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Fracking report inaccurate

[Re: “Report: Colorado among top three frack-wracked states in nation,” News, Oct. 3.] The floods of just a few short weeks ago have shown that the oil and gas industry is extraordinarily prepared, responsive in real time and focused on assisting our neighbors in this great state to

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Highroad The agonizingly slow pace of a fast food giant by Jim Hightower

he appeal of fast food chains has not been their food (mostly fat, salty, sugary, empty-calorie blah), but their speed. Order, pay, and — bam! — your warmed-over burgerpizzachickentaco delight is instantly handed to you. Yet, for a mega-chain based on fast, McDonald’s has proven to be embarrassingly slow, leaving it with flat sales and declining appeal. The executives in

rebuild. This is the time we, as Coloradans, need to work together to make Colorado stronger. This is not the time for politics or an agenda. Unfortunately, the fractivists are using Colorado’s worst natural disaster, a true travesty for our state, to push an unproductive agenda. Environment Colorado’s recent

report of “Fracking by the Numbers” illustrates the doomsday image they have regarding a product we all use each and every day. The report relies heavily on discredited science, inaccurate assumptions and definitions and manipulated figures to reveal these

charge were so stuck on peddling obesity and diabetes for fat profits that they completely missed a mass shift in today’s marketplace: The rise of healthconscious consumers. As a result, McDonald’s has been losing out to Subway, Chipotle, Panera and other chains that’ve been quick to cater to the lean-and-green customer base, particularly women and young buyers. But look out, for here comes the McDonald’s marketing machine with a blur of ads and promotional gimmicks touting “A new global commitment to make a world of difference.” Using endearing pictures of children, the Big Mac chain now claims to be all about fresh veggies, fruit, salads, juices, milk, health and a fuzzy happiness for all. The Golden Arches empire has even signed up Bill Clinton, to give its PR hype a sheen of sincerity. For an undisclosed splash of cash, the fast food marketer says it is now “global partners”

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

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with the Clinton Foundation to produce a healthier generation through its sales of more nutritious “Happy Meals” to the world’s kiddos. However, the fast food giant is in no hurry to deliver on this pledge. Claiming that getting healthier foods into its supply chain is a difficult and slow process, the CEO snickered that, “We don’t go down to the grocery stores.” Well, maybe they should. Doing it the McDonald’s way, he says, will take until 2020 to get the more nutritious stuff into all stores of the chain’s 20 largest markets. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 10, 2013 7

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mericans have a love/hate relationship with government, condemning those wasteful and corrupt government bureaucrats in the abstract while praising many public services in the concrete like the fire department, schools or parks. You might be a rugged individualist, but if you were trapped in your home during the recent floods, you might have appreciated being rescued by the National Guard. Many computer geeks are libertarians but, as The Economist recently pointed out, “the armed forces pioneered the Internet, GPS positioning and voice-activated ‘virtual assistants’. … Scientists in publicly funded universities and labs developed the touch screen and the HTML language. ... Google’s search algorithm was financed by a grant from the National Science Foundation.” We are going to end up loving big government, argues sociologist Christian Parenti, because it’s the “only institution that actually has the capacity to deal with multibillion-dollar natural disasters on an increasingly routine basis. Private security firms won’t help your flooded or tornado-struck town. Private insurance companies are systematically withdrawing coverage from vulnerable coastal areas. Voluntary com-

munity groups, churches, anarchist affinity groups — each may prove helpful in limited ways, but for better or worse, only government has the capital and capacity to deal with the catastrophic implications of climate change.” The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been attacked by right-wingers as a sinister monster of repression and is always facing budget cuts. Parenti notes: “The agency’s work is structured around what it calls ‘the disaster life cycle’ — the process through which emergency managers prepare for, respond to and help others recover from and reduce the risk of disasters. More concretely, FEMA’s services include training, planning, coordinating and funding state and local disaster managers and first responders; grant-making to local governments, institutions and individuals; and direct emergency assistance that ranges from psychological counseling and medical aid to emergency unemployment benefits. FEMA also subsidizes long-term rebuilding and planning efforts by communities affected by disasters. In other words, it actually represents an excellent use of your tax dollars to provide services aimed at restoring local economic health and so the see FEMA Page 11

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groups true agenda: to ban all oil and gas development in Colorado. Banning oil and gas development in Colorado prevents 111,000 Coloradans and their families from working, removes $1.6 billion in annual public revenue to our state and communities, hurts our most vulnerable with higher energy costs, and dirties our air due to less natural gas use for electricity generation. Doug Flanders, Colorado Oil & Gas Association/Denver

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The nationwide push for fracking is the next great Ponzi scheme that is being pushed onto unsuspecting investors by Wall Street banks and the irreputable gas companies still in the fracking industry. Don’t believe it? Consider Deborah Rogers, a top Wall Street analyst, who reports in Shale and Wall Street: Was the Decline in Natural Gas Prices Orchestrated? (published February 2013) the following line of reasoning: In 2011, the U.S. supply of natural gas exceeded demand by four times. Gas production from shale plays has declined far faster than forecast, which means the gas companies needed to keep drilling more and more wells in the last few years to keep up production and cash flow. This situation is obscured by Wall Street banks, which package and flip gas leases to big investors much like they did during mortgage securities crisis. The gas industry itself is withdrawing from big projects, despite public rhetoric to the contrary. The big hope of Wall Street and Canadian banks is to profit from the difference in the domestic and international prices for gas and tar sands oil by exporting it to China and India. This line of reasoning is backed up by another reputable researcher, acclaimed energy expert Robert Heinberg in his 2013 publication, Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. The title speaks for itself. Heinberg is director of the Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org), a research center that offers policy recommendations rooted in reality, not rhetoric. Their suggestions on how to transition the energy base of the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels towards alternative energy should be required reading for all government policy leaders who are concerned about our energy future. And we should stop investing in these Ponzi schemes peddled by Wall Street banks, which caused our last financial crisis, and care nothing for Boulder Weekly

the American people or our environment. That’s why I, as a Lafayette resident, will be voting yes on 300, the Lafayette ballot measure that will ban fracking in our town when it will becomes law on Nov. 5! Rick Casey/Lafayette The Lafayette City Council issued a verbose and factually false resolution opposing ballot question 300, the Lafayette Community Bill of Rights that bans hydraulic fracturing within the city limits. The correct and, in fact, only reason for the city’s opposition is fear of a lawsuit. Instead, the resolution hectors residents with the standard industry talking point — that mineral owners’ property rights supersede the rights of Lafayette citizens to protect their own health and safety. Rather than aligning with its citizens and holding the industry accountable for coercing local communities, the city council instead attacks its own citizens for asserting their right to say no. The council resolution says that the city has a proven track record of protecting citizens from the adverse effects of drilling. False. The city approved building permits in Silver Creek, an area adjacent to a producing well that had an open toxic waste pit. Given the well’s age, the pit was undoubtedly unlined. More disturbing, the pit was simply backfilled. Earth moving has been going on for months in preparation for development. The city council said they didn’t know about the waste pit (this information could have been gleaned from the COGCC’s website, where activists found it) so the city never tested the soil to ensure the safety of future homebuyers and their families. In August, the city council enacted a three-year moratorium. The council didn’t tell residents that the city immediately received a warning letter from the Colorado Oil & Gas Association. The gist of the letter: A moratorium provides no relief from an industry lawsuit and, in fact, is just as likely to provoke one. This is the exact reason for the Lafayette Community Rights Act. All levels of government have been negligent in protecting the people of Colorado so communities are stepping up to fill in the void. That’s why we need to say Yes to Question 300, the Lafayette Community Rights Act. Merrily Mazza/Lafayette see LETTERS Page 11

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years together,” Ball says. ity had been raided by The second event is the Federal Bureau of the 30th annual Investigation after a Peacemaker of the Year secret six-month investiaward ceremony, being gation — raided by a held at 5 p.m. on Nov. team of about 40 agents 16, also at the Unity who shut down the operChurch. Special guests ation and collected hunwill include Jon Lipsky, dreds of documents. who led the FBI raid on Eventually the plant was Rocky Flats in June shut down for good. 1989, and Wes McKinley, the foreman of the grand **** jury that examined eviThe first RMPJC dence against the corpooffice was at 15th Street ration that operated and Euclid Avenue, in Rocky Flats. McKinley the Center for United will be signing copies of Ministries, he says. There his book, The Ambushed was a short stint in an Grand Jury: How the office above the Boulder Justice Department Book Store, then it Covered up Nuclear Crimes moved back to its origiand How We Caught nal home when it was Them Red Handed, which bought by the Boulder On Oct. 15, 1983, about 17,000 people joined hands to encircle Rocky Flats in a peaceful protest. The Rocky Mennonite Church. he co-wrote with Caron Mountain Peace and Justice Center opened its doors six months later. “We stayed there Balkany about the jury until the Mennonites and the closed-door deal sold it to the Catholics, who kicked us that resulted in the evidence being leading into Rocky Flats. That group, corner and could back off on the miliout,” Tchozewski says. sealed. the “Rocky Flats Truth Force,” occutancy,” he says, adding that the nuclear Currently, the RMPJC is based at Also expected to attend both of the pied the tracks for a whole year, and weapons plant was in the news almost 3970 Broadway, near Lucky’s Market, events are at least two of the RMPJC’s was joined by several prominent figevery day thanks to the protesters. “We where it operates Rockin’ Betty’s Thrift original six co-founders, Chet ures, including Allen Ginsberg, Anne were just hammering them, even Shop, named for Ball. Tchozewski and LeRoy Moore, who Waldman and Daniel Ellsberg. The though every day we thought, ‘We’re And in the years that have passed recently suffered a minor stroke but is six founders of the RMPJC were there not gonna win this thing, there’s just since Rocky Flats, the organization recovering nicely, according to Ball. as well. no way. We’re up against the militaryhas made its mark in many other (She says Moore is not quite ready for “It was a remarkable local protest industrial complex at the height of the movements. phone calls or visitors, but cards can be that became international in scope,” Cold War.’” Tchozewski recalls the center being sent to him c/o the RMPJC, P.O. Box recalls Joseph Daniel, who was a phoTchozewski, whose activist efforts active in trying to shut down nuclear 1156, Boulder, 80306.) tographer for the Colorado Daily at the in the late 1970s and early 1980s pritesting in Nevada in the late 1980s, time. Daniel went on to publish A Year marily involved the American Friends where activists took to the backcountry **** Of Disobedience And A Criticality Of Service Committee in Denver, says it by foot in an attempt to thwart the Ball and others involved in the Conscience, which chronicled the activbecame apparent that Boulder had a lot government’s activities by introducing Rocky Flats protests that prompted the ism and was recently reissued with an of activists, but no organization to supthe real possibility that people would formation of the RMPJC look back update from Moore and a new foreport and coordinate it all. be killed if they continued detonations. with both awe and fondness at what word from Ellsberg. “Boulder really needed an instituHe says security personnel were conthe activists were ultimately able to Among the most iconic images that tional base that was a permanent fixaccomplish: the closure of the nuclear stantly pursuing fleeing activists as they Daniel recalls from that time was the ture that would adapt and become the weapons facility. attempted to evade detection. tipi that was erected on the railroad kind of resilient institution that the Tchozewski says he and the other “They would chase us in helicoptracks for a year, and the heavy spring Peace Center now has become over the five founding members of the RMPJC ters, it was wild,” Tchozewski says. snows, with activists sitting on the last 30 years,” he says, adding that the — Moore, Karen Gruber, Jeri Brown, He also lists among the center’s tracks as a train would approach and RMPJC would become “the kind of Sally Dowiatt and Rich Stafford — accomplishments its outreach during stop, law enforcement officers and train stabilizing force that makes movedecided to create the center at around the Sandanista revolution in Nicaragua, workers trudging through the white ments successful.” the same time the “encirclement” hapdrifts toward them. He says that even back then, Moore which included building a school in pened, but RMPJC didn’t officially that country and helping lead to Jalapa “The most striking thing to me in was the “elder statesman” of the group, open its doors until six months later, becoming one of Boulder’s sister cities. all of this is that nothing has as he is today. on April 15, 1984. It was a direct result changed,” Daniel says. “We’re making The RMPJC was also involved in “One of the greatest achievements of the Rocky Flats protests, and the the same statements and fighting the of the Peace Center was putting LeRoy bringing the Dushanbe Teahouse to need to have a formal organization to same fights.” to work for 35 years,” Tchozewski says, Boulder, because it was one of the drivsupport such efforts going forward. Five years of periodic protests and noting that the RMPJC gave Moore “a ing forces in making a Soviet Union Tchozewski, who moved to municipality one of Boulder’s sister cithundreds of arrests later, Tchozewski stable base of supporters who would Boulder in 1978 from the tiny mounies, according to Tchozewski. says the encirclement was a more work with him.” tain hamlet of Georgetown expressly peaceful approach than some of the In the end, their efforts at Rocky to be involved in the effort against the tactics that the activists had taken in **** Flats paid off. Tchozewski recalls the nuclear weapons facility, recalls the previous years. Denver Post headline in June 1989 1978 sit-in to block the railroad tracks “We realized we were turning a announcing that the nuclear arms facil- See PEACE AND JUSTICE Page 20 Boulder Weekly

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Ball, who participated in the encirclement and other protests at Rocky Flats, didn’t join the RMPJC until 1998, after a stint with the “Redwood Summer” movement in California. She agrees that while the Boulder center may have gotten its start at Rocky Flats, it has effected change in many other causes, including protests against the First Gulf War and efforts to reform the criminal justice system and lobby for the rights of prisoners, which was spearheaded by the RMPJC’s Christie Donner, who went on to lead the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, an organization that has helped secure many needed improvements to the state’s criminal justice system. “We’re very proud of that history,” Ball says. “We launched Christie.” She adds that the RMPJC was involved in American Indian Movement (AIM) efforts, including acting as a mediator during land grant disputes in Tierra Amarilla, N.M. The center’s nonviolence work there landed it an award presented by activist and actor Russell Means of Colorado AIM, according to Ball. The RMPJC also helped organize Boulder’s first food co-op in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she says, and it has been active in fighting the Patriot Act as well as modern-day conflicts in the Middle East. Ball recalls that the center’s nonviolence training sessions have been infiltrated by authorities on multiple occasions, from the Arapahoe County law enforcement officers who testified against those arrested in a 2003 protest against the Iraq War in

Colorado Springs to undercover officers who attempted to provoke activists into diverting from their nonviolent protocols during a sit-in at Rep. Mark Udall’s office a couple of years later. The law enforcement infiltrations came to light when the RMPJC obtained its “spy files” from the Denver Police, Ball says. More recently, the center has been involved in the fight against genetically modified organisms, or “GMOs,” and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It has been active in uncovering the contamination at Valmont Butte, which was the subject of a national awardwinning series by BW in 2012, and it continues to police the Rocky Flats property and the plans to build the Jefferson Parkway through the former nuclear arms facility. The fact that the center has come full circle, refocusing on the possible contaminants that could be stirred up by the construction of the parkway, speaks to the enduring need for such an organization, supporters say. And as leaders like Ball and Moore grow older, Ball acknowledges that young activists will have to pick up the torch. She says some good representatives of the next generation of activists are expected to attend the RMPJC’s fall retreat, and hopefully they can be groomed to take over where their predecessors left off. In the mean time, she says, Betty’s Rockin’ Thrift Shop still needs help to continue the RMPJC’s efforts. “We need volunteers,” Ball says. “And shoppers.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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wo more individuals have lifelong public servant with special thrown their hats into the interest in veterans affairs and public ring to succeed House Rep. and mental health issues. He says he Claire Levy. aligns with Levy on most issues, and his George Clark of priorities are education, especially early Evergreen, a retired engineer who education, the environment and natural worked for the federal resources. A proponent of government and now does local control, he says he management consulting, would work to balance and Zane Laubhan, the renewable energy with oil Gilpin County coroner and gas, improve health and director of the Gilpin care in his county and Ambulance Authority, address the seemingly have applied to be considnever-ending I-70 conered by the vacancy comgestion problem. mittee for House District “For me, it’s all about 13. service,” Clark says. “It’s They join Boulder City just an opportunity to cast Council member KC a broader net and be able George Clark Becker and Levy’s former to address some of these legislative aide and camissues at the state level.” Laubhan, who has been paign manager, Tad Kline. a paramedic in Colorado The vacancy committee for 30 years, serves on sevwill meet at 2 p.m. on Oct. eral state and regional 19 at the Buffalo medical advisory groups Restaurant and Bar in and has been Gilpin coroIdaho Springs to select ner for nine years. Like Levy’s replacement. Clark, he says his life has Levy announced recently that she would be been devoted to public serstepping down on Oct. 31, vice since he served on a more than a year before state water conservation Zane Laubhan her final term ends, to board at age 17. take a job as executive He said he would director of the Colorado continue Levy’s agenda as Center on Law and Policy. The vacancy well, including pushing for a bill to crecommittee must appoint someone to ate a peer review system for the emerserve out the rest of Levy’s term within gency services field, similar to the evala 20-day window before her last day. uations conducted in other disciplines Kline sits on that 35-member comthat protect the identity of reviewers mittee and has said he has no plans to and weed out emergency responders recuse himself from voting on the whose skills are weak. Unlike any of the appointment, even though he is one of other candidates, Laubhan has pledged the candidates. to only serve out Levy’s term and not The two newcomers to the field run in next year’s primary. agreed they’d abstain from voting if He also says he has not only testified they were in the same situation. on about 20 pieces of legislation at the When asked if he serves on the state Capitol, he’s helped draft four bills. vacancy committee as well, Laubhan “How many times have KC, Tad or told BW, “No, and if I were, I’d recuse George testified at the Capitol?” myself. … There’s only a conflict of Laubhan asks. interest if you create it.” According to an Oct. 5 email from Similarly, when asked about the sit- HD 13 Central Committee Secretary uation, Clark says, “I can only tell you Celeste Landry, all four prospective what I would do if I were in that situacandidates will be interviewed on tion. I would recuse myself. That’s the KYGT radio in Idaho Springs on Oct. way I’m wired. But I don’t want to add 12 from 3 to 4 p.m. by vacancy comto that fire; it is what it is.” mittee member Jerry Fabyanic. The Clark, who sits on several regional interviews can be heard online at that boards and ran unsuccessfully for Clear time at kygt.org, and a recording should Creek County commissioner last year, be posted by Oct. 15. describes himself as a collaborator and a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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A few questions for our city council candidates

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e all know that the big turnout years occur primarily during presidential elections, but it shouldn’t be that way. In reality, the members of our local city councils have a far larger impact on our day-to-day lives than anyone in Washington D.C. Our local elected officials can determine, to varying degrees, whether our local economies shrink or grow, the availability of good jobs, the long-term outlook for housing prices. A city council can have a huge say in whether or not a municipality will be more or less environmentally responsible. These elected officials even have the ability to impose their own sense of morality on the rest of us by making decisions such as allowing, or not, local access to purchasing now-legal marijuana or determining which establishments in which parts of town can serve what types of alcoholic beverages. Our city councils also make judgments on behalf of the rest of us on important social issues such as determining if we will try to help the homeless or simply drive them away to some other community. As a rule, good city councils tend to be fiscally responsible. Lesser councils often spend taxpayer money as if it grew on trees or fell from the sky. For example, more than one city council has been known to purchase open space without doing proper due diligence or even adequate appraisals of property values. Such irresponsibility can often cost taxpayers millions in wasted dollars either by overpaying at the time of purchase or down the road by way of having to clean up old

contamination on the property that should have been identified before the land was ever purchased. In short, city council elections are important, and more than ever, in Boulder County, the elections in each community greatly affect every other community. We may only be able to vote for council members in our own town, but we should certainly have an interest in who is being elected by our neighbors around us. Boulder County has changed greatly in the past decade. It has grown, and there have been significant population shifts that are reflected in everything from politics to the arts to the environment. The outdated concept of the City of Boulder as the county’s lone cache of progressive ideals, protected from the surrounding region’s conservative hordes by its moat of open space, ceased to exist decades ago. We now live in a county where the actions of one community often influence the actions and day-to-day life in another. Longmont led the way on the fight against fracking. Now Lafayette and to some degree Boulder are attempting to travel a similar path, as is the county government. Boulder’s push toward creating a municipal electric utility has, no doubt, influenced the actions of east county residents who are trying to decouple from Xcel franchise agreements with ballot initiatives in order to pursue more sustainable energy sources. In addition, growth and transportation issues affect every community in the region, and city councils have a large impact on these issues. When Erie decides to grow as fast as it can, that translates to more commuters

into Boulder and Longmont. Boulder’s decision decades ago to limit growth and its inability to create adequate high-density or affordable housing to meet the demand are a major factor in the growth of surrounding communities to the east and south. This migration makes perfect sense and is unavoidable. Families want to own a home, and hopefully use that ownership to acquire the kind of wealth it takes to put a child through college or retire someday. They don’t want a permanently affordable duplex that they have to sell for less than market value someday. That defeats the purpose. As a result, Boulder’s population grows by nearly 40 percent every day by way of a commuting workforce. That’s good for Boulder’s economy but hard on its traffic and the county’s air quality. Such complex growth and transportation issues can only be addressed if all of the neighboring communities work together. And whether or not that happens largely depends upon our choices for city council. Like it or not, every community in this county is interconnected in a myriad of ways, and the upcoming council elections in each city matter to all of us. That’s why Boulder Weekly, as the only news organization that serves all of the communities of Boulder County, is providing this Q&A with all 32 of our county’s city council candidates. The Boulder city council candidates responses came from The Blue Line community questionnaire, an exhaustive survey available online at www.boulderblueline.org for further study. Questions to Louisville, Lafayette and Longmont candidates were generated by and provided solely to Boulder Weekly staff.

