Vino, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 303-447-9523.

Roots & Rhythm Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Bluezhouse. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Cat Jerky. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Covenhoven w/ Patrick Dethlefs and Chimney Choir. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-3390767.

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Long Road Home. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St, Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Three B’s. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Tom Weiser Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events

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

Aquaponics Tour. 1 p.m. The Aquaponic Source, 1860 Lefthand Circle, Ste. E, Longmont, 303-7206604.

Eva Rendle. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Coffee with Rep. Mike Foote. 10 a.m. Mojo’s Coffee, 211 N. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-9026.

George Nelson Band. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Gidion’s Knot. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Jekyll & Hyde. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Jonah Wineski at Twisted Pine Brewing Company. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Lafayette Oatmeal Festival and 5K Run — Includes oatmeal breakfast and health fair. 7:30 a.m. Pioneer Elementary, 101 E. Baseline Rd., Lafayette.

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theater Aida. Presented by Ignite Theatre. Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 720-3622697. Through Jan. 19. Auditions for Return to Vaudeville. 6:30 p.m., Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Auditions on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10 with possible callbacks Jan. 11.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303444-7328. Through Jan. 18.

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Jekyll & Hyde. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Jan. 26.

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Gidion’s Knot. Square Product Theatre and Goddess Here Productions present regional premier of Johnna Adam’s play.

Through March 1.

Monty Python’s Spamalot. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000.

Jekyll & Hyde. 2 p.m. Jesters Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Wood Carving Workshop. 1 p.m. Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont, 303651-8374. The Temple: Meditations on the Spiritual Life — Book signing. 2:30 p.m. Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore, 2178 South Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303758-9113.

Sunday, January 12 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Andy Frasco. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Aural Elixir’s Musical Brunch. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Ginger Roots. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

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Monday, January 13 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186. 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. Takács Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-492-1411.

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

Jazz Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1 Boulder Canyon Dr., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

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

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

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Tuesday, January 14

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Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Faculty Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303492-1411.

The Prairie Scholars. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258.

Rabbi David Ingber, named in Newsweek’s 50 most influential rabbis, is the founding rabbi of Romemu in N.Y.C., and a sought after

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

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Whiskey Autumn. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Thurston Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. see EVENTS Page 36

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

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

Hazel Miller. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Thursday, January 9 Friday, January 10 Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281. Saturday, January 11 Travel Writing for Pleasure and Profit. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Healthy Start Storytime. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Sunday, January 12 Poetry Slam. 8 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281. Monday, January 13 “So, You’re a Poet.” Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, January 14 Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting — Looking for the Gulf Motel will be the subject. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303579-1644. Wednesday, January 15

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The topic at the Jan. 14 Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub meeting will be Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco. and Off the Leash.” Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Open Mic — Come and share poetry, stories, songs or a joke or two. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Rd., Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Storytime with Judy Volc — Stories for children. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.

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EVENTS from Page 35

events

Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Euchre Tuesdays — Tournament style depending on crowd. City Star Brewing, 321 Mountain Ave., Berthoud, 970-532-7827.

The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Let’s Get Movin’ — a free demo class for new families to the area. 9:45 a.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St. Nederland, 303-258-7733. Tuesday Trivia. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186. Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.

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Trivia. 7 p.m. Echo Brewing Company, 5969 Iris Parkway, Unit C, Frederick, 720-445-5969.

Wednesday, January 15 music Aldo Salvent Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Brandon Hagen at Twisted Pine Brewing Company. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Tribute to the Beatles. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Euchre. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186. Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344. Monty Python’s Spamalot. 5:30 p.m. Boulder‚Äôs Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Occasional Crafters Society. 7:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Open House. 9 a.m. Boulder Country Day School, 4820 Nautilus Court North, Boulder, 303-527-4931. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder. Trivia. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Trivia. 7:30 p.m. City Star Brewing, 321 Mountain Ave., Berthoud, 970-532-7827. Trivia Night. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Wanda Sykes. Comedian. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive,

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with the help of a BBC reporter. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Esquire and Chez Artiste.

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

The Punk Singer

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

A film about the predecessor of the NFL playoff game.

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

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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, Colony Square and Century.

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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.

Oscar regulars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Sam Shepard lead an extraordinary cast in this play turned film 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.

