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ho does David Keating think he’s fooling? He heads an obscure, corporate-funded group pushing to wipe out the few remaining limits on the special interests that put extremely big bucks into political campaigns. It’s only fair to turn the fat-cat donors loose, he explains, because an unlimited infusion of cash (from, say,
the Koch brothers) would instantly make an unknown candidate competitive. After all, Keating adds, “Most start-up operations need an angel investor: Someone who believes in the project... and puts money in to make it viable.” Ah, yes, a devilish new twist on the old cash-and-carry business model... our cash can carry you into office to help us! But a run for public office should not be thought of as a corporate “start-up” and ought to be made “viable” not by the special-interest money it attracts, but by the ability of its ideas and principles to draw public support. Also, while a corporate campaign donor clearly does see itself as an “investor” hoping to profit from the “project,” there’s nothing angelic about it. Acknowledging that presidential, congressional and many gubernatorial campaigns are now financed and even run by a small band of deep-pocketed
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elites, Keating says ordinary folks needn’t worry, for this top-heavy system really doesn’t mean that the officials it elects will put their patron’s interests over the public’s. Really? Well, he admits, while those who paid for the election will naturally get their phone calls returned by officials they put in office, “I don’t think it’s going to drive policy.” Really? Golly, Little Nellie Sunshine, then why do you think the moneyed interests would bother calling just to chat with a corruptible politico... or to collect on their investment? They’re not buying a phone call, they’re buying public policy. Really. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 22, 2015 7
commentary The worker-owned model by Dave Anderson
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aced with mounting economic and environmental crises driven by unrestrained capitalism, many people around the world are turning to cooperative enterprise as an answer to social ills. In America, 130 million are members of some kind of cooperative and 13 million work in an employeeowned company. A cooperative is a one-person, onevote, member-owned and -controlled economic institution or business. In the United States, we have agricultural coops, insurance co-ops, food co-ops, housing co-ops, healthcare co-ops, artist co-ops, electrical co-ops, credit unions and many more. Large retail coops include REI, the outdoor clothing and supply company, and ACE, the hardware-purchasing cooperative. These institutions are seen as part of a “community wealth building” or “solidarity economy” movement which includes municipally owned utilities and internet as well as community land trusts. In Boulder, we have Namaste Solar, a worker-owned cooperative founded in 2005. There is Colorado Recovery, a Boulder company which provides comprehensive services to adults with serious mental illness. A few years ago, the owner, the late Dr. Richard Warner, was about to retire, and he decided to sell the firm to his employees because he felt that they were committed to the vision of the company. An ownership plan was crafted that made it possible for workers with quite different income levels to become owners. In December 2014, 16 employees became co-owners and by mid-2016 the employees will own 100 percent of the voting rights of the company. (See Cat Johnson’s article “Why a Healthcare Entrepreneur is Selling His Business to Employees” at www.shareable.net/blog/why-a-healthcare-entrepreneur-is-selling-his-business-toemployees) As Bernie Sanders has said, democracy should be extended into the workplace. He points out that worker-owners have a commitment to the success of a company, that they feel they are “a part of the system; they’re not just a cog in the machine.” Vermont is a leader in developing cooperative enterprises. That is basically the result of hard work by Sanders and 8 October 22, 2015
his progressive coalition when he was mayor of Burlington. Peter Dreirer and Pierre Claval note: “Thanks to the enduring influence of the progressive climate that Sanders and his allies helped to create in Burlington, the city’s largest housing development is now resident-owned, its largest supermarket is a consumerowned cooperative, one of its largest private employers is worker-owned, and most of its people-oriented waterfront is publicly owned. Its publicly owned utility, the Burlington Electric Department, recently announced that Burlington is the first American city of any decent size to run entirely on renewable electricity.” In a Politico piece, Ben Schreckinger says that “many of the radical solutions” Sanders created in the 1980s such as “free arts and culture for the masses, local-first economic development, wresting money from rich nonprofits, and, most shockingly, communal land for affordable housing —have become mainstays of the American municipal governance playbook.” He says: “Early in Sanders’ tenure, his treasurer discovered $200,000 in the city’s coffers and the mayor determined to plow it into a bold initiative. Inspired by the garden cities of England, Israeli kibbutzim and Indian communes set up by the followers of Gandhi, he proposed to buy land and hold it in a communal trust for affordable housing, while the housing itself would be owned by occupants.” In 1984, the Burlington Community Land Trust became one of the first affordable housing trusts on the planet, and the very first to receive municipal funding. Today, there are over 250 such trusts in U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Boston and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Most of them receive some kind of government funding. Sanders recently introduced two bills in the U.S. Congress to encourage worker ownership. Under one bill, the U.S. Department of Labor would provide funding to states to establish and expand employee ownership centers. These centers would provide training and technical support for programs promoting employee ownership and participation throughout the nation. This legislation is inspired by the success of see ANDERSON Page 10
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letters Why we must get involved in politics
I’m writing to say thank you for the excellent work that Joel Dyer did to produce the Special Investigation article “Behind the curtain” [Re: Sept. 17]. It is shocking to begin to see the lengths to which some will go to achieve their domination over America’s working class citizens. This article requires further investigation on the part of each of us in order to understand the urgent need to be involved in our politics. Most Americans are content to live our lives working, taking care of our families, and enjoying our friends and neighbors. The people that this article begins to expose are apparently contented only by manipulating us to further enrich themselves even if it destroys the planet that we all live on. The most shocking thing about these people is the arrogant, selfabsorbed, anti-social, ruthless motivation that must drive them. They must think of me and all the truly productive Americans as their little play things that they get to move around for self-satisfaction. We must be like rodents to them who are annoyingly necessary, but must be controlled and manipulated because we just don’t have the benefit of their insights. I believe that this article points directly to Americas biggest problem and suggests a level of greed that would horrify most of us. A “black hole” where a normal person would have a soul and the motivation to acquire endless sums of money is not a justification for having control over America’s hard working, compassionate citizens.
This life-lesson, unfortunately, needs to be taught in every high school and college in the country and should be the headline for any meaningful news outlet. Thank you for this bold and enlightening work. Rob Call/Westminster
Firefighters support Cliff Willmeng
On October 8th, Boulder Weekly presented their endorsements for election to the Lafayette City Council. They noted that Cliff Willmeng is “a fine fit for Lafayette City Council”; however, they failed to endorse Mr. Willmeng because his mother is currently a member of the Council. We believe that Mr. Willmeng is an INDEPENDENT voice whose talent, commitment, and passion would benefit the community. His professional service to the people of Lafayette as a registered nurse, his support of firefighters and labor and his involvement in “grass roots activism” make him uniquely qualified to represent the interests of the citizens of Lafayette. Please vote to elect Mr. Willmeng to the Lafayette City Council. Doug Hurst,Lafayette Professional Firefighters,Presidnet IAFF L4620/ Lafayette
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Dennis Maloney for Louisville City Council Ward III
At first glance, all three Ward III candidates may appear very similar in their stated values and goals for our city, HOWEVER, the person most qualified for Louisville City Council Ward III is Dennis Maloney. Here’s why... It’s his EXPERIENCE and DEMEANOR that are key here…. recently retired as Chief Technology Officer at CU, Dennis has proven to be effective and cooperative while working with a variety of people, budget challenges and deadlines to accomplish set goals. He doesn’t just talk the talk but actually has a proven work history that speaks loudly. As a retiree, Dennis’ time
and talents are not overcommitted. His energy, competency and calm, grounded personality are key ingredients needed to address the opportunities and challenges facing the City of Louisville now and in the coming years. Whether it be finding solutions to Old Town Louisville’s downtown activities that, at times, overwhelm area residents, the much needed revitalization of the old Sam’s Club/McCaslin business district or addressing needed improvements to the City’s 25 year old Recreation Center, Dennis will ask questions and then listen for ideas and possible solutions. He will diligently weigh and measure real costs with real results and benefits for the residents and businesses of our city. He will apply fiscal responsibility while addressing the growing needs of our wonderful community. Go ahead! Meet Dennis! Talk with him! And you will come away saying… “Yes, EXPERIENCE and DEMEANOR…” Vote Dennis Maloney for City of Louisville Council Ward III. Cathy Zabel/Louisville
Unfair wages
Each day, when cleaning various buildings of CU Boulder, I see plaques with the Colorado Creed plastered all over campus, the third and final tenet of which says “Contribute to the greater good of this community.” Each day, I feel that the University is far from living the creed, because more than 500 of CU Boulder’s workers are paid wages we can’t survive on. When I’m working I try to keep my campus beautiful. I’m on the team that responds to emergencies, so when you see LETTERS Page 11
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the Vermont Employee Ownership Center. A second bill would create a U.S. Employee Ownership Bank to provide loans to help workers purchase businesses. Workers in such an enterprise get decent pay, benefits and dignity on the job. It is a solution to off-shoring. A worker-owned firm has an incentive to respect the surrounding community and the environment. After all, that is where the worker-owners live. Are such enterprises little islands of the future? Is another world possible? Come to a panel discussion entitled
“Bernie 2016 — An alternative to global capitalism: Colorado cooperatives and other types of employee owned enterprises “ at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1 at the Meadows Branch of the Boulder Public Library at 4800 Baseline Road. Speakers include Jason Wiener (cooperative/social enterprise attorney and business consultant) and Dick Peterson (leader of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center). The event is sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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have a leak or someone throws up in class, I’m the person who’s coming to fix what’s wrong. I take pride in knowing that I’m making classrooms a good environment for learning and the grounds a beautiful place to walk through. But when I think about whether my daughter could attend this school, I know that as a single mom I can’t afford it. When you’re making about $11/ hour and get paid once a month, your paycheck doesn’t last long. After paying rent and bills I’m usually broke by the 3rd of the month. I’ve had to use shortterm payday loans to get money for gas and use food pantries to feed my family. I don’t want to depend on others to support myself, but I just can’t get ahead. I’ve worked full time at CU Boulder for about eight years, but recently I was accepted into a poverty alleviation program called Uprising. This program is trying to help me move into the middle class. I’m also in another program for home ownership, where my rent is locked in for five years. I’m uprising with the help of strangers. CU Boulder has not and will not promote me, so I’m moving forward and going back to school. This struggle needs to end. Contributing to the greater good of this community means paying workers a living wage. I believe that CU Boulder cares about its students, faculty, staff and neighbors, as the Colorado Creed says. To me, that means valuing and investing in your workers so they can fully participate in the Boulder community, instead of worrying where their next meal is coming from. Laurel Loesser, Custodian CU boulder/ Boulder
Negligent gun owners
Several days ago, in a very small town in the beautiful and gently rolling hills of east Tennessee, an angry 11-year-old boy took his father’s shotgun from an unlocked closet, intentionally aimed it out of his bedroom window at an 8-year-old neighbor girl playing outside with some friends, pulled the trigger and shot the little girl in the chest killing her. According to witnessing neighbors, he did this because she wouldn’t show him her puppy. My head is churning with incomprehensibility and outrage over this nonsensical and easily preventable tragedy. The county sheriff who investigated this murder stated, “We hope this don’t ever happen again.” We hope this don’t ever happen again? Why didn’t he truthfully say: “The killing of this little girl is a result of grossly negligent parents who failed Boulder Weekly
to store their shotgun in their home with their six children in a manner ensuring that none of those kids could access or use it.” He could also have said, “We have legal requirements to have smoke detectors in our homes, but no legal requirements in Tennessee that all firearms in a home be stored in a place or manner where kids can not get access to or use them.” I have absolutely no understanding of how it comes to be that a fifth-grader intentionally shoots a 12-guage shotgun shell into the chest a third-grader. I do know, though, that the presence of unsecured firearms in a home unquestionably increases the risk of both intentional and unintentional home-related gun injuries and deaths. Mindful parents and guardians leave no stone unturned to protect their children from harm — like keeping unused electrical outlets covered and water heaters not turned up too hot. As a society, though, it seems to me that we have failed to do all that’s reasonable and needed to prevent American kids from senselessly being maimed and slaughtered by gun fire. Walter “Ski” Szymanski/Broomfield
The great tax awakening