You may not be able to vote for all of them, but you can learn about all of them, which is important for all the reasons described previously. Of course, this is only a small sampling of the information that voters need. We encourage everyone to talk to their respective candidates, attend the candidate forums and research the background of potential city council members. We understand that it takes a lot of time to do that. It takes months each year for Boulder Weekly to compile and digest the information necessary to make our candidate and issue endorsements. And just to be clear, we will be providing endorsements for every issue and race on the ballot this November, just as we have always done. We don’t shy away from our responsibility to endorse candidates and issues for two reasons. First, because we have the journalistic obligation to take the time to do the research, we believe that our endorsements and explanations for those endorsements provide a valuable service to our readers, whether they agree with our choices or not. And second, we believe that news organizations have a responsibility to endorse on candidates and issues because it gives readers insight into the news organizations themselves and allows the public to consider future news coverage in light of those endorsements. Political endorsements are another form of journalistic transparency, a quickly disappearing quality in corporate media. Our endorsements hit the streets on Oct. 17. We hope all of our ongoing five weeks of election coverage are helpful, regardless of how you vote.

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BOULDER Question 1: What are three achievable goals that you would champion in the next two years?

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1. Assess flood damage and set new priorities for the Stormwater/ Flood Management Utility, based on what we learned from the recent flood. 2. Form a municipal utility. 3. Reduce carbon emissions of tenant-occupied commercial buildings.

Question 2: What are the most important policies Boulder needs to implement to ensure that it reaches and maintains sustainability? 1. All emissions must be accurately counted, because you cannot manage what you don’t measure. 2. Take control of the electricity distribution system so as to rapidly reduce carbon emissions while increasing the production of electricity through renewable energy. 3. Achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions of existing buildings by 2050. 4. Adopt land use regulations that transform residential areas into 15-minute neighborhoods, and that increase density appropriately to make the city more urban. 5. Adopt building codes so that new buildings will be net-zero buildings by 2030. 6. Electrify most existing direct fuel uses, such as transportation and home heating and cooling.

Question 3: Do you support increasing density in Boulder? If so, where? What would Boulder’s ideal population be?

Question 4: What is the name of your neighborhood, and what is the most pressing issue for the residents in your neighborhood?

Question 5: What do you see as the greatest threats and opportunities for the future of Open Space?

I favor increasing density along transit corridors and other areas that may be identified in the Sustainable Streets and Centers project that is in the work plan for 2014. I favor increasing density in some neighborhoods by permitting alley houses, granny flats and duplexes. However, I believe that such increases must be done carefully and in consultation with affected neighborhoods. Such consultation has resulted in a renaissance in the Whittier neighborhood, for example, which worked closely with city staff and developers with respect to increasing the density along East Pearl. This is a textbook example of successful outreach, partnership between businesses and residents and good planning that has made the East Pearl neighborhood one of the most desirable in the whole city.

Whittier. The pressing issue here is the preservation of street trees against drought and traffic calming to keep motorists from running down pedestrians in crosswalks. There is also considerable interest in banning smoking in public places, including sidewalks.

The greatest threat: the sheer number of people that are using Open Space. The greatest opportunity is the completion of regional trails. However, the very completion of regional trails, while it gives Boulder residents greater access to adjacent lands, also opens up direct pathways for users from surrounding cities to increase the numbers of people on Boulder Open Space even more.

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BOULDER Question 1: What are three achievable goals that you would champion in the next two years?

Question 2: What are the most important policies Boulder needs to implement to ensure that it reaches and maintains sustainability?

Question 3: Do you support increasing density in Boulder? If so, where? What would Boulder’s ideal population be?

Question 4: What is the name of your neighborhood, and what is the most pressing issue for the residents in your neighborhood?

ANDREW SHOEMAKER

(1) Reduce traffic and fuel consumption and emissions within the city by removing all barriers (such as fares or even EcoPasses) for certain high frequency intra-city routes (e.g., Skip and Hop), like the 16th Street Mall in Denver. Additionally, the city and RTD should begin working on a community-wide EcoPass and significant incremental progress on regional transportation plans. (2) Develop a viable regional housing plan/proposal in Boulder County to address the needs of our growing senior demographic with fixed incomes, as well as the inability of health, safety, educational and other public servants to live in or near Boulder. This ties into our significant transportation problem. (3) Immediately address behavioral problems on the Boulder Creek Path, downtown, and in other public areas, while at the same time increasing our support and focus on assisting at-risk youth and homeless families and transitional individuals.

During my tenure on the Planning Board, I assisted in the redraft of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP). “Sustainability” in the BVCP means “considering the issues of environment, economy and social equity together. An action or decision in any one of these areas will have consequences on the others.” I agree that these three policy goals are the key to ensure “sustainability” in Boulder, and they should guide the city’s decisionmaking.

I do not support increasing density for the sake of adding density. Boulder’s population increases constantly through by-right redevelopment of properties in the city and through the expanding enrollment at CU. The city has developed maps showing where that density will occur. We need to be very careful in our neighborhoods, as the BVCP expressly calls for sensitive infill development and the protection of neighborhood character. On public transportation corridors, such as Broadway, some additional density is appropriate, and I would support such an increase in those areas in exchange for a community benefit such as affordable housing. In a perfect world, Boulder’s population would hold constant at its current levels, and everyone who works in Boulder would live here. It is impossible to say, today, what Boulder’s ideal population will be 10 years or 100 years from now. There are too many variables.

I live on University Hill. Nuisance parties, fireworks and trash disrupt quality of life for residents on the Hill and create safety issues and wildlife problems (such as encouraging bears to regularly dine on trash, often resulting in extermination of the bears). The Hill needs improved street lighting. Over-occupancy changes the character of the neighborhood through, among other things, driving up the price of the house (based on the revenue of selling multiple rooms) such that the house becomes more valuable as an investment property and is priced too high for a single-family home. Essentially, we are using our single-family homes (of which we have a shortage) and changing our neighborhoods in order to assist the University’s housing needs.

If Open Space rules are overly restrictive, there will be a loss of public support for Open Space. If they are overly permissive, our Open Space can be harmed. Regular use of Open Space by non-Boulder residents places an additional burden on Open Space. Use fees for non-Boulder residents and promoting the success of our Open Space program will encourage other communities in Colorado and elsewhere to protect their Open Space. Regional connections also are an important opportunity for the Open Space program.

JONATHAN DINGS

Community EcoPasses, increased use of public transit, biking and walking in commuting, and restoration of proposed cuts to Human Services funding.

As indicated in the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, “Applying a sustainability framework to decisionmaking in Boulder means considering the issues of environment, economy and social equity together.” We are well-positioned with regard to progressive environmental policies generally and with regard to Open Space, and mostly need to protect what we have in place while fostering economic vitality and social sustainability. An important area of potential environmental improvement rests with encouraging residents and commuters to use public transit more regularly, which I believe can be attained through making EcoPasses more readily available and providing greater outreach.

I support some higher density building in new development, but not redeveloping older neighborhoods to have higher density. Boulder’s ideal eventual population would probably be about 10,000 higher than current, to allow for more people who work here to live here and contribute to our local economy. Whether we reach that figure depends substantially on occupancy of existing housing stock.

Here in Pawnee Meadow, as in many other neighborhoods, flood mitigation is a current topic. Other topics of interest include municipalization and EcoPasses.

Over the short term, the greatest threats to Open Space mirror the greatest opportunities: making it available to the greatest number and variety of users without degrading the environment through overuse or misuse. Over the long term, the greatest threats are likely to be financial, related to economic downturn or shrinking tax base possibilities.

KEVIN HOTALING

1. Transfer the city vehicle fleet to carshare. This model has been proven to save cities money, reduce environmental impact and provide new transportation options for low-income residents. 2. Transform “Transit Center” dreams into “Tech Center” success. Our critical housing and office shortages won’t be solved by building the same old boxes around a non-existent train. I’ve proposed that we breathe new life into this industrial neighborhood by allowing heights up to 165’. This would create a true center of commerce for Boulder and simultaneously protect the character of the rest of the city. 3. Repeal one dim-witted law. Over the past two decades, Council has imposed countless new laws ... but has never once seen fit to roll one back. I intend to make history by finding a law that was a mistake and then returning that freedom to the people of Boulder.

This is primarily a design problem and will require many creative solutions. That said, there is one glaring flaw in Boulder’s infrastructure that our city continually refuses to acknowledge: you cannot build a sustainable city if you freeze in place mid-century sprawl. Boulder has historic neighborhoods and iconic streets that we should diligently protect. We also have have expansive parking lots and blighted industrial areas east of 28th that are ripe for redevelopment. The city’s one-size-fails-all zoning practices actually push construction out of this region and into the very places we had intended to protect. In order to achieve our energy, transportation, economic and social goals, we must take decisive action toward enabling high-density redevelopment. By simply relaxing some of the onerous restrictions applied to underutilized properties, we can create real sustainability without impacting the rest of the city.

Every weekday, 60,000 people commute into Boulder. That’s bad for the environment, bad for business and bad for the city tax base. Some of these commuters have consciously chosen to live elsewhere, but many of them have been pushed out by the ever-increasing cost of housing. Boulder is suffering from a housing shortage. With CU planning to add 10,000 additional students, we are on the verge of a housing crisis. We must take decisive action to encourage development along the 28th and 30th Street corridors. I’ve proposed that transforming the Transit Center into a high-density Tech Center is the best way to solve our shortage of both housing and office space. P.S. Anyone who believes they can dictate an “ideal population” should probably be running for Supreme Leader, not City Council.

I live on 29th Street, but I believe my neighborhood is formally known as Asphalt Acres. Our neighborhood issue is our city’s issue: we need more housing, more office space and more walkability. People are rightly getting frustrated with the excessive development pressure that’s changing the face of our historic downtown. This pressure has been artificially manufactured by City Council’s onefails-all planning policies. It’s time to address our housing and office shortages by identifying an area of town that can provide maximum density with minimal impact. Asphalt Acres is just such a place. I propose that, in addition to encouraging general development along the 28th and 30th Street corridors, we also extend the Transit Center zoning to allow for a 165’ foot height limit. Preferably rebranded as the Tech Center, this would quickly become a new hub for affordable, environmental and vibrant Boulder living.

It may sound counterintuitive, but the greatest threat to Open Space is municipalization. If you’ll bear with me, I’ll explain. Municipalization will be a multi-hundred-million-dollar bet on the continued preeminence of gridbased distribution. In the event that any disruptive technology significantly alters the nature of the energy industry prior to the retirement of our bond obligations (which could extend all the way through 2050), we will be facing bankruptcy. This is not a vague or distant threat. We are currently sitting at the brink of an end-to-end energy revolution. There are promising production, distribution, storage and consumption innovations set to come to market in the next 5-10 years. The wide-scale adoption of any one of these technologies is quite likely and would be quite devastating to our proposed business model. This significantly jeopardizes the City of Boulder’s largest dispensable asset: our vast Open Space holdings.

1. Decrease in carbon emissions related to electric power generation, by moving ahead with municipalization. 2. Agreement between the City and the County regarding the continuation of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan to ensure continued cooperation for effective land use arrangements 3.A city-wide EcoPass program — to promote bus ridership and diminish car miles for local residents.

To reach and maintain sustainability, Boulder should: * Move ahead with the municipalization of electric power utility, so that it can diminish carbon emissions related to its power supply and put the control of rates, incentives and programs in local hands. * Diminish single-person occupancy auto use, by providing and encouraging more environmentally sustainable transit alternatives, including bus, carpooling, bike riding, etc. * continue to diminish waste disposal impacts by increasing recycling levels — and by requiring businesses to have recycling programs to minimize waste disposal requirements and diminishing the waste being sent to landfill. * Establishing limits to waste production and pollution emissions — including the private use of pesticides and other substances which can impact neighbors adversely

I do support increased density for some neighborhoods in Boulder — including downtown in the central business district, Boulder Junction and the area north of Twenty Ninth Street mall development on 30th Street. Lower and middle-income housing is one of our greatest needs, and new development of office space instead of housing should be critically reviewed. Boulder’s ideal population is now close to ideal.

I live in the Silver Lake Orchard neighborhood. The most pressing problems are associated with increasing levels of traffic though the neighborhood, and the replacement of modest homes with very large homes, which changes the nature of the neighborhood. The neighborhood is served by Silver Lake Ditch irrigation, with lateral ditches to distribute the water. Some residents fail to understand the significance and benefits of the lateral canals which transport the irrigation water to the users.

The greatest threats are: 1. Inadequate funding for the Open Space vision for acquiring and managing land around Boulder 2. Overintensive use of Open Space lands for recreation. 3. Violation of Open Space Charter regarding the use of Open Space lands for impermissible/unacceptable uses (e.g. for competitive, limited-access events, non-passive recreation, etc) Opportunities include: 1. Encouragement of local agriculture on Open Space to promote new environmentally desirable practices, including organic, non-GMO, alternative crops and cropping, diminished use of chemicals and fertilizers, etc. 2. Cooperation with other local governments to designate and conserve open space for mutual benefit

JOHN GERSTLE

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Question 5: What do you see as the greatest threats and opportunities for the future of Open Space?

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BOULDER Question 1: What are three achievable goals that you would champion in the next two years?

Question 2: What are the most important policies Boulder needs to implement to ensure that it reaches and maintains sustainability?

Question 3: Do you support increasing density in Boulder? If so, where? What would Boulder’s ideal population be?

Question 4: What is the name of your neighborhood, and what is the most pressing issue for the residents in your neighborhood?

Question 5: What do you see as the greatest threats and opportunities for the future of Open Space?

While many would see increased usage as a “threat,” and indeed that can come with increased impacts, I think that our management plans can limit those impacts while at the same time educating people about the importance of environmental protection. Now, I’m not naïve; this will be an ongoing issue and at some point we may very well need to limit usage in some ways, and almost certainly ensure that people stay in appropriate places. Long-term I suspect the main threat is how climate change, drought and fire will impact ecosystems and habitat. We have an opportunity to complete the vision and trail system, better manage people by ensuring they stay on (rerouted as necessary) trails and leave the large HCAs and sensitive areas protected, collaborate regionally to protect much larger and connected ecosystems and fully implement adaptive management techniques.

MATThew APPELBAUM

Creating programs and policies that will result in significant reductions in energy use, particularly in the commercial building sector. Perhaps not “achievable” due to dependence on regional consensus and perhaps voter approval, but creation of a funded, definitive plan to greatly increase transit mobility in Boulder and the northwest corridor. Embarking on new approaches to maintaining diversity in Boulder with creation/preservation of (at least “relatively”) affordable housing via zoning, density, housing regulations, etc.

Reductions of energy use in residential and commercial buildings via more education, incentives, building codes, and, as needed, regulation; a municipal electric utility or equivalent would help enormously by allowing us not only to procure renewable energy but to greatly improve incentives, rate structures and programs in this regard. Reductions in VMT via much increased provision of accessible alternatives — transit both local and regional (including completion of FasTracks), completion of the bike system and improvements for commuters, complete streets, parking districts, etc. Targeted density increases that may help provide more affordable housing, particularly for city workers. Significant improvements in waste management/recycling. Firm, longterm fiscal sustainability so that we can maintain the high level of services that attract creative people, ensure economic vitality and allow pursuit of innovative programs. Continued vigilance on Open Space protections.

Yes, but carefully. Density of course increases population and certain impacts, but done well can reduce our per capita environmental footprint, increase diversity and help facilitate increased transit and other shared resources. Conventional wisdom naturally allocates density to transit corridors and “walkable” areas, and to places that can support various forms of mixed use. While that’s generally good policy, I would note that allowing far more ADUs and/or relaxing occupancy limits would add density citywide. And we have horrible, suburban office parks that could clearly benefit from increases in commercial and/or residential densities, but such reconfiguration will require considerable analysis. (There is no simplistic response to the multiple choice question below re commercial development, hence my all-ofthe-above answer.) For the foreseeable future, Boulder’s population will continue to grow very slowly; future generations can and should define “ideal” relative to environmental (taken broadly) conditions we can’t pretend to fully grasp now.

I live in (old) Keewaydin, although the broader neighborhood includes Frasier Meadows. For the past few years the key issue has been Burke Park and Thunderbird Lake, particularly the concern about keeping the lake viable and attractive. Thanks to really excellent work by a collaboration of Parks, the Horizon School and a CU design class — and really terrific public outreach that attracted very wide interest from the neighborhood — there is an excellent plan to not just maintain the lake but also to improve the often neglected park (especially the school district portion), integrate the school and city properties, create an educational facility that serves both the school and the neighborhood, and enhance the great environmental assets of the lake and surrounding wetlands.

MICAH PARKIN

1) Develop a sustainable local food system — do the analysis necessary and put policies in place to set us on this path (examples and reasoning previously discussed). 2) Create an affordable and reliable local electric utility that uses at least 50% renewable energy. 2) Finance and implement a community-wide EcoPass.