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

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

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 Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Die Fledermaus: Vienna State Opera It’s the final countdown on New Year’s Eve ... who will be your midnight kiss? The bumbling lovers in Die Fledermaus from the Vienna State Opera will waltz the night away (and drink a little too much champagne) until they find out! Starring Kurt Streit, Michaela Kaune and Zoryana Kushpler. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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

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

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

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

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.

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 Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

The Human Scale Fifty percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, by 2050 it will be 80 percent. Cities have become the primary human habitat, and if we are to make them sustainable and livable we must re-imagine the very foundations of modern urban planning. Rather than examining buildings and urban structures themselves, visionaries study the in-between spaces of urban life: the places where people meet, interact, live and behave. Stunningly photographed, Director

Andreas Dalsgaard’s film travels around the world to explore how Jan Gehl and other like-minded designers, city planners and urban activists have begun to transform cities as diverse as New York, Beijing, Christchurch and London. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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

Labyrinth (1986) When a young girl makes a wish about her little brother, it unexpectedly sends him to the mysterious land of the fairies. Rated PG. At Esquire.

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, Colony Square 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.

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

Science on Screen: Dr. Dennis Van Gerven and ‘The Mummy’ They say, “Dead men tell no tales.” Or do they? Spend an evening reading the clues and discovering the tales that the dead have to tell about life and death in Ancient Nubia with anthropologist Dennis Van Gerven. The CU-Boulder professor is known for his extensive collection of mummified human remains from ancient populations of the Nile Valley. He will talk about what it is like to be an anthropologist and how he uses forensics to gain knowledge when disturbing the dead. And stick around for a special showing of the classic Boris Karloff film The Mummy following the presentation. Made possible through a grant from the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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.

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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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

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

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

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

The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Jean Dujardin in this adaptation of 1990s banker gone bad Jordan Belfort’s memoir. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square. Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE Film Center in Denver: A Touch of Sin; Paradise: Hope; The Armstrong Lie; Frances Ha; Betty Page Reveals All; and Films on Tap: Harry Potter.

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irector John Lee Hancock isn’t Joseph Goebbels or Leni Riefenstahl by any stretch, but Saving Mr. Banks is as close to corporate propaganda as can be legally released in theaters. A Walt Disney Studios movie about Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) making a Walt Disney Studios movie, the take-home message is that a woman who doggedly protects a deeply personal work of art is a cranky bitch who should just give Mickey Mouse what he wants. Emma Thompson, who singlehandedly moves this pic from “oh, hell no” to nearly tolerable, plays P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins. To believe screenwriters Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith is to believe Travers was an insufferable terror prone to tantrums and was foolishly insistent on maintaining control of her intellectual property instead of letting a stranger do whatever he wanted to it. Through flashbacks, we see that her father (Colin Farrell) was a troubled alcoholic and that his suffering and the suffering he inflicted was the catalyst for the creation of Mary Poppins. But who cares about Travers’ personal pain? Walt Disney promised his daughter he’d make her a Mary Poppins movie, dammit! For 20 years he relentlessly stalks Travers. Until one day, financially desperate and at her lowest point, Travers sadly reconsiders. She demands final approval, in a move depicted here as completely unreasonable. So she must listen to the Sherman Brothers (B.J. Novak and Jason Schwartzman) write songs, despite her desire that the film not be a musical; must read storyboards for dancing carBoulder Weekly

toon penguins, when she asked for no animation; and gets mocked by every man she meets. Yet somehow Hancock and company play Travers’ weeping at the film’s premiere as a triumph. A biopic is not a fact-checked biography, but the truth should matter. The real Travers had an adopted son; in the film, she denies having children. The real Travers had various significant romantic relationships with both men and women; can’t have that in a Disneyfied Disney story about Disney’s brave conquest to save the children by delivering Mary Poppins from her evil creator! The real Travers wept at the premiere out of depression and fury, a fact supported by her refusal to ever again work with Disney. Hanks is serviceable as Disney, stripped of his well-known anti-Semitism and shown to be a gentle guardian of good. Thompson, on the other hand, finds a way with only gestures and expressions to demonstrate humanity deprived her by the script. Ultimately, Saving Mr. Banks is a “piss off ” to creative types. It turns an artist into a brutal captor selfishly keeping a character caged. In some ways, this is almost a horror film. Did Travers suffer for the next 32 years, watching as a creation she loved like family faded into the shadow of a movie she hated? Mary Poppins as a film is a nearly flawless classic; but Saving Mr. Banks is emotional manipulation intended to excuse the blackmail-based commodification of one woman’s dream. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The great taco tour of Lafayette by Josh Gross