Nations are experiencing a tax awakening. Just as socialism cannot compete with capitalism in a free country, an income tax cannot compete with a consumption tax like the “Fair Tax,” which encourages saving and investment. Competition between nations is forcing governments to carefully consider tax increases, but this is nothing compared to the coming tax revolution. In the United States, more robust growth in states with a sales tax vs. states with an income tax is already apparent. Just as the states are laboratories for change in the U.S., nations are laboratories for the world, and they are grappling with their tax problems. For example, there is confusion between a simple point-of-sale consumption tax, and a VAT, or value-added-tax. A VAT is easily concealed in the manufacturing process, but it has been increasingly exposed as a hidden “consumption tax” used by manipulative European politicians. In another case, a VAT essentially stopped consumption in favor of saving, resulting in revenue funding concerns in Japan, with its older population of dedicated savers. These problems will be worked out, and when they are, the first country to get a consumption tax right will drive spectacular improvement in our world. Arnold P. Milton/Houston
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Misdirection
How the Koch brothers and other billionaires are staging a take over of our public schools by Matt Cortina
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am Howard is a member of the Thompson School District Board of Education. It’s a district that spans Larimer and Boulder Counties; from Estes Park to Berthoud to Loveland. Her kids went to Thompson’s public schools, with her youngest just heading off to Princeton University this August. Howard is in the minority on the seven-person school board. That minority is a group of three women, called disparagingly by the board majority “the three moms,” she says. They have spent two years battling a board majority of conservative “reformers,” who are pushing the agenda of out-of-town billionaires, from whom they’ve received a small fortune in the form of campaign contributions, flyers and push poll operations in return. That board dynamic — “reformers” vs. “moms” — signifies a marked change for Thompson. It is now a political battlefield, and the casualties of war seem to be families and teachers, who are leaving the district at a disproportionately high rate. The shots fired come in the form of an ongoing lawsuit between the school board and the teachers’ union; policies that have limited free speech and public comment; millions of dollars in wasted funds; a complete devolution of civility at board meetings; and the force-feeding of a conservative educational reform agenda that promotes charter schools, implements pay-for-performance for teachers and devalues preschool. No one saw it coming. Denise Montagu has sat on the Thompson board since 2011. She, and her kids, went through district schools, and she was approached to run for office because of all the charity work she had done in Loveland. From 2011-13, the Thompson School Board operated in good faith with each other as it always had. There was one exception on that board though, Montagu says, and his name was Bob Kerrigan. Kerrigan was voted into office in Boulder Weekly
2011. He campaigned on bringing a Sherman had hit a nerve with other conservative groups. private industry voice to the school Kerrigan surely, but he had also pointed Three of the reformers won, and board and lessening the budget for the out that outside forces were afoot in with Kerrigan, it gave the conservative teachers’ union. Montagu and Lori Thompson. reform movement a majority. Then Hvizda Ward, a current board member Four of seven board seats were open things started to change. who sat in on those early meetings, say in 2013, and four reform candidates — Kerrigan often possessed a lone opin“We are constantly pitted Bryce Carlson, Carl Langner, Donna ion, but that in the interest of fairness, against attorneys” Rice and Rocci Bryan — were finanthe other six members of the board At the first meeting after the new cially backed by two well-connected obliged him on exploring issues like board majority was sworn in, Kerrigan, billionaires: Alex Cranberg and Ed making families pay for Courtesy Thompson Reform Watch now board presibussing and bringing in dent, dropped a his personal recommensmall bombshell at dations for the vacant the end of a threesuperintendent position. hour meeting. He As time went on, said that at the next though, Montagu says meeting, on Dec. she began to suspect 18, the board would Kerrigan was more than discuss and then just a tough person to vote on hiring a work with; that he board attorney; a might have an agenda. position the She says school board Thompson School emails suspiciously Board, and a majorstarted showing up on ity of other boards, Tea Party websites, and had never had. The there were rumblings district has had an from other board memattorney at the bers that Kerrigan was board’s disposal for years, an accommotrying to persuade them dation whose efficaoutside of meetings to cy had never been consider reform poliThis mailer from conservative group Liberty Watch supports the reform candibrought into quescies. dates, but funding for the mailer won’t show up on the candidates’ campaign tion. Kerrigan’s solidarity filings. Montagu, (or defiance) culminatHoward and Hvizda Ward (the noned at a board meeting in October 2013. McVaney. Cranberg owns a Denverreformists), were shocked that an action Kerrigan made a motion on a discusbased oil and gas company and is with such large financial and civic sion point that failed to get a second. founder of the Alliance for Choice in repercussions would be brought up and Board member Leonard Sherman com- Education Scholarship Fund (ACE), then voted on so quickly. Kerrigan said mented that the motion was a veiled which supports educational reform he had done his own research to find a attempt to prohibit people who had rel- ideas like school vouchers. McVaney is suitable board attorney. atives employed by the District from the retired founder of software firm JD It was Brad Miller, a graduate of the running for school board. Sherman said Edwards, and an ACE board member. the timing was “odd” because there ACE shares many board members with ultra-conservative Leadership Program of the Rockies, a group that is tied to were two candidates, non-reformers, Colorado Concern, a group that pulls the Koch brothers and Alex Cranberg. running for school board that year who the proverbial strings of the conserva(Kerrigan and reform board member had relatives employed by the district. tive agenda in Colorado. Bryce Carlson are also Leadership As Sherman pointed this out, Kerrigan The four reform candidates, Program alumni.) Miller founded interrupted him and started yelling financed by Cranberg and McVaney, Charter School Solutions, which helps loudly and repeatedly, “How dare you!” outraised and outspent their opponents charter schools start and operate. Miller and “You’re making stuff up!” Kerrigan by tens of thousands of dollars. That rose from his chair and pointed at doesn’t include the promotional support is also the attorney who was hired Sherman, and the episode lasted for 15 in the district from ACE, the Koch seconds before order was restored. brothers’ Americans for Prosperity and See MISDIRECTION Page 14 October 22, 2015 13
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simultaneously by the board of Jefferson County Schools where another reform majority has similarly taken control with the financial backing of the same conservative forces as those in Thompson. Kerrigan and the board majority were so eager to hire Miller that they actually presented a signed contract dated Dec. 5, 2013 between the school board and Brad Miller’s law firm — six days before the need for a board attorney was ever mentioned in public. Montagu was irritated with the lack of transparency, so she inquired with Miller about who had contacted him. In an email, Miller said Kerrigan contacted him about the creation of a new “innovation school,” basically a districtinitiated charter school that has flexibility with curriculum, staff and budgets. Miller mentioned that he also had multiple conversations with Rice, Langner and Carlson (the incoming board majority) before Nov. 20, adding that he didn’t violate sunshine laws because they were not yet sworn-in board members. Sunshine laws, like Prop. 104, require certain negotiations and meetings on school boards to be public. Given that the board majority had talked with Miller about a position, signed a contract and discussed creating a new school before the other three board members had even heard the name Brad Miller, the community in the district fired back. Crowding the Dec. 18 meeting room, the audience erupted in a minute of applause when the board voted to delay the vote on Miller’s hiring. They also postponed the hiring discussion of Amy Attwood, a noted conservative lobbyist, whose already-written-up contract was included in that week’s agenda. Attwood wouldn’t be hired, but it took only a few weeks for the board to reconvene and hire Miller. At the same meeting where they approved Miller’s contract, the board voted not to hear public comment. “If the board wants to hear four hours of public comment tonight, and we don’t get anything else done, that’s the will of the board,” Kerrigan said. It wasn’t the will of the board, as you might imagine. Kerrigan expressed his view on public comment at a January 2014 meeting, saying, “Public comment is really a privilege for you [the community] to speak to the board. It’s not state statue that the board has to allow this.” And the board majority has taken that literally. The board majority voted to cut public comment sessions from 14 October 22, 2015
three times a month, to once a month. Miller, who was ostensibly hired to “improve student achievement,” was often consulted at these meetings where policies that stifled public input were approved. Simply put, the “reformers” had effectively developed a system to implement their agenda. Here’s a case in point: In early February 2014, the board heard a presentation about the designs for a new school slated for construction by I-25, an area where a significant influx of families had occured. The construction of the new school would be funded in part by tax increment financing, or TIF, a tax on people in a certain area that is used to build infrastructure in that same area. The district had about $4 million from TIF to start building. Staff recommended to the board that if they waited to pass the design plans, interest rates and construction costs would rise, causing the overall price of the project to go up. Despite that information, reform board member Donna Rice motioned to table the discussion for six months. The conservative majority agreed, citing that TIF funding is risky. Howard (in the minority) made a motion for public comment, as there were a large number of residents from the proposed school area. Kerrigan reluctantly agreed to a vote, before Rice protested, “Mr. Chairman, we have a lot to do tonight.” The audience started to boo, and Rice scolded them, saying, “Would you be polite?” The audience laughed. So Kerrigan asked another reform majority member Carl Langner if he wanted to hear public comment. Langner is an old oilman from Texas with no clear political ambition, but who follows suit with the reform board members. That night, though, he agreed with the minority and asked to hear from the public. Kerrigan turned red. Langner’s yes meant the public would get to speak. Kerrigan immediately turned to Langner and said, “Realize this is probably going to be an hour and a half,” as if to change his vote. Kerrigan hemmed and hawed before ultimately relenting and calling a formal vote, starting at the opposite end of the dais of Langner. When it got to Langner, he was the deciding vote on whether to allow public comment. The old man hesitated and Kerrigan stared him down. “No,” he voted quietly, and the audience left, incredulous. Flash forward to October 2014
when the plans for the new school were finally agreed upon. Estimates from the board, the union and staff indicate it cost the district as much as $2 million by waiting so long. The new school will be smaller and won’t have ideal features because of the wait. Asked to speculate on why the board waited, Montagu says it could be because the reformers don’t like TIFs, or because they were holding out for a charter school to be built on that site — the reason Kerrigan reached out to Brad Miller in the first place. There are more instances of agendapushing like 2014’s ongoing efforts to institute a pay-for-performance pilot program for teachers and provide “equitable pay” to the district’s two charter schools — both key tenets of the national school reform movement being pushed by the Koch brothers and other like-minded conservatives and their organizations. But the biggest issue facing Thompson caused by the reform board majority is their ongoing legal battle with the teachers’ union. Every year, the teachers’ union and the school board each come up with “critical questions,” which are guidelines for what they want to accomplish in contract negotiations. The Thompson School Board didn’t do that in early 2015, and by April, they hadn’t developed critical questions to negotiate with the teachers’ union, the Thompson Education Association (TEA). That is, until Bryce Carlson (of the board majority) read a list of about 20 critical questions at a meeting in April. The board minority hadn’t seen the questions nor did they know Carlson would be speaking. Carlson’s questions included those that would suggest implementing pay-for-performance for teachers, removing TEA privileges and removing or reducing pensions, yet another Koch brothers agenda item. Carlson asked attorney Brad Miller to work with the superintendent to come up with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) based on his recommendations. Minority board member Hvizda Ward said that would violate sunshine laws, and the district human resources director, Dr. Bill Siebers, said it violated interest-based negotiations. The board majority didn’t care. Andy Crisman, president of the TEA, says they tried to accommodate Carlson’s last minute critical questions and returned with an MOU. But, at two meetings in May, the board reformers denied the agreement. The board majority then refused to go into
mediation, and so the TEA filed a lawsuit saying the board negotiated in bad faith and never had any intention of agreeing on a contract. It’s funny. In one of Carlson’s first public comments as a board member, he felt the need to say apropos of nothing, “The idea that we’re trying to blow apart the teachers’ association or anything of that nature just really isn’t the case.” And here the teachers’ association is suing the Thompson board for never intending to sign a contract. The board majority has continued down the anti-union rabbit hole. They rejected the arbitrator’s finding in August 2015 that they had negotiated in bad faith. (“Give us some respect. Please. You’re out of order. And disrespectful to top it off!” Kerrigan told the booing audience when the board majority voted to reject the arbitrator’s ruling.) The court imposed an injunction on the school board, requiring them to maintain the 2014-15 contract conditions with the TEA. By that point, the board had spent $80,000 battling the TEA, and $78,800 on Brad Miller. The board moved to appeal the injunction, but this time they had some outside funds to work with. On Sept. 16, Kerrigan announced that the school board had accepted a $150,000 donation from the Daniels Fund with the express intention to use those funds to fight their case against the TEA in court. Brad Miller solicited that donation without direction from the board. The Daniels Fund is another conservative money-giving organization, whose president is Linda Childears, a member of Colorado Concern and a former board member of ACE, which the Fund still supports. Daniels Fund also has given upwards of $500,000 to date to the Douglas County school board in their legal battle to implement a school voucher system. The decision to pursue litigation will now likely be up to the new Thompson board which will be elected this Nov. 3.
