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Boulder Weekly got its endorsement of Walker Stapleton for State Treasurer wrong! How could you endorse Stapleton, a pro big oil business ultraconservative who vows to “fight tirelessly” to prevent environmentalists from banning fracking in Colorado? The state treasurer who since taking office in 2010 has turned a blind eye to the state Legislature underfunding its employer obligations to the PERA trust fund that started under Republican

Governor Owens in 2003. For over a decade, the state Legislature has deliberately diverted billions in PERA funds to fund ever increasing business and corporate welfare subsidies. Haven’t you read Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article, “Looting the Pension Funds”? Haven’t you read David Sirota’s report, “The Plot Against Pensions — The PewArnold campaign to undermine America’s retirement security — and leave taxpayers with the bill”? Mr. Stapleton is in league with the

Arnold Foundation’s crusade to privatize public pension plans in dozens of states across the U.S. and allow Wall Street hedge fund managers to raid pension assets. Mr. Stapleton is doing everything in his power to build up the public perception of a catastrophic underfunded crisis to set up the PERA Fund to be raided. After PERA, Social Security is next! You all at Boulder Weekly better wake up! see LETTERS Page 8

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Highroad Big Beer deceivers and bullies by Jim Hightower

t’s bad enough that the goliaths of Big Beer are consuming each other in a new round of mega-mergers, meaning fewer choices and higher prices for consumers — but the really bad news is that they’re also going after the one bright spot on tap in bars all across the country: Craft beers. These are not merely beers, but jewels of the brewers art — yeasty, hoppy, and malty local delights with unique,

deep flavors that put the “fizzy yellow” suds of Budweiser, Miller and Coors to shame. And, not surprisingly, while the sales of Big Beer’s fizz are declining, the craft brewers are up by 17 percent last year alone. And the number of craft brewers has nearly doubled since 2010. The giants have noticed… and are responding. By making better beer? Don’t be silly. Instead, they’re trying to co-opt the good name of local beer makers and dupe consumers by pretending that the likes of Bud and Miller are “craft” brewers, too. How? Two ways. First, they’ve created false fronts like Blue Moon Brewing Company, Tenth & Blake and Green Valley Brewery, pretending to be upstart independents. You won’t see the name of MillerCoors, or Anheuser-Busch on the labels — but those are the macro-brewers that own and make such ersatz micro-brews as Blue Moon, Killian’s and Shock Top.

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

Second, the deep-pocketed beer behemoths are simply buying up small craft brewers, including Goose Island (Anheuser-Busch) and Leinenkugel (MillerCoors). Again, they’re co-opting the imagery of cool independents, but — shhhh — it’s the same old Big Beer hiding behind the small guy labels. When all else fails, the giants get thuggish, using their marketing muscle and political punch to knock the craft beers out of bars and off the shelves. But the independents are scrappy — and it’s up to us quaffers of real beer to stand (and drink) with them. Cheers! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 23, 2014 7

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‘Punk’ kids refreshing in a stale political season by Dave Anderson

hat’s up with these punks?” — Fox News host Gretchen Carlson asking about protesting Jeffco students In a depressing political year, it’s invigorating to see many hundreds of high school students in suburban Denver defying a school board’s attempt to censor the history curriculum marching with signs saying “Don’t make history a mystery,” “Protest is patriotic” and “We love our teachers.” The controversy started last November when three new members — Julie Williams, Ken Witt and John Newkirk — were elected to the Jefferson County school board in a low turnout election. They were backed by Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers political advocacy group. The three formed a new ultra-right majority on the fivemember board. The board quickly abrogated an agreed-upon pay raise for teachers and pushed through a new system linking teacher pay to student performance on standardized tests, rejecting a review by a third-party factfinder who ruled the new system too inaccurate to use for setting salaries. The board redirected millions of dollars, raised for public schools through a ballot measure, to charter school expansion. It vetoed free full-day kindergarten, a program that would have particularly helped low-income parents and students. Then the board created a committee to review its Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. history curriculum. It proposed that class materials should “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights.” Classes shouldn’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disre-

gard of the law” and the course materials should portray the U.S. in a positive light, the proposal said. Julie Williams, the author of the proposal, is a member of the Neville family, an arch-conservative “political dynasty” in Jefferson County profiled by the Denver Post last year. Her brother-in-law, former Sen. Tim Neville, is running again for Colorado Senate District 16, and her in-law nephew Joe Neville is the main lobbyist for the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (the “no compromise” alternative to the NRA). The school board’s “patriotic” proposal provoked a rebellion with sickouts by teachers, walk-outs by students and angry protests by parents at school board meetings. The parent-teacher association unanimously voted to oppose the proposed curriculum review committee. The board’s opposition to the new guidelines for teaching AP U.S. history is part of a national push by rightwingers. The guidelines — recently released by the College Board, the nonprofit that administers Advanced Placement tests nationally — include such statements as “The emergence of an industrial culture in the United States led to both greater opportunities for, and restrictions on, immigrants, minorities and women.” The authors of the new curriculum say it was designed to equip students better “to carefully compare and contrast the views of leading historians, to debate and discuss historical issues, and to write analytical essays.” The Republican National Committee passed a resolution denouncing the new guidelines’ “consistently negative view of American history.” Conservative leader and Fox News commentator Ben Carson said “most people, when they finish that course,

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Dinah McKay/Boulder I was surprised that the Boulder Weekly would support Walker-Stapleton for state treasurer. He has a second job and according to a CORA inquiry spends little time in his office. The choice for Governor did not take into account the problems that will occur if Hickenlooper is not retained. The problem is his opponent. If a Republican is in the governor’s office, he will be unlikely to sign any of the good bills that are passed by Democrats that the Boulder Weekly supports. Worse yet, if the Republicans have the Senate and House as well a the Governor’s office, many of the good bills such as asset, Drivers License, Civil Unions, Trust Act, better voting rules, etc. could be repealed. Bob Norris/Longmont How could you have recommended Walker Stapleton, cousin of George Bush, for Colorade State Treasurer? As a recently retired teacher of 33 years special education, I’m offended the Weekly would support Stapleton, who not only wants to privatize PERA, but only showed up to PERA Board meetings (of which he is a member) 10 percent of the time. Cary Kennedy attended always as our state treasurer… Similarly, an open records request revealed Stapleton has only shown up at the Capital 30 percent of the time. He’s simply not done the job and needs to be replaced by someone who will. As a woman, I’m also offended you would insult Betsy Markey, my former congresswoman.

letters Stapleton self funds his campaigns drawing on the Stapleton family coffers. Betsy has been out meeting/talking with voters and garnering support in checks for $10, $20, $50 while Stapleton sits back and writes his own checks to hold his seat. I’ve lost a whole lot of respect for the Boulder Weekly. Shari Malloy/Longmont

League of Women Voters releases endorsements

The League of Women Voters (LWV) of Boulder County wants you to be informed and to vote! Educating and empowering citizens, and advocating on some issues, has been part of the League‘s mission for decades. The League does not support or oppose candidates or political parties, but provides nonpartisan candidate information through local forums and a national website. At www.V0TE411. org: 1) enter your address to see the races on your ballot, 2) compare candidates’ answers to questions specific to each race, 3) read state and local ballot issue information with pro and con arguments, and 4) get general voter information for your area. On the 2014 Election page of the Boulder County League’s website, www. lwvbc.org, you can access recordings of local candidate forums and link to websites providing general voter information, voter registration or verification of voter registration, and recommendations from the Commissions on Judicial Performance on judges up for retention. see LETTERS Page 10

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LWV members study and adopt positions on public policy matters. Based on our existing policy positions, the LWV of Boulder County has taken a stand on some of our local upcoming ballot issues. Leagues do not take any stance on ballot issues when they have not studied the underlying policy area, or have not reached agreement after study, or when some League program positions provide a basis for favoring passage of a ballot item while other League positions offer a rationale to reject the proposed measure. Issues which the LWV of Boulder County supports are: SUPPORT Boulder County Issue 1A Flood Recovery Act SUPPORT Boulder County Issue 1 B Safety Net SUPPORT Boulder Issue 2A Temporary Tax Increase for Community, Culture, Safety Improvements SUPPORT Lafayette issue 2A Public Safety Mill Levy SUPPORT Longmont Question 2A Street Fund Tax Extension On the state level, the LWV of Colorado opposes the following statewide ballot items: OPPOSE Amendment 67 Definition of Person and Child OPPOSE Amendment 68 Horse, Racetrack and Casino Gambling OPPOSE Proposition 104, School Board Open Meetings Please see the 2014 Election page on LWVBC’s website for more information on decisions to advocate or not for all state and local ballot issues: www. lwvbc.org. Your vote counts: Vote! Ceal Ruffing, President/Boulder

The Latino Chamber ballot recommendations

The Latino Chamber encourages the community to vote in favor of the following initiatives which will benefit our entire community. Most money raised will be spent locally. Boulder County 1A Flood Measure: A temporary 0.185 percent sales tax that will aid Boulder County flood damage recovery not covered by FEMA and Federal Highway dollars. It will provide funds for individuals, small business, roads, bridges, and waterways. Boulder County 1B Safety Net: A temporary human services “safety net” tax that will aid the increasing need for housing, child care, and health care. Both the flood and recession as well as the continued increase in the number of people not receiving a living wage has led to an increase in excess of 100 per-

cent in need. This amounts to $21 on a property assessed at $300,000. Boulder 2A Community, Culture, Safety: Intended to raise 28 million dollars over three years for shovel ready projects including lighting and improvement to the Boulder Creek Path, UniHill cultural enhancements, sidewalks and lighting for Chautauqua Park and the Civic Area Master Plan. Boulder 2C Broadband: Establishes a public-private Internet partnership between the City, residents and businesses. The current 100 miles of fiberoptic underground cable would be expanded keeping Boulder ahead of the curve. BVSD 3A: Aides Education Facilities Master Plan, invests in youth education, quality facilities; positively impacting residential property values. Adds school in Erie, improves energy efficiency, supports innovative teaching methods, and improves operational efficiency and functionality. Lafayette 2A - Public Safety Mill Levy: Increasing ambulance service costs, technology upgrades to police department, crime prevention and youth programs, helping ease the financial impact of providing ambulance services which are expected to increase. Lafayette 2B Recreation Bond and Mill Levy: Bond pays renovations and upgrades to Lamon pool complex, adds ADA-compliant features. adds multipurpose synthetic turf athletic field and handball courts. Lafayette 2D Fund Clean Energy: Funds energy efficiency, sustainability and renewable energy programs to leverage existing and new residential and commercial energy programs, financing tools, and incentives. Accelerates reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Longmont 2A - Street Fund Extension: Pays street resurfacing, snow and ice removal, curb and sidewalk repairs, road rehabilitation and construction of adequate bridges, improvements to pedestrian and bicycle paths, maintenance of traffic devices. The Latino Chamber/Longmont

Support of Boulder County ballot issue 1A

As the Mayor of Jamestown, I know firsthand the importance of community. Last September when the flood destroyed 17 Jamestown homes, knocked out our water system, washed away roads in and out of town, and took away our beloved resident Joey Howlett, community was ALL we had. And since that rainy week, we have continued to see LETTERS Page 11

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depend upon the help of others in our extended community, including “neighbors” from around Boulder County and across the country. Now it’s critical that we finish the job of flood recovery — by supporting Issue 1A. For less than two cents on a ten dollar purchase, this short-term sales tax increase will help bridge the estimated $56 million shortfall in County funds needed for flood recovery. It will help permanently reconstruct essential mountain roadways like those up James Canyon, Lefthand Canyon, Fourmile Canyon and Flagstaff. It will enable restoration of our damaged creek corridors and assist the hundreds of County residents who have not been able to return home yet. Also important, 1A will ensure the County is in a healthy financial position to respond to future disasters, which sadly we know will come. Issue 1A enjoys the endorsement of mayors and town councils across Boulder County, from Jamestown to Boulder, and Longmont to Lyons. But it needs your support too. When you get your ballot in the mail next week, please vote yes on 1A and help us rebuild our community. Visit www.yesonfloodrecovery.org for more information. Tara Schoedinger/Mayor of Jamestown

Joe Neguse for Colorado Secretary of State

Joe Neguse is well qualified for this important position and is committed to ensuring every citizen’s access to casting their ballot. As a first-generation American, Joe understands and values the right and obligation to vote. Joe has

letters been a successful attorney, civic leader and public servant. In 2008, he was elected to represent Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District on the CU Board of Regents. He has served as Vice-Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee and Chair of the Regent Audit Committee. He has worked to build bi-partisan support on tough issues. Joe has had a long time commitment to citizen participation in the voting process. He co-founded New Era Colorado, a non-profit, bipartisan foundation that fosters youth participation in the political process and which has registered tens of thousands of voters. In 2011 Joe authored a resolution to make voter registration more accessible to students for which he received national acclaim. Joe Neguse has the legal and financial experience to represent us well as Secretary of State. He is committed to equal access of all citizens to be able to register and vote. This is in contrast to some Republicans who have favored and/or enacted laws that, as several federal Courts have ruled, discriminate against portions of our society and are thus unconstitutional. Joe Neguse’s platform includes increasing technology to make voting easier for voters with disabilities or in nursing homes; streamlining the process for active military personnel; increasing voting options in rural areas, and more voting locations on college campuses. A vote for Joe is a vote for a more inclusive Democracy. Patricia Davis/Longmont

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they’d be ready to go sign up for ISIS,” the Islamic State terrorist group. What’s it like to be at the center of this controversy? I spoke with a middle school teacher who has taught in the Jefferson County schools for over 20 years. He wished to be anonymous. He said “Morale in Jeffco schools is rock bottom. Teachers are afraid of losing their jobs. I am 99 percent certain that the board will refuse to negotiate with the union when the contract is up for renewal.” He said teachers had taken a 3 percent pay cut at the beginning of the recession and have had a pay freeze ever since. He felt that “this country has demoralized teachers by treating Boulder Weekly

education as a business. Everything that is of high moral value is being taken out. The business model is not effective with kids. Kids are not a commodity. ... You can’t teach from the heart. There’s overcoaching, overdata, overtesting, overmanagement.” He noted there will be 28 sessions of student testing in March and April of next year. He said schools are threatened by privatizing billionaires as well as political fanatics. Public education is in danger. It is a great treasure because an educated public is fundamental to a democracy. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 23, 2014 11

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Colorado residents who have complained about oil and gas development say they have seen those complaints dismissed as the fault of something other than oil and gas, been told the concerns they’ve described aren’t serious or told to deal with it or move away.