moved to Boulder from Idaho, a place where residents occasionally describe ketchup not just as spicy, but as “too spicy.” Though it should go without saying, that philosophy doesn’t do wonders for the local Mexican food. So when I found myself on South Public Road in Lafayette, my eyes got a bit misty. Six Mexican restaurants and two carnicerias occupy the 12 blocks between Emma Street and Baseline Road. Looking out at this tacotopia, I suddenly had an idea to restore balance to The Force: a taco crawl. If hashing can be a thing, despite vomit being the only

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reasonable response to jogging between beer-chugging stops, then why the heck not. I started at 10:30 a.m. at Señor Gomez, an orange two-story building at Emma Street and Public Road with an interior like the feel of a church cafeteria. Senor Gomez was sparsely decorated with a white and mint-green color scheme, and the menu included a number of American items. Denver omelets and French toast sat next to enchiladas and green chile. It was a bit closer to a Mexican-influenced diner than a strict Mexican joint, as Americana was a theme

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even in the Mexican parts of the menu. The single beef taco Señor Gomez delivered to my table was ultra-Americanized, with a mountain of shredded green lettuce atop a hard-shell taco filled with ground beef and dotted with diced tomatoes. It was like a better version of a Taco Bell standard. Though the freshly fried hard-shell tortilla was a nice touch, the taco didn’t have much in the way of spice or zing. I paid the $3.25 bill and was on my way. Across the street from Señor Gomez sits a gleaming silver trailer surrounded by patio tables in the parking lot of the El Mercedo market: Taco Wagon. Its menu is printed in Spanish first, with see TACOS Page 44

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seem to be working like Five local BRING YOUR CASH gangbusters over at Lucky’s food trucks will Environmental advocacy Market in Longmont. go all Pat organization Rock the Earth will Customers that bring Benatar on be raising some dough at their own bag get a woodyour asses and Coohills in Denver on Sunday, en dime to credit toward hit you with Jan. 12, with Dine out for Earth. their own bill or donate to their best The event is a cornucopia of one of three charities selectbeans, in local food delights put together ed quarterly through a hopes of winby Chef Charlie Ayers, celebrity Facebook contest. ning. Winning chef and owner of Calafia Cafe And the company’s first what? Winning of Palo Alto, Calif., and a series payout from the program at America. of local chefs picked by Ayers. Its shows that those dimes All it takes first time in Denver will features six have been to get in the courses of locally sourced adding up. Lucky’s in Longmont has raised more than $3,400 door, gorge courtesy of Rock the Earth cuisine, local brews courtefor local charities from wooden tokens given to “More yourself on customers for bringing their own bags. sy of Great Divide Brewing than $3,400 chili, cornCompany, wines donated was raised bread and by The Infinite Monkey and donated to three local beer samples and rock out to live music from Theorem and cocktails from charities selected by the local “newgrass” outfit Moonshiner is a single Boulder’s own Roundhouse store’s Facebook fans,” Andrew Jackson (that’s $20 for you pinkos). Spirits. Vegetarian and gluLucky’s said in a press Though this is the first food truck chili ten-free dietary restrictions release. cook-off Sanitas has hosted, brewery reps can be accommodated The Longmont Humane say they’re looking to make it an annual with advance notice. Society got $1,861, St. Vrain thing. The rock portion of rockValley Schools got $1,020 ing the earth will come and the Tiny Tim Center got BYOH (BRING YOUR OWN HOPS) courtesy of Denver’s DJ $540. Dear Colorado beerhounds: simmah Russo, who will drop beats Local charities looking to down. Lestin’ you want to run out of hops over a silent auction of get in the march of wooden completely. music memorabilia, art and dimes should contact An article published this week by the donations from local busiLucky’s marketing and Associated Press says that the explosion in nesses. events coordinator with their Celebrity chef Charlie Ayers craft breweries has caused a run on hops, Tickets are $85 per perorganization’s name, even though farmers in Washington State — son in advance at www. address, cause, and 501(c) where nearly 80 percent of the U.S. supply is RockTheEarth.org, and $125 (3) documentation. grown — have increased production by 13 at the door if pre-sale doesn’t max out attenpercent from last year. But the number of dance. BRING YOUR BEANO craft breweries increased by approximately Tired of hearing slander about the peo25 percent between 2011 and 2013. Yeowza, ple’s republik of Boulder? Well don’t worry, BRING YOUR REUSABLE BAG that’s a lotta hops. because Boulder’s Sanitas Brewing is executThere’s an old saying about never taking Read more about it in the Fort Worth Staring the second of its food truck series on any wooden nickels. Luckily, it doesn’t menTelegram at http://bit.ly/1afw7lx. Saturday, Jan. 18, and it’s “real America” at tion taking any wooden dimes, ’cause those Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com its finest: a chili cookoff.