A tale of two (other) districts What happened to the Thompson School Board happened simultaneously in Jefferson County, and happened four years prior in Douglas County. But those two districts have reacted differently to the reform takeover: JeffCo is attempting to recall its conservative board members, while DougCo plugs away as the reform “model.” Boulder Weekly
news In JeffCo, the three members that make up the reform board majority were voted into office in 2013, making the same claims of transparency and school choice that all the reformers make. There was immediate backlash. The board hired the aforementioned attorney Brad Miller, and the longtime superintendent Cindy Stevenson resigned. Board President Ken Witt shut down meetings and limited public comments. They’ve tried to institute pay-for-performance and have had tense negotiations with the teachers’ unions. Students walked out of several JeffCo schools last year when a change was proposed to the AP U.S. History curriculum to be more “patriotic.” (Montagu says that has been discussed in Thompson as well.) JeffCo parents and students clearly took notice of the changes. Citizens gathered more than double the required signatures to put the seats of the three board majority members up for recall. Their competition will be the familiar conservative funders, as well as some unlikely opponents, like the increasingly conservative Denver Post, which wrote in opposition to the recall vote a few weeks ago. The Post also endorsed Tea Party candidates Ken Buck and Cory Gardner in 2014. In Douglas County, however, the reformers are rolling. Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, who served under Ronald Reagan, wrote a paper called “A model for the nation?” about DougCo’s reform transition. In 2009, a crop of reform candidates swept into office, buoyed by nearly $35,000 to each candidate from Cranberg and Ralph Nagel, a Denver investor and another member of ACE, as well as TV ads from Americans for Prosperity. The new DougCo majority hired a superintendent that agreed with their agenda, while the same policy changes to stifle public interaction were enacted. In 2013, more money flowed in to support the conservative majority, who won despite many citizens protesting the board. Part of what makes DougCo “a model for the nation” is its demographics, which are similar to those in JeffCo and Thompson. They all have fairly large Republican constituencies amongst suburban middle-class, mostly white communities. The school board votes in 2009 and 2013 were low-turnout years, which favored the reformers. The Colorado Education Association says the reform movements in DougCo, JeffCo and Thompson are all they’re aware of in the state at the moment. But it’s not just in Colorado that these massive reform takeovers are occurring. In cities like Newark, New Boulder Weekly
Jersey, Chicago and Portland, as well as states like Wisconsin, North Carolina and Tennessee, there are well-documented efforts by many of the same funders to flip school boards. Douglas County may be the “model,” but there are tests running everywhere. For the model to work, it has to be sustainable. What happens in Thompson and JeffCo in this election could have national implications.
The new class of reformers There are differences in the way the 2015 Thompson School Board election is being financed. No longer are Alex Cranberg’s, Ralph Nagel’s and Ed McVaney’s names plastered on state campaign finance filings. As communities have wised up to the buzz-names to look out for, those funders appear to have channeled and delayed their funding, making them less obvious to voters. In Thompson, four reform candidates announced their run for the four seats up for grabs. Montagu, Howard and Hvizda Ward (the current board minority) each say they’d never heard of any of the candidates despite having volunteered in the district and in Loveland for decades. The first glimpse the community saw of the reform candidates was at a debate hosted by Loveland 912, a small, ultraconservative group. Howard and nonreform candidate Jeff Swanty say they weren’t even invited to the debate, but reform candidates Aimie Randall, Tomi Grundvig and Bruce Finger talked at length about their reform positions. The new candidates’ affiliation soon became crystal clear. Randall wrote on Watchdog Wire, a conservative blog, “Americans for Prosperity managed, in a two-day summit, to give me an identity, a purpose, and a method.” Finger was the campaign manager for connected conservative Kevin Lundberg. And Pam Howard filed suit against Grundvig and Bob Schaffer, head of the Leadership Program of the Rockies and principal of a Fort Collins charter school, who wrote a message of support for Grundvig on the school’s website. In the Oct. 15 campaign finance filings, Randall, Grundvig, Finger and Vance Hansen all showed $1,000 contributions from “A Organic Consulting,” a supposed Berthoud business run by conservative Tom Lucero for web design and promotional materials. A look at the candidates’ four websites shows that they are identically designed with the same talking points slightly reorganized. At a League of Women Voter’s debate last month, the four reform candidates delivered canned speeches about the virtues of school choice and liberty,
sometimes clearly reading prepared responses. They also denied that they were reformers, and they each said they had only accepted money so far from people they knew, laughing at how little they had raised. Which is true, according to filings, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. The Larimer County Republicans and Liberty Watch, another ultra-conservative group, each sent out flyers in October on behalf of the reformers. There are ugly bits, too. Nonreform candidate Swanty says that as a political attack, some outside group is circulating material that says he’s a Scientologist — an allegation loosely based on a 1990 Wall Street Journal report about his employer, Allstate Insurance. There are now live and recorded phone calls going to Loveland and Berthoud voters in support of the reform candidates. Some are push polls, while residents claim others are simply recorded messages from Randall, Finger and Grundvig talking about tenets of educational reform. Mailers and phone calls are expensive, and the reform candidates — considering the amount of donations they claim they’ve received — seem unlikely to have paid for them themselves. Considering the reform movement’s overall gameplan, it seems likely the funding is coming from the same conservative sources previously outlined herein. But how do reform candidates and reform funders find each other? There are similarities across the state in school districts where reform candidates have sought office. Some seek school board positions after having served on boards of chambers of commerce, city councils or worked on conservative political campaigns. Others connect with funders when they attend summits or conventions as was the case with Randall and Americans for Prosperity. An AFP spokesman, when asked to describe the process in Thompson, wrote in an email that although they “do not endorse candidates, they did hold an education summit in Lakewood on Sept. 27 highlighting the importance of pay-for-performance, school choice and equal funding for all public schools.” And though they “do not endorse candidates,” AFP Colorado released a statement on Oct. 25 proclaiming a “six-figure educational initiative involving mailers, door to door canvassing, online messaging and calls to JeffCo neighbors.” It’s just a roundabout endorsement, like those coming from nice-sounding front groups like “Kids are First,” a “project of the Independence Institute,”
which promotes material that shares their conservative agenda. And these groups use information supporting their agenda from sites like ColoradoSchoolGrades.com — as featured on 9News as a way for parents to check school performance — but is in reality, a site funded by AFP, ACE, the Daniels Fund, the Independence Institute and others.
Graduating out of reform It seems likely that if the reform agenda worked, then parents, students and teachers wouldn’t be leaving the Thompson School District in droves. But they are. Crisman, the TEA president, says teachers are leaving Thompson at a faster rate than other districts in the state, and that it’s not because they fear pay-for-performance in theory or dislike charter schools. It’s because they feel trapped. “They don’t feel that sense of empowerment, and they feel like things are being done to them,” Crisman says. Matt Bell, a senior at Loveland High School, says students at the school understand what’s going on with the school board and most, if not all, support the removal of the reform majority. Montagu and Howard say that if they win re-election and the board majority is flipped, their first orders of business will be to fire board attorney Brad Miller, end the legal battle with the teachers’ union and give the $150,000 back to the Daniels Fund. But taking back the board is a tough road considering the “reform” candidates are likely to far outspend their opponents when all sources and avenues of funding are considered. Howard, Montagu and to a lesser extent Dave Levy are well into the tens of thousands of dollars in donations, much of which has come from small donations from community members. The reformers did a lot in two years. It might be years before Thompson shakes the stigma of being a Tea Party district, Crisman says. But the ultimate fate of reform is in the hands of Loveland and Berthoud voters. “I feel a sense of energy in this community around this issue that I haven’t felt before,” Crisman says. “I know, however, that this is a reflexively conservative community in some ways, but I also know that this community really values Loveland setting Loveland’s agenda. They don’t like feeling used. “They don’t like the idea of someone from the outside pulling all the puppet strings.” October 22, 2015 15
news The case for public accountability
New book documents one Canadian’s fight against the oil and gas industry by Angela K. Evans Colin Smith
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essica Ernst won’t back down and she won’t settle. And for that, the Canadian has drawn international attention for her ongoing multimillion dollar lawsuit against oil and gas company Encana for its alleged gross negligence while fracking natural gas reserves near her home between 2001 and 2004. She is also suing regulating agencies Alberta Environment and the Alberta Energy Regulator (formerly the Energy Resources Conservation Board). That’s also how she became the subject of journalist Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book Slick Water, and as part of the Nov. 1 book release, Nikiforuk will be speaking in Denver and Fort Collins, Oct. 28 and 29 respectively. Nikiforuk first met Ernst in 2004 while writing an article for Canada’s Globe and Mail about the impact of natural gas drilling on rural communities. “When I first met her, I actually didn’t really know what to make of her,” he says. “She is a very dynamic character.” This first meeting, followed by the unfolding events of Ernst’s fight against not only Encana but also her government, which culminated in the ongoing lawsuit filed in 2007, inspired Nikiforuk’s latest work. The author has written about the oil and gas industry throughout North America for more than 20 years, winning several national journalism and book awards along the way. “I think Jessica Ernst is a unique and different kind of citizen. She’s not an activist, she’s not an environmentalist… She’s an individual who has had enough and is standing her ground,” Nikiforuk says. “Most people who live 16 October 22, 2015
Jessica Ernst on her land in Alberta, Canada,
in the Rocky Mountain West understand individuals who are capable of that kind of courage and ultimately that’s what this story is about. It is about the courage of one woman.” Ernst’s history with the oil and gas industry also makes her legal battle unique. Prior to the lawsuit, Ernst helped some of North America’s largest oil and gas companies such as Encana, Murphy Oil and Chevron among others, gain approval from Canada’s National Energy Board for pipelines and other infrastructure as an environmental consultant. She conducted wildlife impact assessments, mediated with First Nations tribes and knows Canada’s oil and gas regulations inside and out. “That’s the first thing that intrigued me about her, was the fact that here is somebody employed by the industry and dependent on the industry,” Nikiforuk says. “In fact, Encana was her most important client, and [she] decided to actually question her client’s practices in the local community and also the effectiveness and accountability of the provincial regulator.”
As a landowner in the rural area known as Rosebud in Alberta, Ernst was first disturbed by Encana’s operations when the company installed a compressor station near her home, which generated so much noise that she was unable to sleep. But everything escalated as the company expanded operations. Ernst’s original 2007 statement of claim in the lawsuit accuses the oil company of negligent practices that led to the fracturing of a nearby aquifer and contaminated groundwater supplies by releasing methane and other pollutants. She claims the drilling breached numerous laws, including the province’s Water Act and its Oil and Gas Conservation Act. The statement also accuses the provincial regulators of failing to protect public interest by permitting Encana to drill so close to Rosebud and then refusing to perform adequate testing and falsifying data. Plus, Ernst claims, the regulators violated her charter right to freedom, comparable to America’s constitutional right to freedom of speech, by refusing communication with her as she persisted. Despite government and industry attempts to have the case dismissed,
Ernst continues her legal fight. She hasn’t been awarded any contracts by industry clients since 2011, living off savings ever since. She has poured roughly $350,000 of her own savings into the lawsuit, minimally supplemented by donations from landowners throughout Alberta. Also, 15 percent of the royalties from Slick Water will benefit the lawsuit. “She’s not about to sign any agreements and go away here, and I think that’s what really makes her case so dramatic from a North American perspective, because most landowners don’t have the means to keep on fighting and don’t have the kind of determination that she has,” Nikiforuk says. “Most ordinary people would have said, ‘What the hell, I’m getting outta here.’ … But for Jessica, her past has informed her and in many ways strengthened her in such powerful ways that she’s not going to do that; she’s not going to walk away.” Nikiforuk writes about how Ernst has used her past experiences, including childhood rape and sexual abuse, as motivation to continue fighting when others would have given up. “The repeated sexual abuse that she endured as a child, has really forged her into this very resolute, persistent, justice-seeking individual, and an individual who understands the cycles of abuse and who wants to break that cycle,” he says. Although some have dubbed Ernst the Erin Brockovich of fracking, Nikiforuk likens Ernst to Rachel Carson, the American marine biologist who questioned the use of synthetic pesticides, was dubbed by the chemical industry as an alarmist, and testified in front of Congress regarding pesticide use in the 1960s, which eventually led to the banning of DDT. Her book Silent Spring is considered a major catalyst of the modern environmental movement. Currently, Ernst’s case is waiting to be heard by Canada’s Supreme Court. She’s challenging a 2014 Appeals Court decision that the Alberta Energy Boulder Weekly
Regulator was not liable to civil lawsuits because of an immunity clause in the Energy Resources Conservation Act. The other parts of Ernst’s lawsuit involving Encana and Alberta Environment are on hold until the Supreme Court makes its decision, which is expected next year. Although Nikiforuk suspects the Canadian Supreme Court will rule in favor of Ernst (and the lawsuit will proceed, resulting in a public settlement that should change the regulation of fracking in Canada and maybe even the rest of the continent), he admits no one knows what the outcome will be. “In some ways, I think the story needed to be told because it might be another six years before Jessica Ernst is ever able to bring her evidence into court. The book might be the only justice at the end of the day that Jessica Ernst ever sees,” Nikiforuk says. “And yes, we don’t have a nice clean conclusion at the end of the book, but that’s real life. Real life rarely comes with clean conclusions of any kind.” The issues raised by Ernst’s legal fight are the same ones being raised by oil and gas extraction throughout North America, Nikiforuk says. “The fracking industry is an incredibly disruptive industry that has challenged local laws, that has challenged landowner rights [and] in the process has raised a whole bunch of really important legal issues and spawned an enormous amount of litigation.” On his current book tour throughout North America to promote Slick Water, Nikiforuk aims to tell rural landowners the inspirational story of Ernst and “explain to people and rural communities that you are not powerless, that there are avenues of justice that you can pursue. And not only that, they need to be pursued.” He will also share his research on the history and science of fracking, along with “government fraud and shoddy regulation.” But although Nikiforuk has set out to share Ernst’s story, he differs slightly with her perspective of the oil and gas industry, specifically fracking. Due to the liabilities and risks she’s personally experienced as well as what she saw through her consulting work, Ernst argues for a complete halt to all fracking practices worldwide. And she’s spoken to that end about her case from the United Nations in New York to Ireland and the UK. Nikiforuk, on the other hand recognizes the legacy of oil and gas in the Western economy and landscape. “My suggestion then is that frackBoulder Weekly
ing should be you’re going to ON THE BILL: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Slick Water Colorado Book Tour. 7 p.m. extremely limited, have a damn difWednesday, Oct. 28, Alliance for highly regulated ficult time doing Sustainable Colorado, 1536 Wynkoop and, really, we so with the curSt., Denver, 303-405-6780. 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, Old Town Library, should recognize rent set of regulaCommunity Room 1, 201 Peterson St., it as desperate tors in charge Fort Collins, 970-221-6740. technology because they’re designed to not working for extend the life of the public, they fossil fuels when, are solely working in fact, we really should begin alternafor industry.” tive investments in other forms of The author compares the Colorado industry,” he says. “The problem is Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
to the Alberta regulator’s Ernst is fighting, which makes his stop in Colorado next week especially significant. “I’m really looking forward to talking with landowners in Colorado. Colorado is very similar to Alberta in that both jurisdictions have had massive amounts of drilling and both jurisdictions have had to deal with some rather shoddy regulatory agencies in terms of accountability,” Nikiforuk concludes. “The stories are the same.”