The impacts of climate change — from record wildfires to recent floods — are increasingly evident and devastating. Greenhouse gas neutrality and preparation for impacts should be top priorities. 1) Boulder electric utility — could quickly increase to 50% renewables and have equal or better rates and reliability. It’s likely through this path we can achieve the most the quickest and demonstrate additional benefits. 2) Transportation — Boulderites ride the bus 2X, walk 3X, and bicycle 21X the national average. Still, transportation is 22% of Boulder’s ghg emissions. Communitywide EcoPasses, complete streets, bike paths and walkable neighborhoods should be priorities. 3) Sustainable Local Food Policy — to increase access to locally-grown, healthy food. 4) More water conservation policies and 5) preparation for more big floods — climate change will likely increase both droughts and floods regionally. 6) Local population growth — at some point systems and infrastructure limits are exceeded. We must accept limits.

PLAN-Boulder County’s publication “Does Dense Make Sense” suggests adding a little more density along transportation corridors. I agree with that and think that walkable mixed-use neighborhoods with green space and community gardens in place of big box stores or underutilized shopping area sprawls would be preferable in many ways. One example of where I think that would have been preferable is Diagonal Plaza, and other possibility could be in the area of 55th and Arapahoe. As I mentioned in a previous answer, I think that we must accept that there are limits to the population that our infrastructure and systems can support and still be sustainable. The Planning Department expects 120,000 people at full build-out. I think that our current population is pretty ideal and that 120,000 (allowing for more in-commuters to live here) should be seen as an upper limit.

My neighborhood is Old North Boulder. It is a very walkable and bikeable neighborhood — close to shops, downtown, with good nearby parks, community gardens and a great, culturally diverse neighborhood school — Columbine Elementary. One problem that we are beginning to see is that as more neighborhood families have begun returning to Columbine Elementary (instead of open-enrolling out), our class sizes are beginning to balloon. It is good to have more cultural balance at our school, but with many low-income and second language learners, small class sizes and low teacher-student ratio are preferable.

ED BYRNE

1. Revitalization of the Subcommunity plan concept. 2. Require evaluation of public/private partnership alternatives to ordinance and regulatory proposals, whenever substantial voluntary progress is being made 3. Identification of customer service moments of truth for all city departments, particularly those with regulatory enforcement authority.

Reconfiguration of our human settlement patterns. Our 65-year experiment with auto-dependent planning must come to an end. We are part of a regional interdependent economy with workers and jobs scattered hither and yon. We need to create primarily self-sufficient subcommunities within Boulder and connect them efficiently to each other and to our regional neighbors, whose workers and jobs are part of our carbon footprint, whether or not we care to acknowledge it. Development of local agriculture is critical, as is economic resiliency — the need to identify potential supply chain disruptions like those created by the tsunami in Japan and the floods in Pakistan. Like a climax ecosystem, our region must optimize our use of natural resources, while minimizing our waste generation and energy consumption. Boulder may win lot of awards, but there’s a lot of work left. Until we make significantly more progress, we’re being swept downstream with everyone else.

Yes, we need strategically located density in mixed-use neighborhood centers serving the Euclidean (homogenous) residential and nonresidential enclaves we have created during 60 years of auto-dependent planning. We’re doing better, but we have much work left to be done. As noted earlier, the density should be located along transit corridors and at transit nodes already well-served by our existing and future proposed transit and multi-modal system. We should intensely focus our projects on building the kinds of mixed-use neighborhoods our current in-commuting population might prefer. These 50,00060,000 additional people are on our streets every workday now, but we don’t count them in our population. Building projects that might encourage them to return to Boulder while it enlivens our subcommunities makes sense. We could have 125,000 residents in Boulder by 2050 creating the sort of impacts associated with 50,000 residents in the 1950s, as a direct result of the behavioral adjustments and environmental policies for which Boulder is justifiably proud.

I live in North Boulder in the North Wonderland Community (NWC). Our most pressing issue will be recovery from the catastrophic flooding of Four Mile Creek. Connectivity, redevelopment of the west side of Broadway north of Violet, and walkability were evaluated as part of the North Boulder Subcommunity Plan process. Rebuilding the area damaged by flooding will probably now lead to quicker realization of the NBSP’s goals and objectives. Crestview Elementary School and the neighborhoods east of Broadway, south of Rosewood and north of Quince all the way to 28th Street (south of Violet and north of Kalmia) have been devastated by the Four Mile Creek flood. During the reconstruction process, the entire Four Mile Creek floodway needs to be re-engineered and flood mitigation best management practices that have been languishing, pending completion of downstream modifications, need to be installed now. There is no longer any reason for delay.

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Opportunities — if Ballot Issue 2C passes this November, it appears we will have funding to complete our Acquisition Plan — buy mineral rights, promote more agriculture on appropriate open space, complete regional trails, acquire more property and create more habitat for various species, limit potential development in Boulder County, and incorporate some urban agriculture, such as a conservation easement on Longs Garden. Threats — one is overuse by the public. As more people from across the Front Range come to enjoy our beautiful Open Space, we must devise ways of limiting use so we don’t “love our open space to death.” Solutions could include charging access fees to out-of-towners through use of “Day Use Fee” boxes and parking fees in popular locations. Another great threat to open space land is fracking. Hopefully Ballot Issue 2H will pass to protect Open Space from fracking for another 4.5 years.

Protecting Boulder’s OSMP lands from the teeming masses who love them is expensive. Ongoing maintenance and operational expenses are substantial enough that mandatory non-resident parking fees, even if they could be enforced and collected economically, pale by comparison. Our “wilderness” interface is a resource protection nightmare, a behavioral challenge and an educational opportunity. Colorado’s ski industry has learned to harden the first couple of miles of trails leading from the top of their chairlifts. The industry has installed interactive educational exhibits, so that summer visitors won’t inadvertently, irrevocably harm the fragile alpine ecosystems they’ve often traveled thousands of miles to see. Boulder must do the same. User fees should flow directly to OSMP operational expenses. Everyone should pay them (including residents), but they should be voluntary, with recommended contribution levels and annual passes. Collections will be adequate. If they’re not, we can look at other options

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BOULDER Question 1: What are three achievable goals that you would champion in the next two years?

Question 2: What are the most important policies Boulder needs to implement to ensure that it reaches and maintains sustainability?

Question 3: Do you support increasing density in Boulder? If so, where? What would Boulder’s ideal population be?

Question 4: What is the name of your neighborhood, and what is the most pressing issue for the residents in your neighborhood?

Question 5: What do you see as the greatest threats and opportunities for the future of Open Space?

FRED SMITH

Implementation of a 1. City Income Tax, 2. City Minimum Wage, 3. City 18 y/o Minimum Drinking Age

Environmental, economic and social sustainability should be linked to a progressive income tax structure that evens out the taxation for Boulder citizens. Local communities should have more ability to make financial decisions about sustainability, so I would put efforts to have the state allow cities to implement an income tax.

There is no ideal population. I am against the “no more than three people in the house rule.” Boulder should not look for a “right” population. I think the people of Boulder should determine this themselves and not the city determine it for Boulder. I’m for in-fill and maximizing capacity in houses. Boulder should do what it needs to for its own population.

Manhattan circle neighborhood. The most pressing issue is the need for more mixed-use development.

The greatest threat is defunding Open Space. The greatest opportunity is to have a treasure for future generations.

SAM WEAVER

While these goals may not be completed in two years, I believe substantial progress can be made on each. Implement a municipal electric utility or a substantially restructured agreement with Xcel to perform a rapid switch to renewables in our electrical supply and 50% carbon emissions reductions within 5-7 years. I will champion keeping the process going to determine the final costs and likely benefits of a muni, maintaining forceful negotiations with Xcel to discuss alternate partnership structures in parallel. Adopt commercial energy codes. Begin with baseline measurements of all commercial buildings over a given size, then proceed to convene a public process about how to best have the commercial and industrial sector assist in meeting Climate Commitment goals. Begin a city and community process of integrated planning regarding how buildout will look with our current zoning plan, and if the current plan matches with the vision of the community.

There are eight major areas to focus on for sustainability: population, food, energy, water, land use, transportation, economy, social services. The manners of implementation of each area have impacts on environment and nature, but for 150 words, the most significant are population, energy, land use and transportation. For preserving natural habitats and stabilizing population, land use planning is crucial, and maintaining a compact city and a vibrant open space system are required. Compact city form also enables lower-impact transportation systems in which transit within the city is more easily done by walking, biking and buses. Low-impact public transit systems between compact cities are also more convenient (thus more often used) and easier to construct than in a sprawling urban area. Finally, energy systems must be as non-polluting as possible, and fossil fuel resources are unsustainable, finite and damaging. Using them for power production, heating and transportation must be phased out.

I support massive reduction in Boulder’s greenhouse gas emissions, walkable city neighborhoods, complete streets, and great alternative transportation options. To the extent that sensible and sensitive density increases help achieve these goals, I support them as one tool among many. Dense environments benefit from better public transit, lower energy use per area, and an easier time walking and biking to destinations. Much of the city core is already dense, either through multi-family dwellings in traditionally single-family areas, or by OAUs and ADUs. Opportunity for densification exists in North, South and East Boulder with traditional suburban layouts. I support neighborhood-by-neighborhood stakeholder engagement to explore additional density through zoning. I also support all growth paying its way towards public infrastructure. I am not sure there is an ideal population — that is for each generation to decide. I am sure there is an ideal Boulder footprint defined by open space and height limits.

I live right on the border of the Whittier and Panorama neighborhoods, though I interact with Whittier more frequently due to its density of housing and connection with downtown. I am not certain there is a single issue that is the largest concern for residents. The diversity of housing types in Whittier is a testament to how in-fill development can be handled without significant neighborhood impacts. If anything, improved ADU and OAU policy could enable more low- and middleincome housing here. In some areas of Whittier, car parking overflow from business districts remains an issue. Traffic speeds have been improved on Pine, Spruce, Mapleton and 20th, but enforcement, especially around school zones, remains a concern. There is also a very strong sentiment that Whittier Elementary must be kept open, and the city should strongly lobby the school board to achieve this outcome.

One potentially grave threat is oil and gas development on Open Space lands which the city does not own mineral rights for. Drilling moratoria at the city and county level give some relief to this threat, and every effort should be made by the city to acquire any mineral rights it does not hold on current open space property. Future acquisitions should also involve buying the mineral rights of new properties. Other ongoing threats include noxious weed incursions, increasingly intense wildfire behavior, user conflicts, increasing use and rising land prices which could jeopardize land acquisition plans. Opportunities include ongoing completion of the land acquisition plan, funding of operations through user fees for non-Boulder residents, and continuing improvement of user conflict management.

mary young

1. Continue and make progress on the collaborative effort to create an effective policy for commercial and industrial energy users to invest in energy efficiency. 2. Direct city manager to direct staff to begin the process of amending our Accessory Dwelling Unit ordinance. 3. Finding a way to pay for the EcoPass.

Policies that deal with climate change. Without addressing this overarching issue of our time, economic and social sustainability will become more and more difficult. City Council is currently considering a CO2 emissions reduction goal of 80% less than 1990 levels by 2050. If passed, in order to successfully implement this target we would need a set of resultsbased policies to achieve the goal. For example, it could mean the establishment of accountability for predefined annually incremented reduction milestones that are evaluated in a timely manner and adjusted in a timely manner when not met. The advantage of this approach is that it is quadruple bottom line.

Density: Yes, along the 28th and 30th Street corridors, as well as the 55th and Arapahoe corridor. Ideal population: It has been said that in order for people to have a genuine effect on local government, the unit being governed should be small enough to provide for the possibility of easily running into and knowing your elected officials. We are now at about 100,000 people with a build-out projection of 114,000 in 2035. Given our current representation, that would work out to about 12,600 people per city council member. That’s more than the ideal number of 7,000 per councilor. If effective local government is our goal, we have already surpassed our ideal population.

I live in the “Old North Boulder Neighborhood” on Alpine Avenue. Our most pressing issues are traffic noise, speeding and parking issues that occur due to the activity at Community Plaza. However, this is a quandary because the activity at Community Plaza is exactly what makes living in this neighborhood so great. The traffic calming measures that have been taken have only created obstacles that most people test their driving skills with by swerving speedily around them.

The greatest threat to open space is people — many, many people. The city is trying really hard to manage the increasing number of users from all around the metro area, and to the extent that people stay on trails, the use is somewhat manageable. One opportunity is to use the number of users to raise the awareness and educate folks of the importance of intact ecosystems and that we still have examples of plant and animal communities here that have been pretty much wiped out elsewhere along the Front Range. Along with the public’s appreciation for recreating on open space, we also have an opportunity to instill in people the importance of working for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future, and that in doing so we will leave many opportunities for our children and grandchildren to appreciate the importance of the natural world.

Question 1: What are the three most important problems confronting the City of Longmont? Please list them in their order of priority and briefly describe how you would attempt to solve your highest priority issue.

Question 2. Explain your position on the city’s hydraulic fracturing ban and your level of commitment to defending Longmont from the resulting lawsuits.

Question 3: Should Longmont be limiting its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2A regarding the debt increase to finance wastewater system improvements? Why or why not?

Question 5: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2B regarding the debt increase to finance fiber-optic improvements that will allow the city to offer highspeed broadband service? Why or why not?

Recovery from the flood is the highest priority issue for Longmont. The current damage estimate of $148 million may not include the cost of additional upgrades to improve protection and add developable land. I would want additional measures to fortify flood control structures to reduce the impact of future flood events. Additional funding for infrastructure projects may be required and is a reality that we need to consider once all of the costs are tallied. Second, I would balance economic development and growth to enhance the quality of life for Longmont’s citizens. Third, the fracking ban and drilling regulation lawsuits.

Unfortunately this issue is about money, without regard to local control and land use policy within planning areas of affected cities. The health, safety and quality of life impacts from drilling and fracking are risks the citizens of Longmont should not have to live with. The city needs to continue to vigorously defend against the lawsuits and look out for the best interest of its citizens, not the oil and gas companies. The City Council needs to defend our rights as a home rule municipality and exercise local control to protect our citizens from the many hazards associated with fracking.

Growth needs to be managed to maintain the character of Longmont as a place companies and people want to move to. Schools, roads, city services and housing need to keep pace with development to prevent deterioration of our quality of life. Growth within Longmont’s planning area is limiting sprawl while preserving open space and agricultural land. The Longmont Area Comprehensive Plan predicts build out in 2022 at our current growth rate. That can adjust up or down with different rates of development, land use changes, infill, and re-development. The plan is 10 years old so an update is needed.

I am in favor of Ballot Question 2A. New regulations controlling wastewater will be in effect in 2016. The alternative is to pay fines and raise rates. To me this is not an issue of an unfunded mandate, but our responsibility to discharge clean water into the environment. This is funded by user fees, so no tax increase is attached to this bond issue.

I am in favor of Ballot Question 2B. This bond is financed with user fees and will not raise taxes. Having world-class gigabit broadband service will be a differentiator in attracting companies and jobs to Longmont. Managed by Longmont Power and Communications, the infrastructure to maintain the system has been in since 1997. Within three years of voter approval, every household and business in Longmont will have access to Internet service 10 times faster than speeds currently offered, at about half the cost.

LONGMONT

Ward 2 JEFF MOORE

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LONGMONT

WARD 2 RICK ACCOUNTIUS

Question 2. Explain your position on the city’s hydraulic fracturing ban and your level of commitment to defending Longmont from the resulting lawsuits.

Question 3: Should Longmont be limiting its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2A regarding the debt increase to finance wastewater system improvements? Why or why not?

Question 5: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2B regarding the debt increase to finance fiber-optic improvements that will allow the city to offer highspeed broadband service? Why or why not?

I don’t view the issues facing Longmont as problems. I view them as challenges. The three most important challenges facing Longmont are: flood recovery, jobs, mall redevelopment. First, I would like to commend Longmont’s city staff, the current City Council and all first responders for their efforts during the flood. They all did an outstanding job. Now, as we begin to recover and rebuild, we need to consider both the human toll and the damage to our infrastructure. Countless citizens were displaced, and many people are in need of simple luxuries. City Council should work with the non-profits they support to insure human needs are being addressed. This should be done in parallel while working with city staff to identify and repair those areas in our infrastructure that were most damaged. Finally, the city should continue working with various government agencies to complete more flood control projects like the one recently completed in Southmoor Park. This project saved perhaps hundreds of homes from flood damage.

The fracking ban in Longmont is law and part of our city charter. City council members, new and old, are obligated to defend it.

No. Over the past several years, growth has slowed naturally due to the economic downturn. Consequently, there is no need to limit growth at this time.

Yes. This ballot initiative will allow Longmont to meet the federal and state unfunded mandate to reduce discharged ammonia levels. It will also allow us to upgrade our waste water treatment facility to meet our future needs. These goals will be achieved without raising taxes, and there will be no additional rate increases associated with this bond. Failure to meet permit levels for ammonia could result in penalties and fines. And finally, having a quality infrastructure is a necessity when attracting businesses.

Yes. Our fiber-optic loop has been in place since 1997. In 2011, Longmont citizens voted to allow the city to utilize this asset. With passage of 2B, the city will build out the fiberoptic network to bring high-speed Internet and voice services to our citizens and businesses. With this bond, subscribers will pay off the debt service, and not the taxpayers. Subscribers will receive roughly twice the speed at half the cost, and the revenue will stay in the city. Having the broadband fiber network built out prepares Longmont for future technology changes, and will benefit both citizens and businesses alike.

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Question 2. Explain your position on the city’s hydraulic fracturing ban and your level of commitment to defending Longmont from the resulting lawsuits.

Question 3: Should Longmont be limiting its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2A regarding the debt increase to finance wastewater system improvements? Why or why not?

Question 5: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2B regarding the debt increase to finance fiber-optic improvements that will allow the city to offer highspeed broadband service? Why or why not?

Clearly the most pressing problem facing Longmont is getting the thousands of logs out of Ralph Price Reservoir. This is our primary water supply, and we don’t want these logs to get water logged and then sink to the bottom of the Button Rock dam. This would plug up or damage our outlet piping and we would lose 75 percent of our water supply. We are working with the county to get overland access on a fire road to bring in heavy equipment so we can begin rebuilding the main access road from the top down, while also working on rebuilding that road from the bottom up. The need for shortand intermediate-term housing for the displaced community members from Lyons and our river corridor is also a big concern. With our current rental availability of less than 1 percent, this does not have an easy immediate solution. I think this next council needs to take a serious look at the possible funding options laid out by the “Affordable Housing Task Force Committee” Our last major immediate issue is what to do with the St. Vrain River. The river is now on a completely new path well away from where the irrigation ditch heads are located. Do we bring the river back to the ditches or the ditches over to where the river is now located? Most of the time, Mother Nature knows best solution. We will probably end up with a combination approach depending on the grade from the ditch head to the river location and the particular stretch of the river.

My personal opinion on the fracking ban is totally irrelevant. My job as your mayor is to do what the majority of the people want done. The 60/40 vote in favor of a fracking ban in our city is a crystal clear message from our citizens as to what they want me to do. I answer only to the majority of the citizens of Longmont, which is what all elected officials should do.

Yes, we have a plan for buildout of our city, and we should basically follow that comprehensive plan.

I fully support the sewer bond issue. We are mandated to meet the new federal wastewater ammonia standards, and if we don’t we will be fined $10,000 per day. If the bonds are not passed, we still have to fund the project in near real term, and this would be done by doubling or tripling our current sewer rates. Passing the bonds would be the best solution for people on a fixed income.

I fully support the broadband fiber bond issue. No city that owns its own electric company, and that is using this technology, and this implementation plan, has ever failed. This will be a big benefit to our citizens, and our local businesses. It will also be a major economic development driver for our community. We have to do this because Kansas City is doing this, Chattanooga is doing this, Champaign is doing this, Lafayette, La., is doing this. … Only the people who choose to use the service will be paying back the bond debt. The private sector providers are still free to provide our citizens with less quality for more money.