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cuisine review Doing happy hour in style at Jill’s in the St Julien by Christine Vazquez

otels are not on the average diner’s radar. But Jill’s at the St Julien in Boulder ought to be. A boutique hotel in the style Colorado does best — casually elegant — the restaurant carries this same kind of elegance, and makes it even more pleasing with the value and wide range of offerings at one of the best happy Susan France hours in town. An impressive menu of food is available in the bar during happy hour, a rare treat since so many bar menus are short and sad. Jill’s has 22 plates available, with selections as wide-ranging as Tuna Tartare [$9.95] and a Chicken, Tomato, Arugula Sandwich [$12.95] to Spaghettini Pomodoro [$12.95] and Rigatoni Bolognese [$16.95] offered for half price between 4 and 6:30 p.m. The main dining room is lovely as well, beautiful and approachable, not overdone or intimidating. My husband

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and I have eaten many meals there, as a couple and with visiting family and friends, but we spend most of our time in the bar area because of the stellar deals. Even when ordering the most expensive plate on the menu — the rigatoni — it’s still just $8.50. Jill’s Bistro Tots with truffle aioli and reggiano [$7.50] are not to be missed. A slight crunch on the outside, and pillowy softness inside, they are one of the best bites you can get in Boulder. Totally craveworthy. There are also two salads [$7.95 to $9.25], both big enough to make a meal out of. One, the 900 Walnut, is a delightful combination of organic baby greens, walnuts, chunks of pears, halved grapes and hazelnut vinaigrette. The stars would have to align for me to have all those ingredients on hand to make at home. Another excellent choice is the

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Truffle Mac & Cheese [$10.95], which is the definition of decadent. Made with aged Vermont cheddar and a black truffle béchamel, and small shavings of black truffle in the sauce, it comes in a medium-sized ramekin. More a side than a main, but for $5.50 at the happy hour pricing, this is one of the best deals on the menu. Four pizzas are available, including a traditional margherita, and an exciting fig and prosciutto, [$12.95 to $14.95]. With all of the options, you can snack or have dinner. Or snack, then have dinner. Drinks, oddly, are the second string of my concern when I go to happy hour at Jill’s, but don’t get me wrong — I do drink there. We’ve been going there since it opened, and for years, I’d order