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ment,” one memo states. As predicted, the final rule, which was to take effect Aug. 28, was immediately met with litigation from both sides of the political spectrum. Colorado Attorney General, Cynthia Coffman, joined other states in filing suit, which resulted in the August injunction. The ruling on Oct. 9 follows the previous ruling by halting the implementation of the regulation in all states until a federal judge can decide whether or not the rule is in fact federal overreach. “The attorney general of Colorado and other states have believed that there needs to be clarification in the courts of what the EPA’s actual reach into a state’s natural resources is or should be,” says Roger Hudson, chief communications director for the Colorado Attorney General. “If WOTUS happens, we believe it violates the provision of the Clean Water Act and overreaches into the state of Colorado. The Attorney General’s assertion is that Coloradans should decide how to use and maintain and keep pristine the natural resources of Colorado, not a federal agency.” Not only did states challenge the rule, but environmental and conservation groups filed lawsuit in July stating the WOTUS rule was too weak and could actually provide less protection than the original 1972 Clean Water Act. Nonprofit organizations, including Waterkeeper’s Alliance and the Center for Biological Diversity, challenge the rule stating that it would have “adverse impacts” on the “use, enjoyment and preservation of the waters of the United States.” The organizations maintain the
rule weakens protection of certain streams, wetlands and ponds that are either too far from larger streams and rivers, or too close to bodies of water used for agriculture and ranching. “We have extreme concerns about the final rule that came out,” says Gary Wockner, executive director of both Save the Poudre and Save the Colorado organizations, and who agrees with the above-mentioned lawsuits. “The rule needs to be challenged and changed.” Wockner says the new rule creates loopholes, specifically for ditches, that could make pollution from farms, ranching and oil and gas operations worse. “In addition, mountain streams may not be protected if they’re not flowing all year round, and most of them aren’t,” he says. Because the WOTUS rule was issued as final, the only recourse for both states and conservationists concerned with these issues is to challenge the regulation in the courts. Both Wockner and Hudson suspect this process could take several years, so until the litigation is resolved, the provisions of the Clean Water Act still apply throughout the country. “The Clean Water Act still has some power in the state of Colorado. But even the original Clean Water Act had all sorts of exemptions, especially around industrial pollution, wastewater treatment plant pollution and farming especially. ...” Wockner says. “So the rule was a major step forward in 1972, but we still have a long ways to go to get actual swimmable, fishable, drinkable water in our rivers and streams.”
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or a successful agricultural history that investigative author, Grace eagerly examines. it’s tough to sell a Social ills like poverty, malbook of stories nutrition, obesity, nutrient about Denver’s deficiency in soil, scant natuurban food scene to a pubral resources, inefficient suplisher. ply chains and a declining “[Grow: Stories from the labor supply of farmers all Urban Food Movement] cerserve as a call to action for tainly isn’t marketable in the agricultural reform. traditional sense,” says But Denver’s urban food Stephen Grace about his community is succeeding most recent book. “I was told despite these obstacles. that again and again by pubCommunities are coming together to support urban lishers, which is exactly why I agriculture by working for wanted to do it. Grow is a free, paying top dollar for reaction to the whole comlocal food, and paying the mercial paradigm, it’s my way opportunity cost of laboring of pushing pack and of being in backyard gardens rather gently subversive.” than shopping at a grocery It is no easy feat to make store. a living as an urban farmer, or “Food becomes a very as a writer on the subject either. And while publishing The SAME Café, a nonprofit restaurant at 2023 East Colfax Avenue in Denver, sources locally produced ingre- interesting way to focus on dients to create pay-what-you-can-meals for its patrons. something concrete and tanGrow may not generate a gible while asking a lot of high profit, it makes sense for very provocative questions Bangtail Press, a small puband provide intriguing answers about lisher located in Bozeman, Montana. something much bigger — a universal of this will have to come from the things that go beyond food,” Grace “Some of the best and most impor- impulse.” intensification of agriculture, which says. “Like how we treat each other, tant literary art in the world is happenThe urgency of telling stories from will require increasing acreage by 5 ing regionally, but the larger publishers the urban food movement sprouts from percent and productivity beyond its 1.7 how we build our societies, how we are driven more by sales potential than a deep-seated instability in the induspercent average annual gain. Shedding communicate, what our values are. This they are by the quality of the work trial agriculture system that is feeding doubt on the prospect to achieve these is becoming more than a movement itself,” says Allen Jones, publisher at the world. The United Nations predicts gains is the decreasing supply of petro- supported by the rich — this is a gentle Bangtail. “Each story [in Grow] tells that, in order to feed an estimated leum and the increasingly unpredictrevolution.” the larger narrative of the subculture of global population of 9.1 billion people able climate. Some of the stories in the book go urban food. By focusing on the stories by 2050, food production will need to There are also human and environSee GROW Page 22 of these folks, Steve is tapping into increase by 70 percent. And 90 percent mental issues with this moment in
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beyond “gentle” subversion. Crop mobs reminded of other efforts to seed comseed bomb public spaces, others garden munity life in a culture stricken with on private property, companies profit affluenza,” Grace writes in his book. by converting other people’s trash into “Libby seems to be pushing back compost, and many escape consumeragainst the kind of consumerism that ism altogether as they rummage for allows us to purchase a signifier of food in the cracks of city streets. These compassion without engaging in the are overt challenges to traditional act itself.” notions of private property, efficient It may not yet make economic markets and a frenzied culture of consense to take care of our neighbors sumerism. and community, but efforts to push The question that Grace leaves back against markets are growing. lingering for his readers is “ Why?” Grace recognizes that markets have Why are we voluntarily participattheir place, but also knows that they ing in economies can’t be the bethat account for all-end-all. There externalities? is a part within us Why are we willall that rebels ing to pay the against logic and costs of injustice reason and that is and environmenthe human eletal degradation ment that Grace before our marsets out to capkets require? ture. Grace doesn’t Although only try to wrap up the given a few pages stories, or lead the in the book, the reader to a goal; story of Denver’s he is happy SAME Café (So enough to just let All May Eat) lies the stories speak at the heart of for themselves. He questions fundadoes, however, mental to Grow. harness hope that Denver’s first the book doesn’t nonprofit restauend with the last rant, SAME Café Purchase “Grow” through Groundwork page as he sees Denver, a nonprofit focused on improvlets its patrons set ing the environment and human health. enormous potenthe price for its tial for the impact menu, which is of the local food sourced from local, organic farms. revolution if it were more coordinatPatrons who can’t pay, may exchange ed and focused. one hour of work in the Café for “One of the motivating ideas for their meal. There is great skepticism Grow was always to use the book as a surrounding the sustainability of pay tool to get everyone together in the what you can models, but SAME same room,” Grace says. “These are Café thrives in defiance. people that I met separately, and I’ve always wondered what it would be like “I’ve always liked the saying, to get them together to see what would ‘Beware the brutality of the averted come from it.” gaze,’” says founder of SAME Café The collective effort of the urban Libby Birky in Grow. “Homeless peofood community is reimagining industriple are too often invisible to us. We al agriculture as a part of the greater ecowalk by and avert our eyes. What they logical system. The challenge of how to need most is dignity. When we meet feed the world rests on collaboration and them face to face, see them eye to eye, a good old dose of revolutionary spirit. really listen to them — that’s how you Grow is on sale now in major start to build community.” retails, but Stephen hopes you will buy The opposite of the averted gaze is it through Groundwork Denver, a local the examined life, which is exactly nonprofit profiled in his book, to support what Grace sets forth to accomplish the organization. Stephen Grace is the with Grow. It is no surprise when author of eight books, two of which Grace says that SAME Café was the inspired movies including Dam Nation inspiration for his book. and The Great Divide, currently air“When Libby explains what she ing on NBC. aims to achieve with the cafe, I’m Boulder Weekly
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced earlier this month that Boulder has been chosen to host a global climate change collaboration project that focuses on building community ties to fight climate change. The project, named Climate CoLab, seeks to bring experts from all over the world together and magnify Boulder’s efforts to combat climate change by building community connectivity through methods such as crowdsourcing and the building of inter-organizational ties. “We are thrilled that the prestigious MIT Climate CoLab is providing the City of Boulder a platform to gather direct input from anyone who has an interest in climate change,” said Greg Guibert, chief resilience officer for the City of Boulder, in a City press-release. “We are looking for new, creative innovations to emerge, whether it is a mobile application, a web portal or a new format for bringing people together to address climate change.” MIT’s selection of Boulder to pilot the Climate CoLab rests in part on the already existing prominence of local climate experts and environmental organizations, as well as the “lack of collaboration” that, according to the program’s website, is characteristic of many progressive communities. Climate CoLab will be accepting proposals from individuals and teams with community-centered innovations for the Boulder area through January 2016 . From there, the proposals will be reviewed by two bodies, a team of judges including Boulder Chamber of Commerce CEO John Tayer and local sustainability project c3Boulder, and a second group comprised of the general public, who will vote in spring 2016 to decide the best project proposals. —Grant Stringer
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American rancher’s pocketbook, but raising awareness for the mustang, but their animals’ health, as well as the free also inspiring adoption,” Masters tells animals’ health. On the other hand, BW. “We had dozens of organizations activists claim that the BLM is using [use] the screening of the film to raise these arguments as leverage to eradicate money for their wild horse adoption, or capture wild horses and make room for their sanctuary. And we’ve also had, for livestock grazing. Baribeau presents I don’t know, maybe 100 people that we both sides of the arguments civilly and know about that have directly adopted wisely peppers wild horses because Unbranded with expert they watched our interviews to provide movie. ON THE BILL: Unbranded. Oct. 28–Nov. the background infor“That’s the most 2. Boedecker Theater, mation that make satisfying thing for Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, Masters’ ride important. me,” Masters contin303-440-7825. Tickets start Activists and ues. “Seeing our film at $6. www.thedairy.org ranchers alike share actually make a quanthe prevailing sentitifiable difference.” ment distilled by Seeing that differMasters’ ride: ence has also spurred Americans can no longer ignore the Masters on a new career, one as a filmissue. All too frequently, nature is maker and storyteller, and Masters is seen as something that works in currently producing short videos for checks and balances and, if left to its National Geographic’s website. own devices, Mother Nature will “I’ve seen the power of documentaeventually even things out. Maybe in ry. And storytelling. It’s a powerful theory, but no longer in practice. thing,” Masters says. “With Humanity’s impact on the planet is Unbranded, I’ve seen what it’s done for too great to just let things go back to the wild horses, and educating a lot of normal. Every road, every train track, people about an issue. I want to replievery fence, every building takes from cate that with other stories that are important.” the animal kingdom and creates a Documentary filmmaking and stobarrier that halts migration. rytelling are powerful tools to raise This topic was recently explored in awareness, but Masters’ journeys speak the Colorado-produced documentary to a deeper nature — the unbridled Hanna Ranch, which comes to the same nature of the American West. Like a conclusion as Unbranded — we cannot modern day Davy Crockett in search of simply sit back and hope for nature to new frontier, Masters identifies his, and take its course. We must get involved, his fellow riders’, connection with the we must engage if we hope to correct wild mustang: “I feel like we have a lot the situation and save what we have in common with these horses. There’s left. not enough room out there for them. That is what Masters hopes the And, sometimes, I feel like there’s not documentary will inspire. enough room out there for us.” “[Unbranded is] very successful for Boulder Weekly
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Día de los Muertos: A celebration of life, death and culture Longmont uses art to connect with one another and the dead by Lauren Archuletta Mario Jose Olvera and his Art Attack class worked to create two catrinas: On the left is a European-influenced catrina. At right, the catrina wears indigenous garmets, representing pre-Spanish colonization of Mexico.