Is the way the State handles oil & gas complaints Criminal? Criminologists find troubling pattern of state agency under-reporting complaints and leaving Coloradans feeling voiceless by Elizabeth Miller

hen two Colorado-based green criminologists turned to examine the heated local issue of oil and gas development with their area of focus in mind — not what is a crime, but what should be considered a crime — they found a pattern among the response received by the thousands of residents who have complained to the state about the oil and gas industry. What they’re reporting in a recently published study may change the conversation about development for those thousands of Coloradans effected by the oil and gas industry. They raise the idea that the way Colorado handles complaints, which leaves complainants feeling unheard and their concerns going unresolved — as though they are victims who find no recourse through the regulatory body charged with policing the industry — may actually be criminal, and these people are victims of environmental crimes. That fits with how some residents feel about the recent changes that have occurred in their neighborhoods. When Longmont resident Jennifer Medoff moved into her house, where she and her husband and children live, 14 October 23, 2014

it was surrounded by scattered oil and gas development. Then, about a year ago, the drilling boom moved in next door. Sites with one and two of the squat, beige tanks now house a handful of smoke stacks and double-tall tanks. Drilling rigs are a constant companion. “I walk along the edge of the neighborhood and you look in a direction, and it’s like when you look at the mountains, the front mountains are dark and then you go to the next line and they’re a little lighter until they almost disappear. It’s like frack tower after frack tower after frack tower disappearing into the atmosphere. It’s just gross. I don’t even want to live where I live anymore,” she says. “I feel like I live in an industrial area now. It’s really, really disheartening. We had nice gravel roads that I would run, and I don’t like to run the roads anymore. It really frustrates me. I live there, I worry about my health, I worry about the crops with the irrigation water that runs right past these wells, I wonder about the cows that are giving milk that are eating the grass that is right next to these wells.” This year, she finally took her concerns to the state’s oil and gas regulating body, the Colorado Oil and Gas

Conservation Commission. She first called to ask questions and then, about six months later, to file an official complaint. In addition to the wells being an eyesore that blocked their only view of the mountains, she was concerned she could smell gas coming from a flaring well about a mile away, that the water in nearby Union Reservoir might be contaminated, and that flaring gas was producing a flame that stretched five to seven feet high. There had been some intermittent noise, as well, and lights like those for a stadium had been used to light up the site. The COGCC employee she spoke with, she says, took as much time as she wanted to take to ask questions, but left her with the feeling that he was paid to listen to complaints as long as it took, give a few random facts and then send folks on their way. “I got the distinct impression that he was personally for drilling because I did get into some of the ethics with him and a little bit of philosophy, and the response was, he would do what he could, per his job, to ensure that the regulations were being met by this well and that there were no laws being broken,” she says.

Among the pieces of information she was given, she says, was that all of the ingredients for fracking fluid can be found in a grocery store, which, given ammonia and rat poison can be found at the grocery store, she calls a ridiculous argument. “That’s when I started to feel like he just had all these one-liners in his pocket to talk someone down, and I appreciated that he was willing to talk to me, but I did not feel like he was interested in solving the problem,” she says. He did put her in touch with the superintendent on site. “He was validating to an extent that he understood why I didn’t like this, and he went into detail explaining what the purpose of the flame was for and how long it would be there and he was right that it wouldn’t be there very long,” Medoff says. The flame was out, and the tower came down, just as he said it would, she says, and then the tower went back up. “It just goes on and on,” she says. “We love our neighborhood, we love our neighbors, we love our house, and so it kills us, you know. It’s not something that we’re to the breaking point Boulder Weekly

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Complaints most often center on changes in well water quality, though concerns with spills and leaks, noise and air quality issues, including odor, have also been mentioned.

yet, but I feel like I am a test subject, and my kids are test subjects in this population where there are dense wells in the environment. … It may have just become more dry recently, I don’t know — my son is having a lot of nose bleeds. I have a ton of headaches that are still unexplained. I don’t want to attribute them to that without knowing — I mean, that could be a whole variety of things, the dry air. I’m actually a very fair person, I try to look at all sides and try to understand things before I pass judgment, and so far what I know of this is extremely concerning to me. It’s like, if a small percentage of the health effects that people estimate could be true are true, we’re in big trouble.” The experience, on the whole, left her feeling voiceless and victimized. Though they said they would, no one from the state called her back to tell her what, if anything resulted from her complaint. “I feel like such a victim, that some rich people who live in another state decided to come in and rape my land and violate me where I live — and that’s extremely strong language and I don’t say that about a lot of things, but that is how I feel about this and it doesn’t seem like I have a lot of say,” Medoff says. “I don’t feel like my voice means almost anything.” Green criminologists who study the experiences like those Medoff reports share findings with industry and the regulatory body that monitors that industry, as a principle. “These criminologists posit that ecologically or socially harmful actions are worthy of examination even if (and Boulder Weekly

perhaps especially if ) the state does not acknowledge the phenomenon as illegal,” write the authors of the study “Energy Crime, Harm, and Problematic State Response in Colorado: A Case of the Fox Guarding the Hen House?” which is published in the November edition of Critical Criminology. The conclusion these two professors, Tara Opsal and Tara O’Connor Shelley, came to was that their research had documented the “dark figure” of environmental crime — crimes going undocumented, unreported and even unacknowledged as crimes, though the actions were nevertheless criminal. In their analysis of the response from the state regulatory agency in charge of policing oil and gas development and protecting citizens, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), they found the state engaged with concerned citizens in ways that diminished or misrepresented their experiences with oil and gas development. Official complaint reports diminished the seriousness of complaints filed by thousands of Colorado residents who say oil and gas development near their homes is affecting their quality of life. The organization also demonstrates a pattern of blaming problems on factors other than oil and gas development, including the people who called in the complaints. It all has the effect of a smokescreen that reads “mistakes were made,” rather than crimes were committed. Victims of crimes committed against the environment and human health are studied in the emerging field of green criminology, which applies the idea of crime to the sense of wrongdo-

ing rather than exclusively to lawbreaking. Examining the general way regulatory agencies and the industries they regulate function — for example whether the fines assessed oil and gas companies have any effect on their behaviors — and how the public responds to those agencies also fits within the scope of study for criminologists. Their first hurdle comes with addressing the image of what defines a crime and what defines a victim. “One of the goals is to look at crime outside the traditional or mainstream definition of crime. We typically see crime very visually as street crime — so, murder, rape, robbery, burglary, those kinds of things, and if you ask a person to name a crime those are typically the crimes that they’ll mention,” says Melissa Jarrell, associate professor of criminal justice at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. “So one of the main goals of green criminologists is to examine environmental harms and call attention to these types of harms — and we often use the word ‘harm’ because many of the behaviors are harmful, yet they’re completely legal behaviors. … So the majority of green criminologists tend to define crime as legal and illegal behaviors that cause harm, because there are quite a few things that are completely legal, but shouldn’t be, and that gets into the whole power dynamic of who decides what’s a crime and what isn’t.” In green criminology, that lens shifts to examine ecologically and socially harmful actions in a way that redefines both what constitutes a crime, and what, or who, can be a victim.

“I see this happening here in south Texas with the oil boom — a lot of people are getting very rich, very quickly, but the legacy of environmental pollution and what that does to people’s health is disturbing,” Jarrell says. “Criminologists are trying to point to this behavior and show that indeed much of it should be considered criminal behavior.” To complete their research on Colorado’s handling of the oil and gas industry, Opsal and O’Connor Shelley began by downloading 2,444 complaints from the COGCC database — each of which is filed individually with no aggregate record or longitudinal analyses available — and analyzing the content of those complaints. They identified 19 concerns listed by complainants, the most ubiquitous being well water issues such as changes in odor or appearance, water quality or even water lighting on fire; dumping, spills and leaks of produced water, oil, contaminated mud and other substances; air quality concerns like odor, air pollution, venting and flaring; and noise from oil and gas activity. “Regardless of the nature of the harm, our interviews revealed that most were persistent and omnipresent rather than short-term isolated incidents,” their report reads. To the 732 complainants who included a complete address, Opsal and O’Connor Shelley sent letters asking for interviews, received more than 100 responses and were able to interview 65 individuals. They drove hours across the state to visit these people in their See CRIME Page 16

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homes and tour the sites that were the source of their complaints. “We had a lot of compelling data, and the data that’s in the Critical Criminology article is representative of other participants’ experiences that we heard, so it’s not just sort of a random collection of stories. We chose those stories because they were representative data of other perspectives,” Opsal says. Study participants were also scattered throughout the state, in areas with low intensity drilling as well as some with high intensity drilling — though most respondents tended to cluster in areas with a high density of drilling, such as Weld, Garfield, La Plata and Huerfano counties. “These participants, they’re a wide range of individuals,” O’Connor Shelley says. “We’re talking to ranchers, farmers, people that own a lot of property or don’t, a wide array of experiences with oil and gas activity, some are new to it, some grew up with it and are very familiar with it. Some people who work in the industry. … One of the interesting things is there’s a variety of support for oil and gas development as well, so we have a pretty diverse sample. … Definitely people who are very supportive of industry, but would prefer that industry respond to things differently, handle things different, or for the state to respond differently than the way that they experienced.” Their study was entirely self funded. “We didn’t seek out funding because this issue is so contentious that who your funder is could often be used as a way to make conclusions about the research, so we really wanted this to be pure academic research without getting funding from any stakeholder group, any environmental group, we didn’t take money from the industry,” Shelley says. “We had participants ask us if we had received funding from either environmental groups or industry, so it was always important for us to be able to say the study wasn’t funded by either.” The responses O’Connor Shelley and Opsal reported align with the sentiments Medoff shared — one of having barely been heard, and having no recourse and little response from the agency they expected to protect the health and welfare of Coloradans and preserve the environment for future generations. During each interview, Opsal and O’Connor Shelley began by showing the participants the COGCC paperwork on their complaint. “Many participants expressed sur-

prise, confusion, chagrin or outright anger when they read the state’s formal account of their experiences because the forms often did not accurately represent the harm participants believed they had reported,” their study reads. One complainant, referred to only as “Dan” (the names they list are pseudonyms to protect individuals from any recourse) had called the COGCC over several years to make complaints about traffic, dust, noise and light from oil and gas operations near his house and, eventually, health effects such as headaches, dizziness, uncontrollable nosebleeds and flu-like symptoms. When handed the complaints O’Connor Shelley and Opsal had downloaded from the COGCC database, he said not all the complaints he’d made were there. “I think they probably got tired of me calling and complaining, so that’s probably why you did not find all of my complaints and why they are not in the public records,” he told them. Often, participants said the official records misrepresented their experiences. One couple, “Rick and Jenni,” said they’d come home to find their cows refusing to drink from a water tank because the water had become milky white. Oil and gas development had just begun nearby, so they contacted the COGCC to complain. A representative hydrologist came out and acknowledged a visible problem, but the report reads as though the hydrologist wasn’t concerned about it. Rick and Jenni were told that the changes they saw in their well water — which they described as looking milky or muddy, sometimes effervescent or oily, and smelling like rotten eggs, sulfur or hydrocarbons — were caused by naturally occurring methane or a failure to do proper maintenance on their well. The most common state response to citizens’ concerns, which was particularly common with well water complaints, was that they simply did not result from oil and gas activity. Often, the person making the complaint was blamed as the cause of the issue. But throughout the state, in multiple participants’ homes, O’Connor Shelley and Opsal heard similar characteristics described in changes for well water quality. Like “Cade and Mandy,” who reported their well water turning muddy and murky gray, with oil slicks. “You could just barely see through it to the bottom, and when you did, you could see there were big piles of sediment on the bottom,” Cade told the