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LONGMONT Question 1: What are the three most important problems confronting the City of Longmont? Please list them in their order of priority and briefly describe how you would attempt to solve your highest priority issue.

Question 2. Explain your position on the city’s hydraulic fracturing ban and your level of commitment to defending Longmont from the resulting lawsuits.

Question 3: Should Longmont be limiting its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2A regarding the debt increase to finance wastewater system improvements? Why or why not?

AT-LARGE POLLY CHRISTENSEN

Jobs, education, public infrastructure and services. We need to actively recruit quality, sustainable, forward-thinking businesses with more jobs and living wage jobs. We need a better strategy for connecting the unemployed with businesses that need good employees. We must continue to support local education, from preschool through adult education, in order to have a higher quality of life for our residents and attract better employers. Without higher quality jobs and quality education for all, we cannot maintain our tax base to protect the fine city infrastructure and services that make Longmont the place we choose to live. Individuals and businesses will not come here; individuals and businesses will not stay.

The city should stand firm in defending the decisive 60/40 citizen vote of a modest ban on no fracking inside the city limits. Longmont’s city charter grants us home-rule status, and these suits are a direct attack on our home-rule status. The residents of Longmont have a right to protect the health of ourselves and our children, conserve our water, and protect our property values within the limits of our city.

Our city comprehensive plan is a good model for the future. We do need to re-examine and rethink it periodically, but we cannot continue to grant exemptions to every private developer who bought restricted land at a cheap price and then seeks an exemption to the comprehensive plan so he can make more money. We have to be able to firmly stand by our decisions for the overall good of the community.

Passing this measure will allow us to begin upgrading our wastewater plant more quickly and less expensively. Longmont needs to upgrade the wastewater plant in order to be compliant with ammonia regulations and also to prepare for the increased burden in the future. Our plant did well in this flood, while other cities plants failed. We need to keep our infrastructure sound.

I am completely supporting of this debt increase, as it will allow us to finish building out our fiber-optic network years earlier. This network was wisely installed years ago. It is crucial to not only the future of our citizens but will also enable us to attract the sort of innovative, far-thinking businesses that will provide the quantity, quality and diversity of jobs needed to give opportunity to all Longmont residents and support and expand our fine city infrastructure and services.

AT-LARGE RON GALLEGOS

Economic development, quality of life, vision for the future. Redevelopment of the Twin Peaks Mall, the plan as currently configured is a no-starter. The citizens of Longmont should get some more than another Walmart, grocery store and enhanced movie theaters ... these kind of opportunities only come around so often. Mitigation of the St. Vrain in terms of flood but also a master plan for economic development towards an eye to tourism ... river walk with shops, restaurants, galleries. This ties in with the quality of life component and a grand plan or vision of the future.

We saddled that horse [citizens’ inititive] and now we need to ride it to the end. The citizens told us what they wanted; now we have to defend to the end.

Thoughtful growth with a mix of building types and price ranges. Something that will allow for convention trade and general tourism. We’re nowhere near the total carrying capacity of our city.

Yes, I favor Ballot Question 2A. We must maintain the viability of our asset and keep up with the technical advances being made in water and wastewater systems. We should always have an eye toward improving the system and its processes.

Yes, I was on the council that purchased the loop in 1997. I’ve always thought it could provide a competitive advantage in attracting high-tech and start-up businesses. It’s an asset to the community and an amenity for our citizens. We can provide more bang for the buck than corporate providers.

A. Economic opportunity for all Longmont citizens; we need to invite companies that pay a living wage to be part of our community. Longmont is an amazing city and there is no reason to not relocate here. B. Budget; it is important that the city lives within its means, while providing services for its citizens. C. Downtown development; have you noticed that a new business will arrive in the downtown area — only to disappear a short time later? The city, in cooperation with the land owners, needs to build a parking structure. This will help downtown businesses stay in business.

Owners of mineral rights should be able to harvest those materials but not at the risk to others, so until there is a way to harvest those materials safely without the use of chemicals and excess water than I am against fracking. The citizens of Longmont have said that there will be no fracking — so if elected I will stand with the citizens.

Growth will limit itself as the city reaches build out. What I would like to see is in-fill. Encouraging small local builders to build custom homes on those lots in existing neighborhoods. Also, I would like to see repurposing of existing buildings to serve dual purposes. For example, the redevelopment currently happening in Longmont mid-town, the new buildings there will have shops on the bottom floor and apartments on the top floors.

Yes, I am in favor of the improvements to be made to the wastewater system. It is important for the city to have a strong/reliable waste water system, and improvements need to be made from time to time. I am most excited about the recapture of methane gas and its use to operate the plant.

Yes I am in favor of the fiberoptic improvements. This is a win/win for the citizens of Longmont. This is forward-thinking on the part of Longmont citizens. One hundred years ago the citizens of Longmont approved its own electric company. Now Longmont has one of the most reliable and least expensive electric services around.

1. Flood recovery — once damage has been fully assessed, we will need to prioritize repairs to the city’s infrastructure, such as water, sewer, streets, bridges, parks, greenway etc. 2. Economic development is always a priority since it enables job creation, improving infrastructure, reducing red tape, evaluating incentive offerings are all integral to the city’s ability to retain and attract new corporate and retail businesses that create jobs. 3. Redevelopment of the mall, attracting new retail to the community, reducing leakage and increasing sales tax revenues that can be re-invested in maintaining and upgrading existing infrastructure such as water lines, sewer lines, parks and trails.

The ban on fracking is imbedded in the city’s charter, as a sworn city council person it is my duty to uphold and defend the city charter, and that is exactly what we as council are doing and intend to continue doing.

Longmont will be reaching buildout in a few years, so growth will be limited to redevelopment, similar to what has happened in neighboring communities. Currently Longmont is experiencing a shortage in single-family housing as well as rental units, creating a demand for additional development. The market, in my experience always corrects itself based on the basic rules of economics “supply and demand.” As we reach build-out, growth will be self-limiting.

The city must make the improvements to meet federal standards and regulations. If the bond issue does not pass the city will have to find other ways to pay for the improvements.

I am absolutely in favor of 2B, the fiber-optic improvements, 60 percent of the voters approved the first step of allowing the city-wide use of the fiber. It is a great asset that has been underutilized since it was built in the late ’80s. Many large and small businesses locate in Longmont to take advantage of the city’s competitive utilities pricing, highly educated work force, good school system and wonderful quality of life, fiber will be one other arrow in the city’s quiver when it comes to attracting new businesses, as well as providing enhanced Internet access service to Longmont residents.

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Question 2. Explain your position on the city’s hydraulic fracturing ban and your level of commitment to defending Longmont from the resulting lawsuits.

Question 3: Should Longmont be limiting its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you in favor of Ballot Question 2A regarding the debt increase to finance wastewater system improvements? Why or why not?

AT-LARGE POLLY CHRISTENSEN

AT-LARGE RON GALLEGOS

We saddled that horse [citizens’ inititive] and now we need to ride it to the end. The citizens told us what they wanted; now we have to defend to the end.

Thoughtful growth with a mix of building types and price ranges. Something that will allow for convention trade and general tourism. We’re nowhere near the total carrying capacity of our city.

The city must make the improvements to meet federal standards and regulations. If the bond issue does not pass the city will have to find other ways to pay for the improvements.

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LAFAYETTE Question 1: What are the three most important problems confronting the City of Lafayette? Please list them in their order of priority and briefly describe how you would attempt to solve your highest priority issue.

MERRILY MAZZA

1. Right now, citizens in Lafayette and five other Front Range communities are fighting a powerful industry to protect our communities, our children, our property values, and our health and safety from fracking and its toxins. Until now, residents have been fighting this battle alone. It’s time for the Lafayette City Council to get off the sidelines and join with residents to protect our valuable and special community. Our health and safety are at stake. 2. Promote economic development both downtown and in outlying areas. 3. Build out the city and city services to accommodate new residents while maintaining Lafayette’s unique small-town ambiance and cultural heritage.

Question 2: Do you believe that increasing economic development in Lafayette should be a priority for City Council? If yes, what can the city do to accomplish this priority? If no, why not?

Question 3: Should Lafayette seek to limit its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you for or against ballot measure number 2A, which would commit the citizens of Lafayette to an additional 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel, and why?

Question 5: Are you for or against ballot initiative number 300, the citizen initiative which would restrict oil and gas activity within the city limits of Lafayette, and why?

Yes. Sales taxes support local public services and so are critical to the financial health of the community. Lafayette has more opportunity to add larger stores in zoned areas, which would mean more tax revenue for us rather than neighboring communities. And it also has a walkable and eclectic downtown—a unique feature and something missing from newer communities with large housing developments and strip malls. Lafayette’s Downtown Vision Plan is an impressive road map for revitalizing the downtown area, particularly the phased approach to Public Road development and the proposal for multifamily housing in the downtown mix.

My understanding is that the community will be completely built out at a population of 35,000. Subdivision building permits are currently phased in, and that helps for orderly growth of city services. But there’s no reason to say that the community should remain at its current size or that a population of 35,000 is too large. Lafayette is a desirable, affordable, diverse and family-oriented community that will continue to be a draw to newcomers.

I am against a further 20-year commitment to Xcel and for the excise tax replacement tax. The hype about U.S. energy supplies is Wall Street bubble talk. We will have a short reprieve of increased fossil fuel supplies before further unconventional drilling is simply uneconomic and the bubble bursts, much like the housing market did. Now is the time to press forward aggressively, at the local, state and national levels, to force development of new energy sources.

I support question 300. Fracking is a toxic industrial activity that doesn’t belong in our community in proximity to homes, schools, playgrounds, parks and open spaces. Grassroots citizen groups — not elected officials — are fighting laws that pre-empt local decision making, elevate corporate rights above human rights and force communities to accept harmful activities despite residents’ opposition. Lafayette’s ballot initiative, a community rights amendment, says that we have a right to clean air and water and to community self-determination. It fights laws that make it “illegal” for people to assert their rights and “legal” for corporations to violate them.

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Question 1: What are the three most important problems confronting the City of Lafayette? Please list them in their order of priority and briefly describe how you would attempt to solve your highest priority issue.

Question 2: Do you believe that increasing economic development in Lafayette should be a priority for City Council? If yes, what can the city do to accomplish this priority? If no, why not?

Question 3: Should Lafayette seek to limit its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you for or against ballot measure number 2A, which would commit the citizens of Lafayette to an additional 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel, and why?

Question 5: Are you for or against ballot initiative number 300, the citizen initiative which would restrict oil and gas activity within the city limits of Lafayette, and why?

My three items include future development at U.S. 287 and Arapahoe Road, continued economic development and revitalization to provide a wider variety of retail and service opportunities in Lafayette and CO Hwy. 7 improvement to reduce traffic congestion and promote better safety. The recent decision by Erie to withdraw from various intergovernmental agreements limiting development in the area of Highway 287 and Arapahoe Road required Lafayette to also withdraw from the agreements as well. This crucial intersection must be treated carefully so as not to foster unneeded sprawl and increase congestion on the surrounding roads.

Economic development is important for the community, having a vibrant business community provides for a wide variety of goods and services to be available in Lafayette, increases employment opportunities and provides tax revenue for city government without raising tax rates on individuals, thus funding desired city services. The city can encourage businesses to locate in Lafayette with our quality of life, streamlined development process and, if appropriate, financial incentives. It is important for the city to support the expansion of current business activity by encouraging residents to shop at home and purchase more in Lafayette and less outside of town.

In 1995 Lafayette voters passed a Residential Grown Management Charter Amendment which has been renewed several times since 1995, most recently in 2012. This charter amendment currently limits growth in Lafayette to a reasonable level, averaging about 2% per year for the next six years, when the voters will again be presented with the renewal option.

Iâ€™m for the Franchise Agreement which provides about $750,000 annually in franchise fees to the city which are used for general government purposes. The Franchise includes an â€œundergrounding fundâ€? which currently holds $1.4 million and increases approximately $180,000 annually. This fund pays for undergrounding overhead wires on projects. Without a franchise the undergrounding fund will not exist and city taxpayers will have to pay extra for any project where wires are moved from poles to underground. Lafayette has been a leader in solar energy and the programs that the city has participated in will not be available without a franchise.

I am against initiative 300 because it contains provisions that override the U.S. and Colorado Constitutions as well as federal and state law, which I believe will be challenged in court and are likely to be struck down by the courts, costing the city untold legal fees that could better be used to benefit Lafayette in other ways. I am strongly in favor of working with state legislators to impose greater setback requirements, allow for local zoning control, stringent inspections with a sufficient number of inspectors and meaningful penalties for violations, all of which can be done legally.

1. In economic terms, we need to resolve the lack of a sustainable revenue stream resulting from limited economic development in our downtown commercial area. 2. In social terms, we are a diverse but rather fragmented and unequal community. We can leverage our rich cultural diversity to enhance the character of our city and create an inclusive community. 3. Massive residential and commercial developments around Lafayette threaten our small town and agricultural lands with additional commuter roads, undesirable suburban sprawl and inappropriate development.

Yes, absolutely. The city needs to take a proactive approach in establishing partnerships with businesses that align with the smalltown character of Lafayette. The focus would be in revitalizing the Old Town business area with a group of small, local businesses that collectively can create a desirable destination for visitors. The revitalization of downtown requires collaborations between urban planners, developers and business tenants and the urban development authority. The vision includes small artisan businesses, arts galleries, studios, Latino and international markets, ethnic restaurants, cafes, business and areas that combine affordable housing, retail fronts and public plazas.

Yes, Lafayette needs a long-term vision of the sustainable levels of growth to ensure our collective quality of life. Given that we currently have 25,000 people living in nine square miles, it is prudent and necessary develop a sustainable model to ensure that Lafayette remains a unique small town surrounded by thriving local agricultural lands, horse farms and open space buffers. This visionary effort to protect the small town and rural character of our city will improve quality of life, attract visitors and contribute significant sales revenue to support many of our employment, educational, social, cultural and recreational programs.

I believe that the city needs to think strategically about our energy requirements and leverage new technologies to improve efficiency and reduce costs. I would also like to see a reduction in our dependence from coal power plants, and support alternative energy production. I believe we can re-prioritize our energy policy without the undesirable budgetary restrictions that this ballot measure proposes.

I strongly oppose fracking in Lafayette, and I believe that municipalities need to advocate for the right to protect their community and their natural resources from unwanted industrial practices, inappropriate development, toxic exposure and the misuse of agricultural lands. I support the right of people to campaign for our entitlement to clean water, clean air and protection from pesticides and toxic waste at the state legislature and even federal level, to avoid placing the city of Lafayette in legal jeopardy.

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Question 2: Do you believe that increasing economic development in Lafayette should be a priority for City Council? If yes, what can the city do to accomplish this priority? If no, why not?

Question 3: Should Lafayette seek to limit its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Are you for or against ballot measure number 2A, which would commit the citizens of Lafayette to an additional 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel, and why?

Question 5: Are you for or against ballot initiative number 300, the citizen initiative which would restrict oil and gas activity within the city limits of Lafayette, and why?

I am against it because Xcel has NOT been a good corporate citizen. They have had the resources and opportunity to invest in renewables and instead they have continued to invest in coal. Please compare Xcel to the example of Germany and you will see what could have been accomplished here!

I am in favor of Initiative 300 because fracking is a toxic industrial process that does not belong within ANY city limits!

CLIFton SMEDLEY

1.. A City Council that utilizes industry talking points in order to make city policy. I am taking action to solve this issue by running for City Council myself. I encourage others to also participate by running for elected office! 2. Xcel, the utility monopoly, points to Lafayette’s electricity usage (and the usage of others) as a justification for the PUC to allow them to build more coal-fired plants. As a solution, I was one of the originators of Ballot Issue 301, which will allocate dollars to the goal of increased renewables thereby reducing the dependence upon Xcel/coal for Lafayette’s residents, businesses and the city itself. 3. Stimulate local business growth by making Lafayette a mecca for renewable energy businesses and renewable energy consumers.

Yes, by making Lafayette a mecca for renewable energy businesses and renewable energy consumers.

Yes, we should limit outward growth. If we need to build more business/residential space then that should be accomplished by building upward or in areas that need to be revitalized.

TOM DOWLING

1.Revitalizing downtown business It is important that a linear main street model be constructed that reflects the institutional strengths of Lafayette. Since there is strong affection for downtown Lafayette, we would expect people prefer to walk. There would be numerous street-level attractions to hold the attention of the pedestrian: storefronts, street amenities, art, signs and, hopefully, architecture. Since food and beverage is replacing traditional retail in downtown retailing, more restaurants would be expected. Local, independent retailers should continue to dominate downtown. 2. Passing 301 to bring more clean renewable energy to Lafayette. 3. Passing 300 banning fracking.

Yes, I believe there should be a very limited increase in economic development in Lafayette, and those plans can best be made by an Economic Development Task Force selected by the Council. The task force’s function would be to encourage the creation, expansion and retention of the manufacturing, retail and commercial base of Lafayette, by reviewing and making recommendations on the economic development.

Yes, I would not like to see Lafayette to a population beyond 40 thousand or 50 thousand. I believe Lafayette should try to maintain its small-town charm, even though we try to rejuvenate downtown, but avoid high or large office buildings and such department or apartment buildings. Any big-box stores should be on U.S. 287 near Walmart.

STEVE KRACHA

I wouldn’t use the word problems, but the items that Lafayette needs to continue to focus on would be (1) Recent storms had some impact on Lafayette’s water transmission from source to storage resources. Funding will be required to ensure the city can maintain water resources. (2) Encouraging more business in town; while employment and shopping opportunities have increased in the past few years I believe the city needs to encourage investment in the Lafayette Tech Center and on Hwy. 287 to improve the tax base.

Yes, economic development is vital for Lafayette. There have been three city vision plans developed over the past dozen or so years without much action on previous plans. After the latest plan delivered in 2011 the City Council decided to create a separate urban renewal board to focus on economic development downtown. Work from this board is already producing results and more is coming. This is a priority for Lafayette.

Citizens voted last year to limit residential growth to 1,200 new homes over the next six years, while grandfathering in existing planned developments. Ideally the market will determine the pace at which builders decide to build while staying within current restrictions.

Yes, I believe the franchise should be renewed. This is simply a right of way agreement. With or without this franchise agreement Xcel will be the primary energy provider for the city as determined by the PUC. With the franchise the city determines how to spend franchise funds based on needs within the city. The citizen initiative for an occupation tax collects similar revenues but restricts how funds can be spent and this could have negative impacts on city services.

I am against the initiative. Lafayette has not received a permit request for drilling in 20 years. There is currently a three-year moratorium in place. There is no need for a ban that is illegal by state law and could cost the city money in litigation costs when we have had no interest in new drilling. The wording of the initiative is too broad and can have negative impacts on the city. It was reported in September that a technology company decided not to relocate to Lafayette because the initiative could have an impact on their business.

Question 1: What are the three most important problems confronting the City of Louisville? Please list them in their order of priority and briefly describe how you would attempt to solve your highest priority issue.

Question 2: Do you believe that increasing economic development in Louisville should be a priority for City Council? If yes, what can the city do to accomplish this priority? If no, why not?

Question 3: Should Louisville seek to limit its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Would you support or oppose a ban on hydraulic fracturing or fracking in Louisville city limits? Why?

Question 5: Louisville City Council is currently considering a moratorium on retail marijuana businesses until the end of 2014. If that moratorium passes and you’re elected, what will you do with the moratorium: let it expire at the end of 2014, extend it or attempt to end it early? Why?