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ight now in Mexico, thousands of people are preparing for Día de los Muertos and the great celebration to honor their loved ones who have passed on. Altars are being created, filled with photos, candles and items that held significance for deceased friends and families. Toys are being placed near headstones in cemeteries, a token of remembrance for children who died long before their time. Pan de muerto, a sweet Mexican bread, is being baked in abundance in the weeks leading up to Día de los Muertos. Favorite foods and beverages will be placed on altars, in front of doorways and in cemeteries at the beginning of the celebration on Nov. 1 and will remain there for the spirits to enjoy until Nov. 2. These offerings are indicative of the belief that during this time, the spirits return to the land of the living from what is thought to be one of any four other worlds for the dead. Some households will place blankets at the altars, a symbol of comforting their former loved ones after a long journey from the spiritual worlds. The celebration itself dates back to pre-Spanish coloniza-
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tion in the 16th century, most commonly seen in Aztec practices. In accordance with European colonization and Catholic holidays, Día de los Muertos, or translated as Day of the Dead, falls close to All Souls Day on Nov. 2. Over the years, Day of the Dead has become a popular celebration in cultures everywhere, and familiar symbols associated with Día de los Muertos have become more widely recognized and celebrated. Paintings, jewelry and other household items now often portray the sugar skull — called calavera, the Spanish word for skull — or the catrina, a female skeleton often represented wearing an ornate European hat. In a classroom in the Firehouse Art Center, artist and youth educator Mario Jose Olvera has been spending an hour and a half a week working with students from Casa de la Esperanza. These students are part of the museum’s Art Attack, a class providing access to art education for students from underserved populations in the area. Recently, Olvera has focused on teaching the importance of the catrina and see MUERTOS Page 30
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what it means to their culture. He also worked with them to prepare a group exhibit for Firehouse Art Center’s Day of the Dead exhibition. “In our culture, I talk more about the basis of where the catrina came from,” Olvera says. “I want my students to know that this isn’t just Día de los Muertos, that the catrina itself is really a symbol of cultural awareness and of change.” A respected and influential community leader, Olvera is deeply connected to his Latino roots and practices Aztec dancing in addition to his artwork. He goes on to explain that in his teachings, he works with his students to understand that Mexico had a culture of its own before the Spanish influence. While his students made tissue flowers and painting their own catrinas, Olvera explained that the catrina is more than a representation of the Mexican Revolution. “I’m really grateful that I had a month to teach them, because the catrina is such a profound subject, and I didn’t want to overload them with information all at once,” Olvera says. “But I was letting them know that the catrina is part of our people, and it is a symbol of turning into who we are now. The catrina is a representation of a dissociation with indigenous culture and involves a European look, hence the beautiful French dress that is often seen in artwork. This is about taking on all these European ways of life, and
Day of the Dead alters can vary in subject matter and take on the personal intersts of their artists, like Leia Pope’s Jim Hensen alter.
it’s not just some pretty looking skeleton. It’s a symbol of a lot — of change, transition and this mix of people we are now.” For other local artists participating in Firehouse Art Center’s Day of the Dead exhibit, the significance of the celebration lies within the artwork, like with Stephanie Hilvitz, a former Firehouse employee. “I am drawn to working with the bright colors of the Día de los Muertos imagery and the deep and emotional mythology,” Hilvitz says. The inspiration of Mexican culture is evident in Hilvitz’s work. For this year’s exhibition, her catrina painting is
based off of Mexican loteria cards and depicts La Sirena, which in this case is a Día de los Muertos mermaid. “For Firehouse, this has become an anticipated yearly event for people to come together to paint and celebrate the catrina paintings in a festive, communal environment of sharing ideas of both imagery and painting,” she says. What resonates in the words of both Hilvitz and Olvera is the idea that Día de los Muertos and its teachings are all part of a celebration that is to be shared with the one another. For the community of Longmont and surrounding areas, art has proven to be a pathway that leads audiences into the Boulder Weekly
celebration. This is perhaps most evident with the Longmont Museum’s Day of the Dead celebration, which is now in its 15th year. “This event has brought the community together in a lot of different ways,” says Jill Orr, former curator of education for the Longmont Museum, in a video distributed by the Latino Chamber of Commerce. “It first started as an accident, because we thought it would be just one year as a way to reach out to the Latino community. But we wanted to make that effort again, and so we started connecting again.” Fifteen years ago, the Longmont Museum was trying to learn why more Latino members of the community weren’t coming through their doors. They decided to hold a meeting and ask this question to local Latino community leaders. “If you go by a storefront, you’ll see something that attracts something to you,” says Carmen Ramirez, Longmont community and neighborhood resources manager. “You might be attracted to a color of a dress, or some other item in the window. One of the things I thought is, ‘What would attract Latinos?’ The answer was a Day of the Dead celebration.” Since the museum’s first exhibit, the event has grown to be one of the largest Day of the Dead celebrations in the state of Colorado. Until the end of the exhibit on Nov. 8, more than 6,000 people are expected to participate in education and family programming related to the celebration. “More and more artists are coming with an altar and activities like making masks or flowers,” says Lupita Ramirez, a local Longmont educator. “It’s wonderful to see the community, not just the Spanish-speaking fellows or Americans, coming together as one to celebrate this event.” Back at Firehouse Art Center, Olvera reflects on how his class came together to create catrina paintings for people to enjoy, and the significance of what that means to a child to be a part of something on such a large scale and making contributions to the community. Their work provided a scenic backdrop for the Catrina Ball at the Firehouse, which took place earlier in October. “My Art Attack class is like a familia,” Olvera says. “I have a great group of kids between the ages of 8 to 13 that come by that worked together on the Catrina Ball. If I have one little girl who is having an issue with a certain medium, I see kids helping out all the time. And with such a multi-age group, my Boulder Weekly
ON THE BILL: Celebrating Dia de los teachings the Catrina Muertos. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth about the Ball, he Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Nov. catrina resobrought a 8. Dia de los Muertos. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-678-7869. Through Oct. 31. nated with small handful Day of the Dead Exhibit. Longmont Museum, them, and of students to 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. they were able see their work, Through Nov. 8. Free Family Celebration. 11 a.m. Oct. 31, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail to explain to including one Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. For a full list of the younger student in parDay of the Dead events at Longmont kids, whose ticular who Museum, go to longmontcolorado.gov. gears I could helped with just see turnthe majority of ing. This was great for them.” the actual painting. The Art Attack Olvera says that on the night of class and Olvera produced two paint-
ings overall, one of which depicts the catrina putting indigenous garments back on to represent the pre-Spanish culture. Olvera has since decided to spend 10 minutes from every class taking his students into the Firehouse Art Center gallery. “Knowing that their own artwork is on the wall for the community to enjoy excites them,” Olvera says. “It inspires them to do more work, and get more serious with it while being very playful.”
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laudio Monteverdi was group The Sixteen puts it, “A really Vespers in 2010, on the 400th anniverunhappy in his job. great album that just doesn’t have a bad sary of its publication. She had sung it The year was 1608, and track.” before and didn’t want the anniversary the composer was working One outstanding feature of the to go unmarked in Colorado. “So I just in Mantua for the spendVespers is its exuberant display of the jumped in and did it,” she says, under thrift Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga. newest musical styles. The early 17th the auspices of Boulder’s First United Monteverdi was overworked, he was century saw the development of opera Methodist Church where she was choir paid late if at all, and he hated the and other dramatic forms, a freer use of director. swampy environment of Mantua. So he dissonance, the beginning of tonal har“People who sang the Vespers [that did what any artist would do: he put mony, and other changes from the year] came up to me and said, ‘I want to together a portfolio showing skill in all modal music of the Renaissance. In fact, do more of this,’” Brown explains. And the latest styles, hoping to be hired away Monteverdi’s music was highly controso she formed Seicento, a choral ensemfrom Mantua — hopefully by the Papal versial and subject to fierce criticism. ble specializing in the music of the 17th Chapel in Rome. century. And this year Courtesy Seicento Baroque Ensemble That is the likely she thought it was story behind time for that specialMonteverdi’s Vespro ized group to tackle della Beata Virgine the Vespers. (Vespers of the “This is a monuBlessed Virgin), mental piece, and I known as the “1610 wanted Seicento to Vespers” for the date have this experience,” the collection was she says. published in Venice. The Vespers are Considered one of not often performed the great musical because the challenges products of the they present are monuBaroque era, the mental. It’s a long Vespers returns to work with virtuosic Boulder and Denver vocal parts and a choir this weekend for that divides into up to Colorado’s Seicento Baroque Ensemble performs the challenging yet revered performances by 10 parts. In many musical anthology that is Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. Seicento Baroque ways, Monteverdi’s notation is only an Ensemble and guest outline of a finished artists under conducproduct: the soloists are expected to add tor Evanne Brown. The ambitious extent of the Vespers ornamentation, and the instrumental The guests include vocal soloists and and its compilation of the radical new parts don’t indicate what instruments players of historical instruments from styles that were to transform music, are should play. the local area, Boston and Washington what make the Vespers an important “It’s the jazz of the 17th century, in D.C., and Baroque violinist Mimi work and one that is widely revered by that we don’t have everything given to Mitchell from musicians. us,” Brown says. “We are expected to Amsterdam. Incidentally, ON THE BILL: modify what’s on the page.” Although it the Vespers did Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Seicento Baroque Ensemble with Evanne Brown, To get the full impact of appeared as a not get 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, First United single publicaMonteverdi that Monteverdi’s brilliant innovations, you Methodist, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303would probably have to spend several tion, the 1610 job in Rome. 442-3770. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, St. Paul months only hearing music from the Vespers is not a He had to stay Lutheran, 1600 Grant St., Denver, 303-839unified work. To in Mantua until Renaissance. Then you could hear how 1432. Monteverdi’s revolutionary music burst make an impresDuke Vincenzo Soloists’ Concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, St. Paul Lutheran, 1600 Grant St., Denver, on the musical world of the 1600s. But sive and varied died in 1612. 303-839-1432. Brown says you can easily appreciate the musical résumé, The next year Tickets: 720-301-7747 or seicentobaroque. Vespers without prior study. Monteverdi his work org/Tickets-Donate.html. “You don’t have to know anything picked texts impressed from Vespers authorities at St. about the sackbut (a Renaissance-era trombone),” she says. “This is something services, other Mark’s that would appeal to anyone. psalms, hymns and texts from the Song Cathedral in Venice, where “It’s so rhythmically driving and has of Solomon. Monteverdi’s style was welcomed. He so many stunningly beautiful moments The result is less a “work” than an was hired at St. Mark’s and remained in that it goes right to the heart of our anthology of Baroque musical styles. Or Venice until his death in 1643. musical soul.” as tenor Mark Dobell of the early-music Evanne Brown first conducted the Boulder Weekly
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here are two kinds of people in B. Mauldin (Brian Jackson) and Jerry the world: those who think Allison (Matt Gnojek) when they cut Holly there are two kinds of people in loose. the world and those who know Jackson, another BDT Stage mainstay, better. Life is more shades of plays Mauldin with his usual light touch grey than black and white, so investigation and is, as always, well in command of himand elucidation of at least a ternary nature self and the material. Gnojek, who is makare nearly always required to even begin to ing his BDT Stage debut, holds his own make heads or tails of it. with Ambler and Jackson and delivers some For instance, it might be tempting to of the shows funnier lines. You may not think that Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story know that the iconic song “Peggy Sue” was would appeal only to fans of Buddy Holly’s originally titled and about “Cindy Lou.” I music and leave everyone else saying, certainly didn’t. Allison was central to the “Mailman, bring me no more tears.” The name change, and Gnojek has a ball with reality is much more nuanced. Some ardent that scene in particular. Buddy Holly fans will savor a retelling of Though the three leads play their own (left to right) Brian Murray as The Big Bopper, Brett Ambler as Buddy Holly and Holly’s meteoric rise to fame and sudden, instruments, they are assisted and suppleAlejandro Roldan as Ritchie Valens along with the BDT Stage orchestra. tragic death filled end-to-end with his most mented throughout the show by the BDT famous tunes. Others may bridle at an Stage orchestra, a group of extremely talimposter mocking their fallen idol. ented musicians that often go unrecognized. what background and orientation each audience For those unfamiliar with Buddy or his legacy, They are Neal Dunfee, Jon Stubs, Dave DeMichelis, member carries into the theater. Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story may whet an appetite Matt Burchard, Otto Lee, Rob Reynolds, Rich Far less subjective is the level of achievement of for not just Holly, the man, or his discography but his Duston, Michael Hilton, Gail Harris, Carlton Bacon the BDT Stage cast and crew. The set, by Amy significant impact on music in general. It could proand Dillon Kidd. Toward the end of the second act, Campion, features a beautiful Wurlitzer-style jukebox vide some educational musical history. I, for one, they get to take the stage, and it’s great to see them backdrop. As Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story is a never realized that “Not Fade Away,” made popular by jukebox musical, the design choice wonderfully and front and center for a change. the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones, was writBuddy — The Buddy Holly Story is basically all of winkingly frames the action. Campion’s set is decepten and first performed by Holly himself. Buddy Holly’s biggest hits, along with a few lessertively complex with many revolving and moving parts To a less interested or unsympathetic ticket holder, that minimize scene-change times. known and contemporary numbers, broken up occathe show could come off as hopelessly outdated or sionally by scenes of momentous events in the man’s Brett Ambler, a BDT regular, plays Buddy Holly. even naive. A musician might marvel at professional life. It sounds simple enough, but there is more going Beyond Holly’s signature hairdo and thick-framed actors — rather than professional musicians — playon than it seems, and director Wayne Kennedy keeps glasses, Ambler bears an uncanny resemblance to ing all of the show’s music live or might cringe at the all the players on the same beat. Holly, especially when he smiles. In addition to nailWhether you consider yourself a Holly Head or missed notes, imperfect harmonies or faltering transiing Holly’s look, Ambler lets a hint of Texas twang the only Buddy Holly reference you know is from the tions. peek around the edges of his lines, and he does an Weezer song (“Oo-ee-oo I look just like Buddy Holly; Truly, more than most other biographically based excellent job communicating a wide range of emoOh-oh, and you’re Mary Tyler Moore”), what you get live performances, Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story is a tions, from the frustration Holly felt being pigeonout of Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story will depend theatrical Rorschach test. Viewers’ reactions to it will holed early in his career to the joy of becoming an mostly on what you bring into it. depend less on what happens on stage and more on international sensation to the anger at bandmates Joe