researchers. “It was not like, ‘I think it may look a little different,’ it was like, ‘What the hell happened here?’” And it happened the day the well nearby was fracked, he said. As with Rick and Jenni, the COGCC response blamed problematic well maintenance on Cade and Mandy’s part. Cade told them he felt the state agent who worked on his case was told to “sweep this one under the rug,” and that the many tests of his well water were conducted simply to disprove the complaint. He was among several participants who made comments expressing doubt that the state’s operations were impartial. “It’s like, ‘Get the gas if you don’t screw everything up in the process,’ versus ‘Get the gas and worry about the rest of it later,’” he told researchers. If the state did acknowledge harm, complainants were told the harm they experienced wasn’t significant enough to be considered a violation of regulatory rules — but, having reviewed the official complaint, participants also expressed a sense that the state’s documents expressed a reduced sense of seriousness for the harm they were experiencing, and state response was ineffective. The study found that “the state’s responses they described rarely stopped or fixed problems [participants] experienced,” and “instead, relayed a consistent message: oil and gas activity is not harmful and you are not an environmental victim.” “Nate and Barb,” who lived within half a mile of six well pads, complained to the COGCC about the smells coming from those wells and claimed health effects that included “sores in their noses, trouble breathing and uncontrollable coughing.” When a COGCC agent visited their home, he acknowledged that there was an odor in the air, but air quality tests revealed the problem was “not harmful enough” and “did not qualify as problem enough to mandate a change in industry behavior.” Barb said she was told, “It is your responsibility to leave if you get odors that you can’t handle.” This response in particular, the researchers said, “often left participants feeling helpless, angry or stressed because problems typically lingered for considerable lengths of times and these environmental victims felt there was little they could do to change their own See CRIME Page 18

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circumstances.” situation of the fox guarding the henedgement that they’re not protecting Some participants have also stopped house, the researchers took it a step fur- the environment or people’s health. reporting their concerns to the ther, saying that “not only is the fox They’re protecting the interests of COGCC because they saw the agency’s guarding the henhouse in Colorado; the industry at the expense of people.” response as inefO’Connor fective — meanShelley and Opsal ing that the ongofound that the ing, official record compulsion to keep THEY of Coloradans’ feeding a capitalist DESCRIBED RARELY STOPPED OR FIXED PROBLEMS experience of oil economy requires and gas activity is the state to enable [PARTICIPANTS] EXPERIENCED... [AND] INSTEAD, missing documenthe advancement of RELAYED A CONSISTENT MESSAGE: OIL AND GAS tation of those the oil and gas concerns and not industry. ACTIVITY IS NOT HARMFUL AND YOU ARE NOT AN representing real Fracking is also ENVIRONMENTAL VICTIM.” — TARA OPSAL AND experiences. fueling an oil and “Formal repregas boom in Texas, TARA O’CONNOR SHELLEY sentations of the and Jarrell says, “In problems are misTexas, and I’m sure leading and citithis is often true in zens ‘real’ experiColorado, they tell ences with oil and gas activity remain fox and the industry are actually one in us point blank that industry, business misrepresented or untold,” the study the same.” concerns, jobs are more important than states. “That doesn’t surprise me,” says the environment and of course the peoOpsal and O’Connor Shelley charTexas A&M’s Jarrell of the study’s con- ple affected by environmental crimes.” acterize that as concealing harm and clusion. “That’s been true in Texas as Part of the trouble is the timing. enabling industry expansion, and the well.” “You have to drop dead right on the participants response as feeling that the She points to the Texas environspot or be injured right away in order state regulation and COGCC are actumental agency’s board in charge of oil for us to conceptualize that as a probally “invested in getting it wrong.” and gas development, which is stocked lem. We don’t look at the person who’s As one of the study participants with businessmen instead of environexposed to dangerous chemicals over a explained, “They wanted the industry, mentalists. (The COGCC is similarly long period of time who may develop for the economy. … And if they have to loaded with individuals employed by cancer as a result — we’re not worried about if that happens 20 years down the sacrifice a few people, well that’s too the oil and gas industry.) road. The immediacy issue is the probbad. We just happen to live in the mid“Our environmental agency rubber lem,” Jarrell says. “So if, like Deepwater dle of it.” stamps industry, basically,” she says. Horizon, if that occurs, or the explosion While the participants declared it a “That’s been a long-running acknowl-

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that was louder than a dishwasher, but not as loud as a hairdryer. That was loud enough for Synergy to be issued a violation. “The noise, that was like a very small part of what I said to them, because at that point there wasn’t a lot of noise,” Medoff says. She never heard from the inspector when he visited the area, never heard back from the COGCC, though she’d been told they’d look into the matter

and call her back. She hadn’t even heard that the well had been in violation. Told of the contents of the inspector’s field report, she responds, “The problem with that is that it’s not a constant noise source, so there are times where they go to actually check it, and it’s not making any noise at all, so I don’t think that’s really valid unless they continue to go back. But I’m glad to hear that they were in violation.”

Oil and gas activity has continued near her home, and she says if that previous well was in noise violation, some of the more recent ones in operation likely are, too. A recently established well is near a large irrigation ditch, and she plans to call to ask a few questions about that, too, Medoff says, “Not that I believe that my little voice is going to make any change whatsoever.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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in Texas City or Exxon Valdez, if it’s an immediate disaster and a high body count, we see attention drawn to the issue. But absent that, it’s like the Ebola thing right now, certainly it’s something we need to be concerned about, but where is the uproar over environmental crimes that are causing far more harms to far more people?” Jarrell also points to systemic problems with regulation. Much of the environmental data is self-reported from companies that might be doing the harm and that regulatory bodies are limited in what they can enforce simply by the number of inspectors and criminal investigators available. The Environmental Protection Agency, for example, has 200 criminal investigators for the entire country looking for environmental criminals. The Boulder Police Department alone has 288 full time employees. “I look at environmental regulation as a very distant concept. It’s not very hands on,” Jarrell says. She lives in a town with six oil refineries, and the brunt of those environmental affects hit people of color from a lower socioeconomic status, she says, and there’s not much political or social focus because it seems like a problem just for that group of people. One of the dialogues they’re having in south Texas is to realize that pollution affects everyone. “Pollution isn’t going to just affect poor people of color, it affects everyone in the community, but until people in positions of power are affected directly, I don’t know if we are going to have that type of response that we need,” she says. In Medoff ’s case, the COGCC report about her complaint lists a number of issues — noise, odor and concerns about surface water. It does not mention her concerns about the flame, although that was, she says, central to her complaint. The report, instead, focuses on noise concerns, and details the inspector’s site visit and the corrective action required to reduce the noise level. Notes also mention that an Oil and Gas Team of the Air Pollution Control Division inspected the well site on the day she complained, and noted that no odors were observed near her home. Thermal imaging cameras indicated possible emissions from a tank battery, and the state asked for corrective actions. An inspector later following up on the noise concerns took readings near Medoff ’s house and then approached the well. The decibel levels he recorded near her home were on the level of the hum of a refrigerator, and within 350 feet of the well, the noise rose to a level

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t took about 15 whole seconds for the board members to stand up. Now, that’s a bit of a cheap shot, but it illustrates a broader point about influence in the Colorado Legislature. One group you’ve probably never heard of, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, commonly referred to as CUT, holds significant sway in Denver, according to numerous legislators on both sides of the aisle. Specifically, their policies directly affect Republican action, even striking fear into Republicans who vote against CUT positions. CUT’s annual rankings measure each member of the Colorado House of Representatives and Senate based on how they voted on bills throughout the session. Those rankings make the rounds at the statehouse, giving some legislators who followed CUT’s recommendations scores as high as 100 percent (Republican Sen. Randy Baumgarner of Hot Sulphur Springs and Republican Rep. Perry Buck of Windsor) and some legislators as low as 0 percent (Democratic representatives Jeanne Labuda of Denver and KC Becker of Boulder). Though there are dozens, if not hundreds, of other lobbying and influential groups at the statehouse, CUT is the only organization that sends policy positions directly to legislators every week on almost every bill. Their influence on legislators ranges from acknowledgement to tacit obedience. And so it’s important to note that at their annual “Taxpayer Champion” event on Oct. 16, it took the elderly board members some time to get out of their chairs in the basement of the Independence Institute in Denver and wave to the sparse crowd of perhaps 30, out of which six were legislators about to accept awards. There was a long table with homemade pumpkin-shaped cookies, Ritz crackers still in the wrapper and a Safeway crudités platter. There were three coolers with water and Sprite, though one guy had a can of Corona. Shabby lighting and decorations, inoffensive snacks, cheerful fellowship lit by the fire of being a righteous voice in a daunting new age and empty brown folding chairs. It was all very Saturday 20 October 23, 2014

night church youth group. Or maybe group will then make a decision on Elk’s Club. each bill and send out their position In front of a 3-by-5-foot red, white and reasoning to each member of the and blue banner that read “Colorado House, Senate and members of the Union of Taxpayers,” CUT President media. CUT receives funding mostly Gregory Golyanksky opened the evethrough private donations. ning talking on a big, corded microGolyansky says CUT’s efficiency phone about lowering taxes and the and prolificacy provides a valuable sertyranny of government. In the evevice to lawmakers who do not have ning’s accompanying brochure, time to read the more than 500 bills Golyansky wrote, “The whole political that are introduced every legislative atmosphere is beginning to resemble session. Germany in the “Legislators 1930s.” see [that] if we “Our primary support it, it’s a occupation is to good bill,” keep the legislaGolyanksky says. ARE DOZENS, IF ture accountable “We provide NOT HUNDREDS, OF with respect to important help OTHER LOBBYING AND taxation, as well for them when as other issues they know we INFLUENTIAL GROUPS that are in our have reviewed AT THE STATEHOUSE, pledge: private the bill thorproperty issues, oughly. We have COLORADO UNION OF free market people who are TAXPAYERS IS THE ONLY issues, charter basically helping schools,” legislators ORGANIZATION THAT Golyanksky says. decide.” SENDS POSITIONS TO The official When CUT LEGISLATORS EVERY credo for CUT makes its annual includes commitratings of legislaWEEK ON ALMOST ment to fervently tors, it takes 30 EVERY BILL. support the or so of the 500 Taxpayer Bill of bills proposed in Rights, or the legislature TABOR, which was a controthe previous session that most exempliversial 1992 bill that has since fy their mission and rate legislators on required all tax increases to be voted on how they voted. Of the 30 bills CUT by Colorado citizens. CUT actually based their rankings on in 2014, they was born out of the TABOR moverecommended a “no” vote on all but ment, Golyanksky says, and is a driving two: a bill that outlawed red light camforce for CUT policy decisions. eras and a water rights bill. CUT also asks legislators to pledge Bills CUT recommended a “no” to oppose any new tax increases, supvote on included those that proposed port a state spending limit, refund all giving in-state tuition to American tax surpluses to taxpayers, support Indian students (HB-1124), expanding school vouchers, support privatizing availability of affordable housing (HBgovernment agencies and defend pri1017), making children’s healthcare vate property rights. About 200 politimore affordable and available to more cians, mostly state assembly members people (HB-1317) and giving more and candidates, have signed the official comprehensive insurance to firefighters CUT pledge. (SB-172), among others. CUT operates efficiently. At the Even though CUT will be the first beginning of each legislative week, bills to say their policy positions are narrow on the docket are divided among the in scope, many lawmakers agree that 12 board members. Those board mem- CUT is a reliable source for all policy bers review and synopsize the bills decisions. before the meeting as a group. The “CUT ratings kind of give me a

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guide when I’m thinking about a bill,” says Rep. Lori Saine (R-Dacono). “Usually after I read a bill, I’ll find the CUT ratings — they’re a healthy marker.” Saine (CUT score: 100) says though either side can form their own opinions, both Democrats and Republicans always have an eye on CUT scores. “Both sides pay attention to it,” Saine says. “It gives them a marker as well to see how their bill is going to be voted on. What’s nice is that [CUT does] a really good job explaining why they think it violates principles of lower taxes.” Sen. Kevin Lundberg (R-Berthoud) says that CUT positions on bills may not always dictate his vote, but are used as a factor in judging his performance. “I have appreciated the CUT rating system,” Lundberg (CUT score: 92.59) says. “It helps legislators gauge their votes with respect to holding the line on spending and defending the interests of the taxpayer. CUT rarely influences my vote before I cast it, but it is a great tool in evaluating what I did with my votes.” Even the most senior Democrat in the Senate, Majority Leader Rollie Health (D-Boulder) says CUT has significant influence. “I think I have reasonable relationships with my colleagues on the other side [of the aisle],” Heath says. “And on way more than one occasion, I will go to them and say ‘Can you support the bill?’ and they will say to me ‘I need to check what CUT is saying about that’ and they are very open about that and that’s kind of the way it is.” Heath (CUT score: zero) adds that their influence has a foothold in part because “CUT is the only group I know that takes a position on everything.” Indeed, CUT’s mere presence is enough to influence lawmakers, and Golyanksky says Republicans will vote with CUT because a good CUT score is important in heavily conservative districts and in Republican primaries. But have CUT’s policy statements ever affected individual pieces of legislation? Heath and other Democrats say it’s tough to pin the fate of one piece of Boulder Weekly