a glass of red Zinfandel that I liked and had taken the attitude that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But on my most recent visit, I decided to at least taste their house Cabernet, Jill’s own label produced by Trinity Oaks Vineyards in Monterey. A glass is only $5 during happy hour and it turned out to be better than the Zinfandel. Jill’s also offers a Merlot and a Chardonnay under the same label, for the same price. Draft beers from Tivoli, Fat Tire and Stella are $3. You can also get a Sicilian Blood Orange Bellini for $5, and a glass of La Marca Prosecco from the Veneto region for $7, among a couple of other cocktail selections. All in all, it’s a deal in the truest sense of the word. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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the English translation in the second column, and features items like beef tongue and carnitas. No Denver omelets here. The single asada taco came dressed up in onion and cilantro with a ramekin of spicy green salsa and a wedge of lime on the side. That taco alone is worth a trip to Lafayette. Cost: $1.90. Taco Wagon took up the deli duties for El Mercedo, so I made my way up the street to Efrain’s, a midrange sit-down with high ceilings and an elk’s head covered in Christmas lights looking down on the green and white dining area. In one corner, a somewhat terrifying eight-foot Santa Claus stood guard. A server brought me chips and a red dipping sauce that just tasted like red, then took my order. The single chicken taco Efrain’s brought to my table was almost as big as the Santa Claus. It lounged open-faced across an entire plate, a mountain of toppings. Folding it to be mouth-sized was problematic, especially since the freshly fried tortilla and pulled chicken were extra juicy. It took some work to eat, and though it wasn’t as boldly flavored as Taco Wagon, Efrain’s taco wasn’t bad. And it was nearly a meal in itself, though for $4.60, the price of many burritos, it better be. I was on my way by 11:15 a.m. Halfway through my taco tour, I felt my belt starting to bulge and began questioning my fool’s errand. I was almost glad when I got to Black Horse Mexican Food and found it closed. I say almost because Black Horse had a tree growing up through the floor of the dining area and out the roof and had that look of generally dubious construction that practically guarantees

good tacos. But since it was closed, there wasn’t much to do but schlep onward. The second carniceria didn’t have a deli component, so I went across the street to Santiago’s, whose signage boldly proclaimed “hottest green chile in town.” But unlike so many “coldest beer in town” claims of bar marquees everywhere, Santiago’s claim was backed up by a Best Green Chile award from Westword on the wall. And even better, you can get a taco smothered in it for $5. After the cashier scared me a bit, I went with the medium hot smothered beef taco and sat down to enjoy the pleasant taqueria style interior, with an order window and warm color schemes dressed up in desert and native imagery. When my taco came, I realized that “smothered” was probably the wrong term. It was swimming. My taco was like Boulder Canyon in September, if the creek was green chile. It was delicious, though it wasn’t nearly as hot as I was led to believe, and I pledged that I’d go the full monty on my next visit. But it might be awhile. That single taco was even bigger than Efrain’s, and by the end of it, I wasn’t just full, I was brimming over. But when I got to La Familia, the end of the line on the taco strip, its doors were closed and locked with the windows papered up, closed for good. End time: 11:39 a.m. One hour, four tacos and $14.75 after the start of my quest, my stomach was full and my sinuses were clear. I wouldn’t say I’ve grown as a person – unless you count my belly – but it was a great way to spend lunchtime. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ferent beers that are way out there but don’t go with anything, and I don’t want to do that.” Selders came to The Post after a stint at Dog Fish Head Brewing in Delaware, where he also co-starred in the short-lived reality TV show Brew Masters on Discovery Channel. Engel says “he’s kind of a big deal.” Selders says there will be four core beers and several rotating taps. He’s especially excited about Lil’ Buddy, his interpretation of a British bitter using a dwarf variety of hops called azacca. “It smells like mangoes and tastes like chicken,” he says. Chicken. The beers brewed at The Post will also be distributed to the other restaurants in the Big Red F restaurant group, which includes The Bitter Bar, The West End Tavern, Zolo Grill and Jax Fish House. Engel says that Big Red F always wanted to do a brewery, but held back on it because to stand out as a brewery in Colorado you need to be “holy-shit good.” But she says once the company found Selders, they knew they had what they needed. Big Red F then moved chef Brett Smith over to The Post from Zolo Grill to put together the menu, slapped a few deer heads on the wall and proclaimed The Post Brewing Company ready to open on Jan. 9. Satisfied with the tour and convinced it’s probably worth my time to come back once The Post is actually open and I can balance the taste of sawdust with a nice lager, I make my way towards the door and promptly slam my shin into a chair. “Careful,” Engel tells me. “It’s a construction zone.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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theorems about geometry. Eventually, he became a noted mathematician. I see the coming weeks as prime time to do something like the young Pascal did: Seal yourself away from other people’s opinions about who you’re supposed to be, and explore the themes that will be crucial for the person you are becoming.