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hank you for choosing to read my article. You could have chosen to read another article on another page, but because you decided to read this one your whole day could turn out differently than if you had just flipped the page. It’s little choices like these that the musical If/Then explores: What if one simple decision can change the course of your life? In If/Then, protagonist Elizabeth moves to New York City shortly after ending her 10-year marriage. She comes to the city, meeting new friends and old, looking to start a new chapter. In the opening number, Elizabeth is presented with a choice: start fresh as Liz or as Beth. Hence, the musical splits in two as we simultaneously follow bespectacled Liz, who soon meets her future husband with whom she will have two kids, and Beth, a highpowered city planner who forgoes family for career. If/Then opened on Broadway last year and was nominated for two Tony Awards. In mid-October, the musical launched its national tour in Denver for two weeks with a special, unprecedented twist — the stars who originated the roles came too. Reunited back on stage for the first time since Rent (1994), Idina Menzel (Wicked, Frozen) and Anthony Rapp (You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown) star in If/ Then along with LaChanze (The Color Purple, Once on this Island) and James Snyder (Cry-Baby). This Broadway talent on the Buell stage elevates the show to a must-see performance. When reviewing anything, it’s essential to look at the whole picture before making any judgments or assumptions. But as the lights came up for intermission, I was dizzy. The first act of If/Then is a sprint. Songs are chaotic, sets are constantly rotating, Boulder Weekly
characters are running in and out of scenes, new characters are being added, storylines are changing, and Menzel, the musical’s anchor, is in a state of flux, constantly putting on or taking off her glasses. It’s a tornado spiraling so quickly you barely have time to detangle one scene before the next begins. This is a severe disservice to the cast. There’s no room to catch your breath — which also doesn’t give the characters, specifically Menzel’s, a moment to shine. It’s almost uncomfortable to watch so much of the story unfold at the expense of the musical’s stellar cast. It’s hard to distinguish between songs, and it’s difficult to cultivate relationships with the characters because as soon as something happens to Liz, it’s Beth’s turn. Too much, too fast. In total, the first half of the show seemingly covers 85 percent of the plotline. And with two storylines, it’s a lot to get through. But as the lights go down after intermission, the musical’s real magic starts. As if stepping on the brakes, the musical slows down, allowing characters to grow and reflect on the repercussions of all their choices — both good and bad. No matter what stage of life you’re in, anyone can relate to the themes explored in If/Then. It’s a musical that tackles “What if?” and how our choices can feel like prisons. It delves into the issues of unrequited love, fear of love, the fine line between love and hate, resentment, lack, doubt and acceptance. In the end, the musical advises to, “Love wherever and whenever and however you should.” The second act neatly irons out the chaos of the first act, creating more ability to comprehend, digest and wonder. We’re left to decide if Liz or Beth made the “right” choice and, more importantly, to question if there even is a “right” choice.
The slower pacing of act two lets the audience enjoy Menzel as she embodies these two characters. With the fast-paced first act, it’s difficult to fully grasp Menzel’s role in this musical. While singing “Learning to Live Without,” a beautiful song debunking the notion of “having it all,” Menzel shows a softer side to her ability. This is far from her past of extraordinary characters like the hypersexual activist Maureen, the green-skinned witch Elphaba or the snow-loving Disney princess Elsa. If/ Then’s Elizabeth is a normal woman dealing with everyday problems. It’s a quieter role to see her in, and the second act allows room to appreciate it. But it would be a waste of her talent without a showstopper, and that comes during “Always Starting Over.” Alone on stage wearing frumpy clothes against a simple backdrop, Menzel delivers a goosebump-inducing performance that allows the audience to let out a collective breath of “finally.” Just as fabulous as Menzel is, so are her co-stars. Fellow Tony-winner, LaChanze is a delight to watch as the vivacious Kate. LaChanze’s mighty voice and comedic timing provide a consistent cool breeze throughout the show. James Snyder plays the dreamy army husband Josh who believes in love, and even with his big voice, he gives an intimate, touching performance. Anthony Rapp usually portrays underdog characters (note his previous roles as Charlie Brown and Mark in Rent), and If/Then’s Lucas is no exception. Rapp brings a certain charisma to the role, making the character complex and lovable. While If/Then is not a perfect musical, it’s a musical ripe for personal pondering. Just think, your life might have been completely different if you hadn’t chosen to read this article...
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Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Paul Cataldo. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Pete Kartsounes. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Thurston Group. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Von Stomper & Cycles. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Events Bee Safe Lafayette Celebration & Kickoff. 6:30 p.m. East Simpson Coffee, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010. FFFF: East Side Sushi Screening. 7:30 p.m. The Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303443-7510. Salsa & Swing Dance Night. 7:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303- 4408303. Studio Lighting for Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Friday, October 23 Music 50 Shades Of Blue. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Ben Cosgrove, Many Mountains. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Benyaro. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blue Scholars. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Brothers Gow. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Cahalen Morrison & Eli West. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Chris Dismuke. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955. The Clarks. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Dale Cisek & Mike Ryan Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Dan and Yoshi. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Dave Fulker. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. The Floozies. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Global Soul Experience. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303485-2482. Global Soul Experience. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Heartstring Hunters. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.
Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29.
Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through Nov. 28. Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 31.
Celebrating Dia de los Muertos. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Nov. 9.
Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10.
Dia de los Muertos. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Oct. 31.
Rocky Mountain National Watermedia. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Oct. 25.
Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 20. Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Jan. 3. Painted Paper Movements Through Collage. BMoCA at Macky, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 15.
Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Jan. 3.
See various artists’ interpretations of Dia de los Muertos, like this piece by Mario Jose Olvera. Learn more about where to celebrate Day of the Dead on page 29.
Pastel Paintings by Xenia J. Sease. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa
Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967-1980. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 17.
Susan Wick: Wild Women Never Get the Blues. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 3.
HOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE.
Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2200.
Lorenzo Casey. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
FFFF Films: Farang. 6:30 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU-Boulder campus, 1801 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-449-5928.
Lucas Stafford. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Saturday, October 24
The Mary Russell Band. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Mitchel Evan and The Mangrove. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-2046064. Monica Whittington. 6 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Paul Sullivan’s Folk-a-Rama. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625. Rhyhm Allstars. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Songs of East Asia. 1 p.m. CU Boulder, College of Music, Chamber Hall (C199), 18th Street and Euclid Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-1411. Tony & Jose. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
Highroad. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Idlewhile. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Weltklassik Piano Concert. 7 p.m. Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-494-5025.
The Indulgers. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Jeff Scroggins & Colorado. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4447444.
ArtSpa. 6:30 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.
Lindsey Saunders. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Cycl-
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Music Caribou Mountain Collective. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Chuck McMordie. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Craig Cornett and The Phast & Wreckless. 2 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. CU on the Weekend: Gershwin Meets Schubert. 10:30 a.m. CU-Boulder, Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-5148. Danny Barnes & Nick Forster. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Dave Honig. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133. The Floozies. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Foxfeather. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. GetUrGoat. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Holly and the Husbands. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill Southside Bar, 619 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. see EVENTS Page 42
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As You Like It. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 1. Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 14. Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 23. Evil Dead: The Musical. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through Oct. 31.
If you’re aching for some good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll, head on down to BDT Stage for BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story. Read Boulder Weekly’s review on page 35.
The Few — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 15. If/Then. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Oct. 25. How I Learned to Drive — presented by Square Product Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 7.
Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21. Tribes. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 15. The Twilight Zone: A Parody. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 14.
A Lego Brickumentary. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.
Let’s Talk Chickens. 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, Boulder, 303-776-8688.
Suzanne Westenhoefer in a One-Night Only Comedy Benefit. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 800-838-3006.
Lions and Abert’s and Bears. 10 a.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, 4241 Sunshine Canyon Driverive, Boulder, 303-678-6200. Opening Reception: Art and the Atmosphere. 5:30 p.m. NCAR Gallery, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. ORVIS Fly Fishing 101 with Front Range Anglers. 10 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375. Saturday Art Experience (SAE) Art Classes. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. STEAM Saturday: Meet a CU Scientist! 1 p.m.
Wild Goose Masquerade Ball. 8 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303- 4408303. Sunday, October 25 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Barbara Paris Trio. 3:30 p.m. Best Patio in Boulder, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Centro Fall Festival. 3 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen see EVENTS Page 44
words Thursday, Oct. 22 Martin Prechtel — The Smell of Rain on Dust. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Adobe After Effects Part 1 Hands-On Class. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Writer Anya Trahan. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Early Literacy Fair. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Tuesday, Oct. 27
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This Room: A Talk with Barbara Dilley. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Stories with Spirits presents... Something Wicked! 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Wednesday, Oct. 28 Susan Piver — Start Here Now. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.
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Chris Lee Becker, Levi Perham & Cameron Blake. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Corey Rezner. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. eTown Live Radio Show Taping with Keller Williams Trio. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Heartstring Hunters. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Hotsox. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Kate Little. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Lindsey Saunders. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.
Events BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962. Cinema Program free screening Cannibal! The Musical. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday, October 27 Music Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Blackest Of The Black & Superjoint. 7:15 p.m. The Boulder Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder 303786-7030. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Living Easy. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.
Matt Michaud Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Open Jam. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Salem. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Open Mic. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Sundays at Vic’s. 12 p.m. Vic’s Espresso & News, 2680 Broadway, Boulder, 303-440-8209.
Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.
Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
Events “Finding Peace and Harmony in a Busy Life” Talk by Tibetan Monk Lama Sonam. 7 p.m. Alfalfa’s Louisville, 785 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville, 720-420-8400.
Events Smokes and Jokes. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Wednesday, October 28 Music
Fall Festival & Great Pumpkin Race. 3:30 p.m. Bob L. Burger Rec. Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469.
Alaska Songwriter Michael Howard. 7 p.m. Roundhouse Spirits, 5311 Western Ave., Suite 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134.
FFFF 2015 Films: Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective. 2:30 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, 2301 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-1531.
Alex Heffron Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
FFFF 2015 Films: Lunch Love Community. 7 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, 2301 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-1531.
Antonio Lopez. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Graphic Design Certificate Program. All day. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Haunted Library. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120. Middle Eastern Belly Dance Performance. 6:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Nobel Prize Laureate Dario Fo’s A Tale of a Tiger. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sans Souci. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, ext.110. Theeb. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday, October 26 Music Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Face. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. I & The Many. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
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Salem. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Heartstring Hunters. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720890-3993. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Patty Griffin with Darlingside. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Robert Cline Jr. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Events Creating WordPress Image Galleries. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Tangerine. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-8076179.