Just a Little Hippie Boutique legislation to a lobbying group, but CUT would be the group to do it. “I have heard some legislators say they voted a certain way because of the CUT rankings and that’s too bad,” says Rep. Mike Foote (D-Lafayette; CUT score: 3.45). “We should exercise our independent judgment on issues and not vote a certain way just because CUT says so.” The Speaker of the House, Rep. Mark Ferrandino (D-Denver), says he’s seen Republicans use CUT policies to determine their stance on several votes in the past. “[CUT has] influence on the Republican side and I would argue view things in a partisan light and don’t support Democratic bills that should tie to their priorities,” says Ferrandino (CUT score: zero). “So while they are a simple way for Republicans to decide how to vote on bills, they do not provide valuable input to the complex dialogue needed during the legislative process.” Ferrandino’s point echoed many Democratic legislators who say even though CUT says it is non-partisan, the group really is not and their divisiveness prohibits compromise. “I look at my score, I was kind of surprised to get a zero this year,” says Sen. Pat Steadman (D-Denver). “In the past couple of years, they’ve liked some of the bills I’ve sponsored and some of the things I’ve done. I’m puzzled by some of the things that get their attention.” “With Republicans having been in the minority, I don’t think [CUT has] had a great deal of influence,” Steadman continues. “There are a couple times we scratch our heads and wonder why Republicans are voting ‘No’ on this and then we find out CUT’s position on it.” However, with the potential for a swing in the majority (Heath says he’s cautiously optimistic the Senate will remain blue in this election), CUT’s positions could become more influential — that is, it could go from a GOP litmus test to a major factor in policy. Rep. Saine says groups like CUT and Principles of Liberty (POL), a similar group, have been increasing their share of influence among lobbyists steadily. “POL and CUT, they’ve been gaining the most influence in the legislature in the last couple years,” Saine says. Democrats don’t have a comparable group to CUT, says Sen. Heath, saying that because CUT comments on every bill, there is always that standby for Republican lawmakers to rely on. And it’s that kind of foundation that could grow CUT’s influence, should party majorities shift in future elections. Boulder Weekly

Now every legislator pointed out that they make their own choices and survey a wide variety of outside groups when they are deciding to vote on a bill. Heath says there are hundreds of lobbying groups in Denver and he listens to everyone, including CUT. “My way of looking at it is, I will listen to everybody to get their point of view … [but] I think my constituents matter more than any one advocacy group,” says Heath. Some major influential groups at the statehouse include Bell Policy Center, Center on Law and Policy, the American Civil Liberties Union and more individualized advocacy groups. Sen. Ellen Roberts (R-Durango) says CUT has an anti-rural bias and so she has had to buck the party’s tie to CUT and pay attention to some of those more individualized and localized groups (resulting in one of the lowest CUT scores for a Republican at 40.74). “I listen to all perspectives on any given bill, but some groups are more relevant to my district than others,” Roberts says. “Voting for favorable grades on a scorecard from any group is not a way to responsibly legislate,” Roberts says. “Especially for grades on arbitrary scorecards from organizations who fail to consider the whole state, not just their own backyard.” In the end, Democrats are not afraid to tout their low CUT score as a badge of honor, and some may have even voted against bills simply because CUT was in favor of it. “Democrats also look at [our policy on bills] but when they see we support it, they tend to oppose it,” Golyanksky says. “Some of my more liberal colleagues take pride in scoring as close to zero as possible while my conservative friends hope for a high ranking,” says Rep. Chris Holbert (R-Douglas; CUT score: 100). “I’ve had Democrats cite the POL or CUT score as their reason to not vote for something,” Saine says. “Sometimes they’ve said ‘If it’s got a good CUT score, I’m voting against it.’ That was a joke, but it shows you they’re paying attention to it.” Having vehement opponents of the group is good for CUT, Golyanksky says, because it means they’re doing their job of upholding beliefs that aren’t always popular. “You know what Winston Churchill said is it’s good to have enemies because it means you stood for something one time in your life,” says Golyanksky. “I’m proud of having enemies and you can quote me on that.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Paul Weissmann has his own plans for the Boulder County Treasurer’s office by Josh Gross

n the surface, the race for Boulder County Treasurer appears to be one of the least interesting issues on this year’s ballot. Democrat Paul Weissmann is running unopposed to replace incumbent Bob Hullinghorst, who is being term-limited out of office. “I don’t like that it’s unoppsed,” Weissman says. “Most people aren’t that engaged. The campaign is the one real chance to talk to voters about your ideas.” Weissman says his wife is on the other side of the fence, and toally fine with there being no opponent. But to those outside the Weissman family, Unopposed lacks conflict, and the job of treasurer is decidedly not sexy. But here’s the thing that makes it interesting: Weissman doesn’t really want to be treasurer. Yes, he wants the job, but he’s quite open about his ulterior motives. “The motivator for me in this race is that there’s one guy [the county treasurer] that has contact with every board in the county,” Weissman says. “The thing that thrills me about this race and this position is to become a conduit for cooperation.” It’s a slightly nebulous-sounding goal. But Weissman worked on and off in the state legislature for 20 years, and developed a reputation as something of a fixer, someone that bridges divides and makes things happen behind the scenes. And he says he kept running into the same problem: a lack of coordination between various agencies and departments; hubs where cities, counties and subcommittees could go to get the answers and resources they need. “I look at the stimulus plan that was passed years ago. [At the time,] Lafayette was trying to find money for a firehouse. It would have been nice if there was one place they could have gone to find out about available money,” he says as an example. Weissman says it’s little things, like coordinating where road maintenance begins and ends, or arranging where city and county snowplows turn around so that agencies like schools don’t have to bring in their own plows, that could make government more effective and efficient. Weissman says he pitched the governor on the idea, but it didn’t get any traction. So he wants to try it on his own. Boulder Weekly

should do is collect and distribute property tax and nothing else,” he says. One of Hullinghort’s big efforts was pushing for more Boulder County residents to take advantage of the earned income tax credit, which in the several years he ran the program brought more than $4 million back to 2,000 Boulder County residents. Hullinghorst says another of his successes was a lean government plan. “We involved over 12 departments on our own initiative in the lean government program,” he says. “And I know that the community services program said in an open meeting that that had helped them in the recession to provide expanded service equivalent to staff members they didn’t have to provide budget for.” One place he felt he could have done more was addressing that the largest amount of county money spent goes to the the criminal justice system. “Fully 25 percent of the people in our county jail are there for failure to appear,” he says. “And the whole idea of all public employees getting behind an effort to reduce violence, especially bullying in the schools, is something I have very close to my heart. As a former cop, this is close to my heart, and I was especially discouraged that people came to me and said this was an area not to meddle in.” But he doesn’t want to give the impression he is criticizing the County Commissioners. “They just have other priorities,” he says. Hullinghorst is glad Weissmann will be attempting to rise beyond the treasurer’s duties. “I’m really pleased,” he says. “I may have encouraged Paul to think of the office that way. And I certainly hope that some of these things can continue. I expect Paul to be a leader. And I don’t expect him to have the same interests I do.” And Weissman, for his part, is realistic that it’s not as much of a slam dunk as it seems like. “It might not work,” he says. “If it doesn’t, quite frankly, I’ll be miserable because I’ll just be there pushing paper around. Give me a year and we’ll see.” If it doesn’t work, he can always fall back on his weekend gig bartending at the Blue Parrot in Louisville. “That’s my escape,” he says. “Also, quite frankly, it’s where some of the better ideas come from.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

“IT IS OUTSIDE THE PURVIEW OF THE TREASURER,” HE SAYS. “BUT QUITE FRANKLY, IT’S WORK THAT MAKES SENSE.”

“It is outside of the purview of the treasurer,” he says. “But quite frankly, it’s work that makes sense.” Outgoing treasurer Bob Hullingshorst doesn’t think it’s odd at all. In fact, he tried some of the same moves during his tenure as treasurer. “I’ve tried to do that,” he says. “Not very successfully.” Courtesy of Paul Weissmann

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A look at how addictive substances are damaging the environment by Caitlin Rockett Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/TeunSpaans

umankind’s relationship with psyderived from the milky fluid from the opium choactive substances can be traced poppy. Opioid pain relievers, such as oxyconback thousands of years to religious done, hydrocodone and morphine, have found trances induced by specific plants their way into American recreational drug culand fungai. But some substances are ture. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control more addictive than others, and opium, caffeine reports that drug overdose death rates in the and nicotine have become commonplace, in some United States have more than tripled since senses socially acceptable, vices. 1990, with opioid pain relievers playing a signifWe know addiction can wreak havoc on the icant role. body and unravel the very fabric of an individu“These drugs were involved in 14,800 overal’s life, but the damage extends beyond the indidose deaths in 2008, more than cocaine and vidual lives. The cultivation of many of the heroin combined,” writes the CDC. world’s most addictive substances, combined with As for cocaine, virtually all coca comes from a growing global population and demand, is Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. While the latest damaging the environment and reducing biodiWorld Drug Report from the United Nations versity across the planet. indicates that overall global availability of “Typically, we think of people losing relationcocaine has fallen, coca-producing countries like ships with friends and family and also the physiColombia have endured significant environmencal and mental damage that can occur, but there tal damage from decades of intensive coca cultiare larger things going on in the world,” says vation. Garrett Graff, online content manager for Steps Colombia has more than 60 million hectares to Recovery, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation of forest, accounting for nearly 59 percent of its land area, according to the U.N.’s Global Forest facility in Levittown, Penn. The group recently Resource Assessment. The dense, tropical forassembled an online resource on the environmenests of South America are one of the world’s tal impact of human addiction using academic studies from government institutes, scientific largest carbon “sinks,” where trees capture and Opium seeps from a poppy seedpod. The deforestation of Burmese journals and American universities. store carbon dioxide. But between 2000 and forests to make space for more opium poppy fields has intensified “We’re trying to promote kind of an informa- soil erosion and nutrient depletion in the country. 2005, the U.N. estimated that Colombia lost an tion-first way to help people, not only just to average of 47,000 hectares of forests each year deal with their addictions, but also the effects — a total of 235,000 hectares. The exact that go outside of what’s typically thought of with country by 2014, conflicts and the falling price of amount of loss due to increases in coca bush cultivaaddiction,” says Graff. other crops pushed northern farmers to dedicate tion is complicated to pinpoint (U.N. and U.S. estiGraff offers opium as an example. Myanmar (also more land to poppies. The deforestation to create mates vary in some years), but 2012 estimates from known as Burma) is the world’s second biggest promore space for poppy fields has increased soil erosion, the U.N. show 48,000 hectares of land dedicated to ducer of opium, supplying the U.S. with an estimated and in some cases forests were burned to clear land, coca cultivation, down 25 percent from 2011. 50 percent of its heroin. While the Myanmar govern- generating carbon dioxide in the process. See ADDICTION Page 26 ment laid out plans to end drug production in the And heroin isn’t the only addictive product