I am strongly against and will vote NO on ballot measure 2A! A 20-year renewal of the franchise of predominantly coal-burning utility Xcel and its emitting of greenhouse gases would be a serious mistake by voters of Lafayette in these days of existing and continued development sources of renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind and geothermal. The website http://lafenergy.com provides much more information on Lafayette’s Energy Future and the Utility Occupation Tax alternative to Xcel’s Franchise Fee. I was able to get over 150 signatures to I’ll vote YES on 301.

I strongly support and will vote YES on ballot measure 300. I spoke with many voters about signing a petition to put this issue on the ballot, and nearly 200 did as part of the 2,000 that put it there. The process of gas or oil extraction known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is based on drilling down below our aquifer (water), then turning the drill to a horizontal direction for over a thousand feet, when a mixture of water, sand and toxic chemicals is pumped at very high pressure to break up the shale and release the gas or oil. There has been found by scientists many cases where the fracking process has resulted in serious contamination of the nearby air and public water! For this reason I support 300 to ban fracking within Lafayette.

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Improving our economic base is our most important priority. McCaslin Avenue corridor businesses are struggling. Sam’s Club continues to sit empty. The City needs to invest more in retaining our existing businesses and attracting new ones, so that all of our business districts are as successful and vibrant as our downtown area. Downtown parking is a problem that needs immediate attention. We need additional parking and improved usage of existing parking. We must manage the community’s growth and ensure that growth does not compromise our community’s character and quality of life. Our neighborhoods must have a say in what happens in and around them.

Yes, increasing economic development and expanding the tax base of Louisville should be a high priority for the City Council and city staff. The amenities (Recreation and Senior Center, Library, Open Space, etc.) and city services that we enjoy and contribute to our quality of life must be paid for. In order to maintain reasonable property and sales tax rates, we must increase the retail and commercial base of the city. The city should work towards retaining and recruiting business and retail establishments. We must continue to support our downtown business district.

It is the intent of the city to maintain its existing “small town” character and to limit growth mainly to in-fill projects and re-development. Not every vacant lot needs to be developed tomorrow and areas in need of redevelopment should only be changed in ways compatible with existing neighborhoods and community goals. All development must make sense ﬁnancially and provide long--term economic beneﬁts to Louisville. The city has recently adopted a new comprehensive plan that defines its urban growth boundaries and the types of development that should be encouraged. I support limiting the city’s growth to what is described in the comprehensive plan.

I believe that fracking is not an acceptable practice in densely urbanized environments. There must be reasonable setbacks and protections from drilling operations that protect the life, safety and environmental concerns of our residents, particularly around schools and residential districts. The leadership for developing tough and comprehensive fracking rules should come from the state and federal governments. Local governments should have strong input in the rule-making process. As to whether I would support a complete moratorium on fracking in Louisville, it would depend on the specific language of the proposed moratorium proposal.

The City Council approved a moratorium in order to allow the Council and staff additional time to develop the rules and regulations surrounding the sale of retail marijuana in our community, which could include a permanent ban. The moratorium will also permit additional opportunities for residents to make known their views on this issue. Whether Louisville should allow retail marijuana sales has become a very divisive issue within the community. I agree that there should be more time to decide whether we should allow retail marijuana and to facilitate a community conversation and input. I would like to see these decisions made in early 2014.

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Question 2: Do you believe that increasing economic development in Louisville should be a priority for City Council? If yes, what can the city do to accomplish this priority? If no, why not?

Question 3: Should Louisville seek to limit its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Question 4: Would you support or oppose a ban on hydraulic fracturing or fracking in Louisville city limits? Why?

Foster more economic development by (i) improving visibility and access to businesses, (ii) streamlining processes for small-business owners to meet city requirements, (iii) increasing the size and scope of the economic development department, (iv) expanding cooperation in the city between private and public organizations, and (v) solving the downtown parking shortage. Additionally, we need to reach out to our many civic and cultural boards and residents for input into city decision making at earlier stages in the process. Protect the vibrancy and historic feel of downtown Repair, maintain, and improve city infrastructure

Increasing the economic base should be a priority for the City Council. One goal would be to find business tenants for the unused properties in the city, including the Sam’s Club and Phillips 66 properties and further development in the Colorado Tech Center and McCaslin corridor. Important considerations include the impact on infrastructure (roads, public amenities, schools, etc.) and on city budgets that must be stable and sustainable in the longer term. Further, we need increased cooperation and communication between city staff, the Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Businessman’s Association (DBA).

Continued residential growth will be limited, in part, by availability of suitable sites and should be carefully reviewed and managed by City staff and the Planning Commission throughout any new projects. Going forward, I prefer to see greater emphasis placed on retail and commercial development. This emphasis will help offset the city costs for the proposed new residential units. Funds from an expanded commercial tax base would ideally be used to provide existing and enhanced services to all residents in the form of recreational facilities, and expanded programming and facilities for cultural and community activities.

Hydraulic fracturing is a new process to acquire fuels for our society that will provide income for businesses, residents and communities. However, there have been negative impacts and unintended consequences from hydraulic fracturing in our neighboring communities that raise concerns for our residents. The City Council must gather the needed relevant information and resident opinion before making decisions that would potentially have a large impact on the city and its residents. Ideally, I would seek a balance between business and community interests. Because of this, I support a moratorium until such information and opinion is collected and evaluated.

Legalization and commercialization of marijuana poses challenges for our society, especially in small municipalities. While I support the current moratorium, I also support an early end to it by approving the very restrictive guidelines the Council nearly approved in September 2013. These regulations only allow for the two existing medical marijuana stores to apply for a recreational license this year. Following this path allows commercialization to increase slowly, giving the community opportunity to fully evaluate this new aspect of our community.

Flood Recovery — Ensure that repairs are handled in a timely manner; that insurance/FEMA funds are disbursed quickly; that our community assets i.e.: trails, golf course, roads, are returned in better condition than they were before the flood. Fiscal Responsibility — Give thoughtful consideration to all expenditures; determine their effect on our ability to respond to future needs; insure that we are spending with a focus and purpose. Energizing our Retail Base — Focus on replicating the success of our downtown in other areas of Louisville; support and invest in the businesses that currently call Louisville home.

Economic development always should be a priority for Council. The city needs to collaborate with our existing business community and support a climate that is welcoming to new businesses. Working with our economic development coordinator, and commercial real estate professionals, we can find out what is attractive to retailers in comparable locations, determine what is missing in Louisville and how that fits with our long-range plan for specific retail areas and then devise a strategy to attract the appropriate retail businesses to the city. We must realize that there is no big box retailer waiting to save the day.

Growth in Louisville is already limited by the city’s master plan and the availability of developable land. Any growth that happens in the next five years must be appropriate for the area of the city that it is intended, compatible with existing development and must make economic sense for the community.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is not appropriate in any high-density residential or retail district. It is also not appropriate in areas near schools, public parks or other areas where there are large numbers of people in close proximity, including the Colorado Tech Center and the McCaslin corridor. The state needs to take this issue more seriously and work quickly to enact stringent rules around safe extraction of all gas and minerals. Leaving it to each community to enact a patchwork of bans and moratoriums is not an effective solution to this continuing problem.

The city passed a moratorium on Oct. 1 with instructions for staff to bring back regulation language after the election. Whoever is elected will be faced with this issue. If elected, I will review staff recommendations, consider how it impacts our existing businesses and then make the determination about whether to end the moratorium early.

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ward i emily jasiak (running unopposed)

Question 2: Do you believe that increasing economic development in Louisville should be a priority for City Council? If yes, what can the city do to accomplish this priority? If no, why not?

Question 3: Should Louisville seek to limit its growth in any fashion? Why or why not?

Deferred maintenance on community assets, downtown parking and vacant retail space are the top three problems in Louisville. We need to put a higher priority on maintaining our existing assets. The economic effects of deferred maintenance during the recession must be reversed.

Economic development needs to be a top priority for Louisville. We need to recover to our pre-recession level of service provided to citizens. To achieve this great service, we need to rebuild our lost sales tax revenue. It is very important for Louisville to aggressively pursue economic development. Our outreach efforts must move from being relatively passive to aggressive.

Louisville should place reasonable limits on growth. In Louisville we have limited access to water and water storage; we are limited in our footprint and existing infrastructure. We need to be mindful of our limitations and ensure that our community will retain its small-town character and remain well served with any additional growth. We need to collaborate with BVSD when adding new housing to understand the impact to classes, illustrate where natural resources including water will come from and be stored, and ensure that growth pays for itself for required city services.

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If the people bring forward an initiative pertaining to fracking I will support their efforts. This has been a grassroots movement in other communities and I support that kind of effort here in town. The federal government has allowed loopholes in our environmental health and safety regulations regarding fracking, and local municipalities are therefore left to find ways to protect ourselves from potential threats.

The majority of people in every precinct in Louisville voted in favor of amending our Colorado Constitution to regulate limited use of marijuana by people 21 or older and for the licensing of cultivation facilities, manufacturing facilities and retail stores. The role of our government is to carry out the will of the people, and therefore I would adhere to that by implementing regulations that allow legitimate business people (not criminals) to sell marijuana. I am for buffer zones around parks and schools and to initially limit the size and number of stores to prevent an unnatural market boom.

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enetically modified corn Monsanto’s GMO corn developed more could contribute to cancer tumors and died earlier than rats in a in test rats, according to a control group has received heavy criticontroversial two-year cism from journalists and the scientific study currently dividing community. Led by Gilles-Eric Séralini scientists, media and politicians as they and published in Food and Chemical try to determine what that could mean Toxicology last year, the study also found to the genetically engineered food that rats developed tumors when their industry and public safety. drinking water was spiked with glypho“Most people are eating GMOs sate, the basis for the Round Up herbi[genetically modified organisms] every cide often used with the GM maize. day and most people don’t even know Across much of the media, Seifert has what it is,” says Jeremy Seifert, cobeen more or less discredited for director of the documentary film GMO including Séralini’s findings in his film. OMG. “And I think there’s something Declan Butler of Nature criticizes at the very core of our being that’s disSéralini’s study because it used sample turbing about that, that we’ve been kept sizes of 10 rats each for controls and in the dark or duped. When you find treated rats, which allows for no signifout the backstory of that, that there’s no icant difference or statistical value special testing or labeling, and that between the groups. Another complithere’s government collusion in those cation is that the type of rats used in decisions, I think that’s why this film is the study are already highly susceptible important.” GMO OMG filmmaker Jeremy Siefert visited GMO corn fields to get a first-hand look at to tumors. GMO OMG, which falls somewhere big ag. As a result, the national academies between investigative journalism and a of agriculture, medicine, pharmacy, sciquirky children’s bedtime story, takes a GMOs are, and to highlight the amount of money ences, technology and veterinary studies critical approach to GMOs and the global food syscorporations are spending to misinform the public in France issued a joint statement denouncing tem through the lenses of Seifert’s children, congress- during state proposition elections. In California, for Séralini’s study. men and scientific studies that have just begun to example, Monsanto made $8,112,867 in contribu“Given the numerous gaps in methods and interscratch the surface of the effects of GMOs on human tions against that state’s GMO labeling proposition pretation, the data presented in this article cannot health. In many ways, the film opens up more queslast year, according to campaign finance tracker challenge previous studies which have concluded that tions than answers regarding GMOs, but awareness Maplight.org. NK603 corn is harmless from the health point of and the ability to make people ask questions about There has been ongoing research by both corpoview,” said the academies’ joint statement. GMOs are what Seifert and the film’s producer, rations like Monsanto and non-partisan organizaSeifert brushes off criticism for including Joshua Kunau, set out to accomplish. tions regarding the health consequences of GMOs. Séralini’s study in GMO OMG. The lack of public awareness is clear, as the two But how honest is GMO OMG in using that “It’s amazing,” he says. “In the film we say, ‘Hey, filmmakers take to the streets, Jay Walking style, to research? ask dumbfounded strangers if they know what A study cited in the film that found rats fed with See GMO OMG Page 42

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The once abundant Rio Grande chub has declined by as much as 75 percent and disappeared from the main stem of the Rio Grande, prompting WildEarth Guardians to submit a proposal to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Rio Grande chub under the Endangered Species Act. “The Rio Grande chub can’t survive without the river for which it is named,” Taylor Jones, Endangered Species Advocate for WildEarth Guardians, said in a press release from the environmental organization. “The Rio Grande and its namesake fish are facing unprecedented threats. Endangered Species Act protection will help ensure the Rio Grande chub does not go extinct.” The Rio Grande River is among the top 10 most endangered rivers in the world, according to WildEarth Guardians. The river channel narrowed by 30 meters between 1998 and 2008, and the habitat the river once provided — cool water, sandy bottoms and riverside vegetation — has been fragmented by diversions for agriculture and domestic use, channelization and livestock grazing that’s removed vegetation. Low stream flows lead to increased water

from local elected officials, the COGCC, EPA response team members, oil and gas technology experts and conservation advocates about the spills and leaks of oil, Congressional hearing requested on natural gas and byproducts of their producpost-flood oil and gas spills tion. Assuming we ever get a functioning As of the Sept. 25 letter, the EPA had Congress again, among the things they received reports of releases of 90 barrels may evenof oil, more than tually find Chad Thomas, Texas State University-San Marcos 1,000 gallons of themselves produced water quibbling and more than through in 20,000 gallons of the House of condensate. Representa“We are tives is a late concerned that September these spills and letter from leaks may pose Rep. Peter health risks to The Rio Grande chub is a proposed addition to the DeFazio (Dindividuals who Ore.), ranking Endangered Species List. are already dealmember of ing with damage the Committee on Natural Resources, and and destruction to their homes and properRep. Jared Polis asking Rep. Doc Hastings ty,” the letter reads. “As Congress continues (R-Wash.), Natural Resources Committee to consider policies to expand domestic oil chairman, to hold a committee hearing “as and gas production, we would benefit from soon as possible” on the spills and leaks at learning more about how disasters like this oil fields following the floods in Colorado. can impact local communities, states and Polis and DeFazio suggested the Commitfederal regulators.” tee and Congress hear firsthand accounts — Elizabeth Miller

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there might be problems with Séralini’s studies and real criticisms.’ But, should it just be hastily dismissed? This guy’s a fraud, this guy’s an idiot? It was published in an renowned international peer-reviewed journal. So we need to pause and understand the only way to scientifically disprove that [study] is to repeat it and find different results.” Serelini’s study was in response to an equally controversial study Monsanto published in Food and Chemical Toxicology Journal in 2004. Monsanto also studied the effects of

Round Up ready GMO corn consumption in rats. Monsanto’s study used twice the number (20) of the same rats as Séralini’s study, but only looked at a very short timeframe of 13 weeks, rather than two years. Monsanto’s study found no negative impact from its rats eating its GMO corn during this period. “What’s amazing about [Serelini’s] study, is he took Monsanto’s threemonth study and added to it,” says Kunau. “He replicated it for two years — for the entire life of the rat — and

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on the issue. Seifert says people need to become more aware and build a community to act on that awareness. “We all have different gifts and skills and talents, and we need to wake up and take our steps and do what we feel is right, and keep pushing and pushing. And [we] aren’t just isolated individuals, … We are connected in community,” says Seifert. “It’s awareness first, then having the community to act.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Between base training and high-intensity training, Compton ran into a mysterious leg injury she’s been dealing with since she was 18, forcing her off of the bike since July and essentially erasing any fitness she gained during base training. As her leg healed, she developed a bacterial infection, sidelining her training until mid-September. “It’s pretty much the opposite of what any athlete wants to do,” says Compton. “I’ve never come into the season this way, I’ve always been fitter and have done intensity a little sooner. I’m curious to see how it turns out. I like winning races, and I don’t like racing out of shape.” But after just two weeks of training, Compton was able to place third and second at the Providence Cyclocross Festival on Oct. 6 and Oct. 7, respectively. She attributes part of her success despite having no seasonal base to the fact that she has “25 years of base” — that’s the amount of time she’s been competitively racing. Still, reaching the podium after her first major race of the season wasn’t easy. “That race hurt,” Compton says. “It hurt way more than it ever has. I’m just not used to having to dig so deep and suffer so much. But that’s cross-racing, and that’s what everyone goes through. I know how to suffer — I kind of enjoy it. That part’s not

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hard. I just need to mentally wrap my Grealish has also catered the race head around suffering. It wears on you, toward elite competition, eliminating but I enjoy it and it’s over quickly.” entries for racers not registered with Compton doesn’t suspect the USA Cycling, the official cycling orgaBoulder Cup will be any easier than nization and governing body for comProvidence, with elite competitors like petitive racing. Elle Anderson, Caroline Manni of “A lot of times, because we’re France and Boulder’s own Meredith churning through so many different Miller also taking aim at a first-place amateur categories, we have to dumb finish. the course down,” Anderson, with says Grealish. “For If You Go: The first race of four wins already this the elite men and the Boulder Cup starts at 9 season, took second women, it’s sort of a a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, at Valmont Bike Park, Valmont place during the first disservice because it Road, Boulder. Additional day of competition in doesn’t really allow information is available at www.dbcevents.com. Providence, when them to showcase Compton took third. their real true skill Katerina Nash of the set, and makes the Luna Pro Team took courses easy. Well, first. this year, we decided we’re going to cre“[Anderson’s] really riding well this ate what in skiing would be a double year,” Compton says shortly after her black diamond course.” first race against Anderson. “She’s “Grealish puts on an excellent event strong, she’s got good technical skills and he always had,” says elite cyclocross and she’s a smart rider. It’s good to see racer Jeremy Powers, who recently her come up. She’s powerful. It’s gonna edged out Boulder’s Ben Berden to take be fun and she’s only going to get beta win in Providence. “When you do ter.” that, and get a world-class course For Compton, being one of the best design with a really educated communiracers in the world is a pressure she ty — when you put all that together, enjoys — something she internalizes as you get a really sweet race.” extra motivation that she says keeps her Powers will compete at the Boulder on her toes. Cup among other notable male con“It’s one of those things where, if tenders, including local racers Danny someone’s chasing you, you have to Summerhill and Yannick Eckmann, work harder to stay in front of them,” who placed first and third, respectively, she says. “If that helps you win races at the Trek Cyclocross Collective Cup I’m going to do more of it.” in September. Elite men and women competing in “We’re all real excited, this is our the Boulder Cup will get a taste for first run at what the national course some of the terrain at Valmont Bike will be this January,” says Powers. “It’s Park, which is also the site of the definitely going to be a stacked field. Cyclocross Nationals in December. In It’ll be the best that’s been in Boulder the past, DBC Events, the group that in the last several years.” organizes the Boulder Cup, has hosted On the women’s side, a tragic and between 10 and 15 races a year, but this notable absence is Amy Dombroski, year the company has focused its efforts who was fatally hit by a truck while and $40,000 solely on the Boulder Cup. training in Belgium with team Telenet-

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Fidea on Oct. 3. “It will be really difficult for probably most of the community out there, because this is an event Amy had a lot of passion for and would have loved to have competed in, and she sadly won’t be here,” says Bobby Noyes, owner of bike rack manufacturer Rocky Mounts and a heavily involved member of the Boulder cycling community. “It’s just hard for everyone who knew Amy, and this big smile, and we’ll never get to see her race again.” Twenty-six-year old Dombroski spent several years living and training in Boulder, and was a three-time under-23 national champion. “She was a dream chaser,” says Powers. “She was living in Europe trying to make it as a pro-crosser and she was living in the heartland of it all. She

was getting better every year. It’s really sad to see. You know someone, you’ve been training with them and spending a lot of time on the bike, then they go out for training one day and don’t come home. She was a great person and she’ll be remembered by all of us for many, many years.” Compton echoed that sentiment. “I think we’re all amazingly surprised by it. It still hasn’t sunk in yet,” she says. “I still think I’m going to run into her in Europe. It’s hard to wrap my head around losing someone who was so excited and enthusiastic to race bikes, who was living the dream and have it taken away so quickly. It was something I wish we didn’t have to go through. She’s going to be greatly missed by all.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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buzz Leaning forward, staying present

‘Vagina Monologues’ creator Eve Ensler discusses her new play and memoir

Brigitte Lacombe

On the Bill: Eve Ensler will serve as the keynote speaker in LOCAL Theater Company’s Body of Work benefit on Friday, Oct. 11, at eTown Hall. Actors will perform selected works of Ensler’s pieces (including one piece from Emotional Creature), and Ensler will read an excerpt from In the Body of the World. General admission tickets are $75 and can be purchased at eTown. org.