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by Grace S. Sherman Signing off is a cold embrace still Destiny calls for us night and day leave behind your hearth and home and go forth from this world, bravely. Time cannot show how long death will be or if the future is still there; Yet on the eve of legend, the guardian does not fall to fear, turn sadness to hate, or lose to despair. No matter how far you may be from your land, and your seas, the song of the Earth lives in you; It is in the beating of your heart, and the sound of your voice. Earth is birds chirping a lightning storm and the sharp clap of thunder that follows every strike— Earth is the magic of a first snowfall, the feeling of being wonderstruck that never leaves you, and the trust that goodness will prevail over evil— Earth is the rushing of the wind, and the roar of ocean waves crashing on the sand. These are the things you must take with you, remember to always love, remember what peace feels like, and go forth from this world, bravely. And now we, your mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, all those whom you bade farewell do entrust to the stars, your dreams, to the planets, your hope, to Space, your courage, and Time, your destiny.
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n general, I’m not a big fan of holding artists accountable to the standard set by their best work. Making something “good” after making something “great,” doesn’t mean that the good thing is any less objectively good or that the great thing is any more great. What I’m trying to say is, Bridge of Spies is a perfectly good movie from a titan of cinema whose resume is littered with greatness. And there’s nothing wrong with that. In a way, Bridge of Spies is two separate but connected movies. The first is an optimistic courtroom defense of the principles that define America, and the second is a methodical, plodding series of negotiations over the trading of captured spies. If Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln was a dense ode to a defining American moment, Bridge of Spies is the director’s view of authentic Americanism. The first half is a pledge of allegiance, and the second is a stark comparison of our nation’s alleged values compared with dark alternatives. Tom Hanks plays James B. Donovan, an insurance attorney who is asked to return to criminal work and defend a Russian spy, Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), caught at the height of the Cold War. Donovan is sought both for his experience during the While it might not be as “great” as some of Steven Spielberg’s earlier work, Bridge of Spies is a perfectly “good” movie. Nuremberg Trials but also because his by-the-book determinism will play out in the public like a demonstration of the superiority of American law to Communist law. Donovan instantly takes a shine to Abel, and what was to be a pantomimed legal brawl turns into a real one, as the lawyer takes the battle all the way to the Supreme Court. When an American pilot is shot down over Soviet territory, back-channelled communications suggest willingness for an exchange. If the first half was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the second half is Mr. Smith Goes to East Berlin, as Hanks emotes his best Jimmy Stewart earnestness in trying to free not only the downed pilot but a college student seized by the Germans. The trailers may sell a tense thriller, but unless you count Hanks being talked out of his overcoat by the politest gang of ruffians imaginable, it’s less “thrilling” and more “interesting.” Unequivocally, the worst part of the film hasn’t been mentioned. The talented, brilliant Amy Ryan plays Donovan’s wife. She gets to nag him in one scene, worry about him in another and then doe-eyed smile at how aw-shucks awesome her hubby is. It’s a misuse so criminal I want charges brought. Also not-as-great is the film’s general lack of momentum. It never feels like an escalation or a natural progression so much as a humdrum “here’s what happened next.” That said, Rylance’s understated Abel is a scene-stealer, Hanks’ likability has rarely been as well used, and Spielberg’s thesis is one of genuine-but-muted patriotism. Oh, and the strangest thing comes at the very end. It’s not a spoiler, I swear. Explanatory text over the film’s final frames describes the real-life Donovan’s freeing of nearly 10,000 Americans from Cuba through negotiations with Fidel Castro. Quick question: Um, why aren’t we watching a movie about that? This review previously ran in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
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t the end of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, house-servantON THE BILL: The Rocky turned-space-commander Riff Raff Horror Picture Show. Sunday, threatens the sequinned-and-fishOct. 25, 8 p.m. Boulder netted Dr. Frank-N-Furter with a Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. laser trident and yells, “Say goodbye to all of this, and hello to oblivion.” And that might have been the same attitude of the executives at 20th Century Fox Studios in 1975 as Rocky Horror bombed at the box office despite the international success of the musical it’s based on. Made with a paltry budget of $1.4 million, the execs probably figured they could sweep it under the rug, and it would all be quickly forgotten. Forty years later, Rocky Horror holds the record of the longest running theatrical release in film history. Fans still gather at screenings, donning outrageous costumes ready to shout at Brad Majors (Asshole!) and Janet Weiss (Slut!) and toting props to follow along with the movie. On Oct. 25, Boulder Theater will screen Rocky Horror accompanied by Denver’s longest running shadowcast, Colorado’s Elusive Ingredient. It’s hard to pinpoint what makes the film so iconic — the music, the costumes, Tim Curry? Or maybe it’s the motivational message sung by Frank-N-Furter, “Don’t dream it, be it.” Manager and emcee for Colorado’s Elusive Ingredient Andrew Altman calls bullshit. “I think the ‘Don’t dream it, be it’ thing is a joke. It’s a farce. I think it’s crap people have tried to catch on to to find meaning in something that wasn’t intended to have it,” Altman says. “‘Don’t dream it, be it’ was a sales slogan that [Rocky Horror’s creator] Richard O’Brien saw in a news magazine in the early ’70s, and he liked the line and incorporatHappy 40th Anniversary to Frank-N-Furter and The ed it into a song.” Rocky Horror Picture Show. The film itself is a wink to the audience, flipping modern conventions and playing off of expectations. At face value, O’Brien’s creation is a camp masterpiece that nods to the B movies that came before it. Drenched in rock ‘n’ roll, the story is inappropriate and macabre, starring a bisexual, transvestite knock-off of Dr. Frankenstein. It’s rampant with sexuality and calls for surrender to passion. All of which is why Altman calls the show cathartic. Perfect in all its imperfections, Rocky Horror has the legacy of giving birth to the cult film. A big middle finger to corporate Hollywood success, the film was carried and sustained by those who really love it: the fans. A film wouldn’t stay in the theaters for 40 years without people going to see it again and again — along with introducing it to friends and passing it down to younger generations. Altman, who’s been attending screenings since the late ’80s and performing in the show since the early ’90s, figures he’s seen it a few thousand times. The film continues to be championed by a mob of dedicated fans, and it has created a community of followers from every walk of life. “Rocky has always, in the crowd and in the cast, attracted socially maladroit, the awkward, the ‘I don’t fit in with other people...’” Altman says. “It’s mostly finding an outlet for your proclivities and a level of acceptance.” It has served as a home for the flamboyant and strange, welcoming anyone to join its rank and inviting its audience to let loose. Whether you’re a virgin like Brad, Janet and Rocky, or a veteran like Columbia, Magenta and Riff Raff — no one is safe from the seduction of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Boulder Weekly
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he new Organic Sandwich Company on Pearl Street is very Boulder. It checks all the boxes on the Boulder restaurant checklist: organic ingredients, gluten-free and vegan options, posh Pearl Street location, modern and clean design, and a slightly higher than normal price tag. That is not to say that the Organic Sandwich Company is bad or trite or derivative. In fact, their sandwiches are high quality, and thread the line between modern and traditional, so you don’t feel like you’re stuffing your face, but you also don’t feel like you’re eating a piece of contemporary art. And embodying those Boulder elements comes with plenty of perks. The sandwich ingredients are fresh, they come from mostly local sources, they’re free of chemicals and hormones and other bad stuff, and the materials used in the shop are compostable or recyclable. A cynic would look at Organic Sandwich Company and blow it off as fluff; an idealist would say the concept could change the world; a hungry Boulderite would stop in for lunch. The sandwich shop offers about a dozen varieties: a handful of turkey sandwiches, some ham, some vegan and vegetarian. There’s also a daily soup, coffee and beer. The corner lot in which the restaurant resides is small, but there’s ample seating for the moderate crowd inside, and some neon green chairs and tables are set up on the patio. On a recent weekday lunch, I tried four sandwiches: the turkey and brie, the ham and cheese, the beetnik, and the chickpea and avocado salad sand-
the ham was thinly shredded so as to unlock flavor. It was piled with crisp lettuce, red onion and honey mustard. It came on a pretzel bun, which had been engineered for sandwiches, clearly. It was moist and dense, and slightly chewy. The sandwiches at Organic Sandwich Company will look small. And, in fact, they’re no deli-style or foot-long hoagie. You might expect more from the $10-$12 price tag for a sandwich Organic Sandwich no longer than the size of your Company 16th and hand. But what you pay for is the Pearl, Boulder, 720quality, clearly. 639-3986 The beetnik sandwich also came on a pretzel roll, which helped amplify some of the flavors in the beets. The brown flavor of baked pretzel and the large salt morsels baked in made the roasted and golden beets pop. There was also a nice almond feta cheese on there, which tasted sort of like feta, but mostly like almonds. But that worked for the earthiness in the beetnik. wich. The last sandwich was the chickpea and avocado The turkey and brie was a home run. Served salad. It came between two nice slices of country on a baguette smothered with brown mustard, a multigrain bread. The bread retained enough integristack of thick-cut turkey was piled about an inch ty throughout, which was remarkable given the goohigh around caramelized onions, arugula and piness of the chickpea salad. The salad was made of sliced apples. The brie was spread into the muschickpeas, avocado, scallions, cilantro and lime, and it tard, creating a powerful, creamy punch. The over- was topped with thinly sliced tomatoes and cucumall balance of the sandwich was the key to its bers. There was also some cutting of home grown greatness; thick crust bread, with creamy cheese, herbs behind the counter that were put on the sandcold and thick turkey, with sweet onions and bitter wich, which I’m always a sucker for. arugula. It was well done. So Organic Sandwich Company may be a little The ham and cheese sandwich came on a pretzel familiar and a little pricey, but for a nice, healthy bun. The cheese was gruyere, a personal favorite, and lunch downtown, it’s a good option.
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FIRST BITE BOULDER RETURNS It’s hard to believe that Boulder’s beloved restaurant week, First Bite Boulder, is already returning on Nov. 13 and running until Nov. 21. The annual tradition allows restaurants to offer $29 three-course prix fixe meals. It’s a great opportunity to chow down at your favorite places or experience new restaurants, all for not that much money. More than 40 restaurants will participate in this, the 10th year of the event. Examples of this year’s prix fixe meals include a house-made lemon whipped ricotta, an apple fennel bisque and chicken confit at Brasserie Ten Ten; or local lamb meatballs, grain-free ravioli and vegan chocolate mousse at Shine. Check the full list of participating restaurants at www.firstbiteboulder.com.
ONE MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD SAVED IN BOULDER Boulder Food Rescue, a local organization partnering with grocery stores to save food they otherwise would’ve thrown out, announced last week that they had reached a big milestone: they’ve now saved 1 million pounds of food and delivered it to the hungry in Boulder. The group says virtually all of the saved food was transported by bicycle by one of the over 100 volunteers that have signed up to work with them. Rescued food often is delivered to needy families, the homeless and the elderly. You’ll also be able to stop by their annual Feast of Fermentation fundraiser on Nov. 7 from 6-10 p.m. Visit www.boulderfoodrescue.org for more information on the milestone and the fundraiser.