You can blame it on the coming full moon. You Go to RealAstrology.com to check out can blame it on the gorRob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO geous storm or the epic HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE dream or the haunting song or the suffering HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes you’re struggling to vanare also available by phone at 1-877quish. All I ask is that you 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. don’t blame it on the alcohol. OK? If you’re going to do wild and brave and unexpected things, make SCORPIO sure they are rooted in your vigorous response to primal OCT. 23-NOV. 21: rhythms, not in a drunken surrender to weakness or ignoIn 1609, Dutch sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed to rance. I’m all for you losing your oppressive self-control, but America and came upon what we now call Coney Island. not the healthy kind of self-control. Back then it was a barren spit of sand whose main inhabitants were rabbits. But it was eventually turned TAURUS into a dazzling resort — an “extravagant playground,” APRIL 20-MAY 20: according to the documentary film Coney Island. By the When is the last time you did an experiment? I’m not early 20th century, there were three sprawling amusetalking about scientific tests and trials that take place in a ment parks packed into its two square miles of land, plus laboratory. I’m referring to real-life experiments, like when “a forest of glittering electric towers, historical displays, you try out an unfamiliar experience to see if it appeals to freak shows, a simulated trip to the moon, the largest you … or when you instigate a change in your routine to herd of elephants in the world, and panoramas showattract unpredictable blessings into your sphere. Now would ing the Creation, the End of the World, and Hell.” I be an excellent time to expose yourself to a few what-ifs like mention this, Scorpio, because 2014 could feature your that. You’re overdue to have your eyes opened, your limits very own Henry Hudson moment: a time when you will stretched, and your mind blown. discover virgin territory that will ultimately become an extravagant playground.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

To help take the edge off the darkness you have been wrestling with, I offer you these lines from a poem by Kay Ryan: “The day misspent, / the love misplaced, / has inside it / the seed of redemption. / Nothing is exempt / from resurrection.” In other words, Gemini, whatever has disappeared from your life will probably return later in a new form. The wrong turns you made may lead you to a fresh possibility. Is that what you want? Or would you prefer that the lost things stay lost, the dead things stay dead? Make a decision soon.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“Human beings are often unable to receive because we do not know what to ask for,” says the writer Malidoma Somé in his book Water and Spirit. “We are sometimes unable to get what we need because we do not know what we want.” With that in mind, Cancerian, hear my two pleas: first, that in the next six weeks, you will work diligently to identify the goodies you want most; and second, that you will cultivate your capacity to receive the goodies you want most by refining your skill at asking for them.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22:

Julia Morgan (1872-1957) was the first woman licensed as an architect in California. She designed over 700 buildings in the course of her brilliant career, and thrived both financially and artistically. One key to her success was her humility. “Don’t ever turn down a job because it’s beneath you,” she advised. That’s a helpful message for you to hear, Leo. It applies to the work-related opportunities you may be invited to take on, as well as the tasks that your friends, associates, and loved ones ask you to consider. You can’t possibly know ahead of time how important it might ultimately be to apply yourself conscientiously to a seemingly small assignment.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

One of Beethoven’s music teachers said, “As a composer, he is hopeless.” When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Walt Disney worked at a newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” I’m sure there was a person like that in your past — someone who disparaged and discouraged you. But I’m happy to report that 2014 will be the best year ever for neutralizing and overcoming that naysayer’s curse. If you have not yet launched your holy crusade, begin now.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

As a child, French philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) loved math. But his father, who homeschooled him, forced him to forego math and concentrate on studying the humanities. Blaise rebelled. When he was 12 years old, he locked himself in his room for days and immersed himself in mathematical investigations. When he emerged, he had figured out on his own some of Euclid’s fundamental

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“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows,” said 19th-century social reformer Henry Ward Beecher. That might be an accurate assessment for most people, but I don’t think it will be true for you Sagittarians in the foreseeable future. Your animal intelligence will be working even better than usual. Your instinctual inclinations are likely to serve as reliable guides to wise action. Trust what your body tells you! You will definitely be clever enough to be a crow.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Can you guess what combination of colors makes the most vivid visual impact? Psychologists say it’s black on yellow. Together they arrest the eye. They command attention. They activate a readiness to respond. According to my reading of the astrological omens, this is the effect you can and should have in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to draw the best kind of attention to yourself. You have a right and a duty to galvanize people with the power of your presence. Whether you actually wear yellow clothes with black highlights is optional as long as you cultivate a similar potency.