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ews about the near-fatal shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai reached Eve Ensler in a text message. It was already a few days into previews of Emotional Creature, her newest play that chronicles the triumphs and struggles of six young women. It came months after she first encouraged her cast and crew to stay informed and bring in news stories about real things happening to real young women. However, as soon as she heard Yousafzai’s story, Ensler had to act. “Eve just said, ‘We have to get Malala in this play,’” says Pesha Rudnick, artistic director of Boulder-based LOCAL Theater Company and the associate director of Emotional Creature. “In the next days she had written a short tribute to her. We were all so compelled because Eve acts as if everything is urgent. She’s very much leaning forward and staying present with the stories of women today.” This kind of attention to social issues is what makes Ensler the figure she is. Her award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, remains one of the most emblematic and regularly performed feminist works of today. She went on to do pieces like The Good Body, which gained acclaim for its examination of beauty standards, as well as Necessary Targets and The Treatment, which delved into the invisible wounds left by war. Beyond her numerous books, plays and newspaper contributions, she is also a well-respected activist. Her human rights movements, like V-Day and One Billion Rising, have gained supporters around the globe, raising millions of dollars in an effort to stop violence against women. Ensler will speak about her work and more at LOCAL Theater Company’s Body of Work event on Friday, Oct. 11, a benefit for the company. In addition to performances by krump dancer Miss Prissy and DJ Savior Breath, Ensler will read from her memoir In the Body of the World, and actors will perform a few of her selected works (including a piece from Emotional Creature). When Ensler learned she was coming to Boulder for the Oct. 10-13 Emerging Women Live event (www.emergingwomen.com), she reached out to Rudnick, whom she met during production of Boulder Weekly

important to say, ‘That’s not true, in fact they need to be more [that way].’ It would be great if everyone could rise to the level that young girls are at — they are intuiting information and wisdom and energy that we absolutely need.” Ensler constantly maintains an energy and curiosity about her own growth, a subject she explores intimately in her memoir. While developing City of Joy, a project that provides resources and Eve Ensler, creator of the Vagina Monologues, will give a talk as well as read from her memoir at LOCAL Theater Company’s Body of Work benefit. schooling for Congolese sexual violence victims, Emotional Creature. Rudnick says they jumped at the Ensler was diagnosed with uterine cancer. As somechance to have Ensler underscore the work they do. one who has struggled to strengthen her connection “Part of what we do is give a presence to those with her own body, Ensler’s illness was both terrifying who aren’t heard in our community, and we do that and illuminating — it finally forced her to truly know with middle schoolers and high schoolers. We work her body. Ensler says that this realization not only in local schools where we help kids develop their own taught her about herself, but changed the way she plays and then support the kids in taking their play to thinks about ending violence. New York,” Rudnick says. “Eve has dedicated her life “Nothing is separate,” Ensler says. “I looked at how to seeking out unknown voices — the pairing was so we treat our bodies and discovered it was closely conappropriate.” nected to how we treat the Earth. You live inside the Ensler says she relies most on her ability to watch Earth and inside the struggles of the planet. It’s all the and listen to the women around her. same, and this dissociation people experience is allowing a lot of terrible things to go on. So [my book] has “I’ve been traveling for so many years and have a goal for connectedness and a goal for return.” had so many chances to see girls’ joy and hunger and Despite Ensler’s successes already in forging this desires,” Ensler says. “For me it’s about creating stoconnection for many people, there always seem to be ries and imagining stories, and also just about plugsteps back for every step forward. However, she ging in to what’s happening for them.” doesn’t get discouraged. As long as people pay attenWith Emotional Creature, Ensler tackles female adolescence with themes that range from puberty and tion to young women, like Yousafzai, Ensler says the wearing short skirts to the suffering inflicted by sexual future will be bright. “I don’t know if I could have done [Emotional abuse and slavery. Ensler says that, no matter what Creature] 10 years ago, and here it is getting produced. their circumstances are, girls everywhere receive conBut we haven’t ended patriarchy yet,” Ensler says. “I fusing messages as they grow up. really think the key is to get behind girls. If we do, we “We bring up girls until a certain point and then will find a way to get out of this.” we suddenly tell them that they’re too passionate, too Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com much, too intense, too real,” Ensler says. “I think it’s October 10, 2013 49

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Yeats and Beyond

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The Waterboys look to poet for new project

by Dave Kirby

ike Scott has been heading up The Waterboys for three decades now, with plenty of the usual rock band personnel turnover to be expected of an enterprise this well-tenured, but his latest songwriting collaborator won’t be joining him on the road on his current tour. Because he’s been dead for 74 years. Scott is bringing the Irish/English folk rock outfit to the Boulder Theater this coming Monday, and a part of the show will include selections from his latest project, An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, a song cycle Scott scored upon selected works of the revered Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Scott completed the project in 2010, after some years of setting a poem here and there to music and including them on proper Waterboys and solo releases. Like most children growing up the UK, Scott was regularly exposed to Yeats’ work in school, and probably more than most, as his mother was a university lecturer in English literature. “In hushed tones” is how Scott describes how his mother would refer to Yeats. But the project started a little at a time. “I did a few in the early ’90s,” Scott explained when we caught up with him last week, right after his arrival in the U.S. “And then every couple of years, I would do another one. Right around the middle of the last decade, in 2005, I realized I had about 14 or 15, and nearly enough for a stage show and an album, and in 2010 we staged it in Dublin. “I think we nailed it in 2010 in Dublin, in the theater [The Abbey] that Yeats himself founded. A few of the songs have developed a little onstage as we’ve played as part of our regular show, but that just always happens.” Yeats is a cultural icon and a household name for the Irish, one of the last century’s most articulate and beloved voices of the Irish soul, his

On the Bill: The Waterboys play the Boulder Theater on Monday, Oct. 14. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Tickets start at $25. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

work at times immersed in mysticism and allegory, other times lamenting the rawness of poverty and political struggle. Yeats can be a tangle of contradictory passions; rock music usually traffics in disposable certitudes. We wondered if setting a collection of Yeats’ poetry to rock music and performing it to an Irish crowd — in Yeats’ hometown, in the very theater he founded in 1904 — was at all a daunting proposition for Scott. “Not really, no,” Scott said. “I’m a rock ’n’ roller, so I value rebellion. And I figured if people were going to be stiff about it, it was going to be good fun. But in the event it didn’t cause any eruptions or a bad time, it was pretty well accepted.” And in the interests of full disclosure, Scott isn’t the first musician to borrow from this material. As he was preparing to put the album together, he went online and found “more than 300” songs recorded from Yeats’ work. But Scott draws his lines as well. The guy is a musician, not a literature

historian or a Yeats completist (and there are some, make no mistake.) The work itself lends itself well to lyrical interpretation, and Scott — whose body of work draws heavily from British Isles folk, steeped itself in the same imagery and cultural DNA that courses so prominently in the poet’s work — focused himself on the music, not psychology. “I’m not a Yeats scholar, I’m not one of these people who needs to know every detail of his life, or all the letters he wrote to [Irish activist and erstwhile Yeats paramour] Maud Gonne and so on. I’m not so interested in all that. “There’s been a lot of distortion about his life as well that I didn’t want to get pulled into. … A lot of people talking about Yeats, about why he did this or why he did that, and I think, ‘no, you weren’t there.’ I’ve read some of his biographers who don’t understand the mystical side of Yeats, and they ridicule it because they don’t understand it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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here are choirs that sing without a conductor, and orchestras that do likewise. But combined choralorchestral concerts usually require a conductor. Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers and Sphere Ensemble hope to change that when they perform “Britten and Beyond,” a collaborative, conductor-less concert of music by Benjamin Britten and Arvo Pärt, Friday, Oct. 11, in Denver and Saturday, Oct. 12, in Boulder. In case the name is new to you, Sphere Ensemble Ars Nova Singers was founded in 2011. Approximately a dozen string players who usually perform without a conductor, Sphere has members who play in the Boulder and Greeley Philharmonics, Colorado, Fort Collins and Cheyenne symphonies, Colorado and Central City Opera, Mont aware of what’s going on across the Alto Motion Picture and Tango stage,” she says. “Everybody has to be a Orchestra, Danielle Ate the Sandwich leader. Ars Nova is such a tight group and Blow the Vault. that they’re perfect for this.” Now going into its 37th season, Ars The program begins as a tribute to Nova is a familiar part of Boulder’s music Britten, born 100 years ago. scene. An a cappella choir of 36 voices, “There’s a fair number of groups they are known for their carefully prearound the country that are doing Britten pared performances of music from the retrospectives,” Morgan notes. “But when Renaissance and conwe were working together temporary times. [with Sphere] on what we On the Bill: Ars Nova Together, the two might do, we thought we Singers and Sphere Ensemble perform at 7:30 groups are quite a few should transition out of p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11, at people to put up Britten, into something Saint Paul’s Lutheran onstage without a conmore contemporary.” Church in Denver, and at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, ductor. Pärt was chosen Oct. 12, at First United “I thought [perfor “something more Methodist Church in forming without a concontemporary” because Boulder. Tickets are $24 for adults. Visit http:// ductor] would be an he admired Britten and arsnovasingers.com or interesting challenge,” wrote an “In Memoriam” www.sphereensemble.org Tom Morgan, director to the older composer for more details. that will form a bridge of Ars Nova, combetween the two. Besides, ments. “We’ve done Morgan adds, “Britten had a significant numerous collaborations with other impact on choral music of the 20th cenorchestras, but I always like to do things tury, not least of which is going toward in a slightly different way. Pärt.” “I liked watching the Sphere The concert will open with Britten’s Ensemble perform, how they interact and cue each other, so I thought, how can we “Hymn to St. Cecilia,” the patron saint of adapt that aesthetic to what we do music whose Saint’s Day is also Britten’s together? It’s actually a good thing to do birthday, Nov. 11, performed by both at the beginning of the season, because it groups. That will be followed by two little really gets the ensemble tuned in to each known a cappella vocal pieces, “Chorale other, and less reliant on a conductor.” after an Old French Carol” and “Advance Sphere Ensemble founder and direcDemocracy.” Sphere will close the first tor Beth Rosbach agrees that the concert half of the concert with Britten’s charmwill be a challenge. ing “Simple Symphony” for strings, based “To throw a choir into the mix means on themes he wrote as a child. everybody’s going to have to be very After intermission, Sphere will make

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the transition with Pärt’s “Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten,” and the two groups will perform the U.S. premiere of his “Salve Regina.” And then, Morgan says, “Each group is going to do an encore piece, and then one surprise piece at the end that we’re going to do together.” Audience members will just have to wait to the end to find out what that is. It’s hard to single out any one piece from such a varied program, but the U.S. premiere of Pärt’s “Salve Regina” will be a high point for many listeners. An Estonian composer known for sacred works characterized by simple harmonies and slow, steady rhythms — a style the composer calls tintinnabuli, like the ringing of bells — Pärt has achieved a cult popularity in the U.S. Composed in 2001, the “Salve Regina” represents a newer trend. “I think this piece has evolved [from the earlier style],” Morgan says. “Even though it’s not overly complex in musical details, it still has a depth and a sonority that people want to hear, and that many people really, really respond to. There are some beautiful moments.” Rosbach also focuses on the sound of Pärt’s music. “I think people are in for such a treat,” she says. “It’s one thing to listen to recordings of his works, it’s a completely different thing to experience it live. It’s like being transformed into another world, because of the incredible way that he layers sound.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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arts & culture A dirge for the American dream Death comes to life at the Denver Center by Gary Zeidner

On the Bill: Death of a Salesman plays at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through Oct. 20. Tickets are $47-$57. For tickets or information, call 303-893-4100 or visit www.denvercenter.org.

f Willy Loman were an ice cream flavor, he’d be into whom Willy poured all of his hopes for a life him incessantly, and he’s been courting the notion of American Raspberry. If he were a car, he’d be a better than his, are disappointments. Happy, who has suicide for some time. Ford Edsel. If he were a song, he’d be Sinatra’s followed in dear ol’ dad’s footsteps by becoming a Volumes have and will be written about the “Here’s to the Losers.” Willy is one of businessman, is a loutish philanderer barely getting meaning of Death of a Salesman. Is it a commentary Americana’s saddest sacks, and the fact that his by as an assistant to an assistant. Biff, who was the on the illusion of the American dream? Is it a dis1940s-era story resonates so deafeningly even today family’s golden boy through high school, is still section of the shared neuroses of the modern says as much about the current state of the American searching for himself at 34 and is, basically, an American family? Is it a portrait of one man’s dream as it does about the endurdescent into madness? Is it a treaJennifer M. Koskinen ing nature of Arthur Miller’s tise on the relative value of selfPulitzer Prize-winning play. reliance versus the need for comThough it is considered the munity? For my part, I see it as a height of modern classics, Death of bit of all of the above. It is a slice a Salesman remains unknown to of life, unapologetic drama many audiences. For the uninitiatfocused on the pitched battle ed, this is a dark, dreary, downer of between objective and subjective a story. It oozes existentialism, loss reality that, ultimately, points out and despair. An afternoon or evethe meaninglessness of life in no ning spent in the company of Willy uncertain terms. and his family will not put a smile As usual, the Denver Center on your face or a spring in your Theatre Company soars with this step. It will, however, make you production. The beautifully minitake stock of your life and think malist set design by Lisa M. hard about your past and your Orzolek makes excellent use of the future. Space Theatre’s theater-in-theAt 63 years old, traveling salesround design. The direction by man Willy Loman (Mike Anthony Powell is sure-handed but Hartman) has been working the of a light touch. The acting is solid New England territory for the all around, with DCTC stalwart same company for more than three Hartman making the most of his decades. He’s on the road more iconic role, Klein delivering the than he’s home, and getting behind Mike Hartman and Lauren Klein in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of Death of best overall performance and, in a a Salesman the wheel has become an almost minor role, Michael Santo elevatimpossible task. His loving wife, ing every one of his handful of Linda (Lauren Klein), knows that it’s time for Willy unhappy itinerant laborer. scenes. to take a job at the main office in New York and As for Willy, he struggles with reality to such a Death of a Salesman is the polar opposite of some leave the highways and byways behind. degree that one could easily conclude that he suffers happy, clappy dinner theater sing-along. But for anyBut it’s just not that simple. (Spoiler alert: I will from some form of dementia. One minute, he sees one yearning for a challenging piece of theater or be discussing some key plot points, so if you don’t himself as the best, most successful salesman of all who simply has never experienced Miller’s masterknow the story already you may want to skip the time; the next minute he’s sobbing as he borrows piece before, put the DCTC’s production at the top next few paragraphs.) Willy’s two sons, Biff ( John money to pay off creditors. He lives in a fugue state of your to-do list. Patrick Hayden) and Happy (M. Scott McLean), Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com in which memories of missed opportunities haunt

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Thursday, October 10 music Bones Muhroni. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120. Colorado Flood Benefit with Anchorage — With Ashtree, From Thin Air & Solterra. 8 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Dexter Payne Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Electric Red. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jimmy Nick & Don’t Tell Mama. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Joe Johnson Solo. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Diverse Musicians Alliance. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352.

Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang — With Lukas Nelson, P.O.T.R. & Reformed Whores. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Dusty Drapes and The Dusters. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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film Saturday, Oct. 12: Natural Transitions Film Festival, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 2 p.m.

Friday-Sunday, Oct. 11-13: Moving Parts: Blue Moon Dance Company’s Annual Fall Concert, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 8 p.m. and 2 p.m.

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Director Pat Connelly assembled the first Blue Moon dancers in 1995, and the nonprofit dance troupe has gone on to tour from Durango to Aspen, showcasing the work of more than 35 choreographers. This weekend, the company will be presenting a combination of ballroom, salsa, contemporary and modern dance to encourage artistic development and intrigue artists from all backgrounds with a distinct blend of style and movement.

A rare Tibetan death practice, a retired surgeon choosing his manner of death and a man leading the A scene from A Will For green burial movement serve The Woods, showing at as the subjects for a series of Natural Transitions films being presented at the Natural Transitions Film Festival. A full-length piece concludes a series of short films meant to lift the audience’s spirits and inspire discussion on mortality and the beauty of nature, and panel discussions and workshops follow many of the films.

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Children of the Rains — Artist Nancy Rynes.NCAR Visitor Center Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through Nov. 29. Continuing Legacies: Evolving Ceramic Traditions. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 10.

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Nuestra Cultura: Our People, Our Heritage. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through Dec. 22. The Photography of Mike Berenson. NCAR Visitor Center Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 29. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through June 21.

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Alan Knight & Company. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Reggae Night with The Alcapones. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Andrew Wynne. 4:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Bonnie and the Clydes — With Casey James, Prestwood & the Burning Angels. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Sacre Bleu. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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Ancient Mars and the Maven Mission. 7 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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Business Research 101. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. S. Boulder Rd.

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Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Through Oct. 13. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100.

Friday, October 11 music A. Tom Collins — With Ark Life & The Yawpers. 9 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Adrienne-O. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Denver Ukefest 2013 — With James Hill and Anne Janelle, Jherek Bischoff, Star Belle & more. 7:30 p.m. Temple Events Center, 1595 Pearl St., Denver, 303-7771003. The Fever. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Garko Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Gary Clark Jr. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons — With Jeff Crosby & The Refugees. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Jimmy Nick & Don’t Tell Mama. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Lucid Vigilantes. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

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events Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Malamadre. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Mission South & Rocktin Grove. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-3355. Teton Gravity Research: Way of Life featuring The Young Dubliners. 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Tom Allan Band. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Tommy and the Tangerines. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Zed’s Dead/Krewella — With Paper Diamond, Seven Lions, DJ Green Lantern, Candyland and Branches. 7 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700.

events Body of Work — Theatrical event featuring Eve Ensler and Miss Prissy. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689. Moving Parts — Blue Moon Dance Company’s Annual Fall Concert. 8 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-3262. Niwot Native American Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Elysian Fields Auction Co., 6924 79th St., Niwot, http:// www.niwot.com/niwot-events. Résumé and Job Search Advice. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tent Sale for Flood Relief — Through Oct. 13. 10 a.m. Celestial Seasonings, 600 Sleepytime Drive, Boulder, 303-581-1266.