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A drop in coca cultivation is posiattracting pollinators, and creating a tive thing for Colombia, but a 2011 system of roots that could stabilize soil study lead by ecologist Liliana M. during heavy rains. Annual pruning Dávalos concluded that while coca made room for corn and beans, as well. plantations make up only a small part But coffee plantations began to of deforestation, they drive deforestamake the move toward monoculture in tion in remote, often pristine regions order to meet demand, replacing that might otherwise be left alone. shade-loving plants with ones that Coca plantations have a tendency to could withstand full sunlight. A 2014 arise in areas that are economically study from the University of Texas at depressed, and deforestation for coca Austin found that while the global proleads to further clearing for other, perduction of shade grown coffee has fectly legal crops. increased since 1996, the area of land Simply, “the amount of coca around used for non-shade varieties is increasyou,” Dávalos ing at a much Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/H. Zellá said to faster rate. National “The paraGeographic, dox is that “the more forthere is greater est you’re likely public interest to lose — the than ever in sheer amount environmenof coca in the tally friendly vicinity has an coffee, but effect.” where coffee The loss of production is forests also expanding threatens across the Colombia’s globe, it tends biodiversity to be very (one of the intensive,” lead most diverse in author Shalene Jha said in a the world), press release. with native “We were species like surprised that harpy eagles despite two and tapirs at decades of risk of extincgrowth in tion, and The coca bush drives deforestation in South American tropical forests, which are home to an public awareColombian extremely biologically diverse collection of speness of where tarantulas, sev- cies. Loss of forest endangers this biodiversity. coffee comes eral species of from and the orchids and different ways magnolias, and to manage it for biodiversity, shade insects like the Titanus giganteus beegrown coffee only seems to be grown tle each suffering different levels of in a few regions,” Jha said. “The shifts threat due to loss of forests. aren’t what we would expect based on On the more socially acceptable what we see on the shelves in the side of addiction is coffee (also a staple U.S.” crop for many South American counWhile Graff admits the Steps to tires). Physiologically, science is saying the world’s growing obsession with cof- Recovery guide is intended purely to encourage awareness, he says he hopes fee isn’t such a bad thing. Recent peerpeople walk away from it thinking reviewed studies link moderate to about how involved the nature of heavy coffee consumption to notable health benefits, from a reduction in the addiction truly is. “It’s more involved than just filling risk of developing a number of cancers up your coffee maker and having a cup to its ability to stave off full-blown of coffee or just having a cigarette,” Alzheimer’s disease. Graff says. “There are millions of ... But environmentally, the global rise acres of land designated to these crops, in the popularity of coffee has lead to and we hope people can be a little damaging changes in its cultivation. more proactive in the choices they Traditionally, coffee plants were grown make.” under the shade of other native forest Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com trees, providing ample habitat for birds, Boulder Weekly

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GOOD INTENTIONS Why well-meaning adventurites and volunteers sometimes do more harm than good, and how one local adventure company intends to set a better example by Cassie Moore

n a visit back to his native country, on a trek in the Annapurna region of Nepal, Portland State University professor Bishupal Limbu remembers being uncomfortable because of his shoes. They were nice, they were meant for the occasion and the Australians he was trekking with had on similarly fancy boots. Yet the army of Nepalese porters hiking alongside them — and possibly carrying their weight in the trekkers’ cargo — were wearing flimsy, beaten-up shoes. Limbu was traveling with what he says he believes was a good travel company, one that pays porters a relatively high salary in Nepal and treats them better than a lot of trekking companies might. “It is pretty common to see inadequate footwear in remote areas of Nepal,” says Limbu, who specializes in globalization and post-colonial literature. “Yet the context becomes really discomforting when you have rich tourists with fancy boots and the porter has on flip flops.” Limbu has thought a lot about tourism in Nepal and he sees the industry as both necessary and good, especially for Nepalese people’s livelihoods. Yet he won’t discount that there are negative sides to it. From the complexity of the income disparity between visiting tourists and native residents, to the mass amounts of trash littered on Mt. Everest by adventure travelers, to the “moral superiority” sometimes braided into aid-oriented travel like voluntourism, Limbu says, tourism in Nepal and elsewhere has a host of potential ails. see TRAVEL Page 30

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The goal for Golden resident Mary Jackson and University of Colorado graduate Stephanie Maltrich is to build a travel company that can mitigate the potentially negative aspects of adventure travel for their customers, and offer them a more meaningful and culturally sensitive experience than a lot of other companies working in Nepal might. Their adventure startup, called Tuttaré Adventures, is taking its inaugural trip to Nepal in November. It is a for-women, by-women company focusing on women’s empowerment and aiming to set itself apart from other adventure companies in Nepal. “A lot of people want to go to Nepal,” says Maltrich. “For some people, it is a lifelong dream. But how do we be responsible? How do we help them go to Nepal more meaningfully, more sustainably and more mindfully?” Adventure travel is a huge and growing global industry, one that will not be disappearing from Nepal or anywhere else anytime soon. Worldwide, travelers spent $345 billion on adventure travel in 2012, according to the United National World Tourism Organization. As of 2013, adventure tourism constituted roughly 40 percent of Nepal’s tourist industry, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation. 30 October 23, 2014

Ignoring globalization or not aiming to understand it, Jackson says, is not an option today. “We live in this world where everything is connected,” she says. “What happens on one side of the globe doesn’t stay on one side.” Which is why participants in November’s inaugural trip might hear firsthand from Nepalese natives about Nepal’s changing glaciers and the impact of climate change. They might see those glaciers themselves. They will also interact with a new wave of Nepalese female trekking guides and consider what female empowerment means, both in Nepal and the United States. Ultimately, Jackson hopes participants will engage with globalization and what it means — and that might mean questioning complex issues like: What are the global dynamics that have created the income disparity between Western tourists like the ones who traveled with Limbu and the Nepalese porters who accompanied them? Limbu says those hard questions are important for travelers to ask, and Jackson says Tuttaré Adventures has no intention of doing anything less. She and Maltrich are working hard to avoid creating an experience where tourists

quickly snap photos of touristic sites and check it off a bucket list without aiming to understand the nuances of the culture they are visiting. Their intention is to get people engaged while in Nepal in a much more meaningful way. Compared to the conventional tourist, Limbu says, adventure tourists are likely to be more aware of environmental and ethical degradation bad traveling can have on the host country. If they spend time outdoors, they are more likely to be environmentally conscious. But adventure travel can still pose problems, and those problems might be further aggravated when paired with voluntourism. Many publications that have reported on voluntourism, including The Guardian and The New York Times, say that it — like adventure travel — is a “growing trend.” Most voluntourists come from the United States and 85 percent are interested in “alleviating poverty,” according to the Global Center for Volunteer Service. However, roughly 80 percent of voluntourists are performing predominantly unskilled service work like manual labor, and Limbu says that is work that residents from the host country could be paid to do.

Though well-intentioned, Limbu says, the message to the host country is, “You’re not capable of doing this yourselves.” Equally worrisome are instances like the now famous case of Cambodia’s orphanages. Well-intentioned volunteers flooded to Cambodia after the civil war there ended in the ’90s, mostly to volunteer in schools or orphanages. As a result, impoverished Cambodian parents began giving up their children to orphanages in order to secure them a Western-type education. The number of Cambodian “orphans” has doubled to 10,000 in the last decade and yet more than 70 percent have at least one living parent, according to a 2012 Al Jazeera article. “Voluntourism,” according to the Al Jazeera article, “is fueling a high-profit volunteering business that sees volunteers’ dreams exploited and Cambodian children separated from their families.” In a New York Times opinion editorial, guest columnist Rafia Zakaria put her finger on another reason voluntourism can leave a bad aftertaste, one reminiscent of colonialism. “The problem with voluntourism is that it treats receiving communities as see TRAVEL Page 32

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passive objects of the visiting Westerner’s quest for saviordom,” Zakaria wrote. “Even more vile is its reliance on poverty as a visible spectacle.” In an increasingly globalized world, Limbu says, it is more important than ever for travelers to be aware of their affects on their host countries. That might simply mean being aware of their intentions for volunteering, like knowing that they might just want to feel good. While not bad, that is a different intention than disinterested volunteering, and different than volunteering a much-needed skill. The negative aspects associated with adventure travel and voluntourism make for an obstacle course that the potential volunteer adventure traveler must navigate. It can be daunting. Making the

right choice on where to go, what trekking company to hire and what nongovernmental organization to visit can be overwhelming and disheartening Jackson says she’s aware of the host of problems associated with voluntourism, and though Tuttaré Adventures’ mission statement is “empowering women of the world through service and adventure travel,” the service component is intentionally vague. She personally knows that empowerment just happens. “My mother used to always tell me, ‘When you travel, you are so brave and confident,’” says Jackson. “Traveling and leading wilderness trips has taught me that I can do something unexpected. I used to be a shy person — both shy and fiery. Especially through adventure travel, I really have developed this confiBoulder Weekly

adventure dence which has helped me start this company.” What the “service” means is complicated, explains Jackson, especially because her intent is to wait and see what both “service” and “empowerment” means for travelers with Tuttaré until the group is on the ground in Nepal. That choice to wait, says Maltrich, comes from research on ecotourism, women’s empowerment and sustainable travel Jackson has done at least in part as a Ph.D. student in sustainable education at Prescott College. Jackson says she doesn’t want Tuttaré Adventures’ participants to expect a set agenda that would come at the risk of ignoring the complexities and specificities of the situation on the ground. “We are not going in and saying ‘This is what we are going to do. This is who we are going to help,’ and we aren’t scheduling time for empowerment,” says Jackson. “We will not say ‘OK, it is now time for us to be empowered by Nepalese women.’ We aim to understand the dynamics of the world and that means understanding how things are contextual.” So the group will wait to see what service they can do until they find out what their partner nonprofits in Nepal need. It might be as simple as getting to know women who work as guides for 3 Sisters Trekking, a Nepalese company that paved the way for women to become trekking guides, traditionally not a position women hold in Nepal. Jackson is personally acquainted with some of the trekking guides they will travel with, having done her master’s research at 3 Sisters Trekking. Kirsten Turner, a Boulder resident and a participant in November’s trip, says she is not typically inclined to hire tour companies, but Nepal is different. “Picturing myself showing up in Kathmandu alone seems crazy,” says Turner. She says she is confident the service component will be humble and will employ her relevant skills — maybe teaching the female guides some basic rock climbing techniques. “It’s going to be great to base [the service learning] on what our skillset is,” says Turner. “I don’t know how to build a fence, for example. If that were the thing we were going to do, I wouldn’t be helpful. You’d have to teach me how to do that first, which would be silly.” She doesn’t expect the Nepalese guides will learn anything life-changing from her, she says, but hopes to spendBoulder Weekly

nine days trekking with them, learning from them, maybe picking up some Nepali and sharing the same human experience with them, realizing “our lives look really different, but we are all just people.” Eventually, Jackson says, she would like to incorporate the American women’s skills even more into the service component. She envisions getting midwives and labor doulas as participants, so that the American women and Nepalese women can trade birthing techniques and practices. Essentially, Jackson says, there will be a reciprocal exchange between the American women and the female Nepalese guides. No one is going to “help” or “save” anyone. Jackson says many of the women who act as guides for 3 Sisters Trekking get frequently harassed due to their gender when on the job. That is something she — and probably every woman on the trip — can relate to. “One guide I had this last January would get stopped by men who would say to her, ‘You can’t be a guide, you are a woman,’” says Jackson. Both Jackson and Maltrich can relate similar experiences they have had in the United States. They have been hassled by male hikers who tell them they can’t be guides or summit mountains alone as women. Given that, Maltrich says, the empowerment that takes place in Nepal will be reciprocal. And that attitude, Jackson says, lacks the kind of moral superiority that other companies might aim for when they bring foreigners into a country aiming to “help.” Limbu says he sees a huge complexity in traveling to help people. He says he hopes instead that more travelers will work to offset the idea of foreign helpers going in to developing countries to “save” them. “Instead of going ‘Oh my god, since I am an American and things are so awful in Nepal, I am going to go over there and help them,’ I would like to imagine a world where one thinks, ‘I am not going there to help anyone, but to be helped,’” says Limbu. None of this is news to Jackson. Her approach to Tuttaré Adventures appears at first to be light-handed, but it becomes evident when she explains the structure of the start-up that it has taken her years to conceive of the intricacies of the program. Jackson appears largely unfazed by the potential ails of adventure travel — not because she hasn’t thought of them, but because she has. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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One of Chuck Palahniuk’s favorite pieces of advice to aspiring writers is to get your author photos taken while you are still young and good looking.

he last time Chuck Palahniuk came to Boulder was, well… awkward. “I had shipped all of these severed arms to throw into the audience, and it was in Boulder that I realized that I was touring a day right behind Aron Ralston, who had written about cutting his arm off,” Palahniuk says. “And the Boulder Book Store people had opened my cases of arms and thought they were props for him. He was really put off, and he said, ‘Those aren’t mine.’ Then they realized they were mine and they all thought I was making fun of Aron Ralston.”