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JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

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Dear Dan: Is there a term that is preferred to “transgendered”? I recently wrote an article that described a MTF person I know as transgendered. The article was positive about transgendered persons I have known (she is one of many). Upon seeing a draft prior to publication, this person flipped out so hard that I felt compelled to cut off all contact with her. I also killed the article. One of her complaints was that I used the word “transgendered” to describe her, and she identifies as something other than that. I feel like an old fart even asking, but have you heard of this? What is the new term if it’s not OK to say “transgendered” anymore? —Confused In Straightland Dear CIS: “Let’s assume CIS got the subject’s identity right (versus genderqueer or agender) and is being respectful,” said Shadi Petosky, a writer, a trans woman, and the cofounder of PUNY Entertainment. “Even if CIS showed her respect, CIS isn’t showing respect for the English language.” Transgender is an adjective like blue or tall, Petosky pointed out. It’s not a noun or verb. So the correct term is “transgender man,” “transgender woman,” or “transgender person,” not “transgendered man.” “It might help if CIS thinks about the adjectives gay or black,” said Petosky. “You’re a gay man or you’re gay. You’re not ‘gayed.’ The president is a black man. He’s not a blacked man. Only an ignorant person or a bigot would get gayed/blacked wrong. And to say that Dan Savage is ‘a gay’ or Barack Obama is ‘a black’ sounds homophobic or racist because it dehumanizes. Trans people want dignity, CIS, so if you are saying transgender or trans outside of ‘they’re transgender,’ you have to put man, woman, or person (or human) after it. Because that is what we are.” If all you got wrong was that one thing, CIS, and your transgender friend blew up at you, well, that’s unfortunate. (We’re both giving you the benefit of the doubt, CIS, and assuming that “transgendered” was the only issue.) You were trying to do right by your friend, her anger was misplaced, an opportunity to educate a well-meaning ally was lost, a friendship was nuked, and a transgender angel didn’t get her wings that day. But let’s zoom out for a second: Trans folks have an awful lot to be angry about, CIS, from absolutely staggering levels of anti-trans violence to discrimination against trans people in employment to a lack of access to basic health care. But at times, righteous trans

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anger seems to get directed at whoever is nearest at hand, however wellintentioned or otherwise supportive that person might be. (Cough, cough.) But blowing up at you was easier than blowing up at, say, high-profile antitrans bigot Bill O’Reilly because you were in the room and O’Reilly wasn’t. But Petosky would like you — and glittery me — to keep that misdirected anger in perspective. “People mostly seem to be fascinated by trans people right after we come out,” said Petosky. “If CIS’s friend recently came out, then he was dealing with a person who is probably going through a lot of trauma and anxiety. When I transitioned, I thought I was going to lose my business, kill my dating chances, and end up homeless. Many trans people do. People called me ‘he’ most of the time in those early months. My selfimage was in shambles. I lashed out at some gay friends for saying things that were less than supportive. Gay men were actually some of the worst because they could be — they can be — sarcastic about stuff I was really sensitive about. It’s not like we trans people have no sense of who the real bad guys are. We’re just getting tons of shit thrown at us all at once and want some minor wins. We’re just trying to feel safe close to home first.” So something about your article rubbed your trans friend the wrong way — maybe it was the way you brandished her as proof of your own high-mindedness? — and she suddenly felt less safe around you and she blew up. Hopefully you two will be able to patch things up once the glitter has settled. On a related note: Media Matters for America has extensively covered the outrageous and damaging anti-trans bigotry that Fox News routinely spews into American homes, hotels, airports and waiting rooms. (These two posts at MediaMatters.com will bring you up to speed: “Experts: Fox News’ Coverage Contributes to Violence, Discrimination Against Transgender Community” and “Fox News’ Transphobia Problem.”) Far be it from me to give the trans-rights movement marching orders … but … if a coalition of queer and trans-rights groups came together and called for a big demonstration outside the Fox News studios in midtown Manhattan, I would be there along with tons of other gay, lesbian, straight and bi cissies. How about it? Send questions for Dan to mail@ savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com BoulderWeekly