Ars Nova Singers and the Sphere Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Big Muddy. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Champions. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Counting Crows — With Saints of Valory. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Dave Tamkin. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313. Denver Ukefest 2013 — With The Haunted Windchimes, Aldrine Guerrero, Ooks of Hazzard, FaceMan & more. 7:30 p.m. Temple Events Center, 1595 Pearl St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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Ha Ha Tonka — With Samantha Crain & Navy. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-7330230. Honeytree Whiskey and Friends. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Human Agency. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Los Bohemios. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Phil Dudden. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Rocktin Grove. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Acorn Project. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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Stefan Bachmann will sign copies of his new book,The Whatnot, on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Boulder Book Store.

Thursday, October 10 The Eye of Minds — Author James Dashner. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Friday, October 11 T Edward Bak. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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The Whatnot — Author Stefan Bachmann. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Wednesday, October 16

Breaking Into Freelance Magazine Writing — A Writing Workshop with Jayme Moye. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. Cost $30.

SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age — Author Mathew Klickstein. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Tuesday, October 15

Off My Rocker — Author Kenny Weissberg. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St.,

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After the Revolution. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., 303-623-0524. Through Oct. 19. Death of a Salesman. Space Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-8934100. Through Oct. 20.

Failure: A Love Story. Presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Oct. 10 through Oct. 26. The Full Monty. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 9. Just Like Us. Stage Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets,

Fool’s Gold Allstar Afterparty — With special guests. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Twiddle & Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

JoBro. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 79th St., Niwot, 303-547-6152.

Vin De Glo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Joni Mitchell Tribute Concert. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Denver Roller Dolls. 6 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. Final Cut Pro X Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Moving Parts — Blue Moon Dance Company’s Annual Fall Concert. 8 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-3262. Natural Transitions Film Festival. 2 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Theatre Hike: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 3 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303442-3282. Wild Goose Masquerade Ball. 8 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Your Brain Needs Music. 9:30 a.m., continuing all day. Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-7521.

Sunday, October 13 music Ani DiFranco. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. The CBDs. 4 p.m. Nederland Community Center, 750 Colorado 72, Nederland, 303-258-9721. Cecilia String Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352. 900 WALNUT STREET | BOULDER, CO 80302 720.406.9696 | WWW.STJULIEN.COM

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Seminar. Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 20.

Tribal Seeds — With Tea Leaf Green, Fortunate Youth & Hirle. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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Picnic. Presented by CU-Boulder’s theatre and dance department. University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-7355. Through Oct. 13.

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

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Doug MacLeod. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

MantraFest 2013: Yoga Music on Tour. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Mello Cello Sundays with Sam Rae. 7:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Salem. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303546-0886. Tommy Simmons & The Rusty Maples. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Elysian Fields Auction. 10 a.m. Elysian Fields, 6924 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-2587. Final Cut Pro X Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Fool’s Gold Day Off. 2 p.m. Balch Fieldhouse, 2055 Regent Dr., Boulder, 303-492-2100. Let’s Talk Chickens. 1 p.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, west of Longmont, 303-7768848. Moving Parts — Blue Moon Dance Company’s Annual Fall Concert. 2 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-3262. Natural Transitions Film Festival. 10 a.m. Shining Mountain Waldorf School, 999 Violet Ave., Boulder, 303-444-7697. Nature Unveiled: Public Art Gallery Viewing. 1 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Theatre Hike: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 3 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303442-3282.

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events Monday, October 14 music Cecilia String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, IMIG Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352. Cosmopolitics. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Electric Blues Jam. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. The Rusty Maples — With Sea of Eyes & Tomahawk Fox. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. St. Olaf Orchestra with GBYO. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423 The Waterboys — With Freddie Stevenson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Paul Sammons & Coastwest Unrest. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Pickin’ On Phish featuring Deadphish Orchestra & Andy Thorn — With The Railsplitters. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Princess Music — With Shenandoah Davis, Anthonie Tonnon & Natalie Tate. 8 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Rocktin Grove. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Terra Gatos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St.,

Boulder, 720-406-9696. Tribute to Gram Parsons. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events Foursquare for Business. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Introduction to HTML. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Joseph Campbell: Creative Life Series. 7 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303442-3282. Meal Planning. 6 p.m. Lucky’s Market, 3960 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-0215.

Gasland 2. Movie screening. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

October Discover Days — Sailing With Pirates. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Socrates Café. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Grey Tie Affair. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Wild Horse, Wild Ride — Free movie screening. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

events Getting Started With Adobe Photoshop. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. Movie Night — Amelie. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689.

Tuesday, October 15 music After the Flood: From New Orleans with Love — With Lillian Boutté and Henry Butler. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4922515. Goodrattle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Groovetramps. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Henry Butler. 7 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU campus, 303-492-2515. The Idan Raichel Project. 8 p.m. The Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 East Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Jump Swing Blues with The Stilettos. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Laughing Hands. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Passion Pit — With The Formidable Joy. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Rocky Mountain High and Dry — Featuring Ise and Joe Alan, Wadirum, Jeff Brinkman & The Fever. 6 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Time Flies — With Chiddy Bang & T. Mills. 6:30 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-8321874. Twin Forks — With Matrimony & The Whicker and Pine. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. The Wolftones. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

events Aesthetics of Editing. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. October Discover Days — Sailing With Pirates. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, October 16 music Ash Ganley. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Big Blues Jam with Los Terrificos. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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thinks swindled him. The two team up, but when things go bad they turn on each other. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Boedecker, Esquire, Colony Square.

Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde

Captain Phillips

Romeo and juliet

This film, starring Tom Hanks as Captain Phillips, is director Paul Greengrass’s interpretation of the real life hijacking of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama in 2009 by Somali pirates. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Typical Adolescent angst turns into a love story for the ages. Somehow.

CBGB This film looks at New York’s dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 originally as a home for “country, bluegrass and blues” (thus the club’s name) and which showcased cutting-edge bands through its closing in 2006. Rated R. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater If you and the kids liked the first version, then you’ll no doubt like the second. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is addicted to porn. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is addicted to romantic Hollywood movies. When the pair’s fantasy worlds collide, it gets interesting. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Elysium In the future, two classes of people exist: the very rich who live a beautiful life on a space station called Elysium, and the very poor who carry on a dreadful existence down on Earth. Rated R. At Colony Square.

Enough Said Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a divorced, single parent masseuse who meets Albert (James Gandolfini), a nice guy in the same boat. Love and laughs follow. Rated PG13. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres

Exhibition: Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Liesure This film documents a major exhibition focused on the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, the artist best knownfor his painting titled “The Girl with a Pearl Earring.” Rated PG. At Century.

The Family An offbeat action comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro, who play mobsters in the witness protection program. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

Free the Mind Professor Richard J. Davidson, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, took the Dalai Lama’s advice to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Grace Unplugged Grace Trey (AJ Michalka) is 18 and a great singer and wants to do more than sing in the church choir led by her dad, Johnny (James Denton). Tension rises when she decides to be a pop star. Rated PG. At Century.

Gravity Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in this visually stunning film that strands two astronauts in space when a routine spacewalk goes wrong. Also in 3-D. Rated PG13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

Haute Cuisine Based on the extraordinary true story of French President François Mitterand’s private chef, Haute Cuisine follows the impassioned and talented Hortense Laborie

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Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard creates a visual masterpiece that recreates the well-documented 1970s rivalry between race-car drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

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Science on Screen: Rusty Schweickart and “Meteor”

Despicable Me 2

Don Jon

Rush

This film features interviews with 150 subjects, including J.D. Salinger’s friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before, as well as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen. Rated PG-13. At SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2

It’s time for more Minion madness in this animated sequel. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.

Running Wild follows the remarkable life of author, photographer, activist and cowboy Dayton O. Hyde as he maintains his sanctuary for wild horses and works tirelessly to protect the vanishing landscape of the American West. At SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society

(Catherine Frot), a successful cook living in relative obscurity in the Périgord. Much to her astonishment, Hortense is recruited by none other than the President of the Republic (Jean D’Ormesson) for her ability to create dishes reminding him of his childhood. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres

Herb & Dorothy 50X50 Herb & Dorothy 50x50, a follow-up to the awardwinning documentary Herb & Dorothy, tells the story of a remarkable new chapter in the life of the legendary art collecting couple, Herb and Dorothy Vogel, through their historical gift project. At SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society

In a World... Carol, a struggling vocal coach, strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry’s reigning king: her father. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Inequality for All

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve A hundred years after its creation, the power of the Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman’s every word. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Percy teams up with his other-worldly friends to go after the Golden Fleece. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.

Populaire Spring 1958: 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father, who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that’s not the life Rose longs for. Rated R. At SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society

Prisoners

In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic policy expert Robert Reich takes on the enormous question of what has been happening to our economy. Rated PG. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

How far would you go to save your kid? What would you be willing to do? These are the questions that Hugh Jackman’s character Keller Dover is forced to answer when his 6-year-old daughter mysteriously disappears. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Insidious: Chapter 2

Rodion Shchedrin’s Dead Souls

Director James Wan gives us a terrifying sequel to his original horror film. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.

St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre has staged the opera Dead Souls to the music by Rodion Shchedrin. One of the indisputable operatic masterpieces of the 20th century. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Instructions Not Included Valentin (Eugenio Derbez) is a playboy in Acapulco until someone leaves a baby on his doorstep telling him it’s his. This begins a journey that leads him to Hollywood where he becomes a stunt-man while raising his daughter alone. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.

Lee Daniels’ The Butler Forest Whitaker stars as a White House butler whose 34year tenure sees incredible social change. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square.

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, the world came to a crashing halt as the nation grieved for its leader whose promise of a brighter future was cut tragically short. During this time the president’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, received thousands of letters from the public offering their heartfelt condolences. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Machete Kills Just when it looks like a madman and his billionaire partner are about to take over the world, the President calls on super agent Machete to save the day. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Romeo and Juliet (2013) The ultimate romantic story, traditionally told in a Renaissance setting, Romeo & Juliet shows us love at its purest and tragedy at its most fateful. Having been decades since its last representation through film, Romeo & Juliet offers a new generation the opportunity to savor and cherish literature’s most enduring romance. Rated PG13. At Century and Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres.

The Room This film centers on Johnny, a man who has it all; great friends, a good job, and a gorgeous fiancée named Lisa. But Lisa’s innocent act masks the fact that she’s looking to bring Johnny down, and her manipulations are tearing Johnny apart. At Esquire — Landmark theatres

Rosemary’s Baby In Roman Polanski’s first American film, adapted from Ira Levin’s horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Rated R. At Esquire — Landmark theatres

Astronaut Rusty Schweickart got together with some colleagues to found B612, a program to detect and deflect possible threats from space. His talk about this serious work will be followed by the “entertainingly ludicrous” ’70s disaster pic Meteor in which Sean Connery, once again, saves the planet. Rated PG. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Short Term 12 A compassionate 20-something who works with troubled kids runs into her own troubles when her life starts spinning out of control. Rated R. At Mayan and SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society

The Spectacular Now With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, The Spectacular Now creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood. At SIE Film Center.

The Summit In August 2008, 22 climbers from several countries comprising several seperate expeditions wound up at High Camp on K2. This documentary shows what happened next on this mountain where one in four climbers never make it down. NR. At Mayan and Century.

Wadjda Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun-loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. Rated PG. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres

We Are What We Are In We Are What We Are, a seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, the Parkers, have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank (Bill Sage) rules his family with a rigorous ferver, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. Rated R. At Mayan — Landmark Theatres

We’re the Millers Everything goes wrong when a small-time pot dealer decides to help out some local kids. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Century.

The World’s End

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A pub crawl aiming for a long-awaited pint at the World’s End pub draws a group of middle-aged friends into a battle to save the world. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.

A Princeton college student who earns his tuition money by gambling online winds up in Costa Rica trying to get back his losses from the gambling sites owner who he

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Remodeled, re-established or just plain new, three Boulder restaurants bring excitement to dining landscape

by Michael Krumholtz

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elson Kugel, owner of the Gondolier, unrolls a blueprint under the hanging halogen lights in his restaurant’s new location at the Meadows Shopping Center. His finger hovers just above the diagram before he points out where the full-service bar, the private dining room and the adjacent booths will fit amid the bare concrete of the now-skeletal space. With a reopening targeted for mid-November, the beloved Boulder institution is among a group of local restaurants beginning new eras this fall. Whether it’s a change in ownership or location, the ambitious visions of these dedicated restaurateurs collide in Boulder’s already stacked market of known successes. This difficulty in re-establishing even a wellknown brand is why Kugel struggled to find a new home for the Italian restaurant his father, Gary, founded more than 50 years ago. He says that bloated real estate prices in Boulder nearly made him transplant the homegrown business to a neighboring town like Louisville or Longmont. “There was a good four months there after we closed that I was not finding locations,” Kugel says. “The size and rent were too much. I was looking outside of Boulder, which I didn’t Nelson Kugel, owner of the Gondolier Italian Eatery want to do.” A shift from Pearl Street, which was decidedly too large and too expensive for Kugel to or half-mile radius with a full-service bar.” keep reins on, to this South Boulder home inside Kugel has also decided to bring back a weekly take building A-104 at the Meadows, at Foothills and on the all-you-can-eat spaghetti deal that first Baseline, seems a more fitting setting for the familybrought customers to the Gondolier’s gates. This centric eatery. Away from Pearl’s dense row of attracadherence to tradition is matched with welcoming a tions, the Gondolier is embracing an opportunity to progressive trend, as the Gondolier will also begin stand alone. offering a seasonal, locally sourced portion of the “Demographically, we’ve got retirement to the menu that is set to change every six weeks. south and middle income houses to the west of us,” This seasonal menu goes beyond garlic knots and Kugel says. “We’re the only restaurant within a mile stone-oven pizza to add a fresh dimension to the

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often-conservative pace of most family-style Italian dining. This twist is the brainchild of new chef and partner Brian Delka, who arrives at the Gondolier via the Boulder Cork. As Kugel returns to work on interior modeling and construction, walking outside are a woman and her daughter. The woman pops her head through the jarred door that advertises the restaurant’s name in bold black font. “Looks like you guys aren’t open yet, are you?” Kugel and his business partner Marcos Jimenez, standing in the middle of the shiny tile they installed themselves, shake their heads and smile. “Well, we’re coming back when you do open,” she says. They continue to walk along the strip mall, leaving the men to return to work as patrons await their grand opening. But the Gondolier is not alone in a Boulder restaurant scene that’s witnessing a variety of notable changes in the upcoming days and weeks.

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For 18 months, husband and wife Jon and Eleni Deering searched for an available restaurant space, hoping to fill the right frame with their colorful vision for modern dining. Bringing years of local restaurant experience with them, they needed an apt setting to finally bring an ultimate goal of daily made and completely unmodified Mediterranean dishes to life — what Eleni Deering calls “live art.” In buying Alba from Rick and Susan Stein, the Deerings are turning the blank-slate wine bar into Volta, a more ingredient-conscious Mediterranean restaurant. The term “Volta,” used in Italian and Greek cultures, signifies a turn or change of pace. With a fullservice menu that includes brunch, Volta spins Alba see RESTAURANTS Page 68

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It’s time to answer the paramount question: Who makes the best hummus in Boulder? Fifteen local restaurants and chefs will participate in the Hummus Throwdown at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 at Shine Restaurant on 13th Street. Contestants from Shine, Cured, Volta, Organilicious, Arabesque, Riffs, OAK at Fourteenth, Cafe Aion, The Kitchen and Udi’s, as well as Arik Marcus, a private chef, will have their best hummus creations Crowds at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival. judged by a panel of three Boulder judges. Along with the judges’ choice, there will also be a popular vote. The D.C.’s DC Brau, and Beer Advocate will be Hummus Throwdown is a part of the hosting The Pietasters, a ska-revival band, at Chow Down: IFS Food Film Festival, taking 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Marquis Theater place Oct. 9-13 at the Boulder Public Library in LoDo. The event will also feature the and CU’s Muenzinger Auditorium. release of a collaboration beer between Ska Brewing and DC Brau named Taster’s Choice Great American Beer Festival is here (a song by The Pietasters). According to Ska The Great American Beer Festival will take Brewing, Taster’s Choice is a medium-bodied place from Oct. 10 through Oct. 12 at the doppelbock with coffee flavors and aroma Colorado Convention Center in Denver. that increase as it warms. According to the Brewers Association, the Avery Brewing Co. will be hosting events festival represents the largest collection of Friday, Oct. 11, and Saturday, Oct. 12. U.S. beer ever served in a public tasting On Friday afternoon, Avery invites beer event and a private competition. and bike for a “Barrel-Aged Bike Ride” Breweries are gearing up to bring their around LoDo. Riders will start their tour at the best to the fest. There will be four sessions in Falling Rock Tap House at 11 a.m. then stop which breweries will pour featured brews by at Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House, Euclid Hall from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday with a members-only session 12 Bar & Kitchen, Highland Tap and Burger and finally end at Star Bar. Along the way, riders p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. will receive a four-ounce pour of a rare Avery But that’s not all GABF has to offer. There barrel-aged beer, a six-ounce pour of a palwill also be several “unofficial events” that ate-cleansing beer and a playing card that don’t require GABF tickets (they’ve sold out can win them prizes. The cost is $45 and bicyanyway). cles will not be provided. Durango’s Ska Brewing Co., Washington,

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At 10 p.m., Avery will be hosting a free “Hardcore & Softcore” party at Star Bar. Eight signature beers will be featured, with both “hard” and “soft” ABVs ranging from 4.2 percent to 17 percent. “Hardcore” beers include: Double Dry-Hopped duganA, Samael’s, The Kaiser and Tweak. The “softcore” beers include 4Point2 Pale Ale, Bolder Weisse, Lilikoi Kepolo and Joe’s Pilsner. Avery will be teaming up with Freshcraft to throw the “Robe One Out” party at 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at three locations: Freshcraft, Lucky Pie LoDo and the Pour House Pub. Attendees are encouraged to “let it all hang out” in their bathrobes at the end of a long day. There will be a limited supply of Avery embroidered robes at all three bars (one beer included), and Avery will give a free beer to the first 30 robe-clad people through the door. Meanwhile, in Boulder County, breweries will be hosting events timed to match up with GABF. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids will hold a Hangover Brunch at 11 a.m. Oct. 13. This year, Oskar Blues will co-host the event with Green Flash Brewing Co. of California. The hangover brunch caps off the Oskar Blues Ordeal, the brewery’s day-long bus tours Oct. 10 and 11 that take riders to the Oskar Blues brewery, Tasty Weasel, as well as Homemade Liquids & Solids and the Hops and Heifers Farm. More information is available at www.oskarblues.com. Upslope, meanwhile, is using the weekend to tap rare beers, like its Cabernet IPA, a rum barrel-aged oatmeal brown ale, an oatmeal stout and the famous pumpkin ale. Information is available at http://upslopebrewing.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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An overdone riff by Blair Madole

he word “riff ” implies improvisation and excitement. It instantly brings to mind a memorable guitar solo, and applied to food, the expectation for something inspiring. Unfortunately, in the case of Riffs Urban Fare, there is such a thing as too much riffing. The menu at Riffs Urban Riffs has mouthFare watering poten1115 Pearl tial. Everything, St., Boulder including the 303-440-6699 cocktails, has a twist on classic ingredients, like the house-infused melon & Anaheim pepper Breckenridge vodka in the Jimmy’s Page cocktail or the lemon Tabasco aioli on the grilled shrimp. The effect is intriguing and makes me feel like a kid in a candy store, ready to try everything. I instantly fall in love with the Bring It On Home cocktail, and the Jimmy’s Page is delightfully balanced. Both have a wonderful mix of tangy citrus and spicy pepper, and the expert masking of the alcohol burn could prove dangerous for the unwary happy hour attendee. The desserts are a breath of simplicity and, like the drinks, the perfect balance of flavors. A root beer float with local Zuberfizz root beer and sea salt caramel ice cream is delicious and

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refreshing. The lemon chèvre cheesecake is light, fluffy and creamy and could stand on its own without the syrupy berry topping. The clear winner of the night is the cornmeal-fried zucchini. The Sriracha ranch dip is an ideal counterpoint, providing a cool and spicy relief from the salty cornmeal coating. It’s reminiscent of my grandma’s fried okra, which is a big compliment. From here, the dissonance begins. Slightly too salty, fishy and soft, the grilled avocado is a gorgeous dish of cascading crab pico de gallo and bright avocado that is just a little off. I find the tortilla spoons are unnecessary, adding more visual appeal than flavor. The watermelon salad arrives with two ruby-red slices of watermelon artistically stacked and topped with crumbled goat cheese, thin strings of red onion, specks of mint and a few large slices of ultra-thin prosciutto. The mix of flavors is wonderful: Fresh, sweet and salty all on one plate. Unfortunately, as any prosciutto-lover knows, cutting with regular utensils without creating a stringy mess is nearly impossible. After a few bites, the watermelon juices, prosciutto sinew and stringy red onion produce a plate that resembles some sort of horrifying carnage that takes a strong stomach to move through. The refreshing flavors mostly make it worth it, but it is not a dish I’d suggest ordering with a date. It’s pretty, but impractical and overdone.