Oops. Most authors would never find themselves in the position of accidentally offending a colleague with a giant box of fake arms. Palahniuk isn’t most authors. Since his breakthrough novel, Fight Club, in 1996, and the 1999 film adaptation from David Fincher, Palahniuk has developed a fervent, cult-like following that hangs on every word of his 18 books of dark, pithy, eminently quotable takes on gender, violence and existential — occasionally supernatural — abyss. Palahniuk writes of painters possessed to create by evil spirits, models disfigured by shotgun blasts to the face, porn stars trying to commit on-screen suicide by gangbang, and more. Exactly the sort of books you’d expect of a guy that throws out fake arms while see WORD GAMES Page 36

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reading. The prodigal author will be returning to Boulder on Tuesday, Oct. 28 to promote his latest work, Beautiful You, a novel about a business tycoon who creates a sex toy so effective that the women of the world check out of society altogether. “A lot of it was about wanting to write a book about arousal addiction,” he says. “That’s something that culture can’t really touch right now. In the 1960s, culture did not want to talk directly about birth control or abortion, so we got books like Rosemary’s Baby, where the woman is so controlled by her doctor that she has to have the devil’s baby. Right now, no one wants to talk about arousal addiction and how this constant stream of devices and video games is rewiring the brains of mostly young men.” But to tell that story, Palahniuk pulled from the books he considered the biggest chicklit novels of modern times, Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, Clan ON THE BILL: Chuck Palahniuk. 7 p.m. of the Cave Bear and The Devil Tuesday, Oct. 28. First Congregational Church, Wears Prada. 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787, $30 (price of admission includes a signed copy of “I wanted to use many of the Beautiful You) tropes of those books,” he says. “I was even calling it 50 Shades of the Twilight Cave Bear Wears Prada.” Palahniuk says. “And as they arrive That was an interest that Palahniuk everyone will be given a two-foot says he developed as a kid when he beach ball to inflate. And they’re transfound a porn book of his father’s and lucent with little lights inside. was unable to comprehend just what Periodically, we turn the lights off and the characters were doing to one anoth- everyone will play dodgeball.” er, then switched to one of his mother’s He will also read several unpubromance novels and found himself lished stories and give away special equally confused by the coded language. leatherbound editions of Fight Club. “I was just fascinated by these Palahniuk says his readings evolved actions that didn’t make sense to me,” to become more raucous when he found he says. himself doing up to six book tours a That made him long dream of writ- year. ing a Marquis de Sade-style piece of “I was just fucking hating it,” he graphic pornography, but cloaked in the said. “And I found I couldn’t hate if I euphemisms of romance novels. The was also giving out a gift. Thought is result is a style he calls “gonzo erotica,” dominated by speech. Speech is domisomething that is overtly sexual, but not nated by gesture. So the gesture of givat all sexy. ing out a prize or providing something Though it’s being billed as the trumped all of my fatigue and resent“Better than Sex Tour,” the readings ment.” will also be not at all sexy. But it hasn’t been without hiccups. “People are asked to wear their “One year I threw out all these minpajamas to create this bedtime-storyiature bottles of booze,” he says. slumber-party-for-grown-ups feel,” “Hundreds of them. A woman came up

to me afterwards and she had this huge black eye from a bottle of Smirnoff. The only reason she did not sue is that she was so proud to get a black eye from Chuck Palahniuk.” Palahniuk says that incident is the reason he doesn’t have a t-shirt cannon for his readings. Really. This sort of thing is why while most authors have a following, Palahniuk has “a cult,” an irrationally devoted group of followers who endlessly analyze his work on some of the most unkempt corners of the Internet. One major focus for them has been trying to discover the true nature or identity of the unnamed narrator in Fight Club. One of the most popular online theories is that he is the grown-up version of Calvin, from the Bill Watterson comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and that Tyler Durden, the narrator’s mischievous and violent alter-ego, is the grown-up manifestation of Hobbes, Calvin’s stuffed tiger. “That could very well be, because I love that comic,” Palahniuk says. “Yeah. I love that comic. So, whether or not I was consciously replicating that model, I don’t know. I wouldn’t swear I wasn’t.” Another wild theory is that the narrator and Durden are the adult versions of Cameron and Ferris from the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and that Bueller never actually existed except as Cameron’s feverinduced hallucination. In this theory, Durden is the older, more disturbed version of Bueller that has emerged as Cameron has slipped deeper into mental illness in midlife. “No,” Palahniuk laughs. “That’s really reaching. That’s people with a lot of free time on their hands. I wonder what John Hughes would have said about that one.” Whether Beautiful You will inspire that sort of far-fetched and John Hughes besmirching speculation remains to be seen. But with Chuck Palahniuk, you never know. “This year I shipped 118 arms to throw out at the end,” he says. “It’s a classic.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Technology isn’t the boss of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. by Brian Palmer

UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL ON THE BILL: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. 9 p.m. Tuesday, October 28, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, www.foxtheatre. com, $15 Adv., $17 door +$2 for under-21 tickets.

ou can’t take it personally if been running from.” whether or not they like how a song someone doesn’t want to Such a realization is at the heart of sounds. They recognize the value in hear what you’re talking what the duo has been writing about the challenging both their listeners and about, but at the same time, last couple years. Speed was a musical themselves to feel something on a lyrithat doesn’t mean you treatise on the insane pace of life we live cal level, but they also have an affinity shouldn’t try to talk about it.” in today’s hyper digital, instant gratifica- for not doing the same thing over and One might say that this statement tion-obsessed culture where everything over again, musically. Their debut EP from multi-instrumentalist Josh Epstein has to move at the speed of light or else — 2010’s Horsepower — dabbled in — who makes echoing indie Catie Laffoon up half of the pop; My Love is Detroit-based Easy: Remixes, duo Dale Part 1 was a Earnhardt Jr. Jr. dance-heavy that will play project; 2011’s The Fox Theatre full-length debut, on Tuesday, Oct. It’s a Corporate 28 — encapsuWorld, saw the lates both their duo waltzing into writing process the rock realm, and their creative and then Speed process as a saw them whole. Their embracing loads most recent of synths and a album, 2013’s retro electro The Speed of sound. Things, repeatedPut simply, ly juxtaposed the band has no bouncy and interest in upbeat melodies remaining artistiand tracks with cally stagnant. Daniel Zott and Josh Epstein request the pleasure of your company at their show next Tuesday. more serious This helps social commenexplain why the tary, so they band debuted a proved they were not above making you we lose interest. Lost in the shuffle of new song on Esquire’s website at the end stop and think even while you are hearing the newest album leaks or catch- of last month — “James Dean” — which enjoying yourself. ing three-minute-long “teaser” film trail- turns fans’ expectations on their head yet Their undeniable dance single “If ers months before the film comes out, is again. Autotuned vocals are layered over You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t the beauty of those quiet moments a chilled out downtempo beat, all while on the Dance Floor),” for example, was where you can reflect and just be. the song plays out like an R&B slow a meditation on the touring life, being Epstein stops short of using the cliché of jam. But in addition to the music being away from the ones you love and wonstopping to smell the proverbial roses, yet another curve ball for fans, they also dering whether what you are doing is but it is implied that the 21st century hit hard with the lyrics, including a line worth it. And the ambient folk pop world is rife with empty pursuits and that would have been perfect for The track “A Haunting” is emblematic of pleasures that we allow to consume us Speed of Things: “The Internet will never how much effort and soul-searching instead of using our time to engage with love you back.” Epstein was excited to went into making Speed, and just how others and even our own selves. share the track with the world, but he much Epstein and bandmate Daniel “I think technology and the speed cautions against having people assume Zott learned about themselves in the of our lives allows us to run from these this is the direction the new album is process. things,” he says. “You can come home headed in. “‘A Haunting,’ for instance, was me from work, turn on any TV show on “I don’t know that that’s necessarily writing about a fictional character, but your Apple TV or read Beyonce’s book indicative of the direction of all the new then after writing it I realized I was on your iPhone, but you really don’t stuff,” says Epstein, “but our sound is kind of talking about myself,” Epstein have to think about how you feel.” definitely changing, our process is says. “It was a really intense experience, So they seek to create a body of changing. I feel like we’re in a really sorting through a bunch of feelings that work that will mean something to them good place.” maybe I wasn’t aware I had felt, or had Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com beyond such ephemeral notions as Boulder Weekly

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arts & culture Barking pirates, Barbies and a parasol

ON THE BILL: Pirates of Penzance. CU Opera Theater. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25. 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. CU Macky Auditorium. www.cupresents.org/ events/pirates-penzance

Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates of Penzance’ opens at CU by Peter Alexander

atch for the Barbie Sullivan (G&S) companies, professional “Some of the memorable productions dolls. and amateur, all across the U.S. But the I’ve been involved with had updated They will be part of original humor, based in political and political humor,” Holman says. “Gilbert the fun when the social satire, eventually lost its currency, and Sullivan would love it, but right University of Colorado and today G&S are no longer part of now things are so serious, with ISIS and Opera Theater, with two full casts of our shared culture. Ebola, it’s hard to make jokes of it.” students and the CU Still, there are ways to Glenn Asakawa orchestra in the pit, presdirect the humor to presentents Gilbert and Sullivan’s day audiences. Which is Pirates of Penzance. where the Barbie dolls come Not that the producin. tion will be a post-mod“There’s a couple of ern reinterpretation of the things we’ve updated,” classic British musical Holman says. “Not anything comedy. that we’ve written, just little “The pirates will be hidden things that the audipirates,” stage director ence may never see, but it’s and CU director of opera fun for us.” Leigh Holman says. “No That includes Malibu Martians. Nothing on the Ken and Barbie — but moon. It’s straightforward you’ll have to watch closely and very colorful.” to see them. General Stanley, one Another challenge is of the central comic char- Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance brings some silliness to the presented by performance acters, will definitely be a CU stage. traditions that have built up general, although British over the years and are well humor being what it is, known to G&S aficionados. he will be, Holman says, “a general with That’s part of the challenge for “We do some of the traditional a parasol.” Holman and music director Nicholas things,” Holman says. “Most are things The pirates will even have a ship. Carthy. that weren’t written by Gilbert but are “Pirates of Penzance is not usually done “Would this style now be relevant to funny. It’s just silly things — you don’t on a ship,” she explains. “But I told the our students was the biggest question we even know why you’re laughing. For [set] designer [Peter Dean Back] I want had to answer,” she says. “We thought one, the Pirate King says, ‘We’re a rough those guys to be on a ship, so we’ve got this is a style that they need to learn. If crew with a rough job,’ and every time ropes hanging and they can swing from they’re [going to be] teaching at a high he says ‘rough’ the pirates go ‘Ruff! the ropes.” school or a university, they’ll probably Ruff!’” Written in Victorian times, Gilbert create these pieces again. They’re lighter, Both Holman and Carthy have a lot and Sullivan’s shows kept their massive they’re funny, they require serious singof experience with G&S. Carthy is popularity for decades. Through most of ing, audiences love it.” British and grew up with their shows. the 20th century, there were Gilbert and The satire has often been updated. Holman first encountered their shows

in high school and has performed them during her career as a singer. It was Pirates of Penzance that provided one of her very first Gilbert and Sullivan experiences. In the 1980s, there was a popular production in New York’s Central Park, presented later on Broadway and as a film starring Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt. “I used to drive around in my little Pinto with my 8-track and sing along with Mabel all the time,” she says. Holman stresses that the pirates are not at all terrifying. In fact, they are mostly silly and tender-hearted. “Those poor pirates, if they get wind that anybody they’re trying to capture is an orphan, it breaks their hearts and they just can’t do it,” she says. “So whenever they try to capture somebody, they just tell them they’re an orphan.” The plot revolves around impossible misunderstandings, secret identities — and the pirates’ sympathy for orphans. Jokes about the British upper crust and bumbling police are thrown in for good measure. Predictably enough, tenor Frederic, the romantic lead, wants to leave the life of a pirate in order to marry the love of his life, soprano Mabel. Equally predictably, the outcome revolves around birthdays, orphans real and pretended, last-minute revelations and forgiveness. “You have to come with your best sense of humor,” Holman says. “I would say that if you enjoy the humor of Monty Python, you will enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Reed Foehl CD release, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Colorado-based indie-folk artist Reed Foehl has finished his new album Lost in the West and the CD release party is planned for Friday, Oct. 24 at Boulder’s eTown Hall. The veteran artist began touring in the ‘90s with jam-band Acoustic Junction. After taking a hiatus to raise his son he is back on the road with the new solo work. Foehl, known for his storytelling lyrics, skillful instrumentals and soulful vocals, will be performing along with special guests the Haunted Windchimes. First 75 ticket-holders for the show will get a free copy of his new album Lost in the West. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door.

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Synth-pop group Polica is putting audiences in a groovy trance nationwide. Drums, bass and synths are layered and topped off with with dreamy, stylized vocals. The group started out as an experiment between singer Channy Leaneagh and producer Ryan Olson, who had worked together in a supergroup called Gayngs among the likes of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Olson and Leaneagh’s musical bond was instant and they quickly released their debut album Give You the Ghost, of which Vernon was more than impressed — “they’re the best band I’ve ever heard,” he told Rolling Stone. Singer Channy Leaneagh uses effect pedals to manipulate her voice over Olsen’s tracks, creating a sound that has been called “psychedelic R&B.” The duo recruited two drummers and a bassist to complete their live outfit.

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Beard and Moustache Competition, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Boulder Facial Hair Club’s second annual Beard and Moustache competition is set for this Saturday at the historic Dickens Opera House in Longmont. The organization expects to see 200-300 competitors and over 150 spectators at the event, which although held in Boulder is open to participants nationwide. Moustache, Styled Moustache, Partial Beard, Partial Beard Freestyle, Business Beard, Female Artistic Beard, Full Beard Natural and, of course, Freestyle Beard are the main categories for the competition. It’s not all about being hairy, there will be live music by the band Strange Americans, and a silent auction that benefits Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance. The club’s founder and event-organizer Josh Simpson says all are welcome — “There’s certainly no hate on non-bearded people.”