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hen you’re looking for a new place to eat in Boulder County, you’re liable to check Boulder Weekly, of course. But after that, you’ll probably Google some restaurant names or some food types and see what comes up. Often what returns are links to user-reviewed food rating sites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable, Google Reviews and Urbanspoon to name a few. Attached to those links are ratings that give you an immediate numerical judgment, usually out of five points or stars, as to how good a specific restaurant is. Your brain likely amalgamates all the rankings into a thumbs up or thumbs down vote on that restaurant. That means a 15-second Google search can mean the difference for whether or not a restaurant gets your business. Data from a University of California Berkeley study actually suggests that an increase in a half-star ranking on Yelp makes a restaurant 19 percent more likely to sell out on a given night. But how effective are these sites at objectively reviewing restaurants? Who are the people reviewing on user review sites, and why do they rate restaurants the way they do? Most of these sites have a five point or star rating system. A restaurant can be given one to five stars overall, and some sites allow users to give individual stars for aspects of the dining experience such as
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ambiance, service, food, etc. However it’s sliced, the first thing a user will see is an overall star total that averages all of the reviews of all the reviewers. Some sites are more specific than others, but it’s an oddly standardized system amongst all the social media review platforms. Take Yelp for instance. Its five-star ranking system comes with guidelines for each star quality. A one means “Eek! Methinks not,” a two means “Meh. I’ve experienced better,” a three means “A-OK”, a four means “Yay! I’m a fan,” and a five means “Woohoo! As good as it gets!” There are also guidelines for decency and truth, and in fact you may have seen any number of news stories where restaurant and business
owners sue Yelp reviewers who go over the top with their review. Or take Google’s ranking recommendations. They range from “hated it,” to “disliked it,” to “it’s okay,” to “liked it” and “loved it,” with each correspeonding to a number one through five. The general gist of Google’s and Yelp’s ranking services is similar to most other review platforms. So assuming the five-point standard, I went through about 220 restaurants in Boulder and took the average of their Yelp, Google, TripAdvisor, Urbanspoon and Foursquare rankings. I found that about 71 percent of restaurants in Boulder analyzed received a 3.5 to 4 point average. That statistic tells us a couple things. One, it means these ranking sites don’t rate restaurants relative to each other, or on a curve. If they did, we would then see an average ranking of three points or stars overall. It also tells us, perhaps more pertinently here, that Boulder diners either think 71 percent of Boulder restaurants are “Yay! I’m a fan!” or “Liked it,” or it means that the manner in which social review sites aggregate rankings is flawed. The truth is that Yelp reviews are positive. After all, you would think that the majority of reviewers are likely to review a place if it was either exceptional or terrible in their opinion. About 83 million people visit see REVIEWED Page 54
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According to the world of digital food rating sites like Yelp, Open Table, Urbanspoon and others, Flagstaff House (pictured here) isn’t all that different than a decent burrito joint. REVIEWED from Page 53 Matt Cortina
Yelp every month, and data from the company shows that four or five star rankings take up 67 percent of all reviews, while one star reviews account for 14 percent. But statistics show that the rating systems of these social restaurant review sites follows the so-called 1/9/90 rule. According to Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall has dozens of diverse restaurants social media expert but according to Yelp-like websites, they are all pretty much Susan Kuchinskas, the same. about 1 percent of users create content; But the savvy diner would look at 9 percent of users engage with that this information and say that the only content by editing, sharing or rating; real way to judge a restaurant is to get and 90 percent of social media users out and try it for yourself. After all, just read the reviews. Yelp says its data people can rate a restaurant poorly abides by this rule, and judging by this because they care about napkins and non-statistician’s individual research the napkins were blue instead of and a general survey of review sites, it black. People come to reviewing with seems most follow this rule. different backgrounds, tastes and And so what we’re left with as hun- prejudices, and what these rating gry potential diners just looking for a aggregation sites do is basically cancel decent review (I realize that this sounds everyone’s peculiarities out and prolike a long-con plug for the review secvide a standardized test score. But we tion, but it’s not) is a bunch of restaudon’t shop or eat based on what the rants that rate similarly. Diners have consensus says, we shop for and eat discerning taste and these sites don’t what we like. And so you have to accurately represent that. And it is wonder what is the value of these unfair that we use them as a quality sites, and why do they have to carry marker whether we do it subconsciously such importance for nearly every resor not. taurant and business. 54 October 22, 2015
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have won the Judgment of Paris. At Chateau Montelena, winemaker Mike Grgich feared for his job after finishing his 1972 Chardonnay. Grgich had exposed the wine to so little oxygen during production that a natural browning enzyme remained in the wine for two months after bottling. Had the wine remained brown — and had Grgich lost his job — he wouldn’t have finished the 1973 Chardonnay, so Domaine Roulot’s Meursault-Charmes would have won the Paris contest. The list of inadvertent superstars goes on. John Shafer is sometimes credited with creating Napa Valley’s modern style with his 1978 Hillside Select. But that wine was an accident. Shafer had just moved to Napa Valley and couldn’t find any pickers during harvest. As a result, his grapes were picked several days later than planned — and were consequently much riper. Screaming Eagle, Napa Valley’s most famous “cult” Cabernet, traces its origins to a trash can. In 1986, former real estate agent Jean Phillips purchased 57 acres in Oakville, California. Most of her land was planted to white varieties that were sold. But one acre consisted of Cabernet Sauvignon, from which she made wine in a plastic trashcan. Curious about her homemade wine’s potential, Phillips brought some to the team at Robert Mondavi Winery, who promptly encouraged her to produce commercially. So in 1992, Phillips hired well-known consultant Richard Peterson and his daughter, Heidi Barrett. The inaugural release was awarded 99 points by Robert Parker and sold out instantly. It’s hard to imagine that Bruce Springsteen would have forever gone unnoticed — or that any of these wines would have forever failed to capture oenophiles’ imaginations. But it’s certainly possible. In wine, as in art, accidental superstars abound. David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com.
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:
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According to the online etymological dictionary, the verb “fascinate” entered the English language in the 16th century. It was derived from the Middle French fasciner and the Latin fascinatus, which are translated as “bewitch, enchant, put under a spell.” In the 19th century, “fascinate” expanded in meaning to include “delight, attract, hold the attention of.” I suspect you will soon have experiences that could activate both senses of “fascinate.” My advice is to get the most out of your delightful attractions without slipping into bewitchment. Is that even possible? It will require you to exercise fine discernment, but yes, it is.
More than any other sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life’s flow and analyze its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions. On the other hand, it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life’s flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding both its messiness and vitality. But I don’t foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks. In fact, I bet you will be a savvy watcher even as you’re almost fully immersed in the dynamic flux.
TAURUS
SCORPIO
One of the largest machines in the world is a “bucket wheel excavator” in Kazakhstan. It’s a saw that weighs 45,000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it’s perfect for the job. Indeed, that’s what it’s used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment. That’s because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way.
Are you an inventor? Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom. You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to long-standing dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I’ll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. 1. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” 2. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” 3. “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.”
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GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life’s impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don’t recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now. Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers? Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken? Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of “permanence.”
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
Terence was a comic playwright in ancient Rome. He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa. Terence’s conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad. I won’t argue with him. He makes good points. But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazy-making aspects. The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate. Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take advantage of the grace period! Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence’s version of love returns.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
In the coming weeks, you will have a special relationship with the night. When the sun goes down, your intelligence will intensify, as will your knack for knowing what’s really important and what’s not. In the darkness, you will have an enhanced capacity to make sense of murky matters lurking in the shadows. You will be able to penetrate deeper than usual, and get to the bottom of secrets and mysteries that have kept you off-balance. Even your grimy fears may be transformable if you approach them with a passion for redemption.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
New friends and unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with more candidates on the way. There may even be potential comrades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they offer? Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please make room for surprises.
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SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
Some unraveling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback. Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn’t done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don’t wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
“A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but don’t agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me. What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are?
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
Years ago, I moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: “Nature’s Way,” by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first line over and over: “It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wrong.” Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
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An ingredient in sunscreen is actively killing coral reefs in the United States and Caribbean, according to a study published this week in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. The ingredient, oxybenzone, essentially prohibits young coral from reproducing — it’s essentially the Tea Party of the coral world. But it’s about time we stuck it to big sunscreen. Those night-worshippers have been pushing their white goo on us on for decades. Sure, it protects us from skin damage and cancer. But it smells like Malibu liquor and it clumps up arm hair like that was the number one purpose of the product. No SPF could’ve prevented that burn. We don’t want to hop on the Banana Boat if we don’t have to. It sounds mushy and not very buoyant. But we have to because you protect us from the sun. This news that you’re killing coral reefs is strike two. That dog pulling down the Coppertone girl’s bathing suit was strike one. Your move, lotion jockeys.
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Someday, an alien civilization is going to visit our little blue planet. We just hope on that day they don’t pick up a paper and read about Texas oil heir Corey Knowlton. If they do, they’ll likely declare our species a lost cause, annihilate all of us and move on to another, more civilized planet. We won’t blame them, this Knowlton guy is a real dumbass of planetary proportion. First, this rich twit attends a gathering of the Dallas Safari Club where he bids $350,000 for the privilege of blowing the brains out of an endangered African Black Rhino in Namibia. On an idiocracy side note: The Safari Club — obviously made up of similarly IQ-challenged Knowltonians — claims the 350K will go toward … wait for it … anti-poaching efforts, which of course we wouldn’t need if groups like the Dallas Safari Club would simply do the world a favor and start hunting each other to extinction. But we digress. So oil heir Knowlton flies to Namibia and actually kills a black rhino. This apparently isn’t poaching so we’re just sure the Rhino was fine with having some dickhead from Texas end its life. Boulder Weekly
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industry is called “powdery mildew.” “It grows fast,” said Frank Conrad, director of Colorado Green Labs, a private cannabis testing facility in Denver. “It will cover an entire room and destroy the value of that crop.” One response from the industry has been to use Eagle 20EW, a pesticide that has the active ingredient called myclobutanil. Myclobutanil is known to be safe for human ingestion and is frequently used on food products like grapes, but it’s not approved for use on tobacco or on marijuana. “If it’s burned and generates hydrogen cyanide, that’s an entirely different problem,” Conrad said. Eagle 20EW was frequently cited as a chemical used on pot plants that Denver officials quarantined earlier this year. The issue, then, is what and how to spray. In July, the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) posted a 21-page list of pesticides on its website of those labels that might be safe to use on cannabis. “We have spent an exorbitant amount of time finding those products with a low enough toxicity to not pose a public health threat,” said John Scott, the CDA’s pesticide program manager. But he added that more research is needed before anyone can guarantee that these products are safe or effective. Which leaves workers and consumers in a precarious position. Part II of this report will run next week. This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization producing investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and environmental health. To read the full report in depth, go to http://tinyurl. com/q5ob8cj.
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Dear Dan: I’m a straight guy, married for 16 years, kids in school. My wife cannot find a way to be intimate with me. We’ve had therapy individually and together. I nearly divorced her, but we decided to stay together — we do love each other, and the economics and child-rearing favor it. After I asked for a divorce, she fucked the shit out of me for the first time in 10 years. That was the last time she fucked me. She’s “broken” — her word, not mine, and her final answer. When the subject of affairs came up in the past, she said, “I wouldn’t blame you.” I could jack off only so many times before I cracked. I went online and met a very sexual woman with a strictly NSA LaRae Lobdell thing for married men, and we fucked. I plan on doing it again. I know this could go all kinds of bad ways, but divorce just isn’t realistic. We had that one conversation, but we do not have an explicit understanding. I don’t want to head into my 50s with 10-plus years of celibacy behind me and decades of celibacy ahead of me. But I want to keep my marriage. Which kind of idiot am I? — Help Understanding BoundaryBreaking Yearnings Dear HUBBY: If I were required to answer particular types of questions based on the percentage of the mail they constitute, I would answer two questions like yours every week, HUBBY. The majority of the mail I receive is from unhappy people in sexless marriages they either don’t want to end (they have kids, they do love each other, everything besides the sex is working) or can’t afford to end (they don’t have enough money for lawyers or
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two households, one depends on the other for income/health insurance/caregiving). So which kind of idiot are you? The most common kind, I’m afraid. I’m going to take a break from questions like these — from questions like yours, HUBBY — because I’m sick of the subject and my regular readers must be, too. But for you, HUBBY, and one last time, here’s my advice for people in your situation: Do what you gotta do to stay married and stay sane. Have a convo with the wife about the accommodation you require — permission to get it elsewhere — to stay in the marriage. Reassure her that you’re prepared to spend the rest of your life with her while emphasizing that you refuse to be celibate for the rest of your life. So every now and then, for your own sanity, and for the greater good, you’re going to have sex with other women. You’ll do it discreetly, rarely, and NSA-ly, but you’re gonna do it. If this isn’t something your wife can accept, HUBBY, then your only other option is divorce. Dear Dan: These are things I (28, gay, male, single) did last night, and they show how fucked up I am. (1) I hooked up with a guy off Craigslist. It was lame, he wasn’t cute, I was bored. (2) I came home and went on Tinder (which says I’m looking for an LTR, despite that hookup). I saw a guy from the gym — but he didn’t swipe right, and I was devastated. (3) I went online and sold a pair of my used undies. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. I could use some advice. I’m sure what you say won’t be nearly as bad as what the voice inside my head is yelling at me. — What Is My Life? Dear WIML: 1. I hooked up with
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man in my 40s. I’m really attracted to women who are strong, talented and smart. She’s all that, and funny. I’ve never been attracted to someone that much older than myself. Nobody bats an eye when a guy gets with a woman who is 20 years younger, but how do I pursue her without her thinking I have some creepy fetish? Am I a creep? I don’t think so. I’m pretty average, I have an unusual but boring job developing woodworking tools, and I don’t have any kinks or fetishes to speak of. I’ve gone out of my way to make her feel special on several occasions, but it has only caused her to remark on my great customer service — and not in a flirty way. How can I let her know that I want to move into something else besides a professional relationship without creeping her out? — She Makes A Real Turn-on Dear SMART: Set aside the age difference, and how you met, and those sexist and dehumanizing double standards. (An older man with a younger woman is an attractive guy with game, an older woman with a younger man is a fetish object with no self-respect.) Set all that aside, SMART, and what do we have left? Person A is attracted to Person B; Person A doesn’t know how Person B feels, so Person A has to hit on Person B. Even if Person A does their best to mitigate the risks of creeping out Person B — Person A is polite, respectful, and does their hitting on by “asking out” not by “lunging at” — the risk cannot be entirely eliminated. Your best bet, SMART, is to be unambiguously direct with her (“I think you’re great, and I’d love to take you out on a date”) and to invite her to be unambiguously direct with you (“If you’re not interested, just say no — I’m a grown-up and I can handle rejection”). And if she’s squicked out by the age difference or wonders if you’re a fetishist, urge her to google the term “sapiosexual.” Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter
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