The time between dishes brings to light another aspect that’s just slightly off. Between the décor — brick, industrial piping, fresco painting, tiled cityscape and more — and the music that jumps from Bob Marley to Justin Timberlake, even the atmosphere feels excessive. Having grown up in Texas, my taste buds have a southern sensibility, making the grilled shrimp with grits a bold choice in a restaurant with little evidence of southern roots. I’m pleasantly surprised by the bright rub on the shrimp, the tanginess of the lemon Tabasco aioli, and the smokiness of the bacon, and only slightly put off by the large, risottoesque grains they pass off as “grits.” Sadly, Riffs again adds what I find to be an unnecessary ingredient. Several long stems of grilled scallions blanket the plate in an unappealing fashion. If the presentation is bad, the texture is worse. The cooked scallions have turned stringy and soft, creating an ingredient that proves difficult to cut and not worth the effort to eat. The rest of the components taste great indi-

vidually, yet I find the effect when eaten together overwhelming. There are so many wonderful concepts and bold flavors on the plate that when combined, they fail to harmonize. Like the atmosphere and the watermelon salad, I think this dish is too much. The grilled pork has the same issues. Again, the individual flavors of the perfectly cooked pork, earthy greens and sweet peach are fabulous, but when combined with the red chile honey become overpowering. Slightly less seasoning on the pork and a lighter hand (or no hand at all) with the cloying sauce and I think the dish would be perfect. Riffs has great potential but needs to step back and simplify a few things. Most of the individual items are prepared beautifully, but the combination of ingredients frequently misses harmonization and instead produces a cacophony of overwhelming flavors. The melody of most of the dishes is appealing, but the riff falls short of a standing ovation. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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into another world beyond a dinneronly fare of Italian dishes. On Oct. 10, the restaurant at 2480 Canyon Blvd. will host its grand opening, inserting itself as a distinctive new member in Boulder’s culinary landscape. Creating an expansive and diverse menu, which offers a multicourse tasting portion as well as an array of entrées and small bites, allows the Deerings to offer their clientele taste, sight and structure. “We want to fill the space with live art,” Eleni says. “The food itself is live art because it’s created every day. We are, in essence, artists. We employ artists to work with us.” The hire of chef Thomas d’Aquin, formerly of Axios Estiatorio in Denver, shows that Volta is committed to this lofty goal with a successful and proven executive chef already at the helm. With heavy emphasis on whole roasted lamb, abundant vegetarian options, and made-from-scratch pastas, Volta plans to execute Mediterranean cuisine in a fashion that still adheres to Colorado custom. Following suit with the progressive traits of Boulder, the restaurant will also use every part of the butchered animal and remain completely GMO-free, including oils and alcohols. “We feel like we’re the next wave of that evolution. We want to be at the forefront of that evolution,” she says. With such obvious passion for higher standards in food and service, the Deerings say they hope to entice Boulderites from choosing against the worn path on Pearl Street in favor of a more-than-suitable fine dining event. But Volta intends to attract crowds based on their palates and not their looks, as it takes on a “casual upscale” ambiance that dissuades dress code and invites individual preference. “Our intention with Volta is to bring the Mediterranean here, but in a way that is much more accessible to anyone,” she says. Though the box-shaped building occupies a largely non-descript parking lot near Boulder’s center, the Deerings hope it will prove to be an escape into a different place, one unique even in the crowded gamut of Boulder restaurants.

A new home by the creek

Near Boulder’s center, on the corner of Broadway and Arapahoe, major changes are occurring in the Riverside’s basement. And no, it has nothing to do with the recent flooding. Hanging just over the creek like an unwavering nest, the Riverside at 1724 Broadway remained miraculously untouched by the overwhelming floods, and all plans for construction have

remained on schedule. That’s good news, as the building long known for housing live performances is nearly set to open “an upscale coffee shop” serving breakfast and lunch in mid-October. Led by chef Corey Buck, previously of John’s Restaurant, the restaurant will offer dinner as well, beginning at the start of 2014. After a decade-long stint as chef and co-owner of John’s, Buck was attracted to the Riverside’s beautiful space, which is recognizable for its attractive brick-lined terrace. Former diners of John’s can expect a more affordable and accessible take on Buck’s previous creations. “The food will be really similar to what I did at John’s but without the white linen cloth,” Buck says before pausing. “Well, maybe a really nice place mat.” His vision for the space accounts for an important balance between casualness and elegance, turning the patio from an informal café (serving Ozo Coffee products) during weekday mornings to a more ornate brunch setting on Saturdays and Sundays. And at night, the Riverside transforms into a full-scale dinner setting, focusing on tapas-sized seasonal dishes to pair with a far-reaching wine and beer list. Buck says it was an opportunity to work in such a unique space that finally sold him on honing his craft at the Riverside. “I’m able to broaden my whole spectrum of cooking to a broader market,” Buck says. “The opportunity is foremost [what] drew me.” Much like Volta, it’s comfort without carelessness and style without stuffiness that Buck means to encapsulate in the homely basement. The chef plans to continue partnerships with his favorite, most trusted farmers from around the state, but he’s not going entirely local. He will source truffles from Oregon, fresh fish from Hawaii and select ingredients from San Sebastian, Spain. Buck has also expressed interest in hosting culinary seminars to give customers a more intimate understanding of his menu and restaurant events that can entertain guests with live jazz and dancing. Still, the Riverside, as well as Gondolier and Volta, hope to do more than entertain Boulder with their autumnal ventures — they look to offer Boulder with prospective havens to accommodate all comers. “There’s something to offer, whether it’s in the menu or in the experience, for everyone,” Buck says. “It’s really a home to eat, work and play.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Hello, happy place At Our Mutual Friend, a moment of beer bliss by Steve Weishampel

ive minutes into my visit to Our Mutual Friend, the bartender takes the needle off the record and switches the stereo input to his Mac laptop. The first hi-hat clicks and falsetto wails of “A Life of Possibilities” come out, and I love this bar. And when that song ends and the next track on Emergency & I — a landmark album by indie band Dismemberment Plan that I have listened to roughly 300,000 times — starts, I wonder if I will ever leave. I’m not a natural smiler, particularly not when I’m by myself at a brewery. At this point, the weekly brewery stop feels more and more like a job, and I’m in the “power through” mindset. But when Caleb the bartender puts on one of the all-time best albums ever created — if you ask me — I’m dancing in my chair and singing along, gleefully trading lines with Caleb. This is my new happy place. Our Mutual Friend in Five Points is the kind of bar I’m always looking for. The taps are set into a bookshelf — travel books, growlers, records on the shelves. Mason jars for water. There’s a typewriter over here, a record player over there. Mondays are yoga and beer night, Thursdays are DJ sets. On a quiet Sunday night, a woman sits at the bar with short essays written by her students — seventh grade, maybe? — and Caleb starts a game of Monopoly on the bartop with a friend. “I’m not a capitalist at all,” the girl next to me says to the guy she’s with. They’re discussing the Proletariat Session Ale, I think, unless the beer

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was a jumping-off point for an actual debate about economic structures. So, it’s a hipster bar, you say. If you say so. Have fun at Applebee’s, pal. OMF has eight beers going, including a delicious raspberry saison, tart and sweet with no apparent yeasty taste. As I’m diving into the darker beers, a brown and a dry coffee stout, I get some expert help: Patrick and Kim, friends who both work at Denver’s River North Brewery, happen to come in. As I convince Caleb to skip the slow, haunting, decidedly anti-bar tune “The Jitters,” Patrick explains exactly what I like so much about OMF’s brown ale, a very roasty, dark affair: OMF roasts its own malts in-house before using them in beer. Its full name is Our Mutual Friend Malt & Brew, after all. Over the best-written song ever, “The City,” Patrick points out how the roasty elements of the malt come through on the brown, the stout and even the Proletariat, which gets its honey-like flavor from the malt. The Larimer Street Lager, meanwhile, is nothing like most light lagers, as the malt brings in a definite smokiness. The last insane notes of “Back and Forth” die out. New players have arrived, so Caleb resets the Monopoly board. Patrick and Kim tell me about the insanity of Denver’s beer scene next year: the Craft Brewers Conference in March, the World Beer Cup in April and the GABF in October, all in Denver in 2014. Forget all that. The highlight of Denver beer in my book will be getting back to my happy place. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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SAVAGE by Dan Savage

visited Halifax, Nova Scotia, last week — for my geographically illiterate fellow Americans, Halifax is the biggest city on Canada’s Atlantic coast — to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Coast, Halifax’s kick-ass alternative weekly newspaper. The paper brought me to town to do Savage Love Live. I took questions for two hours in the auditorium of a brand-new Halifax high school that has a full bar. (First you have socialized medicine, and then marriage equality, and now bars in high schools — what’s not to love about Canada? Oh, right: Stephen Harper, tar sands, porn laws.) The place was packed, the audience was rowdy and things got dirty. Here’s a selection of Halifax’s questions and my answers: Current celebrity crush? Jorge Mario Bergoglio. My boyfriend broke up with me 10 times over the last two years. But this time, he says he’s committed. Am I stupid? You may or may not be stupid (impossible to tell from a short question written on a green index card), but you do meet a popular-if-somewhatannoying-but-sometimes-eerily-accurate definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again — doing this boyfriend of yours over and over again — and expecting different results. Tell him this chance is his last, and don’t take him back a 12th time. My partner is obsessed with Shania. He’s gay. Is this normal? It’s gay normal. Sometimes it’s a Shania, sometimes it’s a Cher, sometimes it’s a Gaga or a Madonna or a Rihanna. My gay husband is currently obsessed with a Katy Perry. Maybe you and I should start a support group? Married straight lady. My husband recently told me that he is bisexual. I couldn’t imagine something hotter! But he is also EXTREMELY monogamous. Suggestions? I want to have fun with this! Strap-ons — like the ones they sell at Venus Envy, Halifax’s educationoriented sex shop and bookstore — are fun. Or, hey, you could push your husband to adopt the “gay normal” definition of monogamy: If you two have threesomes only with each other and one additional hot bi guy, then all your threesomes are EXTREMELY monogamous. Will you tell us about your first sexual experience? Nope. 74 October 10, 2013

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What ground rules should be set for a friends-with-benefits situation? The most important ground rule: Be friends. Too many people are pointedly unfriendly to their FWBs because they don’t want their FWBs “getting the wrong idea,” i.e., they don’t want their FWBs to think they might be interested in something more serious. The result? Lots of FWB situations are all B and no F. No friendly gestures (friends sometimes give each other gifts), no friendly assistance (friends sometimes help each other move), no friendly concern (friends are there for each other during a crisis). Don’t want your FWB to get the wrong idea about your intentions? Use your words to tell your FWB that a serious romance isn’t in the cards. Then make a good-faith effort to be a friend to your FWB. Any plans to retire? Give up an advice column? No way. It’s too sweet a gig. They’ll have to pry my column from my cold, dead hands just like they pried Ann Landers’s column from hers. How do I make cum taste better? “Cum” is not a word. We don’t have three-letter alternate spellings for other four-letter words that have sexual and nonsexual meanings. You wouldn’t write “I know this guy who sucks and he’s a mean dick, but he’s so fucking hot, I want to suk his dik.” So there’s no need to misspell “come” to give it a sexual connotation. The proper spelling works just fine. But in answer to your question: Come is an acquired taste. No one likes Guinness the first time they drink it, right? But soon you’re happily knocking back pints of the stuff. Same goes for come. Is it true that some men like a finger in the butt during a blowjob? It is true that some men like a finger in the butt during a blowjob. Some men like two fingers, some like more. Some men like it in the butt generally. How to determine if the man you’re blowing likes a finger in the butt? Take his dick out of your mouth and ask. What’s the best place to make love? In the butt. (Individual results may vary.) Thanks, Halifax, for such a great evening. And congrats to Kyle and Christine and everyone at the Coast on 20 great years! The new Savage Lovecast season starts October 22 at savagelovecast.com. Send your questions for Dan to mail@ savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com BoulderWeekly

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April 20-May 20:

“Jugaad” is a Hindi-Urdu word that can be translated as “frugal innovation.” People in India and Pakistan use it a lot. It’s the art of coming up with a creative workaround to a problem despite having to deal with logistical and financial barriers. Masters of jugaad call on ingenuity and improvisation to make up for sparse resources. I see this as your specialty right now, Taurus. Although you may not have abundant access to VIPs and filthy riches, you’ve nevertheless got the resourcefulness necessary to come up with novel solutions. What you produce may even turn out better than if you’d had more assets to draw on.

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In accordance with your current astrological omens, I authorize you to be like a bird in the coming week — specifically, like a bird as described by the zoologist Norman J. Berrill: “To be a bird is to be more intensely alive than any other living creature. Birds have hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger emotions. They live in a world that is always present, mostly full of joy.” Take total advantage of the soaring grace period ahead of you, Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, swoop, glide, love the wind, see great vistas, travel everywhere, be attracted to hundreds of beautiful things and do everything.

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June 21-July 22:

“The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired,” wrote Nikos Kazantzakis in his book Report to Greco. I’m hoping that when you read that statement, Cancerian, you will feel a jolt of melancholy. I’m hoping you will get a vision of an exciting experience that you have always wanted but have not yet managed to bring into your life. Maybe this provocation will goad you into finally conjuring up the more intense desire you would need to actually make your dream come true.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

“It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself,” wrote the prominent 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. “I am now 62 years old, yet just one moment ago I realized that I love lightly toasted bread and loath bread when it is heavily toasted. For over 60 years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.” Your assignment, Leo, is to engage in an intense phase of self-discovery like Wittgenstein’s. It’s time for you to become fully conscious of all the small likes and dislikes that together shape your identity.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains,” said the naturalist John Muir. Let that serve as your inspiration, Virgo. These days, you need to be at the heart of the hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstract thoughts. The dream has to be fully embodied and vividly unfolding all around you, not exiled to wistful fantasies that flit through your mind’s eye when you’re lonely or tired or trying too hard. The only version of God that’s meaningful to you right now is the one that feeds your lust for life in the here and now.

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Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Two years ago a British man named Sean Murphy decided he had suffered enough from the painful wart on his middle finger. So he drank a few beers to steel his nerves, and tried to blast the offending blemish off with a gun. The operation was a success in the sense that he got rid of the wart. It was less than a total victory, though, because he also annihilated most of his finger. May I suggest that you not follow Murphy’s lead, Scorpio? Now is a good time to part ways with a hurtful burden, but I’m sure you can do it without causing a lot of collateral damage.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Grace has been trickling into your life lately, but I suspect that it may soon start to flood. A spate of interesting coincidences seems imminent. There’s a good chance that an abundance of tricky luck will provide you with the leverage and audacity you need to pull off minor miracles. How much slack is available to you? Probably as much as you want. So ask for it! Given all these blessings, you are in an excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories you may have been harboring. For now at least, it’s realistic to be optimistic.

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Capricorn innovator Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com from the ground up. He now owns The Washington Post, one of America’s leading newspapers. It’s safe to say he might have something to teach us about translating big dreams into practical realities. “We are stubborn on vision,” he says about his team. “We are flexible in details.” In other words, he knows exactly what he wants to create, but is willing to change his mind and be adaptable as he carries out the specific work that fulfills his goals. That’s excellent advice for you, Capricorn, as you enter the next phase of implementing your master plan.

AQUARIUS

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Here’s the horoscope I would like to be able to write for you by the first week of December: “Congratulations, Aquarius! Your quest for freedom has begun to bear tangible results. You have escaped a habit that had subtly undermined you for a long time. You are less enslaved to the limiting expectations that people push on you. Even your monkey mind has eased up on its chatter and your inner critic has at least partially stopped berating you. And the result of all this good work? You are as close as you have ever come to living your own life — as opposed to the life that other people think you should live.”

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“It’s an unbearable thought that roses were not invented by me,” wrote Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. You’re not as egotistical as Mayakovsky, Pisces, so I doubt you’ve ever had a similar “unbearable thought.” And it is due in part to your lack of rampaging egotism that I predict you will invent something almost as good as roses in the coming weeks. It may also be almost as good as salt and amber and mist and moss; almost as good as kisses and dusk and honey and singing. Your ability to conjure up long-lasting beauty will be at a peak. Your creative powers will synergize with your aptitude for love to bring a new marvel into the world.

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retail sales of cannabis Oct. 1. Only current dispensaries are allowed to apply at this time, which gives them a nine-month window to establish their businesses before newcomers are allowed to try to cash in. The state has to reply to the applications by Jan. 1, the first day that sales will be legal to adults over 21 in Colorado. Along the Front Range, Denver is the only major city taking applications, so at least for the time being it will be the closest place Boulder residents will be able to buy outside the still-thriving illegal markets. The second reading for Boulder City Council’s marijuana rules and regs is Oct. 22, with no date set as to when businesses can apply for city licenses. Besides Denver, a host of mountain towns will be allowing retail stores, so you can plan mini-trips to Aspen, Basalt, Black Hawk, Breckenridge, Carbondale, Crested Butte, Durango, Eagle, Frisco, Georgetown, Glendale, Glenwood Springs, Idaho Springs, Leadville, Manitou Springs, Nederland, Northglenn, Red Cliff, Salida, Silverthorne, Silverton, Steamboat Springs and Telluride for your needs. Finally, some encouraging news. Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin began harvesting 55 acres of hemp on his rural farm this month. This is significant. Of all the ridiculous things the federal government has done with regards to cannabis, outlawing hemp, an industrial product that the feds don’t seem to be able to differentiate from cannabis with higher THC levels, is perhaps the dumbest, and it’s been going on dating back at least to the 1930s. Amendment 64 allows farmers in Colorado to grow hemp, and the Industrial Hemp Regulatory Committee, a state task force, has completed a set of preliminary rules for hemp production that will go to public comment and then to lawmakers for passage. This harvest is more symbolic than anything, but let’s hope that Loflin’s harvest is the first of many. Hemp fiber, oils and seeds are used in a host of products, and until reefer madness took hold in America, it was grown here. It’s about time U.S. farmers finally reclaim a product that today has to be imported from other countries, mostly China, the largest producer of hemp. American exceptionalism at its nadir. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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