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Oogee Wawa. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Ronnie Pelusio Band. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Symbols. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Taarka. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Watersong. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Widow’s Bane & Gasoline. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Events Boulder Dispensary Marijuana Harvest Festival. All Day. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geeks Who Drink - Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Navigating the Legal Landscape for Independent Filmmakers. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Pompeii from the British Museum. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder. Shine: A Celebration of Amazing Women. 5:30 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-9389191. South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444. Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Totally Exposed Comedy Show. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Zumba GoldToning at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Buy — Sharon Feder. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Nov. 16.

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Day of the Dead. Firehouse Arts Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Nov. 2.

Oil Paintings by Steven Homsher. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29. Photography by Fernando Boza. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29.

“Still Life with Sleeping Woman,” by Henri MaDia de Los tisse can be seen at the Denver Art Museum’s Muertos/Day Matisse and Friends exhibit, running through of the Dead. Jan. 25, 2015. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Nov. 1. Photography and Vision: The Influence of Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, 443-2122. Through Jan. 8, 2015. Denver, 720-865-5000.Through January 25, 2015. Discovering & Interpreting the West — 21st Century Landscapes. Main Gallery, Arvada CenPolitical Contemporary Realism — by Alan ter for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Manuel. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Nov. 16. Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 4. Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, Matisse and Friends — by Henri Matisse and 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 15. friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel 25, 2015. Sprick. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Memory: Loss and Found — by Laurie Beth Nov. 2. Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the 303-440-7826. Through fall. Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, A Table (Somewhat): Conversations Be720-865-5000. Through March 22, 2015. tween Objects — Various artists. 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20. Present Box: Passion, Love, Seduction, Money, Lust — Various artists. Denver Art ART/TEKNE: Part 3 “Metaphorming Nature: Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Po720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017. tential” — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth Dec. 20. — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017.

Music Acoustic Harmony. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209. Big High Biscuits. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Boa & Jodie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Bones Jugs N Harmony. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Cary Morin. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. David Williams and the Gypsy Jazz Tricksters. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Flynn & Co. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Hozier. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Judge Roughneck. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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

Pocket Change. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-5300642.

Last Men On Earth. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

Lionel Young. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Many Mountains & Martian Acres. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mike Finders & Alex Johnstone. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Naan Stop. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Nice Work Jazz Combo with Heidi Schmidt. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985. Nolan McInnis. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303908-6036. Papa Juke. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Neder-

Ragged Union. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Sara Farmer & Ali Owens. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Scarpa Ski Bash. 7 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave, Unit A, Boulder, 303-998-2895. Torbin Hadock. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. see EVENTS Page 46

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Events Boulder Dispensary Marijuana Harvest Festival. All Day. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Catrina Ball. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Exotica Erotica Ball. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Freaky Fridays - for Teens! 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Hands-On Digital Photography Introduction. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Friday Oct 24 • 7:30pm

Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236.

Thursday Oct 23 • 7:30pm “Classic Rock” - Free Admission

MOSES JONES & THE SMOOTH EXPRESSIONS “Dance / R&B”

Sunday Oct 26 • 7:30pm

OLD’S COOL ROCK “Rock Classics”

Wednesday Oct 29 • 7:30pm

Masterpiece Makers. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Minecrafternoons* at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Playtime Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

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South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444.

Thursday Oct 30 • 7:30pm

Tango Ground School Class. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Wednesday Nov 5 • 7:30pm

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Ten and Two. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Zumba plus Zumba Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Saturday, October 25 Music Austrian Connection. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Bluez House. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Caribou Mountain Collective. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Catrina Ball. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 415-290-9242. Gumbo Le Funque. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Highway 50. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Intergalactic Radio. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Kerry Pastine and The Informants. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Innisfree: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Beautiful You — by Chuck Palahniuk. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

The Glass Cage — by Nicholas Carr. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Cowboys, Yogis & One-Legged Ski Bums — by Don Morreale. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Friday, Oct. 24 Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303. Monday, Oct. 27 Black Thursday — by Linda Hull. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Linda Hull will read from and sign her new novel Black Thursday at the Tattered Cover Book Store on Monday, Oct. 27.

Rocktin Grove. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Sandflower. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Sean & Farmer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Sound Remedy. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Steve Manshel. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Taylor Radio. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Hwy 287 STE 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Red, White & Army Blue — by Peter Decker. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727.

Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236. Radiate Unified Dance Party with Mr. Gettdowne. 9:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 12 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303-499-1444. Storytimes en Español for Children. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303441-4250. Tango Technique Class with G&G. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Wild Goose Masquerade Ball. 8 p.m. Avalon Ballroom Boulder, 185 Arapahoe Road, CO 80303, Boulder.

Wild Goose Masquerade Ball. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Wild Hands. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

WOW - Women of Wisdom. 2:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Events Adobe After Effects Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647. Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

The Meryl Romer Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Boulder Folders- Learn Origami. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

Wednesday, Oct. 29

Three Tales of Poe Presented by Theatre-Hikes Colorado. 3 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Boulder Dispensary Marijuana Harvest Festival. All Day. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Active Minds Lecture: The Civil Rights Act. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

The Prairie Scholars. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Healing Sounds: Frequencies II — by Jonathan & Andi Goldman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

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

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

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Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303. It’s a Girl Thing: Mother-Daughter Bookclub. 3 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Zumba plus Zumba Toning 90 Minute Class. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Sunday, October 26 Music Bluegrass Explosion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Cary Morin. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Kyle & Ryan. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Last Hurrah Blues & Greens Blowout. 2 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. see EVENTS Page 48

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Ambition Facing West. Boulder Ensemble Theater Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 2. One Big Yes: Badaboom! The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 25.

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EVENTS from Page 46 Living Better Lives: An Evening with the RDS Foundation. 6 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder.

Sacred House Gathers - Yoga & Community Healing. 10 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Max Garca Conover. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Old’s Cool Rock. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Pine Dwellers. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Ransoli-Camacho. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Scott Von. 3 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Traditional Irish Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Verna Dietrich. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Events Boulder Dispensary Marijuana Harvest Festival. All Day. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Haunted Library. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Jess Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. The Legend of Love. 10:55 a.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder. Meadows Teen Advisory Council. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Rise & Shine Communikey Brunch with DJ Brandon Brown & Guests. 10:30 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 12 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303-499-1444. Sunday morning Zumba. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Three Tales of Poe Presented by Theatre-Hikes Colorado. 3 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Watercolor Basics. 12:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. WOW! Family Halloween Party. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Monday, October 27 Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Chris Ramey Hosts Open Mic. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Open Javan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Open Stage. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Events Boulder Dispensary Marijuana Harvest Festival. All Day. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Cinema Program free screening of “Seeking Asian Female.” 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Fall Festival of Arts & Crafts. 7 a.m. Longmont United Hospital, 1950 Mountain View Ave., Longmont.

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events Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270. Getting Started with Adobe After Effects. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Music Acoustic Open Mic. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Chance Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Scandinavian Dance Basics & Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Pendulum New Music. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444.

The Strangebyrds. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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

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Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-5031902.

Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303. Getting Started with Adobe Dreamweaver. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Musical Storytime at Reynolds. 4 p.m. George Reyn-

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444. Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

Women of the West Monday. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Zumba plus Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Tuesday, October 28 Music Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Boulder Jam. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Cut Copy. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Daryl Gott Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Lyons High Jazz Band. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Mark Diamond presents: The Heavy Cats. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4151300. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Events Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Marketing with Social Media. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647. Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444. Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Zumba Gold at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

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he Sie Film Center’s Programing Manager Ernie Quiroz is like a kid with an electric train set. With three screening rooms and a variety of projectors at his disposal, Quiroz decides what magic plays out on those screens and he is bringing some of his personal favorites, the films of Christopher Nolan. From Oct. 23-26, Quiroz and company will screen Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), Following (1998), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Returns (2012), Insomnia (2002) and Inception (2010) for The (Almost) Complete Chris Nolan. Why almost? No Batman Begins. The 2005 franchise reboot is currently not available for screening purposes (Warner Brothers did not give specifics as to why), so that one you will have to watch at home, but everything else will play on the Sie’s big screen. And here’s the kicker: each one will be presented on 35mm. There has been a lot of talk lately about the differences between DCP and 35mm, and there will be more when Nolan releases his latest effort, Interstellar — a sci-fi film about mankind leaving Earth because of a global dust bowl — in 35mm and IMAX. The last of a dying breed, Nolan shoots exclusively on film, and will even be releasing Interstellar sev-

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Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale star as rival stage magicians willing to stop at nothing to outdo one another in Chris Nolan’s 2006 film, The Prestige, which will screen Friday, Oct. 24.

eral days early to theaters that still show film, which is what prompted Quiroz to run a 35mm retrospective. “For the last 10 years, I’ve felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I’ve never understood why,” Nolan told Directors Guild of America publication DGA Quarterly in 2012. “It’s cheaper to work on film, it’s far better looking, it’s the technology that’s been known and understood for a hundred years, and it’s extremely reliable.” Reliable, perhaps. But its increasing rarity makes tracking down 35mm prints

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Journey to a Bejing rehabilitation center where teenagers with Internet addiction are deprogrammed under the supervision of medical professionals and army generals. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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The biography of the Hindu swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West. Author of the million-seller spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, he made ancient Vedic teachings accessible to a modern audience, including George Harrison and Steve Jobs. This movie is screening in the Dairy Center for the Arts’ Performance Space, rather than at The Boe. — Boedecker Theater

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The viewer follows Martin in what seems like the worst day of his life: He accidentally kills his girlfriend, chainsaws his own arm off and watches his friends get devoured by a battalion of zombie Nazis. And that’s only the beginning. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

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a challenge for programmers. As Quiroz put it, “It’s just following the trail of breadcrumbs.” But for Quiroz, it is a labor of love. “I think he’s an amazing filmmaker,” Quiroz says. “He manages to combine high brow ideas with visceral action. I don’t think there’s any other filmmaker that can quite pull that off.” Consider Nolan’s Batman trilogy. There were comic book movies before Nolan got his hands on Batman, but those that came after bore the stamp of Nolan. This is especially true of The Dark Knight (Oct. 25), where Nolan waded into the

Some describe this underwatched flim by Polish director Wojciech Has as an adult Alice in Wonderland. Thirty-something Joseph goes to visit his father in a sanatorium and meets a bewildering array of characters who strangely seem to know who Joseph is. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

I AM ELEVEN This is a globetrotting portrait of childhood, from an orphanage in India, to a single-parent home in Melbourne and many other places. An insightful and moving film that ends with a sense of joy and hope. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

waters that separate “art” and “entertainment,” smuggled in psychology and questions of morality, and made capes and cowls palatable for adults. And yet, Nolan is much more than his Batman trilogy. Opening the retrospective is Memento (Oct. 23), a story told backwards in 10-minute chunks that launched a thousand copycats, but managed to get every college film student obsessed with story structure. The series concludes on Oct. 26 with Nolan’s greatest effort, and easily his most polarizing, Inception. Following a team of dream-sharers that burrow deep into a man’s mind, Inception is a heist film where the rules constantly change. The dreamwithin-a-dream structure not only allowed Nolan to play with genre like few directors can, but allows each viewer their own interpretation of the events. Some were elated, many were infuriated, but Inception will endure for some time. Sure, you’ve seen these movies before. But your flat screen isn’t this big and your sound system isn’t this good. Watch them projected on a huge screen with a fun crowd. It’s what Nolan would prefer and what Quiroz would want. Trust me, they’re right. Tickets, showtimes and more information can be found at www.denverfilm. org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS An underrated B-noir movie about a conspiracy in which a young woman is hired on as a rich family’s secretary only to become entrapped by them. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23, IFS at VAC Basement Auditorium (1B20).