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n terms of actual news value, the first week of Gov. John Hickenlooper, who opposed Amendment legal cannabis sales in Colorado has been a 64’s passing, nor Mayor Michael Hancock, who loudly yawner. opposed legalization, attended any opening-day festivOn Day One, at 10 a.m. inside the Denver ities. There was no ceremonial first pitch for this Kush Club, the staff was professional and the industry. intent clear: Look around, ask a few questions, buy an And it even goes a little deeper than that. Original eighth of an ounce, pick up a couple of edibles and plans for the afternoon included a Cannabition celemove on. I didn’t feel hurried, but there were only five bration promoted by several business, including O.Pen strains available, all at the same price ($50), and we Vape and My 420 Tours, based around a five-hour, were out of there in 10 minutes. adult-only private party, with DJs, food trucks, prizes But beyond the lines outside the door, there was and shuttle buses to retail stores to ring in the new nothing unusual. The only thing notable was the year. uneventfulness. About as exciting as standing in line On Dec. 27, after plans had been publicly to buy concert tickets announced, the city of Leland Rucker at Cervantes a few Denver delivered a letdoors down. One guy ter to the club hosting walked out while we the event, threatening were in line and asked its license if the show if anybody had any went on. Brown and papers, and a couple Mitchem organized held up their paper this tour as a replacement, and like everybags in triumph as they thing else on the first left, but that was about day of retail sales of the extent of it. Not marijuana in Colorado, even a lot of high-fives. it went smoothly, and If you had come from we were back at the O. out of town to cover it, Pen Vape headquarters except for a bust of an south of downtown illegal grow in Kiowa County on Jan. 3, there only 15 minutes later was little to report. than the original Marijuana growers like this one in Denver are hoping for brisk sales in 2014. I missed the 7:30 schedule said we a.m. press conference would. (Who says based around the first legal purchase by Iraq veteran stoners have problems with time?) Sean Azzariti, but I joined a media tour at noon orgaThe governor’s official statement about the histornized by Todd Mitchem of O.Pen Vape, a Denver pen ic moment was notable for how little it said. “We have vaporizer business, and Matt Brown, who runs maritaken up the challenge to create a regulatory structure juana tourism company My 420 Tours, that included a consistent with the guidance we have received from ride in a bus that looked like it could have been used the U.S. Department of Justice,” his press release in Boogie Nights, pass-around vaporizers and stops at announced, with a suggestion of distaste and disgust an Edgewater dispensary and a Denver grow facility, for the entire procedure. an experience recounted by Josiah Hesse in Westword. Hancock back-handedly praised dispensary ownThe day put a fine point on the still lingering hos- ers and patrons in a press release, thanking them for tility toward legalization from state officials. Neither behaving themselves.

“I am proud of Denver’s responsible and balanced implementation of Amendment 64,” Hancock announced. “I want to thank the businesses and consumers alike for acting responsibly and with great accountability today.” What was he expecting? Owners throwing out free pot to the masses to get them hooked? Mayhem as people stormed dispensaries after having to wait in line too long for their fix? A headline like the one in the Daily Currant that said, based on a story in the Rocky Mountain News (hint, hint) that hospitals were filling with casualties and that 37 people had died on the first day of sales? Still, it was encouraging, I guess, that he even bothered. And actually, according to a Denver Post story, some officials were expecting altercations outside shops from long lines of people perhaps desperate for cannabis. Which is pretty funny if you think about it. I doubt anybody who purchased ceremonially on New Year’s Day did so because they actually needed to buy some. There was chatter in the national press about the first day’s high prices — $50 per eighth ounce was about average. It’s not that hard to figure out that no outlet knew exactly how much it would need or that all strains would be priced the same on Day One. But the national press has already moved on to its next meme. And as more stores open and outlets get to know their inventory needs and begin to concentrate on obtaining regular, returning customers, you can expect prices to come back down and become more competitive with the black market. (If not, the black market that Amendment 64 was passed to eliminate will continue to thrive.) This week repeats the story of legalization in a microcosm. Officials and prohibition groups oppose, balk, pontificate, snort and stammer. Health officials essentially tell parents to lie to their kids about cannabis. Everybody — except the cannabis users, who just want out of a black market — expect the worst, and, and ... nothing happens. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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