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Another vampire movie, but not the sparkly kind. Jim Jarmusch uses the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers to tell the story of a depressed musician reuniting with his lover. Though their story together is centuries old, their peaceful existance is shattered by a wild younger sister. Can the couple find a way to restore their previous existance? At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof defies the 20-year government ban on his work to produce this work of anti-authoritarian rage. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

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MOVING FROM EMPTINESS: THE LIFE AND ART OF A ZEN DUDE Zen calligraphic painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han helps students explore the silent space inside us all where creativity comes from by teaching his students to get out of their own way so that “creativity happens on its own.” At Boedecker. —

This is the story of Clark Wang, a musician, folk dancer, psychiatrist and human being coming to grips with terminal lymphoma. Wang is determined that his final contribution to this earth, his own body, will be a gift, and viewers follow as he prepares for his own green burial. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ne of downtown San Francisco’s busiest lunch spots is Sushirrito, whose menu you should be able to ballpark from the name. Like the Wu-Tang Clan, its forearm-sized sushi rolls ain’t nothing to mess with. One of Boulder’s newest eateries, Motomaki, now open in the 29th Street Mall, is following suit. The rapid-service sushi joint offers 12 different rolls, or the choice to design your own. All are available as bowls, but are intended to be served as burrito-sized hand rolls, wrapped in foil and halved. It’s the perfect example of what Steve Jobs meant when he said the job of entrepreneurs was to provide what consumers didn’t yet know they wanted. I didn’t know I wanted a sushirrito until I heard that lovely portmanteau. And now that I’ve seen how the other half lives, I never want to go back to a world without them. The Kalbi roll ($12) was a sushi take on Korean, with beef, kim chi and sprouts, packed in with avocado and cilantro jalapeno mayo inside an enormous nori wrapper. But the most interesting thing about the flavors had to do with its size. Single bite pieces of sushi blend together well. You get the whole flavor mashed into one bite, and can easily soak it in soy and wasabi. But the large-size roll expanded the physical size of the flavor pallets, making for less mixed flavors and the ability of certain notes to dominate. One of the ways it is most obvious is the seaweed wrap. No longer just the glue that holds the

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roll in shape, the nori is a broad sheet of flavor that can lay across your tongue like a condom, protecting it from the other flavors. Similarly, you can strike fillings like a vein of gold, with one bite being all spicy tuna and the next being all rice. Anyone that read the viral blog “Dear Guy Who Just Made My Burrito,” that detailed the horrors of improper burrito layering, is familiar with the potential nightmare scenario: fighting through the empire of sour cream only to end up in lettuce country or a cilantro cavern. The horror! Another tasty roll on the menu is the eggplant roll ($7), which offers a warm, squishy filling of teriyaki eggplant, with asparagus and tempura crunch. It tastes warm and comforting. Motomako also ventures even further toward Mexican with the Nacho Tuna roll ($12), which wraps spicy tuna, tempura aspargus, mango salsa, gaucamole, crispy onions and sour cream up with a sriracha aioli, and toward other Asian cuisine with a Bahn Mi roll ($9). This is the sort of thing that we need more of to reclaim the word fusion from Pat Metheny. Also on the menu are several varieties of poki. As with all things fish, it’s never quite as good inland, but it’s solid nonetheless. But there was one thing that puzzled me about Motomako. Considering that the rolls are so big they require two hands, why did they even bother to give me chopsticks? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Since its opening in 1993, Mountain Sun has been on a slow and steady winning streak, with two additional locations in Boulder and one in Denver. Continuing that trend, the chain just opened its fifth location, Longs Peak Pub and Taphouse in Longmont. The newest addition to the family offers the same famed pub menu and 21 beers on tap as the other Mountain Sun restaurants, including at least 16 of their own beers brewed right here in Boulder. The “World Famous” Mountain Sun Margaritas and seven wines are also ready for pouring. Mountain Sun says the new location features one of the best patios in the company, complete with cornhole and shaded picnic tables. Located at 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, the pub is currently open at 4 p.m. every day, serving food until 9 p.m. on weekdays and 10 p.m. on weekends. – Nadia Mishkin

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WINTER IS SHORT, EAT JILL’S AT THE ST JULIEN’S FREE DESSERT FIRST

As a fine-dining bistro that serves “contemporary American” cuisine with a French influence, famed for their savory reggiano cheese and truffle aioli tater tots, Steak au Poivre, and Colorado lamb, Jill’s at the St Julien is no slouch in the dessert department. And as if they need to prove it, this fall and winter season, from 5:30-10 p.m, seven days a week, all dinner guests 21 and over will be served a complimentary helping of a special dessert: the White Monk. Not to be confused with a White Russian, the White Monk is an elegant dessert cocktail that is a combination of a smooth blend of Kahlua, Baileys Irish Cream and coffee topped with whipped cream and choco-

Oil and vinegar. Simple. Classic. Delicious. Those two little ingredients have so many micro-variations in variety and taste they need their own store for the true enthusiast. Well, come the grand opening of Oil and Vinegar in Broomfield on Saturday, Oct. 25, that will be the case. The name Oil and Vinegar captures the bare essence of what they’ll be vending, but Oil and Vinegar the store is all things of the Mediterranean culinary tradition. The boutique store will be rocking an international selection of more than 50 oils and vinegars, products from domestic and international origins ranging from mustards, sauces, olives, chocolates and pastas to ceramic table wares, cookbooks and other culinary treasures from around the Mediterranean. About the only Mediterranean item it won’t offer is a honeymoon in Nice. For everything else, guests are invited to taste and smell before buying. – Nadia Mishkin

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growers to procure fresh produce for school lunches while working with students and educators to encourage healthier food choices — both at school and in the home. In a culminating event to highlight both the district’s efforts toward promoting healthy food and its new partnerships with the local farming community, the first annual BVSD Harvest Festival will be held at Casey Middle School Sunday, Oct. 26. Sponsored by Whole Foods, the Harvest Festival is an event for whole families to participate in some of the hands-on garden education and healthy-eating activities, and hopefully bring some of that learning home. “It’s really intended to be a celebration of the local harvest and a chance to connect our students and their families to folks that actually grow their food,”

explains Curry Rosato, program coordinator for BVSD’s School Food Project. In this role she has helped to build new school gardens at five different elementary schools throughout the district and implemented several other initiatives for promoting some of the new, fresh, locally-grown foods now available in the cafeterias. Along with field trips to farms, cooking demonstrations and art contests prompted by the question “What is local food?” one of the initiatives put into place this year includes baseball-like trading cards that feature different fruits and vegetables, as well as profiles of local farmers that have helped grow some of the menu items. Students earn these cards by trying see FARM TO SCHOOL Page 58

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“Garden as Classroom” workshops have helped BVSD educators learn how to incorporate math, science and language learning objectives into gardening exercises.

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The driest place on the planet is the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It gets about a half-inch of rain per year. And yet in 2011, archaeologists discovered that it’s also home to a site containing the fossilized skeletons of numerous whales and other ancient sea creatures. I’m detecting a metaphorically comparable anomaly in your vicinity, Aries. A seemingly arid, empty part of your life harbors buried secrets that are available for you to explore. If you follow the clues, you may discover rich pickings that will inspire you to revise your history.

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Businessman Warren Buffet is worth $65.5 billion, but regularly gives away 27 percent of his fortune to charity. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates owns $78 billion, and donates 36 percent. Then there are the members of the Walton family, owners of Walmart, where 100 million Americans shop weekly. The Waltons have $136 billion, of which they contribute .04 percent to good causes. You are not wealthy in the same way these people are, Taurus. Your riches consist of resources like your skills, relationships, emotional intelligence, creative power, and capacity for love. My invitation to you is to be extra generous with those assets — not as lavish as Buffet or Gates, perhaps, but much more than the Waltons. You are in a phase when giving your gifts is one of the best things you can do to bolster your own health, wealth, and well-being.

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You have two options. You can be in denial about your real feelings and ignore what needs to be fixed and wait for trouble to come find you. Or else you can vow to be resilient and summon your feistiest curiosity and go out searching for trouble. The difference between these two approaches is dramatic. If you mope and sigh and hide, the messy trouble that arrives will be indigestible. But if you are brave and proactive, the interesting trouble you get will ultimately evolve into a blessing.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Astronauts on the International Space Station never wash their underwear. They don’t have enough water at their disposal to waste on a luxury like that. Instead, they fling the dirty laundry out into space. As it falls to Earth, it burns up in the atmosphere. I wish you had an amenity like that right now. In fact, I wish you had a host of amenities like that. If there was ever a time when you should be liberated from having to wash your underwear, make your bed, sweep the floor, and do the dishes, it would be now. Why? Because there are much better ways to spend your time. You’ve got sacred quests to embark on, heroic adventures to accomplish, historical turning points to initiate.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22:

What are those new whisperings in your head? Are they messages from your inner teacher? Beacons beamed back through time from the Future You? Clues from the wise parts of your unconscious mind? Whatever they are, Leo, pay attention. These signals from the Great Beyond may not be clear yet, but if you are sufficiently patient, they will eventually tell you how to take advantage of a big plot twist. But here’s a caveat: Don’t automatically believe every single thing the whisperings tell you. Their counsel may not be 100 percent accurate. Be both receptive and discerning toward them.

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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

In the English-speaking world, a sundae is a luxurious dessert that features ice cream topped with sweet treats like syrup, sprinkles, and fruits. In Korea, a sundae is something very different. It consists of a cow’s or pig’s intestines crammed with noodles, barley, and pig’s blood. I expect that in the coming week you will be faced with a decision that has metaphorical similarities to the choice between a sundae and a sundae. Make sure you are quite clear about the true nature of each option.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

The average serving of pasta on a typical American’s plate is almost 480 percent bigger than what’s recommended as a healthy portion. So says a research paper titled “The Contribution of Expanding Portion Sizes to the U.S. Obesity Epidemic,” by Lisa R. Young and Marion Nestle. Muffins are 333 percent larger than they need to be, the authors say, and steaks are 224 percent excessive. Don’t get caught up in this trend, Libra. Get what you need, but not way, way more than what you need. For that matter, be judicious in your approach to all of life’s necessities. The coming phase is a time when you will thrive by applying the Goldilocks principle: neither too much nor too little, but just right.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

“Children are the most desirable opponents at Scrabble,” declares Scorpio author Fran Lebowitz, “as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.” I don’t wholeheartedly endorse that advice for you in the coming days, Scorpio. But would you consider a milder version of it? Let’s propose, instead, that you simply seek easy victories to boost your confidence and hone your skills. By this time next week, if all goes well, you will be ready to take on more ambitious challenges.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

You are entering a phase when you will have more luck than usual as you try to banish parasitic influences, unworthy burdens, and lost causes. Here are some projects you might want to work on: 1. Bid farewell to anyone who brings out the worst in you. 2. Heal the twisted effect an adversary has had on you. 3. Get rid of any object that symbolizes failure or pathology. 4. Declare your independence from a situation that wastes your time or drains your resources. 5. Shed any guilt you feel for taking good care of yourself. 6. Stop a bad habit cold turkey.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Are you ready to be as affable as a Sagittarius, as charismatic as a Leo, as empathetic as a Cancerian, and as vigorous an instigator as an Aries? No? You’re not? You’re afraid that would require you to push yourself too far outside your comfort zone? OK, then. Are you willing to be half as affable as a Sagittarius, half as charismatic as a Leo, half as empathetic as a Cancerian, and half as inspiring an instigator as an Aries? Or even a quarter as much? I hope you will at least stretch yourself in these directions, Capricorn, because doing so would allow you to take maximum advantage of the spectacular social opportunities that will be available for you in the next four weeks.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

In the coming weeks I hope you will find practical ways to express your new-found freedom. All the explorations and experiments you have enjoyed recently were fun and provocative, but now it’s time to use the insights they sparked to upgrade your life back in the daily grind. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. I love it when you are dreamy and excitable and farseeing, and would never ask you to tone down those attractive qualities. But I am also rooting for you to bring the high-flying parts of you down to earth so that you can reap the full benefits of the bounty they have stirred up. If you work to become more well-grounded, I predict that you will be situated in a new power spot by December 1.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

The heavy metal band known as Hatebeak broadened the definition of what constitutes music. Its lead singer was Waldo, an African grey parrot. A review by Aquarius Records called Waldo’s squawks “completely and stupidly brilliant.” For Hatebeak’s second album, they collaborated with animal rights’ activists in the band Caninus, whose lead vocalists were two pitbull terriers, Basil and Budgie. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I’d love to see you get inspired by these experiments. I think you will generate interesting results as you explore expansive, even unprecedented approaches in your own chosen field.

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about raping children — you’re fantasizing about being a child who is “seduced” (read: raped) by a gorgeous man (read: a rapist). Your fantasy is unrealizable except through consensual “age play,” a kink that has not been linked to pedophilia. So while your fantasy is very deeply squicky (VDS), KID, no one is harmed when you indulge yourself in your VDS fantasy. But be careful with whom you share it, KID, lest you wind up attracting an actual pedophile (someone who wishes you were a 9-year-old girl) or repelling someone who can’t wrap his head around the essential harmlessness of your VDS fantasy. (Some recommended reading for you, KID: The Toybag Guide to Age Play by Bridgett “Lee” Harrington.)

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Dear Dan: My husband recently admitted that he masturbates once a day, sometimes twice. My confusion stems from the fact that we have sex once a day, sometimes twice. We’ve had problems in the past with him staring at other women (everyone does it, but I do feel discretion in front of a spouse is required) and with him wanting more novelty in bed (watch porn, wear lingerie, use toys). I’ve always had the higher libido and the more positive attitude toward sex in all of my relationships, but right now, I feel overwhelmed and, honestly, a little put off. I want to feel GGG again, but am having trouble. What do you think? — Whence This Feeling?

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